October 28 classical releases

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Classical new releases DISTRIBUTED LABELS: ACCENT RECORDS, ACTES SUD, ALIA VOX, APARTE, BELVEDERE, KINGS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE, CHRISTOPHORUS, CSO RESOUND, EDITION CLASSICS, EVIDENCE CLASSIQUES, FRA MUSICA, GLOSSA,

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HERITAGE, LA DOLCE VOLTA, LES ARTS FLORISSANTS, LSO LIVE, MARIINSKY, MIRARE, MYRIOS, NAÏVE, ONYX, PAN CLASSICS, PRAGA DIGITALS, RCO LIVE, SIGNUM CLASSICS, UNITED ARCHIVES, UNICORN, WIGMORE HALL LIVE

available October 28th 2016, call-off October 16th

OCTOBER 28

RELEASE DATE 28TH OCTOBER 2016

James MacMILLAN: Violin Concerto, Symphony No.4, Vadim Repin BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles

Label: Onyx Classics File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: ONYX4157 Barcode: 880040415725 FULL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Vadim Repin [violin] BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles

WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS

Two major works from Sir James Macmillan make their CD debut! The Violin Concerto is performed on this disc by its dedicatee Vadim Repin. 5HYLHZLQJ WKH ZRUOG SUHPLHUH 'DYLG 1LFH RI 7KH $UWV 'HVN ODXGHG $V VRORLVW 9DGLP 5HSLQ DQG FRQGXFWRU 9DOHU\ *HUJLHY ZKLUOHG XV WXPXOWXRXVO\ WKURXJK LWV K\SHUDFWLYH VRQJV DQG GDQFHV WKHUH ZDV VR PXFK , ZDQWHG WR VDYRXU WR KHDU DJDLQ 7KDW ZRQ W EH D SUREOHP 6R ORQJ DV WKHUH DUH YLROLQLVWV RI 5HSLQ V FDOLEUH DEOH WR SOD\ LW WKH ZRUN LV KHUH WR VWD\ The 4th Symphony is dedicated to Donald Runnicles DQG ZDV ZULWWHQ WR FHOHEUDWH KLV WK ELUWKGD\ Sir James MacMillan is one of today’s most successful composers. His musical language is flooded with influences from his Scottish heritage, Catholic faith, social conscience and close connection with Celtic folk music, blended with influences from Far Eastern, Scandinavian and Eastern European music.

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Advertised in BBC Music Magazine

RELEASE DATE 28TH OCTOBER 2016

BRAHMS: String Quartet No.3 Op.67 Lieder: Wie Melodien zieht es mir Op.105/1, Sommerabend Op.85/1, Mondenschein Op.85/2 SCHOENBERG: String Quartet No.2 Op.10 Kuss Quartet Mojca Erdmann

Label: Onyx Classics File Under: Classical/Chamber music Catalogue No: ONYX4166 Barcode: 880040416623 FULL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cristal Kuss Quartet, Mojca Erdmann [soprano]

The Kuss Quartet’s fourth ONYX album is a programme of Brahms and Schoenberg, and they are joined by the German soprano Mojca Erdmann in three Brahms Lieder, and the 2nd of Schoenberg’s four string quartets.

After composing his First Chamber Symphony Op.9 in 1907, Schoenberg wrote "Now I have established my style I know now how I have to compose" However his next work showed a great deviation in style, and tonality is tenuous is the extreme – Schoenberg bids tonality farewell in this extraordinary composition. Setting Stefan George’s poems ‘Litanei’ and ‘Entrücking’, the 2nd Quartet caused a scandal. At the first performance "all hell broke loose" wrote the composer "'Stop it! Stop it! We have had enough!' shouted a well known critic. It was then that people forgot their drawing room manners. Part of the audience joined in the riot …not much of the music penetrated the noise" Brahms’s intense concentrated musical thinking heavily influenced Schoenberg. Like the younger composer however, Brahms was very much "a natural continuer of properly understood good old tradition" (Schoenberg’s words describing his own music) and his 3rd Quartet harks back to the classicism of Mozart, especially the ‘Hunt’ Quartet, also in B flat major ALSO AVAILABLE ON ONYX: ONYX4066 Schubert String Quartet in G D887 & Berg String Quartet op3 ONYX4090 Theme russe incl. Tchaikovsky String Quartet No.1 “An intelligent, rewarding and well-recorded programme from this superb German-based quartet. The main work, Tchaikovsky's first quartet, comes at the end and is one of the finest recent performances on disc.”

Classical Music, 21st April 2012 ***** ONYX4119 Schubert Quintet D956

Advertised in BBC Music Magazine

RELEASE DATE 28TH OCTOBER 2016

SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto Op. 107, Symphony No. 5 Op. 47 Xavier Phillips Les Dissonances Les Dissonances made its first recordings for Ambroise-Naïve, the critical success of which led to the birth of its own label in March 2014.

