Issue 46 - September 2012

September 2012
Issue #46
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Greetings and welcome! Each month we present new releases, reviews & insightful info
New Releases for Spring
Palestrina: Missa Aeterna Christi Munera / Stabat Mater
Hymn: Aeturna Christi Munera / Missa Aeturna Christi
Munera / Stabat Mater / Missa l’Homme Armé à 5 vocum
Motet: Peccantem Me Quotidie
Pro Cantione Antiqua
ALC1179
$10.00 rrp
(L’Homme armé) ‘gentle restraint in the relatively simple textures...mellifluous
singing in the plainchant items, confirms PCA’s fluent versatility’ (BBC Music)
‘The singing itself is superb, the group includes many distinguished singers, and
the impact of the performances is enhanced by the closeness of the sound, set in
a warm but intimate acoustic’ ‘magnificent 8-part Stabat Mater also receives a
powerful performance, warm and resonant’ (Penguin Guide)
Forum
ALC1194
Beethoven: Diabelli (complete) and popular Variations
$10.00 rrp
33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli in C major, Op.120
Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59, "Fur Elise" / Rondo a Capriccio in G
major, Op. 129, "Rage over a Lost Penny" / 7 Variations on “God Save
the King” in C major, WoO 78 / Variations on “Rule Britannia” in D
major, WoO 79 / 6 Easy Variations on a Swiss Air in F major, WoO 64
Alfred Brendel
“Brendel's approach, at first more highly-strung, and at the end, more austere,
is on the whole more penetrating.....I also admired Brendel's intellectual grasp
of the work, i.e. the way he clarifies the theme's contribution to the actual fabric of each variation. Nor
does any contrapuntal ingenuity ever go unnoticed. The grave, classical beauty of his playing here is very
moving.” (Gramophone)
“The simplicity of Beethoven’s Variations on God Save the King is disarming, and Rule Britannia is also
without rhetoric. Brendel plays them eloquently, with the proper unforced manner. Hs approach is
stronger on some .....Brendel’s natural, spontaneous manner brings out many felicities and the playing is
never merely matter-of-fact. The bright recordings (Original VOX Master tapes) have fine presence.”
(Penguin Guide)
Overlooked great performances by maestro Mackerras
Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op.30 / Don Juan, Op.20
Till Eulenspiegel’s Lustige Streiche, Op.28
Charles Mackerras, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
ALC1197
$10.00 rrp
“(Till) the delicately pointed horn solo near the beginning answered by scampering winds and strings. Tempos tend to be brisk, but the orchestra's evident
care over phrasing and articulation avoids any hint of aggressiveness.
...Recording quality throughout is good” (Gramophone) “Mackerras always
exceptionally versatile”
Bizet: Symphony in C | Carmen Suite No.1 - Prélude
ALC1198
$10.00 rrp
Intermezzo / Séguedille / Les Dragons’ Alcala / Les Toréadors
Carmen Suite No.2 - Marche des Contrabandiers / Habañera / Nocturne /
Chanson du Toréador / La Garde Montante / Danse Bohème
Jeux d'Enfants - Trompet et Tambour / Marche / La Poupée / Berceuse
La Toupie / Impromptu / Petit Mari, Petite Fille / Duo / Le Bal / Galop
WestDeustche Sinfonia, Dirk Joeres / Royal Philharmonic Orch.
Mark Ermler / Andrea Licata
‘Joeres doesn’t just let his musicians play, he makes them shape each phrase with loving
care’ (Pizzicato) ‘Bizet's enchanting Symphony, written when the composer was 17, is a work of
precocious skill and great charm’.. …. ‘sound is excellent...The RPO woodwind soloists play
well, of course ..(in) the brightly coloured Carmen….Jeux d’enfants makes a good encore,
again well played’ (Gramophone )
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Novák: In the Tatras, Op.26 | South Bohemian Suite, Op.64 - Pastorale (Obzory). Pastoral
ALC1199
(Horizons) / Sneni (Lesy a rybniky). Reverie (Forests & Ponds) / Kdysi (Pochod Táboru). Once Upon a $10.00 rrp
Time (March of the Hussites) / Bud’ zdráv, muj rodny kraj. Epilog (Apotheose) / To My Homeland.
