July Classical

JULY 2014

harmonia mundi UK

Classical new release

Maria Jo達o Pires joins Onyx

not final artwork

available 30th June & 14th July, call-off 20th June

BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE, CHOICES July

Naïve V5344 Mister Paganini: Laurent Korcia Glossa GCD922803 Gesualdo Responsoria: La Compagnia del Madrigale

GRAMOPHONE, EDITOR’S CHOICE, July

Orfeo C878141A Strauss Also sprach, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel: CBSO, Andris Nelsons

IRR OUTSTANDING, June BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE CHOICE June Opera Magazine, DISC OF THE MONTH

Signum SIGCD372 Bartok Bluebeard’s Castle: Sir John Tomlinson, Philharmonia, Esa-Pekka Salonen

IRR OUTSTANDING, June

Pan Classics PC10305 C.P.E. Bach Works for Keyboard & Violin: Leila Schayegh ALBUM OF THE WEEK, Sunday Times, 11th May GLOSSA GCD921119 Mozart The Last Three Symphonies: Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Brüggen BBC RADIO 3, CD OF THE WEEK, CD REVIEW Naive V5373 Handel Tamerlano / Sabata, Cencic, Minasi DISTRIBUTED LABELS: ACCENT RECORDS, ACTES SUD, AGOGIQUE, ALIA VOX, AMBRONAY, APARTE, ARTE VERUM, AUDITE, BEL AIR, THE CHOIR OF KINGS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE, CONVIVIUM, CHRISTOPHORUS, CSO RESOUND, DELPHIAN, DUCALE, EDITION CLASSICS, FLORA, FRA MUSICA, GLOSSA, harmonia mundi, HAT[NOW]ART, LA DOLCE VOLTA, LES ARTS FLORISSANTS EDITIONS, LSO LIVE, MARIINSKY, MIRARE, MODE, MUSO, MYRIOS, NAÏVE, ONYX, OPELLA NOVA, ORFEO, PAN CLASSICS, PRADIZO, PARATY, PEARL, PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE, PHIL.HARMONIE, PRAGA DIGITALS, RADIO FRANCE, RAM, REAL COMPAÑIA ÓPERA DE CÁMARA, RCO LIVE, SFZ MUSIC, SIGNUM, STRADIVARIUS, UNITED ARCHIVES, WAHOO, WALHALL ETERNITY, WERGO, WIGMORE HALL LIVE, WINTER & WINTER, YSAYE

RELEASE DATE 14TH JULY 2014

LISZT: Sonata in B minor, Late pieces Paul Lewis Editor’s Choice, Gramophone *****, The Guardian Radio 3 Disc of the Week Gramophone Critics’ Choice Pianist Recommended

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: HMA1951845 Barcode: 3149020184530 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Paul Lewis [piano]

"The poetry and grandeur of his playing put Paul Lewis's Liszt among the Greats…even in a crowded market place (where Horowitz, Gilels, Richter, Argerich, Brendel and Pollini, etc, jostle for attention) Paul Lewis's recording stands out for its breadth, mastery and shining musicianship. Eschewing all obvious display, he concentrates on the Sonata's Monumental weight, grandeur and ever-elusive inner poetry. His sense of drama is dark and intense and his reading of the central Andante sostenuto alone puts his performance in the highest league…one of the finest, most intelligently planned Liszt recitals to have come my way for many years. Harmonia Mundi's sound is of demonstration quality.” Bryce Morrison, Editor’s Choice, Gramophone, October 2004 “a performance of unflinching energy and power, of youthful intensity and sharp- edged clarity. There’s never a moment that isn’t filled with interest or edge- of-the-seat excitement. Lewis’s playing has an irresistible magnetism. It has a reflective charm, too, in the shorter, lesser-known pieces that complete this Liszt homage - the delicate Four Piano Pieces, the delicious En Rêve and the pensive La Lugubre gondola among them." KENNETH WALTON, The Scotsman, 10 September 2004 “Lewis's refusal to indulge in self-conscious flamboyance generates tremendous, brooding intensity throughout. Those who equate Liszt purely with bravura showmanship will probably be fazed. If you really care about his music, however, you'll love it." Tim Ashley, The Guardian, 17 September 2004, ***** "[Lewis] tackles Liszt's monumental Sonata with an energy and power that sweeps all before it, while allowing room for thoughtful introspection, too. It's an astonishing performance."

Andrew Clarke, The Independent, 2-8 October 2004, 4/5 “Oh and Santa, if you’re passing, I wouldn’t mind at all if you dropped Paul Lewis’s majestic account of the Liszt B minor Sonata down the chimney.” Lindsay Kemp, Critics’ Choice, Gramophone, December 2004

RELEASE DATE 14TH JULY 2014

LASSUS: Lagrime di San Pietro Philippe Herreweghe This cycle of 21 spiritual madrigals for seven voices is at once the swansong of the most famous composer of his time, who died in 1594 at the age of 62 just three weeks after dedicating the work to the Pope, and the highpoint of Counter-Reformation polyphony. More than four centuries later, the ‘Tears of St Peter’ still have the power to move.

This title was released for the first time in 1994.

* Gramophone Collection JUNE 2014 Lassus 'Lagrime di San Pietro' TOP CHOICE, commenting: "to my mind, it's one of the finest recordings of Renaissance music ever made"

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: HMA1951483 Barcode: 3149020148334 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Maria-Cristina Kiehr Johanna Koslowsky (cantus) Simon Berridge, Gerd Türk (altus) Hervé Lamy, Peter Kooy (tenor) Adrian Peacock (bassus) Ensemble Vocal Européen Philippe Herreweghe [conductor]

RELEASE DATE 14TH JULY 2014

BRUCKNER: Symphony No.3 [1873] DSO Berlin, Kent Nagano “In what will surely prove a landmark performance, Nagano wrings every last nuance from fine German players.” Anthony Holden, The Observer, 20 June 2004 "A fascinating recording...Nagano captures the reverence and agitation of the symphony perfectly, gleaning a bright, luminous tone from the strings." Anna Picard, The Independent on Sunday, 14 July 2004 “The orchestra rises to the challenge of sustaining Bruckner’s immensely long paragraphs, and there’s some wonderful solo playing.” Ivan Hewett, The Times, 19 June 2004

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: HMA1951817 Barcode: 3149020181737 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Kent Nagano - Conductor

RELEASE DATE 14TH JULY 2014

Cipriano de RORE: Missa Praeter rerum seriem Huelgas-Ensemble Paul Van Nevel Like Willaert, Cipriano de Rore was one of the great Flemish composers who spent their entire career in Italy. Although better known for his madrigals, he also wrote this Mass based on the Christmas motet by Josquin Desprez Praeter rerum seriem (Beyond all human understanding, the Virgin Mary conceived the Son of Man).

This title was released for the first time in 2002.

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: HMA1951760 Barcode: 3149020176030 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Huelgas-Ensemble Paul Van Nevel [Conductor]

RELEASE DATE 14TH JULY 2014

PURCELL: Harpsichord Suites Kenneth Gilbert

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: HMA1951496 Barcode: 3149020149638 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Kenneth Gilbert [harpsichord]

No. 1: G Major Z660 Ground In Gamut Z645 No. 2: G Minor Z661 Chaconne ZT680 No. 3: G Major Z662 No. 4: A Minor Z663 No. 5: C Major Z666 Ground In C Minor Z667 No. 6: D Major Z667 No. 7: D Minor Z668 No. 8: F Major Z669 A New Ground T682 Hornpipe ZT685 Kenneth Gilbert [b.1931] entwined scholarship and performance more closely than most in the field of early music, making scholarship an art and performance a means of investigation. He was an early pioneer in editing Baroque scores: from a new edition to honour the F. Couperin tercentenary (1968) based on scholarly re-examination of the original engraved scores to the monumental task of preparing a new edition (from existing editions) of the 555 sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti in 11 volumes. Gilbert also edited the complete harpsichord works of Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Bach's Goldberg Variations, Frescobaldi's first and second books of toccatas and Rameau's complete harpsichord works.

In 1968, he gave his first recital in London and undertook an international career. Stephen Plaistow in Gramophone (May 1973) said: 'Kenneth Gilbert's achievement... is to rescue the music from a small circle of connoisseurs and to make it... universally enjoyable. He does so by harnessing the discipline of scholarship to his flair for performing the music... Not since Thurston Dart... has there been such a fruitful coincidence of the scholar's mind and the performer's fingers in this field'.

He has made well over 50 recordings on the Harmonia Mundi and Archiv labels, as well as a host of more specialised lines. He has focused on French music and many of his recordings are considered standards. Originally issued in 1994.

