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JULY 28 2014
GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE, DISC OF THE MONTH
RECORDING OF THE
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BBC RADIO 3, CD OF THE WEEK , CD REVIEW Naive V5373 Handel Tamerlano / Sabata, Cencic, Minasi
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE, August, Instrumental Choice Wigmore Hall Live WHLIVE066 Mahan Esfahani
GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE
Delphian DCD34135 Handel The Triumph of Time & Truth Sophie Bevan, Mary Bevan, Ludus Baroque Early Music Today, June-Aug, EDITOR’S CHOICE ***** GLOSSA GCD921516 Handel Duetti da Camera
“Fabio Bonizzoni’s recordings of Handel’s Italian cantatas are the finest on disc, and he brings the same light, speedy touch and acute insight to the duets … [here] it’s the entwined brilliance of Invernizzi and de Liso, the flash and sparkle of their voices in proximity, that is the disc’s keenest pleasure.”
ALBUM OF THE WEEK, Sunday Times, 15th June
Actes Sud ASM15 Stravinsky Rite, Petrouchka Les Siecles / François-Xavier Roth
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RELEASE DATE 28TH JULY 2014
Sacrifices CARISSIMI: Historia di Jepthe CHARPENTIER: Sacrifiium Abrahae, Le Reniement de Saint Pierre H424 BROSSARD: Symphonies pour le Graduel [SDB228, 229], Sonate en trio [SDB221]
La Nuova Musica David Bates
Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: HMU807588 Barcode: 093046758868 NORMAL Price Format: 1 HYBRID SACD Packaging: special Sophie Junker [soprano, Filia] Rob Murray [tenor, Jepthe] Mhairi Lawson [soprano, Sara] Simon Wall [tenor, Abraham] Nicholas Scott [tenor, Isaac] Alice Gribbin [soprano, Juvenis] Bojan Cicic, Sabine Stoffer [violins] Stefanie Heichelheim, Rachel Stott [violas] Tomasz Pokrzywinski [basse de violon] David Miller [theorbo] Nathaniel Mander [harpsichord]
David Bates leads La Nuova Musica in 'Sacrifices', a programme of intensely dramatic oratorios from the mid Baroque. Three poignant tales of denail and sacrifice: St Peter's denial of Christ; Abraham's [narrowly averted] sacrifice of his son Isaac; and the Old Testament story of Jepthe, the hero commander who, before leading the Israelites into battle against the Ammonites, vows to God that if he is victorious, he will sacrifice the first living thing he meets upon his return. Unfortunately it is his darling daughter, who dances out to greet him with cymbals and flutes. Jepthe must honour his vow... In a dramatic lament, the daughter [she is never named] asks the mountains to bewail her fate - they answer in echoes; this is followed by one of the most moving choruses in all 17th C music. Belgian soprano Sophie Juncker is the daughter [and one to watch]. La Nuova Musica is established in the UK with regular appearances at the London Handel, the Spitalfields and Aldeburgh International festivals, and has achieved worldwide recognition and outreach through a five-record deal with harmonia mundi USA. Its debut recording for the label, released in March 2012, a world premiere on CD of the 1712 version of Handel’s 'Il pastor Fido', was proclaimed as the arrival of “an exceptionally talented young British ensemble” (Opera magazine). A second release, of Handel and Vivaldi 'Dixit Dominus', followed in 2013. After its recent debut at Wigmore Hall – performing Francesco Conti’s 'L’Issipile' with an all-star cast – The Guardian acclaimed the group as going “from strength to strength”. A disc of Handel, Bononcini and Ariosti arias, with countertenor Lawrence Zazzo, will be released on October 13th. “The vocal consort sang beautifully ... Directing from the organ ... David Bates favoured slow tempi and luxuriant textures.” The Independent, review of the Spitalfields Festival concert
Interview with David Bates in Early Music Today, Sept/Nov issue
RELEASE DATE 28TH JULY 2014
Henry MANCINI: Music for Peter Gunn Harmonie Ensemble New York Steven Richman 'Peter Gunn', the classic TV detective series (1958-61) - is probably best remembered today for Henry Mancini's trend-setting jazz score inspired by the West Coast Cool School. In 'Music for Peter Gunn' Grammy-nominated Steven Richman and the sensational Harmonie Ensemble / New York with ace old-school improvisers Lew Soloff [trumpet] and Lew Tabackin [sax], place their own stamp on Mancini's iconic orchestrations. First recording since Henry Mancini's in 1958
Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Jazz/Soundtracks Catalogue No: HMU907624 Barcode: 093046762421 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Harmonie Ensemble New York Steven Richman [conductor]
ALSO AVAILABLE: HMU907493 Ellington/Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite “Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s jazz adaptation is now something of a classic. Here is a fresh new recording which, enterprisingly, couples it with a performance of Tchaikovsky’s original score.” Daniel Jaffe, Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Feature, BBC Music Magazine- Christmas 2013 "every number brings with it an utterly inspired transformation, be it the vigorous swagger and swirl of ‘Peanut Brittle Brigade’ or the intoxicating sinuous and sultry ‘Arabesque Cookie’… Suffice to say, Steven Richman and Harmonie Ensemble/New York have a ball and their commendably sassy rendering is preceded by a similarly buoyant and highly personable account of the original concert suite which has one marvelling anew at Tchaikovsky’s vernally captivating invention and consummate mastery of orchestral poise.” Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone – October 2013 HMU907492 Gershwin by Grofé “Raw, brash, swung with relish…Remarkable playing.” Andrew McGregor, BBC RADIO 3 “A truly fascinating disc. There's the remarkable clarinet/saxophone playing of 90-year-old Al Gallodoro for a start - a member of the original Paul Whiteman Orchestra who died shortly after making these recordings that feature him playing the famous glissando opening of ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ with pianist Lincoln Mayorga as soloist and the excellent Harmonie Ensemble of New York. Steven Richman conducts these recreations of the original Whiteman Band orchestrations… in versions that might be new to modern ears.” The Scotsman
RELEASE DATE 28TH JULY 2014
Robert KYR: The Cloud of Unknowing, Songs of the Soul Conspirare Craig Hella Johnson leads Conspirare, soprano Estelﾃｭ Gomez, baritone David Farwig, and the Victoria Bach Festival string orchestra in this first recording of three choral works by Robert Kyr (b. 1952). Exploring the relationship between human and divine love, his cantatas 'The Cloud of Unknowing' (2013) and 'Songs of the Soul' (2011) transfixed audiences and critics alike when Conspirare premiered them. The texts are by the 16th century Spanish mystics St Teresa of ﾃ」ila and St John of the Cross, some sung in Spanish, some in English translation. The prelude to the two cantatas, the a cappella anthem, 'The Singer's Ode' is reminiscent of RVW's 'Ode to Music'. Robert Kyr is among the most prolific composers of his generation, having composed 12 symphonies, 3 chamber symphonies, 3 violin concerti, and much chamber music, in addition to numerous vocal works. His choral music is distinguished by a warmly compelling lyricism, as well as by a contrapuntal mastery that arises from his love of early music, especially the work of Dufay, Josquin Des Prez, and above all, Bach窶ｦ
Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: HMU807577 Barcode: 093046757762 NORMAL Price Format: 1 HYBRID SACD Packaging: cristal Estelﾃｭ Gomez [soprano] David Farwig [baritone] Victoria Bach Festival String Orchestra Conspirare Craig Hella Johnson,
"A powerful new achievement in American music that vividly traces a journey from despair to transcendence" The Wall Street Journal, concert review WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
RELEASE DATE 28TH JULY 2014
RAMEAU: Les Indes galantes, Castor & Pollux (complete operas) Harpsichord Suites, Anacréon, Pygmalion, Nélée & Myrthis Les Indes Galantes Claron McFadden (Hebe, Zima), Sandrine Piau (Zaire), Isabelle Poulenard (L'Amour, Phani), Noemi Rime (Fatime), Miriam Ruggeri (Emilie), Howard Crook (Valere/Damon), Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (Don Carlos/Tacmas), Jerome Correas (Bellone/Ali), Bernard Deletre (Huascar/Don Alvar), Nicolas Rivenq (Osman/Adario) Castor & Pollux Howard Crook (Castor), Jérôme Corréas (Pollux), Agnès Mellon (Télaire), Véronique Gens (Phébé), René Schirrer (Mars/Jupiter), Sandrine Piau (Vénus), Mark Padmore (L'Amour), Mark Padmore (Grand Prêtre de Jupiter), Claire Brua (Minerva) Pygmalion, Nelée et Myrthis Howard Crook, Agnès Mellon, Jérôme Corréas & Sandrine Piau
Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: HMX2908700/09 Barcode: 3149020870044 10 FOR 5 AT MID Price Format: 10 CD Packaging: box set Les Arts Florissants William Christie
ADVERTISED IN BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE, August issue
250 years after his death, Jean-Philippe Rameau continues to fascinate, as is shown by the number of new productions of his operas scheduled for 2014 and beyond. However, the Dijon-born composer also owes some of his current popularity to the passionate advocacy of William Christie: this sumptuous box set presents the critically-acclaimed Rameau recordings he made for harmonia mundi in the 1980s and 1990s. Its selection of opéra-ballet, tragédie lyrique and harpsichord pieces on 10 cds, many unavailable for some time, highlights the multiple facets of Rameau's œuvre, masterfully interpreted by the American Baroque pioneer so completely at home in French music. A must! "a first-rate performance of one of Rameau's most endearing stage works; Christie's control of his forces, his convincing pacing of the piece—the Prologue and first entree sounded hurried and unsettled in the Aix-en-Provence production that preceded the recording—and his feeling for colour, gesture and rhythm contribute towards making this perhaps his finest achievement on disc, so far. His choir is lively and well-disciplined and the instrumentalists of Les Arts Florissants play with greater finesse than I have previously heard. The booklet contains full texts in French, English and German and the music is vividly recorded in a pleasing acoustic. All in all, a considerable achievement which should provide readers with enduring pleasure." Nicholas Anderson, Gramophone Feb 1992 [Les Indes Galantes] "Christie's performance does seem to me to have the stronger solo vocal cast, and this applies to smaller roles as well as the principal ones—the sopranos Veronique Gens and Sandrine Piau are both outstanding...Christie.. unquestionably gives us new and subtle insights to the opera and does, I believe, more convincingly realize the element of tragedy, above all in the First Act." Nicholas Anderson, Gramophone July 1993 [Castor]
RELEASE DATE 28TH JULY 2014
Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER at the Royal Chapel in Versailles La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations Jordi Savall SACD1: CANTICUM AD BEATAM VIRGINEM MARIAM Recorded in February 1989 in Paris, originally released on the Astrée label SACD 2: MISSA « ASSUMPTA EST MARIA » (H.11a) Recorded 9/10/2004 at the Royal Chapel in Versailles CONCERT POUR QUATRE PARTIES DE VIOLES (H.545) recorded on May 7th, 2013 in Cardona, Spain NUIT Très lentement (H.416) Recorded on October 9, 2004 at the Royal Chapel in Versailles
Label: Alia Vox File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: AVDVD9905 Barcode: 8435408099059 BARGAIN Price Format: 2 hybrid SACD + DVD Packaging: cd book La Capella Reial de Catalunya Le Concert des Nations Jordi Savall
JORDI SAVALL INTERVIEW & REVIEW in the YORKSHIRE POST, to coincide with his appearance at the York Early Music Festival 10th July, broadcast by the BBC
DVD: MESSE ET MOTETS POUR LA VIERGE Canticum in honorem Beate Virginis Mariae (H.400) Nuit, très Lentement (H.416) Stabat Mater pour des religieuses (H.15) Litanies de la Vierge à 6 voix et 2 dessus de violes (H.83) Missa Assumpta Est Maria (H.11) Filmed on October 9, 2004 at the Royal Chapel in Versailles To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the foundation of Le Concert des Nations by Montserrat Figueras and myself in 1989, we are now delighted to be able to release on the Alia Vox label an SACD version of Charpentier’s 'Canticum ad Beatam Virginem Mariam' in what was the ensemble’s first recording. This re-release is accompanied by a DVD of the recording of the concert given on 9th October, 2004, at the Royal Chapel at Versailles, and a second SACD featuring the live recording of 'Missa Assumpta est Maria' at that concert, as well as the instrumental interlude 'Nuit' taken from the 'Pastorale In nativitatem Domini canticum' and the new recording of the 'Concert pour quatre parties de Violes' at the collegiate church of Cardona on 7th May, 2013. This is also an opportunity for us to pay homage to one of the greatest musicians of his generation on the occasion of the 310th anniversary of his death. Let us not forget that, together with Purcell in England, Charpentier brought about the transition from modality to tonality, enriching his works with poignant chromaticism, false relations and dissonances, which more often than not arose from that very conflict between tonality and modality. Thus, the genius of Charpentier retains its relevance and eloquence today, thanks to his highly individual way of incorporating certain transalpine influences into the French tradition; all this, together with his profound spirituality, makes his music a perfect example of the “goûts réunis.” JORDI SAVALL, Seoul, 29th April, 2014 Booklet: English, French, German, Italian, Castilian, Catalan
RELEASE DATE 28TH JULY 2014
Musiques à Versailles Jordi Savall Christophe Coin Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset Capriccio Stravagante Skip Sempé Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marin Marais, François Couperin, Jean Joseph Cassanea de Mondonville, Henry Desmarest, Sébastien de Brossard CD1: Musiques à Versailles CD2: Les Musiques de Louis XIV du ballet à l’opéra
Label: NAÏVE File Under: Classical/Other Classical Catalogue No: V5389 Barcode: 822186053898 2 FOR 1 Price Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack Hopkinson Smith, Jordi Savall Michel Chapuis, Blandine Verlet, La Grande Ecurie & La Chambre du Roy /Jean-Claude Malgoire Ensemble Baroque de Limoges/Christophe Coin Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset Capriccio Stravagante/Skip Sempé Ensemble Amarillis, Les Demoiselles de St Cyr
Naive are pleased to present a new special project dedicated to the musical universe of the renowned Château de Versailles, a French national treasure. From July onwards, this 2-CD set, will be offered to the millions of people that visit the Château de Versailles, near Paris, every year. It gathers French baroque music composed at the time of Louis XIV and his successors, such as instrumental and operatic works by Charpentier, Lully, Couperin, Brossard, Marais, Leclair, Mouton, Visée, Clérambault, Desmarest… The list of performers features some of the most renowned artists such as Jordi Savall, Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Christophe Coin, Hopkinson Smith, Blandine Verlet, Michel Chapuis, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset, Capriccio Stravagante, Skip Sempé, La Grande Ecurie & La Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Luca Pianca, Ensemble Fitzwilliam, Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr, Isabelle Desrochers, Karina Gauvin, Amarillis, etc Full track listing available on request
Musiques à Versailles
-- SPECIAL PROJECT --
CD 1 • Musiques à Versailles Sébastien de Brossard
1655-1730
1. In Convertendo Dominus Preludio Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Christophe Coin
Marin Marais
1656-1728
2. Suite en mi mineur | Rondeau Ensemble Fitzwilliam
Louis Marchand
3. Chaconne Blandine Verlet
1669-1732
HARPSICHORD
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
ca. 1645-1704
4. Messe pour le Port Royal | ‘Ave Maris Stella’ Michel Chapuis ORGAN Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr, Emmanuel Mandrin
Jean-Baptiste Lully
1632-1687
5. Alceste | Ouverture La Grande Ecurie & La Chambre du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire
François Couperin
1668-1733
FINISHED PRODUCT AVAILABLE @ NAÏVE WAREHOUSE
1675-1745
7. Rondeau, le provençal Stephen Preston FLUTE • Jordi Savall Hopkinson Smith THEORBO
VIOLA DA GAMBA •
Sébastien de Brossard
2-CD set | naïve Physical item # V5389
8. Canticum Eucharisticum Pro Pace | Sonata ad Libitum Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Christophe Coin
Total timing 138’ 10-page color booklet (FR, EN) Physical price code AD211 Release in France on 7 July 2014
Marin Marais
This 2-CD set is offered to the million of people that visit the Château de Versailles, near Paris, every year. It gathers French baroque music composed at the time of Louis XIV and his successors
15. Caeli enarrant Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Christophe Coin
