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2 May 2017All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices

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Arco Diva ................................................................................................................................ page 9 BIS ........................................................................................................................................ page 5BR Klassik ............................................................................................................................... page 5Bridge Records .......................................................................................................................page 17Cantaloupe Music ....................................................................................................................page 18Capriccio ...............................................................................................................................page 18Champs Hill Records ................................................................................................................. page 9Chandos ................................................................................................................................. page 4Claudio Records ....................................................................................................................... page 9Collegium ..............................................................................................................................page 10Coro....................................................................................................................................... page 6CPO .....................................................................................................................................page 6,7Da Capo .................................................................................................................................. page 7Delos ....................................................................................................................................page 18Divine Art ..............................................................................................................................page 19Divox ....................................................................................................................................page 10Dynamic ................................................................................................................................page 19Genuin Classics .......................................................................................................................page 10Gramola.................................................................................................................................page 20Grand Piano ...................................................................................................................... page 20,21Hanssler Classic ................................................................................................................. page 10,11Hyperion ................................................................................................................................ page 3Kairos ...................................................................................................................................page 11Klanglogo ..............................................................................................................................page 11Melodiya ...............................................................................................................................page 12Novum ................................................................................................................................... page 7Oehms Classics ......................................................................................................................page 7,8Ondine ..................................................................................................................................page 17Orchid Classics .......................................................................................................................page 12Orfeo ....................................................................................................................................page 17Orlando Records......................................................................................................................page 12Our Recordings .......................................................................................................................page 21Paladino Music .......................................................................................................................page 12Profil ....................................................................................................................................page 13Quartz ...................................................................................................................................page 13Resonus Classics ...................................................................................................................... page 8Rondeau Production ................................................................................................................page 13RPO ......................................................................................................................................page 13Somm .................................................................................................................................... page 8Sono Luminus.........................................................................................................................page 21Stone Records ........................................................................................................................page 14SWR Classic ............................................................................................................................page 14Tactus ...................................................................................................................................page 14Toccata Classics ......................................................................................................................page 15Tudor ....................................................................................................................................page 21Wergo .................................................................................................................................... page 9

DVDsArthaus Musik ........................................................................................................................page 22Belair Classiques .....................................................................................................................page 22BIS .......................................................................................................................................page 16C Major Entertainment ..............................................................................................................page22 Dynamic ................................................................................................................................page 22Opus Arte ..............................................................................................................................page 16

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RELEASE A

François COUPERINL’Apothéose de Lully; Leçons de ténèbres

Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen

L’Apothéose de Lully was Couperin’s homage to his great musical predecessor and depicts the elder composer’s elevation to Mount Parnassus (where he plays duets with the shade of Corelli and, with Apollo’s blessing, effects a reconciliation between the contrasting French and Italian styles of the day). The Leçons de ténèbres were written for performance in Holy Week and demand—and here receive from Katherine Watson and Anna Dennis—vocal artistry of the highest order.

CDA68093£9.00

Carl CZERNYPiano Concertos

Howard Shelley, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Active in every genre other than opera, Czerny is now remembered largely for the numerous piano studies he wrote as pedagogical aids. Which makes Howard Shelley’s advocacy of the three virtuoso works for piano and orchestra recorded here, two of them for the first time, all the more welcome: this is music that cannot fail to appeal.

CDA68138£9.00

Jean GUYOTTe Deum laudamus & other sacred music

Cinquecento Renaissance Vokal

Jean Guyot was another of the composers of the post-Josquin generation active in the Low Countries in the mid-sixteenth century. (He was also a priest, author and teacher, although the details of much of his life remain vague.) Cinquecento has previously explored his secular music (on Amorosi pensieri—CDA68053), but it was Guyot’s sacred music that was largely responsible for the high reputation he seemingly enjoyed in his lifetime. Cinquecento proves equally authoritative in both.

CDA68180£9.00

Organ Fireworks World TourChristopher Herrick

Fourteen tracks—one from each volume of Hyperion’s complete ‘Organ Fireworks’ series—combine to take the listener on a spectacular ‘world tour’ of the organs and repertoire championed by Christopher Herrick over the decades. Released in honour of his seventy-fifth birthday, this is a must for anyone yet to encounter these wonderfully life-affirming performances.

CDA68214£9.00

Robert SCHUMANNDavidsbündlertänze; Humoreske; Blumenstück

Luca Buratto

Hyperion is thrilled to welcome 2015 Honens Prize Laureate Luca Buratto to the label, a pianist whose ‘fiery imagination and finesse’ (Musical America) are perfectly suited to the demands of this all-Schumann programme. Despite its unassuming title, the Humoreske is no mere miniature but a full-scale piano cycle, very much on a par with the Davidsbündlertänze.

CDA68186£9.00

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RELEASE A

George ANTHEIL Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

Symphony No. 4 ‘1942’; Symphony No. 5 ‘Joyous’; Over the Plains (Premiere Recording)

BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds

Alongside its ongoing and much-lauded Copland series, the BBC Philharmonic embarks on a new American journey, this time with its chief guest conductor, John Storgårds. Known as the ‘bad boy of music’, George Antheil began his career with a reputation as an enfant terrible, composing shockingly avant-garde works such as his ever-popular Ballet mécanique, inspired by the dynamism and dissonances of Stravinsky’s early ballets. Although he is well-established on the film music scene, too, it is his symphonic output – sampled here – that today survives in the concert hall.

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Maestro Corelli’s ViolinsGiuseppe VALENTINI: Concerto in A minor, Op. 7 No. 11; Antonio MONTANARI: Concerto in D minor, Op. 1 No. 2; Concerto in E flat major, Op. 1 No. 6; Concerto in E major, Op. 1 No. 7; Giovanni MOSSI: Concerto in E minor, Op. 4 No. 11; Concerto in G minor, Op. 4 No. 12

Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage

The musical influence of the famous Arcangelo Corelli is witnessed in this set of recordings of unjustly neglected concertos by three of his pupils. The variety of these works is captured by the period instruments of the critically acclaimed baroque ensemble Collegium Musicum 90 under the direction of its founder, Simon Standage, who is also soloist here.

CHAN 0818£9.00

Johann STRAUSS II (1825-1899)

Strauss in St Petersburg

Newa-Polka, Op. 288; Persischer Marsch, Op. 289; Russischer Marsch, Op. 426; Grossfürstin Alexandra-Walzer, Op. 181; Olga-Polka, Op. 196; Alexandrinen-Polka, Op. 198; Abschied von St. Petersburg, Op. 210; Bauern-Polka, Op. 276; Grossfürsten-Marsch, Op. 107; Vergnügungszug, Op. 281; Wein, Weib und Gesang!, Op. 333; Krönungs-Marsch, Op. 183; Hofball-Quadrille, Op. 116; An der Wolga, Op. 425; St. Petersburg, Op. 255; Auf zum Tanze!, Op. 436; Russische Marsch-Fantasie, Op. 353; Alexander-Quadrille, Op. 33

Olga Zaitseva, Estonian National Male Choir, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

This is a double-anniversary disc, offering a rare collection of lively works to celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra as well as the eightieth birthday of its principal conductor, Neeme Järvi.

CHAN 10937£9.00

Franz Joseph HAYDN Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6

Piano Sonata No. 11 in B flat major (Hob. XVI: 2); Piano Sonata No. 34 in D major (Hob. XVI: 33); Piano Sonata No. 35 in A flat major (Hob. XVI: 43); Piano Sonata No. 36 in C major (Hob. XVI: 21); Piano Sonata No. 43 in E flat major (Hob. XVI: 28)

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

This set opens with the most imposing of Haydn’s early sonatas, No. 11, and follows it with two lesser-known ones, both from the late 1770s, that were published without the composer’s approval: Nos 34 and 35. Each of Nos 36 and 43, the last two featured here, opens a new group of six sonatas, and a new world in Haydn’s compositional style. Future volumes will continue to explore the huge variety of style and expression found in Haydn’s sonatas.

CHAN 10942£9.00

CHAN 10941£9.00


A Noble and Melancholy InstrumentBEETHOVEN: Sonata in F major for piano and horn, Op. 17; SCHUMANN: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70; F. STRAUSS: Nocturno, Op. 7; ROSSINI: Prelude, Theme and Variations; SAINT-SAËNS: Romance in E major, Op. 67; GLAZUNOV: Rêverie, Op. 24; DUKAS: Villanelle; VINTER: Hunter’s Moon

Alec Frank-Gemmill, Alasdair Beatson

The present disc is a unique combination of recital and history lesson, with a young British team performing music from between 1800 and 1942 on no less than eight different historic instruments: four horns and four pianos. This gives us the opportunity to hear the works on instruments that the different composers would have recognized, whether Beethoven’s Sonata in F major (a natural horn from 1800 and a fortepiano from 1815) or the Villanelle by Paul Dukas from 1906 (an early twentieth-century cor à pistons and a Bechstein from 1898). Both notable performers on modern instruments, Alec Frank-Gemmill and Alasdair Beatson here revel in the sonic possibilities offered by the historic instruments with results that are as delighting as they are enlightening.

