July Classical releases available June 29 2015

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JULY 2015

July Gramophone Editor’s Choice

harmonia mundi HMC902205 Grieg: Piano Concerto, Op 16a. Lyric Pieces Javier Perianes, BBC SO / Sakari Oramo

Gramophone Editor’s Choice Glossa GCD923504 Gasparini: Il Bajazet Auser Musici / Carlo Ipata

Gramophone Editor’s Choice

Les Arts Florissants Editions AF005 Monteverdi: ‘Madrigali, Vol 1 – Cremona’ Les Arts Florissants / Paul Agnew

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

PROKOFIEV: Symphonies Nos. 4 Op.47 (1930 version), No.5 Op.100, Dreams Op.6 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Kirill Karabits The eagerly awaited 3rd volume in the critically acclaimed Prokofiev Symphony cycle from Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. The original version of the 4th, probably the least performed of the seven is coupled with the 5th, arguably the most performed. The 4th is based on material from the ballet ‘The Prodigal Son’.

The symphony was commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky to mark the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The 5th dates from 1944 at the height of the Russian struggle against the Nazi invasion. Although considered a wartime work, the overall mood is one of optimism. Yet again music from another project was used to good effect in a Prokofiev symphony. The powerful slow movement draws on music composed in 1936 and intended for an abortive film of Pushkin’s 'Queen of Spades'.

Label: Onyx Classics File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: ONYX4147 Barcode: 880040414728 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Kirill Karabits

ALSO AVAILABLE: Prokofiev Symphonies / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Kirill Karabits ONYX4137 Prokofiev Symphonies Nos 3 & 7 ONYX4139 Prokofiev Symphonies Nos 1 & 2, Sinfonietta, Autumn Sketch “this disc is most enthusiastically recommended, the more so as the recording quality is so good that one is soon seduced by its quality as to be able to concentrate entirely on the outstanding performances” Robert Matthew-Walker - IRR, OUTSTANDING, February 2015 "The performances here identify closely with style and idea, illuminating the scores with sensitivity and panache and, in the case of the First Symphony, refreshing a well-known work with ear-catching spark" Daily Telegraph, 5 star review Advertised in Gramophone and BBC Music Magazines

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

J.S BACH: Partitas & Sonatas for Violin Solo Midori

Label: Onyx Classics File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: ONYX4123 Barcode: 880040412328 2 FOR 1.5 Price Format: 2 CD Packaging: cristal Midori [violin]

“The story goes that, when I was about two years old, my mother found me humming a Bach melody that she had been practicing a few days earlier. My own memories of Bach begin from the time when I started to practice my first solo Sonata in G minor, when I was about seven years old. The piece had been assigned to me, as all repertoire was at that age, and I had no idea what to do with it. Over the years, I have come to realize that, in studying Bach, one’s learning never stops. To my thinking – and I’m sure most other violinists would agree – these sonatas and partitas for solo violin are monuments of the literature, for many reasons. Their study opens up and trains the ear for more precise and ever-deeper listening. One learns to understand the relationship between the various notes, in addition to just hearing the notes themselves. Indeed, I find that I have learned more from studying these Bach compositions than from any other music. It is an almost miraculous feeling that envelops me when I am fully engaged with these musical masterworks.

These works are larger than life – they stretch the artistic and technical responses that one can have toward a piece of music. Bach’s music is always “right” for any circumstance. I have been able to present these pieces anywhere: to play for refugees in an outdoor setting, in the intensive care units at hospitals, in great concert halls, in places of worship, for celebratory occasions or remembrances and in any corner of any country in which I have ever performed. Bach travels well. The music does not require any special equipment or conditions. It must simply be played and heard, and invariably, with every committed performance, listeners young or old manage to be as transported as is any beguiled performer.” Taken from Midori’s booklet notes ALSO AVAILABLE BY MIDORI ON ONYX: ONYX4084 Bloch Violin Sonata No.2, Janacek, Shostakovich Violin Sonatas Adverts in Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

GLAZUNOV: Concerto Ballata Op. 108, Chant du menestrel Op. 71, Melodie Op. 20, No. 1 PROKOFIEV: Concertino Op. 132 TCHAIKOVSKY: Nocturne Op. 19 No. 4, Variations on a Rococo Theme Op. 33 Jamie Walton Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Star British cellist Jamie Walton returns to disc on Signum with a programme Russian repertoire by composers Glazunov, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky. Joined by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Okko Kamu, the disc includes the original version of Tchaikovsky’s 'Variations on a Rococo Theme'.

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: SIGCD407 Barcode: 0635212040720 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Jamie Walton [cello] Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Okko Kamu [conductor]

Praise for Jamie Walton’s other recordings on Signum: SIGCD116 Elgar & Myaskovsky “This is probably the best performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto that I have heard. Walton cannot be beaten. I shall treasure this recording - literally: I shall hoard it against a musically rainy day.”

Paul Adrian Rooke, The Elgar Society Journal

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

Bob CHILCOTT: The Angry Planet BBC Singers The Bach Choir David Hill CD1 1-5 Five Days that Changed the World 6-10 The Miracle of Spring CD2 1-13 The Angry Planet, An Environmental Cantata

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: SIGCD422 Barcode: 0635212042229 2 FOR 1 Price Format: 2 CD Packaging: cristal BBC Singers The Bach Choir The Young Singers London Youth Choir Finchley Children's Music Group David Hill [conductor]

The three works on this 2CD set further confirm Chilcott’s status as one of the world’s most popular active choral composers. The BBC recently gave Chilcott a [sell-out] concert from BBC Maida Vale, on 5th June, to celebrate BBC Music Day 2015.

'The Angry Planet' was a commission inspired by conductor David Hill for the BBC Proms in 2012, and combines the precision and skill of the BBC Singers and The Bach Choir with the exuberance of a host of young people and children’s choirs including The Young Singers, London Youth Choir and Finchley Children’s Music Group.

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

Ian VENABLES: The Song of the Severn Roderick Williams Carducci String Quartet The Song of the Severn Op. 43 The Pine Boughs Past Music Op. 39 Songs with string quartet Songs with Piano: Break, break, break Op. 33 No. 5, Midnight Lamentation Op. 6, The Hippo Op. 33, No. 6, The Invitation to the Gondola Op. 22, No. 3, Frutti di Mare Op. 41, No. 1

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: SIGCD424 Barcode: 0635212042427 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Roderick Williams [baritone] Carducci String Quartet Graham J Lloyd [piano]

Venables’ reputation as ‘one of the finest song composers of his generation’ (BBC Music Magazine) finds voice in this disc of premiere recordings of two of his substantial song cycles.

International baritone, Roderick Williams is joined by the Carducci String Quartet and pianist Graham J Lloyd in The Song of the Severn, a celebration of Venables’ home county of Worcestershire and The Pine Boughs Past Music, a poignant tribute to the poetic talents of Ivor Gurney.

Other songs include those with solo piano and arrangements by Graham J Lloyd, for string quartet. Each work highlights Venables’ gift of being able to take poetry to a higher level of appreciation and at the same time create works of lasting beauty.

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

Will TODD: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland A Family Opera

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: SIGCD420 Barcode: 0635212042021 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Opera Holland Park Matthew Waldren [conductor]

Alice: Fflur Wyn Rabbit: James Cleverton Dad / Queen of Hearts: Robert Burt Mum / Mad Hatter: Victoria Simmonds Cheshire Cat: Magid El-Bushra Caterpillar: Keel Watson March Hare / White Knight: John Lofthouse Humpty Dumpty / Duchess: Maud Millar Brat / Tweedle Dum: Rosie Middleton Brat / Tweedle Dee: Rosanne Havel Dormouse: Stephanie Bodsworth Bottle / Victorian: Maud Millar Victorian: Rosie Middleton Victorian: Edward Hughes Victorian: Henry Grant Kerswell 11-year-old Alice lives in the not terribly exciting town of Grimthorpe. On a boring Wednesday in the summer holidays Alice’s family, wandering around town, gets caught in a downpour. They rush into the nearest shelter, which turns out to be a pet shop: much to Alice’s parents’ delight. Alice is lost in a daydream of exotic holidays... Suddenly she is jolted out of her reverie by one of the animals, a white rabbit, which starts talking to her...

