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NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS August's top release features 2006 BBC Jazz Awards Rising Star award winner Andrew McCormack. In 2007, McCormack joined Kyle Eastwood's quintet and has been featured on Eastwood's two Jazz Village recordings. Graviton is McCormack's third album as a leader and his Jazz Village solo début. It features a virtual A-List of the world's top jazz musicians. Leading off our classical releases is the harmonia mundi recording début of The Britten Oboe Quartet, featuring virtuoso oboist Nicholas Daniel. The album includes works commissioned and premièred by Janet Craxton, Daniel's beloved teacher and musical inspiration. Also on harmonia mundi, Sébastien Daucé and Ensemble Correspondances bring the Orpheus myth to life with Charpentier's La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers. On Aparté, violinist Gottfried von der Goltz and the Freiburger Barockorchester perform Geminiani and clarinetist Pierre Génisson and the Quartet 212 play quintets by Mozart and Weber. Acclaimed English viol consort Sit Fast make their début on Evidence Classics with an album featuring John Dowland's Lachrimae and George Benjamin's Upon Silence. New from Rubicon Classics, Emmanuel Leducq-Barôme leads the Baltic Chamber Orchestra in a recording featuring two powerful works composed as a reaction to the horrors of war - Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony No.1 and Strauss's Metamorphosen.
COMING IN SEPTEMBER Rachel Podger PLAYS ITALIAN SONATAS This new program from Rachel Podger and Brecon Baroque brings together four violinist-composers who are united by a reverence for Arcangelo Corelli. These pieces from Pisendel, Tartini, Veracini and Vivaldi explore the sonata form for violin and continuo. Grandissima Gravita Rachel Podger, Brecon Baroque Channel Classics • CCSSA39217
HAYDN CONCERTOS with Steven Isserlis The latest release from Steven Isserlis features cello concertos by Haydn and C.P.E. Bach. The program is completed by two charming rococo encores by Mozart and Boccherini. Haydn & C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concertos Steven Isserlis, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Hyperion • CDA68162
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APARTÉ
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Geminiani The Art of Playing on the Violin Gottfried von der Goltz (violin) Freiburger Barockorchester Aparté • AP134
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Violinist Gottfried von der Goltz and musicians from the Freiburger Barockorchester bring the music of composer, violinist, teacher and art dealer Francesco Geminiani to life. His treatise entitled The Art of Playing on the Violin (1751) had considerable influence in its day, and remains an important reference on the performance of late Baroque music. With Geminiani, virtuosity is not an end in itself but it serves a pure musical drama where lyrical flights correspond to intimate feelings.
also available Locatelli: Concerti Grossi Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz harmonia mundi • HMA1951889 (3149020188934) RED Price Code: CD8 • $8.98
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APARTÉ
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How I Met Mozart MOZART Clarinet Quintet K.581 Weber Clarinet Quintet Op.34 Pierre Génisson (clarinet), Quartet 212 Aparté • AP149
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On How I Met Mozart, clarinetist Pierre Génisson and the New York based Quartet 212, made up of musicians from the Metropolitan Opera, perform a pair of quintets by Mozart and Weber. These two radiant scores feature the warm and voluptuous timbre of the clarinet melting into the brightness of the strings.
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TELEMANN Twelve Fantasias for Solo Flute Ashley Solomon (flute) Channel Classics • CS40617
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Telemann’s twelve flute Fantasias remain as much of a challenge for today’s players as they were in the 18th century. Designed for both performance and instruction, these are some of the most inventive and musically original Baroque works for solo flute, covering the widest possible range of expression. This recording featuring Ashley Solomon, founder and director of the ensemble Florilegium, offers listeners a rare opportunity to hear two unique baroque flutes, both made in 1760, alongside Solomon's favorite modern copy.
also available Telemann: Concertos & cantata Ihr Völker Hört Florilegium Channel Classics • CCS38616 (723385386162) RED Price Code: CD21 • $21.98
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EVIDENCE CLASSICS
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Dowland Lachrimae or Seaven Teares Benjamin Upon Silence Sarah Breton (mezzo-soprano), Karl Nyhlin (lute) Sit Fast Evidence Classics • EVCD034
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When John Dowland composed the seven pavans that form the famous Lachrimae, he gave the viol repertoire one of its first true masterpieces. The pure sonority of the viol also inspired George Benjamin. Upon Silence, written in 1990 for five viols and mezzosoprano and based on a poem by Yeats, extends and updates the poetic tears of John Dowland. Four centuries may separate these two composers, but the acclaimed consort Sit Fast, joined by mezzo-soprano Sarah Breton and lutenist Karl Nyhlin, explores the music's common emotional thread.