ALSO AVAILABLE: HMD9909036 Kenneth Gilbert harpsichord & organ. Music Lessons [dvd]

RELEASE DATE 14TH JULY 2014

Corsican Chant Ensemble Organum Marcel Pérès In this pioneering disc first released in 1994, Marcel Pérès and his group of singers reveal the rich heritage of the authentic repertories of Corsican sacred chant, no longer sung in churches and saved only by oral tradition and musical detective work. The fascinating result provides an insight into the interpretation of the whole range of popular sacred polyphony in the Mediterranean region.This title was released for the first time in 1994.

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: HMA1951495 Barcode: 3149020149539 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Ensemble Organum Marcel Pérès [Conductor]

RELEASE DATE 14TH JULY 2014

RACHMANINOV: Etudes-Tableaux Op.33 & 39 Nicholas Angelich Another Les Nouveaux Interprètes alumni, Award-winning pianist Nicholas Angelich has been praised for his impressive interpretations of classical and romantic repertoire. He has also gained recognition for his interpretation of 20th century music, including performances of works by Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Bartok, Ravel, Messiaen, Stockhausen, Boulez, Tanguy, and Pierre Henry.

This title was released for the first time in 1995.

“Those subtle inflections of touch and dynamics; that impulsive, improvisatory feel; the poetry, the probity: he (Angelich) made me fall in love with the work as if for the first time.” Geoff Brown, The Times

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: HMA1951547 Barcode: 3149020154731 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Nicholas Angelich [piano]

ALSO AVAILABLE: Liszt Années de pèlerinage (MIR9941) “honest and powerful performances at their best in the darker regions of Liszt’s teeming imagination.”

Bryce Morrison, Gramophone, July 2004 Beethoven Piano Sonatas (MIR003) “Angelich clearly is a serious, musicianly artist with something to say in this repertoire.”

Jed Distler, The Gramophone, March 2006

RELEASE DATE 14TH JULY 2014

Liszt & Alkan, Music for cello and piano ALKAN: Sonate de concert, LISZT: Cello Sonata Op.47

Emmanuelle Bertrand Pascal Amoyel

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: HMA1951758 Barcode: 3149020175835 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Emmanuelle Bertrand [cello] Pascal Amoyel [piano]

"French cellist Emmanuelle Bertrand follows up her critically acclaimed debut disc for Harmonia Mundi with Liszt’s cello and piano works (chiefly transcriptions) and a brilliantly impassioned realisation of the Sonate de concert by Charles-Valentin Alkan. This formidably taxing work was written in 1856 for the cello virtuoso Franchomme, for whom Chopin had previously composed his own valedictory Sonata. It demands enormous stamina and masterful technique.

Bertrand possesses both, with the courage, flair and insight required to make this patchwork of Semitic introspection and inflammatory virtuosity take flight. Her rapturous treatment of the deeply contemplative Adagio is very fine indeed...Bertrand is on magisterial form throughout this rarity... Bertrand’s eruptive Alkan performance is astounding, however, and unrivalled in the catalogue." BBC Music Magazine *****/**** This title was released for the first time in 2001.

RELEASE DATE 14TH JULY 2014

HAYDN: Violin Concerto, Symphonies 49 & 80 Freiburger Barockorchester Gottfried von der Goltz The musicians of the Freiburger Barockorchester chose to highlight the craggiest ‘Sturm und Drang’ side of the composer in August 2008 when they recorded Symphony No. 49, ‘La Passione’. It is coupled here with Violin Concerto no.1 and Symphony No.80.

“outstanding” International Record Review, November 2009 “Directing from the solo violin, Gottfried von der Goltz combines the crispness and resonance of the best period practice with a genuine sweetness of tone.” Bayan Northcott, BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: HMA1952029 Barcode: 3149020202937 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Freiburger Barockorchester Gottfried von der Goltz [konzertmeister]

"The period instruments players of the Freiburger Barockorchester and their director Gottfried von der Goltz play with sharp conviction." Michael Dervan, Irish Times, 9 October 2009 "Freiburger Barockorchester storm through two of Haydn's most startling symphonies. No. 49, 'La Passione', is held as a prime example of Sturm und Drang, though No. 80 more than equals it in terms of contrasting sonorities, styles and textures, from the ländler interruptions of the first movement to the proto-Beethovenian harmonies of the menuetto.

Played by Gottfried van der Goltz, the First Violin Concerto is a temperate oasis." Anna Picard, Independent on Sunday, 8 November 2009

RELEASE DATE 14TH JULY 2014

JS BACH: English Suites, French Suites Suite Française N° 5, Suite Anglaise N° 3, Prélude & Fugue BWV870, Toccata BWV812

Céline Frisch Céline Frisch, who studied with Jesper Christiansen and Andreas Staier, and now appears regularly with Café Zimmermann, offers a wide-ranging panorama of Bach, the harpsichord composer, on a harpsichord by Anthony Sidey.

This title was released for the first time in 2000 on harmonia mundi's young artists' strand, les nouveaux interprétes.

"Even in the quicker movements, where her tempos inhabit the upper end of the spectrum, they never sound rushed and the effect is joyous; while the slow ones are spacious and thoughtful." Gramophone, September 2000 "Above all, Frisch has a poise and fluency at the harpsichord that’s extremely rare" American Record Guide, Sept/Oct. 2000

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: HMA1951707 Barcode: 3149020170731 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Céline Frisch [harpsichord]

"Her interpretations are subtle and sophisticated, and she digs deep in the music without any hint of over-indulgence" Early Music Review, Nov. 2000

RELEASE DATE 14TH JULY 2014

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.3 Op.37, Piano Concerto No.4 Op.58 Maria João Pires Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Daniel Harding Maria João Pires joins ONYX. Her first release for the label is of two Beethoven concertos she has played often, but never before recorded. After giving concerts in Stockholm last October, she went directly into the studio with Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. This remarkable recording is the result. These are performances of such passion, poetry and drama - Beethoven as he should sound, just as if you are hearing these great concertos for the first time!

Maria João Pires has provided a personal note on her approach to these works.

•Advertised in Gramophone & BBC Music Magazine

NOT FINAL ARTWORK Label: Onyx Classics File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: ONYX4125 Barcode: 880040412526 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Maria João Pires [piano] Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding [conductor]

RELEASE DATE 30TH JUNE 2014

HAYDN: Symphonies 92, 93, 97, 98 & 99 London Symphony Orchestra Sir Colin Davis The late Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra present a collection of Haydn’s London Symphonies alongside the spirited Oxford Symphony. Sir Colin Davis was long recognised as a pre-eminent Haydn interpreter. During his Indian summer with the orchestra he recorded both 'The Creation' and 'The Seasons' for LSO Live. The symphonies presented here were recorded in 2011 and make for revelatory listening.

Entering a new chapter after the death of Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, Haydn’s forward-looking late symphonies were conceived on a large scale and exude all the hallmarks of the composer’s protean maturity. Surpassing even his own high standards and received to an enormous success, their expressive strength and inventive mastery of form gave his international reputation a substantial boost: Haydn’s contrapuntal mastery and thematic rigour are laid bare for all to see.

Label: LSO Live File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: LSO0702 Barcode: 822231170228 NORMAL Price Format: 2 HYBRID SACD Packaging: cristal London Symphony Orchestra Sir Colin Davis

Concert Reviews: "First, though, there was Haydn: the first of his London symphonies, No 93 in D major, the one with the fruity bassoon interjection at the end of the slow movement. Here, as with Mozart, Davis spurns the spare style beloved of younger conductors, influenced by the period-instrument movement; he has conducted these symphonies all his life, and the result had a glowing coherence and warmth." The Guardian **** "It says a lot about the orchestral climate today that a respectable performance of a work by Haydn, who exemplified respectable 18th-century society better than anyone else, should shock. But shock it did to hear the three-four first movement of Haydn’s Symphony in C, No 97, performed with so much orchestral weight and focus on beauty of sound."

The Arts Desk "Colin Davis is alive to every nuance of Haydn’s late masterpiece. The conductor’s lightness of touch allows the music to flow like quicksilver … The soloists are also on beguiling form … Sir Colin, revelling in his glorious Indian summer with the LSO, points heavenwards in this visionary reading of Haydn’s late masterpiece" Classic FM Magazine, ***** Editor’s Choice (The Seasons)

RELEASE DATE 30TH JUNE 2014

Lamento Romina Basso Latinitas Nostra KAPSBERGER: Toccata seconda arpeggiata, ROSSI: Lamento della regina di Svezia CARISSIMI: Lamento in morte di Maria Stuarda, STROZZI: Lagrime mie, FRESCOBALDI: Capriccio IX di durezze, MONTEVERDI: Lamento d’Arianna, PROVENZALE: Squarciato appena avea

Label: NAÏVE File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: V5390 Barcode: 822186053904 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Romina Basso [mezzo-soprano] Latinitas Nostra: Theodoros Kitsos [theorbo, baroque guitar] Andreas Linos [bass gamba] Markellos Chryssicos [harpsichord, organ] with Haris Andrianos [Cavaliero], Theodora Baka [Regina], Paul Zachariades [Damigella Prima], Nikos Spanatis [Damigella Seconda]

This is the first solo recital recording of mezzosoprano Romina Basso, yet currently one of the most busy and outstanding baroque specialists. Recorded in Athens with the Greek musicians of the Latinitas Notra ensemble and led

by Markellos Chryssicos, this striking record offers incandescent and special performances of Italian baroque masterpieces that feature among the most heart-rending, including: Monteverdi’s 'Lamento d’Arianna', Rossi’s 'Lamento della regina di Svezia' and Strozzi’s 'Lagrime mie'.

