harmonia mundi distribution • usa new releases November 2013

40th Anniversary

PETER PHILLIPS THE TALLIS SCHOLARS

NOVEMBER 2013 | NEW RELEASES

TAVERNER Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas

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November marks the 40th anniversary of The Tallis Scholars, one of the world’s finest choral ensembles.

The group’s latest release for Gimell features Taverner’s resplendent Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas (p.9).

Rachel Podger explores Baroque repertoire for solo violin on her new collection for Channel entitled Guardian Angel (p.5). New from harmonia mundi, countertenor Bejun Mehta presents Che puro ciel — an album of opera excerpts from the early years of the Classical period (p.11) and tenor Mark Padmore offers an album of English song cycles by Vaughan Williams and Warlock (p.13). Hyperion’s four key releases go from strength to strength. Marc-André Hamelin plays Busoni on a three-disc collection of the composer’s late piano music (p.17), pedal piano virtuoso Roberto Prosseda is featured on volume 62 in the Romantic Piano Concerto series (p.18), Stephen Layton leads the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge in a joyful reading of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (p.20) and the renowned Takács Quartet plays the three String Quartets of Britten (p.19). The unstoppable Valery Gergiev leads the Mariinsky Orchestra in a fiery reading of Shostakovich’s Symphony No.8 (p.25), while Michael Tilson Thomas returns to music of Beethoven on a new release from SFS media featuring the Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II (p.30). Our top release on the non-classical front is a new remaster of Howard Shore’s original soundtrack for Tim Burton’s cult film Ed Wood featuring several bonus tracks of unreleased material (p.33).

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COMING NEXT MONTH Stephen Hough’s double dose of Brahms Brahms: The Piano Concertos Stephen Hough Hyperion • CDA 67961

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Stephen Hough is joined on this double set of Brahms’s Piano Concertos by the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg and conductor Mark Wigglesworth in their Hyperion début. These works are monumental in scale, impassioned and truly romantic, forward-looking in form and requiring both great virtuosity and intimacy from the pianist. Hough has performed them in concert for many years to ecstatic acclaim.

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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Three Impressions for Orchestra, Songs of Travel - Book 1, Four Hymns for tenor, viola & strings, The Mayor of Casterbridge - Incidental Music, Prelude on an Old Carol Tune Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Roland Wood (baritone) Nicholas Bootiman (viola) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Paul Daniel Albion • ALBCD 016

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IMPORT In the fifty years between Vaughan Williams’s Three Impressions for Orchestra and his Prelude on an Old Carol Tune, despite unprecedented worldwide social and political change, the composer’s style remained remarkably consistent. The Impressions, recorded here for the first time, describe three natural beauties of England – Burley Heath, Harnham Down and The Solent. The Mayor of Casterbridge was written for a radio serial broadcast in 1951, and it too receives its world première. The remainder of the disc includes the first book of the Songs of Travel and the Four Hymns for tenor, viola & strings. Performers include tenor Andrew Kennedy, baritone Roland Wood, violist Nicholas Bootiman and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra led by Paul Daniel.

Also available Vaughan Williams: On Christmas Day Albion • ALBCD 013 (5060158190133)

“This excellent CD assembles 20 of Vaughan Williams’s own carol arrangements, with six folk songs thrown in for good measure... every track has something to offer.”

— BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 3

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The Solent Fifty years of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams

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ORTIZ Recercadas del Tratado de Glosas – Rome 1553

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Jordi Savall (basse de viole), Ton Koopman (clavecin, organ), Lorenz Duftschmid (violone), Rolf Lislevand (vielle), Paolo Pandolfo (basse de viole), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp) Alia Vox • AVSA 9899 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Published in Rome in 1553 and rediscovered during the twentieth century, the collection Price Code: A21 Tratado de Glosas by Spanish composer Diego (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98) Ortiz offers listeners an unmatched panorama of the instrumental music of its time. The reissue of this 1990 album in Alia Vox’s Heritage series of SACD remasters enables us to enjoy one of Jordi Savall’s finest accomplishments as an instrumentalist. He is joined by Ton Koopman on harpsichord and organ, Rolf Lislevand on vielle and harp virtuoso Andrew Lawrence-King.

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The Complete Homocord Recordings & other rarities Walter Gieseking (piano) APR • APR 6013

IMPORT Walter Gieseking is considered one of the twentieth century’s greatest pianists, and his playing of Debussy and Ravel in particular is Price Code: A19 often regarded as definitive. For most of his (2 CDs for the Price of 1, career he recorded for Columbia. However, Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) his earliest recordings were made in the 1920s for the German label Homocord and these are hardly known. This set brings together all of them in their first complete CD transfer, and sheds new light on Gieseking’s playing. We hear him in composers such as Chopin and Liszt as well as his earliest takes on the repertoire for which he was to become best known.

The set is completed with other rarities including his single Brunswick disc and various previously unissued recordings from a variety of labels.

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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Guardian Angel

Rachel Podger (violin) Channel Classics • CCS SA 35513

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IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD The music on this recording demonstrates how Baroque composers in Germany, Italy, Austria and England responded to the challenges of writing for solo violin. Violinistic virtuosity was extraordinarily experimental in the late seventeenth century, with novelties in the tuning of the strings (scordatura), bowing techniques, chordal playing and contrapuntal textures (with the development of sophisticated double-, triple- and quadruple-stopping techniques) and playing in high positions. This disc of solo violin music features a mixture of some of Rachel Podger’s favorite pieces.

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“Podger’s Vivaldi is pure ebullience, her Mozart is vigorous and expressive. Her Bach is the perfect marriage of joy and formality...”

—POSITIVE FEEDBACK

Also available Bach: Double & Triple Concertos Channel Classics • CCSSA 34113 (723385341130)

“A first-rate performance...”

—AUDIOPHILE AUDITION 5

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BACH Partita BWV1013 (Arr. Rachel Podger) MATTEIS Other Ayrs, Preludes, Allmands, Sarabands etc. with full stops for the Violin - Part II TARTINI Sonatas in A and B minor PISENDEL Sonata per violino solo senza basso BIBER Passacaglia in G minor for solo violin, senza scordatura

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Peter & Zóltan Katona (guitar) Channel Classics • CCS SA 34713

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IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD On this disc, the Katona Twins perform two duets and two solo works by J.S. Bach. The duets were originally composed for the harpsichord and the solo pieces were originally for the lute.