Epilogue (Apotheosis) | Eight Nocturnes for Voice and Orchestra, Op.39* - Sterne im Wasser (Stars in the
Water) Original text: Karl Bulcke / Waldnacht (Forest Night) Text: Herman Lingg / Notturno in G dur (Nocturne
in G minor) Text: Karl Gustav Vollmoller / Totentänzen (Little Dance of Death) Text: Oscar Weiner
Helle Nacht (Bright Night) Text: Richard Dehmel, after Verlaine / Nachtreise (Nocturnal Journey) Text: Ludwig
Uhland / Sommernacht (Summer Night) Text: Ludwig Jacobowski / Christkindleins Wiegenlied (Christchild’s Lullaby) from „Des Knaben Wunderhorn“
Carlsbad Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Bostock, Daniela Straková (sop*)
"In the Tatras is a superb tone poem of the highest hills, glorious sun-dazzling renewal and exalted mystery. Delius's Song of the High Hills
and Strauss's Alpine Symphony are mood-cousins. The first movement of the Suite blends Delian luxuriance with Dvořák's naive romantic and
sprightly nationalism . (Eight Nocturnes) These range from the glistening Stars in the Water to the Night Journey - full of dark and disruptive
currents and the dreamy atmosphere of some Bohemian nightride and sunrise. Christ Child's Lullaby has the innocent wonder of Canteloube's
Songs of Auvergne. Utterly treasurable. Straková creamily floats the long vocal lines with an engaging sense of joyous discovery....Do get this
disc, made a compulsive purchase by the song cycle.” (Rob Barnett, MusicWeb International)
Baroque Bohemia & beyond: VI
Christoph Schimpke: Sinfonia ex F / Leopold Florian Gassmann: Symfonie c moll (Cm)
Vojtěch Jírovec: Symfonie F dur (in F), (Solo Oboe Zdeněk Adam)
Czech Chamber Philharmonic, Petr Chromčák
ALC1201
$10.00 rrp
WORLD PREMIERES! Sixth volume in this compelling series covering the huge flowering of composing talent
that originated in Bohemia in the period preceding, and joining with, Haydn and Mozart. Many of those Bohemian composers laid the groundwork for the classical era.
“The modern-instrument ensemble of the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra plays stylishly and with commitment; ...for anyone with an interest in the music of this time and place, especially as several of these pieces
are here receiving their very first recordings.” (Musicweb International)
Glière: Symphony "Ilya Muromets"(uncut version) / *Cello Concerto
Wandering Pilgrims - Ilya and Svyatogor / Ilya and Solovei the Brigand / Festival in the Palace of
Prince Vladimir / The Heroic Deeds and Petrification of Ilya Muromets
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Harold Farberman
*Sergei Sudgilovsky (cello), Moscow Cinematographic Orchestra, Sergei Skripka
ALC2019
$20.00 rrp
2CD Edition
“patience, helped by vivid recording, makes for very compelling results...combines natural balance with warmth
(c) Penguin Guide “if you had heard any of the other Glière concertos (for harp, horn or coloratura soprano)
and were expecting his Cello Concerto to be equally mellifluous ...... you would not be wrong” (c) Gramophone
This “a real treat for those who like to venture around the periphery of Russian nationalist repertoire and there
are plenty of rewards to be had….Entire movements were recorded each in a single take! It still sounds wonderful.”
(MusicWeb International)
Debussy: The Piano Works (full edition)
ALC4002
$35.00 rrp
4CD Edition
Suite Bergamasque - Prélude, Menuet, Clair De Lune, Passe-pied / Images- Images Oubliées,
Lent, Images Oubliées, Vif / Révérie / Danse (Tarantelle styrienne) / Première Arabesque /
Deuxième Arabesque / Ballade / Valse Romantique / Nocturne / Danse Bohémienne / Pour le Piano- Prélude, Sarabande, Toccata / Images, Series I- Reflects dans l’eau, Hommage à Rameau, Mouvement / Images, Series II - Cloches à travers les feuilles, Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut, Poissons d’or / Berceuse Héroique / Mazurka / La plus que lente / Masques / Elegie / The Little Negro / Page d’album /
Morceau de concours / Hommage à Haydn / D’un cahier d’ésquisses / Children’s Corner Suite- Doctor
Gradus ad Parnassum, Jimbo’s Lullaby, Serenade for the Doll, The Snow is dancing, The Little Shepherd,
Golliwog’s Cake-Walk / Préludes Book I-Danseuses de Delphes, Voiles, Le vent dans la plaine, Les sons et
les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir, Les collines d’Anacapri, Des pas sur la neige, Ce qu’a vu le vent d’Ouest, La fille aux cheveux de
lin, La sérénade interrompue, La cathédrale engloutie, La danse de Puck, Minstrels / Préludes Book II-Brouillards, Feuilles mortes, La
