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CONSUMER INFORMATION SERVICE: NO. 293
JUNE 2016
REPRESENTING
TODAY’S
GREAT LABELS
THIS MONTH'S HIGHLIGHTS
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Index
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CDs
Albion Records.........................................................................................................................................page 6
Altissimo! Recordings..............................................................................................................................page 11
BIS.........................................................................................................................................................page 5
BMMA...................................................................................................................................................page 11
BR Klassik................................................................................................................................................page 6
Bridge Records.......................................................................................................................................page 11
Cantaloupe Music......................................................................................................................................page 6
Capriccio...............................................................................................................................................page 12
CD Accord..............................................................................................................................................page 12
Cedille Records.......................................................................................................................................page 12
Champs Hill Records..................................................................................................................................page 6
Chandos..................................................................................................................................................page 4
Claudio Records......................................................................................................................................page 12
Concerto Classics....................................................................................................................................page 13
Coro.......................................................................................................................................................page 7
CPO.....................................................................................................................................................page 7,8
Dacapo....................................................................................................................................................page 8
Delos....................................................................................................................................................page 13
Dynamic................................................................................................................................................page 13
EDA......................................................................................................................................................page 13
Farao Classics.........................................................................................................................................page 14
Genuin Classics.......................................................................................................................................page 14
Grand Piano...................................................................................................................................... page 14,15
Hanssler Classic......................................................................................................................................page 15
Hyperion.................................................................................................................................................page 3
Kairos...................................................................................................................................................page 16
Klanglogo..............................................................................................................................................page 16
LPO........................................................................................................................................................page 8
Melodiya.................................................................................................................................................page 9
Novum....................................................................................................................................................page 9
Oehms Classics.......................................................................................................................................page 16
Omnibus Classics....................................................................................................................................page 16
Opera Rara...............................................................................................................................................page 9
Orchid Classics.........................................................................................................................................page 9
Orfeo....................................................................................................................................................page 10
Orlando Records.....................................................................................................................................page 17
Paladino Music.......................................................................................................................................page 17
Profil....................................................................................................................................................page 17
Quartz...................................................................................................................................................page 17
Reference Recordings..............................................................................................................................page 17
Rondeau Production................................................................................................................................page 18
RPO......................................................................................................................................................page 10
Somm...................................................................................................................................................page 10
Sono Luminus........................................................................................................................................page 18
SWR Music.............................................................................................................................................page 18
Tactus.............................................................................................................................................. page 18,19
Toccata Classics......................................................................................................................................page 19
Wergo.............................................................................................................................................. page 10,11
DVDs
Delos...................................................................................................................................................page 20
Dynamic...............................................................................................................................................page 20
Opus Arte.............................................................................................................................................page 19
Seventh Art..........................................................................................................................................page 20
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César FRANCK, Claude DEBUSSY
Piano Quintet & String Quartet
Takács Quartet, Marc-André Hamelin
Franck’s Piano Quintet and Debussy’s String Quartet make an apt and unusual
coupling, each work its composer’s only, unsurpassable, contribution to the
genre. Both receive authoritative performances from Marc-André Hamelin and
the Takács Quartet.
CDA68061
Alonso LOBO (1555-1617)
Lamentations & other sacred music
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
Alonso Lobo may be remembered principally for the great funerary motet Versa est in luctum,
but his setting of the biblical Lamentations must also be counted among the masterpieces
of Renaissance polyphony. No choir has a more distinguished tradition in such music than
Westminster Cathedral Choir.
CDA68106
Morton FELDMAN, George CRUMB
Palais de Mari; A Little Suite for Christmas
Steven Osborne
The extraordinary soundscapes conjured by Morton Feldman and George Crumb are like nothing
else in the whole of twentieth-century music. Steven Osborne is the most sympathetic of guides
to these rarefied worlds.
CDA68108
English Romantic Madrigals
Royal Holloway Choir, Rupert Gough
The church music of Victorian England has always retained a secure foothold; not so the secular
part-songs recorded here. Written to complement the Elizabethan madrigals which were then being
rediscovered and performed, an unjustly neglected corner of the English vocal repertoire is revitalized
by Rupert Gough and Royal Holloway Choir.
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Fryderyk CHOPIN
Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat major, Op. 61; Nocturne in B major, Op. 62 No. 1; Nocturne in E major, Op.
62 No. 2; Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49; Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52; Nocturne in D flat major, Op. 27
No. 2; Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23; Nocturne in E flat major, Op. 55 No. 2; Berceuse in D flat major,
Op. 57
Imogen Cooper
Having explored the music of Schumann in three previous, much-lauded recordings, Imogen Cooper now
turns to the music of Chopin. Combining some of his greatest works, this album is a recital in itself.
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The Lyrical Clarinet, Volume 2
Robert SCHUMANN: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73; Ernest CHAUSSON: Andante et Allegro; John FIELD arr. McHale: Nocturne
No. 2 in C minor, H 25; Nocturne No. 5 in B flat, H 37; Nocturne No. 10 in E minor, H 54 [Première Recordings]; Maurice
RAVEL: Pièce en forme de Habanera; Jean FRANÇAIX: Tema con variazioni; Jules MASSENET: Méditation from ‘Thaïs’;
Claude DEBUSSY: Petite pièce; Carlos GUASTAVINO: Sonata
Michael Collins, Michael McHale
After a highly praised first volume, including sonatas from Poulenc and Saint-Saëns, the virtuoso clarinettist Michael
Collins – exclusive on Chandos - presents a new collection of pieces for The Lyrical Clarinet.
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WAGNER, MACCUNN, NIELSEN, ENESCU, WEBERN, STRAUSS,
HOLST, PROKOFIEV, MENDELSSOHN, GLAZUNOV, SAINT-SAËNS,
SHOSTAKOVICH, DEBUSSY, SIBELIUS, MARTINŮ, ADAMS
125 years of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, various conductors
In the 2015-2016 season, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra celebrates a proud 125-year history
of bringing the best in classical music performances to audience’s right across Scotland and beyond.
Marking its recording relationship with the Orchestra, Chandos has compiled a two-disc set (at the
price of one CD) of the finest of thirty years of recordings that have shaped the reputation of the
Orchestra as well as the label.
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Johann ADOLPH: Hasse Cello Concerto in D major
Johann WILHELM: Hertel Cello Concerto in A minor; Cello Concerto in A major
Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH: Cello Concerto in A minor, Wq170
Musica Viva (Moscow Chamber Orchestra), Alexander Rudin
This album presents three rarely performed or heard early German cello concertos, played by Alexander
Rudin. The multi-prize winning soloist is also a well-established conductor, in his native Russia as well
as worldwide, fulfilling both roles in this recording; his first on Chandos.
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Joseph Bodin de BOISMORTIER:
Simphonie pour l’arrivée des Génies
Elémentaires from Les Voyages de l’Amour, Op. 60; Premier Ballet de Village en trio, Op. 52; Sonate III à
deux parties, Op. 14; Concerto à cinq parties, Op. 37; Sonate IV à trois parties, Op. 37
Jean-Féry REBEL: Les Caractères de la Danse; Sonate Sixiéme
Michel CORRETTE: Concerto comique VI, Op. 8 ‘Le Plaisir des Dames’
Ensemble Meridiana
Chandos is delighted to welcome on board the multi-award-winning Ensemble Meridiana. Established as
one of Europe’s finest baroque ensembles, they are regularly invited to all the prestigious international
early music festivals, on top of their worldwide touring activity.