BIS2228£9.00 (Hybrid SACD)

Guitarra mía – Tangos by Gardel and PiazzollaCarlos GARDEL: Guitarra, guitarra mía; Mi Buenos Aires querido; Criollita de mis amores; Sus ojos se cerraron; El día que me quieras; Por una cabeza; Cuando tú no estás; Volver; Astor PIAZZOLLA: La muerte del ángel; Primavera porteña; Vuelvo al sur; La última grela; Triunfal; Cinco Piezas

Franz Halász

Beginning his career as a folk singer, Carols Gardel is regarded as the creator of sung tango: tango canción. Lending its title to the present disc, Guitarra, guitarra mía was the last song Gardel recorded, shortly before he died in a plane crash in June 1935. Only months earlier, he had encountered a young boy that had a walk-on part in his last film – a striking coincidence, as the boy was Astor Piazzolla, alongside Gardel the most influential figure in the history of the tango. Himself a bandoneon player, Piazzolla often included the guitar in his ensembles, but did not compose for solo guitar until writing his Cinco Piezas in the 1980s, which closes this disc. On recent discs for BIS Franz Halász has impressed the critics to the point of winning a Latin Grammy Award in 2015.


Christian LINDBERG: The Erratic Dreams of Mr Grönstedt

Osvaldo GOLIJOV: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the BlindEmil Jonason, Vamlingbo QuartetNorrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg

For his first disc on BIS, the Swedish clarinettist Emil Jonason has chosen to record a concerto written for him by his compatriot Christian Lindberg, composer, conductor and legendary trombonist. As Lindberg remarks in his own note on the work, the soloist was involved at all stages of the compositional process. But the Erratic Dreams are the composer’s own – as is the figure of Mr Grönstedt, the main character of those dreams, and of the six movements that make up the colourful score. Jonason combines this work with Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov’s work The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind. Golijov describes the movements of his work as being written in three of the different languages spoken by the Jewish people throughout its history: Aramaic, Yiddish (‘the rich and fragile language of a long exile’) and Hebrew.


Anders ELIASSON (1947-2013)

4 X Anders EliassonNotturno; Senza risposte; Fogliame; Trio

Norrbotten NEO

Anders Eliasson truly began to find his own voice in the 80s with chamber works such as Notturno and Senza risposte. During the rest of Eliasson’s career it would be compositions for large forces that attracted the greatest attention, both in Sweden and abroad: from Symphony No. 1 (1986), which received the Nordic Council Music Prize, to the great oratorio Dante Anarca and Symphony No. 4, premièred by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2007. Specialising in contemporary music, the seven members of Norrbotten NEO have devised a programme that includes the first recordings on CD of Notturno and the Trio for violin, vibraphone and piano, and at the same time offers the possibility of following a unique voice in contemporary music over the course of four decades.


RELEASE A

Arvo PÄRT – LiveUlf Schirmer, Marcello ViottiChor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Peter Dijkstra

Arvo Pärt produced an early and important example of tintinnabuli style in 1977, with the Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten. Tintinnabuli is a key feature of the three great choral works that form the greater part of this new BR-Klassik CD: namely the Seven Magnificat Antiphons for mixed choir a capella, the large-scale oratorio Cecilia, vergine romana for mixed choir and orchestra, and the vocal work Litany – Prayers of St John Chrysostom for Each Hour of the Day and Night for soloists, mixed choir and orchestra.

900319£9.00

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RELEASE A

Georg Philipp TELEMANN (1681-1767)

The Grand Concertos for mixed instruments, Vol. 4

La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider

The press has decreed this unique series on CPO a ‘stylistically flawless and tonally beautiful interpretation’ of Telemann’s mixed concertos. The wealth of thematic invention and the subtle connections developed in the movements can hardly be described exhaustively. Telemann’s creed was: when melodic invention is exhausted, then one must pursue new harmonic paths – this CD demonstrates he was true to his word.

777892-2£9.00

Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH (1714-1788)

Festive Cantatas

Monika Mauch, Margot Oitzinger, Mirko Ludwig, Giullaume Olry, Cantus Thuringia, Capella Thuringia, Bernhard Klapprott

The two festive cantatas heard on this CD were first performed in modern times at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig on the occasion of the three hundredth anniversary of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s birth on 8 March 2014 and recorded especially for this release.

777958-2£9.00

Carl Friedrich ABEL6 Symphonies, Op. VII

La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider

What makes Abel’s symphonies so unique among those of his contemporaries is not their first movements in what was later known as the sonata form or their last movements, which without exception are formed, usually in rondo structure, by dances of folk character like fast contredanses and minuets. Rather it is the slow middle movements, mostly with the heading Andante and frequently sempre piano in dynamics, which communicate a new and thoroughly individual musical language.

777993-2£9.00

Claudio MONTEVERDIThe Selva morale e spirituale CollectionCelebrating the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi’s birth

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

Without doubt, Monteverdi was the greatest of the early baroque composers. He revolutionised the music of the theatre and the church with his dramatic and imaginative use of voices and instruments and with his daring harmonies and rhythms. Next to his Vespers of 1610, the Selva morale e spirituale of 1641 is his most significant and virtuosic collection of sacred music. This boxed set, released to celebrate Monteverdi’s 450th anniversary, includes all three volumes of The Sixteen’s celebrated recordings of the anthology.

COR16156£13.80 (3 CDs)

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Julius RÖNTGEN (1855-1932)

Symphony No. 9 ‘The Bitonal’; Serenade in E major; Symphony No. 21 in A minor

Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, David Porcelijn

This month the extensive and successful Röntgen edition recorded on CPO continues. This new disc demonstrates that Röntgen was the most imaginative composer living in Holland during the second half of the nineteenth century. During the last year of his life Röntgen experimented with tonality and composed his ‘bitonal’ Symphony No. 9, which remained unpublished during his lifetime, but heard here, and an absolutely rewarding listening experience!

777120-2£9.00

Alexandre TANSMANBallet Music: Sextuor (Ballet-bouffe 1923); Bric à brac (Ballet en 3 tableaux, 1935)

Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz, Wojciech Michniewski

Sextuor is a dramatic love story of the passion shared by a violin and a violoncello for a flute, and Tansman believed that here he had found ideal material for a ballet. And so it was: the work composed in 1923 was performed with great success and made the young composer famous. Although he suffered a great loss when his mother died in 1935, Tansman found the strength to write a larger theatrical work. The result was the ballet Bric à brac, also on this disc.

777987-2£9.00


RELEASE A

Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOVRomancesMarina Prudenskaya, Cord Garben

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was a member of the young Russian school, ‘The Mighty Handful’ along with Balakirev, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, and Alexander Borodin. Although not frequently performed, his songs with piano accompaniment, the Romances, are a substantial element of his overall oeuvre. The mezzo-soprano Marina Prudenskaya, who was born in St. Petersburg, interprets our selection of his songs in the original Russian.

777783-2£6.90

Niels W. GADEChamber Works, Vol. 3String Octet, Op. 17 in F major; Unfinished String Quartet in F major; String Quartet Movement in A minor

Ensemble MidtVest, The Danish String Quartet

We welcome the fact that CPO has now taken up Gade’s chamber music: it is wonderfully written and does not deserve to disappear into the footnotes of music history writing. The MidVest Ensemble completely dedicates itself to Gade and on this perfectly balanced recording performs the works with an open naturalness displaying his music in a highly favourable light.

555077-2£6.90

Bohuslav MARTINŮ (1890-1959)

The Greek Passion

Various soloists, Choir & Extra Choir of the Graz Opera, Choir of the Graz University of the Arts, Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, Dirk Kaftan

The style of the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů was enriched by numerous influences that are reflected in The Greek Passion; magnificent choirs contrast vividly with intimate chamber music, and folkloristic elements are placed next to complex, classically worked-out orchestral movements. A highly emotional mixture of oratorio and dramatic opera takes the listener into a world in which catastrophes abound. Lorenzo Fioroni, who has directed operas in Nuremberg, Augsburg and Heidelberg, has produced this dramatic contest against fear in Graz.

OC967£14.00 (2 CDs)

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The Gate of Heaven: Favourite Anthems from New College Oxford William HARRIS: Faire is the heaven Bring us, O Lord God; Charles Villiers STANFORD: For lo, I raise up; Te Deum in C; Matthew MARTIN: Ut unum sin; Gerald FINZI: Lo, the full, final sacrifice, God is gone up; I saw the Lord; Patrick HADLEY: My beloved spake; Rhian SAMUEL: Love bade me welcome

Choir of New College Oxford, Robert Quinney

The anthem has always had a special place in the Anglican choral tradition and this new selection from the Choir of New College Oxford celebrates the richness of this repertoire with particular Oxford connections.

NCR 1391£9.00

Niels W. GADEPiano Works

Marianna Shirinyan

His instrument may have been the violin, but the great Danish Romantic composer left behind a collection of piano works that inspired both professionals and amateurs. Breathing new life into a selection of these, Armenian-Danish pianist Marianna Shirinyan performs Gade’s poetic Aquarelles, the almost orchestral Sonata in E minor, four Chopinesque Fantasy Pieces and the little Chanson danoise, here in its first recording.

8226122£9.00

Rued LANGGAARD (1893-1952)

Piano Works, Vol. 3

Berit Johansen Tange

Apocalyptic and paradisiac visions of good and evil meet aphoristic miniatures of nine small, mainly malignant insects. The rousing graphic imagery of Rued Langgaard is on full display in this third volume of piano works by the deeply original Danish composer. Including three world premiere recordings, Berit Johansen Tange captures the mysterious forces, poetic gracefulness and absurd hysteria that are all part of Langgaard’s dark and wondrous expression.

6220631£9.00


RELEASE A

Josef SUK (1874-1935)

Asrael - Symphony in 5 Movements, Op. 27

Essen Philharmonic, Tomas Netopil

This is one of the few recordings of Josef Suk‘s rarely performed Symphony, with which the composer came to terms with personal blows of fate, captured in this recording with sensitivity and meticulous detail. This production marks the beginning of a highly promising collaboration between the Essen Philharmonic and Oehms Classics. Meyerbeer‘s Le prophète has already been planned for 2018.

