JUNE 2017
RAPHAEL PICHON
JUNE 2017
NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS
In June, Alia Vox débuts two new releases that further demonstrate the label's remarkable depth and diversity. Jordi Savall invites listeners to discover seminal music from the time of Heinrich Isaac and Euskal Barrokensemble offer their new and decidedly different take on Manuel De Falla's masterpiece El Amor Brujo. On Channel Classics, The Dragon Quartet, led by celebrated Chinese violinist Ning Feng, present their début recording featuring works by Schubert and Dvorák. Two of harmonia mundi's top artists offer new titles this month. Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin perform a selection of Telemann concertos and Raphaël Pichon and Ensemble Pygmalion explore music from the birth of opera. Hyperion's key releases for June include pianist Steven Osborne performing Falla and Ravel, violinist Andrew Marwood's reading of Walton's powerful Violin Concerto and choral music by Stanford with Stephen Layton and the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge. Onyx Classics has a reputation for developing new talents. Their latest discovery is Russian pianist Rustem Hayroudinoff, who makes his début on the label playing Rachmaninov sonatas. Also on Onyx, Simon Trpceski performs Prokofiev Piano Concertos and cellist Leonard Elschenbroich offers a collection of music by French composers. The raucous mood and merry music of an English 17th Century tavern is vividly recreated by Bjarte Eike and Barokksolistene on their new Rubicon release aptly titled The Alehouse Sessions. Wigmore Hall Live is the latest label to join the [PIAS] family. The partnership gets off to a great start with a new release from renowned period ensemble The English Concert led by Harry Bicket. Jazz Village releases for June focus on new talents. Shahin Novrasli, a protégé of Ahmad Jamal, blends flavors of east and west, while Jowee Omicil's jazz has hints of Creole, gospel, soul and hip-hop. To celebrate the album's 15th anniversary, Real World has reissued Redemption’s Son, Joseph Arthur’s acclaimed third album, on CD and vinyl. The latest release from Craig Leon's enterprising Atlas Réalisations label is Frozen Refrains, a new album by enigmatic French electronic artist Bérangère Maximin.
COMING IN JULY NEXT MONTH
BOSTRIDGE SINGS SCHUBERT Ian Bostridge, one of the outstanding tenors of our time, who has earned widespread praise for his intelligent and nuanced performances, resumes his partnership with Julius Drake for their latest disc of Schubert Lieder on Wigmore Hall Live. From Schubert’s joyful tribute to the natural world in Der Einsame to the desolation of Der Wanderer an den Mond this delicately shaped program explores the theme of longing in various guises. Songs by Schubert Vol.3 Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake Wigmore Hall Live • WHL0088
Ahmad Jamal's TRIBUTE TO Marseille Legendary pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal's new album Marseille is a love letter to the iconic French city whose magnificent port and dazzling light have inspired numerous artists and filmmakers over the years. It is the work of a master musician who never says more than he has to but always says just enough to make the world sit up and listen. Marseille Ahmad Jamal Jazz Village • JV570136
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ALIA VOX
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The essence of Manuel de Falla's music Falla El Amor Brujo Euskal Barrokensemble, Enrike Solinís Alia Vox • AV9921
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD21 $21.98
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Following up on their album Euskal Antiqua, Enrike Solinis and Euskal Barrokensemble shed new light on Spanish traditional music through Manuel de Falla's masterpiece, El Amor Brujo. In this ballet, Spanish tradition and classical music are intimately linked and Solinis's new approach - on baroque instruments - illuminates the essence of Falla’s music perfectly. The album also includes other pieces inspired by encounters between popular and classical music.
NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA
also available Euskel Antiqva - Legacy of the land of Basque Euskal Barrokensemble, Enrike Solinís Alia Vox • AVSA9910 (8435408099103) RED Price Code: CD21 • $21.98
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ALIA VOX
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Henricus Isaac - In the time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Maximilian I La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall Alia Vox • AVSA9922
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Discover the music of Heinrich Isaac with these authentic performances from La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Hespèrion XXI under the inspired direction of early music specialist Jordi Savall. This program paints a portrait of an era during which the Hundred Year’s War ended, the Medici family reached its peak, the idea of the Reformation surged and Charles V was crowned at the head of an Empire that redefined the idea of Europe.
NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA
also available Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Jordi Savall Alia Vox • AVSA9919 (8435408099196) RED Price Code: CD24 • $24.98
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APARTÉ
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Tombelle Mélodies Tassis Christoyannis (baritone), Jeff Cohen (piano) Aparté • AP148
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD21 $21.98
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Following collections of songs by Lalo, David, Goddard and Saint-Saëns, baritone Tassis Christoyannis and pianist Jeff Cohen turn their focus to Fernand de La Tombelle. Relatively unknown, he was a virtuoso organ player, a co-founder of the Schola Cantorum with Vincent d'Indy and a challenging and sophisticated composer. His Mélodies span a large portion of his life as a creator, from the romanticism of Saint-Saëns to the post-war years of Poulenc. His musical language favors the vocal style of Massenet but the harmonic richness and the variety of atmospheres prove La Tombelle was not an imitator.
also available Saint-Saëns: Mélodies Tassis Christoyannis, Jeff Cohen Aparté • AP132 (3149028098228) RED Price Code: CD21 • $21.98
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CHANNEL CLASSICS
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Carrousel Holland Baroque meets Eric Vloeimans Eric Vloeimans (trumpet), Holland Baroque Society Channel Classics • CCS39817
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While their first collaboration, Old, New & Blue, was an encounter between two styles, Carrousel, the second album from Holland Baroque and Eric Vloeimans, does away with boundaries between Baroque and modern. Works by Mendelssohn, Purcell, Buxtehude and Bach are paired with contemporary compositions from Eric Vloeimans and the result is a weird and wonderful blend of two worlds.
also available Old, New & Blue Holland Baroque, Eric Vloeimans Channel Classics • CCSSA35613 (723385356134) RED Price Code: CD21 • $21.98
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CHANNEL CLASSICS
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DVORÁK String Quartet No.12 "American" SCHUBERT String Quartet No.14 "Death and the Maiden" Dragon Quartet Channel Classics • CCS39417
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD21 $21.98
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Violinist Ning Feng and cellist Qin Liwei, both internationally established Chinese soloists, came up with the idea of forming a string quartet after a series of concerts brought them together. The Dragon Quartet also features violinist Wang Xiaomao, concertmaster of China National Ballet Orchestra and Zheng Wenxiao, principal violist with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The quartet's Channel Classics début features two monuments from the chamber repertoire - Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" and Dvořák's "American" String Quartet.
also available Apasionado Ning Feng Channel Classics • CCS37916 (723385379164) RED Price Code: CD21 • $21.98
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HARMONIA MUNDI
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Telemann Concerti per molti stromenti Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin harmonia mundi • HMM902261
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Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin perform a selection of Telemann's Concerti per molti stromenti - works that feature many unusual and wonderful instrumental combination, and an amazing variety of styles. If you ever wondered where Bach got the idea for the Brandenburg Concertos, look no further than the concertos of Telemann.
also available Handel: Water Music Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin harmonia mundi • HMC902216 (3149020221624) RED Price Code: CD18 • $18.98
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HARMONIA MUNDI
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Stravaganza d'Amore! The Birth of Opera at the Medici Court Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon harmonia mundi • HMM902286
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD29 $29.98
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Late sixteenth-century Florence was alive with theater. Seeking to achieve the perfect blend between music and poetry, intermedi (interludes) were inserted into plays. These interludes were presented with lavish visual and musical resources. After reaching an initial peak in 1589 with the intermedi composed for Bargagli’s La pellegrina, the tradition survived the burgeoning genre of opera through the work of such composers as Peri, Caccini, Monteverdi and Gagliano. On this release, rather than aiming for the impossible ideal of a reconstruction, Raphaël Pichon has devised a sort of imaginary intermedi by selecting the finest gems from this repertory, featuring the figures of Apollo, Orpheus and Eurydice, and above all, Cupid.
