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BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

OPERA CHOICE, FEBRUARY GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE harmonia mundi HMC902172 Che puro ciel Bejun Mehta, René Jacobs GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE WIGMORE HALL LIVE WHLIVE0063 Schumann, Reimann Wolfgang Holzmair, Imogen Cooper BBC Radio 3 Disc of the Week 4/1/2014 ONYX ONYX4112 Schubert: Die schone Mullerin Florian Boesch, Malcolm Martineau BBC R3 Building a Library 28/12/2013 Haydn The creation, René Jacobs see page 9 BBC R3 Building a Library 11/1/2014 HMG501522 Berlioz, Nuits d’ d’ete Op. 7; Herminie Brigitte Balleys, Philippe Herreweghe BBC R3 Essential Classics CD of the Week 10/2/2014 AP070 Christophe Rousset’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 CPE Bach is 300 [1714-1788] see page 3

Welcome: Edition Classics, Convivium Records

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C.P.E. BACH: Magnificat Heilig ist Gott Wq 217, Symphony in D major Wq 183/1

Elizabeth Watts RIAS Kammerchor Akademie f端r Alte Musik Berlin Hans-Christoph Rademann

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: HMC902167 Barcode: 3149020216729 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Elizabeth Watts [soprano] Wiebke Lehmkuhl [alto] Lothar Odinius [tenor] Markus Eiche [bass] RIAS Kammerchor Akademie f端r Alte Musik Berlin Hans-Christoph Rademann

On April 9, 1786, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach conducted a charity concert in Hamburg featuring three of his finest and most representative works: the Symphony Wq 183/1, the Magnificat (written in 1749 in the hope of succeeding his father as Cantor in Leipzig) and his stupendous 'Heilig' for double choir, of which he wrote, "It will be my swan song of this kind, and will serve to ensure that I shall not soon be forgotten after my death."

Released to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the composer's birth, this recording recreating the programme of this historic concert confirms the prophetic nature of the composer's words. Hans-Christoph Rademann leads the RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie f端r Alte Musik Berlin and a stellar cast of soloists (including soprano Elizabeth Watts) in definitive recordings of these fascinating and innovative works.

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SCHUBERT: Wanderer's Nachtlied Matthias Goerne Schubert Edition 8

Matthias Goerne CD1: An die untergehende Sonne D457, Der Tod und das Mädchen D531, Die Rose D745, Erinnerung (Totenopfer) D101, Litanei D343, Auf dem Wasser zu singen D774, Abendbilder D650, Nach einem Gewitter D561, Der Zwerg D771, Im Frühling D882, Die Blumensprache D519, Viola D786, An die Entfernte D765, Bei dir allein D866/2, Ganymed D544 CD2: Wanderers Nachtlied D768, Schäfers Klagelied D121, Heidenröslein D257, Rastlose Liebe D138, An den Mond D259, Trost in Tränen D120, Erster Verlust D226, Der Musensohn D764, Geheimes D719, Versunken D715, An Schwager Kronos D369, Geisternähe D100, Das war ich D174, Das Rosenband D280, Furcht der Geliebten D285, An Sie D288, Die Liebe hat gelogen D751, Lachen und Weinen D777, Dass sie hier gewesen D775, Der Einsame D800, Die Sterne D684

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: HMC902109/10 Barcode: 3149020210925 2 FOR 1.5 Format: 2 CD Matthias Goerne [baritone] Helmut Deutsch [piano CD1] Eric Schneider [piano CD2]

Matthias will be on the cover of Opera Now's special Lieder issue in February

Not 'just another Schubert recording, but a major artistic achievement’ [Christian Girardin, harmonia mundi] Matthias Goerne is totally invested in the recording and editing process. Vol. 9 (the last one in the series) is due out towards the end of 2014. Future recordings will include Brahms with Christophe Eschenbach and Mahler (arr. Berio) Early Songs to be recorded in September 2014 with Josep Pons and the BBCSO.

ALSO AVAILABLE: HMC902141 Schubert Erlkonig MGSE Vol.7 DISC OF THE WEEK – RADIO 3, CD REVIEW 9 Feb 2013 EDITOR’S CHOICE - GRAMOPHONE March 2013 ***** Sinfini 5 March 2013 ***** (perf) – BBC Music Magazine April 2013 "...Goerne has no equal today… a thrilling, no-holds-barred send-off to a recital that is self-recommending for the baritone’s many admirers … no singer cares more than Goerne for the beauty and eloquence of Schubert’s melodies."

Richard Wigmore, GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE – March 2013

"I would rank this among the finest recital discs I have ever heard."

Michael Tanner, ***** perf / **** rec BBC Music Magazine – April 2013

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BEETHOVEN: Piano Trios Op.70 No.2 & Op.97 'Archduke' Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras Alexander Melnikov By giving the stringed instruments the status of genuinely equal partners with the piano, it was Beethoven who gave the piano trio the form it was to retain throughout the 19th century. This album presents the composer's last two works in the genre, Op.70 No.2 dedicated to Countess Marie Erdödy, and the celebrated 'Archduke' trio, which marked the final public appearance of its composer.

Three eminent Beethovenians, Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov join forces here in performances that aim to highlight Beethoven's humour in their interpretation and set a new benchmark in the process.

Their next project will be Schumann Piano Trios to be recorded in May and released in 2015.

ALSO AVAILABLE:

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: HMC902125 Barcode: 3149020212523 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Isabelle Faust [violin] Jean-Guihen Queyras [cello] Alexander Melnikov [Graff fortepiano]

HMC902025/27 Beethoven Violin Sonatas Faust/Melnikov GRAMOPHONE AWARD 2010

“performed by Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov with intelligence, intensity, lithe flexibility, and a sense of partnership and mutual understanding that's utterly persuasive.”

Andrew McGregor, CD Review, 30 August 2009 “These are the most stimulating and fascinating accounts of the Beethoven violin sonatas I have heard in many years…these stimulating performances demand to be heard.”

Misha Donat, Chamber Choice, BBC Music Magazine, October 2009 *****/***** HMC901867 Dvorak Cello Concerto, Trio Faust/Melnikov/Queyras

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J.S. BACH: Brandenburg Concertos Freiburger Barockorchester Six characters in search of a form The Brandenburg Concertos need no introduction – doubtless because they owe their fame to a systematic exploration of a genre recently inherited from the Italians, with a still youthful Bach devising as many different scorings as there are concertos. When he received the manuscript of the six works, Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg, must have been terrified by their demands, and his musicians even more so!

Three centuries later, the cycle is as open as ever to new ‘historically informed’ interpretations, as this set demonstrates.

The CD cover represents the importance of numbers in these works eg Concerto No 3 which is scored for three instruments, in 3 time, 3 sections etc. The trumpeter is particularly impressive. Freiburg are recording and touring Bach throughout 2014.

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: HMC902176/77 Barcode: 3149020217627 2 FOR 1.5 Format: 2 CD Freiburger Barockorchester

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The Sacred Spirit of Russia Gretchaninov / Kastalsky / Rachmaninov

Conspirare

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: HMU807526 Barcode: 093046752668 NORMAL Price Format: 1 SACD Glen Miller [basso profundo] Conspirare Craig Hella Johnson

To understand and partake of the 'Sacred Spirit of Russia' requires one, first and foremost, to experience the beauty and splendour of the Russian Orthodox liturgy, which has been an integral part of the Eastern Slav identity for over 1000 years.

The sacred music of the New Russian Choral School features sublime settings of the liturgy that draw on a rich history of Orthodox chants and native traditions, creating music of unprecedented colour and textural richness. Following the lead of Tchaikovsky, composers such as Kastalsky, Gretchaninov, Chesnokov, Rachmaninov and a host of others have left us a treasure-trove of musical delights.

Craig Hella Johnson and the 35-strong Conspirare (featuring the astounding basso profundo Glenn Miller) present a glorious sampling of some of the finest works in this genre including Martynov's mesmerising 'Beatitudes' for three sopranos and choir and Kedrov's setting of the Lord's Prayer.

Conspirare's esteemed language coach is the editor of Musica Russica, Vladimir Morosan who has also written the booklet notes. The only 'inauthentic' part of this SACD recording for hm USA is the spot-on intonation.