OC1865£7.00

Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)

Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34; Sonata for 2 Pianos, Op. 34b

Duo d’Accord, Hába Quartett

Rainer von Hessen has written the following in his preface to this production: ‘To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that both chamber works Op. 34 by Johannes Brahms have been united on the same CD: his only Piano Quintet and the Sonata for Two Pianos… With this rather unusual programme combination, a long harboured wish came true for me, namely to hear both works dedicated by Brahms to Princess Anna von Hessen (my great-grandmother) performed on the same evening: the Sonata for Two Pianos in F minor and the Piano Quintet, that resulted from it’.

OC1868£7.00 (2 CDs)

Johannes BRAHMS: Sonatas for Cello & Piano, Opp. 38 & 99

Robert SCHUMANN: Fünf Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102Robin Michael, Daniel Tong

Cellist Robin Michael and pianist Daniel Tong present a fascinating new recording of the two sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms along with Robert Schumann’s distinctive Op. 102 Fünf Stücke im Volkston. Taking a historically informed approach, this unique-sounding performance of these mainstays of the repertoire gives a captivating insight into the chamber music sound world of the late-nineteenth century, performed on an 1890s Blüthner boudoir grand piano, thought to have been played and selected by Brahms himself from the maker’s factory and a cello strung with gut.

RES10188£7.50

Johann Sebastian BACH, Wilhelm Friedemann BACH, Carl Heinrich GRAUNConcertoWorks for one & two harpsichords

Guillermo Brachetta, Menno van Delft

Following much critical acclaim for his debut solo album Ciaccona, harpsichordist Guillermo Brachetta returns to the Resonus label with Concerto, a thrilling programme of works for one and two harpsichords composed senza ripieno. This stunning album features J. S. Bach’s Italian Concerto, the second part of his Clavier-Übung and solo concerti from Wilhelm Friedemann Bach and Carl Heinrich Graun. Brachetta is joined by Menno van Delft for the original two-harpsichord version of J. S. Bach’s Concerto a due cembali in C major, BWV 1061a.

RES10189£7.50

César FRANCK, Francis POULENC, Camille SAINT-SAËNSViolin SonatasCarlock-Combet Duo

Sandra Carlock and her artistic partner, violinist Guillaume Combet reside in Philadelphia and since founding the Carlock-Combet Duo three years ago, they have delighted audiences with their musicianship and adventurous programming. Their recitals of French repertoire are always warmly received and their performance on this disc brings added depth to the much-loved Franck Violin Sonata as well as brilliance and freshness to the Sonatas by Poulenc and Saint-Saëns.

SOMMCD 0169£7.29

Claude DEBUSSY: Images, Books I & II; L’Isle Joyeuse;

Maurice RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit; Jeux d’eau; La ValseAlessandro Taverna

‘There was controversy when Alessandro Taverna won bronze at the Leeds International Competition in 2005 – many people thought he should have been awarded the gold. Since then, he’s gone from strength to strength...’ The Guardian, February 2015. His playing on this disc attests to Taverna’s close affinity to the music of Debussy and Ravel. He possesses a mesmerising palette of colours ranging from a seductive, ethereal touch in Ondine to ferocity and thrust in Scarbo – and what great brilliance and dynamism he brings to La Valse and l’Isle Joyeuse!

SOMMCD 0168£7.29


RELEASE A

Paul HINDEMITH (1895-1963)

The String QuartetsJuilliard String Quartet

A ‘milestone in the Hindemith discography’ (Musikmarkt). The renowned Juilliard String Quartet has recorded all of Paul Hindemith’s string quartet works for Wergo – in the legendary formation with Robert Mann, Joel Smirnoff, Samuel Rhodes, and Joel Krosnick. These recordings trace the full breadth of the stylistic development of one of the great composers of the twentieth century. The complete recording of the string quartets with the Juilliard String Quartet was awarded the German Record Critics Annual Award in 1998. Now, WERGO presents the outstanding productions in a 3-CD box. The recordings were mastered using 20-bit technology.

WER 69602£15.65 (3 CDs)

Keiko HARADA (b. 1968)

MidstreamCarin Levine, Stefan Hussong, Naoko Kikuchi, Yumiko Meguri, Jürgen Ruck, Mike Svoboda

Keiko Harada’s music does not engage with loudly articulated superficialities, but with a kind of communication achieved without words. This process is at the centre of her work, and listeners can directly participate by opening themselves to the resulting sound. The composition midstream+ for trombone and accordion – like almost all the other works on this CD – is an example of Harada’s attempt to form a sense of musical commonality between two instruments with strikingly different sound qualities.

WER 73542£9.00

Jan VIČAR (b. 1949)

Way to the SunFanfares of the Palacký University; Music for Strings and Timpani; Vivat universitas!; The Goddess of Žitková; On Kate and with Kate; The Way to the

Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra

This release contains an interesting cross-section of Jan Vičar’s work, from the 1980s to the present day. The listener encounters compositions influenced by ‘Polish schools’, and popular and humorous adaptations of Czech and Moravian folk songs. The recording of this project took place in Olomouc, a city where Jan Vičar grew up and where the University operates today.

UP0187£7.29

Henri VIEUXTEMPS Complete Works for Viola

Timothy Ridout, Ke Ma

Winner of the 2014 Cecil Aronowitz International Viola Competition, Timothy Ridout joins together with his pianist duo partner, Ke Ma, to record his debut CD with Champs Hill Records.

CHRCD130£7.29

Classically Reminded: BACHThe David Rees-Williams Trio

The David Rees-Williams Trio comes together to present their second CD recording with Champs Hill Records. This disc, Classically Reminded: Bach, includes arrangements and improvisations on the solo keyboard music of J. S. Bach and Domenico Scarlatti. The trio was formed in 1988 featuring David Rees-Williams on piano, Neil Francis on bass guitar and Phil Laslett on drums. Based in Canterbury, Kent, they have performed many concerts in a diverse selection of festivals and events in the UK, Europe, the United States and Barbados.

CHRCD128£7.29

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Piano Sonatas, Vol. 8No. 22 in F, Op. 54; No. 24 in F-sharp, Op. 78; No. 25 in G, Op. 79; No. 28 in A, Op. 101

Sequeira Costa

In a career spanning five decades, Sequeira Costa has developed his own musical interpretation from an understanding of the German and French schools, acquired through studies with his teacher, Vianna da Motta, one of the last pupils of Liszt and Hans von Bulow.

CB5578-2£9.00


RELEASE A


Die schöne Magelone

15 Romanzen from Ludwig Tiecks ‘Magelone’, Op. 33

Nikolay Borchev, Boris Kusnezow

The most unknown of the 19th century’s great song cycles is a gripping adventure, and even more so when it is brought to life by the brilliant duo of baritone Nikolay Borchev and pianist Boris Kusnezow. This is the Genuin Classics debut release of the young, internationally-acclaimed singer. His clear diction, flowing musical lines, and great vocal beauty are ideally suited to Brahms’s tale of Romantic chivalry.

TriptychWorks by Amy BEACH, Natalie KLOUDA, Clara SCHUMANN

Monte Piano Trio

On their second Genuin Classics release, the young, multi-award-winning Monte Piano Trio from Frankfurt turns its attention to three great female composers. Amy Beach, Natalie Klouda (in a work commissioned by the Monte Piano Trio), and Clara Schumann wrote the compositions during three completely different phases of their lives. Nevertheless, each piece reveals beautiful Romantic sonorities that are captured in rich, full-bodied sound on this CD.

GEN17470£9.00

GEN17449£9.00

Recognition of LandWorks by Antonín DVOŘÁK, Edvard GRIEG, Jean SIBELIUSEnsemble Nobiles, Alexander Schmalcz, Sung-Ah Park

National identity in music: this is the theme of the third Genuin Classics release by the splendid vocal formation Ensemble Nobiles. The programme features rugged, beautiful, and truly unique works from Norway, Bohemia, and Finland. The composers Antonín Dvořák, Edvard Grieg, and Jean Sibelius are the fathers of the musical culture of their respective countries, each with his own unmistakable language that suffuses every note of this refined and sophisticated production.

GEN17469£9.00

John RUTTERMagnificat

Patricia Forbes, The Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter

Rutter’s Magnificat for soprano soloist, choir, and orchestra was written in 1990. The text, based on the prayer ascribed by St Luke to the Virgin Mary on learning that she was to give birth to Christ, is extended by the interpolation of Marian prayers and poems chosen by the composer. This re-issue of the original recording is due for release in May 2017.

CSCDS 401£3.89

Sergei PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)

Musical Friendship: Sviatoslav Richter, piano live in Japan Sviatoslav Richter

Divox proudly presents a re-release of these spectacular recordings of Sviatoslav Richter’s live performances in Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan Hall in 1981, first released on the ‘Memoria’ label 25 years ago. The recordings were made by representatives of Yamaha, who had won permission from Richter to record the concerts, using merely a single cassette tape-recorder. The resulting distortions and many of the background noises have been eliminated in a painstaking process of reconstruction and restoration.

CDX2525232£13.80 (2 CDs)

BohemiaWorks by Pavel HAAS, Leoš JANÁČEK, Josef Bohuslav FOERSTER, Alexander von ZEMLINSKY

Acelga Quintett

With the exotic prelude by Pavel Haas, the door opens upon a strange and unfamiliar world of sound as the Acelga Quintett leads us on an exciting musical journey. The five prizewinning musicians bring together works that are connected to Bohemia in the broadest sense: ranging from the late Romantic sonorities of Josef Bohuslav Foerster to Alexander Zemlinsky’s feather-light Rondo, Leoš Janáček’s tale of youth, and the humorous and offbeat musical mini-dramas by the above-mentioned Pavel Haas.