Deluxe CD-Book Presentation
also available Rameau: Dardanus Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon harmonia mundi • HMD9859051 (3149020905104) RED Price Code: DVM22 • $22.98 • DVD/Blu-Ray
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HARMONIA MUNDI
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Schubert Piano Trio Op.100, Trout Quintet Trio Wanderer harmonia mundi • HMX2908748
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD18 $18.98
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Two of Franz Schubert's favorite works are coupled here on a disc celebrating the 30th anniversary of Trio Wanderer. One of his last compositions, the Op.100 Piano Trio was among the few late works Schubert heard performed before his death. The Trout was composed when Schubert was 22, but was published posthumously. This release includes a 2017 harmonia mundi catalog.
also available Dvořák: Piano Trios Opp.65 & 90 Trio Wanderer harmonia mundi • HMC902248 (3149020224823) RED Price Code: CD18 • $18.98
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HYPERION
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Ravel Piano Concerto in G Major, Piano Concerto for the left hand Falla Nights in the gardens of Spain Steven Osborne (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot Hyperion Records • CDA68148
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD19 $19.98
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On his latest release, Stephen Osborne is joined by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra on an adventure into the Andalusian impressionism of Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain and the American jazz of Ravel's Piano Concerto.
also available Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp.90, 101 & 106 Steven Osborne Hyperion • CDA68072 (034571280738) RED Price Code: CD19 • $19.98
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HYPERION
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Stanford Piano Preludes Sam Haywood (piano) Hyperion Records • CDA68183
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD19 $19.98
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Sir Charles Villiers Stanford retained an enthusiasm for the music of Bach throughout his life, and his two sets of Twenty-four Preludes in all the keys for pianoforte are a clear homage to Bach's own 48. Sam Haywood, making his second recording for Hyperion, performs his own selection of 38 of these lovely preludes.
also available Isserlis: Piano Music Sam Haywood Hyperion • CDA68025 (034571280257) RED Price Code: CD19 • $19.98
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HYPERION
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NenoV Piano Concerto, Ballade No.2 Ivo Varbanov (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Emil Tabakov Hyperion Recrods • CDA68205
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD19 $19.98
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A refusal to toe the party line in communist Bulgaria led to the marginalization of composer Dimitar Nenov, both in life and posthumously. Well worthy of revival, his hugely enjoyable music is given fiercely committed performances from pianist Ivo Varbanov and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra led by Emil Tabakov.
also available The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.68 Ludmil Angelov, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Hyperion • CDA68109 (034571281094) RED Price Code: CD19 • $19.98
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HYPERION
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Songs by Robert Franz Robin Tritschler (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano) Hyperion Records • CDA68128
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD23 $23.98
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Highly regarded by such contemporaries as Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt, Robert Franz wrote 279 songs over the course of a long life. For this recital, Graham Johnson and tenor Robin Tritschler perform a selection of 47 of their favorites.
also available Poulenc: The Complete Songs Various Artists including Robin Tritschler Hyperion • CDA68021 (034571280219) RED Price Code: CD19 • $19.98
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HYPERION
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Songs by Donald Swann Roderick Williams (baritone), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano), Felicity Lott (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano) Hyperion Recrods • CDA68172
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD23 $23.98
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This two-disc collection celebrates the unique talents of the gifted songwriter Donald Swann, whose settings of poets from Burns to Betjeman are ripe for revival. The quartet of distinguished singers featuring Dame Felicity Lott, Kathryn Rudge, John Mark Ainsley and Roderick Williams, is luxury casting.