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HAYDN: The Seasons René Jacobs "Haydn was on a roll when he started The Seasons, having just completed The Creation. His unique blend of drama and naiveté gives rise to music which is at worst charming, and at best overwhelming. René Jacobs shapes a performance which is quite brilliant, even by his own high standards. It oozes character and invention – just like the music itself. The vocal soloists Marlis Petersen, Werner Güra, and Dietrich Henschel complete the cast. There’s not a weak link in earshot." BBC Radio 3, CD Review Gramophone Editor’s Choice Benchmark, BBC Music Magazine Classic FM Magazine Very Best of 2004 Daily Telegraph Classical CDs of the Year Sunday Times Records of the Year

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: HMC971829/30 Barcode: 3149020182901 MID Price FORMAT 2 CDS Packaging: digipack Marlis Petersen [soprano] Werner Güra [tenor] Dietrich Henschel [baritone] RIAS Kammerchor Freiburger Barockorchester René Jacobs [direction]

Sunday Telegraph Records of the Year Gramophone Critics’ Choice Penguin Guide 100 Outstanding Recordings (Rosette) BBC Radio 3 Top Choice, Building a Library “It would be hard to imagine a more joyful account of Haydn's culminating masterpiece. René Jacobs and his outstanding team perfectly capture the exuberance with which the composer seemed to be defying the years.” Edward Greenfield, Editor’s Choice, Gramophone, Awards issue, 2004 "Not content with winning Gramophone's Record of the Year for his Figaro, René Jacobs turns his loving attention to Haydn's final oratorio. There have been some splendid recordings of this charming, bucolic masterpiece, but none as infectiously exuberant as this, which is given extra vitality by the richness of Jacobs' period-instrument forces. All this and his three soloists beat all their rivals, to boot." Andrew Clarke, The Independent, 16-22 October 2004, ***** “Buy a copy and banish Seasonal Affective Disorder for good.” International Record Review, December 2004 “Jacobs seems at the peak of his achievement in the interpretation of the Viennese classics and surely there can be few such comparatively neglected masterpieces that so much call for his enthusiastic advocacy. And who better to cheer the spirits than the ever-inventive and human Haydn?” Alan Blyth, Critics’ Choice, Gramophone, December 2004

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HAYDN: The Creation Die Schöpfung

René Jacobs BBC Radio 3, Building a library Top Choice, Saturday 28th December 2013 Sunday Times Classical CD of the Week Gramophone Editor’s Choice ***** Financial Times ***** Times

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: HMC972039/40 Barcode: 3149020203903 MID Price Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack Julia Kleiter [soprano] Maximilian Schmitt [tenor] Johannes Weisser [baritone] Freiburger Barockorchester RIAS Kammerchor

"...but it is Jacobs who makes The Creation sound new-minted, surprising and cutting-edge. His Freiburg musicians have bracing string sounds, wonderfully alfresco, natural-sounding winds and brass; and his professional choir, singing in their native language, far outclass their LSO counterparts. With relatively small numbers, the great outburst on the word Licht (Light) in the opening chorus has rarely had the jump-out-of-your-seat effect that it does here. Jacobs’s soloists are winning, too: Julia Kleiter is a pristine-toned Archangel Gabriel and an innocent Eve, while Johannes Weisser is an all-too-human Adam and a Raphael only slightly gravelly at the bottom of the basso range. Best of all is Maximilian Schmitt’s lyrical and articulate Uriel, one of the finest on disc since Fritz Wunderlich." Hugh Canning, Classical CD of the Week, Sunday Times, 18 October 2009 "Haydn’s Creation, part-inspired by Handel’s oratorios and sung here in German, represents the summit of his achievement. At least, that’s how it seems in this glorious performance. Jacobs, directing the Freiburger Barokorchester and RIAS Kammerchor, underlines Haydn’s purity of vision and wealth of dramatic characterisation, without letting stylistic correctness get in the way of the music. Johannes Weisser, Maximilian Schmitt and Julia Kleiter are the fresh-voiced soloists." Andrew Clark, Financial Times, 31 October/1 November 2009 ***** "A marvellous performance of Haydn’s oratorio...The conductor Jacobs’s springing gait sets the pace, niftily followed by the crack musicians of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Their fruity period instrument colours bring God’s menagerie of creatures to thrilling life. Outstanding solo singing too, especially from Johannes Weisser, a Norwegian baritone of great potential." Geoff Brown, The Times, 31 October – 6 November 2009 ***** “From the dessicated opening to the luminous explosion of Light and the final blazing celebration of the First Day’s work, it is clear that Rané Jacobs’s Creation is something special… a truly special occasion, a feeling powerfully engendered by the magnificent recording itself.” International Record Review, November 2009

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BRUCKNER: Symphony No 9 London Symphony Orchestra Bernard Haitink Bernard Haitink, internationally renowned for his interpretations of Bruckner, returns at the helm of the LSO following his acclaimed recording for the label of the fourth Symphony.

Bruckner’s symphonies are often described as ‘Gothic cathedrals in sound,’ an apt description considering the composer’s devout faith and early vocation as an organist. He died before he could finish his 9th Symphony but within its three movements can be found some of his most complete music, imbued with a sense of deep solace and resolution.

Bernard Haitink’s Beethoven Symphony cycle received the title of Benchmark Beethoven Cycle from BBC Music Magazine. Haitink has also released a complete Brahms Symphony cycle and Strauss’ 'Eine Alpensinfonie' to international acclaim.

Label: LSO Live File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: LSO0746 Barcode: 822231174622 MID Price Format: 1 SACD Packaging: cristal London Symphony Orchestra Bernard Haitink

Concert Reviews "Even by Haitink’s already impressive standards, this was really special … the grand masses of Brucknerian sound could not have been delivered by anyone else … A gripping Brucknerian evening" ***** The Guardian "a far-reaching symphonic journey and a special occasion." Classical Source "Throughout, the LSO played with total conviction, the brass overwhelming in their assault on the shattering climaxes of the first movement, the indomitable hammering of a steady-paced and brutal Scherzo, and the final dissonant catastrophe that crowns the Adagio … It was very moving – indeed, absolutely shattering." bachtrack.com ALSO AVAILABLE: LSO0716 Bruckner Symphony No 4 "A GREAT RECORDING" BBC Radio 3, Building a Library "not only the most sumptuously beautiful, it’s also the most satisfying … few performances capture so well the sense of mystery at the heart of this symphony." Stephen Johnson, BBC Music Magazine – July 2013

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Arise my Muse Music of the Restoration

Iestyn Davies Richard Egarr Pamela Thorby William Carter

Label: Wigmore Hall Live File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: WHLIVE0065 Barcode: 5065000924669 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Iestyn Davies [countertenor] Richard Egarr [harpsichord] Pamela Thorby, Tabea Debus [recorder] Bojan Cvicvic´, Stephen Pedder [violin] Julia Kuhn [viola, violin] Mark Levy [viola da gamba] William Carter [theorbo, baroque guitar]

PURCELL: Arise, my muse, Strike the viol, Here the Deities approve, The pale and the purple rose, ’Tis Nature’s Voice, Crown the altar, If music be the food of love Z379b 1st setting/1st version, Fantasia: Three parts on a ground, O solitude, my sweetest choice!

GABRIELI: Sonata XXI CLARKE: The Glory of the Arcadian Groves BLOW: Poor Celadon, he sighs in vain, Suite from Venus and Adonis CROFT: Ye tuneful Numbers: A song with symphonies ENCORE: Spoken introduction (Iestyn Davies), Fairest isle Famed for the crystalline beauty of his voice and the breath-taking daring of his artistry, British countertenor Iestyn Davies returned to Wigmore Hall with a programme reaching back to the Restoration Court to reveal the wealth of musical riches of the late 17th-century London.

For this recital, Iestyn Davies and the ensemble stepped beyond the bounds of convention to explore the works with fresh insight, delivering an invigorating yet refined and delicate performance.

Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, on 27 February 2013

ALSO AVAILABLE: WHLIVE0038 Handel Nine German Arias Purcell "A breathtaking performance ...another triumph for Wigmore Live recordings." *****/***** BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

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TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Denis Matsuev Mariinsky Orchestra Valery Gergiev

Label: Mariinsky File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: MAR0548 Barcode: 822231854821 NORMAL Price Format: 1 SACD Packaging: cristal Denis Matsuev [piano] Mariinsky Orchestra Valery Gergiev

Since winning the 11th International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1998, Denis Matsuev has established a reputation as one of Russia's leading pianists. His début release on the Mariinsky label featuring Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3 and Paganini Variations, received widespread acclaim. His second Mariinsky release featured piano concerts by Shostakovich and Shchedrin, which was awarded Clef du Mois by ResMusica and ***** by Audiophile Audition. For his third release, Matsuev turns to the music of Tchaikovsky, with the two Piano Concertos. His first Piano Concerto is one of his most popular works: Tchaikovsky balances core motivic elements with a sense of lyrical spontaneity to create a technically challenging but instantly appealing work.

The Piano Concerto No.2 was dedicated to pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, with whom the composer had a close working relationship. Tchaikovsky wrote, “I want to dedicate it to N. G. Rubinstein in recognition of his magnificent playing of my First Concerto and of my Sonata, which left me in utter rapture after he performed it for me in Moscow.” After a tremendous piano cadenza in the first movement, Tchaikovsky allows other instruments to shine, with prominent solos for violin and cello in the second movement.

