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The Danish Piano Trio hands of the Danish String Quartet these Lead Ylva Kihlberg’s unwavering soprano stands as the vocal highlight of the performance…” ‘Wood Works’ - traditional Nordic folksongs This debut album of The Danish Piano Trio presents a fascinating – Time Out Chicago and dances - are buffed and polished to a string of Romantic trios. From the perfectly balanced world of 1DVD-Video# DACO 2110410 $26.99 glossy concert-hall sheen. Contemporary Danish music’s ‘godfather’ Niels W. Gade over the sensitive and arrangements galvanise.” – Gramophone dramatic turn-of-the-century art of P.E. Lange-Muller, the album 1CD# DACO 8226081 $15.49 Holten: The Visit of the Royal Physician / Reuter, Jansson, Holten [DVD] concludes with the beautiful single-movement ‘Mountain Flowers’ from 1908 by the hyper-Romantic prodigy . 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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1–9 / This CD is the culmination of the composer’s unique collaboration 1DVD-Video# DACO 2110408 $26.99 Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos; with the world-famous American Kronos Quartet. “The Best Danish National SO [6 DVDs] Classical Recordings of 2008: The Danish National Symphony Orchestra and conductor deliver some of the Recorded live in concert at the new most unique and hilariously raucous new music we heard all year.” DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen, this – Time Out Chicago exclusive release combines Fruhbeck Mozart: Lucio Silla, K 135 / Adam Fischer; Mozart: 45 Symphonies / Adam Fischer; 1CD# DACO 6220548 $12.99 de Burgos powerful interpretation of the The Danish Radio Sinfonietta [3 CDs] Danish National Chamber Orchestra [12 CDs] complete symphonies by Ludwig van W.A. Mozart was only 16 when he wrote Strongly influenced by historical Beethoven with his spectacular renderings Through the Looking Glass, Poul Ruders, of Symphonie fantastique by his seventh opera, ‘Lucio Silla’. But even performance practice, but with modern Per Nørgård, Bent Sørensen, et al. / as a teenager Mozart could knock spots instruments and in fantastic sound quality, and Richard Strauss’ Eine Alpensinfonie as well as Joaquin Rodrigos off leading colleagues with his incredible the Danish National Chamber Orchestra popular concierto de Aranjuez, featuring the world-renowned Spanish Alpha Ensemble musical imagination. He set the action in and their Austro-Hungarian chief conductor guitarist Pepe Romero. 6DVD-Video# DACO 2110417 $63.99 Four leading Danish composers have ancient Rome, where a tyrannical dictator Adam Fischer make Mozart’s sound allowed the experimental trio Alpha to is torn between power and love. Featuring more vital and inventive than ever. “The take their music behind the looking glass Lothar Odinius (Lucio Silla), Simone Nold performances are as fine as this music has (Giunia), Kristina Hammarström (Cecilio), ever recieved.” – ClassicsToday Per Norgård (b. 1932): Symphonies 1 & 8 / and let their re-emerge in the trio’s very Henriette Bonde-Hansen (Cinna), Susanne 12CD# DACO 8201201 $52.49 , PO own sound world. “There is much to Elmark (Celia). “Gramophone Editor’s admire in Alpha’s elegant playing, both as “His most recent symphony, the Eighth from 2011, is surprisingly individuals and as an ensemble. With a Choice 2008” Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 4; Symphony 3CD# DACO 8226069 $29.99 sprightly. Its three transparently scored movements, which follow fairly minimalist slant this program might No. 1 / Alan Gilbert; New York PO a classical fast-slow-fast blueprint, are often lyrical, yet still Poul Schierbeck (1888–1949): Fete Galante / not be to everyone’s taste, but it proves harbor episodes of turbulence, brutality and what Nørgård once that things are vibrantly alive and well in Danish National SO Orchestra & Choir [2 CDs] “New York Times, Classical Best of 2014: Alan Gilbert again proves an described as “the universe of the Nordic frame of mind.” It all contemporary Danish music” – Wholenote Dalliance, deceit and dastardly blackmail inspired conductor of the visionary sounds especially expressive in these performances by the Vienna 1CD# DACO 8226579 $15.49 are all in the air at the rococo palace of Danish composer Carl Nielsen in this Philharmonic, led by Sakari Oramo” – NPR Versailles, where Schierbeck’s only opera impressive live recording with the New York 1SACD# DACO 6220574 $15.49 Fete galante unfolds its colorful plot. The Philharmonic, part of the Nielsen Project, opera maintains an exquisite balance Mr. Gilbert’s survey of the six symphonies between the lyrical and the comic. This and three concertos. Here are gripping, recording brings new life to his tuneful insightful accounts of the First and Fourth MUSIC OF DANISH COMPOSERS IN BRIEF music with a strong Nordic cast in front of Symphonies.” – New York Times the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. 1SACD# DACO 6220624 $15.49 Bent Sorensen: Rosenbad; Pantomime / Stenhammer Quartet; Esbjerg Ensemble 2SACD# DACO 6220637 $29.99 Poul Ruders: The Handmaid’s Tale / All works including the Fantasia Appassionata for solo piano are premiere recordings and were written Carl Nielsen: / Michael Michael Schonwandt, Marianne Rørholm, for , Sørensen’s wife, here accompanied by Esbjerg Ensemble and the Stenhammar Quartet. Schonwandt; & Poul Elming [2 CDs] 1CD# DACO 8226135 $13.99 Opera Choir [DVD] With The Handmaid’s Tale, which is based This DVD production of Carl Nielsen’s treasured on a novel by Margaret Atwood, Danish Per Nørgård (b. 1932): Whirl’s World; Trio Breve ‘After a Dream’ / Ensemble Midtvest opera ‘Maskarade’ bears witness to the spectacular composer Poul Ruders has created a 2006 staging at the Royal Danish Opera by top powerful opera that presents the bleakest This album presents all of Nørgards music for the Oscar winning Babettes Feast film version by Gabriel director Kaspar Bech Holten and chief conductor of futures for mankind. Ruders uses an Axel of Karen Blixens short story not just the snatches of it one can hear in the film. Michael Schonwandt. The immortal story of old extensive musical vocabulary to portray 1CD# DACO 8226136 $13.99 Jeronimus versus the young rebels is given new life the horrors of a society in which women in impressive surroundings while still continuing the living in sin or second marriages are forced proud traditions of the Royal Danish Opera. to become “handmaids,” who are sent to : Arrangments of Vivaldi, Respighi / Concerto Copenhagen 1DVD-Video# DACO 2110407 $26.99 childless families to be impregnated. 2CD# DACO 8224165 $35.98 Words like de-composing and re-composing seem fit to Rasmussen’s music, and in later years, this interest resulted in the arrangement and completion of music by Schumann and Schubert. (b. 1952): 10 Preludes; Six Pieces / Ensemble MidtVest 1CD# DACO 8226220 $13.99 The music of Hans Abrahamsen (b. 1952), dark yet alluringly innocent, exhibits a pure, strong navet that opens up into a genuine magical world of both the bright and the sombre kind. The same clarity inhabits his Pelle Gudmunsen-Holmgreen (b. 1932): Mixed Company / Theatre of Voices; Hillier arrangements of Erik Satie’s Trois Gymnopdies and Carl Nielsen’s Fantasy Pieces, exploring and evoking the original works in a new, unmistakably Abrahamsen-esque way. These seven pieces were composed around John Dowlands iconic Lacrimae. “Here is music that 1CD# DACO 8226091 $13.99 derives maximum effect from minimal means in a non-glamorous yet fascinating dialect of minimalism.” – Gramophone 1CD# DACO 8226114 $15.49

8 9 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com New Boxed Sets for Winter 2020 NEW RELEASES - BOXED SETS Vladimir Ashkenazy, First Recordings / Vladimir Beethoven: Complete String Quartets / Collections from the Great Pianists Ashkenazy, piano [4 CDs] Belcea Quartet [8 CDs] Redezvous Martha Argerich / Martha Argerich, piano; In 1963 the Soviet authorities allowed Vladimir Ashkenazy and Alpha is reissuing the complete Beethoven his family to spend six months in , at the end of which they quartets by the Belcea Quartet : “Beethoven’s Ion Marin; Symphoniker Hamburg [7 CDs] settled permanently there. He is regarded as the most exceptional music has been at the center of our life as a quartet from our very first rehearsal Martha Argerich initiated a new musical Rendez-vous end of June 2018 at the wonderful pianist of his generation. Music critics attest to his outstanding virtuosity, which he combines with a well-rounded sound and a together back in 1994. However, it is more Laeiszhalle of Hamburg. This is a unique musical celebration in which the piano legend performs recently that we immersed ourselves keen sense of formal and tonal balance. The present release new repertoire like Prokofiev’s Overture on Jewish Themes. Featuring a total of 7 well-filled totally in Beethoven in preparation for, and features some of his first recordings. albums, this release will also allow you to rediscover some of Martha Argerich’s battle horses during the course of the immense project 4CD# PRF 19030 $22.99 such as Beethoven’s triple or Shostakovich’s first concerto in new state of the art recordings. of performing and recording all of his string 7CD# AVTC 541470610572 $71.99 Beethoven: Complete Piano Works / quartets in the season 2011/12.” 8CD# AHP 469 $25.49 The Great Comeback: Horowitz at Carnegie Hall / Martino Tirimo, piano [9 CDs] Vladimir Horowitz, piano; various artists [15 CDs] “Beethoven’s piano output alone is Great Soloists / David Oistrakh; Ida Haendel; enormous and arguably the greatest Alfredo Campoli; Dennis Brain; et al. [4 CDs] Columbia Masterworks recorded these intimate private recitals, as well as his subsequent collection of all, and surely its most rehearsals for his return in 1966, on tape, and they have remained almost entirely unreleased for remarkable feature is the sheer variety of This release documents an amazing array of concerto soloists, more than 50 years. The present edition invites the listener to enter the circle of the few Horowitz expression. Among the 32 Sonatas you caught at various stages of their careers. The great Polish confidants who attended these events in the darkened, almost deserted hall: eW hear Horowitz will not find two that are similar; and in violinist Ida Haendel recorded the Sibelius Concerto and her live the 20 sets of Variations one marvels at enjoying the freedom of improvisation in previously unheard, sparkling performances. performances including this 1955 Prom account were praised by the range and inspiration of his vision and the composer himself. The Italian violinist Alfredo Campoli became 15CD# SNYC 19075935332 $84.99 imagination. Indeed, he was a rebel and one of Britain’s most beloved musicians and this broadcast of Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas / Wilhelm Kempff, piano he defined the course of classical music Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole from 1954 captures his sweet tone [8 CDs + 1 Blu-ray Audio] probably more than any other composer.” perfectly. – Martini Tirimo 4CD# ICA 5159 $29.99 Wilhelm Kempff’s landmark 1960 stereo recordings of Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas, 9CD# HAN 19032 $48.99 with CD mastering taken from the HRA remastering to achieve a new and clearer sound. The Raymond Lewenthal, Complete RCA & Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas / impression made by Wilhelm Kempff’s performances of Beethoven is that of an embodiment of Columbia Album Collection / Raymond Igor Levit, piano [9 CDs] Beethoven’s remark that music must strike fire from the spirit of mankind. Kempff brought to the Lewenthal, piano [8 CDs] 32 Sonatas a sense of fantasy and improvisation. Russian-German pianist Igor Levit 9 Blu-Ray Audio/CD# DGG 4837429 $81.49 In his own words, Raymond Lewenthal was an “octave thrower, has a long history with the music of long-distance arpeggioer and general producer of volcanic Beethoven. His debut album, released rumbles”. This hugely talented, extroverted pianist was also a key in 2013, featured the composer’s Grieg: Complete Symphonic Works / Beethoven: Complete Symphonies / Andris figure in the revival of a great deal of 19th-century piano music, late piano sonatas. He now comes to Eivind Aadland; WDR Sinfonieorchestra [5 SACDs] Nelsons; Wiener Philharmoniker [5 CDs] most of all that of Charles-Valentin Alkan. Sony Classical’s new finish the job with this 9-disc set that “The symphony performance under Eivind Grammy-winning conductor 8-CD collection of Lewenthal’s complete recordings for RCA and showcases all of Beethoven’s piano Aadland has everything you would hope for: takes on the full cycle of Beethoven’s eternal Columbia Masterworks celebrates this maverick pianist’s recorded sonatas. The attractive box set features lots of energy and excitement, with a very fine, symphonies, leading the legacy. beautiful photography as well as an well-prepared orchestra.” – American Record in a series of new recordings all made at the 8CD# SBMG 8536422 $35.98 informative booklet essay. Guide. The complete edition of ’s Vienna . The cycle will be released 9CD# SBMG 19075843182 $68.99 symphonic works with the WDR Symphony in a deluxe box set on five CDs, featuring a Piano & Violin Concertos / Sir Neville Marriner; Orchestra under Eivind Aadland is now Blu-ray Audio with the complete repertoire in available as a set. This edition is especially True HD sound quality. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields [6 CDs] convincing thanks to the authentic approach of 5CD# DGG B003111960 $85.49 This release celebrates the 60th Complete Columbia Album Collection / the Norwegian Eivind Aadland. 5SACD# ADT 21439 $58.49 Anniversary of Academy of St. Martin in Zubin Mehta; New York PO; Israel PO et al. the Fields! The Academy of St Martin in the [94 CDs / 3 DVDs] Beethoven: The Complete Bagatelles; Variations & Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos / Fields is one of the worlds finest chamber Clavierstucke / Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano Jan Lisiecki, piano; Academy of , renowned for fresh, brilliant This extensive set documents half a century of outstanding interpretations of the worlds greatest achievement by one of the foremost conductors of our time. The [6 SACDs] St. Martin of the Fields [3 CDs] orchestral music. Formed by Sir Neville Viennese-trained Indian maestro has enjoyed particularly close Between 2003 and 2015, Ronald In anticipation of Beethoven’s 250th birthday Marriner in 1958 from a group of leading associations with the flagship orchestras of Vienna, New York, Los Brautigam recorded all of Beethoven’s in 2020, Jan LIsiecki presents a full cycle London musicians, the Academy gave its Angeles, Israel and Berlin, and the new box features him directing music for solo piano a huge undertaking of Beethoven’s five piano concertos, first performance in its namesake church in works by Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Liszt, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, resulting in a grand total of 15 highly accompanied by the Academy of St Martin in November 1959. Stravinsky and other composers. the Fields. Beethoven’s No. 6CD# HAN 19001 $33.49 acclaimed albums. Composed over the 97CD# SBMG 9075937662 $196.99 course of more than 40 years, the music is 4 has particularly played a significant role in Lisiecki’s career. In 2013, he performed the performed on three different instruments, work with Orchestra Mozart under Claudio all by the master builder Paul McNulty, Abbado in Bologna, replacing an indisposed NEW BOXED SETS IN BRIEF demonstrating the rapid development Martha Argerich at short notice, and he that the fortepiano underwent during performed the same work at his Carnegie : 52 Sonatas / Lucas Debargue, piano [4 CDs] Beethoven’s lifetime. Hall debut. 6SACD# BIS 2403 $118.99 3CD# DGG B003093202 $52.99 “Debargue’s Scarlatti recalls his mighty predecessors. He displays the subtle touch and feeling once bestowed on these miniatures by Vladimir Horowitz and imparts new sound to Scarlatti’s keyboard music…” The Choral Collection – Sacred Music / Dresden Church Music / ; – Der Spiegel Various artists [30 CDs] Vocal Concert Dresden; et al. [10 CDs] 4CD# SBMG 19075944462 $26.99 Covering a vast array of repertoire, this This new release features highlights of essential collection presents the greatest Dresden church music from the Carus Tchaikovsky: Complete Symphonies; Piano Concertos / choral masterpieces in critically acclaimed catalogue. The set with 10 albums brings Semyon Bychkov; Czech PO [7 CDs] performances. From the sacred music together several of Dresden’s most of the Medieval era, to the refinement of important church composers such as “This 7CD collection marks the orchestra’s first major undertaking with Bychkov… and features Kirill Gerstein the Renaissance and the Baroque; from Heinichen, Hasse, Zelenka and Homilius. performing all three piano concertos, “the best pianist for Tchaikovsky’s concertos.” – The Independent Mozart’s Classical perfection, and to the The Kyrie Gloria Mass from Bach’s B minor 7CD# DEC B003080702 $62.99 exciting new sounds of Penderecki and the Mass according to the Dresden parts is inspired beauty of works by Eric Whitacre also included in the release as a special British String Quartets by Alwyn, Arnold, Bax, Bridge, Britten, and Arvo Part, and much more. treat. Featuring the Dresdner Kreuzchor, Elgar, Ireland, Moeran, Rubbra et al. / Maggini Quartet [20 CDs] 30CD# NXS 8503298 $58.49 Gaechinger Cantorey, and more. 10CD# CRS 83044 $69.99 The multi-award winning and twice Grammy Award-nominated Maggini Quartets consummate and much lauded , Complete Decca Recordings / Pierre Monteux; Various artists [24 CDs] interpretations of these works are presented here together for the first time. 20CD# NXS 8502021 $71.99 Assembled together, for the first time, is Pierre Monteux’s complete recordings for Decca, Philips, Westminster and Decca/RCA, including bonus disc of rehearsal material never before released, from A Celebration on Record / Conductor William Boughton [4 CDs] producer Christopher Raeburn’s archives (courtesy of the British Library) – including Daphnis et Chloe As William Boughton celebrates his 70th birthday, Nimbus has pulled together this varied selection performed by and Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 3 & 9. the English String Orchestra, English Symphony Orchestra, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. 24CD# DEC 4834711 $109.99 4CD# NIM 1712 $29.99

10 11 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com New from Naxos for Winter 2020 NEW RELEASES - NAXOS Chang Ping (b. 1972): Oriental Wash Painting / New Orchestral Hits 4 Kids / Rare Works for Orchestra China National Symphony Orchestra The Norwegian Radio Orchestra This recording captures the world premiere Alexander Rahbari (b. 1948): Symphonic Poems / Mohammad Motamedi, tenor; This new release is an album of eloquent contemporary music for concert of these remarkable works at the children performed by Mr. E and Me and The Norwegian Radio Antalya State SO China National Centre for the Performing Orchestra. The wonderful songs are written, arranged and sung Arts in Beijing. Chang Ping’s works feature My Mother Persia is a cycle of eight symphonic poems by the distinguished Iranian-born by the highly accomplished duo Mr. E and Me, which consists of a large variety of musical forms, including Martin Hagfors and Erik Johannessen. Martin, American born, composer and conductor Alexander Rahbari. Three of the works on this album set some of the opera, symphony, concerto, ballet, is an artist, composer and lyricist in his own right and a popular finest Iranian poetry and are cast for the tenor voice employing traditional sung forms. Rahbari’s chamber music and solo works among collaborator for the likes of Ellen Andrea Wang, Bobby Bare, music utilizes the lavish sound world of the symphony orchestra but contains many of the others. A prolific composer, his works are Big Bang, Motorpsycho etc. essential elements – scales, rhythms, and colors – of Iranian music. performed frequently both international and domestically, winning numerous prizes 1CD# NXS 8574126 $12.99 1CD# NXS 8574065 $12.99 as well as garnering worldwide critical Hommage to Pablo Casals / Yorick- William Perry: Toujours Provence, Music for Stage & Screen / Paul Phillips; acclaim. Slovak PO 1CD# NXS 8570627 $12.99 Alexander Abel, cello With this program Yorick-Alexander Abel “American composer William Perry has composed mainly film music and ballets.The music is Albeniz: Complete Works for Voice & Piano / honors the unsurpassed cello legend Pau as nice and uncomplicated, and yes, entertaining as are the other pieces in the program. Most Magdalena Llamas, mezzo; Guillermo Gonzalez, piano Casals who as a Catalan is mainly known are short; only the ballet suite Wind in the Willows lasts longer, almost 35 minutes. It is based on under his Spanish name Pablo Casals. Isaac Albeniz is best known for his influential piano works and a When at 97 years old Casals died in Puerto Kenneth Grahame’s novel of the same name. The Slovak Orchestra performs reliably under Paul style that draws on Spanish idioms. But his remarkable Phillips and also under the composer” – Pizzicato Rico he had made the cello as a solo catalogue of songs successfully combines tradition and modernity, instrument more popular than anyone else 1CD# NXS 8573954 $12.99 adapting a myriad of compositional techniques to create a uniquely and he had won worldwide respect and : Dances from / Ondrej Lenard; Slovak RSO, Bratislava personal and innovative style. These evocative and at times affection as UN ambassador for peace. introspective songs look forward to the composers masterpiece Pau Casals was the son of a Catalan father Alexander Moyzes remains one of the most significant figures in the establishment of Slovak Iberia. and a Puerto-Rican mother. in the 20th century. A profound and admired symphonist, he also wrote a 1CD# NXS 8574072 $12.99 1CD# NXS 8551418 $12.99 sequence of orchestral music that explored the landscapes and national folk identity of his native country. Down the River Vah, Op. 26 is one of his most colorful and vivid scores, charting a Dan Locklair: Symphony No. 2 / Peter Mikula, Portugese Piano Trio, Vol. 2 by Luis de Freitas journey from the Tatra mountains passing flowery meadows, imposing castles and surging waters. organ; Kirk Trevor; Slovak National SO Branco, Joly Braga Santos / Trio Pangea 1CD# NXS 8555477 $10.49 This world premiere recording of four Chamber music played a substantial role in the renewal of recent orchestral works by acclaimed Portuguese music that took place during the 20th century. Freitas composer Dan Locklair opens with the Branco’s kaleidoscopic Trio has an experimental feel, brimming Vibrant Violin, Best Loved Violin Music / : ; Air for Flute & powerful Symphony No. 2 America, the with his typical rhythmic fluidity, while Frederico de Freitas’s Various artists Orchestra / Marina Piccinini, flute orchestral fireworks of which celebrate Preludio, coral e fuga is both colorful and technically impressive. three significant American holidays. This Braga Santos’s infectious lyricism is evident in his Trio, and the No instrument can match the violin in its Internationally renowned flutist Marina work was summed up by Classical Voice origins of Delgados Trio Camoniano as a sequence of songs ability to emulate the beauty and subtlety Piccinni’s rich artistic tapestry is woven North Carolina as soon to be a hit for its connects the worlds of classical music and fado. of the human voice. Its design is an from her multinational upbringing and highly rhythmical and lyrical character, 1CD# NXS 8574014 $12.99 acoustic marvel, with tonal qualities that vibrant, global perspective. Her extensive typical features of Locklairs music. seem limitless, turning violin makers over programs include premieres by Aaron Jay 1CD# NXS 8559860 $12.99 the centuries, such as Stradivarius and Kernis, John Harbison, Lukas Foss, and : Concertino; Second Grand Concerto; Guarneri, into household names. For the Paquito D’Rivera. She has appeared as Rondino / Richard Bonynge; English CO great composer-violinists represented in a soloist with the Boston, Vienna, Tokyo, Jacques Castérède: Complete Works for Flute / Carl Czerny penned an astonishing this program, including Paganini, Sarasate, and Toronto National Symphonies, among Cobus du Toit, flute; Doreen Lee, piano amount of music, including the numerous and Ysaye, the violin provided the ultimate others. potpourris, fantasies, teaching pieces means of artistic expression. 1CD# NXS 8559830 $12.99 Jacques Casterede’s distinguished career was centered in Paris, and studies for which he became known. 