Romina Basso studied with Peter Maag, Regina Resnik, Rockwell Blake and Claudio Desderi, specialising in Baroque repertory and Rossini. She won prizes at national and international competitions including Plácido Domingo’s Operalia.

She regularly collaborates with orchestras and ensembles such as Accademia Bizantina, Concerto Italiano, Il Complesso Barocco, Cappella della Pietà de’ Turchini, Le Concert des Nations, Europa Galante, Ensemble 415, Ensemble Matheus, Les Arts Florissants, Les Musiciens du Louvre, The King’s Consort, Modo Antiquo, the Ricercar Consort, the OAE, the Accademia of Santa Cecilia Orchestra and the Venice Baroque Orchestra.

Romina Basso’s discography (on several different labels) includes Galuppi’s 'L’Olimpiade' (DVD); sacred music by Jommelli and Galuppi; Scarlatti’s 'Carlo, re d’Alemagna'; Handel’s ‘Carmelite Vespers’, Italian cantatas, 'Tolomeo' and 'Berenice'; Vivaldi’s 'Montezuma', 'Ercole sul Termodonte', and 'Oracolo in Messenia'.

For Naïve, she has recorded Vivaldi’s 'Atenaide', 'Armida', 'Orlando furioso' (DVD), 'Orlando' 1714, 'Catone in Utica', and ‘New Discoveries’, the pasticcio 'L’Olimpiade' and Handel’s 'Giulio Cesare'.

RECENT RELEASES WITH ROMINA BASSO: AGO015 Carlo Re d'Alemagna / Stavanger SO, Fabio Biondi GCD921525 Handel - Italian Cantatas 5: Clori Tirsi e Fileno GCD921526 Handel- Italian Cantatas 6: Olinto pastore arcade /Roberta Invernizzi, Yetzabel Arias Fernandez, La Risonanza / Fabio Bonizzoni OP30540 Vivaldi Orlando Furioso RV819 1714 / Modo Antiquo OP30545 Vivaldi Catone in Utica / Lehtipu; Hallenberg; Mameli; Prina; Barak; Basso; Curtis

RELEASE DATE 30TH JUNE 2014

Balkan Fever Kristjan Järvi Sound Project

Theodosii Spassov MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra Kristjan Järvi George ENESCU: Romanian Rhapsody in A major op.11/1 Balkan Music: Iovka Komarovka, Strange Occasion Trio Improvisation: Koljo, traditional macedonian songs and dances Balkan Music: Say Bob, Eleno, Kite, Yunus Emre Scherzo, Fire Feast Trio Improvisation: Kalajdzisko Oro Balkan Music: Gipsy Dance

Label: NAÏVE File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: V5395 Barcode: 822186053959 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Theodosii Spassov [kaval, 8-hole wooden flute] Vlatko Stefanovski [guitar] Miroslav Tadic [guitar] MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra Kristjan Järvi [conductor] [1-3, 5-10, 12]

Kristjan Järvi and Naïve launch the Kristjan Järvi Sound Project. This original recording series presents the charismatic conductor's extensive classical, world music and jazz collaborations, while capturing the essence of this vibrant and original musical personality.

The Kristjan Järvi Sound Project spans Järvi's prolific musical output with an ambitious release schedule over several years. Recordings will reflect all of Kristjan Järvi's activities, from Music Director of MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Gstaad Festival Orchestra, to the Baltic Youth Philharmonic (BYP) and his acclaimed classical-world-hip-hop-jazz group, Absolute Ensemble.

As a creative force on today's music scene, Järvi is known for his innovative classical music programmes and instinctive vision for cross-genre collaborations. The first album on the Kristjan Järvi Sound Project is 'Balkan Fever' featuring the vibrant colours of folk-influenced orchestral pieces by Enescu and Kodály, with hypnotic sounds, melodies and beats from the Balkans.

The album stars a trio of virtuosic Balkan musicians: kaval-player Theodosii Spassov, and guitarists Miroslav Tadic and Vlatko Stefanovski, whilst the live concert recording captures the highly-charged atmosphere of intoxicating classical-folk-jazz fusion. The result is an electrifying sound experience.

RELEASE DATE 30TH JUNE 2014

HANDEL: The Triumph of Time & Truth Sophie Bevan Mary Bevan Tim Mead Ed Lyon William Berger Ludus Baroque Richard Neville-Towle

Label: Delphian File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: DCD34135 Barcode: 801918341359 2 FOR 1.5 Format: 2 CD Packaging: cristal Sophie Bevan Mary Bevan [sopranos] Tim Mead [countertenor] Ed Lyon [tenor] William Berger [bass] Ludus Baroque Richard Neville-Towle

In their third disc for Delphian, Ludus Baroque and five stellar soloists bring to life Handel’s rarely heard final oratorio, a remarkable Protestant re-casting of a work written 50 years earlier to a text by the young composer’s Roman patron Cardinal Pamphili. Compelled by Time and Truth to accept the divine order of change and decay, Beauty ultimately gives way – as with the aging composer himself – to an assertion of redemption by good works, reflected in the incorporation of choruses Handel had written for the Foundling Hospital.

The resulting work, neglected by centuries of scholarship on account of its hybrid origins, here proves an extraordinary feast of riches, and the ideal vehicle for Richard Neville-Towle’s carefully assembled cast of exceptional soloists, vigorous, intelligent chorus and an orchestra made up from some of the UK’s leading period instrumentalists. Formed in 1998 under the direction of Richard Neville-Towle, this ‘crack group of British early musickers’ (The New York Times) prides itself on the exuberance and energy of its performances, specialising in great works of the early music repertoire.

With sisters Mary and Sophie Bevan (the latter having just been shortlisted for an RPS award) jousting with one another in the roles of Deceit and Beauty, these discs make for revelatory listening.

ALSO AVAILABLE: DCD34094 Handel Alexander's Feast DCD34110 Handel Ode on St Cecilia's Day, Look Down, Harmonious Saint "I warm to the conductor’s big-boned, exhibitionist Handel style and the youthful-sounding vigour of the choir" Sunday Times, August 2012 "the whole choral and orchestral tableau is marvellously realised here in an acoustic that combines richness with presence" Gramophone, December 2012

RELEASE DATE 30TH JUNE 2014

In Praise of St Columba The Sound World of the Celtic Church

Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Os mutorum, lux cecorum, Loquebar de testimoniis tuis, River Erne horn duet, Adiutor laborantium, Sanctorum piissime Columba, Lauda anima mea Dominum, Noli Pater, Carne solutus pater Columba, Amen dico vobis, Liberasti nos Domine, Cantemus in omni die, Altus prosator, Volens Ihesus linire, Laudate Dominum (Psalm 150), The Desperate Battle of the Birds

Label: Delphian File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: DCD34137 Barcode: 801918341373 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber [director] Barnaby Brown [triple pipes, lyre]

This groundbreaking programme from Geoffrey Webber’s consistently inventive choir seeks to recreate three distinct sound-worlds: 7th-century hymns from Iona, 10th-century chants from Celtic foundations in Switzerland, and 14th-century Columban antiphons from the Inchcolm libellus. As well as the evidence of early notation and of drawings and other indications of instrumentation, the performance styles – developed in an exciting extended collaboration with scholar and piper Barnaby Brown – are informed by oral traditions from as far afield as Sardinia and the Outer Hebrides.

The Choir have often specialised in the rediscovery of forgotten choral repertories, including previously unpublished music from within the English choral tradition and beyond, and their five recordings on Delphian reflect this. Among the accolades their previous releases have received, their 2011 recording of music by the leading British composer Judith Weir (Delphian DCD34095) was BBC Music Magazine’s Choral and Song Choice in December 2011.

The choir has also joined together with the Choir of King’s College London in two recording projects.

ALSO AVAILABLE: DCD34067 Rodion Shchedrin’s 'The Sealed Angel' DCD34124 Deutsche Motette "These are the kind of performances that makes you want to stand up and cheer even if you're the only person in the room." International Record Review, October 2013.

