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New Release Highlights March comes in like a lion with a strong lineup of jazz releases, led by the Jazz Village début of Kyle Eastwood. Eastwood, son of the famous actor and director, has produced a string of successful albums for the Candid label. The View From Here (p.30) is an accessible set of straight-up jazz tunes highlighting Eastwood’s skills as a composer. On their new album Desertico, trumpeter Paolo Fresu and his Devil Quartet offer an album of originals and unusual covers that is sure to delight any jazz aficionado (p.27). Discograph joins our family of labels with new releases by Lionel Belmondo and Eric Legnini (p.29) and Gilad Atzmon is back with a new set entitled Songs of the Metropolis for World Village (p.33). On the classical front, maestro René Jacobs returns to Pergolesi with a world première recording for harmonia mundi of the composer’s recently authenticated Septem verba a Christo (p.5). Also on harmonia mundi, pianist Gloria Cheng is joined by the Calder Quartet for a disc of music by Messiaen and Saariaho (p.7) and harpsichordist Andreas Staier offers a themed program entitled Pour passer la mélancolie (p.4). Hyperion’s top releases for March include Bach’s St. John Passion with Stephen Layton and Polyphony (p.13) and the latest volume in the Romantic Violin Concerto series featuring violinist Chloë Hanslip (p.15). Sir Colin Davis completes his survey of works by Berlioz with this month’s LSO Live release of the composer’s monumental Grande Messe des morts (p.17). Rounding out this month’s classical priorities Renaissance Radio, a new collection from The Tallis Scholars (p.3) and the second volume in Onyx’s Beethoven sonata cycle with Jonathan Biss (p.21).

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Mozart: Keyboard Music Vol.4

Kristian Bezuidenhout harmonia mundi • HMU 907528

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Angela Hewitt Hyperion • CDA 67898

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Schubert: String Quintet

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“ The Takacs Quartet have a great ability to draw emotion out of their instruments and play with a full and broad sound, one could be forgiven for thinking that at times the instruments are doubled up.” — HIFI+ MAGAZINE

“ There’s a lucidity to her playing that conveys all the subtle coloristic possibilities of the music. The recording is as intimate as Hewitt’s pianism…” — THE ABSOLUTE SOUND

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Marc-André Hamelin joins forces with Bernard Labadie

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Over the course of three highly acclaimed volumes of the composer’s piano sonatas, Marc-André Hamelin has proved himself to be a formidable Haydn pianist, combining style, exuberance and dazzling technique with a palpable sense of joy in the music. This release featuring three of Haydn’s most popular concertos is the fruit of a partnership with the award-winning Canadian chamber orchestra Les Violons du Roy and their director Bernard Labadie, whose previous recordings for Virgin Classics and other labels have received the highest praise from critics.

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The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips Gimell • CDGIM 212

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“There should always be a special place for this kind of high flown perfection and the sense of timelessness it evokes.”

IMPORT When Peter Phillips founded The Tallis Scholars in 1973, sacred vocal music from the Renaissance was seldom heard on the radio. Now it is firmly established as one of the great repertoires of Western classical music. Renaissance Radio is a compilation of sacred music from the Renaissance era for celestial and secular radio featuring two and a half hours of classic recordings from the Tallis Scholars.

—BBC RADIO 3

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“A suave, beautifully shaped performance by the Tallis Scholars.”

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Tallis Scholars Sing Tallis

—The New York Times 3

Staier plays music to lift the spirits harmonia mundi

Pour passer la mélancolie Harpsichord works by Froberger, d’Anglebert, Fischer, Couperin, Clérambault and Muffat Andreas Staier (harpsichord) harmonia mundi • HMC 902143

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IMPORT Keyboard virtuoso Andreas Staier presents Pour passer la mélancolie (to pass the melancholy), a unique program of French Baroque harpsichord music. The works presented here are not simply compositions in deeply sorrowful or expressive registers, but also discourses in sound on vanity, art and music itself. Whether the composer luxuriates in melancholic disorder or attempts to remedy it, there is but a fine line here between the vanity of the world and the artist’s glory. In his readings of Froberger, Fischer and Clérambault, Staier distills the fruits of this sophisticated aesthetic blend.

“Staier’s fortepiano is deliciously transparent, his musicianship revelatory.”

March 2013

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“You won’t hear a more imaginative, better played Baroque keyboard extravaganza anywhere.” —CLASSICS TODAY

A Pergolesi world première harmonia mundi

PERGOLESI Septem verba a Christo in cruce moriente prolata

Sophie Karthäuser (soprano), Christophe Dumaux (counter-tenor), Julian Behr (tenor), Konstantin Wolff (bass-baritone), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs harmonia mundi • HMC 902155

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IMPORT The history of the oratorio Septem verba a Christo in cruce moriente prolata is as shrouded in mystery as its probable creator. The title of the work and the assertion of Pergolesi’s authorship have haunted musicological circles for a century or so, initially on the sole basis of an incomplete manuscript catalogued in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek since 1882 and regarded there as genuine. The recent discovery of two more manuscripts in the abbeys of Kremsmünster and Aldersbach by musicologist Reinhard Fehling settled the issue of authenticity once and for all and Pergolesi’s lost masterpiece was given its concert première at the Beaune Festival in July 2012 and recorded shortly after by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin led by René Jacobs. Featured soloists include soprano Sophie Karthäuser, counter-tenor Christophe Dumaux, tenor Julian Behr and bass-baritone Konstantin Wolff.

