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The extraordinary young violinist Alina Ibragimova is featured in a new recording for Hyperion of Prokofiev’s Violin Sonatas. Accompanied by pianist Steven Osborne, Ibragimova offers illuminating readings of these masterpieces of modern chamber music (p.10). Volume 63 of Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series focuses on music by Godard. Howard Shelley is featured in scintillating performances of the composer’s two piano concertos (p.10). Another star pianist for Hyperion, Angela Hewitt, is featured in volume three of her ongoing series of Mozart Piano Concerto recordings (p.13).

Conductor Iván Fischer takes on Bruckner’s most popular work - his Symphony No.7 - in a glorious new SACD recording for Channel Classics (p.5). Another world-renowned conductor, Valery Gergiev, adds a new gem to his Shostakovich discography with a new set for the Mariinsky label with the Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 (p.17). Delphian artists Ludus Baroque present a new recording of The Triumph of Time & Truth - a rarely-recorded oratorio by Handel (p.6) and the choral ensemble Conspirare performs music of Robert Kyr on a new disc for harmonia mundi (p.7). Crossing boundaries between pop and classical, The King’s Men, composed of 15 choral scholars from King’s College, Cambridge, present After Hours - a disc of close-harmony covers of popular music hits (p.15). The Cumbia All Stars, acknowledged masters of the Peruvian Cumbia, are back with Tigres en Fuga, an album on the World Village label destined to revive interest in the genre (p.29). Finally, just in time for the World Cup (and in plenty of time for the Olympics) Chant du Monde offers a specially priced collection entitled Brazil! that features a who’s who of Brazilian music superstars (p.25).

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West Side Story SF Symphony, Tilson Thomas SFS Media • SFS 0059

Schubert: Kinderszenen, Waldszenen Marc-André Hamelin Hyperion • CDA 68030

Ambronay Aparté Channel Delphian harmonia mundi Hyperion King’s College Les Dissonances Mariinsky Mirare Onyx Praga Tahra Wergo

“Hamelin shows himself a virtuoso in a deeper sense, a virtuoso in sound, color and poetic empathy...”

“Pretty Damn Good... the first serious challenger to the Broadway original.”

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“A balance of expressive subtlety and simplicity that strikes at the music’s very heart.”

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COMING NEXT MONTH Music for Peter Gunn Harmonie Ensemble NY, Richman harmonia mundi • HMU 907624

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Henry Mancini’s Music from Peter Gunn

Peter Gunn - the classic TV detective series (1958-61) - is best remembered today for Henry Mancini’s trend-setting score, which was inspired by West Coast Cool jazz. On Music for Peter Gunn, GRAMMY® nominated conductor Steven Richman and the sensational Harmonie Ensemble/New York, joined by ace old-school improvisers Lew Soloff (trumpet) and Lew Tabackin (sax), place their own stamp on Mancini’s iconic orchestrations.

Tel: (800) 634-0674 x1509 Email: media-usa@harmoniamundi.com Editor-in-chief: Matthew Owen Design: Stephanie Jacobson

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MONTEVERDI Vespro della beata Vergine

IMPORT A bona-fide masterpiece of sacred music, Monteverdi’s Vespro della beata Vergine not only sealed the connection between Renaissance Price Code: 2A15 (2 CDs, Suggested Retail Price: $31.98) polyphony and the virtuoso opulence of the Baroque but also inspired composers across the whole of Europe. Published three years after L’Orfeo, it is a work of startling modernity that features a rainbow of colors and a daring range of styles, and is a testimony to the genius of the composer. Leading the Cappella Mediterranea and the Chamber Choir of Namur, Leonardo García Alarcón infuses the work with a rare vitality, fervor and finesse.

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Choeur de chambre de Namur, Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón Ambronay • AMY 041

DAVID Mélodies

IMPORT This world première recording presents eighteen art songs (mélodies) by French composer Félicien David (1810–1876). Published in the 1830s, Price Code: A21 David’s mélodies were written in response to the (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98) keen interest shown at that time in simple pieces for voice and piano, intended for performance in the homes of the aristocracy and the middle classes. He was often referred to as ‘the French Schubert,’ and indeed the influence of the Viennese composer can be felt in some of his pieces.

On this disc from Aparté, baritone Tassis Christoyannis and pianist Thanassis Apostolopoulos contribute to the rediscovery of one of the major composers of the nineteenth century.

