November 4 Classical releases

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available November 4th 2016, call-off October 23rd

NOVEMBER 4

RELEASE DATE 4TH NOVEMBER 2016

Dixit Dominus: Vivaldi, Mozart, Handel La Capella Reial de Catalunya Le Concert des Nations Jordi Savall Alia Vox presents three composers in three masterpieces based on a cornerstone of the Bible, the psalm 'Dixit Dominus' in the latest programme from Jordi Savall.

Following the critically acclaimed 'Magnifcat & Concerti' two years ago, 'Dixit' highlights the full maturity of his ensembles.

The vivid orchestral colours, the ideal spacing of the instruments, the effortless virtuosity of the choir, the bright recorded sound bringing out the detail within the works all prove that Jordi Savall has established a new standard for the recording of 18th Century music.

Label: Alia Vox File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: AVSA9918 Barcode: 8435408099189 FULL Price Format: 1 SACD Packaging: digipack Marta MathĂŠu, Marta Bayodi-Hirt [sopranos] Anthony Roth Costanzo [alto] Makoto Sakurada [tenor] Furio Zanasi [bass] La Capella Reial de Catalunya Le Concert des Nations Manfredo Kraemer [concertino] Direction : Jordi Savall

1-11 VIVALDI: Dixit Dominus, RV 595 12-16 MOZART: Dixit & Magnificat, KV 193 17-27 HANDEL: Dixit Dominus, HWV 232 ALSO AVAILABLE: $96$ %DFK 9LYDOGL 0DJQLILFDWV &RQFHUWL “To watch as well as hear two outstanding Baroque Magnificats is a thrilling experience. Jordi Savall's forces are in fine form, his soloists matched yet distinctively characterised...Savall paces the Magnificats to sustain the continuity of the text, despite the musical independence of each verse...the overall exuberance, technicaly control and commitment of the whole ensemble are infectious from the start.� BBC Music Magazine, March 2015 *

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For An Unknown Soldier An Airmail Letter from Mozart

London Mozart Players Melvyn Tan Nicholas Cleobury 'For An Unknown Soldier' is a cantata of remembrance to mark the centenary of the First World War. Commissioned by the London Mozart Players and Portsmouth Grammar School, Jonathan Dove’s poignant work combines the words of war poets such as Wilfred Owen, William Noel Hodgson & Isaac Rosenberg. It lay at the centre of a multi-faceted project that encompassed primary and secondary schools, nursing homes and the local communities of Portsmouth and Croydon. The world premiere of the work took place in November 2014 and there are plans to tour the project in 2018.

It is paired with the ensemble’s performance of Dove’s 'An Airmail Letter from Mozart', for 2 horns, string quartet and piano, directed by Melvyn Tan. Dove uses the 'Theme and Variations', and one or two other ideas, from Mozart’s Divertimento K287 to write an imaginary letter to his wife Constanze.

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: SIGCD452 Barcode: 635212045220 FULL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Nicky Spence, Oxford Bach Choir, Portsmouth Grammar School Chamber Choir Children’s Choir: The Minster Junior School Monks Orchard Primary School Ecclesbourne Primary School London Mozart Players Melvyn Tan Nicholas Cleobury conductor

1-4 An Airmail Letter from Mozart 2-13 For An Unknown Soldier: 1914, The Poets are Waiting, The Call, Women at Munition Making, Before Action, Dead Man's Dump, To His Love, The Wind on the Downs, An Imperial Elegy https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/531927175/recording-for-an-unknown-soldier-marking-ww1-cente

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TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 1 'Winter Dreams', The Tempest The Orchestra of St Lukes Pablo Heras-Casado Pablo Heras-Casado enjoys an unusually varied conducting career—encompassing the great symphonic and operatic repertoire, historically informed performance and cutting-edge contemporary scores. He has served as Principal Conductor of Orchestra of St. Luke’s since 2011, now extended to September 2017. OSL began as a chamber ensemble based at The Church of St. Luke in the Fields in Greenwich Village. Today, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble consists of 21 virtuoso artists who perform a diverse repertoire and make up OSL’s artistic core. harmonia mundi are proud to release OSL's debut album for the label featuring two of Tchaikovsky's earliest notable works, both of which are dramatic and vibrant: Symphony No. 1, 'Winter Dreams' and 'The Tempest', a sprawling and turbulent seascape.