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Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)
Lieder ohne Worte, books 5-8
Ronald Brautigam
In 1828 Felix Mendelssohn invented a genre completely of his own when he presented his sister Fanny
with a ‘song without words’ for her birthday. He went on to compose a large number of such Lieder ohne
Worte and published no less than six sets of six pieces each. Following Mendelssohn’s death in 1847
the publisher Simrock issued another two sets, compiled from pieces that the composer had set aside
for later publication. This second volume includes the last four published sets of Lieder ohne Worte, as
well as a number of other piano miniatures. Brautigam performs them on the same instrument as on the
previous disc, a copy by Paul McNulty after a piano from 1830 by Ignaz Pleyel, preserved at Musée de la
musique in Paris.
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Igor STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)
Pulcinella Suite; Apollon musagète; Concerto in D for strings
Tapiola Sinfonietta, Masaaki Suzuki
For his first recording of twentieth-century repertoire, Masaaki Suzuki has chosen to collaborate with the acclaimed
Tapiola Sinfonietta in an all-Stravinsky programme. The disc begins with the music for Pulcinella – here in the concert
suite devised by the composer – which Stravinsky later described as ‘the epiphany through which the whole of my later
work became possible’. For this adaptation of an early eighteenth-century commedia dell’arte libretto, he based his
score on existing music, however, in Pulcinella the material is slanted harmonically, rhythmically and
texturally in a manner reminiscent of cubism – and it was indeed Picasso who provided the decor and
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costumes for the ballet’s first performance. The neoclassical (or neobaroque) spirit remained a vital part
of Stravinsky’s compositional armoury, and informs the other two works presented here.
Kenneth HESKETH (b. 1968)
Horae (pro clara)
Through Magic Casements; Notte Oscura; Three Japanese Miniatures
Clare Hammond
Following up on Etude and Reflections, her recent, highly acclaimed releases on BIS, here Clare
Hammond performs music by her compatriot, the British composer Kenneth Hesketh. In her liner
notes, Clare Hammond describes his works for the piano as 'music of phenomenal depth in which there
is always something new to discover, something to surprise even the most jaded ear’. The centrepiece
of the disc is Horae (pro clara), composed for Clare Hammond: a 40-minute cycle in twelve parts that
together form a breviary or miniature book of hours. The three shorter works that frame Horae are all
earlier works.
BIS2193
Xiaogang YE (b. 1955)
Symphony No. 3 ‘Chu’; The Last Paradise
Hila Plitmann, Cho-Liang Lin, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, José Serebrier
Born in 1955, Xiaogang Ye is regarded as one of China’s leading contemporary composers. On the present
disc Ye’s music is championed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, under the eminent conductor José
Serebrier, and joined by the celebrated violinist Cho-Liang Lin and soprano Hila Plitmann. In 2002 Ye
was commissioned to write a symphony in celebration of the Wuhan Orchestra’s tenth anniversary. The
resultant Symphony No. 3, subtitled Chu consists of seven movements, during which Chinese instruments
such as the pipa, sheng and the erhu appear alongside the traditional symphony orchestra. Two
movements also include a wordless soprano part.
BIS2083
23 Vocalises-Etudes
Harry White, Edward Rushton
To sing a melodic line on a single vowel presents many technical difficulties. For the past 250 years,
vocalises have therefore been an important tool for singing instructors, and in 1906 Amédée-Landély
Hettich, a voice professor at the Paris Conservatoire, made it his goal to raise the vocalise from a dull
practice tool to a work of art in its own right. Over a period of thirty years, he persuaded an impressive
list of composers to write vocalises, and 150 of these were published by Éditions Alphonse Leduc in the
series Répertoire Moderne de Vocalises-Études. Finding his own instrument, with its flexible, voice-like
timbre, ideal for the varied musical characters represented in Hettich’s collection, the saxophonist Harry
White here presents a selection of 23 vocalises by composers as diverse as Fauré, Nielsen, Messiaen and
Villa-Lobos.
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Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Gustav HOLST
Heirs and Rebels
Robert Irwin, Stuart Robertson, Edgar Coyle, Peter Dawson, Gerald Moore, George Thalben-Ball, Black Dyke Mills Band, BBC Chorus,
Band of HM Grenadier Guards, Rae Jenkins, Leslie Woodgate, Julius Harrison
Heirs and Rebels is the title given to a book of letters between Holst and Vaughan Williams: ‘The heirs had come into their
inheritance and the rebels had led a revolution of greater importance than they could guess’. This release revives 78 rpm
recordings made by the composers’ contemporaries which are now of both historical and musical interest. Recordings from
1922 to 1946 have been remastered by Pete Reynolds bringing these old recordings to life.
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Jean SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43; Finlandia, Op. 26; Karelia Suite, Op. 11
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
The new release from BR KLASSIK gathers the most famous and popular musical works of the great Finnish
composer Jean Sibelius on one CD. The exemplary interpretations by the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen
Rundfunks under its chief conductor Mariss Jansons were recorded at several Munich concerts during the autumn
of 2015.
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Kate MOORE
Stories for Ocean Shells
Ashley Bathgate
Australian composer Kate Moore has worked with a wide range of ensembles, including Slagwerk Den Haag,
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, the Amsterdam Cello Octet, the New European Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, the Bang on a
Can All-Stars and many more. On her Cantaloupe Music debut with All-Stars cellist Ashley Bathgate, she brings a
uniquely vivid, contemplative and almost spiritual voice to these six new compositions for the cello.
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Shakespeare settings by SCHUBERT, BRAHMS, LISZT, AIKIN, PARRY,
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, BOWERMAN, CAPLET, SAUGUET, BRITTEN
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
Sonnets in Music
Ben Johnson, Graham Johnson
CHRCD103
Ben Johnson is accompanied by duo partner Graham Johnson in a new recording of timeless sonnets and poetry
by Shakespeare, Petrarch and Michelangelo (amongst others), all set to music by British, French and German
composers.
Alexander SCRIABIN
Complete Piano Preludes
Anthony Hewitt
CHRCD072
British pianist Anthony Hewitt records the complete piano preludes of iconic Russian composer Alexander Scriabin.
SCHUBERT, GAUBERT, BERLIOZ, RAVEL, CAPLET,
DEBUSSY, SAINT-SAËNS, CHAUSSON
Chanson Perpétuelle: French Chamber Songs
Katherine Broderick, James Baillieu, Heath Quartet, Adam Walker, Tim Lowe
CHRCD095
Soprano Katherine Broderick joins instrumentalists including pianist James Baillieu, flautist Adam Walker, cellist
Tim Lowe and the Heath Quartet in a new recording of French Chamber Songs.
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Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin, Volume 2
Sonata No. 5 in F minor, Op. 24 ‘Spring’; Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96
Susanna Ogata, Ian Watson
Susanna Ogata, violin, and Ian Watson, fortepiano, join forces to record the complete Sonatas
for Fortepiano and Violin of Ludwig van Beethoven in four instalments. Using period instruments
for which the music was originally written, Watson and Ogata reveal not only the clarity of
Beethoven’s extraordinary musical structures, but also the beauty and lyricism of these two
particular sonatas.