“In no other group is such a uniformly high level of individual virtuosity fused into such a powerful communal sound.” —NEWSDAY

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“A satisfyingly rich harvest of bittersweet delights.”

March 2013

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater

—INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW 5

Explore the musical glories of Spain ¡España!

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Susan Chilcott (soprano), Ginesa Ortega (cantaora), Joan Martin (boy soprano), Joan Cabero (tenor), Francesc Garrigosa (tenor), Iñaki Fresán (baritone), Régis Pasquier (violin), Marco Socías (guitar), Brigitte Engerer (piano), Javier Perianes (piano), Choeur d’enfants de la maîtrise de Badalona, Orquestra de Cambra Teatre Lliure, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Josep Pons harmonia mundi • HMX 2908530

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IMPORT From the late 19th century onwards, following in the wake of Goya, Spain experienced a creative explosion that was to manifest itself in all the arts, including music. ¡España!, a specially-priced five disc set, presents a selection of the rich music of Spanish composers who probed the innermost depths of their country’s soul. Many of their works were influenced by developments elsewhere in Europe — hence the presence here of Ravel, the most Spanish of French musicians, alongside de Falla, Albéniz, Rodrigo, and Mompou. Featured artists on this comprehensive collection, which ranges from opera to chamber music, include pianist Javier Perianes, guitarist Marco Socías and the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada led by Josep Pons.

TRACK LIST ALBÉNIZ Pepita Jiménez FALLA El amor brujo, El retablo de Maese Pedro RAVEL Sonate Posthume, Tzigane, Habanera, Berceuse MOMPOU Música callada RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez, Fantasía para un gentilhombre, Música para un jardín, Tres viejos aires de danza

Gloria Cheng plays Messiaen & Saariaho harmonia mundi

The Edge of Light MESSIAEN 8 Préludes, Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes SAARIAHO Prelude, Ballade, Je sens un deuxième coeur

Gloria Cheng (piano), Calder Quartet harmonia mundi • HMU 907578

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IMPORT GRAMMY® Award winning pianist Gloria Cheng brings her probing and insightful style to a fascinating program that couples the brilliant and colorful works of Olivier Messiaen with the darkly radiant music of Kaija Saariaho. In addition to world première recordings of Saariaho’s Ballade and Prelude, Cheng is joined by the genre-crossing Calder Quartet for Messiaen’s Pièce pour piano et quatuor à cordes and Saariaho’s powerful and deeply personal Je sens un deuxième coeur.

“ Gloria Cheng is one of the heroes of the new-music world, an energetic and imaginative artist whose tastes range widely across the contemporary landscape.” —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

March 2013

“ When it comes to the exciting young chamber music ensemble sweepstakes, there are few collectives quite as exciting as Los Angeles’ hometown heroes, The Calder Quartet.” —OUT WEST ARTS

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Budget-priced reissues from harmonia mundi ROSSINI Une larme, Serenata, Sonatas a quattro Nos.3 & 6, Duetto for cello and double-bass

LE JEUNE Autant en emporte le vent

Ensemble Clément Janequin, Dominique Visse harmonia mundi • HMA 1951863

Ensemble Explorations, Roel Dieltiens harmonia mundi • HMA 1951847

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WOLF Mörike-Lieder

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SCHUMANN Papillons Op.19, Carnaval Op.2, Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op.26

Werner Güra (tenor), Jan Schultsz (piano) harmonia mundi • HMA 1951882

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El Canto de Auroros

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Alia Mvsica, Miguel Sánchez harmonia mundi • HMA 1987018

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Budget-priced reissues from harmonia mundi BEETHOVEN

Symphony No.9 Melanie Diener (soprano), Petra Lang (contralto), Endrik Wottrich (tenor), Dietrich Henschel (bass), Collegium Vocale, Orchestre des ChampsÉlysées, Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HMA 1951687

Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) harmonia mundi • HMA 1951670

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RICHAFORT Requiem

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BRITTEN Suites for Solo Cello

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JANÁCEK Violin Sonata LUTOSLAWSKI Partita SZYMANOWSKI Mythes

Huelgas-Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel harmonia mundi • HMA 1951730

Isabelle Faust (violin), Ewa Kupiec (piano) harmonia mundi • HMA 1951793

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STRAUSS Romance AV75, Cello Sonata Op.6 REGER Cello Sonata Op.28, Petite Romance Op.79

Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (piano) harmonia mundi • HMA 1951836

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Masur conducts Beethoven BEETHOVEN Egmont — Incidental Music Op.84, Symphony No.7

Sharon Rostorf-Zamir (soprano), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Masur Helicon • 02.9660

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IMPORT This recording, which celebrates the acclaimed conductor Kurt Masur’s 85th birthday, was recorded live at the Smolarz Auditorium at Tel Aviv University. The program, performed here by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of one of the great Beethoven conductors of our time, includes the rarely recorded complete incidental music to Egmont, Beethoven’s homage to a 16th century hero who fought against oppression. Masur’s chosen pairing is the sublime Symphony No.7.