Other Tchaikovsky recordings on the Mariinsky label include a DVD/Bluray release of his last three symphonies, and 2011 Tchaikovsky Competition winner Daniil Trifonov’s interpretation of the first Piano Concerto on SACD. In March and April Denis Matsuev joins the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev for a European tour, with concerts in London, Paris and Turin.

"In both these concertos it is hard not to enjoy Denis Matsuev's playing and that of the Mariinsky Orchestra under Valery Gergiev, if only for the sheer enthusiasm and larger-than-life presence. Even in the highly wrought passages in the massive Second Concerto, which he plays in Tchaikovsky's own revision, Matsuev copes with the fistfuls of notes with real relish, while there's refinement, too, in the slow movement: with its violin and cello solos, it effectively becomes a triple concerto at times." Andrew Clements, The Guardian, Jan 2 Valery Gergiev and Denis Matsuev will feature in the opening ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games on 7 February

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HINDEMITH: Complete Viola Works Vol. 2 Sonatas for Viola & Piano and Solo Viola

Tabea Zimmermann Disc 1: 1. Sonata for Viola and Piano Op. 11 No. 4 2.Sonata for Solo Viola Op. 11 No. 5 3.Sonata for Solo Viola Op. 25 No. 1 4.Sonata for Viola and Piano Op. 25 No. 4 Disc 2: 1.Sonata for Solo Viola Op. 31 No. 4 2.Sonata for Solo Viola (1937) 3.Sonata for Viola and Piano (1939)

Label: Myrios Classics File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: MYR011 Barcode: 4260183510116 2 FOR 1.5 Format: 2 SACD Packaging: cristal Tabea Zimmermann [viola] Thomas Hoppe [piano]

ADVERTISED, WITH VOLUME 1, IN BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY ISSUE

Tabea Zimmermann commemorates the 50th anniversary of death of Paul Hindemith with the recording of his complete works for viola. Hindemith is regarded as a key composer for the instrument and has been a famous violist himself who premiered the viola concertos by Darius Milhaud and William Walton. Vol. 2 of the edition includes the complete sonatas for solo viola and for viola and piano. Ordered by their creation date on this double album, the seven compositions give an impressive insight of Hindemith‘s development as a composer, from the early works of the year 1919 to the mature and epic sonatas of the late 1930‘s.

ALSO AVAILABLE: MYR010 Hindemith, Viola works Vol.1 Der Schwanendreher; Trauermusik; Kammermusik No. 5; Konzertmusik, Op. 48a Tabea Zimmermann (viola); Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Hans Graf “Tabea Zimmermann’s first volume of a complete survey immediately takes its place among the very best, not least for the warmer, woodier tone that she produces and puts to such musically penetrating use.”

John Allison, BBC

Music Magazine, Choice – September 2013 Gramophone Editor's Choice IRR Outstanding Nominated for the BBC Music Awards 2014: Concerto

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J.S. BACH: Cantatas BWV 70, 9, 182, Vol. 18 BWV 70 Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! 26th Sunday after Trinity BWV9 Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, 6th Sunday after Trinity BWV182 Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, Palmarum

La Petite Bande Sigiswald Kuijken In the beginning there was great scepticism towards the thesis that Bach’s sacred vocal works were originally written for solo voices. Now this interpretation is firmly established. With this edition of one cantata for each Sunday and the great feasts of the ecclesiastical year Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande strengthen this 'new' approach in their excellent performances.

Vol. 18 offers three cantatas one for the twenty-sixth Sunday after Trinity, one for the sixth Sunday after Trinity and one for Palmarum. This volume of the complete edition brings the cycle, began in 2005, to a close.

Label: Accent Records File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: ACC25318 Barcode: 4015023253186 NORMAL Price Format: 1 SACD Packaging: digipack La Petite Bande Sigiswald Kuijken Gerlinde Sämann [soprano] Petra Noskaiová [alto] Christoph Genz [tenor] Jan Van der Crabben [bass]

"Among current cantata series Sigiswald Kuijken‘s has a distinctive place, his one-to-a-part voices and few instruments achieving striking delicacy. His vocal soloists sing with disarming simplicity and ease in arias, and blend superbly in ensemble. A rare treat, Kuijken – and Bach – at their very best.”

BBC Music Magazine, March 2010

Sigiswald Kuijken is interviewed, for Rewind, in BBC Music and Classical Music Magazines about the Bach Cantatas series on Accent Happy 70th birthday Sigiswald!

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MOZART: Piano Concerto KV175, versions for: harpsichord 1773 & fortepiano 1782 A lo previdi KV272

Arthur Schoonderwoerd

Label: Accent Records File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: ACC24289 Barcode: 4015023242890 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Johannette Zomer [soprano] Arthur Schoonderwoerd [harpsichord & fortepiano] Cristofori

With his recording of two different versions of the Piano Concerto, K175, Arthur Schooderwoerd, one of the most sought-after interpreters on the fortepiano, presents the third part of his complete recording of Mozart's Piano Concertos on ACCENT. The early version of 1773 is Mozart's first piano concerto. In 1782 he revised the concerto, adapting it to the changed prevailing taste by replacing the original final movement with a Viennese rondo (K382). Arthur Schoonderwoerd also takes into account the advance in instrument building with his juxtaposition of these two versions: he uses a harpsichord for the early Salzburg version but plays the later Vienna version on a fortepiano .

As in the two previous recordings, Schoonderwoerd and his ensemble Cristofori have set themselves the objective of liberating Mozart's works from the sound ideals of the 19th and 20th centuries. The string parts in the orchestra have just one player each, resulting in a very slender and transparent sound that supports but never covers up the solo instrument.

This recording is completed by the concert aria 'A lo previdi' (K272) for soprano and orchestra, sung by Johannette Zomer.

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MUSSORGSKY: Boris Godunov [dvd] Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper Bayerisches Staatsorchester Kent Nagano Calixto Bieito Opera in four parts and seven scenes, First version (1868/1869) Libretto: Modest Mussorgsky after Alexander Pushkin & Nikolai Karamsins

Label: Bel Air Classiques File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: BAC102 Barcode: 3760115301023 NORMAL Price Format: 1 DVD Boris Godunov: Alexander Tsymbalyuk Fyodor: Yulia Sokolik Xenia: Eri Nakamura Xenia’s nurse: Heike Grötzinger Schuisky: Gerhard Siegel Andrey Chelkalov: Markus Eiche Pimen: Anatoli Kotscherga Grigory Otropyev: Sergey Skorokhodov Varlaam: Vladimir Matorin Missail: Ulrich Reß Simpleton: Kevin Conners Nikititch: Goran Juri´c

Stage direction: Calixto Bieito Set design: Rebecca Ringst Costume design: Ingo Krügler Lighting: Michael Bauer Dramaturgy: Andrea Schönhofer HD recording: Bavarian State Opera, Munich, February 2013 Child murder, scheming monks and a Tsar lapsing into madness – Modest Mussorgsky spread the thematic arc wide in his choral opera, which he began to work on from 1868, and with which he attempted to awaken an awareness of his own time through the indirect route of a historic story.

As an artist of the 19th century, he was driven by the psychology of the masses. Thus, in 'Boris Godunov', alongside the hero of the title, the main role is actually taken primarily by the Russian people, rejoicing, starving, demanding and questioning.

In conjuction with conductor Kent Nagano, Spanish stage director Calixto Bieito proposes an original reading of this brilliant work. The cast is led by Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris), with associates Gerhard Siegel (Schuisky), Markus Eiche (Chelkalov) and Anatoli Kotscherga (Pimen).

"A ‘Boris Godunov’ to die for...The bass Alexander Tsymbalyuk sings Boris with handsome, lean tone and ably conveys the Czar’s mental disintegration’’ NEW YORK TIMES

1 DVD, Running time: 139 min.

Booklet: FR / Eng / Ger; Subtitles: FR / Eng / Ger Colour, 16/9, NTSC; Sound: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1

RELEASE DATE 10TH FEBRUARY 2014

MUSSORGSKY: Boris Godunov [BD] Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper Bayerisches Staatsorchester Kent Nagano Calixto Bieito Opera in four parts and seven scenes, First version (1868/1869) Libretto: Modest Mussorgsky after Alexander Pushkin & Nikolai Karamsins

Label: Bel Air Classiques File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: BAC402 Barcode: 3760115304024 NORMAL Price Format: 1 Blu-ray Boris Godunov: Alexander Tsymbalyuk Fyodor: Yulia Sokolik Xenia: Eri Nakamura Xenia’s nurse: Heike Grötzinger Schuisky: Gerhard Siegel Andrey Chelkalov: Markus Eiche Pimen: Anatoli Kotscherga Grigory Otropyev: Sergey Skorokhodov Varlaam: Vladimir Matorin Missail: Ulrich Reß Simpleton: Kevin Conners Nikititch: Goran Juri´c

Stage direction: Calixto Bieito Set design: Rebecca Ringst Costume design: Ingo Krügler Lighting: Michael Bauer Dramaturgy: Andrea Schönhofer HD recording: Bavarian State Opera, Munich, February 2013 Child murder, scheming monks and a Tsar lapsing into madness – Modest Mussorgsky spread the thematic arc wide in his choral opera, which he began to work on from 1868, and with which he attempted to awaken an awareness of his own time through the indirect route of a historic story.