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Georg Philipp TELEMANN
The Grand Concertos for Mixed Instruments, Vol. 3
La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider
CPO present the third volume in the critically acclaimed Telemann Grand Concertos for Mixed Instruments
edition. This new recording demonstrates the same ‘stylistically flawless and tonally beautiful
interpretations’ that characterised the first two, with the three-movement Concerto in D major for Three
Horns, Violin, Strings, Oboes, and Basso Continuo notable for the intricate mastery of composition.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH
Bürgerkapitänsmusik – 1780 Oratorio & Serenade
barockwerk hamburg, Ira Hochman
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach wrote his Hamburger Bürgerkapitänsmusik in 1780 for the annual festive gathering
of the captains of Hamburg’s civic guard. Trumpets and timpani and allegorical figures including virtues and
vices are employed to contrast war and peace.
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Jan van GILSE (1881-1944)
Piano Concerto ‘Drei Tanzskizzen’; Variations on a Saint-Nicolas Song
Oliver Triendl, Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn
This month CPO add another volume to their rediscovery of a significant early twentieth-century Dutch
composer. Gilse stood squarely on the foundation of tonal late romanticism and wrote music of dazzling
beauty. His sumptuous, romantic, and ravishing orchestral music abounds in pathos, drama, and passion.
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Erasmus WIDMANN (1572-1634): Musicalischer Tugendtspiegel (1613, selection)
Michael PRAETORIUS (1571-1621): Terpsichore Musarum (1612, selection)
Accademia del Ricercare, Pietro Busca
This release offers a fascinating overview of the German instrumental world just prior to the outbreak of the
Thirty Years’ War (1618-48). You can look forward to dances of spirited motion, exhibiting a full and richly
varied sound palette.
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Nino ROTA (1911-1979)
Piano Works
Variazioni e Fuga nei dodici toni sul nome di Bach; 15 Preludi; Valzer; Ippolito Gioca;
7 Pezzi difficili per Bambini; Fantasia in G
Christian Seibert
Rota’s compositions for piano attest to Bach’s influential role in his music. In 1950 he wrote the Variations
and Fugue in Twelve Tones on the Name of Bach, a work with a magnificent fugue consisting of a most highly
chromatic structure posing a genuine challenge to the pianist and in every way equal to Max Reger’s complex
works. The most ambitious work composed by Rota for solo piano is formed by the 15 Preludi that can be
heard on this new release.
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Giacomo MEYERBEER
Dinorah
Ou Le Pardon de Ploermel
Patrizia Ciofi, Etienne Dupuis, Philippe Talbot, Seth Carico, Elebenita Kajtazi, Gideon Poppe, Christina Sidak, Der Chor
der Deutschen Oper Berlin, William Spaulding, Das Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Enrique Mazzola
Following the successful release of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera Vasco da Gama, CPO presents another opera
by the same composer. In Dinorah, Meyerbeer succeeds in setting the story of the lovers Dinorah and Hoël,
mixing lyrical, folkloric, and comical elements that lends the music a subtle and unique colour palette.
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Nino ROTA
Piano Works
Variazioni e Fuga nei dodici toni sul nome di Bach; 15 Preludi; Valzer; Ippolito Gioca; 7 Pezzi difficili per
Bambini; Fantasia in G
Christian Seibert
Nino Rota’s compositions for piano attest to Bach’s influential role in his music. In 1950 he wrote the
Variations and Fugue in Twelve Tones on the name of Bach, a work with a magnificent fugue with a highly
chromatic structure posing a genuine challenge to the pianist. The most ambitious work composed by Rota for
solo piano is the Fifteen Preludes, heard on this recording.
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Per NØRGÅRD
Symphonies 2 & 6
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
This recording with the Oslo Philharmonic conducted by John Storgårds presents Per Nørgård’s
euphoric and psychedelic Second Symphony, in which the composer unfolds his famous ‘infinity
principle’ and his Sixth Symphony, in which the mature composer proves more exploratory and
playful than ever.
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Per NØRGÅRD
Symphonies 4 & 5
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
This recording by the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor John Storgårds presents two of Nørgård’s
most dramatic works: the chaotic and troubled Symphony No. 4 inspired by the schizophrenic Swiss artist Adolf
Wölfli, and the fearless Symphony No. 5, in which the composer seems to embrace violent forces of nature.
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Anton BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major (Nowak Edition, 1878)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanisł aw Skrowaczewski
This recording is an interpretation of humility from nonagenarian Stanisław Skrowaczewski, a
performance in which the listener can hear the remarkable connection between conductor and
the London Philharmonic Orchestra; the Orchestra has performed Bruckner’s symphonies under
his baton many times.
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Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937)
Pavane for a Dead Princess; Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2; Mother Goose; Spanish Rhapsody
The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
Melodiya presents a disc of Maurice Ravel’s symphonic works dedicated to the great French composer’s 135th
birthday. The album features Ravel’s works created during one decade – Spanish Rhapsody, Suite No. 2 from
the ballet Daphnis and Chloe, as well as orchestral versions of Pavane for a Dead Princess and the suite
Mother Goose. They are performed by the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Evgeny
Svetlanov. These recordings were made at the concert dedicated to Ravel’s 100th anniversary that took
place on 17 March 1975 at the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
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Antonio VIVALDI, Carl Maria von WEBER, André JOLIVET
Bassoon Concertos
Rodion Tolmachev
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Ivan Stolbov
Rodion Tolmachev, a graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the Hannover University of
Music, is one of the best Russian bassoonists of the new generation. This new disc from Melodiya
features works for bassoon and orchestra written in different ages – three concertos by Antonio Vivaldi,
a romantic, radiant concerto by Carl Maria von Weber, and an elegant, neoclassical Concertino for
bassoon, harp, piano and strings by the 20th century French master André Jolivet.
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John BLOW
Symphony Anthems
God spake sometime in visions Hear my voice, O God; O sing unto the Lord; When the Son of Man; When
Israel came out of Egypt; I was glad
Choir of New College Oxford, St James’ Baroque, Robert Quinney
This new recording by New College Choir – its first under the direction of Robert Quinney – includes three
previously unrecorded symphony anthems, together with ceremonial works written for the coronation of
James II and the consecration of the rebuilt St Paul’s Cathedral. Alongside these, Quinney presents the
first performance in 400 years of a newly reconstructed verse anthem.
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Ruggero LEONCAVALLO
Zazà
Ermonela Jaho, Stephen Gaertner, Riccardo Massi, Patricia Bardon, David Stout
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Maurizio Benini
Zazà is Opera Rara’s first recording venture into the musical world of Leoncavallo and the operatic tradition
of verismo. Maurizio Benini leads the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Ermonela Jaho in her recording debut
as the eponymous Zazà. Jaho is joined by Riccardo Massi as her lover Milio, Stephen Gaertner as her
onstage partner and former lover Cascart, and Patricia Bardon as her mother Anaide.
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Gerald BARRY (b. 1952)
Barry Meets Beethoven
Stephen Richardson, Chamber Choir Ireland, Crash Ensemble, Paul Hillier
Ireland’s leading vocal ensemble releases an album of works by Irish composer Gerald Barry, featuring
premieres of two major works that dramatize key episodes in the life of Beethoven.