Opera Holland Park’s production of 'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland', a family opera by composer Will Todd and librettist Maggie Gottlieb, comes to CD for the first time after two critically praised runs in 2013 and 2014.

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

HANDEL: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato Sarah-Jane Brandon Elizabeth Watts James Gilchrist Andrew Foster-Williams Mark Morris Dance Group Jane Glover

Label: Bel Air Classiques File Under: Classical/Ballet & Dance Catalogue No: BAC123 Barcode: 3760115301238 NORMAL Price Format: 1 DVD Sarah-Jane Brandon Elizabeth Watts [sopranos] James Gilchrist [tenor] Andrew Foster-Williams [baritone] Mark Morris Dance Group Choeur & Orchestre du Teatro Real Madrid Jane Glover [conductor]

'L'Allegro' was Mark Morris's premiere work as Director of Dance at the ThÊâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium in 1988, and has since been performed to critical and audience acclaim all over the world. Winner of numerous awards including a Laurence Olivier Award, 'L'Allegro' uses Milton's text and features sets inspired by William Blake's later watercolours.

Founded in New York City in 1980 by Morris, the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) is considered one of the preeminent modern dance companies, its members praised repeatedly for their technique and their musicality. Live music and community engagement are vital components of the Dance Group, which has toured with its own musicians, the MMDG Music Ensemble, since 1996. Through Access/MMDG programming, the Dance Group provides educational opportunities in dance and music to people of all ages and abilities while on tour internationally and at home at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY. The performance was filmed July 2014 at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain.

Bonus Feature: Insights - Mark Morris on L'Allegro Overture: Concerto grosso Op. 6 No. 1 A tempo giusto / Allegro 97 mins [ballet] and 13 mins [bonus] Subtitles: French & Spanish 16:9

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

HANDEL: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato Sarah-Jane Brandon Elizabeth Watts James Gilchrist Andrew Foster-Williams Mark Morris Dance Group Jane Glover

Label: Bel Air Classiques File Under: Classical/Ballet & Dance Catalogue No: BAC423 Barcode: 3760115304239 NORMAL Price Format: 1 Blu-ray Sarah-Jane Brandon Elizabeth Watts [sopranos] James Gilchrist [tenor] Andrew Foster-Williams [baritone] Mark Morris Dance Group Choeur & Orchestre du Teatro Real Madrid Jane Glover [conductor]

'L'Allegro' was Mark Morris's premiere work as Director of Dance at the ThÊâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium in 1988, and has since been performed to critical and audience acclaim all over the world. Winner of numerous awards including a Laurence Olivier Award, 'L'Allegro' uses Milton's text and features sets inspired by William Blake's later watercolours.

Founded in New York City in 1980 by Morris, the Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) is considered one of the preeminent modern dance companies, its members praised repeatedly for their technique and their musicality. Live music and community engagement are vital components of the Dance Group, which has toured with its own musicians, the MMDG Music Ensemble, since 1996. Through Access/MMDG programming, the Dance Group provides educational opportunities in dance and music to people of all ages and abilities while on tour internationally and at home at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY. The performance was filmed July 2014 at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Spain.

Bonus Feature: Insights - Mark Morris on L'Allegro Overture: Concerto grosso Op. 6 No. 1 A tempo giusto / Allegro 97 mins [ballet] and 13 mins [bonus] Subtitles: French & Spanish BD25 1080i HD 16:9 2.0 pcm/5.1 DTS HD Master Audio, Region Code ABC

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

PUCCINI: La Vie de Boheme, 1960 Alain Vanzo, Léna Pastor, Georges Derveaux This production of Puccini's 'La bohème' featuring soprano Léna Pastor, sung in French, is a rare document.

FRA Musica's release is dedicated to the memory of Pastor and her husband and legendary artist manager Michael Rainer. After working for years in New York, Rainer returned to Paris after WWII to take over the Organisation Artistique Internationale, an agency founded by his father. Pastor cut short a promising opera career to devote herself fully to the management business. By the 1970's this unstoppable duo represented a roster that was a "who's who" of famous artists – everyone from Birgit Nilsson and Van Cliburn to Herbert von Karajan and Isaac Stern.

Label: FRA Musica File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: FRA010 Barcode: 3770002003176 NORMAL Price Format: 1 DVD Alain Vanzo, Léna Pastor, Willy Clément, Irène Gromova, Xavier Depraz, Jean-Pierre Laffage, Henri Bedex, Orchestre Radio-Symphonique de la RTF, Georges Derveaux

Black & White, 1'43, 4:3, stereo, sung in French, booklet in French only

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

BRAHMS: Die schöne Magelone 15 Romances for Voice and Piano op. 33 with texts from Ludwig Tieck's novella 'The Love Story of the Fair Magelone and Count Peter of Provence'

Peter Schreier András Schiff

Label: Belvedere File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: BCD08001 Barcode: 4260415080011 2 FOR 1 Price Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack Peter Schreier [tenor] András Schiff [piano] Gert Westphal [speaker]

These 2 cds, recorded in September 1997, combine with distinctive charm 'Die schöne Magelone and Count Peter of Provence' by Ludwig Tieck and 15 Romanzen of Johannes Brahms.

Tieck’s novella is based on a chivalric romance from the 14th century, which in turn itself based on a saga from Provence. It tells the story of the knight Peter, victorious in his every tournament. It tells of his travels, of his courting of Magelone, the beautiful princess of Naples, of her kidnapping, their separation and the lovers’ happy reunification after numerous adventures. The peculiar poetry of these lied Texts, their emotional variety and unusual form impressed the young Johannes Brahms who set the songs to music. The 15 Romanzen aus “Die schöne Magelone” was published as Opus 33 in 1869.

Gert Westphal's inimitable speaking voice expresses the innocence of the fairy tale as well as the archaic literary language of Ludwig Tieck. Spirited, trenchant yet not overdone, this experienced reciter enables listeners to experience the external and internal events of the story making the dramatic and emotional settings of the songs understandable.

András Schiff elevates his piano part far above the avaerage lieder accompanist with playing that encompasses the entire spectrum from lyrical tenderness to powerfully intensified drama. The partnership with Peter Schreier is a rare example of high art: Schreier becomes the knight Peter completely; his extreme outbursts of emotion demonstrate his high ranking as one of the most versatile and skilled singers of the 20th century. live recording at Musiktage Mondsee 1997 Stereo Digital Remastering Ton Eichinger Wien, 2015

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

Après un Rêve Karine Deshayes Ensemble Contraste

Label: Aparté File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: AP106 Barcode: 3149028059823 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Karine Deshayes [mezzo soprano] Arnaud Thorette [violin] Antoine Pierlot [cello] Johan Farjot [piano] Ensemble Contraste

MASSENET: Élégie FAURE; Après un rêve arr. Johan Farjot GOUNOD; Le Soir arr. Johan Farjot SAINT-SAENS; Cygne, Violons dans le soir CHAUSSON: La Chanson perpétuelle* FAURE: Romance pour violoncelle GOUNOD: L’Absent arr. Johan Farjot MASSENET: Méditation Thaïs GODARD: Berceuse FAURE: Berceuse pour violon SAINT-SAENS: Allegro appassionato BERLIOZ: La Captive FAURE: La Pavane, Op. 50 This recording from French mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes and Ensemble Contraste explores familiar tunes of French Romanticism. Featuring works from Berlioz, Fauré, Gounod, Massenet and more, this delicious programme paints a picture of music and life in the Parisian salons.

From romance to melody composers of the century took their inspiration from the best writers of their time. Victor Hugo (Berlioz), Leconte de Lisle (Massenet), Lamartine (Gounod et Godard), Anna de Noailles (St Saëns)...

'La Captive', for instance, is a poem from Victor Hugo that comes from Les Orientales. In April 1847, upon announcing the arrival of the composer, a Russian newspaper stated : "Berlioz is within our walls, he truly is the Victor Hugo of French music".