As an artist of the 19th century, he was driven by the psychology of the masses. Thus, in 'Boris Godunov', alongside the hero of the title, the main role is actually taken primarily by the Russian people, rejoicing, starving, demanding and questioning.

In conjuction with conductor Kent Nagano, Spanish stage director Calixto Bieito proposes an original reading of this brilliant work. The cast is led by Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris), with associates Gerhard Siegel (Schuisky), Markus Eiche (Chelkalov) and Anatoli Kotscherga (Pimen).

"A ‘Boris Godunov’ to die for...The bass Alexander Tsymbalyuk sings Boris with handsome, lean tone and ably conveys the Czar’s mental disintegration’’ NEW YORK TIMES

Running time: 139 min.

Booklet: FR / Eng / Ger; Subtitles: FR / Eng / Ger Image: HD, Colour, 16/9, NTSC Sound: PCM Stereo, DTS HD Master Audio 5.1

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Leonardo VINCI: Alto Arias Filippo Mineccia Bella pace dal seno di Giove [Gismondo re di Polonia] Sotto il peso tra sassi cadendo [Oratorio di Maria dolorata] Nella foresta, Vengo a voi, funesti orrori, Taci, o di morte [Medo] Se soffia irato il vento [Ernelinda] Ai lampi del tuo lume, Chi mi priega, chi m‘ama [Oratorio per la Vergine del Rosario] Alma grande, Ti calpesto, oh crudo Amore [Astianatte], Aprirti il seno, In questa mia tempesta [Eraclea] Che legge spietata [Catone in Utica] Non meno risplende [serenata La contesa de‘ Numi]

Label: Pan Classics File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: PC10297 Barcode: 7619990102972 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Filippo Mineccia [alto] Francesca Cassinari [soprano] Stile galante, Stefano Aresi

When he revived 'Artaserse' by Leonardo Vinci last year, the countertenor Max Emanuel Cencic did not revive just any forgotten opera, but a work calling for five countertenors. Then, if not before, it must have become clear to everyone how large the hype surrounding the countertenor vocal range has become in recent years. This repertoire is suited, like no other, for the display of virtuoso vocal techniques for high male voices.

The fact that there remains sufficient magnificent music yet to be discovered in the archives of Rome and Naples is impressively shown by the present recording of unknown opera arias of Leonardo Vinci. He masters these demanding and highly virtuosic arias with stupendous technique and a wealth of style, accompanied by the ensemble Stile Galante under the direction of Stefano Aresi.

Filippo Mineccia began his musical studies as a choirboy at the School of Music of Fiesole. He has appeared in operatic roles in many theatres and festivals throughout Europe and has worked with Il Complesso Barocco, I Turchini, Stile Galante, Collegium Marianum, Accademia Bizantina; conducted by Alan Curtis, Antonio Florio, Ottavio Dantone, Diego Fasolis and others. 'Vinci Alto Arias' is his first solo recording.

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Il Diario di Chiara Music from La Pietà in Venice in the 18th century

Europa Galante Fabio Biondi Giovanni Porta: Sinfonia for strings in D major Antonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia for strings in G major, RV 149, “Il Coro delle muse” Nicola Porpora: Sinfonia a tre in G major Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in B flat major, RV 372, “Per la S.ra Chiara” Antonio Martinelli: Concerto for Viola d’amore and strings in D major, “Per la S.ra Chiaretta” Antonio Martinelli: Concerto for Violin in E major, “dedicato all S.ra Chiara” Gaetano Latilla: Sinfonia in G major Fulgenso Perotti: Grave for Violin and Organ in G minor Andrea Bernasconi: Sinfonia for strings in D major

Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: GCD923401 Barcode: 8424562234017 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD + bonus DVD Packaging: digipack Europa Galante Fabio Biondi

Abandoned at the age of two months and taken in by the Ospedale della Pietà, Chiara (or Chiaretta) rose – within that enclosed charitable institution in Venice – to become one of the leading European violinists of the middle of the 18th century. No stranger to such acclaim, himself, two and a half centuries later, Fabio Biondi, on his first release for Glossa, has devised a CD drawing on the personal diary of this remarkable musician who was taught by Antonio Vivaldi, and later became a virtuoso soloist on the violin, as well as the viola d’amore. The programme consists of concertos and sinfonias by composers who, like the prete rosso, taught at the Pietà: Porta, Porpora, Martinelli, Latilla, Perotti and Bernasconi are all musicians whose compositions charm and delight as much today as they did in the time of Chiara.

Along with this inspired vision-in-sound of the 18th century musical world of the Ospedale comes a half-hour long DVD dramatisation; CD and DVD admirably reflect both the virtuosic skills demanded of the instrumental soloists of the day and the revolution in musical tastes (inside the Pietà as well as outside it), as the Baroque passed to Classicism via the galant style.

Includes bonus DVD; ‘Il Diario di Chiara’, a film by Lucrezia Le Moli and Fabio Biondi [32 mins]

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CALDARA: Requiem Trio Sonata Op.1/5, Sonata No. 15 Missa dolorosa: Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei

Musica Fiorita Daniela Dolci

Label: Pan Classics File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: PC10296 Barcode: 7619990102965 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Musica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci [organ, harpsichord & direction]

Antonio Caldara belongs to the great generation of musicians of the Venetian late Baroque period, born around 1670 in which he, himself, and Antonio Lotti excelled in the area of vocal music; Albinoni and Vivaldi in their respective instrumental oeuvres. With an utterly inexhaustible imagination and a profoundly Italian cantabile nature, he also achieved the highest degree of representation of emotions, melodic sweetness, sophisticated dissonance and an operatic element in his sacred works. It is no wonder, therefore, that the Viennese court kapellmeister Johann Joseph Fux, Caldara's colleague at the Habsburg court, called him a musician "of great virt첫 and capacity".

When exactly and for what occasion Caldara composed his Requiem is unclear. The text of the requiem mass, at any rate, inspired him to create music of strong character reflecting the gloomy, near-death atmosphere of the text.

Particularly characteristic is the dark colouring of the instrumental ensemble. Only in the Tuba mirum does Caldara call for two trumpets who proclaim the Last Judgement.

The manuscript of Caldara's Requiem, which has been handed down in an incomplete state, is preserved in Prague National Library. This CD is completed by appropriate chamber music by the composer and excerpts from his late 'Missa dolorosa'.

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VERDI: Don Carlo Ruggero Raimondi, José Carreras, Piero Cappuccilli, Matti Salminen Mirella Freni, Agnes Baltsa, Edita Gruberova Chorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera Herbert von Karajan

Label: Orfeo File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: C876133D Barcode: 4011790876320 MID Price Format: 3 CD Packaging: box set Filippo II: Ruggero Raimondi Don Carlo: José Carreras Rodrigo: Piero Cappuccilli Il Grande Inquisitore: Matti Salminen Elisabetta di Valois: Mirella Freni Eboli: Agnes Baltsa Tebaldo: Marjon Lambriks Il conte di Lerma: Ewald Aichberger Un araldo reale: Thomas Moser La voce dal cielo: Edita Gruberova

In this live recording from May 1979 we can now hear Karajan’s 'Don Carlo' with an absolute dream team, in the four-act version that he preferred. He had his ideal ensemble of singers at his disposal in Vienna: Mirella Freni as Elisabetta had already played a major part in this production’s success in Salzburg. She repeated her triumph in Vienna, offering Verdi singing with a faultless line and just the right flexibility between lyrical and dramatic expression. José Carreras sang the title role of Elisabetta’s unlucky lover. His brilliant timbre and introvert expression were perfectly suited to his character, so full of hope and yet so hopelessly dependent on himself alone. His only friend Posa was sung by the leading Italian baritone of the day, Piero Cappuccilli. Like Freni, he too was regarded as without peer in his role, and with good reason.

Agnes Baltsa gave her debut as Eboli, and her mezzosoprano voice possessed both the lightness of touch necessary for her 'Veil Song' but also the power needed for 'O Don fatale'. Matti Salminen as the Grand Inquisitor was at an early highpoint in his career, who would remain at the peak of his profession for many years to come.

