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MAY 5 & 19 2014

BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE CHOICE, Awards issue Choral & Song Choice: DELPHIAN DCD34127 Rachmaninov Songs / Iain Burnside BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE CHOICE, Awards issue Chamber Choice: MYRIOS MYR11 Hindemith Vol. 2 Tabea Zimmermann, Thomas Hoppe MAY GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE harmonia mundi HMU807524 Marie et Marion / Anonymous 4 MAY GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE WIGMORE HALL LIVE WHLIVE0065 Arise my muse Iestyn Davies MAY GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE SIGNUM SIGCD368 Birtwistle Moth Requiem / BBC Singers MAY GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE DELPHIAN DCD34127 Rachmaninov Songs / Iain Burnside SUNDAY TIMES DISC OF THE WEEK, 30th March Onyx 4137 Prokofiev Symphonies Nos 3 & 7 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits R3 CD REVIEW DISC OF THE WEEK, 29th March PC10296 Caldara Requiem / Musica Fiorita

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

SCHUBERT: The Late Piano Sonatas D784, 958, 959, 960 Paul Lewis CD1: recorded 2013, CD2: recorded 2002 [was HMC901800] Penguin Guide Key Recording “The finest British pianist in decades” Anthony Holden, The Observer, 20 April 2003 “And though he's still young we shall come to recognise him - I mean immediately, by his sound, as one can recognise all the finest players. And then there will be the recognition of his distinctive personality, which on this showing is fresh, inquisitive, highly intelligent, and already astonishingly mature and equal to the challenge of being a guide on our journey through these great works. He makes us follow; makes us listen; he knows how and when to produce magic and also knows when it is enough just to open doors in order to reveal wondrous things. He can be straightforward and knows how to sing a lyric without portentousness.” Stephen Plaistow, CD Review, BBC Radio 3, 17 May 2003

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: HMC902165/66 Barcode: 3149020216521 2 FOR 1 Price Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack Paul Lewis [piano]

Paul Lewis is today regarded as one of the leading pianists of his generation, having won the most coveted prizes of the great classical institutions, for both his concert career and his recordings on harmonia mundi, topped by three Gramophone Awards including Record of the Year in 2008. He is also the first pianist in the history of the BBC Proms to have played the complete Beethoven concertos in a single season (2010).

Early in 2011, Paul Lewis embarked on a two-year concert tour devoted to the works written by Schubert in the last six years of his life. Now completed, he has played in London, New York, Chicago, Tokyo, Melbourne, Rotterdam, Bologna, Florence and at the Schwarzenberg Schubertiade and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.

ALSO AVAILABLE: HMC902115/16 Piano Sonatas D840, 850 & 894, Impromptus D899, Klavierstücke D946 GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF THE MONTH CD Review Disc of the Week HMC902136/37 Piano Sonata D845, Wandererfantasie D760, 4 Impromptus D935, Moments musicaux D780 INSTRUMENTAL CHOICE OF THE MONTH – BBCMM Xmas 2012 CRITICS’ CHOICE 2012 – GRAMOPHONE DECEMBER 2012 HMA1951755 Piano Sonatas D958, D784 “This Schubert recital will, I suspect, become a collector’s item to match the early recordings by Bryn Terfel…He is given an excellent full-bodied recording by Harmonia Mundi in its Nouveaux Musiciens series.”

Michael Kennedy, The Sunday Telegraph, 20 January 2002

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

My favorite Dowland Paul O'Dette My Lady Hunnsdon's Puffe (P 54), The Shoemaker's Wife. A Toy (P 58), La Mia Barbara (P 95) Sir John Smith, his Almain (P 47), A Fancy (P 6), Sir John Langton, his Pavin (P 14) The King of Denmark, his Galliard (P 40), The Frog Galliard (P 23a), Lachrimae (P 15) Galliard to Lachrimae (P 46), Fantasie (P 1a), Farewell (P 3), Forlorne Hope Fancye (P 2) The Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Essex, his Galliard (P 42a), A Coye Joye (P 80) Mrs Vaux's Gigge (P 57), Mrs Winter's Jump (P 55), The Right Honourable the Lady Cliftons Spirit (P 45) Walsingham (P 67), A Fancy (P 5), A Pavin (P 18), The most sacred Queene Elizabeth, her Galliard (P 41) Semper Dowland semper dolens (P 9)

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical Catalogue No: HMU907515 Barcode: 093046751524 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Paul O'Dette [lute]

Paul O’Dette’s newly recorded personal selection of favourite pieces from the pinnacle of lute repertoire by 'the Liszt of the lute'. Many of these pieces are melancholy but consistently lovely, enhanced by Paul O'Dette's new lute: a 2008 8-course by Malcolm Prior, after Sixtus Rauwolf, Augsburg 1590. O'Dette's 5-cd set of John Dowland was awarded no less than 5 Diaspasons and is due for reissue in the near future. His next release will be of Giovanni Antonio Terzi [1580-1620] provisionally titled 'Unplayable chords' "maketh a man to be wholly Musiques” Thomas Lodge on John Dowland, A Learned Summary (1621)

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

MAHLER: Songs Bernarda Fink Anthony Spiri Gustav Mahler Ensemble

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: HMC902173 Barcode: 3149020217320 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Bernarda Fink Anthony Spiri [piano] Gustav Mahler Ensemble Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich Andrés Orozco-Estrada [conductor]

Im Lenz, Winterlied, Ablösung im Sommer Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen arr. for chamber ensemble by Arnold Schoenberg: I. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht, II. Ging heut’ morgen über’s Feld, III. Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer IV. Die zwei blauen Augen Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen, Nicht wiedersehen!

Kindertotenlieder: I. Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgehn, II. Nun seh’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen III. Wenn dein Mütterlein, Oft denk’ ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen, V. In diesem Wetter Frühlingsmorgen Rückert-Lieder: Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft, Liebst du um Schönheit, Um Mitternacht, Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen An exciting exploration of the sources of Mahlerian inspiration. Can one really grasp the whole of Mahler’s symphonic output without knowing his songs? Not only do they extensively irrigate the first four symphonies, often known as ‘Wunderhorn symphonies’; they also encapsulate the fundamental principles of his reading of the world. Bernarda Fink explores the Mahler cycles from three different angles: the traditional format with piano naturally has its counterpart in the orchestral song, culminating in the 'Kindertoten' and the 'Rückert' lieder.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

BARTOK: Piano Works Dance Suite Sz77, 15 Hungarian Peasant Songs Sz71, 4 Old Songs, Piano Sonata Sz80 6 Romanian Folk Dances Sz56, 14 Bagatelles Op. 6 Sz38

Alain Planès "At last, something genuinely new."

It was in these terms that Ferruccio Busoni greeted the publication in 1908 of the 14 Bagatelles, in which Béla Bartók conveyed the violent aesthetic impact of his discovery of authentic Hungarian peasant music. Over the next 20 years, up to the magisterial Sonata of 1926, he indefatigably refined an innovative pianistic language: pungent, dissonant, percussive, with multiple new playing techniques, that was to influence the entire 20th century. A master of every style, from Haydn to Boulez by way of Chopin and Chabrier, Alain Planès is revealed here as a Bartókian of the front rank.

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: HMC902163 Barcode: 3149020216323 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Alain Planès [piano]

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

MOZART: Requiem in D minor, KV 626 (F.X. Süssmayr) Genia Kühmeier Bernarda Fink Mark Padmore Gerald Finley Netherlands Radio Choir Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Mariss Jansons

Label: RCO Live File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: RCO14002 Barcode: 814337019044 NORMAL Price Format: 1 SACD Packaging: cristal Genia Kühmeier [soprano] Bernarda Fink [contralto] Mark Padmore [tenor] Gerald Finley [bass] Netherlands Radio Choir Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Mariss Jansons [chief conductor]

During his last years in Vienna Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed only three liturgical works: the short 'Ave Verum Corpus' and two unfinished masterworks: the 'Mass in C minor' and the 'Requiem' in D minor. Most of his sacred oeuvre was written at an early age in the conservative city of Salzburg. The 'Requiem' from 1791 is stylistically far removed from that early church music and suits the concert hall better than the church.

Chief conductor Mariss Jansons leads the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Dutch Radio Choir and a stellar vocal quartet, featuring Genia Kühmeier, Bernarda Fink, Mark Padmore and Gerald Finley in an intense reading of Mozart's last masterpiece. "first rate… magnificently played and sung" Erik Voermans, Het Parool Recorded live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 14-16 September 2011

RELEASE DATE 5th MAY 2014

Horizon 5 Huelgas Ensemble / Paul van Nevel Markus Stenz David Robertson Susanna Mälkki Martyn Brabbins Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ANONYMOUS: Hodie per nascitur (orch. JAMES MACMILLAN) Huelgas Ensemble / Paul van Nevel / Martyn Brabbins DETLEV GLANERT: Insomnium / Markus Stenz KLAAS DE VRIES: Providence / David Robertson RICHARD RIJNVOS: Antarctique KAIJA SAARIAHO: Circle Map / Susanna Mälkki

Label: RCO Live File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: RCO14001 Barcode: 814337019037 NORMAL Price Format: 1 SACD Packaging: cristal Huelgas Ensemble Paul van Nevel, Markus Stenz, David Robertson, Susanna Mälkki Martyn Brabbins [conductors] Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

This fifth release in the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’s 'Horizon' Series features an exciting mix of recently written works, beginning with 'Hodie per nascitur', an orchestration by James MacMillan of an anonymous 14th Century antiphon. Martyn Brabbins conducts the RCO and the Huelgas Ensemble is led by Paul van Nevel. House composer Detlev Glanert's 'Insomnium', conducted by Markus Stenz, is a precursor to his opera 'Solaris' after the famous Stanislav Lem novel that also inspired film directors Andrei Tarkovsky and Steven Soderbergh.

Klaas de Vries's 'Providence' – inspired by Resnais's 1977 movie – is about recollection, prediction, expectation and fulfillment. It is conducted by David Robertson. Susanna Mälkki conducts two world premieres, especially written for the round concert hall of the Westergasfabriek, a former gas factory: 'Circle Map' by Kaija Saariaho and 'Antarctique' by RCO house composer Richard Rijnvos.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

BRAHMS: Ein Deutsches Requiem Sally Matthews Christopher Maltman London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev

Label: LSO Live File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: LSO0748 Barcode: 822231174820 MID Price Format: 1 SACD Packaging: cristal Sally Matthews [soprano] Christopher Maltman [baritone] London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev

Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra present Brahms’ greatest choral work, the 'German' Requiem, featuring soprano Sally Matthews and baritone Christopher Maltman.

Gergiev’s first Brahms release on LSO Live, Symphonies Nos 1 & 2, Tragic Overture & Haydn Variations was awarded 5/5 by BBC Music Magazine.

Intended to be for ‘all humanity’, Brahms’ 'German' Requiem is a powerful work – its central themes of melancholy and comfort are universally applicable. Non-liturgical, yet sacred and devotional in spirit, it showcases the great romantic melodies for which Brahms was renowned, and has become a popular work with choirs all over the world – admired for its mystical, consolatory and contemplative tone.

In May Valery Gergiev will lead the LSO in the 3rd annual BMW Open-Air concert in Trafalgar Square, in front of an audience of 10,000, performing Prokofiev’s 'Romeo & Juliet'. Sally Matthews will appear in Poulenc’s 'Dialogues des Carmélites' in the role of Blanche at the Royal Opera House in June, while Christopher Maltman will sing the role of Lescaut in Puccini’s 'Manon Lescaut'.

Concert Reviews: "The London Symphony Chorus was wonderfully incisive and articulate in the large-scale movements, especially the second, 'All Flesh Is Grass', and warmly expressive in the more intimate ones such as the final Blessed Are the Dead." The Guardian **** "An undoubted plus was the solo singing – Christopher Maltman giving of his considerable best in the initial recitatives of the third and sixth movements, his sheer ardency finding meaningful contrast with the poise and pathos Matthews brought to the fifth movement in what is one of Brahms’s most affecting inspirations." Classical Source

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

CHOPIN: The Piano Concertos Piano concerto No.2 in F minor, Op.21 Piano concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op.11,

Nikolai Lugansky Sinfonia Varsovia Alexander Vedernikov

Label: NAÏVE File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: AM212 Barcode: 822186002124 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Nikolai Lugansky [piano] Sinfonia Varsovia Alexander Vedernikov [conductor]

Nikolai Lugansky offers a new refined and brilliant version of Chopin’s piano concertos, with the orchestra that probably has the best connection to the soul and the spirit of French-Polish composer, Sinfonia Varsovia, under Russian conductor Alexander Vedernikov.

As ever, Nikolai Lugansky displays a perfect balance between virtuosity and poetry through a perfect technique and an amazing range of colours. Together with the orchestra, sometimes almost chamber in character, they achieve to enhance both immediacy and sophistication of those works.