puerta del vino, Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses, Bruyères, General Lavine - eccentric, La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune,
Ondine, Hommage à S. Pickwick Esq, P.P.M.P.C.-, Canope, Les tierces alternées, Feux d’artifice / Etudes (12) - No.1 Pour les cinq
doigts, No.2 Pour les tierces, No.3 Pour les quartes, No.4 Pour les sixtes, No.5 Pour les octaves, No.6 Pour les huit doigts, No.7
Pour les degrés chromatiques, No.8 Pour les agréments, No.9 Pour les notes répétées, No.10 Pour les sonorités opposées, No.11 Pour
les arpèges composés, No.12 Pour les accords / Estampes (3) - No.1 Pagodes, No.2 La soirée dans Grenade, No.3 Jardins sous la pluie /
L’Isle joyeuse
Martino Tirimo
DDD, 303 mins 1988/90, 24 pages booklet
“this may yet prove to be one of the finest Debussy cycles on record” © Gramophone
“Tirimo has a quite exceptional temperamental affinity with Debussy, with a fine ear for resonance and sonority, and exquisite subtlety of touch. He lavishes loving care … This is not playing calculated to make you gasp in amazement; but what it
does provoke, with remarkable consistency, is smiles of recognition at the revelation of unsuspected beauty” “(he takes) us
into Debussy’s world and lets us experience its magic…do acquire it if you appreciate fine Debussy playing” “Tirimo is a
fine pianist with a first-rate technical command, and understands Debussy's world well.” (© Gramophone)
“probably first choice for those wanting a modern digital recording offering the complete set…playing is very fine, recording
most realistic and natural” © Penguin Guide
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Movie Magic: Epics & Westerns
2001: A Space Odyssey (Richard Strauss: “Also sprach Zarathustra”) / Love Story (Where Do I Begin?)
(Francis Lai) / Lara's Theme / Somewhere My Love (Dr. Zhivago) (Maurice Jarre) / Brief Encounter (Rachmaninov: Adagio Sostenuto from Piano Concerto No.2 - abridged) Martin Roscoe, piano
ALN1934
The World at War (Carl Davis) / The Godfather (Nino Rota) / Rich and Famous (Georges Delerue)
$10.00 rrp
Gone with the Wind (Max Steiner) / Romeo and Juliet (Nino Rota) / Platoon, Elephant Man (Samuel
Barber: Adagio for Strings - abridged) / Lawrence of Arabia (Maurice Jarre) / The Good the Bad and the
Ugly (Ennio Morricone) / High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) (Dmitri Tiomkin) / For a Few Dollars More (Ennio
Morricone) / The Green Leaves of Summer (The Alamo) (Dmitri Tiomkin) / Once Upon a Time in the West
(Ennio Morricone) / The Big Country (Jerome Moross) / A Fistful of Dollars (Ennio Morricone) / The Magnificent Seven (Elmer Bernstein
Carl Davis, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Oxford Evensong (complete service form Christ Church) features works by
Chorale Prélude for organ "Christe redemptor omnium' '(Parry) / How Sweet the Name of Jesus
(Watson) / Versicles and Responses (Rose) / Psalm 12 (Chant by Ouseley) Psalm 13 (Chant by Par- GCCD4035
ratt) / Psalm 14 (Chant by Armstrong) / First Lesson (Book of Haggai: 2,6-9) / Hymn: There's a
$15.00 rrp
Wideness in God's Mercy (Stainer) / Magnificat (The Great Service) (Parry) / Second Lesson (Letter
of Paul to the Ephesians: 2, 10 22) / Nunc Dimittis (The Great Service) (Parry) / Creed / Responses, Lord's
Prayer and Collects (Rose) / Bring us, O Lord God (Harris) / Prayers / Hymn: Let all the World (Harwood)
Coronation Te Deum (Walton) / The Grace / Responses & Dismissal (Rose) / Paean (for organ) (Leighton)
Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford; Stephen Darlington (conductor), Clive Driskill-Smith (organ)
A “dreaming spires” sunset attractively and suitably adorns the cover of this collection of music for choral evensong from a great Cathedral, all well researched and including famous composers from across the University. 71 mins, recorded Christ
Church Chapel, April 2002 in DDD sound
Arensky: Violin Concerto in A minor / Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
Aaron Rosand (violin) / Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg, Louis de Froment
The Italian Trumpet-Albinoni: Concerto Op. 7 No. 3 for oboe & strings in B flat major / Bal-
VOX7211
$15.00 rrp
CDX5147
dassare: Sonata No. 1 for Trumpet and Strings in F major / Fantini: Sonata Imperiale No. 1 'Del
$20.00 rrp
Colloreto' / Franceschini: Suonata a 7 Con due Trombe / Frescobaldi: Canzon a due canti No. 3 /
2CD Edition
