New Releases

February 2015

BENELUX

Label of the Month

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“Firma Melodiya” was founded in 1964 as a state-owned company for production, storage and distribution of sound recordings. Being the successor of All-Union Recording Studio “Melodiya” it was the only record company in the country till the collapse of the Soviet Union. Recording studios of “Melodiya” were situated in Moscow, Leningrad, Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius and other cities. Each Union republic had a shop of “Melodiya”. “Melodiya” showed the sound history of the past century in a variety of genres (from light to classical music, from folklore to works of composers of all the former Union republics), gathered together masterpieces of art of prominent Soviet artists, ensembles, orchestras, musical theaters. Representing the domestic arts at home and abroad, on all continents, “Melodiya” became the guardian of the national musical heritage of many generations.

Today “Melodiya” is: the national heritage of Russia, the most valuable archive which includes more than 230,000 sound recordings ; beautiful music, bringing together several generations ; variety of genres: classical music, folk, pop, rock, jazz ; mas-terpieces of the world musical art of famous bands and artists ; works of well-known composers and conductors ; “Alma Mater” of the leading professionals in the field of sound recording and musical art

The company’s library of recordings is an important cultural asset. That’s why we pay special attention to its high-quality restoration and releasing of archival records. However, “Melodiya” not only cherishes the unique musical heritage but also grows in the conditions of today’s music market. Archival records of “Melodiya” show the best pieces of the Russian performing arts of the XX century and the best composer’s works. Traditionally, “Melodiya” introduces the music of the forgotten classics of the Soviet period - Moses Weinberg, Herman Galynin, Boris Tchai-kovsky and others. “Composer-performer” series is an authorized interpretation of symphonic and chamber compo-sitions. “Melodiya” offers an anthology of outstanding soloists and groups: among them – “Russian play Russians” (conductor Kirill Kondrashin), “60 years of glory”) (State Borodin Quartet). “Silver Melody” series includes records with the voices of Anna German, Leonid Utiosov, Larisa Mondrus, Edyta Piecha.

Grigory Sokolov

MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS - Piano Concertos KV238 & KV246

Arthur Schoonderwoerd, one of today’s most sought-after interpreters on the fortepiano, presents the fourth part of his complete recording of Mozart’s piano concertos on the ACCENT label with this release of the two early Piano Concertos, KV 238 and KV 246. As they have already done on their previous issues, the aim of Schoonderwoerd and his ensemble Cristofori here is to liberate Mozart’s works from traditional nineteenth-century sound concepts. Each string part in the orchestra is played by just one performer; the result is a very slender, transparent sound that supports the solo instru-ment without ever covering it up.In the Concerto in B-flat major, KV 238, the fortepiano attains a range of five octaves for the first time in Mozart’s oeuvre and requires a correspondingly larger instrument. The Concerto in C major, KV 246 has numerous dynamic markings in the solo part and was thus probably intended for a «mo-dern» fortepiano with these possibilities at its disposal. Although long dismissed as a mere dilettante concerto, this work is anything but technically undemanding when presented on an instrument of its time. Schoonderwoerd plays these concertos, both composed in Salzburg in 1777, on a replica of a fortepiano by Späth & Schmahl from the last third of the eighteenth century. The recording is rounded off by two alternative cadenzas to the Concerto, KV 238 and the concert arias «Si mostra la sorte» (KV 209) and «Con ossequio, con rispetto» (KV 210) , sung by the young Spanish tenor Fran-cisco Fernández-Rueda.

Total time : 59’15

PPD : 12,95€

ACC24296

CRISTOFORI - SCHOONDERWOERD, ARTHUR

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The coronation of Charles II was the glorious celebration of the restoration of the monarchy following a coup d’état, civil war and an eleven-year government of the Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell. The return of the monarch was sealed in early 1660 and the official coronation took place in London just a year later. It was a large-scale political spectacle and a festive patriotic statement. The sequence of the coronation festivities is well documented in texts and pictures, but contemporary statements concerning the music that was played are imprecise. The ensemble Oltremontano under the direction of Wim Becu, specialists in the wind music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, have evaluated this music and reconstructed the ceremony. They now present the various stations of the ceremonial act in sound: the arrival of the King in London, the triumphal procession to the cathedral, the solemn coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, the ensuing royal banquet and the royal masques that followed. The result is a gripping sonic painting - supported by care-fully incorporated background noise – that allows us to immerse ourselves in a magnificent event of the early baroque English monarchy.

Total time : 66’36

PPD : 12,95€

Accent

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The Arditti Quartet’s latest release is devoted to the Mexican-born composer Hilda Paredes. Now living in England, she does not, for all that, disown her roots. Born in Tehuacán, in Puebla State, she engages critical reflection, vis-à-vis the multiple Mexican, indigenous and folk cultures, that closely combines the imaginary and political, all in writing of remarkableprecision and refinement.Convinced that the language spoken by a composer shapes his or her music, she likes to work the voice in all its expressive singularities, here that of countertenor Jake Arditti, Irvine Arditti’s son. There is no ‘Mexican-ness’ with Hilda Paredes, in the sense of that stereoty-ped colourful sensuality, but rather a close relation to the poetic speech of Mexico and the European avant-garde.

Also available :AECD1335 - FERNEYHOUGH : Complete Works for String Quartet & Trios

Total time : 58’30

PPD : 12,95€

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Rosemary Standley, a Franco-American singer with a gentle, charismatic voice, tackles Ba-roque repertory with sobriety and elegance. She is accompanied by the ensemble of Bruno Helstroffer, a guitarist and lutenist at the crossroads between ‘early’ and ‘modern’ worlds, made up of musicians who specialise in early instruments (harpsichord, organ, viola da gamba, serpent). Love, I Obey is the evocative title of a poignant tribute to ballads that seem to warp time. Yes, the music comes from the past, but those who perform it are steeped in the present. One listens to Love, I Obey like a proposition and experiences it like a fantasy, with its eve-ryday stories that give us an insight into History with a capital ‘H’. The in-depth research pursued like a musical detective by the group’s harpsichordist Elisabeth Geiger restoresto life pieces forgotten for 400 years, such as the title song by William Lawes: Love, I Obey.

Here, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Pascal Rophé, with whom the æon label has collaborated since 2003, give us a very fine William Blank monograph, the fruit of the orchestra’s sustained work with this essential representative of Swiss creation, alongside his elder Heinz Holliger and his contemporary Michael Jarrell. Born in 1957 in Montreux, William Blank, composer and conductor, is performed the world over.With him, there are no (or few) evanescent layers, aleatoric or improvised passages. Rather, there is a sort of pointillism with a human face, a maniacal love of small detail behind which emotion is flushed out by harsh, searing intensity or dense outpourings. The works on this programme are representative of the recent evolution in his work, especially the piano concerto, Reflecting Black, written in homage to the painter Pierre Soulages and magnifi-cently served in this recording by pianist David Lively.

Total time : 64’38

PPD : 12,95€

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Presented in a stylish 4-CD box set, here is a comprehensive recording of one of the most enigmatic manuscripts in the history of European music, preserved in the museum at the Château de Chantilly, France.‘Anything that can be sung, can be written in music notation,’ claimed an anonymous trea-tise on notation in the late fourteenth century. The harmonies thus ‘captured’ on parchment represent an apex in Western music, associated with the wealthiest courts in Christendom,called ‘decadent’ by some. Various elements of improvisation – avant-garde dissonance, astonishing rhythmic complexity, arching, lyrical melisma – meld into musical forms which test the boundaries of late Gothic sensibilities. Here are love songs for the End of the World: a time of deadly plague, devastating earth-quakes, endless war, disintegrating religion, and the explosion of science and measurement.