Because of the complexity and difficulty of lute works, many support the idea that these works were written for an instrument called the Lautenwerk or lute-harpsichord (a small harpsichord with a similarly shaped body to that of a lute). We know that Bach possessed at least two of these instruments, according to the inventory of instruments made at his death. Critically acclaimed by the Absolute Sound for their “fabulous guitar technique and highly refined musical instincts,” Peter and Zoltán Katona approach these works from a fresh and vibrant perspective.

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Also available Falla: Transcriptions Channel • CCS SA 28809 (723385288091)

“Consistently well-played, emotional and exciting.”

—AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 6

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BACH French Suite No.5 BWV816 (Arr. Peter & Zoltan Katona) English Suite No.3 BWV808 (Arr. Peter & Zoltan Katona) Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro BWV998 (Arr. Peter Katona) Suite (BWV996 (Arr. Peter Katona)

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James Wilshire (piano) Delphian • DCD 34119

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STEVENSON Music for Solo Piano Passacaglia on DSCH, Promenade Pastorale, Waltzes, Nocturne, Sonatina No.2, Variations on a Theme of Pizzetti, Fugue, Variations & Epilogue on a Theme by Arnold Bax

IMPORT Music of extraordinary range and power, Ronald Stevenson’s Passacaglia on DSCH is the longest single-movement work written for piano. It is Price Code: 2A14 a single-minded exploration of its generating (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $29.98) motif, the musical “signature” of Dmitri Shostakovich. Rising star James Willshire has the technique to match both the work’s grandeur and its immense wealth of detail. Willshire gave Stevenson’s 1955 Variations on a Theme of Pizzetti its belated concert premiere just this year, and now commits it to disc as one of a number of première recordings.

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MACHAUT Mon chant vous envoy

IMPORT On Mon chant vous envoy, the team formed in 2005 by Pierre Hamon around the exceptional baritone Marc Mauillon continues to explore Price Code: A21 the work of the great French musician-poet (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98) of the 14th century, Guillaume de Machaut.

The album’s collection of songs, virelais, ballads and roundels exemplify the composer’s understanding of the poetic art of courtly love. Mauillon is an exceptional talent even in the current environment of medieval music and these melodies 700 years on still maintain an impact. He is accompanied here by his sister Angelique Mauillon on harp, violinist VivaBiancaLuna Biffi and group leader Pierre Hamon on flute.

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Marc Mauillon (baritone), Angelique Mauillon (harp), VivaBiancaLuna Biffi (violin), Pierre Hamon (flute) Eloquentia • EL 1342

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Hila Fahima (soprano), Khatouna Gadelia (soprano), Kathleen Kim (soprano), Kirsty Stokes (soprano), Natalia Brzezinska (mezzo-soprano), Stephanie d’Oustrac (mezzo-soprano), Julie Pasturaud (mezzo-soprano), Elodie Méchain (alto), François Piolino (tenor), Alek Shrader (tenor), Elliot Madore (baritone), Paul Gay (bass-baritone), Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazushi Ono FRA Musica • FRA 008 IMPORT DVD/ All Zones/ 135 mins Ravel’s two one-act operas reunited in 2012 director Laurent Pelly and conductor Kazushi Ono, who made their Glyndebourne debuts in 2008 with Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. While L’enfant et les sortilèges shares with that opera a child’s-eye view of a sometimes threatening world, L’heure espagnole is a thoroughly adult confection. Pelly addresses Ravel’s very different operas with imagination, wit and – when required – humanity.

Also available on Blu-ray FRA Musica • FRA 508 All Zones/ 135 mins/ DTS Surround Sound/ 16:9

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Also available Britten: The Turn of the Screw FRA Musica • FRA 007 (3770002003114)

“An instinctual, perversely accented, gut-wrenching reading... musically close to perfection...”

—CLASSICS TODAY 8

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RAVEL L’heure espagnole, L’enfant et les sortilèges

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[PRIORITY RELEASE] TAVERNER Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas, Magnificats for 4, 5 & 6 voices

IMPORT November marks the 40th anniversary of the first concert ever performed by The Tallis Scholars. To celebrate this impressive milestone in the group’s spectacularly successful career, Gimell Records presents a new recording of John Taverner’s resplendent Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas. Conductor Peter Phillips explains, “I chose to celebrate our 40th anniversary with Taverner’s Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas because I believe it to be one of the greatest compositions ever to have been written in England – a perfect ambassador for the repertoire we have made our own.” The disc also includes Taverner’s Magnificats for four, five and six voices.

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“The rich sound that is the hallmark of the Tallis Scholars sizzles with impeccable detail.”

—EARLY MUSIC AMERICA

Also available Mouton: Missa Dictes moy toutes voz pensées Gimell • CDGIM 047 (755138104723)

10/10 “Musically, vocally, and sonically, this Tallis Scholars recording stands with the best the group has ever made.”

—CLASSICS TODAY 9

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The Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips Gimell • CDGIM 045

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...les sons et les parfums – Debussy meets Chopin

DEBUSSY Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune, Étude XI, Danseuses de Delphes, Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir, La plus que lente, La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune, L’Isle joyeuse Javier Perianes (piano) harmonia mundi • HMC 902164

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IMPORT Bonus DVD: All zones/ 42 minutes Chopin and Debussy were two seekers of the absolute who, in their art distilled to the Price Code: A19 quintessence, succeeded in erasing all traces (CD plus Bonus DVD, of their workmanship and their supreme Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) compositional technique. The connections between them are as numerous as they are subtle, never obvious, yet so very profound. The achievement of Javier Perianes here is to have teased out the artistic thread linking two geniuses who soar high above their respective centuries.

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TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Trio Op.50 ARENSKY Piano Trio No.1 Op.32 Trio Wanderer harmonia mundi • HMC 902161 IMPORT Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio, a work that is both elegiac and virtuosic, sets the tone of this recording. Dedicated to his friend Nikolay Price Code: A19 Rubinstein with the French epigraph “A la (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) memoire d’un grand artiste,” it shows great originality in its dimensions and style. A similarly ambitious work is Arensky’s Trio Op.32, which is also dedicated to the memory of a musician – the cellist Karl Davidov (1838-89). This gem of chamber music, much less often played, constitutes the true discovery of this program, which features the celebrated French ensemble Trio Wanderer.