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Felix MENDELSSOHN: Symphonies Nos 1 & 4; Jörg WIDMANN: ad absurdum
Sergei Nakariakov
Irish Chamber Orchestra, Jörg Widmann
ORFEO is delighted to begin a new collaboration with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, and Artistic Director Jörg Widmann,
to record the symphonies of Felix Mendelssohn. The multi-talented Jörg Widmann comes to the project not just
as an instrumentalist and conductor but as a ‘composer colleague’ of Mendelssohn. In Widmann’s ad absurdum
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the disc presents not just a first-class soloist here, but also a work written especially for him. It takes a masterly
instrumentalist such as trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov to divine and explore the truly transcendental possibilities
and musical intelligence that this music presents.
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
Piano Concerto No. 4; Symphonies Nos 3 & 7; Coriolan Ouvertüre
Wilhelm Backhaus
Wiener Philharmoniker, Hans Knappertsbusch
Hans Knappertsbuschs’s approach to Beethoven is a special case within the ‘special case’ that was
Knappertsbusch himself. In his finest moments, his high degree of unpredictability (something which marks
him out as the complete opposite of his great colleague and competitor Karajan) affords his interpretations
a sense of ‘recreating’ the music in the truest sense of the word. On this new double CD we can hear both a
complete concert given in the Musikverein in Vienna on 17 January 1954 – with the Coriolanus Overture, the
Fourth Piano Concerto and the Seventh Symphony – and the Third Symphony from a concert at the same venue,
given on 17 February 1962.
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The Best of Bond
Mary Carewe, Simon Bowman, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Carl Davis
The world-class Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, with guest vocalists Mary Carewe and Simon Bowman, performs
classic title songs and music from iconic 007 films.
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George GERSHWIN
Rhapsody in Blue; Piano Concerto in F; Variations on ‘I Got Rhythm’
Bonus Disc – First integral recording Eight Preludes for Piano Solo
Mark Bebbington, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leon Botstein
Mark Bebbington, best-known for his much-acclaimed recordings of British music on SOMM, takes a leap across
the Atlantic this month to bring his refined yet expressive style to a spectacular all-Gershwin CD, alongside the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Grammy Award-nominated American conductor Leon Botstein.
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Morton FELDMAN (1926-1987)
Beckett Material
Claudia Barainsky, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Peter Rundel
In early 1976, Feldman had accepted a commission from the opera in Rome for the opera Neither, based on a text
by Samuel Beckett. His works Orchestra, Elemental Procedures, and Routine Investigations, written in the short period
between April and July in 1976, represented for Morton Feldman a trilogy with which he prepared himself for the
work on this opera. Feldman said, 'All three pieces contain what I call 'Beckett material' – a long, continuous
melodic line that I planned to use in my later Beckett opera. Now the opera Neither is finished, and I didn’t even
use the ‘Beckett material’ there’.
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Hans Werner HENZE (1926-2012)
Being Beauteous; Kammermusik 1958
Anna Prohaska, Peter Gijsbertsen, NDR Sinfonieorchester, Peter Ruzicka
Henze composed the cantata Being Beauteous, based on the poem of the same name by Arthur Rimbaud, in 1963,
soon after returning from his first trip to the USA. Henze felt that his experiences in New York – the danger to life
and the challenge to the classical ideal of beauty posed by the conflict between abundance and decay – had been
anticipated in Rimbaud’s poem, which comes from the cycle Les Illuminations. By contrast, Henze was inspired
by a number of experiences to write Kammermusik 1958. He made numerous sketches during a trip to Greece in
the summer of 1958: ‘Everything was as though myths had been born only yesterday. The stones began to sing’
(Henze). The recording of Kammermusik 1958 is the first recording of the string orchestra version.
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Pēteris VASKS (b. 1946)
String Quartets 1, 3 & 4
Spīķeru String Quartet
The music of Pēteris Vasks makes use of symbolism: birdsongs associated with ultimate freedom, elements of
Latvian folk music as a reminder of Latvian identity, toccata-like passages expressing an evil and brutal force,
and aleatoric episodes picturing scenes full of despair and chaos. The present recording of the String Quartets
Nos. 1, 3 and 4 complete the string quartet oeuvre of Vasks recorded by WERGO. The five string quartets
cover almost thirty years of his creative experience and clearly illustrate the basic principles of Vasks’ musical
language.
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Balz TRÜMPY (b. 1946)
Oracula Sibyllae
El Cimarrón Ensemble
For Balz Trümpy, composing represents the ‘possibility to transport something from other dimensions into
our reality of time and space’. This is made most clear in the longest work on this CD, the Oracula Sibyllae,
which can be seen as both the point of departure and the goal of this collection. Trümpy wrote the piece for
the El Cimarron Ensemble, to whose members it is dedicated. Preceding this piece on the CD are four other
instrumental pieces that lead us into his music from different directions.
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John WILLIAMS, William SCHUMAN, Charles IVES, Jonathan ELKUS,
Robert RUSSELL BENNETT, Aaron COPLAND, MSgt. Donald PATTERSON
Be Glad then, America
Gunnery Sergeant Sara Dell’Omo, The President’s Own United States Marine Band, Lt. Col. Jason K. Fettig
Be Glad Then, America takes its title from William Schuman’s New England Triptych, which used as its point of
departure the religious choral writing of William Billings, one of the grandfathers of American music. Also
included are three world première recordings: the exuberant For ‘The President’s Own’ by John Williams, a set of
selected Charles Ives songs arranged for the President’s Own, and a transcription of the glorious final movement
of Aaron Copland’s Third Symphony.
ALT04032
H. M. Queen Elizabeth’s March
The Band of the Grenadier Guards, Lieutenant-Colonel G. J. Miller, MVO, MBE, LRAM, psm
The Band of the Grenadier Guards came to be in 1685, ‘born’ of a royal warrant the same year as J.S. Bach
and Handel. The title track was composed by Adela Verne, one of the period’s virtuoso pianists, and although
the march takes its name from the late Queen Mother rather than the reigning Queen Elizabeth, BMMA felt it
appropriate to look forward to the Queen’s Birthday Parade in June. Other commemorative works on the album
include Edward German’s Coronation March and Hymn, composed for King George V’s 1911 coronation, and an
arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Festival Overture.
BMMAGG1603
Robert Nathaniel DETT (1882-1943)
The Ordering of Moses
Live from Carnegie Hall
Latonia Moore, Ronnita Nicole Miller, Rodrick Dixon, Donnie Ray Albert
May Festival Chorus, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, James Conlon
BRIDGE 9462
In 1937, Cincinnati’s May Festival gave the world premiere of Robert Nathaniel Dett’s oratorio, The Ordering of
Moses, a ‘Biblical Folk Scene’ composed in 1932. The event was broadcast live to the nation by NBC radio. The
present recording captures a thrilling 2014 concert of Dett’s magnum opus, live from Carnegie Hall.