GEN17460£9.00

Songs of YearningLudwig van BEETHOVEN: An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98; Franz SCHUBERT: Schwanengesang, D957Giorgos Kanaris, Thomas Wise

Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his opus 98 in 1816; musicologists commonly describe An die ferne Geliebte (‘To the Distant Beloved’) as the first ever song cycle. Franz Schubert wrote his Schwanengesang (‘Swan Song’) in 1828, the year of his death; the songs were posthumously made into a collection. Internationally renowned Greek baritone Giorgos Kanaris is accompanied in these two song cycles by American pianist Thomas Wise, a well-respected pedagogue, vocal coach and conductor.

HC16080£9.00


RELEASE A

Ming TSAOPlus Minusensemble ascolta, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Johannes Kalitzke, Stefan Schreiber

Plus Minus and Mirandas Atemwende: two works by Chinese-American composer Ming Tsao that appear on this new release – a follow up to former KAIROS CD Die Geisterinsel. Performed by ensemble ascolta and Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, conducted by Johannes Kalitzke and Stefan Schreiber, this new disc is a work of art.

0015014KAI£9.00

A Traveller’s ChantThe Pipa Virtuoso and Composer Yang JINGYang Jing

From Carnegie Hall to the Barbican Centre, as a pipa soloist, Yang Jing has toured all of the major concert halls. A Traveller’s Chant affords Yang Jing - the composer - to take centre stage alongside the renowned virtuoso. These works for diverse chamber music groups demonstrate Yang Jing’s status as the foremost ambassador of a modern Asian music tradition.

KL1413£7.29

Jindřich FELD: Concerto per Flauto ed Orchestra; Mikis THEODORAKIS: Adagio for solo flute,

string orchestra & percussion; Mieczysław WEINBERG: Concerto No. 2, Op. 148 bisKathrin ChristiansWürttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Ruben Gazarian

‘Feld’s Concerto for flute, string orchestra, piano, harp and percussion is the work that set the idea to record this rather unusual repertoire… Weinberg’s brilliant version of Concerto No. 2, Op. 148 for flute and string orchestra is recorded here for the first time ever and was another important item for me… All the pieces go hand in hand with one another, feed into one another and give one another so much energy’ – Kathrin Christians.

Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750)

Bach Transcriptions Opus Magnum IAngelika Nebel

German pianist Angelika Nebel continues her exploration of Bach transcriptions with Opus Magnum I – a continuation of her previous releases Bach: Illuminationes and Bach: Metamorphosis. The transcriptions in this release fuse the music of Bach with the 20th century, and two of the works have been transcribed by Angelika Nebel herself.

HC16099£9.00

HC16101£9.00

Johann Sebastian BACH, Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART, Ludwig van BEETHOVEN, Alexander SCRIABIN, Claude DEBUSSY, Maurice RAVEL, Wang JIANZHONGFingerprintsHaiou Zhang

‘Every composition is very different in style but each has the same mental flow: they are all undoubtedly my favourites… Every single piece on the CD has been played as a live experience in at least 50 concerts before I get the feeling that it is ready to be recorded. This process was indispensable in order to give me the most freedom which is needed for the entire performance; it inspires me to bring sound pictures to life’ – Haiou Zhang.

HC17022£9.00

Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949)

Enoch ArdenStändchen, Op. 17, 2; Heimkehr, Op. 15, 5; Frendliche Vision, Op. 48, 1; Winterweihe, Op. 48, 4; Schlechtes Wetter, Op. 69, 5 (arr. Walter GIESEKING); Enoch Arden, Op. 38

Gerhard Oppitz, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

At the time he wrote Enoch Arden, Strauss was known primarily as a composer of tone poems, and pianists have often deplored the fact that the gifted painter of orchestral colour wrote so little music for their own instrument. The rarely performed 50-minute work in two parts has remained more or less on the fringes of mainstream repertoire.

HC16048£9.00

Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828)

Impromptus & KlavierstückeVier Impromptus, D899; Drei Klavierstücke, D946; Grätzer Walzer, D924

Ammiel Bushakevitz

His love for the works of Schubert led Ammiel Bushakevitz to the composer’s song repertoire. He received mentorship in this field from notable singers including the late Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Thomas Quasthoff, Elly Ameling, Thomas Hampson, Matthias Goerne, Teresa Berganza and Brigitte Fassbaender. Born in Jerusalem, Israel and raised in South Africa, Ammiel Bushakevitz developed a special affinity for the music of Franz Schubert from an early age. He is a laureate of the International Franz Schubert Competition, Dortmund and is a recipient of the International Schubert Institute Award in Vienna.

HC16094£9.00


RELEASE A

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)

Complete ConcertosLukas Geniušas, Alexander Buzlov, Alexander Ramm, Dmitri Masleyev, Sergei Dogadin, Pavel Milyukov, Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Sladkovsky

Melodiya presents Dmitri Shostakovich’s instrumental concertos performed by young soloists, and the Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Sladkovsky. Shostakovich wrote his concertos with personalities and performing styles in mind: his piano concertos for himself (No. 1) and his son Maxim (No. 2), both violin concertos for David Oistrakh, and the cello concertos were inspired by the art of Mstislav Rostropovich.


Cello Suites, Cello Sonatas, French SuitesAlexander Zagorinsky, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg

Melodiya presents a set of Johann Sebastian Bach’s chamber music performed by the duet of Alexander Zagorinsky and Einar Steen-Nøkleberg. The album features three of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonatas for cello and clavier, six solo cello suites and six ‘French’ harpsichord suites. The musicians dedicated their album to Tatiana Nikolayeva, whose recitals were a significant influence on the formation of both musicians’ appreciation of music.

MELCD 1002465£15.35 (3 CDS)

MELCD 1002454£15.35 (5 CDS)

Claude DEBUSSY, Arthur HONEGGER, Jacques IBERT, Roland FREISITZER, Johann Sebastian BACH, György KURTÁG, Françis POULENCIconsEric Lamb, Anu Komsi

Flautist Eric Lamb exhibits his incredible dynamism with this collection of iconic works. Exploring the depth of his musical interests, Lamb journeys from the eighteenth century, with Bach’s seminal A-minor Partita for solo flute, straight through to the twenty-first, with Austrian composer Roland Freisitzer’s hypnotic Music for Eric Lamb.

OR0030£9.00

Graham WHETTAM (1927-2007)

Complete Cello WorksMartin Rummel

British composer Graham Whettam was largely self-taught and was highly popular in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and 1960s. His Cello Concerto from 1999 is his last concerto and an appealing mix of various traditions of the 20th century from Mahler to Shostakovich.

Guido MANCUSI (b.1966)

Passio Domini Secundum JoannemTheresa Krügl, Anna-Katharina Tonauer, David Sitka, Lorin Wey, Matthias Liener, Michael Nagl, Chorus Duplex Wien, Louie’s Cage Percussion

‘This work reflects a preoccupation with death, anxiety, love and transcendence… [It is] a sharp, clear and critical look at one’s own religion. The perception of life, friendship, hope, love and sacrifice, when one takes a philosophical journey into the depths of one’s inner self’ – Guido Mancusi.

PMR0041£9.00

PMR0082£9.00

John ADAMS: Violin Concerto

Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35Ilya Gringolts, Copenhagen Phil, Santtu-Matia Rouvali, Julien Salemkour

Sought-after violinist Ilya Gringolts has selected two very different concertos for this collaboration with Copenhagen Phil, but both have an emphasis on melody. Young Finnish conductor Rouvali is the Chief Conductor of Gothenburg Symphony. This album follows on from the critically-acclaimed Beethoven series by Copenhagen Phil that has received enthusiastic reviews worldwide.

William WALTON (1902-1983)

Walton FaçadeCarole Boyd, Zeb Soanes, John Wilson

Carole Boyd has performed for over 35 years in theatre, television and radio, and is well known as Lynda Snell in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers. Zeb Soanes is a familiar voice on BBC Radio 4, and has presented The BBC Proms live on BBC Four in addition to films for The Culture Show, Newsnight and Songs of Praise. This CD includes a rarely-heard BBC Home Service interview with Dame Edith Sitwell. John Wilson is a conductor of international repute particularly for his interpretations of light music, for which he has won many plaudits.

ORC100066£9.00

ORC100067£9.00


RELEASE A

Carl Maria von WEBER: Ouvertüre zur Oper ‘Oberon’; Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Konzert D-Dur, Op. 61 für Violine und Orchester; Johannes BRAHMS: Symphonie No. 1 C-Moll, Op. 68Frank Peter Zimmermann, Staatskapelle Dresden, Bernard Haitink

The works on the two CDs of this volume were performed in the Dresden Staatskapelle’s second symphony concert of the 2002/2003 season. It was Bernard Haitink’s first concert as Principal Conductor of the orchestra, after he had spontaneously declared his willingness to take over this position and support the Staatskapelle following the sudden death of Giuseppe Sinopoli the previous year.


