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He was one of then would have predicted that the record gramophone records: complete for French Columbia in 1928 and all his the few great conductors in his time and company would develop into a fi rmly symphonic cycles and impressive live recordings for that label, until he left had he conducted more often in established player on the recordings of his concerts with the NDR for the USA, are included here for the Anglo-Saxon countries and made more market. ORFEO also developed into a Symphony Orchestra and the fi rst time. He excelled in Mozart and records, he would be much better-known talent factory by discovering and nurturing Philharmonic. The archetypical anti-star Chopin and in French repertoire and all today and internationally appreciated as young artist. This sampler highlights tracks are well-represented in this collection. one of the most important musicians of the of historical recordings with today’s global all his life and for that very reason 20th century. stars. under-appreciated, this conductor only There are also noteworthy chamber 7CD SWRM 19089 $38.99 2CD ORF 200032 $14.99 attained international recognition in his collaborations in the Debussy old age as an unequalled interpreter of Sonata and Fauré Piano Quartet. 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Vol. 2 of the Dietrich The 15th volume in Carl-Gunnar-Åhlén’s commented catalogue of his musical important early recordings such as Brahms Fischer-Dieskau Lied Editon provides an pieces the German original of which has Handel Variations and the by and Caprice Records’ Collector’s excellent example of Fischer-Dieskau’s unfortunately been lost. To celebrate the Arthur Bliss premiered by Solomon, to the Classics series is released in connection consummate art of placing special composers 250th birthday, this edition last performances in Rome, Berlin and emphasis on the poet’s text as the source with the 100-year anniversary of FST – presents all his available chamber . for varied musical inspiration. The Swedish Society of Composers. 10CD PRF 20032 $40.49 On this triple CD box, we get to meet music compositions in new recordings Joaquín Turina: Piano Music – 5 Danzas Gitanas; three prolifi c Swedish composers who of historically informed interpretations. 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They toured the world and musettes and hurdy-gurdy, and his Opus 1 collection of sonatas was Included in this collection are pieces that were left unfi nished at the time of Albeniz’s death and completed by made many notable recordings. This set contains many of the Trio A Cordes published in 1728. Martin Jones. He is a prolifi c recording artist and his many major projects include the complete solo piano works of 4CD BLC 95764 $16.99 Mendelssohn, Brahms, Debussy, Grainger, Stravinsky, Korngold, Szymanowski, Granados, Guastavino, Mompou, Français’ recordings of Mozart. Ernesto Halffter, and many more. 4CD DRM 80914 $73.49 4CD NIM 1711 $29.99

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The lute is more ancient in melodies and rhythms that have been guitar duo performances providing a where he studied piano and composition, its origin and gentler in its sound. The absorbed from the folk music of Greece, unique blend of Mediterranean and Middle winning the Brahms Prize. The three instrument saw its pinnacle in the 18th Turkey and the Middle East. Belevi’s Eastern mysticism. Their works are varied sonatas recorded here are little known and own of works have in terms of character, style, technique, century in the music. refl ect Rebays immersion in Romantic 1CD NXS 8578183 $12.99 signifi cantly extended the repertoire for rhythm and tempo, and share a common neo-Classicism. 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Bach, Ponce, Mertz, Britten, Kerry Turner (b. 1960): Complete Works for Horn, Heard here in its world premiere recording, The Parting is a daring et al. / Johan Smith, guitar Lori Laitman: Songs – The Secret Exit; I Never Saw opera by award-winning composer Tom Cipullo and librettist David Vol. 1 / Kristina Mascher-Turner; Kerry Turner; Another Butterly; et al. / Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk, Frank Lloyd Mason that explores the life and art of Miklos Radnoti, one of the Johan Smith, 2019 winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation soprano; Denise Gainey, clarinet most important poetic witnesses to the Holocaust, and one of its of America Competition, presents his dream programme in this Kerry Turner made his mark on the This collection of songs with voice and tragic victims. Radnoti’s poems express emotions from love and recital. Bach’s for harpsichord ‘borders on the unplayable’ global music community through his clarinet has at its heart Lori Laitmans enchantment to absolute loss. Music of Remembrance performs for the guitar, especially in its fi nal double , while Manuel association with the illustrious American profoundly moving cycle I Never Saw under the direction of Mina Miller. Ponce’s Variations on La folía de España and Fugue is one of the Horn Quartet. Turners compositional goal Another Butterfl y, which sets the words of 1CD NXS 8669044 $12.99 most challenging peaks of the repertoire. is to communicate to the listener a vivid hope and desolation written by children 1CD NXS 8574199 $12.99 picture through his highly melodic musical imprisoned in the Terezín concentration language. Many sources provided the camp. The program is completed with NEW NAXOS RECORDINGS IN BRIEF inspiration for the works on this album, Diana Rosenblums delightful setting of ranging from the spiritual, to the literary, Winter Rain and Kalmen Oppermans and even Turner’s powerful response to the haunting Unseul. 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Various masters from the Naxos catalog Hasselmans, Reinhold, Donizetti, de Falla, Dussek, Matthew Berry; Commotio perform. et al. / Various Artists 1CD NXS 8578176 $12.99 Francis Pott’s acclaimed musical voice One of the most antique of instruments, is one of uncommon eloquence and Valery Gavrilin: The Russian Notebook; Anyuta, excerpts / Mila Shkirtil; Yuri Serov; the harp has evolved from simple origins seriousness of purpose, and his works St. Petersburg PO in entertaining the ancient civilizations have been performed and broadcast in of Greece, Assyria and Egypt, to the over 40 countries. This recording presents Valery Gavrilin was only 25 when he composed The Russian Notebook, a poem of love and death crafted in a new sophisticated 47-string pedal seen world premiere recordings of two major musical language that doesnt employ folk melodies but does use folkloric texts, and with a virtuosic vocal part. in orchestras today. 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He stands as a worthy successor to such masters as Ginastera, Villa-Lobos and Chávez, with music that is suffused with imaginary folklore, fl ashes of color, fi eriness and reverie. In these performances, the Mozart: 30 of the Best – Chamber Music, Symphonies, Overtures, , et al. / Various National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra performs under the direction of Pablo Boggiano. artists [2 CDs] 1CD NXS 8574128 $12.99 This substantial collection presents the cream of Mozart’s imperishable contribution to music through highlights from his piano concertos, symphonies, chamber music, and choral works. 2CD NXS 8578353 $25.98 10 11 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Critics’ Choice - Standout New Releases CLASSICAL - CRITICS’ CHOICE Prokofi ev by , Works for the Vítezslav Novák: ; At Dusk; Recommendations for Solo Piano Stage and Keyboard / Yuri Kalnits, violin; Toman and / Jan Bartos, piano; Yulia Chaplina, piano Jakub Hrusa; Prague RSO J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 / Lang Lang, piano [2 CDs] Violinist Yuri Kalnits has participated “[The Concerto] is crammed with hefty Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations stand alone in the piano literature as a work of unique artistry and brilliance. in festivals throughout the world and bravura solo writing that is dispatched on “Lang Lang offers the musical equivalent of a cinematic epic directed by Robert Altman or Steven Spielberg, with all repeats has played at some of the world’s most the recording by Jan Barto with suitable intact, including the da capo. 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It’s an effective piece, full of miniatures of Visions Fugitives, arranged striking, pictorial invention, and Hruša and by Viktor Derevianko and Yair Kless, the the Prague Radio orchestra project it with violin sonority lending a new fascination.” every bit of the vividness it needs.” Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1–5; Grand Quintet Op. 16 / – The Sunday Times – Jean-Effl am Bavouzet, piano; Swedish CO [3 CDs] 1CD TOC 0135 $16.99 1CD SPR 4284 $19.99 “This latest set in a year that threatens a surfeit of Beethoven piano concerto releases gets better as it goes along... in the grandeur, sweep and spontaneity he brings to the opening movement of the Emperor Concerto one feels this Dvořák: Cello Concerto, Op. 104 / Kian Soltani, pianist-conductor’s full powers are released at last...” (BBC Music Magazine) Jean-Effl am Bavouset conducts the Swedish cello; ; Staatskapelle Berlin Handel: Semele / John Eliot Gardner; English Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard. 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The whole thing was outstanding – the best Semele is so much fun.” (). “In the British soprano Louise Idil Biret, piano; Antoni Wit, Polish National RSO [10 CDs] performance of the work I’ve heard live.” – The Guardian Alder we have a new and brilliant young Semele.” – The Guardian This release features Biret performing Rachmaninov’s complete solo piano music, as well as his piano concertos. 1CD DGG B003231302 $18.99 3CD SDG 733 $35.99 “These Decca recordings by the young Turkish pianist Idil Biret are a remarkable, sparkling demonstration of talent: her Rachmaninov is brilliant, direct, bright...She is never daunted and avoids kitsch. And the 6 Moments musicaux Op. 16 is no less a discovery.” – Suddeutsche Zeitung Works for Choir, Piano & Percussion by 10CD NXS 8501065 $58.49 Chilcott, Weir, McDowall / Hilary Campbell; J.S. 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But the six works by the enigmatic Filmed with good attention to both the rhythm and geography of the Bangsø presents three contemporary guitar depth and profound consoling beauty of the Gyorgy Kurtag – who devotedly plays Bach on the piano – are no less of production and well recorded from an audio point of view, this new set concertos. “Bangsø tackles [Corigliano’s] works assembled here, and so committed and blend of nostalgic reverie and jauntily responsive the performances, that it compels a revelation.” – can be warmly recommended.” – Gramophone surreal, quasi-medieval episodes with just the the attention... This is a release you will want to 1CD MYR 026 $19.99 1Blu-ray Video CME 754104 $40.49 right kind of understated verve. It’s the clear listen to over and over again for its beauty, but highlight of an album which benefi ts throughout perhaps also for its power to heal.” from able partners in the Talinn Chamber – Gramophone NEW CLASSICAL RECOMMENDATIONS IN BRIEF Orchestra under conductor Kaisa Roose.” 1CD AHP 626 $16.99 – BBC Music Magazine 1CD ORPO 100142 $16.99 Scriabin: 12 Piano Etudes; Sonata No. 4; : Preludes; Piano Sonata / Marina Samson-Primachenko, piano Double – Clarinet & Works by Stamitz, Schubert in Love – Schubert Songs / Telemann, Tchaikovsky, et al. / Michel Portal, “[Primachenko] is technically exemplary, and her realisation of the Scriabin is up there with the fi nest ... utterly compelling ... 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12 13 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com v Easter Cantatas of Johann Friedrich Agricola EDITOR’S CHOICE & Gottfried August Homilius / Kölner Akademie I’ve had several enjoyable encounters with the music of Gottfried August Homilius, Editor’s Choice - Recommended however I’ve heard little from v Bassoon Concertos by Weber, Marcel Bitsch, v Clarinet Quintets by Weber, Baermann & Johann Friedrich Agricola. As The goal of this Editor’s Choice feature is to fine as the Homilius Easter Jolivet and Crusell / Theo Plath, bassoon Krommer / Eric Hoeprich, clarinet bring collectors’ attention to new classical recordings Winner of the 2018 German A founding member of Frans Oratorio is on this new cpo of uncommon yet exemplary repertoire, superbly Music Competition and solo Brüggen’s Orchestra of the release, for their refined lyri- performed and recorded. It is my hope that you will bassoonist with the 18th Century and instructor cism, it was the two Agricola discover music on these pages that will expand your Radio Symphony, bassoon at the Paris Conservatoire, cantatas that drew an even horizons, and that might inspire you to share with player Theo Plath and the Eric Hoeprich has for over 25 greater warmth of attention. Performances of music other music lovers. Deutsche Radio Philhar- years been among the lead- from this era by the Kölner Akademie under the direc- Since I founded HBDirect in 1985, the most en- monie under Leo McFall ing exponents of the historical tion of Michael Alexander Willens are steadfastly satis- joyable aspect of my work has been the endless avail- bring us a program of two clarinet and its performance fying, and this new release is no exception. Of special ability of music to which I can listen. I’m pleased to be classical period concertos practice. On this Glossa re- note for this highly recommended recording is the deli- able to share with you some of the best new record- and two modern era concer- lease, Mr. Hoeprich and the cacy of the brass playing and Willens’ splendid vocal ings I’ve heard over the past month. – Paul Ballyk soloists. 1CD# CPO 555332 $15.49 On Sale tante pieces. The Weber concerto is well represented London Haydn Quartet present two Classical era quin- on disc; however, the other concertos are not. The tets for clarinet and strings by Weber and Krommer, and v Emilie Mayer (1812-1883): Symphonies Nos. eight-minute Concertino by Bitsch is an especially an Adagio from another quintet by Heinrich Baermann. v Our Favorite Things - music for percussion / 1 & 2 / Leo McFall; NDR Radio PO enjoyable piece. It is in two section, the first elegiac While the Weber and Baermann pieces are available in Andrea Venet & Annie Stevens, percussion In her day, Emilie Mayer (1812-1883) was afforded and lyrical while the second is a bubbly, Ravelian esca- multiple recorded version, the Krommer is a rarity. For Percussionists Andrea Venet universal commendation for her comprehensive talent pade. 1CD# GUIN 20683 $18.99 listeners drawn to the program, this superb release will and Annie Stevens present not disappoint. as a composer, if from some quarters begrudgingly, v Nancy Dalberg (1881-1949): String Quartets 1CD# GLS 920610 $18.99 an enjoyable program of because of her gender. She wrote eight symphonies v Adolf Barjansky (1851-1900): Piano Music, music featuring the softer between 1845 and 1857. Her earliest two are classi- Nos. 1-3 / Nordic String Quartet side of the percussion family cal conceptions in Romantic garb, in the manner of This release of Danish Volume 1 / Julia Severus, piano of instruments, highlighting Schubert and Schumann. Listening to this exceptional composer Nancy Dalberg’s This Grand Piano recording the mallet components: music, it struck me as disappointing that so few have (1881-1949) three string of piano music by Russian marimbas, , advocated her music while at the same time, it is quartets presents the world composer Adolf Barjansky and crotales. The encouraging that those who have – notably cpo and premiere recordings of the (1851-1900) performed by mesmerizing program of Capriccio – have done so apportioning the artistic pro- outer two opuses. The three Julia Severus reveals a com- original compositions by Joe Locke, Ivan Trevino and duction quality the music warrants. This is a splendid were written over a period of poser whose music is deeply Michael Burritt as well as arrangements of music from issue! 1CD# CPO 555293 15.49 On Sale 12 years, between 1915 and rooted in the Romantic tradi- such diverse sources as Rodgers and Hammerstein 1927, and over that time, a tion with echoes of Tchai- v and concludes with a splendid jazzy Carl Reinecke: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3; King change in Dalberg’s com- kovsky, Brahms, Chopin and improvisation on the Rodgers & Hammerstein tune “My Manfred / Henry Raudales; RSO munication is evident, moving from a largely Romantic Schubert, while at the same Favortie Things”, a duo for marimba, and Reinecke’s symphonies language to one, while still tonal, that was more acerbic time sounding fresh and original. The program includes percussion that dissolves into a shimmering stack of are currently available on and agitated. With superb performances by the Nordic two sets of six miniatures, the Fantasy Pieces, Op. 9 close, bluesy overtones. 1CD# RAEL 8038 $14.99 only a handful of record- String Quartet, this recording will be welcomed by lis- and Piano Pieces, Op. 10 which bookend the more ings. This cpo issue makes teners drawn to Romantic chamber music discoveries. formally substantial Piano Sonata No. 1. It must be v Camillo Togni (1922-1993): Complete Piano a convincing case for their 1CD# DACO 6220655 $14.99 increasingly difficult for labels to turn up such wonder- ful music in world-premiere recordings, but evidently Music, Vol. 5 / Aldo Orvieto, piano wider dissemination. Clock- v This is the fifth and final volume in Naxos’ series of the Chamber Works with Guitar by Hans Haug & Grand Piano has a knack for it; I’m especially delighted ing in at over 80 minutes, this complete piano music by Italian composer and pianist Castelnuovo-Tedesco; Wind Quintet to see that this Barjansky issue is designated Volume generously filled recording Camillo Togni (1922-1993). On this release, pianist The program of this Naxos CD consists of three textur- One! 1CD# GRPO 796 $16.99 offers the Romantic German Aldo Orvieto has circled back to the composer’s earli- composer’s Symphonies ally contrasting works: the little-known Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra by Hans Haug (1900- v Leó Weiner (1885-1960): Complete Orches- est piano works, and except for one brief track, all this Nos. 1 and 3, as well as orchestral extracts from his music is appearing as world-premiere recordings. The opera King Manfred and the Trimphmarsch, Op. 110. 