11. Entrée des Nymphes Guerrières 12. Air final Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Louis Couperin 1626-1661
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1711-1772
Sébastien de Brossard
17. Messe de Noël | ‘Elévation’ Les Pages & Les Chantres de la Chapelle, Olivier Schneeneli
13. Air « Oiseaux de ces bocages » 2’12 14. Duo « Tout renaît, tout fleurit » 1’03 Cassandre Berthon, Valérie Gabail, Robert Getchelle, Jean-François Novelli & Jean-Baptiste Dumora Ensemble Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard
Robert de Visée 1650-1725
Jean-Baptiste Lully
16. Rigaudon & Double Blandine Verlet HARPSICHORD
18. Les Sylvains Hopkinson Smith THEORBO
Louis Nicolas Clérambault
19. Récit de Nazard 20. Caprice sur les Grands Jeux Michel Chapuis ORGAN
1676-1749
CD 2 • Les Musiques de Louis XIV Du ballet à l’opéra Jean-Baptiste Lully
6. Les Barricades mystérieuses Blandine Verlet HARPSICHORD
Michel de la Barre
Jean Joseph C. de Mondonville
1632-1687
Roland 1. Ouverture 2. Air de Roland « Je suis trahi ! Ciel ! » Nicolas Testé BASS Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Robert de Visée 3. Mascarade Luca Pianca LUTH
François Couperin 1668-1733
10. Musette Jean-Christophe Maillard MUSETTE • Claude Wassmer BASSOON • Elisabeth Joyé HARPSICHORD • Philippe Pierlot VIOLA DA GAMBA
Concert dans le goût théâtral 4. Divertissement IV Au Temple de l’Amour, Air tendre 5. Divertissement V Les Plaisirs de l’Ile Enchantée, « A l’ombre d’un ormeau » Isabelle Desrochers, Karina Gauvin, Sandrine Rondot , Vincent Lecornier Capriccio Stravagante, Skip Sempé
Guillaume Gabriel Nivers
Marc-Antoine Charpentier ca. 1645-1704
9. Le Badinage Pascal Monteilhet
THEORBO
Jean-Marie Leclair
1697-1764
1632-1714
11. Beata es Maria Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr, Emmanuel Mandrin
Marin Marais
12. Suite en mi mineur | Passacaille Ensemble Fitzwilliam
François Roberday
13. Fugue 11 Michel Chapuis
1624-1680
ORGAN
Charles Mouton
1626-1710
14. La Belle Homicide Hopkinson Smith BAROQUE LUTE
Pastorale La Couronne de fleurs 6. Prélude pour animer les bergers au combat : Air d’Amaranthe - Air de Forestan (et choeur) 7. Air instrumental et choeur final Cassandre Berthon, Valérie Gabail, Robert Getchell, Jean-François Novelli, Jean-Baptiste Dumora Ensemble Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Persée 8. Marche pour les suivants de la fortune 9. Troisième air des Jeux Junoniens 10. Gigue
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Roland 15. Air des deux insulaires « Dans nos climats sans chagrin on soupire » 16. Air de Logistille « Par le secours d’une douce harmonie » 17. Chaconne Emiliano Gonzales-Toro, Anders J. Dahlin & Salomé Haller Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
François Couperin
Concert dans le goût théâtral 18. Divertissement V Les Plaisirs de l’Ile Enchantée, « Faisons du temps un doux usage » Isabelle Desrochers, Karina Gauvin, Sandrine Rondot & Vincent Lecornier Caprioccio Stravagante, Skip Sempé
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault 1676-1749
19. Cantate profane Léandre et Héro Isabelle Poulenard SOPRANO Ensemble Amalia
Henry Desmarest
1661-1741
Vénus et Adonis 20. Premier Air pour la suite de Bellone 21. Deuxième Air pour la suite de Bellone 22. Passacaille Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
François Couperin
23. Divertissement III - Les Amours badins « Jean s’en alla comme il était venu » Capriccio Stravagante, Skip Sempé
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
24. Trio Compère Grégoire 25. Trio Fanchon, la gentille Fanchon 26. Trio Beaux petits yeux d’écarlate Cassandre Berthon, Valérie Gabail, Robert Getchell, Jean-François Novelli & Jean-Baptiste Dumora Ensemble Amarillis, Héloïse Gaillard
RELEASE DATE 28TH JULY 2014
RIMSKY- KORSAKOV: Symphonic Suite ‘Scheherazade’ Op.35 BALAKIREV (orch S. Lyapunov): Oriental Fantasy ‘Islamey’ IPPOLITOV-IVANOV: Caucasian Sketches Op.10, No.2 ‘In the Village’, No.4 ‘The Procession of the Sardar’ ERKIN: Dance Suite ‘Kocecke’
Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra Sascha Goetzel
Label: Onyx Classics File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: ONYX4124 Barcode: 880040412427 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra Sascha Goetzel [conductor] Sascha Goetzel, Music Director of the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra will be on In tune on Radio 3 for a live interview on 28 July, the day before the orchestra's UK debut at the Proms, and the day that the new CD is released Andrew MacGregor who attended the sessions in Istanbul will devote part of Summer CD Review near the Prom date to the new CD, with interviews and music recorded for a mini documentary he made in February.
The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Sascha Goetzel, have over the course of the past five years, built a formidable reputation as one of the most creative and exciting orchestras in Europe. Two earlier CDs for ONYX were extremely well received by critics around the world and the new release will not disappoint. Since it was founded, BIPO has worked to develop not only as an orchestra, but as a showcase for music from different traditions – a multicultural mosaic where each little stone is carefully placed with the utmost respect for its neighbour, making a unique contribution to its surroundings. This new recording explores the eastern musical roots of Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, identifying elements from the eastern side of the Bosphorus which have impinged on the Western cultural background of these composers. For the first time the BIPO introduce original oriental instruments on a Scheherezade recording: between the first and second movements the oud plays a traditional melody; the violin solo recitatives are accompanied by the qanin instead of the harp; throughout the work a variety of Turkish and Arabian percussion instruments are delicately incorporated to support Rimsky-Korsakov's Arabic rhythm-writing. ALSO AVAILABLE: ONYX4048 Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba, Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosen of themes by Weber, F. Schmitt: The Tragedy of Salome "This is a notably impressive calling card" BBC Music Magazine ONYX4086 Music from the Machine Age: Holst, Bartok, Ravel, Prokofiev, Schulhoff "an exciting CD that deserves the widest currency" Gramophone "This is not just a fine disc; it’s a sensational set of performances" The Herald (Scotland)
CONCERT: BIPO makes its UK debut at the BBC Proms on 29 July! Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, and on BBC 4 TV on 31 August ADVERTISED IN GRAMOPHONE, BBC MUSIC & BBC PROMS GUIDE 2014
RELEASE DATE 28TH JULY 2014
James MacMILLAN: Visions of a November Spring Etwas zurückhaltend*, Visions of a November Spring, For Sonny*, String Quartet No 3*
Edinburgh Quartet * premiere recordings
Label: Delphian File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: DCD34088 Barcode: 801918340888 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Edinburgh Quartet: Tristan Gurney [violin] Gordon Bragg [violin] Jessica Beeston [viola] Mark Bailey [cello]
"For fifty years the Edinburgh Quartet has been one of the leading chamber ensembles of the UK," wrote the quartet’s patron James MacMillan on the occasion of their 50th anniversary in 2010. "I feel proud to be associated with them as they enter their second half-century under the dynamic leadership of Tristan Gurney, providing some of the most exciting performances in the business." Exciting is certainly the word to describe these marvellously idiomatic, intensely virtuosic readings of MacMillan’s own music. Spanning his career from 1982 to 2011, they provide three snapshots of his evolving style: an intriguing tissue of Wagnerian referentiality; a burst of youthful energy with touches of the visionary; and the sovereign integration of folk and discursive elements in String Quartet No 3. A moving short tribute, 'For Sonny', shows another side to this ceaselessly inventive composer’s output. The Edinburgh Quartet was founded in 1960 and quickly became established as one of Britain’s foremost chamber ensembles. It achieved international recognition after winning the Contemporary Prize at the Evian-les-Bains String Quartet Competition and has since toured extensively across Europe, the Far East, North and South America and the Middle East, as well as appearing regularly at venues across the UK. The Quartet has always been a champion of new music and has worked with many important and prolific composers of our age including James MacMillan, Michael Tippett and Howard Blake. ALSO AVAILABLE BY THE EDINBURGH QUARTET ON DELPHIAN: DCD34038 The Cold Dancer: String Quartets from Scotland DCD34055 Crawford - Music for Piano & Strings DCD34069 Miracles - The Music of Edward Harper DCD34091 Crawford - String Quartets DCD34079 Thomas Wilson-A Chamber Portrait DCD34082 Matyas Seiber - String Quartets 1-3 DCD34081 Postcard from Nalchik: Haydn, Prokofiev, Shostakovich "Richly considered, rigorously balanced … a musical treat" The Scotsman, March 2014 "dedicated performances by the Edinburgh Quartet … a worthwhile release" Gramophone, February 2012