Rossini’s choral masterpiece ROSSINI Stabat Mater

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Serena Farnocchia (soprano), Ronat Shaham (mezzo-soprano), Cosmin Ifrim (tenor), Simon Orfila (bass), Gary Bertini Israeli Choir, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Asher Fisch Helicon • 02.9661

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IMPORT Asher Fisch directs the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in an exciting rendition of Rossini’s Stabat Mater. Combining both sacred and profane music, this choral masterpiece is endowed with a human dimension that is often lacking in distinctly religious works. Recorded live at Tel Aviv University’s Smolarz Auditorium in June 2012, the recording’s terrific cast includes soprano Serena Farnocchia, mezzo-soprano Ronat Shaham, tenor Cosmin Ifrim and bass Simon Orfila.

Music of Israeli composer Paul Ben-Haim Price Code: 2CA16 (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $33.98)

Katharina Persicke (soprano), Carsten Süss (tenor), Bernd Valentin (baritone), Miklós Sebestyén (bass), Münchner MotettenChor, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Hayko Siemens Helicon • 02.9659

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BEN-HAIM Joram

IMPORT The oratorio Joram was one of the last works composed by Paul Ben-Haim, then Paul Frankenburger, in his native city of Munich. He completed the work in 1933, only a few weeks before he emigrated to Palestine to escape the Nazis. In April 2012, nearly eighty years after its composition, it received its Israeli premiere at Tel Aviv University’s Smolarz Auditorium. Its turbulent yet ultimately optimistic libretto is taken from Rudolf Borchardt’s poetic work Das Buch Joram (1907) which describes a suffering, Job-like character using semi-biblical imagery. Its musical language displays influences of German late Romanticism and Expressionism. This world première recording from the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Hayko Siemens honors one of the founders and greatest composers of Israeli music.

Rarely heard music by Peter Philips Price Code: CA19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)

Royal Holloway Choir, English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, Rupert Gough Hyperion • CDA 67945

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IMPORT English composer Peter Philips spent most of his life abroad and was celebrated all over Europe in his day. Despite this, Philips’s music has been neglected since his death in 1628. Of his immense output of vocal music, to this day most people know only a handful of motets from the five-voice Cantiones sacrae (1612). This recording featuring half of the companion volume of eight-voice motets seeks to remedy that situation. These triumphant and highly Italianate settings are performed by Rupert Gough leading The Choir of Royal Holloway. They are joined by The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, who have gilded so many choral recordings of the music of Gabrieli and Monteverdi in the past.

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PHILIPS Cantiones sacrae octonis vocibus

Howard Shelley embarks on a Mendelssohn cycle hyperion

MENDELSSOHN The Complete Solo Piano Music Vol.1 Capriccio Op.5, Piano Sonata Op.6, Sieben Charakterstücke, Lieder ohne Worte I Howard Shelley (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67935

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IMPORT Howard Shelley is an acknowledged expert in the area of early Romantic piano music. With this disc, Shelley presents the first installment of a sixvolume set of Mendelssohn’s complete solo piano music — perhaps the least well-known part of the composer’s repertoire. Mendelssohn composed or began nearly two hundred works for piano. However, only about seventy were published during his lifetime. They range from the Op.5 Capriccio, written in 1825, to the sixth volume of the Lieder ohne Worte Op.67, written in 1845. Some twenty-five additional pieces have been published posthumously. The remainder, whether fully drafted or fragmentary, were left to his musical estate or have disappeared. This first volume in Shelley’s series includes Opp. 5, 6, and 7 and the first volume of his Lieder ohne Worte.

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“ Where others sound strenuous and hard-pressed Shelley is fluent and urbane, a true keyboard aristocrat free to concentrate on the elusive poetry that lies at the heart of so much fiery pianistic intricacy.” —GRAMOPHONE

Layton & Polyphony perform Bach’s St. John Passion BACH

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Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Roderick Williams (bass), Polyphony, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stephen Layton Hyperion • CDA 67901

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IMPORT Stephen Layton leads the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and his own superb choral ensemble Polyphony in a powerful performance of Bach’s most dramatic masterpiece, the St. John Passion. Joined by a starry team of soloists, Layton directs a particularly vivid account of the work, the excitement of the narrative drama contrasting with heartbreaking moments of reflection. In Ian Bostridge, we have the most iconic Evangelist of the last twenty years. Bostridge is an incomparable communicator, a singer of technical brilliance and an impassioned, experienced interpreter of Bach’s music.

“Layton’s performances inspire the soul as they break the heart with their intense beauty.” —AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

Also available Hyperion • CDA 67800 (034571178004)

“Absolutely first-class…”

March 2013

Handel: Messiah

—THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER 13

Two giants of the twentieth century hyperion

PENDERECKI String Quartets Nos.1-3 LUTOSLAWSKI String Quartet Royal String Quartet Hyperion • CDA 67943

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IMPORT The Royal String Quartet, a wonderful young Polish ensemble, continues its exploration of the string quartet repertoire of its homeland with this album of music by two giants of the twentieth century. Witold Lutoslawski, whose centenary is celebrated in 2013, wrote his one and only string quartet in 1964 and it has since maintained an eminent position in the international repertoire. Krzysztof Penderecki (born 1933) was the most talked-about Polish composer in the early 1960s and remains an important presence in contemporary music. His three string quartets (1960, 1968 and 2008) are key works in the history of the post-war Polish quartet.