1967), that same composer’s brief and charming Quin- tral Works, Vol. 3 / Budapest SO tet for Winds, and a relative staple of the guitar cham- The music of Leó Weiner music is characterized by a wide range of color and the Henry Raudales conducts the Munich Radio Orches- juxtaposition of 18th century contrapuntal techniques, tra in these impassioned and technically impeccable ber music repertoire, Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Quintet (1885-1960) reflects the folk for guitar and string quartet of 1950. The works form an music of his native Hungary Romantic era virtuosity and sentimentality, and 20th performances. Having produced over three hundred century chromaticism. Togni’s music is easily recom- published works during his lifetime, Reinecke is a com- appealing program with the excellent Wind Quintet of as did his contemporaries’ Haug at its center, between the two works with guitar. Bartók and Kodály, but with mended to any remotely adventurous pianophile. poser ripe for discovery by plucky listeners. 1CD# NXS 8573986 $12.99 1CD# CPO 555114 $15.49 On Sale Guitarist Marisa Minder performs with the Basel Phil- a decidedly more Romantic harmonic Quintet. 1CD# NXS 8551426 $12.99 flavor. In fact, listening to this v Ferdinand Rebay (1880-1953): Complete v Holst: The Cloud Messenger, op. 30; Five music, while I was often re- v Extra Time - Music of Albinoni, Vivaldi, Mat- minded of these two Hungar- Sonatas for Violin/Viola & Guitar Partsongs, op. 12 Ferdinand Rebay (1880-1953) was born in Vienna, teis & Brescianello / La Serenissima ian masters, there is also an In these performances by the Choir of King’s College and those roots are not lost on his music. While I didn’t The concept for this program from Adrian Chandler apparent British influence of other composers for string London and The Strand Ensemble we can hear some uncover any facts regarding a formal training on the and La Serenissima (curiously titled “Extra Time”) of orchestra - Butterworth, Grainger and Bantock as ex- of Holst’s most attractive and graceful music in the instrument, most of his available recordings are of uncommon instrumental gems from the Baroque came amples. This Naxos release is volume three of a series rarely performed choral-orchestral composition, The chamber music that involves the guitar, as is the case about as the ensemble found themselves with an ex- of the complete orchestral works by Weiner, knowingly Cloud Messenger. The Cloud Messenger is a reward- here in these three sonatas for violin or viola and guitar cess of enticing material while programming an earlier performed by the strings of the Budapest Symphony ing listen, if perhaps occasionally uneven in quality. performed by Laurence Kayaleh and guitarist Michael release. The result is hardly a patchwork of disparate Orchestra under the direction of Valéria Csányi. The work fell into obscurity following a disappointing Kolk. The combination of the two instruments stays tunes, but a program of music by Albinoni, Vivaldi, 1CD# NXS 8574125 $12.99 premiere and remains undeservingly little known to this fresh throughout the program and there is a distinct Vi- Brescianello and Nicola Matteis the Younger which day. Rounding out the album to bring the program to ennese salon music feel to it. While it may be modest, hangs together very nicely. Violinist Adrian Chandler’s just under an hour’s length are five delightful Partsongs Music that deserves the music is quite pleasant, idiomatically and master- discreet virtuosity and La Serenissima’s refined support by Holst for a cappella chorus. fully performed. 1CD# NXS 8573992 $12.99 1CD# DELP 34241 $19.99 make for 72 minutes of Baroque discoveries we all can to be heard. savor. 1CD# SIG 641 $17.99 www.hbdirect.com 14 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 15 www.hbdirect.com

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These are dance movements grouped by tone in the players specializing in music of the 17th and contemporary printed sources, a testament to its vision to enrich In 1733 Juan Frances de Iribarren Echevarría typical manner of a suite, in a sophisticated blend of Italian and became the maestro de capilla at the Cathedral 18th centuries, Hille Perl makes the viola da life by sharing its passion for Italian baroque music. “A degustation French styles. of Malaga. He left behind a huge library of gamba laugh, cry, lament and cheer. Ballads of Baroque music which, alongside some familiar works by Vivaldi, Within a Dream is the new album of Hille 1CD TCT 632206 $16.99 his own music, with the proviso that it not be offers some delightful revelations.” – BBC Music Magazine copied and only performed at services in the Perl with Andreas Arend, player. cathedral. Such constraints have until recently Performing with soprano Clare Wilkinson and Giovanni Battista Vitali (1632–1692): Sonatas for 2 1CD SIG 641 $17.99 prevented this marvelously vivid music from violinist Veronika Skuplik, they have recorded Violins, Op. 9 ‘1684’ / Italico Splendore receiving the attention it deserves. This album a magical, sentimental and entertaining Michele Mascitti (1664–1760): Violin Sonatas / panorama of dreamlike English baroque music. presents a tasting menu of Iribarren’s work The city of Modena, under the rule of Gian Andrea Guerra, violin; Quartetto Vanvitelli from different periods of his career. 1CD SBMG 19075982082 $14.99 the Este family, was the capital of the 1CD BLC 95859 $10.49 G.P. Telemann: Concertos & Ouverture / Vincent Dukedom of Modena e Reggio. Thanks In 1738 the acclaimed violinist and Carlo Arrigoni (1697–1744): Works for Mandolin and Lauzer, recorder; Mathieu Lussier, bassoon to Duke Francesco II’s fondness for composer Michele Mascitti published the violin, music became an essential in Paris his ninth collection of sonatas. Voice / Accademia degli Erranti The latest recording by Arion element in the most important events The 74 year-old Neapolitan musician This release is a world première recording bears witness to the fact that allows us to rediscover the amazing talent that Georg Philipp Telemann’s extensive at the Este court. The fi rst step was at the end of his long and of the 18th-century composer Carlo Arrigoni, catalog of works is not yet fully known to consisted in the study and recording celebrated career, but not of his creative whose oeuvre comprises oratorios, operas listeners. This album marks the world premiere of the instrumental works of Giovanni powers. The twelve sonatas for violin and a number of arias and cantatas. A skilled recording, under the direction of Alexander Battista Vitali. The twelve sonatas and bass Op. 9 are fi ne examples of musician and arranger, Arrigoni’s works were Weimann, of Telemann’s Overture in G major, Op. 9 from 1684, for two violins and the graceful blend of Italian and French TWV 55: G5. The accompanying suite of highly praised by the public and critics alike for , typically meant to be styles that made this composer so his ability to merge the stylistic infl uences of his evocatively titled dances is utterly French in time (for instance Handel’s operas) within his character. performed in a church. popular in . own personal voice. 1CD ATMA 22789 $15.49 1CD TCT 632207 $16.99 1CD ACAA 473 $18.99 1CD DYN 7878 $12.99 Johann Theile (1646–1724): St. Matthew Christoph Förster (1693–1745): Cantata & Concerti / Passion / Manfred Cordes; Weser-Renaissance, J.S. BACH IN BRIEF Concert Royal Köln Bremen J.S. Bach: The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 / Alberto Rasi; Accademia Strumentale Italiana Thuringian composer Christoph Förster’s The multifaceted richness of Theile’s oeuvre encompasses numerous church compositional artistry is refl ected in special The Art of Fugue, featuring 14 and canons all based upon a single original theme serving as the work’s cantatas, psalm- and Sanctus-settings, measure in his St. Matthew Passion published foundation, is both Johann Sebastian Bach’s opus summum and last complete work, presumably undertaken between a Mass, and copious instrumental music, in Lübeck in 1673. In it, elements of the including orchestral works, such as overtures traditional church style are combined with 1740 and 1742. and symphonies, instrumental concertos, progressive techniques of dramatic narration 1CD CHL 72842 $16.99 and small-scale chamber pieces. Förster’s and meditative refl ection in song. “I loved instrumental compositions are already strongly everything about this recording, from the J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin & Basso Continuo, BWV 1021–1023 / La Divina Armonia infl uenced by the gallant and sensitive style eloquent, sinuous score to the range of and point the way from the late Baroque to the instrumental color – alternating poignant On this recording for PASSACAILLE, La Divina Armonia accompanies these sonatas with harpsichord transcriptions and early Classical periods. delicacy with surprising power.” the version of the BWV 1038 for violin and obbligato harpsichord. 1SA CD MSP 56982 $14.99 – Choir & Organ 1CD PSSA 1077 $18.99 Easter Cantatas of Johann Friedrich Agricola 1CD CPO 555285 $15.49 & Gottfried August Homilius / Morrison; Maas; Bonaventura Aliotti Il Trionfo della Morte / J.S. Bach: St. John Passion / Benedikt Krisjansson, Felix Schwandtke, Seymour Les Traversees Baroques, Étienne Meyer [2 CDs] Ens. Wunderkammer [2 CDs] On this new production the Kölner Akademie With “Il trionfo della morteˮ by Bach repeatedly changed and supplemented parts of the St. John Passion, but apparently never found a fi nal version. has recorded two oratorios composed by Bonaventuro Aliotti from 1677, the French The earlier parts in particular have their charm: less sublime in tone, but more spontaneous, angular and intimate. members of the generation after Bach ensemble Les Traversées Baroque presents 2CD CVEL 92007 $26.99 and explicitly focusing on the theme of the an important example of an early oratorio. “Il Resurrection. The works presented here attest trionfo della morteˮ revolves around the story J.S. Bach: Suites for Solo Cello Nos. 1–6, BWV 1007–1012 / Maja Weber, cello [2 CDs] to the mastery of their composers. Arias of of Adam and Eve, who are confronted with marvelous musical beauty, the naturalness of temptation. Aliotti characterizes his characters Thanks to the encounter with an exceptional instrument: the Stradivari cello “Bonamy Dobree-Suggia” 1717, Swiss their expression, and the dramatic suspense in with great inspiration, and the orchestra cellist Maja Weber has taken on Bach’s epic suites for solo cello, presented with a lavishly compiled 40 page hardcover comments and underlines the plot with short the individual movements continue to make for color booklet. compelling listening. interjections in a varied and colorful way. 1CD CPO 555332 $15.49 2CD ACT 24368 $26.99 2CD PROS 0001 $29.99 20 21 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com NEW RELEASES - BAROQUE NEW RELEASES - ORGAN Music of the Baroque Music for Organ Michel Lambert (1610–1696): Leçons De Ténèbres / J.S. Bach: Concertos for Harpsichord & for Organ Monique Zanetti, soprano Strings, Vol. 1 / Masato Suzuki; The tenebrae are among the prayers of Franck: Troisiem Choral; 6 Pieces for Organ / Haskell Thomson the hours of Holy Week in the Catholic The extant concertos by Johann Sebastian This album features Oberlin Professor of Organ Haskell Thomson playing a program of organ works by Cesar Church. Since the 15th century, settings Bach for one harpsichord and strings Franck upon the Kay Africa Memorial Organ – C. B. Fisk Opus 116. hailed Thomson as “a great of Jeremiah’s lamentations have been were all composed before 1738, which ” following his performance of the French composer’s Mass. He wrote that the performance an integral part of church services, which makes them some of the fi rst, if not the fi rst “was magnifi cent in both execution and interpretation, with a superb technique, and with great intelligence were among the musical highlights of keyboard concertos – a genre destined of registration...” this otherwise rather “musicless” period. to become one of the most popular within 1CD POR 7152 $17.99 Soprano Monique Zanetti and the classical music. “Soloist Suzuki, with the ensemble Les Temps Présents present lively and responsive partnership of the us here the Leçons for the Wednesday of Bach Collegium Japan provide invigorating Holy Week. performances. Their playing of the faster 1CD AEOL 10113 $18.99 outer movements pulsates with energy. Liszt: Complete Organ Works, Vol. 1 / Zuzana Ferjenčíková – BBC Music Magazine Franz Liszt certainly would have been very pleased with Zuzana Ferjencíková’s selection of the Aloys Mooser 1SACD BIS 2401 $19.99 organ in the Fribourg Cathedral for the fi rst release of her complete recording of his organ works. A surprise London Calling – A Collection of Ayres, comes right at the beginning when Ferjenčíková presents the famous Prelude and Fugue on B-A-C-H in the very rarely performed original version premiered by the Liszt pupil Alexander Winterberger at the Merseburg Cathedral Fantasies / Amandine Beyer, baroque violin; Handel: Works for Viola da Gamba and in 1856. Australian Baroque Company Harpsichord / Ibrahim Aziz, viola da gamba; 1SACD MDG 9062140 $18.99 This new release gives us a small Masumi Yamamoto, harpsichord impression of what was played for This is the fi rst time a whole album of entertainment in the late 17th and early Handel featuring viola da gamba has been Mendelssohn: Organ Sonata, Op. 65 / Michael Schonheit, organ 18th centuries in the houses of London’s published, which includes the premiere high society. The variety of the program recording of Kassel Sonata No. 5. George The Wäldner organ of the Halle Cathedral is one of the most important sound monuments of Central German ranges from typical British melancholy Frideric Handel is generally regarded organ building from around 1850. The work took place from 2017 to 2018. The present album is the fi rst recording to melodies by Italian violinist as one of the greatest composers of the after the restoration has been completed and impressively shows the possibilities of the instrument. It plays Nicola Matteis. Noted baroque violinist baroque era, known especially for his Michael Beauty, who as Merseburg cathedral organist has extensive experience with this type of organ. Amandine Beyer and recorder player operas, oratorios, concertos and keyboard 1CD QRST 1910 $18.99 Michael Oman are supported by the works. His chamber works include a fi ne Austrian Baroque Company. selection of solo and trio sonatas with 1CD FRAB 2001111 $18.99 basso continuo. 1CD FHR 91 $19.99 Haydn: Seven Last Words / Guido Pellizzari, organ Once Upon a Time… At the Walt Disney for the Princess, Works for Flute by Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687): Pathodia Sacra In the last few decades, Haydn’s response Concert Hall / Jean-Baptiste Robin E Profana / Cyril Auvity, ; Myriam Rignol, Handel / Jana Semeradova, fl ute; Erich Traxler, to Passiontide has become a popular For his latest album, Jean-Baptiste Robin viola da gamba harpsichord fi xture in churches across the globe, most plays the kaleidoscopic Rosales organ frequently heard in the arrangement he installed in 2004 at the Walt Disney The surviving musical edition of Dutch As a soloist, the fl autist Jana Semeradova made for string quartet. Commissioned Concert Hall. In a hall sponsored by Golden Age “Renaissance Man”, has worked with distinguished early music to supply music for chamber orchestra to Disney, why not tell magical stories? Constantijn Huygens receives a fresh new specialists (S. Azzolini, A. Bernardini, E. accompany the Good Friday service at the Robin has devised a fairy-tale for organ, recording from a singer who has become Onofri, etc.) and has performed at major cathedral in Cadiz on Good Friday 1786, opening with an improvisation on the March a connoisseur of vocal music from the festivals (Utrecht, Leipzig, Halle, Versailles, he quickly made the quartet arrangement, from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. Clouds 17th century: Cyril Auvity. Refl ecting the Sable, , etc.). Erich Traxler is doubtless with a lucrative market in mind. gather over the grim passacaglia opening an outstanding soloist and chamber player, contemporary performances of such works 1CD BLC 95889 $10.49 Durufl é’s Suite Op. 5, and the sun shines by wealthy amateurs in the Dutch Republic, who has appeared at the most renowned brilliantly over the concluding Toccata, a Myriam Rignol plays viola da gamba whilst concert venues worldwide. Princess Anne’s true organ showpiece. Marie van Rhijn plays harpsichord, positive remarkable musical story is the intersection 1CD BLC 96134 $10.49 organ and the enigmatic where the stories of the two exceptional (a luteharpsichord). musicians converge. La Pastourelle – Die Ubhaus-Orgel zu Bobenthal / Christian Brembeck, organ 1CD GLS 923603 $18.99 1CD SPR 4277 $19.99 A unique work of art in many regards is the historical organ of St. Michael’s Church in Bobenthal. The instrument was constructed in 1817, and for many years led a shadowy existence and fell into a desolate condition. The historical Bach: The Keyboard Concertos 2 / instrument underwent a through restoration by the fi rm of Johannes Rohlf in 2016/17. Thus, in the 200th year of its existence, the organ shines with old splendor and freshness on this recording from Christian Brembeck. Il Canto della Sirena – music for voice & Hewitt, Tognetti, et al. ensemble / Rogério Gonçalves; A Corte Musical 1CD CTE 58053 $14.99 “Hewitt’s Bach is well-known for its The beguiling song of the sirens, which expressive restraint, lucid textures according to legend lured the sailors and rhythmic grace. These virtues are to their doom on the strait near Capri, abundantly present in her thoughtful, has been a theme for many poets and unmannered approach to the Concertos. musicians. With this development, the Contrapuntal arguments are admirably ORGAN MUSIC PROGRAMS IN BRIEF songs of the mermaids – as epitome clear, and Hewitt’s restricted use of the Mozart by Arrangement, Vol. 3 / Zeno Bianchini, organ of seduction and emotion – also got sustaining pedal ensures a pleasing clarity incorporated into their array of inspirational of dialogue. These virtues are mirrored by Mozart was a special favorite of composers for the arrangement of his music for organ, and this program presents some materials. Rogerio Gonçalves and A Corte the lightly articulated bowing of the strings of his pieces for organ as well as some contemporary arrangements and completions, recorded on an organ of Mozart’s Musical set out in search of siren-related of the Australian Chamber Orchestra under own day. music and have created this beautiful the direction of its leader Richard Tognetti.” 