April 2018 Catalogue Issue 23 Prices valid until Friday 25 May 2018 unless stated otherwise 0115 982 7500 Picture taken from cover of Dux DUX1426 ‘Schubert & Brahms Piano Quintets’ from the Silesian Chamber Soloists. [email protected] Your Account Number: {MM:Account Number} {MM:Postcode} {MM:Address5} {MM:Address4} {MM:Address3} {MM:Address2} {MM:Address1} {MM:Name} 1 Welcome! Dear Customer, Young conductor Robin Ticciati will be ending his tenure with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra this year, having now taken up a new position as principal conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. It has proved to be a hugely successful partnership, as testified by many of the recordings they have made together for Linn (Berlioz and Schumann in particular). Their farewell gift is a complete cycle of Brahms’ Symphonies, eagerly anticipated by many, including ourselves at Europadisc. From snippets we have managed to hear in advance of release, it looks set to be a very special recording indeed: a fitting conclusion to the Ticciati/SCO chapter. Details are on p.4, and you can find our own review on the Europadisc website should you wish to read further thoughts. Having spent so many years focused on JS Bach, it is great to see Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan again tackling something a little different, this time in the shape of Beethoven’s great Missa Solemnis. We have picked this as our Disc of the Month for April and further information can be found below. Other new releases we are particularly looking forward to include: Vivaldi from I Barocchisti and soloists Julia Lezhneva, Franco Fagioli and Diego Fasolis (Decca); a new recording of Debussy’s La Mer from Emmanuel Krivine (Erato); the fifth and final instalment of Mozart’s Violin Sonatas from Alina Ibragimova and Cedric Tiberghien (Hyperion); an intriguing further recording of works by Bacewicz from the Silesian Quartet and friends (Chandos; their first recording won the Chamber category in the 2017 Gramophone Recordings of the Year); the start of a new series of Haydn Piano Sonatas from the superb Paul Lewis (Harmonia Mundi); and, amongst the archive releases, a series of three fascinating issues from ICA Classics featuring first-time-on-CD recordings from Bohm, Beecham, du Pre and Rostropovich. As usual, we have plenty of new special offers for you to peruse: the complete catalogues of CPO, Atma, Ricercar, Ramee, Opera Rara, RCO Live and NIFC are all now reduced; plus we have discounted selections from Warner’s ‘Icon’ boxset and ‘Apex’ budget series, and a wide variety of DVDs and Blu-rays from Warner, Erato, Euroarts and RCO Live. Finally - don’t miss our review of ‘Deux’ (p.39), the stunning recent release from Patricia Kopatchinskaja on Alpha, picked as a Gramophone Editor’s Choice and Disc of the Month in BBC Music Magazine! Best regards from, The Europadisc Team DISC OF THE MONTH Beethoven £11.95 Missa Solemnis or pay just Ann-Helen Moen, Roxana Constantinescu, James Gilchrist, Benjamin Bevan, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki. £9.95 BIS BIS 2321 if your order value Beethoven began composing the Missa Solemnis in 1819, when he learned that his patron exceeds £50* (and pupil) Archduke Rudolph was going to be appointed Cardinal Archbishop of Olmütz. * to qualify for the special price, your order value must exceed a The plan was for the mass to be ready for performance at the enthronement celebrations total of £50 excluding this in March 1820, but one year proved to be too little time. It wasn’t until almost three recording and before any applicable carriage charges. years later, in January 1823, that Beethoven was able to complete the work. Offer available while stocks last. As might be expected, it was unparalleled in every respect – although composed for use during church services, even Beethoven’s contemporaries found that it exceeded the bounds of the genre. Beethoven himself was quite aware of both the dimensions and the importance of the work: in a letter he described it as ‘my greatest work’. It is also a work which over its course encompasses great contrasts: from the solemnity of the Kyrie and the intense excitement at the opening of the Gloria to the disturbing intimations of war during the closing Dona nobis pacem. Originally founded with the aim of performing the choral works of Bach, the Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki are now taking another great leap, after their recent release of Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor. Described as ‘refreshingly open-hearted, spontaneous and natural’ their interpretation received a 2017 Gramophone Award. Joined by an eminent quartet of vocal soloists, the team now applies its expertise in period performance to Beethoven’s masterpiece. 