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: HMC902220 Barcode: 3149020222027 FULL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack The Orchestra of St Lukes Pablo Heras-Casado

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Souvenirs d'Italie Count Harrach's Musical Diaries

Maurice Steger [recorders] Concerti and Sonatas by Sammartini, Caldara, Vinci, Hasse, Piani, Forenza....

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: HMC902253 Barcode: 3149020225325 FULL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Nadja Zwiener, Fiorenza de Donatis, Katharina Heutjer [violin] Jonas Zschenderlein [violin & viola] Mauro Valli [cello & cello piccolo] Vanni Moretto [double-bass] Naoki Kitaya [harpsichord] Philippe Grisvard [harpsichord & organ] Gianluca Capuano [organ] Margit Übellacker [dulcimer] Michele Pasotti, Daniele Caminiti [theorbo] David Bergmüller [theorbo & guitar] Shai Kribus [oboe] Giulia Genini [bassoon]

“Naples is the capital of the musical world”, wrote Charles de Brosses in one of his letters from Italy from 1739/1740.

He also wrote “Naples is the sole Italian city that seems truly a capital…” and this was not an exaggeration: it was the largest city in 17th century Europe and possessed four conservatories. Musicians trained there spent most of their lives in the service of sovereigns and aristocrats in other major European courts, such as Paris and Vienna. During their lifetime, they were internationally regarded among the finest exponents of their art and their music adds an entirely new dimension to the history of Italian instrumental music.

That variety of tastes and colours is the hallmark of this recording from Maurice Steger, devoted to the staggeringly virtuosic music for recorder brought back from Italy by Count Harrach [the Austrian diplomat Aloys Thomas Raimund], who served as Hapsburg viceroy in Naples from 1728 to 1733. Hasse, Vinci, Sammartini, and the less familiar names of Antoni, Fiorenza, Leo and Sarro represent these souvenirs of a six-year gilded exile, which is preserved in his collection of precious manuscripts.

Tracklist: 1-3 Giuseppe SAMMARTINI (1695-1750): Concerto per flautino in F Major 4 Lelio COLISTA (1629-1680): Sinfonia à 3 5-7 G.A. HASSE (1699-1783): Cantata per flauto in B flat Major 8-10 Domenico SARRO (1679-1744): Concerto per flauto in D Minor 11 Antonio CALDARA (c. 1671?-1736): Ciaccona a 3 12-15 Leonardo VINCI (c. 1696-1730): Overture & Song from the Opera Elpidia “Tortora che il suo bene” 16 Leonardo LEO (1694-1744): Toccata XIII per cembalo in C Major 17-20 Nicola FIORENZA (c. 1700-1764): Sonata per flauto in A Minor 21-23 A. M. MONTANARI (1676-1737): Concerto per flautino in B flat Major 24-28 G. A. PIANI (1678- after 1759): Sonata IV for recorder in D Major

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Nielsen and Mozart Flute Concertos Juliette Bausor Royal Northern Sinfonia Jaime Martin For her debut concerto recording, 2014 ECHO ‘Rising Star’ Juliette Bausor performs works for flute and orchestra by Mozart and Nielsen, with Royal Northern Sinfonia and conductor, Jaime Martin.

Juliette Bausor joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra in July 2016 as Principal Flute, having previously held the same position with Royal Northern Sinfonia for 11 years. She also plays Principal Flute with the London Mozart Players and is a member of the celebrated chamber group Ensemble 360. Described by John Allison in The Times as a “rising star in the arts firmament”, Juliette Bausor enjoys a growing reputation as one of the foremost flautists of her generation.