Also available :A372 - Vertu contra Furore ; A355 - Corps Femenin

Total time : 260’

PPD : 19,80€

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Total time : 58’20

PPD : 12,95€

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PARSONS/ FANTINI/ BYRD/ ET AL - Coronation Music for Charles IIACC24300

OLTREMONTANO - PSALLENTES - BECU, WIM

PAREDES, HILDA - Cuerdas del DestinoAECD1439

ARDITTI QUARTET

Love I ObeyAlpha538

HELSTROFFER’S BAND - STANDLEY, ROSEMARY

BLANK, WILLIAM - Reflecting BlackAECD1542

ORCHESTRE DE LA SUISSE ROMANDE - ROPHE, PASCAL - LIVELY, DAVID

Figures of HarmonyA382

FERRARA ENSEMBLE - YOUNG, CRAWFORD

SCHUMANN, ROBERT - Szenen aus Goethes Faust (Scenes from Goethe’s Faust)

Ever since his debut in 2005 with Berg’s «Wozzeck» (concertante) with the Symphonieor-chester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Daniel Harding has regularly attracted public attention with spectacular concerts.With the «Faust Scenes» by Robert Schumann – Daniel Harding’s first recording on the BR-KLASSIK label – the conductor presents us with a work that until now had long been on the fringes of the repertoire, Schumann having primarily attracted attention as a composer of lieder, piano works and chamber music.The exceptional baritone Christian Gerhaher succeeds, perhaps more than any other, in cre-dibly and forcefully conveying the sheer diversity of expression in Goethe’s literature here, and makes full use of his expertise as a profound lieder performer. He is joined by Christiane Karg as Gretchen, together with further internationally renowned soloists, the Chamber Choir of Augsburg Cathedral Boys’ Choir, and the Bavarian Radio Choir.

Total time : 115’40

PPD : 17,50€

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SYMPHONIEORCHESTER UND CHOR DES BAYERISCHEN RUNDFUNKS - HARDING, DANIEL - GERHAHER, CHRISTIAN - KARG, CHRISTIANE

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Enjoy a very special musical-audio play: Everything seems to be going wrong at «Circus Fu-rioso». Bruno the Bear refuses to appear on stage, his assistant, Bella Stella, has disappea-red, and finally, even the tiger escapes! Circus director Ricardo Grande has to improvise constantly. Luckily, his new assistant, clumsy August the Clown, always has a brilliant idea just at the right time. And in the end Circus Director Pimpelmoser is very happy again.The ‚Rundfunk-Kinderchor Berlin‘ (Children’s choir of Radio Berlin) and members of the ‚Bigband Deutsche Oper Berlin‘ (German Big Band of the German Opera Berlin) transport listeners to the furious world of the circus as musically portrayed by composer Peter Schin-dler. The colorful musical switches between music and the spoken text, which tells the ex-citing, amusing tale centered around Director Pimpelmoser and his merry troupe. Clear the ring for Circus Furioso!»

Also available :CAR83017 - Childrens’ Songs from Germany and Europe

Total time : 79’18

PPD : 12,95€

Carus

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Johann Pachelbel is well known as an organist and as the composer of the famous «Canon». While most of his organ works have been recorded by renowned organists, Pachelbel’s sa-cred vocal works are virtually unknown. Some may be familiar with his motets, but the great majority of his psalm concertos and cantatas for large vocal forces are almost entirely unknown. And yet these may be judged the most important works which Pachelbel wrote, for their influence can clearly be heard in the works of Handel and Bach.The highlight of these works is the setting of the 150th psalm «Lobet den Herrn in seinem Heiligtum» (Praise ye the Lord in his sanctuary). The psalm text mentions numerous instru-ments and is therefore ideal for setting to music. Unlike his colleagues, Johann Pachelbel scored his work for all those instruments mentioned in the text, resulting in a work for 5 vocalists, strings, oboes, bassoon, recorders, harp(!), 5 trumpets(!), kettle-drums and basso continuo. He even altered the psalm text slightly to justify the trumpets and kettle-drums, making this a perfect example of Baroque musical splendour featuring lavish sound painting and elevating the genre of «psalm concerto» to new heights.

Total time : 67’56

PPD : 12,95€

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François Couperin (“The Great”) is one of the central figures in French music of the baroque era, his expressive and picturesque music having a deep impact on many later composers. One of these is British composer Graham Lynch (b.1957) whose music has been commission and performed in over 30 countries and covers a wide range of styles. His harpsichord music is not derived from Couperin – he does not copy the style and ornaments of the old music – but is the nearest we have to an equivalent: highly expressive, well articulated and full of imagery. Finnish harpsichordist Assi Karttunen specialises in both baroque and contempo-rary music and this is her fourth published recording.

Also available :DDA21219 & DDA21220 - HANDEL: Suites for Harpsichord

Each volume in the ‘Portraits’ series is devoted to a composer who has now largely been forgotten; it presents a varied selection of his works. Théodore Dubois is the perfect example of the ‘official’ composer during the time of FrenchRomanticism: he successively was a Prix de Rome recipient (1861), organist at the Made-leine (1877), an academician (1894), and director of the Conservatoire (1896) where he had been teaching since 1871. However, so much injustice as well as honour was heaped upon his music – accused of academic rigidity – that it is important to rehear it to be in a better position to judge its real interest value. A representative selection of works, typically previously unrecorded, is provided on this multifaceted book-CD: a biography, extracts fromDubois’ recollections, as well as articles discussing the composer’s style and personality.

Total time : 193’28

PPD : 27,50€

1 Book + 3 CDs

La Compagnia del Madrigale’s subtle, yet powerful advocacy of great Italian madrigals from around the turn of the seventeenth century continues with a further exploration of music by Luca Maren-zio – his Quinto Libro di Madrigali a sei voci from 1591 –, a composer considered as one of the most complete of his time, capable of dominating the entire range of emotional expressions: joy, pain, sensuality, the evocation of Nature, and so on. Previous recordings on Glossa, including Carlo Gesualdo’s Sesto Libro and the recent award- winning Primo Libro by Marenzio, have demonstrated an uncommon response to the genre by this Italian ensemble: a fresh approach to each miniature it essays, combined with a wide-ranging awareness of the repertory; years of experience in other groups such as La Venexiana and Concerto Italiano have proved invaluable.Marenzio’s Quinto Libro was dedicated to an Italian nobleman, Virginio Orsini, Duke of Bracciano, on the occasion of his marriage to Flavia Peretti; a “wedding album” full of the latest musical and poetical techniques – the Canzon de’ baci, with words by Guarini, for example, is a marvel of its kind. However, below the surface polish of elegant and stylized Late Renaissance vocal music lurks a dramatic tale, conjured up by Marco Bizzarini in his booklet essay, of crimes of honour and passion, hired assassins and feuds between powerful aristocratic families... The vividness of La Compagnia del Madrigal’s rendition of Marenzio’s madrigals is captured by – and presented with – all the continuing hallmarks of Glossa’s production values.

Total time : 64’17

PPD : 12,95€

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PPD : 12,95€

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SCHINDLER, PETER - Zirkus FuriosoCAR1282699

RUNDFUNK-KINDERCHOR BERLIN - BIGBAND DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN - SCHULZE, CARSTEN

PACHELBEL, JOHANN - Festal Sacred MusicCHR77385

JOHANN ROSENMULLER ENSEMBLE - PADUCH, ARNO

COUPERIN/ LYNCH - Beyond the River God - harpsichord music by Couperin and Lynch

DDA25120

KARTTUNEN, ASSI

DUBOIS, THEODORE - Musique sacrée et symphonique ; Musique de chambreES1018

QUATUOR GIARDINI - FLEMISH RADIO CHOIR - BRUSSELS PHILHARMONIC - NIQUET, HERVE - ROTH, FRANCOIS-XAVIER

MARENZIO, LUCA - Quinto libro di Madrigali a sei vociGCD922804

LA COMPAGNIA DEL MADRIGALE

VIVALDI, ANTONIO - I concerti dell’addio

Since the early 1990s, Antonio Vivaldi and Fabio Biondi have become inseparable musical values for many music lovers around the world. In his latest recording for Glossa, the latter offers further proof of the astonishing imaginative powers of Vivaldi as a composer of violin concertos, which are matched by Biondi’s own dynamic and cultured virtuosity as a violinist (and director). With these Farewell Concertos Biondi – leading Europa Galante – turns to works written by a Vivaldi very near the end of his life as he travelled to Vienna in a desperate search for creative opportunities.Where Biondi’s recent Il Diario di Chiara release saw a late Vivaldi surrounded by colleagues and successors at the Pietà in Venice, I concerti dell’addio sees him in a Vienna in mourning for its recent-lydeceased emperor and more attuned to the now fashionable galante style than to that of the Red Priest, however brilliant and ebullient Vivaldi’s compositional spirit continued to be. The six concer-tos on this disc are all drawn from a collection sold in 1741 – very cheaply it seems – to the count Vinciguerra Collalto, and today kept in Brno, and bear witness to Vivaldi’s late style (as it headed inthe direction of Tartini and Locatelli). Biondi’s selection of concertos provides him full scope to portray the vivid and masterfully-conceived imagery, the compendium of violin techniques and the opportunities for improvisation implicit in Vivaldi’s maturity.

