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APRIL 2017

NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS On Aparté, countertenor Xavier Sabata vividly captures moments of catharsis contained in the legendary stories of Baroque opera. On Channel Classics, British period instrument ensemble Florilegium joins forces with leading lyric soprano Gillian Keith for stylish performances of Handel chamber works. British pianist Ivana Gavric makes her Edition Classics debut with an all-Chopin program. On harmonia mundi, violist Antoine Tamestit is joined by pianist Cédric Tiberghien in a program that reveals how the viola emerged from the violin’s shadow. Les Arts Florissants's Madrigali & Altri canti box set is a retrospective of the group's fifteen-year journey exploring the music of Monteverdi.

On Hyperion, Jonathan Cohen leads Arcangelo in Couperin's L'Apothéose de Lully, Howard Shelley performs three overlooked virtuoso works by Carl Czerny and 2015 Honens Prize Laureate Luca Buratto makes his label début with an all-Schumann program. Works by Schumann are also featured on a La Dolce Volta new release featuring legendary French pianist Jean-Philippe Collard. On Mirare, Daniel Reuss leads the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne in Honegger's oratorio Le Roi David and French period instrument ensemble La Rêveuse performs a program of sonatas by Buxtehude. Andrew Manze and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic continue their Vaughan Williams symphony cycle for Onyx Classics with the Symphonies Nos.3 and 4. On Orange Mountain, Dennis Russell Davies leads violinist Renaud Capuçon and Bruckner Orchester Linz in violin concertos by Glass and Bernstein.

On new label Rubicon Classics, The Exon Singers celebrate their fiftieth anniversary with a collection of their favorite pieces. In popular music, Edition presents New Helsinki from 2016 Socar Montreux Jazz Electric Guitar competition winner Olli Hirvonen.

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SHAI WOSNER's IMPROMPUTUS What would happen if Schubert, Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt, Dvorak, Gershwin and Ives got together for a posthumous jam session? Pianist Shai Wosner presents a thought provoking and highly original program of Impromptus that will challenge the listener’s perceptions of these composers and and take them along for the ride as these improvisations take on a life of their own.

Impromptu Shai Wosner Onyx Classics • ONYX4172

MORE MAHLER FROM IVÁN FISCHER

Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra continue their highly acclaimed Mahler cycle with the Symphony No.3. At over 90 minutes, it is not only the composer's longest work but an exuberant ode to nature, mankind, the world and indeed, life itself. For this song of praise the composer requires the richest of orchestral forces, a contralto soloist and multiple choirs.

Channel Classics's stunning high resolution super-audio release features contralto Gerhild Romberger, the Cantemus Children's Choir and the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks.

Mahler: Symphony No.3 Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer Channel Classics • CCSSA38817

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APARTÉ

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À Madame Divertissement pour Adélaïde Olivier Baumont (harpsichord), Julien Chauvin (violin) Aparté • AP138

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At the court of Versailles, the daughters of Louis XV, known as Mesdames, devoted themselves to the regular practice of music. Numerous composers, including Rameau and Balbastre, performed for them, worked with them and dedicated works to them. One daughter in particular, Adélaïde, demonstrated great talent. This program from harpsichordist Olivier Baumont and violinist Julien Chauvin features compositions by Simon, Dauvergne, Rameau, Balbastre, Guignon and Cardon – works often heard in the palace drawing room.

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Exiles Works by Bloch, Korngold, Prokofiev, Alberstein & Feidmann Ophélie Gaillard (cello), Sibra Octet, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, James Judd Aparté • AP142

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Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, the United States was a land of freedom open to the world. As a democracy concerned with human rights, it attracted emigrants of all origins. The young nation embodied a land of redemption for the composers brought together by cellist Ophélie Gaillard. She walks in the footsteps of Bloch, Korngold, Prokofiev, Chava Alberstein and Giora Feidmann, singing of their exile, whether suffered or deliberately chosen. This program reflects the many facets of daily life and allows the cultures of several generations of Jewish immigrants to speak through Gaillard's cello.

also available Alvorada Ophélie Gaillard Aparté • AP104 (3149028059625) RED Price Code: CD31• $31.98 • 2CDs

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Catharsis Xavier Sabata (countertenor), Armonia Atenea, George Petrou Aparté • AP143

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Around the year 1600, a group of Florentine aristocrats, inspired by ancient Greek drama, gave birth to opera. They set out to glorify human passions in such a strong way that the spectator's soul would be cleansed.