RELEASE DATE 30TH JUNE 2014

My Beloved's Voice Choir of Jesus College Cambridge Mark Williams BRUMEL: Sicut lilium, WALKER: As the apple tree, HADLEY: My beloved spake, DURUFLE: Ubi caritas SKEMPTON, Rise up my love, How fair is thy love, My beloved is gone down, How fair and how pleasant MUHLY: Set me as a seal, CLEMENS NON PAPA: Ego flos campi, VIERNE: Aubade from Pièces de Fantaisie WILAN: Rise up my love, I beheld her beautiful as a dove, CASALS: Nigra sum, RIVAFRECHA: Anima mea GRIEG: How fair is thy face, BAIRSTOW: I sat down under his shadow, WALTON: Set me as a seal FINZI: My lovely one, WESLEY: Blessed be the God & Father Mark Williams leads the Choir of the Jesus College Cambridge through an evocative selection of choral works inspired in varying ways by the Song of Solomon.

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: SIGCD370 Barcode: 635212037027 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Choir of Jesus College Cambridge Mark Williams [director]

Songs of love have been written from the earliest records of human existence. None are more passionately ecstatic than the Song of Solomon, which occupies a unique place in the Holy Bible in both style and content. It contains lyric poems of love and courtship, as might have been sung at Jewish weddings. For Christians, these poems speak to the beauty of the union of Christ and his ‘bride’, the Church. The present collection presents a diverse group of choral works written between the 16th century and the present day, with most inspired by this unique sacred text.

ALSO AVAILABLE: SIGCD328 War & Peace: Music for Remembrance SIGCD269 Journey into Light: Rutter; Britten; Weir; Poston

RELEASE DATE 30TH JUNE 2014

Richard STRAUSS: Elektra Live Recording, Vienna State Opera December 16, 1965

Regina Resnik Birgit Nilsson Leonie Rysanek Wolfgang Windgassen Eberhard Waechter Gundula Janowitz Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera Karl Böhm Label: Orfeo File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: C886142i Barcode: 4011790886220 2 MID Price Format: 2 CD Packaging: box set Klytämnestra: Regina Resnik Elektra: Birgit Nilsson Chrysothemis: Leonie Rysanek Aegisth:Wolfgang Windgassen Orest: Eberhard Waechter Der Pfleger der Orest: Fredrick Guthrie Vertraute: Margareta Sjöstedt Schleppträgerin: Margarita Lilova Junger Diener: Gerhard Unger Alter Diener: Herbert Lackner Aufseherin: Danica Mastilovic Fünf Mägde: Margarita Lilova, Margareta Sjöstedt, Margarete Ast, Gundula Janowitz, Gerda Scheyrer

Following the scandalous 'Salome', it was with the radical, expressive violence of 'Elektra' in 1909 that Richard Strauss finally cemented his position as the leading German opera composer of his generation.

The immense vocal and orchestral demands it makes remain undiminished and few singers have really been able to meet the murderous challenge of singing the title role. In the 1960s and ’70s, however, Birgit Nilsson was one, possessing as she did a powerful voice also capable of much subtlety. This live recording from the Vienna State Opera in 1965, in a production by Wieland Wagner, was conducted by the great Karl Böhm, and was a musical triumph. Not only did Böhm and Nilsson give full rein to the eruptive violence of Strauss’s setting but they also attended to the psychological details that the composer teased out of Hoffmansthal's text. They were aided in this by the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera and a cast that was homogeneous right down to the smallest roles. Leonie Rysanek sang the wistful Chrysothemis, in a role she made her own, and with her luminous soprano she was an ideal counterpart to Nilsson’s tortured heroine. As their adversary, their inscrutable mother Klytämnestra, the dusky-timbred Regina Resnik gave a superb performance. For the adulterous lover Aegisth, the State Opera engaged the legendary heldentenor Wolfgang Windgassen. Eberhard Waechter sang the part of Orest, and with his unmistakeable baritone he offered every possible nuance of this important character, driven by fate.

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WAGNER: Arias & excerpts from Tannhäuser, Tristan & Götterdämmerung Heidi Melton Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine Paul Daniel Released to coincide with the opening of the 2014-2015 opera season in Bordeaux and to continue the celebration of the Wagner bicentenary, Paul Daniel accompanies the young American dramatic soprano Heidi Melton who has been called “the Wagnerian voice we have been waiting for since Flagstad and Nilsson” (La Presse), and a voice that is “big, gleaming and tonally resplendent.” (San Francisco Chronicle). Ms. Melton sang her first 'Siegfried' Brünnhilde in concert with Opéra National de Bordeaux, as well as the “Immolation Scene” and “Liebestod” for Wagner concerts in Bordeaux and on tour in France. From the most vibrant pages of 'Tristan and Isolde' to the wonder of the 'Twilight of the Gods', through the famous overture to 'Tannhäuser', here are some captivating aspects of the master of Bayreuth's art which are played by an enthusiastic Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine.

Label: Actes Sud Musicales File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: ASM22 Barcode: 3149028052220 SPECIAL PRICE Format: 1 CD Packaging: cd book Heidi Melton [soprano] Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine Paul Daniel [conductor]

"This could perhaps be the Wagnerian voice we have been waiting for since Flagstad and Nilsson.” Claude Gingras, La Presse, July 12, 2010 “Remember the name Heidi Melton. The American dramatic soprano, just 28, has a glorious career ahead of her.

Elisabeth's ringing “Dich, teure Halle” from Tannhäuser and Sieglinde's more sombre and emotional “Der Männer Sippe” and “Du bist der Lenz” from Die Walküre displayed a huge voice that is bright, clear and sweet, and cocooned in a seductive vibrato. She has gorgeous low notes, beautiful phrasing, and interprets her singing from her soul.”

Paula Citron, The Globe and Mail, July 11, 2010 “Everybody involved in the BBC SSO’s opening concert on Thursday night gets five stars, a metaphorical bottle of champagne and thunderous applause such as can resound only in the City Hall. (Well they did get that at least.)…And what performances from these huge voices, with Heidi Melton’s Sieglinde…” Michael Tumelty, The Herald Scotland, October 4, 2010

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STRAVINSKY: Le Sacre du Printemps, Petrouchka recreation of the 1913 premiere

Les Siècles François Xavier Roth One of the biggest scandals in the history of music stirred Paris as the Ballets Russes created the new ballet by Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky, 'The Rite of Spring', conducted by Pierre Monteux. To celebrate this anniversary, François- Xavier Roth, with special permission from Boosey & Hawkes and with the assistance of musicologist Louis Cyr, have endeavored to restore the 'Rite' as it was given on the evening of May 29 1913.

Label: Actes Sud Musicales File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: ASM15 Barcode: 3149028048421 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Les Siècles François Xavier Roth

"One of François-Xavier Roth's first releases with the period instruments of his orchestra, les Siècles, was the complete Firebird ballet. Here they complete their trilogy of the great scores that Stravinsky composed for the Paris seasons of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes before the first world war, all played, as is the Siècles way, on instruments that come as close as is possible to those used at their first performances.

Those who heard Roth and his orchestra perform The Rite of Spring at last year's Proms will remember the lithe transparency they brought to the score, the subtle shading and shifted emphases that dispel any hint of mechanistic brutalism.. But it's the Petrushka that's the real revelation here. Roth's restraint, and the elegance his woodwind players bring to their contributions, pays real dividends. The score emerges as a more fascinating than usual intersection between Stravinsky's Rimsky-tinged Russian heritage, the groundbreaking modernism that he was establishing for himself, and the French refinement that he was absorbing in Paris." Andrew Clements, The Guardian, 22nd May 2014 ALSO AVAILABLE: ASM12 Dukas: L'Apprenti Sorcier, Velléda, Polyeucte /Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth (4/5) **** “It seems to me easily the most successful of Roth's discs with Les Siècles... it throws a valuable light on the early works of one of the most intriguing and notoriously self-critical figures in French music… ” Andrew Clements, The Guardian –2nd January 2014 “Roth [conducts] with such verve and stylistic insight ... full of humour and sparkle” Geoffrey Norris, Gramophone – March 2014 ASM02 Debussy, La Mer, Première Suite / Les Siècles, cond François-Xavier Roth “Debussy’s greatest orchestral masterpiece revealed in pristine, vibrant colours by Roth’s pioneering period-instrument band.”

Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times- 8th December 2013, No. 2, BEST RECORDS OF THE YEAR, CLASSICAL

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Pilar Lorengar Berlin, 1959 - 1962

RIAS-Kammerchor / RIAS-Orchester RSO Berlin Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Bellini, Puccini, Handel, Granados, Verdi, Scarlatti, Mozart, Guridi, Leoz, Nin, Rodrigo, Toldrà, Milarte, Daza, Bermudo, Narváez, Vásquez, Mudarra, Milán, Pisador Valderrábano, Lorca

Label: Audite File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: AUDITE21420 Barcode: 4022143214201 MID Price Format: 3 CD Packaging: box set RIAS-Kammerchor / RIAS-Orchester Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Berlin Philharmonic Arthur Rother / Ferdinand Liva / Fried Walter [conductors] Richard Klemm [viola da gamba] Siegfried Behrend [guitar] Hertha Klust [piano]

Pilar Lorengar [1928-1996], the Spanish singer whose adopted home city was Berlin, especially owed her worldwide but unobtrusive fame to the operatic stage. She had one of the most beautiful voices heard in the post-war years: creamy-toned and perfectly placed, her voice remained firm and youthful in timbre for more than 30 years. She was famous for a repertoire ranging from the youthful heroines of Mozart, the youthful dramatic heroines of Verdi and Puccini to tragic girlish figures such as Tchaikovsky‘s Tatiana and Janácek‘s Jenufa. These three CDs of arias and Lieder contain sound documents from the singer‘s early Berlin years, in studio and live recordings made between 1959 and 1962.

Audite present Lorengar from unusual perspectives, both in the field of opera and in the Lieder eg she is not heard here in her established Mozart role of Donna Elvira, but as Donna Anna. In addition, she can be heard singing repertoire that was unusual for her: the prayer "Casta Diva" from Bellini‘s Norma, "Piangerò la sorte mia“ from Handel‘s Cleopatra and a Handel cantata; an aria from a Scarlatti opera; Elvira's aria "Ernani, involiami" from the eponymous early Verdi opera and the role of Rosario from the opera 'Goyescas' by Granados. The Mozart singer also reveals herself here to be an agreeable Lied singer.

The remaining two thirds of this anthology pays homage to the musical traditions of her homeland. As a young schoolgirl in Madrid, she acquired extensive experience in the music cafes and the zarzuela theatre. In the present release, she unfolds a panorama of Spanish music history extending over five centuries, ranging from the vocal art of the 16th-century vihuelistas to the folklore collections and adaptations of Federico García Lorca.

Full track listing available on request

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SCHOENBERG: Pierrot Lunaire Three Times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud’s melodrama, op. 21

Helga Pilarczyk Pierre Boulez WERGO's studio reihe series continues with a rather special CD release: Arnold Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' was the first long-playing record released by the newly founded label WERGO in 1962, which laid the foundation of the label's decades-long commitment to new music. This important recording, with the soprano Helga Pilarczyk and under the direction of Pierre Boulez, has not been available until now as Wergo releases this highlight from its early days in excellent sound quality on CD for the first time.

The musical setting of 'Three Times Seven Poems from Albert Giraud’s ‘Pierrot lunaire’' Op. 21 was composed by Schoenberg in just a few weeks, between 12 March and 30 May 1912, to be precise. The composition was written at the initiative of the actress Albertine Zehme. Schoenberg met her shortly after he had moved to Vienna from Berlin in 1911 and dedicated the piece to her “with heartfelt friendship”.

Label: Wergo File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: WER6778-2 Barcode: 4010228677829 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Helga Pilarczyk [speaking voice] Maria Bergmann [piano] Jacques Castagner [flute, piccolo] Guy Deplus [clarinet] Louis Montaigne [bass clarinet] Luben Yordanoff [violin] Serge Collot [viola] Jean Huchot [cello] Pierre Boulez [conductor]

The recordings were originally published on LP in 1963 (WERGO, WER60001) studio reihe: WER6770-2 Arnold Schönberg: Erwartung, Monodram, op. 17 WER6771-2 Igor Strawinsky: Agon. Ballett für zwölf Tänzer WER6772-2 Karlheinz Stockhausen: Zyklus für einen Schlagzeuger / Klavierstück X "The bare white cover nicely suggests the new start sought by the post-war musical avant-garde, two of whose masterpieces are represented in reissues of three 1960s recordings. ...as captivating, poetic and authoritative as a piece

by Debussy, though many times more violent. A staggering performance." Paul Driver, The Sunday Times – 21 October 2012 WER6773-2 Herbert Eimert: Epitaph für Aikichi Kuboyama / Sechs Studien WER6774-2 Karlheinz Stockhausen: Momente. Version 1965 “Expertly remastered without being sanitized … worth acquiring.” Roger Thomas, IRR – May 2014 WER6775-2 Luc Ferrari: Und so weiter / Music Promenade WER6776-2 Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Concerto pour violoncelle / Photoptosis / Tratto II WER6777-2 Christian Wolff: For Piano I / For Pianist / Burdocks

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BEETHOVEN: Sonata No. 29 Op. 106 'Hammerklavier' Live in London 18/6/1976

Sviatoslav Richter Sviatoslav Richter tackled repertoire from Bach to Webern, but he is most certainly not held to be a Schnabel, a Backhaus or a Fischer, that is, a performer who is identified with the Viennese classical composers. Yet Richter’s Beethoven repertoire includes 22 of the 32 sonatas and several series of variations.

Recently the Richter estate has given the stamp of approval to recordings from France. [Praga Digitals] Now from Italian sources it has begun to authorise some public concert recordings of quality to document the many-faceted personality that is Richter. This performance of the 'Hammerklavier' is, without any doubt, epic, taken live from the Royal Festival Hall, 18th June 1976. Elegantly packaged.

Label: Stradivarius File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: STR33989 Barcode: 8011570339898 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Sviatoslav Richter [piano]

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RACHMANINOV: Etudes-Tableaux Op.33 Nos 9, 5, 6, 7 Op. 39 Nos. 1-4, 7, 9 Preludes Op. 23 Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 Op. 32 Nos. 1, 2, 7, 9, 10, 12

Svjatoslav Richter This romantic programme juxtaposes the best piano solo pieces of Rachmaninov, selected by Richter himself, and charms with his old-fashionioned and romantic Russian approach, with elegance, energy and virtuosity, an irresistible balance between secret humour, power and native melancholy. Before him, only Vladimir Sofronitzky risked such modernity, now....

Recording date: December 31, 1984

Label: Praga Digitals File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: DSD350083 Barcode: 3149028028027 NORMAL Price Format: 1 HYBRID SACD Packaging: cristal Svjatoslav Richter [piano]

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A Tribute to Friedrich Gulda SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto Op. 54, WEBER: Konzertstück Op. 79, STRAUSS: Burleske

Friedrich Gulda Vienna Philharmonic Karl Böhm Gulda was an unusual personality, a humanist pianist, with an unconditional love of Mozart and jazz. His prodigious virtuosity was deliberately hidden by a refined Viennese and often melancholy mood, which gave some autumn colour to now celebrated scores. This programme demonstrates a true classical stylist.

Recording Date December 31, 1957

Label: Praga Digitals File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: DSD350102 Barcode: 3149028037524 NORMAL Price Format: 1 HYBRID SACD Packaging: cristal Friedrich Gulda [piano] Vienna Philharmonic dir. Volkmar Andreae, Karl Böhm

Gulda gave his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 20, and was soon regarded as one of the most important interpreters of the postwar period, playing his groundbreaking interpretation of the complete Beethoven sonatas. His piano students include Martha Argerich, who called Gulda "my most important influence," and the famous conductor Claudio Abbado (1933-2014).

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JANACEK: String Quartets 1 & 2, Piano Concertino Quatuor Prazak An unusual late Janacek chamber programme including the Concertino: an adventurous, amazingly experimental work.

Its ‘programme’ recalls the naturalism and anthropomorphisms of the adventures of the 'Cunning Little Vixen' and the concluding Allegro, opening with an unpredictable, almost swaggering recitative, is progressively hinged on an increasingly rapid rhythm that leads to a popular scene of jubilation that foreshadows the fanfares of the 'Glagolitic Mass'.

Label: Praga Digitals File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: DSD250301 Barcode: 3149028042726 Price: £9.48 Format: 1 HYBRID SACD Packaging: cristal Prazak Quartet Slavká Vernerova Pechocova [piano] Milan Polak [clarinet] Lukas Korinek [bassoon] Jan Voboril [French horn]

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Cras, Reger, Dohnányi, Kodály CRAS: Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello, REGER: String Trio in A minor, Op. 77b DOHNANYI: Serenade in C major for String Trio, Op. 10, KODALY: Intermezzo for String Trio

Jacques Thibaud String Trio

Label: Audite File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: AUDITE97534 Barcode: 4022143975348 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Jacques Thibaud String Trio: Burkhard Maiß [violin] Hannah Strijbos [viola] Bogdan Jianu [cello]

The genre of the string trio is not noted for many brilliant works, but for certain special ones. When the Thibaud Trio was founded in 1994 at the Hochschule (today: Universität) der Künste Berlin, its goal was to bring these works out of the shadows of musical life. The ensemble now crowns 20 years of performing in Europe, the USA and Japan with a CD on the Audite label.