March 2013

Also available Gorecki: The 3 String Quartets

Hyperion • CDA 67812 (034571178127)

“Passionate and sharp-edged, capturing the emotional depth and intensity of the music…” —BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

The Romantic Violin Concerto series reaches volume 14 hyperion

Romantic Violin Concerto Vol.14 GLAZUNOV Violin Concerto Op.82, Meditation Op.32, Mazurka-oberek SCHOECK Concerto quasi una fantasia Op.21

Chloë Hanslip (violin), Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Alexander Vedernikov Hyperion • CDA 67940

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IMPORT T h e l a t e s t re l e a s e i n Hy p e r i o n’s a c c l a i m e d Romantic Violin Concerto series features the brilliant young English violinist Chloë Hanslip, who once again displays her usual insouciant virtuosity and obvious delight in this repertoire. Glazunov’s Violin Concerto, written for Leopold Auer, is a masterpiece of violin writing, including a brilliantly effective cadenza by the composer himself. Swiss composer Othmar Schoek is probably best known for his Lieder, but his Concerto quasi una fantasia in B flat major, Op 21 for violin and full orchestra, included here, is his most substantial concert work. The lyric passion and attractiveness of the work’s ideas earn it a distinguished place among the violin concertos of the immediate pre-World War I period. Hanslip is accompanied by the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana led by Alexander Vedernikov.

“Hanslip’s radiant artistry and phrasal sensitivity is highly seductive…” —BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

Also available Hyperion • CDA 67847 (034571178479)

“Utterly winning and authoritative...” —GRAMOPHONE

March 2013

Schumann: Violin Concertos

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Mid-priced Helios series reissues STANFORD Violin Sonatas Nos.1-2, Caoine ‘A Lament,’ Five Characteristic Pieces Pauƒl Barritt (violin), Catherine Edwards (piano) Hyperion • CDH 55362

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IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 67024 (034571170244) Deleted February 2009 As a teenager in Dublin, Stanford recalled with affection the solo recitals of pianists Anton Rubinstein and Sigismond Thalberg and violinists Henry Vieuxtemps and Joseph Joachim, a friend of his father. Hearing Joachim play left a deep impression on Stanford and as a result of these formative experiences, Stanford became a devotee of chamber music. The pieces here, performed with delicacy on this reissue by Paul Barritt and Catherine Edwards offer an overview of the music Stanford wrote for violin and piano.

BURGON Choral Music

March 2013

Wells Cathedral Choir, Matthew Owens Hyperion • CDH 55421

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IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 67567 (034571175676) Deleted October 2010 This mid-priced reissue featuring the Wells Cathedral Choir conducted by Matthew Owens offers a selection of evocative and accessible choral works by English composer Geoffrey Burgon. Television credits for Burgon include the music for Brideshead Revisited and the BBC’s adaptation of John le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. But commercial success should not prevent us from recognizing and appreciating Burgon’s depth of invention and mastery of formal conception, firmly rooted in the classical tradition, and particularly that of the Anglican Church.

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BERLIOZ Grande Messe des morts

Barry Banks (tenor), London Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis LSO Live • LSO 0729

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CONCERT REVIEW “The London Symphony Orchestra played with the kind of brilliant concentration only loyalty and love can command, and the 150-strong choir, sang with controlled power and beauty.” —THE GUARDIAN

IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD Sir Colin Davis is a revered Berlioz expert and his LSO Live Berlioz recordings have been among the most widely acclaimed classical recordings of recent years. The release of the monumental Grande Messe des morts marks the completion of the cycle and further confirms Sir Colin’s status as one of the greatest living conductors of Berlioz’s music. Recorded in St Paul’s Cathedral as part of the 50th anniversary season of the City of London Festival, this spectacular new recording features the London Symphony Orchestra joined by English lyric tenor Barry Banks and two of London’s finest choirs, the London Symphony Chorus and London Philharmonic Choir.

Also available “Triumphant... outshines previous sets at whatever price…”

March 2013

Berlioz: Collected Works

LSO Live • LSO 0046 (822231104629)

—GRAMOPHONE 17

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Renaissance & Baroques Danses Luanda Siqueira (soprano), Barok Ensemble Loreley • LY 049

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IMPORT Surveying music from Jacob Van Eyck to Claudio Monteverdi (by way of a few anonymous composers of the fourteenth century) this live recording from La SainteChapelle in Paris from the Barok Ensemble explores the wide variety and amazing inventiveness of dance music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. On this uplifting release, Brazilian soprano Luanda Siqueira joins the ensemble, which includes Charles Limouse (flute and percussion), Gilles Harlé (harpsichord and percussion), David Braccini (violin and percussion) and Marjolaine Cambon (viola da gamba). The album’s cover art is a detail of the one of the glorious Medieval stained-glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle.

Rossfelder plays Rodrigo RODRIGO Concerto d’Aranjuez, Fantaisie pour un Gentilhomme

Emmanuel Rossfelder (guitar), Orchestre d’Auvergne, Arie Van Beek Loreley • LY 050

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IMPORT Loreley presents award-winning guitarist Emmanuel Rossfelder in an album of works for guitar and orchestra by Joaquín Rodrigo. The Concierto de Aranjuez, far and away Rodrigo’s best-known work, was inspired by the gardens at Palacio Real de Aranjuez, built by Philip II in the16th century. The concerto is paired with the Fantasía para un gentilhombre, written in 1954 for the guitarist Andrés Segovia and based on themes by 17th century Spanish composer Gaspar Sanz. In both works, Rossfelder is accompanied by the Orchestre d’Auvergne under the baton of Arie Van Beek.