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CHOPIN Berceuse Op.57, Étude Op.25 No.1, Ballade Op.52, Grande valse brillante Op.34 No.2, Prélude Op.28 No.1, Nocturne Op.15 No.2, Barcarolle Op.60

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Che puro ciel – The Rise of Classical Opera GLUCK Orfeo ed Euridice, Ezio (excerpts) BACH Artaserse (excerpts) MOZART Mitridate re di Ponto, Ascanio in Alba (excerpts) HASSE Il trionfo de Clelia (excerpts) TRAETTA Antigona et Ifigenia in Tauride (excerpts) Bejun Mehta (countertenor) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs harmonia mundi • HMC 902172

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IMPORT In the famous Preface to Alceste, Christoph Willibald Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de’ Calzabigi advanced a proposal for a new direction in opera. They spoke of moving beyond Baroque forms, of striving for a new naturalism. They wanted, in Calzabigi’s lovely phrase, to “liberate the language of the heart.” Taken from the height of this Reform period, the arias on this disc reveal composers exploring and experimenting, at struggle and at play, as they create the new forms that bring to opera the noble simplicity of the Classical era. The remarkable countertenor Bejun Mehta is the featured soloist, accompanied by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin led by René Jacobs.

“Bejun Mehta is a phenomenon among today’s countertenors... [with] extraordinary range and versatility... he explores a universe of color and emotion, and demonstrates the sheer effortlessness of his delivery...”

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—The SCOTSMAN

Also available Handel: Ombra Cara harmonia mundi • HMC 902077 (794881968626)

“Combine Mehta — the Maria Callas of countertenors — with conductor René Jacobs and the edgy period instrument Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and fireworks are inevitable.”

—LOS ANGELES TIMES 11

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Heinavanker harmonia mundi • HMU 907488 IMPORT On Songs of Olden Times, the vocal ensemble Heinavanker (Estonian for “hay wagon”), led by composer Margo Kõlar since 1996, delves into Estonia’s early sacred music and folklore through the prism of contemporary imagination. This evocative program of ancient runic songs and folk hymns, which sometimes features overtone singing, ranges from joyful to reflective.

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Songs of Olden Times Estonian Folk Hymns and Runic Songs

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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Ten Blake Songs, On Wenlock Edge DOVE The End WARLOCK The Curlew Mark Padmore (tenor), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Huw Watkins (piano), Britten Sinfonia harmonia mundi • HMU 807566 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Tenor Mark Padmore shines in this program featuring three quintessential British song-cycles. He is joined by pianist Huw Watkins, oboist Nicolas Daniel and members of the Britten Sinfonia in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge and Ten Blake Songs and one of Peter Warlock’s best-known works, The Curlew. Also included is The End

by Jonathan Dove (a co-commission by Britten Sinfonia and Wigmore Hall with support from the Tenner for a Tenor campaign). The work receives its world première recording here.

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“Padmore is absolutely at his prime and a singer of extraordinary intensity.”

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—GRAMOPHONE

Also available Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings harmonia mundi • 807552 (093046755263)

“Pears’s 1944 recording... is a classic. Now Mr. Padmore’s takes an honored place beside it.”

—THE NEW YORK TIMES 13

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14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition - Silver Medalist

Beatrice Rana (piano) harmonia mundi • HMU 907606

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14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition - Crystal Award BRAHMS Variations on an Original Theme BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.29 – Hammerklavier BARTÓK Three Études Sean Chen (piano) harmonia mundi • HMU 907607 IMPORT The first American to win a prize since 1997, Crystal Award winner Sean Chen won fans with his “exceptional ability to connect with Price Code: A19 an audience combined with an easy virtuosity” (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) (Huffington Post). Named the 2013 Christel DeHaan Classical Fellow of the American Pianists Association, highlights of Chen’s 2013–14 season include return invitations to perform with the Indianapolis and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras and performances at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Jordan Hall in Boston. This live recording of his competition performances featured works by Brahms, Beethoven and Bartók.

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IMPORT Silver Medal winner Beatrice Rana was praised for her “intensely personalized music-making” (Dallas Morning News) that “had an electrical Price Code: A19 current running through virtually every measure” (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Already a rising star, Rana was named “One to Watch” by International Piano magazine just before her Cliburn appearance. In addition to a tour of the US arranged by the Cliburn, highlights of Rana’s 2013–14 season include invitations to perform with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. This live recording of her competition performances features works by Schumann, Ravel and Bartók.

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SCHUMANN Symphonic Études RAVEL Gaspard de la Nuit BARTÓK Out of Doors

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Van Cliburn's sensational victory at the first Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow in 1958 heralded a new confidence in the quality of American music-making, as well as a new era in cultural relations between East and West. The quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, widely recognized as one of the world's most important, was organized by a group of music teachers and citizens from Fort Worth, Texas in 1962 to commemorate his historic achievement and is dedicated to the discovery of the world's finest pianists. Today the competition is widely recognized as one of the most prestigious showcases for emerging talent. Over the course of its fifty-year history, the Cliburn has launched a host of exceptional artists onto the world stage, including Barry Douglas, Olga Kern, Radu Lupu, Jon Nakamatsu, André-Michel Schub, Alexander Toradze and Nobuyuki Tsujii.

STRAVINSKY Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka LISZT Transcendental Études Vadym Kholodenko (piano) harmonia mundi • HMU 907605 IMPORT The competition’s Gold Medal winner, Ukrainian Vadym Kholodenko, captured the attention of audiences and critics alike for his powerful performances marked by vibrant imagination and intelligence. His cadenza in Mozart’s Concerto K. 467 – which he composed on the plane from Moscow to the competition – showed him to have “the guts of a true superartist” (San Francisco Classical Voice). Kholodenko’s 2013–14 season includes performances at the La Jolla Music Society, Krannert Center, Mann Center with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, and Oporto National Orchestra. This live CD of his competition performances features Stravinsky’s Pétrouchka and the complete Liszt Transcendental Études.