Four string trios, written during the first third of the last century, reveal the breadth of possibilities of this genre, comprising an elegant game with tradition (Dohnányi), the ideal of a systematic formation of impulsive music (Reger), and a pièce de résistance in virtuosity and colour by Ravel’s contemporary Jean Cras.

Today the Jacques Thibaud String Trio regularly tours Europe, Japan and North America. The centrepiece of the trio’s concert activities is North America where the ensemble has appeared at hundreds of concert venues during its career.

ALSO AVAILABLE: AUDITE97508 Beethoven String trios op. 9, 1-3

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Luc FERRARI: Exercises d'improvisation A la recherche du rythme perdu [1978] for piano & tape

Ciro Longobardi

Label: Stradivarius File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: STR33968 Barcode: 8011570339683 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Ciro Longobardi [prepared piano]

From the liner notes by Ciro Longobardi: This CD includes the live recording of a concert given on December 17, 2011 at Area Sismica in ForlĂŹ (Italy). Before the mixing, very few micro-editing interventions were made and the applause was cut away (except the final burst).

The Exercises can be realised by any number of instruments up to a maximum of 8 plus the 'tape' [nowadays we could call it prerecorded elctronics]...In short a compositional approach, the possibility of a predetermined organization of the materials comes into play. Ferrari himself does not exclude this aspect, on the contrary he integrates it saying the exercises can be either of improvisation or of composition...

A la recherche du rythme perdu concerns a different ambit. The prerecorded part was already used for a 1972 work, 'Musique Socialiste' for harpsichord and tape. It was addressed to interpreters coming from classical music, while 'A la recherche' is intended for musicians coming from jazz...

As a classical, not-jazz but improvising musician, I believed I was a possible addressee of this piece. I followed the small notated parts until I felt the need to go on my way...to match the composer's preference for a piano and percussion realisation, I extensively used prepared and inside piano techniques.

Luc Ferrari ( 1929 – 2005) was a French-born composer of Italian heritage, particularly noted for his tape music. He studied the piano under Alfred Cortot, musical analysis under Olivier Messiaen, and composition under Arthur Honegger.

He was profoundly influenced by Varese's 'DĂŠserts' and by John Cage.

Ferrari's 'Presque rien No. 1 'Le Lever du jour au bord de la mer'' (1970) is regarded as a classic of its kind. In it, Ferrari takes a day-long recording of environmental sounds at a Yugoslavian beach and, through editing, makes a piece that lasts just 21 minutes. It has been seen as an affirmation of John Cage's idea that music is always going on all around us, and if only we were to stop to listen.

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Hakim Plays Hakim: The Schuke Organ of the Palacio Euskalduna of Bilbao, Vol.1 Naji Hakim Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet HAKIM: Toccata, Petite Suite, Die Apostel for organ duet, Ave Maria (Fantasy on a lied by Franz Schubert), Hommage Ă Jean Langlais, Esquisses GrĂŠgoriennes, Arabesques Naji Hakim returns to disc on Signum with a new and powerful collection of his own organ works. Hakim is joined by Marie-Bernadette Dufource for the central piece of the programme, a set of meditation for two organists inspired by Lucas Cranach the Elder's woodcuts of the Apostles.

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: SIGCD389 Barcode: 635212038925 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Naji Hakim Marie-Bernadette Dufourcet [organ]

Completed in 2000, the Schuke Organ of the Palacio Euskalduna is housed in a magnificent concert hall of wood and steel - itself inspired by the Euskulduna shipyards that once occupied the area. A modern instrument, it is well-suited to the nuanced voicings of modern organ compositions, as a well as being sympathetic and adaptable to the great works of the past.

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VIVALDI: Violin Concertos This box set gathers all the violin concertos availa-ble in the Vivaldi Edition, plus Concerto Italiano’s benchmark recording of the “red priest's” most emblematic work: The Fours Seasons. A real 6-hour baroque violin feast!

Le Quattro Stagioni Violin Concertos Op. 8, No. 1, RV269 'Spring', Op. 8, No. 2, RV315 'Summer', Op. 8, No. 3, RV293 'Autumn', Op. 8, No. 4, RV297 'Winter' Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini Vivaldi Edition - Concerti per violino I - ‘La Caccia’ Concerto for strings 'Il riposo - per il Santissimo Natale', RV270, Violin Concertos Op. 8 No. 10 RV362 'La Caccia', RV199 'Il Sospetto', RV234, RV332, 'Il Grosso Mogul' RV208 Enrico Onofri [violin], Academia Montis Regalis / Alessandro de Marchi

Label: NAÏVE File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: OP30561 Barcode: 709861305612 SPECIAL Price Format: 6 CD Packaging: box set Riccardo Minasi, Dmitry Sinkovsky Enrico Onofri Anton Steck I Barrochisti/Diego Fasolis Academia Montis Regalis/ Alessandro de Marchi/ Modo Antiquo Federico Maria Sardelli

Vivaldi Edition - Concerti per violino II - ‘Di sfida’ Violin Concerto RV232, Concerto for Violin, Strings & Harpsichord RV325, Concerto RV353, Concerto senza cantin for violin, strings & continuo RV243, Violin Concerto RV264, Violin Concerto RV 368 Anton Steck [violin], Modo Antiquo / Federico Maria Sardelli Vivaldi Edition - Concerti per violino III - ‘Il ballo’ Violin Concertos RV352, 307, 268, 333, Op.8, No. 11 RV210, 312, 350 Duilio M. Galfetti [violin], I Barrochisti / Diego Fasolis Vivaldi Edition - Concerti per violino IV - ‘L’imperatore’ Violin Concerto No. 1 RV181a, No. 4 RV263a, RV327, RV271 'L'Amoroso', No. 12 RV391, RV171, Concerto for Violin, Strings & Harpsichord RV331 Riccardo Minasi [violin, direction], Il Pomo d’Oro Vivaldi Edition - Concerti per violino V - ‘Per Pisendel’ Violin Concertos RV177, 212, RV246, Concerto for violin, strings & continuo RV370, Op. 8 No. 7 RV242 'per Pisendel', RV379, RV328 Dmitry Sinkovsky [violin, direction], Il Pomo d’Oro

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Vivaldi Voices This box set gathers the finest vocal recordings (opera, sacred music) from the Vivaldi Edition by some of the most reputed artists of today. Also it features the main vocal ranges: soprano, mezzosoprano, contralto, tenor, bass.

Vivaldi Edition - Arie d’opera Arias from La Candace, La Silvia, La verità in cimento, Tito Manlio e.a.

Sandrine Piau, Ann Hallenberg, Paul Agnew, Modo Antiquo / Federico Maria Sardelli Vivaldi Edition - Arie per basso Arias from Armida al campo d’Egitto, Tito Manlio, Orlando furioso, Semiramide, Il Farnace, L’Olimpiade e.a.

Lorenzo Regazzo, Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini

Label: NAÏVE File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: OP30562 Barcode: 709861305629 SPECIAL Price Format: 6 CD Packaging: box set Sandrine Piau Ann Hallenberg Marie-Nicole Lemieux Sonia Prina Topi Lehtipuu Paul Agnew Lorenzo Regazzo

Vivaldi Edition - In Furore, Laudate Pueri e Concerti sacri In furore iustissimae irae RV626 • Sinfonia RV169 'Al Santo Sepolcro', Laudate pueri RV601, Concerto for violin, organ & strings RV541, Concerto No. 4 ‘Per la solennità di San Lorenzo' RV286 Sandrine Piau, Accademia Bizantina / Ottavio Dantone Vivaldi Edition - Arie ritrovate Arias from La verità in cimento, La Ninfa infelice e fortunata, Skandeberg, Teuzzone, La Silvia e.a.

Sonia Prina, Accademia Bizantina / Ottavio Dantone Vivaldi Edition - Arie per tenore Arias from Tito Manlio, Arsilda, La costanza trionfante, Tigrane, L’incoronazione di Dario, La verità in cimento, Dorilla in Tempe, Farnace, Bajazet Topi Lehtipuu, I Barrochisti / Diego Fasolis Marie-Nicole Lemieux: My Vivaldi Arias from Griselda, Orlando furioso, La fida ninfa, Stabat Mater Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Ensemble Matheus / Jean-Christophe Spinosi

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RAMEAU: Pièces de clavecin en concerts 1741 Les Timbres The ensemble, Les Timbres, winner of the First Prize at the Concours International Bruges in 2009, offers here its first recording, devoted to harpsichord pieces 'in concert' by Jean-Philippe Rameau.

Published in Paris in 1741, they play an important role not only in the harpsichord repertoire, but also in the history of music: it could be considered one of the first examples of a piano trio being considered 'romantic'.