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

Beffa: Into the Dark Viola Concerto, Harp Concerto, Rainbow, Nuit obscure, Dédale, Dark

Karol Beffa Karine Deshayes Emmanuel Ceysson The music of contemporary French composer Karol Beffa takes us through the mirror into a dream world that is at once strange and intimately familiar. It invites us to explore inner harmony and rhythm. This new recording includes 'Into the Dark', 'Rainbow', 'Dédales' for piano and string orchestra and 'Nuit obscure' for string orchestra and voice. Gorgeously executed by Ensemble Contraste under the direction of Johan Farjot, this recording features mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes, harpist Emmanuel Ceysson, violist Arnaud Thorette and the composer on piano.

Label: Aparté File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: AP108 Barcode: 3149028060027 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Karol Beffa [piano] Karine Deshayes [mezzo soprano] Arnaud Thorette [viola] Emmanuel Ceysson [harp] Ensemble Contraste / Johan Farjot

Pianist and improviser, Karol Beffa is a composer whose works have been performed in France Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Russia, the United States and Japan by such well-known ensembles as A Sei Voci, Maîtrise de Radio France, Cambridge Voices, and the leading orchestras (Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de l’Opéra de Lyon, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen...). As composer-in-residence of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse (2006-09), Karol Beffa wrote Paradis artificiels (2007), a Violin Concerto, premiered by Renaud Capuçon (2008), and a Piano Concerto, first performed by Boris Berezovsky (2009). In addition, he has composed two incidental scores as well as the music for 15 films

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

Pierre BARTHOLOMEE: Oedipe sur la route José Van Dam La Monnaie Evidence Classics presents the world première recording of Pierre Bartholomée's 'Oedipe sur la route', based on the 1990 novel by Henry Bauchau and commissioned by La Monnaie. An opera in four acts, 'Oedipe' was first staged in March 2003 in a performance conducted by Daniele Callegari with stage direction by Philippe Sireuil. José Van Dam sang the title role with a superb cast of soloists that includes Italian soprano Valentina Valente in a disturbingly beautiful contemporary work that explores the themes of man and fate.

Label: Evidence Classics File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: EVCD011 Barcode: 3149028071528 MID Price Format: 2 CD Packaging: slipcased Valentina Valente Jean-Francis Monvoisin Hanna Schaer Ruby Philogene Nabil Suliman Jean-Guy Devienne Symphony Orchestra of La Monnaie, Daniele Callegari

'Oedipe sur la route' calls for considerable musical and stage forces: a symphony orchestra, a chorus (generally invisible), 12 solo singers, two silent actors and a few extras. There are four acts. The first has something of a very free sonata form. Oedipus wants to leave, go 'anywhere outside of Thebes'. Antigone follows him. Clios, a bandit, suddenly appears and attacks Antigone. Fight. Oedipus brings him down. Clios tells about Alcyon, enemy clans, the mountains, the drama of his life. Oedipus and Antigone listen, dumbfounded. The story is tragic. Fragile bonds are formed. Clios wants to accompany Oedipus. They will henceforth be three on the road to 'no matter where'.

A sea interlude leads to Act II, a sort of dramatic scherzo. Oedipus works and raves. In the midst of a storm, he works furiously. He wants to sculpt 'a boat and its rowers' in the immense cliff face overhanging the sea.

In Act III, the 'slow movement', Oedipus seeks to return to the community of men. He meets Diotima the sibyl. She wants to deliver him from himself: 'you are clear-voiced'. He sings to her of Jocasta and the Sphinx. It is learnt that the plague is invading the villages. Diotima sends Oedipus to care for the ailing. He soon falls victim to the terrible disease. Death is at hand. In an offering of his whole being, Calliope brings him back to life. 'The night dogs', final interlude, a haunting evocation of one of the most gripping collateral narratives of the novel, leads into Act IV, that of the fulfilment: Oedipus arrives in Colona and enters the Sacred Wood. He is henceforth 'clairvoyant'. The final song, adieus: it is the end of the road.

ALSO AVAILABLE: AP014 Pierre Bartholomee: Soli

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

Euskel Antiqva - Legacy of the Land of Basque Enrike Solinís Kontrapas Bernart Etxepare / Herrikoia, Perutxoren Kantua Gaspar Gómez (1536) / Trad, Sibilaren Profezia Joanes Etxeberri (s. XVI) / Liturgic Song, Aragueako Petrika - Trad, Janzu Janto Cancionero de Palacio (c. 1500), Zure begiok nekusenean Joan Pérez de Lazarraga (1567), Ürrütiko Kantorea - Trad, , Urruska Fandangoa - Trad, Izan nüzü Prantzian - Trad/Juan Vásquez, Con amores, la mi madre - Johannes de Antxieta (1462-1523), Cantar de Urrejola - J. P. de Lazarraga, Gaiza Zenduan Lenizanok - Trad/Anon, Ternuako porrue - Trad, Acuerdo de Judimendi - Jewish Trad. Song, Ave Sanctissima Maria - Johannes de Antxieta, Koumis-Ezpatadantza - Trad/Tabassian, Hamar Manamenduiak - uis Alberto de Gómez (s. XVI), Salve Regina - Gonzalo Martínez de Bizkargi (1463-1528), Sonata en Re - Mateo Pérez de Albéniz (1755-1831), Dianea Joan - Pérez de Lazarraga (1567), Barri Onak Dakart Mss. J.P. de Lazarraga / F. De Salinas, Bralea, Argizagi ederra - Trad.

Label: Alia Vox File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: AV9910 Barcode: 8435408099103 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Euskal Barrokensemble: Maika Etxekopar, Leire Berasaluze, Mixel Etxekopar [voice], Miren Zeberio [violin] Sabin Bikandi [alboka/txistua] Kiya Tabassian [setar], Rami Alqhai viol] Pablo Martin Caminero [violone] Daniel Oyarzaba [organ] Daniel Garay, Xavier Leturia, David Chupete [perc] Daniele Carnovich [bass] David Sagastume [counter tenor] Jesus García Arejula [baritone]

The programme offered by Enrike Solinís and his ensemble brings together all the key elements Alia Vox aim to make a hallmark of this new DIVERSA collection: the discovery of neglected early Basque music - performed with respect for the historical practices and traditions of the Renaissance and the Baroque periods. Thanks to the talent and sensitivity of the singers and musicians of EUSKAL BARROKENSEMBLE directed by Enrike Solinís, we can marvel at these musical gems full of vitality and emotion which distil the essence of the musical culture of the ancient Basque Country.

'Since its foundation in 1997, ALIA VOX has been distinguished by a catalogue consisting exclusively of record releases produced and performed by us: that is to say, by Montserrat Figueras, Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Arianna Savall, Ferran Savall and myself. 18 years and more than 100 CDs later, we are delighted to announce a new collection - ALIA VOX DIVERSA. It will feature recordings not previously released by talented musicians and ensembles who have been chosen and selected for their musical interest and merit, the importance of their repertoire and originality of programming. This launch marks a major departure, allowing us to discover on a regular basis original and hitherto unrecorded proposals from musicians who have worked with us on numerous projects over a long period and who have innovative and interesting programmes of their own to offer which are characterised by rigorous performances steeped in emotion and creativity.' Jordi Savall

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

Entangled Fortunes Elegy, Euphoria, String Trio, Entangled Fortunes, Quintet 2

Red Note Ensemble

Label: Delphian File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: DCD34157 Barcode: 801918341571 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Red Note Ensemble

Eddie McGuire is one of Scotland’s greatest living composers.

A renaissance man, his compositional voice is informed by a broad wealth of cultural experience and by an unlimited melodic creativity. In this intensely beautiful and unpretentious music, folk-like tunes appear naturally, taking their place in a world of invention large enough to contain minimalist gestures, intense romanticism, meditative silence and sudden drama.

In the second of two discs programmed to initiate their new recording partnership with Delphian, Red Note Ensemble bring passion and care to this music: a token of the regard in which McGuire is held by Scottish musicians of all generations.

Red Note Ensemble is Scotland’s contemporary music ensemble, commissioning and performing new music from Scotland and around the world. The Ensemble was founded in 2008 and draws its members from the deep talent pool of Scottish new music expertise. Red Note is Associate Contemporary Ensemble at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, an Associate Company of the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh and Associate Ensemble of the Sound Festival Aberdeen. In 2013 the ensemble made its Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival debut with an acclaimed three-concert series including the UK premiere of James Dillon’s 'New York Triptych'.