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Tassis Christoyannis (baritone), Thanassis Apostolopoulos (piano) Aparté • AP 086

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C.P.E. BACH Cello Concertos, Sinfonia No.5

IMPORT Possibly the most gifted of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sons, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was highly admired in his own century and stands out today as a brilliant and highly original composer. He revolutionized established principles of form, harmony and rhythm. His compositions are very personal and very free, with sudden changes of key, uneven phrase lengths and strong and unexpected contrasts, so that his music constantly holds the listener’s attention. This fascinating collection of his revolutionary music, released to celebrate the tercentenary of C.P.E. Bach’s birth, features cellist Ophélie Gaillard and the Pulcinella Orchestra.

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Also available Bach: Arias with piccolo cello Aparté • AP 045 (3149028024623)

“Bach’s sense of joy comes through at full strength.”

—GRAMOPHONE 4

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Ophélie Gaillard (cello), Pulcinella Orchestra Aparté • AP 080

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[PRIORITY RELEASE] BRUCKNER Symphony No.7

IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Until late in his career, Bruckner was understood and admired only within a small circle - a handful of advocates of his music, both pupils and Wagnerites. As he was composing his Symphony No.7, Bruckner heard news of the death of his musical idol Richard Wagner. He immediately decided to dedicate the work to his remembrance. The seventh symphony marked Bruckner’s breakthrough into widespread public acceptance, and since its première it has remained the most frequently performed of his nine symphonies. This gut-wrenching performance by Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra features the finest in recorded sound.

“Fischer is nothing if not individual...”

—GRAMOPHONE

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Also available Mahler: Symphony No.5 Channel • CCS SA 34213 (723385342137)

“This great performance of this oft-recorded, often very well-recorded symphony, is worthy of comparison with Bernstein’s DG reading, only in spectacular sound.”

—STEREOPHILE 5

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Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer Channel Classics • CCS SA 33714

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[PRIORITY RELEASE] HANDEL The Triumph of Time and Truth

IMPORT On their third disc for Delphian, Ludus Baroque and five stellar soloists bring to life Handel’s rarely-heard final oratorio The Triumph of Time and Truth - a remarkable Protestant re-casting of a work written fifty years earlier to a text by the young composer’s Roman patron Cardinal Pamphilj. The work, neglected by centuries of scholarship on account of its hybrid origins, here proves an extraordinary feast of riches, and the ideal vehicle for Richard Neville-Towle’s carefully assembled cast of exceptional soloists, vigorous, intelligent chorus and an orchestra made up from some of the UK’s leading period instrumentalists.

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Also available Handel: Song for St Cecilia’s Day Delphian • DCD 34110 (801918341106)

“Every ingredient here fuses in harmony... Memorable music, delivered without frills: that’s all you really need.”

—THE TIMES 6

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Sophie Bevan (soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Ed Lyon (tenor), William Berger (bass), Ludus Baroque, Richard Neville-Towle Delphian • DCD 34135

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Estelí Gomez (soprano), David Farwig (baritone), Conspirare, Victoria Bach Festival Orchestra, Craig Hella Johnson harmonia mundi • HMU 807577 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Craig Hella Johnson leads Conspirare, soprano Estelí Gomez, baritone David Farwig and the Victoria Bach Festival Orchestra in this first recording of three choral works by Robert Kyr. Exploring the relationship between human and divine love, his cantatas The Cloud of Unknowing and Songs of the Soul transfixed audiences and critics alike when Conspirare premiered them. In a concert review, The Wall Street Journal hailed them as, “a powerful new achievement in American music that vividly traces a journey from despair to transcendence.”

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“Conspirare sings gloriously...”

—THE BUFFALO NEWS

Also available Puts: Symphony No.4 harmonia mundi • HMU 907580 (093046758028)

“Brilliantly realized...”

—NPR 7

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KYR The Cloud of Unknowing, Songs of the Soul, The Singer’s Ode

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La Chapelle Royale Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HMG 501341

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J.S. BACH Secular Cantatas PURCELL The Fairy Queen

RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs harmonia mundi • HMG 501544

Les Arts Florissants William Christie harmonia mundi • HMG 501308

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PIAZZOLLA Concerto for bandonéon Pablo Mainetti (bandonéon), Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure, Josep Pons harmonia mundi • HMG 501595

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Previously Available as HML 5901595 (794881818921) Deleted April 2011

HAYDN Cello Concertos Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Freiburger Barockorchester, Petra Müllejans harmonia mundi • HMG 501816 Previously Available as HMX 2961816 (794881912124) Deleted February 2010

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GILLES Requiem

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Rundfunkchor Berlin, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano harmonia mundi • HMG 501837

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HAYDN String Quartets Op.33 SCHUBERT An den Mond - Lieder