1CD# NXS 8578187 $10.49 Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus / but with musical roots in the early twentieth-century traditions of This recording features the delightfully Telemann: Twelve Fantasies for Solo Flute neo-Classicism and Les Six- the wide variety of scope and intent in entertaining Concertino in C major, Op. ; Turku PO his work was never meant to compete with the radical avant-garde. Nos. 1–12 / Giovanni Roselli, flute 210/213, as well as the highly enjoyable Beethoven was commissioned to write The balletic Flutes en vacances has become one of his most Rondino, a work based on an enchanting Although written with an eye to the amateur or his first stage work – a ballet score for Die popular pieces, while Ciels (Skies) was a competition piece for the theme taken from ’s opera student market, these are highly inventive and Geschopfe des Prometheus (The Creatures of Conservatoire. comique Le Macon. Prometheus) for the dancer and choreographer original works. With their eloquent melodies, 1CD# NXS 8573949 $12.99 1CD# NXS 8573998 $12.99 frugal writing, and contrasts of register and Salvatore Vigano, nephew of composer phrasing they make an enchanting set, played . In the myth, Prometheus here by Giovanni Roselli on a conical ring-key is punished by Zeus for stealing fire for the flute, which has quieter keys allowing for more benefit of mankind; in the allegorical ballet, elegant trills. Giovanni Roselli has performed Prometheus brings Enlightenment ideas of art PROGRAMS OF GUITAR MUSIC IN BRIEF worldwide, and in 2009 was invited to play and science to humanity. at the concert for Sir ’s 70th 1CD# NXS 8573853 $12.99 birthday celebrations at the Teatro alla Scala. Alexandre Tansman: Complete Works for Solo Guitar / Andrea De Vitis, guitar 1CD# NXS 8579054 $12.99 Raff: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 / Laurence This first volume of the Tansman Guitar Edition presents suites and dances inspired by Italy, Poland and Eastern Weber: Chamber Music for Flute / Kazunori Seo, Kayaleh, violin; Jean-Fabien Schneider, piano , and includes Suite in modo polonico in its original version, not the Segovia-authorized collage. flute; Shohei Uwamori, cello; Makoto Ueno, piano Though he was known primarily as a 1CD# NXS 8573983 $12.99 symphonist, and despite his large portfolio ’s achievements of piano works, Raff’s first love was the as a composer were considerable and violin and his pieces for the instrument influential, demonstrating new possibilities Guitar Recital – Works by Tarrega, Mangore, Paganini, Brouwer, et al. / Ali Arango, guitar were promoted by no less a virtuoso than in opera and orchestration, particularly Sarasate, The Violin Sonata No. 1 is a Ali Arango has chosen Tarrega’s brilliant Gran jota, Barrios Mangore’s masterpiece, La cathedral and the in the handling of wind instruments. powerful work teeming with expressive powerful Sonata No. 1 by his fellow Cuban Leo Brouwer with whose music Arango is strongly associated. His attractive, lyrical style is ideal for intensity and lyrical beauty - it remained the the making of arrangements, and the 1CD# NXS 8574111 $12.99 most performed of his violin sonatas during impressive and beautifully proportioned his lifetime. The large-scale Violin Sonata Flute Sonata is a virtuoso masterpiece, as No. 2 offers his characteristic lyric impulse is the operatic Grand Duo Concertant. Vojin Kocic Plays Guitar Works of Antonio José, Joan Manén, Albéniz and virtuoso fireworks. 1CD# NXS 8573766 $12.99 1CD# NXS 8573841 $12.99 Albeniz’s Suite is a perennial evocation of Iberian , and Jose’s original and inventive Sonata revives a reputation cut short by the Spanish Civil War. Dedicated to Segovia, Manén’s Fantasia-Sonata is rich Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 53 / Wojciech Waleczek, piano in Catalonian sentiment. Wojciech Waleczek is recognized internationally as a pianist with uncompromisingly high standards in 1CD# NXS 8574133 $12.99 performance. The artist, born in 1980, has been pursuing a robust concert career playing as soloist with symphonic orchestras, solo piano recitals and chamber music concerts in the 27 countries of Europe as well New Zealand Guitar Music, Vol. 3, Works by Bruce Paine / Gunter Herbig, guitar as in Kazachstan, Jordan, Tunesia, Palestina, Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Guyana, Among New Zealand’s leading composers for the guitar, this album charts the course of Bruce Paine’s writing, Suriname, Canada and the USA. from one of his earliest pieces, the poetic, witty tone poem Sea Suite, to the recent and substantial Waitemata 1CD# NXS 8573773 $12.99 Reverie. 1CD# NXS 8574121 $12.99 12 13 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com New from Naxos for Winter 2020 NEW RELEASES - NAXOS Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Rondo / Giovanni Salviucci (1907–1937): Chamber Music / Classical Era Chamber Works Boris Giltburg, piano; Royal Liverpool PO Sabina von Walther, sop; Ensemble Überbrettl Beethovens first two piano concertos share an abundance of In the interwar period, Giovanni Salviucci Beethoven: March; Wind Octet; Wind Sextet; Rondino / Various artists lyric and virtuosic qualities. Concerto No. 1 is expansive and was recognized as one of Italy’s most talented composers alongside Luigi Music for wind ensemble was a regular part of entertainment in Beethoven’s day, and his Octet richly orchestrated with a sublime slow movement that is tender Dallapiccola and but was composed for the skilled players in the service of his patron, the Archbishop-Elector in Bonn. and ardent, and a finale full of inventive humor. Concerto No. 2 marries energy with elegance, reserving poetic breadth for its slow his early successes and all future hopes The charming and skillfully written Sextet is also from my early things and, whats more, was were quashed by his untimely death movement and quirky wit for the finale. Also included is the jovial written in one night; impressing a critic of the time by its splendid melodies, leisurely harmonic in 1937. This release of the complete Rondo, which Beethoven intended to be the finale of flow, and wealth of new and surprising ideas. published chamber music stands as a Concerto No. 2. 1CD# NXS 8573942 $12.99 vibrant testament to a future curtailed of a 1CD# NXS 8574151 $12.99 composer described by Petrassi in a letter to Casella, Salviucci’s teacher and mentor, Ferdinand Ries: Complete Works for Cello, Vol. 2 / Martin Rummel, cello; Works for Violin & Piano by Glauco Velasquez & as il migliore di noi tutti (the best of us all). Stefan Stroissnig, piano Leopoldo Miguez / Emmanuele Baldini, 1CD# NXS 8574049 $12.99 Karin Fernandes The 1799 Cello Sonata in C minor is among the first of its genre, the 15 year old Ries already Weinberg: Flute Concerto Nos 1 & 2; showing remarkable talent in its Sturm und Drang moods. The Trio, Op. 63 was admired in its day Leopoldo Miguez and Glauco Velasquez Pieces for Flute & Orchestra / Claudia Stein, for its ingenuity of modulations and fashionable London society lapped up the exotic themes of were both leading figures in Brazil’s classical music scene at the turn of the flute; Szczecin PO works such as Introduction and a Russian Dance and the virtuosic Trois Airs Russes Varies. 20th century, bringing back influences 1CD# NXS 8573851 $12.99 This is the first complete recording of Weinberg’s entire output from Europe to a homeland in a state of for accompanied flute. Flutist Claudia Stein has appeared with enormous social upheaval. The tropical numerous international orchestras and performed regularly in Romanticism of these three works marked Beethoven: Allegretto for Piano Trio; Piano Trios / Trio Cremeloque the Bayreuth Festival orchestra. As a chamber musician she has an important change in Brazil’s chamber The cosmopolitan, highly appreciated Trio Cremeloque based in Lisbon presents on this album music, from pieces intended largely for appeared at major European festivals, as well as in Israel, America piano trios by Beethoven, in which however the strings are replaced by and . The domestic use to works equal to the noble and Japan. She has worked as a soloist with conductors such as , Philippe Jordan and Sebastian Weigle. resulting instrumental colors reveal, somewhat unexpectedly, even more the symphonic master expression of its new Republic. 1CD# NXS 8573931 $12.99 than the original instrumentation with strings. 1CD# NXS 8574118 $12.99 1CD# NXS 8551408 $12.99 The Guerra Manuscript, Vol. 5 / Jose Antonio Beethoven: Egmont, incidental music; Marches / Lopez, baritone; Ars Atlantica Leif Segerstam; Turku Philharmonic Orchestra The Guerra Manuscript is a vital source of the tono humano, a Leif Segerstam is recognized Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4, arranged for Folk Songs of Qunghai and Gansu – Folk Music of form of secular song characteristic of and exclusive to the Spanish internationally as a conductor, composer, Baroque. These texts deal with subjects such as the pain of violinist and pianist. He has also conducted piano two hands / Eckerle Piano Duo China, Vol. 1 / Various artists unrequited love and the balance between suffering and joy, also many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras, and was one of the most In a time without recordings, the number of This release kicks off a new series drawing on mythology and the natural world to symbolize the many important ambassadors for Sibelius 2015 four-hand arrangements exceeded that of the exploring China’s rich and diverse musical facets of the human condition. This is the penultimate volume in a anniversary year. His many recordings original compositions by fourfold. Occasionally heritage. The songs featured in this complete edition of these 17th-century gems. have been critically acclaimed, and feature the arrangements were made by the composer recording are folk songs of minority 1CD# NXS 8574092 $12.99 works by contemporary composers as well himself. , who liked to play ethnic groups of Qinghai and Gansu four hands, created important works for this as the complete symphonies of Mahler, provinces Tu, Bonan, Dongxiang, Yugur line-up. This is the fifth installment of the Sibelius and Nielsen among many others. and Salar. As with Chinese traditional Military Beethoven, Compositions & seven-album series, which contains all the 1CD# NXS 8573956 $12.99 orchestral works edited by Robert Schumann visual arts, the song titles explain their Transcriptions for Piano / Carl Petersson, piano mood and origin. himself or under his call for piano for four Most of the pieces on this album bear the 1CD# NXS 760882 $14.99 Brahms: A German / hands. numbering from the Hess catalogue of 1CD# NXS 8551415 $12.99 Andrew Lewis; Bella Voce Derek Bermel: Migrations for Jazz Ensemble & unpublished or unfinished pieces. These Papillon: Moyo – Kenyan Music / Paul Shiundu; include the piano transcription of the topically Orchestra / David Alan Miller; Albany Symphony Brahms choral compositions gradually moved from an almost Michelle Ong’ara; Prasad Velankeer programmatic Battle Symphony (Wellington’s pastiche Renaissance style towards a fully mature, Romantic Victory or The Battle of Vitoria) and the Commisioned by Wynton Marsalis, Migration approach, culminating in his large-scale choral masterpiece Ein Moyo means ‘heart’ in Swahili, and ‘life’ genial variations on Rule Britannia and God Series has its roots in African American music, deutsches Requiem. This performance is sung in a new English or ‘spirit’ in Mbeere - Papillon’s mother its impeccable and biting rhythms Save the King. The Marches, Menuets and tongue. The music on this album is inspired expressed through orchestration that sounds Ecossaises derive from a variety of sources, translation prepared by Lara Hoggard that fits the original German by the singing of birds in the morning, the like a city coming to life. Mar de Setembro while there is a strangely tragic aspect to the declamation and with the piano four-hands accompaniment written roaring of lions and the cries of monkeys was inspired by Luciana Souzas bell-toned Waltz in C minor. by Brahms himself. - it is Mother Nature speaking. With his voice and the intense feelings of Portuguese 1CD# NXS 8573928 $12.99 1CD# NXS 8573952 $12.99 soaring voice and haunting melodies, saudade, while A Shout, A Whisper, and A coupled with an abundance of African Trace honors Bartok’s last years in New York, referring to the Concerto for Orchestra as well instruments, many of his own making, FROM THE POST ROMANTIC ERA IN BRIEF as to jazz and Balkan music. Papillon is a musical force to be reckoned 1CD# NXS 8559871 $12.99 with. : Four Tone Poems after Arnold Bocklin / Ira Levin; 1CD# NXS 761142 $14.99 J.S. Bach: Magna Sequentia II, A Grand Suite Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester The Sky Is Cloudy, Armenian folk songs / of Dances compiled by Sonia Rubinsky / Sonia In addition to the Four Tone Poems after Arnold Bocklin, this program includes the Variations and Fugue on a Theme Authentic Light Orchestra Rubinsky, piano by J.S. Bach, Op. 81, as well as a transcription of Bach’s O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sunde gross, BWV 622. The Authentic Light Orchestra was founded in Sonia Rubinsky’s Magna Sequentia I was 1CD# NXS 8574074 $12.99 2009 by the Swiss multi-instrumentalist with constructed around a Partita from Bach’s Armenian roots, Valeri Tolstov. His idea is to Clavier-Ubung I but this second volume Ravel: Orchestral Works, Vol. 6 – 2 Piano Concertos; Tzigane / Orchestre National de Lyon combine ancient Armenian folk songs and mix focuses on the French Overture from Clavier- them with classical influences, jazz, rock and Ubung II. Each of the 17 movements has been Ravel’s two piano concertos reflect his enthusiasm for jazz. The Concerto in G major is lightly scored but sports a touch of electronica to create a new musical selected to illustrate the different styles and galvanizing motor rhythms and a slow movement of astonishing beauty. The Concerto for the Left Hand is a form. In this fusion of styles, all of the elements expressive moods of Bach’s dance writing. This single movement tour de force. supplement each other harmonically, producing unique sequence showcases three specific a unique sound and an original interpretation of national styles: the ornate and sophisticated 1CD# NXS 8573572 $12.99 Armenian folk. French school, virtuosic Italian writing, and the 1CD# NXS 761122 $14.99 stricter fugal writing of the German style. Andrea Vivanet Plays Piano Works of Karol Szymanowski 1CD# NXS 8574027 $12.99 The relevance of the piano in Szymanowski’s work may hardly be underestimated. Starting from 1900 with the Nine Preludes Op. 1 and ending in 1934 with the Two Op. 62 – music for piano persists throughout. Charming Cello, Best Loved Cello Music / Various artists 1CD# NXS 8551401 $12.99 The ancient origins of the modern cello came from India and the Far East, arriving in Europe through Arab trade routes. People often cite the cello as their favorite string instrument on account of its Alberic Magnard: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 / Fabrice Bollon; similarity to the human voice, the warmth of tone, the dramatic quality of the upper register and the Philharmonisches Orchester Freiburg instrument’s directness of communication. All of these unique qualities are represented by the works in this essential collection. Magnard’s luminous Fourth Symphony is a masterpiece that successfully synthesizes Wagnerian high drama 1CD# NXS 8578173 $10.49 with Classical transparency. The composer’s Third was admired by for its rare and perfect clarity. 1CD# NXS 8574082 $12.99

14 15 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com NEW RELEASES - EARLY MUSIC NEW RELEASES - ORGAN The Renaissance & Before New Organ Recital Programs Secular Works from Early Times Varied Programs of Organ Music

Francesco Landini (1330–1397): Songs of Invisible Love / La Reverdie Northern Dances – Folk Music from Scandinavia & Estonia / Gunnar Idenstam, organ Francesco Landini was the most famous Florentine Trecento composer, known for being a multi-instrumentalist, most notably a virtuoso on the organ. This project fills a recording void This sparkling collection of folk dances from Norway and Sweden, offset by two Estonian chorales on a fundamental author at the sunset of the Middle Ages, reread through a perspective never and three improvisations, comes from two of the finest practitioners of this kind of material: explored until now. A passionate work on the strict bond between poetry and music, well Gunnar Idenstam, playing on the new Klais organ of Kristiansand Cathedral in southern Norway, explained by Davide Daolmi, is associated to a necessary musicological research about sources. and Erik Rydvall, on the nyckelharpa, the keyed folk fiddle of Sweden. 1CD# ACAA 462 $18.99 1CD# TOC TOCN0004 $16.99

Organ Music of J.S. Bach, Mozart, Schuman, Reger / Andreas Marquardt, organ Amour Et Mars / Thélème The Saalfeld Saur organ is one of the four most important romantic organs in Thuringia. The ensemble Thélème specializes in the performance of early music. Thélème, founded Compared to Bad Salungen, Ilmenau and Muhlhausen it is a link between the purely mechanical in 2013 by Artistic Director, Jean-Christophe Groffe, is largely made up of musicians who and the purely pneumatic organs. The instrument was built in 1894 as Opus 624 by Wilhelm graduated from the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. The name of the ensemble refers to the utopia Sauer. The magnificent Baroque prospectus by court painter Ziegenspeck originally belonged to a described by François Rabelais at the end of his novel Gargantua. Thélème is a hexagonal five- three manual organ by Johann Georg Fincke. story Renaissance chateau built with precious materials. 1CD# QRST 1809 $18.99 1CD# CVEL 91908 $16.99

Juan Sebastian Elkano, The First Voyage Around the World / Euskal Organ Works by David Hermann Engel, Johann Wolfgang Franck, et al. / Michael Schoenheit, organ Barrokenensemble [2 CDs] Friedrich Ladegast was one of the most important organ builders of the second half of the Juan Sebastian Elkano took command of the expedition after Magellan’s Death in the Philippines 19th century. He was born in 1818 in Hochhermsdorf, and so the musical world has recently and returned to Spain with the seventeen remaining members of the 240 man expedition. Enrike celebrated his 200th birthday. On behalf of this occasion Querstand has released two albums Solinis and Euskal Barrokenensemble portray the Basque tradition of the young Elkano, the which contain the programs of the first concerts played at two of the greatest Ladegast Organs: Villancicos of the New World and the repertoire of Polynesia and the Moluccas. the Merseburg Cathedral organ and the Organ at Schwerin Cathedral. 2CD# AVX 9933 $64.49 1CD# QRST 1810 $18.99

Kaiser Heinrich II & Frau Kunigunde: Gregorian Chant : Lachrimæ Lyræ – Tears of Exile / Padre Antonio Soler: Concertos for Two Organs Aurelio Bonelli (?–1620): Complete Keyboard for an Imperial Couple / Schola Bamberg [2 CDs] Francois Joubert-Caillet; L’Acheron 1–6 / Jurgen Essl, evangelien Organ Music / Federico del Sordo, organ Emperor Heinrich II and his wife This collaboration between a On the present recording, we have Aurelio Bonelli’s life is shrouded in Cunigunde of Luxembourg were an consort of and the Greek lyra chosen two historical instruments mystery and today little remains of extraordinary Imperial couple. Henry takes John Dowland’s Lachrimæ which are immensely colorful and his creative output. The set features was canonized in 1146, Cunigunde or Seaven Teares as its point of offer enough tonal possibilities to works from the collection Il primo in 1200. Both were revered as saints departure; together they paint a distinguish the two parts in any libro de ricercari et canzoni a quattro in the Middle Ages. Bavarian Duke transverse and stateless picture desired situation. In addition, both voci of which only two copies remain. Heinrich II was crowned German of melancholy, although this is organs represent the sound aesthetic An artist by day it’s thought he learnt king in Cathedral in 1002. set against the joyful hope of a and richness in color of Spanish painting from Agostino Carracci, a The first album in this set presents a shining future that appears in these music of the mid-18th century. The key figure of the Bologna School. selection of Gregorian chants from the coronation ceremony improvisations and timeless Anglo- presence of echo manuals and external Nave facades has They worked together on the frescos of Bologna’s Olivetan and the subsequent coronation mass. Byzantine dances. also added a new dimension to performing echoes, responses monastery of San Michele in Bosco and in approximately 2CD# CHR 02152 $14.99 1CD# FLA 753 $18.99 and continuo playing. 1611 Bonelli was appointed monastery organist. 1SACD# CYBL 031802 $24.99 1CD# BLC 95816 $10.49 Carlo Gesualdo: Complete Madrigals, Vol. 1 / Paul Agnew; Les Arts Florissants [2 CDs] Organ Works of Joseph Jongen, Jonathan Dove, Following the success of their recordings of Monteverdi Madrigals, Paul Agnew and Les Arts Liszt / Alexander Ffinch, organ Florissants embark on a survey of Madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo - author of both some of the most traditional five-part madrigals ever written and of some of the most extreme vocal chamber works in the Three major organ works: one from Liszt, one of the masters of high Romanticism and bubbling history of composition. Gesualdo’s music is intensely expressive. virtuosity; the powerful Heroic Sonata of Jongen and the first commercial recording of the delicately 2CD# HAR 8905307 $22.99 figured piece ‘The Dancing Pipes’ by Jonathan Dove, one of today’s most appreciated composers. This superb program is titled ‘Transformations’ as each piece contains musical transformations of themes 1CD# DVT 25193 $15.99 EARLY SACRED MUSIC IN BRIEF BAROQUE ERA MUSIC OF ORGAN IN BRIEF Laudario - Sacred Music from the time of St. Francis of Assisi / Canticum Novum Bardon J.S. Bach on Porthan Organ / Susanne Kujala, organ Canticum Novum sheds new light on the wonderful medieval repertory of Tuscan laude. These popular sacred “Bach on Porthan Organ” continues Susanne Kujala’s series of introducing Finland’s organs to a larger audience. songs of praise from the time of St Francis of Assisi overflow with poetry and sunshine. Organ builder Martti Porthan made the organ in 1993, working in the manner of the German Baroque. 1CD# AMBR 052 $18.99 1CD# ABA 424 $18.99 Music for Saint Katherine of Alexandria / Andrew Kirkman; The Binchois Consort J.S. Bach: Organ Works / Masaaki Suzuki, 1714 Gottfried Silbermann Organ This program presents a poignant, poetic evocation of the conjectural life and death of Saint Katherine. The The program includes one of Bach’s most imposing preludes (BWV 546), the multi-sectioned Toccata in C major program includes music of Walter Frye, John Dunstaple and various anonymous compositions of the 15th century. (BWV 546a), chorale preludes and partitas, and the famous Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor. 1CD# HYP 68274 $19.99 1SACD# BIS 2421 $19.99 Waclaw of Szamotuly: Complete Works / Marc Lewon, lute; Cracow Singers Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757): Sonatas for Organ / Nicola Reniero, organ The Cracow Singers accompanied by lutenist Marc Lewon present the first ever complete songs of the Renaissance This album closes with the most spectacular of all Scarlatti’s fugues, K417 in . It is a stunning piece on master, Waclaw of Szamotuly: Latin , Polish monophonic and polyphonic hymns and Lamentations. account of the frenzied finale and the unexpected change of scene that comes about halfway through the piece. 1CD# RAUK 3801 $19.99 1CD# BLC 95817 $10.49 Marian Music from the Reinaissance to the Baroque / Vox Poetica Ensemble; Nova Alta François Couperin: Complete Works for Organ / James Johnstone, The ensembles Vox Poetica and Nova Alta directed by Sabino Manzo offer us some examples of the most Tribuot Organ 1699 Seurre [2 CDs] significant Italian composers of the Renaissance and Baroque period, from through . James Johnstone continues his series of recordings on the great baroque organs of Europe on an instrument now 1CD# TCT 600006 $16.99 in the Eglise St Martin in Seurre, Burgundy, the last surviving instrument by this revered organ builder. 