ALSO AVAILABLE: DCD34029 Eddie McGuire Music for flute, guitar and piano Gramophone Editor's Choice

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

Bruno MANTOVANI: Voices Cinq poèmes de János Pilinszky Vier geistliche Gedichte Monde évanoui (Fragments pour Babylone) Cantate n° 4 'Komm, Jesu, Komm'* Following praised recordings dedicated to Dusapin’s Requiem[s] (in 2000) and Manoury’s 'In-harmonies' (2010), Accentus continue their contemporary vocal repertoire collection, presenting portraits of composers living in our times.

In 2005, with the world premiere of 'Cinq poèmes de János Pilinszky', Accentus met Bruno Mantovani for the first time.

After this first commission, three other works marked their collaboration. This album cames from their will to celebrate this beautiful artistic partnership.

In 2014/2015, Accentus have released Mozart’s Requiem with Insula orchestra, then Félicien David’s 'Le Désert' and Rossini’s 'Petite Messe solennelle' with Orchestre de chambre de Paris. For autumn 2015 the choir plans a recording of Gluck’s 'Orfeo and Euridice' with Franco Fagioli.

Label: NAÏVE File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: V5420 Barcode: 822186054208 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Accentus Pieter-Jelle de Boer [conductor] Laurence Equilbey [conductor]* Sonia Wieder-Atherton [cello]* Pascal Contet [accordion]*

Discover highlights of the album on Naïve’s SoundCloud account https://soundcloud.com/naiveclassiquejazz/sets/accentus-mantovani/s-Hxoqg

RELEASE DATE 29TH JUNE 2015

Belle Époque Emmanuel Ceysson Henriette RENIE: Concerto en ut mineur pour harpe et orchestre Théodore DUBOIS: Fantaisie pour harpe et orchestre Gabriel PIERNE: Concertstück pour harpe et orchestre Op.39 Camille SAINT-SAENS: Morceau de concert pour harpe et orchestre Op.154 Following Emmanuel Ceysson’s successful Naïve debut 'Opéra Fantaisie', 'Belle Epoque' features works for harp and orchestra composed in France in the early 20th century, probably the 'golden age' of that brilliant instrument. The result is an exhilarating recording of concertos by Saint-Saëns, Henriette Renié, Dubois and Pierné.

With his powerful, virtuoso playing, Emmanuel Ceysson, the ‘enfant terrible’ of the harp, sweeps away all the clichés associated with his instrument. His infectious enthusiasm and boundless energy reveals the harp in all its sparkling splendour, in a world where poetry vies with temperament.

Label: NAÏVE File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: V5419 Barcode: 822186054192 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Emmanuel Ceysson [harp] Orchestre Régional Avignon Provence Samuel Jean [conductor]

ALSO AVAILABLE: Opéra Fantaisie "Ceysson's playing is immaculate, brilliant in its range of attack" BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Choice - January 2013

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Scaramanzia Rolf Lislevand CARBONCHI: Romanesca, Capona, Calata per cantare, Corrente franzese, Scaramanze GRANATA: Capricci armonici CORBETTA: Passacaille • Prelude • Sarabande • Gigue, Sarabande TRAD: Tarantella, Canarios arr.: R. Lislevand / T.H. Johnsen PELLEGRINI: Passacagli per tutte e lettere Continuing a line of striking albums for Naïve, such as Murcia’s Codex, 'Alfabeto', or Vivaldi’s music for mandolin and lute, Rolf Lislevand now offers a recording that connects music from the past and sheds light from the present.

From a very specific repertoire, works for guitar and basso ostinato in the Italian 17th century, Lislevand creates a bewitching and modern musical universe, based on music and improvisations inspired by Carbonchi, Corbetta, Granata, Pellegrini or traditional music.

Label: NAÏVE File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: V5361 Barcode: 822186053614 NORMAL Price Format: 1 Packaging: digipack Rolf Lislevand, Thor-Harald Johnsen [baroque guitars] Bjørn Kjellemyr [colascione] Ulrik Gaston Larsen [baroque guitar, theorbo] Discover highlights of the album on Naïve’s SoundCloud account https://soundcloud.com/naiveclassiquejazz/sets/ rolf-lislevand-scaramanzia/s-6wnsn

“The ostinato bass, presented here in its most varied forms, consists, in technical terms, in the repetition of a harmonic formula or a melodic theme on which one elaborates a set of variations, which were originally improvised.

These are often simple formulas, like the blues or the beat in our time, and yet they possess greater magic powers than a druidic potion.

We went in search of the ostinato as a means of expression, as a musical form, and as a minimalist rhetorical and ritual phenomenon. If the ex-pression ‘minimalist music’ has come to have a precise definition in the twentieth century, referring to a school of composition of which minimal-ism has become the primary characteristic, its origins go back many centuries further.

Pieces on an ostinato bass – the canario, the passacalle, the capona, the romanesca, the calata, and finally the scaramanza – were employed in the service of the dance and in the theatre of the commedia dell’arte; they encouraged meditation; but they were used above all as a free space for improvisation and the interplay of sonorities among related instruments, whether they were from the family of bowed strings, wind, percussion, or, notably, plucked strings. […] With the exception of Corbetta’s suite with countermelody for two guitars and Granata’s suite, the actual form of the works and the entire melodic material present on this disc and used in the ostinato basses and the dances such as the tarantella come into the category of genuine improvisation.”

-- Rolf Lislevand [excerpts from the liner notes]

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The Kristjan Järvi Sound Project: Parallel Tones Richard STRAUSS: Sinfonia Domestica Op.53 Duke ELLINGTON: A Tone Parallel to Harlem (Harlem Suite) 1950

MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra Kristjan Järvi The third release in the Kristjan Järvi Sound Project, 'Parallel Tones' takes two iconic works both united by New York.

Strauss's 'Sinfonia Domestica' - debuted at Carnegie Hall and featuring four saxophones in what was the composer's idea of the 'American' sound - and Ellington's 'Harlem', a big band piece very much inspired by Strauss's tone poems.

These two 'parallel tones' - one going from Europe to America and one from America back in time to Europe – morph 19th century European musical language with that of the American 20th century, crossing paths in New York.

Launched in 2014, the KJSP series features projects across all of Järvi’s ensembles and is characterised by the conductor’s unmistakable approach in taking a fresh look at the old, with concepts and presentation that transcend the borders of classical music.

Label: NAÏVE File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: V5404 Barcode: 822186054048 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra Kristjan Järvi [conductor]

ALSO AVAILABLE: V5395 Balkan Fever V5407 Baltic Sea Voyage “The ever-resourceful Kristjan Jarvi and his MDR Leipzig players lay on the spice with a vengeance, push the dance element too.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2014

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WAGNER: Der Ring des Nibelungen Live recording [mono] Bayreuth 25-27, 29 July 1953

Label: Pan Classics File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: PC10340 Barcode: 7619990103405 SPECIAL Price Format: 12 CD Packaging: box set Chorus & Orchestra of Bayreuth Festival Joseph Keilberth