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Anne Queffélec (piano) Mirare • MIR 189

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Satie & Compagnie Piano music of Satie, Debussy, de Séverac, Dupont, Ferroud, Hahn, Koechlin, Poulenc, Ravel and Schmitt

IMPORT From the wit of Satie to the poetry of Debussy, French music of the early decades of the twentieth century was created by exceptional and imaginative minds capable of grasping delicate nuances and shining infinite variations of light on the natural world and the human soul. Renowned for her diverse repertoire and impressive discography, French pianist Anne Queffélec has a special affinity for this repertoire. On this delightful collection from Mirare, Queffélec leads us down the varied and colorful pathways of some of the most fascinating French music for piano ever written.

French works for violin & orchestra

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SAINT-SAËNS Introduction et Rondo capriccioso, Violin Concerto No.1, Romance FAURÉ Berceuse, Pelléas et Mélisande Suite Op.80

Deborah Nemtanu (violin), Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Thomas Zehetmair Mirare • MIR 193

March 2013

IMPORT On this recording from Mirare, French violinist Deborah Nemtanu is partnered with acclaimed Austrian conductor (and fellow violinist) Thomas Zehetmair in an album of music by Saint-Saëns and Fauré. The disc explores Nemtanu’s skills both as a soloist and as leader of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. The program features an orchestral masterwork by Fauré, the suite from Pelléas et Mélisande, framed by Nemtanu’s brilliant readings of works for violin and orchestra by both composers. This disc marks Zehetmair’s début recording as principal conductor of the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris.

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Clever collections for children (and parents!)

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J’ecoute Mozart et Haydn avec mon papa Anne Queffélec (piano), Zhu Xiao-Mei (piano), Iddo Bar-Shaï (piano), Modigliani Quartet Mirare • MIR 205

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J’ecoute Bach et Handel avec ma maman

Anne Queffélec (piano), Zhu Xiao-Mei (piano), Le Concert Français, Pierre Hantaï Mirare • MIR 206

March 2013

These special collections from Mirare make ideal listening for parents and children who wish to explore classical music in a simple and inviting way. J’ecoute Mozart et Haydn avec mon papa (I listen to Mozart & Haydn with my dad) features pianists Anne Queffélec, Zhu Xiao-Mei and Iddo Bar-Shaï along with the Modigliani Quartet in a program whose highlights include Mozart’s variations on Ah! Vous dirai-je maman (better known as “Twinkle, twinkle, little star”). J’ecoute Bach et Handel avec ma maman (I listen to Bach & Handel with my mom) features pianists Anne Queffélec and Zhu Xiao-Mei and the ensemble Le Concert Français led by Pierre Hantaï in a program whose highlights include a selection of Bach and Handel favorites including The Harmonious Blacksmith. With charming cover art by the acclaimed French illustrator Floc’h, these attractive discs are must-have albums for adults and children alike.

More ‘absorbing’ Beethoven from Jonathan Biss onyx

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol.2 Piano Sonatas Nos.4, 14 & 24, Fantasy, Op.77

Jonathan Biss (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4094

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“Biss’s Beethoven is classically, even patricianly poised, and the sound is crystalline and transparent.”

IMPORT American pianist Jonathan Biss is widely regarded for his artistry and deeply felt interpretations, and has won international recognition for his concerto, recital, and chamber music performances and for his award-winning recordings. Here, he presents the second volume of his Beethoven Piano Sonata cycle, which features sonatas 4, 14 and 24 as well as the Fantasy Op. 77. Volume one was praised by critics internationally, making this release a highly anticipated follow-up in “what is sure to be a distinctive and absorbing cycle” (International Record Review).

—FANFARE

Also available Onyx • ONYX 4082 (880040408222)

“A marvellously promising beginning by one of the most thoughtful and technically accomplished pianists of the younger generation.”

March 2013

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol.1

—BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 21

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Augustin Dumay plays Franck and Strauss FRANCK Violin Sonata, Mélancolie, Prelude Fugue & Variation STRAUSS Violin Sonata, Auf stillem Waldespfad Op.9 No.1 (arranged by Jascha Heifetz) Augustin Dumay (violin), Louis Lortie (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4096

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IMPORT Franck’s passionate and sunny Violin Sonata has long been regarded as one of the greatest in the repertoire, and is the work of a composer at the height of his powers. Richard Strauss’s Violin Sonata, composed a year after Franck’s in 1887, is the work of a young composer on the cusp of discovering his mature voice; lyrical and sumptuous, it has all the hallmarks of his later style. Performed here by violinist Augustin Dumay and French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie, this recording marks the duo’s recording debut.

Violinist Soo-Hyun Park débuts on Onyx WIENIAWSKI Violin Concerto No.1 CONUS Violin Concerto in E minor VIEUXTEMPS Fantasia appassionata

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March 2013

Soo-Hyun Park (violin), Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Nicholas Milton Onyx Classics • ONYX 4109

IMPORT Winner of the Group Edmond de Rothschild award at the 2012 Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad, Korean violinist Soo-Hyun Park makes her recording debut with this program of virtuoso works for violin and orchestra by Wieniawski, Conus and Vieuxtemps. Joined by the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz conducted by Nicholas Milton, Park plays Wieniawski’s first Violin Concerto, the E minor Violin Concerto by Conus and Vieuxtemps’s fiendishly difficult Fantasia appassionata.