Live Recording, Vienna State Opera May 6, 1979

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The Contraltos Sara Mingardo Marie-Nicole Lemieux Nathalie Stutzmann Sonia Prina Delphine Galou

Label: NAĂ?VE File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: V5359 Barcode: 822186053591 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Sara Mingardo Maire-Nicole Lemieux Nathalie Stutzmann Sonia Prina Delphine Galou

VIVALDI: Gloria, Domine Deus Agnus Dei PERGOLESI: Stabat Mater, Quae moerebat et dolebat THOMAS: Mignon, "Connais-tu le pays?"

SCHUMANN: Myrthen, 'Der Nussbaum' BACH: Mass in B minor, Agnus Dei HAYDN: St-Cecilia Mass, Qui tollis peccata mundi VIVALDI: Ottone in villa, "Come l'onda" BIZET: Carmen, "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" HAHN: L'heure exquise CARISSIMI: Cantata, "Deh, memoria, e che piĂš chiedi" SCHUMANN: Liederkreis, 'In der Fremde' VIVALDI: Teuzzone, "Ti sento, si, ti sento" Orlando 1714, "lo sembro appunto quell'augelletto" BACH/GOUNOD: Ave Maria HAHN: A Chloris "Her voice had contralto inflexions, tender and deep": there we have an excellent summing-up of this voice that has been traditional for at least a century and a half. One thinks of Kathleen Ferrier in Brahms and Mahler, of Erda in .The Ring..

The quotation (by the French novelist Roger Martin du Gard) is taken from the 'Petit Robert' dictionary, which defines the word 'contralto' intself as "the lowest female voice".

The contraltos Sara Mingardo, Maire-Nicole Lemieux, Nathalie Stutzmann, Sonia Prina, Delphine Galou interpret repertoire from Vivaldi to Schumann.

ALSO AVAILABLE: V5328 The Countertenors V5351 The Sopranos

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SCHNITTKE: Complete Piano Music Simon Smith CD1: Piano Sonatas 1-3, Variations CD2: Prelude and Fugue, Improvisation and Fugue, Variations on a Chord Little Piano Pieces, Homage to Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich Five Aphorisms, Sonatina for piano four hands, Cadenza to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491, first movement (1975) Two Cadenzas to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K467 (1980) Cadenza to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 25 in C major, K503, first movement (1983) Two Cadenzas to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, K39 (1990)

Label: Delphian File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: DCD34131 Barcode: 801918341311 2 FOR 1.5 Format: 2 CD Packaging: cristal Simon Smith [Steinway model D piano] with Richard Beauchamp and John Cameron

Schnittke’s largest works for the piano are the three sonatas, which all date from the later part of his output. Piano Sonata No 1 (1987) is a substantial work by any standard, structured in four movements played without a break, and lasting upward of half an hour. The emotional journey of the piece is in many ways typical of the composer’s work in the years following his first stroke. Piano Sonata No 2 (1990–91), written for Schnittke’s wife Irina, follows a more traditional three-movement pattern. The opening is rather sensuous and overtly ‘Romantic’, wistful and bittersweet, its delicate counterpoint recalling Berg’s Op. 1 Sonata. Piano Sonata No 3 (1992), first performed by Boris Berman in 1996, is an example of what we might call Schnittke’s ‘late style’, pared down and without the extravagance of some of the works of the 1980s though of similar intensity. It was his last work for solo piano.

The shorter works included here, which along with the sonatas comprise Schnittke’s entire published output for solo piano (including one piece for piano duet and another for six hands at one instrument), are mostly earlier than the sonatas, and are presented here in chronological order, with the cadenzas for four of Mozart’s piano concertos as a sort of appendix.

Simon Smith studied piano with Richard Beauchamp [to whom these discs are dedicated] and composition with Tom David Wilson. As a pianist he has performed many of the landmarks of the 20th-century piano repertoire, most notably many of Stockhausen’s Klavierstücke and the Piano Concerto and complete Etudes of György Ligeti. Following a performance of which latter he was acclaimed as ‘a phenomenon – nothing daunts him, technically or musically’ The Scotsman. For Delphian Records he has recorded solo music by James MacMillan and Stuart MacRae (Delphian DCD34009), Hafliði Hallgrímsson (DCD34051) and Thomas Wilson (DCD34079).

"I remember vividly the first time I heard a piece of music by Schnittke... It is not an exaggeration to say that that moment changed my life and certainly turned on its head the way that I thought about music and its possibilities. Thereafter I avidly devoured as much of Schnittke’s music as I could get my hands on, and this recording is one of the results."

Simon Smith

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DVORAK, SCHUMANN: Cello Concertos CASALS / traditional Catalan ‘The Song of the Birds’

Pablo Ferrandez Stuttgart Philharmoniker Radoslav Szulc The young Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrandez has already been marked out for the very top of his profession with Diapason magazine in France saying "Pablo Ferrandez will be one of the best cellists in the future - No: he already is" After winning the prestigious Prix Edmond de Rothschild at the 2013 Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad in Switzerland, he went on to record his concerto debut CD: Dvorak's masterpiece for the instrument, plus Schumann's intimate concerto from his last years. The exquisite 'Song of the Birds' ends the disc, a much loved traditional Catalan song during the years of the Spanish civil war, made popular by the great Pablo Casals.

Label: Onyx Classics File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: ONYX4127 Barcode: 880040412724 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Pablo Ferrandez [cello] Stuttgart Philharmoniker Radoslav Szulc [conductor]

Advertised in BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone

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Benjamin Britten: Three Cello Suites, A Film by Paul Joyce

Jamie Walton British Cellist Jamie Walton explores the unique atmosphere of Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh to perform Britten’s Three Solo Suites for Cello. The Suites are the summation of the long-standing friendship between Britten and Rostropovich, with the passionate third in particular inspired by the Russian cellist’s rich and romantic performances of Bach’s unaccompanied suites.

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: SIGDVD011 Barcode: 635212001196 NORMAL Price Format: 1 DVD Jamie Walton [cello]

Chapter Points 1. Jamie Walton in Conversation with Paul Joyce 2.Suite No.1, Op.72 3.Suite No.2, Op.80 4.Suite No.3, Op.87 5.Tema ‘Sacher’ Also available as a studio recording on CD (SIGCD336): “Britten’s suites for solo cello are not perhaps an easy listen any more than they are easy to play, but Jamie Walton’s absorbing performances of all three seem to expose and explore the emotional heart and soul that went into the writing of them.” Daily Telegraph - 5 Stars

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Harrison BIRTWISTLE: The Moth Requiem BBC Singers Nash Ensemble Roderick Williams The Moth Requiem (2003) Three Latin Motets from The Last Supper (1998) Carmen Paschale (1965) Lullaby (2006) On the Sheer Threshold of the Night (1980) The Moth Requiem (2012)

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: SIGCD368 Barcode: 635212036822 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Roderick Williams [baritone] BBC Singers Nash Ensemble Nicholas Kok [conductor]

As 2014 marks the composer’s 80th year, Harrison Birtwistle remains one of the most popular voices in contemporary composition in the UK and beyond. This new collection of premiere recordings draws together recent commissions with older works to mark the occasion, with characteristically flawless performances from the BBC Singers under Nicholas Kok. They are joined on this disc by the Nash Ensemble and baritone Roderick Williams.

This is the fourth in Signum's ongoing series of composer-led releases with the BBC Singers, with past discs featuring the works by Judith Bingham, Richard Rodney Bennett, and most recently Edward Cowie.

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Alastair Miles: Lieder by Wolf & Brahms WOLF: Prometheus, Grenzen der Menschheit, Der Sänger, O wüsst ich doch den Weg zurück, Op.63 No.8, Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo, BRAHMS: Auf dem Kirchhofe, Op.105 No.4, Feldeinsamkeit, Op.86 No.2, Verrat, Op.105 No.5, Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen, Op.32 No.2, Vier ernste Gesange Nos 1-4, Op.121 Alastair Miles is internationally recognised as one of the world's leading basses, appearing regularly with acclaimed opera companies such as WNO, Glyndebourne, ENO and the Royal Opera, as well as with conductors such as Giulini, Harnoncourt, Muti, Rattle, Gergiev, Gardiner, Norrington, Davis and Dohnanyi.

On this new recording he explores some gems of the Lieder repertoire from Hugo Wolf and Johann Strauss, ably accompanied by pianist Marie-Nöelle Kendall.

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: SIGCD369 Barcode: 635212036921 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Alastair Miles [bass] Marie-Nöelle Kendall [piano]

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HAYDN: String Quartets Op.76 No. 1, Op. 50 No. 1, Op. 77 No. 1

Modigliani Quartet With 68 works to his credit, Joseph Haydn was not only the founding father the string quartet, but also an undisputed master of the genre. This influence continued through his direct successors, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, through the romantic era and into the 20th century via the second Viennese School. Constantly renewed, his music is a constant source of wonder, as evidenced by the three quartets that the Modiglianis have chosen for their second volume on Mirare devoted to Papa Haydn.