Label: Signum Classics File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: SIGCD467 Barcode: 635212046722 FULL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Juliette Bausor [flute] Royal Northern Sinfonia, Jaime Martin [conductor]

MOZART: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G Major, K 313, Andante for Flute in C Major, K 315, Rondo for Flute in D Major, K 373 Carl NIELSEN: Flute Concerto, FS 119 "Northern Sinfonia’s exceptional principal flautist Juliette Bausor takes the soloist’s role. She handles the long-breathed lines with ease and spiritedly engages with the bass trombone…"

Alfred Hickling, The Guardian (Nielsen Flute Concerto/ Royal Northern Sinfonia/ Zehetmair)

RELEASE DATE 4TH NOVEMBER 2016

HANELLE: Cypriot Verses Graindelavoix Björn Schmelzer,

Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: GCDP32112 Barcode: 8424562321120 FULL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer,

The little-known composer Jean Hanelle was a professional musician at Cambrai Cathedral and possibly later a teacher of Guillaume Dufay, also spending more than 20 years from 1411 onwards at the French court of Lusignan in Nicosia, Cyprus, a stay which involved him becoming the chapel master there. According to leading scholars, Hanelle was the author of the ars subtilior cycle of Magnificat-antiphons - the so called 'O'-antiphons traditionally performed during the last week of Advent - found in the Codex Turin J.II.9 and included in this new Graindelavoix production.

Both the original plainchant and the Hanelle troped antiphons are presented in a series of nine pairs, between which the ensemble also performs an appropriate and context-defining selection of Maronite and Byzantine chants.

The Belgian ensemble, as always directed by Björn Schmelzer, performs these pieces, marked by a moving beauty, with one female and eight male singers, producing another of their peculiar and intriguing soundscapes.

These Cypriot Vespers come with an interview with Björn Schmelzer carried out by Anne-Kathryn Olsen, a selection of late 19th-century photographs taken in Cyprus by John Thomson, and the first English translation of the antiphons, made by scholar Jeannine De Landtsheer from the University of Leuven.

Cycle of nine 'O'-Antiphons for the last week of Advent, both in their reconstructed plainchant versions and Jean Hanelle’s troped versions, plus five pieces from the Maronite and Byzantine traditions.

RELEASE DATE 4TH NOVEMBER 2016

JS BACH: Goldberg Variations Ignacio Prego

Label: Glossa File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: GCD923510 Barcode: 8424562235106 FULL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Ignacio Prego [harpsichord]

Ignacio Prego is a leading member of the rising generation of Spanish early music specialists recording for Glossa such as Fahmi Alqhai and Josetxu Obregón. Prego has a busy concert schedule across Europe, the US and Asia, and is frequently to be heard performing harpsichord concertos with ensembles such as the The English Concert, collaborating with eminent musicians such as Monica Huggett and Nicholas McGegan, or giving solo harpsichord recitals, where he is able to demonstrate his special preference for the works of J.S. Bach.

This new recording of Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' represents Prego’s third solo CD but his first for Glossa. Heard playing a splendid copy of a 1738 Christian Vater harpsichord on this Federico Prieto-engineered recording, Ignacio Prego illustrates perfectly the points put forward in scholar David Schulenberg’s essay for the booklet, in which particular emphasis is placed on Bach’s threefold cycling of the 30 variations, each time combining one free variation, one duet and a canon. Fine photographs from Noah Shaye round up a new inspiring Glossa title.

The release of this recording will precede various international performances from Prego, including two US tours, first in November 2016 and then in March 2017, at venues such as the Benaroya Hall in Seattle and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. 1 Aria 2-31 Variatio 1 - 30 32 Aria da capo

RELEASE DATE 4TH NOVEMBER 2016

Peter Schreier Mozart-Lieder The concert that brought together Peter Schreier, the leading Mozart tenor of the 1970s from Dresden, and Erik Werba, the Vienna-born doyen of lied accompanists on 25 January 1978 featured 17 songs, the cantata with piano accompaniment “Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt” K619 from the final year of Mozart’s life, as well as two encore pieces.

