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DEALER INFORMATION SERVICE: NO. 273 OCTOBER 2014 • CUT-OFF DATE FOR RECEIPT OF ORDER: MONDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER • SHIP-OUT DATE: THURSDAY 25TH SEPTEMBER REPRESENTING TODAY’S • NATIONAL ‘ON SALE’ DATE: MONDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER GREAT LABELS THIS MONTH'S HIGHLIGHTS Download this month's information here: http://www.selectmusic.co.uk/ USERNAME: dealer / PASSWORD: select Select Music and Video Distribution Limited 3 Wells Place, Redhill, Surrey RH1 3SL Tel: 01737 645600 Fax: 01737 644065 Johann Sebastian BACH Highlight of the month The Art of Fugue Angela Hewitt Angela Hewitt’s much-awaited recording of Bach’s ultimate masterpiece, The Art of Fugue, is destined to be the crowning achievement of her Bach cycle for Hyperion; a revelatory recording and performing project which has taken her all over the world and won her international acclaim and millions of dedicated fans. CDA67980 £9.00 (2 CDs for 1) Arvo PÄRT Choral Music Peace upon you; Jerusalem; Morning star; The woman with the alabaster box; The deer’s cry; Virgencita; Solfeggio; Zwei Beter; Tribute to Caesar; Summa; Memento Ode VII from 'Kanon Pokajanen'; Alleluia-Tropus; Da pacem, Domine CDA68056 Polyphony, Stephen Layton £9.00 Stephen Layton and Polyphony have a long and fruitful relationship with the music of Arvo Pärt. Their recording of Triodion and other choral works (CDA67375) won a Gramophone Award and became a cult classic. The extraordinary purity of Polyphony’s singing is the perfect vehicle for music of such clean, elemental simplicity. George Frideric HANDEL 20 Sonatas, Op. 1 Rachel Beckett, Lisa Beznosiuk, Paul Goodwin, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Richard Tunnicliffe, Paul Nicholson CDS44411/3 The twenty sonatas on this recording show Handel writing for the professional musicians of his London opera orchestra. Prominent bass parts give the sonatas a contrapuntal strength and vitality, and Handel keeps the £10.59 (3 CDs) elements of antiphony in admirable balance in these works. For this reason, they are among the most attractive Baroque solo sonatas and deserve their lasting popularity. (from CDA66921/3) Max BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 3; Scottish Fantasy Jack Liebeck, CDA68050 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins £9.00 Award-winning violinist Jack Liebeck brings his impassioned tones, fulsome emotional display and formidable technique to the first of three albums of music by Max Bruch. DURUFLÉ; WILLIAMS; RICE; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS; MOORE; HOWELLS; TAVENER Music for Remembrance CDA68020 £9.00 Westminster Abbey Choir, Britten Sinfonia, James O’Donnell This latest album from Westminster Abbey is a programme of memorial music composed in England and France in the shadow of two World Wars. Claude DEBUSSY Songs, Vol. 3 Jennifer France, Malcolm Martineau, Jonathan McGovern CDA68016 Includes: Musique; Romance; La romance d’Ariel; Regret; L’archet; Chanson triste; Les baisers d’amour; Les Elfes; Aimons-nous et dormons; Souhait; Sérénade; Rêverie; La Belle au Bois dormant; Il dort encore; Les roses; Pierrot; £9.00 Les baisers; Dans le jardin and more. Hyperion presents a third volume in its acclaimed Debussy songs series, accompanied and curated by Malcolm Martineau, with booklet notes by French music expert par excellence Roger Nichols. The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 64 Henrique OSWALD: Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 10 Alfredo NAPOLEÃO: Piano Concerto No. 2 in E flat minor CDA67984 Artur Pizarro BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Martyn Brabbins £9.00 Portuguese virtuoso Artur Pizarro makes a welcome return to the Romantic Piano Concerto series with the outpourings of two brilliant pianist-composers. Johannes BRAHMS J. S. BACH CDD22082 CDH55417 The Complete Trios The Six Motets £9.00 (2 CDs for 1) £3.53 The Florestan Trio, Stephen Stirling, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers Richard Hosford (from CDA67251/2) (from CDA66369) 2 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices OCTOBER 2014 Sir Edward ELGAR Highlight The Dream of Gerontius; Sea Pictures of the month Sarah Connolly, Stuart Skelton, David Soar BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis Chandos Records is delighted to present this new recording of Elgar’s choral masterpiece, The Dream of Gerontius and the enduringly popular song cycle Sea Pictures. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, a peerless Elgarian who this year was awarded the prestigious Elgar Society Medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the composer’s music. CHSA 5140(2) £18.00 (2 Hybrid SACDs) Johannes BRAHMS Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 3 Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor, Op. 2; Intermezzi, Op. 119 Nos. 1 and 3; Intermezzo, Op. 116 No. 5; Theme with Variations in D minor; Waltzes, Op. 39 Barry Douglas CHAN 10833 Barry Douglas returns for the highly anticipated third volume in his series devoted to Brahms’s solo piano £9.00 music, the first two volumes having been met with widespread critical acclaim. The Symphonic Euphonium Joseph HOROVITZ: Concerto for Euphonium Philip WILBY: Concerto for Euphonium Alun HODDINOTT: The