Rheingold - Wotan: Hans Hotter, Donner: Hermann Uhde, Froh: Gerhard Stolze, Loge: Erich Witte, Alberich: Gustav Neidlinger, Mime: Paul Kuen, Fasolt: Ludwig Weber, Fafner: Josef Greindl, Fricka: Ira Malaniuk, Freia Bruni: Falcon, Erda: Maria von Ilosvay, Woglinde: Erika Zimmermann, Wellgunde: Hetty Plümacher, Floßhilde: Gisela Litz Walküre - Siegmund: Ramón Vinay, Sieglinde: Regina Resnik, Wotan: Hans Hotter, Brünnhilde: Martha Mödl, Hunding: Josef Greindl, Fricka: Ira Malaniuk, Gerhilde: Brünnhild Friedland, Ortlinde: Bruni Falcon, Waltraute: Lise Sorrell, Schwertleite: Maria von Ilosvay, Helmwige: Liselotte Thomamüller, Siegrune: Gisela Litz, Grimgerde: Sibylla Plate, Roßweiße: Erika Schubert Siegfried - Siegfried: Wolfgang Windgassen, Mime: Paul Kuen, Brünnhilde: Martha Mödl, Wanderer: Hans Hotter, Alberich: Gustav Neidlinger, Fafner: Josef Greindl, Erda: Maria von Ilosvay, Waldvogel: Rita Streich, Götterdämmerung - Brünnhilde: Martha Mödl, Siegfried: Wolfgang Windgassen, Hagen: Josef Greindl, Alberich: Gustav Neidlinger, Gunther: Hermann Uhde, Gutrune: Natalie Hinsch-Gröndahl, Waltraute: Ira Malaniuk, Woglinde: Erika Zimmermann, Wellgunde: Hetty Plümacher, Floßhilde: Gisela Litz, 1. Norn: Maria von Ilosvay, 2. Norn: Ira Malaniuk, 3. Norn: Regina Resnik 1953 was the third year of 'New Bayreuth', with the pattern each year of two cycles of the Ring, several performances of 'Parsifal', and two other dramas, one in a new production, being established. In 1953 the major crises was the absence of Hans Knappertsbusch, who in the first two years had already come to be the backbone of the musical side. So, rather late in the day, Wieland Wagner summoned to Bayreuth two conductors of the generation after Kna: Clemens Krauss to conduct 'Parsifal' and the second cycle of the Ring, and Joseph Keilberth to conduct the first Ring cycle and the new production of 'Lohengrin'.

This was the first year in which Hans Hotter sang all three Wotans, and he is in stupendous form the whole way through.

For the first time at Bayreuth Martha Mödl sings Brünnhilde, and she too is at her finest, that unmistakeable voice full and warm. And this was also the first year that Wolfgang Windgassen sang Siegfried, a role he made his own for at least the next 15 years. In 1953 he sings with a volume and energy which has him in line with his predecessors rather than his successors.

This cycle (and the later one under Clemens Krauss) established the major figures for the next five years, Hotter always as Wotan, Varnay and Mödl more or less alternating as Brünnhilde, and Windgassen, with one exception, Siegfried, similarly Gustav Neidlinger as Alberich. No more satisfactory Ring cast has been assembled since, indeed none can touch it, and this release is a fitting tribute to its lasting greatness.

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Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Wagner Operas for Harmonium and Piano Tannhäuser: Einzug der Gäste auf der Wartburg „Freudig begrüßen wir die edle Halle“ (2. Akt) Lohengrin: Vorspiel (1. Akt) Der fliegende Holländer: Spinnerlied „Summ und brumm, du gutes Rädchen“ (2. Akt) Parsifal: Aus dem Chor der Blumenmädchen (2. Akt) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Quintett „Selig wie die Sonne“ (3. Akt) Die Walküre: Siegmunds Liebeslied „Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond“ (1. Akt) Lohengrin: Brautchor „Treulich geführt“ (3. Akt) Götterdämmerung: Siegfrieds Tod (3. Akt), Trauermarsch (3. Akt) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Marsch der Meistersinger (3. Akt) Tristan und Isolde: Vorspiel (1. Akt), Isoldens Liebestod „Mild und leise, wie er lächelt“ (3. Akt)

Label: Pan Classics File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: PC10335 Barcode: 7619990103351 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Jan Hennig [art harmonium, Victor Mustel, 1928] Ernst Breidenbach [piano]

The practice of adapting contemporary music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was aimed at making well-known works playable at home. The piano and the harmonium, as instruments for domestic music-making, were of the utmost importance. But for Karg-Elert, the harmonium, especially the Kunstharmonium, (art harmonium) was a concert instrument and one perfect for use in adaptations. Wagner in particular occupied a prominent place for Karg-Elert an he adapted 30 pieces from Wagner’s operas for these instruments.

Whereas the strengths of the piano, as a hammer or percussion instrument, are based on virtuosity, dexterity and possibilities of different accents, the harmonium is particularly convincing because of an expressivity through sound production by means of free reeds. A variety of timbres, as well as crescendo and decrescendo on sustained tones, are its principal domain.

Karg-Elert’s Wagner transcriptions deserve a position of importance, for his artistic standards go beyond pure adaptation and the orchestral aspect is uniquely shown to advantage, especially in these harmonium-piano duo versions.

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JANACEK: Amarus The Cunning Little Vixen orchestral suite From the House of the Dead- overture, orchestral Suite*

Prague Philharmonic Choir Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Václav Neumann This recording offers listeners over an hour of music by Leos Janácek. From the cantata 'Amarus' to orchestral music from 'The Cunning Little Vixen' and 'From the House of the Dead', Václav Neumann leads the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, soloists and the Prague Philharmonic Choir in idiomatically accurate and stunningly powerful performances.

Neumann has been called the undisputed successor to legendary Czech conductors Václav Talich and Karel Ancerl.

Label: Praga Digitals File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: DSD250308 Barcode: 3149028043426 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Vera Soukupová, Vilém Pribyl, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Václav Neumann, František Jílek*

Live performances from Czech Radio, Smetana Hall, Prague: Amarus, From the House of the Dead prelude - March 28, 1974 Vixen, House of the Dead Suite - March 3, 1988 Remastered from PRD250100 [1995]

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BARTOK: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta HONEGGER: Symphony No.3 STRAVINSKY: Agon

Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra Yevgeny Mravinsky This release in Praga's Reminiscences series features Yevgeny Mravinsky leading the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme that includes one of B茅la Bart贸k's best-known compositions: 'Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste'.

It is coupled with Honneger's Symphony No.3, composed in the aftermath of World War II, and music from Stravinsky's modernist ballet 'Agon'.

Bartok: Live, Prague, Rudolfinum, May 24, 1967 [from PR250047] Honegger: Live, Moscow Conservatory Great Hall, Feb 28, 1965 Stravinsky: Live, Moscow Conservatory Great Hall, Oct 30, 1968

Label: Praga Digitals File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: DSD350087 Barcode: 3149028028423 NORMAL Price Format: 1 SACD Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra Ilya Shpilberg Yevgeny Mravinsky

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Mendelssohn: Complete Chamber Music for Strings Mandelring Quartett Quartetto di Cremona Gunter Teuffel String Quartets, Opp. 12, 13, 44/1, 44/2, 44/3, 80, 81 & in Es-Dur (1823) String Quintets, Opp. 18* & 87* String Octet, Op. 20** The successful recording of the complete Mendelssohn Chamber Music for Strings is now also available as a four-CD boxed set, making all works for string quartet, quintet and octet available at a competitive price and in our customary high quality. The first 1.000 sold copies of the edition include a voucher for a free hi-res download in surround.

All recordings also remain available as single discs in SACD format.

Label: Audite File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: AUDITE21436 Barcode: 4022143214362 4 FOR 1.5 Format: 4 CD Packaging: box set Mandelring Quartett Quartetto di Cremona** Gunter Teuffel [viola]

“The definitive set is complete.“ Gramophone “This series must now be rated as a prime option of choice in these works.”

International Record Review

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Jörg WIDMANN: String Quartets / Streichquartette CD1: 1st Streichquartett, Choralquartett – 2nd Streichquartett, Jagdquartett – 3rd Streichquartett 4th Streichquartett CD2: Versuch über die Fuge –5th Streichquartett mit sopran, Streichquartett aus der Oper 'Absences', 180 beats per minute für streichsextett The composer Jörg Widmann is also a gifted and sought-after clarinettist. As a practising musician, he is constantly dealing with musical tradition and this influences his composing. Widmann, however, has not only examined the string quartet, he has prolonged his involvement with the genre over a period of eight years with a series of five quartets, which, though they are independent pieces, can also be viewed as a large work in five movements.

The cycle of the five string quartets is juxtaposed with two early works by Widmann: as early as 1990, he wrote a short movement for string quartet as part of his school opera 'Absences' (revised in 1993). The string sextet '180 Beats per Minute' (1993) – the title comes from the tempo indication – is inspired by fast pulses of techno music.