This was a process that Aristotle called catharsis. In a fascinating program featuring works by works by Orlandini, Conti, Torri, Vivaldi, Handel, Hasse, Caldara, Sarro and Ariosti, countertenor Xavier Sabata, accompanied by George Petrou and Armonia Atenea, captures these powerful moments as portrayed by the legendary heroes of Baroque opera.

also available I Dilettanti Xavier Sabata, Latinitas Nostra, Markellos Chryssicos Aparté • AP093 (3149028050622) RED Price Code: CD21 • $21.98

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SCHUMANN Fantaisie Op.17, Kreisleriana Op.16 Jean-Philippe Collard (piano) La Dolce Volta • LDV30

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During the time Robert Schumann was forcibly separated from his beloved fiancée Clara, an overflow of inspiration produced the breathtaking Fantasie in C major Op.17. The ghostly universe inhabited by E.T.A. Hoffman's fictional character Johannes Kreisler haunted the mind of the bipolar composer and inspired the Kreisleriana Op.16. Gifted with a rare inventiveness and sensitivity, Jean-Philippe Collard echoes the cries of the Schumannesque soul and opens up infinite horizons in these works.

also available Chopin: Preludes, Piano Sonata No.2 Jean-Philippe Collard La Dolce Volta • LDV09 (3770001901282) RED Price Code: CD23 • $23.98

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Handel German Arias, Trio Sonatas Op.2 No.1 & Op.5 No.3, Concerto a Quattro in D minor Gillian Keith (soprano), Florilegium Channel Classics • CCS35117

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Florilegium is one of Britain’s most outstanding period instrument ensembles. This program combines three of Handel's instrumental trio sonatas with a selection of his lovely German Arias. Florilegium joins forces with leading lyric soprano Gillian Keith for stylish performances of these intimate chamber works.

also available Telemann: Concertos & Cantata Florilegium Channel Classics • CCS38616 (723385386162) RED Price Code: CD21 • $21.98

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CHOPIN Mazurka Op.6 No.2, Op.7 Nos.1 & 3, Op.17, Op.24, Op.30, Op.33, Prelude No.7 Op.45 & Op.46, Berceuse Op.57, Nocturne Op.15 No.2 Ivana Gavric Edition Records • EDN1086

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British pianist Ivana Gavric is a performer of elegance, virtuosity and deep musicality, whose playing was described by BBC Music Magazine as of "an altogether extraordinary calibre." Following three highly successful albums for Champs Hill Records, she makes her Edition Classics debut with an album of Chopin. The program focuses on the early Mazurkas as well as two infrequently met Preludes, the late Berceuse Op.57, and the early Nocturne Op.15 No.2. Exploring her Slavic roots, Gavric brings clarity and intensity to these works by the mightiest of all composers for piano.

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Bel Canto The Voice of Viola Antoine Tamestit (viola), Cédric Tiberghien (piano) harmonia mundi • HMM902277

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Going well beyond mere historical interest, this program features repertory that delighted Parisian concert halls and salons throughout the 19th century. It tells the story of how the viola, in the hands of great virtuosos, at last emerged from the violin’s shadow. Violist Antoine Tamestit, making his first solo recording for harmonia mundi, is joined by pianist Cédric Tiberghien in works for viola and piano by Vieuxtemps, Donizetti, Bellini, Mazas & Ney.

also available Fauré: Piano Quartets Trio Wanderer, Antoine Tamestit harmonia mundi • HMC902032 (794881941124) RED Price Code: CD18 • $18.98

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HARMONIA MUNDI

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Monteverdi Madrigali, Selva morale, Il Ballo delle ingrate, Altri Canti, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Les Arts Florissants, William Christie harmonia mundi • HMX2908772

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This box set assembles the complete Monteverdi recordings that William Christie and Les Arts Florissants made for harmonia mundi over fifteen years. Together, they constantly refreshed their inspiration at the wellspring of the composer's finest and most famous madrigals, with a memorable incursion into the sacred repertory with the Selva morale.

also available Monteverdi: Madrigals Vol.3 - Venezia Les Arts Florissants, Paul Agnew harmonia mundi • HAF8905278 (3149020527801) RED Price Code: CD18 • $18.98