Gabrieli, G: Sacrae Symphoniae No. 2 / Sacrae Symphoniae No. 6 / Canzon septimi toni No. 1 Sacrae Simphoniae-Venice / Sonata No. 21 / Canzon septimi toni No. 2 / Melani: All'armi pensieri / Monteverdi:
La favola d'Orfeo: Toccata / Scarlatti, A: In terra la guerra / Cantata 'Su le sponde del Tebro' / Torelli: Concerto
con Trombe, G. 18 / Vivaldi: Trumpet Concerto in C
Edward Carroll New York Trumpet Ensemble, Concerto Rotterdam stereo 124 mins, digitally
remastered 1996
Music from the Age of Louis XV-François Couperin (1668–1733): Ordre no. 6 in B flat / Les
Moissonneurs / Les Langueurs-Tendres / Le Gazoüillement / La Bersan / Les Baricades
DCD34112
Mistérieuses / Les Bergeries / La Commére Le Moucheron | Antoine Forqueray (1672–1745)$25.00 rrp
[attrib.]: La Du Breüil / La Leclair / La Léon / La Boisson | Jean-Philippe Rameau: La Triomphante / Fanfarinette / Les Sauvages / L’Enharmonique / L’Egiptienne | Jacques Duphly (1715–1789): La
Forqueray / Médée - John Kitchen (harpsichord)
“Kitchen plays a fine selection of French baroque music on the splendidly preserved 1769Taskin harpsichord
in Edinburgh University's Raymond Russell Collection. He begins with Francois Couperin's Ordre No 6, eight
character pieces published in 1716-17. Kitchen offers elegantly expressive phrasing and plenty of colour. The
playing is beautifully weighted in five unashamedly theatrical works by Rameau from his collection of 172627, and in two equally effective works by Duphly — La Forqueray and Médée.” The Sunday Times
‘Stylishly Played’ – Sunday Times, August 2009 / ‘… Crisp articulation, splendidly agile fingerwork and a strong sense of purchase.’
– International Record Review, April 2009
J.S.Bach: Goldberg Variations - Takae Ohnishi, harpsichord
In reviewing this new Goldberg Variations, Jed Distler writes that "one cannot question Ohnishi’s
BCD9357
solid musicianship and masterful technique in this excellently engineered recording"
$22.00 rrp
(ClassicsToday.com).
Bach's masterpiece was recorded on a superb instrument from Harpsichord Atelier Marc Ducornet (Paris, 2010),
based on a Ruckers model. Ms. Ohnishi is a prizewinner at the International Early Music Harpsichord Competition in Japan. Her debut CD "A Harpsichord Recital" was selected as an International Special Recommended CD
by the leading Japanese music magazine, Record Gei-jyu-tsu. Ms. Ohnishi graduated from Toho Gakuen School
of Music, and holds a Masters degree from the New England Conservatory, and a DMA from Stony Brook University. Since 2007, she has been Lecturer of Harpsichord and Baroque Chamber Music at the University of California, San Diego, and has
also taught at the University of San Diego. In 2011-12, Ms. Ohnishi served as Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.
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Romantische Chormusik - “Romantic choral music”
Mendelssohn: Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt, 100. Psalm | Brahms (1833-1897) Warum ist das
Licht gegeben / Schaffe in mir Gott | Bruckner (1824-1896) Ave Maria / Christus factus
est / Locus iste / Os justi / Vexilla Regis / Virga Jesse | Rheinberger: Abendlied
B108071
$22.00 rrp
Audi Jugendchorakademie / Martin Steidler, Choral direction
All the compositions on this CD may justifiably be classified under the noble seal of “Romantic choral music”.
Even though they are all, without exception, religious works: How multifarious were the composers’ incentives,
how diverse were the places and occasions, for which the Motets and Cantatas were composed! Religious music
in the secular 19th century: for Anton Bruckner alone, this would have meant divine service and the cathedral.
For Mendelssohn, by contrast, it would have meant festivals or concert halls as well - and for Brahms a personal dialogue with God. In the
case of Joseph Rheinberger lastly, whose “Abendlied” (Evensong) forms, from his home town of Munich, the final chord of this anthology,
the Lutheran biblical text irrevocably transforms into a prayer full of genuine feeling, which would be sung in the home as well as by choral
societies.
The Piano Music of John Ireland, Volume 4
With this, the final volume of our 4-volume series of the Complete Piano Music of John Ireland we now
reach the end of our fabulous journey through the composer’s piano music. Like most of the other repertoire on Volumes 1 to 3, this was recorded in the sumptuous acoustic of Birmingham’s Symphony
Hall with Mark Bebbington, SOMM’s favourite artist.