Label: Wergo File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: WER7316-2 Barcode: 4010228731620 MID Price Format: 2 CD Packaging: cristal Minguet Quartett Claron McFadden [soprano] Alexander Hülshoff, Andrei Simion [cello]

“It is a great pleasure for me that, seven years after the first complete recording of my string quartets, the Minguet Quartet now offers a second recording. We have worked together closely for many years, particularly on these five quartets. The Minguet Quartet has also repeatedly played my quartets as a cycle on a single evening. This ensemble is therefore quite familiar as to how the individual quartets complement, contradict, and relate to each other dramaturgically.” Jörg Widmann

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Morton SUBOTNICK: The Wild Beasts, After the Butterfly Landmark Recordings 'After the Butterfly' for trumpet, instrumental ensemble and electronic ghost score 'The Wild Beasts' for trombone, piano and ghost electronics Morton Subotnick is a living legend. A leading innovator of electronic music, he has used many important technological breakthroughs in his work as a composer. This release, originally recorded and released in the 80s on LP by Nonesuch Records, has been specially remastered for this reissue. It features 'The Wild Beasts', a work inspired by an exhibition of Les Fauves paintings, and 'After the Butterfly', a concerto-like work for trumpet, instrumental ensemble and electronics.

Label: Wergo File Under: Classical Catalogue No: WER7311-2 Barcode: 4010228731125 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Mario Guarneri [trumpet] Alan K. Bartholemew, Dane Richards Little [cellos] William Edward Powell, James D. Rohrig [clarinets] Jay Charles Bulen, Toby L. Holmes, Miles Anderson [trombones] Marvin B. Gordy III [percussion] Morton Subotnick [conductor] Virko Baley [piano]

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Cage: Two3 Stefan Hussong Wu Wei In 1990 John Cage met sho player Mayumi Miyata, who requested he write a piece for the ancient Japanese mouth organ. Cage was deeply impressed by the sound of this instrument and in 1991 he wrote 'Two3' for sho and five water-filled conch shells – one of the so-called 'Number' pieces Cage worked on during the last years of his life. Although the sound of the piece's structure remains a mystery to rational thinking, it is directly accessible to sensory awareness – especially in the interpretation here, played by accordion player Stefan Hussong and sheng virtuoso Wu Wei.

Label: Wergo File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: WER6758-2 Barcode: 4010228675825 MID Price Format: 2 CD Stefan Hussong [accordion, conch shells] Wu Wei [sheng, conch shells]

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Lewis NIELSON: Axis Le Journal du Corps (2010) for string quartet: The JACK Quartet Tocsin (2009) for six percussionists: red fish blue fish / Steven Schick, conductor Axis (Sandman) (2005) for solo percussion and string quintet Steven Schick [percussion], The JACK Quartet, Emily DuFour [cello] Nicholas DeMaison [conductor] The music of American composer Lewis Nielson can be associated with European composers like Helmut Lachenmann or Salvatore Sciarrino, while forging a distinctive approach to form that is at once lyrical, sensitive and somehow picturesque. Nielson, now Professor of Composition at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, is highly regarded by his colleagues and students. This is proven by the stellar performers here, including Steven Schick and the JACK Quartet.

Axis, for solo percussion and string quintet, is a nearly constant swirl of sound, pixilated into discrete gestures.

Label: Mode Records File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: mode283 Barcode: 764593028321 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal JACK Quartet Steven Schick red fish blue fish

Tocsin is for six percussionists. The arresting synchronicity heard at the opening (and several times again over the course of the work) is intended to index the sound of a crowd at the verge of popular revolution. The crowd, as we can hear, repeatedly takes shape only to collapse and cool off into contrapuntal pattering; again gathering their strength to reassemble only to inevitably collapse back into idle murmurings.

Le Journal du corps for string quartet, begins with minutes of collaged schizophrenia followed by striking moments of harmonic repose and the elegant stillness of non-vibrato chords. Nielson’s striking decision has the string players sing just four minutes before the ending; amateur voices from the professional string quartet.

All first recordings.

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Boris TISHCHENKO: Complete Violin Works Gabriel Tchalik Dania Tchalik Fantasy for violin and piano Op. 118 (1994) Sonata No.1 for solo violin Op. 5 (1957) Rondo for violin and piano Op. 2 (1957) Capriccio for violin and piano Op. 31 (1965) Deux Danses in an ancient style for violin and piano Op. 6 bis (1974) Sonata No.2 for solo violin Op. 63 (1975)

Label: Evidence Classics File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: EVCD013 Barcode: 3149028073225 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Gabriel Tchalik [violin] Dania Tchalik [piano]

After the success of his first album, devoted to Locatelli's 24 'Caprices for solo violin', Gabriel Tchalik takes us to Russia in the second half of the 20th century, following in the footsteps of Boris Tishchenko (1939-2010).This album features the world premiere recordings of Tishchenko's complete works for violin. To underscore this event, Gabriel Tchalik wanted to bring together with this album three outstanding personalities from the intellectual and artistic world of this post-Stalin era: a composer, a painter and a writer, each of whom, in his own way, depicted Soviet reality of the time. Instigator of Moscow's famous so-called 'Bulldozer Exhibition', repressed in 1974 by the regime, Oscar Rabin is a painter now internationally known; 12 of his unpublished drawings, dating from the 1950s and '60s, are thus presented in this new album conceived as an art object. Drawing their inspiration from the same Soviet reality and attesting to the ephemeral artistic effervescence that occurred at the moment of the Thaw, they closely echo the music of Tishchenko. So it is with the text by Nicolas Bokov, a dissident writer forced into exile by the same regime.

"Tchalik is dramatic as well as heartfelt and even poetic, shaping every phrase with exquisite care and awesome atmosphere." Remy Franck / Pizzicato Magazine

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BRAHMS, SCHUMANN: Works for cello & piano Bruno Philippe Tanguy de Williencourt BRAHMS: Cello Sonata Op. 38 SCHUMANN: Fantasiest端cke Op. 73 BRAHMS: Cello Sonata Op. 99 For their first recording, Bruno Philippe and Tanguy de Williencourt have chosen three masterpieces of Romantic chamber music. Throughout this programme, the piano carries on a dialogue with the full, warm sound of the cello in a fascinating polyphony.

This recording bears witness to a unique moment of poetry, magic and complicity.

Label: Evidence Classics File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: EVCD012 Barcode: 3149028072723 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Bruno Philippe [cello] Tanguy de Williencourt [piano]

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Dukas: Works for Piano Hervé Billaut La Plainte, Au Loin, Du Faune...

Sonate En Mi Mémol Mineur Variations, Interlude Et Finale Sur Un Thème De Rameau Prélude Élégiaque Sur Le Nom De Haydn For the 150th anniversary of Paul Dukas, Herve Billaut's new CD focusses on his piano music. Out of the 14 works composed by Paul Dukas (only 14!), 6 were written for the piano. The two most substantial works are the Sonata of 1899-1900, and 'Variations, interlude et finale sur un thème de Rameau', which are masterpieces. Billaut completes his recording with the 'Prélude élégiaque sur le nom de Haydn': a moment of meditation. Worth seeking out if your only encounter with this great composer has been the 'Sorcerer's Apprentice'; worth seeking out anyway.

Robert Maycock, from BBC Music Magazine, gave 5 * to Hervé's Albéniz CD [for Lyrinx]

Label: Mirare File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: MIR242 Barcode: 3760127222422 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Hervé Billaut [piano]

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FAURE: Complete works for piano vol.3 Jean-Claude Pennetier Pieces Brèves Op.84 Thème et Variations Op.73 Barcarolle no.4 Op.44 Barcarolle no.5 Op.66 Barcarolle no.6 Op.70 Nocturne no.6 Op.63 Nocturne no.7 Op.74 The year 2009 saw the appearance of the first volume of Jean-Claude Pennetier’s complete recording of the piano works of Fauré, of which he is one of today’s most eminent interpreters, this release on the Mirare label was awarded a Diapason d’Or. Fauré’s Complete Piano Music vol.2 was released in 2011 also to critical acclaim.

Label: Mirare File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: MIR275 Barcode: 3760127222750 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack

ALSO AVAILABLE: MIR072 Fauré Piano Music Vol 1 “my guess is that Fauré would have welcomed Pennetier’s clear-sightedness and a musical assurance that avoids all exaggeration or sentimentality.” Bryce Morrison, Gramophone, December 2008

Jean-Claude Pennetier [piano]

MIR100 Fauré Piano Works Vol 2 “A beautiful selection, sympathetically played” Jessica Duchen, BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2011

“These poised, sophisticated interpretations from Pennetier suit its subtle sensuality.”