Cuarteto Casals harmonia mundi • HMG 502022

Dietrich Henschel (baritone) Helmut Deutsch (piano) harmonia mundi • HMG 501822

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BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos.4 & 7, Piano Trios Nos.3 & 5

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Daniel Sepec (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Andreas Staier (piano) harmonia mundi • HMG 508398

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Remains Available as HMC 901919 (794881802821) & HMC 901555 (794881835423) Deleted June 2003 PURCELL Funeral Sentences, Hail! Bright Cecilia Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HMG 508462 Previously Available as HMC 901462 (3149025058829) Deleted March 2009 & HMX 2981462 (794881651320) Deleted June 2003

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WOLF Prometheus, Orchesterlieder

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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Howard Shelley (piano & direction), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Hyperion • CDA 68043

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IMPORT Howard Shelley directs the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra from the piano in this latest volume of The Romantic Piano Concerto series. We have reached Volume 63 and the works of French composer Benjamin Godard, a figure who is almost totally forgotten today. He is described by Jeremy Nicholas in his booklet note as, “a composer who combines the sentimental melodic appeal of Massenet with the fecundity and technical facility of Saint-Saëns.”

Among Godard’s oeuvre, much of the enormous amount of music he produced followed in the tradition of Mendelssohn and Schumann. With the emergence of more innovative composers, Godard’s conservative idiom meant his reputation faded before his early death in 1895. However, in the three works presented here his writing for the piano exceeds the technical range of his two idols, and is often reminiscent of the bravura demands found in the concertos of Liszt and Rubinstein.

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“Howard Shelley seems to have a great deal of fun playing it and is a wonderful advocate for this early Romantic music that he understands so well.”

—AUDIOPHILE AUDITION

Also available Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.62 Hyperion • CDA 67975 (034571179759)

“Fascinating...”

—THE NEW YORK TIMES 10

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Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.63 GODARD Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Introduction and Allegro Op.49

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[PRIORITY RELEASE] PROKOFIEV Violin Sonatas Nos.1 & 2, Five Melodies

IMPORT Hyperion is delighted to present a special collaboration — already an extraordinary force on the concert platform — in its first appearance on record. Alina Ibragimova and Steven Osborne are musicians of searing, uncompromising intelligence and intense feeling. In his works for the violin, Prokofiev produced some of his most personal and expressive music. Both of his Violin Sonatas were written for David Oistrakh. The first was begun against the backdrop of Stalin’s Great Terror, and one senses that he drew his inspiration from the uncharacteristically dark wells of fear, despair and bereavement which were the lot of Prokofiev and his contemporaries. The Violin Sonata No.2 is of a very different character — generally sunny and carefree, though still with occasional fleeting shadows. In its original form it was a Flute Sonata, Op 94, which Prokofiev had completed in 1943.

At David Oistrakh’s suggestion and with his assistance, Prokofiev transcribed the work.

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“When you’re listening to Ibragimova, she is the only possible way to go.

It is pure poetry...”

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—POSITIVE-FEEDBACK

Also available Schubert Violin Sonatas Hyperion • CDA 67911 (034571179117) “These performances exhibit that feeling of spontaneous enjoyment...”

—GRAMOPHONE 11

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Alina Ibragimova (violin), Steven Osborne (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67514

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MENDELSSOHN The Complete Solo Piano Music Vol.2

IMPORT Howard Shelley, acclaimed as the living master of early Romantic piano music, presents the Price Code: A19 second instalment of his six-volume set of (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) Mendelssohn’s complete solo piano music — perhaps the least well-known part of the composer’s repertoire. The first volume was praised for Shelley’s “immaculate, lightly-pedaled brilliance, unfailing stylistic assurance, warmth and flexibility” (Gramophone). This second volume includes the Rondo capriccioso (a favorite virtuoso concert piece of the nineteenth century), the three-movement Scottish flavored Fantasia and two books of the Songs Without Words.

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BRIDGE Songs Janice Watson (soprano), Louise Winter (mezzo-soprano), Jamie MacDougall (tenor), Gerald Finley (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano) Hyperion • CDD 22071 IMPORT This important reissue brings together all fortyfive of the songs composed by Frank Bridge.

Price Code: A19 (2 CDs for the Price of 1, The program is presented generally along Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) chronological lines, and although the songs were written over two decades there is a remarkable consistency of style. A good number of the texts will be familiar from the songs of, say, Quilter or Finzi, but many more show Bridge’s enthusiasm for unearthing rather less well-known literary subject matter. The performers include soprano Janice Watson, mezzo Louise Winter, tenor Jamie MacDougall and baritone Gerald Finley. Roger Vignoles provides his usual rock-solid and musically stellar accompaniment.