SOMM0115
The Towing Path / Three Pastels - A Grecian Lad , The Boy Bishop, Puck’s Birthday, Summer Eve- $20.00 rrp
ning, Soliloquy, Spring Will Not Wait / In Those Days - Daydream, Meridian, Merry Andrew /
Leaves from a Child’s Sketchbook - By the Mere, In the Meadow, The Hunt’s Up, Meine Seele, Epic March*,
Pastoral, Month’s Mind
On a Birthday Morning, Columbine, Equinox
*Premiere Recording
Of Volume 1 (SOMM074) - “Mark Bebbington's… approach to the brooding and combative Piano Sonata is to give the harmony time enough to breathe, in order to go more intensely into its emotional life. The depressive aspects of 'Chelsea Reach'
and the mystical ones of the three Channel Island pieces collected as Decorations have seldom been more sensitively brought out.”
“…..Bebbington’s programme provides a pretty much ideal introduction, containing two of Ireland’s most popular and durable achievements, namely Decorations and London Pieces – both given with such winning aplomb, scrupulous care and heartwarming sense of new
discovery that I found myself falling in love with them all over again…” Gramophone
“Bebbington’s approach fulfils with prescient fluidity the composer’s textural ambitions, yet resists tossing off the flourishes with undue
slickness or abandoning the chaste lyrical imperative that, as with all Ireland’s music, binds together the considerable pianistic accoutrements…. The continuing wave of enthusiasm for John Ireland’s music is certainly to be warmly embraced and I look forward with eagerness to Mark Bebbington’s second instalment.” International Record Review
Of Volume 2 (SOMM088) - “The core of this recital… are sets of lyric pieces both early and late, of which the three Channel
Island landscapes of Sarnia… remain one of Ireland's finest imaginative achievements. Bebbington's interpretation is especially sensitive in the way he brings out the half-lights and subtle harmonic shadings of 'Le Catiroc', and makes light of the
rhythmic complexities of 'Song of the Springtides'.”
“Mark Bebbington proves an outstanding interpreter, adopting an apt degree of rubato to bring out the beauty of Ireland's writing. All told,
a most successful disc of music that deserves to be far better known.” Gramophone
Of Volume 3 (SOMM099) - “Collectors may welcome the world premiere recording of First Rhapsody (1906), but newcomers will find
these miniatures, full of French impressionistic colour and English wistfulness, a fine starting point.” The Observer *****
“His powers of subtle characterisation and sensitive range of touch are shown in his extremely sensitive portrayal of
'February's Child'...I continue to feel that Bebbington is providing us with the well-nigh definitive take on this quintessentially
English repertoire.”
“Bebbington does [the Rhapsodies] proud, never forcing the tone, yet relishing the Lisztian bravura of the writing to the max... Bebbington
also quarries every ounce of slumbering power and mystery from the Ballade of London Nights...Somm's sound is gratifyingly clean and
true.”Gramophone
Copland: Quiet City / Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson
Barber: Capricorn Concerto / Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Gershwin: Summertime from ‘Porgy and Bess’
Orchestra of the Swan, David Curtis, Conductor, April Fredrick, Soprano
SOMM0118
$20.00 rrp
This CD showcases the spectacular voice and wonderful musicianship of American Soprano
April Fredrick whose star is now firmly in the ascendant. We first heard her in concert singing
the songs of Ivor Gurney which she had studied closely as part of her MMus in Vocal Performance at the Royal Academy of Music. We unhesitatingly recommended April to David Curtis,
Conductor of the Orchestra of the Swan who having heard her, enthusiastically engaged her for
several of his concerts. The present recording which took place during a concert at the Civic Hall in Stratford in May last
year, was her debut with the Orchestra of the Swan conducted by David Curtis.
Some of the repertoire too, is tailor-made for April, highlighting as it does, her expressive voice and ability to characterise each of the
pieces with unfailing sensitivity and accuracy.
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Leon McCawley plays Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24
Waltzes (16), Op. 39 / Klavierstücke (6), Op. 118
SOMM0116
$20.00 rrp
Leon McCawley (piano), has made Brahms’ Handel Variations into a piece of his very own . His individual
thoughts on the music bear the hallmark of a mature artist who has the means and talent to express them, as demonstrated by this recording. The work is a summit of Brahms’ keyboard works.