RELEASE DATE 28TH JULY 2014
Gabriel JACKSON: Airplane Cantata BBC Singers Rex Lawson The Voice of the Bard, Ruchill Linn, Airplane Cantata, Winter Heavens, Choral Symphony
Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: SIGCD381 Barcode: 635212038123 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal BBC Singers Rex Lawson [pianola] David Hill, James Morgan [conductors]
Gabriel Jackson was Associate Composer with the BBC Singers from 2010 to 2013 and this disc collects the very best of this unique collaboration between composer and professional choral ensemble. The central work 'Airplane Cantata', premiered by the Singers in 2011, is an evocative tribute to the pioneers of flight and aircraft design, combining texts from early newsreels and pilots' journals, and featuring renowned pianola player Rex Lawson. It is one of the first full length pieces written especially for the pianola since the 1930s. Gabriel states that in writing this piece he satisfied his obsession with aviation: “…the technology, the bravery and daring of pilots, the aesthetic beauty of aircraft, the transcendence of flying – and when thinking about what a piece for voices and pianola might be about, I was very struck by the fact that the (brief) heyday of the pianola coincided with the pioneering years of aviation.” The variety of texts used includes eye-witness accounts by Louis Blériot and the musings of Amelia Earhart. The seven-movement work makes full use of the amazing keyboard dexterity possible with the pianola’s virtuosic resources and contains the instrumental Toccata Aeronautica, a staggering showpiece movement for pianola alone, giving full opportunity to show what it can achieve, but which a pianist, restricted to ten fingers, could not. World-renowned pianolist, Rex Lawson, prepared the piano rolls making use of a computer programme which translates staff notation into a machine to punch the rolls, which he devised himself. Rex is a leading exponent of the pianola and works tirelessly to promote this once hugely-popular, but now rather misunderstood instrument. Gabriel Jackson won his third British Composer Award for 'Airplane Cantata' in 2012; his Choral Symphony, also included here, was shortlisted in 2013. This disc follows in Signum's popular series of recordings showcasing the work of the BBC singers and their associate composers. Previous discs include works by Judith Bingham and Edward Cowie. ALSO AVAILABLE: SIGCD368 Harrison Birtwistle - Moth Requiem [British Composer Award] SIGCD144 Judith Bingham - Remoter Worlds SIGCD331 Edward Cowie - Gesangbuch
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Morton FELDMAN: String Quartet No. 1, Structures, Three Pieces for String Quartet FLUX Quartet
Label: Mode Records File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: mode269/70 Barcode: 764593026921 NORMAL Price Format: 2 CD + DVD Packaging: deluxe slipcase FLUX Quartet
The FLUX Quartet follow their acclaimed, best-selling recording of Feldman’s monumental 6-hour String Quartet No. 2 with this release, thus completing their cycle of Feldman’s string quartets, the first ensemble to do so. String Quartet No. 1 is one of Feldman’s earliest long-scale pieces. Unlike other recordings FLUX respects Feldman’s tempo and all of the repeats, making it the longest recording of the piece. Each of these string quartets inhabits a distinctive world, attuned to the incredible detail of tiny complexities of sound. Feldman gives attention to things one might otherwise overlook: no sound is too ordinary, too small, or too plain – in fact the small, ordinary, plain sounds are given a certain radiance, a renewed and rich inner life. 'Structure's (1951) presents us with a fragile and extremely delicate texture, almost transparent at times, like a finely woven gauze, with slightly varied repetitions, like undulations, like breathing. 'The Three Pieces' (1954-1956) form a triptych of sound worlds that have a similarity of tone, colour and density.. 'String Quartet' (1979) is a work of far-reaching scope, even grandeur. It is long enough to get lost in, and yet it has many recurrences or near-recurrences that offer moments of familiarity within this strange and beautiful music. 2-CDs + bonus DVD packaged in deluxe slipcase. The DVD presents the music in 24-bit stereo and surround-sound options. The FLUX Quartet’s performance of String Quartet No.1 is almost 90 minutes long. While it must be split over two CDs, the DVD presents the performance uninterrupted (note: no video content). ALSO AVAILABLE: mode112 Morton Feldman Edition 6: String Quartet No. 2 /FLUX "A landmark, whatever way you look at it." Michael Dervan, The Irish Times, 13 February 2003 "Feldman would have been a very happy man." Philip Clark, The Strad, May 2003 "mesmerising" Andrew McGregor, BBC Music Magazine, August 2003 presented in uncompressed Stereo and Dolby and DTS 5.1 surround
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BEETHOVEN: Triple Concerto Op.56, Violin Concerto Op.61 David Oistrakh Lev Oborin Svjatoslav Knuschevitzky Philharmonia Orchestra Malcolm Sargent André Cluytens
Label: Praga Digitals File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: DSD350082 Barcode: 3149028027921 NORMAL Price Format: 1 HYBRID SACD Packaging: cristal David Oïstrakh [violin] Lev Oborin [piano] Svjatoslav Knuschevitzky [cello] Philharmonia Orchestra/Malcolm Sargent Orchestre national de la Radiodiffusion française/André Cluytens
A generous and unusual pairing of these Beethoven concertos with 'King David' at his best, playing his Stradivarius 'Comte de Fontana'. The Op. 61 with Cluytens remains his finest and the legendary trio he formed with Lev Oborin and Svjatoslav Knuschevitzky outperforms his last meeting with Richter and Rostropovich. The Philharmonia in the Walter Legge era supports with a chamber music-like purity rarely reached since. During the years 1941 to 1963, Lev Oborin, David Oistrakh and the cellist Sviatoslav Knushevitsky, played as a piano trio achieving international fame. Khachaturian's three concertos, one each for piano, violin and cello, were written for the individual members of this trio.
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TCHAIKOVSKY: Moscow: Coronation Cantata, Voyevoda: Symphonic Ballad Op. 78 1812 Overture, The Tempest: Symphonic Fantasy Op. 18 Nikolaï Golovanov Nikolai Golovanov [1891-1953] was known in the West as the 'Russian Furtwängler' in the '40s and '50s. A visionary conductor who transformed even the most pedestrian pieces with ecstatic fervour - his hyper-dramatic 1812 Overture is frighteningly intense - he was officially written out of Soviet history and forgotten after being purged in 1952 and he conveniently died the following year. Fortunately Praga Digitals have remastered these mythical Tchaikovsky readings from 1952, including the 'Moscow' cantata commissioned for the coronation of Alexander III, given here in a 'Sovietised' text by Machistov erasing all imperial and religious references: a pearl of epic Russian archaism built of a flamboyant splendour. This hybrid SACD includes the 1812 Overture without artillery, the rare 'Voyevoda', plus Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' in its original edition. Resurrected icons by one of the greatest talents to ever hold a baton.
Label: Praga Digitals File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: DSD350117 Barcode: 3149028039023 NORMAL Price Format: 1 HYBRID SACD Packaging: cristal Ludmilla Legistayeva [mezzo] Daniel Damianov [baritone] Moscow Radio Symphony Soloists & Choir Nikolaï Golovanov [conductor]
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VERDI: Aida Live matinee performance, 3rd March 1962 Louis Sgarro [King] Irene Dalis [Amneris] Gabriella Tucci [Aida] Franco Corelli [Radamès] Giorgio Tozzi [Ramfis] Cornell Mac Neil [Amonasro] Orchestra & Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera House George Schick [conductor] Live matinee performance, 3rd March 1962, restored to the catalogue after a long absence.