Ursula MAMLOK (b. 1923)
Ursula Mamlok, Volume 5
Holger Groschopp, Kolja Lessing, Parnassus, Anthony Korf, Frank Lunte, Tatjana Blome, Heinz Holliger, Hanna
Weinmeister, Jürg Dähler, Daniel Haefliger, Hartmut Rohde, Musicians of Spectrum Concerts Berlin
At the age of 92, Ursula Mamlok, who spent many decades living in New York, has returned to her native
Germany, where she has been heralded as a master composer. Bridge Records has been honoured to issue
dozens of her compositions, with the present Volume 5 being, perhaps, the most far reaching to date,
containing nine compositions spanning the years 1942-2015.
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Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD, Karl GOLDMARK
Première Portraits: Cornelia Hübsch
Cornelia Hübsch, Charles Spencer
Capriccio’s Première Portraits series supports young, talented artists by making their debut CDs available to a world-wide
audience. This new release presents the Austrian soprano Cornelia Hübsch, born in Baden near Vienna. Hübsch studied
at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz under the supervision of Elisabeth Batrice; she also attended master
classes with Ildiko Raimondi, Kurt Equiluz and David Lutz.
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Vincenzo BELLINI, Gaetano DONIZETTI, Gioachino ROSSINI
Première Portraits: Emanuele D’Aguanno
C3005
Emanuele D’Aguanno, Charles Spencer
Capriccio’s Première Portraits series supports young, talented artists by making their debut CDs available to a world-wide
audience. This new release presents one of the most promising young tenors of his generation: Emanuele D’Aguanno.
He distinguished himself at the ‘Toti dal Monte’ competition in Treviso (as Paolino in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto),
launching an international performance career which has led to appearances at many major venues in Italy and abroad.
Rafał AUGUSTYN
sub iove
Cantores Minores Wratislavienses, Piotr Karpeta
Augustyn’s chorus sub iove has nothing in common with heavenly choirs. If anything it stems from ancient choreomania
and is closer to poetry than composed music where melody and rhythm play an equal role dictated by the overall, overriding musicality of the narrative.
ACD212
Agata ZUBEL, Cezary DUCHNOWSKI
Stories nowhere from
ElettroVoce
A new project from the ElettroVoce Duo, Stories nowhere from brings together pieces for voice and piano with electronics.
After the acclaimed Parlando and Monad 3, awarded at the International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music (IREM) in
Rome, these nine stories present yet another dimension of the artists’ work.
ACD220
Zoltán KODÁLY, Miklós RÓZSA
Project Hungarica
Music for strings
ACD226
Szymon Krzeszowiec, Bartł omiej Nizioł, Adam Krzeszowiec
The Duo for violin and cello, Op. 7 was written by Zoltán Kodály in 1914. This is masterful music, both instruments
displaying the whole gamut of expressive and technical bravura. Kodály draws the very peculiar blend of rhapsodic
melancholy and dancelike vigour from Hungarian folklore. Kodály’s work is coupled here with music by Miklós Rózsa.
Known above all for his film music, he is the recipient of three Oscars.
Dan VISCONTI, Thomas Moked BLUM, Robert BEASER, Kenneth BENSHOOF, BALADINO
Nedudim
Fifth House Ensemble, Baladino
Enterprising chamber group Fifth House Ensemble, noted for its ‘conviction, authority, and finesse’ (The New York Times),
joins forces with swinging and virtuosic Mediterranean folk band Baladino and 2014 Rome Prize-winning composer Dan
Visconti for an exhilarating, boundary-breaking collaboration. Nedudim, Hebrew for ‘wanderings’, is an album of eleven
world-premiere vocal and instrumental works created from a palette of international influences, including accents of
Indian raga, plus fresh arrangements of folk melodies from the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East.
CDR 90000 164
Domenico SCARLATTI, Jean-Philippe RAMEAU, Frédéric CHOPIN
Rosalind Bieber
This recording is the rediscovery of a great artist, a great musician and a unique creative
mind. For this recording, Rosalind Bieber has come out of retirement as a musician and, with
great physical effort, immortalised performances of Scarlatti, Rameau and Chopin that show
the promise and brilliance of her ever-too-short career.
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Andrea LUCHESI (1741-1801)
Sacred Music
Massimo Belli, Roberto Brisotto, Laura Antonaz, Elena Biscuola, Luca Dordolo, Matteo Bellotto
Nuova Orchestra Da Camera Ferruccio Busoni, Coro Della Cappella Civica Di Trieste
CNT 2098
The recorded compositions on this album are attributed with certainty to Luchesi. The Kyrie in D minor for
S.A.T.B. choir, orchestra (2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 horns, and strings) and organ, is perhaps one of the oldest
existent pieces of sacred works by Luchesi. The attentive listener will recognize a melodic phrase of 4 beats,
which is played after the introduction by the alto and soprano.
Conrad SUSA
David CONTE
Facing West
Cappella SF, Ragnar Bohlin
DE 3524
Grammy Award-winning choirmaster Ragnar Bohlin leads his professional chamber choir, Cappella SF, in a
stunning program of choral music by two of America’s leading contemporary composers.
GRIEG, FRANCK
Symphonic Masterworks
Thomas Murray
It’s not often that one hears recorded organ transcriptions of major works originally composed for symphony
orchestra. But that’s what we get here; a transcendental programme of orchestral favourites played to breathtaking perfection by Thomas Murray, an internationally renowned organist and Yale professor.
DE 3525
Marco TUTINO (b. 1954)
Le braci (‘Embers’)
From the homonymous novel by Sándor Márai
Angela Nisi, Romina Tomasoni, Davide Giusti, Pavol Kuban, Alfonso Antoniozzi, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Orchestra
Internazionale d’Italia, Francesco Cilluffo
Italian composer Marco Tutino based the plot of his opera Le braci (‘Embers’) on a famous novel by Hungarian
writer Sándor Márai. Set against the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Le braci tells the story of a broken
friendship, of the inevitability of the ageing process, and of violent feelings that remain smouldering beneath
the ashes of the past.
CDS7736
Stephen HELLER (1813-1888)
Kinderszenen, Op. 124; Notenbuch für Klein und Gross, Op. 138
Luigi Gerosa
A contemporary of Schumann, Stephen Heller was a Hungarian pianist and composer. His catalogue comprises
158 opus numbers, almost all of which are piano works, plus several unnumbered pieces. Emulating Schumann,
one of Heller’s works is titled Kinderszenen, which is presented here alongside the world première recording
of his Notenbuch für Klein und Gross, Op. 138. These two collections, written in a remarkably sensitive and
evocative style, tell stories of childhood.
CDS7747
York HÖLLER (b. 1944)
Piano Works
Kristi Becker, Pi‐hsien Chen, Fabio Martino, Tamara Stefanovich, Fabian Müller, York Höller
After a comprehensive overview of the piano oeuvre of the Cologne‐resident Krzysztof Meyer, EDA Records
devotes itself again to the piano works of an important contemporary composer, which are presented nearly
complete on this double CD. The works written between 1964 and 2012 for this instrument not only mark
important stages in York Höller’s compositional development, but they also reveal his fundamental interest
in – and knowledge of – the playing characteristics of the instrument, which have a direct influence on the
structure and facture of the writing.
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Antonín DVOŘÁK, Bedřich SMETANA
The Czech Album
ATOS Trio
B108093
First came ‘the French album’, then ‘the Russian album’; now, the ATOS Trio is presenting The Czech Album with music
by Dvořák and Smetana. Two trios composed amid profound human pain resulting from the loss of a beloved person.