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Couperin L'Apothéose de Lully, Leçons de ténèbres Anna Dennis (soprano), Katherine Watson (soprano), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen Hyperion • CDA68093

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L'Apothéose de Lully was Couperin's homage to his great musical predecessor. Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen capture the spirit of this work that depicts the elder composer's elevation to Mount Parnassus. He plays duets with the shade of Corelli, and with Apollo’s blessing, effects a reconciliation between the contrasting French and Italian styles of the day. The Leçons de ténèbres were written for Holy Week. Sopranos Katherine Watson and Anna Dennis rise to the challenges of this work which demands vocal artistry of the highest order.

also available Bach: Cantatas Nos.52, 54, 82 & 170 Iestyn Davies, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen Hyperion • CDA68111 (034571281117) RED Price Code: CD19 • $19.98

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The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.71 Czerny Piano Concerto in F major Op.28; Piano Concerto in A minor Op.214; Rondo Brillant in B flat major Op.233 Howard Shelley (piano), Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Hyperion • CDA68138

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Active in every genre other than opera, Carl Czerny is largely remembered for the numerous piano studies he wrote as pedagogical aids. Howard Shelley’s advocacy of his three overlooked virtuoso works for piano and orchestra is a welcome reminder of this composer's greater appeal.

Alongside the Piano Concerto in A minor Op.214 are two premiere recordings of his Piano Concerto in F major Op.28 and Rondo Brillant in B flat major Op.233.

also available The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.70 Danny Driver, BBC Symphony, Rebecca Miller Hyperion • CDA6130 (0345712813080) RED Price Code: CD19 • $19.98

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Schumann Davidsbündlertänze Op.6, Humoreske in B flat major Op.20, Blumenstück in D flat major Op.19 Luca Buratto (piano) Hyperion • CDA68186

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Hyperion is thrilled to welcome 2015 Honens Prize Laureate Luca Buratto to the label. He is a pianist whose "fiery imagination and finesse" (Musical America) are perfectly suited to the demands of this all-Schumann program.

Despite its unassuming title, the Humoreske is no mere miniature but a full-scale piano cycle, very much on a par with the Davidsbündlertänze.

Buratto performs both works along with the Blumenstück.

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Guyot Te Deum laudamus & other sacred music Cinquecento Hyperion • CDA68180

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Jean Guyot was a composer from the post-Josquin generation. Active in the Low Countries in the mid-sixteenth century, he was also a priest, author and teacher. Cinquecento, who previously explored his secular music, proves equally authoritative in the sacred music that is largely responsible for the high reputation he enjoyed in his lifetime.

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Lassus: Missa super Dixit Joseph Cinquecento Hyperion • CDA68064 (034571280646) RED Price Code: CD19 • $19.98

Organ Fireworks World Tour Christopher Herrick (organ) Hyperion • CDA68214

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This anthology features one track from each of the fourteen volumes of Hyperion's complete Organ Fireworks series. It takes the listener on a spectacular world tour of the organs and repertoire championed by Christopher Herrick over the decades. Released in honor of his seventyfifth birthday, this is a must for anyone yet to encounter these wonderfully life-affirming performances.

also available Power of Life Christopher Herrick Hyperion • CDA68129 (034571281292) RED Price Code: CD19 • $19.98

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Buxtehude Sonates en trio — Manuscrits d'Uppsala La Rêveuse Mirare • MIR303

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Dietrich Buxtehude was a key figure of the German Baroque. It was he who firmly established the prestige of the trio sonata by introducing into it the stylus phantasticus. La Rêveuse revels in Buxtehude's highly contrasted and dramatic instrumental language in which imagination and virtuosity reign supreme.

also available Purcell: Devotional Songs & Anthems La Rêveuse Mirare • MIR283 (3760127222835) RED Price Code: CD23 • $23.98

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Honegger Le Roi David Christophe Balissat (speaker), Athéna Poullos (vocals), Lucie Chartin (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Walker (tenor), Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Daniel Reuss Mirare • MIR318

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Daniel Reuss leds the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne in the oratorio Le Roi David, one of Honegger's first great masterpieces. Composed before he was 30 years old, the work overflows with astonishing musical invention. It brilliantly recreates a distant biblical past in a resolutely modern language, and enjoyed immediate and lasting popular success.