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Charpentier La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé harmonia mundi • HMM902279
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Until Charpentier's fascinating little gem on the margins of the large-scale tragédie lyrique, the myth of Orpheus had never been the subject matter for a French opera. On this delightful release, Sébastien Daucé and Ensemble Correspondances bring Orpheus' song to life and demonstrate the enchanting power of Charpentier's music.
also available Charpentier: Pastorale de Noël Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé harmonia mundi • HMC902247 (3149020224724) RED Price Code: CD18 • $18.98
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A Tribute to Janet Mozart Oboe Quartet, Adagio K580a (compl. Daniel); Britten Phantasy; Knussen Cantata Op.15; Françaix Oboe Quartet Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Britten Oboe Quartet harmonia mundi • HMM907672 CLASSICAL RED Price Code: CD18 $18.98
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The Britten Oboe Quartet makes its recording début with a program of the group's core repertory. It naturally includes Mozart's great Oboe Quartet and Britten’s own Phantasy, but also two pieces that have a special resonance for the distinguished oboist Nicholas Daniel. The works were commissioned and premiered by Janet Craxton (1929-81), his beloved teacher and inspiration, and her London Oboe Quartet. Oliver Knussen’s Cantata (1977) and the delightful quartet of Jean Françaix add further variety to a fascinating anthology that also features Nicholas Daniel’s own completion of Mozart’s elegiac fragment, K580a.
also available Vaughan Williams & MacMillian: Oboe Concerto Nicholas Daniel harmonia mundi • HMU807573 (093046757366) RED Price Code: CD18 • $18.98
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Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 Bach Die Kunst der Fuge Davitt Moroney harmonia mundi • HMG501169
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Cédric Tiberghien harmonia mundi • HMG501977 RED Price Code: CD13 • $13.98
D14opw0c!(& !$s Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time Trio Wanderer, Pascal Moraguès harmonia mundi • HHMG501987
Schütz Opus ultimum Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HMG501895 RED Price Code: CD16 • $16.98 • 2CD
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D14opw0c!(*&! s Schubert Nachtgesang RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed harmonia mundi • HMG501669 RED Price Code: CD13 • $13.98
Handel Concerti Grossi Op.6 Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze harmonia mundi • HMG507228
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Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss harmonia mundi • HMG502033 RED Price Code: CD13 • $13.98
Van Eyck Der Fluyten Lusthof
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Marion Verbruggen harmonia mundi • HMG507350
Mozart Am Stein vis-à-vis Andreas Staier, Christine Schornsheim harmonia mundi • HMG501941
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Guitares Gitanes
VIVALDI Double Concertos
El Malagueño harmonia mundi • HMA190925
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin harmonia mundi • HMA1901975
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The countertenors Bertin, Scholl & Visse harmonia mundi • HMA1901552
SCHUBERT String Quartet No.14 Jerusalem Quartet harmonia mundi • HMA1901990
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Bach Motets
Bruckner Symphony No.5
RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs harmonia mundi • HHMA1901589
Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HMA1902011
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Bach Partitas Nos.2, 3 & 4
SCHUBERT Die Winterreise
Cédric Tiberghien harmonia mundi • HMA1901869
Werner Güra, Christoph Berner harmonia mundi • HMA1902066
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Boccherini Quintets
HANDEL Ombra Cara
Ensemble Explorations, Dieltiens harmonia mundi • HMA1901894
Bejun Mehta harmonia mundi • HMA1902077
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Shostakovich Chamber Symphony No.1 Strauss Metamorphosen Baltic Chamber Orchestra, Emmanuel Leducq-Barôme Rubicon Classics • RCD1009
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Both the works on this album came about as a reaction to the horrors of war. Shostakovich's String Quartet No.8, dedicated to the victims of fascism, is one of his most powerful and deeply personal works. It was later was arranged for string orchestra by Rudolf Barshai (with the approval of the composer), and in this form, it is known as the Chamber Symphony. Richard Strauss, well into his 80s when the Second World War ended, was crushed by the destruction of the great opera houses and places of learning in Germany. His Metamorphosen is a profound and heartfelt lament for the loss of the Germany he knew as a young man. The Baltic Chamber Orchestra was formed by the principal string players of the Saint-Petersburg Philharmonic. Under their French music director Emmanuel Leducq-Barôme, they are one of the finest chamber ensembles in Russia.
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Graviton Andrew McCormack Jazz Village • JV550004 CD Jazz Village • JV3355004 LP
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Internationally acclaimed pianist and composer Andrew McCormack constantly challenges himself to explore new and different musical styles. Whether appearing with Kyle Eastwood or Jamie Cullum, with a symphony orchestra or as a solo pianist, at outdoor festivals or an intimate club, you can always expect something special. For McCormack’s latest project, Graviton, he has assembled an A-List of the most sought-after musicians in the modern jazz world, all of whom bring something special to the mix. ESKA, a Mercury prize nominee, joins the band on vocals. Sons of Kemet’s sax sensation Shabaka Hutchings and Jacob Collier’s electric bass supremo Robin Mullarkey are a stellar addition. In keeping with this extraordinary lineup, Scandinavia’s Anton Eger, of Phronesis fame, is the driving force on drums. The results may be best described as a mix of Steve Reich and Tigran Hamasyan. Regardless of its influences, Graviton will definitely take McCormack’s career to the next level.
also available First Light Andrew McCormack Edition Records • EDN1052 (5065001530579) RED Price Code: CD24 • $24.98 • 2 CDs
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