Symphony No. 3 in E flat major ‘Eroica’, Op. 55; Overture to Collin’s tragedy ‘Coriolan’, Op. 62

NDR Sinfonieorchester, Klaus Tennstedt

PH09036£14.58 (2 CDs)

PH16022£9.00

QTZ2122£9.00

PH17007£9.00

Gustav MAHLER (1860-1911)

Symphony No. 9

NDR Sinfonieorchester, Kurt Sanderling

PH17000£9.00

ENESCU, RAVEL, MIHALOVICI, SARASATE, DEBUSSY, SCHUMANNInspirations & Dreams Luiza Borac

The important contribution of the Romanian composer, violin virtuoso, pianist, conductor and music teacher George Enescu to the arts of his second homeland, France, has been recognised only in fleeting references. Enescu was one of the most important Romanian ambassadors of cultural exchange in the French capital, and had a lasting influence on the Paris music scene.

PH16064£9.00

Anton BRUCKNER (1824-1896)

Symphonie No. 4 Es-Dur ‘Romantische’Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann

Between 1945 and 1950, the young Joseph Keilberth conducted what may have been the first complete cycle of Bruckner’s ‘original’ symphonies. The Bruckner legacy left by the Staatskapelle Dresden is documented now by the complete recording of Bruckner’s symphonies under Eugen Jochum between 1975 and 1980, concerts and recordings under Giuseppe Sinopoli and Bernard Haitink and the current Bruckner cycle under Principal Conductor Christian Thielemann.

Leonid DESYATNIKOVSketches to Sunset; Russian Seasons

Roman Mints, Alexey Goribol, Yana Ivanilova, Philipp Chizhevsky, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Philipp Chizhevsky

A new world-premiere recording of one of the most respected and frequently performed Russian composers living today: Desyatnikov. Sketches to Sunset together with Russian Seasons features the multi-award winning Russian violinist Roman Mints accompanied by the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra and the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra.

ROP6140£7.29


The 1736 Bach RecitalMatthias Grünert

In 1736, Johann Sebastian Bach gave a concert on the new Silbermann organ in the Dresden Frauenkirche. Matthias Grünert, the cantor of the Frauenkirche, follows the footsteps of the great composer to reconstruct his concert programme with great expertise.

RPOSP052£5.55

Mieczysław KARŁOWICZ (1876-1909)

Grzegorz Nowak Conducts Mieczysław KarłowiczReturning Waves; Eternal Songs; Lithuanian Rhapsody; Bianca da Molena

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Grzegorz Nowak

A vibrant new interpretation of works by the most celebrated Polish composer of his generation: Mieczysław Karłowicz. Conducted by Polish-born Grzegorz Nowak, the playing on this disc lingers long in the memory after the music has ceased. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is currently celebrating its 70th Anniversary season; ‘… punchy orchestral playing in an exciting performance’ The Telegraph.


RELEASE A

SWR19023CD£20.34 (6 CDs)

Béla BARTÓK, Igor STRAWINSKYThe Michael Gielen Edition, Vol. 5

Christian Ostertag, Robert Leonardy, Stella Doufexis, Edda Moser, Christian Elsner, Werner Hollweg, Rudolf Rosen, Barry McDaniel, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Anton Webern Chor Freiburg, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Michael Gielen

This fifth instalment of the Michael Gielen Edition contains works by Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky. It includes many first releases or recordings of Gielen from the 1960s and 1970s. Michael Gielen is celebrating his 90th birthday in July 2017. Numerous outstanding soloists and singers are featured, and the release also contains a spoken section from Michael Gielen’s last concert with his SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg in 2014.

SWR19033CD£9.00

Maurice RAVELComplete Orchestral Works, Vol. 5L’enfant et les sortiléges; Ma mère; l’oye, 5 pièces enfantines

Camille Poul, Marie Karall, Julie Pasturaud, Annick Massis, Mailys de Villoutreys, La Pastourelle, Paul Gay, François Piolino, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Cantus Juvenum Karlsruhe, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Stéphane Denève

This CD is the fifth and final instalment of Maurice Ravel’s Orchestral Works, bringing to a close the highly acclaimed cycle by the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart and its chief conductor Stéphane Denève. Ravel’s opera L’enfant et les sortilèges (‘The Child and the Spells’) is the second of his two operas and is considered a neglected masterpiece. The libretto is by the famous French author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. The recording features a first-class cast of young singers.

SWR19037CD£9.00

Dmitry SHOSTAKOVICHSymphony No. 8

Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Andrey Boreyko

Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony is a complex and exceptional composition, cast in a language that is simple and easily understood. The fact that Shostakovich had to convince the henchmen of party ideology that his composition was optimistic was purely and simply a question of survival. Listeners who did not believe in party slogans considered his symphony one of ‘epic suffering’ and felt they were not alone in their perception of the world.

SWR19036CD£5.95

Richard WAGNERHans Rosbaud conducts Wagner overturesSWF-Sinfonieorchester (former name of the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg), Hans Rosbaud

Hans Rosbaud was the chief conductor of the Southwest Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1948 until his death in 1962. He transformed the orchestra, later renamed as the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, into a leading European ensemble. His interests lay in both contemporary music and the classical and romantic symphonic repertoire. This new series from the SWR Classic label presents largely unpublished recordings by Rosbaud of classical and romantic repertoire, starting with overtures by Richard Wagner.

TC 710701£9.00

Felice GIARDINI (1716-1796)

Chamber QuartetsQuartetto Mirus, Giorgio Bottiglioni, Nicola Campitelli, Attilio Cantore

Felice Giardini was born in Turin in 1716. At 20 he joined the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio before a series of trips that took him to Germany, France and finally to London, where he lived for 35 years. There, he became famous as a skilful and stylish violinist, obtaining the license from King George II for the release of nine collections of works. Within this album the Mirus Quartet accompanied by fine soloists are rediscovering his quartets, perfect examples of Giardini’s great music that led him to win-over the English aristocracy.

TC 921980£18.00 (3 CDs)

Pellegrino SANTUCCI (1921-2010)

Sacred Works

Comaci Boschi, Antonio Quero, Daniela Nuzzoli, Raul Hernandez, Agatha Bocedi, Giuliano Giuliani, I Solisti Laudensi Schola Cantorum ‘Paolo Guglielmetti’, Giuseppe Monari

Padre Pellegrino Santucci, Friar of the Servants of Mary, was a central figure of the Bolognese musical scene from the 60s until shortly before his death in 2010. This album offers a panoramic of his sacred works, which are strongly influenced by the great traditions of the past - in particular Gregorian chant and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The performances are given by passionate young musicians and Tactus’ artistic director Giuseppe Monari at the organ.

5060192780703£9.00

Dorian Le GALLIANE, Larry SITSKY, Richard Peter MADDOX, Geoffrey ALLEN, Paul PAVIOUR, James PENBERTHYGhosts, Fools and SeersKatja Webb, David Wickham, Aaron Wyatt, Michael Waye

Ghosts, Fools and Seers is a collection of Australian art songs performed by Katja Webb and David Wickham. Good songs need good characters; here are a gallery of strange, visionary people from fine poems given voices in exciting, bold music.


RELEASE A

TOCC 0397£9.00

Orlande de LASSUS (1532-1594): Requiem a 5; Motets

John BENNETT (c. 1575-after 1614): Weep, o mine eyes, arr. Wilson

The Choir of Girton College, Cambridge, Historic Brass of the Guildhall, London, Gareth Wilson

Lassus’s five-part setting of the Requiem is rarely heard; here it is recorded with brass for the first time, and this innovative recording takes the listener on a spiritual journey. The booklet notes are by Lassus expert Barbara Eichner and by the conductor of Girton College Choir, Gareth Wilson, who explains the thinking behind the programme.

TOCC 0387£9.00

Colin TWIGG (b. 1960)

Chamber MusicPhantasy Variations on a Theme of Haydn; String Trio; Piano Trio; String Quartet No. 1, Hommage à Hukvaldy; Piano Quartet

Bridge String Quartet, Montpellier String Trio, Hiroaki Takenouchi

The English violinist and composer Colin Twigg first came to attention as a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 1978. Composition has always been important to him, and his music reflects the richness of his performing career. The composer himself performs in all the pieces recorded here, guaranteeing their authenticity, and has written the booklet notes himself, too. All five pieces are first recordings.

TOCC 0335£9.00

Wenzel Heinrich VEIT (1806-1864)

Complete String Quartets, Volume OneString Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 3; String Quartet No. 2 in E major, Op. 5

Kertész Quartet

The German-Bohemian composer Wenzel Heinrich Veit is one of music’s most unjustly forgotten figures. As these first recordings of his four string quartets reveal, he is not only the link between the Bohemian composers of the end of the Classical period and the wave of Czech Romanticism that began with Smetana – he is also an outstanding composer in his own right. This recording of the first two Quartets will be followed by Nos. 3 and 4 in a later release.

TOCC 0392£9.00

Ernst KRENEK (1900-1991)

Complete Piano Concertos, Volume TwoPiano Concerto No. 4, Op. 123; Concerto for Two Pianos, Op. 127; Double Concerto for Violin and Piano, Op. 124; Little Concerto for Piano and Organ, Op. 88

Mikhail Korzhev, Eric Huebner, Nurit Pacht, Adrian Partington, English Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods

This second instalment in their first complete recording reveals breath-taking writing. Krenek revels in a virtuoso piano technique, the dazzling orchestration and the stylistic integration of serialism and good-natured recollection of Viennese tradition. The first volume in this series was an outstanding critical success – among many other encomia, it was a Sunday Times ‘Record of the Week’.

TOCC 0309£9.00

David MATTHEWS (b. 1943)

Music for Solo Violin, Volume TwoFantasia on Paganini’s Second Violin Concerto, Op. 147, No. 1; Three Chants, Op. 138; Four Australian Birds, Op. 84a; Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 8; The National Anthem; Song Thrush Fragment; Birthday Piece for Richard; An Album Leaf for Sally; Not Farewell; Fifteen Preludes for solo violin, Op. 132

Peter Sheppard Skærved

David Matthews and Peter Sheppard Skærved have been collaborating for many years now, in a partnership that has resulted in over 30 works, from string quartets to many pieces for violin alone.