Sunne Rising, The King Will Ride Karl JENKINS: Concerto for Euphonium CHAN 10830 David Childs £9.00 BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Bramwell Tovey David Childs leads the way as the world’s foremost euphonium soloist, making the case for this once neglected instrument to growing audiences worldwide with his stunning virtuosity and extrovert musicality. Franz Joseph HAYDN String Quartets, Vol. 1 Doric String Quartet The Doric String Quartet has been widely praised for its live performances of Haydn’s works. The Sunday Telegraph wrote that ‘Haydn and the Doric are a perfect match… Unequivocally, these were performances of CHAN 10831(2) terrific panache and perception, seeming to get right under the skin of Haydn’s creative genius’. £9.00 (2 CDs for 1) Johan HALVORSEN Orchestral Works, Vols. 1-4 Marianne Thorsen, Ragnhild Hemsing, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi Neeme Järvi and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra have lifted the lid on one of Norway’s best-kept musical secrets with their series devoted to the orchestral works of Johan Halvorsen. Now, in this four-disc box set, CHAN 10834(4) these fresh and revealing recordings have been brought together for the first time. £27.00 (4 CDs for 3) v Leoš JANÁCEK Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 Sinfonietta; Capriccio; Suite from the Cunning Little Vixen Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner CHSA 5142 This release features three pieces that originate in Janácvek’s late period, when his passionate feelings for £9.00 (Hybrid SACD) Kamila Stösslová, thirty-seven years his junior, inspired an extraordinary flowering of his creative genius. OCTOBER 2014 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices 3 Claudio MONTEVERDI Vespers of 1610 COR16126 The Sixteen, Harry Christophers £13.50 ‘Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 is quite simply one of the greatest works of sacred music ever written’ - Harry Christophers. Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos. 2 & 8 Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner SDG721 October 2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Twenty years after £9.00 their acclaimed Beethoven Symphonies recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the orchestra continue to revisit this repertoire - this album follows the release of Symphonies 5 & 7 recorded live at Carnegie Hall. Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 6; Symphony No. 14 Tatiana Monogarova, Sergei Leiferkus LPO-0080 London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski £5.56 Both works were recorded live in concert at Southbank Centre. The 2013 performance of Symphony No. 6 was part of Southbank Centre’s festival 'The Rest Is Noise', a year-long exploration of twentieth-century music for which the LPO won the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award in the ensemble category. William WALTON (1902-1983) Paul HINDEMITH (1895-1963) Concerto for Cello and Orchestra; Passacaglia for Cello Solo Cello Concerto; Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 25 No. 3 Christian Poltéra BIS2077 S o Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), Frank Shipway ã £9.00 (Hybrid SACD) As a contrast to the two concertos, Christian Poltéra also performs two solo works by Walton and Hindemith. He is supported by the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), who with conductor Frank Shipway, were nominated for a 2014 BBC Music Magazine Award for their recording of Richard Strauss’ Alpensymfonie. Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) The Complete Piano Sonatas (and early unnumbered sonatas) BIS2000 Ronald Brautigam £36.00 The complete piano sonatas recorded by Ronald Brautigam are now being released as a boxed set, along with a ninth disc containing the early, unnumbered sonatas. Carefully selected instruments, built by Paul McNulty after originals from 1788-1819 are used for these performances. (9 Hybrid SACDs for 4) Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Rosamunde Overture; Funeral March from 'Adrast' BIS1989 Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (Hybrid SACD) On the final disc of a complete cycle, Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra offer us Schubert’s first two £9.00 symphonies. Written between 1813 and 1815, by a composer still in his teens, both works exemplify the influences of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. James MACMILLAN (b. 1959) Clemency A Chamber Opera for five singers and string orchestra - Libretto: Michael Symmons Roberts BIS2129 David Kravitz, Michelle Trainor, Christine Abraham, Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra, David Angus £9.00 Clemency is the third operatic collaboration between the composer James MacMillan and the poet Michael Symmons Roberts. It explores a central but enigmatic episode in the Old Testament: when Abraham and Sarah are visited by three mysterious strangers… Visions Fugitives – Music for Strings PROKOFIEV: Visions Fugitives, Op. 22; HINDEMITH: Fünf Stücke für Striechorchester, Op. 44 No. 4; WEBERN: Fünf Sätze, Op. 5; BARTÓK: Divertimento for String Orchestra BIS2126 Camerata Nordica, Terje Tønnesen £9.00 (Hybrid SACD) The music on this disc spans from the years before World War I to a few days before the outbreak of World War II.