The ATOS Trio was founded in 2003. Outstanding characteristics of the ensemble are its warm, homogeneous trio
sound, its variety of approaches depending on the style and epoch of the music being played, and above all the artistic
communication between the players and their complete dedication to the music.
Varietas
Works by HANDEL, BUXTEHUDE, BÖHM, J.S. BACH, TELEMANN, MATTHESON, C.P.E. BACH
Jean Christophe Dijoux
GEN16420
One of the most exciting harpsichordists of the younger generation, Jean-Christophe Dijoux takes us on a thrilling
journey to the baroque period – the age of the keyboard virtuoso. This multiple award-winning musician is passionate
about the musical world straddling the line between notation and improvisation, and here he revels in Preludes,
Fantasies and Fugues ranging from Handel, J.S. Bach and Telemann to C.P.E. Bach.
Monodialogue
Works for Viola Solo by TELEMANN, HINDEMITH, STRAVINSKY, WIESENBERG
Guy Ben-Ziony
GEN16423
On his Genuin Classics debut, Berlin-based Israeli-violist Guy Ben-Ziony presents a programme that ranges from
Telemann, Stravinsky and Hindemith, to Menachem Wiesenberg. Wiesenberg’s Monodialogue, dedicated to Guy Ben-Ziony’s
former teacher Tabea Zimmermann, rounds off the disc with ethereal sounds that hover between dream and reality.
Wald.Horn.Lied
Music for male voices and four horns by SCHUBERT, SCHUMANN, GOLDMARK
amarcord, german hornsound
GEN16434
This new Genuin Classics CD entitled Wald.Horn.Lied. promises to be an exceptional meeting of superb artists, with worldrenowned vocal ensemble amarcord alongside german hornsound. The songs by Schubert, Schumann, Goldmark and other
composers (including a number of rarely performed works) are born from the very heart of German Romanticism.
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)
Goldberg Variations BWV 988
Marie Rosa Günter
GEN16435
One of the great works of the piano literature, a true test of skill for any serious concert pianist, and even more so for a
pianist as young as Marie Rosa Günter, who has devoted her debut CD to Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Here, the multipleprize-winning pianist presents this magnificent Baroque kaleidoscope with superlative piano technique and a maturity
that commands admiration.
Brücken (‘Bridges’)
Works by BUSONI, J.S. BACH, KURTAG, REGER, LIGETI
Klavierduo Stenzl
This disc by the Stenzl Piano Duo, that has won a dozen international competitions and hold the world’s only piano
duo professorship, is as organic as a concert programme. In an amazingly taut musical offering, the two pianists build
bridges that span centuries.
GEN16549
Leopold KOŽELUCH (1747-1818)
Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 6
Kemp English
In 1785 and 1786 Mozart’s piano concertos were winning many admirers in the public concert halls of Vienna. Koželuch,
however, continued to excel as master of the piano sonata, plying his art in the city’s ubiquitous private concert
soirées. Indeed, the four works presented here ably demonstrate why his sonatas might aptly be called ‘the ideal of the
high-Classic style’. To be sure, Mozart’s influence is felt in Sonatas Nos. 21, 23 and 24 but in Sonata No. 22, Koželuch
pre-empts the hallmarks of Mozart’s much later penultimate Sonata in B flat major K570.
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Philip GLASS (b. 1937)
Glassworlds, Vol. 4: On Love
The Hours; Modern Love Waltz; Notes on a Scandal; Music in Fifths
Nicolas Horvath
This volume focuses on love, one of Philip Glass’ most glorious themes. The timeless melancholy of his BAFTA awardwinning music for The Hours forms an organic suite driven by the film’s three powerful characters, here complete with
three unpublished movements. The breathtakingly energetic Modern Love Waltz expands the limits of minimalism by
combining Glass’s style with Viennese dance tradition, while his transcription of Notes on a Scandal is a recording première.
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George ENESCU (1881-1955)
Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 1
Josu de Solaun
This first of three discs devoted to George Enescu’s piano music presents three significant pieces. The ruminative yet
striking Nocturne in D flat is a work of shifting sonorities and moods. The Pièces impromptues, Op. 18 are independent,
unrelated character pieces that illuminate once again the composer’s fascination with the indigenous music of Romania.
The Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 24, No. 1 is – by contrast – a massive statement characterised by harmonic
surprises, innovative techniques and insistent rhythms.
GP705
Béla BARTÓK
Folk Music
Complete Works for Piano Solo, Vol. 3
Andreas Bach
HC16020
Joseph HAYDN: Cello Concerto in C Major
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: arr. Gaspar Cassado: Cello Concerto in D Major (after the horn concerto in E flat Major, K 447)
Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH: Cello Concerto in B flat Major, Wq 171
Valentin Radutiu, Münchener Kammerorchester, Stephan Frucht
HC16038
Sergei RACHMANINOV
Songs
Julia Sukmanova, Elena Sukmanova
HC16024
Johann Sebastian BACH
Concerto No. 9, BWV 1060; Triple Concerto, BWV 1044; Orchestral Suite, BWV 1067;
Concerto, BWV 1055a
HC16006
Barocksolisten München
Paul HINDEMITH
Der Dämon, Op. 28; Kammermusik No. 2; Klavierkonzert, Op. 36; Hérodiade - Récitation
orchestrale
HC16014
Florian Henschel, Gisela Zoch-Westphal, Ensemble VARIANTI, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART
Zhang plays Mozart
Piano Concerto in D minor, K 466; Piano Concerto in D major, K 467
HC16037
Haiou Zhang, Heidelberger Sinfoniker, Thomas Fey
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Friedrich CERHA (b.1926)
Nacht; Drei Orchesterstücke
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Emilio Pomàrico, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Jukka-Pekka Saraste
0015005KAI
Two recent orchestral pieces by one of the key figures of the European avant-garde – alongside Ligeti, Boulez and
Stockhausen – Friedrich Cerha created his rich and colourful orchestral style, from large scale microtonal movements to
delicate, gloomy melodies. 2016 is his 90th birthday and his music has never been more fascinating.
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)
Bach all‘ italiano
Simon Borutzki & ensemble
Johann Sebastian Bach’s music is, most likely, the most frequently arranged music in the history of classical music; and
yet he frequently made arrangements of other composer’s work himself. He skilfully transcribed the violin concertos of
his Italian contemporaries Allesandro Marcello and Antonio Vivaldi for the harpsichord. For Bach all’Italiano, the recorder
player Simon Borutzki examined these transcriptions and arranged a selection of them into concertos for recorder and
continuo ensemble, which maintain their Italian sentiment.
KL1517
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART, Alfred SCNITTKE
Kammermusik
Maia Cabeza, José Gallardo, Liga Skride
Concertino Ensemble of the Leopold Mozart Centre of Augsburg University, Dirk Kaftan
OC766
Every three years in Augsburg up-and-coming violin stars from all over the world participate in the Leopold Mozart
International Violin Competition, playing before a renowned jury and competing for the coveted Mozart Prize. The list of
previous first-prize winners is a long one, and includes such outstanding names as Isabelle Faust, Benjamin Schmid, Lena
Neudauer and recently in 2013, Maia Cabeza.