TOCC 0337£9.00

George Frideric HANDELThe Complete ‘Amen, Alleluia’ Arias, HWV269-77With Music by CHURCH, CROFT, PITTONI AND ANON.

Robert Crowe, Il Furioso, Victor Coelho, David Dolato

Over a period of some twenty years, from the late 1720s, Handel composed a series of virtuoso arias using only the words ‘Allelujah’ and ‘Amen’ as his texts. Here they receive their first recordings, with the accompaniment provided by the beguiling sound of two theorbos and chamber organ. They are heard here in the extraordinarily dramatic timbres of a male-soprano voice – perhaps as close as modern listeners can come to the vocal acrobatics of the castrati.

TOCC 0385£9.00

Jerzy BAUER (b. 1936)

Music for CelloCello Concerto No. 2; 3 Primitivi; Sonata in One Movement; Passacaglia – Almost in the Old Style; This

Andrzej Bauer, Jan Krzysztof Broja, Aukso Tychy Chamber Orchestra, Marek Moś

Jerzy Bauer (born in Łodz in 1936) is one of the leading Polish composers of his generation after Lutosławski and Panufnik. Since his son Andrzej is one of the major cellists of the current generation, it is hardly surprising to find that music for cello figures prominently in his large output. His work This is inspired by a late poem of Czesław Miłosz. The booklet essay on Bauer’s music is written by Rafał Augustyn, himself a major Polish composer.

TOCC 0422£9.00

Jerome de BROMHEAD (b. 1945)

Orchestral MusicA Lay for a Light Year; Violin Concerto; Symphony No. 2

Alan Smale, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Colman Pearce

The vitality of these three works by the Irish composer Jerome de Bromhead point to the sheer pleasure that their creator takes in writing music. The swirling ebullience of the tone-poem A Lay for a Light Year suggests the scale and energy of the cosmos. The edgy, elegiac lyricism of the Violin Concerto inhabits textures that are brittle and clear like Stravinsky’s. The more chromatic Second Symphony suggests a vast sense of space behind a glittering foreground of kaleidoscopic orchestral colours.


RELEASE A

Shakespeare’s Globe: ComediesThe Comedy of Errors Director: Blanche McIntyre; The Taming of the Shrew Director: Toby Frow; Love’s Labours’s Lost Director: Dominic Dromgoole; A Midsummer Night’s Dream Director: Dominic Dromgoole; The Merchant of Venice Director: Jonathan Munby; Much Ado About Nothing Director: Jeremy Herrin; As You Like It Director: Thea Sharrock; Twelfth Night Director: Tim Carroll; The Merry Wives of Windsor Director: Christopher Luscombe; All’s Well That Ends Well Director: John Dove; Measure for Measure Director: Dominic Dromgoole; The Tempest Director: Jeremy Herrin

‘... I doubt I will ever see a better Twelfth Night’ – Sunday Telegraph (Twelfth Night)

OA1250BD£40.82 (12 DVDs)

Shakespeare’s Globe: HenriadRichard II Director: Simon GodwinHenry IV Part I Director: Dominic DromgooleHenry IV Part II Director: Dominic DromgooleHenry V Director: Dominic Dromgoole

‘It is the first time these wonderful plays have been staged at the reconstructed Globe and it may be one of this theatre’s finest achievements’ – The Telegraph (Henry IV Part I)

‘A production that achieves true tragic stature’ – Time Out (Richard II)

Highlight

of the month

OA1235BD£20.41 (4 DVDs)

Gloria in excelsis DeoIncludes filmed performances of: Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191; Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele, BWV 69; Freue dich, erlöste Schar, BWV 30; Interviews with Masaaki Suzuki and key members ofBach Collegium Japan and behind-the-scenes footage

Hana Blažíková, Robin Blaze, Gerd Türk, Peter Kooij, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki

Although Bach Collegium Japan makes regular appearances abroad, many of those who have been impressed and moved by the ensemble’s recordings of Bach’s sacred cantatas will have had few opportunities to experience them in concert. Made in connection with the final recording in the cantata project, this film includes performances of three complete cantatas, as well as interviews and special features. Masaaki Suzuki, members of the ensemble, and of the recording team, tell us about the experiences that they have had and the close connection with Bach’s music that has evolved during the recording project.

BIS2201£17.01 (Blu-ray)

Highlight

of the month

Shakespeare’s Globe: TragediesTitus Andronicus Director: Lucy BaileyRomeo and Juliet Director: Dominic DromgooleJulius Caesar Director: Dominic DromgooleMacbeth Director: Eve BestAntony and Cleopatra Director: Jonathan MunbyDoctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe) Director: Matthew Dunster

‘Fleet, urgent, exciting and dangerous’ – The Financial Times (Julius Caesar)

OA1251BD£23.76 (7 DVDs)

Gaetano DONIZETTIThe Royal Opera: Lucrezia BorgiaJoan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus, Anne Howells, Stafford Dean, Robin Leggate, Phillip Gelling, Michael Goldthorpe, Paul Hudson, Roderick Kennedy, Alun Jenkins, Gwynneth Price, Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Richard Bonynge

Donizetti’s operatic portrayal of Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most demanding roles for a soprano, and only such accomplished stars as Joan Sutherland have risen to the challenge. Lucrezia was notorious in Renaissance Ferrara as much for her beauty as for the political intrigue and suspicious deaths that surrounded her and her family. In John Copley’s production for the Royal Opera, Sutherland deftly captures the complexity of a powerful, vengeful woman, who is at the same time a loving mother.

OA1237D£10.20 (DVD)

Giuseppe VERDIUn Ballo in MascheraThe Royal Opera

Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Piero Cappuccilli, Reri Grist, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Gwynne Howell, Paul Hudson, William Elvin, John Carr, Francis Egerton, Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Claudio Abbado

Illicit love, suspicion, deception and supernatural portents of doom lead to a shocking drama at a masked ball in 1790s Sweden. The incomparable Plácido Domingo stars as the dashing King Gustavus III, whose reforms have inspired talk of assassination among the conservative nobility. Claudio Abbado conducts the distinguished cast, supported by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and Royal Opera Chorus, in Otto Schenk’s classic production of this Verdi favourite.

OA1236D£10.20 (DVD)


RELEASE B

Sergei RACHMANINOFF (1873-1943)

Complete Works & Transcriptions for Violin & Piano

Annelle K. Gregory, Alexander Sinchuk

This gorgeously played and recorded disc presents all of Rachmaninoff’s compositions for violin and piano, as well as transcriptions by violin legends including Fritz Kreisler and Jascha Heifetz. Annelle K. Gregory is a laureate of the Stradivarius International Violin Competition and first prize winner of the 2016 American Protégé International Concerto Competition, and Gold Medallist of the NAACP ACT-SO competition. She recently claimed first prize at the 2017 Sphinx Competition.

BRIDGE 9481£9.00

Martin BOYKAN (b. 1931)

Rites of PassageImpromptu for Violin Solo; Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano; Sonata for Viola and Piano; Piano Trio No. 3 ‘Rites of Passage’; Psalm 121

Pamela Dellal, Yohanan Chendler, Emil Altshuler, Mary Ray Ruth, Joshua Gordon, Curtis Macomber, Stephen Gosling, Mark Berger, Yoko Hagino, Steven Weigt

Martin Boykan studied composition with Walter Piston, Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith. He was awarded the Jeunesse Musicales prize for his String Quartet No. 1, and the League ISCM award for his Elegy. Other awards include a Rockefeller grant, NEA award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Fulbright.

BRIDGE 9483£9.00

Hugo WEISGALL: Sonata for Piano; Paul HINDEMITH: Ludus Tonalis

Martin Perry

Annotator Allan Kozinn writes: ‘if audiences listened as devotedly to contemporary piano scores as to the great works of the 17th through early 20th centuries, the two works Martin Perry plays here would be regarded as landmarks of the piano’s huge repertory. No doubt one day they will be – Paul Hindemith’s Ludus Tonalis has a constituency among discerning pianists and listeners; for many, Hugo Weisgall’s Sonata for Piano remains an undiscovered gem’. Martin Perry delivers intensely musical, brilliantly realized readings of these masterworks.

BRIDGE 9487£9.00


Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 5Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15; Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 ‘Emperor’

Lars Vogt, Royal Northern Sinfonia

Lars Vogt continues his Ondine recordings with a new cycle of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos. Conducting the Royal Nothern Sinfonia from the keyboard, Lars Vogt shows the brilliance and the beauty of these two majestic works of the classic piano concerto literature.

ODE 1292-2£9.00

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Felix MENDELSSOHN: Sinfonie No. 5, ‘Reformation’; Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Adagio

und Fuge; Jörg WIDMANN: Versuch über die Fuge; Felix MENDELSSOHN (arr. Jörg WIDMANN): Andante aus der Klarinettensonate

Mojca Erdmann, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Jörg Widmann

The second instalment of Jörg Widmann and the Irish Chamber Orchestra’s recordings of Felix Mendelssohn’s symphonies is devoted to what is known as the Fifth, in keeping with the upcoming celebrations to mark 500 years since the Reformation. In fact, from a chronological point of view, this is Mendelssohn’s second symphony, originally conceived to mark the celebrations of 300 years since the Augsburg Confession of 1530. This recording also marks a personal achievement of Jörg Widmann’s: to arrange for clarinet and piano one of his favourite pieces by the 15-year-old Mendelssohn. The Andante from the Sonata in E flat major of 1824 is performed in Widmann’s version for clarinet, string orchestra, harp and celesta.