2CD# MET 1098 $31.49 16 17 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com The Baroque Period NEW RELEASES - BAROQUE Telemann: Wind Band Music for Hautboisten / Giovanni Battista Legrenzi: 18 Trio Sonatas, Op. 2 / The German Baroque Georg Corall; Les Hautboistes De Prusse Giorgio Sasso; Insieme Strumentale di Roma The members of the ensemble “les The first instrumental collection by Giovanni Legrenzi, Sonate a Telemann: Inauguration for Hamburg & Altona / hautboistes de prusse,” founded due e tre Op. 2, was published during the composer’s last years as Ira Hochman; Barockwerk Hamburg in 1996 by Georg Corall, endeavor organist at the Santa Maria Maggiore Church in Bergamo, along The three compositions brought together on this release demonstrate how Telemann could be to bring out the tonal and technical with three other collections. This collection includes nine sonatas characteristics of historical oboe a due, of which six for two violins and continuo and three for violin, relied on to compose not only church music for ordinary religious services but also works for instruments through the compositions of violone or bassoon and continuo, and eight sonatas a tre for two extraordinary sacred events and special occasions. Telemann’s dedicatory piece “Kommt, lasset . Double reeds violins, violone and continuo. uns anbeten”, his sung poem ‘Geschlagene Pauken, auf!’, and the “Laetare iuvenis in scraped in the historical manner are in 1CD# SVS 37113 $16.99 iuventute tua” display many beautiful details. many ways more flexible and versatile 1CD# CPO 555255 $15.49 in terms of timbre and dynamics than J.S. Bach: The Art of the Fugue / Pieter–Jan Belder, Er heisset Wunderbar!: German Baroque Cantatas / their modern versions. harpsichord; Gerard de Wit, harpsichord [2 CDs] Alfredo Bernardini; Barokkanerne 1CD# TATN 90012 $14.99 The Art of Fugue remains an absorbing Barokkanerne, under the direction of baroque oboist Alfredo Bernardini, serves up Advent and Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine / testimony to Bach’s genius and to his Christmas cantatas by Graupner, Fasch and the great Bach himself, as well as a splendid life-long love and mastery of counterpoint. Simon-Pierre Bestion; La Tempete [2 CDs] Telemann concerto led by father and daughter Bernadini. Also contributing to the CD are soprano One of the fugues is composed for two harpsichords - where Belder is joined by ‘I see these Vespers as a great incantatory ritual that connects the Berit Norbakken Solset, mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland, tenor Anders J. Dahlin and Gerard de Wit - and composed in such a baritone Halvor F. Melien. sacred with the pagan, the intimate with the collective. I experienced way that it can be performed backwards: 1CD# LAWO 1169 $16.99 this powerful sensation many times in my childhood, in the choir of an an extraordinary feat of ingenuity. Playing abbey: the intense, warm light of a late summer day, filtering in from both a modern copy of a Blanchet J.S. Bach: Stay, Ye Angels – Cantatas / Hans-Christoph Rademann; the west and reflected all the way up to the choir’, says Simon-Pierre harpsichord and a clavichord modelled on Gaechinger Cantorey Bestion. a Friederici original, Belder intersperses 2CD# AHP 552 $12.99 canons within the sequence of fugues at Two cantatas written by Johann Sebastian Bach for Michaelmas in 1726 and 1728/29 strategic intervals. respectively build the framework of this recording, telling the story of the Archangel Michael‘s Vivaldi: 9 Cello Sonatas / Claude Starck, 2CD# BLC 96035 $12.99 victory over Satan. At the center of the cantata ‘Es erhub sich ein Streit’ is the tenor aria ‘Bleibt, cello; Isolde Ahlgrimm, harpsichord; ihr Engel’ (Stay, ye angels), which gives this recording its name. Vocal soloists are Peter Harvey, Mischa Frey, cello [2 CDs] J.S. Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Gerlinde Samann, Lenneke Ruiten, Benedikt Kristjansson, and Anke Vondung. Marie Kuijken, Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande 1CD# ACTS 30466 $16.99 Superficially the nine sonatas all follow the same pattern – four movements in [3 SACDs] the same order (Largo-Allegro-Largo- Prince Johann Ernst von Sachsen-Weimar: J.S. Bach: The Trio Sonata Project / Allegro). Yet each of the nine sonatas is Magnificent and transparent, a recording of the famous masterpiece Concerti / Thuringer Bach Collegium Tripla Concordia; Walter van Hauwe an individual masterpiece. Here Vivaldi by J.S. Bach by La Petite Bande and Sigiswald Kuijken. Sigiswald proves himself the composer of a virtuosic Kuijken knows the St. Matthew Passion through and through. The The Thüringer Bach Collegium, directed Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterful yet spiritualized music, whose wealth of ensemble has a worldwide reputation of aiming for the most authentic by Gernot Süßmuth, have recorded the six transcription of his own Sonata for viola melodies and deep earnestness are as sound possible. Again Kuijken and his group of musicians and violin concertos by Prince Johann Ernst IV of da gamba and keyboard no.1, which he Sachsen-Weimar (1696–1715) with exuberant beguiling as their elegant and dignified vocalists have achieved this the most sublime way! transformed into a trio for two flutes and beauty, which blends vitality with poetry. 3SACD# CHL 72821 $24.99 enthusiasm. These works are combined with continuo, has given the inspiration for this two further concertos whose original Weimar 2CD# TDR 7602 $26.99 CD project. Tripla Concordia and Walter court orchestra parts survived: a concerto for and orchestra as well as a concerto for van Hauwe decided to transcribe the other Handel: Utrechter Te Deum & Jubilate / two violins which survived as an adaptation two Gamba Sonatas as Trio Sonatas as Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770): Sonatas Nos. Hans-Christoph Rademann, Gaechinger Cantorey by JS Bach. well as the Organ Sonata no.3 and the 25–30 / Peter Sheppard Skærved, violin 1CD# ADT 97769 $18.99 Partita for Lute BWV 997, walking in Bach’s Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum HWV 278 footsteps. In the last years of his life, the composer and violinist Giuseppe was already enthusiastically received at J.S. Bach: Reger Transcriptions for Piano Duet / 1CD# ACAA 114 $18.99 Tartini laboured at a vast cycle of sonatas for solo violin. its first performance in 1713 in St. Paul’s Piano Duo Takahashi & Lehmann [2 CDs] in London. The Gaechinger Cantorey, Napoli, At the Crossroads Between Popular and The resulting manuscript offers the most important composition for solo violin after Bach. This first complete recording of the conducted by Hans-Christoph Rademann, This new release featuring the PianoDuo Art Music / Guido Morini; Vincent Dumestre; et al. performed the Te Deum at the brilliant Takahashi|Lehmann presents rare ‘Little Sonatas’ tread a delicate line between Baroque formality and [10 CDs] proto-Romantic passion, occasionally illuminated with an echo of closing concert of the Musikfest Stuttgart repertoire for piano duo: the complete 2019. Christina Landshamer, Reginald the folk-fiddling of his Slovenian homeland. recording of Reger’s arrangements of the This set of 10 CDs provides an original Mobley, Benedikt Kristjánsson and Andreas Brandenburg Concertos as well as other overview of Neapolitan music of the 18th 1CD# TOC 0454 $16.99 Wolf delighted the audience as soloists. works by J.S. Bach. “These two very century, the music that was played and sung in 1CD# CRS 83310 $18.99 skilful pianists lighten the textures, choose the great houses, the churches and the streets dancing speeds and crisp articulation, and of . It is a chance to rediscover forgotten create something that is quite delightful. or long-neglected repertoires: a vast musical THE BAROQUE CONCERTO IN BRIEF So this is an enjoyably contemporary, heritage of instrumental and sacred music, first rather postmodern collection.” and foremost, but also folk music, magnificently brought back to life by Marco Beasley, Pino De – The Observer Concerto Grosso: Émigré to the British Isles / Martyna Pastuszka, violin; Vittorio and Guido Morini. 2CD# ADT 23445 $24.99 10CD# ACAA 201 $35.99 {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna BACH: Heinrich, Johann Christoph, The Baroque Collections / The Italian-born Francesco Scarlatti (1666–1741), the brother of the celebrated Alessandro, made almost Johann Michael, Johann Sebastian / Alfredo Bernardini; Zefiro [10 CDs] his whole career in London and Dublin. This program features his six concerti grossi as well as pieces from Lionel Meunier; Vox Luminis Geminiani and Corelli. During the summer of 1989, oboists Alfredo Vox Luminis now tackles the complete spiritual 1CD# MUSO 030 $18.99 Bernardini and Paolo Grazzi together with concerts and sacred cantatas of the ancestors of Johann Sebastian Bach. In the cantata bassoonist Alberto Grazzi founded Zefiro, Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 / Reinhard Goebel; Berliner Barock Solisten a versatile ensemble specialized in 18th for the Feast of St Michael the Archangel Although court accounts demonstrate that performing forces were often more extensive at the time, this by Johann Christoph Bach, and century music predominantly featuring wind drums are enlisted to evoke the battle of the instruments. Zefiro soon made a name recording reproduces fairly accurately the minimum range that an orchestra at Handel’s disposal would have archangels in heaven. The program ends for itself worldwide, and to celebrate its comprised. with the cantata ‘Christ lag in Todesbanden’ thirty years of activity Arcana is releasing 1CD# HAN 19031 $18.99 by Johann Sebastian Bach, containing an elegant 10-CD set of their complete copious elements linking it to the music of his recordings of . J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos Vol. 2 / Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord; La Risonanza forebears. 10CD# ACAA 202 $35.99 1CD# RCR 401 $16.99 The four works here include Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto no.5, the Harpsichord Concertos nos. 3 and 6 and John Amner (1579–1641): Complete Consort Music / the Concerto for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord in A minor, are performed by Fabio Bonizzoni and La Risonanza one-to-a-part. Mark Keane; Fretwork; Dublin Consort Singers 1SACD# CHL 72800 $18.99 Though John Amner was not a ‘celebrated’ composer of the Renaissance era, the music in Amner’s Sacred Hymnes shows that he was capable of writing in a number of styles. Amner has been seldom Vivaldi: L’Estro Armonico, 12 concerti, Op. 3 / Armoniosa [2 CDs] recorded, and Fretwork’s lovingly curated album represents an important addition to the understanding The outstanding Italian Baroque group Armoniosa was founded in 2012, since then they have emerged as one of both the composer and the provincial religious music scene in England in the first half of the of the most deeply impressive ensembles specializing in music of the 18th century across Europe. 17th century. 2CD# REDS 34011906 $29.99 1CD# RBCN 1032 $19.99 18 19 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com The Baroque Period NEW RELEASES - BAROQUE “Mr. Handel’s Dinner”: Music for the Opera Handel: 15 Violin Sonatas, Op. 1; D. Scarlatti: 8 Sacred Masses of the Baroque Intermissions / Maurice Steger, recorder; La Cetra Violin Sonata / Fernando Valenti, harpsichord; “Steger’s latest offering is a funfilled imagining of the sorts of Martin Ormandy, cello [3 CDs] J.S. Bach: / Michael Schonheit; Collegium Vocale Leipzig; musical interludes that might have accompanied Handel’s interval The son of a professional violinist, Merseburger Hofmusik [2 CDs] dinners while his operas ruled the roost on London’s various Julian Olevsky began his studies at 7. The album at hand was recorded in Merseburg Cathedral and celebrates both the 20th stages … extreme ensemble virtuosity, and the crackest of crack In 1935, mindful of the growing danger continuo units, are absolute non-negotiables when Steger’s around in Germany, the family moved to Buenos anniversary of Merseburger Hofmusik (led by Merseburg Cathedral Organist and Leipzig and La Cetra deliver on these throughout in joyous spadefuls.” Aires. He made his recital debut at 10 Gewandhaus Organist Michael Schonheit) and the 25th anniversary of Collegium Vocale Leipzig. – Gramophone and his orchestral debut at 12 in Buenos Featured soloists include soprano Gerlinde Samann, soprano Britta Schwarz, alto Henriette 1CD# HAR 902607 $19.99 Aires under the baton of . In Godde, and bass Andreas Scheibner. 1947 he immigrated to the . 2CD# QRST 1808 $23.99 Folia: Renaissance and Baroque Dances / Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he Lully, Delalande, Couperin: The Sun King’s Mass / performed widely, touring and appearing Accademia del Piacere, Private Musicke, with the finest world orchestras. Gaétan Jarry; Ensemble Marguerite Louise La Petite Bande [2 CDs] 3CD# DRM 80746 $55.49 The Sun King’s Mass was without doubt one of the privileged rites for the standing glory of the The meaning of “Folia” being “madness”, Triumvirat: works by Schenck, Kuhnel, and Hoffler / sovereign, as much because of its splendour, as for its ceremonial aspect, which brings time it is documented that in its early days it was to a halt, solidifying the eternal image of royal power. The greatest composers of the kingdom a fast, ecstatic dance. Both a harmonic Juliane Laake; Ensemble Art D’Echo distinguished themselves by making the holy service a veritable heavenly concert. The mass is structure and a melody (developed At the beginning of the 1600s, the English were acknowledged to a bit later), the “Folia” evolved until it performed here by Marguerite Louise and Gaétan Jarry. be experts and virtuosos of the viola da gamba. Johann Schenck was formalized into a standard chord (1660–1712), August Kuhnel and Conrad Hoffler were well known 1CD# CHUV 008 $18.99 progression and melodic line in the Telemann: Missa & Cantatas for Countertenor / Alex Potter, countertenor; Baroque era. Among the represented to the musical world as gamba virtuosos and masters of their trade. The fame of these great musicians has since faded- making Veronika Skuplik; La Dolcezza composers, we can find , Arcangelo Corelli, Gaspar Sanz and it high time to give three great gambists and their exceptional Alex Potter – praised by the press as “a rising star in the world of countertenors” – interprets . masterpieces the attention they deserve. sacred works by Telemann for CPO on this album. The album includes a setting of Psalm 6 2CD# GLS 923520 $19.99 1CD# QRST 1815 $18.99 “Ach, Herr strafe mich nicht”, the Missa in B minor, “Me miserum”, a sonata and two fugues Tartini: Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo, Andrea Caporale (1699–1757): 6 Cello Sonatas; accompanied by La Dolcezza. “The cantatas, mass and instrumental music are winsomely Vol. 3 / Crtomir Siskovic, violin; Luca Ferrini, Handel: Arias / Romabarocca Ensemble performed; Alex Potter’s countertenor is a constant pleasure.” – BBC Music Magazine harpsichord 1CD# CPO 555192 $15.49 On the 260th anniversary of the This album is the third volume of Giuseppe Tartini’s (1692–1770) composer’s death, this release celebrates Handel’s vocal works and particularly his works for violin and basso continuo, adding another significant J.S. Bach: Sonatas Nos. 1–3; Partitas Nos. 1–3 / Albinoni’s : Venetian Flute Music / Michael writing for the cello. The set also sheds recording to Dynamic’s releases of music by the Baroque light on the lesser-known Andrea Caporale, Mario Brunello, four-string cello piccolo [2 CDs] Form, recorder; Dirk Borner, harpsichord & organ composer. The performers are the duo Crtomir Siskovic (violin) one of the greatest cellists of the Baroque For some years Mario Brunello has also A sonata by Albinoni and – as a world and Luca Ferrini (harpsichord), the same artists as on the first two era and also a composer himself. Whereas taken an interest in the world of historically premiere recording – a Concerto di volumes (CDS7744 and CDS7775). Both musicians are acclaimed most players of the era were prized for their informed performance practice and the camera for recorder can be heard here: specialists in this repertoire. virtuosity and technical prowess, Caporale rediscovery of the four-string ‘violoncello harpsichordist Dirk Börner contributes an 1CD# DYN 7824 $16.99 was famous for his emotional playing. piccolo’. This recording of the Sonate & original composition based on a theme 1CD# BLC 95622 $10.49 Partite per violino solo inaugurates the by Albinoni. The two sonatas by Antonio Leonardo Vinci: Siroe Re di Persia / Antonio collaboration on the Arcana label with a Vivaldi, recorded here, are a continuation Florio; Orchestra del [3 CDs] Marin Marais: Pieces de Viole, Livre II / ‘Bach Brunello Series’ of three albums, in of the Vivaldiana album, an earlier release Leonardo Vinci’s (1690–1730) dramma John Dornenburg, viola da gamba; which important compositions for the violin from Börner and Form. The recorder per musica was premiered in Venice in Malcolm Proud, harpsichord from his catalogue will be performed on the sonata by Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani 1726 and was triumphantly acclaimed. violoncello piccolo. deserves special attention. Since then, Siroe, Re di Persia was put Without a doubt, French composer Marin Marais (1656–1728) 2CD# ACAA 469 $28.49 1CD# PAN 10405 $18.99 to music by composers such as Vivaldi, wrote some of the greatest music of the Baroque. His works Arcangelo Corelli: Chamber Sonatas, Op. 2 & 4 / Monteverdi: Madrigali e mottetti a due voci Handel, Hasse, and Galuppi, to mention for viola da gamba are central to his output. Gambist John Pavlo Bernosiuk, violin; The Avison Ensemble femminili / Manuel de Grange; Il Festino just a few. “Antonio Florio conducts the San Dornenburg and harpsichordist Malcolm Proud are two of the finest [2 CDs] Carlo orchestra, playing at present-day period instrument performers of our day, and present Marais’s With this new album, the ensemble pitch, with a light touch…this is a welcome works on this album. Popular since their publication, Arcangelo Il Festino aims to reveal the whole addition to the small number of recordings of operas by this gifted and 1CD# CEN 3703 $16.99 Corelli’s (1653–1713) two sets of chamber range of nuances associated with love influential composer.” – Gramophone sonatas are a pinnacle of Baroque Italian and womanhood. Two female singers, 3CD# DYN 7838 $28.49 instrumental music. They demonstrate a accompanied by five instrumentalists, superior level of craftsmanship; they are of guide us on this enlightening journey. the highest quality, and exquisitely refined. Monteverdi’s works remind us that mystical Opus 2 & 4: Chamber Sonatas is the third love is imbued with sensuality, even BAROQUE CHAMBER WORKS IN BRIEF eroticism, and that sensual pleasure and in The Avison Ensemble’s celebration Carbonelli: Violin Sonatas Nos. 7-12 / Bojan Cicic, violin; The Illyria Consort of Corelli’s chamber music and the fifth passionate, carnal love for a woman border album in their critically acclaimed series of on the sacred. Bojan Cicic and his Illyria Consort bring to Giovanni Stefano Carbonelli’s sonatas 7–12 an intelligence, 1CD# MSTA 8031 $16.99 recordings with Linn. sensitivity and sheer, exhilarating virtuosic brilliance that prove Carbonelli (1694–1773) was more than just a 2CD# LINN 413 $28.49 Matthew Dubourg (1703–1767): Various Works / “contemporaray of Vivaldi”. Silk Baroque – Works by Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann, Peter Whelan; Irish Baroque Orchestra 1CD# DELP 34214 $19.99 Traditional Chinese, et al / Holland Baroque With many of Matthew Dubourg’s J.S. Bach: Violin Sonatas / Florence Malgoire, baroque violin; Blandine Rannou, Silk Baroque presents a musical encounter compositions having only recently come to between Wu Wei and Holland Baroque – a light, most are presented here for the very harpsichord [2 CDs] program that ranges from Baroque greats such first time including the world premiere of as Bach, Vivaldi, Telemann and Rameau to the ode ‘Crowned with a more illustrious Alpha Classics bring pearls of the Baroque back into the spotlight with new budget-priced re-releases. Chinese traditional tunes, all tied together by light’. The eclectic program showcases The present album features J.S. Bach’s Sonatas for violin and harpsichord, BWV 1014–1019 performed by the musicians’ openness to improvisation and a composer whose music is shot- violinist Florence Malgoire. cultural exchange. It is a miracle of harmony, through with humanity, charm, virtuosity melody and rhythmic possibilities. Age-old 2CD# AHP 487 $9.99 and wit. This recording is an exciting traditions come together in performances that Giovanni Benedetto Platti (1697–1763): Cello Sonatas Nos. 1–12 / sound fresh and contemporary. rediscovery of long forgotten, but truly 1SACD# PTE 5186800 $19.99 wonderful, music from Ireland’s past. Francesco Galligioni, cello; et al [2 CDs] 1CD# LINN 532 $18.99 The Italian cellist Francesco Galligioni chose to record these sets with different continuo accompaniments – with La Gracieuse: Pieces de Viole by Marin Marais / Robert Smith, viola da gamba; et al organ for the first set and violone for the second – making it a unique response to this rarely recorded repertoire. Critically acclaimed Amsterdam-based viola da gamba player, Robert Smith returns to Resonus to 2CD# BLC 95763 $12.99 present a stunning program of suites by the French Baroque composer Marin Marais (1656–1728). Biber: Rosary Sonatas / Patrick Bismuth, violin; Ensemble La Tempesta [2 CDs] Brought together specially for this recording, the group features harpsichordist Olivier Fortin, viola da gamba player Joshua Cheatham, and theorbo player and Baroque guitarist Israel Golani. Fourteen new budget priced titles from Alpha offer a chance to rediscover Baroque treasures and 1CD# REOA 10244 $16.99 rarities.The present album features Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s ‘Les sonates du Rosaire,’ performed by Ensemble La Tempesta. 2CD# AHP 491 $9.99 20 21 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com The Classical Era NEW RELEASES - CLASSICAL Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach: Motets for Beethoven: String Trios 1–3; Serenade, The Classical String Quartet Organ and Chorus / Kammerchor Stuttgart Op. 8 / Trio Ostertag [2 CDs] Several of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach’s liturgical works All five string trios by Ludwig van Mozart: String Quartets Nos. 14 & 15; Divertimento, K138 / benefited from choral writing in cantatas, passions and Beethoven were composed before 1798, Quatuor van Kuijk by his father Johann Sebastian; at times, these even appear i.e. before he composed his String Quartets Op.18. To understand the string trios After a first album devoted to Mozart quartets (awarded a Choc de Classica and a Diapason in prominent positions, as in the motet on the familiar hymn by Otto Nicolai Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme with its elaborate as their preliminary studies would be to Découverte), a second to French music (Debussy, Ravel and Chausson) and a third to two misjudge their true meaning. The complete counterpoint. The four-part chorale Gloria sei dir gesungen at the quartets by Schubert, nos.10 and 14 (the mythical Death and the Maiden), Quatuor van Kuijk recording of the Trio Ostertag shows how end of the work is taken from his fathers cantata of the same name masterfully Beethoven was able to solve founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk returns to its first love by recording more Mozart. (BWV 140). 1CD# AHP 551 $16.99 the delicate proportions of sound resulting 1CD# HAN 18014 $18.99 from the instrumentation. 2CD# CVEL 91917 $22.99 Haydn: String Quartets, Opp. 71 & 74 / The London Haydn Quartet [2 CDs] Mozart: Flute Quartets on period instruments / Karel Valter, traverse flute; Various artists The London Haydn Quartet continue their critically acclaimed series celebrating their namesake, Johann Wilhelm Wilms: Piano Quartets, which The Guardian raves has, ‘’too many pleasures to enumerate.’’ Haydn wrote his six Mozart summed up the essence of his concerts of these works in his letter of 28 Opp. 22 & 30 / Valentin Klavierquartett ‘’Apponyi’’ quartets in 1793 for performance during his second London visit the following year. December 1782: “They are very brilliant, The German-Dutch composer Johann Wilhelm Wilms lived This is a world in which the members of The London Haydn Quartet are very much at home, and pleasant in the ears, of course, without during the interesting transitional period between Classicism and they bring all their usual attentive enthusiasm to these masterpieces. falling into emptiness, here and there even Romanticism and therefore numbers among the composers who 2CD# HYP 68230 $19.99 connoisseurs can receive satisfaction alone, but in such a way that those who built on Haydn and Mozart and formed the bridge to Mendelssohn, do not know must be satisfied with them, Schumann, and Chopin. His two Piano Quartets op. 22 and op. 30 Heinrich Anton Hoffmann (1770–1842): String Quartets / Alte Musik Köln without knowing why.” were published in 1808 and 1812 but must have been composed a 1SACD# ARSP 38285 $19.99 few years earlier. Heinrich Anton Hoffmann’s string quartets Op. 3 (1795) astound with their modernity, which 1CD# CPO 555247 $15.49 despite their proximity to the models of the Viennese Classical period already show the style of Carl Höckh (1707–1773): Violin Sonatas (7) / later decades. They are characterized by formal variability and harmonic flexibility with a special Mikolaj Zgólka, violin preference for chromaticism. The Ensemble Alte Musik Köln, playing on historical instruments, Beethoven: Concerto for Violin; et al. / lets us discover this amazing Beethoven contemporary. Carl Höckh is undoubtedly an exceptional figure. Douglas A. , violin; Enrico Pace, 1SACD# ARSP 38163 $19.99 Lee puts the composer in line with Johann Georg Pisendel, piano [2 CDs] Franz Benda and Leopold Mozart, thus recognizing Höckh as one of the founders of the violin school in the German-speaking Versatile as a concert soloist, conductor, and area. The order in which the works on this album are arranged chamber musician, violinist Leonidas Kavakos has drawn on his varied and abundant talents Mozart: Dedicated to Haydn / Michael Haydn Collection / various artists [28 CDs] is not a coincidence; it partly refers (where possible) to the tonal for this all-Beethoven double-disc from Sony Pentaedre [3 CDs] An inspiration to Mozart and a teacher to relationships. Classical… the cadenzas are great fun and composers such as Diabelli and Weber, Canadian wind ensemble Pentaedre 1CD# CDAC 255 $10.49 a healthy reminder that the “” Johann Michael Haydn was a respected presents a new take on Mozart’s six shouldn’t be treated as a museum piece, but and influential figure during his lifetime. quartets dedicated to Haydn. These works Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18, as living music. The collection opens with Michael Haydn’s are featured in new arrangements by Nos. 4–6 / Eybler Quartet 2CD# SNYC 19075929882 $16.99 Geoffrey Emerson and ensemble members symphonies. Michael Haydn also wrote Matthieu Lussier, Martin Carpentier and serenades, divertimenti and notturni, The Eybler Quartet came together Normand Forget and are presented in a genres popular during the Classical and in 2004 to explore the works of the Mozart: String Quartet, KV428; deluxe set. The past ten years have seen Romantic eras, where a tuneful melody is prioritized over technical virtuosity. first century-and-a-half of the string String Quartet, KV464 / Auryn Quartet Pentaedre inviting renowned guest artists quartet and plays on instruments while pursuing collaborations with world- 28CD# BLC 95885 $69.99 Once again TACET Real Surround Sound musically reaches far appropriate to the period of the renowned chamber ensembles. beyond normal stereo. Every magical detail of the interaction 3CD# ATMA 22756 $17.99 (1770–1836): La Pantomime; music it performs. The Toronto- between Matthias Lingenfelder, Jens Oppermann, Stewart Eaton based ensemble’s live performances Quatuor Scientifique / Reicha Quartet and Andreas Arndt becomes clear. An ambitious multichannel have consistently garnered praise. Mozart: String Quartet Nos. 16 & 19 / recording is no high tech version of stereo, and for many listeners This release features a new recording of the Opus 18 needs little introduction and it is equal to a live concert. A stunning recording! Brentano Quartet seldom-performed work Quatuor Scientifique is often revered as demonstrating Beethovens total mastery of 1SACD# TAC 234SA $24.99 by Czech composer Anton Reicha and the Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano the Classical string quartet. debut release from the Reicha Quartet, a String Quartet has appeared throughout pioneering ensemble dedicated to uncovering 1CD# COO 16174 $16.99 the world to popular and critical acclaim. music and performance aesthetics of the 18th “Passionate, uninhibited and spellbinding”, and 19th centuries. This new venture brings raves the London Independent; the New York Times extols its “luxuriously Reicha’s work necessary recognition and warm sound [and] yearning lyricism”; the highlights his key role in shaping European THE CLASSICAL CONCERTO IN BRIEF Philadelphia Inquirer praises its “seemingly musical tradition. infallible instincts for finding the center of 1CD# BLC 95857 $10.49 gravity in every phrase and musical gesture.” Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 24 / Benjamin Hockman, piano; English CO 1CD# AZI 71330 $16.99 Johann Ladislaus Dussek: Sonatas for fortepiano Internationally acclaimed pianist Benjamin Hochman brings his new conductorial skills to the impeccable release Op. 47 & 64 / Zvi Meniker, fortepiano of two Mozart concertos, the joyful and lithe No. 17 in G major, and the dark and explosive No. 24 in C minor. Ignazio Spergher: Six Sonatas for Harpsichord & 1CD# AIE 2404 $17.99 Organ / Chiara Minali, organ & harpsichord [3 CDs] The Dussek bandwagon rolls on, and collectors of this revelatory series will not Chiara Minali’s previous work for Brilliant hesitate to pick up the penultimate volume, Classics includes the complete organ sonatas which continues to shed light on this Czech Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 2 & 3 / Martin Helmchen, piano of Benedetto Marcello. On this recording she contemporary of Beethoven by playing his As the Beethoven 250th anniversary approaches, Martin Helmchen has decided to record his complete plays an organ made by Antonio Zanchi in the most dazzlingly varied music on the kind of 18th century for the parish church of Paderno piano concertos with and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, with whom he has a instruments he wrote it for. With volume 7 di Ponzano in the Veneto region which was we have reached a pair of opus numbers unique affinity. Spergher’s home. The harpsichord sonatas 1CD# AHP 555 $16.99 were recorded on a modern copy of a 17th- which offer typical contrasts within Dusseks century model in the Oratory of St Elizabeth idiom. in Verona. 1CD# BLC 95606 $10.49 The Jupiter Project – Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21; Overtures / David Owen Norris, piano 3CD# BLC 95834 $14.99 Pianist David Owen Norris, flutist Katy Bircher, violinist Caroline Balding and cellist Andrew Skidmore form an ensemble the likes of which was typical of the time, playing chamber arrangements of orchestral compositions. Marcin Józef Zebrowski: Rorate Coeli; Magnificat / Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra 1CD# HYP 68234 $19.99 Magnificat, Rorate Coeli and Missa Pastoritia, in the unanimous view of experts on Zebrowski’s creative contribution, are among his best works. These are cantata-type compositions, in which the liturgical text (including some parts of the Mass) has been divided into smaller sections, occasionally Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 21 / Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano set by the composer almost as individual works, contrasted in terms of expression, performance forces, The two concertos presented on this album conducted by Bavouzet from the keyboard are accompanied by and even style. a vivid performance of the Overture, which further demonstrates the exemplary playing of the 1CD# CDAC 258 $15.99 Camerata. 1CD# CHA 20083 $18.99 22 23 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com NEW RELEASES - CLASSICAL NEW RELEASES - BRASS The Classical Era Music for Solo Brass & Ensemble Chamber Music of Mozart Programs for Brass Ensemble

Mozart: Quintet, K581; Quartets, K378 & 380 / Sound Splendor from Three Centuries - Brass Music / Florent Heau, clarinet; Quatour Manfred Pfeiffer-Trompeten-Consort After the success of the Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink collections here are fourteen new titles Quite by chance Georg Philipp Telemann became godfather for the title of this album. In the year offering a chance to rediscover more Baroque treasures and rarities. This series reissues are of his 250th anniversary, the Pfeiffer Trumpet Consort concentrated on the oeuvre of one of the performed by the finest musicians in the field; most of these recordings received one or more most prolific composers of music history. The Pfeiffer Trumpet Consort presents with this album a awards on their first release. This album features W.A. Mozart’s Quintet for clarinet K 581 and varied program with many unknown treasures, making an important contribution to the Telemann Quartets K 380 and K 378 performed by Florent Heau and the Manfred Quartet. Year. 1CD# AHP 498 $9.99 1CD# CTE 58052 $14.99 Mozart: Divertimento, K563; Striechtriosatz / Trio Oreade Hail To The Chief: American Songs, & Dirges of the 1800s / With its exciting and imaginative playing the Trio Oreade, based in Zurich, , brings to The Chestnut Brass Company life the masterpieces of the First Viennese School as well as virtuoso early modern music and The Grammy winning Chestnut Brass Company has earned international acclaim for brilliant contemporary music. The group has won several prizes, including at the Munich International performances on modern and historical brass instruments. Since beginning as a street band in String Trio Competition, and the Basel August-Pickhard Foundation’s Chamber Music Philadelphia in 1977, they have performed in North and South America, Europe, the Caribbean, and Competition. Asia. You have heard the slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” and this CD collection of American political 1SACD# ARSP 38278 $19.99 music from the 19th-century allows you to hear the song from the 1840 election. 1CD# SNYI 62485 $17.99 Mozart: Piano Trios / , piano; Inspirations – Arrangments of Music of Dvorak, Ewald, Ravel, Satie / Michael Barenboim, violin; Kian Soltani, cello [2 CDs] Buzz Brass Following their “impressive album” (Daily Mail) of Mozart’s Piano Quartets, Daniel Barenboim and Since 2002, Buzz Brass quintet has been travelling all over the globe and has captivated his fellow musicians Kian Soltani (cello) and Michael Barenboim (violin) release the Complete classical music lovers. With over 1,600 appearances to its credit, the ensemble has reached Mozart Piano Trios, recorded live at Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal. There are plenty of recordings of more than 350,000 music lovers. The new album, Famous Inspirations, showcases the rich array Mozart’s piano trios, including at least one other involving Daniel Barenboim, but this live album of colors and timbres of brass instruments and features transcriptions of celebrated works by from , released in 2019, has much to recommend it. prominent composers such as Ravel, Satie and Dvorak. Inspired and inspiring music! 2CD# DGG B003093102 $27.99 1CD# ANA 28776 $18.99

Ode to Freedom, Bernstein in Berlin – : The Creation / Fritz von Friedl, Soli for , Zhen, Horn, with Percussion Gordan Jacob: Concerto for Horn; et al. / Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / recitation; Pandolfis Consort [2 CDs] Ensemble / The McCormich Percussion Group Elizabeth Pfaffle, horn; and more. [CD/DVD Video] How can a great oratorio such as ‘The Soli for Tuba, Zheng, Horn with Under the baton of Andrew Yozviak, Featured here is Leonard Bernstein’s Creation’ be reduced to a few instruments Percussion is percussionist Robert the West Chester University Wind legendary Beethoven performance “Ode to in order to enjoy it in a small, domestic McCormick’s tenth album with PARMA Ensemble presents Blessings Flow, Freedom” (Symphony No. 9) with a special setting? How should the arias, and Recordings. On their latest album, the an album featuring three works from orchestra formed by members from both recitatives be presented, and how can Robert McCormick Percussion Group modern composers. Brett William the biblical text be conveyed? Joseph German States and the four Occupation performs five compositions from four Dietz’s “Saisei Fanfare” opens the Haydn delegated this apparent challenge Powers, celebrating the fall of Berlin Wall composers, each of whom contributes album, followed by Gordon Jacob’s (30 years) and 250 years since the birth of to the then well known composer Anton Wranitzky, who arranged the music for striking works that range from personal “Concerto for Horn,” which features Beethoven. The CD release is coupled for to global inspiration. The album as Elizabeth Pfaffle as soloist. Rounding the first time with a DVD of the live concert. . a whole inspires listeners to explore out the album is David Maslanka’s 2CD/DVD-Video# DGG 4837441 $27.99 2CD# GRAM 99199 $21.99 Mozart: Liberta!; Pigmalion / , new and unexpected combinations of Symphony No. 4. sounds to create innovative music. 1CD# MKCR 54389 $10.49 Franco Gulli, Vol. 1 – Mozart: Divertimento; soprano; John Chest, baritone; et al. [2 CDs] 1CD# RAEL 8014 $14.99 Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 4; Duo No. 2 [2 CDs] In the years between 1782 and 1786, Mozart set up a veritable laboratory for Franco Gulli (1926–2001) was one of the Sapphire, Works Arranged for & Piano / dramatic music: a musical corpus of finest violinists of the 20th century. He concert arias, sketches, and stylistic Peter Steiner; Constanze Hochwartner performed all over the world with leading exercises like the canon - here brilliantly orchestras with such artists as Menuhin The chamber combination of trombone and piano is unusual and charming. On Sapphire, Peter Steiner and his organized by Raphaël Pichon and and Rostropovich. He debuted in 1954 pianist partner Constanze Hochwartner give an insight into how this combination can work, thereby exploding Pygmalion as an imaginary dramma under and further the myth of commonly-held preconceptions about what the trombone is capable of. The program combines giocoso in three scenes, each heralding in performed with renowned orchestras under its own way one of the summits to come: arrangements of works by Mozart and Puccini with melodies by Bernstein, contemporary trombone literature such conductors as Riccardo Muti, Sergiu Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così. and music from the movie “The Godfather.” Celibidache, , Carlo Maria 2CD# HAR 902638 $24.99 1CD# BER 0301298 $18.99 Giulini, and Sir . 2CD# DRM 8081 $37.49 Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 3, 4 / PROGRAMS FEATURING SOLO TRUMPET IN BRIEF Mozart in Love / Luiza Borac, piano; Inon Barnatan, piano; Academy of Romanian National Radio Orchestra Bucharest St. Martin in the Fields [2 CDs] Rêverie – various works for trumpet & ensemble / This recording project bears the fruit Luiza Borac has established herself as one of Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet; Kassia Ensemble of longstanding and profound musical the most charismatic artists of her generation. friendships, and surprisingly offers the Marry Elizabeth Bowden is a founding member of both Seraph Brass and the Chrysalis Chamber Players. She released her debut Her double album release forms part of her first integral recording of Beethoven piano album, Asteria, on Summit in 2018, which has been awarded a Silver Medal Global Music Award. collaboration with the Academy of St Martin concertos by the Academy of St. Martin in the 1CD# SUM 743 $19.99 in the Fields and includes the first ever Fields, one of the most-recorded ensembles Great Southern Land, Australian Trumpet Music by Brendan Collins / recordings of several works. This release in the world of classical music. “Inon received a five-star rating from BBC Music Phillip Chase Hawkins, trumpet Barnatan is one of the most admired pianists Magazine and, with the highest possible of his generation”. – New York Times score of 18 stars, was rated best CD in the On Great Southern Land, a unique symbiosis exists between the trumpeter and renowned composer Brendan 2CD# PTE 5186817 $24.99 bimonthly publication Piano News. Collins. The result of their cross-continental collaboration showcases Hawkins’ virtuosity in both duo and trio settings. 1CD# PRF 18092 $17.99 1CD# NVA 6199 $14.99 C.P.E. Bach: Violin, Flute & Trio Sonatas / Francesca Pagnini, flt; J.S. Bach: Transcriptions for Trumpet & Organ / Igor Cacocho, tpt; Piotr Rojek, org Annibale Rebaudengo, pno Carcocha and Rojek reached for works from the most famous Bach collections and performed their creative reinterpretations using transcriptions of these pieces and the possibilities of the trumpet & organ soundworld. Many of these compositions are known in their modern version – i.e. performed with a metal flute and with 1CD# DUX 1297 $19.99 the piano instead of harpsichord – and it in is this version that Francesca Pagnini and Annibale Rebaudengo present these works to the audience, giving particular attention to the expressive and interpretative values the Music for Trumpet & Organ by Hertel, Michael Haydn, Leopold Mozart / Immanuel Richter extremely modern Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s musical writing puts in continued evidence. This program does not fit the bombastic stereotype listeners might imagine. It is very delicate, light, transparent and 1CD# VEER 40022 $14.99 elegant. The performances make one realize that there is no instrument that fits with trumpet better than organ. 1CD# SOLO 302 $18.99 24 25 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com The Romantic Era NEW RELEASES - ROMANTIC Brahms: Sonatas for Violin & Piano, Op. 78, 100 & Schumann: Works for Cello & Piano / The Romantic Symphony 108 / John Fadial, violin; Andrew Harley, piano Brian Thornton, cello; Spencer Myer, piano The three great Brahms Sonatas for Violin Bruckner: Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 9 / Critics say “cellist Brian Thornton and pianist Spencer Myer are and Piano certainly need no introduction. a match made in heaven. They play as one body, one spirit, Claudio Abbado; Lucerne Festival Orchestra [2 CDs] These are superb performances by violinist and one soul.” Their third collaboration for Steinway & Sons John Fadial and pianist Andrew Harley. features passionate performances of works by the great Romantic Recorded live on the 26th August, 2013 in the KKL Concert Hall, Lucerne with the Lucerne Violinist John Fadial serves as Professor Festival Orchestra. “The Ninth was Bruckner’s farewell to the world, as well as Abbado’s. This of Violin at the University of Wyoming. composer, Robert Schumann including his Adagio & Allegro, performance from 2013 effortlessly achieves the sublime… The engineers have done their work English pianist Andrew Harley enjoys an Op. 70; Fantasiestuck, Op. 73; Funf Stucke im Volkston, Op. 102; as well as Schubert’s Ave Maria, D. 839. perfectly. Both composer and conductor would surely have been happy with this result of their internationally recognized performing and 1CD# STEI 30117 $17.99 labours.” – BBC Music Magazine teaching career. 1CD# CEN 3711 $16.99 2CD# ACTS 30489 $16.99 Brahms: Clarinet Trio; The Clarinet Sonatas / Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 / ; Mendelssohn & Chausson / Vladislav Bulakhov; Joseph Shiner, clarinet; Somi Kim, piano Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks ARCO Chamber Orchestra Joseph Shiner and Somi Kim perform The Symphony No. 5, which came about over a very short time period, is today one of This album features two great works. The Mendelssohn Concerto the last chamber works ever written Tchaikovsky’s most popular works. No question about it: Mariss Jansons has just the right pinch receives a strong, idiomatic performance. The Chausson by Brahms: his Clarinet Sonatas, Op. of “Russian soul” to bring out this work in to full power: the recording in October 2009 reveal was written for violin and piano with string quartet, but Levon 120, Nos. 1 & 2 heard here alongside the conductor in perfect unity with his orchestra, a combination capable of bringing ecstasy and Ambartsumian (violin) has expanded the string quartet with his his sublime Clarinet Trio, Op. 114 for control into perfect balance here. arrangement for the strings of a chamber orchestra. It makes for which they are joined by cellist Yoanna 1CD# BRK 900104 $8.99 a wonderful, larger-scale work of what is already an impressive Prodanova. The two sonatas have contrasting characters, the second gentler Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3; Widor: Organ Symphony No. 5 / piece. Also featuring Evgeny Rivki on piano. 1CD# CEN 3707 $16.99 than the first. The Trio is an expansive Christopher Jacobson, organ piece which includes a theme originally intended for what would have been The Geneva Victoria Hall organ is played by Christopher Jacobson, who has already released Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique / Sir Andrew Brahms’s Fifth Symphony. a solo album with performances on the Aeolian Organ at Duke University Chapel, as well as a Davis; Toronto SO; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir 1CD# ORPO 100099 $16.99 recording of Tyberg Masses with the South Dakota Chorale on PENTATONE. On this album, he Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz’s best- Offenbach (1819–1880): Fables de la works with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and conductor Kazuki Yamada, who have a vast known work by some distance, remains Fontaine / Karine Deshayes, mezzo; PENTATONE discography. an evergreen in the orchestral repertoire, Jean-Pierre Haeck 1SACD# PTE 5186638 $19.99 and beloved of audiences the world over. The Fantaisie sur la Tempete de With their vivid texts featuring talking animals and stock characters, Shakespeare was composed shortly after Schumann: Fantasiestucke; Sechs Gesange, Op. Tchaikovsky & Borodin: String Quartets No. the Fables de la Fontaine offered an allegorical and didactic way of Berlioz had won the coveted Prix de Rome alluding to the court and the mores of the time. Jacques Offenbach 107, et al / Kammerata Luxembourg 2 / Byol Kang; Anna Reszniak; Julian Steckel; (at the fourth attempt) with his cantata chose six of the 240 Fables of la Fontaine to set as mélodies. Sardanapale, and was originally conceived The creative genius of Robert Schumann, Barbara Buntrock Here the conductor Jean-Pierre Haeck presents them in his own as a concert overture, with chorus. his unbridled, dreamlike fantasy and his orchestration performed by the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen Borodin finished writing the D Major 1SACD# CHA 5239 $19.99 close affinity to poetry and literature, has Quartet on the twentieth anniversary of and the mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes. inspired many composers after him. This his marriage to his wife Ekaterina –who 1CD# AHP 553 $16.99 highly original program offers several works Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst: Complete Works, was the underlying subject of the quartet. Dvorak: / Julia Kleiter; Gerhild written as Hommage à Schumann: by Tchaikovsky euphorically wrote his Second Vol. 6 / Sherban Lupu, violin; , György Kurtág and Jörg Widmann, as well String Quartet in the course of one night Romberger; Dmitry Korchak; Tareq Nazmi as original works by Schumann himself, piano; et al in January 1874. This work is even more Shortly before Dvorák wrote down the arranged for different ensembles by Aribert elaborate and mature than the more well- Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812–1865) was one of the leading Reimann and Theodor Kirchner. Excellent first version of his “Stabat mater” between known First String Quartet. musicians of his day, a friend of Berlioz, Chopin, Liszt and February 19 and May 7, 1876, his daughter performances by Kammerata Luxembourg. 