PPD : 12,95€

GCD923402

EUROPA GALANTE - BIONDI, FABIO

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This recording is a genuine pianistic event. It gathers together a long tradition for arrange-ment-making and originality in repertoire of which the solo versions are rarely heard in the concert hall. These feature a stunningly distinctive piano transcription of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, and original solo versions of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Ravel’s La Valse.Eric Ferrand-N’Kaoua has been acclaimed for his natural sense of phrasing and color, but inthis case it is the colors of an entire orchestra which are demanded by Sam Raphling’s sel-dom played and spectacularly virtuoso transcription of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring which is equal in this regard to Ravel’s own solo piano version of La Valse. Gershwin’s music adds a flavor of American swing via the Three Preludes, followed by the composer’s very pure, complete piano version of his famous Rhapsody in Blue.PPD : 10,00€

Grand Piano

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The band Music for a While, fronted by Norway»»s uncrowned queen of the cabaret, Tora Augestad, are celebrating their tenth anniversary this year by releasing the album «Canticles of Winter», an album they themselves describe as «a selection of low-key winter songs with a hint of Christmas». It is miles away from a traditional Christmas record, although some of the loveliest Christmas songs ever written can be heard here.Music for a While’s trademark is the group’s personal, organic and creative approach to the material, regardless of its origins.Whether the point of departure is Kurt Weill’s familiar cabaret melodies or songs and pieces from the classical repertoire, two elements consistently stand out: vocalist Tora Augestad’s vocal control and unique communication skills, and the band’s elegant, seamless and genre-crossing treatment of the material.

PPD : 13,75€

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Today when Frank Peter Zimmermann says that Mozart has always been easy for him, he needs only call to mind his debut concert at the age of ten – when he played Mozart’s G major Concerto K. 216; or when, some 30 years ago, as a fresh 20-year-old, the same FPZ made his first recording of the five concertos for EMI; and then if one factors in that over the years that each of these Mozart works has passed through his hands nearly 300 times in concert, then one can begin to appreciate the intense physical and spiritual experience that Frank Peter Zimmermann brings to these new recordings.One will immediately hear on this CD the experience that a master can bring to these works, because no one else plays these works with the same incredible, almost balletic, weightless elegance and rich tone, reaching a degree of intimacy, without any obstacle between the performer and the listener, as does Frank Peter Zimmermann. Mozart’s every wish is perfectly fulfilled! The Chamber Orchestra of the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian broadcasting company serves both masters admirably. Frank Peter Zimmermann‘s Mozart edition will be released on 3 CDs; the second CD will be released in February, 2016 and will include the Sinfonia concertante (with Antoine Tamestit), the Violin Concerto No. 2 D Major K. 211, the Rondo in B-flat Major KV 269 as well as the Haffner Serenade K. 250 in which the violin plays a big role. The third CD is planned for 2017 and will contain the Concertone for two violins, the Violin Concerto No. 5 and the Kassation K. 63.

In the years since the acclaimed recordings made by the Hungarian pianist Zoltán Kocsis back in the 1980s and 90s, no single pianist has attempted to record a complete edition of Bartók’s works for solo piano! For a quarter of a century, no new comprehensive pers-pective on this multifaceted oeuvre has been cast, an important and varied, yet internally cohesive body of work that displays so many different aspects of Bartók’s creativity. This is exactly what the German pianist Andreas Bach has set out to achieve - «... to find the youngBartók in the late works as well as the late Bartók in the early works. And (...) create a recording that presents a Bartók different from those usually encountered and which are by contrast, ‘middle-of-the-road’». Emphasizing “not only the rhythmic and folkloric content, but also providing an opportunity to discover Bartók‘s harmonic thinking”, an aspect of the composer’s language that few fans had the opportunity to appreciate before.

PPD : 19,80€

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With 3600 works to his credit, Georg Philipp Telemann is rightly regarded as of one of the most pro-lific composers of all time. This superlative however has brought him less honor than one may have hoped, because with so many works came the suspicion that quality may have been sacrificed in the process, a view that prevailed especially throughout the 19th century. As a result, the objective study of Telemann and his protean work only began in earnest in the late 20th century, resulting in many discoveries and first performances that show the seriousness and depth of the composer’s genius.The present CD features a trio of cantatas from the so-called “Engel-Jahrgang” (lit. “Angel cycle” na-med for the image of an angel that appears on the cover of the printed scores) dating from 1748/49. In these works, Telemann has already begun to explore the Rococo style, which had just begun to take root and demonstrates his compositional skill and originality at every turn. Three festive can-tatas ring out in glorious tones: “Der Herr lebet” for the first day of Easter, “Ehr und Dank sey Dir gesungen” for the Feast of St, Michael and “Der Geist giebt Zeugnis” for the Day of Pentecost.The Bach-Chor Siegen, the Hannoversche Hofkapelle, singers Miriam Feuersinger, Franz Vitzthum and Klaus Mertens and director Ulrich Stötzel are in their element with Telemann - having previously released several Telemann albums with hänssler CLASSIC.

PPD : 12,95€

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STRAVINSKY/ RAVEL/ GERSHWIN - Transcriptions and Original Piano WorksGP696

FERRAND-N’KAOUA, ERIC

Music for a while - Canticles of WinterGRCD4458

AUGESTAD, TORA - CARSTENSEN, STIAN - EICK, MATHIAS - TAXT, MARTIN - HAUKSEN, PAL

MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS - Violin Concertos nos 1,3,498.039

KAMMERORCHESTER DES SYMPHONIEORCHESTERS DES BAYRISCHEN RUNDFUNKS - SZULC, RADOSLAW - ZIMMERMANN, FRANK PETER

BARTOK, BELA - Complete Works for Piano Solo98.042

BACH, ANDREAS

TELEMANN, GEORG PHILIPP - Festive Cantatas98.047

HANNOVERSE HOFKAPELLE - COLLEGIUM VOCALE SIEGEN - STOTZEL, ULRICH - MERTENS, KLAUS - VITZTHUM, FRANZ

Sacred Russian Choral Works

The Russian men‘s chamber choir Akafist, directed by Andrei V. Malutin, is dedicated to thegreat tradition of Russian choral art and are masters of Orthodox liturgical singing. The choirdisplays an impressive range of timbres of male voices from the very high countertenor to the deepest basso profundo. Sonorous intonations and incredible vocal colorations bring this program of sacred works devoted especially to Easter vigil to life and provide a glimpse into the sacred soul of Russian choral chant.

PPD : 7,20€

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AKAFIST - MALUTIN, ANDREI V.

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• ‘Brahms & Schumann: Lieder’ sees Dame Ann Murray, one of the great vocal artists of the past decades, return to the recording studio to perform a personal selection of Lieder.• ‘Brahms & Schumann: Lieder’, Ann’s first solo album in over a decade, will be her final Lieder recording and a fitting way to draw her long and distinguished recording career to a close.• Still a regular fixture on the opera circuit, Ann’s voice remains impressive. Following a Brahms recital at Wigmore Hall in 2014, The Times stated: ‘Her still-penetrating mezzo was the highlight of the evening. Murray really sings through Brahms’s cantabile lines while losing nothing in theatrical awareness.’• It is difficult to imagine a singer who inspires greater affection and admiration than Ann Murray DBE. With Malcolm Martineau at the piano, this beautifully balanced programme sees Ann perform some of her favourite works by Schumann and Brahms.• The recording features Malcolm Martineau (piano) Benjamin Appl (baritone), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Johnny Langridge (tenor & Ann’s son) and Hester Dickson (piano & Mal-colm’s mother).