Jessica Duchen, Classic FM Magazine, January 2009

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CHOPIN: Preludes Op.28 Maxence Pilchen 2014 laureate of the Safran Foundation, the young Franco-Belgian pianist Maxence Pilchen his first recording for Paraty featuring the Op. 28 Preludes by Chopin.

"After a terrible, protracted agony, Chopin has died. His compositions for the piano have inspired many followers. The most original grace, the unexpectedness of his melodic turn, the boldness of his harmonies, and the independence of the rhythmic accent are all combined in an entire system of ornamentation which he invented and which is immutable still...."

Hector Berlioz had published in the Journal des DĂŠbats on 27 October 1849

Label: Paraty Productions File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: PTY115131 Barcode: 3760213650252 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Maxence Pilchen [piano ]

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Ferveur, Louange & Passion works by J.C.Bach, Kühnel, Schein, Krynen Bernhardt, Rosenmüller & Buxtehude

Ensemble Isabella d'Este Chiara Banchini

Label: Paraty Productions File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: PTY415133 Barcode: 3760213650245 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Michiko Takahashi, Cécile Granger Maria Kondrashkova [sopranos] Chiara Banchini [violin] Caroline Howald, Ariane Maurette [viols] Noëlle Spieth [harpsichord, organ] Ronald Martin Alonso, Robin Pharo [bass viols] Charles-Edouard Fantin [theorbo]

Ein Freund ist mein und ich bin sein Sonata a due Christ unser Herr, zum Jordan kam Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir Zu Gott sollst du nicht schreien Fürchtet euch nicht Das ist meine Freude Sonata D-Moll, BuxWV 257 Klag-lied, BuxWV 76 "This CD found its origin in the composition by J-C Bach, 'Mein Freund ist mein und ich bin sein'. When I discovered it, I was entranced by its beauty. Beauty of the voice's melodic line, beauty of the text from the Song of Songs, beauty of the violin's part, of the three viols' accompaniment which support or comment the melody. But also I felt behind this admirable composition a dimension of fervour related to passionate love.

It is this dimension, this breath, which I wish to convey through this recording." Caroline Howald

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STROZZI: Passioni, Vizi & Virtu Consort Baroque Laurentia STROZZI: Cantate, ariette e duetti, Op. 2: Amor dormiglione, L'Eraclito amoroso, Lilla Crudele ad onta d'amore, Chiamata a nuovi amori, Tra le speranze e'l timore, La vendetta, Il Romeo, La sol fà, mi, rè, dò, La Travagliata, Gite, o giorni dolenti, Begl'occhi, bel seno, bei crini e bella bocca, Là fanciulletta semplice, Costume de' grandi, L'amante segreto, L'amante bugiardo, L'amante consolato, Giusta negativa PICCININI: Toccata for Lute no 13 Canadian soprano Peggy Bélanger completed her studies in singing at the Québec Music Conservatory, under Hélène Fortin. She is particularly sought for her interpretation of the music from the Classical and Baroque periods and sings regularly with various groups and companies in America and Europe. Thanks to a grant from the Marco Fodella Foundation, she specialised in early music with the renowned countertenor Roberto Balconi, in Milan. Her latest recording dedicated to the 'cantatrice' Strozzi is published by the Italian label Stradivarius and has already been praised

by European press and by Fanfare Magazine.

Label: Stradivarius File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: STR33948 Barcode: 8011570339485 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Consort Baroque Laurentia : Michel Angers [theorbo] Peggy Belanger [soprano] Sabina Colonna Preti [viola da gamba] Daniele Bragetti, Seiko Tanaka [flutes]

"The performances by Canadian soprano Peggy Bélanger and her colleague Michel Angers are excellent!" Fanfare Magazine

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Louis SPOHR: Reisesonate Michele Fedrigotti Francesco Parrino Duo Concertant in G minor, Op. 95 Duo Concertant in F major Op. 96 'Reisesonate' Grand Duo Concertant in E major, Op. 112 6 Duets 'Elegisch und humoristisch', Op. 127 Founder of the German violin school and author of an authoritative method - the Violin School, published in 1832 - Louis Spohr was a prominent artist in Germany after the Congress of Vienna, admired by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin. Today we remember him above all for his substantial chamber production, which includes four splendid Double Concertos for strings.

Label: Stradivarius File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: STR33933 Barcode: 8011570339331 2 FOR 1.5 Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack Francesco Parrino (violin, Gagliano 1790-1805) Michele Fedrigotti (Broadwood piano 1849)

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The Bach’s Court in Leipzig (the Harpsichord Lordship) Daccapo Italian Harpsichord Duo J. L. KREBS (1713-1780): Concerto per due clavicembali in La minore J. S. BACH (1685-1750): Concerto per due clavicembali in Do maggiore BWV 1061a W. F. BACH (1710-1784): Duetto per due clavicembali in Fa maggiore J. C. BACH (1735-1782): Sonata per due clavicembali in Sol maggiore Baroque composers had the advantage of being able to to write important works for Leipzig, where music had a new impulse thanks to the Collegium Musicum directed by George Philip Telemann from 1701.

In the present recording we can listen to compositions for the peculiar duo of two harpsichords performed by the Daccapo Italian Harpsichord Duo: Luigi Accardo and Enrico Bissolo. The duo was created to offer the original literature writed for two keyboard instruments, llike the majestic works by Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons but also works by musicians like Telemann, Krebs, Schaffrath, Mozart, Cherubini and contemporary composers.

Label: Stradivarius File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: STR37012 Barcode: 8011570370129 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Daccapo Italian Harpsichord Duo: Luigi Accardo, Enrico Bissolo

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HANDEL: Concerti Grossi Op. 6 Stuttgarter Kammerorchester Michael Hofstetter No. 1 in G Major HWV 319 No. 6 in G Minor HWV 324 No. 10 in D Minor HWV 328 No. 12 in B Minor HWV 330 Concerto grosso in C Major “Alexander’s Feast” HWV 318

Label: Orfeo File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: C831151A Barcode: 4011790831121 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Michael Hofstetter

Michael Hofstetter is a much sought-after conductor with a broad repertoire stretching over several different epochs, and in 2015 his invitations range from the Styriarte Graz to the Houston Grand Opera. The Baroque is undoubtedly one of Hofstetter’s main areas of expertise: his affinity for the works of Handel has been often proven at venues such as the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe and English National Opera in London. Hofstetter was chief conductor of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra from 2006 to 2013, and together they have now recorded Handel’s Concerti grossi Nos. 1, 6, 10 and 12 from his Opus 6 collection, along with the concerto grosso Alexander’s Feast. This last concerto, dating from 1736, was composed while Handel was still lord of the operatic world in London. Nevertheless, it already displays many characteristics familiar from his later concertos, with its sparkling allegro opening, its pastoral Largo, the rich counterpoint of its fugue and its dancelike final movement. Handel’s subsequent concerti grossi offer one highpoint of the genre after another – and the masterful, transparent performances of the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra under Michael Hofstetter do full justice to this music and the concerti grossi op. 6 can justly be regarded as the highpoint of Handel’s instrumental oeuvre, on a par with Bach’s 'Well-Tempered Clavier' and his 'Brandenburg' Concertos.

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HANDEL, HAYM: Trio Sonatas L'Aura Rilucente Trio sonata No.4 in C Minor Op.1 - Grave Admeto, HWV 22: A languir ed a penar Trio sonata No.1 in D Minor Op.1 - Adagio Trio Sonata No.7 in F Major Op.2 HWV392 - Andante Tolomeo, HWV 25, Act III: Torni omai la pace all'alma Trio sonata No.3 in A Minor Op.1 - Adagio Ottone, re di Germania, HWV 15: Ah! tu non sai Trio Sonata No.5 in G Minor Op.2 HWV390 - Larghetto Amadigi di Gaula HWV11 - Ballo di pastori e pastorelle

Label: Ambronay File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: AMY304 Barcode: 3760135103041 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack L'Aura Rilucente: Heriberto Delgado Guti茅rrez Sara Bagnati [violins] Silvia Serrano Monesterolo [cello] Maximilian Ehrhardt [harp ]Jorge L贸pez-Escribano [organ, harpsichord]

A talented composer whose works are unfairly neglected, Nicola Francesco Haym was the librettist of many Handel operas. The musicians of L'Aura Rilucente evoke the relationship between the two artists with tenderness and brio in a programme juxtaposing trio sonatas and arrangements of operatic arias.

