NOVEMBER 2014 | NEW RELEASES
Michael TILSON THOMAS Masterpieces in Miniature
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The latest release from the San Francisco Symphony features a selection of brief musical gems handpicked by maestro Michael Tilson Thomas. Masterpieces in Miniature’s twelve delightful tracks range from the haunting Valse triste of Sibelius to the fiery Scherzo by Littolf, for which the orchestra is joined by the brilliant pianist Yuja Wang (p.33). Other keyboard highlights this month include Javier Perianes playing Mendelssohn’s Songs without Words (p.13), Marc-André Hamelin playing Debussy’s Images and Preludes (p.17) and 2014 Gramophone Award-winning harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani playing Rameau’s Pièces de Clavecin (p.21). New releases in Schubert lieder cycles on harmonia mundi and Onyx include Winterreise with Matthias Goerne (p.11) and Schwanengesang with Florian Boesch (p.27). November’s vocal glories also include Bach’s monumental B Minor Mass in a new recording for Hyperion performed by the talented young ensemble Arcangelo led by Jonathan Cohen (p.19). Jordi Savall owes one of his greatest recording successes to the album La Lira d’Espéria, released in 1994 on the Astrée label. This month he revisits this repertoire for Alia Vox with La Lira d’Espéria II, which focuses on music from Galicia (p.7). Clarinetist Jon Manasse and pianist Jon Nakamatsu team up for more Brahms, this time joined by ex Tokyo Quartet cellist Clive Greensmith in a performance of the lyrical Clarinet Trio (p.14). Last but not least, jazz fans will delight in Christmas Dreaming, the new holiday album from Canadian vocalist Susie Arioli (p.3).
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Harbison: String Trio Camerata Pacifica harmonia mundi • HMU 907619
Enigma Dana Zemtsov Channel • CCS SA 35714
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Florilegium plays Bach Florilegium, one of Britain’s finest period instrument ensembles, is known for their stylish and exciting interpretations. The Brandenburg Concertos, like many of Bach’s sets, form a kind of master anthology — a demonstration of all the imaginable possibilities inherent in a certain musical form. Each of these six concertos calls for a different combination of soloists, every one unprecedented in its choice of instruments and still without parallel today.
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Jazzy Christmas Live in Sassari
IMPORT Paolo Fresu’s Jazzy Christmas is the perfect soundtrack for celebrating the holiday season. The fruit of many years of planning, this album focuses on the songs that are close to Fresu’s heart. Backed by his quintet and the unique talents and tone color of Daniele di Bonaventura on bandonéon, Fresu takes us across time and space on a personal Christmas journey, offering his take on songs by Irvin Berlin and Mel Tormé, as well as traditional songs from his homeland of Sardinia.
“Fresu’s tone and control are wonderful.” —THE HERALD SCOTLAND
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Paolo Fresu Quintet, featuring Daniele di Bonaventura Bonsaï • BON 141201
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Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury King’s College • KGS 0007
IMPORT The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge presents Favourite Carols from King’s — a fantastic collection of timeless festive repertoire sung by Price Code: A19 the world’s leading choir. The recording features a (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) selection of some of the most popular and wellloved carols, including Once in Royal David’s City, Silent Night and The Holly and the Ivy, with several new arrangements by the Choir’s own Director of Music, Stephen Cleobury.
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Carols from King’s Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury King’s College • KGS 0008
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IMPORT Despite its similar cover image, this DVD is completely different from the CD above. Carols Price Code: A25 from King’s is a cornerstone of the BBC’s Christmas (Suggested Retail Price: $25.98) television schedule, traditionally shown on both Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Along with the live radio broadcast of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, this pre-recorded special service features favorite carols and lessons from one of the world’s top choral groups in the spectacular setting of King’s College Chapel. Available on DVD for the first time, this recording features the full service recorded shortly before its broadcast in December 2013.
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FONTANA Sonate GABRIELI Canzona Exaudi Domine
IMPORT Cornettist William Dongois performs nine sonatas by Giovanni Battista Fontana. Born in Brescia, Fontana was active in Venice, Rome and Padua, where he died in 1630 during a plague epidemic. He was an outstanding violinist, and his only surviving opus with 18 instrumental sonatas is an important testimonial for the emergence of autonomous instrumental music. In addition, three instrumental canzonas for large ensembles are included, as well as an instrumental version of the great motet Exaudi Domine by Giovanni Gabrieli.
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Also available Buxtehude: Sonatas with Cornett Accent • ACC 24291 (4015023242913)
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Le Concert Brisé, William Dongois Accent • ACC 24250
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Jordi Savall (vielle, rebec, rebab), Pedro Estevan (percussion) Alia Vox • AVSA 9907
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD One of Jordi Savall’s greatest recording successes was the album La Lira d’Espéria, released in 1994 on the Astrée label. La Lira d’Espéria II focuses on Galicia, a Spanish region with rich musical traditions – including a Celtic one – and some remarkably well preserved manuscripts dating from the Middle Ages. As with volume one, Savall’s performances here are full of fantasy and color. Accompanied by percussionist Pedro Estevan, he plays a vielle, a rebec and a rebab.
“Savall is the consummate master.”