PPD : 13,95€

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• Under the directorship of Jonathan Morton, Scottish Ensemble adds the Tchaikovsky Sere-nade, regarded by the composer as one of his finest works, to its impressive Linn discogra-phy. • Imbued with the classical spirit of Mozart, but with Tchaikovsky’s style to the fore, the Serenade contains some strikingly effective scoring and an exhilarating Finale the ensemble relishes.• SE brings the same level of precision and finish you would expect from a string quartet; this is particularly evident in the elegiac third movement, one of Tchaikovsky’s most inspi-red musical moments. • This recording also marks the premiere of Jonathan Morton’s 2013 transcription of Shos-takovich’s Quartet No. 2.• Drawn to the work’s large, epic scale and the richness of its soundworld, Morton was keen for the ensemble to tackle this masterpiece from the chamber repertoire.

PPD : 13,95€

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• Following the success of performances and recordings of Weber’s Wind Concertos with SCO principals as soloists, the SCO Wind Soloists that feature on this album have since 2012 started to explore Harmoniemusik repertoire.• Inspired by the legacy of the great Mozartian conductors of the SCO including Sir Charles Mackerras, the Wind Soloists make a fine contribution to the SCO’s distinguished Mozart discography.• This new recording includes four of the five Tafelmusik sextets for pairs of clarinets, horns and bassoons, together with the Serenade in E flat major, the first of Mozart’s three great wind serenades.• The Serenade in E flat major has many unusual features. Its opening fanfare - a series of repeated chords on the tonic in E flat - immediately catches the ear.• The fact that Mozart avoids fatiguing the listener with a surfeit of the same sonorities, in music with a necessarily limited dynamic and instrumental range, bears eloquent testimony to his genius.

Firma Melodiya presents a recording of The Dream of Gerontius by Edward Elgar performed by Evgeny Svetlanov.The Dream of Gerontius (1900), often referred to as an oratorio, is Elgar’s largest com-position. A deeply spiritual and religious content of the oratorio, plenty of dramatic and vivid episodes, a developed vocal and choral texture, and masterful grasp of orchestral co-lours made it one of the most popular works of British music along with Handel’s Messiah. The Dream of Gerontius was performed with great success at the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in 1983 with the participation of well-known British soloists Felicity Palmer, Arthur Davies and Norman Bailey, the London Symphony Chorus conducted by Richard Hic-kox and the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov. We present a recording of that performance.

PPD : 15,50€

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Firma Melodiya continues to release a series of Nikolai Medtner’s own recordings, one of the most valuable gems from its archives. The second volume of the anthology includes three Medtner’s piano concertos recorded in the 1940’s in London (the second and third ones were conducted by Issay Dobrowen, one of the renowned representatives of Russian musical emigration). The set also features one of the most original of the composer’s works – Sonata-Ballade, Op. 27.

PPD : 15,50€

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BRAHMS/ SCHUMANN - LiederCKD443

MURRAY, ANN - MARTINEAU, MALCOLM

TCHAIKOVSKY/ SHOSTAKOVICH - Serenade for Strings ; String QuartetCKD472

SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE - MORTON, JONATHAN

MOZART, WOLFGANG AMADEUS - DivertimentiCKD479

SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WIND SOLOISTS,

ELGAR, EDWARD - The Dream of GerontiusMELCD1002266

LONDON SYMPHONY CHORUS - USSR STATE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - HICKOX, RICHARD - SVETLANOV, EVGENY - DAVIES, ARTHUR

MEDTNER, NIKOLAI - Nikolai Medtner. Volume IiMELCD1002274

THE PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA - WELDON, GEORGE - DOBROWEN, ISSAY - MEDTNER, NIKOLAI

HONEGGER/ JEAN-PHILIPPE/ CLAUDE/ ALBERT/ - Charles Munch in Moscow

Firma Melodiya presents concert recordings of Charles Munch with the USSR State Orches-tra.Charles Munch was one of the best known representatives of romantic conducting scho-ol. He started his own conducting career in Paris where Munch directed some of famous orchestras of the French capital since the mid 1930’s. In 1962, after thirteen years with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the USA, the conductor returned to France and visited Moscow for the second time in May 1965. The album features recordings of fragments from Rameau’s opera Dardanus, Debussy’s La mer, the second suite from Roussel’s ballet Bacchus et Ariane, and Honegger’s Symphony No. 2, the tragic war spirit of which proved to be so close and understandable to the Moscow audience. The recordings were made at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in 1965.

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USSR STATE ACADEMIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - MUNCH, CHARLES

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Firma Melodiya presents another volume from a large-scale project of Anthology of Russian Piano Music. The eighth disc of the Anthology is dedicated to the roots of Russian piano school and encompasses the first hundred years of its development in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Taneyev’s prelude and fugue in G sharp minor is a climax of the album – a grandiose polyphonic cycle, one of the peaks of Russian music of the pre-revolution period. The works of the Russian composers are performed by young pianists, graduates of the Moscow Conservatory and prize-winners of prestigious international competitions who are worthy representatives of a new generation of Russian music performing school.PPD : 10,00€

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Firma Melodiya continues to acquaint the music lovers with the performing art of Grigory Sokolov.Grigory Sokolov is first of all known as a performer of “intellectual” music – Bach’s suites and fugues, Beethoven’s late sonatas and Brahms’ pieces. This set presents the pianist as an impressive and original interpreter of romantic piano repertoire, including one of Schu-bert’s posthumous sonatas, Schumann’s Carnaval and Chopin’s and Scriabin’s miniatures combined with 20th century music such as fragments from Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Pro-kofiev’s sonatas. Grigory Sokolov’s recordings featured in this set embrace a 20-year period of the outstanding artist’s career. You are about to hear him as a vivid romantic virtuoso, a contender for victory at the competition in 1966, and artistically balanced pianist of the next decade and a mature, experienced musician of the late 1980s.

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In exile in London during World War I, Joseph Jongen (Liège, 1873 – Sart-lez-Spa, 1953) composed there numerous works. This CD brings together some of his pieces for orchestra, whose masters are called Franck, Wagner, Debussy and Ravel. His symphonic works from the Great War period compel recognition as the last vestiges of a world on which the lan-guage of late romanticism had still left a reassuring mark.

Concert : 27.02.2015 [20:00] - LIÈGE, Salle Philharmonique

Recently described by The Sunday Telegraph as having both “warm musicality” and “vir-tuosity”, and by Gramophone magazine as “passionately committed advocates”, the Stein-berg Duo has performed in Canada, Spain, Germany and throughout the UK. 2013 marked the release of their first commercial recording for the Nimbus Alliance label, their first live broadcast on BBC Radio 3, their first concerto appearance with the Orchestra of the Swan, as well as recitals at Blackheath Halls, Fairfield Halls, 1901 Arts Club and various music clubs around the U K. The 2013 CD release of Sawyers & Elgar Violin Sonatas has enthralled the critics: Bruce Reader described their playing as having “the listener teetering on the edge of melancholy and joy”, while John France, for MusicWeb International, described the disc as “a startling discovery… an exemplary performance”. The Swiss magazine, Music und Theater wrote, “The interpretations of the Steinberg Duo are simply phenomenal. So lucid, passionate and unsentimental, they make the works sparkle”.

Total time : 67’40

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Fauré seems at first glance to fit neatly into the history of French music, as a pupil of Saint-Saëns and a teacher of Ravel. Yet he stands apart from the mainstream because of his unique musical language, and because rather than writing colourful orchestral pieces he preferred to work in the comparatively modest media of the song, solo piano and chamber music. With the exception of the late String Quartet, all of his chamber works combine the piano, Fauré’s own instrument as a performer, with strings. Among the earlier works, writ-ten in the late 1870s and mid-1880s, are the two Quartets for piano and string trio. This wasa combination for which most of the models belonged to the German tradition, from Mo-zart to Schumann and Brahms – though there was a recent French precedent in the B flat major Quartet by Fauré’s teacher and friend Saint-Saëns, completed and first performedin 1875.