C921171A£9.00


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DE 3530£9.00

Claude DEBUSSYDouze études

Paulina Zamora

Debussy’s Twelve Études have long been regarded as being among the most enigmatic of his piano works. Chilean-American virtuoso Paulina Zamora, however, is one of today’s more adventurous leading pianists championing these keyboard masterpieces. In this second Delos album featuring her artistry, Paulina’s brilliant performances of Debussy’s seldom-heard études attest to both her technical powers and interpretive acumen.

C5294£9.00

Viktor ULLMANN (1898-1944)

Piano Concerto; Piano Sonata No. 7; Variations, Op. 3a

Moritz ErnstDortmunder Philharmoniker, Gabriel Feltz

Viktor Ullmann’s Piano Concerto was composed in 1939, and displays his distinctive voice, while giving occasional hints of Prokofiev and Ravel. The Piano Sonata No. 7 was composed during his internment at Auschwitz; the Variations & double fugue Op. 3a, the earliest work on the programme, is based on a theme by his mentor Schoenberg.

C5297£9.00

Franz DOPPLER (1821-1883), Carl DOPPLER (1826-1900)

The Complete Flute Music, Vol. 3Claudi Arimany, Shigenori Kudo, Christine Icart, Nabí Cabestany, Alan Branch, Michel Wagemans, John Steele Ritter, Pedro José Rodriguez, Orquesta Sinfónica Ciudad de Elche, Leonardo Martínez

This is the third release in a set of 10 CDs comprising the Dopplers’ complete music for flutes, including various arrangements. Flautist Claudi Arimany spent decades researching this project, inspiring many famous musicians to become involved in its realisation.

C8018£7.29

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791)

Requiem in D minor K. 626; Ave verum corpus K. 618


Motets - Locus iste; Christus factus est; Ave Maria

Max Emanuel Cencic, Derek Lee Ragin, Michael Knapp, Gotthold Schwarz, Vienna Boys’ Choir Chorus Viennensis, Symphonieorchester Der Wiener Volksoper, Peter Marschik

C8019£7.29

François-Joseph GOSSEC (1734-1829)

Symphonie à grand orchestra ‘La Chasse’; Sinfonia à più stromenti; Symphonie concertante du ballet de ‘Mirza’; Symphonie à 17 parties

Andrea Keller, Martin Sandhoff, Concerto Köln, Werner Ehrhardt

CA21126£9.00

Ted HEARNESound from the BenchThe Crossing

As one of the most socially conscious and free-thinking young composers in contemporary classical music, Ted Hearne has drawn on a multitude of influences to create Sound from the Bench—his first project for Cantaloupe Music. Written for the supple, ethereal voices of Philadelphia’s world-renowned chamber choir The Crossing, the four works presented here tap into themes as varied as racial divides (‘Privilege’), government secrets (‘Ripple’), love and its dark permutations (‘Consent’), and corporate personhood in the eyes of the US Supreme Court (‘Sound from the Bench’).

CA21128£9.00

Splitting AdamsAlarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson

Conceived and realized in partnership with Q2 Music’s Peabody award-winning podcast Meet the Composer, Splitting Adams is Alarm Will Sound’s tribute to American composer John Adams. Presented with commentary tracks from MTC’s host Nadia Sirota, Alarm Will Sound’s artistic director Alan Pierson, and the composer himself, the podcast-plus-performance conveys a rare sense of interaction for the listener; not only does the music capture and connect the long trajectory between the two works, but the commentary also shines a revealing light on the story behind the music.



The Complete Original Piano Duets

Goldstone & Clemmow

First released on 7 separate CDs by Olympia, it remains the only complete recording of Schubert’s original duet compositions including many little-known masterpieces and one Polonaise completed by Anthony Goldstone from Schubert’s unfinished manuscript. The performances are superb: the husband and wife team of Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow really do play like one person with four hands. Tragically, Anthony Goldstone died on January 2, 2017.

Kevin RAFTERY (b. 1951)

Chamber MusicString Quartet No. 1; First Companion; Pleasantries; ‘Friedhof’ Quintet

Heath Quartet, Berkeley Ensemble, Animare Ensemble

American composer Kevin Raftery’s work is thoroughly modern, without classical limitations, but also lyrical, tuneful, dramatic and serene. The three ensembles featured are all celebrated in their own right: The Heath Quartet have appeared at the BBC Proms, and Carnegie Hall, and the Berkeley Ensemble and Animare Ensemble were both formed to explore modern chamber music as well as more traditional material, employing some of the UK’s top musicians.

DDA21701£20.99 (7 CDs)

MSV28569£7.95

DDA25145£7.95

Liz JOHNSON (b. 1964)

Intricate Web: string quartets, selected chamber works and songs

Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Loré Lixenberg, Heather Tuach, Ronald Woodley

Liz Johnson is a British composer, definitely in the avant-garde mould yet not totally alien to ‘traditional-music’. The Fitzwilliam String Quartet is undoubtedly one of today’s most celebrated ensembles with a fine reputation in the world of new music.

MSV77206£10.20 (2 CDs)

Edward ELGAR, Edwin YORK BOWEN, Kenneth LEIGHTON, Edmund RUBBRA, Nicholas SACKMANEnigmas: Solo Piano and Chamber Works

Elspeth Wyllie, Catherine Backhouse, Claire Overbury, Alexa Beattie, Hetti Price

A varied range of masterful works from English twentieth-century composers. Elgar composed his Enigma Variations at the piano, whilst Nicholas Sackman’s Folio I is lively and full of fun. The two Sonnets of Rubbra are gorgeous and absolutely essential listening.

Agostino STEFFANI (1654-1728)

Baccanali

Nicolò Donini, Riccardo Angelo Strano, Barbara Massaro, Vittoria Magnarello, Paola Leoci, Elena Caccamo, Chiara Manese, Yasushi Watanabe, Ensemble Cremona Antiqua, Antonio Greco

Agostino Steffani was active principally in Munich, Hanover and Düsseldorf, but his music was also very much admired in London, to the extent that the Academy of Vocal Music (later known as the Academy of Ancient Music) made him honorary president in 1727. Baccanali, dating from 1695, is a series of reflections on the joys and sorrows of man’s life, portrayed by eight characters set in a pastoral context.

Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750), Antonio VIVALDI (1678-1741)

Bach & Vivaldi for MandolinVirtuoso Concertos transcribed for mandolin orchestra

Dorina Frati, Mauro and Claudio Terroni Mandolin Orchestra

This programme features some of the best-known works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi in original transcriptions for mandolin orchestra. The tone colours are quite unusual and truly fascinating. The technical skill of the soloists, who often adopt virtuoso tempi, plus the elegance and good taste of the arrangements, make this CD programme a unique listening experience.

CDS7770£9.00

CDS7787£9.00

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99103£9.00

Joseph MAYSEDER (1789-1863)

Kammermusik, Vol. 1Lissy Quartett

The Austrian violinist, teacher and composer Joseph Mayseder can be counted amongst one of the most well-known virtuosos of nineteenth-century Vienna. This first edition contains world-première recordings of Mayseder’s Concert Variations, Op. 63, Souvenir à Baden, Op. 57 and Op. 24, as well as the Divertimento for Violin and Piano, Op. 35. The release is full of virtuosity and Viennese charm.

99122£9.00

Joseph MARX, Claude DEBUSSY, Othmar SCHOECK, Gerald ENDSTRASSERSound of a PoemEsther Kretzinger, Georges E. Schneider, Tim Collins, Wayne Darling, Gerald Endstrasser

Together with a small jazz ensemble of international repute, Esther Kretzinger sheds new light on a special selection of Romantic and Impressionist songs. The renowned soprano works out the essence of these songs in the language of jazz. The release features arrangements by Tim Collins and Gerald Endstrasser and will soon be available on vinyl.

99125£9.00


Schubert.MetamorphosenImprovisations on Franz Schubert, Die Winterreise D 911

I Dioscuri

Since 2007 the I Dioscuri duo has worked on the unusual project of realising lieder by Franz Schubert for saxophone and piano—connected by improvised bridge passages. This live concert recording features improvisations on Die Winterreise including free-form interludes. Their great Schubert dream is coming true, and has been gaining in popularity—and not just among experts—since its 2014 premiere at the Lisztzentrum in Raiding, Austria.

99121£9.00

Werner PIRCHNER (1940-2001)

Piano Trios‘Wem gehört der Mensch…?’ Piano Trio No. 1, PWV 31; ‘Heimat?’ Piano Trio No. 2, PWV 29b; ‘Heute…war Gestern Morgen. Heute…ist Morgen Gestern’ Piano Trio No. 3, PWV 63

Eggner Trio

At the start of his career the Austrian artist Werner Pirchner appeared mainly as a jazz musician, but he also studied classical composers and theorists of the avant-garde. Later, he composed works for a diverse variety of instruments, his trademarks being a provocative style and humorous titles centring on the nature of man and his behaviour.

RELEASE B

99127£9.00


Symphonie VIOÖ Jugendsinfonieorchester, Rémy Ballot

In 2016 the annual Brucknertage festival centred around the ‘Sixth’, and once again the musical youth of the Upper Austrian Symphonic Youth Orchestra gave a celebrated performance. Performed at Bruckner’s place of work, the basilica of St. Florian in Upper Austria, this series has been critically acclaimed and honoured with prestigious international awards. The release is presented in high-resolution surround sound.