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Also available The Celtic Viol Vol.2 Alia Vox • AVSA 9878 (7619986398785) “If you like Celtic music at all, this program is a must!” —AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 7
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La Lira d’Esperia II Galicia – Cantos da terra e danzas antigas
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Cyril Auvity (countertenor), Judith Van Wanroij (soprano), Ingrid Perruche (soprano), Choeur de chambre de Namur, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset Aparté • AP 094 IMPORT Following on acclaimed releases of Bellérophon and Phaéton, Christophe Rousset continues his revival of Lully’s tragédies lyriques for the Aparté label Price Code: 3A17 (3 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $53.98) with Amadis. One of the composer’s finest scores, Amadis is a masterpiece of French Baroque music. It was Louis XIV himself who asked Lully and his librettist Quinault to base an opera on Montalvo’s Amadis de Gaula. Avoiding the usual mythological subjects gave the composer and librettist an opportunity to expand the scope of the tragédie lyrique genre.
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Benno Moiseiwitsch — The Complete Rachmaninov Recordings 1937-43 RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No.2, Paganini Rhapsody
IMPORT Benno Moiseiwitsch was one of the many great Russian pianists born in Odessa. He recorded prolifically from 1916 until just before his death Price Code: A17 and was particularly highly regarded for his Chopin, (Suggested Retail Price: $17.98) Schumann and Rachmaninov. Moiseiwitsch met Rachmaninov at his American debut in 1919 and the composer praised Moiseiwitsch’s interpretations of his works and even claimed the recording of the Piano Concerto No.2 presented here was superior to his own. All these recordings present Moiseiwitsch at the height of his powers.
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Benno Moiseiwitsch (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Goehr, Basil Cameron APR • APR 5505
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Rachel Podger (violin), Gary Cooper (fortepiano) Channel Classics • CCS BOX 6414
IMPORT This specially priced set presents all eight of the highly acclaimed Mozart sonata discs that Rachel Podger and Gary Cooper recorded for Channel Classics. Also included are informative liner notes written by producer Jonathan Freeman-Attwoord. These recordings of Mozart’s complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin have received countless awards and accolades, including multiple Diapason d’Or awards and Gramophone Editor’s Choices, and have been hailed as ‘benchmark’ recordings. Originally released as SACDs, they are offered here on standard CD.
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“A fascinating collection.” —GRAMOPHONE
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Recently released Perla Barocca Channel • CCS SA 36014 (723385360148) “Rachel is in typically commanding form as she breathes new life into a choice selection of compositions by inventive musical figures.” —DERBY TELEGRAPH 9
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MOZART Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin
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IMPORT On this exciting release, Candida Thompson leads the Amsterdam Sinfonietta in a rich and varied program of Argentinean works featuring Price Code: A21 well-known repertoire combined with commissions, (Suggested Retail Price: $21.98) new arrangements and rarely performed works. The selections range from Ginastera’s unique masterpiece Concerto per corde to Golijov’s showpiece Last Round to Piazzolla’s Four Seasons in an arrangement by Leonid Desyatnikov.
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Peter Hill (piano) Delphian • DCD 34141 IMPORT Messiaen’s 1961 composition La Fauvette passerinette, which receives its world première on this recording, was discovered in 2012 by Peter Hill hidden Price Code: A19 amongst the composer’s papers. He gave the first (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) public performance of the work in the autumn of 2013. With this recital recording, Hill returns to the music in which he first made his reputation, setting this glittering addition to Messiaen’s piano output in the context both of the composer’s own earlier works and of music by composers on whom Messiaen was a profound influence.
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La Fauvette passerinette A Messiaen Première with birds, landscapes & homages MESSIAEN La Fauvette passerinette and other piano works
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The Argentinian Album PIAZZOLLA Cuatro Estaciónes Porteñas (arranged by Leonid Desyatnikov) GINASTERA Concerto for string orchestra GOLIJOV Last Round Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson Channel Classics • CCS SA 33014
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Matthias Goerne (baritone), Christoph Eschenbach (piano) harmonia mundi • HMC 902107
IMPORT Matthias Goerne’s highly acclaimed series of Schubert lieder recordings concludes with a powerful account of Winterreise. The mood here is tense, urgent, even harrowing. This winter landscape expects no spring to come. In the intimate atmosphere of this recording, more than in concert, Goerne’s path to oblivion finds its echo in our innermost selves. Pianist Christoph Eschenbach provides superb accompaniment.
“One of the finest collections ever.”
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Also available Schubert: Wanderers Nachtlied harmonia mundi • HMC 902109 (3149020210925) “No other baritone has Matthias Goerne’s beauty and range of vocal colors...” —SINFINI MUSIC 11
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Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss harmonia mundi • HMC 902160
IMPORT The famous German Requiem must not be allowed to overshadow the wide variety of choral music Brahms wrote throughout his career. On this recording, Price Code: A19 Daniel Reuss and Cappella Amsterdam are our (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) expert guides in a program that takes in sacred a cappella motets by turns austere and resplendent, secular quartets with piano, and songs for six-part unaccompanied chorus. The crowning glory is a dramatic masterpiece for chorus and four-hand piano, the Song of Destiny after Hölderlin.