Schreier and Werba obviously intended to present Mozart’s entire lied repertoire, except for those songs whose texts were too obviously written from the perspective of a female protagonist.

From today’s perspective the interpretation of the Mozart songs in this recital is remarkably homogeneous. For Peter Schreier, the opera singer, Mozart was the first true romantic composer. The songs are presented in a deeply emotional, but never sentimental manner. The chosen tempos are therefore rather on the slow side of the spectrum and here as well as in the ballad-like song “Das Veilchen” K476, Schreier makes it apparent how he reads Mozart’s mature, through-composed songs as text based and text centered, as if they were foreshadowing Schubert, Schumann and Brahms.

Label: Belvedere File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: BCD08022 Barcode: 4260415080226 MID Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Peter Schreier [tenor] Erik Werba, [piano]

1. 1. An Chloe KV 524 2. Ich würd auf meinem Pfad KV 390 3. Sei du mein Trost KV 391 4. Das Lied der Trennung KV 519 5. Wie unglücklich bin ich nit KV 147 6. Einsam ging ich jüngst im Haine KV 308 7. Lied zur Gesellenreise KV 468 II. 8. Kantate KV 619 III. 9. Die betrogene Welt KV 474 10. Die Zufriedenheit KV 473 11. Die Verschweigung KV 518 12. Komm, liebe Zither, komm KV 351 IV. 13. Das Veilchen KV 476 14. Das Traumbild KV 530 15. Abendempfindung an Laura KV 523 16. Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge KV 596 17. Der Frühling KV 597 18. Das Kinderspiel KV 598 Encore: 19. Die Zufriedenheit KV 349 20. Lied der Freiheit KV 506

Have you ever stopped to think that some exceptional music has been composed and performed in the monuments and historic sites we all visit?

From America to Europe, from New York to Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Venice and Granada, for over a 1000 years, the greatest composers have devoted their most beautiful masterpieces to these monuments.

These memory sites offer infinite musical riches.

[Resonances] draws on harmonia mundiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prestigious back catalogue to restore this monumental heritage: 8 volumes of 2 albums, complete with illustrated booklets, maps and chronologies, accompanied by a comprehensive website.

Historic sites hold musical memories, as revealed in the series [Resonances].

Find out more at www.resonances-music.com Teaser video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJReCkNtn8M&feature=youtu.be

RELEASE DATE 4TH NOVEMBER 2016

Music and musicians at Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, the church at which all English monarchs have been crowned since 1066, is one of the great musical centres of the United Kingdom. Over the centuries, leading British organists, singers and composers have been closely associated with the abbey, which still plays a preponderant role in the musical and cultural life of the realm. From Orlando Gibbons to Benjamin Britten, this two-disc anthology presents a musical tour of this prestigious monument, its cloisters and the grandiose abbey church itself. A musical guide complete with plan to take you on a sumptuous pilgrimage through five centuries of creation.

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: HMX2908552/53 Barcode: 3149020855249 2 FOR 1 Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack stile antico, Fretwork Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr Romanesca / Nicholas McGegan Collegium Vocale Gent/Philippe Herreweghe RIAS Kammerchor / Marcus Creed Choir of Clare College, Cambridge / Graham Ross Mark Padmore [tenor], Roger Vignoles [piano] The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford / Bill Ives