Label: Walhall File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: WLCD0382 Barcode: 4035122653823 BUDGET Price Format: 2 CD Packaging: cristal
"Gabriella Tucci sang Aïda more frequently than any other role she attempted at the Met (39 performances)...What compels the house audience to long applause is the lengthy, beautifully sustained final note of [‘O patria mia’] and, even more than that, her leisurely and secure ascent to the top C at the aria’s climax – she takes it at the prescribed piano dynamic and crescendos as marked in the score. It is a lovely effect, perhaps the truest rendering of this fearsome moment on the broadcasts….in the end, a Corelli performance remains most notable for its feast of plangent, richly colored tone.” Paul Jackson, SIGN-OFF FOR THE OLD MET, pp.380-81 Irene Dalis, before her retirement from the stage in 1977, was a principal artist at New York’s Metropolitan Opera for 20 consecutive seasons, appeared regularly with Covent Garden, Berlin, Hamburg, Bayreuth and other major opera houses in Europe and the U. S. and was distinguished by the range and large number of roles in her repertoire. By the end of her career she had performed in every major opera house from Naples to San Francisco, and had 44 roles in her repertoire. Recognised from the beginning as a major dramatic talent, she was most often engaged to sing operas by Verdi, Wagner, and Strauss, eventually performing every major dramatic mezzo-soprano role by these operatic giants. Dubbed the 'Prince of tenors', Corelli possessed handsome features and a charismatic stage presence which endeared him to audiences. He had a long and fruitful partnership with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City between 1961 and 1975. Associated in particular with the spinto and dramatic tenor roles of the Italian repertory, he was celebrated universally for his powerhouse voice, electrifying top notes, clear timbre, a very elegant and passionate singing and remarkable performances. Opera News stated that Corelli's lowered-larynx technique "resulted in [a] cavernous sound even in high-flying passages, where it gained brilliance. Regulating the breath pressure, the tenor was able to reduce this sound while retaining the core of the voice in a diminuendo, or even a morendo on a high B-flat, the effect requested by Verdi at the end of 'Celeste Aida'."
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The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings Vol. III: Mozart Amadeus Quartet String Quartets: No. 14 K387, No. 15 K421, No. 16 K428, No. 18 K464, No. 19 K465, No. 21 K575, No. 22 K589, No. 23 K590 Clarinet Quintet K581 String Quintets: No. 3 K515, No. 4 K516, No. 5 K593, No. 6 K614
Label: Audite File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: AUDITE21427 Barcode: 4022143214270 MID Price Format: 5 CD Packaging: box set Cecil Aronowitz [viola] Heinrich Geuser [clarinet] Amadeus Quartet
The third volume of radio recordings with the Amadeus Quartet is dedicated to works of its eponym. From the very beginning, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s string quartets were a matter of the heart for the Amadeus Quartet. During the ensemble’s long career, which lasted for nearly 40 years, the great majority of its concert programmes contained at least one work by Mozart. It is not widely known that the Amadeus Quartet made studio recordings for the Berlin broadcasting corporation RIAS every year for nearly two decades. These previously unreleased Mozart recordings from the archives of Deutschlandradio Kultur, the legal successor to RIAS, were made during the quartet’s first ten years. They feature eight of the ten great string quartets written during Mozart’s mature period and show the ensemble at a very high technical and musical level, even at that early stage of its career. The great attention to detail and highly controlled form, in combination with great expression, create the prerequisite for musical spontaneity. These recordings are also of particular interest as they document the Amadeus Quartet at different levels in its reading of Mozart. In the first studio recordings of 1950 and 1951 the ensemble’s surprisingly unusual and experimental interpretational approach opened up hitherto unknown expressive possibilities. This edition is complemented by recordings of Mozart’s four great string quintets. The second viola part is played by the South-African-born Cecil Aronowitz. He was occasionally referred to as the fifth member of the Amadeus Quartet as he was nearly always engaged when a second viola was needed. Three of the four string quintets were recorded in the studio in one single recording session in 1953 – given the high musical quality of these tapes, this is proof of the extraordinary standard of the ensemble, able to lay down a recording more or less straight away. Another peak is the recording of Mozart’s clarinet quintet with Heinrich Geuser, one of the leading clarinettists of his time. ALSO AVAILABLE: The RIAS Amadeus Quart et Recordings Vol. I Beethoven audite 21424 (7 CD box) The RIAS Amadeus Quartet Recordings Vol. II: Schubert audite 21428 (2 CD box)
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Robert SCHUMANN: Complete Symphonic Works Vol. II Symphony No. 2 in C major Op. 61, Symphony No. 3 in E flat major Op. 97 ‘Rhenish’
Heinz Holliger WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
Label: Audite File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: AUDITE97678 Barcode: 4022143976789 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Heinz Holliger WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
With this CD, Audite present the second volume in their complete recording of Robert Schumann‘s orchestral works. The series includes all the symphonies (with both versions of the Fourth) as well as all the overtures and concertos. The Second and Third Symphonies, according to the usual numbering, passed through contrasting histories of reception. Whereas the ‘Rhenish’ remained relatively popular, the C major Symphony was received by contemporaries as trend-setting, but receded into the background from the late nineteenth century onwards. At this time, criticism was primarily levelled at its instrumentation, which had still been praised after its premiere. Heinz Holliger and the WDR Symphony Orchestra have recorded the works with an orchestra of the same size that was available to Schumann. In so doing, they not only uncover the sonic ideal of the composer, but also its consistent and convincing realisation. Holliger‘s performances draw on a lifetime study of Schumann‘s music, thought, personality and fate. His approach imparts lightness and lucidity to these opulent scores through a hierarchical balance of parts, delicately gradated dynamics and invigorating tempos. The widespread image of this romantic composer as a weak orchestrator receives a refreshing and well-grounded correction. ALSO AVAILABLE: audite97677 Schumann: Complete Symphonic Works Vol. I Symphony No. 1, Overture, Scherzo and Finale Op. 52, Symphony in D minor (original version 1841)
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TELEMANN: Paris Quartets Les Ombres After two albums released by Ambronay which have received numerous plaudits, the Swiss baroque ensemble Les Ombres present an album dedicated to Telemann's 'Paris' Quartets: repertoire they played at York Early Music Festival in 2012 in a young artists' showcase. Pleased with the reception of his quartets from the Parisian public, Telemann completed an edition of six new quartets subsequently appointed 'Pariser Quartett'. These contrast with the first set in their decidedly French style. In chamber formation Les Ombres explore the unique style of these jewels of baroque music. “The performances match the charm and vigour of the music, Les Ombres playing with a refined intensity made all the more delicious by a melancholy burr…the recorded sound exhibits a resonant intimacy that is ideal for this repertoire.” William Yeoman, Gramophone, May 2011
Label: Mirare File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: MIR255 Barcode: 3760127222552 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Margaux Blanchard Sylvain Sartre Les Ombres
"this recording is enjoyable and makes for pleasant listening." Musicweb International – April 2013 "my favourite disc in an uneven month's listening" Early Music Review
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SCHUBERT: String Quartet No. 14 'Death and the Maiden' JANACEK: String Quartet No. 1 'Kreutzer Sonata' Quatuor Debussy The Quatuor Debussy are the first signing to new label Evidence Classics with two of the finest works of the chamber music repertoire: Schubert's 'Death and the Maiden' and 'Kreutzer Sonata' quartet by Janacek. "With its dazzling technique and perfect mastery, the Quatuor Debussy produced an intensity and a moving fervour. The interpretation has reached here an unsurpassed quality. "Le Dauphiné Libéré
NEW Label: EVIDENCE classics File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: EVCD001 Barcode: 3149028057522 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Quatuor Debussy
Nicolas Bartholomée has created a new label, Evidence Classics. Nicolas, who founded Ambroisie, Aparté, Little Tribeca, is well established as the producer of choice for over 2000 discs by such artists as Ophélie Gaillard, Barbara Hendricks, Jordi Savall, Martha Argerich, Nathalie Dessay and Nikolai Lugansky. Now he has formed a new label with Emmanuel Chollet, the creator of label Fiat Lux and ex EMI / Virgin France, Timpani Records and Believe Digital. Evidence is intended to be based on the greatest French and foreign virtuosos but also young talents who will have the freedom to explore many different directories and musical genres. The label intends to use new media and video will have an important role through its YouTube channel where you can discover documentaries, interviews with artists and live broadcasts. Evidence will strive to keep pace with technological developments, whilst being committed to the best possible listening experience, wherever you are.
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LOCATELLI: 24 Caprices for solo violin Gabriel Tchalik A watershed in the violin repertoire, recorded for the first time in its complete original version, edited by Albert Dunning and published by Schott, which has fully restored its exceptional character, the 24 Caprices by Pietro Antonio Locatelli are unique in terms of both their form and their content. Taken from 'L'Arte del Violino' Op.III published in 1733 in Amsterdam, the Caprices are placed at the end of the external movements of the 12 Concertos which make up the collection. They are the written cadenzas from each movement. Locatelli specified in the heading of the score, that these Caprices can be played independently of the Opus III concertos. They are autonomous pieces which have all the characteristics of the cadenza: a very free form and a highly inventive unparalleled virtuosity, laying the basis for modern violin playing techniques. Locatelli had to have a violin built especially for him, which had a longer fingerboard than is found on today's baroque-made instruments and it is to pay homage to their modernity that this recording has been made on a modern instrument, which allows all the effects imagined by Locatelli to be expressed. The technique and musicality of Gabriel Tchalik, a young and talented Franco-Russian violinist, shine here.