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Howard Shelley (piano) Hyperion • CDA 68059

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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Angela Hewitt (piano), National Arts Centre Orchestra, Hannu Lintu Hyperion • CDA 68049 IMPORT Hyperion is delighted to present Angela Hewitt’s third volume of Mozart piano concertos. Here Hewitt is joined by her compatriots of the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada and frequent collaborator Hannu Lintu for sparklingly stylish renditions of Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos.22 and 24. Both of these works were written between December 1785 and March 1786. For the first time in a piano concerto orchestration, in No.22 he uses clarinets – an instrument that became a regular member of orchestras only in the 1780s. No.24 is a dark and passionate work, made more striking by its classical restraint.

“Hewitt approaches Mozart like a scholar with exceptional intelligence and a thoroughly sympathetic heart. ”

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—THE WHOLE NOTE

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Also available Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos.6, 8 & 9 Hyperion • CDA 67840 (034571178400)

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos.17 & 27 Hyperion • CDA 67919 (034571179193)

“Hewitt sparkles...”

“Model musicianship...”

—DALLAS MORNING NEWS

—GRAMOPHONE 13

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MOZART Piano Concertos Nos.22 & 24

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STANFORD String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2, Horn Fantasy

IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 67434 (034571174341) Deleted June 2012 Think of Stanford and the genre of the string Price Code: A11 (Suggested Retail Price: $11.98) quartet probably won’t come to mind. But he composed no fewer than eight such works over a twenty-eight year period, inspired by his friendship with the great violinist Joseph Joachim. The first two quartets are serious, big-boned works that show Stanford’s mastery of the idiom. On this mid-priced Helios series reissue, the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet plays with a rare sensitivity and a natural eloquence.

Also included is the Horn Fantasy — a dramatic, compelling and flawlessly written work (possibly composed as a tribute to Mozart), superbly played by Stephen Stirling.

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COLES Music from Behind the Lines BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins Corydon Singers, Matthew Best Hyperion • CDH 55464 IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 67296 (034571172934) Deleted June 2012 This Helios series mid-priced reissue features Price Code: A11 (Suggested Retail Price: $11.98) works by Scottish composer Cecil Coles performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra led by Martyn Brabbins. Following the outbreak of the First World War, Coles was sent to the trenches in France. He continued to compose, including the particularly poignant work Behind the Lines. Coles was killed in April of 1918 during a heroic attempt to rescue some wounded comrades. Thanks to the persistence and research of his daughter, his manuscripts, some still embedded with shrapnel, have been painstakingly pieced together to create this first recording of his compositions.

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RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, Stephen Stirling (horn) Hyperion • CDH 55459

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[PRIORITY RELEASE] The King’s Men King’s College • KGS 0006 IMPORT The King’s Men are a close harmony group made up of fifteen choral scholars from the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge.

The group has previously released recordings for the Signum label focusing on folk and classical repertoire, but the more ‘popular’ side was not documented until now. The album includes arrangements of popular music tracks such as “Call Me Maybe,” “Forget You” and “I Want you Back” as well as classics like “Old Man River” and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” Listeners are sure to delight in the purity of the a cappella voices and diverse songs selected by the group. The majority of the album was recorded live in a semicircle and without digital systems. This has ensured a purity of sound, ideal for the more complex harmonies in some of the songs, and provided an intimacy to the recording.

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Also available Mozart: Requiem King’s College • KGS 0002 (822231700227) “Eminently recommendable.”

—THE NEW YORK TIMES 15

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After Hours

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Les Dissonances, David Grimal Les Dissonances • LD 004 IMPORT DVD: 40 Minutes; PAL Format, Dolby Stereo 16:9 The French period-instrument ensemble Les Dissonances launches their own label with this combination CD and DVD set featuring Brahms’s Violin Concerto and the first-ever recording of the Symphony No.4 without a conductor. Les Dissonances is composed of brilliant soloists from major European orchestras. Violin soloist and leader David Grimal and the ensemble make all decisions collectively and embrace the same artistic standards. Violin and orchestra are one, with the interpretation of the work being carried both by Grimal and intense listening to the structure of the work by all the musicians.

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Price Code: 2A14 (CD+DVD, Suggested Retail Price: $29.98)

Also available Beethoven Symphony No.5 Aparté • AP 023 (3149028006025) “A version like you’ve never heard!”

—TELERAMA 16

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BRAHMS Violin Concerto, Symphony No.4

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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos.4, 5 & 6

IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Valery Gergiev continues his acclaimed Shostakovich symphony cycle with his sixth release, a two SACD set featuring Symphonies Nos.4, 5 & 6. Shostakovich’s symphonies are often emotionally powerful and the three symphonies performed here are a particularly compelling and riveting combination. Without doubt, the tortuous difficulty of adhering to vaguely articulated political dictates shaped the evolution of Shostakovich’s music. Yet it is his sophisticated employment of musical codes that enabled him to maintain his creative integrity.

