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ópera JULY 29 2013 harmonia mundi UK Classical new release DISTRIBUTED LABELS: actes sud musicales, agogique, alia vox, ambronay, aparte, arte verum, audite, bel air classiques, the choir of kings college cambridge, christophorus, cso resound, delphian, ducale, fra musica, glossa, harmonia mundi, hat[now]art, K617, la dolce volta, lso live, mariinsky, melisande films, mirare, mode, muso, naïve, onyx, opella nova, orfeo, pan classics, paradizo, pearl, philharmonia baroque, phil.harmonie, praga digitals, radio france, royal academy of music, real compañia ópera de cámara, rco live, sfz music, signum classics, stradivarius, united archives, wahoo, walhall eternity, wergo, wigmore hall live, winter & winter, ysaye available 29 July , call-off 19th July AUGUST BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE Opera Choice • DUCALE DUC045/47 Mercadante I Due Figaro/Riccardo Muti Instrumental Choice • harmonia mundi HMU907557 Francesco da Milano Il Divino / Paul O’Dette Chamber Choice • Onyx ONYX 4116 Rachmaninov, Shostakovich Sonatas Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Alexei Grynyuk (piano) JULY GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE • harmonia mundi HMU907557 Francesco da Milano Il Divino / Paul O’Dette EDITOR’S CHOICE & BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE DISC OF THE MONTH [June] • Glossa GCD922606 I viaggi di Faustina / Roberta Invernizzi JULY/AUGUST INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW IRR Outstanding • harmonia mundi HMU907557 Francesco da Milano Il Divino / Paul O’Dette • Aparté AP054 Art Nouveau Ravel etc / Teodora Gheorghiu RELEASE DATE 29TH JULY 2013 The Phoenix Rising The Carnegie Trust & the revival of Tudor Church Music Stile Antico Amongst the many endeavours funded by the Carnegie Trust marking its centenary in 2013), was the publication and editing of 'Tudor Church Music' in ten large folio volumes of music, with 50 performing pieces published individually. This had a considerable impact on the revival of this important music: for the first time a significant body of the greatest Tudor compositions became accessible to scholars, performers and listeners having languished in cathedrals, museums and colleges. It also inspired a further generation of English composers after its resurrection including Howells, Britten and Vaughan Williams. Stile Antico presents a varied selection of the finest pieces from TCM in a programme centred around William Byrd’s masterful five-part mass. Stile Antico is an elite ensemble of young British singers, working without a conductor, each contributing artistically to the musical result. They are now established as the crack ensemble to beat, having enjoyed huge success, via their SACD Label: harmonia mundi recordings for harmonia mundi USA. Awards include the 2009 Gramophone Award for Early Music [Song of Songs] File Under: Classical/Choral which also reached the top of the US Classical Chart. Their performances have repeatedly been praised for their vitality, commitment and imaginative response to text. Catalogue No: HMU807572 Highlights of Stile Antico's 2012-13 season include a series of concerts as co-curators of the Wigmore Hall's William Barcode: 093046757267 Byrd: Sacred Music festival, and this new recording celebrating the centenary of the Carnegie UK Trust, publisher of the NORMAL Price pioneering Tudor Church Music edition. Format: 1 HYBRID SACD Packaging: digipack Carnegie Trust: changing minds, changing lives 1913-2013 Set up by Andrew Carnegie in 1913 to improve the wellbeing of the people of the United Kingdom and Ireland, it is one of Stile Antico the oldest and most respected charitable trusts in the British Isles. The Carnegie medal of philanthropy, given to those who have dedicated their private wealth to public good, will be presented in the Scottish Parliament in October 2013, in a William BYRD: Ave verum corpus, Mass for five voices week of events seeking to engage the Scottish public with the legacy of Andrew Carnegie. Thomas TALLIS: Salvator mundi (I) Thomas MORLEY: Nolo mortem peccatoris ADVERTISED IN CLASSICAL MUSIC PRESS Orlando GIBBONS: O clap your hands together, Gramophone online news story Almighty and everlasting God 1st August: In Tune performance singing works from the new recording Robert WHITE: Portio mea, Christe qui lux es et dies (IV) John TAVERNER: O splendor gloriae RELEASE DATE 29TH JULY 2013 BARTOK Violin Concertos Violin Concerto No.1, Sz 36 Op. posth. Violin Concerto No.2, Sz 112 Isabelle Faust Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Daniel Harding Isabelle Faust's first recording for harmonia mundi, Bartok Sonatas, won her a Gramophone Young Artist of the Year. Here she returns to Bartok, perfoming the two concertos, accompanied by Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio SO. Such is the fame of Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto (1937-38), that it has virtually eclipsed the First, written 30 years before. Yet, this earlier work, rediscovered long after the composer’s death, has a fascinating story all of its own. True to form, Isabelle Faust has gone back to the multiple musical sources of this First Concerto, a work that came ‘straight from the heart’, as Bartók’s romance with a young violinist lay at the core of its creative process. "I owe my enthusiasm for the music of Béla Bartók to the wonderful Hungarian violinist Dénes Zsigmondy, who was Label: harmonia mundi privileged to know the composer personally. At the age of eleven, I was lucky enough to study the Sonata for solo violin File Under: Classical/Orchestral with him and thus to discover Bartók’s world in a very emotional and instinctive way. In the years since then, Dénes Catalogue No: HMC902146 Zsigmondy, his conception of music, and especially his interpretation of Bartók have formed an important component of Barcode: 3149020214626 my artistic career. It seemed only logical to choose the Bartók sonatas for my debut CD. I am now delighted to present the two violin concertos in this recording. It is intended as a musical expression of my admiration for the composer Béla NORMAL Price Bartók and my gratitude for the continued inspiration and faithful friendship of Dénes Zsigmondy. Format: 1 CD My warm thanks go to László Somfai and László Vikárius of the Bartók Archives in Budapest and to Felix Meyer of the Packaging: digipack Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel for their generous support of this project. Finally, I would like to express my profound appreciation of and indebtedness to Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Isabelle Faust [violin] Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Symphony Orchestra for their absolutely fantastic contribution to the recording sessions." Isabelle Faust Daniel Harding [conductor] "Her sound has passion, grit and electricity but also a disarming warmth and sweetness that can unveil the music’s hidden ADVERTISED IN GRAMOPHONE strains of lyricism" The New York Times IRR Cover artist September BBC Music 1st Listen podcast ALSO AVAILABLE: HMG508334/35 Bartok Violin Sonatas [2cds] RELEASE DATE 29TH JULY 2013 CHARPENTIER: Litanies de la Vierge Motets for the House of Guise: Miserere H193, Antienne H526 Annunciate superi H333, Overture H536, Litanies de la Vierge H83 Ensemble Correspondances In their first release on harmonia mundi France, Sébastien Daucé and his musicians present a sumptuous interpretation of the six-voice motets composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier for the House of Guise. These works, headed by the 'Miserere', constitute an unexpected parenthesis in the music of the Grand Siècle. The creative genius, the inwardness and the intense fervour of a composer surrounded by his faithful company of singers and instrumentalists speak to us all the more intimately because Charpentier appears here as both copyist (the surviving scores are in his handwriting) and performer: he sang countertenor. Since its formation in 2008, the Ensemble Correspondances has devoted itself chiefly to French sacred music of the 17th century. Brought together by Sébastien Daucé during their studies at the Conservatoire de Lyon, the musicians of Correspondances pursue this work (focusing notably on Marc-Antoine Charpentier) with infectious enthusiasm. Its most recent engagements have taken it to Royaumont, Ambronay, Lanvellec and Pontoise festivals, Rome, Hamburg and Label: harmonia mundi Hong Kong. File Under: Classical/Choral After postgraduate study with Yves Rechsteiner and Françoise Lengellé at the CNSM de Lyon, Sébastien Daucé went on to play under the direction of such conductors as Kenneth Weiss, Gabriel Garrido, Geoffroy Jourdain (Les Cris de Paris) Catalogue No: HMC902169 and Raphaël Pichon (Ensemble Pygmalion). For the past few years he has dedicated himself to the music of Barcode: 3149020216927 Marc-Antoine Charpentier, three of whose operas he edited in collaboration with William Christie. His first two recordings NORMAL Price with the Ensemble Correspondances, both for Zig-Zag Territoires, earned him widespread praise in the specialist press, Format: 1 CD with such distinctions as the Choc de Classica, Diapason Découverte, Coup de Cœur de l’Académie Charles Cros and Packaging: digipack **** in Fono Forum. Ensemble Correspondances Sébastien Daucé [conductor] Ens Correspondances on our Youtube channel: http://bit.ly/19EKXzN RELEASE DATE 29TH JULY 2013 Kevin PUTS: Symphony No.4 To touch the sky, If I were a swan Conspirare Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts (b. 1972) is known for his distinctive and richly coloured musical voice. Making their label début, Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform Kevin Puts’ Symphony No.4 (From Mission San Juan), inspired by Native American melodies. Opening