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FAURÉ Piano Trio PIERNÉ Piano Trio Trio Wanderer harmonia mundi • HMC 902192
IMPORT Fauré’s Piano Trio is a late work which at once gained the admiration of his contemporaries and is now regarded as one of the finest trios in the French Price Code: A19 repertory. The much less well-known Piano Trio of (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) Pierné, premiered a year earlier, is characterized by its solid architecture, great melodic richness and a notably inventive rhythmic style. These two masterpieces make an eminently logical coupling and receive benchmark performances here by the acclaimed ensemble Trio Wanderer.
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Choral Works BRAHMS Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen?
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Javier Perianes (piano) harmonia mundi • HMC 902195
IMPORT This program featuring the superb pianist Javier Perianes illustrates four essential qualities of the music of Felix Mendelssohn. Music stripped of all superfluity, including the literary aspect (Songs without Words); a gift for creating magical atmospheres (Rondo capriccioso); unconditional admiration for classical order; and a genuine veneration for Bach (Prelude and Fugue). The whole radiant universe of Mendelssohn is encapsulated here.
“Fluent technique and many expressive ideas”
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Also available Les sons et les parfums harmonia mundi • HMC 902164 (3149020216422) “Beautiful and engaging performances.” —BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 13
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MENDELSSOHN Lieder ohne Worte, Variations sérieuses, Rondo capriccioso, Andante con variazioni, Präludium und Fuge
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] Jon Manasse (clarinet), Clive Greensmith (cello), Jon Nakamatsu (piano) harmonia mundi • HMU 807618 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD With this disc, Jon Manasse, who joins forces once again with pianist Jon Nakamatsu and ex Tokyo String Quartet cellist Clive Greensmith, completes his survey of Brahms’s chamber works for clarinet. The beloved Clarinet Trio is paired with technically brilliant and melodically rich trios by Beethoven and Weber that balance the program perfectly.
“Jon Manasse and pianist Jon Nakamatsu make disarming music.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Also available Brahms: Quintets harmonia mundi • HMU 807558 (093046755867) “No praise is enough...” —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE 14
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BEETHOVEN Piano Trio Op.11 — Gassenhauer BRAHMS Clarinet Trio WEBER Grand duo concertant
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Baroque Music of Rameau, Bach and Couperin Alexandre Tharaud (piano) harmonia mundi • HMX 2908379
IMPORT Originally released November 2010 This specially-priced set brings together the three Baroque music recordings made by Alexandre Price Code: 3A11 (3 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $35.98) Tharaud for harmonia mundi between 2001 and 2007. At a time when most recordings of Rameau, Bach and Couperin are played on period instruments, the French pianist has masterfully absorbed the numerous discoveries made in the field of period performance practice over the last thirty years, while simultaneously making these time-hallowed works sound genuinely contemporary.
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Moderne Music of Ravel, Satie, Pécou and more Alexandre Tharaud (piano) harmonia mundi • HMX 2908710
IMPORT This specially-priced six-disc set compiles selections from Alexandre Tharaud’s award-winning recordings of modern repertoire on harmonia Price Code: 6A09 (6 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $59.98) mundi. Solo works by Satie and Ravel (complete) are featured alongside chamber music recordings with frequent collaborators including cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and violinist Isabelle Faust. Also included is Tharaud’s reading of the fascinating and colorful concerto by Thierry Pécou.
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Felicity Lott (soprano), The Choir of Royal Holloway, Rupert Gough Hyperion • CDA 68047
IMPORT This collection from the Choir of Royal Holloway focuses on twentiethand twenty-first century works inspired by Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music. Britten’s 1942 Hymn to Saint Cecilia rekindled musicians’ interest in writing works in her honor. After the war, the Musicians Benevolent Fund established an annual service of celebration, and has marked the occasion with a new commission almost every year. Many of the pieces on this recording are the result of those commissions. Also included is a new work by Gabriel Jackson featuring Dame Felicity Lott.
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“The singing is stirring, youthful, and quite accomplished.” —AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
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Also available Kreek’s Notebook Hyperion • CDA 67968 (034571179681) “Magnificent performances... [a] superlative collection...” —INTERNATIONAL RECROD REVIEW 16
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Hymns to Saint Cecilia Works by Britten, Elgar, Howells, Jackson and more
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] DEBUSSY Images Books I & II, Préludes Book II
IMPORT A new album from Marc-André Hamelin is always cause for celebration. Here in his first Debussy recording for Hyperion Hamelin presents the two books of Images – Debussy’s coloristic masterpiece, a bewitching compendium of scents, colors and sounds. Also recorded here is the second book of Préludes, in a poetic and evocative performance.
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“A virtuoso in sound, color and poetic empathy.” —AUDIOPHILE AUDITION
Also available Schumann: Kinderszenen, Waldszenen Hyperion • CDA 68030 (034571280301) “A totally compelling experience” —BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 17
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Marc-André Hamelin (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67920
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NOVEMBER 2014
BRUMEL Missa de beata virgine, Motets
IMPORT The Brabant Ensemble continues their exploration of hidden gems of the Renaissance with an album of music by Antoine Brumel, famous for his ‘Earthquake’ Mass but otherwise barely known today. Conductor Stephen Rice has assembled an intriguing collection of works including the Missa de beata virgine, a work in which the voices are used almost percussively, making rhythm the driving force of the piece. The Brabant Ensemble’s performances here are polished yet light, flexible, expressive and spontaneous, displaying the polyphony in all its glory.