These works are a superb illustration of his ability to toe the line deftly between political acclamation and condemnation.

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Price Code: 2A17 (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $35.98)

“There is, of course, no conductor in the world today who conducts as much of the music of Shostakovich, and Gergiev bids fair to be the most authoritative voice among the composer’s spokesmen.”

—CLASSICAL CD CHOICE

Also available Shostakovich: Symphony No.8 Mariinsky • MAR 0525 (822231852520) “Throughout, Gergiev impresses... if you haven’t heard this Symphony in some time, he might remind you how great a piece of music it truly is.”

—FANFARE 17

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Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev Mariinsky • MAR 0545

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ONSLOW Cello Sonatas Nos.1-3

IMPORT Following in the footsteps of Mozart and Haydn, George Onslow forged a middle path between Price Code: A23 the French and German heritages. Although he (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) was nicknamed ‘the French Beethoven,’ in these three sonatas cellist Emmanuel Jacques and pianist Maude Gratton give listeners the opportunity to discover the true personality of a composer whose music, with its highly individual colors, combines operatic lyricism and theatricality, French elegance, rhythmic vitality and dazzling virtuosity.

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DUPONT Poéme, Les Heures dolentes, La Maison dans les dunes, Journée de Printemps Marie-Catherine Girod (piano), Prazák Quartet Mirare • MIR 238 IMPORT Now unjustly forgotten, composer Gabriel Dupont was the last representative of French Price Code: A23 Romanticism. For more than twenty years, (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) pianist Marie-Catherine Girod has been a passionate defender of neglected and forgotten repertoire for the piano. This new disc features Girod in a selection of Dupont’s music for solo piano taken from the sets Les Heures dolentes and La Maison dans les dunes. Also included are the piano quintet entitled Poéme, which features the Prazák Quartet, and the world première recording of Journée de Printemps for violin and piano.

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Emmanuel Jacques (cello), Maude Gratton (piano) Mirare • MIR 192

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Danjulo Ishizaka (cello), Shai Wosner (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4120 IMPORT Cellist Danjulo Ishizaka, a former BBC Radio3 New Generation Artist, is a star on the rise - in high demand with leading orchestras and conductors worldwide. He made his Vienna Musikverein debut in 2003, his BBC Proms debut in 2006 and has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2012, Ishizaka was awarded the Hideo Saito Memorial Fund Award, one of Japan’s most prestigious music awards. For his Onyx Classics début, Ishizaka is joined by pianist Shai Wosner in a colorful and insightful program of works by Grieg, Janácek and Kodály.

“One of the best young cellists around.”

—THE STRAD

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Also available Brahms: Fantasies, Variations.

Onyx • ONYX 4055 (880040405528) “This is an inventively conceived and impressive recording.”

—THE NEW YORK TIMES 19

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JANÁCEK Prohadka, Presto KODÁLY Cello Sonata GRIEG Cello Sonata

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Joseph Moog (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4126 IMPORT Polish composer Franz Xaver Scharwenka was one of the most important and popular composer pianists of the late 19th century. He had a major career as a soloist, and toured the USA a total of 26 times.

His four piano concertos were once cornerstones of the repertoire, admired by both Liszt and Tchaikovsky. For his third recording on Onyx Classics, pianist Joseph Moog performs Scharwenka’s Piano Sonata Op.36 and Tonbilder Op.38, pairing them with Tchaikovsky’s Piano Sonata Op.37, Romance Op.5 and Aveu passionné. Moog is fast becoming recognized as one of the most gifted and inquiring of the younger generation of pianists.

“Technically impressive... the poise of a major talent...”

—MUSIC WEB INTERNATIONAL

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Also available Scarlatti Illuminated Onyx • ONYX 4106 (880040410621) “Moog has an original turn of mind and an impressive technique.

The music is never less than unexpected...”

—SINFINI MUSIC 20

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TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Sonata Op.37, Romance Op.5, Aveu passionné SCHARWENKA Piano Sonata Op.36, 5 Tonbilder Op.38 Nos.1-2

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JULY 2014

CHOPIN Piano Sonata No.2, Ballade No.1, Valse No.17, Fantaisie in F minor RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.4

IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was a legend in his own lifetime - renowned Price Code: A23 for his beautifully polished sound, clarity of (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) execution, strict fidelity to the composer and awareness of harmonic subtleties. Everything was planned to the highest degree of musical and technical perfection. On this third volume in Praga’s series of Michelangeli recordings remastered for SACD, the great pianist is heard in solo works by Chopin and Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.4, accompanied by The Philharmonia led by Ettore Gracis.