Capable of great refinement and sensitivity in Mozart and Chopin, and breathtaking virtuosity in Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, Nikolai Lugansky is a pianist of extraordinary depth and versatility. His solo recording, featuring Rachmaninov’s two Piano Sonatas, released in Autumn 2012 won a number of awards including an Echo Klassik, Diapason d’Or, ‘Gramophone Choice’, ‘Choc’ de Classica, and Scherzo ‘Excepcionales’, and was followed by a recording with Kent Nagano and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin of the Grieg Piano Concerto and Prokofiev’s Third.

Nikolai Lugansky records exclusively for the Naive-Ambroisie label.

ALSO AVAILABLE: AM210 Grieg, Prokofiev Gramophone Editor's Choice “He brings a perfect blend of virtuosity, restless energy and poetic warmth to the work, it’s intimately recorded, not too dry though, and unusually the coupling is the Grieg Concerto, to which Lugansky responds superbly: mixing impetuous propulsion and romantic rubato.” BBC Radio 3 | CD of the week AM208 Rachmaninov Gramophone Editor's Choice AM205 Liszt UK CONCERTS: 14 May LONDON Queen Elisabeth Hall: Franck, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto No.2 Op. 64 John ADAMS: Violin Concerto Chad Hoopes MDR Sinfonieorchester Kristjan Järvi For those just discovering this 19 year-old American violinist, the term 'revelation' aptly applies. For his début in the recording studio he has chosen two seemingly opposed concertos: Mendelssohn's famous violin concerto and the magic concerto composed by Hoopes' compatriot, John Adams. "Implacably melodic", says Adams of his work - a point the two pieces prove to have in common in this magnificent performance, perfectly supported by Kristjan Järvi and his Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, with their wonderful range of colours.

Label: NAÏVE File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: V5368 Barcode: 822186053683 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Chad Hoopes [violin] MDR Sinfonieorchester Kristjan Järvi

Chad Hoopes has appeared with numerous ensembles throughout the world since he won first prize at the Young Artists Division of the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. His recent debuts include such orchestras as the Minnesota Orchestra, Brussels Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Colorado Music Festival Orchestra and the Trondheim Symphony. Hoopes is a frequent guest artist at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad (Switzerland). Other appearances include Dresdner Musikfestspiele and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where he was recently named winner of the prestigious audience award.

Chad began his violin studies in Minneapolis. He later trained at the Cleveland Institute of Music under David Cerone and Joel Smirnoff and went on to study with Ottawa’s NAC Young Artists Program and at the Heifetz Institute. He plays the 1713 Antonio Stradivari Cooper; Hakkert; ex Ceci violin, courtesy of Jonathan Moulds.

Chad Hoopes 1994 Born in Cleveland 2008 First prize at the Young Artists Division of the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition 2011-12 Debuts with San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, San Diego Symphony e.a.

2013 Naïve debut recording 2014 Debuts with Münchner Symphoniker (Mendelssohn) and Orchestre de Paris

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

MONTEVERDI: Vespro della beata Vergine 1610 Cappella Mediterranea Leonardo García Alarcón Published three years after 'L'Orfeo', written over a decade, the 'Vespro della beata Vergine' 1610 is testament to Monteverdi's genius which inspired the whole of Europe.

Placed at the head of his Cappella Mediterranea and Namur Chamber Choir, Leonardo Garcia Alarçon breathes with a rare vitality, fervour and finesse. Whilst belonging to the Liturgy, this Vespers highlights the dazzling and daring.

This 2CD set was recorded at Ambronay to celebrate the opening of the Festival 2013. Full texts and essays are included in the booklet.

Label: Ambronay File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: AMY041 Barcode: 3760135100415 2 FOR 1.5 Format: 2 CD Packaging: cd book Céline Scheen, Mariana Flores [sopranos] Fabián Schofrin [counter tenor] Fernando Guimarães, Zachary Wilder [tenors] Matteo Bellotto, Victor Torres [baritones] Sergio Foresti [bass] Choeur de Chambre de Namur Cappella Mediterranea Leonardo García Alarcón

RELEASE DATE 7TH APRIL 2014

HANDEL: Teseo highlights

Dominique Labelle Amanda Forsythe Amy Freston Robin Blaze Drew Minter Céline Ricci Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Nicholas McGegan

Label: Philharmonia Baroque File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: PBP07 Barcode: 852188003096 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack MEDEA: Dominique Labelle TESEO: Amanda Forsythe AGILEA: Amy Freston [sopranos] ARCANE: Robin Blaze, EGEO: Drew Minter [countertenors] CLIZIA: Céline Ricci [soprano] Priest of Minerva: Jeffrey Fields [baritone] CHORUS: Jonathan Smucker, [tenor]

Music Director Nicholas McGegan leads Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and an acclaimed cast of soloists in this rarely performed masterpiece of Handelian opera. Writing of the live performance of the opera, the New York Times said, “Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, led by Nicholas McGegan, gave a performance of Handel’s ‘Teseo’…that confirmed its leading position in the field.” The cast, led by the glowing soprano Dominique Labelle, as the witch Medea, and the outstanding lyric soprano Amanda Forsythe in the title role is buoyed by the “irrepressible positive energy” (New York Times) of the Orchestra under McGegan’s direction.

The performances were recorded live at First Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA on April 13-14, 2013.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

HANDEL: Siroe Re di Persia, Opera in 3 Acts HWV24 First performance at the King‘s Theatre, Haymarket, London, 17 February 1728

Laurence Cummings

Label: Accent Records File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: ACC26401 Barcode: 4015023264014 NORMAL Price Format: 3 CD Packaging: box set Siroe: Yosemeh Adjei [countertenor] Emira: Anna Dennis [soprano] Laodice: Aleksandra Zamojska [soprano] Medarse: Antonio Giovannini [countertenor] Cosroe: Lisandro Abadie [bass] Arasse: Ross Ramgobin [bass] FestspielOrchester GĂśttingen Laurence Cummings [direction]

Betrayal, revenge, inheritance conflicts and forbidden love at the Persian court: in 1728 this explosive mixture inspired Handel to compose the successful opera 'Siroe, Re di Persia', one of his last compositions for the Royal Academy of Music at the King’s Theatre. Handel based his work on the libretto by the famous poet Pietro Metastasio. In its first season 'Siroe' was performed on 18 successive evenings, but was never subsequently revived in Handel’s lifetime. It received its first modern performance in GÜttingen with a top-rank cast performing under the musical direction of Laurence Cummings. Booklet notes by David Vickers.

'Siroe' is the start of a new co-operation with the International Handel Festival GĂśttingen and Accent Records. It is planned to release two operas and one oratorio per year. Next release, in September 2014, will be Handel's 'Faramondo' again with Laurence Cummings, recorded live this May. The GĂśttingen Handel Festival 2014 has the title 'Handel Royal' & has a focus on the Anglo-German collaboration which started in 1714, the year in which Georg, Prince-Elector of Hanover, acceded to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland as George I. The Lufthansa Festival 2014 is also celebrating this anniversary.

"GÜttingen Festival has always been lucky in having inspirational and influential figures at the helm, with Nic McGegan and Eliot Gardiner among their previous artistic directors. It seems they’ve been equally lucky securing Laurence Cummings in the role now; not only is he clearly warmly accepted by festival regulars and locals, he has the connections to put together a fantastic programme of internationally renowned performers and a relentless energy that supports this most special and unique of Handel Festivals – get there next year if you can, I can promise you won’t regret it!"

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RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

Don Quixote Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse I. Dans une bourgade de la Mancha: Una sañosa porfia, Donde se sufre Juana, Canto del Cavallero, Un cavalier de Spagna II. Episode des Moulins: Propiñan de Melyor, Jançu janto, Por vida de mis ojos, Si abra en este baldres, Ande pues, Rodrigo Martinez, El Cervel mi nocte i die, La perra mora, Rey a quien reyes, Pavana de la trulla, Jacaras, la Tricotea, Ya es tiempo de recoger III. Dulcinea de Toboso: Todos los bienes del mundo, Falalalanlera, Canario, No hay que decirle el primor, Tiento de batalla IV. Scene des tréteaux: Oy comamos i bebamos, Bataille, Débat contre mes débateurs, Romance de Don Gaïfero, La Justa, Ninguno cierre las puertas, Aqui yaze en poca tierra, Levanta Pascual V. Epilogue: La Guerra, La Chacona

NEW Label: Flora File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: FLO3013 Barcode: 3149028000696 NORMAL Price Format: 1 DVD Adriana Fernandez [soprano] Pierre-Yves Binard [tenor] Jean-Pierre Canihac [cornet à Bouquin] Alfredo Bernardini [chalemie] Daniel Lassalle [sacqueboute] Laurent Le Chenadec [doulciane] Eduardo Eguëz [guitare et vihuela] Yasuko Bouvard [orgue, clavecin] Florent Tisseyre [percussions]

A magical creation mixing together puppets, Cervantes and Spanish Renaissance music.

Puppets and puppeteers, narrator, singers, musicians: such is the remarkable team that Les Sacqueboutiers brought together for an original musical show. They bring to the stage the extravagant madness of Don Quichotte through his delusional life, tilting at windmills as well as the encounter with Dulcinea del Toboso, or the episode of 'El retablo de Maese Pedro'.

Les Sacqueboutiers are an ensemble based in Toulouse, playing on early brass instruments. They have been in existence for more than 30 years, during which time they have built up a reputation as one of the finest early music ensembles, regarded as a reference in the interpretation of 17th-century instrumental music, particularly that of Italy and Germany.

When they decided to form Les Sacqueboutiers in 1974, Jean-Pierre Canihac and Jean-Pierre Mathieu were among the first to embark on the adventurous rediscovery of early instruments. The quality of their work soon attracted attention, and they took part in the groundbreaking recording of Monteverdi's 'Vespro della Beata Vergine', conducted by Michel Corboz. Since then, they have performed music ranging from the Renaissance to Mozart, with many prestigious ensembles including Les Arts Florissantsand the Ens Clément Janequin.

The group comprises a nucleus of cornetts and sackbuts, which are joined, as the needs arise, by other instruments (violins, viols, bassoons, shawms) and vocalists.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

MONTEVERDI: Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda GOEHR: Paraphrase on 'Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda' for clarinet QUAGLIATI: Carro di fedelta d'amore

Furio Zanasi Les Sacqueboutiers Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, musical drama on a text by Torquato Tasso extracted from 'Jérusalem délivrée' Paraphrase for solo clarinet on the madrigal: 'Il Combatimentto Di Tancredi e Clorinda' by Claudio Monteverdi (1969) Petit opéra on a book by Pietro della Valle, Rome 1611. 3 singers (soprano, tenor, bass), 2 cornetts, 2 sackbuts, theorbo, viola, positive organ and harpsichord

Label: Flora File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: FLO1709 Barcode: 5425008377919 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Jean-Pierre Canihac, Marie Garnier-Marzullo [cornets à bouquin] Daniel Lassalle [sacqueboute ténor] Sylvain Delvaux [sacqueboute basse] Christine Payeux [viole de gambe] Jean-François Verdier [clarinette] Matthias Spaeter [archiluth, chitarrone] Yasuko Bouvard [orgue, clavecin] Adriana Fernandez [soprano] Juan Sancho, Furio Zanasi [tenors]

This fascinating programme revisits Monteverdi’s masterpiece 'Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda' in a new musical [and in Les Sacqueboutiers' concert programmes, choreographic] version.

This unusual work tells the story of the nocturnal combat between the Christian knight Tancredi and the Muslim Clorinda: a strange and breathtaking confrontation where extreme passions are expressed. Although the initial score was intended to be played by a set of four violas da braccio, cornets and sackbuts used here are perfectly adapted to express the very essence of 'Il Combattimento', due to the fact that these instruments are the most able to imitate the human voice.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

HAYDN: Scottish Songs Susan Hamilton Philippe Pierlot François Fernandez Rainer Zipperling Divertimento Hob. XI:52 The White Cockade, Mary's dream, O can you sew cushions Divertimento Hob. XI:87 Deutschlands Klage auf den Tod des Grossen Friedrichs Borussen König Divertimento Hob. XI:109 Fy gar rub her o'er wi' strae, O'er Bogie, Up in the Morning early

Label: Flora File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: FLO0503 Barcode: 3149028053524 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Susan Hamilton [soprano] Philippe Pierlot [baryton] François Fernandez [viola] Rainer Zipperling [cello]

Hot on the heels of Werner Güra and Roel Dieltiens' volume of Scottish Airs as collected by Gerorge Thompson, new label Flora presents Susan Hamilton in the songs published by William Napier, in 1792, alongside works for baryton trio.

Beautifully presented digipack with texts in French, German and English and featuring some lovely black & white photography.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

Aura Soave Céline Scheen Philippe Pierlot This second recital by Céline Scheen for the Flora label takes us to the very sources of Baroque: these 'Nuove Musiche' and this new practice that will change the course of Western music. Italian monody from the early 17th century has a variety of forms from the popular accents and naive ditty 'Augellin' to the subtlety of the madrigal 'Aura Soave'. The famous 'Amarilli' is unrecognisable here, disguised by a wreath of ornaments and supported by a single bass viol. Other pieces feature a consort of viols that provides particularly intensive support for example in 'Torna' by Caccini or Marazzoli’s beautiful allegory 'Sopra la Rosa'.