Label: EVIDENCE classics File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: EVCD002 Barcode: 3149028057720 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Gabriel Tchalik [violin]
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING LOCATELLI 250
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HUMMEL: Septets Septets 'Militaire' Op. 114, Op. 74
Consortium Classicum Dieter Klöcker Hummel studied with Mozart (piano and composition) and was a friend of Beethoven – and we can hear all this in his septets. We can hear, too, why Schumann’s generation praised him highly. Here is a Classical master on the cusp of the Romantic era, original in instrumentation and technique and subtle in his harmonies. For several decades now, the Consortium Classicum has been recognised as one of the outstanding chamber ensembles of a variable formation. They are joined in each septet by pianist Florian Uhlig and in Op. 114 by the ensemble’s 'spiritus rector' of many years, Dieter Klöcker on clarinet. His colleagues match him here in their good humour, technical brilliance and their love of musical detail – qualities that this new recording possesses from first note to last.
Label: Orfeo File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: C762141A Barcode: 4011790762128 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Consortium Classicum Dieter Klöcker [clarinet] Florian Uhlig [piano]
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Trobar & Joglar Alla Francesca The programme presented on this disc raises a fundamental issue concerning the historical transmission of the medieval lyric in Occitan and northern French: the essential role of the jongleurs alongside the troubadours and trouvères [poets]. Almost all the texts sung here are in the langue d'oc or Occitan, the language of the troubadours. These poets have a common language in the art they call 'trobar'. The theme of love is central: love betrayed, love that has gone cold, love so crazy that inspires one to sing nonsense lyrics and compose melodies to doomed love. Here mingle sung and instrumental pieces and the texts belong to various genres and highlight different styles. The term troubadour relates to the image of the jongleur, a word which derives from the Latin 'joculator[em]', the name coming from 'joc'[um], meaning play or sport. From antiquity a joculator was regarded as a person of ill repute and was criticised by the Church, which placed him in the same category as prostitutes. 'Trobar' was thus associated with 'joglar'. This is the 16th recording from Alla Francesca, founded in the 1990s as a chamber ensemble devoted to medieval music in all its diversity.
Label: AGOGIQUE File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: AGO017 Barcode: 3700675500177 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Alla Francesca: Brigitte Lesne [voice, harp, psalterion] Pierre Hamon [flutes, bagpipes] Vivabiancaluna Biffi [voice, vielle] Carlo Rizzo [percussions]
"the ensemble sounds as riveting as ever... The excellent instrumentalists play with equal commitment. Alla Francesca’s utterly convincing recreation of this music is full of magic, passion and humanity." BBC Music Magazine *****/*****
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Pierre de la RUE: Requiem, Missa de Beata Virgine Ensemble Officium Wilfried Rombach
Pierre de la Rue's 'Missa pro defunctis' is one of the earliest polyphonic settings of the requiem and became the best-known work of this genre during the Renaissance. The impressively low range of parts of the Mass vividly represents the position of the sinner knocking at heaven's gate. Alongside this is la Rue's 'Missa de Beata Virgine', in which the missing Proprium parts of the Mass have been completed by Gregorian chant from a manuscript of St. Thomas's Church in Leipzig. The result is a Mass of St. Mary as it might have sounded in (then still Catholic) Wittenberg around 1500.
Label: Christophorus File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: CHR77386 Barcode: 4010072773869 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Ensemble Officium Wilfried Rombach
Also available: CHR77313 Palestrina MISSA PAPAE MARCELLI, MOTETS FOR FEAST OF THE ASCENSION Rombach/Ensemble Officium
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Schubert’s Lieder: Music and Words, Volume 2 Jane Booth Mhairi Lawson Norbert Meyn William Dazeley Eugene Asti
Label: SFZ Music File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: SFZM0213 Barcode: 5065001476167 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Jane Booth [clarinet] Mhairi Lawson [soprano] Norbert Meyn [tenor] William Dazeley [baritone] Eugene Asti [pianoforte]
Serenades: An die Leier D737, An die Laute D905, Ständchen, Schwanengesang No. 4. D957 Consolation in Tears: Lachen und Weinen D777, Das Weinen D926, Trost in Tränen D120. Wonne der Wehmut D260, Lob der Tränen, D711 From Goethe’s Faust / Maidens in Distress: Gretchens Bitte D564, Gretchen am Spinnrade D118, Der König in Thule D367, Des Mädchens Klage D191 Spiritual and Sacred: Das Marienbild D623, Vom Mitleiden Mariä D632, Die junge Nonne D828 From Walter Scott’s Lady of the Lake: Ellens zweiter Gesang D838, Ellens dritter Gesang: “Ave Maria” D839, Lied des gefangenen Jägers D843 Shepherds and Shepherdesses: La pastorella D528, Schäfers Klagelied D121, Der Hirt auf dem Felsen D965 SFZ Music are pleased to announce their latest release, the second volume in the acclaimed “Schubert’s Lieder” series: an exciting blend of scholarly research and thrilling performances by young musicians. As with volume 1, the starting point for this recording is the 1877 publication Epheublätter (Ivy Leaves), a collection of 15 of Schubert’s most popular Lieder arranged for clarinet and piano by Carl Baermann (1810-1885). Jane Booth is an internationally recognised scholar, clarinet virtuoso, and Head of Historical Performance at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In this project she explores the relationship between performer and researcher, as well as that between instrumentalist and singer, by placing her own performances of selections from Baermann’s collection alongside fresh and exciting performances of Schubert’s Lieder by students and recent graduates of the Guildhall, all sensitively accompanied by the accomplished Eugene Asti. ALSO AVAILABLE: SFZM0312 Schubert's Lieder Vol. 1
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Barbara STROZZI: Arias & cantatas Op. 8 Emanuela Galli La Risonanza Fabio Bonizzoni 1 Cantata E giungerà pur mai alla linea crudele 2 Aria È pazzo il mio core 3 Serenata con violini Hor che Apollo è a Theti in seno 4 Cantata Aure già che non posso dall’Idol mio 5 Aria Luci belle deh ditemi perché 6 Cantata L’Astratto. Voglio sì vò cantar 7 Cantata Che si può fare 8 Cantata Cieli, stelle, Deitàdi
Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: GCDC81503 Barcode: 8424562815032 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Emanuela Galli (soprano) La Risonanza Fabio Bonizzoni (direction)
Despite its surprisingly simple title, Arie, the greater part of the collection published by Barbara Strozzi in 1644 consists of five cantatas and one serenata, all of which are included on this recording. In many ways, these compositions reflect the composer’s desire to experiment with and challenge the conventions of the genres with which she was working; challenges which are brilliantly surmounted here by the soprano Emanuela Galli and the instrumentalists of La Risonanza, expertly led from the harpsichord by Fabio Bonizzoni.
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Pietro Domenico PARADISI: Sonatas for harpsichord London, 1754 Enrico Baiano
Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: GCDC80011 Barcode: 8424562800113 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Enrico Baiano [harpsichord]
Sonata XI Moderato - Andante Sonata IX Allegro - Andante Sonata X Vivace - Presto Sonata IV Andante - Minuetto Sonata VI Vivace - Allegro Sonata VII Allegro - Presto Sonata II Andante - Allegro Sonata I Allegro - Vivace Sonata V Presto - Allegro Sonata XII Allegro - Presto Sonata VIII Allegro - Presto Sonata III Presto - Larghetto e cantabile These twelve sparkling sonatas from 1754 by Pier Domenico Paradisi (or Paradies) come from a period when Italian instrumental style had been losing ground compared to what was being produced on the other side of the Alps. Paradisi acts as a catalyst for the different attitudes of expression in Italy, France and Eastern Europe, expanding the boundaries of the so-called stile galante. Enrico Baiano, who enjoyed a remarkable period of recording activity for the Symphonia label in the 1990s, shows again with this stunning 1995 Paradisi recital, why he is regarded as one of the best harpsichordists of his generation.