CD1: 1 Robert WHITE (c.1538–1574): Christe qui lux es et dies (IV) (arr. Edward Tambling) 2 Robert PARSONS (c.1530–1570): In nomine a 4 no.2 3 Orlando GIBBONS (1583–1625): O clap your hands together 4-5 Christopher GIBBONS (1615-1676): Not unto us, O Lord, Voluntarie in C 6 Orlando GIBBONS: See, see, the Word is incarnate 7 Pelham HUMFREY (1647-1674): Hear my crying, O God 8 Henry PURCELL (1659-1695): My heart is inditing, verse anthem Z30 9 Funeral Sentences (Funeral Music for Queen Mary) March Z860 / Man that is born of a woman, full anthem Z27 / Canzona Z860 / In the midst of life, full anthem Z17 / Canzona Z860 / Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts, full anthem Z58c / March Z860 CD2: 1 Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958): The truth from above 2-9 Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976): Sacred and Profane (1974-1975) 10 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Blessed Son of God 11 PURCELL realised by BRITTEN: Job’s Curse (1950) 12-19 BRITTEN: Rejoice in the Lamb: A Festival Cantata (1943, arr. 1952) 20 PURCELL, realised by BRITTEN: An Evening Hymn 21-22 BRITTEN: A Hymn to the Virgin, Hymn to St Cecilia op.27 (W. H. Auden)

RELEASE DATE 4TH NOVEMBER 2016

San Marco and Venice

At the very heart of a musical golden age that extends from Willaert to Vivaldi by way of Gabrieli and Monteverdi, St Mark’s Basilica encapsulates the glorious past of Venice. A true temple to music, its directors of music disdained neither complexity nor a splendour that took full advantage of the spaces and galleries offered by the grandiose architecture.

This programme highlights some of the rich musical moments as heard in this incomparable monument during its heyday.

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: HMX2908546/47 Barcode: 3149020854648 2 FOR 1 Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack 1-11 Concerto Palatino: Bruce Dickey, Charles Toet 12-17 Ensemble Vocal Européen, cond.

Philippe Herreweghe 1 Huelgas-Ensemble, cond. Paul Van Nevel 2-13 Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs 14-17 Les Arts Florissants, William Christie 18-19 Maria Cristina Kiehr, soprano, Concerto Soave, dir. Jean-Marc Aymes

CD1: 1-11 G. GABRIELI: Sonate e Canzoni 'per concertar con l'organo 12-17 HASSLER: Missa I super Dixit Maria CD2: 1 Exaudi me Domine à 16 2-13 Vespro della beata Vergine, Magnificat 14-17 Selva morale e spirituale: Gloria, Laudate Dominum, È questa vita un lampo, Beatus vir 18 MERULA: Toccata 19 MONTEVERDI: Pianto della Madonna- sopra il Lamento dell’Arianna The musical memories of places and monuments Famous places and monuments all have a musical history whose richness and variety we do not always realise. For centuries their beauties have nourished the imagination of composers and performers who, in return, have often dedicated to them some of their finest works. Music is an immaterial heritage that the eye cannot see; it still resounds over the centuries in these musical centres and in the collective imagination. To share this patrimony and to bring it back to life in the surroundings that witnessed its birth – that is the object of this new series.

RELEASE DATE 4TH NOVEMBER 2016

Alhambra, a musical tour

From the Arab conquest to the 20th century, Granada was at once the centre and the object of intense musical creation, embodied in the emblematic Alhambra Palace and its gardens, the subjects of musical fantasies of all kinds. It was a fascination shared by those who actually visited those places (Isaac Albéniz, Joaquín Turina) and those who went there in their imagination (Manuel de Falla, Claude Debussy). From the Puerta del Vino to the Albaicín by way of the Generalife, this selection invites you to discover a thousand years of musical magic.

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: HMX2908554/55 Barcode: 3149020855447 2 FOR 1 Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack Atrium Musicae de Madrid, Gregorio Paniagua Alia Mvsica, Miguel Sánchez The Dufay Collective Ensemble Clément Janequin, Dominique Visse Andrew Lawrence-King, Paul O'Dette Albert Guinovart, piano Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Josep Pons Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano / Anthony Spiri, piano Javier Perianes [piano], BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons Alain Planès, piano Bechstein 1897

CD1: 1-7 Al Andalus - Arab-Andalusian music 8-12 El Canto espiritual judeoespañol 13-16 Music for Alfonso the Wise 17-19 Canciones y Ensaladas 20 ¡Jácaras!