“The Brabant Ensemble, specialists in the music of the Renaissance, brings more than impeccable balance and pacing to our ears...”
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Also available Rore: Missa Doulce mémoire Hyperion • CDA 67913 (034571179131) “The Brabant Ensemble’s campaign in favour of neglected composers finds another worthy candidate...” —GRAMOPHONE 18
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Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice Hyperion • CDA 68065
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] BACH Mass in B minor
IMPORT Despite the fact that Arcangelo are still a relatively new ensemble, they have already compiled an impressive list of honors and accolades, including a Gramophone award in 2012 for their album Arias for Guadagni. On this stunning release, director Jonathan Cohen leads the group in a performance of Bach’s B minor Mass. The members of the choir and orchestra have a passion for faithful interpretation that goes far beyond historical understanding. This ‘one-to-a-part’ reading allows Bach’s masterful counterpoint to be heard as clearly as possible.
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Price Code: 2A19 (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $39.98)
“ A splendid group.” —INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
Also available Handel: Finest Arias for Base Voice Hyperion • CDA 66842 (034571178424) “Purves is that most cutting-edge of present-day singers... He has few peers among acting singers today... The payoff is enormous in his new collection of 20 arias...” —BAY AREA REPORTER 19
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Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen Hyperion • CDA 68051
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SCHUMANN Novelletten, Nachtstücke
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Danny Driver (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67983
IMPORT On this album Danny Driver brings his impeccable pianism, consummate style and imagination to Schumann’s Novelletten and Nachtstücke, less wellknown sets from his extraordinary output for the piano. Schumann wrote Nachtstücke upon the death of his brother, and would have entitled it Corpse Fantasia were it not for Clara’s intervention. The eight pieces of the Novelletten form what is at once the largest and the least known among Schumann’s major piano cycles.
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“A pianist whose every new release is now eagerly anticipated.” —GRAMOPHONE
Also available Handel: The Eight Great Suites Hyperion • CDA 68041 (034571280417) “Easily recommendable as a first and even only recording of these wonderful pieces.” —AUDIOPHILE AUDITION 20
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] RAMEAU Pièces de clavecin
IMPORT Gramophone Award-winning harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani presents Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin, recorded in the historic setting of the Music Room at Hatchlands Park in Surrey. This double album comprises the whole of Rameau’s output of keyboard suites, and Esfahani rejoices in its wealth of genius, its excitement and drama. Rameau is a composer whose revival is ongoing, and his unique combination of the witty and the cerebral abounds throughout his harpsichord music.
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“Mahan Esfahani illustrates all the wonderful things about harpsichord playing.” —AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
Also available C.P.E. Bach: Wurttemberg Sonatas Hyperion • CDA 67995 (034571179957) “Caught perfectly by Esfahani’s supple touch and disarming sense of rhetorical pacing.” —GRAMOPHONE 21
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Mahan Esfahani (piano) Hyperion • CDA 68071
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PALESTRINA Missa Hodie Christus natus est
IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 67396 (034571173962) Deleted February 2014 Martin Baker’s recordings of Palestrina with Westminster Cathedral Choir have been highly Price Code: A11 praised across the world. This album features a (Suggested Retail Price: $11.98) sumptuous recording of works dedicated to the festival of Christmas, the main work being the stunning Missa Hodie Christus natus est – one of Palestrina’s most popular works. This is music of great devotional beauty, all sung with Westminster Cathedral Choir’s customary finesse and atmospheric reverence.
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European Light Music Classics New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp Hyperion • CDH 55477
IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 66998 (034571169989) Deleted June 2013 One of Ronald Corp and the New London Orchestra’s most beloved albums is now available Price Code: A11 at mid-price. It includes fifteen gems of light (Suggested Retail Price: $11.98) music repertoire from across Europe, with music by Alfvén, Halvorsen, Heykens, Jessel, Lehár, Pierné, Waldteufel, Weinberger and more. The composers’ names may not be familiar but much of the music will be, especially to older listeners. Gounod’s Funeral March, for example, will be familiar as the signature tune of Alfred Hitchcock.
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Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Martin Baker Hyperion • CDH 55367
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CHOPIN Ballades Nos.1-4, Prélude Op.45, Scherzo, Barcarolle
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No.20, Rondo, Fantaisie, Allegro
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Philippe Bianconi (piano) La Dolce Volta • LDV 14
Philippe Cassard (piano) Cédric Pescia (piano) La Dolce Volta • LDV 15
Wilhem Latchoumia (piano) La Dolce Volta • LDV 16
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IMPORT Since his success at the Van Cliburn International Competition, Philippe Bianconi has built an impressive international career. His Chopin recital program for La Dolce Volta is anchored by the four Ballades. He pairs them with an exploration of Chopin’s late works with the fourth Scherzo and the Barcarolle. On their Schubert recital disc, pianists Philippe Cassard and Cédric Pescia focus on works written in 1828 – the last year of the great composer’s short life. The recording pairs the penultimate sonata with three works for piano four hands. Extase Maxima, a fascinating recital from pianist Wilhem Latchoumia, features two original compositions by Wagner and five pieces inspired by his operas. The program, which will appeal to both Wagnerites and connoisseurs of pianistic rarities, is at once unique and coherent.