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Claude Le JEUNE: Airs et psaumes Claudine Ansermet Paolo Cherici Vien belle vien, Fantasia quinta - Joachim van den Hove, Vers toy, Seigneur dous, Praeludium Noni Toni - Emanuel Adriaenssen, O que je peusse à mon gré, Courante - Joachim van den Hove, Doucette, doux sucre fin, Praeludium 161 - Elias Mertel, Vous qu’amour tou-bon favorize, Tel se plaint d’amour, Passomezo - Emanuel Adriaenssen, Voicy le verd et beau May, Preludium - Joachim van den Hove, Las ! Je me pleing, Praeludium Tertij Toni - Emanuel Adriaenssen, O doux et beaux yeux, Praeludium Decimi Toni - Emanuel Adriaenssen, Rendons graces à Dieu, Praeludium 4 - Elias Mertel, Mon cœur que d’ennuis, Courante - Julien Perrichon, Une puce j’ay' Fantasia - Jacques Edinthon (16th century), Enten de mes plaints, Puisque ne veus me guerir, Pavana - Joachim van den Hove, Qu’est devenu ce bel œil
Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: GCDC80012 Barcode: 8424562800120 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Claudine Ansermet [soprano] Paolo Cherici [lute]
Soprano Claudine Ansermet and lutenist Paolo Cherici frequently appear on recording releases which Glossa Cabinet from time to time is putting out, and drawn from the now-disbanded Symphonia label. Here, the delightful chansons of Claude Le Jeune are interspersed with preludes, dances and fantasias for solo lute by figures such as Mertel, Perrichon and Adriaenssen. Le Jeune worked at the court of Henri IV before being succeeded by Pierre Guédron, and was one of the most prolific and significant composers of the second half of the 16th century, and one of the chief exponents of “musique mesurée à l’antique”.
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BOCCHERINI: Guitar Quintets Guitar Quintet in E minor (G451), Guitar Quintet in D major (G448)
José Miguel Moreno La Real Cámara
Without any doubt this is one of the greatest recordings ever produced by Glossa, as well as being the only recorded occasion in which the two co-founding brothers of the label – guitarist José Miguel and violinist Emilio Moreno – have taken part together. In the hands of these fabulous specialists, who are accompanied by a tiple treble guitar and castanets in the famous Fandango, two of Boccherini’s guitar quintets sound here with an unparalleled intensity and brightness.
Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: GCDC80305 Barcode: 8424562803053 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack José Miguel Moreno [6-course guitar] La Real Cámara: Emilio Moreno, Enrico Gatti [violin] Wim ten Have [viola] Wouter Möller [cello] Eligio Quinteiro [tiple] Luz Martín [castanets]
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Flute Music by Bach’s students Wilbert Hazelzet Jacques Ogg Jaap ter Linden Johann Philipp KIRNBERGER: Sonata in G minor, Fugue in F minor Johann Gottlieb GOLDBERG: Sonata in C major (identical to BWV1037) Carl Friedrich ABEL: Sonata in E minor Johann Ludwig KREBS: Sonata da Camera in E minor Johann Gottfried MUTHEL: Sonata in D major
Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: GCDC80802 Barcode: 8424562808027 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Wilbert Hazelzet [traverso] Jacques Ogg [harpsichord] Jaap ter Linden [cello]
For Wilbert Hazelzet’s second disc for Glossa (the first was an enthralling Hotteterre project also re-released on Cabinet), the stylish Dutch flute player covers a selection of pieces of music by composers who, with varying levels of certainty, can be regarded as having been pupils of Johann Sebastian Bach: Abel, Kirnberger, Krebs, Müthel and Goldberg – whose C major Sonata was for a long time regarded as being by Bach himself (as his BWV 1037). Cellist Jaap ter Linden and harpsichordist Jacques Ogg accompanied Hazelzet on this beautiful recording.
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Metamorphosis: Greek musical traditions across the centuries Hristos Tsiamulis Dimitris Psonis Pedro Estevan
Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: GCDC81001 Barcode: 8424562810013 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Hristos Tsiamulis [voice, lyra, uti, ney, tamburica, kaval] Dimitris Psonis [santoor, tar, uti, tamburica, daf] Pedro Estevan [percussion]
1 Den Ejo Mythus (Hristos Tsiamulis) 2 Bam (trad., Asia Minor) 3 Tsivaeri (trad., Aegean Islands) 4 Thalassaki (trad., Aegean Islands) 5 Heris Askitikon. Doxastikon Tu Pasja (anon., Byzantium) 6 Çurçuna (Tatyos Ekserjian) 7 Fos Ilarion (Hristos Tsiamulis) 8 Metamorphosis (Hristos Tsiamulis) 9 Sehnaz Semai (Nikolakis) 10 San Pas Sta Xena (trad., Asia Minor) 11 Joros Ston Sirio (Hristos Tsiamulis) 12 Kalinigtia (Hristos Tsiamulis) 13 Baiduska (trad., Thrace) 14 Ta Typicá (anon., Byzantium) “The music of Greece which has come down to us from Antiquity, via the Byzantine tradition, changes its appearance according to era and place of origin, and always yet preserves its soul intact. Each new generation rediscovers the crucial details and secrets in order to be able sustain afresh a form of music which has acted as a form of expression for millions of people for thousands of years.” Such were the words of Hristos Tsiamulis, the driving force – along with those other multi-instrumentalists Dimitris Psonis and Pedro Estevan – behind one of the most loved Glossa recordings, replete with timeless Mediterranean aromas.
RELEASE DATE 28TH JULY 2014
Ming TSAO: Pathology of Syntax Arditti Quartet ensemble recherche Pathology of Syntax / The Arditti Quartet (Un)cover / Ensemble ascolta, Jonathan Stockhammer [conductor] The Book of Virtual Transcriptions, Not Reconciled / Ensemble SurPlus, James Avery [conductor] One-Way Street / ensemble recherche Canon / Anthony Burr [clarinet], Charles Curtis [cello]
Label: Mode Records File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: mode268 Barcode: 764593026822 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal
Ming Tsao is a Chinese-American composer active in Europe. His works have been performed at the Donaueschingen Festival, Wien Modern, Wittener Tage, Maerz Musik and Darmstadt. Tsao’s composition teachers include Chaya Czernowin, Brian Ferneyhough and Mario Davidovsky. Tsao is also Professor of Composition at Göteborg University, Sweden. He holds composition degrees from University of California, San Diego and Berklee College of Music. This is the first monographic CD of Tsao’s music. 'Pathology of Syntax' attempts to simulate a late Beethoven quartet. The Beethoven fragments dissolve into the physicality of the string quartet medium where the energy of bowing, plucking, scraping and brushing physical materials such as hair, wood and metal achieves an independence from the transcribed material it seeks to represent. 'One-Way Street' is a meditative, contemplative work that gradually disassembles what we assume to be beautiful: natural harmonics, drones and ecstatic rhythms. In 'Not Reconciled', the sound of fingernails brushing against strings, the rattling of snares on a snare drum or the clicking of clarinet keys settle into a sound world tentatively held together by the incongruous instruments that create it. '(Un)cove'r is a meditation on the opening of Beethoven’s last piano sonata, opus 111 (first movement). 'The Book of Virtual Transcriptions' consists of 49 aural signs ranging from abstract to concrete images of musical material from the Adagio movement of Mozart's oboe quartet (K.V. 370). These signs and their relations pose as stimuli that force the brain to complete a virtual transcription of the Mozart movement in which one constructs a way to listen to the Mozart that engages the musical unconscious. 'Canon' probes the limits of a musical canon through references to Bach's Musical Offering.
RELEASE DATE 28TH JULY 2014
Sebastian GRAMSS: Thinking of Thinking of … A Catena, Macchina Basso, Fioritura, Spirale, Un Vento Silenzioso, Moto Perpetuo, Pezzi Difettosi, Sul Viaggio, In Altre Parole, Soffermiamoci Solos Sostevoli Su (Mark Dresser), La Coda del Nebbio (John Eckhardt), Voyager (Sebastian Gramss), Outside-Inside (Barry Guy), Rock! Nella Nebbia (Christine Hoock), For Stefano (Joëlle Léandre), Subito Sera (Dieter Manderscheid), Tocarme (Barre Phillips), Breaking Glasses (Daniele Roccato), Casino (Tetsu Saitoh), h-Moll/D-Dur (Håkon Thelin) Bonus Track: Virtù (Stefano Scodanibbio | Sebastian Gramss)
Label: Wergo File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: WER8052-2 Barcode: 4010228805222 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Mark Dresser, John Eckhardt Sebastian Gramss, Barry Guy Christine Hoock, Joëlle Léandre Dieter Manderscheid, Barre Phillips Daniele Roccato, Tetsu Saitoh Håkon Thelin, Stefano Scodanibbio
'Thinking of …' is an homage to the double-bass player and artist Stefano Scodanibbio who died before his time in 2012. This project gathered the crème de la crème of the modern double-bass world. Sebastian Gramss, as the producer, composer and one of the players, pays respect to Scodanibbio’s work in two ways: by leaning on his music, and by continuing his work through the exploration of new forms and approaches, pushing the limits of double bass playing even further. Due to the unpredictability of the players’ contributions, Gramss decided not to write long, continuous compositions, but instead to create a number of shorter combinable modules, which were connected after the recording was done. The second part of the album is a collection of the most personal solo contributions – in these 11 pieces the players share their individual, personal connection to Scodanibbio’s work and show the wide scope of their musicality. The album ends with a treat – a bonus track “Virtù”, unpublished before. The track is a live recording of a duo by Stefano Scodanibbio and Sebastian Gramss from the Altstadtherbst Festival in Düsseldorf in 2008. This piece ties the whole album together and lets us enjoy Scodanibbio’s playing with the creator of 'Thinking of …'.