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Anthology of Piano Music by Russian and Soviet Composers, Disc 8MELCD1002291

GRYAZNOV, VYACHESLAV - CHERNOV, ALEXEI - TURPANOV, MIKHAIL - KHANMUR-ZIN, RUSTAM - MNDOYANTS, NIKITA

Grigory SokolovMELCD1002292

SOKOLOV, GRIGORY

JONGEN, JOSEPH - Pages IntimesMEW1575

ORCHESTRE PHILHARMONIQUE ROYAL DE LIEGE - HAECK, JEAN-PIERRE - BRAUDE, NATHAN

FRANCK/ DVORAK/ GRIEG - Violin Sonatas, Four Romantic PiecesNI6294

STEINBERG DUO

FAURE, GABRIEL - The Two Piano QuartetsNI6296

THE SCHUBERT ENSEMBLE

SCHUBERT, FRANZ - Piano Music vol. I

Schubert has been described as the last ‘classical’ and as the first ‘romantic’ composer, but it is really impossible to pin a meaningful label on him. He was, and still is, a very special case, a lonely figure in musical history, a dreamer who brought into music a degree of intimacy, despair, hope and disap-pointment previously unknown. Schubert was a sincere, shy and vulnerable man (though did not lack confidence in himself as an artist), and his personality is clearly reflected in his music.Schubert found his voice early (the song ‘Erlking’ was written in 1815 when the composer was only eighteen) and produced an incredible mass of work. His productivity peaked in 1828, the last year of his life, with a staggering explosion of creativity unparalleled in musical history – the coda of Schu-bert’s life was humanly devastating and creatively triumphant.Schubert wrote more than six hundred songs and his experience of working with poetry was crucial to his art. He learned how to tell a story and create an atmosphere in the limited space of song, how to compress his material in the most direct and effective way. Schubert’s musical language and his perception of the world were poetic and many of his works could be seen as intimate diaries or private meditations. His music resonates with the belief of Novalis (a visionary, and one of the most influential personalities of German Romanticism) that poetry is the highest form of language.

Total time : 77’16

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NI6297

FELTSMAN, VLADIMIR

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Mahler composed some of the most powerful and emotive symphonic music of his age; as well as the big melodies, his symphonies are also full of beautiful moments of chamber music. This has ins-pired, over the years, various arrangers to distil Mahler’s monumental symphonic structures down to the more intimate proportions of a small chamber ensemble. This Klaus Simon (2007) arrangement is one of the most popular, and highlights the intimacy of Mahler’s music whilst internalising the power of the climaxes.This ensemble of talented students originally came together for an epic project with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in 2014. Spread over a four month period, the group performed side by side with the Orchestra on a three city tour to India conducted by James Macmillan with soloist Nicola Benedetti. In order to capture the particular frisson of this group before many graduated; we brought them together in June 2014 for this special recording project. This recording captures the joy in music making which suffuses our conservatoire sector in the UK and chronicles how our students – with all their energetic enthusiasm – get close to the essence of ‘Das himmlische Leben’ (The heavenly life) which is the song and the idea behind this entire symphony. Professor John Wallace CBERCS Principal 2002-2014

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Sebastian Noack has selected Lieder to poems of Heinrich Heine set to music by Robert Schumann for his first CD released by OehmsClassics. The 30 titles also include Dichterliebe as well as the four Lieder to texts by Justinus Kerner that were withdrawn before these works went to press.There is an extensive text on the transpositions of the Lieder by Max Friedländer (1852–1934) in the booklet included.Berlin-born Sebastian Noack studied voice at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin with Diet-mar Hackel, Ingrid Figur and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Alongside his extensive concert and operatic activities, he is a guest professor at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin.

Total time : 64’46

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In the summer of 2011 Alexander Schimpf was the first German to win one of the world’s most renowned piano competitions: the Cleveland International Piano Competition. Since then, especially on the North American continent, the doors to all concert halls have been open to him. But he also performs in Germany quite often – not only solo recitals but alsowith such colleagues as Reinhard Goebel, the Armida Quartet, Christian Tetzlaff, Nils Mön-kemeyer and Julian Steckel.

• The final release of the George Enescu (1881–1955) symphony cycle includes two neglec-ted masterpieces: the 1st Symphony filled with youthful energy and the poetic and lyric Symphonie concertante for Cello and Orchestra. The soloist of the Symphony concertante is the award-winning cellist Truls Mørk.• Enescu wrote both of the works at a relatively young age: the Symphonie concertante was written at the age of 20 and the 1st Symphony was premiered when the composer was 25 years of age. Even so, Enescu had already created himself an impressive career as a compo-ser with several large-scale works.• The Ondine recordings with Hannu Lintu and the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra have proved to be extremely successful. The first release of the Enescu cycle received Gramo-phone Awards Nomination 2013. Hannu Lintu and the orchestra also received GRAMMY nomination for their recording of Rautavaara’s Kaivos Opera.

Total time : 54’04

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• Third release on Ondine by the Austrian star violinist Benjamin Schmid contains fresh ar-rangements of well-known piano pieces by Shostakovich and Prokofiev for violin and piano. Also included is a suite transcribed from Kurt Weill’s iconic ‘The Threepenny Opera’. All the three original works by the composers were written during the 1910s and 1920s.• Known for his exceptionally wide repertoire and a great sense of musicality Benjamin Schmid is one of the most versatile violinists of today. Described as “one of the most va-luable of today’s golden-age-violinists” (The New York Sun), Schmid has performed with orchestras such as Wiener Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, Gulbenkian Orchestra, and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. He is also a sought-after jazz violinist. In 2006 the Strad Magazine wrote: “Schmid mesmerises from his very first entry, shaping phrases with a skin-rippling sensitivity to send the spirits soaring. His golden tone, immaculate intonation, faultless technique and total identification with this magical score are truly things of wonder.

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MAHLER, GUSTAV - Symphony n.4 in GNI6300

RCS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE - MANNING, PETER

SCHUMANN, ROBERT - Im wunderschönen Monat Mai - Heine LiederOC1816

NOACK, SEBASTIAN - LANGE, MANUEL

Brahms - Debussy - BeethovenOC1820

SCHIMPF, ALEXANDER

ENESCU, GEORGE - Symphonie Concertante, Symphony No. 1ODE 1198-2

TAMPERE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA - MORK, TRULS - LINTU, HANNU

SHOSTAKOVICH/ PROKOFIEV/ WEILL - Preludes; Visions Fugitives ; Seven Pieces from ‘The Threepenny Opera’

ODE 1253-2

SCHMID, BENJAMIN - SMIRNOVA, LISA

SOLER, ANTONIO - Keyboard Sonatas

Following his successful recording of Rzewski’s monumental variations, Christopher Hinte-rhuber now turns to the neglected masterpieces of Antonio Soler, a musical visionary of his time.

Also available :PMR0037 - Rzewski/BachPMR0003 - Scarlatti

Total time : 59’45

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HINTERHUBER, CHRISTOPHER

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An Italian violin virtuoso of the 18th century, Giovanni Antonio Piani, is the inspiration behind the group bearing his initials, the G.A.P. Ensemble founded in 2012. Its three mem-bers - Emilio Percan (violin), Oriol Aymat Fusté (violoncello) und Luca Quintavalle (harpsi-chord) – are united in their shared interest in the works of this composer who is almost unknown today.The Habsburgs were amongst the most important music patrons from the 15th century onwards, engaging the best musicians of the period at their courts. The programme of this recording presents composers who were connected to the Habsburgs and Emperor Charles VI in the most varied ways. For example, there are Giovanni Antonio Piani, the best-paid musician of the Imperial Court Orchestra, and Antonio Caldara, Charles VI’s favourite com-poser – both of whom lived and worked in Vienna. Music directors in the service of the Habsburgs in other locations were Alessandro Scarlatti and Antonio Vivaldi, in Naples and Mantua respectively.