1CD TOC 0381 $16.99 collection with songs from Baroque , – BBC Music Magazine and England. 1CD HYP 67308 $23.99 J.S. Bach: The Complete Organ Works, Vol. 12 / David Goode, organ 1CD PAN 10390 $18.99 David Goode, organist at Eton College, continues his new series of the complete organ works of J.S. Bach played on the Metzler Purcell: The Fairy Queen 1692 / Anna Dennis; Söhne organ of Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge. This twelfth volume includes Jesu, meine Freude and the infamous Alle Menschen mussen sterben. Mhairi Lawson; Gabrieli Consort & Players [2 CDs] Telemann: 12 Fantasias / 1CD SIG 812 $17.99 Purcell’s The Fairy Queen is based on Marek Nahajowski, recorder Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Bach at St. Mark’s / Roger W. Sherman, organ Dream. Purcell’s masterful composition, In reality, the name ‘fantasia’ frequently Part of a series of concert recordings celebrating 50 years of the Flentrop organ at Saint Mark’s Cathedral (Seattle). Roger W. Gabrieli’s fi rst-class performance, covered various types of a formal structure Sherman performs one of the popular “All-Bach” concerts that are an annual feature of Saint mark’s Concert series. and musical expression. That is the case of and McCreesh’s superb interpretation fl ute fantasias by Georg Philipp Telemann. demonstrate why their recordings are seen 1CD LFT 1157 $18.99 These pieces are not only a display of as some of the best in classical music composer’s invention but also make an today. “A fi ne recording, scholarly and Music of J.S. & C.P.E. Bach, Pachaly, Markull, Mendelssohn & Urbaniak / example of a particularly skillful synthesis sensitive, as McCreesh and his performers Krzysztof Urbaniak, organ of most contemporary stylistic conventions. give their impressive all to the miraculous The focus of this recording is the organ of the St. Lukaskirche in Krippehna, built by Johann Ernst Hähnel in 1771 and restored in 1CD RCRT 5638310991 $18.99 score.” – The Sunday Times 2CD SIG 615 $24.99 2015 through 2018, featuring a program by coposer who worked in Leipzig, not far from Krippehna. 1CD QRST 1911 $18.99 22 23 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com The Classical Era NEW RELEASES - CLASSICAL Weber: Clarinet Quintet; Baermann: Adadio; Mozart: String Quartet K.465 ‘Dissonance’; String Recommended New Classical Era Titles Krommer: Clarinet Quintet / London Haydn Quartet Quartet K.458 ‘The Hunt’ / Auryn Quartet [SACD] Clarinetist Eric Hoeprich’s regular Many ensembles change members Lost World of Pomeranian, Vol. 1: Antonio Rosetti: Symfonia, Op. 3 / Osuchowski, collaboration with the London Haydn from time to time. Not the Auryn conductor Quartet is well established, with a Quartet. Rather they invited somebody referential recording of the Mozart and as fi fth member, in our catalogue for “These three Rosetti symphonies are all fi rst-rate works, and while one fi nds similarities, particularly with Haydn, they are quintets by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms all equally as original in terms of content, instrumentation, and structure. Here we have fi ne works that clearly support his Brahms Quintets being an important reputation as one of the major symphonic composers of the period. The performance by the Fundacja Akademia Muzyki highlight. On this new recording, and Schumann. Today younger, also Dawnej Orchestra is powerful and energetic.” – Fanfare Hoeprich and the members of the very good ensembles dominate the 1CD RCRT 5638351532 $18.99 London Haydn Quartet play on fi ne concert halls who bring along a totally historical instruments, which provide different view of the music, which is a a warm, blended sound that is at the good thing. But for the moment there same time both transparent and full is no quartet that embodies an as long Paradisi: Sonatas I–X from ‘Sonate de gravicembalo’ / of detail. and homogeneous tradition like this. Anna Paradiso, harpsichord, & fortepiano 1CD GLS 920610 $18.99 1SACD TAC 235SA $24.99 “The keyboard sonatas of Pietro Domenico Paradisi are robust, inventive works, fi rst published in London in 1754. Anna Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante; Symphony No. 40 / Paradiso misses not a whit of the interest the Neapolitan composer embedded in this music, and she adds considerable invention and drama of her own in these entirely satisfying interpretations… Paradiso fi nds a world of variation in these Cantatas of the / Gordan Nikolic, violin; Richard Wolfe, viola; compelling works.” – Gramophone Benjamin Appl, baritone; Reinhard Goebel, Netherlands CO [SACD] 1SACD BIS 2415 $19.99 Berlin Barrock Solisten “There are so many different moods: melancholy, grief, rage, “Appl, warm, intimate, colouring his voice just so, is at his superbly consolation. And everything is woven together with such ingenuity expressive best in the quasi-operatic drama of Pygmalion, with and originality! Whilst the slow movement of the G minor Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1–5 / Stephen Hough, piano; its wide emotional range, or the thrust of Carl Philipp Emanuel’s Symphony (in the same key as the Sinfonia Concertante) brightens Hannu Lintu, Finnish Radio SO [3 CDs] cantata ‘Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem Stande, which opens the the mood of the other movements, the melancholic slow movement recording…” – BBC Music Magazine of the Sinfonia Concertante casts a shade over the lightness of the Recorded following a cycle of live performances in , this magnificent set is sure to be recognized as one of Hough’s 1CD HAN 19081 $18.99 outer movements. It’s not all diffi cult, nor is it all straightforward. most important recordings. “The sparks struck between [the orchestra’s] crisp responsiveness and Hough’s immaculate Just like real life.” – Gordan Nikolic blend of imagination and control are considerable. Magisterial one moment, wry the next, Hough is a whole orchestra in himself, and not a note is wasted.” – The Guardian Carl Michael Bellman: Fredman’s Epistles, 1SACD TAC 236SA $24.99 3CD HYP 68291 $28.49 Fredman’s Songs and early poems / Torsten Trio – Mozart: The Late Symphonies, etc / Mossberg, tenor; et al. ; Vienna PO [3 CDs] Divertimenti Viennesi – Chamber Music of Dittersdorf, Beethoven’s World – Music for Cello & Strings by In Carl Michael Bellman All of Leonard Bernstein’s recordings Vanhal, J.M. Haydn / Musica Elegentia [2 CDs] Reicha, Romberg, Eybler / Goebel; Deutsche (1740–1795) hardly requires any of Mozart symphonies are available on one set for the fi rst time. Bernstein’s All three composers gathered together on this Radio PO introduction. He is regarded as close working partnership with the unique compilation were active in Vienna in This recording is the second volume of Sweden’s foremost national poet. Even the last half of the 18th century, and all had “Beethoven’s World” featuring two rarities children at school learn several of his results in Mozart mastered the craft of writing music for pleasure by Beethoven contemporaries: Concertos songs. In Fredman’s Epistles, Bellman intrepretations full of great energy and – as much in the playing as the listening – composed for 2 and orchestra are few uses the New Testament as a basis. style – Bernstein thought that every rather than devotion or edifi cation. They were and far between, and even fewer in the quality composer was a romantic, because also expert string players and so wrote these The performers here have also chosen shown here. Featured on this disc is Antonin he was. These are big-hearted, divertimentos from the inside, as it were. Reicha’s Sinfonia Concertante, Josef von to include fi ve youth poems, several of 2CD BLC 96127 $12.99 Eybler’s Divertisment fur Fasching Dienstag, them never issued before. interpretations that could easily suit a and Bernhard Romberg’s Concertino, Op. 72, 1CD STR 1841 $18.99 Brahms symphony. which receives it’s world premiere. 3CD DGG 4743492CD $28.49 1CD SBMG 19075929652 $14.99 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Edith Laux; C.P.E. Bach: Complete Piano Trios Nos. 1–6 / Luigi Borghi: Duets (6) for violin & viola / Lorenzo Diana Eustrati; Ludwig Suthaus; Karl Paul : Symphonies Nos. 6 & 9 / Linos Piano Trio [2 CDs] Gugole, violin; Giorgio Bottiglioni, viola Howard Griffi ths; Orchestra della Svizzera This series with 10 new editions from the These works reveal C.P.E. Bach at the height of his career and are Luigi Borghi (1745–1806) had an innovative interest for the viola archive of ETERNA recordings includes audio Italiana full of invention, expression, and shocking surprises that at times and his 6 Duets for a violin & cello or violin & tenor, Op. 5 are productions from the early days of the label “In any event, a more convincing case for surpass what even Beethoven might dare to do. Despite their presented here in the version for violin and viola, for the fi rst time as well as later productions from the late 80s. Krommer, who is also largely forgotten as Partly remastered from the original tapes 10-year career that includes winning many high-powered awards on period instruments. Renowned period musicians Lorenzo a symphonist, than the case made with this around the world, this is the Linos Piano Trio’s debut recording. these historic-legendary recordings shine in performance culture could hardly be made.” Gugole and Giorgio Bottiglioni beautifully interpret this set. new glamour. The present volume presents This is what Pizzicato wrote about the 2CD CAVI 8553480 $19.99 1CD URA 14055 $28.49 Symphony No. 9 performed by Rundfunk release of Vol. 2 of Krommer’s symphonies. Sinfonieorchester Leipzig with conductor Vol. 3 of this recording series completes the Hermann Abendroth. picture of this composer’s quest for harmonic CLASSICAL ERA ALBUMS IN BRIEF 1CD BER 0301496 $13.99 innovations. 1CD CPO 555337 $15.49 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5; Piano Sonata No. 26 / Dieter Zechlin, piano; The Harp in the Vienna of Maria Theresa / Kurt Sanderling Margret Köll, harp; Marcello Gatti, transverse fl ute; Il Furibondo Beethoven’s World – Salieri, Vorisek, Hummel / Partly remastered from the original tapes and provided with the original covers, these historic-legendary recordings Reinhard Goebel; WDR Sinfonieorchester; et al. shine in new glamour. The present volume presents the Piano Concerto No. 5 performed by Dieter Zechlin and the On the basis of works by Wagenseil, Krumpholtz, and Gluck, Margret Recorded with the WDR Symphony Orchestra Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Köll shows how this instrument conquered the and Mirijam Contzen on violin and Herbert 1CD BER 0301502 $13.99 Viennese salons: as a soloist, as a popular Schuch on piano, the recording, part of the accompanying instrument, as an equal-ranking ‘Beethoven’s World’ series, proves once again Wilms: Sonatas for Piano & Flute Nos. 1–3 / Helen Dabringhaus, fl ute; chamber music partner or as a solo instrument that there was far more to hear for Vienna Sebastian Berakdar, piano with string accompaniment. A very colorful music lovers than piano concertos by Mozart or program around the harp of the early and high symphonies by Beethoven. “Mirthful and very pleasantly written” stated a contemporary reviewer about the instrumental music of Johann Wilhelm Viennese classical period. 1CD SBMG 19075929602 $14.99 Wilms. This delightfull program is not only extremely entertaining, but also fi lls a gap in music history between Mozart 1CD ACT 24369 $16.99 and Mendelssohn. 1SACD MDG 9032149 $18.99 Beethoven: Complete Works for Piano Trio, Józef Elsner: Chamber Music / Justyna Reczeniedi, Giuseppe Clemente Dall’Abaco: Cello Sonatas / Elinor Frey; Mauro Valli; Federica Bianchi; Vol. 5 – Triple Concerto; Piano Trio / Residentie Giangiacomo Pinardi Orkest The Hague soprano; Prima Vista Quartet [2 CDs] Fascinated by the cello’s origins and the creative process of new music, Elinor Frey plays both period and modern This is the fi fth and fi nal installment of the Józef Antoni Franciszek Elsner was a much acclaimed Beethoven series by the Van composer, music teacher, and music instruments. Her performance of this program was the winner of the public prize at the 2013 Utrecht Early Music Baerle Trio. In 1799, after having made a name theoretician, active mainly in . He is Festival Fringe. for himself with major compositions in the perhaps best known as the principal piano 1CD PSSA 1069 $18.99 genres of the piano trio, piano sonata, violin teacher of the young composer Frédéric sonata, and string quartet, but before fi nishing Chopin. This new release showcases his Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1–5 / Olli Mustonen, piano; Tapiola Sinfonietta [3 CDs] his fi rst symphony, Beethoven wrote a work for chamber music, beautifully performed by a mixed strings and winds. This piece, featured lineup of brilliant Polish musicians including Olli Mustonen is a particularly fi tting exponent for Beethoven’s music with Piano Concerto No. 1 including his own on this disc was the Septet Op. 20. pianists Józef Kolinek and Elzbieta cadenzas. Beethoven’s own Piano Concerto arrangement of his Violin Concerto is also featured – one of Mustonen’s 1SACD CHL 72801 $16.99 Karas-Krasztel. signature pieces. 2CD DUX 1555 $29.99 3CD OND 1359 $24.99 24 25 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com The Romantic Era NEW RELEASES - ROMANTIC The 19th Century Violin / Thomas Fritzsch; Brahms: Viola Sonatas, Op. 120; Trio / Romantic Era Recommendations Michael Schonheit; Merseburger Hofmusik Andreas Willwohl; Daniel Heide; Isang Enders On this release, Thomas Fritzsch not only presents some works Violist Andreas Willwohl writes of his new release: “Brahms’ Piano Quintets by Franck & Brahms / Sviatoslav Richter; ; on a viola da gamba of the early 19th century, but also proves Sonata in F Minor, Op. 120 was one of the fi rst works Daniel Quartet impressively that the aesthetics of the Romantic period and the (Heide) and I played together 22 years ago. We already noted characteristic sound of the instrument are by no means mutually the work’s weighty, intense urgency: with wide interval leaps On this recording Gramophone hailed the Brahms Piano Quintet as “a performance that brings warmth as well as drama to this music one must go... to Richter and the Borodin Quartet... EMG stated “Absolutely magnifi cent... a exclusive. The CD features works by , Hermann and abrupt emotional shifts from the onset, it feels like a voyage performance in a thousand. It must be heard”. And the Penguin Guide: “There is no better performance available Gustav Jaeschke, Johann Ludwig Willing, Fraz Xaver Chwatal, between continents.” They are joined here by cellist Isang Enders. at any price”. and more. 1CD CAVI 8553473 $17.99 1CD MSLC 1361 $11.99 1CD CVEL 92001 $16.99 Verdi: Messa da Requiem / Amici Musicae; Brahms: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 / Jugendsinfonieorchester Leipzig; Markus Hohti, cello; Emil Holmström, piano Agnes Zimmermann: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1–3 / Mathilde Milwidsky, violin; Sam Haywood, piano Various Artists On their new release, cellist Markus The “Messa da Requiem”, dedicated Hohti and pianist Emil Holmström “Agnes Zimmermann was one of Europe’s more important pianists, as well as a composer. Her compositional perform Brahms’ two cello sonatas output was modest, but at its core lie these three impressive sonatas for violin and piano written over the span to the Italian poet Alessandro on period instruments. “Many clichés of about a decade, between 1868 and 1879. The fact that she was a contemporary of Brahms is not lost in this Manzoni, occupies a unique position music, which exhibits grace and brawn by turn. Violinist Mathilde Milwidsky and pianist Sam Haywood evidently among Verdi’s compositions, since are used to describe Brahms’ music; relish the interesting interplay of Zimmermann’s music.” – HBDirect Editor’s Choice church music, with a few exceptions, people commonly refer to the ‘warmth 1CD TOC 0541 $16.99 hardly plays a role in his oeuvre. of its sound’... It is time to open our ears Landesjugendchor Sachsen together and fi nd new words to defi ne Brahms’ with amici musicae, Leipzig and music, words that describe how the Franck: Piano Quintet; Faure: Piano Quintet No. 1, Op. 89 / Mami Shikimori, piano; Jugendsinfonieorchester Leipzig, music might originally have sounded.” conducted by Ron-Dirk Entleutner – Markus Hohti Mami Shikimori and the Wihan Quartet here perform Franck’s Piano Quintet along with Faure’s Quintet No. 1. perform brilliantly. 