also available Head: Songs Ailish Tynan, Christopher Glynn Hyperion • CDA67889 (034571178998) RED Price Code: CD19 • $19.98
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HYPERION
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WALTON Violin Concerto, Variations on a theme by Hindemith, Partita for orchestra, Spitfire Prelude and Fugue Anthony Marwood (violin), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins Hyperion Recrods • CDA67986
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD19 $19.98
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Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra follow up their definitive account of the symphonies with another outstanding album of music by Walton. From the sunlit Mediterranean lyricism of the Violin Concerto to the rousing Spitfire Prelude and Fugue, this is the composer at the height of his power.
In Concert JUL 15
Quebec, QC
Festival de Lanaudiere
JUL 18 - AUG 5
Putney, VT
Yellow Barn
AUG 22 - 28
Bridgehampton, NY Chamber Music Festival
also available Walton: Symphonies Nos.1 & 2 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Brabbins Hyperion • CDA67794 (034571177946) RED Price Code: CD19 • $19.98
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HYPERION
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Machaut Sovereign Beauty The Orlando Consort Hyperion Recrods • CDA68134
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD19 $19.98
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In the latest installment in their series, which continues to garner the highest critical plaudits, The Orlando Consort bring their customary virtues of "supreme text-sensitivity and beauty of tone" (Early Music Today) to another recital showcasing the breadth of Machaut’s musical and poetic inventiveness.
also available Beneath the Northern Star The Orlando Consort Hyperion • CDA68132 (034571281322) RED Price Code: CD19 • $19.98
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HYPERION
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Stanford Choral Music Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Trinity Brass, Stephen Layton, Owain Park (organ) Hyperion Recrods • CDA68174
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD19 $19.98
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Stephen Layton and the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge capture the variety and sheer emotional range of Stanford’s Anglican choral music. Highlights include the Fantasia and Toccata for organ, which features a notable contribution from Owain Park and a stirring rendition of St. Patrick’s Breastplate.
also available Howells: Collegium Regale Choir of Trinity College, Stephen Layton Hyperion • CDA68105 (034571281056) RED Price Code: CD19 • $19.98
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LA DOLCE VOLTA
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Chopin Les Grandes Polonaises - Polonaise Op.26 Nos.1 & 2, Polonaise Op.40 Nos.1 & 2, Polonaise Op.44, Polonaise Op.53, Polonaise Fantaisie Op.6 Pascal Amoyel (piano) La Dolce Volta • LDV300
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD15 $15.98
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Pianist Pascal Amoyel performs a program of tempestuous, almost orchestral accounts of Chopin’s best known Polonaises. A pianist with a strong affinity for the music of this composer, Amoyel's recital culminates with the sweeping Polonaise-Fantasie Op.61. This special edition reissue includes a 2017 La Dolce Volta CD catalog.
also available Chopin: Polonaises & Fantaisie Pascal Amoyel La Dolce Volta • LDV25 (3770001901459) RED Price Code: CD23 • $23.98
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ONYX CLASSICS
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Rachmaninov Piano Sonatas Nos.1 & 2 Tchaikovsky Lullaby Op.16 No.1 (arr. Rachmaninov) Rustem Hayroudinoff (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX4181
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD19 $19.98
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Pianist Rustem Hayroudinoff makes his Onyx Classics début with a program of Rachmaninov piano sonatas. Rachmaninov started composing the Sonata No.1 Op.28 in the spring of 1907 in Dresden while simultaneously working on his Symphony No.2 and the opera Monna Vanna. The composer revealed his inspiration to be three contrasting characters from Goethe’s Faust. The Sonata No.2 Op.36 is an astounding feat of compositional ingenuity created out of a single thematic seed. The transcription of Tchaikovsky's "Lullaby" for Piano Op.16 No.1, made by Rachmaninov in August 1941, is his last work. It is a remarkable coincidence that one of the very first pieces that he wrote as a 13-year-old boy in 1886 was the arrangement of another composition by Tchaikovsky.