99134£22.20 (4 CDs)


Die Klaviertrios

TrioVanBeethoven

Beethoven was truly unique, but at the same time the central point of departure for new traditions of composition. This fits in with the main mission of the TrioVanBeethoven: the cherishing of the classical trio works, but also the commissioning of new compositions and crossover projects. Their first great recording project, which is released now by Gramola, is a timeless rendering of Beethoven’s complete works for piano trio in a 4-CD box.

GP761£9.00

Erik SATIE (1866-1925)

Complete Piano Works - Urtext Edition, Vol. 1Nicolas Horvath

Erik Satie’s earliest works show traces of Chopin as an influence but he soon came to reject virtuosity and tradition, choosing instead the quintessentially French traits of simplicity, clarity, precision, elegance and economy. Satie’s hauntingly beautiful, floating melodies and modal tonalities are unforgettably compelling, combining bygone classical ages with Parisian sophistication. This landmark recording uses both a new and corrected edition of Satie’s music and Cosima Wagner’s own 1881 Erard piano, his instrument maker of choice.

GP726-27£13.87 (2 CDs)

Wolfgang JACOBI (1894-1972)

Piano WorksTatjana Blome, Holger Groschopp

Wolfgang Jacobi was declared a ‘degenerate’ artist in 1930s Germany but found inspiration in Italy, alluding to Baroque styles in his Sonatas as well as in earlier works that also invoke the spirit of Reger and Grieg. Post-war freedom is reflected in the joyously neo-Classical Sonatine and charming Miniaturen, while the substantial Musik für zwei Klaviere explores the symbolism of one of J.S. Bach’s favourite chorale melodies ‘Durch Adams Fall’.


RELEASE B

GP733£9.00

Giuseppe SAMMARTINI (1695-1750)

Concerto grazioso - 6 Concerti grossi, Op. 5 for flute and oboe

Capriccio Barock Orchester, Dominik Kiefer

‘As a performer on the hautboy, Giuseppe Sammartini, ‘Londinese’, was undoubtedly the greatest that the world had ever known’ (General History of the Science and Practice of Music, 1776). After CD editions of neglected works by Mudge, Hayes, Gregori, Hertel and Lully, Capriccio, the ‘discoverer’s orchestra’, presents a further premiere of inspired works by Giuseppe Sammartini, younger brother of the more famous Giovanni Battista Sammartini.

TUD7186£9.00

George ATHANASIADÈS (b. 1929)

Le BisGeorge Athanasiadès

This recording of The Bis by Georges Athanasiadès is a joyful album, a Serenade rich in delightful and popular melodies. This soundtrack of emotions displays a liberated Queen of instruments.

TUD7205£7.29

Patrimonie musical de l’Abbaye de Saint-MauriceGeorge Athanasiadès

This recital of works by three Swiss composers – all closely connected to the organ of Saint-Maurice – is of interest not only for the musical heritage of the Valais, but also for collectors of organ music and experts in organ building history. TUD7206

£7.29

Sean HICKEYA Pacifying Weapon

Michala Petri

The featured work on this vinyl maiden voyage is American composer Sean Hickey’s three-movement concerto for recorders, winds, brass and percussion, A Pacifying Weapon. Composed as a response to recent, turbulent events, Hickey sought to convey the idea of a ‘tool or instrument that was capable of providing an instant and irreversible peace’. In turning to the recorder, ‘an ancient instrument passed down unchanged through the years’, Hickey invoked many aspects of the ancient instrument’s personality, from the bucolic, the melancholic and even the militant.

OUR-LP001£18.00 (LP)

Daníel BJARNASON, María Huld Markan SIGFÚSDÓTTIR, Anna THORVALDSDOTTIR, Thurídur JÓNSDÓTTIR, Hlynur A. VILMARSSONRecurrence - ISO Project, Vol. 1

Iceland Symphony Orchestra

Important Icelandic new music performed by one of the world’s great orchestras. The Iceland Symphony Orchestra is widely praised for its performances, recordings and concerts devoted to modern music. Since 2011, the orchestra’s home has been Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík where Daníel Bjarnason – the orchestra’s Artist-in-Residence – is active as conductor, composer and educator.

DSL-92213£12.25

(Blu-ray Audio & CD)

Leopold KOŽELUCH (1747-1818)

Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 9

Kemp English

The Bohemian Leopold Koželuch was esteemed for his mastery of the keyboard sonata, couched in the ‘high-Classic’ style; they are amongst the most important of their time. In this volume, the early Sonata No. 37, full of beautiful simplicity, is contrasted with the Sturm und Drang vehemence of Sonata No. 36. Expansive slow movements in Sonatas Nos. 34 and 35 reveal endless cantabile beauties.


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Charles GOUNOD, Maurice RAVEL, Georges BIZETNew York City Ballet in ParisGeorge Balanchine

Walpurgisnacht Ballet; Sonatine; La Valse; Symphony in C

New York City Ballet, Orchestre Prométhée, Daniel Capps

The New York City Ballet, with its collection of extraordinary dancers and its unique repertoire, is one of the most prestigious dance companies in the world. This exceptional production, performed in Paris after eight years of absence, revolves around three great French composers who inspired NYCB founder George Balanchine: Charles Gounod, Maurice Ravel and Georges Bizet. The four ballets, choreographed between 1925 and 1980, perfectly encapsulate Balanchine’s genius and his very own neo-classical style.

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Giuseppe VERDIIl TrovatoreLive from the Vienna State Opera, 1978

Piero Cappuccilli, Raina Kabaivanska, Fiorenza Cossotto, Plácido Domingo, José van Dam, Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Herbert von Karajan

Il Trovatore was always one of Herbert von Karajan‘s favourite operas. He conducted it at the very beginning of his career and his first studio recording in 1956 was made in Milan with Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano, but his Trovatore really made its mark in the legendary performances given at the Salzburg Festival in 1962, which formed the basis for this successful revival in Vienna. This 1978 performance is steeped in scandal. Franco Bonisolli was originally cast in the lead role but abandoned the cast during a rehearsal where the public had been admitted entry, and, after throwing his sword at the conductor, left the stage in fury, to be later replaced by Plácido Domingo.

Arnold SCHÖNBERGMoses und AronThomas Johannes Mayer, John Graham-Hall, Julie Davis, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Nicky Spence, Michael Pflumm, Chae Wook Lim, Christopher Purves, Ralf Lukas, Julie Davis, Maren Favela, Valentina Kutzarova, Elena Suvorova, Shin Jae Kim, Olivier Ayault, Jian-Hong Zhao, Beatrice Malleret, Isabelle Wnorowska-Pluchart, Marie-Cecile Chevassus, John Bernard, Chae Wook Lim, Julien Joguet, Orchestre et Choeurs de L’opéra National de Paris, Maitrise des Hauts-de-Seine, Choeur D’enfants de L’opéra National De Paris, Philippe Jordan

This is Moses und Aron, Arnold Schönberg’s masterpiece, in a glorious and poetic staging by Romeo Castellucci and conducted by Philippe Jordan at the Paris Opera, now available on DVD and Blu-ray.

Giuseppe VERDI (1813-1901)

OtelloStaged by Paco Azorín; Recorded at the Arena Sferisterio, Macerata, Italy - July/August 2016

Stuart Neill, Jessica Nuccio, Davide Giusti, Roberto Frontali, Tamta Tarieli, Manuel Pierattelli, Seung Pil Choi, Giacomo Medici, Franco Di Girolamo, Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle Marche, Coro Lirico Marchigiano Vincenzo Bellini, Pueri Cantores D. Zamberletti, Complesso di palcoscenico Banda Salvadei, Riccardo Frizza

This Otello was the winner of the Campoamor Prize for the best production of 2015. Direction and set design are in the hands of the incomparable Paco Azorin. Conductor Riccardo Frizza, acknowledged as one of today’s finest interpreters of Italian opera, gets the best from both Verdi’s rich score and the lead singers.

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791)

Die ZauberflöteStaged by Peter Stein; Recorded at the Teatro alla Scala, September 2016

Martin Summer, Yasmin Özkan, Martin Piskorski, Fatma Said, Theresa Zisser, Till von Orlowsky, Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Ádám Fischer

Accompanied by a luxurious team of professionals, consisting of the renowned stage director Peter Stein, stage designer Ferdinand Wöger and conductor Ádám Fischer, Teatro alla Scala presents Mozart’s Zauberflöte. In this production, orchestra, chorus, soloists as well as outfitters all consisted of students of the Academia Teatro alla Scala, the educational institution founded by the Teatro alla Scala in 2001. The result was stunning – an instant success – with all ten performances selling out at La Scala, which is famous for its extremely critical loggionisti.


The Complete Symphonies

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Thomas Hengelbrock

Before moving into the Elbphilharmonie, chief conductor Thomas Hengelbrock and his NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester performed a ‘Brahms Marathon’ with all four symphonies of the Hamburg-born composer in the historic Laeiszhalle. Brahms’ music has always played an important role in the history of the orchestra, whose defining interpretations of the symphonies by Brahms and Bruckner have become the ensemble’s artistic hallmark. Since 2011, chief conductor Thomas Hengelbrock is in charge of continuing the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester’s history. In the bonus programme ‘Discovering Brahms’, Thomas Hengelbrock offers intriguing insight into all four symphonies.

109334£13.61 (DVD)

BAC439£17.01 (Blu-ray)

BAC139£13.61 (DVD)

BAC436£20.41 (Blu-ray)

BAC136£17.01 (DVD)

740504£20.41 (Blu-ray)

740408£23.42 (2 DVDs)

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