1CD ABA 452 $18.99 “This is a forceful performance, mature in every sense, and they know how to imbue it with grand passion without 1CD RDAU 6168 $16.99 lapsing into garish sentimentality. Fauré’s First Quintet is more gentle and the secret here is to catch the harmonic density while keeping the music fl uid...this is a disc to savour.” – Classical Music Girolamo Barbieri: Organ Works / Dvořák: Symphony No. 9; Akira Ifukube: Sinfonia 1CD NIM 6397 $18.99 Marco Molaschi, organo angelo amati 1843 Tapkaara; Godzilla / Andrea Battistoni; Tokyo PO The pieces included in this cd are among the most representative In 2018 the DENON label released a real hit with the Symphony of Girolamo Barbieri’s extensive organ production and fi nd fertile No. 9 “From the New World” by Antonin Dvořák. In addition, the formidable Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Andreas Tarkmann: Fanny und Felix auf Reisen / Emilie Mayer: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 / Leo McFall; ground in the typical “band/orchestral” sonority of the 19th-century Lombard tradition. On 24th July 1843, as recorded in archival Andrea Battistoni plays the “Sinfonia Tapkaara” by Akira Ifukube Jörg Schade; Meike Leluschko; Emsland Ensemble NDR Radiophilharmonie evidence, he was called to inaugurate the newly built Angelo Amati who has gained worldwide fame with his numerous fi lm scores, Felix Mendelssohn, the famous composer, Emilie Mayer reaped great praise great in Pizzighettone (), which is the same including the legendary Godzilla series. has a burn out. His work as a composer, from the critics and pursued a successful organ which was used in this recording. 1CD MDG 6502176 $18.99 conductor and pianist is too much. He career as a composer. Her fi rst two 1CD TCT 800201 $16.99 urgently needs vacation! But a trip without symphonies, featured on this recording, his musicians? No, Felix can’t bare that. date from her Stettin study years with Carl Henry Cotter Nixon: Orchestral Music, Jubilee – Dvořák: American Suite; Spohr: And his sister Fanny wants to go with him, Loewe and her Symphony No. 1 very much Vol. 3 / Ana Török, violin; Feren Nagy, Nonet; Kerschek: Festival Rhapsody / too. But where do you want to go? The leads one to believe that it may have been music theater play by Jörg Schade and something like a fi nal examination piece euphonium; et al. Rudens Turku Festival Ensemble Franz–Georg Stähling leads the young and with which she concluded her instruction old through the diverse music world of Felix This third and fi nal volume of Nixon’s The Nonet by is performed from him. orchestral music mixes music for the here by nine outstanding chamber and Fanny. 1CD CPO 555293 $15.49 1CD MSP 36945 $10.49 concert hall and the stage and adds musicians; the violin part is of daredevil Raphaël Merlin: Passage Éclair; Schubert: the Coronation March for Edward VII virtuosity which is no problem for Rachmaninov: The Bells; Taneyev: that turned out to be Nixon’s last Rudens Turku. Ulf-Guido Schafer Octet, D803 / Pierre Fouchenneret & Johannes Damascenus / Dmitrij Kitajenko; composition. Most of the pieces here arranged Antonin Dvořák’s uncommonly Shuichi Okada, violins; et al. Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne were left incomplete, but thanks to Paul popular ‘American Suite’ especially for In composing ‘The Bells’, Rachmaninov The composer Raphaël Merlin, who is Mann’s orchestrations they now confi rm this occasion. It is astonishing how a describes different features of bell ringing, also a member of the Quatuor Ébène Nixon’s position as one of the superior mere eight musicians can and do make but adeptly avoided the direct emulation and a conductor, took Schubert’s Octet tunesmiths of Victorian England. Dvořák’s orchestral colours shine. of bell sounds through carillons and as his inspiration to write Passage Éclair: 1CD TOC 0374 $16.99 1SACD MDG 9032169 $18.99 similar percussion instruments. Taneyev’s He states: “In Schubert, three wind cantata, ‘Johannes Damascenus’ is purely instruments act as a foil for fi ve stringed about man’s path through life in darkness instruments, which is in keeping with NEW ROMANTIC PERIOD RELEASE IN BRIEF and fear and redemption at The Last the laws of acoustics and dynamics, Judgement. The of the work but nevertheless gives the ensemble a Dvořák: Serenade, Op. 22; Tchaikovsky: Serenade, Op. 48 / Toshio Yanagisawa; Balkan CO takes a special position in Russian late relatively dark colour...” Romanticism. 1CD AHP 623 $16.99 Dvorák’s Serenade for Strings is full of sensual melodiousness in a Bohemian tone while Tchaikovsky’s combines rococo 1CD OEH 470 $13.99 elegance with great romantic gesture. The BCO consists of principal string players in orchestras of their home countries. Tchaikovsky: The Tempest; Romeo and Juliet Overture; 1CD ADT 20045 $14.99 Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 ‘Romantic’ / Hamlet / Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle; Minsk PO ; Bavarian Radio SO What moved a Russian composer to write Offenbach Fantastique! – Symphonic Music / Nicolas Krüger; Leipzig SO This “Romantic” symphony conjures up music for the stage works of the most an ideal world in bright, unbroken colors, English of playwrights? Undoubtedly Offenbach’s music sparkles with charming wit, ingenuity, and slapstick comedy. With his famous operettas, and looks back on an intact and carefree the subtle expressivity with which the he established a new genre – political cabaret with enchanting musical ideas – from which we hear orchestral past with a consistently relaxed and poet endowed his fi gures, the portrayal extracts. 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Highly and often fundamentally contingent threads of the plot appealed to the rather recommended.” – BBC Music Magazine With his First Symphony, the year 1841 marked ’s breakthrough as a composer for orchestra. “This 1CD BRK 900187 $16.99 introspective Tchaikovsky. 1CD MSP 56951 $14.99 is one of the most sheerly enjoyable Schumann symphony discs to have arrived in a while, fi nely played, gloriously recorded.ˮ – Gramophone Scharwenka: ; Trio; 4 Concert Pieces / Laurent Breuninger; Oliver Triendl; et al. 1CD MYR 028 $18.87 Throughout his life, Philipp Scharwenka was eclipsed by his younger brother, Franz Xaver, who made a world-renowned career as a piano virtuoso. This is demonstrated by this album, supplementing Philipp Scharwenkas meager discography Verdi: Messa da Requiem / Karajan; Berlin Philharmonic; Wiener Singverein [2 CDs] with his works for violin, viola and piano. Violinist Laurent Albrecht Breuninger heads up this project, joined by violist Lise Berthaud and pianist Oliver Triendl. recorded Verdi’s Requiem, described by conductor Hans von Bülow, as an “opera in ecclesiastical 1CD CAP 5391 $16.99 garb”, multiple times over the course of his career, such that it became one of the signature works of his repertoire. 2CD DGGI 4530912CD $19.99

26 27 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com NEW RELEASES - ROMANTIC NEW RELEASES - WINDS The Romantic Era Music for Wind Instruments Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7 / Clara Schumann: Piano Trio; Fanny Kevin John Edusei; Munich Symphony Orchestra Mendelssohn: Piano Trio; String Quartet / Recommended Brass Music Programs The motto of this new release of The Nash Ensemble Schubert’s Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7 “This is a strong, proud, full-blooded Standards – Concertos / Simon Höfele, trumpet in E-major might be “On to new reading, full of contrasts in tone, “Try something new” is Simon Höfele’s motto. Inquisitive, intrepid and full of passion for his instrument, on his horizons!”. Kevin John Edusei is attack and mood, nuanced in its new album “Standards” he turns to the trumpet in all its many facets, sweeping his audience along with him with praised repeatedly for the drama colourings, its phrasing and overall his audacious and clever programs and thrilling playing. “This remarkable set of works played by a 24-year-old and tension that he brings to his architecture deftly shaped, long lines deserves every success; it will certainly repay replaying regularly.” – MusicWeb 1CD BER 0301314 $18.99 music-making, for his clear sense of soaring taut and strong, choppy architecture and attention to detail. tempestuousness tightly knit, strings A suave and elegant fi gure on the sounding bright and clean against podium, he has conducted widely the piano’s warm tones...” across Europe. – Gramophone 18 Wild, Wacky & Winsome Works for Brass Quintet / Make Believe Brass 1CD SOLO 339 $18.99 1CD HYP 68307 $23.99 From Disneyland’s full time brass ensemble, The Make Believe Brass, comes this album of eighteen wild, wacky, Brahms: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 6 / and winsome works for brass quintet. “The Make Believe Brass make no attempt to hide the irreverent inclination of their genre and thus seek to provide entertainment for the whole family by spoofi ng the classics and inserting Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Ravel: Quatuor Strada [2 CDs] La Valse / François-Xavier Roth; Les Siècles lots of oompah and raspberries into their arrangements.” – Whig-Standard Magazine For Brahms, the essence and 1CD CRR 743200 $18.99 “(Roth’s) performance [of La Valse] defi ning feature of chamber music is less nihilistic than some readings, resided in the string quartet, and the it’s lighter, wonderfully athletic and form commanded so much respect full of brilliantly lit detail, though and rigor from him that he burnt Preludes, Rags, & Cakewalks / Eric Crees still mustering a real punch in the dozens of his fi rst attempts at the For this release, the Symphonic Brass of London present a program of Preludes, Rags, and Cakewalks. “The cataclysm of the fi nal pages. It also genre. This shows how much the sound produced is also to be admired; great balance and clarity at all dynamics, placing the listener in the front makes a real showcase for Les three quartets brought together here, row to enjoy the music-making. The new arrangements, the uncovering of neglected gems and the general body Siècles’ gorgeous early 20th-century and added to quite naturally by the of research involved in this project makes it an impressive release.” – Brass Band World French woodwind sound and plush sublime piano quintet, represent the 1CD MPRR 005 $18.99 strings...” – The Guardian quintessence of that great resident 1CD HAR 905282 $19.99 of Vienna. 2CD BREC 026 $28.49 Charles-Valentin Alkan: Grande Sonate, Op. 33; Souvenirs, Op. 15 / Mark Viner, piano Max Bruch: Symphony No. 1–3 / Robert Festliches Trompetenkonzert Vol. 2 / El Inmortal, Music for , Harp & Piano / Trevino; Bamberger Symphoniker [2 CDs] Pfeiffer Trumpet Consort Siegfried Jung, tuba “It takes a certain kind of temperament and a superior fi nger “Bruch’s three symphonies are a The Pfeiffer Trompeten Consort presents When tuba player Siegfried Jung gave technique to take [Alkan] on. Those gift to a sympathetic interpreter, and this lovely program of works by Telemann, the composers the instruction to write a Robert Trevino joins a select group of Charpentier, Holborne, Frescobaldi, piece for this album, he gave them the who cut the mustard are few and far and more. Pfeiffer-Trompeten-Consort following task: “Write in the style of the folk between. Mark Viner is such a one conductors who have succeeded in was founded by the brothers Joachim, music of your home country, so that it will and with this, the third volume of making these awkward but intensely Martin, and Harald Pfeiffer in 1985. Most be recognized by locals as a part of their what will form the complete works, lovable works sing… This is music of the works performed by the Pfeiffer- culture.” The result fascinates not only by he can claim a place at the top table of rolling vistas, sunlit hillsides and Trompeten-Consort are presented in new, the richness of the sounds, but also by the as one of the preeminent Alkan good wine, and the sound of the festive arrangements, most of which have unusual combination of tuba and harp in Bambergers suits it beautifully.” been revised and adapted by members of some of the works. players de nos jours…” the ensemble. 1CD CVEL 92003 $16.99 – Gramophone – Gramophone 1CD CTE 58011 $14.99 1CD PINC 10209 $19.99 2CD CPO 555252 $29.99 Piano Trios of Dvořák, Suk, Smetana / Nibbles, Music for / Norsk Tromboneensemble The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol. 6 – Thomas Albertus Ernberger; David Geringas; The Norwegian Ensemble was formed in 2014 and consists of Audun Breen, Principal Trombone of the Oslo Dohnányi: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Philharmonic Orchestra and Sverre Riise, Petter Winroth, and Clare Farr, the trombone section of the Norwegian Radio Pavel Kašpar [3 CDs] Orchestra. The four performers are some of Norway’s most outstanding trombonists. For this release have gathered a Martin Roscoe Beside Bedrich Smetana and handful of pieces they believe display all the fi ne qualities of the trombone. Hyperion gives us volume 6 of Josef Suk, Dvořák is probably the 1CD LAWO 1194 $16.99 its “Romantic Piano Concerto” composer that fi rst comes to mind series, featuring Martin Roscoe who masterfully understood how to performing concertos by Ernst von weave into their works the essence Dohnányi. He is accompanied by of the popular folk songs and Fedor Glushchenko conducting the dances. Thomas Albertus Irnberger, WIND MUSIC PROGRAMS IN BRIEF BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. violin, Pavel Kapar, piano and David One for All / North Texas Wind Symphony & Lone Star Wind Orchestra; “Both soloist and orchestra, not to Geringas, cello, here present his Barcelona Clarinet Players mention the recording itself, rise four piano trios as well as the piano gloriously to the music’s challenges.” trios by Smetana and Suk on this Innovation, fusion and pedagogy are some of the concepts that best describe the creative line of the Barcelona Clarinet Players. This collaboration with the North Texas Wind Symphony features refreshing repertoire from primarily Spanish composers. – Soundscapes, Australia 3-album set. 1CD GIA 1076 $15.99 1CD HYP 66684 $23.99 3SACD GRAM 99206 $33.49 Saint-Saëns: Piano Quartet; Tarantella; Bassoon Concertos / Theo Plath, bassoon The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol 33 – Clarinet Sonata; Oboe Sonata; et al. / On his solo debut recording, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Principal Bassoonist Theo Plath combines Romantic bassoon Scharwenka; Piano Concerto Nos. 2 & 3 / concertos by and Bernhard Crusell with modern French compositions by Marcel Bitsch and André Jolivet. The Nash Ensemble [2 CDs] Seta Tanyel, piano 1CD GUIN 20683 $16.99 “It is a charming collection, “[Seta Tanyel] can thunder with the beautifully played; this is precisely Dvořák: Octet; Serenade, Op. 22 / Czech Nonet best of them in, for example, the the repertoire in which the Nash Third Concerto’s cadenza, but it excels... The opening cantilena The Czech Nonet is one of the oldest chamber ensembles in the world. This release features the music of Dvořák (1841–1904), is always ‘sweet thunder’ and you Tausinger (1921–1980), Martinu (1890–1959), and Krejci (1904–1968), all important Czech composers. of the Oboe Sonata is positively 1CD CMP 0001314 $21.99 never hear an unmusical note or an rapturous... just as the mysterious ill-shaped phrase… The recordings fugal introduction to the fi nale of the retain their original excellence and early Piano Quintet [is] fabulously Moon Marked, Music for Trumpet / Chris Gekker, trumpet & fl ugelhorn Tadeusz Strugala and the German played by cellist Paul Watkins and orchestra back their stylish soloist to violist Lawrence Power.” Chris Gekker, one of America’s most acclaimed trumpet players, demonstrates the mellow and lyrical side of the trumpet in six the hilt.” – Gramophone works. “A most stimulating disc, then, one that encompasses a wide variety of music. Recommended.” – Fanfare – The Guardian 1CD MTI 28605 $17.99 1CD HYP 67365 $23.99 2CD HYP 67431 $38.99 28 29 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com The Post Romantic Era NEW RELEASES - POST ROMANTIC Elgar: Violin Concerto, Op. 61; Stenhammer: Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860–1941): All Violin Recommended Mahler Two Sentimental Romances, Op. 28 / and Piano Works / Sławomir Tomasik, violin Triin Ruubel, violin Ignacy Jan Paderewski is today commonly Mahler: Symphony No. 7 / ; London SO This release features ’s known as a great pianist, a statesman Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61 and to whom great credit is due for ’s This is a terrifi c, gripping performance from Gergiev and the LSO of Mahler’s Seventh, an edge-of-the-seat experience. regained independence, and a composer. Gergiev brings an almost palpable darkness, fear and mystery to the three central movements, giving an impression, in the Wilhelm Stenhammar’s Two Sentimental His fi rst composition for violin and piano central scherzo, of hot, tormenting laser lights darting in from all angles, and he imbues the outer movements with an almost Romances, Op. 28 performed by Triin frenzied momentum. – BBC Music Magazine Ruubel with the Estonian National SO comes from 1878 - when Paderewski 1CD MSLC 1409 $12.99 conducted by Neeme Järvi. Triin Ruubel had just fi nished his musical studies. This is an Estonian violinist who performs release features all of the composer’s violin throughout Europe as a soloist and a and piano pieces, performed by Sławomir chamber musician. Since April 2015 she Tomasik and Robert Morawski. “Some holds the position of concertmaster of the lovely discoveries here...” Mahler: Symphony No. 8 ‘of a Thousand’ / Estonian National SO (principal conductor – BBC Music Magazine 1CD RCRT 0037 $18.99 Valery Gergiev; London SO & Chorus and artistic director Neeme Järvi). 