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Hermann Scherchen, Hermann Abendroth, Wilhelm Furtwängler Tahra • TAH 768 IMPORT With this release, Tahra brings to an end a musical adventure that started 22 years ago. Begun as a label dedicated to restoring the finest historic Price Code: A18 recordings of great German conductors, it is (Suggested Retail Price: $18.98) fitting that this final disc should include examples of some of the finest work the label has done. Wilhelm Furtwängler leads the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic in excerpts from Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7, Hermann Scherchen leads the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Schubert’s Symphony No.8 and Hermann Abendroth leads the Staatskapelle Schwerin in excerpts from a previously unissued recording of Bruckner’s Symphony No.7.

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Tahra Story BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos.5 & 7 (excerpts) BRUCKNER Symphony No.7 (excerpts) RAMEAU Sixième concert en sextuor SCHUBERT Symphony No.8

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Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano), The Philharmonia, Ettore Gracis Praga • PRD 350110

CLASSICAL

JULY 2014

HURT Erratischer Block, Dead Reckoning, August Frommers Dinge, Seuring / Schalter

IMPORT Born in Regensburg in 1979, Leopold Hurt studied composition at Hamburg University of Music and zither and period performance Price Code: A24 practice at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) Munich. His oeuvre covers the entire spectrum of instrumental and vocal music, with the zither featuring prominently. This Wergo release offers a portrait of Hurt’s output with two of the four pieces focusing on an area that has been mostly neglected – the traditional music of the Alpine area. With their varying instrumentations – from string trio (Mondrian Ensemble Basel) to orchestral work (Philharmoniker Hamburg) – these works provide a fascinating overview.

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SCHOENBERG Pierrot Lunaire Helga Pilarczyk (soprano), Maria Bergmann (piano), Jacques Castagner (flute), Guy Deplus (clarinet), Louis Montaigne (bass clarinet), Luben Yordanoff (violin), Serge Collot (viola), Jean Huchot (cello), Pierre Boulez Wergo • WER 6778 IMPORT The latest reissue in Wergo’s studio reihe series is very special. This recording, featuring soprano Helga Pilarczyk and conductor Pierre Boulez Price Code: A27 performing Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire, was the (Suggested Retail Price: $27.98) first release on the newly founded Wergo label in 1962, and it was the recording that laid the foundation of the label’s decades-long story of success. Unavailable on CD up to now, this highlight from Wergo’s early days has been remastered for CD to offer the finest sound quality.

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Ensemble Mosaik, Leopold Hurt, Ensemble Resonanz, Hannes Reich, Mondrian Ensemble Basel, Philharmoniker Hamburg, Simone Young Wergo • WER 6410

JAZZ

JULY 2014

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Blues A-Plenty

The Soul of Ben Webster

Hodges with Strayhorn and the Orchestra

Johnny Hodges APO • CVRJ 6123 SA

Ben Webster APO • CVRJ 6124 SA

Johnny Hodges, Billy Strayhorn APO • CVRJ 8452 SA

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD

SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD

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

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

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

DOMESTIC File in: Jazz One of the giants of the alto saxophone, Johnny Hodges was perhaps the most important soloist and sideman in Duke Ellington’s orchestra from 1928 up to Hodges’s death in 1970. The self-taught player made many solo forays during his long career - one of his ‘50s outfits included a young John Coltrane - but history remembers Hodges for his virtuosic sidemanship, particularly his sensitive rendering of ballads. Originally released in 1958, Blues A-Plenty is released here on SACD for the first time. The Soul of Ben Webster is a killer session that teams up the matchless jazz tenor sax master with fellow tenorist Harold Ashby and trumpeter Art Farmer in a soulful program of originals. Originally released in 1958 on Verve, this SACD remastering by Analogue Productions presents this recording in the best possible audio quality. Recorded during the last decade of his long tenure with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Hodges with Strayhorn and the Orchestra finds the great alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges’s musical gifts not only intact but stronger than ever. Featuring the Ellington band - with Jimmy Jones on piano and Billy Strayhorn as bandleader and arranger - it is a fascinating program of Ellington remakes, including some of the orchestra’s most familiar numbers.

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JULY 2014

Crazy Sound

IMPORT File in: Jazz Spearheading the young generation in Lorraine, France, international icon Samson Schmitt is one of the most eminent gypsy guitarists of today. Samson has had music in his blood since birth, and it shows.