Label: Flora File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: FLO2712 Barcode: 5425008378855 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Céline Scheen [soprano] Giovanna Pessi [arpa doppia] Philippe Pierlot [viola da gamba soprano & basso] Kaori Uemura [viola da gamba tenore] Rainer Zipperling [viola da gamba basso] Romina Lischka [viola da gamba basso]

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

VERDI: Aida La Fura de Baus Since 1913 operatic performances have been given in the Arena of Verona in Summer, with more than 17,000 spectators enjoying the show every evening. 'Aida' is the most popular opera of Verona Festival, the only one performed every year.

'Aida', the masterpiece which gave life to the Opera Festival in the Arena 100 years ago, was presented in two different versions: a revival of the 1913, that was launched with Zenatello singing; and a new one from Catalan theatre group La Fura des Baus.

La Fura opened the Centenary Festival: this version of 'Aida' was completely wacky: fire, inflatable sculptures, an aluminium pyramid assembled by crane, acrobats, mechanical camels, men in orange boiler suits with scarab beetle heads riding bumper cars, flooding the stage to make a lake inhabited by dancers dressed as crocodiles, solar panels...

Under the night sky, it was a visual feast.

This 'Aida' with its spectacular scenic techniques and technology, was directed by Carlus Padrissa and Àlex Ollé; choreography by Valentina Carrasco; set design Roland Olbeter; costume designer, Chu Uroz. The lighting is the work of Arena veteran, Paolo Mazzon. For Maestro Omer Meir Wellber this was his first time on the podium of the amphitheatre.

Label: Bel Air Classiques File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: BAC104 Barcode: 3760115301047 NORMAL Price Format: 1 DVD Aida: Hui He Radamès: Fabio Sartori Amneris: Giovanna Casolla Amonasro: Ambrogio Maestri Ramfis: Adrian Sampetrean The King: Roberto Tagliavini Orchestra, chorus, ballet of the Verona Arena Omer Meir Wellber [conductor]

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

VERDI: Aida La Fura de Baus Since 1913 operatic performances have been given in the Arena of Verona in Summer, with more than 17,000 spectators enjoying the show every evening. 'Aida' is the most popular opera of Verona Festival, the only one performed every year.

'Aida', the masterpiece which gave life to the Opera Festival in the Arena 100 years ago, was presented in two different versions: a revival of the 1913, that was launched with Zenatello singing; and a new one from Catalan theatre group La Fura des Baus.

La Fura opened the Centenary Festival: this version of 'Aida' was completely wacky: fire, inflatable sculptures, an aluminium pyramid assembled by crane, acrobats, mechanical camels, men in orange boiler suits with scarab beetle heads riding bumper cars, flooding the stage to make a lake inhabited by dancers dressed as crocodiles, solar panels...

Under the night sky, it was a visual feast.

This 'Aida' with its spectacular scenic techniques and technology, was directed by Carlus Padrissa and Àlex Ollé; choreography by Valentina Carrasco; set design Roland Olbeter; costume designer, Chu Uroz. The lighting is the work of Arena veteran, Paolo Mazzon. For Maestro Omer Meir Wellber this was his first time on the podium of the amphitheatre.

Label: Bel Air Classiques File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: BAC404 Barcode: 3760115304048 NORMAL Price Format: 1 Blu-ray Aida: Hui He Radamès: Fabio Sartori Amneris: Giovanna Casolla Amonasro: Ambrogio Maestri Ramfis: Adrian Sampetrean The King: Roberto Tagliavini Orchestra, chorus, ballet of the Verona Arena Omer Meir Wellber [conductor]

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

DONIZETTI: L'elisir d'Amore, Don Pasquale, Viva la Mamma Three Donizetti masterpieces in a limited edition box set of internationally acclaimed productions L’ELISIR D’AMORE: Heidi Grant Murphy, Paul Groves, Ambrogio Maestri, Laurent Naouri, Orchestre et Chœurs de l’Opéra national de Paris / Conductor Edward Gardner Stage production Laurent Pelly - HD recording: Opéra national de Paris (2006) • 133 MINS | SUBTITLES: ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN. SPANISH | AUDIO: 2.0 PCM, 5.1 DOLBY DIGITAL, 5.1 DTS | 1 DVD9 16:9 "well worth catching for Kurzak and Gavanelli alone. And there's plenty in the production to impress visually and much to enjoy as a series of stylishly assembled tableaux." Hugo Shirley

Label: Bel Air Classiques File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: BAC607 Barcode: 3760115306073 SPECIAL Price Format: 3 DVD Packaging: box set

DON PASQUALE: Patrizia Ciofi, Simone Alaimo, Norman Shankle, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Chœur du Grand Théâtre de Genève / Conductor Evelino Pidò Stage production Daniel Slater - HD recording: Grand Théâtre de Genève (2007) • 127 MINS | SUBTITLES: ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH | AUDIO: 2.0 PCM, 5.1 DOLBY DIGITAL, 5.1 DTS | 1 DVD9 16:9 "Donizetti’s final comic masterpiece demands velocity, pathos and above all wit. This Don Pasquale from Geneva has them all, and with Evelino Pidò conducting in the pit it bubbles with excitement...Patrizia Ciofi’s Norina is a joy. Looking like the Hollywood comic actress Aline McMahon (Ginger Rogers’s gold-digging friend in Top Hat), this is a benchmark performance" DVD CHOICE, BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE [BAC033] LE CONVENIENZE ED INCONVENIENZE TEATRALI (VIVA LA MAMMA): Jessica Pratt, Vincenzo Taormina, Simon Bailey, Christian Senn, Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia del Teatro alla Scala / Conductor Marco Guidarini Stage production Antonio Albanese - HD recording: Teatro alla Scala (2009) • 114 MINS | SUBTITLES: ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH | AUDIO: 2.0 PCM, 5.1 DOLBY DIGITAL | 1 DVD9 16:9 'Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali' was inspired by two comedies written by Antonio Simone Sografi between 1794 and 1816. It follows the theatrical tradition of Goldoni, Gozzi and Metastasio, and subjects the bad habits of the operatic world to biting and sardonic criticism

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

Piano Man: James Rhodes

With childhood abuse, drug addiction and suicide attempts behind him, James is not your typical concert pianist but with his passion and rock-star aura, he is bringing new audiences to classical piano.

In 'Piano Man', James plays the music of his favourite composers, including Bach, Beethoven and Chopin, many of whom had, like James, troubled lives. In this highly personal collection, James explains how they’ve given him solace in his darkest moments and why we should all be listening. With stunning solo piano performances and witty insight into these lives 'Piano Man' is an exciting and radical new approach.

Episodes and Repertoire: Episode 1, ‘Beethoven Waldstein’ Piano Sonata No.21 Op.53 ‘Waldstein’

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: SIGDVD010 Barcode: 635212001097 NORMAL Price Format: 1 DVD James Rhodes [piano]

Episode 2, ‘Uppers and Downers’ Moritz MOSZKOWSKI: Etincelles, BACH/SILOTI: Prelude in E Minor, BLUMENFELD: Etude for the Left Hand Alone, GRIEG/GINSBERG: In the Hall of the Mountain King Episode 3, ‘Chopin’ Etude Op.25 No.12, Prelude Op.28 No.4, Fantasie in F Minor Op.49 Episode 4, ‘Bach-Busoni’ Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C Major Episode 5, ‘Mad, Bad & Sad’ RACHMANINOV: Prelude in C-Sharp Minor Op.3 No.2, RAVEL: Toccata from Le Tombeau de Couperin, DEBUSSY: Clair de lune, from Suite bergamasque Episode 6, ‘Beethoven’ Sonata No.30 in E, Op.109 Episode 7, ‘JS Bach’ French Suite No.5 in G Major NTSC DVD9 Release, 200 mins 43'

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

Andrzej & Roxanna PANUFNIK: Dreamscape Songs and Trios

Heather Shipp Subito Piano Trio Love Song [A], Mine Eye [R], Sweet Love Remember’d [R], Modlitwa [A & R], That Mighty Heart [R] Virtue [R], Dreamscape [A], Around Three Corners [R], Piano Trio, Op. 1 [A] A unique programme of works by father and daughter Sir Andrzej Panufnik was a leading Polish composer of the 20th Century, and his daughter Roxanna has made a name for herself in her own right as a contemporary composer in the 21st. This disc, programmed by Roxanna to combine works by both herself and her father, explores the parallels between their two musical languages and forms a touching tribute to Andrzej from his daughter.

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: SIGCD380 Barcode: 635212038024 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Heather Shipp [soprano] Subito Piano Trio

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

MAHLER: Symphonies 4-6 Sarah Fox Philharmonia Orchestra Lorin Maazel CD1 Symphony No.4 CD2 Symphony No.5 CDs3-4 Symphony No.6 Lorin Maazel and the Philharmonia Orchestra perform Mahler’s Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies. This is the second in a series that will encompass Mahler’s Nine Symphonies, featuring live orchestral recordings from London’s Royal Festival Hall of Maazel and the Philharmonia’s much-lauded Mahler Cycle.

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: SIGCD361 Barcode: 635212036129 4 FOR 1.5 Format: 4 CD Packaging: box set Sarah Fox [soprano] Philharmonia Orchestra Lorin Maazel [conductor]

“Lorin Maazel’s Mahler cycle with the Philharmonia Orchestra is set to be the standout concert-going event of the year and goes from strength to strength...On this occasion – and ‘occasion’ it certainly was – the conjunction of performers and music was near ideal, a perfect balance of ‘head and heart’. In the past Maazel has sometimes seemed slightly cerebral, the supreme technician but often standing away from the music. However, he seems to have a new-found warmth, passion and understanding. All his conducting wizardry remains but this was far more than a clinical traversal for Maazel captured that sense of awe at Mahler’s teeming invention, the work’s inner-life, which one felt when first hearing this extraordinary work... all sections of the Philharmonia were covered in glory – particular credit to the excellent bass trombone, Christian Jones, and the sensitive tuba, Peter Smith... this was as shattering – and moving – a performance of this symphony as it has been my privilege to hear." Douglas Cooksey, Classical Source, 19/4/2011

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

Guto Pryderi PUW: Reservoirs Orchestral Works

David Cowley BBC National Orchestra of Wales Jac van Steen ...ont agoraf y drws.../ ...unless I open the door..., Concerto ar gyfer Obo / Concerto for Oboe, Reservoirs, Hologram, Agorawd ‘Torri’r Garreg’ / ‘Break the Stone’ Overture

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: SIGCD378 Barcode: 635212037829 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal David Cowley [oboe] BBC NOW Jac van Steen

The first release from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales’s inaugural Composer in Residence, Guto Pryderi Puw. Puw studied composition with composers John Pickard, Andrew Lewis and Pwyll ap Siôn. He first made an impact as a composer in 1995 when he won the Composer's Medal at the National Eisteddfod (and again in 1997). Since then he has received many commissions and performances while being much in demand as a composer at various festivals in the UK and abroad. His music is regularly broadcast on radio and television. He is the Chairman and Artistic Director of the Bangor New Music Festival, which has been running since 2000.

In 2005 his orchestral work, a BBC Radio 3 commission, 'Reservoirs', was nominated in the Large-Scale Composition category of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, and in February 2006 he was appointed as the first Resident Composer with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to compose three new orchestral commissions. His 'Concerto for Oboe' won the BBC Radio 3 'Listeners Award' category at the 2007 British Composer Awards and the Proms commissioned piece '...unless I open the door...' won BBC Music Magazine's 'Best Proms Premiere' for its performance in 2007. In 2010 he won an award from the Thomas Ellis Memorial Fund to record his orchestral music on the Signum label. He is currently working on a concerto for violinist Madeleine Mitchell for 2014 and his opera Y Tŵr (‘The Tower’) commissioned by Music Theatre Wales for 2016.

A dual-language release in both Welsh and English, this release features a range of orchestral works inspired by stories and landscapes of Wales.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

DVORAK: The Cello Works Cello Concerto Op. 104, Romantic Pieces Op. 75, Silent Woods Op 68/5, Rondo Op. 94, Slavonic dance Op. 46/8, Songs my mother taught me Op. 55/4

Daniel Müller-Schott NDR Sinfonieorchester Michael Sanderling

Label: Orfeo File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: C855141A Barcode: 4011790855127 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Daniel Müller-Schott [cello] Robert Kulek [piano] NDR Sinfonieorchester Michael Sanderling

Antonín Dvorák’s Cello Concerto is one of the absolute masterpieces of the genre, and every world-class cellist naturally takes it into his repertoire. This is also the case for Daniel Müller-Schott, who will be performing it in the great concert halls of Europe in 2014 and in the Lincoln Center in New York: thus in the very same city where Dvorák worked as conservatory director and where he wrote the concerto.

Dvorák began his work in passionate, stormy mood, but completed it in lyrical, elegiac vein under the shadow of the illness and death of his sister-in-law Josefina, who had been his own first love.