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MONTEVERDI Madrigals Vol.2 - Mantova Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew Les Arts Florissants • AF 003
IMPORT With this album (curiously called Vol.2), the French ensemble Les Arts Florissants, led by conductor Paul Agnew, launches a series of three albums devoted to the Madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi. Each volume will be associated with one of the cities that have marked the course of the composer. This release, dedicated to Mantua, features Madrigals from books IV, V and VI. Subsequent releases will be devoted to Cremona (Vol.1, Books I, II and III) and Venice (Vol.3, Books VII and VIII).
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“Les Arts Florissants is exemplary.” —OPERA NEWS
Also available Le Jardin de Monsieur Rameau Les Arts Florissants • AF 002 (3149028052824) “This album is a treasure and a blessing.” —POSITIVE FEEDBACK 24
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[PRIORITY RELEASE] LSO String Ensemble, Roman Simovic LSO Live • LSO 0752
IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD The London Symphony Orchestra’s string sound is world renowned. This recording marks the LSO Live debut of the LSO String Ensemble, directed by the orchestra’s leader Roman Simovic. The Serenade is one of Tchaikovsky’s most enduringly popular works. Inspired in part by Mozart, its elegant music blends Russian folk-song with traditional classical forms. The recording’s pairing is Bartók’s Divertimento, a highly original work in its own unique idiom, contrasting two buoyant and lighthearted movements with a somber Adagio.
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“Gergiev directs performances which are totally gripping… his combination of hypnotic gaze and fluttering fingers conjuring up intensely beautiful playing…” —GRAMOPHONE
Also available Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos.1-3 LSO Live • 0710 “Gergiev’s interpretations are among the most satisfying I’ve encountered...” —FANFARE 25
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TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings BARTÓK Divertimento for String Orchestra
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NOVEMBER 2014
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano) Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Choir Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Josep Vicent MN Records • MNRCD 136 IMPORT During a 1989 match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest football clubs at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, 96 people were crushed to death and 766 were injured when police allowed too many people to enter the stadium. Now referred to as the Hillsborough Disaster, it remains the worst stadium-related disaster in British history. Michael Nyman’s Symphony No.11 was written as a memorial to the victims. The work is heard here in an emotionally charged performance by Liverpool-born mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge, accompanied by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra led by Josep Vicent.
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“A composer whose popular success and accessibility has never come at the expense of his constant experimentalism.” —THE GUARDIAN
Also available Nyman: The Piano Sings 2 MN Records • MNRCD 131 (5060211140204) “Nyman, as a pianist, is certainly quite capable and delivers the phrasing and emotion well, as we might expect.” —AUDIOPHILE AUDITION 26
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NYMAN Symphony No.11 — Hillsborough Memorial
CLASSICAL
NOVEMBER 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] SCHUBERT Schwanengesang, Goethe Lieder
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Florian Boesch (baritone) Malcolm Martineau (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4131
IMPORT Florian Boesch’s previous Onyx discs of Schubert songs have been met with the highest praise from around the world. To complete his survey of the Schubert song cycles, Boesch presents an equally compelling reading of Schwanengesang, once again accompanied by the superb pianist Malcolm Martineau. Worthy of note, Boesch excludes the song Die Taubenpost, which was added to the cycle by the publisher, not by Schubert. This recording also features five Goethe settings dating from 1815-1821.
“An intelligent and gifted singer who ponders his interpretations carefully.”
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—OPERA NEWS
Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
Also available Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin Onyx • ONYX 4112 (880040411222) “An unflinching exploration...” —GRAMOPHONE
Schubert: Winterreise Onyx • ONYX 4077 (880040407720) “Unquestionably superb.” —THE GUARDIAN 27
CLASSICAL
NOVEMBER 2014
KABALEVSKY Cello Concerto No.2, Novelette PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata, Waltz, March, Adagio
IMPORT Cellist Leonard Elschenbroich’s Onyx début of sonatas by Rachmaninov and Shostakovich was Price Code: A19 greeted with universal praise by critics worldwide. (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) For his second release, he gives a blistering performance of the little-known second Cello Concerto of Kabalevsky with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra under Andrew Litton. Recorded live in the Concertgebouw, it reveals this powerful concerto to be a neglected masterpiece worthy of a regular place in the repertoire.
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BRAHMS Violin Sonatas Nos.1-3, FAE Sonata - Scherzo Augustin Dumay (violin), Louis Lortie (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4133
IMPORT Following their critically acclaimed recording of the Franck & Strauss Violin Sonatas for Onyx, Augustin Price Code: A19 Dumay and Louis Lortie turn now to Brahms. His (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) three Violin Sonatas form the most important body of music for this combination since Beethoven. From the reflective melancholy of the G major, to the sunny A major and ending with the grand and passionate D minor work, Brahms’s creative genius pushed the violin sonata form into new territory and reveal Brahms at the height of his powers.