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K482
Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K453
Vassily Primakov (piano)
Odense Symphony Orchestra, Scott Yoo
BCD9351
$22.00 rrp
“Of course he...offers numerous tender, introspective touches, but, in any case, not since Murray Perahia's Sony
recording have I heard the piano part in this movement sound more interesting and alive. I also like the smugly
cheerful tone Primakov adopts in the finale.” BBC Music Magazine August 2012
The new Bronislaw Gimpel edition presents on three CDs all recordings made by the
Violinist between 1954 and 1957 for the RIAS Berlin. Not only do they illustrate the
striking violinistic profile of the artist, but also the stylistic palette of his repertoire.
aud21418
Violin Concertos: Jean Sibelius* / Karol Szymanowski** / Henryk Wieniawski***
$40.00 rrp
Violin Sonatas: Franz Schubert / Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy / Robert Schumann
3CD Edition
Leoš Janáček / Giuseppe Tartini (ed. Friedrich Hermann) / Pastorale et Danse: Karol
Rathaus
Bronislaw Gimpel, violin / Martin Krause, piano / RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester • Radio-SymphonieOrchester Berlin / conductors: Fritz Lehmann* • Arthur Rother** • Alfred Gohlke***
Bronislaw Gimpel (1911-1979) was one of the “old school” violin virtuosos. His distinctly individual approach towards sound and phrasing left a strong mark in the history of violin playing. Gimpel was born in
the Galician city of Lemberg, today’s Lviv in the Ukraine. He received his musical training at the conservatoires of his home city as well as
Vienna, and at the Berlin Musikhochschule with Carl Flesch. Gimpel established an international and versatile career as a soloist, concert
master, chamber musician, conductor and violin teacher.
The RIAS Second Viennese School Project
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These recordings of central works of the Viennese School, made between 1949 and 1965, are
$55.00 rrp
unique musical and historic documents. The first-rate interpreters predominantly come from the 4CD Edition
immediate circle around the composer, either as pupils of Schoenberg's or as acquaintances of
the composer. With this degree of authenticity and thanks to manifold interpretational approaches, this anthology offers comprehensive first-hand insights into the Second Viennese School.
Schönberg: "Pierrot lunaire" Op. 21 / Chamber Symphony Op. 9 / Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Op. 42 / Phantasy for Violin and Piano Op. 47 (Tibor Varga) / "Das Buch der hängenden
Gärten" Op. 15 / Psalm 130 Op. 50B / Three Piano Pieces Op. 11 / Six Little Piano Pieces Op. 19,
Five Piano Pieces Op. 23 / Piano Piece Op. 33a / Piano Pieces Op. 33b / String Trio Op. 45,
Suite for String Orchestra G major / Phantasy for Violin and Piano Op. 47 (Rudolf Kolisch),
Alban Berg: Lyric Suite for String Quartet, / Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano Op. 5 / Seven Early Songs, "Schließe mir die
Augen beide" (2 versions) | Anton Webern: Passacaglia for Orchestra Op. 1 / Five Pieces for Orchestra op. 10 / Four Pieces for
Violin and Piano Op. 7 | Johann Strauss: "Rosen aus dem Süden" - Valse Op. 388 (arr. A. Schoenberg) / Schatzwalzer from
"Der Zigeunerbaron" Op. 418 (arr. A. Webern)
RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester | Végh-Quartett | Bastiaan-Quartett | RIAS Kammerchor | Berliner Philharmoniker • Conductors: Günther Arndt | Ferenc Fricsay | Bruno Maderna | Arthur Rother | Josef Rufer | Winfried Zillig • Soprano: Suzanne Danco | Magda László
| Evelyn Lear • Speaker: Irmen Burmester • Violin: Hans Bastiaan | André Gertler | Rudolf Kolisch | Erich Röhn | Tibor Varga • Viola:
Ernst Doberitz | Walter Müller • Violoncello: Werner Haupt | Arthur Troester • Flute: Hans Peter Schmitz • Clarinet: Alfred Bürkner |
Heinrich Geuser | Piano: Diane Andersen | Klaus Billing | Lothar Broddack | Hans Hilsdorf | Else C. Kraus | Ernst Krenek | Hermann
Reutter | Peter Stadlen | Eduard Steuermann | Alan Willman • Harmonium: Emil Hammermeister
This 4-CD boxed set presents historic recordings of works by Arnold Schoenberg, the founding father of twentieth-century modern music,
and his most prominent pupils, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. These recordings, made between 1949 and 1965, comprise works which
were written between 1906 and 1950, thus portraying practically the entire era of the Viennese School. Not only do they trace the multilayered compositional developments of the Viennese School, but they are also significant musical and historic documents of multi-faceted
interpretational approaches towards this music. The Viennese School was formed before the First World War as a movement in music attempting to unite radical expressive techniques and traditional form concepts, demanding specially trained interpreters for this undertaking. In these RIAS recordings, first-rate artists from the circle of the three Viennese composers can be heard: Rudolf Kolisch, Eduard
Steuermann, Winfried Zillig and Else C. Kraus were immediately shaped by their teacher, Schoenberg, whereas others, such as Peter
Stadlen and Tibor Varga were in contact with the composer, or with Webern or Berg. Ferenc Fricsay or Suzanne Danco, on the other
hand, did not belong to the circle of the Viennese School and its performance teachings.