His universe reflects the very essence of gypsy jazz - music anchored by deep roots, profoundly human and altruistic, yet modern and in perfect tune with its times. The guitarist’s characteristic imprint lies as much in the aerial virtuosity of his phrasing and generous compositions as it does in the way he shares those qualities with the stellar accompanists featured alongside him, including Gino Roman, Mayo Hubert and Ludovic Beier.

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“A prodigious talent, and knows his way around the fretboard with astonishing facility, speed, and grace.”

—VINTAGE GUITAR MAGAZINE

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

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Samson Schmitt Frémeaux • FA 8503

WORLD

JULY 2014

[PRIORITY RELEASE] João Gilberto, Baden Powell, Jorge Ben, Laurindo Almeida, Sergio Mendes and many more Chant du Monde • 2742347 IMPORT File in: World / South America / Brazil This specially priced two disc set, Brazil! The Birth of Bossa Nova, features all the major artists and musicians who created and introduced the world to the iconic Brazilian beat. Featured artists include Vinícius de Moraes, Baden Powell, Laurindo Almeida, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto and American jazz greats Stan Getz and Kenny Burrell. Tracks include timeless classics such as João Gilberto’s “Chega de saudade,” “Desafinado” from the 1962 album Getz/Gilberto and Elizete Cardoso singing “Manha de carnival” from the 1959 film Black Orpheus. This album (best enjoyed with a frosty Caipirinha) is your summer ticket to Rio, and a perfect compliment to any World Cup celebration.

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2 for the PRICE of 1

Price Code: A13 (2 CDs for the Price of 1, Suggested Retail Price: $13.98)

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Brazil!

The Birth of Bossa Nova

WORLD

JULY 2014

Amalia Rodrigues, Fernando Farinha, Maria do Carmo Torres, José Porfirio and many more Chant du Monde • 2742349

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Portugal!

Amalia Rodrigues & The Legends of Fado

Price Code: A13 (2 CDs for the Price of 1, Suggested Retail Price: $13.98)

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Argentina!

Tango Legends from Gardel to Piazzolla Carlos Gardel, Osvaldo Fresedo, Astor Piazzolla, Mercedes Simone and many more Chant du Monde • 2742353

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España!

Grandes Personajes del Flamenco Terremoto de Jerez, Carmen Amaya, Tio Gregorio El Borrico, La Perla de Cádiz and many more Chant du Monde • 2742351

WORLD

JULY 2014

Adamah

IMPORT File in: World / South America / Brazil Frémeaux presents Adamah, the début album from Do Montebello, an artist with a nomad Price Code: A19 soul whose sensitive, dreamily poetic songs (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) raise deep questions for humanity about our relationships with the world and life. Do Montebello is accompanied here by guitarist and arranger Sergio Farias (Edu Lobo, Márcio Faraco, Dominique Fillon, Sanseverino) and pianist Patrick Favre. Adamah is a rare record - precise, voluptuous, organic and ethereal - that cradles the listener in songs whose pleasures lie between the borders of jazz and Brazilian music.

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Do Montebello Frémeaux • LLL 337

Konpa Lakay

IMPORT File in: World / Caribbean / Haiti Boulpik formed in Port-au-Prince around ten years ago. They are still hard at work, preserving Price Code: A21 an almost lost tradition of street music called the (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98) “konpa” sound. Their acoustic instruments bring a hand-crafted feel to their music - a “homemade” sound that is also the sound of their country: Konpa Lakay.

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Boulpik Lusafrica • 662252

WORLD

JULY 2014

African Woman

IMPORT File in: World / Africa / Guinea Produced by Tony Allen, the pope of Afrobeat, Sia Tolno’s African Woman offers twelve dazzling Price Code: A21 tracks of immaculate groove. When a woman (Suggested Retail Price: $18.98) takes up Afrobeat, it’s an event. This album’s mix of Yoruba, funk and jazz fusion in Afrobeat is rough, rowdy and political.

Afrobeat was introduced at the end of the 60s by the prince of the Nigerian resistance, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Yet Guinea’s Sia Tolno is not afraid to take up Fela’s torch. Her third album, African Woman, challenges male supremacy in a forceful style derived from Ghanaian “high-life.”