1CD# CAVI 8553101 $17.99 Mendelssohn. This sixth album - in a series of seven - begins 1CD# BLC 95936 $10.49 Josefa died two days after she was born. Friedrich Schneider: Symphony No. 16; and ends with some of the most difficult music for solo violin ever Dvorák did not set all the verses of the composed: Ernst’s Six Polyphonic Studies and his transcription of Tchaikovsky: Complete String Quartets; Overtures / Markus L. Frank; Anhaltische hymn to music, and chose an ensemble String Sextet / Quatuor Danel [2 CDs] Schubert’s song, Der Erlkonig. Between these pieces come five of four soloists, a choir and a piano. In the Philarmonie Dessau Schubertian piano pieces, and two settings of Goethe. autumn of 1877, he composed the missing “Though this is very much a 21st-century Friedrich Schneider’s (1786–1853) 1CD# TOC 0311 $16.99 four verses and scored his “Stabat mater” approach to Tchaikovsky, the Danels Symphony No. 16 displays majestic chords, for a large orchestra – effectively creating a don’t hesitate to wear their hearts on their and its movements of song character new and different work. sleeves – just not always, perhaps, in the win over listening audiences with their 1CD# BRK 900526 $16.99 exact places where convention might lead charm and naturalness. In contrast to you to expect it. A fascinating set, then, his symphonies, his overtures for a time coupled to a Souvenir de Florence of enjoyed great popularity far beyond STRING QUARTETS OF THE ROMANTIC ERA IN BRIEF supercharged verve and almost orchestral his home region. Apart from his opera lushness.” – Gramophone preludes, Friedrich Schneider wrote a total 2CD# CPO 555292 $29.99 of twenty overtures, three of which are Schumann: String Quartets Nos. 1–3, Op. 41 / Dover Quartet heard here. With their burnished warmth, incisive rhythms, and natural phrasing, the Quartet’s distinctive sound has helped Sequenza: Schumann, Berio, Biber, Sciarrino 1CD# CPO 555180 $15.49 / Franziska Holscher, violin; Severin von confirm its status as “the young American string quartet of the moment” (New Yorker). Schubert: Adagio for Piano Trio; Chopin: Piano Eckardstein, piano 1CD# AZI 71331 $16.99 Trio, Op. 8 / Feininger Trio Berio’s Sequenza VIII for Violin was Franziska Holscher’s point of departure for this album. “... o night of love, descend upon us... “ That Dvorak: String Quartets, Vol. 3 / Vogler Quartett [2 CDs] As one of the essential 20th-century works motif from Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde sets for violin, it occupies a central place in the musical and lyrical mood for the selection Dvorak’s Quartet No. 3 in D major, over sixty minutes in duration, ranks as what is surely one of the most her repertoire. There is a tension between of pieces and poems in the Feininger Trio’s extensive string quartets in the entire literature. His Quartet belongs to his middle compositional period. contemporary and early music in the works of program, performed for the first time at the 2CD# CPO 777626 $29.99 Salvatore Sciarrino. Schumann’s sonata also Baden-Baden Easter Festival. The program associates Baroque forms with progressive pairs poems with a mood similar to Schubert’s techniques of composition and expression. Notturno and Chopin’s Piano Trio Op. 8. The Friedrich Gernsheim (1839–1916): String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 / Diogenes Quartet Thus, the relation between the present and actress and recitateur Katharina Thalbach joins the past is the central theme connecting all the the Feininger Trio in this project. Friedrich Gernsheim’s chamber music figures significantly in his extensive oeuvre, where it occupies works on this CD. 1CD# CAVI 8553077 $17.99 a position next to his symphonic music. Of his chamber works, it is his string quartets which hold his greatest 1CD# CAVI 8553446 $17.99 achievements. Stanislaw Moniuszko: String Quartet Nos. 1 & 2; 1CD# CPO 777387 $15.49 Juliusz Zarebski: / Plawner Quintet Mendelssohn: String Quartets, Op. 13 & 44 / Kazakh State String Quartet Stanislaw Moniuszko wrote these two quartets during or shortly after his Berlin study years drawing on the vocabulary of classical models. The twenty-year-old student displays a sense of humor, melodicism, At the age of 18, composed his String Quartet Op. 13, one of his major early works. and chamber finesse that not only make for a genuinely rewarding listening experience but also are The Quartet Op. 44/1 was written during a period of infatuation with Cecile Jeanrenaud, whom he married in 1837. worth hearing again and again. A “late” creation by Moniuszko’s young fellow Pole Juliusz Zarebski is 1CD# DVX 21202 $14.99 being presented here together with the quartets. 1CD# CPO 555124 $15.49 26 27 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com The Romantic Era NEW RELEASES - ROMANTIC Andreas Spath: Romantic Clarinet Chamber Music / Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 / Romantic Era Concertos Rita Karin Meier, clarinet; Galatea Quartet Edward Gardner; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Andreas Späth (1790–1876) was a clarinetist, a violinist, an This first installment in a new Brahms Vieuxtemps & Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos / Peter Martens; Cape Town organist, and a voice teacher. Rita Karin Meier has explored series from Edward Gardner demonstrates the strength and suppleness of the Philharmonic Orchestra Späth’s works for clarinet, his early main instrument, and Bergen string section, and outstanding Henri Vieuxtemps’ (1820–1881) fiendishly difficult but beautifully melodious Cello Concerto no. 1 teams up with the Galatea Quartet and Karl-Andreas Kolly ensemble playing across the orchestra. in A minor is the central work on this album, which also includes Saint-Saens’ Cello Concerto no. 1, (piano) for a long-overdue tribute to this composer who is “This is Brahms interpretation in excelsis. as well as his Allegro Appassionato. All these works are French/Belgian in origin and pioneered by the entirely forgotten today. The Nocturnes, the 3 Melodies, and Gardner seems to me to have judged every leading Belgian cellists of the day. South African cellist Peter Martens is partnered with Bernhard Gueller, the Elegy also very much reflect the character of romantic tempo right, and to combine the powerful showcasing the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra at its very best. composition. momentum and flexibility that Brahms demands with passionate attention 1CD# CLCL 1033 $13.99 1SACD# MDG 9032119 $18.99 to detail.” – The Sunday Times Schumann: Piano Concerto; Mendelssohn: Brahms: Piano Quartets Nos. 1–3 / 1SACD# CHA 5236 $19.99 Piano Concerto No. 1 / Ingrid Fliter, piano The Primrose Piano Quartet [2 CDs] Josef Labor: Piano Quintet, Op. 3; Piano Quartet, Ingrid Fliter performs repertoire that is very close to her heart: concertos by two 19th century Composed during the middle years of Op. 6 / Oliver Triendl, piano; et al heavyweights, Schumann and Mendelssohn. Fliter brings the lyrical romanticism of Schumann’s the 19th century, the piano quartets of (1833–1897) display During his lifetime, Josef Labor (1842–1924) was a pianist and iconic Piano Concerto to life whilst perfectly navigating the shifting colours and technical demands the composer’s symphonic mastery in organist recognized throughout Europe and a celebrity of the of this brilliant showpiece. The sparkling passagework and charming melodies which characterize their scope of Romantic expression and Viennese music scene. Labor was not an expressive musician Mendelssohn’s innovative G minor Concerto demonstrate Fliter’s innate skill and pianistic instinct. range of development. “These dedicated along the lines of late Romanticism, nor was he a musical 1CD# LINN 555 $18.99 performances aim to combine historical innovator, nor simply a conservative. The linking principle is : Clarinet Concertos No. 1–4 / Karl Leister, clarinet; and modern approaches. John Thwaites classicist aesthetics, setting great store by clear formal structure uses three different of the period, and balanced proportions. Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart [2 CDs] each with a notably transformative effect on 1CD# CAP 5390 $16.99 the music...” – BBC Music Magazine In the 1830s, Louis Spohr (1784–1859) was commonly considered undisputedly the greatest living 2CD# MER 84650 $24.99 composer. He was inspired to write his four clarinet concertos by his acquaintance with the Thuringian Brahms: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1–3 / clarinettist Johann Simon Hermstedt. On this release, the works are performed by clarinettist Karl Leister Karel Kovarovic (1862–1920): String Quartets Pierre Fouchenneret, violin; Eric Le Sage, piano with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart under the baton of Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos. Nos. 1–3 / Stamic Quartet 2CD# ORF MP1901 $14.99 The sonatas for violin and piano, which Karel Kovarovic is primarily known for his work as the director of were composed on holidays to lakeside the opera company of the National Theatre in Prague, as well as forests in the midst of sublime nature Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1–4 / Nordic Music: works by Grieg, Berwald, Nielsen / a conductor, while his own music has been generally overlooked. where Brahms loved to spend his The Stamic Quartet has made the very first recording of his string summers, contain all the contradictions ; Staatskapelle Ana-Marija Markovina, piano quartets, which are yet to be published. The new album serves to unique to the man who described himself Dresden [2 CDs] Ana-Marija Markovina is an exceptional pianist prove that Kovarovic’s quartets deserve more attention than they as a wanderer: daring and discipline, who brings to light hidden facets of music with naïveté and sagacity, melancholy and joy. German star conductor Christian Thielemann have received over the past century. great passion and skill. On this new release Pierre Fouchenneret and Eric Le Sage and the present a brand 1CD# SPR 42672 $19.99 she presents a program of Nordic music with embark fervently on this adventure with this new recording of all four symphonies of Robert the Schleswig-Holstein Symphony Orchestra new record with B Records. Schumann (1810–1856), who lived in Dresden Rheinberger: Symphony, Op. 10 ‘Wallenstein’ / under the direction of Peter Sommerer. 1CD# BREC 020 $18.99 from 1844 to 1850 and wrote his second Florian Krumpöck; Liechtenstein SO “Markovina achieves a good balance with her symphony there. “The Dresden orchestra’s orchestral partners and her handling of the transparency remains a constant delight, with The Principality of Liechtenstein – in 2019 Rossini: Il Vero Omaggio / Tatjana Korovina; Angelo demanding classical textures is highly assured bright, invigorating woodwinds, silky strings the fourth smallest country in Europe and Manzotti; William Matteuzzi; Hernan Iterralde and expressive.” – MusicWeb International and the fabulous horn section, resplendent in the sixth smallest in the world - can look 1CD# HAN 17027 $18.99 the “Rhenish” (No 3).” – The Sunday Times back on and celebrate 300 eventful years. Il vero omaggio was a recycling of the pastoral cantata 2CD# SBMG 19075943412 $14.99 Under the baton of conductor Florian La riconoscenza, performed by Rossini in Naples. The sequence Hubert Parry: Piano Trio No. 2 in B minor; Krumpöck, the Liechtenstein Symphony of pieces which constitute Il vero omaggio confirm Rossini’s own Antonio Carlos Gomes: Lo schiavo / John Piano Quartet in A flat Major / Leonore Piano Trio Orchestra performs the Symphony in statement: the musical nature of the cantata is quite similar to the Neschling; Cagliari Theatre Orchestra [2 CDs] with Rachel Roberts D Minor op. 10 “Wallenstein” by the first act of a normal opera. As such, it was enjoyed by the public, European romantic Josef Gabriel partly due to the fact that the performance was staged. The work Antonio Carlos Gomes’ (1836–1896) After a successful rehearsal of his piano Rheinberger (1839–1901). Lo schiavo was conceived as a politically is interpreted here by conductor Herbert Handt. quartet in 1879, Hubert Parry (1848–1918) 1SACD# ARSP 38284 $19.99 engaged work. However, the issue was rather declared that he was ‘’wild with delight.’’ 1CD# BGV 22363 $12.99 volatile at the time and the composer had to He would have been no less enthusiastic change the contemporary time setting to a after hearing this dynamic account from the more distant one. This recording of the Teatro Leonore Piano Trio with violist Rachel Roberts. Lirico di Cagliari’s production documents the “Altogether, this is an album to spend time with opera’s first performance in modern times and relish as one’s familiarity with this music HISTORIC PERFORMANCES IN BRIEF and reveals Gomes’ flamboyant richness of grows in performances which capture the melodic creativity and a technical mastery of genial warmth as well as the seriousness of the theatrical mechanisms. this great but gently spoken composer.” Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1; Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1; 2CD# DYN 7845.02 $22.99 – BBC Music Magazine Waltzes / Bella Davidovich, piano [2 CDs] 1CD# HYP 68276 $19.99 Schubert–Brahms: The Complete Duos / Pieter This 90th anniversary album comprises some of Bella Davidovich’s best recordings. These performances were Wispelwey, cello; Paolo Giacometti, piano [2 CDs] Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 / Valery captured in the early 1960s with conductor Arvids Jansons and are previously unreleased beyond the former USSR. Pieter Wispelwey and Paolo Giacometti Gergiev; Mariinsky Orchestra [2 CDs] 2CD# MELY 1002584 $28.49 serve us three iconic sonatas, including a Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Hans Rosbaud; world premiere. In its original hue of G Major, Valery Gergiev is widely recognized as the Brahms’ first violin sonata op. 78 is more greatest modern interpreter of Tchaikovsky’s Sudwestfunk Orchester Baden-Baden scintillating and transparent than the D-major music, and the Mariinsky Orchestra holds a cell adaptation. Brahms’ third violin sonata peerless reputation in this repertoire. Together, This release offers the chance to enjoy two renowned pianists, Nikita Magaloff and Hans Richter-Haaser, with op. 108 fuses surprising ebullience with they deliver definitive interpretations of Hans Rosbaud providing authoritative accompaniment – “one of the unsung heroes of mid 20th century music.” superior mastery. And thankfully, Pieter and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, – Gramophone Op 36 and Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Paolo revisit Schubert’s Arpeggione, that gem 1CD# SWRM 19076 $13.99 of intimacy, fragility, frivolity and humbling, Op. 64, recorded at Salle Pleyel in Paris unattainable beauty. during January 2010. Schubert: Symphonies – No. 5, ‘Unfinishied’, and ‘Great C Major’ / 2CD# MARK 0017 $14.99 2CD# EVLP 030 $17.99 Karl Bohm; Staatskapelle Dresden [2 CDs] The recordings in this new CD box are all radio broadcasts. The 1942 recording of Schubert’s Symphony Franck: Piano Quintet; Chausson: String Quartets Op. 30 & 35 / No. 5 is a priceless early audio document, surely the first attested Magnetophone recording by the Dresden Spiegel String Quartet; Jan Michiels, piano [2 CDs] Staatskapelle. This MDG special edition presents chamber music by two French composers connected by much more 2CD# PRF 19023 $22.99 than just the teacher-pupil relationship. The first release of their string quartets, Franck’s Piano Quintet, Bruckner: Symphony Nos. 7 & 8 / Evgenij Mravinsky; Leningrad PO [2 CDs] and Chausson’s Piano Quartet by the Belgian Spiegel String Quartet and the pianist Jan Michiels has We can easily state that, with regards to Bruckner’s symphonic repertoire, a true Russian tradition did not exist received an enthusiastic reception from music experts and the listening public alike. up to Evgeny Mravinsky, who was the first not-German conductor going through Bruckner’s universe. 2CD# MDG 6442145 $18.99 2CD# URA 121378 $29.99

28 29 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Post-Romantic Period NEW RELEASES - POST ROMANTIC Play of Colours – Debussy, Bax, Harald Genzmer, (1880–1951): Skazki; Melodies / Symphonies of Gustav Mahler / Trio Partout Gunnar Sama, piano The combination of flute, viola and harp Nikolai Medtner’s music fascinates and surprises, in the midst of Mahler: Symphony No. 6 / Michael Gielen; instruments is one of the most unusual and what also seems to be well known. You may imagine that you have SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg [3 CDs] delightful chamber music combinations, as heard the melodies before, in childhood or in a dream. the Trio Partout brilliantly proves with their This “in memoriam” album contains two recordings of Mahler’s Symphony No. 6, made 42 years apart: the But, even if you haven’t, it is as if you have been waiting for this album “Play of Colors”. Probably the first performance from 1971 and the performance from 2013 at the Salzburger Festspiele (first release on these music to return. In some mysterious way, it evokes the memory of work in music history for this line-up was formats). Mahler’s No.6 was a central piece in Gielen’s repertoire. The contrast between the two performances is the unheard. He named many of his piano pieces SKAZKA tale, by , who composed his dramatic, essentially expressing the full range of Gielens approach to Mahler. “Sonate pour flûte, alto et harpe” in 1915 but it is uncertain whether the composer had specific narratives 3CD# SWRM 19080 $18.99 under the impact of the beginning of the in mind, as the title suggests. First World War. 1SACD# L2L 156SACD $24.99 1CD# GRAM 99196 $18.99 Mahler: Symphony No. 10 / John Storgards; Lapland Chamber Orchestra Ravel: Ma Mere l’Oye, arr. Sintaro Sakabe; Left unfinished at the death of the composer, Gustav Mahler’s Tenth Symphony has exerted an enormous Alma! Works by Suk, Mahler, Faure: Piano Quartet; et al. / Flex Ensemble fascination on musicologists as well as musicians. Whether fully orchestrated in specific passages, or a sole Bacewicz, Yinon, Elgar / Deutsche Flex Ensemble writes: Our second melody in others, there is one continuous line throughout the surviving manuscript pages and over the years a Streicherphilharmonie album highlights three different genres of number of different completions or performing versions have seen the light of day. French music: A youthful work by Faure, 1SACD# BIS 2376 $19.99 Germany’s youngest top orchestra is already releasing its eighth written in the late romantic piano quartet album with GENUIN. This time around, the German String tradition, character pieces by Ravel in a Philharmonic is presenting repertoire from late Romanticism up to new arrangement for piano quartet and an the present day. The program includes works by Elgar and Suk, eclectic mix of contemporary interpretations Mahler: Symphony No. 1 / Jansons; Symphonieorchester Mahler’s famous Adagietto, and Bacewicz’s Concertino for Strings. of French Chansons from Claude Le Jeune up to Georges Brassens. des Bayerischen Rundfunks It also features a world premiere recording: Shir-Ran Yinon’s ‘Vivid’, full of gripping rhythms and bursting with energy! 1CD# CAVI 8553161 $17.99 The 2007 recording that has now been reissued by BR-Klassik or Mahlers First Symphony, with the 1CD# GUIN 19667 $16.99 Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under its chief conductor Mariss Jansons, can be regarded as an album premiere - in that this recording has only so far been available as a bonus release forming part of the Mahler: Das von der Erde / Adam Fischer; audio biography of Gustav Mahler World and Dream. Josef Suk: Asrael, Symphony, Op. 27; Pohádka, Dusseldorfer Symphoniker 1CD# BRK 900179 $16.99 Op. 16 / Jiří Bělohlávek; Czech PO [2 CDs] After winning the BBC Musica Award as the Best Orchestral Music Considered by many the summit of Suk’s album in 2018, Adam Fischer continues his Mahler survey with the achievements, both the Asrael Symphony great cycle Das Lied von der Erde. He is supported by two great and Fairy Tale are new additions to the singers, Anna Larsson and Stuart Skelton. The conductor writes: Lisa Friend Plays Flute Music of Faure & Debussy / Works for Violin & Piano by Ravel, Faure, Debussy / Decca catalog. Jiří Bělohlávek and the From the onset, the music in Das Lied von der Erde is permeated Czech Philharmonic present informed Rohan De Silva, piano Tatiana Samouil, violin; David Lively, piano by a special mood. Even the texts, based on Far Eastern poetry, performances of two of the composer’s are more mood than content. The flute takes a very special place in The present release features a program most notable works. The Asrael Symphony French music, particularly so in the late devoted to three essential sonatas of the was composed in memory of Antonín 1CD# CAVI 8553407 $17.99 nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. French violin school of the first part of Dvořák and his daughter, Otilie, to whom As a result there is a significant body of the twentieth century. Tatiana Samouil Suk was married. This release continues work transcribed for flute and piano, which is a prize-winner of the world’s most the series of Bělohlávek’s last recordings Italo Montemezzi: L’Incantesimo; Debussy: L’Enfant Lisa Friend and Rohan De Silva explore in prestigious competitions: Tchaikovsky, before he passed away in 2017. Prodigue / Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana [2 CDs] this exquisite program. Fauré’s first Violin Queen Elizabeth, , as well as 2CD# DEC B003032002 $29.99 Montemezzi’s moderately modern music Sonata, composed in 1875–76 works numerous prizes at the Michael Hill. She follows a middle path between a freely particularly well in transcription, with is has performed with many orchestras, and declamatory approach for the main sweeping melodies and lack of double- her numerous recordings have received Robert Kahn: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 / characters and more markedly melodic stopping. excellent reviews. Torleif Thedeen, clo; Oliver Triendl, piano passages for tenor and soprano which 1CD# CHA 20084 $18.99 1CD# INDS 108 $18.99 Robert Kahn’s early oeuvre was initially classified primarily in might easily pass for short concert pieces or in the great narrative scene of the Mahler: Symphony No. 1 ‘Titan’ / relation to composers such as Robert Schumann and Robert Piano Trios of Ravel, Chausson / Vienna Piano Trio description of the hunt. Nonetheless, Airy, transparent, if any François-Xavier Roth; Les Siècles Franz. In some of the movements of Kahns Cello Sonata No. 1 Montemezzi’s real capacity for invention composer’s music answers to these attributes, Francois–Xavier Roth and Les Siècles present for example, in the mirthful and playful finale both Brahms and lies in his orchestral writing which evokes then it is that of , including a fascinating new interpretation of Mahler’s Schumann are recognizable as very important forerunners who Wagnerian infinite melody. his Piano Trio, even if this work too has its Symphony No.1. It features the first period stimulated his compositional development. 2CD# BGV 2498 $29.99 more serious moments. On its newest Super instrument recording of the 1893–94 version, 1CD# CPO 555139 $15.49 Audio album the Vienna Piano Trio brings using a performing edition prepared by together this marvelously unique achievement musicologists Anna Stoll Knecht and Benjamin and a very differently gripping trio by Ernest Garzia, working in collaboration with Universal Chausson a fascinating contrast and one Edition. Initially presented as a symphonic POST ROMANTIC CHAMBER WORKS IN BRIEF most beautifully celebrated by our Vienna poem entitled Titan, the work was met with threesome. severe criticism as it developed. 1SACD# MDG 9422130 $18.99 1CD# HAR 905299 $19.99 Busoni: Violin Sonata Nos. 1 & 2; Bagatelles / Fabrizio Falasca, vln; Stefania Redaelli, pno Debussy: La Mer; Ravel: La Valse; Delibes: Assistant leader of the Philharmonia Orchestra since 2016, Fabrizio Falasca studied with Salvatore Accardo at Max Reger: Requiem, Op. 144; Brahms: the Walter Stauffer Academy and has subsequently played chamber music with him on many occasions. German Requiem / Ukrainian National Choir [2 CDs] Ballet ‘Coppelia’ / Kitamura; Warsaw PO 1CD# BLC 95854 $10.49 On September 16, 2016, the Brahms The Warsaw Philharmonic lives up to a program that expects much from its sophisticated Requiem was performed in Muhlhausen performance techniques, resulting in a great Piano Quintets of Georgy Catoire, Ignaz Friedman / Forsberg, Sparf, Nisbeth, Brantelid for the first time in 50 years. The German performance. Conductor Noriaki Kitamura broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk writes: “The sound has a sense of transparency, Polish-born Ignaz Friedman is famous not for his compositions but as one of the greatest pianists of the recorded the concert. It is this live and the detailed ensemble work is superb. twentieth century. Written in 1918, his Quintet in C minor is tuneful, but also dramatic, sombre and melancholy recording which can be heard on this The Faun dream drifting within the silence is double album, including three organ pieces beautiful, just like an impressionist painting. at turns. by Brahms and Reger played by Denny The force and freshness of the sound, which 1SACD# BIS 2314 $19.99 Wilke at the Sauer Organ in St. Mary’s in is inspired by Hokusai prints, reflects the Muhlhausen. expressions of the real sea itself. String Quartets by Debussy, Tailleferre, Ravel / Stenhammar Quartet 2CD# QRST 1717 $23.99 1CD# NKBR 204 $16.99 One of Scandinavias foremost string quartets, “the Stenhammar Quartet produces a clean and vibrant sound, they use a range of well-judged dynamics and the articulation is exceptionally good throughout.” Gabriel Faure: Quartet Nos. 1 & 2 / Mozart Piano Quartet – MusicWeb International Faure’s quartets draw formally on the tradition – and yet breathe a new spirit: church modes and whole- 1SACD# ABA 431 $18.99 tone scales mark so many a motif, and here and there, along with the classical development of the Taneyev (1856–1915): Piano Trio, Quartet, Quintet; Violin Sonata / themes, we also encounter entirely new harmonic fields and soundscapes. For instance, the beginning Alessandro Deljavan, piano; various artists [3 CDs] of the Adagio in op. 45 already suggests Ravels La vallee des cloches from the Miroirs – enchanting! 1SACD# MDG 9432122 $18.99 Often known as the Russian Brahms, Sergei Taneyev has inspired devoted advocacy in musicians from Igor Oistrakh to Mikhail Pletnev and Steven Isserlis, yet his grandly-imagined music remains under-appreciated. 3CD# BLC 95766 $14.99