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ONYX CLASSICS
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Prokofiev Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 3 Simon Trpčeski (piano), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko Onyx Classics • ONYX4140
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Prokofiev was just 21 when he first performed his Piano Concerto No.1 in Moscow on July 25, 1912 with his teacher Nikolay Tcherepnin conducting. That same year, even as he was composing his ferocious Piano Concerto No.2, Prokofiev was contemplating his third. The Piano Concerto No.3 has the kind of grace, economy and balance that one might almost call Classical and has become one of the 20th century’s most popular concertos. Simon Trpčeski demonstrates why in these performances with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra led by Vasily Petrenko.
In Concert JUL 16
HIghland Park, IL
Ravinia Festival
also available Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos.1 & 2 Simon Trpčeski, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Onyx Classics • ONYX4135 (880040413523) RED Price Code: CD19 • $19.98
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ONYX CLASSICS
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Siècle Dutilleux Cello Concerto; Messiaen Louange; Ravel Habanera; Debussy Cello Sonata; Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No.1 Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Alexei Grynyuk (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Blunier, John Wilson Onyx Classics • ONYX4173 CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD19 $19.98
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Leonard Elschenbroich is one of today’s most exciting cellists. On this fascinating program, he focuses on a century of French music for cello. The two cello concertos from Dutilleux and Saint-Saëns, composed 100 years apart, frame Debussy’s late Cello Sonata, Ravel’s Habanera and movement five of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. These compositions span years of the Franco-Prussian War, the First and Second World wars, and into the 1970s.
also available Schnittke: Musica Nostalgica Leonard Elschenbroich, Petr Limonov Onyx Classics • ONYX4180 (880040418023) RED Price Code: CD19 • $19.98
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ORANGE MOUNTAIN
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Glass LIFE - A Journey Through Time The Hague Philharmonic, Carolyn Kuan Orange Mountain • OMM0116
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD19 $19.98
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Orange Mountain is proud to announce the release of the world premiere recording of LIFE - A Journey Through Time with The Hague Philharmonic under the direction of Carolyn Kuan. Commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and conceived by nature photographer Frans Lanting, LIFE: A Journey Through Time is a multimedia experience with images by Lanting and music by Philip Glass that showcases the wonders of the natural world. The hour-long score is cast in seven movements and was drawn from previously existing music in the Glass catalogue from a variety of sources, orchestrated for the first time by Michael Riesman. Since its premiere in 2006, LIFE has been performed dozens of times including in an abbreviated version, ORIGINS, at the inauguration of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland for an audience of international dignitaries.
also available Glass: Aguas da Amazonia MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony, Kristjan Järvi Orange Mountain • OMM0115 (801837011524) RED Price Code: CD19• $19.98
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PRAGA
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Tribute to Gregor Piatigorsky Brahms Double Concerto Op.102; Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto Op.33; Bloch Schelomo Nathan Milstein (violin), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), RCA Victor Symphony, Fritz Reiner, Boston Symphony, Charles Münch Praga • PRD250368 CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD23 $23.98
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At only 18 years old, Gregor Piatigorsky traveled from the USSR to Germany. He studied with Becker and Klengel and found employment playing in a cafe frequented by Feuermann and Furtwängler, who hired him as principal cellist of the Berlin Philharmonic. He kept that post until 1929, when at 26 years old he decided to pursue a career as a traveling concert artist. This tribute program from Praga features Piatigorsky in works by Brahms, Saint-Saëns and Bloch led by legendary maestros Fritz Reiner and Charles Münch.
Beethoven Complete Works for Cello & Piano Pablo Casals (cello), Rudolf Serkin (piano) Praga • PRD250372
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On this historic reissue, the great cellist Pablo Casals performs Beethoven’s complete music for cello and piano with alongside another musical legend, pianist Rudolf Serkin. Distinguished New York Times critic Harold C. Schonberg wrote, "two perfectly matched musicians operate here... For every bold stroke of Casals bow there is an equivalently authoritative gesture from Serkin."