“A virtuosic display not of piano playing, but of thrilling music-making.”

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—DALLAS OBSERVER

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14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition - Gold Medalist

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THE 14TH VAN CLIBURN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

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HINDEMITH Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3

HINDEMITH Violin Sonatas, Meditation: Sehr Iangsam

Markus Becker (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67977

Tanja Becker-Bender (violin), Péter Nagy (piano) Hyperion • CDA 68014

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IMPORT To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Paul Hindemith, Hyperion presents two discs featuring some of the composer’s finest works played by two of the label’s finest soloists. Pianist Markus Becker has been acclaimed for his persuasive and authoritative recordings of German repertoire of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was in the second half of Hindemith’s career that Hindemith produced his major works for solo piano. In his three Piano Sonatas, all written in 1936, Hindemith presents himself not as the rebel and revolutionary of the 1920s, but rather as an heir to the contrapuntal skill and keyboard dexterity of Johann Sebastian Bach. Hindemith’s Violin Sonatas mirror the various stages in the development of his musical language from the vocabulary of late Romanticism to the monumental, contrapuntal and revivified Baroque idiom of his maturity. They are performed here by virtuoso German violinist Tanja Becker-Bender who has made a specialty of the music of the early twentieth century.

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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Marc-André Hamelin (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67951 IMPORT Marc-André Hamelin is indisputably the king of Busoni pianists.

He triumphantly masters the extraordinary technical difficulties and contrapuntal complexities this composer presents. This generously filled triple album offers most of Busoni’s mature works and the widest selection of pieces from the Klavierübung so far recorded, many of them for the first time.

“Busoni makes ridiculous demands on pianists, but in Marc-André Hamelin’s hands, it all sounds perfectly reasonable.”

—BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

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Price Code: 3A19 (3 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $59.98)

Also available Busoni: Piano Concerto Hyperion • CDA 67143 (034571571430)

“A spine-tingling experience.”

—gramophone 17

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BUSONI Late Piano Music

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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Roberto Prosseda (pedal piano) Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana Howard Shelley Hyperion • CDA 67975 IMPORT The Romantic Piano Concerto series reaches volume sixty-two and makes an interesting (although temporary) departure. These four works by Charles Gounod are for pedal piano (a piano that includes a separate keyboard for the feet). Better known for his operatic and liturgical compositions, Gounod was inspired by the talent of the young and apparently very attractive Lucie Palicot whom he heard performing Alkan’s music for the instrument in 1882. These works definitely show a different side to this nineteenth-century luminary. Italian pianist Roberto Prosseda, who gave the first modern performance of Gounod’s Concerto for pedal piano and orchestra, makes his Hyperion début.

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“Prosseda shapes the music in long, elegant phrases that soar and compel utterly...”

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—CLASSIC FM

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Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.61 Hyperion • CDA 67950 (0345711795061)

“Played like this with virtuoso panache and total conviction, these pieces sound like neglected masterworks.”

—BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

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Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.62 GOUNOD Concerto for pedal piano in E-flat Major, Suite concertante in A Major, Fantaisie sur l’hymne national russe, Danse roumaine

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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Takács Quartet Hyperion • CDA 68004 IMPORT The Takács Quartet have recorded much of the great Classical and Romantic quartet repertoire during their fruitful career. Now they turn to three masterpieces of the twentieth century. Benjamin Britten’s three String Quartets span the composer’s life, the first written in America and the second written at the height of Britten’s fame after the premiere of Peter Grimes. It was written to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Purcell’s death – a composer who was a lifetime inspiration to Britten – and the last movement is cast in the form of a huge Chacony. The third quartet was written at the end of Britten’s life and refers specifically to his last opera, Death in Venice. Peter Pears described this haunting work as being, “of a profound beauty more touching than anything else, radiant, wise, new, mysterious – overwhelming.”

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“A stunningly accomplished group of players, capable of polishing anything so that it shines with their signature burnished tone quality.”

—PS TRACKS

Also available Schubert: String Quintet & Quartet D703 Hyperion • CDA 67864 (034571178646)

“Up there with the most impressive versions available.”

—CLASSICS TODAY 19

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BRITTEN String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & 3

CLASSICAL

NOVEMBER 2013

[PRIORITY RELEASE] Katherine Watson (soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass) Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Stephen Layton Hyperion • CDA 68031 IMPORT Stephen Layton and the combined forces of the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and an impressive line-up of soloists present a joyous rendition of Bach’s evergreen Christmas Oratorio. This six-part masterpiece covers the events of the nativity to Epiphany and beautifully evokes the pastoral atmosphere of the gospels, which is such an important part of the Christmas liturgy. James Gilchrist has become one of the most admired evangelists performing today, his limpid, flexible tone and great musicianship bringing the stories thrillingly to life.

“Trinity College, Cambridge is one of the finest in England; and under Stephen Layton’s more-than capable direction they are sustaining the dazzling reputation…”

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—AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

Also available Britten: A Ceremony of Carols Hyperion • CDA 67946 (034571179469)

“This is a beautiful and deeply affecting recording.”

—gramophone 20

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BACH Christmas Oratorio

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NOVEMBER 2013

PALESTRINA Missa Dum complerentur, Veni Sancte Spiritus & other music for Whitsuntide

IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 67353 (034571173535) Deleted September 2011 The music of the sixteenth-century composer Price Code: A11 Palestrina is still at the heart of many of the (Suggested Retail Price: $11.98) Roman Catholic services sung all around the world. The congregation at Westminster Cathedral is particularly fortunate to hear this inspirational music on a regular basis, sung by one of the finest choirs in the world. This mid-priced Helios series reissue focuses on music for Whitsuntide (Whit Sunday commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit in the form of flames to the Apostles, as recorded in the New Testament.) This is glorious music and for it Martin Baker has drawn the best from his glorious choir.