30 31 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Music of the Early 20th Century NEW RELEASES - MODERN Georgy Sviridov: Selected Works / Alexander Sats, Gunter Raphael: Chamber Music for and with The Symphony in Modern Times piano; Vasily Timonin, tenor; various [2 CDs] Flute, Vol. 6 / Ana Ioana Oltean, flute [2 CDs] Firma Melodiya presents a collection of selected choral and symphonic works Volume 6 of the Gunter Raphael Edition, Dohnányi: Symphony No. 1, Symphonic Minutes / by Georgy Sviridov. His music, inextricably linked with the centuries-old released as a double album, includes Paternostro; Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz national traditions of Russian culture, has always been perceived as truly Raphael’s entire chamber music oeuvre modern. Its extraordinary sincerity and simplicity of expression, lyrical emotion featuring the flute. The ten pieces, of The Symphony No. 1 in D minor op. 9 belongs to Dohnányi s early years of success. Among and tunefulness continue to win listeners. According to Sviridov, he was always varying character, can be divided into three bent to choral singing, to the union of souls in sounds, in joint harmony. all the influences of the late Romantic tradition, that by Brahms music can be discerned here creative periods. Most of them belong 2CD# MELY 1002571 $28.49 once more. From it, Dohnányi forms a kind of early Neo-Romanticism that can be viewed as to the transitional period and the key a continuation of the 19th century while avoiding the Expressionist, sprawling violence of the Ahmed Adnan Saygun: Yunus Emre, oratory / development of his style since the 1930s. beginnings of in the 20th century. In his early and late stylistic periods, the Naci Ozguc; Osnabrueck Symphony Orchestra & composer only rarely used the flute as a 1CD# CAP 5386 $16.99 Youth Choir chamber music instrument. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 / Mariss Jansons; Saygun wrote himself and his life 2CD# QRST 1805 $18.99 Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Runkfunks experience into most of his early works. There is no doubt that from the view of his Works for Solo Cello by Dittrich, Herchet, Huber, Here, under Jansons’ baton, the musicians of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen personal advancement as composer, the Flammer, Pagh-Paan / Matthias Lorenz, cello Rundfunks interpret Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony as a shattering testimony to the epoch Yunus Emre Oratory constitutes a major in which it was written as well as a profound expression of our present age. The live recording of turning point. After years of introspection, Five pieces by five composers who are all personally associated with those concerts is now being released by BR-KLASSIK in an exemplary interpretation of one of the his engagement with Yunus Emre and each other: and Younghi Pagh-Paan are a couple, Ernst Helmuth Flammer studied with Klaus Huber and Paul-Heinz Dittrich most important symphonic works of the 20th century. the oratory led to a rediscovery of his and Jörg Herchet were colleagues at the College of Music in Dresden. 1CD# BRK 900184 $16.99 music both in Turkey and abroad. In this discovery, his ideas and spiritual world took The cellist Matthias Lorenz became associated with each of these Korngold: Symphony No. 40; Theme and Variations; center-stage. Despite setbacks, he kept his composers principally through his own attendance at the Dresden Straussiana / John Wilson; Sinfonia of London peace and patience. conservatory. 1CD# DYGO 21074 $18.99 1CD# QRST 1620 $18.99 John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London shine in an all-Korngold program full of wit, romanticism, sensitivity, and virtuosity - an orchestral tour de force! Conductor John Wilson has earned a Gershwin: The Birth of ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ / Great Britain, Great Music – Bridge, reputation for his interpretations of British and American repertoire in particular. He is a favourite Maurice Peress; The New Palais Royale Orchestra Holst, Holbrooke / Kolner Streichsextett of many of the UK’s orchestras and festivals including the BBC Proms and Aldeburgh Festival and [2 CDs] The performers express that they launched is currently Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. into this project sorting through many These performances of Gershwin classics and hard-to-find rarities 1SACD# CHA 5220 $19.99 scores, even copying out separate parts capture the 1920’s and 30’s jazz age style and offers a gamut of lesser from certain scores in the British library known keyboard works, as well as Gershwin’s only known works for themselves. After many months of research They Persisted, , Ulric Cole, Cello & Piano works by Joan Manen, violin and piano and for string quartet. The three orchestral works they finally agreed upon their selection: Ethel Smith / Joanna Goldstein, piano; various Robert Herhard & Xavier Montsalvatge / include Mr. Peress’ theater orchestration of Gershwin’s Strike Up the the marvelous sextets by Holst, Holbrooke Band Overture, and the I’ve Got Rhythm Variations recorded in its and Bridge featured on this album. In the This release features three exciting chamber Guillermo Pastrana, cello; Daniel Blanch, piano original orchestration for the first time. course of rehearsals it became clear to works by female composers, written during At the beginning of the 20th century in 2CD# NIM 2584 $18.99 the performers that they had made a lucky the first three decades of the twentieth Catalunya, several approaches to music century. This project was initiated by pianist Grazyna Bacewicz: Violin Sonatas / choice. The works exceeded expectations lived side by side, some succeeding and and this music will thrill fortunate listeners. Joanna Goldstein. Joanna Goldstein (piano, overlapping each other: a German-influenced Annabelle Berthomé-Reynolds, violin; 1CD# CAVI 8553079 $17.99 University Orchestra director) is Professor of post-romanticism, of the Wagnerian tradition; Music at Indiana University Southeast. She a Spanish nationalism, promoted by Felip Ivan Donchev, piano [2 CDs] was also formerly the Dean of the School of Pedrell; and a “novecentist” style which sought Born in Lódz (Poland) Grazyna Bacewicz Sandor Veress: String Trio; Bartok: Piano Arts & Letters until 2001. She is joined here to reconnect with the truest traditional roots, is the most eminent inheritor of the 19th Quintet / Vilde Frang, vln; Alexander by Steven Moeckel, Nicholas Finch, and crystallizing into a language of great originality. century violinist-composers in the lineage Bruce Heim. All these aesthetic approaches co-existed of her compatriot and predecessor Henryk Lonquich, pno; et al. 1CD# CEN 3693 $16.99 naturally and became entwined in the works of Wieniawski. She was one of the most important For this first recording in partnership with Lockenhaus, cellist Nicolas these three composers. composers of the mid-20th century, Altstaedt is joined by experienced partners, including the Norwegian 1CD# IBSC 72019 $15.99 Johanna Senfter: Violin Sonatas; Suites / a remarkable concert artist who left a catalogue violinist Vilde Frang, the Hungarian violinist Barnabás Kelemen, the Friedemann Eichhorn, violin; Alexia Eichhorn, Luis de Pablo (b.1930): Concierto de Camara; of over 200 works, including five Sonatas German pianist Alexander Lonquich whose Schubert double album was and a Partita for violin and piano as well as recently released on Alpha (Alpha 433) and the British violist Lawrence violin [2 CDs] Eros; Anatomías / Zahir Ensemble two solo violin sonatas that feature in this boxset commemorating the 50th anniversary Power. Nicolas Altstaedt has joined Alpha for several recording projects Johanna Senfter, one of Max Regers favorite The present release is the result of a of her death. that will illustrate the full range of his talents, in a highly eclectic range students, is one of the most prolific female determined and independent search for sound. It represents a commitment shared between 2CD# MUSO 032 $18.99 of music. composers of the 20th century, having written 1CD# AHP 458 $16.99 more than 130 vocal and instrumental works. the composer, performer and producer to Nowadays, however, her music is nearly popularize a little known musical repertoire; forgotten. Violinists Friedemann and Alexia one which has been largely ignored in recent Eichhorn, together with pianist Paul Rivinius, contemporary Spanish compositional history, MODERN ORCHESTRAL WORKS IN BRIEF have recorded some of her violin works for a but one that is nevertheless deserving of double album, which is now published as a co- recognition. In the search for this sound, we Messiaen: L’Ascension; Meditation Symphonique / production between Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk began with the composer Luis de Pablo. (MDR) and Paladino Music. 1CD# IBSC 12019 $15.99 Paavo Järvi; Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich 2CD# PANO 0101 $29.99 Last Three String Quartet – Shostakovich: String Messiaens harmonic language is not experimental, and his style is clear and unmistakable. It produces an The Yiddish Cabaret – Korngold, Schulhoff, Quartets Nos. 13, 14 & 15 / Fitzwilliam String inevitable meaning, and you get the feeling that the chord sequence can be that way and no other. Desyatnikov / Hila Baggio, sop; Jerusalem Quartet Quartet [2 CDs] 1CD# AHP 548 $16.99 The Fitzwilliam String Quartet celebrates a : Heliogablaus Imperator; Orchestral Works / ; BBC SO The Jerusalem Quartet’s Yiddish Cabaret remarkable milestone with this special fiftieth explores the rich world of Jewish popular anniversary recording of Shostakovich’s last Henze admired Knussen for electrifying performances of his and other composer’s works. Indeed, Knussen was music in Poland between the two world three string quartets. Fittingly, this landmark an untiring and enthusiastic champion Henze, and these recordings display a deep understanding of his music. wars, and the substantial influence this recording will look back to the music which 1CD# WER 73442 $18.99 music had in Europe, and subsequently first propelled the Fitzwilliam to international in the US after the war. Jewish humor prominence. Shostakovich entrusted the and self-irony is ever-present in the songs Fitzwilliam with the western premieres of his Transatlantic, Works by Gershwin, Stravinsky, Varese / that were featured in Jewish cabarets in last three quartets, and before long they had Warsaw in the early 20th century. become the first ever group to perform and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra [2 CDs] 1CD# HAR 902631 $19.99 record all fifteen quartets. 2CD# LINN 612 $28.49 This release marks the highly anticipated world premiere recording of the new critical edition of Gershwin’s An American in Paris as well as the original version of Varèse’s epic Amériques with 146 musicians and Anniversary Edition – Edison Denisov (1929–1996) / Stravinsky’s Symphony in C. Dmitri Denisov, flute; Various artists [2 CDs] 2CD# CSOM 016 $16.99 For the 90th anniversary of the outstanding Russian composer, Edison Denisov, Firma Melodiya, : Piano Concerto No. 2; et al. / Oliver Triendl, piano; Nürnberger for the first time ever, releases a unique phonographic document – a broadcast recording of Edison Symphoniker Denisov’s recital, the first one in the former USSR, which took place at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on the 6th of February, 1990. Edison Denisov had to walk a long way to fame in his Hindemiths influence dominates in Reizenstein, though his effusive energy producing highly spirited and less own country. sober results clearly distinguishes him from British and American composers like Rawsthorne and Berkeley. 1CD# CPO 555245 $15.49 2CD# MELY 1002604 $28.49 32 33 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Music of the Early 20th Century NEW RELEASES - MODERN Jaromir Weinberger: Orchestral Works / Souvenirs of Spain & Italy / Sharon Isbin, Modern Era Choral & Vocal Works Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie; guitar; Pacifica Quartet Rheinland-Pfalz The GRAMMY Award-winning Pacifica Quartet and multiple Grammy- Dame Ethel Mary Smyth: Mass in D / Sakari Oramo; This album presents burlesque and colorful winning guitarist Sharon Isbin join forces for an uncommon album of BBC Symphony Orchsetra & Chorus excerpts from Schwanda, and more. music for strings and guitar from the Baroque to the mid-20th century. Jaromír Weinbergers one-hit wonder ‘Souvenirs of Spain & Italy’ is the first joint recording by these renowned Dame Ethel Mary Smyth was an English composer and a member of the women’s suffrage was definitely his opera Schwanda, the artists and marks Isbin’s Cedille Records debut. The program spotlights movement. Her compositions include songs, works for piano, chamber music, orchestral works, Bagpiper. Two thousand performances of Italian-born composers influenced by Spanish idioms. choral works and operas. Smyth tended to be marginalized as a woman composer, as though her this opera were held within four years, and 1CD# CDL 190 $16.99 work could not be accepted as mainstream, yet when she produced more delicate compositions, it was translated into seventeen languages. they were criticized for not measuring up to the standard of her male competitors. Weinberger’s score is rich in symphonic Simon Laks: Chamber Music / Dominka Glapiak, 1SACD# CHA 5240 $19.99 orchestral numbers that we now have piano; Blazej Golinski, cello; various artists brought together on this album. Gerald Finzi: Sacred Music / Stephen Layton; 1CD# CPO 777513 $15.49 “As far as music is concerned, sanctity The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge was in this period on the side of multi- A Tribute to Erling Blondal – The Danish Radio faceted post- and experimental Stephen Layton and the Trinity College Choir, Cambridge beautifully showcase some of the most music. Simon Laks never believed that exquisite English choral writing of the last century. This program of choral miniatures from Finzi Recordings 1966–2002 / Various artists [2 CDs] these trends had a future. He went on culminates in one of the composer’s most intense, visionary masterpieces. “Uplifting, moving, Danacord continues its tribute to the Danish cellist Erling Blondal composing, during the years he composed, Bengtsson. For this volume of recordings emanating from Danish Radio, the music he believed in, which does not poignant, triumphant – this gloriously, lovingly performed recital of Finzi’s music fully reflects the mean that he thought of it as having future breadth of the composer’s masterly skill at writing for choir.” – Gramophone Bengtsson plays two staples of most cellists repertoire, masterworks by Shostakovich and Richard Strauss, spicing things up with music either. But he did think that music should 1CD# HYP 68222 $19.99 by Berio and Ligeti, such choices opening up our perceptions of not be boring. No compromise on this.” Melba Ramos Sings Turina, Granados, Mompou, et al. / Bengtsson’s repertoire, and then going further by including his sympathy – Andre Laks Melba Ramos, sop; Greta Benini, pno for concertos written for and dedicated to him. 1CD# CDAC 249 $10.49 2CD# DCD 844 $16.99 With Première, Portraits Capriccio set an example for the support of young and talented artists String trios by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, and invite them to release their première album for a worldwide audience. Melba Ramos, Puerto- Michael Byron: Fabric for String Noise 1 & 2; , Alfred Schnittke / Trio Lirico Rican soprano, studied at Pablo Casals Conservatory of Music in San Juan, capital city of her Dragon Rite / String Noise The Trio Lirico has programmed three composers who lived and worked home country. She distinguished herself by winning several opera singing prizes and made her Michael Byrons title piece, Fabric for on the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain until 1989: for Franziska Pietsch way as coloratura soprano to the Ensemble of the Volksoper. String Noise, performed by NYCs String and Sophia Reuter this is music which – paraphrasing Goethe – they 1CD# CAP 3008 $12.99 Noise (violinists Conrad Harris and “search with their souls”. “As children, we both lived in East Berlin and Pauline Kim Harris, deemed New York’s were close friends already”, Franziska Pietsch explains about her violist Gerald Finzi (1901–1956): By Footpath and Stile; Britten: The Suites for solo cello, Nos. 1–3, most daring violin duo by TimeOut New colleague. “We therefore share personal history, a similar style of playing York), is a wildly virtuosic two-movement and a similar non-verbal way of communicating about this music. We et al. / Finzi Quartet Opp. 72, 80 & 87 / Alexander Ramm, cello work, wherein intense continuous activity just feel it.” 1CD# ADT 97753 $18.99 Prize winners in the 2010 Royal Over Seas Britten is the most eminent English shares space with an overarching sense League Competition and the 5th Trondheim composer of the twentieth century, who, of motionlessness. The composer International String Quartet Competition in after a two-hundred-year hiatus, again characterizes it as a sound object, marked Norway, the Finzi Quartet has given recitals raised the musical tradition of Britain to the by extreme polyrhythmic complexity and Zoltán Kodály: Cello Works / Julian Steckel, cello; and made numerous festival appearances heights of the musical Olympus and fulfilled intricate contrapuntal textures. at major venues throughout the UK and his creative potential in a variety of genres. 1CD# CDBM 0054 $16.99 Paul Rivinius, piano; Antje Weithaas, violin Europe, including London’s , The composer’s connections with Russian The performers write: “In this release of Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Het music and musicians were significant, but American Avenues – Gershwin, Bernstein, Cello music by Zoltán Kodály, none of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Rostropovich was the one with Barber, et al. / Helen Chang Haertzen, violin; beautiful cantilenas ever emerge out of Auditorio Sony in Madrid. whom Britten had the closest friendly various artists nothing. You must always remain entirely 1CD# REOA 10109 $16.99 and creative contact. clear in your expression and in the way you Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht; Honegger: 1CD# MELY 1002568 $18.99 In the 1930s an international chain reaction of disparate elements led produce the sound. The fact that the music to a creative collision in the US. A growing sense of the AMERICAN is rhapsodic should not entice you to start Symphony No.2 / Baltic Chamber Orchestra 1939, Works for Violin by Walton, Hartmann, in American music burst into full flower as Vienna met Hollywood and playing freely all the time. Precise rhythm “Tempo choices and pacing are key for Bartok / Fabiola Kim, violin; various artists [2 CDs] classical met jazz. This album celebrates this amazing development in is of utter importance. Otherwise you would a score [the Honegger] in which broad American music. Growing up in the Boston area, Helen Chang Haertzen be fishing in troubled waters, and the music Hailed by the New York Times as a brilliant themes and looping chants are often laid studied under Bo Youp Hwang and Roman Totenberg. would become a sort of goulash soup.” soloist, with “extraordinary precision and 1CD# CEN 3722 $16.99 1CD# CAVI 8553272 $17.99 over faster, more mechanical material... No luminosity”, violinist Fabiola Kim is one of the problems there, and Emmanuel Leducq- most dynamic players of her generation with Barôme finds a special atmosphere in the a wide variety of repertoire from classical to slow middle movement.” – Gramophone. contemporary music. Fabiola Kim is the winner ‘Transfigured Night’ is a work heavily of various awards and competitions, including indebted to Wagner, and especially to the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra’s Concerto MODERN CHAMBER WORKS IN BRIEF ‘Tristan und Isolde’, although the unique Competition as the youngest competitor in the voice of Schoenberg is already apparent. history of the competition to win. Russian Piano Trios / Uliana Zhdanov, violin; 1CD# RBCN 1043 $19.99 2CD# SOLO 308 $29.99 Julia Okruashvili, piano; Denis Zhdanov, cello [2 CDs] Szymanowski & Lutoslawski / Alexander – The Song of Love / A mournful, melancholic influence became characteristic of the Russian piano trio. This recording offers trios by Liebreich; Polish National RSO [3 CDs] Kitty Whately, mez; Roderick Williams, bar Arno Babajanyan (1921–1983), Alexander Slyabyev (1787–1851) and Sergei Rachmaninov (1873–1943). As cultural ambassadors with a rich tradition, “Of the 25 songs in this recital, 15 are 2CD# PRF 16092 $22.99 the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra first recordings and six are unpublished, has made its mark through performances making the disc automatically interesting A Bernstein Story / Sebastian Studnitzky, piano; of Polish composers, as is impressively to followers of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Sebastian Manz, clarinet seen in this cycle that features works by music... Also original are the Three Songs Karol Szymanowski and Witold Lutoslawski. from Shakespeare, and Kitty Whately This album performed on clarinet and piano, A Bernstein Story, is meant to mirror the composer himself, remote Included works are: Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra; Cello Concerto; Symphony No. dispatches them with unassuming from any formal categorization, pluralistic in style, eclectically colorful, located somewhere between classical 4; Livre pour Orchestre; Musique funebre a freshness. [Whately] and Williams combine and jazz. la memoire de Bela Bartok; Szymanowski: in two duets to close the disc, the playful 1CD# BER 0301109 $18.99 Concerto Overture; Symphony No. 2. Think of Me and the sweetly sentimental 3CD# ACTS 80498 $31.49 Adieu...” – BBC Music Magazine Chamber Music Gliere, Reynaldo Hahn, Shostakovich / Various artists 1CD# ALBN 037 $18.99 Reinhold Gliere, a student at the time, injected his youthful verve into the String Octet, Op. 5. The Shostakovich Elgar: ; George Whitefield Chadwick: Tom O’Shanter / Two Pieces for String Octet too, are student works. Hahn’s Piano Quintet is a rhapsodic work of French Late BBC National Orchestra [2 CDs] Romanticism. 1CD# CAVI 8553102 $17.99 This release features a unique recording of Elgar’s Falstaff played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Andrew Constantine in two versions: both with and without excerpts from Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Poulenc: Chamber Music / Paul Rivinius; Ensemble Arabesques Parts I and II, performed by Timothy West and Samuel West. Alongside Elgar’s magnificent response to With his three sonatas for flute, clarinet, and bassoon, Poulenc set standards that remain to this day; his sextet Shakespeare’s loveable rogue, we hear American composer George Whitefield Chadwick’s Tam OShanter, an interpretation of the poem by Scottish national poet Robert Burns. is a milestone in music history. Chamber Music is the second concept album of the Ensemble 2CD# ORPO 100103 $16.99 arabesques. 