Total time : 74’10

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Ormindo is the third melodrama to have been born of the collaboration between librettist Giovanni Faustini and composer Francesco Cavalli. The plot, following the established code of dramatic convention, tells the story of two pairs of lovers (Erisbe and Ormindo, Sicle and Amida) as they experience reversals of fortune, disguise and a fictive death, all of which culminates in the agnizione of Ormindo as Hariadeno’s long-lost son in an incomparable coup de theatre.«This vivid performance has plenty of dramatic conviction … This engaging performance by Les Paladins is an important part of a patchy discography.» (Gramophone)“I was delighted by Piau’s performance in the lengthy prologue ... she sails through the highly ornamented writing with magnificent aplomb. The small instrumental ensemble is fluid, flexible and effective in driving the action in the continuo-only sections ... and delight-fully pointed in the short string sinfonias.” (International Record Review)

Total time : 131’10

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Having shared ideas and projects for some time, there was no doubt for PENTATONE to join forces with OXINGALE RECORDS. This is a union of two innovative and devoted recording companies with a long history of producing reputable records and collaborating with esteemed artists. We are pleased to have you join us in celebrating this milestone as it gives way to a tremendously intriguing and inquisitive series of co-productions for you, our customers and ourselves. The first title in the PENTATONE OXINGALE Series is BEETHOVEN, Period. This release features the complete sonatas and variations for fortepiano and violoncello, recorded on period instruments. In this collaboration, Matt Haimovitz plays his own Goffriller cello, crafted in Venice, Italy in 1710 out-fitted with ox-gut strings also from Italy and an early 19th century rosewood tailpiece and drawn by a Dominique Peccatte bow of the same era, while Christopher O’Riley plays on an original Broadwood fortepiano made in 1823. Delivered in PENTATONE’s signature warm, dynamic and detailed sound, this recording gives an opportunity for a straight encounter with the power of the rich interaction between the two instru-ments. Both Haimovitz and O’Riley engage themselves with the music, playing with welcome har-mony and delightful phrasing from beginning to end, producing a dramatic and lyrical effect.

The Spirit of the American Range celebrates the works of one of the musical giants of the 20th century, Aaron Copland, joined with the works of his colleague, Walter Piston — who was, according to Copland, “one of the most expert craftsmen American music can boast” — and the self-proclaimed bad boy of music, George Antheil. Featuring Copland’s Sym-phony No. 3, Antheil’s Jazz Symphony and Piston’s Suite from “The Incredible Flutist”, this release is undeniably a homage to the distinctive musical characterisation of American the-mes in a passionate, modern style. As Leonard Bernstein once stated, “Aaron Copland’s Symphony No. 3 has become an American monument, like the Washington Monument or the Lincoln Memorial”.The Spirit of the American Range is Oregon Symphony’s third release on PENTATONE. Re-corded under Carlos Kalmar’s guidance, they prove throughout the recording that they can easily stand alongside the world’s great orchestras. Oregon Symphony and Carlos Kalmar elevate the release into a testament of the marvellous creations of the new generation of American composers.

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One hundred and eleven musicians celebrating a large-scale symphony. That sounds like Gustav Ma-hler, Richard Strauss, or Arnold Schoenberg. In fact, the composer of this symphony, Alfred Schnittke, had precisely these composers (and many others) in mind back in 1981. Whereas he initially mir-rored certain styles from figures as Mahler, Mozart, Bach, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, he was soon also borrowing concepts from “trivial music”, folklore, jazz, tango, as well as many other styles. He himself described his compositional technique as “polystylistic”, which was more than just a technique, but an aesthetic programme: a serious effort to break through the vicious circle of the self satisfied and self sufficient avant garde music.Alfred Schnittke’s Symphony No. 3 testifies all this searching, this “in-betweenness”. The four mo-vement work — an opening Moderato, followed by an Allegro, a long movement marked Allego pesante, with the briefer finale marked Adagio — was commissioned for the ceremonial opening of the new Gewandhaus in Leipzig. He used the prestigious commission from Leipzig as a moment to confront not only the multi layered historical past, but also the weakened current state of affairs while remaining highly respectful of the achievements of both the past and the present.

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PIANI/ CALDARA/ SCARLATTI/ VIVALDI - I musicisti dell’imperatorePC10324

G.A.P. ENSEMBLE - MILANESI, RAFFAELLA

CAVALLI, FRANCESCO - L’OrmindoPC10330

LES PALADINS - CORREAS, JEROME - PIAU, SANDRINE - ORO, MARTIN - CROOK, HOWARD

Beethoven, Period.PTC5186475

HAIMOVITZ, MATT - O’RILEY, CHRISTOPHER

ANTHEIL/ PISTON/ COPLAND - Spirit of the American RangePTC5186481

THE OREGON SYMPHONY - KALMAR, CARLOS

SCHNITTKE, ALFRED - Third SymphonyPTC5186485

RUNDFUNK-SINFONIEORCHESTER BERLIN - JUROWSKI, VLADIMIR

PÄRT/ MARTINAITIS/ NYSTEDT/ SANDSTROM/ ANTOGNINI - Sacred Songs of Life and Love

Recorded in January 2014 in the grand acoustical environment of St. Joseph Cathedral in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, by Grammy Award-winning producer Blanton Alspaugh of Soundmirror, this recording once again testifies the stature of South Dakota Chorale as a first-rate ensemble that delivers no less than sublime choral performances. Sacred Songs of Life and Love features some of the most beautiful works in contemporary Scandi-navian and Baltic choral music, including Arvo Pärt’s Sieben Magnificat Antiphonen, selections from Kunt Nystedt’s Prayers of Kierkegaard, Sven-David Sandström’s Four Songs of Love and Algirdas Mar-tinaitis’ Alleluia.The Chorale’s Conductor and Artistic Director, Brian A. Schmidt perfectly illustrates the intention behind this recording in his personal notes: “We hope this this collection of Sacred Songs of Life and Love will take you through a full range of your human emotions. From the mysticism of Mary’s canticle and the solemn joy that bubbles throughout the “Bogoróditse Djévo”, to the emotion antici-pation found in the Sieben Antiphonen, to the deep reverence of Kierkegaard’s prayers, to the poetic perfection and sensual harmonies of the Song of Songs, to the glimpse of heavenly peace found in “O salutaris hostia” and finally the ethereal promise of the “Nunc dimittis”.

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SOUTH DAKOTA CHORALE - SCHMIDT, BRIAN

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Ever since the tenure of its chief conductor Eduard van Beinum (1945–59), the Royal Concer-tgebouw Orchestra has cherished one of the greatest Bruckner symphonic traditions in the world. With this release of Bruckner’s Sixth and Seventh Symphonies, Mariss Jansons and his Amsterdam-based orchestra add a new chapter to the RCO’s impressive performance and recording history of Bruckner’s works.

Press quotes:«an exhilarating, potent and energetic performance of Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony» - Mis-cha Spel, NRC«a muscular Sixth Symphony»- Erik Voermans, Het Parool«an exceptionally convincing rendering of Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony» - Frits van de Waa, Volkskrant«an impressive performance of Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony» - Eddie Vetter, De Telegraaf

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RCO Live

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Le Miroir de Musique is an ensemble specialised in the music of the late middle ages and Renaissance, from the golden age of the troubadours to the humanist movements of the 16th century. The ensemble is based in Basel (CH) and brings together the most prolific of early music performers, many of whom are graduates of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.The image of a «Mirror of Music» is borrowed from Jacques de Liège’s treatise (Speculum Musicae), and reflects our goal of painting a vivid picture of medieval and Renaissance mu-sic, in a spirit of fidelity to the original sources. This project was first conceived for the Festtage Alter Musik in Basel in 2013, at the sugges-tion of Peter Reidemeister. The programme was developed in close collaboration between the five musicians and the musicologist Martin Kirnbauer.