Label: Flora File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: FLO3113 Barcode: 3149028051728 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Les Timbres: Yoko Kawakubo [violin] Myriam Rignol [viola da gamba] Julien Wolfs [harpsichord]

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Le Livre Vermeil de Montserrat Le chant de la Sibylle, Els segadors

La Camera delle Lacrime Bruno Bonhoure

Label: Paraty Productions File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: PTY414125 Barcode: 3760213650153 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack La Camera delle Lacrime, dir. Bruno Bonhoure Jeune choeur de Dordogne, Khaï-dong Luong

The Livre Vermeil de Montserrat is to medieval music what St John Passion is to the Baroque. In a real tribute to Catalonia, the programme also includes, from the venerable codex Montserrat, a refined interpretation of "Song of the Sibylle" and ends with the popular estampa " Els Segadors" a modernised version of which has become the national anthem of Catalonia.

The eight artists from La Camera delle Lacrime enjoyed a live session recorded by France Musique at the festival Sinfonia en Périgord to create this programme with the label Paraty.

The original instrumentarium, including using an Argentinian drum called Bombo leguëro, offers a new reading of these devotional songs where the interpretations are resolutely popular and festive. This exaltation of the pilgrim, who finally reaches the end of his journey to the monastery of Montserrat, is expressed by the talented young Dordogne choir.

Performances of this repertoire in central France have conquered a wide audience, with hundreds of amateur singers on stage to embody the voices of pilgrims alongside professional artists. Artistic directors Bruno Bonhoure (vocals and musical direction) and Khai Luong-dong (design and staging) offer music lovers an enthusiastic and bold version of this essential Medieval heritage.

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Jean Nicolas SAVARY: The Stradivari of the bassoon Works by Beethoven, Reicha, Rossini & Tamplini/Donizetti

Lyndon Watts Edoardo Torbianelli TAMPLINI: Fantasia di Bravura for bassoon & piano on themes from 'La fille du règiment' by Donizetti BEETHOVEN: Trio for flute, bassoon and piano WoO 37 REICHA: Duo for bassoon and piano ROSSINI: Cavatina from 'La gazza ladra', arranged for bassoon and piano by Frédéric Berr World première recordings on historical bassoon

Label: Pan Classics File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: PC10306 Barcode: 7619990103061 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Lyndon Watts [classical bassoon] Edoardo Torbianelli [fortepiano] Marion Treupel-Franck [classical flute]

The Parisian bassoon maker Jean Nicolas Savary jeune was considered the 'Stradivari of the Bassoon' during the 19th century. His bassoons were in great demand in France and England, and instruments were built according to his models up until the early 20th century. It is all the more astonishing, therefore, that no Savary bassoon had until now been reconstructed: a gap that has been filled by the Swiss bassoon maker Walter Bassetto in cooperation with the bassoonist Lyndon Watts.

A reconstruction of an instrument from the year 1823 can be heard on this CD; it is especially convincing by virtue of its effortless response and its nasally pithy yet lyrical sound. The extraordinary qualities of the Savary bassoon are particularly shown to advantage in works by Beethoven and Reicha, as well as two adaptations from operas of Rossini and Donizetti. The performer is the Australian Lyndon Watts, who was a prize winner at the ARD Competition in 2002 and was appointed solo bassoonist with the Munich Philharmonic at the age of just 22. He is accompanied by Edoardo Torbianelli, an established specialist for historical keyboard instruments.

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TCHAIKOVSKY: Grande Sonate Op. 37, The Seasons Op. 37b Alexandre Paley

Label: ApartĂŠ File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: AP087 Barcode: 3149028050028 MID Price Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack Alexandre Paley [piano]

Alexander Paley is widely acclaimed for his dazzling technical prowess, his exceptionally broad and extensive repertoire of concerti and solo piano works, and the depth of his unique and personal interpretations.

Born in Kishiniev, Moldova, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Bella Davidovich and Vera Gornostayeva, completing his graduate work in 1981. He went on to win major awards, including the First Prize at the the Leipzig International Bach Competition in 1984, the Bosendorfer Prize in 1986 and Les Victoires de la Musique Classique (France) in 2006. Prior to his defection to USA in 1988, Paley performed frequently as a recitalist and soloist throughtout the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe.

The year 2011 marked the 20th anniversary of Paley's festival at the Moulin d'Ande in Normandy (France). This festival, a week-long series of recitals, lieder and chamber music concerts, has been the subject of an hour-long documentary by Russian television which has been broadcast thoughout eastern Europe as well as in Israel. In August 1998, he created a festival in Richmond, Virginia. It has drawn popular and critical acclaim for its bold programming and brilliant performances. He now divides his time between the United States and France.

This recording marks the return of Alexander Paley to disc, in hommage to Tchaikovsky, a composer who accompanied his studies at the Moscow Conservatory.

RELEASE DATE 30TH JUNE 2014

Forvarskvall -One Early Spring Evening Sofia Vokalensemble Sven-David SANDSTROM: Four Songs of Love [Song of Songs], Half Finished Heaven Oskar LINDBERG: Stjärntändingen Fredrik SIXTEN: Unforgotten Trilo: Traditional folk song from Bohuslän Hugo ALFVEN: Aftonen I denna Ljuva Sommartid [trad] Ludvig NORMAN: Jordens oro viker motett Op. 50 David WIKANDER: Kung Liljekonvalje, Förvårskaväll Jaako MANTYJARVI: Die Stimme des Kindes, Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae Wilhelm STENHAMMAR: Sverige

Label: Convivium Records File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: CR017 Barcode: 700153370042 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Sofia Vokalensemble Bengt Ollén [director]

Winners of multiple festivals, including the European Grand Prix (2012), Stockholm based Sofia Vokalensemble present a beautiful collection of Nordic Choral Music in traditional and contemporary arrangements. Their first disc on a British Label has been crafted around the theme of nature, from one spring evening to a late winter's night.

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BERLIOZ: Symphonie Fantastique, BORODIN: Prince Igor Overture Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda In this colourful programme, the extraordinary Italian maestro, and Chief Guest at the IPO since 2011, Gianandrea Noseda leads the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in two works that demonstrate the orchestra's virtuosity and unique timbre. This is his first recording for Helicon Classics, caught live in January of this year at the Bronfman Auditorium, Tel Aviv.

Label: Helicon Ltd File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: HEL029673 Barcode: 7293627967327 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda

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BRUCKNER: Symphony No.8 Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Zubin Mehta The music of Anton Bruckner has always been a favourite of conductor Zubin Mehta. This live performance of the much-loved Symphony No.8, from the Charles Bronfman Auditorium, December 2013, in the Nowak edition finds both conductor and orchestra on top form.

Label: Helicon Ltd File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: HEL029674 Barcode: 7293627967426 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Zubin Mehta

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BRUCKNER: Symphony No.7 Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Zubin Mehta For the Israel Philharmonic, performing Bruckner has been somewhat controversial, due to Bruckner's unrequited status as a Nazi idol: as an unworldly man in late 19th-century Vienna, he became inveigled in the musical and political controversies of the day, finding himself enlisted as a partisan of Wagner against the Brahms faction, never quite extricating himself, even after death. Surprisingly, this is only Zubin Mehta's fourth recording of the Symphony No.7, and the only one currently in print. This live performance from the Smolartz Auditorium, July 2012, features the 1944 edition of Robert Haas.

Label: Helicon Ltd File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: HEL029675 Barcode: 7293627967525 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Zubin Mehta

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FRESCOBALDI: Messa Sopra l'aria della Monica, Motets Il Teatro Armonico Alessandro de Marchi Toccata ii, Introit civitas Hierusalem (motet SATT & b.c.), Kyrie i (a 8), Christe (a 4), Kyrie ii (a 8), Gloria (a 8), Epistle lectio epistolae beati Pauli (gregorian, Gradual canzona Xi a due canti detta la Plettenberger (cornett, violin, lute & organ), Gospel dominus vobiscum (gregorian), Credo (a 8), Offertory ricercar dopo il credo, Preface Per omnia saecula saeculorum (gregorian), Sanctus (a 8), Elevation Toccata iV per l’organo da sonarsi all’elevazione, Iesu flos Mater Virginis (motet SATB & b.c.), Pater Noster Per omnia secula seculorum (gregoriano), Agnus dei (a 8), Communio ego sum panis (motet SST & b.c.), Post Communio canzon ii a due canti e due bassi (violin, cornett, viola da gamba, cello, 2 lutes, organ) Ite Missa est ite missa est (gregorian), Capriccio V sopra la bassa fiamenga

Label: Christophorus File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: CHE0193-2 Barcode: 4010072019325 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Rosana Bertini, Pascal Bertin, Marco Beasley, Giuseppe Maletto, Jean Tubéry, Attilio Cremonesi, Alessandro de Marchi, Furio Zanassi,

From 1608 Frescobaldi was the organist at St Peter's Basilica in Rome. In 1615 a new basilica was built with two fine organs upon which Frescobaldi performed his famous improvisatory toccatas during ceremonial occasions but he was also expected to provide vocal and choral works for his patron, the Ferrara based Este efamily.