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Olá Cabo Verde Neuza, Ceuzany, Dino D’Santiago, Lura, Cesaria Evora, Zé Luis, Cordas Do Sol, Nancy Vieira, Teofilo Chantre, Bonga, Bulimundo Lusafrica • 662972 IMPORT File in: World / Africa / Cape Verde Lusafrica’s compilation album Olá Cabo Verde offers listeners a fantastic selection of the Price Code: A21 country’s greatest hits. It includes “Trabessado” (Suggested Retail Price: $18.98) (Neuza), “Ultimo Chance” (Ceuzany) and “Ku Nha Kin Bem” (Zé Luis). Of course any Cabo Verde collection would be incomplete without tracks from the country’s greatest artists: Lura, Cesaria Evora, Nancy Vieira, Teofilo Chantre and Bulimundo. Olá Cabo Verde features eighteen tracks and 78 minutes of red-hot, vibrant beats.

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Sia Tolno Lusafrica • 662952

WORLD

JULY 2014

[PRIORITY RELEASE] Cumbia All Stars World Village • 450028 IMPORT File in: World / South America / Peru With their bold, resonant guitar lines and spiky beats, the Cumbia All Stars reinvigorate golden oldies whilst giving birth to new melodies that remain loyal to the origins of the genre. These veteran singers and players are living legends of Cumbia - the band’s moniker is concise but spot-on. They the kept the flame lit for over four decades and have now come together again, with this new album Tigres en Fuga, to re-stoke the fires of the phenomenon that is Cumbia Peruana.

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Tigres en Fuga

Summer Festival Highlights

Artist Jonathan Biss

Date Jul 24 Aug 8-9

City Highland Park Jackson Hole

State IL WY

Festival Ravinia Festival Grand Teton Music Festival

Yefim Bronfman

Jul 13 Jul 19 Aug 23

Aspen Vail Lennox

CO CO MA

Aspen Music Festival Bravo Vail Festival Tanglewood

C.J. Chenier

Jul 11 Jul 12 Jul 13 Jul 15 Jul 26 Jul 27 Aug 7 Aug 9 Aug 23 Aug 30-31 Sep 5

Augusta Rockland Rochester Ridgefield Camden Palmerton San Francisco San Jose Ontonagon Charlestown Brighton

ME ME NY CT NJ PA CA CA MI RI MI

Festival de la Bastille North Atlantic Blues Festival Corn Hill Arts Festival Concerts Happenings in Ridgefield’s Parks Xponential Music Festival Pennsylvania Blues Fest SFJazz San Jose Jazz Summer Fest Porcupine Mountains Music Festival Rhythm & Roots Festival Smokin’ Jazz & BBQ Blues Festival

James Ehnes

Jul 7-23

Seattle

WA

Seattle Chamber Music Festival

Matthias Goerne

Jul 31

Highland Park

IL

Ravinia Festival

Marc-André Hamelin

Jul 16 Jul 20

Aspen New York

CO NY

Aspen Music Festival International Keyboard Institute & Festival

Pablo Heras-Casado

Aug 3

Katonah

NY

Caramoor Festival

Stephen Hough

Jul 2-3 Jul 18-19

Aspen Chicago

CO IL

Aspen Music Festival Grant Park Music Festival

Dejan Lazic

Jul 23

Aspen

CO

Aspen Music Festival

Paul Lewis

Jul 25

Lennox

MA

Tanglewood

Nikolai Lugansky

Aug 10, 12

Aspen

CO

Aspen Music Festival

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Summer Festival Highlights

Artist Andrew Manze

Date Aug 1-2

City New York

State NY

Festival Mostly Mozart Festival

Dennis Matsuev

Jul 27

Highland Park

IL

Ravinia Festival

Nicholas McGegan

Jul 11 & 17 Aug 14

Aspen Lennox

CO MA

Aspen Music Festival Tanglewood

Midori

Jul 18 Jul 20

Vail Aspen

CO CO

Bravo Vail Festival Aspen Music Festival

Jon Nakamatsu

Aug 8, 20 & 22

Wellfleet

MA

Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival

Garrick Ohlssohn

Aug 3

Aspen

CO

Aspen Music Festival

Steven Osborne

Jul 7 Aug 1-2

Aspen New York

CO NY

Aspen Music Festival Mostly Mozart Festival

Lucky Peterson

Sep 20

Greenville

MS

Mississippi Delta Blues & Heritage Festival

Lawrence Power

Aug 19-20

New York

NY

Mostly Mozart Festival

Catherine Russell

Jun 23

Rochester

NY

Rochester International Jazz Festival

TakĂĄcs Quartet

Jul 3 & 8 Aug 11 & 13

Aspen Highland Park

CO IL

Aspen Music Festival Ravinia Festival

Chucho ValdĂŠs

Jul 29-30 Jul 31-Aug 3

Highland Park San Francisco

IL CA

Ravinia Festival SFJazz

Joyce Yang

Jul 18, 26

Aspen

CO

Aspen Music Festival

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