Müller-Schott’s new recording also includes several chamber music works and arrangements that offer insight as to how Dvorák gradually accustomed himself to the cello, up to the point when he composed his concerto in 1894-5. There is the catchy 'Rondo' that Dvorák wrote in 1892 for a chamber music tour, and 'Silent Woods', an arrangement made for the same tour, heard here in Dvorák’s own orchestral versions. Together with the pianist Robert Kulek, Müller-Schott has also recorded arrangements of the four Romantic Pieces op. 75 and of 'Songs my mother taught me' from the Gypsy Songs cycle. The latter is perfectly suited to the cello’s cantabile character and Daniel Müller-Schott’s interpretation.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

GRIEG: Cello Sonata Op.36 JANACEK: Pohádka, Presto KODALY: Cello Sonata Op.8 Danjulo Ishizaka Shai Wosner

Label: Onyx Classics File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: ONYX4120 Barcode: 880040412021 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Danjulo Ishizaka [cello] Shai Wosner [piano]

Cellist Danjulo Ishizaka, a former BBC Radio3 New Generation Artist, is now in demand with leading orchestras and conductors worldwide. He made his Vienna Musikverein debut in 2003; his BBC Proms debut in 2006. He has also performed at Carnegie Hall in New York. In 2012 he was awarded the Hideo Saito Memorial Fund Award, one of Japan’s most prestigious music awards Danjulo and fellow ONYX artist Shai Wosner have chosen a programme of works with strong roots in folk music which speak their characteristic national language very clearly. Together with Bartók, Kodály was a true pioneer in exploring and collecting melodies from the Hungarian folk tradition. Leoš Janácek’s 'Pohádka', on the other hand, turns beyond the folk tradition to another aspect that all cultures have in common: the fairy tale. Like his Hungarian counterparts, he too collected many of his country’s folk songs, observing and studying his compatriots’ language with a view to how it functioned in a melodic sense. He had a keen sensibility for the sounds of nature, and incorporated all these elements into his music. Grieg’s great Sonata combines folkloric and magical elements in equal measure and paints a sonic picture of Norwegian culture.

Advertised in Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

Captain Tobias HUME: A Scottish Soldier Alison McGillivray Concerto Caledonia David McGuinness A mery conceit: The Q[ueens] delight, What greater griefe, A Spanish humor: The Lord Hayes favoret, Fain would I change that note, The virgins muse: The Lady Arbellaes favoret, Be merry a day will come / A Toy / Ha Couragie, A Toy / A Merry meeting, A Galliard 3, Start: The Lady of Sussex delight, A Pollish Vilanell, Tobacco, Maister Crasse his Almayne / A Galliard 5, The Earle of Pembrookes Galiard, The Souldiers Song, A Souldiers Galiard, Tickell, Tickell / I Am Falling / Tickle me Quickly, Captaine Humes Galliard, My hope is revived: The Lady of Suffolkes delight, Cease leaden slumber: The Queenes New-yeeres gift, An Almayne / The Spirit of the Almayne, The Dukes Almaine: The Duke of Holstones delight, Give you go[o]d morrowe Madam

Label: Delphian File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: DCD34140 Barcode: 801918341403 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Thomas Walker [tenor] Alison McGillivray [bass viol, lyre d'amore] Concerto Caledonia David McGuinness

David McGuinness and his virtuoso band of early musickers voyage once more into musical history, and this time the object of their exploration is Tobias Hume, about whose life we know very little. (David’s engaging essay tells us as much as there is to know.) The best guess for Hume’s birthdate could be any time from 1565 to 1579, and the materials documenting his appearance on the fringes of the London musical scene from around 1605 are sparse.

This recording draws on the two books of music Hume published in his lifetime, and ranges from capricious fragments of tunes that celebrate the simple joy of playing the viol, to potent moments of substantial emotional depth.

‘My Life hath beene a Souldier,’ Hume declared in 1605, ‘and my idlenes addicted to Musicke.’ Concerto Caledonia have given us the opportunity to indulge in Hume’s addiction.

Concerto Caledonia is Scotland’s foremost early music group, bringing to life the classical and traditional music of the nation’s history. This is their fifth recording on Delphian. As well as appearing regularly on BBC Radio 3, the group has also been broadcast on Radios 1, 2, and 4 and appears regularly in live collaborations at the Edinburgh International Festival.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

MOZART: The last three symphonies Symphony No. 39 in E flat major KV543 Symphony No. 40 in G minor KV550 Symphony No. 41 in C major KV551, 'Jupiter'

Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century Frans Brüggen

Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: GCD921119 Barcode: 8424562211193 MID Price Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century Frans Brüggen

More than three decades have elapsed since Frans Brüggen set down his earlier visions of Mozart's symphonies with his Orchestra of the 18th Century. Now, he has chosen to release his new views of these contrasting yet complementary works as part of his Grand Tour on Glossa. The Dutch maestro and his band have regularly engaged with the music of the Salzburg genius and the symphonies have frequently appeared in their concert schedules. If the precise, original performing locations for these symphonies remain elusive, the three works: 'Jupiter', K551, the E flat major, K543, and that “evergreen study in the key of G minor”, K550, known by people all around the world as 'Mozart 40', all clamour for constant and fresh interpretations and these are precisely what Frans Brüggen delivers. Recordings on Glossa from Brüggen in recent times – always whilst on tour – have included Mozart’s concertos for horn, clarinet and violin, as well as the Requiem.

With Stefano Russomanno providing a well considered booklet essay, this new release of the three final Mozart symphonies, available on two CDs, recorded live in Rotterdam, provides eloquent testimony to Frans Brüggen’s ability to summon up the expressiveness and spontaneity demanded by Mozart’s masterpieces from 1788.

Recorded live in Rotterdam (de Doelen), Netherlands, on 4 March 2010

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

Las idas y las vueltas Spanish Baroque meets flamenco

Accademia del Piacere Fahmi Alqhai Arcángel Toná, La Spagna, Romance del Rey Moro & Granaína, Las morillas de Jaén, Jaleos, Vidalita, Folías, Siguiriya, No hay que decirle el primor, ¡Ay, que me abraso! bonus tracks (live in Madrid): Pasacalle, ¡Ay, que me abraso!

Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: GCDP33203 Barcode: 8424562332034 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Accademia del Piacere Fahmi Alqhai [viola da gamba & direction] Arcángel [cantaor] Mariví Blasco [soprano] Miguel Ángel Cortés [flamenco guitar]

With the welcome issue on Glossa of 'Las idas y las vueltas', evidence of the new spirit of musicmaking from Spain is evident from Fahmi Alqhai’s previous releases (A piacere and Rediscovering Spain). 'Las idas y las vueltas' is an exuberant display of music-making in its own right but also a demonstration of the interrelationship between Spanish Baroque music and flamenco. The melting pot of melodies, colours and rhythms that followed in the wake of Spain’s colonial expansion brought together European, South American and African influences. On 'Las idas y las vueltas', there is a constant to-ing and fro-ing of such influences – jácaras and guarachas, folías, Las morillas de Jaén and La Spagna, bulerías and jaleos – all brought to musical life by the cantaor Arcángel, the flamenco guitarist Miguel Ángel Cortés and the Baroque instrumentalists of Alqhai’s Accademia del Piacere, and the singer Mariví Blasco.

This new release comes with two bonus tracks, both recorded live and previously unreleased: a pasacalle and a new version of ¡Ay, que me abraso! The whole album has been freshly remixed by Alqhai and his team in their studio in Seville.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

MOZART: Piano Four Hands Andante & variations in G major KV 501 Sonata in C major KV 521 Sonata in F major KV 497

Label: ApartĂŠ File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: AP078 Barcode: 3149028042023 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Guillaume Bellom & IsmaĂŤl Margain

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the first to compose pieces for piano four hands. His father, Leopold, wrote in a letter of 9 July 1765: "In London Wolfgangerl wrote his first piece for four hands. Until that time no sonata for four hands had ever been composed."

The famous Salzburg family portrait painted by Johann Nepomuk della Croce in 1780-81 (Mozarteum, Salzburg) shows Wolfgang and his sister, Nannerl, playing a duet at the piano, with Leopold, violin in hand, looking on, and his wife, Anna Maria (d. 1778), included in a picture on the wall.

The three works presented here were composed in Vienna in 1786 and 1787, when the young virtuoso was about to give up his career as a pianist in order to concentrate on the composition of operas, having been stimulated by his meeting with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte. In the summer of 1786 he composed what is probably the most ambitious and most significant of his four-hand pieces, the Sonata in F major (KV 497). It was first performed in Vienna on 4 November 1786, four months before the Andante and Variations in G major (KV 501). His last sonata for piano four hands, in C major, KV 521, was written in May 1787, when Mozart had reached his full maturity as a composer. It is characterised by the light key of C major and the virtuosity of its two fast movements (especially the first), bright and brilliant in their elegance.

ALSO AVAILABLE: AP056 Schubert

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

Félicien DAVID: Mélodies Tassis Christoyannis Thanassis Apostolopoulos Le Nuage, Fleur du bonheur, Rêverie, Saltarelle, Adieux à Charence, Reviens, reviens! Dormez, Marie, Le Bédouin, Formosa, En chemin, J’ai peur de l’aimer, L’Océan, La Chanson du pêcheur, Le Pêcheur à sa nacelle, Oubli!

Le Tchibouk, Le Vieillard et les roses, L’Amitié ‘Here are three more songs by M. Félicien David, the composer of the odes-symphonies who, despite his attempts and successes in the grand genre has all the requirements, by the very nature of his talent, to produce these small sparks of music that scintillate in our salons.’

(Revue et Gazette musicale de Paris, 12 September 1847)

Label: Aparté File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: AP086 Barcode: 3149028049923 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Tassis Christoyannis [baritone] Thanassis Apostolopoulos [piano]

Félicien David (1810–1876) an orphan, trained at the choir school of St Sauveur Cathedral in Aix-en-Provence. After meeting the painter Pol Justus in 1831, he joined the Saint-Simonian movement and became its official composer. When the community led by Père Enfantin (1796–1864) was disbanded by government order the following year, David left France with a group of friends to spread the Saint-Simonian gospel in the East, a journey that took him to countries including Egypt and Algeria.

His art songs for voice and piano, most of which were published between his return from Egypt (1835) and the end of the July Monarchy (1848), belong to a genre that was then undergoing substantial change. Like Berlioz dreaming of England, Félicien David speaks of North Africa and the Middle East using a French musical language of Viennese inspiration.

Indeed, we find not only harmonic patterns characteristic of Schubert, but also, at the same time, the melodic sweetness that has been a typical feature of French music since the 17th-century air de cour. All of Félicien David’s art songs show an innocence that Berlioz and Saint-Saëns saw as their finest quality, as well as a simplicity that favoured their success by making them accessible to all.

Regarded as one of the finest baritones of his generation, admired for his acting skills and his musicality, Athens-born Tassis Christoyannis studied piano, singing, conducting and composition at the Athens Conservatory, before going on to specialise in the Italian repertoire with the baritone Aldo Protti.

He sings the principal baritone roles in Italian, French and Russian works at opera houses and festivals all over Europe, including Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Geneva, Glyndebourne, Brussels, Amsterdam, Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Frankfurt. Tassis Christoyannis is also much in demand for his skills as a song recitalist.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

The Cosmopolitan – Songs by Oswald von Wolkenstein Ensemble Leones Marc Lewon

Label: Christophorus File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: CHR77379 Barcode: 4010072773791 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Ensemble Leones Marc Lewon

Oswald von Wolkenstein: politician, diplomat, castle owner, Knight of the Realm and bon vivant... these were his 'main professions' that took him to nearly all regions of the world known during his time. Today, he is primarily known for his most important 'hobby' of which he was a master as poet, musician and composer; a fine singer and player of diverse instruments; and as master of about ten languages. From no other poet-composer of the Middle Ages has such a multi-faceted repertoire been handed down. He created real popular songs and simple, monophonic narrative songs as well as complex polyphony. Almost everything that was in vogue during his time can be found in his personal manuscripts: we find such strange yet fascinating sounds as those from his pen.

For this CD, 'The Cosmopolitan – Songs by Oswald von Wolkenstein', Marc Lewon has compiled a programme with his Ensemble Leones that does justice to Oswald's versatility as poet and musician. Alongside rarely heard pieces, they present a series of first recordings ranging from multilingual 'macaronic' Lieder and travel descriptions to true musical gems.

Also available by Lewon/Ensemble Leones: CHR77348 Desprez LES FANTAISIES DE JOSQUIN CHR77368 COLOURES IN THE DARK Works by Agricola, Ghizeghem, Roelkin et al.