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Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Alexei Grynyuk (piano), Petr Limonov (piano), Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton Onyx Classics • ONYX 4122
CLASSICAL
NOVEMBER 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] SCHUBERT Piano Sonata No.20, Moments Musicaux MAZZOLI Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos
IMPORT Described by the BBC Music Magazine as “among the front rank of Schubertians,” pianist Shai Wosner presents a unique recital disc featuring works both monumental (the Piano Sonata D959) and charming (the Moments Musicaux). He also adds an interesting twist with Missy Mazzoli’s Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos. Set against recorded fragments of Schubert’s Piano Sonata D959, the work imagines the early 20th Century Swiss adventurer riding across the Sahara Desert on horseback, reflecting on the comfort of her early life in Viennese high society.
“A Schubertian of unfaltering authority and character.”
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—GRAMOPHONE
Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
Also available Schubert: Piano Sonatas, 6 German Dances Onyx • ONYX 4073 (880040407324) “Recommended without reservations.” —FANFARE 29
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Shai Wosner (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4136
CLASSICAL
NOVEMBER 2014
PROKOFIEV Symphonies Vol.2 Symphonies Nos.1-2, Sinfonietta, Autumn Sketch
IMPORT Volume two of Kirill Karabits’s Prokofiev symphony cycle for Onyx charts Prokofiev’s development through the charming but undervalued Sinfonietta (a close cousin to the Symphony No.1, also known as the Classical) to the strident, modernistic Symphony No.2, composed in 1924. Closing this disc is the early symphonic poem Autumn Sketch, which sounds rather like a blend of Richard Strauss and Scriabin - a world away from the second symphony.
“What should be a keenly collected series.”
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Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
Also available Prokofiev: Symphonies Vol.1, Nos.3 & 7 Onyx • ONYX 4137 (880040413721) “Made me sit up and appreciate music that I had only noticed out of the corner of my eye.” —FANFARE 30
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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits Onyx Classics • ONYX 4139
CLASSICAL
NOVEMBER 2014
Collegium Vocale Gent, Capriccio Stravagante, Skip Sempé Paradizo • PA 0013
IMPORT Paradizo commemorates the 250th anniversary of the death of Rameau with a recreation of the music heard at his memorial service in 1764. This world première recording centers around the “Rameau’s Funeral” version of Jean Gilles’s Messe des morts. Nearly sixty years after it was written, an arrangement – probably by Rebel and Francoeur – was prepared for Rameau’s memorial. The duo “updated” the work by changing the instrumentation and incorporating musical references in Rameau’s honor. The recording features the combined forces of Collegium Vocale Gent and Capriccio Stravagante, led by acclaimed conductor Skip Sempé.
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Also available Terpsichore - Muse of the Dance Paradizo • PA 0011 (5425019972110) “This CD is filled with spirit and freedom. Sempe makes a very strong case in print and sound for the dance music of the Renaissance.” —EARLY MUSIC AMERICA 31
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Rameau’s Funeral — Paris 27. IX. 1764 GILLES Messe des Morts
CLASSICAL
NOVEMBER 2014
Revolutions! Chroniques révolutionnaires 1830, 1848, 1871
IMPORT The ensemble Les Lunaisiens chronicles music connected with the three 19th Century revolutions Price Code: A23 of France. After the ancient régime and a brief (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) Napoleonic craze, France took almost a century to define its national symbols. The 19th century was a time of battles, resistance and barricades. From 1795 to 1879, it took a long, perilous and bloody route for La Marseillaise to become the national anthem of all the French and for the tricolor flag to be acclaimed as standard of the Republic.
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HANDEL Organ Concertos HWV 309, 292 & 289, Improvised Overture RAMEAU Pièces de clavecin en concert, Ritournelle Paul Goussot (organ), Ensemble Zaïs, Benoit Babel Paraty • 714127
IMPORT Handel and Rameau composed some of the most original keyboard works of the 18th century, and Price Code: A23 both composers were adept at rewriting and reusing (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) musical ideas under several guises. In that spirit, Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin en concert and are performed here on the organ, paired with three of Handel’s Organ Concertos. Soloist Paul Goussot plays the spectacular Dom Bedos organ accompanied by Ensemble Zaïs led by Benoit Babel.
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Les Lunaisiens Paraty • 214123
CLASSICAL
NOVEMBER 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Yuja Wang (piano) San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas SFS Media • SFS 0060 DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD This exquisite new recording from the Grammy award-winning partnership of Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony is proof that good things come in small packages. Discover charming, wistful, and even haunting timbres in music by some of the world’s favorite composers, as MTT shares his most personal musical memories with you. With an electrifying performance by virtuoso pianist Yuja Wang, Masterpieces in Miniature is a must-have collection of brief but brilliant pieces that will delight casual listeners and aficionados alike.
“Tilson Thomas is in the prime of his career.”