Walter BRAUNFELS (1882-1954)
Orchestral Songs, Vol. 1
Valentina Farcas, Klaus Florian Vogt, Michael Volle
Staatskapelle Weimar, Hansjörg Albrecht
OC1846
Walter Braunfels achieved his breakthrough as a composer during the 1920s with the opera The Birds (based on
Aristophanes). Shortly thereafter he was, alongside Richard Strauss, one of the outstanding and most frequently
performed German opera composers. His extremely versatile compositional oeuvre includes numerous operas, orchestral
works and choral works, as well as Lieder, chamber music and piano works. Now Oehms Classics begins a series devoted
to the rediscovery of his Orchestral Songs.
The Britannic Organ, Vol. 12
Last Voyage
OC1841
With this final sequence of historic recordings on the Britannic Organ, we conclude our journey of recordings on the
extraordinary Welte Philharmonie Organ of the Museum for Music Machines in Seewen. A total of 23 CDs have been issued
since 2011 with well over 27 hours of music, enabling the listener to gain insight into these earliest organ recordings.
Feuerwerk der operette (‘Operetta Fireworks’)
For lovers of the classical operetta, Oehms Classics has packed in a single box the 15 most beloved operettas from 1996
to 2015 recorded at the Mörbisch Lake Festival. The leading roles are sung by stars of the genre such as Martina Serafin
as the Csárdás Princess, Metella in Parisian Life and Saffi in The Gypsy Baron, Silvana Dussmann as Rosalinde in The Bat,
Nikolai Schukff as Count Tassilo in Countess Mariza and, not least, Dagmar Schellenberger in the recordings of The Beggar
Student and A Night in Venice.
OC016
Philippe GAUBERT
Couleurs
Sonatine quasi fantasia; Madrigal; Ballade; Sonata No. 1; Romance; Nocturne and Allegro Scherzando; Sonata No. 2;
Sicilienne
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Idit Shemer, Maggie Cole
Israeli flautist Idit Shemer, and American/British keyboard player Maggie Cole bring their shared love and experience
of music of many periods and styles to an enchanting selection of works by this early twentieth-century composer who
contributed so much to the repertoire and pedagogy of the flute.
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Johann Sebastian BACH, Domenico SCARLATTI,
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART, César FRANCK
The Accordion Album
Nikola Djoric
On his first solo album, Nikola Djoric ‘tried to build a mood of forms; since, on one hand, all works or work
groups distinguish themselves through a tripartite: Bach’s work has three movements, there are three
Scarlatti sonatas, Mozart’s work has three movements and Franck’s work has one movement, but with three
parts; while on the other hand the compositions, or parts of them, are connected to each other through
their keys’.
OR0022
EILENBERG, GOTTSCHALK, LEHÁR, NICOLAI,
ROSSINI, SAINT-SAËNS, VON SAUER, WEBER
From Praxedis with Love
Duo Praxedis
The seventh album by the Swiss family-duo – From Praxedis with Love – successfully revives the good old,
though partly forgotten, tradition of bourgeois chamber music for piano and harp. In former times this
instrumental setting was very popular and only nowadays has turned to a rarity. Due to these circumstances,
this album, with arranged orchestral pieces, conveys an even more substantial meaning.
PMR0080
Anton BRUCKNER
Psalm 146 in A major, WAB 37; F minor Mass, WAB 28; Organ works
Ania Vegry, Franziska Gottwald, Clemens Bieber, Timo Riihonen, Philharmonischer Chor Munchen,
Andreas Herrmann, Philharmonie Festiva, Gerd Schaller
PH16034
Alfred SCHNITTKE
Works for Violin and Piano
Roman Mints, Katya Apekisheva
Roman Mints has recorded for ECM, Harmonia Mundi, Quartz, and other labels, and has performed with
such prominent groups as the London Mozart Players and the London Chamber Orchestra. Here, he is
accompanied by Katya Apekisheva, one of Europe’s foremost pianists, whose CD of Grieg solo piano works
on Quartz was chosen by Classic FM as CD of the week and selected by Gramophone Magazine as ‘Editor’s
Choice’.
QTZ2116
Carlisle FLOYD
Wuthering Heights
An opera in three acts
Florentine Opera Company, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Mechavich
Carlisle Floyd’s canon of operas is amongst the most performed by any living American opera composer,
however, four essential operas have never been commercially released. Wuthering Heights was first performed
by Santa Fe Opera in 1958, but never recorded until now. This Florentine Opera première recording was
made in January 2015 at the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
JUNE 2016
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(2 Hybrid SACDs)
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Duke ELLINGTON
Sacred Concerts
Junges Vokalensemble Hannover, Big Band Fette Hupe, Jörn Marcussen-Wulff
'The most important thing I’ve ever done' – this is how Duke Ellington saw his Sacred Concerts for choir, soloists and
big band. With these three concerts, of which many songs have since become standards, the grandmaster of jazz
made history. Duke Ellington conceived his Sacred Concerts between 1962 and 1973 and they resemble a wonderful
musical autobiography of the composer. With this very rarely recorded cycle, Fette Hupe and the Junges Vokalensemble
Hannover pay tribute to one of the true legends of jazz.
ROP6112
Six Songs of Innocence
Works by Gregor HÜBNER, John RUTTER, Knut NYSTEDT, Billy JOEL, Kirby SHAW
Knabenchor collegium iuvenum Stuttgart, Sirius Quartet New York, Michael Čulo
The Six Songs of Innocence for boys’ choir and string quartet by Gregor Hübner, a violinist and member of the Sirius
Quartet New York, are as rhythmically thrilling as they are strongly expressive. The enthusiasm of the young singers of
the collegium iuvenum Boys’ Choir Stuttgart immediately captivates the listener, in a work written specifically for them.
Another première recording on this CD is The Purcell Project – Fragments from Dido’s Lament & The Gordian Knot Untied for
string quartet by Gregor Hübner: Henry Purcell’s music revisited and revived.
ROP6120
DAVIDOVSKY, REICH,
FULMER, GOSFIELD, THORVALDSDOTTIR, OLIVER
Transitions
Michael Nicolas
DSL-92202
This disc marks Michael Nicolas’s Sono Luminus solo debut. In this collection of six pieces, Michael adheres not to any
one genre, but simply to a general idea exploring the human/machine dichotomy. Transitions features composers from
3 continents with works spanning over 50 years. There are duos for cello and electronics, cello solos with electronic
backing tracks, pieces with multiple layered cello tracks, and a solo cello piece.
Anton BRUCKNER
Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Michael Gielen Edition Vol. 2
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Michael Gielen
Some of the first broadcast recordings that Michael Gielen made in the 1960s were of Anton Bruckner’s symphonies. He
eventually went on to record all nine of them, not necessarily using the standard version of each symphony, but the one
which was the most musically interesting. Echoing his approach for the classical and more contemporary repertoires,
Gielen instilled in his orchestra his own distinctive, well-researched interpretations.
SWR19014CD
Benjamin BRITTEN, Arvo PÄRT, Heinrich KAMINSKI, Francis POULENC, Michael PRAETORIUS, Jan SANDSTRÖM
Himmelslieder: Songs of Heaven
SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Maria Stange, Marcus Creed
Christmas carols from around Europe follow similar themes - angelic choirs, lullabies and hymns to the Virgin Mary.