CD2: 1 DEBUSSY: Estampes: La soirée dans Grenade 2-6 Joaquin TURINA: Danzas gitanas op.55 Manuel de FALLA 7 El pan de Ronda que sabe a verdad (María Martínez Sierra) 8 Tus ojillos negros (Cristóbal de Castro) 9 Cuatro piezas españolas (1906-09). 4. Andaluza. Vivo 10 La Vida breve Scene I. Danza 11 Siete canciones populares españolas. 5. Nana 12 Nocturno (1896). Andante molto 13-15 Noches en los jardines de España 16 DEBUSSY: Préludes, Book 2 La puerta del vino. Mouvement de Habanera https://youtu.be/RXMD3d-k7D0

RELEASE DATE 4TH NOVEMBER 2016

Paris 1900 At the heart of musical Paris in the early 20th century.

Between the end of the 19th century and the Second World War, Paris shared with Vienna the status of musical capital of the world. The 23 works featured on these two discs are the living reflection of those rich years of Parisian history, teeming with music and traversed by many different artistic movements. A plan of Paris and chronological tables invite you on a journey through the traces left by time – not forgetting the imaginary journey of foreign composers in love with Paris, whose music embodied their dreams.

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: HMX2908560/61 Barcode: 3149020856048 2 FOR 1 Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack Konstantin Wolff, Bernarda Fink, Philippe Bernold, Isabelle Faust, DSO-Berlin, Alain Planès, Alexandre Tharaud Éric Le Sage, Ensemble Musique Oblique Frank Braley, Brigitte Fassbaender Cord Garben, Karin Küstner, accordion Sophie Karthäuser, David Guerrier, Hélène Delavault, Yves Prin

CD1: The Old & the New DEBUSSY: 1 Images Bk1: Hommage a Rameau 2 Images inédites: Souvenir du Louvre 3 RAVEL: Menuet antique 4-6 Sonatine 7 CHAUSSON: Poème Op. 25 8 DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'aprés midi d'une faune 9 RAVEL: Shéhérazade 10 DEBUSSY: Images Bk 2 Poissons d'or 11 SATIE: Gnossienne No. 3 12 HAHN: Si mes vers aavaient des ailes 13 SATIE: Embarquement pour Cythère CD2: Imagination and Modernism 1 DEBUSSY: Images inédites (1894) 2 SATIE: Cinéma (transcription by Darius Milhaud for piano four hands) 3 -7 SAINT-SAËNS: L'Assassinat du duc de Guise, op.128 (film music, 1908) 8 GERSHWIN: An American in Paris (1928). Transcription for solo piano by William Daly 9 WEILL: Complainte de la Seine (1934) (Maurice Magre) 10 BONNAY: Une petite valse pour rêver POULENC: 11 Voyage à Paris FP 107 no.4 12 Montparnasse FP 127 no.1 13 Hôtel FP 107 no.2 14 SATIE: La Statue retrouvée, divertissement for trumpet in C and piano 15 La Diva de l’Empire [text by Dominique Bonnaud and Numa Blès] 16 MESSAGER: J'ai deux amants (Sacha Guitry, from L'Amour masqué) https://youtu.be/-FFlMnTFCRs

RELEASE DATE 4TH NOVEMBER 2016

Music in the châteaux of the Loire In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Royal court resided from time to time in the Loire Valley. Its châteaux were the showcase for an intense musical life. These palaces which have since become the emblems of the French Renaissance resounded to music that today’s artists have rediscovered in concert and on record. Drawing widely on that repertoire, this programme is an evocation of the round of pleasures, festivities, hunts and dances that regulated the days and nights of the court of France, and of the ‘joyous life’ that reigned there for decades.