ALSO AVAILABLE:

MIR065 Haydn: String Quartets Op 76, No 4 (Sunrise), Op 74, No 3 (Rider), Op 54, No 1 “These musicians ooze musical insight, unanimity and polish.”

Robin Stowell, theStrad Chamber Selection, October 2008

Label: Mirare File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: MIR231 Barcode: 3760127222316 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Modigliani Quartet

“these are remarkably perceptive, stylish and penetrating readings that give this glorious music its full due. For a group that has been in existence for only five years this is an especially impressive achievement.” International Record Review, September 2008 "the Quatuor Modigliani relish their Haydn, as the performances of these three works from, respectively, 1797, 1793 and 1788 powerfully demonstrate. At first, I wondered if they were sufficiently alive to Haydn’s humour — until the leader made the grace-note figure in the finale of the Sunrise bray like a donkey. The range of dynamics and colour is wide, the rhythmic tension and drive, in the Rider’s finale and elsewhere, superb. They also give the music space, in the Rider’s visionary slow movement and in the deceptively leisurely opening of the Sunrise." David Cairns, Sunday Times

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Route 66: American Piano Music Shani Diluka Like Jack Kerouac, when he took to the American road, on the legendary Route 66, this Mirare cd hosts a programme as a specific musical path through the United States geographically and musically, "East of my youth, west of my future" (Kerouac).

Shani Diluka has made some new discoveries: Amy Beach, composer of genius; Percy Grainger, who became American by vocation; a world premiere by Hyung-ki Joo, whose 'Chandeliers' was composed in New York after September 11; the hypnotic meditations of John Adams, John Cage and Philip Glass; the South American-influenced Bernstein, Copland and Ginastera; and the intimate link between Gershwin and jazz that inspired Bill Evans or Keith Jarrett. To conclude this journey, Natalie Dessay gives us her unique presence in a new arrangement of Cole Porter composed especially for this disc by Raphael Merlin of the Ebene Quartet. full track listing tbc

Label: Mirare File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: MIR239 Barcode: 3760127222392 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Shani Diluka [piano] with Natalie Dessay [soprano]

ALSO AVAILABLE: MIR126 Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 “Shani Diluka is clearly an artist to watch and her sense of individuality is refreshing.”

Harriet Smith, Gramophone, June 2011 MIR026 Grieg Lyric Pieces “their love of the music is evident throughout, Diluka conveying a sense of excited discovery in every bar” International Piano, November/December 2007

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Eduard FRANCK: Piano Trios Trio E major (1835), Trio Op. 22 E flat major, Trio Op. 53 D major

Swiss Piano Trio

Label: Audite File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: AUDITE97690 Barcode: 4022143976901 NORMAL Price Format: 1 SACD Packaging: cristal Swiss Piano Trio

audite’s Eduard Franck series continues with three further chamber works of the composer. A celebrated pianist who, aged only sixteen, accompanied the violin playing of his musical mentor, Felix Mendelssohn, Franck will doubtlessly have had a special affinity to the genre of the piano trio. This recording of the Trio in E major and the Trios Op. 22 and Op. 53 now completes Franck’s contributions to the genre; both the Trio in E major and Op. 53 are première recordings.

These works span nearly the entire composing career of Eduard Franck: the E major Trio, written in 1835 when the composer was seventeen years old, was both dedicated to, and a birthday present for, his mother.

Op. 22 was composed in the 1850s, during Franck’s most successful period, and is the work of an artist who was highly respected in German music circles of the mid-nineteenth century. Op. 53, completed in 1886, is one of Franck’s final works, providing insights into the late oeuvre of a composer who was always committed to tradition and who must be considered as an important representative of nineteenth century music culture.

Award-winning audite artists, the acclaimed Swiss Piano Trio complete this segment of the Eduard Franck recording series.

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WIDOR: The Complete Organ Symphonies, Vol.4 Symphony No.7, op.42 Symphony No.8, op.42

Joseph Nolan The fourth volume in Signum's Charles-Marie Widor Organ Symphonies, performed by Joseph Nolan on the magnificent Cavaillé-Coll organ of L’église de la Madeleine, Paris. Bridging the generations from Mendelssohn to Messiaen, Empire to Republic, Widor was born to the organ. His Lyonnaise kinsfolk were organ-builders, he showed early talent for the instrument and for decades was the embodiment of its might and splendour across the Gallic domain. His ‘Organ Symphonies’ have been genre-defining in their influence Joseph Nolan is an internationally renowned organist, acclaimed as "brilliant and such an astute musician" (Gramophone). He was appointed to Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal, St James’s Palace in 2004, and has since been invited to perform and record in some of the world’s premiere venues – including the refurbished Organ of Buckingham Palace Ballroom (SIGCD114) and the Organ of Saint-Sulpice in Paris (SIGCD167).

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: SIGCD337 Barcode: 635212033722 2 FOR 1.5 Format: 2 CD Packaging: cristal Joseph Nolan [The Cavaillé-Coll organ of La Madeleine, Paris]

“This looks like shaping up to be the Widor Organ Symphonies cycle of the decade” Musicweb International

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Fortuna scherzosa Ina Siedlaczek Philipp Heinrich ERLEBACH: Des Glückes Spiele, betrügen viele, Geduld kann überwinden, will sich das Unglück finden, Mein Sehnen ist gestillt, und mein Wunsch nun erfüllt Johann ULICH: Ihr hellen Sterne des Glücks Georg Philipp TELEMANN/MELANTE: Fortuna scherzosa, Amor heißt mich freudig lachen, Hoffnung Johann Philipp KRIEGER An die Einsamkeit

Label: Audite File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: AUDITE92703 Barcode: 4022143927033 NORMAL Price Format: 1 SACD Packaging: digipack Ina Siedlaczek [soprano] Hamburger Ratsmusik

Fortuna scherzosa, after Telemann’s eponymous cantata, provides the textual framework for the works recorded here: the subject matter is hope, yearning for fortune, fulfilment and non-fulfilment, happiness and suffering. With her pure, straight and flexible voice, Ina Siedlaczek expresses these diverse emotions with great authenticity. Her music-making is historically informed, free and relaxed. Her interpretations are natural and, in the most positive sense, simple.

Philipp Heinrich Erlebach's oeuvre comprised hundreds of works in nearly all genres current at the time. During a fire, however, the great majority of his music was lost: only around 70 of Erlebach’s works are known today. The occasion of the tercentenary of his death on 17 April 2014 will hopefully make them more famous once again.

Johann Ulich was released from complete oblivion only recently when some of his manuscripts were rediscovered. Ulich had been Kapellmeister at the court of Zerbst between 1708 and 1742, and would therefore have been an accomplished musical director and a versatile composer. It is thought that the majority of his oeuvre was lost when the princes’ palace of Anhalt-Zerbst was destroyed during the Second World War. Georg Philipp Telemann, however, won fame during his lifetime and remains one of the most famous composers of the Baroque era. However his cantata 'Fortuna scherzosa' did not come to light until 1999 when the historic music archive of the Berlin Sing-Akademie was rediscovered in Kiev (Ukraine), which included 16 works by Telemann that had, until then, been unknown.

At the age of around 23, Johann Philipp Krieger already was Kapellmeister to a margrave; he enjoyed 45 years of employment as a widely-known and famous Kapellmeister at the art-loving court at Saxe-Weißenfels, leaving behind a legacy of around 2500 compositions. Nonetheless, he is largely forgotten today as only a fraction of his compositions has survived.

As a soloist, Ina Siedlaczek is in great demand both as an oratorio singer and as a consort singer. Alongside the classical oratorio repertoire, one of her particular interests is historically informed interpretation of vocal music of the era before Johann Sebastian Bach.

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A piacere Music for viola da gamba

Fahmi Alqhai Arcángel Pedro Estevan

Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: GCDP33202 Barcode: 8424562332027 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Fahmi Alqhai [viola da gamba] Arcángel [voice] Pablo Martín [Caminero, violone & double bass] Pedro Estevan, Agustín Diassera [percussion] Juan Carlos Rivera [theorbo] Rami Alqhai [viola da gamba, violotto] Johanna Rose, Ignacio del Valle [violas da gamba]

In 'A piacere' Fahmi Alqhai demonstrates once again what an expressive musician he has become, and with the viola da gamba as his “Wondrous Muse”, he recreates for CD a concert programme which he has been touring and refining over recent years. Following his ensemble album 'Rediscovering Spain' (performed with Accademia del Piacere) this new release from Glossa has a distinctively soloistic feel and approach to it, with Alqhai relishing the different moods and musical directions that his chosen musical “voice” permits him to take.