also available Pärt: Kanon Pokajanen Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss harmonia mundi • HMC905274 RED Price Code: CD18 • $18.98

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ONYX CLASSICS

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Vaughan Williams A Pastoral Symphony, Symphony No.4 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze Onyx Classics • ONYX4161

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Andrew Manze’s interpretations of Vaughan Williams’s symphonies have met with acclaim from audiences and critics alike. This second volume in his complete symphony cycle with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra features the Symphonies Nos.3 and 4. These two works were heavily influenced by the Great War and its aftermath. Full of repressed rage and sorrow at the futility of the war, Symphony No.3 is often seen as a war requiem. Symphony No.4 is a violent and turbulent work, reflecting the post Great War world and the political turmoil of the 1930s. Both works are illuminated by Manze's distinguished leadership.

also available Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos.2 & 8 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Andrew Manze Onyx Classics • ONYX4155 (880040415527) RED Price Code: CD19 • $19.98

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Glass Violin Concerto No.1 Bernstein Serenade Renaud Capuçon (violin), Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Dennis Russell Davies Orange Mountain • OMM0114

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This new recording from Orange Mountain Music features violin concertos by two of the most popular composers of the 20th Century — Philip Glass and Leonard Bernstein. Glass’s first violin concerto from 1987 is among composer’s best known works for the concert hall having been performed and recorded by violinists like Gidon Kremer and Robert McDuffie. Now thirty years after its composition, it is considered to be a new classic of our time. A concerto in all but name, the same can be said for Bernstein's luscious Serenade (after Plato's Symposium) for solo violin, strings, harp and percussion, written in 1954. These two masterpieces are performed by world renowned violinist Renaud Capuçon accompanied by the Bruckner Orchester Linz under the direction of Glass specialist Dennis Russell Davies.

also available Mozart: String Quintets Nos.1-6 Alina Ibragimova, Renaud Capuçon, et al.

Belvedere • 08004 (4260415080042) RED Price Code: DVM46 • $46.98 • DVD

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Shostakovich String Quartets Vol.2 - Nos.4, 6 & 9 Borodin Quartet Praga • PRD250331

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The Borodin Quartet's second volume of Shostakovich String Quartets is a tribute to violinist Rostislav Dubinsky (1923-97). A keystone of the quartet until 1974, Dubinsky managed to keep the same players together for 20 years. Although Shostakovich entrusted the premieres of 13 of his 15 quartets to the Beethoven Quartet, the Borodin Quartet earned them world-world acclaim as ambassadors of Russian music to the outside world.

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Shostakovich: String Quartets Vol.1 Borodin Quartet Praga • PRD 250323 (3149028074826) RED Price Code: CD23 • $23.98

Serenades from Bohemia Dvořák Serenade for Piano Octet B36, Serenade for Strings B52, Serenade for Winds B77 Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner Praga • PRD 250371

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First perfected by Mozart, the classic serenade spread its wings with Dvořák. On this tribute to Sir Neville Marriner and the Czech approach to wind instruments, the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields performs the Serenade for Piano Octet B36, Serenade for Strings B52 and Serenade for Winds B77. Cheerful but far from frivolous, these pieces challenged Dante's notion that it was impossible to describe paradise.

also available Dvořák: Cantor of the Inner Bohemia Czech Philharmonic Praga • PRD 250369 (3149028108026) RED Price Code: CD31 • $31.98 • 2CDs

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Before the Ending of the Day The Exon Singers, Richard Wilberforce Jonathan Vaughn (organ) Rubicon Classics • RCD1004

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Over the years, The Exon Singers have received considerable recognition for their commitment to commissioning and recording new works from some of today’s most exciting composers. To mark the occasion of their 50th anniversary, they have collected their favorite pieces, along with three specially written works, in a program full of attractive and accessible music that will appeal to choral enthusiasts everywhere.

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New Helsinki Olli Hirvonen Edition Records • EDN1087

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New Helsinki is the second album from virtuoso guitarist Olli Hirvonen.

Finnish-born but New York based, he was the 2016 Winner of the Socar Montreux Jazz Electric Guitar competition. Hirvionen is a musician with a grand vision and a commanding spirit, as well as a supremely gifted composer. New Helsinki is filled with infectious melodies, irresistibly bold grooves and inventive soloing.

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