1CD# FAR 108103 $16.99 34 35 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Late 20th & 21st Century Works NEW RELEASES - CONTEMPORARY Claudio Ambrosini: Tromper l’Oreille, flute music / Fall, Works by , Stephan Contemporary Music Highlights Daniele Ruggieri, flute; Various artists Winkler, Oscar Bettison / Ensemble Musikfabrik This new release is an opportunity to discover a set of innovative The compositions on this album are (b.1952): Circle Map; Neiges; Graal Theatre; Vers Toi Qui es si solo and accompanied works for the flute which have so far about crashing, decaying and failing. Loin / Peter Herresthal, violin; Oslo PO remained inaccessible: while they have been repeatedly performed Brian Ferneyhoughs La Chute d’Icare is an allegorical fall: the divine punishment Several of Kaija Saariaho’s works are named after natural phenomena that serve as a starting in public they have never been recorded or published. Listening to these works finally makes it possible to clearly appreciate the for the exuberant Icarus, who drowns point to her compositional process. Composed in 1998, Neiges was inspired by various qualities in the sea instead of flying to the sun. importance of Ambrosini’s contribution to the development of the of snow and explores instrumental languages and colors similar to those found in her earlier Stephan Winkler’s composition Von der literature of the 1970s. Gewissensnot der Insekten, by contrast, works. On the present album the piece is heard in its never-before recorded version for twelve 1CD# SVS 37098 $16.99 , performed by the cellists of the . refers to a fall with a more profane cause: excessive alcohol consumption and an 1SACD# BIS 2402 $19.99 Federico Perotti: Franca da Vitalta, oratorio / open window lead to a fatal event. Krzysztof Penderecki: Chamber Music / The Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra Coro Vox Silvae; various artists 1CD# WER 68692 $18.99 Penderecki’s Concerto doppio for violin and viola was composed for the 200th anniversary of Federico Perotti creates a on three Saariaho Schleiermacher (b.1960): Sturm; the Wiener Musikverein. It is a piece with a clearly outlined neoromantic architecture. Although temporal levels: the first is set in the years works by Kaija Saariaho & Michael Wertmuller / of the Franca da Vitalta’s life, a woman the composer often uses semitones as form shaping means, the Concerto is also saturated with Ensemble Musikfabrik many consonant solutions mitigating tensions. Penderecki’s Concerto for viola and orchestra has who, at the age of seven, entered by her own wish into a Benedictine monastery Stormy sounds of widely varying “wind quality” blow through been transcribed for a variety of instruments. and by the age of 23 was elevated to 1CD# DUX 1537 $19.99 the pieces on the new release by Edition Musikfabrik. In Steffen superior mother. The second consisting of Schleiermacher’s ‘Roar of the Amazed Echo’ the paradox of the biography that the historian Pier Maria a “roaring stillness” unfolds in a kind of cantus firmus which Carl Davis: Intolerance, original motion picture soundtrack / Luxembourg RSO Campi wrote in the early seventeenth century, and the third limited to observing meanders amongst the various instruments and moves towards its Carl Davis writes of this release: “How exciting to revisit this recording made in Luxembourg and describing the passage of time. finale with sonic force. Kaija Saariaho’s storm references are more in 1986 as a soundtrack for what was then the Thames Silents. The team of directors and 1CD# TCT 991601 $16.99 literary in nature. producers, Kevin Brownlow and David Gill and myself were delivering up to three restorations of 1CD# WER 68682 $18.99 full length feature films a year and I was about to embark on the 1925 Ben Hur score as soon as Francesco Carta: Twelve Songs on Poems by Salvador Brotons: Complete Works for Flute, I had finished ‘Intolerance’.” Emily Dickinson / Nuova Orchestra Padrollo Vol. 3 / Roberto Alvarez, flute; various artists 1CD# CAVS 030 $16.99 It is ironic that the words which came silently out of the pen of This is volume three of the complete Emily Dickinson nowadays are heard frequently in concert halls. works for flute by the noted contemporary This selection of poems intercept some of the most inspired composer Salvador Brotons. Spanish flutist Percussion Works by , Gershwin & Goodyear / Stewart Goodyear, piano; moments of metaphysical disquiet in her work. The Nuova Roberto Alvarez performs these works with wonderful aplomb. Diversity of styles David Skidmore, Peter Martin, et al. / Wayne Marshall; Chineke! Orchestra Orchestra Pedrollo di Vicenza directed by Gabriele dal Santo accompanies the soprano Naoka Ohbayashi in the performing of is a hallmark of Roberto’s concerts and Third Coast Percussion [2 CDs] Orchid Classics marks its 100th release this very particular vision of the poets texts by Francesco Carta. recitals. As a matter of fact he feels just as with a particularly special album starring comfortable performing classical, baroque Perpetulum, the new album from Grammy- 1CD# TCT 960301 $16.99 some of the most exciting artists of our time: or avant-garde music as well as Celtic, winning percussion ensemble Third Coast pianist-composer Stewart Goodyear, the Percussion, features world premiere recordings jazz or rock. Chineke! Orchestra and Wayne Marshall. 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Juillou’s command not only of organ playing but also of the piano 2CD# OMM 0132 $24.99 the darker side of the human spirit in epic and composition is demonstrated by the absolutely boundless Nicola Sani: Dove arrivano le Nuvole piu vaste / scores as austere as they are powerful. technical and intellectual demands posed by his oeuvre. In Zuzana Yury Kunets: Symphonic Music / Alvise Vidolin, electronics His mighty Fifth Symphony, a work almost Ferjenciková he now has found more than just a worthy heir: the an hour in length, is obsessive and violent, first volume in our series featuring Guillous organ works includes Yury Kunets, piano; Münchner Symphoniker with the two outer movements, wild Physics, chemistry, biology, culture, history: a recording premiere and reveals the affinity uniting these two The melody and the romantic character of the inextricable interweaving between all kaleidoscopes of whirling colors and driving exceptional artists. Kunets’ symphonic works reflect the essence these faces of the prism called man (and energy, framing a tragic slow movement of the composer. He states, “My music has a music) seem to be captured in these six and a sardonic march. 1SACD# MDG 9062089 $18.99 very lyrical character; I try to convey my view of compositions - spanning a period of twenty 1CD# TOC 0530 $16.99 life and my feelings. It is, so to speak, the result years, from 1996 to 2015, collected on this of my philosophical reflections, little stories album. 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36 37 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Late 20th & 21st Century Works NEW RELEASES - CONTEMPORARY Peter Thoegersen: Three Pieces in Polytempic David Dzubay: All Water has a Perfect Contemporary Music Highlights Polymicrotonality / Peter Thoegersen, piano Memory, chamber and solo music / Few composers have aimed at such Various artists [2 CDs] Mark-Anthony Turnage: Chamber Works / Nicky Spence, tnr; fervent multidimensionality. And yet, The title of this collection of David Dzubay’s recent solo, chamber, and Thomas Kemp; Chamber Domaine while Thoegersen’s music can seem ensemble music comes from Toni Morrison. Morrison writes: “You know, overwhelming at first, running through As one of the most celebrated composers of his generation, Mark–Anthony Turnage has written a they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room it is a level of charm and simplicity for houses and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these great number of large- scale orchestral works and operas. His contribution to the chamber genre that belies the initial impression. “An places. Floods is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is is equally impressive and significant, and Chamber Domaine, with their conductor and artistic audacious undertaking... Thoegersen remembering – All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to director Thomas Kemp, here present a selection of world premiere recordings of Turnage’s has demonstrated that the intersection get back to where it was.” chamber works composed in recent years. of rhythmic complexity and alternate 2CD# INNO 011 $13.99 tuning practice opens up new territory for 1CD# REOA 10106 $16.99 innovative artistic expression.” Brian Carpenter: These Wicked Things / Philip Glass: Symphony No. 5 / Julian Wachner; Trinity Wall Street [3 CDs] – Sequenza21 1CD# NWR 80812 $20.99 Beat Circus Conductor Julian Wachner played the symphony at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC These Wicked Things began after in November 2016 and immediately resolved to make a new recording with the full resources Siobhan Lamb: The Red Shoes, folk tale / Carpenter was commissioned by the of Trinity Wall Street in New York including NOVUS NY, Trinity Choir, Trinity Children’s Choir, Suoni Ensemble Berkeley Repertory Theater to compose music and lyrics for Dominic Orlandos play Downtown Voices and soloists Heather Buck, Katherine Pracht, Vale Rideout, Stephen Salters, Red is the color of blood, danger, and temptation. Hans Christian and David Cushing. The Barbary Coast in 2014. Based on the Andersen took the symbolism to a new extreme of cruelty in The true crime book by Herbert Asbury, The 3CD# OMM 0143 $24.99 Red Shoes – an ancient folk tale here given a modern musical Barbary Coast detailed the violent rise of reworking by Siobhan Lamb and the Suoni Ensemble. Composer San Francisco in the late 1800s. The play Marc-André Dalbavie: Chamber Music / Mary Lynch, oboe; Siobhan Lamb trained as a classical flautist at the Royal Academy centers around a Mexican who went on Demarre McGill, flute; Jay Campbell, cello of Music in London. As a composer, Siobhan Lamb enjoys writing a revenge spree after his wife was killed for a variety of ensembles. by miners. Following acclaimed recordings of French revolutionaries Berlioz, Boulez, Dutilleux and 1CD# DACO 8224729 $13.99 1CD# INNO 015 $13.99 Messiaen, Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony return with a release of works by contemporary French composer Marc-Andre Dalbavie. Morlot has championed the music of his Vyacheslav Artyomov: In Memoriam; Lachlan Skipworth: Clarinet Quintet; countrymen throughout his career and this album defines his legacy as a foremost interpreter of Lamentations; Pieta; Tristia I / Various artists Piano Trio; et al. / Various artists contemporary French repertoire. 1CD# STTL 1022 $16.99 “The soloists on the CD are somewhat Can you satisfy God with one sound? This question was repeatedly familiar in the West and they do not posed to Lachlan Skipworth by his shakuhachi teacher during a three- year period of intensive study in Japan. It sparked a deep exploration of Hypothetical Islands / Splinter Reeds Roger Smalley: Piano, Vocal & disappoint. The orchestral playing is very good too. I don’t think anyone will cross-cultural aesthetics that finds expression in this self-titled Navona Ambitious Splinter Reeds Chamber Music / Taryn Fiebig, sop; complain about the performances, as Records album. At the beginning of each shakuhachi lesson, student and master begin by repeatedly playing a single note on the end-blown presents a bracing program of new works Daniel Herscovitch, pno long as they can accept the fact that bamboo flute. written for the group by composers Sky these works take an emotional toll. Macklay, Matthew Schlomowitz, Caro Haxo, Roger Smalley made his mark as composer, 2CD# NVA 6241 $14.99 pianist, conductor, writer, academic and Artyomov is a gifted composer and I Eric Wubbels, Theresa Wong, and Yannis teacher. Although as performer and am glad that Divine Art has decided to Kyriakides. All of the works display an commentator he was at the forefront of reissue (now) eight CDs of his music.” Andrew Anderson (b. 1947): Piano Quartets envelope pushing impulse that stretches the musical modernism, he was also very fond of – Fanfare Nos. 1 & 2 / Australia Piano Quartet boundaries of this traditional instrumental nineteenth-century Romanticism, and much 1CD# DVT 25175 $15.99 combination, carving out new repertoire and of his music bridges the gap between old Australian composer Andrew Anderson provoking new aesthetic perspectives. and new, retaining its roots in the past while Antoni Wojnar: The Nochats’ Dance / defies expectations with a new recording 1CD# NEWF 222 $16.99 reflecting the concerns of his own time, as the of his magnificent Piano Quartets. The works on this album demonstrate. Various artists players passion for the piano quartet 1CD# TOC 0501 $16.99 ‘Beneath the Tide’, a collection of concertos / stems from their love of the extraordinary Antoni Wojnar, a student of professor Andrzej Branicki, decided Miran Vaupotic; Croatian Chamber Orchestra Ake Parmerud (b.1953): Zeit aus Zeit; repertoire and the unique qualities of to compose a modernist fairy tale The Nochats’ Dance. Its the ensemble itself: a synthesis of the Beneath the Tide is a reflection on Mirage; Rituals / Cikada heroes are people who establish virtual contacts, which then finely blended sonority of a string trio, the human emotion and experience through Since its inception in 1989, Cikada has result in close ties in the real world. The original use of human soloistic qualities of each string voice and a collection of five concertos. The album established a renowned profile on the the orchestral power and virtuosic brilliance looks under the surface, examining voice and ingeniously juxtaposed musical instruments with international contemporary music scene. of the piano. underlying human realities that rise to the marimba at the forefront makes this remarkable musical whole ‘Parmerud’ is the result of Cikada’s 1CD# NVA 6235 $14.99 surface with the arrival of life’s changes. turn out to be easily perceptible for the listener. cooperation over many years with the It starts off with Clarinet Concertos by Swedish composer Ake Parmerud, and an 1CD# DUX 1491 $19.99 Michael G. Cunningham. This concerto embodiment of Cikada’s vision: a devotion is followed by works for violin, piano and guitar by Rein Worthington, Ssu-Yu Huang, to close, long-term collaborations with CONTEMPORARY CHAMBER MUSIC IN BRIEF Bruce Reiprich and Beth Mehocic. composers, building composer portraits 1CD# NVA 6216 $14.99 with both existing and commissioned works over time. A Farewell Celebration, Music for String Quartet / Lark Quartet Robert Erickson (b.1917): Duo; Fives; 1CD# LAWO 1161 $16.99 The Lark Quartet offers new insights into the art of chamber music through programs that begin with the Quintet; Trio / Camera Lucida ‘La Follia’ – Music for Strings Carlo Pedini & virtuosity of the western tradition and continue into recent music from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Robert Erickson was a profound and Paolo Ugoletti / KLK String Orchestra 1CD# BDG 9524 $16.99 original musical thinker who embraced the No one knows who first used the term expressive possibilities of all music, from Folia to describe a kind of Portuguese Federico Maria Sardelli: Trio Sonatas / Stefano Bruni, violin; Giovanni Scarpa, violin the Western classics and moderns of his dance, or even when it became associated own early education to Indian and Balinese with a particular theme immortalised by Federico Maria Sardelli, who writes in a living Baroque idiom, has turned his imagination to the genre of the trio traditions and all manner of contemporary Arcangelo Corelli in the last of his Op.5 sonata. The collection of six presented here divides into two sub-genres - the church sonata and the chamber experimentation, as long as it served a violin sonatas. However, as La Folia or La sonata. musical purpose. “A certain patient wisdom Follia, the theme has been improvised on 1CD# BLC 95999 $13.99 that is marvelous to behold.” – SF Chronicle and updated ever since then, all drawing 1CD# NWR 80808 $20.99 on the noble dignity of the original and its : Chamber Music / Evgeny Bushkov; Belarusian State Chamber Orchestra simple, effective power. 1CD# BLC 95822 $13.99 “I’ve been touring the world for twenty years as a clarinettist with the band Kleztory and find myself, a Muslim-born musician, playing klezmer. This, too, is now a distinctive part of my musical language.” – Ichmaouratov : Electric Counterpoint / Daniel Lippel, guitars 1CD# CHA 20141 $18.99 Guitarist Daniel Lippel releases a new version of Steve Reich’s iconic Electric Counterpoint. In collaboration with South African born ethnomusicologist Martin Scherzinger, Lippel approached the piece through the lens of its roots in Central Giovanni Albini (b.1982): String Quartets, Nos. 1–9 / Quartetto Indaco Africa, specifically the traditional music of the Banda-Linda tribe, from which Reich borrowed material for the canonic Born in 1982, the Italian composer Giovanni Albini’s language is eclectic, reflecting his broad education and wide theme of the opening movement. 1CD# NEWF 165 $13.99 range of musical interests in writing for new-music ensembles, video games and multimedia artworks. 1CD# BLC 95717 $12.99

38 39 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com New Complete Opera Recordings NEW RELEASES - OPERA Wagner: Siegfried / Sir Mark Elder; The Halle [4 CDs] Stanislaw Moniuszko: The Haunted Manor, concert Rarely Heard Operas on CD The Hallé completes its highly regarded Ring cycle, with the live version / Academy of Music in Gdansk [2 CDs] recording of its acclaimed Bridgewater Hall performance under It is rare to find a situation where one Schubert: Der vierjahrige Posten / Philharmonia Mediterranea, Solisti Cantori Sir Mark Elder. Roaring jubilation and radiant beauty comes of the most exquisite national operas, Der vierjährige Posten was composed in about ten days, from the 8th to the 19th of May 1815. from Elder and the Halle. Elder is a superb Wagnerian, acutely according to many, has been recorded As it happened with his three previous operatic attempts, Schubert never managed to see this conscious of the complex relationship between tempo and pace, only a few times. Although The Haunted and immaculate in his judgment both of the span of each act and Singspiel staged, and even after publication the score was long confined within library shelves. Manor by Stanislaw Moniuszko has the ebb and flow of detail within it. been considered to be an outstanding Only when the centenary of Schubert’s death was approaching, the publics of Dresden and 4CD# HALE 7551 $33.49 Vienna were allowed to see it on stage. showcase of Polishness in opera for more than 150 years, the modest 1CD# BGV 22293 $14.99 Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Indes Galantes, 1761 number of comprehensive recordings of version / Orfeo Orchestra; Purcell Choir [2 CDs] this composition may give rise to profound disbelief. This album is a documentary of a concert performance. Ruders: The Thirteenth Child, an opera in two acts / Symphony With Les Indes galantes by Jean- 2CD# DUX 1500 $29.99 Orchestra; Philippe Rameau, György Vashegyi along with his Orfeo Orchestra and “The cast relish their roles and everyone gets an opportunity to shine, whether it be Matt Boehler Donizetti: Il Castello di Kenilworth / Orchestra as King Hjarne, with his sepulchral low notes, the warm mezzo of Tamara Mumford in the Purcell Choir makes a further dazzling addition to their Glossa series of Donizetti Opera [2 CDs] touching role of Queen Gertrude, or bass-baritone Ashraf Sewailam, flexing his vocal muscles French dramatic masterpieces from The performance received excellent reviews, praising the richness of over a challenging wide range as Drokan. This studio performance is everything the composer the Baroque, and in the company of a could desire.” – Fanfare the costumes, the sobriety of the stage setting, and, mostly, the vocal luxurious line-up of vocal soloists. The and acting skills of the whole cast, which features first-rate singers like 1CD# BDG 9527 $17.99 version of this ballet heroïque supplied opera stars Jessica Pratt and Carmela Remigio, who share the stage Carl Maria von Weber: Peter Schmoll and His Neigbours / ORF Vienna Radio with an anti-colonial, anti-clerical manifesto by librettist Louis with talented Stefan Pop and emerging talent Xabier Anduaga. A SO Fuzelier selected by Vashegyi is the 1761 revision. first-class cast, with an imaginative production team, under the musical 2CD# GLS 924005 $29.99 direction of Riccardo Frizza. After the artful overture, which may make an absolute claim to autonomy, Peter Schmoll shows 2CD# DYN 7834 $22.99 a colorful succession of a total of 20 numbers, as was customary in the musical comedies composed in this manner for about three decades. In Peter Schmoll, we see glimpses of the : L’Ipermestra / Mike Fentross; Wagner: Tristan und Isolde / Chor und Orchester typical Weber, based primarily on the melodic idea, such as we know him today from Der La Sfera Armoniosa [3 CDs] der Bayreuther Festspiele [3 CDs + Blu-ray Audio] Freischütz, written in 1817. Like most of Cavalli’s operas, L’lpermestra wasn’t performed “Bohm’s recording boasts the best cast 1CD# CAP 5376 $16.99 between the late 17th century and recent years. L’lpermestra was of the day... it is Bohm’s incandescent written on the occasion of the birth of King Philip IV of Spain’s first reading of the score and the unrivalled Charles-Hubert Gervais: Hypermnestre / Gyorgy Giovanni Paisiello: Il barbiere di Siviglia / son in 1658. It was one of the most magnificent operas to have playing by the Bayreuth orchestra that Vashegyi; Orfeo Orchestra; Purcell Choir [2 CDs] Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Firenze [2 CDs] ever been staged. This is the world premiere recording of the make this such a gripping experience.” opera, made after a live stage performance in Utrecht in 2006. – Daily Telegraph. “Captured live at The remarkable Hypermnestre by Charles- Even before Rossini, Giovanni Paisiello was 3CD# CHL 72774 $24.99 Hubert Gervais is the latest unremembered the first composer of the Libretto for The Bayreuth, here’s a Tristan that seethes early 18th-century French opera to be Barber of Seville. It is lovely to compare both with passion. Bohm is magnificent in recorded afresh for Glossa, and conducted versions, however, this release is unique in that it was the works first release on any format, Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana / Valerio the pit, dramatic and vital, and Windgassen and Nilsson are by György Vashegyi. Gervais was a quite simply glorious in the title roles.” – Gramphone contemporary of Campra and Destouches, and is still regarded as the best. Legendary Galli, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra learning from Lully and paving the way for Italian baritone Ettore Bastianini stars as 4Blu-Ray Audio/CD# DGG 2894837394 $45.99 Rameau and, like Marais and François Figaro. The rest of the cast is also incredible, Mascagni’s first and most successful making this release even more attractive to Couperin, open to the Italianising trends of opera connoisseurs. work has become an opera classic les goûts réunis. A high-quality libretto from 2CD# MYT 00338 $13.99 as it features elements of the Greek Johann Strauss: Eine Nacht in Venedig / Joseph La Font tackles the story. tragedy, mixing up religious and Marius Burkert; Grazer Philharmoniker 2CD# GLS 924007 $29.99 Lully: Phaeton / Le Poeme Harmonique; Choir & archaic elements. It’s a story of love, Purcell: King Arthur ‘The British Worthy’ / Orchestra Music Aeterna [2 CDs + DVD Video] Korngold’s revised version was a success when it was performed passion, jealousy and restored honor at the Theater an der Wien on 25 October 1923: the stage set Paul McCreesh; Gabrieli Consort & Players This is the story of Phaeton, valiant driver in bloodshed. Directors Di Gangi was lavish and magnificent, the new orchestration displayed tonal [2 CDs] of the Sun’s chariot, led here by Vincent and Giacomazzi set this traditional sophistication, and the great Richard Tauber was heard in the Dumestre and Benjamin Lazar, armed with Cavalleria in a Sicilian village of the role of the Duke in quest of erotic adventures. A few years later Notoriously difficult to present on recording a rich partnership of two decades of Lullyist 1940s where the buildings are rather bare and the piazza is Korngold’s version made its way to the stage of the Vienna or in concert, this version of Purcell’s ‘King cooperation. Just like at the time, they will Arthur’ presented by Gabrieli was created make the Versailles Opera resonate with the stage for private as well as public drama. State Opera. to allow an obvious musical narrative, this production of this flamboyant tragedie 1CD# DYN 7843 $16.99 1CD# CPO 555235 $15.49 despite Purcell’s music often being lyrique which was first presented in Perm completely dislocated from much of the in Russia in 2018. Phaeton is a tragedie OPERA OF THE 20TH CENTURY IN BRIEF original theatre context. Gabrieli have been en musique in a prologue and five acts by performing the music from King Arthur for Jean-Baptiste Lully. nearly a quarter of a century, evolving their 3CD/DVD-Video# CHUV 015 $37.49 Bartok: Bluebeard’s Castle / Edward Gardner, Bergen PO interpretation over time. 2CD# SIG 589 $22.99 Following acclaimed performances around the globe, John Relyeas interpretation of Duke Bluebeard now Handel: Samson / John Butt; appears on CD, with Michelle DeYoung as Judit. John Relyea continues to distinguish himself as one of today’s Franco Faccio: Amleto / Prague Philharmonic Dunedin Consort [3 CDs] finest basses. Orchestra; Vienna SO [2 CDs] In this pioneering recording, the Dunedin 1SACD# CHA 5237 $19.99 First performed in 1865, Amleto (Hamlet) Consort presents a brand new performing represented a radical new development in version of one of Handel’s greatest Louis Karchin: Jane Eyre / Orchestra of the League of Composers [2 CDs] , the nuovo melodrama. Franco dramatic works, Samson. For the first time Faccio and his librettist Arrigo Boito sought listeners can enjoy an authentic Handelian Jane Eyre is American composer Louis Karchin’s largest project to date. Charlotte Brontë’s beloved novel is a greater degree of musical unity in staged chorus, comprising both solo sopranos transformed into a boldly engaging new work by the composer’s wide-ranging harmonic language and flair for productions and a more equal relationship and boy trebles a sonority largely unheard contrast. between text and music. In Hamlet, a play that in the modern age. The singers available 2CD# NXS 8669042 $24.99 many then considered un-operatic, they found to Handel varied considerably, leading the perfect medium through which to explore many researchers to speculate upon the the works philosophical and dramatic power. composers own preferences. Pascal Dusapin (b.1955): Penthesilea / Orchestre Symphonique et 2CD# NXS 8660454 $24.99 3CD# LINN 599 $37.49 Choeures de [2 CDs] Pascal Dusapin is a contemporary French composer whose music is marked by its microtonality, tension, Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro / Carlo Maria Giulini; and energy. Penthesilea is a wild and powerful masterpiece: a story of a terrible love that conveys a concern to Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus [2 CDs] the world. This release has been sourced from the Richard Itter archive of live BBC recordings. Following the archives 2CD# CYRS 4654 $28.49 launch in October 2017 with successive releases featuring Beecham, Bohm, Cantelli, Casadesus, Karajan, George Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence / Netherlands Radio PO [2 CDs] Menuhin, Monteux, du Pre, Klemperer, Rostropovich and Walter, it has received universal praise from both The opera Lessons in Love and Violence combines the story of Edward and Gaveston with the deposition of the classical media and record collectors for the excellent sound and performances. Edward II by Mortimer and the overthrow of Mortimer and Edward’s queen Isabella of France by Edward III. 2CD# ICA 5157 $24.99 2CD# NIM 5976 $18.99