2 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES DG and Decca Prokofiev for Two Vivaldi Arrangements for Gloria, Nisi Dominus etc Two Pianos Lezhneva, Fagioli, Argerich, Babayan I Barocchisti £12.50 £12.50 DG 479 9854 Decca 483 3874 available at £11.50 until 27 April available at £11.50 until 27 April Gounod Holst The Planets Piano Works Strauss, R Also sprach Prosseda Boston SO, Steinberg £11.50 £19.95 Decca 481 6956 DG 479 8669 (CD + Blu-ray Audio Deluxe Edition) Warner Classics and Erato Panorama de la Guitare A World of Classical Guitar Music £59.95 9029 580172 (25CD) A treasury of the classical guitar: as a solo and concerto instrument, and as a partner to other instruments, in music from Europe and Latin America that spans five centuries. This box assembles all releases from the ground-breaking series, Panorama de la Guitare, which showcased luminaries of the guitar’s ‘new golden age’ in the 1960s and 70s. Most of these recordings are making their first appearance on CD, and all have been remastered from the original tapes in 24bit/96kHz, revealing the sound of the instrument in its true intimacy and beauty. Features performances from Turibio Santos, Oscar Caceres, Konrad Ragossnig, Graciela Pomponio, Jorge Martinez Zarate, Barbara Polasek, Leo Brouwer and many more. Also available 9029 570808 Beau Soir Works for violin and piano by Faure, Franck, Debussy and Elgar Chung;Kenner £10.95 9029 570479 Chopin Piano Son no.2; Liszt Petrarch Sonnets, Dante Sonata, Liebestraume no.3 Kobayashi £10.95 9029 570487 Concertante Works by Danzi, Mozart, Devienne and Pleyel 2CD Les Vents francais;Munich CO £17.95 9029 567390 The Romantic Piano Rachmaninov, Ravel, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann etc 2CD Grimaud £8.95 Debussy Bartok La Mer, Images Violin Concertos 1 & 2 Orchestre National de Capucon, LSO, Roth France, Krivine £10.95 £10.95 Erato 9029 570807 Erato 9029 568704 Gerard Causse Viola Legend - The Erato Years £29.95 9029 568158 (13CD) 2018 marks Caussé’s 70th birthday. This box highlights the wide range of the viola repertoire he recorded from 1979 to 2010 surrounded by first class artists. It includes Quintets by Mendelssohn with Quatuor Viotti which are here released for the first time on CD. All CD wallets are based on original album covers. The booklet includes an essay written3 by Gérard Caussé. PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Linn Brahms The Symphonies £18.95 CKD601 (2CD) As Robin Ticciati enters his final season with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Linn celebrates his memorable tenure as Principal Conductor with a recording of four of the most sublime orchestral masterpieces ever written. The recording legacy of these revolutionary and distinctive works serves to underscore the confidence Ticciati has, not only in his own vision for these symphonies, but also in his partnership with the SCO musicians, who relish Brahms’s highly virtuosic orchestral writing. Ahead of the SCO 2015/16 season, in which all four symphonies were performed, Ticciati set out his aims: ‘The challenge…is to find a Brahms sound with the orchestra. To find something so unbelievably dark, autumnal, and yet steeped in counterpoint.’ By 2017, that Brahms sound was perfected; Ticciati’s interpretations are both muscular and energized, with detail and life in every line. Ticciati’s meticulous control of tempo, phrase shape and balance results in performances of extraordinary transparency and colour. Hyperion at £11.95 each Mozart Couperin, L English Motets Brahms Violin Sonatas vol.5 Dances from Bauyn Tallis, Byrd, Tomkins, Songs vol.7 Ibragimova, Tiberghien Manuscript Dunstaple, Gibbons etc Appl, Johnson CDA 68175 2CD Kolesnikov (piano) The Gesualdo Six, Park CDJ 33127 CDA 68224 CDA 68256 Avie Songs of Orpheus £12.50 AV2383 Lebanese-American tenor Karim Sulayman makes his solo recording debut with Songs of Orpheus, accompanied by leading baroque interpreters Jeannette Sorrell and Apollo’s Fire. Orpheus famously followed his deceased beloved Eurydice to the gates of Hades in an attempt to bring her back to life. He was thwarted by the Gods who forbade him to gaze at her during their journey back to earth. The tale has been told in numerous musical interpretations including those of Monteverdi and his C17 compatriots Brunelli, Caccini, Cima, d’India, Landi and Merula, who are all represented on this imaginative album. Chandos at £11.95 each CHSA 5210 Walton Viola Concerto, Partita for Orch, Son for String Orch Hybrid SACD Ehnes;BBC SO;Gardner CHAN 10976 Bacewicz Piano Quintets 1 & 2, Quartet for 4 violins, Quartet for 4 cellos Silesian Qt & friends CHSA 5187 Crusell Clarinet Concertos 1-3, Introduction et air suedois Hybrid SACD Collins;Swedish RSO CHAN 10990 Schubert Works for solo piano vol.3 – Sonata D958, Moments musicaux etc Douglas CHAN 10975 Latin Winds Works by Villa-Lobos, Chavez and Rodrigo RNCM Wind Orchestra;Rundell;Heron 4