CHR77330 Camino de Santiago: Medieval Music from Spanish Pilgrimages “The instrumental colours conjured up are dazzling, and in Regina Kabis and Marc Lewon the group has two outstanding singers” Early Music Today, March/May 2010

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

Thus Angels Sung James Bowman Malcolm Archer GIBBONS: The Song Of Angels, MOORE: Oculi Omnium, FARRANT: Hide Not Thou Thy Face, ARCHER: Sion’s Daughter, IRELAND: The Holy Boy, BYRD: My Little Sweet Darling, PETTMAN: I Saw A Maiden, SCOTT: Lullaby, WILLIAMSON: Sweet And Low, ARCHER: When Jesus Christ Was Yet A Child, Drop, Drop Slow Tears, The Bellman’s Song, CLUCAS: Evenfall, VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Dirge For Fidele, BRITTEN: The Trees They Grow So High, STANFORD: The Rain It Raineth Every Day, QUILTER: How Should I Your True Love Know? ELGAR: Where Corals Lie, TALLIS: O Nata Lux, BRITTEN: Corpus Christi Carol, RVW: The Call, ATTWOOD: Turn Thy Face From My Sins, Come, Holy Ghost

Label: Convivium Records File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: CR019 Barcode: 700153370035 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal James Bowman [counter-tenor] Malcolm Archer [piano, organ]

James Bowman has been one of the world’s leading counter-tenors for over 40 years; his career spans Opera, Oratorio, Contemporary music and solo recitals. In May 2011 he made his farewell to the London concert platform with a sold-out recital at London’s Wigmore Hall, singing Purcell and Handel. However, he still appears occasionally at venues away from the capital...

"There is absolutely no rhyme or reason behind the selection of pieces on this recording, and this is intentional. Every piece was chosen at random, simply because I happened to like them and wanted to record them.

I have been lucky enough to have had a recording career that started over 45 years ago, having made my first recording for His Master’s Voice, with King’s College Choir in 1967. Since then I have made some 180 recordings, stretching from black discs through tape cassettes, to CDs. Actually, I made my original demo recording on a wax disc, and this was sent to David Willcocks in Cambridge for his approval.

At the end of a recording career there are always pieces lurking at the bottom of the barrel that you wanted to record, but somehow they never seemed to fit into the scheme of things. So here are those ‘Odds & Ends’ and I have to admit they make a very disparate collection.

The only pieces actually written for counter-tenor are the three songs by Malcolm Archer and the little Grace before Dinner by Christopher Moore. Other pieces have been transposed and rearranged to suit my voice.

I’ve always loved Elgar, but he wrote nothing for counter-tenor, so I’ve taken the liberty of including the lovely ‘Where corals lie’ from Sea Pictures. I wonder what Dame Clara Butt would make of this." James Bowman WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING Malcom Archer: Three Songs [written for James Bowman]

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

Percy WHITLOCK: Organ Sonata in C minor Organ Music from the Temple Church, London

Greg Morris WHITLOCK: Sonata in C minor, ALAIN: Litanies. DUPRE: Cortège et Litanie, Op. 19 No. 2, FRANCK: Choral No. 3 in A minor, Op. 40

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: SIGCD379 Barcode: 635212037928 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Greg Morris [organ]

The first release from the restored organ of the famed Temple Church, London. Performed by associate Organist of the church Greg Morris, the programme includes several highlights of the organ repertoire, centred around Percy Whitlock’s stunning Organ Sonata.

Greg Morris is Associate Organist of the Temple Church in London and Musical Director of Collegium Musicum of London. An acclaimed solo recitalist and recording artist, he is known for his exciting and revealing interpretations of a wide repertoire but has a particular bias towards the music of J.S. Bach and 20th-century French and English composers. He gave the world première of David Briggs’ Organ Concerto and subsequently recorded the work with the Northern Chamber Orchestra. This is his third CD for Signum.

ALSO AVAILABLE: SIGCD279 A Festival of Psalms: Bernstein, Allegri, Wesley “...the polish of the choir's singing, combining a beautifully honed treble line with characterful yet restrained adult voices, is all recorded with fine balance.” CHOIR & ORGAN SIGCD225 The Majesty of thy Glory: Purcell, Britten, Howells “...Such enterprising and polished music-making deserves widespread currency...Many choirs and organists could learn from this jubilant release, which proves that the Temple Church Choir is among the very best. Strongly recommended.”

GRAMOPHONE "This is music-making of an inspired and magical kind, and I recommend these fine performances without reservation.

5 Stars" CHOIR & ORGAN

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

Louis VIERNE: Complete Organ Symphonies III Symphony No. 5 in A minor, Op. 47 (1924) Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 59 (1930)

Hans-Eberhard Roß

Label: Audite File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: AUDITE92676 Barcode: 4022143926760 NORMAL Price Format: 1 SACD Packaging: digipack Hans-Eberhard Roß [Goll Orgel of St. Martin, Memmingen]

With Vierne's Fifth and Sixth Organ Symphonies, written in the years 1924 and 1930 respectively, the three-part complete Audite recording of the six organ symphonies is completed. Both works were written when Vierne was permanently employed as organist of Notre-Dame in Paris.

Louis Victor Jules Vierne was highly gifted and ambitious, but almost blind. He studied in Paris with Charles-Marie Widor, who founded the genre of the organ symphony. At the age of 23, in 1894, Vierne was able to deputise for his teacher in a dual capacity: at the organ console of the Parisian Church of Saint-Sulpice and in Widor‘s organ class at the Conservatory. However, Vierne‘s calling was for higher endeavours: between 1899 and 1930 he composed six organ symphonies that were to bring the genre to a hitherto unknown peak.

Recorded at the Goll organ of St. Martin in Memmingen, the recording is characterised by the warm, soft and widely mensurated sound of the organ which creates unobtrusive power and fullness, making a symphonic effect in the church interior, yet always remaining clear. The polyphonic structures of the works become distinct and the transparency of sound permits fresher tempi than usual - neither of which can be a given in recordings of Vierne.

Hans-Eberhard Roß is Director of Church Music in Memmingen. He has already recorded the complete organ works of César Franck for Audite. Additional information on the Goll organ and the registration is available at www.audite.de.

ALSO AVAILABLE: audite92674 Louis Vierne: Vol. I, Symphonies 1 & 2 audite92675 Louis Vierne: Vol. 2, Symphonies 3 & 4 “An exciting release that embraces all the drama, quirkiness and transcendent beauty of Vierne’s huge organ symphonies. Ross’s brilliant playing is captured in good sound.”

BBC Music Magazine- Christmas Issue 2013 audite 21413 Franck Complete Organ Works "note-perfect and the sound of the Goll is thrillingly spacious." Gramophone - December 2012

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

Breaking Light Huw Morgan Kurt ESTERMANN: Einbrechendes Licht * SWEELINCK: Fantasia auf die Manier eines Echo SWV275, Paduana Lachrymae SWV328 BUXTEHUDE: Passacaglia in D BuxWV161, Canzonetta in D BuxWV171, Praeludium in C BuxWV137, Durch Adams Fall BuxWV183 BACH: In Dir ist Freude BWV 615, Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin BWV616, Prelude & Fugue in C BWV871 DISTLER: Sonatina Op 18 Huw MORGAN: Adam’s Fall *, Dialogues * * first recording

Label: SFZ Music File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: SFZM0513 Barcode: 5065001476259 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Huw Morgan [The Organ of St Laurence, Catford]

SFZ MUSIC are pleased to announce their latest release, the debut recording by the organist Huw Morgan, on the organ of St Laurence, Catford, South London.

Huw has been director of music at that church for a number of years, as well as being director of music of the Hanover Choir and the Merbecke Choir of Southwark Cathedral; he is also active as a composer, journalist and tutor for the Royal School of Church Music. He is also co-founder of Automatronic, a collective that promotes and explores experimental music for organ + electronics.

The organ of St Laurence is by J.W. Walker & Sons, built in 1969 to a specification designed by the late David Sanger: it is noted as one of the finest-voiced extension organs in the country. Huw plays a varied selection of music that exploits the bright, clear sounds of the organ brilliantly: from a first recording of a work by the Austrian composer Kurt Estermann, through music by Hugo Distler, to baroque works by Bach, Buxtehude and Sweelinck. Also included are two of his own compositions: 'Dialogues', and 'Adam’s Fall', a work including fixed electronics.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

VANHAL: Complete Works for Clarinet and Piano Sonatas, Sonatina, Dances

Jane Booth John Irving Sonata No.1 in B flat Six English Dances for Solo Piano Sonata No. 2 in C Sonata No. 10 in E flat for Solo Piano Sonata No. 3 in E flat

Label: SFZ Music File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: SFZM0413 Barcode: 5065001476235 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Jane Booth [clarinets] John Irving [fortepiano]

SFZ MUSIC, are pleased to announce their latest release, a new offering from Ensemble DeNote, two of the country’s leading experts in historical performance. Jane Booth, one of the finest players of the chalameau and early clarinet, teams up with John Irving, former Director of the Institute of Musical Research at the University of London, and now reader at Trinity College of Music, to present the first complete survey of the music of Johann Baptist Vanhhal (1739-1813).

The recording combines the very best of historically informed performance practice with virtuosity and enchanting expressiveness; the liner notes include an extended essay laden with insight and primary research.

ALSO AVAILABLE BY THESE ARTISTS: SFZM0310 Clarinets by arrangement

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

BUXTEHUDE: Sonatas with Cornett Le Concert Brisé William Dongois Sonata in B flat major op. I no. 4, BuxWV 255 Praeludium in G minor BuxWV 163 (organ manualiter) Sonata in C minor op. III no. 4, BuxWV 262 Choral prelude “Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren“ BuxWV 213 (Trio, cantus firmus in the upper voice) Choral prelude “Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren“ BuxWV 214 (Fugue) Sonata in F major op. II no. 1, BuxWV 252 Choral fantasy “Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren“ BuxWV 212 Fugue in C major BuxWV 174 Sonata in A minor (MS Uppsala)

Label: Accent Records File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: ACC24291 Barcode: 4015023242913 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Le Concert Brisé William Dongois [cornett] Stefan Legée [sackbut] Pierre-Alain Clerc [organ]

Stimulated by the sheer pleasure of playing Buxtehude’s extraordinary chamber music, Le Concert Brisé and William Dongois have taken the liberty of selecting some of his sonatas for violin, viol and continuo and adapting them for cornett, sackbut and concertante organ.

Not only do certain passages prove to be entirely natural for wind instruments but violinists complain about the awkward nature of these sonatas, whose idiom is at least as typical of the keyboard as of the string family.

These are not intended to be a ‘musicologically correct’ version of the sonatas; rather a plausible view of what could well have been the practice of the time.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

PASQUINI: Sonate per gravecembalo Luca Guglielmi Aria Seconda in C Cekm 47/2, Toccata “Per Francia” in a Cekm 99, Suite in D “Per lo Scozzese” Cekm 23 Toccata in g Cekm 103, Passagagli in g Cekm 69, Toccata in c “Per lo Scozzese” Cekm 83 Toccata in C Cekm 104, Passagagli in C “Per Petronilla” Cekm 67, Variazioni in C “Per la medesima” Cekm 60 Fantasia “la mi fa fa” in d Cekm 1, Partite diverse di follia in d Cekm 61, Ricercare “in D. sol re” in d Cekm 4 Suite in e “Per l’Inglese di Scozia” Cekm 22, Toccata “Con Lo Scherzo Del Cucco” in A Cekm 81 BONUS TRACK: Pastorale in G (*) Cekm 138

Label: Stradivarius File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: STR33959 Barcode: 8011570339591 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Luca Guglielmi [harpsichord]

From 1691 until 1705, in the years in which he wrote the four manuscript volumes of his keyboard works, Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710) was at the height of his fame, organist of the 'Roman Senate and People', a successful composer in every musical genre: from opera to oratorio, from chamber cantata to sacred motet, from severe keyboard ricercare to new harpsichord suite in the galante style. An artist at the forefront for almost 30 years, he shared fame with other emerging stars such as Alessandro Scarlatti and Arcangelo Corelli. He had a close relationship with the latter, often performing his oratorios, jointly conducting the orchestra from the harpsichord.

Conceived for the practical use of his nephew and pupil Bernardo Felice Ricordati, who later added the name Pasquini to his own, the 'Sonate per gravecembalo' (today preserved in the Berlin library, Landsberg Collection, and at the British Library in London), bear valuable testimony to the artist’s desire to offer posterity the ripe fruit of his talent. In this Pasquini anticipated Bach, who knew his keyboard works and who dedicated the last ten years of his life to the re-compilation and revision of most the works previously composed, so that this important work should not be lost because of changing tastes and fleeting fashions.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

BRAHMS: String Sextets No.1 Op.18, No.2 Op.36 Talich Quartet wt Michal Kanka, Josef Kluson “unfailingly fine musicianship” Harriet Smith, Gramophone, January 2008 For 50 years now, the Talich Quartet has taken its place in a prestigious lineage of Czech musicians. Jan Talich Senior, the creator of the Quartet, was the nephew of Vaclav Talich, music director of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 1919 to 1939. It was he who made it one of the world•'s finest orchestras before Karel Ancerl came to harvest the fruits he had so patiently cultivated. In 1997, the last musician in the family, Jan Talich Jr, took over the reins of the quartet from his father, surrounding himself with three talented musicians. The future is now theirs to mould, a future they cannot envisage without taking account of their tradition, a philosophy of music that the current lineup perpetuates and continues to nurture.