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SCHUBERT Octet The Gaudier Ensemble Hyperion • CDH 55460 IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 67339 (034571173399) Deleted June 2012 In 1824, it was suggested that Schubert should Price Code: A11 write a work similar to Beethoven’s Septet. He (Suggested Retail Price: $11.98) subsequently approached the project with such enthusiasm and concentration that a friend wrote of him, “If you go and see him during the day he says ‘Hello. How are you?’ and carries on working, whereupon you leave.” Schubert adhered to the Septet’s movement structure and key sequences almost entirely. However, the melody and beauty that infuse the Octet are quintessentially Schubert, and justify the work’s enduring popularity. This mid-priced reissue in Hyperion’s Helios series features outstanding performances

by The Gaudier Ensemble.

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Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker Hyperion • CDH 55449

CLASSICAL

NOVEMBER 2013

Andrew Kennedy (tenor) The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge Cambridge University Musical Society Sawston Village College Choir Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Cleobury King’s College • KGS 0003 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD As part of this year’s celebration of the centenary of Benjamin Britten’s birth, The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge under conductor Stephen Cleobury presents Britten’s enchanting choral masterpiece Saint Nicolas, coupled with the Hymn to St. Cecilia and Rejoice in the Lamb.

The recording features soloist Andrew Kennedy, a former choral scholar at King’s College, the Britten Sinfonia, Sawston Village College Choir and Cambridge University Musical Society. The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge is one of the world’s foremost choirs and unquestionably among the most widely heard.

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“A new recording by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge offers unadulterated pleasure.”

—GRAMOPHONE

Also available Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols Kings College • KGS 001 (822231700128)

“The King’s College Choir defines Christmas musically… the level of achievement reached in these live performances is enviable.”

—BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 22

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BRITTEN Saint Nicolas, Hymn to St. Cecilia, Rejoice in the Lamb

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NOVEMBER 2013

HANDEL Belshazzar Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Caitlin Hulcup (mezzo-soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Allan Clayton (tenor), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone) Les Arts Florissants William Christie Les Arts Florissants • AF 001

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“The music-making that takes place under Christie’s baton could hardly be bettered...”

—OPERA NEWS 23

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IMPORT The brand-new label from one of the world’s finest early music ensembles makes an auspicious début with this stunning new recording of Handel’s oratorio Belshazzar. Les Arts Florissants, led by the great William Christie, have launched their new label with the goal of expanding the ensemble’s connection to the listening public. First performed in 1745, Belshazzar was frequently revised. Christie has chosen what he considers to be the most successful of the various versions, resulting in the restoration of the piece in all its splendor. This deluxe set also includes a bonus essay by Jean Echenoz entitled In Babylon, printed separately on special paper and included alongside the regular booklet. This specially commissioned work draws the reader deep into the ancient, majestic city, the seat of power of Belshazzar the King.

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CLASSICAL

NOVEMBER 2013

TURNAGE Speranza, From the Wreckage

IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD LSO Live presents the world première recording of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Speranza (Hope), conducted by Daniel Harding in his début recording for the label. Speranza is a monument to the power of optimism in a bleak world. Turnage explains, “I started working on the piece while thinking about the absence of hope. I wanted to lift people up.” It is coupled here with From the Wreckage, described by The Times as, “outstanding: the music begins hellishly but gradually picks up a bluesy swing…” Premièred in 2005, the original soloist, Håkan Hardenberger reprises the role. Turnage is one of the most admired composers of his generation, and has long been associated with the London Symphony Orchestra.

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“The conductor Daniel Harding delivered a passionate performance of this eloquent, largely optimistic work.”

“It’s one of the best of Turnage’s recent scores. Harding did superb things with its tensions and textures.”

—The Times

—The Guardian

“Make no mistake – Speranza is a serious statement by a composer with the substance and technique to bring it off.”

“It’s a piece with an exquisitely careful structure, and Harding’s shaping of it was ideal.”

—Classical Source

—bachtrack.com

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Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet) London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding LSO Live • LSO 0744

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[PRIORITY RELEASE] mariinsky

SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.8 Mariinsky Orchestra Valery Gergiev Mariinsky • MAR 0525 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Valery Gergiev continues his Shostakovich symphony cycle with the release of the Symphony No.8. The work, imbued with a deep sense of sorrow and fear, is considered to be one of the composer’s finest scores. The authorities expected a victorious anthem in light of the Nazi retreat, but Shostakovich appeared too affected by the casualties and ruin of the war. The New York Times recently hailed Gergiev for demonstrating, “a powerfully intuitive connection to these works and a keen ear for the intricacies of Shostakovich’s musical voice.”

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“A powerfully intuitive connection to these works and a keen ear for the intricacies of Shostakovich’s musical voice.”

Price Code: A18 (Suggested Retail Price: $18.98)

—THE NEW YORK TIMES

Also available Shostakovich: Symphony No.7 Mariinsky • MAR 0533 (822231853329)

“His conception of the work seems only to have deepened... and the St. Petersburg orchestra’s sound, neither diluted nor amplified, lies closer to the heart of the music.”

—THE NEW YORK TIMES 25

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NOVEMBER 2013

Mlada Khudoley (soprano), Olga Sergeyeva (soprano), Olga Savova (mezzo-soprano), Avgust Amonov (tenor), Edem Umerov (baritone) Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev Mariinsky • MAR 0543 IMPORT DVD/ All Zones/ 210 minutes The Mariinsky label presents a stunning reading of Strauss’s most Wagnerian of operas, Die Frau ohne Schatten. Filmed in the historic Mariinsky Theatre in 2011 and conducted by maestro Valery Gergiev, it stars Russian tenor Avgust Amonov as The Emperor, Mlada Khudoley as The Empress and Olga Savova as The Nurse. This epic production, premiered in 2009, is a collaboration between two British artists, director Jonathan Kent and designer Paul Brown, and has become a regular fixture in the opera company’s schedule. The three-act opera, with libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, is an exotic fairytale with a strong moral dimension, focusing on themes of the unborn and the supernatural.

Also available on Blu-ray Mariinsky • MAR 0544 All Zones/ 210 minutes/ 1080i HD/ 16:9

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Also available Verdi: Attila Mariinsky • MAR 0534 (822231853428) “Abdrazakov has it in him to be

Prokofiev: The Gambler Mariinsky • MAR 0536 (822231853626)

“A shattering viewing and listening experience.”

-THE BOSTON GLOBE

without competition as Attila.”

-INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW 26

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NOVEMBER 2013

Troubadour and the Nightingale

Isabel Bayrakdarian (soprano) Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Anne Manson MCO Records • MCO 013001 IMPORT The Manitoba Chamber Orchestra and Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian transport the listener to the Middle Ages Price Code: A19 through music inspired by 13th Century female (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) troubadours. This album includes works by the Armenian troubadour Sayat-Nova and the Greek songs of Maurice Ravel, all arranged by Canadian pianist and composer Serouj Kradjian. The disc also includes a new work by Kradjian that focuses on the female troubadour Ysabella and conjures up all the mystery and romance of the era. Trobairitz Ysabella has been described as having an “eastern Mediterranean flavor,” while remaining “vigorously contemporary.” On Troubadour and the Nightingale, conductor Anne Manson and the MCO have created a colorful soundscape that envelops the listener in exotic sounds.

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SCHUMANN Grande Humoresque Op.20, Piano Sonata No.1 Op.11

IMPORT On this recording, pianist Adam Laloum offers his personal, fiery and passionate vision of German Romanticism. The Piano Sonata No.1 Price Code: A23 and the Grande Humoreske present the dreamlike (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) universe of Schumann, with its contrasts, its madness and its poetry. These two tormented works were composed as the composer waited desperately to marry his beloved Clara. Laloum, 2009 winner of the Clara Haskil Competition (at age 22), is a pianist to watch. He has already performed at many prestigious festivals and concerts halls as soloist and chamber musician in France, Switzerland, Jordan and Mexico.

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Adam Laloum (piano) Mirare • MIR 194

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NOVEMBER 2013

Boris Berezovsky (piano) Henri Demarquette (cello) Sinfonia Varsovia, Alexander Vedernikov Mirare • MIR 200 IMPORT The version of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.2 recorded here by Boris Berezovsky was long known only in the ‘Ziloti’ Edition of 1897.

It drastically abbreviates the work and revises the central Andante to feature a trio of soloists. The piano is joined by a solo violin and cello, played here by violinist Jakub Haufa and cellist Marcel Markowski.

In addition to the concerto, the recording also includes several works for solo piano and two transcriptions for cello and piano. Taken as a whole, this collection of works illustrates the amazing richness of Tchaikovsky’s melodic inspiration.

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Also available Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 Mirare • MIR 132 (3760127221326) “Berezovsky pretty much seizes the piece by the throat and wrestles it to the ground...

This is spectacular playing... Berezovsky is the one I’ll return to.”

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TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No.2, Theme and Variations Op.19, Douze morceaux Op.40 Nos.2, 5, 6, 7 & 8, Valse sentimentale Op.51 No.6 (Arr. Viktor Kubatsky), Andante cantabile (Arr. David Geringas)

CLASSICAL

NOVEMBER 2013

IMPORT Belisario is, quite simply, one of Donizetti’s finest achievements. Dating from the high watermark of Donizetti’s maturity, Belisario proved a Price Code: 2A25 (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $51.98) triumph on stages throughout the 19th century.

Yet, incredibly, it is little known today. The libretto tells the moving and typically complicated story of the sixth-century Byzantine general. Recorded in the studio with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder, this two disc set is accompanied by a complete libretto with an English translation alongside an article and synopsis by the eminent 19th Century musical scholar, Jeremy Commons.

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DONIZETTI Belisario Joyce El-Khoury (soprano), Camilla Roberts (soprano), Russell Thomas (tenor), Nicola Alaimo (baritone), Alastair Miles (bass) BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra Mark Elder Opera Rara • ORC 49

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DVORÁK String Quartets Nos.12 & 14, Terzetto Zemlinsky Quartet Praga • PRD 250300

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Slávka Pechoková-Vernerová (piano), Prazák Quartet, Pavel Nejtek (double bass) Praga • PRD 250298

IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Mozart produced scores with variable accompaniment to facliitate performances at the Austrian Emperor’s court and private salons. This trilogy of Viennese Piano Concerto arrangements was popular in its day, but neglected in the Romantic era. Praga’s SACD featuring piano soloist Slávka Pechocová-Vernerová, accompanied by the Prazák Quartet and Pavel Nejtek on double-bass, demonstrates the contemporary relevance of these versions. Praga celebrates the Zemlinsky Quartet’s 20th anniversary with a rich collection of chamber music

by Dvorák. This SACD brings together the two best-known Slavonic quartets and a trio, written as an homage to Mozart and a work that the composer (also a violist) loved to play with friends.

CLASSICAL

NOVEMBER 2013

[PRIORITY RELEASE] Sally Matthews (soprano), Tamara Mumford (mezzo-soprano), Barry Banks (tenor), Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone) San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas SFS Media • SFS 0058 DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD This powerful recording from Michael Tilson-Thomas and the GRAMMY® Award-winning San Francisco Symphony and chorus pairs Beethoven’s colossal Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II with his playful, upbeat Symphony No.2. Rarely performed or recorded, Beethoven’s profoundly moving funeral cantata proved a revelation during the symphony’s 2013 concert season. The recording features soprano Sally Matthews, mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford, tenor Barry Banks and bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams. This hybrid multi-channel SACD is the latest addition to the San Francisco Symphony’s ongoing series of acclaimed Beethoven recordings.

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“Michael Tilson Thomas continues to bring a welcome freshness to almost every piece he conducts.”

Price Code: A24 (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98)

—AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

Also available Beethoven: Symphony No.9 SFS Media • SFS 0055 (821936005521)

“Bringing something unusual to a piece of music we all think we know by heart... The sound is stunning.”

—Stereophile 30

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BEETHOVEN Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, Symphony No.2

CLASSICAL

NOVEMBER 2013

MAHLER Symphony No.7

IMPORT The Testament disc presents a live recording of a concert by the Berlin Philharmonic during the Berliner Festwochen on September 21, 1994.

Price Code: A20 On short notice, Michael Gielen replaced an (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) ailing Klaus Tennstedt. The assessments of the evening were mixed, but the Berliner Morgenpost wrote that, “The members of the Philharmonic were excellent partners for Gielen’s precise, intelligent and extraordinarily gripping Mahler interpretation.” The present recording documents the special quality of Gielen’s cooperation with the Philharmonic – and more than that: it is also a testimonial to the orchestra’s rich Mahler tradition.