Also available :RIC333 - The birth of the Violin

Total time : 65’04

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The works of Hjalmar Borgstrøm is going through somewhat of a renessainse, and is about to be re-discovered. Violinist Jonas Båtstrand has already recorded his magnificent violin concerto to the enjoyment of the critics, and now the complete chamber music for violin and piano is ready.Borgstøm had a remarkable gift as a melody maker, well established both from the opera ‘Thora from Rimol’ (PSC1230) and the violin concerto and symphonic poems (PSC1311) - and he certainly makes full use of it in his chamber music. Jonas Båtstrand and pianist Helge Kjekshus have worked their way into Borgstrøm’s universe, discovering both a major sonata and several smaller pieces that together comprise his entire catalogue of music for violin and piano. Rarely performed - but certainly worth your while. Romantic violin music from Norway Borgstrøms Violin Sonata in G major, op.19 premiered in Chris-tiania on 28 November 1906, with the violinist Gustav Lange and Amalie Borgstrøm at the piano. Romanse in E major, op.12, was published by Kistner in Leipzig in 1900, both in an edition for orches-tra and one for piano. This Romance is dedicated to the Belgian violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe, but whether or not he performed it, is uncertain. The three remaining violin pieces, Serenade, Elegie and Berceuse, are preserved in manuscript in the National Library in Oslo.

The “exhilarating” (Gramophone) Anderson & Roe Piano Duo follow up their 2013 release, “An Amadeus Affair”, with “The Art of Bach”, showcasing the immense stylistic and expres-sive variety of Bach’s art.“No more sensational young piano duo team can be found than the Anderson & Roe Duo … the most dynamic duo of this generation.” – San Francisco Classical Voice

Also available :STNS30006 - When Words Fade STNS30022 - An Amadeus AffairPPD : 12,95€

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Zuill Bailey, one of the world’s premiere cellists, performs acclaimed American composer Nico Muhly’s Cello Concerto -- A world premiere recording performed with the Indianapolis Symphony conducted by Jun Märkl. Originally commissioned by the Barbican, the work received its American premiere with the Indianapolis Symphony in 2013 and that perfor-mance is the source for this recording. Also included on the album are two works by the great Swiss composer, Ernest Bloch: the Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra, again featuring Zuill Bailey as soloist, and the Three Jewish Poems for Orchestra.

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ROYAL CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA - JANSONS, MARISS

Sulla LiraRIC354

LE MIROIR DE MUSIQUE

BORGSTROM, HJALMAR - Complete Works for Violin and PianoPSC1237

BATSTRAND, JONAS - KJEKSHUS, HELGE

BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN - The art of BachSTNS30033

ANDERSON & ROE PIANO DUO

MUHLY/ BLOCH - Cello ConcertoSTNS30049

INDIANAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - MARKL, JUN - BAILEY, ZUILL

POULENC/ SAINT-SAENS/ DEBUSSY/ MILHAUD/ - La clarinette française

The desire to come as close as possible to the sound aesthetic of composers at the time of the first performance of their works, along with the simple pleasure of the sound of period instruments, guide Jos van Immerseel in his approach. For this recording, offering a panorama of French music for clarinet and piano from the early 20th century, Jos van Immerseel has chosen a Bechstein piano of 1870, and Lisa Schklyaver, a Dolnet Lefevre & Pigis clarinet from 1930. The recording is doubly precious in that it proposes both the view of one of the finest per-formers of French music on a variety of remarkable works as well as, in a way, the sonority and poetry of an era.

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European jazz legend Martial Solal is an imaginative and creative thinker for the piano, andone never straightjacketed by music genres. Voyage en Anatolie is a kind of survey of Jazz,with 13 brilliantly linked variations. The Jazz-Preludes and Études explore piquant harmo-nies through innovative pianistic figures, whilst the Exercice de concert offers a stunninglytranscribed improvisation. Solal himself plays the first piano part in the Ballade for two pianos.Key Features: There are many recordings of Martial Solal’s music available but these areinvariably those featuring him as a great Jazz improviser. This disc features a number of world premiere recordings of his music played by excellent pianist Eric Ferrand-N’Kaoua. The only piece previously recorded is the Ballade for two pianos, recorded by its dedicatees Katia and Marielle Lábeque in a mixed Jazz-centred recital called ‘Love of Colors’ – including pieces by Miles Davis and John McLaughlin in 1991. The performance of Ballade in Naxos’ disc is played by Ferrand-N’Kaoua and Solal himself, a unique treat given his world-wide reputation.

• I Like This One launched Joe Stilgoe’s recording career and established him as a performer and songwriter of considerable skill.• An exceptional pianist with formidable technique, Stilgoe has drawn comparisons with the great Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans, whilst his voice has seen him likened to Harry Connick Jr, Michael Bublé and Jamie Cullum.• Stilgoe’s inimitable sense of humour is also in evidence throughout the many original songs (listen to the downright funny ‘I really shouldn’t be allowed to speak’) and the sleeve notes, which boast a foreword by John Dankworth.• A Dudley Moore sketch provides the inspiration for ‘Mr Spiggott’, whilst fans of comedy duo Flanders and Swann will recognise the classic ‘Slow train’ which Stilgoe gives a contem-porary twist.• Stilgoe includes his take on the standards with the Rodgers & Hart classic ‘The lady is a tramp’ and the Rodgers & Hammerstein toe-tapper ‘The surrey with the fringe on top’.• This hand-picked selection of songs combined with Stilgoe’s great charm and wit ensures fans will conclude: I Like This One.

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FERRAND-N’KAOUA, ERIC - SOLAL, MARTIAL

STILGOE/ RODGERS & HART/ RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN - I Like This OneAKD496

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PURCELL, HENRY - Dido & Aeneas

After the success of the DVDs devoted to Le Bourgeois Gentil-homme and Cadmus & Hermione, Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème Harmonique continue their exploration of repertoires of the 17th century.This piece, combining theatre and music, allowed Purcell to achieve his dramatic ideal. In fact, he wrote only a single opera in his short career – he died at the age of 36 –, but with it, he left us a gem of rare beauty and extreme concision. The work’s genius is also due in part to the quality of the libretto, skilfully put together by Nahum Tate.Cécile Roussat and Julien Lubek, stage directors coming from the arts of the circus and the mime Marceau, had already colla-borated with Le Poème Harmonique on the Carnaval Baroque. Here, they combine mime, dance and acrobatics with the mu-sic in a moving, magical production.

Total time : 80’

PPD : 20,00€

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LE POEME HARMONIQUE - CHŒUR ACCENTUS - OPERA DE ROUEN HAUTE-NORMANDIE - GENAUX, VIVICA - NEVEN, HENK

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Message to the future - world Tour

MESSAGE TO THE FUTUREThe live concert of John Williams and Richard Harvey’s World Tour was enjoyed by visitors at EXPO 2005 AICHI JAPAN on 21st September 2005 at the EXPO Dome. The theme of the EXPO was ‘Nature’s Wisdom’, exploring the links binding humanity to nature. It gave visitors the opportunity to share and expe-rience new technologies, social systems and lifestyles - the aim being to seek solutions to serious world issues by working together on a global scale. John Williams’ duo with Richard Harvey has seen them travel throughout the UK, Europe and the Far East with their ‘World Tour’ programme.Born in Melbourne, Australia, John Williams is regarded as one of the guitar’s foremost ambassadors. He was originally taught by his father, afterwards attending summer course with Segovia at the Academia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and studying at the Royal College of Music in London.A graduate of the Royal College of Music in London, Richard Harvey has been led by his passion for musical instruments from all around the world, old and new, to work on a fascina-tingly diverse range of projects. Richard started his composing career as assistant to the celebrated composer Maurice Jarre and since then has delivered scores for over 70 television and film projects. His work has been recognised with a British Aca-demy Award and four Ivor Novello nominations.