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Price Code: A24 (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98)
Litolff Scherzo Mahler Blumine Fauré Pavane Debussy La Plus que lente
Schubert Entr’acte No.3 from Rosamunde Ives/ Brant The Alcotts Rachmaninov Vocalise Dvořák Legend No.6
Sibelius Valse triste Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Grieg The Last Spring Delibes Cortége de Bacchus from Sylvia
Also available American Mavericks SFS Media • SFS 0056 (821936005620) “This is a terrific disc of music that few if anyone can perform more powerfully than Michael Tilson Thomas... Stunning.” —CLASSICS TODAY 33
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Masterpieces in Miniature Works by Litolff, Fauré, Rachmaninov, Sibelius and more
CLASSICAL
NOVEMBER 2014
Graffiti Music of Chin, Neuwirth and Sun Ra
IMPORT Graffiti is the eighth release in Wergo’s ongoing series featuring the ensemble musikFabrik. On Price Code: A24 this recording, Unsuk Chin’s Graffiti roams urban (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) canyons, translating metropolitan architecture into a musical thriller. Olga Neuwirth’s Trumpet Concerto finds connections between Handel and Miles Davis. With the music of Sun Ra, musikFabrik ventures into orbit. The Afro-American jazz musician and poet saw his past in ancient Egypt and looked for our future in the cosmos.
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HÖLSZKY Wie ein gläsernes Meer mit Feuer gemischt, Efeu und Lichtfeld, und wieder Dunkel I Dominik Susteck (organ), Sabine Akiko Ahrendt (violin), Jens Brülls (percussion) Wergo • WER 6789 IMPORT Adriana Hölszky is a Romanian-born German composer, pianist and educator. Since 2000 Price Code: A24 she has been professor of composition at the (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) Mozarteum University of Salzburg. She describes her compositions as “sound spaces,” in which there are expanding and shrinking spaces and there are shifts from one sound area to another (which she compares to film editing with its sharp cuts or gentle fades). This recording featuring organist Dominik Susteck, violinist Sabine Akiko Ahrendt and percussionist Jens Brülls explores a selection of three of Hölszky’s fascinating works.
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musikFabrik Wergo • WER 6861
CLASSICAL
NOVEMBER 2014
CAGE One7, Four6
IMPORT Cage composed his Number Pieces during the last six years of his life. Their titles indicate the number Price Code: A24 of performers or parts. Their notation is based (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) on fixed and flexible “time brackets.” The fixed brackets show when a musician should begin and end a pitch or tonal event. With the flexible brackets, the interpreter decides, within a predetermined time frame, when an instrument enters and when it falls silent. This disc featuring pianist Sabine Liebner explores two of Cage’s late masterworks.
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SCHWITTERS Ursonate und andere Konsequente Dichtung Sprechbohrer Wergo • WER 6316
IMPORT Kurt Schwitters’s Sonate in Urlauten (Sonata in Primal Sounds) blurs the boundaries between speech and Price Code: A24 music. The literal translation of the title indicates (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) a link between language and the musical form of the sonata; Ursonate could be translated literally as “sound poetry.” This groundbreaking work, more than any other work in the genre, reached an unparalleled fame. On this CD, the SprechKunstTrio (speech art trio) Sprechbohrer presents their unique interpretation of Schwitters’s magnum opus.
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Sabine Liebner (piano) Wergo • WER 6797
CLASSICAL
NOVEMBER 2014
AUKSO Orchestra, Marek Moś Zarathustra Music • ZM 001
“The AUKSO Orchestra impresses with its fearless unanimity and attack, abetted by the sound of unsparing immediacy.”
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—GRAMOPHONE
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DOMESTIC This album features the world première recording of Elliot Goldenthal’s Othello Symphony. Performed by the AUKSO Orchestra under the direction of Marek Mos, the work was drawn from the composer’s successful three-act ballet Othello that premiered at the San Francisco Ballet in 1998. Goldenthal had long-awaited the chance to craft Othello into a condensed work. This 34-minute synthesis takes the principal moments of the three-act music drama and reworks them into a symphonic context.
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GOLDENTHAL Othello Symphony
CLASSICAL
NOVEMBER 2014
Zarathustra Music • ZM 002
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“He’s one of the most gifted composers on the international
scene, and not just in the undeservedly maligned arena of film music.”
Price Code: A19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
—BAY AREA REPORTER
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DOMESTIC Zarathustra Music presents the world première recording of Oscarwinning composer Elliot Goldenthal’s String Quartet No.1, subtitled The Stone Cutters. Goldenthal is best known for his Hollywood film scores that include two Batman movies and Interview with a Vampire. However, he began his career writing classical music and studied with two giants of the 20th Century, Aaron Copland and John Corigliano. This album also includes world première recordings of Goldenthal’s Sonata for Bass and Piano, Three Pieces for Solo Piano and the Brass Quintet No.2.