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Secular Vocal music Catalogue No: HMX2908550/51 Barcode: 3149020855041 2 FOR 1 Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack 1-5, 7-14, 16-17, 18-19 Ensemble Clément Janequin, Dominique Visse 6, 15, 20 The Broadside Band, Jeremy Barlow

CD1: Wars and Royal Banquets 1-5 JANEQUIN: Mass 'La Bataille' 6 ARBEAU: Orchésographie: Jouyssance vous donneray, Three French Corantos, Basse danse 'La roque', Recercada segunda 7-14 Chansons on poems by Ronsard 15 ARBEAU: Orchésographie: Pavane 'Belle qui tiens ma vie', Gaillarde 'La Traditore my fa morire', Gaillarde Anthoinette, Gaillarde 'J’aymerois mieulx dormir seulette', La volte 16-17 LASSUS: Chansons: Une puce j'ay dedans l'oreille, La nuict froide & sombre 18-19 Chansons de la Renaissance française SANDRIN: Doulce mémoire, CERTON: Finy le bien (Answer to 'Doulce mémoire') 20 ARBEAU. Orchésographie: Bransles de Champagne couppez, Cassandra, Pinagay, Charlotte CD2: A Feast with Rabelais COMPÈRE: D27e l'ordre de Saint Babouyn, DE LA RUE:Autant en emporte le vent, DE SERMISY: Je ne menge point de porc, GOMBERT: Mille regres, LE PETIT: N'as tu poinct mis ton hault bonnet, SERMISY: Vien tost, ANON: La Brosse, basse danse for viols, GUIARD: Or oiez les introites de taverne, PRIMUS: Ce n'est pas trop, WILLAERT: Dessus le marché darras, GOMBERT: Puisqu'ainsi est, DE BUSSY: Las il n'a nul mal, SERMISY: Las je m'y plains, for organ, GOMBERT: Je prens congies, CLEMENS NON PAPA: Une fillette bien gorriere, Imcessament suis triste et doloreux, D'HESDIN: Ramonez moy ma cheminée, CLEMENS NON PAPA: Du laid tetin, JOSQUIN: Scaramella, ANON: Pavane et Gagliarde de "La Guerre" for viols, PIPELARE: Fors seulement, CERTON: La, la, la, je ne l'ose dire FRESNEAU: Souspir d'amours, pensée de plaisir, COSTE: Celle fillette a qui le tetin point, GOMBERT: A bien grant tort FRESNEAU: La Fricassée

RELEASE DATE 4TH NOVEMBER 2016

Voices of the Abbeys Between the early Middle Ages and the 13th century, the great abbeys were key artistic centres, the focus of intensive musical creation. From Santiago de Compostela to Saint-Denis, from Royaumont to Fontevraud by way of Mont Saint-Michel, the walls of these imposing edifices echoed to the finest voices in the medieval West, in the service of the original sung repertory of the Roman Church: Gregorian chant. This anthology is an invitation to explore eight centuries of sacred music as it was celebrated in such monastic houses.

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Choral Catalogue No: HMX2908548/49 Barcode: 3149020854846 2 FOR 1 Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack 1-8 Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès 9-11 Deller Consort, Alfred Deller 12-15 Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès 1-6 Anonymous 4 7-13 Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier

CD1: The early times and the rise of monastic life 1-2 Chant of the Church of Milan 3-4 Chant from Benevento Cathedral 5 Offertorium: Terra tremuit [Chant of the Church of Rome] 6-8 Old Roman Chant: Vespers of Easter Day (6th-13th centuries) 9-11 Gregorian Chant: Gallican responsories and monophonic chants 12-15 Cistercian Chant: Responsories of Matins for the Feast of St Bernard CD2: The Romanesque Era 1-4 1000: Mass for the End of Time The Great Pilgrimages 5-6 The Miracles of St James Abelard and Heloise: from Saint-Denis to the Paraclete 7-10 Monastic Song: O quanta qualia, Virgines caste, Planctus cigne, De profundis Towards the Gothic Era 11-13 Saint-Martial of Limoges and Aquitaine: Resonemus hoc natali, In hoc anni circulo, Orienti oriens