It is likely that the Mass 'Sopra l’aria della Monica' was performed in the basilica and based on a popular tune. The 'aria della Monica' was a secular song, quite often used for keyboard variations and instrumental compositions. The mass reflects common practice in Rome in that is scored for eight voices in two choirs and is a beautifully crafted example of late 17th-century Italian church music.

Amongst the singers are such familiar names as Rossana Bertini, Giuseppe Maletto (both La Venexiana, La Compagnia del madrigale), Marco Beasley, or Furio Zanasi. Musical direction is in the able hands of Alessandro De Marchi.

Formerly available on the Symphonia label, recorded in 1993. Virtually no competition.

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Orlando di LASSO: Motets [from Patrocinium Musices 1573/74]

Concerto Palatino Currende Erik Van Nevel Gaudent in coelis, Exsurgat deus, Salve regina, Pauper sum ego, Domine, clamavi ad te, Confitemini domino, Ante me, Pater noster, Misericordias domini, Nos qui sumus in hoc mundo, In deo salutare meum, O gloriosa domina, Quis mihi det, Pulvis et umbra sumus, Regnum mundi, Oculi omnium, Media vita in morte sumus, Exaudi domine, Agimus tibi gratias

Label: Christophorus File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: CHE0192-2 Barcode: 4010072019226 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Concerto Palatino: Bruce Dickey [cornetto] Harry Ries, Charles Toet, Wim Becu [sackbuts] Currende Vocal Ensemble: Katelijne Van Laethem [soprano] Jan Caals, Marius Van Altena [tenor] Josep CabrĂŠ [bass] Bart Coen BlockflĂśten [recorders] Philippe Pierlot, Piet Stryckers Kaori Uemura [viols] Herman Stinders [organ] Erik Van Nevel [direction]

After Sherlock Holmes solved the theft of the Bruce-Partington plans, he finished a paper on the motets of Orlando di Lasso and boasted that it was the "final word upon the subject." Currende Vocal Ensemble and Concerto Palatino are in fine form on this disc and together they present the listener with a very beguiling 'walk through' the motets of Orlando di Lasso.

The cover shows Lassus directing his singers and musicians at the Munich court from a spinet.

Recorded in 1998 for the Accent label

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Miserere mei Deus Music for Passiontide around 1500, Works by Isaac, Josquin Deprez & Ycart

ensemble officium Wilfried Rombach Lectio I-III, Introitus, Responsorium Graduale, Alleluia, Sequenz, Offertorium, Communio.

Prima Pars, Secunda Pars, Tertia Pars

Label: Christophorus File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: CHE0194-2 Barcode: 4010072019424 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack ensemble officium Wilfried Rombach (direction)

Leonardo da Vinci, Heinrich Isaac and Josquin des Prez were contemporaries. Leonardo's reknown amongst his contemporaries was based as much on his musical abilities as those in any other field and he is known to have been familiar with the compositions of Josquin and Isaac. While Josquin was to continue to be hailed as the Michelangelo of music for centuries after his death before succumbing to the same lapse into obscurity as Isaac, prosperity has been kinder to Leonardo. Perhaps if Leonardo's 'Treatise on Music', referred to in his writings but lost, had survived maybe the revival of the reputations of his musical contemporaries might have happened sooner, for this was an age in which music flourished as much as painting. The polyphonic complexity of music reached a zenith in this age that has never since been equalled.

Heinrich Isaac's 'Choralis Constantinus' is one of the greats of Renaissance polyphony: The small segment included on this disk is enough to make one crave a boxed set of the whole. The motet 'Miserere mei Deus' by Josquin des Prez is one of his most expressive, and the 'Lamentationes' by the nearly unknown composer Bernhard Ycart demonstrates once again that we've probably lost more splendid music than we've saved.

[Previously available on Christophorus c2002 with the title 'Lamentatio']

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Lute Music from Renaissance Italy Joachim Held Francesco da MILANO (M) - Piedro Paolo BORRONO (B) - Giovan Paolo PALADINO (P) Ricercar [51] (M), Saltarello ditto Rose e Viole (B), Fantasie première (P), Pavana ditta la Milanesa (B) Ricercar [12] (M), Ricercar [1] (M), Ricercar [11] (M), Pavana ditta la malcontenta (B), Fantasie seconde (P), Ancor che col partir (P), Pavana ditta la Paladina (P), Fantasia (B), Pavana ditta la Gombertina (B), Ricercar [5] (M), Ricercar [6] (M), Peschatore che va Cantando (B), Pavana ditta la Desperata (B), Fantasia [64] (M), Fantasia [40] (M), Pavana Nona (B), Fantasia [27] (M), Saltarello ditto Bel Fiore (B), Fantasia [30] (M), Tochata (M), Ricercar [15] (M), Fantasia [32] (M), Fantasia [22] (M), Saltarello ditto la Traditorella (B), Fantasie troysi (P)

Label: Christophorus File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: CHE0195-2 Barcode: 4010072019523 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Joachim Held [six-course lute]

Press reviews for the original release on Symphonia, 1996: "Joachim Held has a refreshing and virtuosic manner to approach this music, probably comparable to Paul O' Dette's playing. He doesn't indulge in the lute players' caprice to play every harmony with an arpeggio slowing down and putting a veil on the flow of the music. Instead he chooses lively tempi, doesn't consider the word virtuoso as a devil's creation from the 19th century and shapes these master works he is dealing with, consistently and in a transparent way. Being played legato, not staccato, the melodies sound and thereby can be followed through the plait of voices and accompanied on their way by the listener."

Gitarre und Laute, February 1997 "... Joachim Held's playing is a real pleasure to listen to. He brings out the character of each piece, from the fluid improvisatory virtuosy of Francesco's Fantasias and ricercars, to the more formally structured fantasias of Paladino, and the rhythmic vitality and energy of Borrono's dance forms. Throughout this recording Joachim Held makes effective use of tonal and dynamic contrast and shows excellent control of tempo and rubato without ever sounding self - indulgent. In the contrapunctual works he shows an impressive control of the different voices of a composition - demonstrated to particular good effect in Paladino's intabulation of "Anchor che col partire" in which the part writing of the underlying madrigal is never less than crystal clear..." Lute Society (of England), March 1998

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SAINT-SAENS: Carnival of the Animals Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso Op. 28 Variations on a theme by Beethoven Op. 35

Ferhan & Ferzan Önder Howard Griffiths Turkish twins Ferhan and Ferzan Onder present the ever-popular 'Carnival of the Animals', one of their regular concert programmes, together with 'Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso' written for Sarasate and transcribed for 2pianos by Debussy. 'Variations on a theme by Beethoven' is technically demanding and reflects Saint-Saëns early career at the piano as a child prodigy. Recorded in 1997.

“Their immaculate ensemble-playing, their fiery temperament and their virtuoso dexterity are proof of the extraordinary pianistic qualities of the Oenders… they are hot!” [Michael Stenger/Fono Forum]

Label: Christophorus File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: CHE0196-2 Barcode: 4010072019622 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Ferhan & Ferzan Önder [piano] Zürcher Kammerorchester Howard Griffiths [conductor]

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Alhambra, Spanish Guitar Music

by Manuel de Falla, Paco de Lucia, Isaac Albéniz...

Tilman Hoppstock Regino Sainz de la MAZA: El Vito Fernando SOR: Variationen über ein Thema von Mozart op. 9 Francisco TARREGA: Mazurken (live), Adelita, Sueño, Mazurka en sol, Marieta, Andante, Recuerdos de la Alhambra Federico MORENO-TORROBA: Fandanguillo, Nocturno Isaac ALBENIZ: El Polo aus Iberia (live), Cataluña aus Suite Español op. 47, Tango aus España op. 165, Asturias aus Suite Español op. 47* Manuel de FALLA: Homenaje (live), Tanz des Müllers Paco de LUCIA: Granaina, Taranta (Lucia/Hoppstock) *Arranged by Tilman Hoppstock

Label: Christophorus File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: CHE0197-2 Barcode: 4010072019721 BUDGET Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Tilman Hoppstock [guitar] Instruments: Robert S. Ruck, 1983 [1, 13-14] Matthias Dammann, 1998 [3-7] Flamencogitarre / Flamenco guitar [16-18] Matthias Dammann 2006 [10, 15] Christopher Dean, 2000 [2, 8-9, 11-12]

This CD presents works by Spanish composers in a compilation of various recordings made in the years 1995 to 2009, including live recordings from concerts (the 5 Mazurkas by Tárrega, the Homenaje of de Falla and El Polo by Isaac Albéniz), which complement the studio productions thanks to their lively atmosphere.

Recorded 1995-2009