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GOLDENTHAL String Quartet No.1 - The Stone Cutters Sonata for Bass and Piano, Three Pieces for Solo Piano, Brass Quintet No.2 Various Artists
JAZZ
NOVEMBER 2014
black saint
Jimmy Lyons The Complete Remastered Recordings
Chico Hamilton The Complete Remastered Recordings
Ed Blackwell The Complete Remastered Recordings
Jimmy Lyons Black Saint/Soul Note • BXS 1028
Chico Hamilton Black Saint/Soul Note • BXS 1029
Ed Blackwell Black Saint/Soul Note • BXS 1030
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Price Code: 3A17 (5 CD set, Suggested Retail Price: $53.98)
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Price Code: 4A18 (8 CD set, Suggested Retail Price: $75.98)
JAZZ
NOVEMBER 2014
black saint
Sun Ra The Complete Remastered Recordings
Gianluigi Trovesi The Complete Remastered Recordings
Steve Lacy The Complete Remastered Recordings
Sun Ra Black Saint/Soul Note • BXS 1031
Gianluigi Trovesi Black Saint/Soul Note • BXS 1032
Steve Lacy Black Saint/Soul Note • BXS 1033
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Price Code: 3A17 (4 CD set, Suggested Retail Price: $53.98)
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Price Code: 5A16 (9 CD set, Suggested Retail Price: $84.98)
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Price Code: 4A18 (10 CD set, Suggested Retail Price: $75.98)
JAZZ
NOVEMBER 2014
Alone Together
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Gary Williams, John Wilson Orchestra Dutton Vocalion • CDSA 6809
IMPORT Originally released February 2005 File in: Jazz This album by British vocalist Gary Williams Price Code: A23 (Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) was originally released in 2005 and has long been unavailable. Williams came to public attention when he appeared with the BBC Big Band paying tribute to Vic Damone. He enjoys a close working relationship with conductor John Wilson, and together they have performed with some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras. Alone Together was recorded at Abbey Road Studios with the John Wilson Orchestra.
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Le Voyage de Django
IMPORT File in: Jazz From the waltzes of the rue de Lappe to the songs Price Code: A19 of Jean Sablon, and from Swing on BBC Radio to (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) Bop in the cellars of Saint-Germain, Dominique Cravic and his troupe are experts in the colorful world of Django. Originally produced for the Japanese label Respect Records, this album joins the distinguished discography of the band Primitifs du Futur, here with (almost) all its members.
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Dominique Cravic & Friends Frémeaux • FA 8506
JAZZ
NOVEMBER 2014
Miles Davis Analogue Productions • CPRJ 7109 SA
DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Mono/ DSD File in: Jazz Bags’ Groove, originally released in 1957 by Prestige Records, compiles material from two Miles Davis LPs recorded in 1954 plus two alternate takes. The title track (which refers to vibraphonist Milt Jackson’s nickname) and the three compositions written by the young Sonny Rollins went on to become jazz standards. On “Oleo,” Davis used a Harmon mute – it was the first time he used it on a studio recording and it would become an important feature of his playing.
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Also available Seven Steps to Heaven Analogue Productions • CAPJ 8851 SA (753088885167) “Five Stars” —AUDIOPHILE AUDITION 41
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Bags’ Groove
JAZZ
NOVEMBER 2014
Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane, Zoot Sims Analogue Productions • CPRJ 7074 SA
DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Mono/ DSD File in: Jazz This unusual meeting of four stylistically different tenor saxophone players was part of the Prestige Friday afternoon jam session series. Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, and John Coltrane, supported by the Red Garland Trio, meet on the common ground of the blues (“Bob’s Boys,” “I Got Rhythm” and “Tenor Conclave”), and two old standards. Rather than the stylistic differences, what stands out here is the compatibility and spirit of the four meeting on this common ground in an uncommon session.
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Also available All Night Long Analogue Productions • CPRJ 7073 SA (753088707360)
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Tenor Conclave
WORLD
NOVEMBER 2014
[PRIORITY RELEASE] Massilia Sound System Chant du Monde • 2742356
IMPORT File in: World / Europe / France In 2014, Massilia Sound System, superstars of the musical world in Marseille, France, celebrate their 30th anniversary. The band’s musical style is a delicious, uniquely Provençal blend of reggae, rub-a-dub and raggamuffin, with lyrics in the French and Occitan languages. They also incorporate rhythms, beats and samples from the local tradition or other musical colleagues, and their lyrics constantly proclaim their profound love for Marseille and the south of France in general. This release offers fourteen upbeat tracks that are sure to get your party rocking.
“Massilia Sound System represent the France of the 21st century, and it’s a brave new world out there.”
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—GLOBAL VILLAGE IDIOT
Price Code: A18 (Suggested Retail Price: $18.98)
Also available 3968 CR13 Chant du Monde • 2742216 (3149024221620) “A fresh, fun and danceable slice of Mediterranean life.” —SONGLINES 43
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SOUNDTRACK
NOVEMBER 2014
Geronimo - Original Soundtrack
IMPORT File in: Soundtrack Discovered by a large audience in 1992 thanks to his film Latcho Drom, director Tony Gatlif is the high priest of the Gypsy, Roma and Tzigane communities, whose wonderful contributions to music have been featured in all his films. Gatlif acted as musical-director for this soundtrack produced by Delphine Mantoulet and Valentin Dahmani, which translates both the blazing passions and the violent altercations between France’s Turkish and Spanish communities. Geronimo is a rockopera heir to West Side Story.
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Tony Gatlif Frémeaux • FA 8511
GOSPEL
NOVEMBER 2014
Gospel Songs
IMPORT Previously Available as C580053 (093046906627) Deleted May 2002 File in: Gospel Flora Molton arrived at the blues by way of her religious faith. But with Molton, faith was always more important than music. Born in 1908, she began preaching at the age of seventeen, and didn’t take up the guitar until 1943. Molton supported herself playing guitar in the streets of Washington, DC. Eventually, she began playing in folk clubs and toured Europe. This album features eighteen tracks of gospel songs, accompanied by Molton’s capable slide guitar.
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Flora Molton, Eleanor Ellis Ocora • C 583053
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