1CD SOLR 016 $15.99 All the great reviewing publications gave this release a rapturous reception when fi rst issued. The atmosphere of a great occasion is caught admirably with impressive and organ, and a special mention for the fi nal Chorus Mysticus Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis (1875–1911): Dame Ethel Smyth (1858–1944): Songs & Ballads / bringing a real sense of gravitas and uplift. Outstanding. “The atmosphere of a great occasion is caught admirably, with the In the Forest; The Sea / Modestas Pitrenas timpani and organ very impressive... A most competitive version.” – Penguin Guide Lucy Stevens, contralto; Elizabeth Marcus, piano 1CD MSLC 1408 $13.99 This release by the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra under SOMM Recordings continues its acclaimed championing of neglected the direction of Modestas Pitrenas includes the complete surviving British composers with Dame Ethel Smyth: Songs and Ballads – symphonic oeuvre of the great Lithuanian composer Mikalojus 17 vocal works with piano and chamber orchestra accompaniment Konstantinas Ciurlionis restored into their original versions. Ciurlionis composed between 1886 and 1913. Contralto Lucy Stevens is joined by Mahler: Symphony No. 1 ‘Titan’ (Live 1989) / was conceptually ahead of his time and the uniqueness and aesthetic her long-time stage companion, pianist Elizabeth Marcus, and Odaline Ádám Fischer; Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester value of his compositions have been fully understood only during the de la Martinez conducting the Berkeley Ensemble. last decades. The inaugural Gustav Mahler Fest in 1989 consisted of three concerts with performances of the composer’s fi rst, third and 1CD SOMM 0611 $18.99 1CD OND 1344 $16.99 fourth symphonies, the Totenfeier from the second symphony and eight Lieder from Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Iris Vermillion and . “Under the direction of the Hungarian conductor Ádám Fischer, less well known as a Hans Gál (1890–1987): Music for Voices, Mahlerian in 1991 than he is today, this orchestra is a kaleidoscope of colour and tone.” – Opera Today Escales: French Orchestral Works / Vol. 1 / Bridget Budge; Stephen Muir; 1SACD ARSP 38259 $19.99 John Wilson; Sinfonia of London Borealis John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London Hans Gál championed choral singing release their second album, following as a way of directly involving people in Chant dans la nuit – Flute Music in the Belle Eugène Ysaÿe: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1–6 / widespread and universal critical acclaim making music: he founded and conducted for their fi rst recording, of Korngold’s Époque / Filippo Mazzoli, fl ute; Thomas Bowes, violin a number of and provided an Symphony in F sharp. This new recording extensive output of choral compositions. Nathalie Dang, piano Known and praised for his complete recording explores the unique sound world of French of all J.S. Bach’s sonatas and partitas, English This fi rst volume in a long-term project to orchestral music of the late nineteenth and This release features a collection of works violinist Thomas Bowes has now taken it upon record his choral music presents a rich for fl ute and piano written by a group of early twentieth centuries. Consummate skill himself to embark on another quest for totality. variety of works for a cappella voices. contrasting French composers during the and outstanding musicianship captures the This time, it is the six sonatas by Belgian “Borealis handle both German and English exciting Belle Époque period, which occurred mood and spirit of these pieces. violinist Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931). As one with equal aplomb and it’s a delight to hear between the end of the 19th and the fi rst half 1SACD CHA 5252 $19.99 would expect from Bowes, they are played of the 20th century. Quite a number of these Gál being performed again.” to passionate perfection. Ysaÿe, hailed in his works are recorded here for the fi rst time, – Choir & Organ time as no less than the “King of the Violin”, is including Fontbonne’s Chasse aux papillons 1CD TOC 0509 $16.99 a formidable fi gure to take on for any modern Emil Mlynarski (1870–1935): Violin Concerto Op. 30, Coedès-Mongin’s Suite Op. 5, Lefort’s musician. Sur l’Eau, and Guilmant’s Romance sans Debussy: Images; Iberia; Rondes de Nos. 1 & 2 / Piotr Plawner, violin; 1CD NVA 6281 $14.99 paroles Op. 85. Printemps / Sir Mark Elder; Hallé Orchestra PO 1CD DYN 7862 $12.99 The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder follow their recent highly acclaimed Emil Mlynarski is most often associated with his huge commitment Emánuel Moór (1863–1931): Concerto Revived Masterpieces – Georgy Catoire Debussy Nocturnes album, with a stunning orchestral collection and contribution to the dynamic development of Warsaw’s musical life for 2 Cellos & Orchestra, op. 69 / (1861–1926) / Catoire Ensemble including a world premiere recording. Debussy took seven years to at the turn of the 20th century. Today, hardly anyone remembers that produce Images, following the success of La mer. “’ is aptly during his lifetime the artist was also valued for his compositional output, David, Stromberg, cello World premiere recordings of some relevant bittersweet in its lurches between cavorting and melancholy, the three confi rmed by a prestigious award he received for the Violin Concerto in Russian chamber works composed at the The rediscovered composer Emanuel Moor turn of the 20th century by Georgy Catoire. sections of ‘Iberia’ are vibrantly detailed and the opening of ‘Rondes de D minor, Op. 11. “The orchestral tapestry here is at the zenith of Polish belonged to a generation of composers who Composed in 1924–1926, the two Poems printemps’ fl oats and shimmers deliciously.” – BBC Music Magazine Romanticism.” – MusicWeb grew up with the romantic music of Brahms, Op. 34 are late works from Catoire and are 1CD HALE 7554 $18.99 1CD DUX 1606 $19.99 Schumann, Wagner and Debussy, but were some of the most perfect embodiments of his then confronted with the new challenges compositional style. Other important features of of modernism around 1900. Refl ecting his Catoire’s music are honesty and the absence friendship with the famous cellist , POST ROMANTIC CHAMBER WORKS IN BRIEF of any kind of banality or pose. he composed numerous works for cello, which 1CD CHL 72792 $15.49 highlight various stages in that friendship. Fauré: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 / Luca Magariello, cello; Cecilia Novarino, piano 1CD OEH 1704 $13.99 Deeply attached to the romanticism of an earlier age, Fauré is considered the last of the romantics. The fi rst movement of the First Cello Sonata is among Fauré’s most angular and assertive pieces while the Second has a fl owing, elusive quality. Mahler: Symphony No. 10; Shostakovich: : Clarinet Quintet, Op. 146 / 1CD BLC 95681 $10.49 Symphony No. 5 / Pierre-Dominique Ponnelle; Thorsten Johanns, clarinet; Minsk PO [2 CDs] Roland Glassl, viola This new release showcases the stylistic Max Reger’s oeuvre occupies a unique Max Reger: Sonatas for Violin & Piano Nos. 4 & 9 / Johannes Prelle, violin; similarities and differences between two position between the centuries. His affi nity for Thomas Günther, piano powerhouse composers – Gustav Mahler, Bach in his settings as well as in his choice of and . Mahler’s Symphony forms, architectonic techniques, and specifi c The choice of sonatas for this album is by no means random, because both are landmarks in Reger’s oeuvre. Sonata No. 4, written No. 10 (Adagio) is paired with Shostakovich’s instrumentations was just as obvious as his in 1903, and from then on, alongside , he was considered the ultimate exponent of modern music. Symphony No. 5. The repertoire of The grounding in Romanticism and his veneration 1CD MSP 56914 $14.99 National Philharmonic Minsk includes not for Beethoven and Brahms. Reger’s ties to the only important works of the Classic and tradition – in this case to Mozart and Brahms – Romantic periods, but also compositions by were the point of departure for his Clarinet Gabriel Faure: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2 / Mozart Piano Quartet contemporary Russian composers. Quintet in A major Op. 146. For these two rarely heard quintets, the four musicians receive support from the violin legend Régis Pasquier and his student 2CD MSP 56953 $14.99 1CD CPO 555340 $15.49 Sachiko Segawa, adding a touch of special authenticity to this highly welcome production. Les Saisons Françaises / Anna Ovsyanikova, violin; Julia Sinani, piano 1SACD MDG 9432162 $18.99 Les Saisons Françaises is the debut album of Russian-born, London-based duo Anna Ovsyanikova (violin) and Julia Sinani (piano), inspired by the French music of the fi rst half of the 20th century. This scintillating programme features music by four composers: Debussy, Boulanger, Ravel and Poulenc. “Full marks for a programme that manages on paper to be both distinctive Hans Gál (1890–1987): Complete Music for Flute & Piano / Sabrina Frey, fl ute; and instinctive, and these two words could equally be applied to how it sounds.” – Gramophone Bernhard Parz, piano 1CD SOER 5060192780963 $15.99 Sabrina Fey and Bernhard Parz write of this new release: “We immediately felt drawn to it and then spent a lot of time immersing ourselves in the musical world of this extraordinary composer and working out the essence of this delicate music.” 1CD TYXA 19140 $18.99 30 31 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com From the Early 20th Century NEW RELEASES - MODERN Mieczysław Weinberg: Works for Violin & Piano / Elgar: Cello Concerto; Anna Clyne: Dance / Recommended New Releases Ewelina Nowicka, violin; Milena Antoniewicz, piano Inbal Segev, cello; Marin Alsop; London PO Ewelina Nowicka, born in Gdansk, Poland in 1982, is a Polish This formidable release features Inbal Segev performing Elgar’s Mieczysław Weinberg: Cello Concerto; Fantasy; Concertino; Raphael Wallfi sch, violinist and composer. She has been playing the violin since emotive Cello Concerto coupled with DANCE, an inspiring new cello; Lukasz Borowicz; Kristiansand SO she was six years old and started composing at the age of eight. work by GRAMMY-nominated English composer Anna Clyne. Nowicka completed her studies in . In 2007, she earned “[Elgar’s concerto] throbs with passion and heartache, well “Wallfi sch’s performance, support by the excellent Norwegian Orchestra under Łukasz Borowicz, is eloquent and impassioned, contrasting lyrical beauty of tone in the refl ective sections of the work with brilliantly incisive fi ngerwork in the her Master’s degree with honors, in violin and music pedagogy, supported by the London Philharmonic and the conductor Marin more virtuosic faster movements. Wallfi sch’s trump card is that his release places the concerto in the context of Weinberg’s from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. Alsop… Jewish elements also feature in an engaging, prickle-free other music for cello and orchestra.” – BBC Music Magazine 1CD RCRT 5638209743 $16.99 work [Anna Clyne’s ‘Dance’].” – The Times 1CD CPO 555234 $15.49 1CD AIE 2419 $17.99 Works from ‘Degenerate Music’ by Leone Sinigaglia, Kurt Sonnenfeld, Aldo Finzi, Vito Levi / Orchestra Abima; Civica Orchestra di Fiati Enescu: Piano Trio No. 1; Ravel: Piano Trio in a : Il Prigioniero / Gianandrea Noseda; minor; Britten: Introduction & Allegro / Amatis Trio Danish Nat’l SO & Concert Choir This record production was created thanks to the collaboration with the “As a piano trio, we fi nd it particularly “Noseda and his Danish forces offer a thrilling account of this masterpiece, its all-important orchestral detail meticulously “Viktor Ulmann” festival in Trieste interesting to discover music that is realised… as the prisoner, Michael Nagy is alive to every nuance of the role. Stephan Rügamer caressing voice is ideal for seldom recorded or performed... The the falsely sympathetic jailer, too…A thrilling disc, splendidly recorded.” (BBC Music Magazine) “[The cast] combine lyricism which features live performances of with declamation... It’s an outstanding, essential album, every second of it.” – Gramophone unpublished orchestral and chamber idea of uncovering and recording lesser 1SACD CHA 5276 $19.99 works dedicated to the rediscovery known pieces for our fi rst album led us of those composers labeled as to include a wonderful early work by “degenerate” by the German National George Enescu, his Trio No. 1, along Socialist propaganda. with the youthful Benjamin Britten’s Carl Nielsen: The Works for Violin Solo and Violin & Piano / Hasse Borup, violin; 1CD TCT 900005 $16.99 Introduction and Allegro.” – Amatis Trio Andrew Staupe, piano 1CD CAVI 8553477 $17.99 The music of Carl Nielsen holds a very special place for Danes, defi ning the nation’s musical voice for over a century and Ernst Krenek: Piano Music, Vol. 2 – refl ecting the soul of Denmark. The Sunday Times writes of this release: “From the Sonata in G, written in his teens, to Toccata und Chaconne; Eine Kleine Suite; Piano Concertos of Shostakovich & Schnittke / Sonata No. 1 is quite an inspirational leap; but the further one to No. 2, with its astonishing central Adagio, reaches to the Piano Sonata No. 5; et al. heart of Nielsen’s genius. A 26-second Greeting fragment closes the sequence.ˮ Denis Matsuev, piano; Gabor Tarkövi, 1CD NXS 8573870 $12.99 Pianist Stanislav Khristenko presents an imaginative exploration Vienna Berlin CO of the music of Ernst Krenek in this second volume of the series Since its foundation in 2008, the Kammerorchester Wien-Berlin from Toccata Classics. “An interesting mini-conspectus of his has enjoyed storied success. Comprised of leading members of career. It begins with a Toccata und Chaconne based on a the Wiener and Berliner Philharmoniker, the ensemble combines Riccardo Malipiero: Sonata for Violin & Piano; Ciaccona that’s in fact fake; the chaconne affords a splendidly strenuous Magic Forest Scenes, Music for Clarinet & Piano / the unbridled sound beauty of both top orchestras in their agile, di Davide; Mosaico II; Trio / Rest Ensemble counterpoint. On the same “chorale” is a little tonal, parodic Suite. Jackie Glazier, clarinet; Galen Dean Peiskee Jr, piano chamber music-like playing. The program includes a premiere Sonata No. 5 is in a serial style exhibited yet more drily by Sechs The four-movement Violin Sonata from 1956 “This is an album of great works for clarinet recording on DG of Schnittke’s Concerto For Piano and String Vermessene, Op 168.” – The Sunday Times makes an ideal introduction to Riccardo and piano. Jackie Glazier and Galen Dean Orchestra, Op. 136, alongside works by Shostakovich and Peiskee, Jr. make this a particularly engaging 1CD TOC 0399 $16.99 Malipiero’s music, with a nervous, waltz-like Lutosławski. Scherzo and a frozen slow movement leading album. Hailed for her “robust playing and into the fi nale’s extensive violin cadenza, virtuosic performance” (San Diego Tribune) Robert Fürstenthal: Chamber Music, Vol. 2 – 1CD DGG 4838489 $17.99 beautifully written for the instrument and played and “beautiful and clear tone” (The Clarinet Sonatas; Notturno, Opp. 19 & 51 / here by Rebecca Raimondi with burning Magazine), Jackie Glazier is an active soloist, The Rossetti Ensemble conviction as well as ferocious accuracy. chamber musician, orchestral clarinetist, Walton: Cello Concerto; Strauss: Don Quixote, 1CD BLC 95971 $10.49 pedagogue, and advocate of new music.” When Germany invaded in 1CD CEN 3796 $15.99 Op. 35 / Zuill Bailey, cello; Grant Llewellyn, 1938, Robert Fürstenthal, born in 1920, North Carolina SO took the path of many Viennese Jews Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 / Gianandrea Shostakovitch: Symphony No. 13 / Vitaly Gromadsky, and fl ed to the United States, where Music Director Grant Llewellyn and the Noseda; London SO [2 CDs] bass; Kiril Kondrashin; The Moscow PO & Male Chorus he made his living as an accountant; North Carolina Symphony join cellist This recording is historically signifi cant due to the fact that he had written music Zuill Bailey in live performances of “Noseda scarcely puts a foot wrong and for the fact that this was the last live performance of some listeners that may be the problem... in his youth was soon forgotten. the great tone poem Don Quixote by Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony. Recorded It might be argued that the orchestra has Reconnection, after 35 years, with Richard Strauss and William Walton’s in Moscow on November 20th, 1965, there have never played the Fifth ‘better’ and, as the the woman who had been his fi rst rhapsodic cello concerto. The riveting been no further performances whatsoever. More performance has been sitting unissued for a of a cantata than a symphony, the bass soloist love rekindled both that fl ame and his performance of Don Quixote also while, the clarinet of recently retired Andrew and male chorus take part in all fi ve movements. urge to compose, and from then on features violist Roberto Díaz. Zuill Marriner remains a special draw alongside All selections newly remastered. songs and chamber music fl owed from Bailey is widely considered one of the the fl ute of Gareth Davies. There are few 1CD ESSL 942314230 $15.99 unconventional corners.” – Gramophone his pen. premiere cellists in the world. 2CD LSO 802 $14.99 1CD TOC 0542 $16.99 1CD STEI 30156 $17.99