JUN Works for 2 Pianos STRAVINSKY Scherzo à la Russe, The Rite of Spring, Concerto for Two Pianos, FiveEasy Pieces, Three Easy Pieces, Sonata for Two Pianos, Tango Bernard Job (piano), John-Patrick Millow (piano), Vitya Vronsky (piano), Viktor Babin (piano), Alfons Kontarsky (piano), Aloys Kontarsky (piano) Praga • PRD250379 CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD23 $23.98
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This compilation of Stravinsky’s two-piano works, this recording features The Rite of Spring, Scherzo à la Russe and the Sonata for Two Pianos. Pianists Bernard Job and John-Patrick Millow perform on Bösendorfers and Vitya Vronsky, Viktor Babin and Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky on Steinways.
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RUBICON CLASSICS
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The Alehouse Sessions Bjarte Eike, Barokksolistene Rubicon Classics • RCD1017 Rubicon Classics • RLP1017
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD16 $16.98
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: LP29 $29.98
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The Alehouse Sessions explores the music heard in 17th Century English taverns, giving audiences a fascinating window into this tumultuous period. The atmosphere of a raucous port city pub in the 1690s is brilliantly evoked by Bjarte Eike and Barokksolistene, whose concerts have been hailed as "irresistible" (The Times), "superb" (The Scotsman) and "fabulously unrestrained" (The Guardian) and "creating the effect of a late night jamming session" (BBC Music Magazine). Eike says, "The signature of this project is the interaction on stage between the players and the audience. If it has to be put in a historical context, the project draws its inspiration from the Shakespearian theatre where there was a direct communication between stage and hall."
In Concert
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OCT 5
Princeton, NJ
Princeton University
OCT 6
Chicago, IL
University of Chicago
OCT 9
New York, NY
Le Poisson Rouge
OCT 12
St. Paul, MN
Schubert Club
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RUBICON CLASSICS
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Suites & Fantasies Music of Britten, De Falla, Gershwin, Milhaud and Schnittke Joo Yeon Sir (violin), Irina Andrievsky (piano) Rubicon Classics • RCD1003
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Korean born British violinist Joo Yeon Sir is a name to watch. In a concert review, The Strad magazine called her, "Exuberant... feline and seductive, rattling off the fiendish cadenza with bravura and oodles of personality." That personality comes to the fore in this eclectic and emotionally wide ranging recital of suites and fantasies by a group of composers you won’t often find together on a concert program. Britten’s youthfully precocious Suite Op.6, Milhaud’s suave Le Boeuf sur la toit and Frolov’s effervescent Fantasy on themes from Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess rub shoulders with Schnittke’s baroque Suite in the Olden Style, and de Falla’s passionate Popular Spanish Songs.
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WIGMORE HALL LIVE
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Purcell Songs; Locke The Tempest; Blow Chaconne in G; Gibbons Fantasy-Suite in D minor Rosemary Joshua (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), The English Concert, Harry Bicket Wigmore Hall Live • WHLIVE0087
CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD14 $14.98
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Renowned period ensemble The English Concert and Harry Bicket are joined by two singers at the height of their powers – bright voiced soprano Rosemary Joshua and the graceful mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly – as they delve into the musical world in which Henry Purcell was immersed. Through the course of this concert, recorded live at Wigmore Hall, we explore the music of seventeenth century England; from the irresistible Suite from The Tempest by Matthew Locke to John Blow’s sprightly Chaconne in G, crowned by beautifully crafted and luminous songs by Purcell himself.
also available Scarlatti: Con eco d'amore Elizabeth Watts, The English Concert harmonia mundi • HMU807574 (093046757465) RED Price Code: CD18 • $18.98
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HARMONIA MUNDI
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Zabad, Twilight Tide Sabîl harmonia mundi • HMM 905279
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If Arabic music is a tree with many branches, then one of those branches is Oud-percussion duo Sabîl, formed by Ahmad Al Khatib and Youssef Hbeisch in 2011. The title of their new release, Zabad, means effervescence - and the music here is both contemplative and exhilarating. The group, joined by Hubert Dupont on double bass and Elie Khoury on buzuq, draws on tradition, but innovates with the fearless curiosity of one who surrenders to the rhythms of the world.