Their interpretations are of particular interest as they brought these works to life, unprejudiced by performance traditions of this music
which, at that time, was hardly performed.
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Pas de deux-French Music for Piano Duo
Milhaud: Scaramouche / Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
Bizet: Jeux d’enfants op. 22 / Poulenc: Sonata for two Pianos & Élégie
Piano Duo, Mona & Rica Bard
aud92672
$26.00 rrp
Winners of a number of awards, the sisters Mona and Rica Bard now present their first CD, a
pas de deux though eighty years of French piano music. At one and at two instruments, they create a panorama of piano sound, ranging from the simulation of orchestral colours, percussive and
motoric élan to the suggestion of an intensive song-like quality.
With Bizet's Jeux d'enfants, Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole and Poulenc's Sonata for Two Pianos,
this SACD contains three “secret" masterworks by their respective composers. With its combination of elegance, irony and
samba rhythms, the Scaramouche Suite quickly became Darius Milhaud's most popular work. Four hands, two sisters, one
pulse - Mona & Rica Bard achieved national and international awards at competitions among them the German Music Competition, the Concorso Internazionale di Musica da Camera Palma d`Oro
(Finale Ligure) and the Concorso Internazionale per Du o Pianistico Twenty Fingers (Rome). The Ensemble was accepted in the National Selection of Young Artists' Concerts of the German Music Council and in the artists' list of the association Yehudi Menuhin;- Live Music Now.
Extensive concert engagements have taken Mona & Rica Bard throughout Europe, to Asia the USA and to numerous festivals such as the
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the NCPA May Festival Peking and the Chicago Piano Duo Festival.
Vierne: Complete Organ Symphonies Vol.1
Hans Eberhard Roß, Memmingen, Goll-Orgel
aud92674
$26.00 rrp
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Louis Vierne‘s death, the present recording marks the beginning of audite‘s three-part complete recording of the composer‘s six Organ Symphonies with the organist HansEberhard Roß. 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. Its sound creates unobtrusive power and fullness, making a symphonic effect in the church interior of St. Martin and yet always remaining clear. The polyphonic structures of the
works become distinct and the transparency of sound permits fresher tempi than usual – both of which cannot normally be taken for granted with recordings of Vierne.
Russian Piano Music Series Volume 9-Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996)
Piano Sonata no. 1 Op. 5 (1940) / Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 8 (1942) / Piano Sonata No. 3
Op. 31 (1946); 17 Easy Pieces Op. 34 (1946)
Murray McLachlan
DDA25105
$20.00 rrp
Mieczysław Weinberg was born in Warsaw in 1919, the son of a composer and violinist at a Jewish
theatre. When he was only ten he began his musical career there as a pianist and music director; two years later he
started piano studies at the Warsaw Conservatory. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 he was forced to
flee the country and he went to the USSR, initially to Minsk.
In 1943 Weinberg sent the score of his newly completed First Symphony to Shostakovich, asking for an opinion of
the work. Shostakovich arranged for him to receive an official invitation to Moscow – of especial value in the war years – and thus their close
friendship was born. From the end of August 1943 until his death in 1996, Weinberg lived in Moscow, working as a freelance composer. From
time to time he also made highly regarded appearances as a pianist.
Weinberg was an extremely productive composer with an output ranging from a Requiem to circus music. He had a (perhaps not entirely fashionable) inclination towards large-scale, epic music; in this respect Mahler and Prokofiev were important role models. His musical style was
extremely varied, however, and his richly-coloured palette ranges from folk elements to dodecaphonic techniques.
Like most Soviet composers, Weinberg wrote collections of short, lightweight pieces for piano solo such as the three Children's Notebooks or
the Easy Pieces, Op. 34, recorded here, but in view of his predilection for larger forms it is no surprise that the sonatas are the mainstays of his
piano œuvre.