Introducing award-winning pianist Denis Kozhukhin onyx

PROKOFIEV The War Sonatas Piano Sonatas Nos.6, 7 & 8

Denis Kozhukhin (piano) Onyx Classics • ONYX 4111

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ABOUT THE ARTIST “His sound is percussive but not harsh, forceful but never overwhelming, cheeky but not mean or sarcastic.”

IMPORT “Dynamite,” “explosive and volatile,” and “phenomenal” are just a few of the superlatives used to describe pianist Denis Kozhukhin’s Prokofiev interpretations. The first prize winner at the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium in 2010, his is a name to watch out for. This album of Piano Sonatas on the Onyx Classics label is the début recording from the young Russian pianist, who wowed public and critics alike with his recent Prokofiev concerto cycle with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

—THE GUARDIAN

—THE HERALD SCOTLAND

March 2013

“His nimble, flying virtuosity is a mix of weightless, supple, acrobatic display and power with a steel core.”

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Chopin’s favorite piano CHOPIN Ballades Nos.1-4, Impromptus Nos.1-4, Préludes Op.28, Nocturnes Yuan Sheng (piano) Piano Classics • PCL 0049

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IMPORT Chopin is quoted as having said, “When I feel in good form and strong enough to find my own individual sound, then I need a Pleyel piano,” as well as, “Pleyel pianos are the last word in perfection.” On this recording, master pianist Yuan Sheng performs on a superb 1845 Pleyel grand piano from the Frederick Historical Piano Collection in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. Sheng plays Chopin’s complete Ballades, Impromptus, Préludes and Nocturnes with exquisite taste, poetry and power, fully exploring the instrument’s unique possibilities. The booklet contains extensive background information on the instrument and its place in history.

Shostakovich’s favorite pupil USTVOLSKAYA Complete Piano Music

March 2013

Ivan Sokolov (piano) Piano Classics • PCL 0050

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Price Code: 2CA13 (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $27.98)

IMPORT Galina Ustvolskaya was Shostakovich’s favorite pupil, to whom he is known to have said, “You are a phenomenon, while I am but a talent.” Ustvolskaya’s piano works – uncompromising granite sculptures – feature sharp and extreme dynamic contrasts, cluster chords and use of the extreme registers of the keyboard, while the spiritual message is one of infinite despair and passionate protest (whether against the Soviet regime, or against human existence in general). Russian pianist and composer Ivan Sokolov was one of Ustvolskaya’s favored interpreters, giving his performance here a monumental and authoritative stamp of authenticity.

Mozart’s favorite instrument radio france

MOZART Clarinet Concerto, Clarinet Quintet

Patrick Messina (clarinet), Orchestre National de France, Riccardo Muti, Philharmonia Quartett Berlin Radio France • FRF 009

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IMPORT Mozart’s passion for the clarinet is well documented, and his compositions for the instrument rank among the most treasured of the great composer’s output. This 2007 live recording from the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris features the acclaimed conductor Riccardo Muti leading the Orchestre National de France. Patrick Messina, the orchestra’s principal clarinet and visiting Professor at London’s Royal Academy, is featured soloist in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. This sublime performance is paired fittingly with an equally accomplished reading of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, where Messina is partnered with the Philharmonia Quartett Berlin.

March 2013

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Praga’s acclaimed Richter Edition continues

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos.17, 18 & 23 Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Praga • PRD 350066

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March 2013

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SCHUBERT Piano Sonatas Nos.16 & 17, D845 & D850

Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Praga • PRD 350067

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TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No.1, Symphony No.6

Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky Praga • PRD 350069

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Praga presents the latest additions to their critically-acclaimed Richter Edition series, which features audiophile SACD remasterings of historic recordings by the great Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter. The first contains live performances of Beethoven sonatas from 1959 and 1965 including the Appassionata and Tempest sonatas. The second contains piano sonatas by Schubert in studio recordings from 1956. Featured works are the first and second Grande Sonates for pianoforte. The Tchaikovsky disc pairs the composer’s two most popular scores in performances by two uncontested Russian masters. Conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky leads the Leningrad Philharmonic in a 1956 recording of the Pathétique symphony and teams with Richter in a fiery 1958 recording of the first Piano Concerto.

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Devilishly beautiful Desertico

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Paolo Fresu Devil Quartet Bonsaï • BON 130101

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IMPORT File in: Jazz Paolo Fresu is one of today’s most famous jazz trumpeters. Fresu counts Miles Davis and Chet Baker among his primary influences, and his own unique sound and music are at once clear, brilliant and joyful. Fresu founded the Paolo Fresu Devil Quartet in 2004 along with three fantastic musicians and close friends — guitarist Bebo Ferra, bass player Paolino Dalla Porta and drummer Stefano Bagnoli. In keeping with the quartet’s name, their new album Desertico is devilishly beautiful. Consisting of original compositions — except for a captivating version of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and a poignant version of “Blame It On My Youth” — the album is infused with a perfect blend of serenity and jubilation.

“A Miles Davis-influenced artist who makes a lyrical music with sharp turns, and an imaginative interpreter of his culture’s own traditions.” —THE GUARDIAN

Also available with Paolo Fresu Otá • OTA 1023 (616444102325)

“A a work of art of full of life, love and soul. This is music worth savoring.”