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JAZZ VILLAGE
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Emanation Shahin Novrasli Jazz Village • JV570141 CD Jazz Village • JV33570149 LP
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Born in Azerbaijan, Shahin Novrasli draws on Caucasian culture, classical European music and jazz beats to carve out his own unique brand of music. A protégé of the great Ahmad Jamal, this young pianist is an artist and composer to be reckoned with. His art of improvisation, inherited from the mugham tradition, places him among the most innovative musicmakers today, at the crossroads between East and West.
In Concert
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MAY 13
Pittsburgh, PA
MCG Jazz
MAY 15
Washington, DC
Blues Alley
JUN 11
San Francisco, CA
SFJazz
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JAZZ VILLAGE
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Let's BasH! Jowee Omicil Jazz Village • JV570120 CD Jazz Village • JV33570120 LP
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Jowee Omicil is a jazz artist unlike any you've heard before. He brings a novel and distinctly Afro-Haitian perspective to his music. Omicil's melodic storytelling blends flavors from his Creole roots with gospel, soul, hip-hop and folk, not to mention nods to the masters - from Charlie Parker to Ornette Coleman. Let's BasH!, Omicil's fourth album, is both a cry of war and a declaration of love - but above all, it's a symbol of his mission to expand the popularity of jazz.
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REAL WORLD
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Redemption's Son Joseph Arthur Real World • CDRW103x Real World • LPRW103
WORLD RED Price Code: CD17 $17.98
WORLD RED Price Code: LP30 $30.98
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Joseph Arthur’s acclaimed third album for Real World, Redemption's Son, is available for the first time as a special edition double-CD ans 180-gram vinyl LP – with nine tracks of unreleased bonus content – to mark the 15th anniversary of this most beloved of his recordings. Consistently inspired, occasionally frazzled, and often startlingly beautiful, its rich textures and acute, poetic lyrics are guaranteed to raise goosebumps. Nine previously unreleased songs from the time of the album’s original 2002 release are featured on the bonus CD Morning Star, also available as a digital download with the LP format.
In Concert JUN 20
Boston, MA
Great Scott
JUN 21
Philadelphia, PA
TBA
JUN 23
New York, NY
City Winery
JUN 24
Vienna, VA
Jammin' Java
JUN 26
Evanston, IL
SPACE
JUN 27
Minneapolis, MN
TBA
JUN 29
Cleveland, OH
TBA
JUL 11
Los Angeles, CA
Teragram Ballroom
JUL 12
San Francisco, CA
The Chapel
JUL 14
Portland, OR
Doug Fir Lounge
JUL 15
Seattle, WA
The Triple Door
also available Come To Where I'm From Joseph Arthur Real World • CDRWG87 (884108001318) RED Price Code: CD18 • $13.98
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ATLAS RÉALISATIONS
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Frozen Refrains Bérangère Maximin Atlas Réalisations • ARLP007
ELECTRONIC RED Price Code: LP24 $24.98
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Craig Leon's Atlas Réalisations presents Frozen Refrains, the new vinylonly album by French electronic artist Bérangère Maximin. It combines macroscopic textures and layers of vocals with interrupted loops, electronic signals and fragmented sequences, all generated in real time. The material is both an object of contemplation and a space in which to explore. Her manipulations reveal latent melodies within isolated sounds through a process of accumulation and contextualization, tempered with humor and lyricism.
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