George Antheil: Serenades 1 & 2; Morton Feldman: Coptic Light for Orchestra; String MODERN ERA RECOMMENDATIONS IN BRIEF The Golden Bird; Dreams / Württembergische PO Quartet & Orchestra / ; ORF Vienna RSO Reutlingen; Fawzi Haimor Meditative sound magic from : Korngold: Cello Concerto; Much Ado About Nothing / Zuill Bailery, cello; Together with colleagues and friends such Golden Bird, an exotically instrumented as John Cage, Christian Wolff and Earle Caspar Richter; Linz Bruckner Orch. miniature of “Chinese coloration,” is followed Brown, Morton Feldman formed a circle of “Zuill Bailey proves a superbly stylish soloist in the single-movement Cello Concerto... and I enjoyed it a lot. What a by the iridescent music for the ballet Dreams, pre-eminent individualists within the American which Antheil wrote in response to a avant-garde movement of the 20th century. wonderfully compact and affecting work! Excellent sound: not to be missed.” – Gramophone commission from the famous choreographer “His last completed score, Coptic Light (1986), 1CD MSLC 1390 $11.99 George Balanchine. The two Serenades is a wonderful mystic unfolding, infl uenced by show us a composer of digestible and easily Middle Eastern textiles. String Quartet and Alexander Zemlinsky: Songs; Sinfonietta / Petra Lang, soprano; Siegfried Lorenz, baritone; graspable music who was searching for a Orchestra (1973), performed with the Arditti Gerd Albrecht; ORF Vienna RSO genuine ‘American tone’. Quartet, is even more magical.” 1CD CPO 555196 $15.49 – The Sunday Times “A superb programme of orchestral and vocal Zemlinsky, often revealing the composer in fraught mood. The playing 1CD CAP 5378 $16.99 combines passion with richness.” – BBC Music Magazine Shostakovitch: Cello Sonatas, Opp. 40 & 147; John J. Becker: Soundpieces 1-7 / Joseph Kubera; 1CD CAP 5377 $16.99 Prelude, Op. 97 / Anouchka Hack, cello; Conrad Harris; Margaret Lancaster; Vasko Dukovski; Katharina Hack, piano FLUX Quartet Gershwin: Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra / Cecile Licad, piano; Gerard Salonga; South Denmark PO For Shostakovich’s wonderfully sentimental Becker could be briefl y summarised as a Prelude for two cellos and piano, the sisters confl uence of dissonance and Catholicism. “Licad clearly has the music at her fi ngertips and the technique to make it leap engagingly from the keyboard, and the receive the support of an illustrious guest: He became known as one of the leading South Denmark Philharmonic Orchestra provide accompaniments as scintillating as any.” – International Piano the star cellist Gautier Capuçon joins in with proponents of a style invented by musicologist/ 1CD DCD 869 $16.99 velvety tone. “The debut CD from the Hack composer Charles Seeger, who had been sisters dazzles. Their intensity and bravura, one of Cowell’s mentors, known as dissonant sheer tightness of ensemble and rich tone counterpoint, an idiom in which the traditional Herbert Howells: Missa Sabrinensis; Michael ‘A Fanfare Setting’ / David Hill; colours carry the listener on a searching, rules of counterpoint were reversed to produce The Bach Choir; BBC Concert Orchestra thrilling journey.” – International Piano maximum dissonance rather than consonance. “Hill’s uplifting performance, magnifi cently sung by the choir and the soloists Helena Dix, Christine Rice, Benjamin Hulett 1CD GUIN 20701 $16.99 1CD NWR 80816 $48.99 and Roderick Williams, proves a complete vindication.” – The Sunday Times 1CD HYP 68294 $23.99 32 33 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com NEW RELEASES - MODERN NEW RELEASES - STRINGS From the Early 20th Century For String Intruments Szymanowski & Franck: String Quartets, Piano Concertos of Tansman & Bacewicz / Violin Sonatas / Chee-Yun, violin; Julia Kociuban, piano; Pawel Przytocki; Arthur Recommended Recordings Akira Eguchi, piano [2 CDs] Rubinstein PO Cello Concertos by Vivaldi, Boccherini, Haydn / Asier Polo, cello One of the fi rst recordings that the This album by Julia Kociuban renowned Carmina Quartet made includes the Piano Concerto No. 1 of This recording covers approximately fi ve decades of literature for violoncello and orchestra – the 50 years for DENON in 1991 gives this Polish aforementioned Alexandre Tansman, between the two concertos by Vivaldi, Haydn and Boccherini. The Concerto for violoncello and strings in C minor composer his proper due. Together very well received in France. For RV 401 by is a beautiful and enigmatic work. “Without doubt, it will be in my Recordings of the with Szymanowski’s violin sonata and Year, and I very much hope to hear more of Asier Polo and Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, either separately or years, the popularity of Grazyna together...” – MusicWeb its model by César Franck, performed Bacewicz’s piano works has been 1CD IBSC 52020 $15.99 by Chee-Yun and Akira Eguchi, dominated by the worldwide success these benchmark interpretations are of the Piano Sonata No. 2 composed now once again available thanks to in 1953, of which Julia Kociuban is Song of the Forests / Olga Dubowskaja, mandolin; Olesya Salvytska, piano cooperation with MDG. an unsurpassed interpreter. 2CD MDG 6502167 $18.99 1CD DUX 1612 $19.99 Olga Dubowskaja and Olesya Salvytska favor two formation types which are seldom heard in Germany: mandolin & piano and domra & piano. The two musicians possess a remarkable sense of expression, and are very careful Façades – Music by William Walton and Constant Mieczysław Weinberg: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7 / with their choice of compositions; they have a penchant for music from the rich repertoire of their homelands. “The Lambert / James Geer, tenor; Andrew West, piano; Anna Duczmal-Mróz; Amadeus CO of Polish Radio works are largely familiar, the playing infectiously enthusiastic.” – BBC Music Magazine Ronald Woodley, piano 1CD PRF 20013 $17.99 In recent years, since the hundredth SOMM Recordings explores one anniversary of the composer’s birth of the most signifi cant partnerships in December 2019, Mieczysław in 20th-century British music Weinberg has become one of the J.S. Bach: The Suites for Solo Cello / Alisa Weilerstein, cello [2 CDs] with Façades, an album of most recognizable Polish composers Alisa Weilerstein returns with a complete recording of Bach’s Cello Suites. These pieces present piano-accompanied songs and of the 20th century. “The Second the highest mountain to climb for any cellist, and one of the most transcendent experiences for listeners alike. music for four-hand piano by William Symphony (1946) is arguably the “The American’s sumptuous sound and modern technique have greater kinship with Casals and his successors Walton and Constant Lambert. fi nest of the three from the 1940s than with ‘period-style’ performers, and her spacious readings have something of du Pré’s emotional style...” Façades takes its title from Walton’s in its lucidly Classical outline and – The Sunday Times era-defi ning “entertainment”, heard deft interplay of motion across three movements...Dorota 2CD PTE 5186751 $22.99 here in arrangements for four-hand piano of its two orchestral Frąckowiak-Kapaπa dispatches the concertante harpsichord Suites by Lambert. part with manifest assurance.” – Gramophone 1CD SOMM 0614 $18.99 1CD DUX 1631 $19.99 : Encores for violin / Pas de Deux, works for Violin & Cello / Astor Piazzolla: Genius of Tango / Howard Wall, Astor Piazzolla: Works arranged for Horn & David Oistrakh, violin; Vladimir Yampolsky, piano Daniel Rowland, violin; Maja Bogdanovic, cello horn; Elmira Darvarova, violin; Thomas Weaver, Orchestra / Radek Baborak, This recording contains EMI’s Great Pas de Deux brings together a collection of Daniel Rowland and Maja piano [2 CDs] The phenomenal French-horn player Recordings collection plus six additional Bogdanovic’s favorite works which they have performed together over Piazzolla’s greatest masterpieces Radek Baborak comes with a new tracks. “..the playing itself is certainly as the last two years. Ravel’s ‘Sonata for Violin and Cello, à la memoire album (his second on Animal Music) beautiful as one could imagine, with good de ’ is the centerpoint for which the duo has used as are given a fresh new interpretation balance on the stereo between violin and their “kaleidoscope” for the recording, a looking glass that takes us both featuring music by the Argentine in transcriptions for Violin, Horn, piano.” (Gramophone) “The subtlety of his back and forward in time, and both of those simultaneously. “Gorgeous and Piano by three acclaimed composer Astor Piazzolla, in vibrato usage and the sophistication he performance...a true duo.” artists – violinist Elmira Darvarova, arrangements that were tailor-made employs bring their own very true rewards. – NPO Radio hornist Howard Wall and pianist for his eleven-member ensemble, As indeed does the certain tristesse he 1CD CHL 72833 $15.49 Thomas Weaver. After performing the Radek Baborak Orquestrina. In fi nds in the fi nal bars – unusually so.” – MusicWeb Cantilena / Tabea Zimmermann, viola; their Piazzolla tribute program these settings, The role of the bandoneon – traditionally the 1CD MSLC 1357 $11.99 internationally at prestigious venues carrier of the Argentine-tango sound – is here taken over by Javier Perianes, piano in Europe and America, the artists have now also recorded it the French horn, the , violin and piano. Astor Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos This album invites you to travel from Spain here, featuring 14 world-premiere recordings. 1CD ANML 084 $21.99 Aires / Katherine Hunka, violin to South America in the company of the 2CD AFFT 2003 $19.99 greatest composers the countries of the Constantin Silvestri (1913–1969): Complete Piano Piazzolla’s La Cuarto Estaciones Porteñas (‘The Four Seasons region have produced: next to Spanish folk Richard Strauss: Macbeth, Op. 23; ‘Der Works / Luiza Borac, piano [2 CDs] of Buenos Aires’) takes us through the seasons: Verano Porteño songs reshaped by Falla, compositions Rosenkavalier’, suite; Death & Transfi guration / (‘Summer’), alert and enigmatic, blustery Otoño (‘Autumn’), the jittery by Casals, Granados, Montsalvatge, Silvestri (a brilliant improviser) liveliness of Primavera (‘Spring’) and a gently melancholic Invierno and the beloved Ária from the Bachiana Lan Shui, Singapore SO devoted his time to playing the piano (‘Winter’). We hear the pieces arranged for violin and strings by Leonid brasileira by Brazil’s Villa-Lobos. A Generally acknowledged as and to compositions for this very Desyatnikov, playfully incorporating elements from Vivaldi’s Four wide-ranging program which brings Seasons. one of the great masters of the personal instrument, to which he together two virtuoso soloists... who are not 1CD ORPO 100130 $16.99 about to part anytime soon. late-Romantic symphony orchestra, entrusted his most secret thoughts 1CD HAR 902648 $19.99 Richard Strauss understood like colored by his own subjectivity. few others how to use the rich It is a great credit to the pianist MUSIC FOR SOLO STRING INSTRUMENTS IN BRIEF palette of instrumental colours to Luiza Borac to be presenting here portray larger-than-life and to the public the fi rst recordings Bach’s Predecessors, Music for Violin Solo by Baltzar, Westhoff, Biber & Bach / emotions. He did so in a series of and arrangements of Silvestri’s complete piano works. The Annegret Siedel, Baroque violin pioneering symphonic poems. In his Bucharest National Radio Symphony provide the support for J.S. Bach’s Chaconne is considered the most overwhelming piece ever written for violin solo. The richness of the virtuoso very fi rst tone poem, he composed a portrayal of Macbeth, his the concertante works. 2CD PRF 20028 $22.99 polyphonic play developed here on “only” four strings is an immpression that can hardly be surpassed. ferociously ambitious wife and their downfall. 1CD MSP 56984 $14.99 1SACD BIS 2342 $19.99 Viktor Ullmann: Piano Concerto, Sonatas / Annika Haydn & Friends / Simone Eckert, viola de gamba & baryton : Pelleas und Melisance; Treutler, piano; Stephan Frucht; Radio SO Berlin [2 CDs] This production by the ensemble Hamburger Ratsmusik around gambist Simone Eckert focuses on Haydn’s reception in the north Erwartung / Sara Jakubiak, soprano; Edward and combines his compositions with selected pieces by Haydn’s contemporaries, Franz Xaver Hammer and Carl Stamitz. Gardner, Bergen PO “As a result of the Holocaust a 1CD HAN 17064 $18.99 “Gardner and his Bergen orchestra whole generation was offi cially wiped out and a chapter of music follow their outstanding account Voice of Hope / Camille Thomas, cello; Stephane Deneve, Brussels PO of Gurre-Lieder with a coupling history erased. That means that of works that demonstrate even 75 years on, not only Ullmann’s This program includes works by Bruch, Ravel, and Fazil Says’ “Never Give Up” for Cello and Orchestra. “In Purcell’s ’s Lament, Thomas’ languid cello line high up above the massed strings, is gloriously effective.” – The Strad more starkly Schoenberg’s journey music, but the music of a whole 1CD DGG B003185002 $20.99 towards atonal modernism... The generation of composers is utterly lush harmonic world of the orchestral unknown,” explains Annika Treutler. piece offsets the drama’s pristine We frequently think we hear echoes City Lights / Lisa Batiashvili, violin with Miloš, Katie Melua and Till Brönner beauty, and Gardner’s clear-sighted of other composers, and yet Ullmann’s music speaks a very City Lights shares the beautiful melodies from Cinema Paradiso and Chaplin’s own compositions with classics from Piazzolla, vision fi nds shafts of light through the moonlit “forests” of unique, unusual language. J.S. Bach and – all in new arrangements by Nikoloz Rachveli – plus a new song by Katie Melua about the magic Schoenberg’s orchestration.” – The Sunday Times 2Blu-ray Audio / CD BER 0301463 $24.99 of London. 1SACD CHA 5198 $19.99 1CD DGG B003204502 $23.99 34 35 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Contemporary Music Recordings NEW RELEASES - CONTEMPORARY Fridrich Bruk: Orchestral Music Vol. 2 / Christopher Gunning: Violin Concerto; The Contemporary Symphony Maris Kupcs, Lithuanian State SO; Liepaja SO Cello Concerto / Harriet Mackenzie, violin; Royal PO The heart of Fridrich Bruk’s music lies Christopher Gunning returns with Arthur Butterworth: Symphony No. 1; Ruth Gipps: Symphony No. 2 / Douglas Bostock; in a series of 21 symphonies, which recordings of his Violin Concerto, Cello Munich PO have a strong narrative element. The Concerto and Birdfl ight. Violin Concerto three most recent together form a was inspired whilst the composer was The Orchestra and Douglas Bostock present an exciting program of works by three English composers – Malcolm Arnold (1921–2006), Arthur Butterworth (1923–2014), and Ruth Gipps (1921–1999). Two Symphonies kind of meta-symphony premised on hiking in Wales. The violin is supposed are featured, as well as an Organ Concerto in which organist Ulrik Spang-Hanssen takes the lead. “A truly desirable project the persecution of the Jews in the to represent ducking and weaving, with the orchestra and recording team getting well into their stride in this cracker.” – MusicWeb fi rst half of the 20th century. Bruk’s rather like the insects and animals 1CD MSLC 3105 $12.99 kaleidoscopic use of orchestral color found in the Welsh hills and valleys. and his dramatic musical language “A thoroughly rewarding, immensely refl ect this urge to chronicle the outrage likeable achievement, and Harriet Sir James MacMillan (b. 1959): Symphony No. 5 / visited on his fellow Jews – and which Mackenzie proves an outstandingly Harry Christophers; The Sixteen directly impinged on his own life. assured and sensitive advocate.” 1CD TOC 0543 $16.99 – Gramophone Imagine a vision too wondrous for eyes alone – ‘the lady more brilliant than the sun’. ‘The lady’ is the Virgin Mary, 1CD SIG 621 $17.99 and The Sun Danced is an ecstatic choral celebration of the Miracle of Fatima commissioned by the Shrine of Fatima for the celebration of the Centennial of the Apparitions in Portugal. Celebrated British soprano, Mary Bevan, features on this, the Emil Tabakov: Complete Symphonies Vol. 5 / premiere recording. “Everything is drawn together by James into a cornucopia of sheer virtuosity and brilliance.” Emil Tabakov; SO of Bulgarian National Radio David Lang (b. 1957): Prisoner Of The State / – Harry Christophers Jaap Van Zweden, The music of the Bulgarian composer-conductor Emil Tabakov 1CD COO 16179 $16.99 (b. 1947) explores the darker side of the human spirit in epic Called “a dark, seething and engrossing work” and “a high point of scores. The Second Symphony is a diptych where the wild, Mr. van Zweden’s fi rst season as music director” by The New York Philip Sawyers: Symphony No. 4; Hommage to Kadinsky / Kenneth Woods; BBC NO of stamping, manic whirl of the second movement releases the store Times, the world premiere of David Lang’s opera prisoner of the Wales of energy pent up by the grief-stricken fi rst. The four-movement state concluded Music of Conscience, the New York Philharmonic’s Sixth Symphony is a tragic utterance in the monumental manner of 2019 exploration of the ways in which composers have used music Philip Sawyers’s (b. 1951) Fourth Symphony is a structural departure from his prior symphonies, as it is scored in three the middle-period Shostakovich symphonies. to respond to the social and political issues of their times. movements. “The large-scale symphonic poem Hommage to Kandinsky was commissioned by the Grand Rapids Symphony in celebration of the tenure of their longstanding Music Director, David Lockington. Both works are performed with panache 1CD TOC 0562 $16.99 1CD DEC B003210702 $18.99 by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. 1CD NIM 6405 $18.99 Naomi Pinnock (b. 1979): Lines and Spaces / Ian Venables (b. 1955): Requiem / Bozzini Quartet; London Sinfonietta Gloucester Cathedral Choir, Jonathan Hope, organ On this portrait-album British This release features the premiere recording of Ian Venables’ exquisite Jaroslav Krček (b. 1939): Four String Quartets / The composer Naomi Pinnock creates : Violin Concerto; Stravinsky: Violin tender-fragile, fi nely differentiated and moving Requiem with the Choir Czech Philharmonic Quartet Concerto / David Nebel, violin; Kristjan Jarvi sound formations from highly reduced of Gloucester Cathedral. Completed The young Swiss violinist David Nebel This new release includes four string quartets sound material. “This is music intent in 2018, the Requiem received its recorded exceptional works by two of the most by the Czech composer Jaroslav Krček. The on forging its own continuity...where fi rst performance in the imposing important composers of the 20th century: fi rst quartet was written in 2017 at the request the composer’s abstract phrases are surroundings of Gloucester Cathedral, The rarely recorded Violin Concerto No. 1 by of the Czech Philharmonic Quartet. The where this recording was made in 2019. joyful performance of this piece inspired the intoned by the soloist such that they American composer Philip Glass and Igor The Requiem is Ian Venables’ most Stravinsky’s neoclassical Violin Concerto in D. composer to write his next two quartets. The complement the instrumental writing “Nebel offers little bursts of lyricism, rhythmic fourth is inspired by Leo Janácek. 