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Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Michael Gielen Testament • SBT 1480

HENZE Symphonies Nos.1 & 6

IMPORT Hans Werner Henze composed his Symphony No.1 when he was just 20 years old. Henze himself later described this original version Price Code: A24 as a “complete failure.” A revised version (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) of the work was penned in 1964. The slow movement was basically unchanged; however the outer movements were not mere revisions but completely new compositions. The Symphony No.6 was a product of the composer’s interest in the political left and in Cuba specifically.

Premièred in Havana, it is highly influenced by Cuban folk music. Marek Janowski leads the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin in these key works of the 20th Century.

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Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin Marek Janowski Wergo • WER 6724

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NOVEMBER 2013

HOSOKAWA Silent Flowers – String Quartets Arditti Quartet Wergo • WER 6761

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RIEHM Wer sind diese kinder, Hamamuth – Stadt der Engel Nicholas Hodges (piano) SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Beat Furrer Wergo • WER 6755 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel Both the piano work Hamamuth – Stadt der Engel and the piano concerto Wer sind diese Kinder are Price Code: A24 composer Rolf Riehm’s attempts to broaden the (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) spectrum of political music. Hamamuth – Stadt der Engel focuses on the omnipresence of violence experienced during the Iraq War. Both works show that it would be insufficient to look for their political facets exclusively on a semantic level. The physical understanding of music appears to be almost equally important. These powerful works are performed by pianist Nicholas Hodges and the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden conducted

by Beat Furrer.

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IMPORT Toshio Hosokawa’s compositions for string quartet reveal a deep connection with traditional Japanese arts. His relationship to sounds is Price Code: A24 therefore fundamentally Asian, based on the (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) idea of permanent transformation. In these string quartets, there is not a single sound whose character is not continuously modified. Effects include glissandos, trills, tremolos, harmonics, vibratos of different sorts, constantly shifting dynamics and bowings, by which the individual note is transformed into a dynamic structure. The Arditti Quartet combines innate comprehension of Hosokowa’s style with the highest technical skill in these definitive performances.

SOUNDTRACK

NOVEMBER 2013

[PRIORITY RELEASE] Cynthia Millar (ondes martenot), Lydia Kavina (theremin) London Philharmonic Orchestra Howard Shore Howe Records • HWR 1011

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Ed Wood Original Soundtrack – Remastered Howard Shore Collector’s Edition Vol. 3

DOMESTIC This 20th anniversary collector’s edition of Howard Shore’s score for Ed Wood has been remastered, repackaged and includes four bonus tracks that were not included on the original release. Ed Wood, the awardwinning film by Tim Burton, is an homage to an innovative era of film making when there were no limits to imagination. Shore composed, orchestrated and conducted the score inspired by Sci-fi and B-movies from the 1950’s. Performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra led by the composer, the score also highlights the great playing of the brilliant Russian theremin player Lydia Kavina (the grandniece of the instrument’s inventor, Léon Theremin).

“Remains as much a cult hit... as the film itself.”

—FILMTRACKS

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Also available Howard Shore Collector’s Edition Vol.1 Howe Records • HWR 1003 (899158002031)

Soul of the Ultimate Nation Howe Records • HWR 1006 (899158002062)

“A delightful collection.”

“How can you not love this...”

—MIDWEST RECORD REVIEW

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Bruckner Orchestra Linz Dennis Russell Davies Orange Mountain • OMM 0089 DOMESTIC Orange Mountain Music presents the original motion picture soundtrack to Visitors, a new film by acclaimed director Godfrey Reggio with an original score by Philip Glass performed by the Bruckner Orchester Linz conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. Glass and Reggio have a collaborative relationship dating back over thirty years including past collaborations on Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi.

Visitors is Reggio’s first film in over a decade and inspired an elegant and evocative score from Glass. This recording was produced by long-time Glass collaborator Kurt Munkacsi. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September of 2013.

“Glass’ score provides essential guidance...understates the epic quality of the project and grounds it...”

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—INDIE WIRE

Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)

“Mesmerizing.”

—Variety

Also available Glass: Koyaanisqatsi – Original Soundtrack Orange Mountain Music • OMM 0058 (801837005820)

“A counter-cultural elegy for Western Civilization... haunting.”

—THE BUFFALO NEWS 34

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GLASS Visitors – Original Film Soundtrack

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NOVEMBER 2013

Jazz Samba Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd APO • CVRJ 8432 SA

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Soulville The Ben Webster Quintet APO • CVRJ 8274 SA DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Mono/ DSD File in: Jazz Soulville is quintessential Ben Webster: intimate, Price Code: A40 tender, endlessly expressive. Webster was (Suggested Retail Price: $40.98) internationally recognized as one of jazz’s elder statesman when he recorded this album in 1957, but the youthful fire that had marked his playing with the Duke Ellington Orchestra two decades earlier was undiminished. Leading a stellar combo through a program consisting mostly of vintage pop tunes, the great tenor saxophonist is at his peak. And this reissue includes three rare recordings of Webster on piano, the first instrument he played as a young professional musician. Recorded in 1957, the album has been carefully remastered for SACD to provide the best possible sound.

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DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD File in: Jazz The words “bossa nova” are often synonymous Price Code: A40 with the name Stan Getz. But North Americans (Suggested Retail Price: $40.98) might not have ever known the sound of bossa nova had it not been for Charlie Byrd. In 1961, Byrd returned from a tour of South America, where bossa nova music was thriving. The style was the invention of singer João Gilberto and songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim – an adaptation of infectious Brazilian samba rhythms with the harmonic structures and “cool” of West Coast jazz. Byrd brought back records for Getz to hear, they planned a session, and the result was Jazz Samba – the first album of true bossa nova music by jazz artists. Originally released in 1962, the album has been carefully remastered for SACD to provide the best possible sound.

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NOVEMBER 2013

Smokin’ at the Half Note Wynton Kelly Trio, Wes Montgomery APO • CVRJ 8633 SA

File in: Jazz

This is timeless music that has inspired innumerable jazz guitarists and aficionados. In fact, jazz guitar great Pat Metheny has said, “I learned to play listening to Wes Montgomery’s Smokin’ At The Half Note.”