Label: La Dolce Volta File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: LDV253 Barcode: 3770001901787 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Violin I: Jan Talich Sr. (1964 - 1975) Petr Messiereur (1975 - 1997) Jan Talich Jr. (since 1997) Violin II: Jan Kvapil (1964 - 1993) Vladimir Bukac (1994 - 2000) Petr Macecek (2000 - 2011) Roman Patocka (since 2012) Viola: Karel Dolezal (1964 - 1975) Jan Talich Sr. (1975 - 2000) Vladimir Bukac (since 2000) Cello: Evžen Rattay (1964 - 1997) Petr Prause (since 1997)

TALICH quartet 1964 - 2014 1964 Formation 1965 First public appearance, Prague (9 December) 1975 Appointed quartet of the Czech Philharmonic 1976 First appearance in the West, Paris (18 October) 1976 Prix de l•'Academie Charles Cros (Dvorak, Quartets opp.61 and 96) 1977-81 Recording of the complete Beethoven Quartets 1983-93 Recording of the complete Mozart Quartets 1997 Jan Talich Jr. becomes first violin 2000-3 Recording of the complete Mendelssohn Quartets 2011 La Dolce Volta takes over the Talich Quartet discography [originally on Calliope] 2012 Release of the Debussy and Ravel Quartets (La Dolce Volta) Calliope CDs, 100% remastered, Key titles unavailable for the past five years Two Digifile programmes never before released on CD Double-panel digipaks with silver laminated covers, 40-page four-colour booklets, CD and booklet held in individual sleeves with a presentation of the Quartet’s history

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

DVORAK: String quartet No.12 Op.96 ‘American’ String Quintet Op.97 Talich Quartet wt Jiri Zigmund [viola] Talich’s readings bristle with life, tempos are marginally faster than usual, and ensemble is razorsharp, rhythmically buoyant, and richly detailed. La Dolce Volta provides engineering to match the performances: warm, vibrant, with a you-are-there presence. For this pairing the Talich reigns supreme!

BBC MUSIC CHOICE

Label: La Dolce Volta File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: LDV254 Barcode: 3770001901794 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Violin I: Jan Talich Sr. (1964 - 1975) Petr Messiereur (1975 - 1997) Jan Talich Jr. (since 1997) Violin II: Jan Kvapil (1964 - 1993) Vladimir Bukac (1994 - 2000) Petr Macecek (2000 - 2011) Roman Patocka (since 2012) Viola: Karel Dolezal (1964 - 1975) Jan Talich Sr. (1975 - 2000) Vladimir Bukac (since 2000) Cello: Evžen Rattay (1964 - 1997) Petr Prause (since 1997)

For 50 years now, the Talich Quartet has taken its place in a prestigious lineage of Czech musicians. Jan Talich Senior, the creator of the Quartet, was the nephew of Vaclav Talich, music director of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 1919 to 1939. It was he who made it one of the world•'s finest orchestras before Karel Ancerl came to harvest the fruits he had so patiently cultivated. In 1997, the last musician in the family, Jan Talich Jr, took over the reins of the quartet from his father, surrounding himself with three talented musicians. The future is now theirs to mould, a future they cannot envisage without taking account of their tradition, a philosophy of music that the current lineup perpetuates and continues to nurture.

TALICH quartet 1964 - 2014 1964 Formation 1965 First public appearance, Prague (9 December) 1975 Appointed quartet of the Czech Philharmonic 1976 First appearance in the West, Paris (18 October) 1976 Prix de l•'Academie Charles Cros (Dvorak, Quartets opp.61 and 96) 1977-81 Recording of the complete Beethoven Quartets 1983-93 Recording of the complete Mozart Quartets 1997 Jan Talich Jr. becomes first violin 2000-3 Recording of the complete Mendelssohn Quartets 2011 La Dolce Volta takes over the Talich Quartet discography [originally on Calliope] 2012 Release of the Debussy and Ravel Quartets (La Dolce Volta) Calliope CDs, 100% remastered, Key titles unavailable for the past five years Two Digifile programmes never before released on CD Double-panel digipaks with silver laminated covers, 40-page four-colour booklets, CD and booklet held in individual sleeves with a presentation of the Quartet’s history

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

SMETANA: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 FIBICH: String quartet in A major

Talich Quartet “The performances of the Smetana Quartets are among the best that are available.â€? %%& 0XVLF 0DJD]LQH %%& 086,& &+2,&( For 50 years now, the Talich Quartet has taken its place in a prestigious lineage of Czech musicians. Jan Talich Senior, the creator of the Quartet, was the nephew of Vaclav Talich, music director of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 1919 to 1939. It was he who made it one of the world•'s finest orchestras before Karel Ancerl came to harvest the fruits he had so patiently cultivated. In 1997, the last musician in the family, Jan Talich Jr, took over the reins of the quartet from his father, surrounding himself with three talented musicians. The future is now theirs to mould, a future they cannot envisage without taking account of their tradition, a philosophy of music that the current lineup perpetuates and continues to nurture.

Label: La Dolce Volta File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: LDV255 Barcode: 3770001901800 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Violin I: Jan Talich Sr. (1964 - 1975) Petr Messiereur (1975 - 1997) Jan Talich Jr. (since 1997) Violin II: Jan Kvapil (1964 - 1993) Vladimir Bukac (1994 - 2000) Petr Macecek (2000 - 2011) Roman Patocka (since 2012) Viola: Karel Dolezal (1964 - 1975) Jan Talich Sr. (1975 - 2000) Vladimir Bukac (since 2000) Cello: EvĹžen Rattay (1964 - 1997) Petr Prause (since 1997)

TALICH quartet 1964 - 2014 1964 Formation 1965 First public appearance, Prague (9 December) 1975 Appointed quartet of the Czech Philharmonic 1976 First appearance in the West, Paris (18 October) 1976 Prix de l•'Academie Charles Cros (Dvorak, Quartets opp.61 and 96) 1977-81 Recording of the complete Beethoven Quartets 1983-93 Recording of the complete Mozart Quartets 1997 Jan Talich Jr. becomes first violin 2000-3 Recording of the complete Mendelssohn Quartets 2011 La Dolce Volta takes over the Talich Quartet discography [originally on Calliope] 2012 Release of the Debussy and Ravel Quartets (La Dolce Volta) Calliope CDs, 100% remastered, Key titles unavailable for the past five years Two Digifile programmes never before released on CD Double-panel digipaks with silver laminated covers, 40-page four-colour booklets, CD and booklet held in individual sleeves with a presentation of the Quartet’s history

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

JANACEK: String Quartets No.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’, No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’ SCHULHOFF: String quartet No.1, Talich Quartet “these are performances to rival, even surpass, The Lindsays’ for sheer urgency…this new issue surely has to figure on the shortest of future short lists.” *UDPRSKRQH (GLWRU¶V &KRLFH 5DGLR 'LVF RI WKH :HHN

Label: La Dolce Volta File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: LDV256 Barcode: 3770001901817 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Violin I: Jan Talich Sr. (1964 - 1975) Petr Messiereur (1975 - 1997) Jan Talich Jr. (since 1997) Violin II: Jan Kvapil (1964 - 1993) Vladimir Bukac (1994 - 2000) Petr Macecek (2000 - 2011) Roman Patocka (since 2012) Viola: Karel Dolezal (1964 - 1975) Jan Talich Sr. (1975 - 2000) Vladimir Bukac (since 2000) Cello: Evžen Rattay (1964 - 1997) Petr Prause (since 1997)

6WUDG6HOHFWLRQ For 50 years now, the Talich Quartet has taken its place in a prestigious lineage of Czech musicians. Jan Talich Senior, the creator of the Quartet, was the nephew of Vaclav Talich, music director of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 1919 to 1939. It was he who made it one of the world•'s finest orchestras before Karel Ancerl came to harvest the fruits he had so patiently cultivated. In 1997, the last musician in the family, Jan Talich Jr, took over the reins of the quartet from his father, surrounding himself with three talented musicians. The future is now theirs to mould, a future they cannot envisage without taking account of their tradition, a philosophy of music that the current lineup perpetuates and continues to nurture.

TALICH quartet 1964 - 2014 1964 Formation 1965 First public appearance, Prague (9 December) 1975 Appointed quartet of the Czech Philharmonic 1976 First appearance in the West, Paris (18 October) 1976 Prix de l•'Academie Charles Cros (Dvorak, Quartets opp.61 and 96) 1977-81 Recording of the complete Beethoven Quartets 1983-93 Recording of the complete Mozart Quartets 1997 Jan Talich Jr. becomes first violin 2000-3 Recording of the complete Mendelssohn Quartets 2011 La Dolce Volta takes over the Talich Quartet discography [originally on Calliope] 2012 Release of the Debussy and Ravel Quartets (La Dolce Volta) Calliope CDs, 100% remastered, Key titles unavailable for the past five years Two Digifile programmes never before released on CD Double-panel digipaks with silver laminated covers, 40-page four-colour booklets, CD and booklet held in individual sleeves with a presentation of the Quartet’s history

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

HAYDN: The Seven Last Words of Christ String quartet op.51, Hob.III: 50-56

Talich Quartet "do explore this unique work in Haydn’s oeuvre: it’s quite remarkable."

James Jolly, Gramophone, October 2003 For 50 years now, the Talich Quartet has taken its place in a prestigious lineage of Czech musicians. Jan Talich Senior, the creator of the Quartet, was the nephew of Vaclav Talich, music director of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 1919 to 1939. It was he who made it one of the world•'s finest orchestras before Karel Ancerl came to harvest the fruits he had so patiently cultivated. In 1997, the last musician in the family, Jan Talich Jr, took over the reins of the quartet from his father, surrounding himself with three talented musicians. The future is now theirs to mould, a future they cannot envisage without taking account of their tradition, a philosophy of music that the current lineup perpetuates and continues to nurture.

Label: La Dolce Volta File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: LDV258 Barcode: 3770001901831 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Violin I: Jan Talich Sr. (1964 - 1975) Petr Messiereur (1975 - 1997) Jan Talich Jr. (since 1997) Violin II: Jan Kvapil (1964 - 1993) Vladimir Bukac (1994 - 2000) Petr Macecek (2000 - 2011) Roman Patocka (since 2012) Viola: Karel Dolezal (1964 - 1975) Jan Talich Sr. (1975 - 2000) Vladimir Bukac (since 2000) Cello: Evžen Rattay (1964 - 1997) Petr Prause (since 1997)

TALICH quartet 1964 - 2014 1964 Formation 1965 First public appearance, Prague (9 December) 1975 Appointed quartet of the Czech Philharmonic 1976 First appearance in the West, Paris (18 October) 1976 Prix de l•'Academie Charles Cros (Dvorak, Quartets opp.61 and 96) 1977-81 Recording of the complete Beethoven Quartets 1983-93 Recording of the complete Mozart Quartets 1997 Jan Talich Jr. becomes first violin 2000-3 Recording of the complete Mendelssohn Quartets 2011 La Dolce Volta takes over the Talich Quartet discography [originally on Calliope] 2012 Release of the Debussy and Ravel Quartets (La Dolce Volta) Calliope CDs, 100% remastered, Key titles unavailable for the past five years Two Digifile programmes never before released on CD Double-panel digipaks with silver laminated covers, 40-page four-colour booklets, CD and booklet held in individual sleeves with a presentation of the Quartet’s history

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

KALLIWODA: String Quartets 1-3 Op. 44 Talich Quartet "The various chamber and orchestral releases of Kalliwoda's music have turned out to be among the truly sensational discoveries of 2006....these are immensely enjoyable works, and the Talich Quartet plays them with obvious relish... I can't recommend this release highly enough" &ODVVLFV 7RGD\ %%& 086,& &+2,&( For 50 years now, the Talich Quartet has taken its place in a prestigious lineage of Czech musicians. Jan Talich Senior, the creator of the Quartet, was the nephew of Vaclav Talich, music director of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 1919 to 1939. It was he who made it one of the world•'s finest orchestras before Karel Ancerl came to harvest the fruits he had so patiently cultivated. In 1997, the last musician in the family, Jan Talich Jr, took over the reins of the quartet from his father, surrounding himself with three talented musicians. The future is now theirs to mould, a future they cannot envisage without taking account of their tradition, a philosophy of music that the current lineup perpetuates and continues to nurture.