RELEASE DATE 28TH JULY 2014
David Brynjar FRANZSON: the Negotiation of Context Yarn | Wire Content CD: the Negotiation of Context (A) for piano and pump organ the Negotiation of Context (B) for two pianos and two bass drums the Negotiation of Context (C) for solo piano and assistant CD extra: Performance video of the Negotiation of Context (B) 'the Negotiation of Context' by the native Icelander David Brynjar Franzson is a set of three independent pieces. Each of the three pieces is assembled from various sounds and contexts on top of a topography of pre-existing programmes: the history of the instruments, the social dynamics of the performers and the means of presentation of the piece. The listener is presented with a series of materials that embody how performers play with or against each other.
Label: Wergo File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: WER7313-2 Barcode: 4010228731323 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD + DVD Packaging: cristal Yarn|Wire: Ian Antonio, Russell Greenberg [percussion, pump organ] Laura Barger, Ning Yu [pianos]
Yarn/Wire is a quartet of two percussionists and two pianists. This instrumental combination allows the ensemble flexibility to slip effortlessly between classics of the repertoire and modern works that continue to forge new boundaries. Founded in 2005, Yarn/Wire is admired for the energy and precision they bring to performances of today's most adventurous music. The results of their collaborative initiatives with genre-bending artists such as Two-Headed Calf, Pete Swanson, and Tristan Perich point towards the emergence of a new and lasting repertoire that is "spare and strange and very, very new." (Time Out NY) David Brynjar Franzson is an Icelandic composer currently residing in New York. his works have been performed by ensembles such as the arditti quartet, ensemble adapter, ensemble surplus, avanti!, eighth blackbird, ensemble aventure, either or, yarn/wire, oslo sinfonietta, caput, uusynta , asamisimasa ,+/- , red fish blue fish and inauthentica. He holds a doctorate degree from Stanford University where he worked with Brian Ferneyhough and Mark Applebaum as well as with Tristan Murail at Columbia University. He is a founding member of the Icelandic composer's collective s.l.a.t.u.r. and co-runs the record label Carrier records with Sam Pluta and Jeff Snyder.
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Fragments Claude LEDOUX: Notizen-Fragmente, Jean-Pierre DELEUZE: Voici l'absence This recording is the result of a promise made by two young musicians in April 2009, when then-resident organist Cindy Castillo invited her favourite chamber music partner, singer Aurélie Franck, to Japan’s Sapporo Concert Hall. The concert included the premiere of the first book of Claude Ledoux’s 'Notizen-Fragmente' (Fragmentary Notes), a work written specially for the two of them, on youthful texts by Rainer Maria Rilke. At the end of the concert, the artists promised each other that they would continue down this privileged path of performing works inspired by and composed for them and so in March 2012 they persuaded composer Jean-Pierre Deleuze to write a new song-cycle for organ and voice, for inclusion in a concert centred on Angels (and Demons) at the Ars Musica festival. The result was 'Voici l’absence – Cinq déplorations en antiphonie' (Here is Absence – Five Antiphonal Deplorations), a work of deeply poetic, humane music on texts of Baschô, Jacques Crickillon and Henri de Montherlant.
Label: Paraty Productions File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: PTY114122 Barcode: 3760213650160 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Cindy Castillo [organ] Aurélie Franck [voice]
RELEASE DATE 28TH JULY 2014
French Organ Masters From Louis XIII to the 1848 Revolution From Titelouze to Boëly, from the dawn of the 17th century until the end of the monarchy in 1848, an anthology of French organ music from the archives of the Radio France label Tempéraments. 30 composers, 20 performers and ensembles performing over two centuries of music on eight CDs, each programmed in the spirit of a concert, associating organ masterpieces with ten historic instruments, and different instrumental and vocal repertoire. A production coinciding with the tri-centennial of the J. Boizard organ (1714) of the Abbey of Saint-Michel en Thiérache (Aisne), an instrument associated with the Tempéraments collection from the beginning.
Label: Radio France File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: TEM316045/52 Barcode: 3149028055122 BUDGET Price Format: 8 CD Michel Alabau, Olivier Baumont, Fabio Bonizzoni, Jean Boyer, Frédéric Desenclos, Martin Gester, Gilles Harlé, Aude Heurtematte, André Isoir, Keï Koïto, François Ménissier, Davitt Moroney, Serge Schoonbroodt, Fretwork, Ens Gilles Binchois, La Risonanza, Ens Pierre Robert, La Simphonie du Marais
RELEASE DATE 28TH JULY 2014
Christmas Carols, A Celebration Vox Turturis Andrew Gant The Angel Gabriel Veni, Veni, Emmanuel, O Tannenbaum, The Holly and the Ivy, I Saw Three Ships, O Little Town of Bethlehem, In dulci jubilo, Adeste, fideles, While Shepherds Watched, The Fleecy Care, While Shepherds Watched, Ding-Dong, Merrily, Célébrons la naissance, Les anges dans nos campagnes, Hark, the Herald, The Christ-child’s Lullaby, Still, still, still, Away in a Manger, Personent hodie, The Twelve days of Christmas, What child is this? A Merry Christmas, Tempus adest floridum (spring carol)
Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: SIGCD387 Barcode: 635212038727 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Vox Turturis David Quinn [organ] Andrew Gant [director]
A new album bringing classic carols to life under the expert direction of conductor and author Andrew Gant, coinciding with the release later this year of his new book “Christmas Carols, A Celebration”. Everyone loves a carol - in the end, even Scrooge. They have the power to summon up a special kind of midwinter mood, like the aroma of mince pies and mulled wine and the twinkle of lights on a tree. It’s a kind of magic. But how did they get that magic? In 'Christmas Carols' Andrew Gant tells the story of some 20 carols, each accompanied by lyrics and music, unravelling a captivating - and often surprising - tale of great musicians and thinkers, saints and pagans, shepherd boys, choirboys, monks and drunks. We delve into the history of such favourites as ‘Good King Wenceslas’, ‘Away in a Manger’ and ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’, discovering along the way how ‘Hark, the Herald angels sing’ came to replace ‘Hark, how all the welkin ring’ and how Ralph Vaughan Williams bolted the tune of an English folk song about a dead ox to a poem by a nineteenth-century American pilgrim to make ‘O little town of Bethlehem’. 'Christmas Carols' brims with anecdote, expert knowledge and Christmas spirit. It is a fittingly joyous account of one of our best-loved musical traditions.
RELEASE DATE 28TH JULY 2014
On Christmas Night Armonico Consort Christopher Monks
Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: SIGCD386 Barcode: 635212038628 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Armonico Consort Christopher Monks [musical director]
Away in a Manger - W.J. Kirkpatrick, arr. Willcocks In Dulci Jubilo - arr. Pearsall O Come All Ye Faithfull - John Francis Wade Hope Finds a Way - Jonathan Roberts Stille Nacht - Franz Gruber Sussex Carol - arr. Willcocks Mistletoe- Jonathan Roberts Once in Royal David’s City -Henry John Gauntlet O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen God Rest You Merry Gentlemen- Traditional Ding Dong Merrily On High - arr. Wood Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin, arr. Gritton A Ceremony of Carols - Benjamin Britten Armonico Consort return to disc on Signum with a festive selection of classic carols and hymns alongside new commissions and arrangements. The programme is rounded off by Benjamin Britten’s timeless' A Ceremony of Carols'. Praise for past releases from the Armonico Consort “vocal lines can float, suspensions can melt and the listener can relax and marvel at the singers’ superb breath control and rock-steady intonation … this disc of unending delight” Gramophone “An achingly beautiful selection” Classic FM