Metheny additionally said that the solo on “If You Could See Me Now” is his favorite of all time. This legendary session was recorded at a New York nightclub. It captures Montgomery at the height of his improvisational powers.

Many consider it the best performance on record by one of the most inventive guitarists in jazz history. Specially remastered for SACD by Analogue Productions, this release offers the album in the best possible audio quality.

Price Code: A40 (Suggested Retail Price: $40.98)

Empathy Shelly Manne & Bill Evans with Monty Budwig APO • CVRJ 8497 SA

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DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD File in: Jazz

This album came about through a fortuitous convergence of circumstances. Shelly Manne & His Men were appearing at New York’s Village Vanguard, sharing the bill with the Bill Evans Trio. After getting Riverside’s permission to let the pianist participate, a session was arranged at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio with Evans and Manne sharing top billing. Manne’s bass player, Monty Budwig, made up the trio. This was a busman’s holiday for Evans, who was freed from the musical parameters he had set for his then-current trio. The result is that his playing is lighter and more relaxed. Recorded in 1962, the album has been carefully remastered for SACD to provide the best possible sound.

Price Code: A40 (Suggested Retail Price: $40.98)

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Modern Brass Bands First & Second Line in New Orleans, 1990-2005

IMPORT File in: Jazz Following on Frémeaux’s release Sound of New Orleans, which featured music recorded by Gary Price Code: 3A17 (3 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $53.98) Edwards, this new compilation once again draws from his Sono catalogue but this time covering the music of brass bands. These bands march through the streets at every local event: parades, parties, funerals and carnivals. The music heard here is a colorful, invigorating, hot and spicy mix, a unique musical gumbo seasoned with the city’s personal flavor, which gave it the courage to rebuild itself after the tragedy of Katrina.

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Paris Budapest Caravane Latcho Drom, Parno Graszt, Etno Rom Frémeaux • FA 595 IMPORT File in: Jazz Paris Budapest Caravane marks the meeting of three groups who individually are the best Price Code: A19 exponents of their respective musical aesthetics.

(Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) Latcho Drom represent the French style of swing and gypsy jazz, while the Hungarian ensembles Parno Graszt and Etno Rom are the keepers of the Tziganes’ Olàh music tradition and Rom music from Eastern Europe. After a successful live concert series, the popularity of this mix led to an international tour and the recording of this album.

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Various Artists Frémeaux • FA 5413

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NOVEMBER 2013

Laurent Courthaliac Trio, Ron Carter Jazz Village • JV 570023

IMPORT File in: Jazz Different stories of love, art and family populate this recording, which resonates like a prestigious, vintage Grand Cru. Pianist Laurent Courthaliac pays tribute to be-bop and its patron muse, the baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter. The repertoire mixes and mingles Courthaliac’s originals with those of jazz giants from that time, including iconic legend Thelonious Monk. The trio, led by its pianist (sublime quality guaranteed: bassist Ron Carter performs on two thirds of the tracks), guides us through the intricacies of an era and style that goes beyond modern. Pannonica’s granddaughter Nadine designed the album artwork.

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IMPORT File in: Jazz These three bestselling, critically-acclaimed recordings by three of of today’s premier jazz artists are now available as high-quality 180 gram vinyl LPs. Sketches of Ethiopia is Mulatu Astatke’s first international release. The album’s remarkably rich music reveals influences ranging from jazz and Latin American music to the traditional music of his homeland. Master of the vibraphone and conga drums, Astatke plays with his England-based group Step Ahead. Fresh off on the incredible success of his Jazz Village début Blue Moon, the great Ahmad Jamal returned to the studio to record Saturday Morning. With his light-fingered but rhythmic style, Jamal sends us into a sensuous trance and leads us to a musical climax with a sound that is 100% pure groove. Jazz trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf ’s acclaimed album Wind was inspired by Miles Davis’s L’ascenseur pour l’échafaud. Playing his quarter-tone trumpet, Maalouf ’s music is mysterious and melancholic, dripping with suspense, contributing a discreet yet powerful Arabic hue that he blends magically into a warm jazz quintet sound.

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Gianmaria Testa Chant du Monde • 2742282

INCLUDES IMPORT BONUS DVD Bonus DVD: All zones/ 56 minutes File in: World / Europe / Italy Great voices, the kind that get under your skin and never let you forget them, are not always virtuosic; they are those that, honed to the most accurate possible degree of human feeling, reveal the secret path they travel - from the very depths of the soul which produced them out into the wide world where they are received. Such is Gianmaria Testa’s voice. Underpinned by a subtle mix of French chanson, jazz, Latin rhythms and hints of rock music, it combines familiar and unique elements that vie for our attention. The tracks on this double album were recorded on a tour during which Testa performed at concert halls in Germany, Austria and Luxembourg.

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“Italy’s classiest and most seductive singer-songwriter.”

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“Testa is very much his own man: a freewheeling mind and an exquisite and original craftsman.”

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Les Chansons de Paris 12 CDs for the Price of 3

IMPORT File in: World / Europe / France An important settlement for more than two millennia, by the late 12th century Paris was Price Code: 3A18 Europe’s foremost center of learning and the (12 CDs for the price of 3, arts and remained the largest city in the Western Suggested Retail Price: $56.98) world until the turn of the 18th century. Today, Paris is indisputably one of the most beautiful and romantic cities in the world.

Over the years, musicians from around the world have done their best to capture the essence of this amazing city in song. Nothing has escaped the impassioned pen of her partisans: neither her failings not her virtues, her customs nor her inhabitants, her splendors nor her seediness. With an all-star cast of performers and 320 tracks, this new set is the largest anthology ever devoted to the City of Light. Divided into twelve chapters, Chant du Monde’s gorgeous, speciallypriced boxed set Les Chansons de Paris provides a comprehensive overview of the rich variety of songs which make up this seemingly inexhaustible repertoire.

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ARTISTS INCLUDE Arletty Charles Aznavour Joséphine Baker George Brassens Jacques Brel Maurice Chevalier Léo Ferré Serge Gainsbourg Juliette Gréco Mestinguett Yves Montand Marcel Moloudji Edith Piaf Berthe Sylva Cherles Trénet

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Price Code: 2A12 (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $25.98)

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