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WILLIAMS, JOHN - HARVEY, RICHARD

Total time : 71’28

PPD : 11,50€

1 DVD

MUSSORGSKY/ STRAVINSKY/ TCHAIKOVSKY - Berliner Philharmoniker in Tokyo - Claudio Abbado

• Maestro Abbado left us with an inspiring bestowal when the Berlin Philharmonics and himself made an appearance at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan, in October 1994• Claudio Abbado’s Japan tour is seen as one the highlights of his musical career and this performance especially as one of the most memorable• Modest Mussorgsky’s tone poem A night on the bare moun-tain was performed in the seldom- heard original version, which is incomparably wilder and more authentic than the pleasant instrumentation by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov• Igor Stravinsky created a suite from his ballet The Firebird, one of his most famous and successful compositions and it was premiered in 1919. It contains 7 of the 19 numbers heard in the complete ballet • The concert ended with a work composed in a matter of weeks in 1888, Peter Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. Its pre-miere in Moscow the same years, conducted by the composer, was only a modest success. Recognition was not slow to come, however, and the Fifth has long been one of Tchaikovsky’sbest loved works

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BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER - ABBADO, CLAUDIO

RAVEL/ BARTOK/ MOZART/ DEBUSSY/ - Europakonzert 2003 from Lisbon

• The founding of the Berliner Philharmoniker on the 1st May in 1882, is annually celebrated with a concert in a European city of cultural significance• As has been done every year since 1991, in 2003 the Berliner Philharmoniker commemorate their founding by performing at the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, the former Hieronymite mo-nastery in the vicinity of Lisbon• This performance features great artists such as pianist Ma-ria João Pires, whom is known as one of the greatest Mozart interpreter of our time and joined by maestro Pierre Boulez• The repertoire includes pieces by meaningful composers such as Maurice Ravel, Béla Bartók, Wolfgang Amadeus Mo-zart and Claude Debussy

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THE BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER - BOULEZ, PIERRE - JOAO PIRES, MARIA

Total time : 120’

PPD : 18,00€

1 Blu-Ray

Picture BRD: 1080i Full HD – 16:9Sound BRD: PCM Stereo, DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1Subtitles: English, German, FrenchBooklet notes: English, Ger-man, French

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Total time : 97’

PPD : 20,00€

1 DVD

Picture DVD: 16:9 - NTSCSound DVD: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1Region code: 0 (worldwide)

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Richter L’insoumis / The Enigma - A film by Bruno Monsaingeon

• Sviatoslav Richter (1915–1997), one of the greatest pianists of all time, breaks his life-long silence and allows himself to be interviewed for this autobiographical film• We see his life on an epic scale as he evokes his wild child-hood, his encounters with the great names in the musical world, his debuts, and his activities as a concert artist in the Soviet Union, a country tortured by troubles, war, and terror• Humorous and unexpected revelations by one of the musical giants of the 20th century• Previously unseen archive footage and a wealth of perfor-mance extracts complete this portrait of an artist who refused to conform• The documentary won the FIPA D’OR Grand Prize 1998 and DIAPASON D’OR in 2013

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RICHTER, SVIATOSLAV

Total time : 154’

PPD : 25,10€

1 Blu-Ray

Picture BRD: 1080/60i - Full HD, 16:9Sound BRD: PCM StereoSubtitles: English, German, French, Russian, Japanese, Korean

SCHRODER/ SPUCK/ SCHOLZ - Dance! Chaplin - Poppea - The Great Mass

CHAPLIN - A Ballet by Mario Schröder• The small guy with his mustache, his bowler hat and his bamboo cane is world-famous - however, who is the man behind this figure? The ballet describes Chaplin’s life in constant connection with his creative work and shows that an artist, observing his environment both sensitively and wide awake, stands behind the funny Tramp• Leipziger Ballett | Gewandhausorchester |recorded live at the Leipzig Opera, October 2013 POPPEA//POPPEA in 3D - Choreographer Christian Spuck• For this production, Christian Spuck was inspired by Claudio Mon-teverdi’s last opera, L’incoronazione di Poppea • The story of the marriage of the Emperor Nero and Poppea Sabina still brings a chill to audiences today, portraying as it does the cruel lust for power and passion at the court of the Roman ruler• Performed by Gauthier Dance // Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, recorded at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart, July 2013THE GREAT MASS - A Ballet by Uwe Scholz• The ballet “The Great Mass” is one of the most impressive works of the important neoclassical choreographer Uwe Scholz - a requiem, a choreographic revelation and certainly his grand legacy to the Leip-zig ballet - it absorbs the structure of the liturgy of Mozart’s Mass in C minor and adds other works by Mozart as well as passages of Gregorian chant• Leipzig Ballet | Gewandhausorchester | Recorded live at the Leip-zig Opera, 28 June 2005

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LEIPZIG BALLET - GAUTHIER DANCE - DANCE COMPANY THEATHERHAUS STUTTGART,

Total time : 308’

PPD : 43,00€

3 Blu-Ray

Picture BRD: 1080i Full HD – 16:9Sound BRD: PCM Stereo, DTS HD Master Audio 5.1Booklet notes: English, Ger-man, FrenchSubtitles: English, German, French

Pierre Boulez : Emotion & Analysis

• This DVD-Box, a compilation of 10 DVDs, pays homage to Pierre Boulez in honor of his 90th birthday on the 26th of March, 2015• Not only do we celebrate a great conductor and composer but also his creativity and effort in supporting young, aspiring musicians as a teacher and mentor as well as his open and pro-gressive approach to composition and music in general• These fantastic productions, each represent a stage in the great conductor’s life, therefore granting the viewer deep in-sights into the activities and growth of a musical legend• Revealing motivations, projects, opinions, and personal in-formation through enlightening interviews• 3 documentaries and 9 concerts productions put together into one captivating Boulez-Box

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BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER - WIENER PHILHARMONI-KER - ORCHESTRE DE PARIS - BOULEZ, PIERRE

Total time : 1022’

PPD : 55,00€

10 DVD

Picture DVD: NTSC 16:9Sound DVD: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1Subtitles: English, Deutsch, Français

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Musica Ficta : Live in New York

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VILAS, MANUEL - MALLAVIBARRENA, RAUL

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Un viaje a NapolesEN2041

AGUEDA, SARA - SORDO, VICTOR - ALVAREZ, CALIA

TAVENER, JOHN - Tears of the AngelsBKD085

SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE - ROZARIO, PATRICIA - ROOKE, MATTHEW - GOULD, CLIO

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Voice of the SoulACD213

NEW ZEALAND CHAMBER CHOIR - GRYLLS, KAREN

PPD : 11,50€

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Total Time : 59’34

SHOSTAKOVICH, DMITRI - Chamber SymphonyBKD095

SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE - WALLACE, JOHN - RAHMAN, SOPHIE - GOULD, CLIO

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RAVEL/ SHOSTAKOVICH - Ravel / Shostakovich

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SCOTTISH ENSEMBLE - GOULD, CLIO

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BRITTEN, BENJAMIN - Les IlluminationsBKD226

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LISZT, FRANZ - Sonata and EtudesBKD282

LAZARIDIS, GEORGE-EMMANUEL

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PART/ SCULTHORPE/ TAVENER/ JANACEK/ MOMPOU - Piano Icons for the 21st Cen-tury

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RIU, ELENA

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DULLEA, MARY

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BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN - Beethoven Explored violume 6 - The Chamber Eroica

PPD : 10,00€

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SHEPPATD, PETER - SCHEIDLIN, DOV - HEYDE, NEIL - SHORR, AARON

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LISZT, FRANZ - Liszt, Art & LiteratureMACD1285

GRANTE, CARLO

BRAHMS/ DEBUSSY/ WELLESZ - Crossing BordersOR0010

RUSSO, EUGENIE

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GORTON, DAVID - OrfordnessMSV28550

KREUTZER QUARTET - KANGA, ZUBIN - REDGATE, CHRISTOPHER - HEYDE, NEIL

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Night Thoughts - Music for Solo ClarinetOR0012

ASHKENAZY, DIMITRI

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DE PARIS, WILBUR - Hot MustardRTS4259

NEW NEW ORLEANS JAZZ - DE PARIS, WILBUR

PPD : 8,85€

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Retrospective

Total Time : 158’