To celebrate its 10 anniversary, the orchestra’s new Shostakovich album, recorded live at the Opéra de Dijon, is presented complete with an extended tribute piece by Xavier Phillips in memory of his mentor, Mstislav Rostropovich, dedicatee of Shostakovich’s two cello concertos. It follows the label’s high production and design values, offering the disc as part of a hardbound book containing detailed programme notes, Phillips’ essay, artist biographies and monochrome photographs.

Label: Les Dissonances File Under: Classical/Orchestral Catalogue No: LD009 Barcode: 3149028105421 FULL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: cd book Xavier Phillips [cello] Les Dissonances David Grimal [violin, direction]

"My memories are of an immensely gifted pedagogue, whose advice could be very diverse in nature. With me his approach wasn’t really focused on the instrumental dimension. It was above all a way of talking about music, with images, impressions, sensations, anecdotes. He shed new light, he showed you things, he made you think".

Xavier Phillips “Les Dissonances is clearly an extraordinary ensemble in terms of musical sensitivity and emotional power,” BBC Music Magazine CONCERT: 18TH December, Wigmore Hall 11.30am: David Grimal [violin]; Anne Gastinel [cello]; Philippe Cassard [piano] Beethoven and Schubert

RELEASE DATE 28TH OCTOBER 2016

Consort Music at the time of Shakespeare William Byrd and his contemporaries

Jérôme Hantaï Spes Nostra is a set of viols led by Jerome Hantai, and composed of soloists who have developed strong musical and friendly ties. It has already made an anthology of works by John Jenkins, and offers us in this fifth centenary of the death of William Shakespeare, a new album dedicated to the music of Elizabethan composers and the first of them, William Byrd.

The first part of this programPH offers an anthology of music for viol consort composed during the reign of Elizabeth I. William Byrd (1540-1623), obviously holds a unique place and profoundly influenced both his contemporaries and generations of composers in England. The second part is dedicated precisely to those musicians who were able to continue the tradition of the viol consort from England, while making it evolve stylistically, especially under the influence of the Italian madrigal.

Label: Actes Sud Musicales File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: ASM28 Barcode: 3149028096323 FULL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Spes Nostra: Kaorl Uemura,Jérôme Hantaï, Catherine Armoux, Emmanuel Balssa, Julien Leonard, Alix Verzier [viols]

1 Osbert PARSLEY: In nomine a 5, MB 55 2 BYRD: In nomine a 4, BE 16 3 BYRD: Fantaisie a 6, BE 12 4 PARSLEY: Spes nostra 5 ANON: In nomine a 6, MB 72 6 TYE: In nomine à 5 “blamles” 7 Elway BEVIN: Browning 8 PARSONS:Delacourt 9 BYRD: Pavane et gaillarde à 6 10 PARSLEY: In nomine a 4, MB 17 11 BYRD: Fantaisie a 3, BE 2 12 TYE: O lux beata trinitas, MB 149 13 PICFORTH: In nomine a 5, MB 57 14 STROGERS: In nomine a 5, MB 61 15 BYRD: Sermone blando à 3 16 BYRD: Fantaisie a 4, BE 4 17 PRESTON: O lux beata trinitas, MB 5 18 STONINGS: Miserere 19 BEVIN: In nomine a 5, MB 153 20 TYE: In nomine à 5 “crye” 21 BYRD: Christe qui lux

RELEASE DATE 28TH OCTOBER 2016

Schumann, Papillons, Carnaval & Davidsbündlertanze Philippe Bianconi "The moment had come for me to record these works" Philippe Bianconi 'Papillons', 'Carnaval', 'Davidsbündlertänze': the coupling of these three compositions corresponds to a deep inner need in the French pianist. After magnificent incursions into Debussy and Chopin for La Dolce Volta, he returns to Schumann, a composer particularly close to his heart. This programme matured in concerts on the theme of doubles and masks and illuminates with exceptional poetic perception the secret connections that exist between three scores of highly individual character. A landmark in Bianconi's discography.

Label: La Dolce Volta File Under: Classical/Instrumental Catalogue No: LDV28 Barcode: 3770001901480 FULL Price Format: 1 CD Packaging: digipack Philippe Bianconi [piano]

ALSO AVAILABLE: LDV14 Philippe Bianconi plays Chopin “I cannot recall another version of the Four Ballades in which every note is so clearly articulated or phrasing which lends such lucid narrative to the unfolding drama...There is an unshowy integrity and honesty about Bianconi's interpretations that is entirely admirable.”

Gramophone Magazine, December 2014 LDV07 Debussy Preludes Books 1&2 “As far as sound is concerned this is surely one of the most sensuous of recent surveys of the Preludes. Philippe Bianconi’s tone is consistently warm…There are certainly many fine sounds here and there is much to admire in Bianconi’s pianistic control.” International Record Review, November 2012