March 2013

Omar Sosa & Paolo Fresu Alma

—ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM 27

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Audiophile SACD reissues

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4, 5 and 6

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Jackie McLean APO • CPRJ 7048 SA

Mobley’s Message

Hank Mobley APO • CPRJ 7061 SA

March 2013

These two releases offer SACD remasterings of classic jazz albums originally released on the Prestige label. 4, 5 and 6 helped establish alto sax giant Jackie McLean on the jazz scene. On this 1956 album, McLean teamed-up with trumpeter Donald Byrd, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley and a rhythm section that included Mal Waldron on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and Arthur Taylor on drums. Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley was one of the pioneers of the hard bop movement. On his 1956 release Mobley’s Message, Mobley delivers his signature swinging style in three different variations. Four numbers are by a quintet that includes Donald Byrd on trumpet. For Charlie Parker’s blues, “Au Privave,” the group becomes a sextet with the addition of alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, while Mobley is the sole horn on “Little Girl Blue.” These superb audiophile SACD reissues from Analogue Productions are packaged in “mini LP” jackets, producing an authentic old-school look and feel.

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New jazz from Discograph

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Sing Twice

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Eric Legnini & The Afro Jazz Beat Discograph • 6150022

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Following on the success of his Hymne au Soleil trilogy, saxophonist Lionel Belmondo opts for a more intimate trio format for his latest project, entitled European Standards. On it, Belmondo reimagines classical music — European “standards” — much like American jazz musicians did in the past with popular music. Belmondo gives us his take on Schubert’s “Serenade” and Chopin’s “Prelude,” as well as several of his own compositions. Pianist Eric Legnini is also building on recent successes. He follows up his award-winning 2011 crossover album The Vox with Sing Twice!, which features drummer Franck Agulhon, bass player Thomas Bramerie, a brass section, a funky guitar and afro-jazz-beat percussion. Sing Twice! is a pop-edged jazz album and a jazz-adorned pop album, showing influences ranging from Stevie Wonder to Fela Kuti. March 2013

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Passionate jazz from Kyle Eastwood The View From Here

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Kyle Eastwood Jazz Village • JV 570020

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March 2013

IMPORT File in: Jazz American jazz bassist and composer Kyle Eastwood embraces a musical heritage that goes back to the soundtrack of his youth, when he not only listened to Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Miles Davis, but also went backstage at concerts with his famous father to meet a who’s who of great jazz artists. Although he has also produced a number of scores for films including Million Dollar Baby and Invictus, jazz is Eastwood’s passion, a passion that flourished in the company of such masters as Ray Brown, Lennie Niehaus and Buell Neidlinger. After producing a wonderful and critically-acclaimed series of albums for the Candid label, Eastwood makes his début on Jazz Village. Dynamic, bursting with powerful grooves and innovative melodies, The View From Here reveals Eastwood as one of the top jazz musicians of today, displaying both his expertise as a bandleader and his brilliance and creativity as a composer.

ABOUT THE ARTIST “History shows that being a band’s leader and its bassist can be a difficult combination... Eastwood manages it with style... Eastwood’s band are a wow in concert.” —BBC MUSIC

“A musician who no longer needs to be introduced as the son of the film star.” —JAZZ TIMES

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The softer side of Eric Alexander highnote

Touching

Eric Alexander HighNote • HCD 7248

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IMPORT File in: Jazz Although often thought of as hard-driving and masculine thanks to the pioneering work of Trane and others of his ilk, the saxophone also has a softer side, and is perfectly suited to rendering tunes at a slower tick of the metronome with sensitivity and tenderness. With Touching, Eric Alexander makes his first foray on HighNote Records into the hallowed halls of the “ballad record,” joining the ranks of such tenor balladeers as Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Houston Person, Dexter Gordon and countless others. But this is not your mother’s ballad record. Alexander has avoided the “Body and Soul’s” of the past and selected an interesting and varied program of music that will please even the most seasoned of jazz collectors. From “Dinner for One Please, James,” a duet with Harold Mabern’s two-fisted piano stylings, to Trane’s “Central Park West,” the art of the ballad elicits from this paragon of assertiveness a thoughtful sensitivity that is all the more effective for being so surprising.

“Eric Alexander owns the most vibrant tenor style in mainstream jazz, and one of the most authoritative approaches in all of jazz, damn the genre.” —EXAMINER.COM

Also available HighNote • HCD 7232 (632375723224)

“It’s clear that no one has the blues on a session that is genial and sunny from start to finish.”

March 2013

Friendly Fire

—ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM 31

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Giacomo Gates sings Miles Davis savant

Miles Tones Giacomo Gates Sings The Music of Miles Davis Giacomo Gates Savant • SCD 2124

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IMPORT File in: Jazz Scat singing is one of the true paradoxes in jazz. A vocalist who scats with any level of authority is usually considered to be a jazz singer, yet one need not scat to fall into the jazz singer category. There is, however, a small cadre of artists who can both sing and scat with aplomb. Among them is Giacomo Gates, who, performing music here written by and associated with Miles Davis, gives us the best of all possible worlds: a bit of syllabic scatting, some Hendricks-inspired singing of instrumental lines and a lot of his mellifluous baritone voice. With Miles Tones, Gates proves, as he did with his historic Gil Scott-Heron recording, that great music is not bound to the instrument on which it was created. Though there are notable contributions from pianist John di Martino, laying down some tasty changes, and Freddie Hendrix sounding quite Miles-like in his muted utterances, this disc is all about Giacomo Gates, joyously creating music both carefully rehearsed and on the spot.