Label: La Dolce Volta File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: LDV260 Barcode: 3770001901855 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Violin I: Jan Talich Sr. (1964 - 1975) Petr Messiereur (1975 - 1997) Jan Talich Jr. (since 1997) Violin II: Jan Kvapil (1964 - 1993) Vladimir Bukac (1994 - 2000) Petr Macecek (2000 - 2011) Roman Patocka (since 2012) Viola: Karel Dolezal (1964 - 1975) Jan Talich Sr. (1975 - 2000) Vladimir Bukac (since 2000) Cello: Evžen Rattay (1964 - 1997) Petr Prause (since 1997)

TALICH quartet 1964 - 2014 1964 Formation 1965 First public appearance, Prague (9 December) 1975 Appointed quartet of the Czech Philharmonic 1976 First appearance in the West, Paris (18 October) 1976 Prix de l•'Academie Charles Cros (Dvorak, Quartets opp.61 and 96) 1977-81 Recording of the complete Beethoven Quartets 1983-93 Recording of the complete Mozart Quartets 1997 Jan Talich Jr. becomes first violin 2000-3 Recording of the complete Mendelssohn Quartets 2011 La Dolce Volta takes over the Talich Quartet discography [originally on Calliope] 2012 Release of the Debussy and Ravel Quartets (La Dolce Volta) Calliope CDs, 100% remastered, Key titles unavailable for the past five years Two Digifile programmes never before released on CD Double-panel digipaks with silver laminated covers, 40-page four-colour booklets, CD and booklet held in individual sleeves with a presentation of the Quartet’s history

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

SHOSTAKOVICH:Piano Quintet Op.57, String Quartet No.8 Op.110 Talich Quartet wt Yakov Kasman “The Quartet displays an extraordinary range of instrumental colour.”

Martin Cotton, BBC Music Magazine, January 2008 For 50 years now, the Talich Quartet has taken its place in a prestigious lineage of Czech musicians. Jan Talich Senior, the creator of the Quartet, was the nephew of Vaclav Talich, music director of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 1919 to 1939. It was he who made it one of the world•'s finest orchestras before Karel Ancerl came to harvest the fruits he had so patiently cultivated. In 1997, the last musician in the family, Jan Talich Jr, took over the reins of the quartet from his father, surrounding himself with three talented musicians. The future is now theirs to mould, a future they cannot envisage without taking account of their tradition, a philosophy of music that the current lineup perpetuates and continues to nurture.

Label: La Dolce Volta File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: LDV263 Barcode: 3770001901886 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Violin I: Jan Talich Sr. (1964 - 1975) Petr Messiereur (1975 - 1997) Jan Talich Jr. (since 1997) Violin II: Jan Kvapil (1964 - 1993) Vladimir Bukac (1994 - 2000) Petr Macecek (2000 - 2011) Roman Patocka (since 2012) Viola: Karel Dolezal (1964 - 1975) Jan Talich Sr. (1975 - 2000) Vladimir Bukac (since 2000) Cello: Evžen Rattay (1964 - 1997) Petr Prause (since 1997)

TALICH quartet 1964 - 2014 1964 Formation 1965 First public appearance, Prague (9 December) 1975 Appointed quartet of the Czech Philharmonic 1976 First appearance in the West, Paris (18 October) 1976 Prix de l•'Academie Charles Cros (Dvorak, Quartets opp.61 and 96) 1977-81 Recording of the complete Beethoven Quartets 1983-93 Recording of the complete Mozart Quartets 1997 Jan Talich Jr. becomes first violin 2000-3 Recording of the complete Mendelssohn Quartets 2011 La Dolce Volta takes over the Talich Quartet discography [originally on Calliope] 2012 Release of the Debussy and Ravel Quartets (La Dolce Volta) Calliope CDs, 100% remastered, Key titles unavailable for the past five years Two Digifile programmes never before released on CD Double-panel digipaks with silver laminated covers, 40-page four-colour booklets, CD and booklet held in individual sleeves with a presentation of the Quartet’s history

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

BEETHOVEN: String Quartet No.13 Op.130, Great Fugue Op.133 Talich Quartet "The Talich were the first to impose the great Bohemian tradition on record. The impact made by their keen feeling for the different styles with which Beethoven experimented, their unfailing musicality, their innate sense of improvisation, and above all the extreme drama of their interpretations, remains as vivid as ever." Gramophone For 50 years now, the Talich Quartet has taken its place in a prestigious lineage of Czech musicians. Jan Talich Senior, the creator of the Quartet, was the nephew of Vaclav Talich, music director of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 1919 to 1939. It was he who made it one of the world•'s finest orchestras before Karel Ancerl came to harvest the fruits he had so patiently cultivated. In 1997, the last musician in the family, Jan Talich Jr, took over the reins of the quartet from his father, surrounding himself with three talented musicians. The future is now theirs to mould, a future they cannot envisage without taking account of their tradition, a philosophy of music that the current lineup perpetuates and continues to nurture.

Label: La Dolce Volta File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: LDV278 Barcode: 3770001901879 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Violin I: Jan Talich Sr. (1964 - 1975) Petr Messiereur (1975 - 1997) Jan Talich Jr. (since 1997) Violin II: Jan Kvapil (1964 - 1993) Vladimir Bukac (1994 - 2000) Petr Macecek (2000 - 2011) Roman Patocka (since 2012) Viola: Karel Dolezal (1964 - 1975) Jan Talich Sr. (1975 - 2000) Vladimir Bukac (since 2000) Cello: Evžen Rattay (1964 - 1997) Petr Prause (since 1997)

TALICH quartet 1964 - 2014 1964 Formation 1965 First public appearance, Prague (9 December) 1975 Appointed quartet of the Czech Philharmonic 1976 First appearance in the West, Paris (18 October) 1976 Prix de l•'Academie Charles Cros (Dvorak, Quartets opp.61 and 96) 1977-81 Recording of the complete Beethoven Quartets 1983-93 Recording of the complete Mozart Quartets 1997 Jan Talich Jr. becomes first violin 2000-3 Recording of the complete Mendelssohn Quartets 2011 La Dolce Volta takes over the Talich Quartet discography [originally on Calliope] 2012 Release of the Debussy and Ravel Quartets (La Dolce Volta) Calliope CDs, 100% remastered, Key titles unavailable for the past five years Two Digifile programmes never before released on CD Double-panel digipaks with silver laminated covers, 40-page four-colour booklets, CD and booklet held in individual sleeves with a presentation of the Quartet’s history

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

MOZART Eine kleine Nachtmusik K525 Adagio and Fugue K546, Divertimenti for strings K136-138

Talich Quartet ‘With the Talich Quartet, this intimate Mozart sings and smiles, weeps and dreams, experiences despair and exhilaration.

Rarely has Mozart playing so judiciously achieved plenitude, displayed such joy and charm. Everything here is happiness and luminosity.’ )LUVW UHOHDVH RQ &'

Label: La Dolce Volta File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: LDV279 Barcode: 3770001902043 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Violin I: Jan Talich Sr. (1964 - 1975) Petr Messiereur (1975 - 1997) Jan Talich Jr. (since 1997) Violin II: Jan Kvapil (1964 - 1993) Vladimir Bukac (1994 - 2000) Petr Macecek (2000 - 2011) Roman Patocka (since 2012) Viola: Karel Dolezal (1964 - 1975) Jan Talich Sr. (1975 - 2000) Vladimir Bukac (since 2000) Cello: Evžen Rattay (1964 - 1997) Petr Prause (since 1997)

For 50 years now, the Talich Quartet has taken its place in a prestigious lineage of Czech musicians. Jan Talich Senior, the creator of the Quartet, was the nephew of Vaclav Talich, music director of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 1919 to 1939. It was he who made it one of the world•'s finest orchestras before Karel Ancerl came to harvest the fruits he had so patiently cultivated. In 1997, the last musician in the family, Jan Talich Jr, took over the reins of the quartet from his father, surrounding himself with three talented musicians. The future is now theirs to mould, a future they cannot envisage without taking account of their tradition, a philosophy of music that the current lineup perpetuates and continues to nurture.

TALICH quartet 1964 - 2014 1964 Formation 1965 First public appearance, Prague (9 December) 1975 Appointed quartet of the Czech Philharmonic 1976 First appearance in the West, Paris (18 October) 1976 Prix de l•'Academie Charles Cros (Dvorak, Quartets opp.61 and 96) 1977-81 Recording of the complete Beethoven Quartets 1983-93 Recording of the complete Mozart Quartets 1997 Jan Talich Jr. becomes first violin 2000-3 Recording of the complete Mendelssohn Quartets 2011 La Dolce Volta takes over the Talich Quartet discography [originally on Calliope] 2012 Release of the Debussy and Ravel Quartets (La Dolce Volta) Calliope CDs, 100% remastered, Key titles unavailable for the past five years Two Digifile programmes never before released on CD Double-panel digipaks with silver laminated covers, 40-page four-colour booklets, CD and booklet held in individual sleeves with a presentation of the Quartet’s history

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

MENDELSSOHN: String Quartets No.4 Op.44/2, No.5 Op.44/3, No.3 Op.44/1 Talich Quartet “Typically feisty playing from this outstanding Czech Quartet who project the quasi-orchestral opening of the D major with vigour and provide plenty of passion and urgency for the darker E minor. An incredible bargain� %%& 0XVLF 0DJD]LQH 6HSWHPEHU 7KH 6WUDG 5HFRPPHQGV

Label: La Dolce Volta File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: LDV280 Barcode: 3770001902050 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Violin I: Jan Talich Sr. (1964 - 1975) Petr Messiereur (1975 - 1997) Jan Talich Jr. (since 1997) Violin II: Jan Kvapil (1964 - 1993) Vladimir Bukac (1994 - 2000) Petr Macecek (2000 - 2011) Roman Patocka (since 2012) Viola: Karel Dolezal (1964 - 1975) Jan Talich Sr. (1975 - 2000) Vladimir Bukac (since 2000) Cello: EvĹžen Rattay (1964 - 1997) Petr Prause (since 1997)

For 50 years now, the Talich Quartet has taken its place in a prestigious lineage of Czech musicians. Jan Talich Senior, the creator of the Quartet, was the nephew of Vaclav Talich, music director of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra from 1919 to 1939. It was he who made it one of the world•'s finest orchestras before Karel Ancerl came to harvest the fruits he had so patiently cultivated. In 1997, the last musician in the family, Jan Talich Jr, took over the reins of the quartet from his father, surrounding himself with three talented musicians. The future is now theirs to mould, a future they cannot envisage without taking account of their tradition, a philosophy of music that the current lineup perpetuates and continues to nurture.

TALICH quartet 1964 - 2014 1964 Formation 1965 First public appearance, Prague (9 December) 1975 Appointed quartet of the Czech Philharmonic 1976 First appearance in the West, Paris (18 October) 1976 Prix de l•'Academie Charles Cros (Dvorak, Quartets opp.61 and 96) 1977-81 Recording of the complete Beethoven Quartets 1983-93 Recording of the complete Mozart Quartets 1997 Jan Talich Jr. becomes first violin 2000-3 Recording of the complete Mendelssohn Quartets 2011 La Dolce Volta takes over the Talich Quartet discography [originally on Calliope] 2012 Release of the Debussy and Ravel Quartets (La Dolce Volta) Calliope CDs, 100% remastered, Key titles unavailable for the past five years Two Digifile programmes never before released on CD Double-panel digipaks with silver laminated covers, 40-page four-colour booklets, CD and booklet held in individual sleeves with a presentation of the Quartet’s history

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

LACHENMANN: Complete String Quartets Gran Torso (1972) Reigen seliger Geister (1989) * Grido (2000-01) * composer supervised recording

Jack Quartet Helmut Lachenmann has created a unique sound world which he refers to as “instrumental musique concrete.� It is a world where the musical atom is not the note but the sound, which may be drawn from the instrument in all kinds of unusual ways.

Strange as the soundscape may be, Lachenmann believes that the fundamental principles of music are about finding shape and continuity, about revealing the unexpected and touching the familiar, and that the string quartet, in particular, is about conversation. Even through all the use of extended techniques, his is still a music of gestures, phrases, even melodies.

The JACK Quartet, specialists in new music, are the perfect performers for such repertoire. This recording is endorsed by the composer. Liner notes by Paul Griffiths.

Label: Mode Records File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: mode267 Barcode: 764593026723 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Jack Quartet

Also by The JACK Quartet on Mode Records: mode209 / mode209dvd Iannis XENAKIS: Complete String Quartets

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

STOCKHAUSEN: Momente for soprano solo, four choral groups and 13 instrumentalists, Version 1965

Martina Arroyo Aloys Kontarsky Alfons Kontarsky Karlheinz Stockhausen

Label: Wergo File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: WER6774-2 Barcode: 4010228677423 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Martina Arroyo [soprano] Aloys Kontarsky [Hammond organ] Alfons Kontarsky [Lowrey organ] KĂśln Radio Choir, members of the KĂśln Radio SO Karlheinz Stockhausen [conductor]

"Though performances have remained rare events, Momente, for soprano solo, four choral groups and 13 instrumentalists, is one of Karlheinz Stockhausen's greatest achievements. It's one of the pieces, along with works such as Gesang der JĂźnglinge, Gruppen, Stimmung, Mantra and the first of his operas, Donnerstag aus Licht, in which Stockhausen marked out the trajectory of his musical development, and demonstrated the power of his compositional techniques as they evolved. In Momente, those techniques concerned his concept of "moment-form", in which a conventional musical narrative was replaced by a series of self-contained musical units of widely differing lengths and types, whose order could be left to the performers' discretion.