WWE1CD20406
$26.00 rrp
Marino Formenti-Notturni
Brian Ferneyhough: Lemma-Icon-Epigram / George Benjamin: Shadowlines, 6
Kanonische Präludien / Friedrich Cerha: Für Marino (gestörte Meditation): Slowakische Erinnerungen aus der
Kindheit, Nr. 5 / Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstück V (1954) / Friedrich Cerha: Slowakische Erinnerungen
aus der Kindheit, Nr. 9 / John Cage: One (1987) / Friedrich Cerha: Slowakische Erinnerungen aus der Kindheit,
Nr. 20 / Karlheinz Stockhausen: 3. Stunde – Natürliche Dauern Nr. 5, aus: Klang – die 24 Stunden des Tages
In the fall of 2011 the pianist Marino Formenti performed four one-hour solo concerts hosted by the Wien Modern
festival. The so-called “Notturni” series was centered around the piano oeuvre of Friedrich Cerha. To celebrate the
occasion Cerha wrote his first piece for solo piano in twenty years and dedicated it to Formenti.
Karsten Riedel & Franui-”Fool of Love”
Music by Karsten Riedel, Lyrics by William Shakespeare-When I consider (Sonnet 15) / WWE1CD20308
$26.00 rrp
From you have I been absent (Sonnet 98) / Then let not winter’s ragged hand deface (Sonnet 6) /
Let me confess (Sonnet 36) / Not from the stars (Sonnet 14) / A woman’s face (Sonnet 20) / Mine eye hath played
the painter (Sonnet 24) / Is it for fear (Sonnet 9) / Thus is his cheek (Sonnet 68) When forty winters shall besiege
thy brow (Sonnet 2) / So is it not with me (Sonnet 21) / O, how I faint (Sonnet 80) That thou hast her (Sonnet 42) /
Those pretty wrongs (Sonnet 41) / The expense of spirit (Sonnet 129) / Look in thy glass (Sonnet 3)
We were overjoyed when we learned about the lucky encounter between Franui and Karsten Riedel: The
“musicbanda” from the tiny East Tyrolean village Innervillgraten, equipped with a hammered dulcimer, harp,
zither, wind and string instruments, make music with the pop singer from Bochum-Wattenscheid, who played with ska, punk and reggae bands
before he started working for the theater. Love” is the art of the lied adapted for the 21st century, aka “village pop...”
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Clemens Gadenstätter-Portrait
WWE1CD20408
$26.00 rrp
ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna,
Pascal Rophé, Arturo Tamayo, conductors
The works of Clemens Gadenstätter are a wonderful example to evidence how an analytical approach
to the phenomenon of hearing may result in music that sincerely moves its listeners. This production,
entitled “Portrait,” represents a bkind of screen capture of Gadenstätter’s oeuvre. Portraits are sometimes given away as presents in order to convey something of the essence of whom or which they
portray. Clemens Gadenstätter’s music is perfectly suited as such a gift.
Yann Robin is a young composer of contemporary music, based in Paris. In the
centre of the record there are two pieces called ‘Art of Metal I + III’.
KAI1326
Those pieces are linked with a special instrument - a clarinet made completely out of
$29.00 rrp
metal. Its sound is very rich and unique and has qualities of a saxophone and clarinet as
well as its own. “The cycle’s connecting thread, the driving idea, is a metaphorical approach to
what metal brings to mind, this alloy often synonymous with strength, power, solidity, energy, brilliance, shine…” (Yann Robin)
Alain Billard metal contrabass clarinet, Susanna Mälkki conductor
Ensemble intercontemporain, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou
Darmstadt Aural Documents • Box 2
John Cage – Communication
Third Part of the Darmstadt Lecture
“Composition in Process” (1958)
John Cage, voice and piano • David Tudor, piano
NEOS11213
$26.00 rrp
This is a unique document:
Late summer, 1958. For the first time the American composer John Cage
attended the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. As so often in
those years, he was accompanied by the pianist David Tudor, and together
they gave the European premieres of his Music for Two Pianos, Winter
Music and Variations I.
John Cage’s first appearance in Darmstadt,
in 1958, was a red-letter event in the history of music (his second and last appearance there
would not take place until 1990, two years before his death). With his three lectures in particular he cracked open the little world of contemporary music, sowing the seeds for a rich, burgeoning, heterogeneous landscape of sound with many different concepts of what music is and
can be.
The Communication lecture of 1958 is, by the way, the only one of Cage’s three Darmstadt
lectures that exists in the archive of the Darmstadt International Institute of Music in the form
of an audio document, minus the opening minutes. There is no way of knowing today why the
other two lectures, Changes and Indeterminacy, were not tape-recorded, or whether the recordings later disappeared.
Also available:
Darmstadt Aural Documents • Box 1
Composers – Conductors
NEOS 11060 (6 CDs in a Box)
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NEOS11060
$75.00 rrp