Yet the carols of different countries and regions sound distinctive. This is because Christmas, more than any other
celebration, is so deeply rooted in a nation’s folk culture. The Christmas settings in this collection comprise music from
the Middle Ages to the present day, from an anonymous 15th-century composer to Jan Sandström.
SWR19015CD
SWR New Jazz Meeting 2013
Living Being Extended
JAH-458
When the New Jazz Meeting proposed, in 2013, to the accordionist Vincent Peirani to expand his core quintet Living
Being, he chose in Mathias Eick and Leïla Martial partners who would understand the densely interconnected cosmos of
his band. Living Being Extended performed three concerts, in Karlsruhe, Tübingen and Mainz, one of the great moments
of the New Jazz Meetings.
Giovanni Battista BASSANI (c. 1647-1716)
Giona: Oratorio for 5 voices, strings and continuo
Carlo Vistoli, Laura Antonaz, Margherita Rotondi, Mauro Borgioni, Raffaele Giordani, Ensemble ‘Les Nations’, Maria Luisa Baldassari
TC 640290
‘Les Nations’ is an ensemble specializing in the rediscovery of the oratorio, from the Renaissance to the Baroque. In this
production the ensemble is faced with an almost unknown author that proves he deserves a place among the great. The
few surviving works by Giovanni Battista Bassani, whose life remains mostly mysterious, testify to the incredible range
and greatness of his musical writing. No exception is his Giona.
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Vieri TOSATTI (1920-1999)
Complete Piano Works
Daniele Adornetto
Vieri Tosatti, was a unique composer: he was irreverent, ironic, refuted the mainstream and kept away from the
academic world. His original, expressive language, set him against the musical world of his time, which was
relentlessly anchored to experimentation. Tosatti was also a brilliant pianist. The five pieces presented in this
CD pertain to two distinct stages of his musical life. The refined pianist Daniele Adornetto, pupil of Tosatti in
orchestration, guides us in this musical journey.
TC 922201
Bohuslav MARTINŮ
Early Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
The Shadow: Ballet in One Act
Dorota Szczepań ska, Artur Gadzał a, Agnieszka Kopacka, Sinfonia Varsovia, Ian Hobson
TOCC 0249
The generous quantity of orchestral music Martinů wrote between his late teens and early thirties is as good as
unknown; some of it, indeed, has never been performed. Toccata Classics continues Ian Hobson’s pioneering recordings
of those early orchestral works with the one-act ballet Stín (‘The Shadow’) from 1916, which has its world premiere in
this recording.
Conrad BECK (1901-1989)
Complete Music for Solo Piano
Gabrielle Beck-Lipsi
TOCC 0301
This CD shines light on a major twentieth-century composer whose music has been almost entirely forgotten since
his death. The Swiss composer Conrad Beck wrote a generous amount of music, including seven symphonies, around
twenty concertos and concertante works, four string quartets, some large-scale choral works, solo songs and much
else, and during his lifetime he enjoyed the strong support of Paul Sacher.
Sadie HARRISON
The Rosegarden of Light
ANIM Junior Ensemble of Traditional Instruments, Kevin Bishop, Ensemble Zohra, Cuatro Puntos
TOCC 0342
This album is the fruit of a remarkable collaborative project, a kind of ‘Malala in music’. Here the students – some of
them orphans and street vendors – of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul meet the US string sextet
Cuatro Puntos. The student musicians include a ground-breaking girls’ ensemble – a remarkable achievement, given
the conditions prevailing in contemporary Afghanistan.
Arnold ROSNER (1945-2013)
Orchestral Music
Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 30; Gematria, Op. 93; Six Pastoral Dances, Op. 40; From the Diaries of Adam Czerniaków,
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Peter Vinograde, Peter Riegert, London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Amos
The musical language of the New York-based Arnold Rosner clothes the modal harmony and rhythm of pre-Baroque
polyphony in rich Romantic colours, producing a style that is instantly recognisable and immediately appealing.
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART
Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail
Glyndebourne
Sally Matthews, Edgaras Montvidas, Tobias Kehrer, Mari Eriksmoen, Brenden Gunnell, Franck Saurel, The
Glyndebourne Chorus, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Robin Ticciati
Director David McVicar’s original-period vision for this Mozartian gem allows its genius to speak for
itself, offering a ‘mesmerising, sensitive […] outstanding’ portrayal of Enlightenment-era fascination
with the East that is both ‘exquisitely acted and sung’, featuring a Konstanze and a Belmonte sung
with ‘finesse and bravura’ and a ‘sensationally voiced’ Osmin - Guardian *****.
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Saul
Glyndebourne
Christopher Purves, Iestyn Davies, Lucy Crowe, Sophie Bevan, Paul Appleby, Benjamin Hulett, John Graham-Hall,
The Glyndebourne Chorus, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ivor Bolton
Glyndebourne’s Saul stole the summer and had critics raving. The Guardian applauded ‘virtuoso stagecraft’
from director Barrie Kosky in his debut production there, calling the show ‘a theatrical and musical feast
of energetic choruses, surreal choreography and gorgeous singing’. For the Independent, which ranked
it amongst the five top classical and opera performances of 2015, there was ‘no praise too high’ for the
cast.
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Giacomo PUCCINI
La Rondine
Dinara Alieva, Charles Castronovo, Alexandra Hutton, Alvaro Zambrano, Stephen Bronk, Noel Bouley, Matthew
Newlin, Thomas Lehmann, Siobhan Stagg, Elbenita Kajtazi, Stephanie Lauricella, Carlton Ford
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Perhaps the least performed of Italian master Giacomo Puccini’s mature operas, La Rondine (‘The
Swallow’) was originally conceived as Puccini’s first (and only) operetta. The work turned out to be an
artful blend of operetta and opera, with a somewhat lighter mood and simpler plot than most of the
composer’s more serious masterpieces. But its gorgeous music makes it a ‘must see’ for any opera fan.
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Gioachino ROSSINI (1792-1868)
La Gazzetta
Directed by: Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera; Recorded at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liege, Belgium - June 2014
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Joakim, Orchestra and Chorus of Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Jan Schultsz
A true comedy of errors, Rossini’s comic opera La Gazzetta abounds in misunderstandings and plot twists. Based on
a play by Carlo Goldoni, the plot revolves around the bizarre tale of a man who decides to find a husband for his
daughter by placing an ad in a newspaper. Directed by Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera, this Liège staging of Rossini’s
1816 opera buffa was the closing production of Opéra Royal de Wallonie’s 2014 season. It includes, for the first
time, a quintet which was rediscovered in 2012 by the librarian of the Palermo Conservatory. Authenticated by US
musicologist Philip Gossett, this quintet has now been restored to its rightful place in Act One of La Gazzetta.
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Renoir: Revered and Reviled
Pierre-Auguste Renoir is known and loved for his impressionist paintings of Paris which rank among
the world’s favourites. Renoir, however, grew tired of this style and changed course. This stunning film
– based on the remarkable Renoir collection at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation – explores the artist’s
new approach. These later works still provoke extreme reactions - some people are repulsed by them and
others seduced.
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