Considering the instrument as so much more than a relic from the decaying aristocratic age of Louis XV in France, Alqhai demonstrates – by his choice of programme and his playing – the viol’s versatility, flexibility and depth of emotional response: music from Spanish, German and French Baroque masters of the instrument are joined by Alqhai’s own version of Joe Satriani's 'Always with me, always with you' rock number. Notably in his Satriani adaptation (but also in an old Spanish popular melody featuring the cantaor Arcángel, as well as elsewhere) Alqhai receives support from musician friends gathered at sessions in Seville, all helping to create – in marvellous sound – a new demonstration of the creative freedom that old music can allow in the right hands.

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Johann Gottlieb & Carl Heinrich GRAUN: Oboe Concertos Xenia Löffler

Label: ACCENT File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: ACC24280 Barcode: 4015023242807 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Xenia Löffler [oboe & oboe d‘amore] Batzdorfer Hofkapelle

Johann Gottlieb Graun became a member of the small court orchestra of the Prussian Crown Prince Frederick in Ruppin in 1732, which Carl Heinrich also joined in 1735. With Friedrich's ascension to the throne in 1740, Johann Gottlieb was appointed concertmaster and Carl Heinrich kapellmeister of the royal court. Johann Gottlieb remained until the end of his life closely linked to Frederick the Great, as concertmaster and chamber musician. Whilst his brother Carl Heinrich became an important figure at the new Berlin Court Opera, Johann Gottlieb strongly influenced the musical life of Berlin and early classicism in general as a violinist and composer.

One can no longer determine with any certainty which of the brothers wrote the oboe concertos recorded here – the existing sources are too unclear and the differences in their personal styles are too slight. What is certain, however, is that the name "Graun" was a kind of seal of approval in those days for zestful music rich in ideas – an estimation still valid today, as is readily apparent when listening to these concertos.

The oboist Xenia Löffler has distinguished herself as a specialist for the North German repertoire of this period, as in her recordings with oboe concertos from the Dresden Court and with works from the Dresden Pisendel Collection (ACC 24202 and 24222). Alongside her teaching activities at the Academy of the Arts in Bremen, she is a member of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and in great international demand as a soloist.

Also available: ACC 24202 OBOE CONCERTI AT THE DRESDEN COURT Löffler/Bosch/Deuter/Batzdorfer Hofkapelle

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Sacred Music for the Poor at Santa Maria in Vallicella, Rome Concerto Romano Alessandro Quarta

Label: Christophorus File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: CHR77373 Barcode: 4010072773739 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Concerto Romano Alessandro Quarta

After the downfall of the Roman Empire, the 17th century was in many respects the only epoch in which Rome was a modern city. Unlike today, however, one encountered the most abject poverty in the city centre near the river,namely where the danger of high water and flooding was greatest. La Vallicella is a neighbourhood in Rome that still exists today, centrally located at the bend of the Tiber between the Via Giulia and the shore road Lungotevere Tor di Nona, within sight of the Castle of the Holy Angel and St. Peter’s Cathedral. In the Rome of the Counter Reformation, this area was overpopulated with people of mostly modest origins; it was noted for its high level of crime and a complete lack of facilities for the assembly and edification of its inhabitants. It was precisely these conditions that caused the priest Filippo Neri (1515-1595), canonised shortly after his death and against his avowed will, to relocate his missionary activities to Vallicella during the second half of the 16th century. In the heart of this district, the beautiful church of Santa Maria in Vallicella (generally known simply as Chiesa Nuova, or new church) is still very impressive today, as is the prayer hall of the Philippian brothers affiliated with it, known as the Oratorium – a centre of liturgy and catechesis, initiated by Neri himself, in which music played a fundamental role.

Rome in those days was not only synonymous with colossal polyphony, multi-choral opulence and concertante virtuosity.

In this urban environment with its variety of everyday realities, the Oratorium movement of the Philippian brothers was one of the most active musical centres. They regarded music as probably the most important medium for the dissemination of their message. Already from the second half of the 16th century onwards, they encouraged and stimulated multifarious and quite specific musical production. In addition, they drew from the ancient, uninterrupted medieval tradition of lauds and from the early Florentine Renaissance, creating a modernised version of sacred music in general, and ecclesiastical lauds in particular, in the oratoria, churches and streets of the Vallicella district. This repertoire, a link between sophisticated and popular music, represents an important part of Roman cultural history, forming one of the most beautiful points of contact between folk and art music.

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James ERBER The Traces Cycle & other works

Matteo Cesari Flourish, The Traces Cycle: Traces, Traces B, Traces C, A Small Revelation (2012), ein andrer Hauch (2012)

Label: Convivium Records new label!

File Under: Classical Catalogue No: CR020 Barcode: 700153370011 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Matteo Cesari [flute & piccolo]

Born in London in 1951, James Erber worked as Music Editor for Peters Edition before further study with Jonathan Harvey and Brian Ferneyhough. He combined composition with teaching and lecturing, including three years in the Music Department at Goldsmiths’ College. In 1994 and 1996 he was shortlisted for the prestigious Hinrichsen Foundation bursary, and in 1994 received a Holst Foundation Award.

Erber’s music has been performed and broadcast widely throughout Europe, in Australia, New Zealand and the USA by soloists such as Mario Caroli, Matteo Cesari, Darragh Morgan, Ian Pace and Jonathan Powell, as well as by ensembles including Lontano and the Arditti Quartet.

Winner of the 2010 Kranichsteiner Music Prize for performance at the Darmstadt Summer Courses and of numerous other awards and scholarships, Matteo Cesari studied flute with Mario Caroli at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, and is at present a doctoral student at the Paris Conservatoire, pursuing research into the works of Brian Ferneyhough and Salvatore Sciarrino.

He has worked with many of the leading figures in the music of our time, among them Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös, Salvatore Sciarrino, Ivan Fedele, Brian Ferneyhough, Stefano Gervasoni, Bruno Mantovani and Michael Finnissy.

"You do not, though, need undue taste for the conceptual in music to withstand and enjoy this astonishing erection of immense structure on so tiny a plinth. Erber has a way with the flute, and so, of course, does the virtusosic Cesari.

Syrinx-sized pieces are offered too." Paul Driver, Sunday Times 15th December

RELEASE DATE 10TH FEBRUARY 2014

Music for Seafarers Anthems, Hymns, Partsongs & Folk-Songs

Portsmouth Cathedral Choir Convivium Singers Malcolm Archer

Label: Convivium Records File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: CR010 Barcode: 0609613794674 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Portsmouth Cathedral Choir Convivium Singers Malcolm Archer

Bill IVES: They that go down to the sea in ships DOVE: Vast Ocean of Light Here I am, Lord Daniel Schutt (arr. Malcolm Archer) Carson COOMAN: Windswept Skies ARCHER: Anthem for Seafarers (Eternal Father, Strong to Save) WOOD: Never weather-beaten sail Sailing Trad. (arr. Peter Hunt) IRELAND: Sea Fever The water is wide Trad. (arr. William Drakett) Blow the wind southerly Trad. (arr. Timothy Salter) PARRY: There is an old belief, Crossing the Bar MASON: Nearer, my God, to Thee (arr. Malcolm Archer) The Baltic Exchange, London, presents, in partnership with Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, Malcolm Archer and the Convivium Singers, an original and exciting collection of anthems, hymns, part-songs and folk-songs celebrating the Exchange’s longstanding support of seafarers and England’s rich, maritime musical tradition. In commissioning Malcolm Archer to compose the “Anthem for Seafarers”, an anthem which draws on the well-known hymn “Eternal Father Strong to Save”, the Baltic Exchange continues its support for seafaring charities. Here is a collection of songs and anthems associated with the sea, beautifully performed by the Convivium Singers and Portsmouth Cathedral Choir.

Malcolm Archer is Director of Chapel Music at Winchester College, where he trains and conducts the Quiristers and Chapel Choir and teaches organ in the College. He has enjoyed a distinguished career in cathedral music, including posts at Norwich, Bristol, Wells Cathedrals and then Director of Music at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. During his time there he directed the choir for several State services, including the Tsunami Memorial Service, the London Bombings Service and the 80th Birthday Service for HM The Queen, for which he was invited by Buckingham Palace to compose a special anthem, performed live on BBC1.

RELEASE DATE 10TH FEBRUARY 2014

Margaret RIZZA: Officium Divinum A Journey through the daily office prayers

Convivium Singers "'Officium Divinum' as an idea was conceived by Tim Ruffer, Head of Publishing at the RSCM. While exploring projects, he came up with the inspiring idea of composing music for the four periods of daily prayer: Morning, Midday, Evening and Night Prayer from the ‘Common Worship, Daily Prayer’. I have always been attracted to and influenced by the Gregorian and Taizé chants, both of which have echoes in my music.

The four days recording this album in the beautiful Portsmouth Cathedral were memorable and I want to convey huge thanks to Convivium Singers and the instrumentalists for their strong performances under the inspirational direction of Eamonn Dougan [assistant conductor with The Sixteen].