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All the detail is enjoyed...” Philharmonic members. – The Strad 1CD ARCO 0214 $16.99 1CD SBMG 19075882982 $14.99 Edward Cowie: Three Quartets & A Solo / Kalevi Aho (b. 1949): Chamber Music / Julia Wolfe: Singing in the Dead of Night; David Lang: Samuli Peltonen, cello; Sonja Fraki, piano Milan Mihajlovic: Memento for Orchestra / Kreutzer Quartet These Broken Wings / Eighth Blackbird Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt Edward Cowie is one of the most individual and notable voices Internationally acclaimed for his music for orchestra, Kalevi Groundbreaking new-music sextet Eighth in contemporary music. He works with sound, color, order and Aho has also composed chamber and solo works. This release Mikolaj Górecki, Giya Kancheli, Blackbird, winners of four GRAMMY Awards Arvo Pärt, and Finnish composers such as disorder, shape, pattern and form which he sees a part of a combines six such pieces, with performances by four highly for their previous Cedille Records albums, respected Finnish musicians, the violinists (and brothers) Jaakko Rautavaara and Sallinen have shown that are heard in the world-premiere recording of grand unifi cation of sensual input. “Quietly frenetic textures act contemporary music can be immediately a collaborative program of intensely rhythmic as skein-like support for more forthright material in Cowie’s First and Pekka Kuusisto, cellist Samuli Peltonen and Sonja Fräki, appealing and emotionally moving, and that works written expressly for the Chicago-based Quartet... while the Second... is dazzlingly faceted and the Sixth... pianist and Aho specialist. “The Kuusisto brothers are exceptionally tonality has not at all said everything. Milan ensemble. Each piece on Singing in the Dead refl ects upon the winds and seasons.” – The Sunday Times well-matched, bringing a sense of poise to the work’s folk-like Mihajlovic (b. 1945) defi nitely has his place on of Night takes its name from Paul McCartney’s simplicity...” – The Strad this list of prominent contemporary composers, 1CD MTI 28603 $17.99 lyrics to The Beatles song “Blackbird” – but this 1SACD BIS 2186 $19.99 and it is high time for him to receive due music exists in another realm altogether. recognition from us in the West. This music is an absolute listening must! 1CD CDL 195 $16.99 CONTEMPORARY MUSIC RECORDINGS IN BRIEF 1CD CPO 555296 $15.49 Xiaogang Ye: Chamber Music / Fabrice Pierre; Les Beata Hlavenkova (b. 1978): Sně / Beata Hlavenková, piano & voice; Eric Montalbetti: Chamber Music / Christian Temps Modernes Oskar Török, trumpet & percussion Tetzlaff, violin; Quatuor Les Dissonances Xiaogang Ye has been widely acclaimed in On her fi fth album, pianist and composer Beata Hlavenková appears as singer for the fi rst time. Although Beata travels Harmonieuses Dissonances: that recent decades as one of China’s leading contemporary composers. A pair of works farther from her jazz roots and explores contemporary cross-genre songwriting. Her style, however, is still very much is the title of the string quartet that closes this recognizable. second album of music by Eric Montalbetti (b. explores the traditional symbolism of fl owering 1968), but above all it is a statement of the plants in China, and three others capture 1CD ANML 078 $14.99 very subject of the works assembled here: the deep mysticism of holy lakes in Tibet they start out from heterogeneous elements, as well as Tibetan Buddhist practices. “... Timothy Kramer: Sentinels / Jirí Petrdlík; Janácek PO like the diversity of the people we know, or of this is a fascinating and important release. The ensemble Les Temps Modernes play From the prominent horn lines in Timothy Kramer’s Symphony B-A-C-H to the resolute A Fivescore Festival and the our moods and thoughts, and aim to fi nd the exciting syncopation of Sentinels of the Dance, this release of orchestral works is a thrilling ride from start to fi nish. meaning of a life that we hope will, in the end, wonderfully...” – MusicWeb be harmonious. 1CD DEL 3559 $16.99 1CD NVA 6284 $14.99 1CD AHP 583 $16.99 Gustavo Diaz-Jerez: Seven Symphonic Poems About the : Accused, Two Episodes / Anu Komsi, Canary Islands / Eduardo Portal, conductor [2 CDs] James Primosch: Carthage / Donald Nally; The Crossing; Schola Quartet soprano; Finnish Radio SO Gustavo Diaz-Jerez is one of the leading GRAMMY-winning chamber choir The Crossing is back with six striking pieces by James Primosch that confront the most This new album by the Finnish Radio composers and pianists in Spain. His elemental questions of Western philosophy. 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His diverse catalog includes many Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra enjoys almost two and a half hours of music – which pieces for Asian instruments (in addition to Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, and Mongol) and for early Western evoke the landscapes and natural beauty of the a particularly close relationship with the instruments. composer. Canary Islands. 2CD SIG 612 $24.99 1CD CEN 3802 $15.99 1CD OND 1345 $16.99 36 37 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com NEW RELEASES - CONTEMPORARY NEW RELEASES - GUITAR Contemporary Music Recordings Guitar or Lute Krzysztof Penderecki: St. Luke Passion / Sarah Penderecki: Concertos Vol. 8 / Maciej Frackiewicz, Wegener; Orchestre symphonique de Montréal accordion; Bartlomiej Dus, soprano saxophone Recommended New Releases Krzysztof Penderecki’s setting of the One of the main elements of Passion story was premièred in 1966 Penderecki’s concert output is the Francis Cutting (1550–1596): Lute Music / Domenico Cerasani, lute and immediately established a place universal, easily transcribable nature of “[Francis Cutting’s] pavanes, galliards, almains and other dance pieces for lute are of the Elizabethan golden age for itself among the most important the solo parts. Therefore, it comes as and are characterized by episodes of complex polyphony and uncomplicated homophony with an occasionally large-scale choral works of the 20th no surprise that many of Penderecki’s daring harmonic hue. Lute player Domenico Cerasani is soloist in this near hour-long program of Renaissance century. Despite its decidedly modernist works have been transcribed in a dance pieces, which are immaculately performed and recorded in a luminous, complimentary acoustic.” idiom, the music’s emotional power, variety of ways. For this release, – HBDirect Editor’s Choice glowing colors and sonic impact spoke Penderecki’s Double Concerto for Viola 1CD BLC 96099 $10.49 to audiences as well as critics, one of and Cello and his Concerto for Flute whom described St Luke’s Passion as and Chamber Orchestra are performed ‘the most important bridge between the in transcriptions for accordion, soprano Agustín Barrios Mangoré: Danza Paraguaya / Maximilian Mangold, guitar spirit of the liturgy and modern music.’ saxophone, and chamber orchestra 1SACD BIS 2287 $19.99 accompaniment. Agustín Barrios Mangoré (1885–1944) was one of the fi rst composers to exploit the guitar’s musical 1CD DUX 1571 $19.99 expressiveness in a manner that went far beyond that of the works of Francisco Tárrega. Melodic inventiveness, fascinating harmonies, and ideal realization on the instrument are combined here in masterpieces of the guitar Pēteris Vasks (b. 1946): Distant Light / Henryk Gorecki (1933–2010): Sanctus Adalbertus / literature. Maximilian Mangold is regarded “...as one of today’s artistically most interesting German guitarists.” Vadim Gluzman, violin; Finnish Radio SO Ewa Tracz, soprano; Silesian Phil. SO – Fono Forum 1CD MSP 56983 $14.99 Having spent much of his childhood Sanctus Adalbertus Op. 71 by Henryk in , where he also began his Górecki was written in 1997 to violin studies, Vadim Gluzman makes commemorate the millennium of the a return to his roots with this disc of martyr’s death of Saint Adalbert. In J.S. Bach: Lute Suite, BWV996; Lute Partita, BWV997 / Sean Shibe, guitar music by Pēteris Vasks. The program writing Sanctus Adalbertus, Górecki Sean Shibe turns to the music of J.S. Bach, with three works whose obscure early performance history belies opens with the violin concerto ‘Distant used the Book of and his own their status as repertoire staples for modern guitarists. “This astonishing and adventurous guitarist...plays with Light’, which in the two decades texts, in Polish, Latin and Czech. As such depth of tone, colour and intricacies of touch that it is as though he’s at a harpsichord, not strumming or since it was composed has become a Adrian Thomas, observed, the oratorio’s plucking fretted strings...Shibe’s music-making is masterful, beautiful and convincing in every way.” – The Times modern classic. “Excellent sound from musical material contains “references 1CD DELP 34233 $19.99 the Helsinki Music Centre is another both to Edward Elgar’s late Romantic attraction in an album that will draw new style and to the relic of Polish early music, the medieval chant listeners to Vasks.” – AllMusic ‘Bogurodzica’ (Mother of God).” 1SACD BIS 2352 $19.99 1CD DUX 7651 $19.99 Mauro Giuliani: Le Bouquet Emblématique / Maestros of the Baroque – Rameau; Scarlatti / PBO & Caroline Shaw (b. 1982) / Anne Sofi e Christian El Khouri, guitar Finnbarr Malafronte, guitar Pēteris Vasks (b. 1946): Viola Concerto / von Otter, mezzo-soprano; PBO & Chorale Christian El Khouri performs three works The was particularly Maxim Rysanov, viola; Sinfonietta Riga Since 2015, Philharmonia Baroque for solo guitar composed by Mauro prominent in Spain, France and Italy, Originally a player, Pēteris Orchestra & Chorale and Pulitzer Prize – Giuliani (1781–1829): Giulianate Op. 148, while romantic depictions of guitarists Choix de mes fl eurs chéries Op. 46, appeared in paintings by the likes of Dutch Vasks has a fondness for strings, and and GRAMMY Award-winning composer has composed numerous works for the Cavatina Bel raggio lusinghiero Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer. This Caroline Shaw have developed a from Rossinis Semiramide. Giuliani program brings together music by two string ensembles of various sizes. strong artistic relationship. This album skillfully merges the legacy of the Italian great Baroque composers, one French, On this release, his 1991 Symphony features the full collection of PBO/Shaw 18th-century instrumental tradition one Italian, whose harpsichord music lends for Strings ‘Voices,’ is combied with commissions thus far. “The three songs with the achievements of the Viennese itself superbly to these transcriptions for the more recent Concerto for Viola. of Is a Rose similarly traverse time... By music culture, with a grace and melodic the guitar. “This searing release confi rms Vask’s turns and restrained, the piece spontaneity that are typically Italian. 1CD QTZR 2136 $16.99 international stature and, specifi cally, is head in a radiant performance from 1CD DYN 7855 $12.99 Fandango! Music for Solo Guitar and String his affi nity for string writing...” Anne Sofi e von Otter...” The Beginning of a Legend / Celedonio Romero, – BBC Music Magazine – BBC Music Magazine Quartet / Johan Lofving, guitar 1SACD BIS 2443 $19.99 guitar; Celin Romero, guitar 1CD PHBQ 12 $19.99 Swedish-born guitar virtuoso Johan Lofving Celedonio Romero and his brother Celin James MacMillan: Symphony No. 4; returns to Resonus Classics to record his John Pickard (b. 1963): Chamber Music / founded with their other two brothers the debut solo album with a program of works Viola Concerto / Lawrence Power, viola; guitar quartet remembered as “The Royal for both solo guitar and guitar with string Susan Bickley, mz; Nash Ensemble BBC Philharmonic Family of Guitar”. Celedonio made many quartet. Joined by the Consone Quartet, recordings alone, with the quartet and with Four previous recordings on BIS have and castanet player Nanako Aramaki, James MacMillan is the pre-eminent his brother Celin, leaving more than one all featured John Pickard’s music for for Boccherini’s fourth guitar quintet, Scottish composer of his generation. hundred of compositions and concertos large orchestra or a large brass band. Lofving presents a compelling selection This release celebrates his Symphony for guitar. This IDIS album is dedicated to of Romantic guitar repertoire framed by This release presents a varied range of No. 4, which was composed in the fi rst and very rare studio recordings of two fandango movements that show the his works, from a solo oboe piece to a celebration of the conductor Donald Celedonio and Celin Romero performed at infl uence of Spanish folk music. work scored for a chamber ensemble. Runnicles’s 60th birthday. The work is the beginning of the Sixties. 1CD REOA 10260 $16.99 The seven works cover just over 30 1CD IDIS 6740 $14.99 paired on this recording with his Viola years; the earliest one, Serenata Concerto, a piece jointly commissioned J.S. Bach: Aus der Partita for Violin, BWV1004 / Kharacter, Works for Solo Guitar / Jonas Khalil, Concertata, was Pickard’s fi rst paid by the London PO, Lucerne SO, Bergen commission written at the age of twenty. Stefan Koim, guitar guitar PO, and Adelaide SO. “...the playing “A very impressive range of works in of both Lawrence Power and the BBC Philharmonic is beyond On his debut album, Stefan Koim presents Alongside his work as a soloist, guitarist excellent performances.” – MusicWeb compositions from the Baroque to modern exceptional.” – MusicWeb Jonas Khalil is a popular chamber music 1SACD BIS 2461 $19.99 times, the connecting element of which partner and plays in various formations 1CD HYP 68317 $23.99 is a creative adaptation of Spanish music with members of the Staatsorchester Christopher J. Keyes (b. 1963): A Connotation of traditions – an adaptation that could take Stuttgart and with Duo GaJo together : Orchestral Music Infi nity / Christopher J. Keyes, piano; Janáček PO on different forms in individual cases. with Gabriel Faur, solo cellist with the Vol. 4 / Michael McHale, piano; BBC Scottish SO With this mixture of Spanish and French Wurttembergisches Kammerorchester [2 CDs] elements, the compositions on this album Heilbronn and the municipal theatre in In this fourth volume in their Richard This Christopher J. Keyes’s album once again point to the close connection Bern. “...his tone is warm and colorful, and Rodney Bennett (1936–2012) series, between the various musical styles in he’s sensitive to the spaces and rests.” speaks directly to why listeners should John Wilson and the BBC Scottish Europe, even across national borders. – The Absolute Sound embrace the transgressive element Symphony Orchestra turn to his Piano 1CD MSP 56963 $14.99 1CD HAN 20004 $18.99 of electronics in traditional classical Concerto, commissioned by the John music. Keyes, who wrote as much Feeney Trust for the CBSO and written A Tribute to Vladimir Morkov (1801–1864) / The Czar’s Guitars [2 CDs] software for the album as he did music, in 1968. The work was premiered in The name of Vladimir Ivanovich Morkov is known only to those Western listeners who have been faithfully following the employs what he calls a 3D audio for a Birmingham in September that year. recent revival of the Russian seven-string guitar. But even in the context outside of the Russian guitar, Morkov stands out more immersive listening experience. “Wilson’s survey of Bennett’s concert as a musician, music critic, composer, arranger, and pedagogue of the highest order. The Czar’s Guitars consist of Oleg Keyes’s latest release, which features works continues to surprise and Timofeyev and John Schneiderman. video performances of select pieces, delight.” – The Sunday Times 2CD HAN 20018 $18.99 envelopes and entrances the minds of 1SACD CHA 5244 $19.99 listeners from all walks of life. 3Blu-ray Audio/CD/DVD-Video RAEL 8030 $24.99 38 39 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Music for Chorus NEW RELEASES - CHORAL Cantos Sagrados – MacMillan, Whitacre, Sacred Choir & Organ Music of Distler, Zimmermann / Recommended Choral Music Esenvalds, et al. / Christopher Bell, Nat’l Youth Choir Maria Jürgensen; Norddeutscher Kammerchor of Scotland; Royal Scottish NO Hugo Distlers contribution to Lutheran church music of the 20th century A New England Requiem, Sacred Choral Music of Scott Perkins / Here, the NYCOS and RSNO join forces to create an eclectic mix of can hardly be overestimated. 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In top form, Maria Jürgensen has now recorded a program with works Additional works by Perkins set familiar texts in a cappella and orchestral arrangements including The Wonsers of Thy from Distlers Liturgische Sätze and as a complementary contrast Grace, Jubilate Deo, Magnifi cat, The Lord’s Prayer, Take My Life, That I May Be, Blessed Rest, O Gracious Light, and more. addition to their impeccable tuning, vocal balance and tone quality, you Hans-Werner Zimmermanns jazz-inspired chorale variations on Distlers “Perfectly Orchestrated...Haunting...A remarkable and welcome musical surprise.” – Washington Times can hear the enthusiasm the NYCOS have for this music and the sheer 1CD GTHC 49322 $16.99 pleasure they take in sharing it with us.” – Choir & Organ Nürnberger Großes Gloria. 1CD SIG 604 $17.99 1SACD MDG 9022156 $18.99