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TARTINI: Cantabile e suonabile David Plantier Annabelle Luis Sonata XXV en ré mineur - Andante cantabile Sonata II en ré mineur - Siciliana Sonata XXVIII en la majeur - Adagio 'la mia filli' Sonata XXXI en mi mineur - Aria cantabile Sonata VIII en Sol mineur - Andante Sonata XXX en ré mineur - Cantabile

Label: AGOGIQUE File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: AGO020 Barcode: 3700675500207 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack David Plantier [violin] Annabelle Luis [cello]

Recordings of Tartini's solo violin sonatas are relatively rare, which makes this new release from violinist David Plantier and cellist Annabelle Luis a real treasure. Tartini's instrumental vision for music that is 'Cantabile e suonabile' (singable and playable) is wonderfully realised in performances that give us a new appreciation for these 18th century works that push back the limits of the instrument.

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Ghirlanda sacra - Early 17th-century music in Naples Roberta Invernizzi I Turchini Antonio Florio

Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: GCDC80019 Barcode: 8424562800199 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Roberta Invernizzi Antonella Ippolito [sopranos] Daniela del Monaco [alto] Rosario Totaro [tenor] Collegium Gregorianum della Pietrasanta I Turchini Antonio Florio [direction]

CERRONIO: Gaudeamus omnes, Plainchant: Hic Franciscus pauper F. SABINO: Franciscus servus Christi, ANON: O beate Januari A. SABINO: Beatus Januarius Christi Martyr, Plainchant: Beatus Januarius A. SABINO: Jubilate coelestes chori, FALCONIERI: Sinfonia seconda G.M. SABINO: O sacrum convivium, STELLA: Canzon seconda F.SABINO: Scitote quoniam Dominus, G.M.SABINO: Crux fidelis a voce sola STELLA: Canzon prima, G.M.SABINO: Repleatur os meum, Cantate Domino Plainchant: Sancti angeli custodens, G.M.SABINO: Angelorum esca, Ecce panis angelorum STELLA: Diverse partite sull’aria della Romanesca, FALCONIERI: Quae est ista Anonymous (17th century): Sinfonia, G.M. (?) SABINO: Jesu Corona coelsior To talk of the rediscovery of Neapolitan Baroque music is to speak of Antonio Florio and his Cappella della Pietà de’ Turchini (recently renamed simply as I Turchini). In this recording made in 1993, and with a fantastic line-up of vocal soloists, which includes no less than Roberta Invernizzi, Florio revives the sacred Neapolitan music from the beginning of the 17th century, clearly influenced by Monteverdi at the expense of the more archaic style which had prevailed until then.

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Francesco GASPARINI: Mirena & Floro Auser Musici Carlo Ipata Dori e Daliso: Duetto per soprano, alto, violini e basso Nana, Francese e Armena ovvero Mirena e Floro: Intermezzo primo, Intermezzo secondo del Sig.r Giovanni Bononcini, Intermezzo terzo Following the recent release of the opera 'Il Bajazet' by Francesco Gasparini, [Gramophne Editor's Choice] involving Auser Musici and Carlo Ipata, Glossa is pleased to bring back a recording from 2003 (previously issued by Symphonia) containing comic intermezzi from the same composer, and from the same director – already demonstrating a perfect understanding of the style of this contemporary of Handel. As well as 'Mirena e Floro' (first performed in Dresden in 1718), the recording includes 'Dori e Daliso', a cantata featuring violins and produced for the Roman palace of the Ruspolis two years beforehand.

Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: GCDC80016 Barcode: 8424562800168 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Elena Cecchi Fedi [soprano] Lucia Sciannimanico [contralto] Marco Orestano Cristarella [baritone] Auser Musici Carlo Ipata [direction]

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Francesco BARSANTI: Sonate a flauto solo con basso, op. 1 Arcadia Attilio Cremonesi Francesco Barsanti was a contemporary of Geminiani, and like him worked for a number of years in London; Barsanti moved thence to Edinburgh, where he lived for some 30 years, before making his return to the British capital. His first published opus, consisting of these six flute sonatas, allow the superb members of the ensemble Arcadia (flautist Christoph Ehrsam, gambist Eunice Brand達o and harpsichordist Attilio Cremonesi) to project all their sensitivity for and control of the melodic impulse and of the realisation of the basso continuo.

Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: GCDC80020 Barcode: 8424562800205 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Arcadia Christoph Ehrsam [recorder] Eunice Brandao [viola da gamba] Attilio Cremonesi [harpsichord]

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Antonio Jiménez MANJON: Works for guitar Raphaëlla Smits Romanza No. 3, Aire vasco Op. 19, Noveletta I. A orillas del arroyo, Noveletta II. Idilio, Cuento de amor Op. 18, Célebre capricho andaluz Op. 17, Leyenda, Quiero y no quiero (habanera) Raphaëlla Smits, the grande dame of the guitar from Belgium, has spent some 35 years making memorable recordings, many of them for the Accent label. This recital containing pieces by Antonio Jiménez Manjón appeared in 1999, and did admirable justice to a composer whose name – despite the high quality of his music – has not figured frequently on recordings. The melodiousness of his writing, almost unlimited in its variety, comes to life under the hands of a Smits fully idiomatic in the language of this Spaniard who emigrated to South America, and heard exquisitely caressing the strings of an original guitar made by Vicente Torres in 1899.

Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: GCDC80017 Barcode: 8424562800175 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Raphaëlla Smits [guitar]

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Perle del Piemonte - Violin music in 18th-century Italy Enrico Gatti Antonio Mosca Giorgio Tabacco Giovanni Lorenzo SOMIS: Sonata in A minor for violin and b.c., op. 1 no. 1 Giovanni Battista SOMIS: Sonata in C major for violin and b.c., op. 6 no. 4 Gaspare Giuseppe CHIABRANO: Sonata III in F major for cello and b.c.

Felice GIARDINI: Sonata II op. 31 in G major for harpsichord and violin Giovanni Battista CANAVASSO: Sonata II in D minor for cello and b.c.

Gaetano PUGNANI: Sonata op. 6 no 1 in B flat major for violin and b.c.

Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: GCDC80018 Barcode: 8424562800182 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Enrico Gatti [violin] Antonio Mosca [cello] Giorgio Tabacco [harpsichord]

For many people, the poetry of the violinist Enrico Gatti, which we have been enjoying in concerts and on recordings (for labels such as Symphonia, Arcana and Glossa) for more than three decades is unparalleled when addressing the subtlest of Italian music from the 17th and 18th centuries. For this 1992 recording, Gatti alights upon some of the loveliest of 18th-century pieces for his instrument which were composed for the Court of Savoy in Turin, including works

by Somis, Giardini and Pugnani, unveiling for us a fascinating and seldom-visited world.

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Franz KROMMER: Wind sextets Nachtmusique Eric Hoeprich Teunis van der Zwart Partita in E flat major Trios for two clarinets & viola Partita in C minor Variations on a theme by Pleyel, for three clarinets Partita in E flat major

Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: GCDC80604 Barcode: 8424562806047 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Nachtmusique: Eric Hoeprich [clarinet & direction] Toni Salar-VerdĂş [clarinet] Jane Gower, Javier Zafra [bassoons] Teunis van der Zwart, Erwin Wieringa [horns] Carles Riera [clarinet] Emilio Moreno [viola] David Sinclair [contrabass]

Erich Hoeprich's ensemble, Nachtmusique typically draws its members from the wind section of the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, directed, until his death in August 2014, by Frans BrĂźggen. Quite probably the leading specialists today in Harmoniemusik, a genre fashionable in Vienna and its surrounding area as the 18th century turned into the 19th, here operating as a sextet and playing delightfully sounding original instruments, Nachtmusique give us an entire disc devoted to the Bohemian composer Franz Krommer, with music full of vibrancy and humour.