RELEASE DATE 4TH NOVEMBER 2016

A Trip to Vienna

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert all left their imperishable mark on Vienna, which for 250 years has been the world’s musical capital. This programme of music is a veritable feast of souvenirs of that first golden age, crisscrossing Vienna in search of its theatres, palaces, artists’ residences and musicians’ districts. Plans and chronologies evoke this prestigious past whose echoes may still be heard today.

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: HMX2908558/59 Barcode: 3149020855843 2 FOR 1 Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin/René Jacobs Julia Kleiter (Eva) Maximilian Schmitt (Uriel) Johannes Weisser (Adam) RIAS Kammerchor Freiburger Barockorchester/René Jacobs Paul Lewis [piano] BBCSO/Jiri Belohlávek Andreas Staier, Cuarteto Casals Dietrich Henschel, Marlis Petersen, Anke Vondung, Werner Güra, Konrad Jarnot, Matthias Goerne, Andreas Haefliger

CD1: The Viennese venues: Theater an der Wien, Altes Burgtheater, Mozart Figaro-Haus, Haydnhaus 1 MOZART: Die Zauberflöte/Magic Flute K620 Overtüre 2-7 HAYDN: Die Schöpfung / The Creation Part Three 8-10 BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto no.3 in C minor op.37 CD2: Vienna: Salons and Hausmusik 1 MOZART: Ten Variations on 'Unser dummer Pöbel meint' in G major K455 2-5 String Quartet no.19 in C major K465, 'Dissonance' 6 BEETHOVEN: An die ferne Geliebte op.98 SCHUBERT: 7 Der Tanz D826 8 Die Geselligkeit (Lebenslust) D609 9 An den Mond D259 10 Heidenröslein D257 11 Die Forelle D550

RELEASE DATE 4TH NOVEMBER 2016

Music at Sanssouci

An enthusiastic amateur flautist, Frederick the Great always gave music a key place in his daily schedule, as can be seen in the musical ornaments in the decoration of his palace. Indeed, the Music Room is one of the finest rooms in this little Rococo jewel. Works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and his father Johann Sebastian, as well as Johann Gottlieb Graun and the King of Prussia himself are the central focus of this programme. They vividly evoke the musical atmosphere for which Sanssouci was the most elegant showcase.

Label: harmonia mundi File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: HMX2908556/57 Barcode: 3149020855645 2 FOR 1 Format: 2 CD Packaging: digipack Raphael Alpermann, harpsichord Akademie fĂźr Alte Musik Berlin Davitt Moroney, harpsichord, John Phillips, 1980 Janet See, flute, Roderick Cameron, 1982 John Holloway, violin, Michel de Hoog, 1985 Jaap ter Linden, cello, Bastian Muthesius, 1985 Martha Cook, harpsichord, John Phillips, 1985

CD1: 1-2 JG GRAUN: OuvertĂźre und Allegro GraunWV A:XI:2 in D minor 3-5 Friedrich II The Great: Sonata, per il Flauto traverso solo e Basso 'pour Potsdam', no.190, in C minor " 6-8 CPE BACH: Concerto for harpsichord, strings and basso continuo in C major Wq 20 9-11 Symphony in E flat major Wq 179 (1757-1762) CD2: JS BACH: Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079 / A Musical Offering 1-5 Regis Iussu Cantio Et Reliqua Canonica Arte Resoluta 6-9 Sonata Sopr'il Soggetto Reale 10 Canon perpetuus 11-16 6 Canones Diversi Super Thema Regium https://youtu.be/jjyUBJpZxuI