Ben Parry: The Hours, Choral Music / Rupert Gough; Rosa Mystica, Musical Portraits of the Blessed Choral Music by Arvo Pärt, Peter Vasks, James MacMillan / The Dmitri Ens.; The Choir of Royal Holloway Virgin Mary / Paul Spicer, Royal Birmingham Choir of Clare College, Cambridge This recording made by the Royal Holloway Conservatoire Chamber Choir Choir celebrates the music of Ben Parry. When he moved away from serial techniques at the end of the 1960s, having undergone something of a spiritual and artistic The enduring fascination with and devotion transformation, Arvo Pärt turned to the choral tradition of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance for inspiration. “This is a His compositions and arrangements to Mary in the modern era is represented focused and absorbing programme…The choir shows the best of its blends in Pärt’s clean, triadic architecture – sopranos include the popular Faber Carol Book and by a diverse array of composers from the on point in the Magnifi cat, with clear colours from the whole ensemble in the Nunc dimittis.” – Gramophone a burgeoning catalogue of choral music for austere, hushed, mystical atmospheres 1CD HAR 905323 $19.99 Peters Edition and Oxford University Press. of John Tavener’s Mother of God, here I Here, he sets the words of poems by Garth stand, the jazz-Blues-accented Ave Maria Bardsley, who says about Bens work all of of Carl Rütti, rich harmonic and colour my poems stand alone but given the Parry palette of Judith Bingham’s Ave Virgo The Suspended Harp of Babel, Choral Music of Cyrillus Kreek / Vox Clamantis treatment, I know that they take fl ight. The Sanctissima and Trond Kverno’s beautiful, Choir of Royal Holloway is considered to The album features revelatory performances of the choral music of Estonian composer Cyrillus Kreek. His pieces, unusual setting of Ave Maris Stella to be one of the fi nest mixed-voice collegiate incorporating settings of psalms & folk hymns, are juxtaposed here with instrumental fantasias & interludes created for this Cecilia McDowall’s short but highly choirs in Britain. recording by Marco Ambrosini. “A caressing velvety choral reassurance underpins Jaan-Eile Tulve’s tender direction of effective carol, Of a Rose. Psalm 121...Nothing is forced. The singing breathes with a collective, gentle inevitability...The fi nal impression is abiding 1CD SIG 629 $17.99 1CD SOMM 0617 $18.99 solace for these distracted times.” – BBC Music Magazine Landmarks, Vocal Works by Leonard Cohen, Federico 1CD ECM B003197102 $23.99 Ruiz, Veljo Tormis, et al. / Calmus Ensemble Tearfully – Roman Padlewski: Stabat Mater; Joanna Calmus performs ten “vocal landmarks” on its new album – works by Wnuk-Nazarowa: Planctus / Katowice City Singers ten composers from ten different countries. Musical borders open here, Sadness caused by an individual or collective experience of evil, Christos Samaras: Peace Is When / ‘Thamyriades’ Female Choral work of Byrd, Hassler, Hammerschmidt, and styles mix. encounter the avantgarde, folk meets jazz, transformed into a Christian hope for the fate altering, sometimes Vocal Ensemble of Polygyros Halkidiki Rosenmuller, J.S. Bach, Mozart, Rutter, et al. / South American rhythms pulsate alongside Yiddish melodies. You soon evokes creative thought, allows to enclose the experience within a form realize that it is actually a very short journey from minimal music to The outstanding album PEACE IS WHEN... of artistic message. The content of each work on this CD touches upon pop, and how classical harmonies and jazz sounds interweave. You will is the fi rst album in a series dedicated to the Looking solely at the dates, the Knabenchor matters fundamental for every human being, but also for the fate of a one of Greeces leading composers, Christos recognize masters such as , Leonard Cohen, Georg nation plagued by defeats, yet unceasingly rising from each one. That Hannover is still young in comparison to the Kreisler, and ... Samaras. The recording includes 17 songs that other famous boys choirs. Its foundation struggle often fi nds company in art and the beauty it contains, which in 1CD CRS 83498 $18.99 run the gamut of the “Thamyriades” Female in 1950 continued a Hannoverian choral turn, to quote Norwid, is the shape of love. Vocal Ensemble of Polygyros Halkidikis tradition going back as far as to the chorus O schöne Nacht – Romantic Choral Music of 1CD DUX 7610 $19.99 repertoire – from full-voice style pieces to symphonicus of the 13th century, which the women’s work song tradition of Greek was responsible for the choral services in Rheinberger, Brahms, Herzogenberg / Michael Alber; Macedonia. Samaras turned to wonderful Hannovers main churches. Without an affi liated Orpheus Vokalensemble All Things Common – Music of Tarik O’Regan / Robert Greek poetry by Odysseas Elytis, Nikiforos boarding school, choral works from all eras Istad, Pacifi c Chorale & Salastina Vrettakos, George Seferis, Kostis Palamas, are rehearsed on a daily basis. The fi nal result O charming night – like a common and more for these the beautiful Greek songs. are excellent concerts in historically informed thread, the romantic motifs of yearning “The performance you hear is real. This 1CD PHAS 018 $13.99 performance practice. for peace, farewell to lovers and mystical is not surgically stitched together from Sange Fra Graenselandet ‘Songs from the 1CD RDAU 7024 $14.99 experiences of nature run through the many takes. Some of the tracks on this Borderland’ / Musica Ficta; Bo Holten works in this recording. With particular album are the only take we recorded, and Komitas: Divine Liturgy, arranged for mixed chorus / sensitivity and subtle harmonic effects, others we performed multiple times until Where Jutland meets Germany, you Sigvards Klava; Latvian Radio Choir Rheinberger brings the world of elves we had the fl avor and execution that Tarik will fi nd a border country that has served and mermaids to life. Brahms’s “charming (O’Regan) and Bob (Attiyeh) and I wanted. as a transition and meeting place for over A wonderful “concert version” of the revered Komitas Divine Liturgy! Here the great Komitas night,” moonlit and enhanced by the song We worked hard to capture the sound Tarik a thousand years, but also as a point of of the nightingale, serves as the backdrop had in his mind when writing these works, contention. At times, the border has been work is transformed into a “concert mass” in for an implied amorous adventure. And and to refl ect accurately what I hear when virtually invisible and other times been the the fi rst-ever recording of this appealing mixed subject of war, but the country there has choir version. Here, in Vache Sharafyan’s Herzogenberg’s Notturnos evoke an conducting Pacifi c Chorale singers.” always been a living mixing of Danes and arrangement, the added colors of female entirely otherworldly reverie. – Robert Istad Germans who have lived door to door on both voices increase the beauty of the work. “The 1CD CRS 83510 $18.99 1CD YARL 02592 $19.99 sides of the border. The history of the border aim of Komitas: Divine Liturgy (Delos), sung country is told here in song by the Danish by the Latvian Radio Choir, conducted by NEW CHORAL ALBUMS IN BRIEF choral group Musica Ficta and its conductor, Sigvards Klava, is to make this haunting, radiant music performable in concert, as well Bo Holton. When You Believe, A Night At The Movies / The Tabernacle Choir & Orchestra at Temple Square 1CD DACO 8226182 $14.99 as within ritual.” – The Guardian 1CD DEL 3590 $16.99 The Tabernacle Choir presents a collection of beloved songs from the silver screen. Hold on to your seats for an exciting journey Openings, Songs for Children’s Choir by Martinu / Jirí Carol Browning: Unknown Blessings / Marianne , through timeless melodies, epic soundscapes, and an awe-inspiring tour de force of musical talent. Skopal; Jitro Czech Girls Choir piano; Unknown Blessings Choir 1CD MRMT 5238747 $8.98 Composer Bohuslav Martinu believed that music holds the power to open our minds to Unknown Blessings: Finding God in Worship and the World is a collection by Carol Browning a new, transcendent understanding of time, Mirabile Mysterium, Choral Music for Christmas dfrom Different Countries & Eras / nature, and tradition. OPENINGS is an apt featuring songs for prayer and worship. As a title for this album not only because of its Quaker, Carol strives to be guided by the Inner Sächsisches Vocalensemble Light (or Christ Light) in her writing/arranging focus on spring and renewal, but also because Along with the works specifi cally concerning themselves with the Christmas event and qualifying as Christmas songs in the stricter it offers a portal through which listeners of and in her life. In the fast-paced world of today, sense of the term, we also fi nd, primarily at the beginning of the program, some genuine Advent songs. all backgrounds may appreciate and enjoy Carol’s songs and arrangements invite us to the beauty of Czech culture. With technical “have the faith of a child,” to “come and rest,” to 1CD CPO 555318 $15.49 precision and infectious exuberance, the girls listen to the “Indwelling Christ,” to “give thanks of Jitro lovingly offer the songs and stories of for unknown blessings,” and to know that “all Sacred Romantic Choral Music of Gounod, Rossini, Verdi, Gade, et al. / Fabian Enders; their people to all who listen. shall be well.” Sachsische Solistenvereinigung 1CD NVA 6288 $14.99 1CD GIA 1069 $16.99 The selection of works is primarily off the beaten track, thereby broadening the spectrum of well-known works of German Will Todd: Lights, Stories, Noise, Dreams, Love & Noodles / David Hill; Romanticism and focusing on the music of composers from all over Europe. The Bach Choir; Finchley Children’s Music Group 1CD RDAU 6184 $16.99 Will Todd is well known for his beautiful and exciting music. His work encompasses choral works large and small, opera, musical theatre and orchestral pieces, as well as jazz compositions and chamber works. This album celebrates the work of the Bach Choir’s When Love Speaks – Choral Music of Owain Park / Tim Reader, The Epiphoni Consort amazing outreach project with local schools, which culminated in 2016 with the new commission Lights, Stories, Noise, Dreams, The Epiphoni Consort singers make the most of the luxuriant chordal writing that characterizes Owain Park’s style as a whole – Love and Noodles with words by celebrated poet Michael Rosen. what his former teacher John Rutter has described as ‘towers of sound’. 1CD SIG 591 $17.99 1CD DELP 34239 $19.99

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The program includes works by other 20th century Argentinian this collection of European and Ottoman and Brazilian composers: Jayme Ovalle, Villa-Lobos, Carlos Pagliuchi, Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez and Ginastera…soprano with a wide-ranging repertoire from Raquel Lojendio sings this music in such a way that one cannot imagine anyone else performing them. A Charmer!” baroque to contemporary. Featured vocal and instrumental, sacred and – HBDirect Editor’s Choice here is Myrthen (Myrtle Wreath), secular, court and popular music, Ali 1CD IBSC 22020 $15.99 a group of 26 songs based on Ufki switches between languages and texts by several poets, including music genres with a fantastic ease and Ruckert, Goethe, Burns, Byron and naturalness. 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In this new recital, the sheer opulence of Rybin, piano release impressively shows that these are not trivial by-products of tone impresses afresh, and its fi rmness make the more dramatic A delight in the friendships of one’s youth, the The program features many examples of pain of unrequited love, and the horror and a genius, but masterpieces of their genre, which are still of interest vibrancy of Daniel’s seem somewhat loosely focused...” Hahn’s well-known charming and delicate futility of war, are themes that run through A today. – Gramophone writing. Anastasia Prokofi eva’s fresh, bell-like Lad’s Love, a release that brings together the 1CD ARSP 38565 $18.99 1CD HAR 901685 $19.99 voice together with sensitive accompaniment profound beauty created by Britain’s poets by Sergey Rybin’s lucid sounding piano, create and composers during the turbulent years of an atmosphere of elegance and sophistication. the early 20th Century. 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The Schubert: Four Seasons, Lieder for Voice and Piano / Sharon Carty, internationally renowned Austrian soprano applies her talents to the “original canzonettas” that the composer wrote in the mid-1790s. mezzo-soprano; Jonathan Ware, piano 1CD GRAM 99212 $18.99 Schubert’s lieder offer a whole universe of sensorial representations of the four seasons and their characteristics, images, and symbols. The present album features titles such as Klage der Ceres, Sommernacht, and Greisengesang and offers everything Henryk Górecki: Songs / Urszula Kryger, Jadwiga Rappe, Robert Gierlach, ranging from spring fl owers to autumnal evening breezes, as well as the scent of summer and winter moonlight. 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This release Duo Pleyel (Richard Egarr and from pianist Andrey Gugnin aims to change that, offering a selection of works dedicated to the composer. “This is a box of Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya) makes Pianist Alexandre Tharaud has heady and decadent delights with enough acrobatics to make lesser mortals gasp in wonder... Gugnin’s performance of the its recording debut with a programme of put together a program of Bach’s Busoni is among the most characterful and articulate on record....” – International Piano works for piano four-hands by Schubert, “Italian Concertos,” plus a few of his 1CD HYP 68310 $23.99 whose contribution to this genre transcriptions for keyboard of violin and exceeds that of any other composer. oboe concertos by Italian composers. 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What makes the current set unique is the inclusion of fi ve test Piano Concerto No.2 in his 250th anniversary year, and Ozawa’s Almost all good Romantic-era composers This album includes the complete piano works albums made with the cellist Antonio Janigro, only two of which fi rst-ever recording of Grieg’s Holberg Suite. Martha Argerich knew how to have fun at the piano, all the of Anton von Webern, as well as a series of have appeared previously, and new masterings which reveal more continues to be one of the most extraordinary pianists performing more so with a friend. Schumann and Brahms contemporary works for piano that are inspired of the original recordings than before. today. Together with Seiji Ozawa, this magnifi cent duo brings wrote some of their most unbuttoned music by Webern’s piano works. 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A ‘theme’ in the bass, musicality, Seong-Jin Cho is rapidly with two different harmonizations, embarking on a world-class career and Ravel: Prelude; Valses Nobles et Sentimentales / Mortiz Moszkowski (1854–1925): Piano Works / is to be played – according to an considered one of the most distinctive Ann Martin-Davis, piano Etsuko Hirose, piano ambiguous note on the composer’s artists on the current music scene. After winning the prestigious International Ravel’s piano music has been a lifelong On this album, Etsuko Hirose showcases autograph – 840 times. As part of passion of pianist Ann Martin-Davis and after the wide range of the piano music by an her acclaimed Satie cycle, Noriko Chopin Piano Competition in 2015 and selecting the works for her fi rst album of extraordinary composer who was a star in Ogawa now offers a bite-sized taste releasing lauded albums of works by Ravel’s solo piano music, she read Professor his lifetime but is now in need of a romantic (142 repeats, 80 minutes long) of the Debussy and Mozart, the “unequivocally Michael J. Puri’s book, Ravel the Decadent, revival – Mortiz Moszkowski. “Following ‘Vexation experience.’ brilliant” (The Telegraph) pianist now her magnifi cent album of Lyapunov’s which breaks new ground by understanding explores Schubert, Liszt, and Berg. Ravel’s compositions to be part of the Transcendental Etudes, Hirose continues 1SACD BIS 2325 $19.99 late 19th century cultural phenomenon of with playing of extraordinary grace and 1CD DGG B003184802 $20.99 Decadence. Puri provides the liner notes for fl uency. Finely recorded, this disc is a winner.” this release, complimenting Martin-Davis’ – International Piano outstanding performance. 1CD DCD 866 $16.99 MUSIC FOR SOLO PIANO IN BRIEF 1CD GUI 7825 $12.99 Dmitri Kabalevsky: Complete Preludes / Michael Korstick, piano Discover Manuel de Falla (1876–1949) / Adolf Barjansky: Complete Piano Works 1 / Along with Prokofi ev, Shostakovich, and Khachaturian, Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904–1987) was one of the Martin Jones, piano Julia Severus, piano “Big Four” of Soviet music. This release turns to his keyboard music featuring works for piano solo, focusing on Manuel de Falla is the most highly regarded Adolf Barjansky’s (1851–1900) piano music his complete Préludes. Spanish composer of the 20th century. This reveals the infl uence of Schubert, Beethoven 1CD CPO 555272 $15.49 recital contains de Falla’s complete original and Brahms with a wealth of Russian color. works for solo piano performed by the The 6 Piano Pieces are impressionistic and A Survey of Czech Piano Cycles from Romanticism to Modernism / celebrated British pianist Martin Jones. “Martin radiant, while the large-scale Piano Sonata Florence Ahn, piano [2 CDs] Jones as a recording artist has been part of No. 1 uses spatial sound as a principal means my listening experience for almost as long as of expression, blending it with a highly modern The piano music of the Bohemian lands has been largely neglected by pianists and is not frequently heard in public I’ve been collecting LPs and CDs. Seeing his simplicity and transparency of structure that performances. This program demonstrates the unique sentimentality and sensuality of this literature. distinguished and still active career celebrated anticipates 20th-century minimalism. The by Nimbus Records in this way is a true works are presented here by highly praised 2CD CEN 3781 $15.99 delight.” – Musicweb pianist Julia Severus. 1CD NIM 7731 $14.99 1CD GRPO 796 $16.99 The Best of Lang Lang / Lang Lang, piano [2 CDs] Lang Lang is a phenomenon, unique in the world today: “His enormous variety of colour and texture, of dynamic range Blagoje Bersa: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 / Goran Filipec, piano and rhetorical gesture, is dazzling.” wrote BBC Music Magazine. This 2-CD set presents a collection of Lang Lang’s best On this release, Blagoje Bersa’s (1873–1934) piano works are organized according to their character and tonality rather than DG recordings. chronologically. 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