40 41 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Opera Recital and Song Programs NEW RELEASES - VOCAL Russian Romances / Jozef Benci, bass; Sings Folksongs / Peter Schreier, Song Program Highlights Jana Nagy-Juhasz, piano tenor; Leipzig Radio Gewandhausorchester In the 19th century, composers sought Beautifully fallen a little out of time: The Christoph Pregardien Sings Schumann, Wolf, Mahler / inspiration in poetry, and the simplicity most beautiful German folk songs sung Christoph Pregardien, tenor [2 CDs] and modesty of folk songs. Romances by Peter Schreier, tenor of the century! In reflecting on loneliness, betrayed love 1975 the GDR label Eterna released the “[Christoph Pregardien’s] lyric tenor voice had a youthful glow, yet he sang with plaintive beauty and the misery of the abandoned record ‘Peter Schreier singt Volkslieder’. and piercing insight” – The New York Times. Precise vocal control, clear diction, intelligent occupied a special position in Russian The original master tapes have now been musicality and an ability to get to the heart of everything he sings ensures Christoph Prégardien’s lyric poetry in the first half of the 19th remastered for the first time and will be place among the world’s foremost lyric tenors. Especially revered as a Lieder singer, he can be century, represented by A. S. Pushkin available in modern sound on an album heard at the Phiharmonie de Paris, the Palace of Arts Budapest, and the Wigmore Hall in London. and other writers. Based on the Romantic with the original vinyl cover from 17 May poet’s works, composers expressed their 2019. This program was recorded almost 2CD# HAN 19006 $22.99 own intimate feelings, as well as muted 45 years ago in Leipzig with great attention Romance – Popular Tunes & Encores / Charlotte de Rothschild, soprano; defiance. to detail. Adrian Farmer, piano 1CD# SPR 42622 $19.99 1CD# BER 0301291 $13.99 “This Romance album contains a selection of popular tunes and encores that I am often asked Edith Mathis Sings Lieder / Edith Mathis, soprano; Songs by Sibelius, Grieg, Nystroem, et al. / to perform in my concerts. I have been incredibly lucky to perform all over the world, hence the Karl Engel, piano Ulla Ricklander, mezzo; Cathrine Penderup, piano inclusion of popular songs in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. My accompanist on this record Ulla Ricklander is one of the worlds leading mezzo-sopranos with a long is my soul-mate – the sensitive and excellent pianist Adrian Farmer – with whom I have shared Edith Mathis, who celebrated her 80th birthday last year, is one of Lucerne’s most famous daughters. The 1960s saw her firmly establish list of critical acclamations. She studied with Hildegund Becker-Lohman many happy hours of music-making all over the world...” – Charlotte de Rothschild in Wiesbaden and Bodil Gumoes and Knud Elimar in Copenhagen. She 1CD# NIM 6381 $18.99 herself on the international opera stage. She enthused audiences in New York and London, in Munich, Vienna and Paris, at Glyndebourne gives regular concerts in Sweden and Denmark, and also works as an Sol y Vida / Elina Garanca, mezzo soprano and Salzburg, working alongside all major conductors of her time, from actor in musicals and childrens theater. Together with pianist Cathrine Karl Böhm to Herbert von Karajan. The grace and natural charm of her Penderup she has found songs from the that are close In her first complete departure from core repertoire, Elina Garanca releases SolY Vida. A journey iridescent, silvery soprano voice was inescapable. to her heart. to the Southern hemisphere, from Spain to Italy and Latin America, the album features a selection 1CD# ADT 95647 $14.99 1CD# DCD 841 $16.99 of songs, canzone and tango pieces. Highlights include Piazolla’s “Yo soy Maria,” originally part of a tango operita and “Gracias a la vida.” Garanca is joined by Karel Mark Chichon and his Schumann: ; : Pavarotti: The Greatest Hits / Various artists [3 CDs] Orquesta Filarmonica Gran Canaria. Piano Concerto; et al. / Julian Pregardien, This release coincides with release 1CD# DGG B003006102 $18.99 tenor of Pavarotti: Genius is Forever, a documentary directed by Ron Howard Julian Prégardien decided to record the (who also directed Beatles’ Eight Days A Johan Botha – Italian Opera Arias / Johan Botha, , Max Reger: Orchestral Songs / Dichterliebe cycle after he came across Week.) The documentary soundtrack is the new Bärenreiter edition; he went on also being released via Decca. The 3 CD tenor; Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper [2 CDs] Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Various [2 CDs] to explore the work in concerts with his set, ‘Pavarotti, The Greatest Hits’ is for fans Johan Botha was heard at the Vienna Hardly any other singer was more constant accompanist, Eric Le Sage, who want a deeper dive into the tenor’s art Staatsoper a total of 222 times before his associated with and devoted to the nigh inserting other works by Robert and also at a great price. The set features six never untimely death. His powerful, truly great voice 300 songs by the Austrian composer Hugo by Clara Schumann, whose bicentenary before released duets with James Brown, shone like a beacon across the world of opera. Wolf than Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Utterly is celebrated in 2019. When Clara played Lou Reed, Barry White, Sting, Queen, Though he was mostly known as a singer of convinced by the richness of Wolf’s oeuvre, the Dichterliebe in the 1860s, she used Zucherro and Andrea Bocelli. the German opera repertoire, he also had Fischer-Dieskau took Wolf’s previously to slip extracts from Kreisleriana between 3CD# DEC B003037302 $32.99 amazing success with Italian operas which are hardly heeded songs to many stages the songs. documented on this double album. The present 1CD# AHP 457 $16.99 release features arias from Italian standards throughout the world. Reger’s songs Ritorna Vincitor!’ Favorite Arias / Veronika such as Don Carlo, Aida, , Tosca, show a completely different, moving and Turandot, and others. profound side of the composer. Time and Space, Songs of Holst & Vaughan Williams Dzhioeva, soprano; Kaunas City SO 2CD# ORF 967192 $24.99 2CD# ORF 1902 $14.99 / Mary Bevan, sop; Roderick Williams, bar Since graduating from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 2005, soprano Veronika Dzhioeva has become one of Russias leading Vivaldi: Arias / Delphine Galou, ; Ottavio Verdi: Arias / Michael Fabiano, tenor; 2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of The Ralph Vaughan singers, and is in great demand throughout Europe and abroad, Dantone; Accademia Bizantina London Voices; Enrique Mazzola; London PO Williams Society in June 1994. The Society and its recording subsidiary, Albion Records, are delighted to celebrate that with our first collaboration regularly appearing at prestigious houses and working with leading The contralto Delphine Galou and Ottavio American star tenor Michael Fabiano with the Holst Society, founded in May 2017. The two composers were orchestras and conductors. A remarkably versatile singer, she has Dantone’s Accademia Bizantina have created presents a spectacular set of scenes taken not just the best of friends but also close musical colleagues. This album won considerable acclaim for her mastery of parts ranging from from late Donizetti and middle Verdi operas, two recitals of sacred music and of opera includes fourteen world-première recordings. Mozart to the weightiest of spinto and dramatic soprano roles. revealing the strong ties between these that illustrate the incomparable richness 1CD# ALBN 038 $18.99 1CD# DEL 3575 $16.99 of Vivaldi’s body of work and establish the two composers. The album documents a emotional connections between the two paradigmatic shift in Italian opera, from the repertoires. For the first time, two volumes of beautiful lines and crispness of belcanto to a the Vivaldi Edition are released at the same richer, more dramatic musical universe. The ROMANTIC ERA LIEDER IN BRIEF time, with their synergy also reflected in the historical line stretches from Donizetti’s Lucia albums’ artwork. di Lammermoor, Poliuto and Maria di Rohan. 1CD# NAI 30584 $16.99 1SACD# PTE 5186750 $19.99 Franz Schubert: , D911 / Peter Mattei, baritone; Lars David Nilsson, piano

Songs of Exile / Clara Inglese, soprano; Diaphenia, English Love Songs / Marie Luise On this release, Peter Mattei takes on the complex character of the traveller in Schuberts Winterreise. In this Elodie Vignon, piano cycle, Schubert returned to the poet Wilhelm Müller, the source for his other great song cycle, Die schöne Werneburg, soprano; Various artists Müllerin. Clara Ingese was twenty when she The preparation for this album has taken 1SACD# BIS 2444 $19.99 discovered the multi-facetted personality soprano Marie Luise Werneburg on a of Ophelia who breathes a special energy journey of exploration and research between Chopin: Songs, Op. 74 / Henryka Januszewska, soprano; Marek Drewnowski, piano into her desire to sing. Today she imagines the 17th and 20th centuries - and even through an album, from the 19th musical inspired her to commission two new songs Chopin viewed most of his vocal miniatures as pieces intended to bring joy, or squeeze a tear from the eye. century, a journey between worlds, from a leading British composer of the 21st Soprano Henryka Januszewska’s interpretations are witty, full of vivid detail, and extraordinarily cultured. questioning Ophelia’s madness within the century. The Dresden-born early music torments and interrogations of our time. specialist was leafing through a friends 1CD# DUX 1497 $19.99 Thus was born the last piece, Chant d’exil, copy of lute songs by the English composer commissioned from François Emmanuel (for Francis Pilkington when she made an Franz Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin / Roderick Williams, baritone; Iain Burnside, piano the text) and Benoît Mernier (for the music). unexpected discovery. 1CD# CYRS 4651 $18.99 1CD# QRST 1814 $18.99 In November 2015, Williams decided to immerse himself in an intensive three-year period of studying and performing the three song cycles by Schubert, following an invitation from the Wigmore Hall to perform them Jake Heggie: Eve-Song; At the Statue of Venus / Lilian Farahani, sop; Maurice with Iain Burnside. Lammerts van Bueren, pno 1CD# CHA 20113 $18.99 “The two women represented on this recording might not seem to have a lot in common, but the Schumann: Liederkreis; Dichterliebe / Leszek Swidzinski, tenor; ZofiaAntes, piano Biblical Eve and the contemporary Rose are sisters to the core. They are dealing with what I find most interesting in all the characters I explore through dramatic music: a transformative crisis of identity. The year 1840 is a breakthrough for the composer. After many years bringing only piano works, Schumann Questioning their lot in life in a moment of intensely vulnerable reflection. What could be more human?” finally broke that peculiar routine and showed interest in a wider spectrum of genres – most notably lieder. – soprano Lilian Farahani 1CD# DUX 1509 $19.99 1CD# ZEFR 9665 $24.99 42 43 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com New Piano Albums NEW RELEASES - PIANO Carl Czerny (1791–1857): Piano Music, Vol. 1 / (1824–1896): Complete Piano Explore Unusual Piano Repertoire Jingshu Zhao, piano Music / Francesco Pasqualotto, piano The Viennese-born Carl Czerny is best remembered for his Stephen Dodgson (1924–2013): Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 3 & 6 / While some of Bruckner’s piano music was countless pedagogical studies – hundreds and hundreds of them. Bernard Roberts, piano composed early on in his career, before his But Czerny’s astonishing fecundity – his opus numbers go up career took off in his forties after several While some parts of Stephen Dodgson’s work have become relatively well-known – in particular to 861, but there is much more music than that – has served to personal setbacks, the majority of his piano his music for guitar, which has an international reputation - much of his output is known only obscure the fact that he was an important composer in his own output comes from the early 1860s, around partially and to a limited circle. His large output of music for harpsichord is the result of a long right, his output forming a link between Beethoven (his teacher) the same time as his first (unnumbered) and Liszt (his student), between the Classical and Romantic eras. association with many of its leading exponents, with resulting requests and commissions, and has symphony. This album from Francesco 1CD# TOC 0020 $16.99 Pasqualotto explores all of Bruckner’s attracted a circle of admirers. piano output, from a young man’s first 1CD# CDOR 4941 $16.99 J.S. Bach: French Suites / Yuan Sheng, piano writings to a seasoned and successful Lebanese Piano Music by Fuleihan, Khoury, Gelalian, et al. / [2 CDs] composer’s masterworks. Tatiana Primak-Khoury, piano 1CD# BLC 95619 $10.49 The French Suites are often considered Tatiana Primak-Khoury began her concert career in her native Ukraine before extending her poorer or at least slighter cousins to Evgeni Koroliov Plays Haydn, Mozart, Handel, activities to performances in Europe, the United States and the Middle East. A laureate of national the English Suites and Partitas. And it’s J.S. Bach / Evgeni Koroliov, piano [9 CDs] and international piano competitions, she graduated with honors from the Kiev Lysenko Special true that they were probably intended Evgeni Koroliov is celebrating his 70th birthday! An Music School in 1991, going on to study for a Master’s degree at the Tchaikovsky National first and foremost for teaching purposes extraordinary phenomenon on the international piano scene, Academy of Music in Kiev in 1996. rather than public performance. To all Koroliov has a special affinity to Bach and has performed and 1CD# GRPO 812 $16.99 of them Yuan Sheng brings considered tempi and precise articulation in the recorded many of his works. Several are heard on this 9-disc Toivo Kuula (1883–1918): Complete Piano Works / Janne Oksanen, piano mold of Tureck. To Bach at his most set. Numerous critics not only gave him a prominent place On this new Alba album the young and talented Janne Oksanen takes over the entire piano uncomplicated, Sheng brings the virtues among the new recordings of the Bach Year 2000, but count output of Toivo Kuula. To this day Toivo Kuula (1883–1918) stands as one of the most significant of simplicity and clarity. his amongst the most important Bach recordings in history. 2CD# PINC 10162 $24.99 Finnish composers. His music is poetic, epic and deep, and it showcases a very sophisticated 9CD# HAN 18053 $40.49 musical taste and tonal language. In his lifetime he was hailed as Finland’s finest composer after Piano Music by Ravel, Falla, Debussy, Sibelius, who was his mentor and friend. Ryuichi Sakamoto: Piano Works “For Mr. Lawrence” / 1CD# ABA 445 $18.99 Jeroen van Veen, piano [5 CDs] Albeniz, Moupou / Imogen Cooper, piano On this release Imogen Cooper explores Famed worldwide as a film composer, Ryiuchi Sakamoto began the links between French and Spanish his career as a pianist, creating patterns, phrases and innovative styles in a program ranging from Albéniz Recital of Vladimir Ashkenazy – Beethoven, Schubert: Last Piano Sonatas Nos. 19, 20, 21 / arrangements before joining his first commercial electronic pop to Mompou via Debussy, Ravel, and Falla. Chopin, Debussy, 1963 Francesco Piemontesi, piano [2 CDs] band in 1978, the Yellow Magic Orchestra. All these pieces feature Regarded as one of the finest interpreters in Jeroen van Veen’s survey, which is based on the best modern of Classical and Romantic repertoire, Firma Melodiya presents the recital of Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi edition of these scores and often differs from Sakamoto’s own, Imogen Cooper is internationally renowned Vladimir Ashkenazy that took place on 9 interprets Schubert’s last three piano partly improvised recordings. for her virtuosity and lyricism. Her recital June 1963 at the Grand Hall of the Moscow sonatas (D958-D960) on his PENTATONE 5CD# BLC 95389 $24.99 appearances have included Tokyo, New Conservatory. “It is rare to find, in the same debut album, after years of engagement York, Singapore, Paris, Vienna, Prague artist, the very highest level of musical with these extraordinary works. 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Melodiya ever written for the piano, full of beauty and Sonatas; Monferrine / John McCabe, piano revives one of the brightest pages of the sadness, celebrating life and at the same In his Op. 300 Carl Czerny compiled a outstanding pianist’s career. time anticipating the composer’s untimely unique keyboard compendium of all the [2 CDs] 1CD# MELY 1002586 $18.99 death. stylistic facets of European music from the John McCabe (1939–2015) was renowned as both a pianist 2CD# PTE 5186742 $24.99 Baroque until far into the Romantic era - an (a Haydn specialist and supporter of many contemporary J.S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasia & Fugue; audio history of music en miniature featuring Italian Concerto; Partita No. 6 / Nikolai Lugansky Leonard Bernstein: Complete Piano Music / preludes as our guides. The work of course composers) and as a composer in his own right of very fine Michele Tozzetti, piano is interpreted in its entirety on this release by music in several genres. This double album was created from Audiences normally perceive Lugansky none other than Kolja Lessing. “Surprise of two vinyl LPs issued by Hyperion in 1981 and shows McCabe as an inspired interpreter of the works Bernstein’s piano output reflects the various the month.” – MusicWeb International by Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, strands of his multifaceted personality, in works as a first-class interpreter of the baroque and early classical 2CD# CPO 555169 $29.99 Schumann and Liszt. Exploration of the as different as Touches (1981) and, at the other sonata styles, here brought together. Bach repertoire became an important end of the scale, his often tender, sentimental 2CD# DVT 21231 $22.99 milestone on Lugansky’s path to the Anniversaries. Taken together his piano works form a musical diary tracing the breadth of highest achievements of piano art. This his experiences and ideas. Four of his Five CLASSICAL ERA PIANO PROGRAMS IN BRIEF “early” recital of the pianist is still perceived Anniversaries (1949–51) appear as themes in as a convincing creative victory, a vivid his violin concerto, the Serenade after Plato’s contribution to the performing arts of the “Symposium.” Johann Ladislaus Dussek (1760–1812): Piano Sonatas Nos. 1–3 / Viviana Sofronitsky late twentieth century. 1CD# PINC 10174 $18.99 1CD# MELY 1002570 $18.99 Dussek’s is a rich style of Classicism on the brink of Early Romanticism. On this CD, Viviana Sofronitsky, one of the foremost fortepianists of today, plays the three early Sonatas Op. 9 and the mature, Yehuda Inbar Plays Schubert Sonatas, Rachmaninov: 23 Variations on a Theme of substantial Sonata Op. 75. Works by Michael Finnissy, Jörg Widmann Chopin; et al. / Georgijs Osokins, piano 1CD# BLC 95598 $9.99 Schubert’s early death left us with an enormous This young musician is exceptionally talented. amount of unfinished and fragmentary pieces, This talent was on show for all to hear in his Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 8 / Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano many of which are masterpieces. His piano debut album of late Chopin for Piano Classics. “Jean-Efflam Bavouzet never attempts to make something grandiose out of these apprentice pieces, sonatas are an unusual case – comprising Now Osokins moves between the contrasting eleven completed sonatas, ten fragmentary worlds of Chopin and Rachmaninov with the instead breathing energy into them with crispness of touch allied to feathery agility and charm.” – Gramophone ones and four other fragmentary movements. same unruffled authority as his seamless legato. 1CD# CHA 20087 $16.99 Two of these fragmentary sonatas are As his first lengthy composition for piano, juxtaposed in this program: the mysterious Rachmaninov’s set of Chopin Variations is a early fragment in F sharp minor D 571 and the rare bird both in recital and on record, and rarer Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2, 4, 5 & 17 / David Fung, piano epic Sonata in C major D 840 Reliquie. still in its complete form, as presented here. 1CD# OEH 1712 $13.99 1CD# PINC 10166 $18.99 David Fung is widely recognized for interpretations that are elegant and refined, yet intensely poetic and uncommonly expressive. His performances of Mozart sonatas are quasi-operatic, and full of drama. Clara Schumann (1819–1896): Piano Transcriptions / Jozef De Beenhouwer, piano 1CD# STEI 30107 $17.99 Jozef de Beenhouwer offers Clara Schumann and listening audiences a special gift on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of her birth: an album including numerous recording premieres from this Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross; Andante con Variazioni / Nicolas famous pianist’s extensive transcription oeuvre. He not only honors her compositional talent but also Stavy, piano spotlights works with which she very deliberately and intensively occupied herself. “Stavy is ever the gentle, inviting guide to this extraordinary score…Sensitive performances... make this a 1SACD# MDG 9032115 $18.99 release that will please both Haydn devotees as well as those wishing to discover these masterpieces.” – Gramophone 1SACD# BIS 2429 $19.99 44 45 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Concert Programs on DVD or Blu-Ray new releases Beethoven Symphonies, Triple Concerto [BR or DVD] Schumann: Complete Symphonies [BR or DVD] Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orphee et Eurydice, Rossini: Barber of Seville, opera [BR or DVD] Works: Beethoven: Sympho- Artists: Christian Thiele- opera [BR or DVD] Artists: Florian Sempey; nies Nos. 5, 6, 7, 9; Triple mann/Staatskapelle Dresden. 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With in- rian Sempey, one of the world’s best Figaros, the feeling that the intentions of both composer and per- Schumann interpretation. “The Staatskapelle’s sump- tense psychological and emotive power, Orphee et ‘Rossini tenor’ Michele Angelini and vivacious and formers are united in serving the musical message. tuous playing is hard to fault ...” (The Guardian) Eurydice shook enlightenment Europe to its core. critically admired Catherine Trottmann. (b.1952): Jakob Lenz, opera [DVD] Verdi: Attila, opera [BR or DVD] Verbier Festival 25th Anniversary Concert / Gergiev, Takacs-Nagy [BR or DVD] Artists: Ildebrando D’Arcengelo; Simone Piazzola; Works by: Brahms, Dvorak, Handel, Mozart, Sarasate, Rachmaninov, et al. Artists: Ga- Artists: Georg Nigl; Henry Waddington; John Maria Jose Siri; Fabio Sartori; Gianluca Floris; Mi- bor Takacs-Nagy/RIAS Kammerchor; Valery Gergiev/Verbier Festival CO. (Naxos) (132 Graham-Hall; Franck Ollu/La Monnaie SO. 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(C Artists: Dmitry Korchak; Andriana Chuchman; in synchronisation with a specially commissioned Girgorian; Gabor Bretz; Julian Pregardien; Franz Major Video) (63 min.; 16:9, Lauren Snouffer; Harry Bicket/Lyric Opera Chicago war-archive film reinforcing the narrative of the work. Welser-Most/Vienna PO (Unitel) (112 min.; 16:9, Color; DTS 5.0) Orch. & Chorus. (C Major Video) (118 min.; Color; Projected onto five giant screens, the film delivers a DTS 5.1) (DVD) UNTL 801608 $31.49 (DVD) CME 730508 $29.99 Dolby Digital 5.1) (DVD) CME 714308 $31.49 poignant backdrop to the moving musical narration. (Blu-Ray) UNTL 801704 $40.49 (Blu-Ray) CME 730604 $40.49 (Blu-Ray) CME 714404 $40.49 “Asmik Grigorian sweeps all in her wake in the title Wagner: The Flying Dutchman, opera [BR or DVD] With Symphony No. 2, Thiele- The production features Gluck’s reworking of the role of Strauss’s opera. 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