I have been blessed since 2009 to have had the opportunity to write for the RSCM, an institution which I admire so much." Margaret Rizza

Label: Convivium Records File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: CR022 Barcode: 0700153370004 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Convivium Singers Eamonn Dougan [conductor] David Price [organ]

Margaret Rizza (b.1929) studied at the Royal College of Music, London and at the National School of Opera, London, and continued her training in Siena and Rome. She sang professionally for 25 years, under the name of Margaret Lensky, under such conductors as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein.

She then taught singing at the Guildhall from 1977 to 1994. In 1986 she dedicated herself to the work of spirituality and to the wider aspect of music in the community, taking groups of students to share their music with people in prisons, hospitals, hospices, inner city schools, MS centres, blind schools and working with people with physical and learning difficulties. She was closely involved with Dartington International Summer School giving masterclasses and vocal workshops over many years up until 2008.

Margaret Rizza began composing in 1997, her contemplative choral music being widely acclaimed not only in the UK but also abroad.

RELEASE DATE 10TH FEBRUARY 2014

Vibrez Cellophony WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde, Prelude to Act I SCHUBERT: Three songs from Schwanengesang D957: Liebesbotschaft, Staendchen, Aufenthalt LISZT: La Lugubre Gondola, S.200 No.2 WIENIAWSKI: Scherzo-Tarantelle, Op.16 MENDELSSOHN: Ave Maria, Op.23 No.2 BACH: Prelude No.11 in F major [WTC Bk 2] BARBER: Adagio, Op.11 Giovanni SOLLIMA: Violoncelles, Vibrez!

Label: Edition Classics new label!

File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: EDN1047 Barcode: 5065001530517 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Cellophony: Richard Birchall, Matthijs Broersma Pau Codina, Reinoud Ford Ashok Klouda, Bart Lafollette John Myerscough, Ella Rundle "Edition Records might be a cottage-industry operation run out of a house in Cardiff, but there was a time 40 years ago when ECM Records was at much the same stage in Munich, and Edition reveals a similar sixth sense for emerging innovators". GUARDIAN

Edition Records are proud to present the debut release of celebrated cello octet Cellophony and the launch of Edition Classics. With a focus on new chamber music from a diverse collection of small ensembles and soloists, Edition Classics works with internationally renowned designers and artists to combine beautiful artwork, lining notes and photography to match the superb recording quality of each of its releases, making each ‘Edition’ a truly coherent product.

London based cello octet, Cellophony, have carved a reputation as accomplished exponents of not only the standard cello ensemble repertoire, but also a diverse array of specially commissioned arrangements and adaptations. As Finalists of the Royal Overseas League chamber music competition and Park Lane Group Young Artists, they have received universal critical acclaim for performances at some of the UK’s most prestigious venues including the Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room and the Wigmore Hall.

CONCERT: 9TH MARCH, KINGS PLACE 1pm Beyond Cello "Just blows you away… thrown off with terrific panache." Daily Telegraph "But the real crowd-tickler was Violoncelles, vibrez! by the Italian cellist Giovanni Sollima. Cinematic and unashamedly sentimental, it had two solo cellos overlapping in increasingly stratospheric sequences, then furiously egging each other through a rabid double-cadenza...the players (all graduates of the Guildhall School) sounded in a different league from when I heard them last summer.” Richard Morrison, The Times

RELEASE DATE 10TH FEBRUARY 2014

Stefano GERVASONI: Dir - in dir for 6 voices and string sextet, descdesesasf (for stringtrio)

Exaudi L'Instant Donné

Label: Winter&Winter File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: 910208-2 Barcode: 025091020829 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Exaudi: Juliet Fraser, Amy Moore, Tom Williams, Stephen Jeffes, Jonathan Saunders, Jimmy Holliday James Weeks [director] L'Instant Donné: Saori Furukawa, Julien Vanhoutte [violin] Elsa Balas, Soazic Lecornec [viola]; Nicolas Carpentier, Marlène Rivière [cello]

"Dir - in dir" by Stefano Gervasoni for six singing voices and string sextet is based on a text by physician and mystic Angelus Silesius from the 17th century. The composer Stefano Gervasoni, born in 1962 in Bergamo in Northern Italy, in 2003 set texts from Silesius's "Cherubinischer Wandersmann" to music and contrasted them a year later with a string sextet. Also for the second piece on the CD, "descdesesasf", he was inspired by German lyric, Paul Celan's "Atemwende". The central theme in both works is not the accurate composing of exactly sung lyrics, but the resolution, the dwindling away of words in the music until both fuse into an inseparable, almost transcendental whole.

Stefano Gervasoni began his compositional studies in 1980, encouraged by Luigi Nono. He read music at the Milan conservatory, with György Ligeti in Hungary and Paris, where he teaches today himself composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse. Gervasoni has given numerous courses, for example in Darmstadt, Tokyo, Shanghai, at the Columbia and Harvard University. Important artistic encounters connect him with Brian Ferneyhough, Peter Eötvös and Helmut Lachenmann to name only few.

The British Exaudi vocal ensemble that has striven since its foundation in 2002 to perform contemporary music, sings with touching sound beauty and pureness. The international press has enthused: "… the extraordinary ensemble of vocal virtuosi" (The Sunday Times); "the dazzle of Exaudi's vocal pyrotechnics" (Financial Times) ; or "deftly convincing performances of dizzyingly complex works" (The Guardian).

RELEASE DATE 10TH FEBRUARY 2014

Marco Blaauw – Angels Composition for trumpet

Marco Blaauw

Label: Wergo File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: WER6781-2 Barcode: 4010228678123 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Marco Blaauw [trumpet, double-bell trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, bukkehorn, conch shells] Markus Schwind [trumpet, double-bell trumpet] Nathan Plante, Ralf-Werner Kopp [trumpet] Christine Chapman[ horn] Bruce Collings [trombone] Michiel Braam [piano]

Liza Lim: Wild Winged-One. Solo for C cornet with wacky whistle * Richard Ayres: No. 37C – Sjonnie Kurzak (a broken soul) ascends for four trumpets * Rebecca Saunders: Neither. Duo for double-bell trumpets * Georg Friedrich Haas: … Einklang freier Wesen …

Solo version by Marco Blaauw for quartertone flugelhorn * Carl Ruggles: Angels Sextet for muted brass Agata Zubel: Wounded Angel for solo double-bell trumpet * Martin Smolka: Pianissimo for four trumpets with bucket mutes * Martijn Padding: 23 Sentences & Autograph for solo double-bell trumpet * Marco Blaauw: Deathangel. A multi-track recording of two conch shells with piano resonance, bukkehorn, double-bell trumpet, my father’s voice, and ambient noises * Jimmy Rowles: The Peacocks for double-bell trumpet and prepared piano * Premiere recording The outstanding trumpet player Marco Blaauw has made the further development of the trumpet, its technique and repertoire his aim and concern. He works closely together both with successful and younger contemporary composers.

Some works were written specifically for him or suggested by him.

On the present CD, Blaauw recorded a number of extremely varied compositions for trumpet: “The repertoire of this CD comes from wonderful composers with totally different backgrounds and totally different stories to tell. Somehow I felt these pieces were related. By practising, playing, performing, and recording, each piece took on its own identity and developed a unique personality. The pieces became alive, turning into spiritual and angelic beings made of vibrating air.”

RELEASE DATE 10TH FEBRUARY 2014

Death be not Proud Melvyn Poore plays compositions for Tuba and Electronics Melvyn POORE: Death be not Proud Cort LIPPE: Music for Tuba and Comp Georg KATZER: Dialog imagin채r 9 f체r Tuba mit Hegel Valerio SANNICANDRO: Sonnet X

Label: Wergo File Under: Classical/Other Classical Catalogue No: WER2064-2 Barcode: 4010228206425 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Melvyn Poore [tuba]

Melvyn Poore is a top solo performer, world-renowned interpreter and committed musical mediator. In his work he always looks for new possibilities to extend the potential of his instrument, the tuba. The present CD recording gives an overview of the current state of the studies of the sound researcher Poore: Apart from a composition of his own, this CD contains further works by Georg Katzer, Cort Lippe and Valerio Sannicandro. All pieces were commissioned by Kunststiftung NRW and recorded and produced at the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics in 2009. In all constellations, Poore is much more than an interpreter, he rather is co-creator, designer and technician-performer. In the works, the tuba, interlocked with the live electronics, acts as a meta instrument, while at the same time being the calming influence, the tonally earthy pole of the pieces, no matter whether the works are meticulously fragmented or narratively structured. In his work that focusses on the interaction between technology and instrument, as noted by Ludger Br체mmer in the CD booklet, Melvyn Poore is one of the most fascinating artists of contemporary music.