“No male jazz singer has a bigger gap between talent and fame than Giacomo Gates.” —BOSTON GLOBE

March 2013

Also available The Revolution Will Be Jazz

Savant • SCD 2116 (633842211626)

“Gates travels deeper to unearth equally profound pieces that speak directly to, and for, him.” —JAZZ TIMES

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Home is where the (musical) heart is harmonia world village mundi

Songs of the Metropolis

Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble World Village • 450024

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ADVANCE REVIEW “With Songs Of The Metropolis, Atzmon takes us further into the paradoxical locus of his musical heart.”

IMPORT File in: Jazz For the last twelve years, maverick, award-winning saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and his Orient House Ensemble have been touring all over the world, stunning audiences with firebrand performances packed with drama, pathos, luscious harmonies and wit. Songs of the Metropolis, Atzmon’s second release for the World Village label, offers a sweeping homage to the world’s great cities, from Moscow to Buenos Aires and beyond. Each tune is at once reminiscent and hopeful; in a time of great uncertainty and turbulence, Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble deliver melodies that provide an anchor to wherever it is that we call home.

—JAZZWISE

Also available World Village • 450015 (794881979523)

“This is a work of tremendous warmth and strength.”

March 2013

The Tide Has Changed

—ALL ABOUT JAZZ 33

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A contemporary musical fable L’homme qui rêvait d’être une girafe

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Tom Poisson Chant du Monde • 2742180

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March 2013

IMPORT File in: World / Europe / France Tom Poisson is always striving to expand his artistic experiences. L’homme qui rêvait d’être une girafe (The Man Who Dreamed of Being a Giraffe) is a contemporary musical fable, created in concert with ALE+ALE, a talented duo of Alpine artists who blend drawing, collage, digital art and photography. The project encompasses both a beautiful 28-page book and CD, as well as a touring stage show. With the help of Christopher Gendreau (Les Wriggles), it features three “workers” who are the smugglers of history. The theme behind the tale is one of different perspectives and incommunicability.

Label

Date

City

State

Venue

Jonathan Biss

Onyx

Mar 19

Calgary

Eckhardt Gramatte Concert Hall

Mar 24

Toronto

Koerner Hall

Florian Boesch

Hyperion

Jul 2

Vancouver

Chan Centre

Borodin Quartet

Onyx

Apr 9

Vancouver

Vancouver Playhouse

James Ehnes

Onyx

Apr 5-6

Calgary

Epcor Centre

May 2

Toronto

Koerner Hall

May 11-12

Victoria

Royal Theatre

Mar 2

Maple Ridge

Maple Ridge Music Society

Mar 3

Vancouver

Vancouver Playhouse

Ning Feng

Channel Classics

Gerald Finley

Hyperion

May 22-23 & 25

Toronto

Roy Thomson Hall

Marc-André Hamelin

Hyperion

May 15-16

Ottawa

National Arts Centre

June 15-16

Saint-Irénée

Le Domaine Forget

Angela Hewitt

Hyperion

June 7

Iqaluit

St. Jude's Anglican Cathedral

Les Talens Lyriques

Aparté

Apr 4

Montréal

Salle Bourgie du Musée des beaux-arts

Lord of the Rings: In Concert

Howe Records

May 16-18

Calgary

Jack Singer Concert Hall

Jul 18-20

Ottawa

National Arts Centre

June 28-30

Toronto

Sony Centre

Mar 1

Longueuil

Theatre de la Ville

Mar 2

Beloeil

Centre Culturel de Beloeil

Mar 5

Laval

Studio Theatre Salle Andre Mathieu

Mar 6-7

Ottawa

National Arts Centre

Mar 8

Sainte-Genevière

Salle Pauline-Julien

Mar 9

Val-Morin

Theatre du Marais

Mar 11

Maskinonge

Magasin General Le Brun

Mar 21 - 22

Canmore

Communitea Café

Mar 23

Turner Valley

Flare & Derrick Community Hall

April 25

Swift Current

The Lyric Theatre Chan Center for the Performing Arts

Harry Manx/Yeshe

Harry Manx

Dog My Cat

Anthony Marwood

Hyperion

April 19 - 20

Vancouver

Ana Moura

World Village

Mar 3

North Vancouver

North Shore Credit Union Centre

Mar 5

Victoria

Alix Goolden Hall

Apr 12

Vancouver

Chan Center for the Performing Arts

Apr 13

Victoria

Alix Goolden Hall

Stile Antico

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Talich Quartet

La Dolce Volta

Mar 1

Kingston

Grant Hall

Tokyo String Quartet

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Apr 4-5

Toronto

Jane Mallet Theatre

Apr 12

Kelowna

Mary Irwin Theatre

Apr 13

Edmonton

McDougall United Church

Apr 14-15

Calgary

Rozsa Centre

Apr 26

Montréal

Pollack Hall

Apr 10

Vancouver

Chan Centre for Performing Arts

Apr 14

Toronto

Koerner Hall

Mar 20-24

Toronto

Trinity-St. Paul's Centre

Daniil Trifonov Elizabeth Wallfisch

Mariinsky Hyperion

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Artists

March 2013

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