Momente was premiered in 1962 in Cologne in an incomplete version, but became more widely known a decade later in the so-called Europa version, for which Stockhausen composed more material and added a completely new opening section; performances of that toured widely (including to the Festival Hall in London) and was released by Deutsche Grammophon, a recording that is now available as a CD from Stockhausen Verlag. This 1965 version, which first appeared on a Wergo LP, comes somewhere between the original and the final 1972 one. While it lacks the theatricality of the opening that Stockhausen later devised, it contains much of the work's most thrillingly inventive writing, as the choruses cheer, clap and play improvised percussion instruments, as well as joining the soprano (Martina Arroyo) in passages from the Songs of Songs, William Blake and an anthropological text, and supported by brass, percussion and two electric organs.

Momente is part oratorio, part 1960s happening, and some of its flamboyant gestures look forward to Stockhausen's huge opera cycle, Licht, which he began a decade later. That element is less pronounced in this 1965 version than it is in the Europa, but what comes over forcefully even here, in this slightly distant Cologne radio recording, is the exuberance of the work, its abundant invention and originality, which make it totally unlike anything else being written in Europe at that time." Andrew Clements, The Guardian, 26th March The recordings were originally published on LP in 1967 (WERGO, WER60024)

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

John CAGE: Sonatas & Interludes for prepared piano Antonis Anissegos

Label: Wergo File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: WER6782-2 Barcode: 4010228678222 NORMAL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Antonis Anissegos [piano]

Composed by John Cage between 1946 and 1948, 'Sonatas and Interludes' for prepared piano is one of the most famous works of the composer and one of the works most admired by listeners and performers alike, holding a key position in his catalogue of works.

Several years earlier, Cage had already developed the technique of piano preparation to explore the possibilities of sound manipulation. Preparation tables preceding each of his pieces indicate which materials (e.g. screws, bolts, rubber, felt or plastic elements) have to be used and where they have to be placed between the piano strings. Each object, its size, strength, fixing method and position changes the pitch, volume, timbre and duration of the original piano sound.

In comparison with Cage’s earlier pieces, the preparation tables for the 'Sonatas and Interludes' are comprehensive and accurate. The preparation, which takes the pianist from two and a half to three hours, encompasses more than half of all the strings of the piano. At first, Cage thus tried to achieve a specified sound image – an ideal which he later modified: “When I first placed objects between piano strings, it was with the desire to possess sounds (to be able to repeat them).

But, as the music left my home and went from piano to piano and from pianist to pianist, it became clear that not only are two pianists essentially different from one another, but two pianos are not the same either. […] all led me to the enjoyment of things as they come, as they happen, rather than as they are possessed or kept or forced to be.”

Antonis Anissegos works regularly, mostly throughout Europe, as a pianist and composer. He appears mainly on concerts and recordings in the field of contemporary creative music. In recent years he performs often as an electronic musician and frequently in dance projects.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 13 'Babi Yar' PROKOFIEV: October Cantata Op. 74 [excerpts] Moscow Philharmonic Kirill Kondrashin

Label: Praga Digitals File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: DSD350089 Barcode: 3149028028621 NORMAL Price Format: 1 SACD Packaging: cristal Vitaly Gromadsky [bass] RSFSR Academic Choir Yurlov Choir Moscow Philharmonic Kirill Kondrashin [direction]

A historic version of the patriotic October cantata by Prokofiev plus only the second public performance of Shostakovich's 13th Symphony on December 20, 1962, using the original text by Yevtushenko, which pays tribute to murdered Jews in the Ukrainian ravine of Babi Yar. As in the first performance this heroic ballad succeeds as a passionate, vengeful and suitably funereal tribute despite Kruschev's to change the text. The same incomparable, authentically Russian cast performs most of the 'October' Cantata which honours the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution. In ten contrasting movements, drawn from the writings of Marx, Lenin and Stalin, it relates the story of the Bolshevik Revolution and the birth of the Soviet Union, from the battle for the Winter Palace in 1917, through the suffering of 1918 and Lenin's funeral in 1924, to the building of factories and collective farms in the early '30, and the final consolidation of Stalin's control over the country with his new constitution of 1936.

Begun by Prokofiev in 1936 on a generous commission from the All-Union Radio Committee and Prokofiev's friend Boris Gusman, it was finished the following summer. Prokofiev expected it to be part of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917 but due to the political climate towards artists in 1937, Prokofiev withheld the work.

The Cantata had to wait until May 1966 for its première, 13 years after Prokofiev's death. By this time Stalin was also dead and disgraced.

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No.2 Op.35, Ballade No. 1 Op.23 Valse No. 17 RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 4

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli A third recital tribute to the immaculate art of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Praga Digitals do him proud in these new remasters which resurrect his classicism and perfection of touch, illuminated by the tremendous pallette of colours subtly arrayed in intensity for Chopin, as in his Debussy.

The Italian pianist was a legend in his own lifetime - renowned for his beautifully polished sound, clarity of execution, strict fidelity to the composer and awardness of harmonic subtleties. Everything was planned to the highest degree of musical and technical perfection. He played the way he was - with a seemingly unshakeable aristocratic reserve.

Label: Praga Digitals File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: DSD350110 Barcode: 3149028038323 NORMAL Price Format: 1 SACD Packaging: cristal Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli [piano] The Philharmonia Orchestra Ettore Gracis [conductor]

RELEASE DATE 5TH MAY 2014

LISZT: Piano Sonata B Minor, Études d'éxecution transcendante Les Années de Pélerinage: Aux Cyprès de la Villa d'Este, Threnody 1 Hungarian Rhapsody No. 17, Valse Oubliée

Svjatoslav Richter Richter's fabulous Liszt, virtuoso, seductive, risky ...even Arrau, Cziffra or Brendel at their zenith, would have balked at such a recital.

Amongst the composers chosen by Richter during his Soviet and later international career, he returned always to Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Schubert, Haydn, Mozart, Schumann. Then came Liszt, represented by the significant or unusual compositions that the pianist selected and included in his programmes. With his interpretations of these works Horowitz, Arrau and Gilels, his childhood friend, are found challenged musically. Richter's Liszt legacy is revealed as fabulous, heard here in its original purity.

Label: Praga Digitals File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: DSD350078 Barcode: 3149028026221 NORMAL Price Format: 1 SACD Packaging: cristal Svjatoslav Richter [piano]

Recorded: Prague June 10, 1956 [PR254057, with kind permission of S. Richter] Moscow, Feb 2, 1956, April 8, May 27 1957, Feb 5 1958 Budapest 11 Feb 1958 New York Carnegie Hall 18 May 1965 SACD mastering from simultaneous mono broadcast recordings

RELEASE DATE 19TH MAY 2014

STRAUSS: Elektra Opera in one act, Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal after Sophocles

Label: Bel Air Classiques File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: BAC110 Barcode: 3760115301108 NORMAL Price Format: 1 DVD Packaging: cd book Elektra: Evelyn Herlitzius Klytämnestra: Waltraud Meier Chrysothemis: Adrianne Pieczonka Orest: Mikhail Petrenko Aegisth: Tom Randle Der Pfleger des Orest: Franz Mazura Erste Magd: Bonita Hyman Zweite Magd: Andrea Hill Dritte Magd: Silvia Hablowetz Vierte Magd: Marie-Eve Munger Fünfte Magd: Roberta Alexander Coro Gulbenkian

The last production ever staged by Patrice Chéreau, this 'Elektra' will remain as the most striking events of recent years in Aix-en-Provence.

"This production, with Esa-Pekka Salonen on the podium, the Orchestre de Paris in the pit, an all-star cast and Patrice Chéreau directing, has been hyped so hard that it would be gratifying to be able to enumerate its imperfections. But there are none. Chéreau, Salonen and their cast get everything so appallingly right...

Chéreau takes Hofmannsthal’s chilling libretto to the letter, in the most minutely exacting manner, and Salonen does the same with the score, conducting with all the dispassionate clarity of the gore in a Tarantino film. If it were merely gore, it would be bad enough. Far worse, though, both men see every moment of tenderness in text and score in perfect detail.

These murderous family members are not monsters. They are real people, filled with love and yearning, damaged beyond repair.

Evelyn Herlitzius lives and breathes the mammoth title role. She is a wild animal, a dirt-smeared urchin in oversized men’s clothes, her wiry body barely containing the huge, disturbing emotions of her matricidal character. Her jerky, broken dance is one of this production’s many unforgettable moments. The opening night audience leapt to its feet to applaud her.

As her far more feminine sister, Adrianne Pieczonka is a revelation, with a lavishly creamy voice capable of expressing all the emotions that Elektra forbids herself. Waltraud Meier’s Klytämnestra is so dignified as to be almost harmless, a frail figure whose subsequent slaughter seems out of proportion to her errors. The men are strong, led by Mikhail Petrenko as an unnervingly compassionate Orest.

Richard Peduzzi’s sets and Caroline de Vivaise’s costumes set the action somewhere that could be the vestiges of any modern conflict, from the Balkans to Afghanistan, a grey, comfortless world of concrete, fear and oppression. Under Salonen’s merciless direction, the Orchestre de Paris gives the lie to preconceptions about French orchestras and German romanticism, with playing that is transparent, brawny and seductive all at once.

The whole is so horribly compelling that it is hard to remember to breathe, and even harder not to join Elektra in eager passion for the closing bloodbath. Chéreau does not even bother with blood; in the end, Orest strangles his mother. It is vile, and utterly wonderful.

This production goes on to La Scala, Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Finnish National Opera, the Liceu in Barcelona and the Staatsoper Berlin. It has all the strengths of Chéreau’s legendary staging of Janácek’s 'From the House of the Dead'. Its shelf life will be long, and it will be talked about for even longer. A triumph for Aix." *****Shirley Apthorp, Financial Times 133 min. (opera 110 min. & bonus 23 min) Bonus: interview with Patrice Chéreau Image: 16/9, NTSC, Sound: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1

RELEASE DATE 19TH MAY 2014

STRAUSS: Elektra Opera in one act, Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal after Sophocles, Aix en Provence 7/2013

Label: Bel Air Classiques File Under: Classical/Opera & Vocal Catalogue No: BAC410 Barcode: 3760115304109 NORMAL Price Format: 1 Blu-ray Elektra: Evelyn Herlitzius Klytämnestra: Waltraud Meier Chrysothemis: Adrianne Pieczonka Orest: Mikhail Petrenko Aegisth: Tom Randle Der Pfleger des Orest: Franz Mazura Erste Magd: Bonita Hyman Zweite Magd: Andrea Hill Dritte Magd: Silvia Hablowetz Vierte Magd: Marie-Eve Munger Fünfte Magd: Roberta Alexander Coro Gulbenkian

The last production ever staged by Patrice Chéreau, this 'Elektra' will remain as the most striking events of recent years in Aix-en-Provence.

"This production, with Esa-Pekka Salonen on the podium, the Orchestre de Paris in the pit, an all-star cast and Patrice Chéreau directing, has been hyped so hard that it would be gratifying to be able to enumerate its imperfections. But there are none. Chéreau, Salonen and their cast get everything so appallingly right...

Chéreau takes Hofmannsthal’s chilling libretto to the letter, in the most minutely exacting manner, and Salonen does the same with the score, conducting with all the dispassionate clarity of the gore in a Tarantino film. If it were merely gore, it would be bad enough. Far worse, though, both men see every moment of tenderness in text and score in perfect detail.

These murderous family members are not monsters. They are real people, filled with love and yearning, damaged beyond repair.

Evelyn Herlitzius lives and breathes the mammoth title role. She is a wild animal, a dirt-smeared urchin in oversized men’s clothes, her wiry body barely containing the huge, disturbing emotions of her matricidal character. Her jerky, broken dance is one of this production’s many unforgettable moments. The opening night audience leapt to its feet to applaud her.

As her far more feminine sister, Adrianne Pieczonka is a revelation, with a lavishly creamy voice capable of expressing all the emotions that Elektra forbids herself. Waltraud Meier’s Klytämnestra is so dignified as to be almost harmless, a frail figure whose subsequent slaughter seems out of proportion to her errors. The men are strong, led by Mikhail Petrenko as an unnervingly compassionate Orest.

Richard Peduzzi’s sets and Caroline de Vivaise’s costumes set the action somewhere that could be the vestiges of any modern conflict, from the Balkans to Afghanistan, a grey, comfortless world of concrete, fear and oppression. Under Salonen’s merciless direction, the Orchestre de Paris gives the lie to preconceptions about French orchestras and German romanticism, with playing that is transparent, brawny and seductive all at once.

The whole is so horribly compelling that it is hard to remember to breathe, and even harder not to join Elektra in eager passion for the closing bloodbath. Chéreau does not even bother with blood; in the end, Orest strangles his mother. It is vile, and utterly wonderful.

This production goes on to La Scala, Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Finnish National Opera, the Liceu in Barcelona and the Staatsoper Berlin. It has all the strengths of Chéreau’s legendary staging of Janácek’s 'From the House of the Dead'. Its shelf life will be long, and it will be talked about for even longer. A triumph for Aix." *****Shirley Apthorp, Financial Times 133 min. (opera 110 min. & bonus 23 min) Bonus: interview with Patrice Chéreau Image: 16/9, NTSC, Sound: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1