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Love Music. HBDirect Classics & Jazz HBDirect is pleased to present our Spring 2020 Clas- Spring 2020 sics & Jazz Catalog! As always, we offer an extensive selection of new Catalog Index J.S. Bach: Complete Cantatas / Ton Koopman [67 CDs] classical releases on both CD and video, as well as six 4 Classical - Recommendations Newly available, a reissued edition of the Complete Bach pages of recommendations and four of bestselling videos. 10 Classical - Best Selling Videos Cantatas, performed by Baroque music specialist Ton Browse new releases by time period and look to special Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, sections in this issue of new Harpsichord, Guitar & Lute, 14 Classical - New Releases with 67 CDs in carton sleeves. Ton Koopman is not only one Piano, Organ, Chamber Music, Choral, Strings, Broadway 46 Classical - DVD & Blu-ray of the great fathers of the Baroque-Renaissance revival in and Film Scores. 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Tracks include “Sometimes I Just Freak Massimo Bellini di Catania Orch [DVD Video] the Devil, vesting it with powerful intensity and an astonishing The second volume in Bel Air Classique’s collection Out,” “All or Nothing at All,” “Stop This World,” “The A hallmark of Bellini’s style, the arioso led to a revision of the “Great Ballets from the Bolshoi” is a four-ballet limited control of orchestral color and atmosphere. Girl in the Other Room,” and more. recitative which, in order to evolve into the arioso, abandoned edition release, featuring the Bolshoi Ballet’s most 1DVD-Video# NXS 2110597 $22.99 1DVD-Video# VRV B000378009 $16.48 conventional formulae and so took on an expressive power wholly new in Italian opera at the time. The same search for recent successes: La Bayadere, Marco Spada, Swan flexible form is found in the lyric pieces, which Bellini revised Lake, and The Golden Age. Marius Petipa’s exotic Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary / New Years Concert 2019 / Christian Thielemann; in accordance with the needs of the action. The absence of ballet La Bayadere is set in legendary and mysterious John Coltrane; Various artists [DVD Video] routine numbers meant he did not indulge in the customary India. It is a story of love, death and vengeful Vienna Philharmonic [DVD Video] practice of self-borrowing from his previous operas or using La judgement. Yuri Grigorovich presents a sumptuous Respected filmmaker John Scheinfeld’s Straniera as a source for future works. 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J.S. Bach: English Suites / Masaaki Suzuki, harpsichord [2 SA CDs] Josquin: Missa Mater Patris; Bauldeweyn: Missa Da pacem / Peter Phillips; The Tallis Scholars “Suzuki, as we’ve come to expect in all his Bach projects, takes an exacting view of the music in terms of how the composer’s voice can be most directly and effectively communicated “The Scholars take [the Missa Mater Patris] at an aptly reverential tread, capturing its introspective – at times without artifice... Particularly affectionately delivered are Suzuki’s allemandes: sweet, gracious and hypnotic – qualities… The Scholars realize [the Bauldeweyn] with all the precision, clarity and conviction for which they are justly renowned.” – BBC Music “Phillips’s albums with The Tallis Scholars continue to sparkle and never cloying... Such levels of finely honed judgement, drawn from Suzuki’s rich experience and inform… Listen especially for the way these singers glide through the exotic chord-chains in the Sanctus: I can’t deeply considered musicianship, never fail to make an impression on listeners.” – Gramophone help but be reminded of the confident sweep of the Andrews Sisters. This is glorious stuff indeed.” – Gramophone 2SA CD# BIS 2281 $35.98 1CD# GIM 052 $19.99

A Feast of Christmas Music in Medieval England / Gothic Voices J.S. Bach: Toccatas, BWV 910-916 / Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord Gothic Voices reputation for the originality of its programming is cemented with its first recording “Bach’s toccatas were likely written by the young composer to demonstrate his own brilliance of medieval Christmas music, in which Julian Podger reimagines a fifteenth-century carol evening. and technique as a performer. Their exuberant vitality provides the perfect showcase for the Mirroring the modern practice of performing mostly music from the preceding centuries alongside some interpretative flair of Mahan Esfahani. “Esfahani, who explains their complex history in a detailed contemporary repertoire, the program includes late medieval English carols, chant, mono-and polyphonic songs essay, has made his own new performing edition and reveals these familiar pieces to have and motets for the Advent and Christmas season, focusing on Mary, her Annunciation and the birth of Jesus. mysteries we may never have suspected.” – The Observer “A wonderful disc... Throughout the disc 1CD# LINN 591 $16.99 Mahan Esfahani’s playing is excellent, his is a well-judged performance, a reading full of rhythmic intensity and tenderness when called for…” – MusicWeb 1CD# HYP 68244 $19.99 Francisco de Peñalosa (1470–1528): Lamentationes Jeremiae Feria V / New York Polyphony J.S. Bach: Works for Harpsichord, Vol. 3 / Richard Lester, harpsichord [2 CDs] New York Polyphony have selected two highly expressive Lamentations, intended for services held during Holy Richard Lester has been at the center of early keyboard music for fifty years with a professional Week and setting biblical texts bemoaning the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC. Besides two brief motets, career that began in 1966. Richard Lester’s Bach project will be released on 7 two album sets, Peñalosa is also represented by sections from his Missa L’homme armé, one of the many examples from the 15th with one release in each of the years 2017–2023. The third volume in the series, this set includes to the 17th century of cyclic masses based on secular melodies. These pieces by Peñalosa are brought into relief the English Suite No. 2 BWV 807, the French Suite No. 4 BWV 815, the Partita in B minor (French by shorter works by his near-contemporary Pedro de Escobar a deeply haunting setting of the beginning of the hymn Stabat Mater and the aforementioned Francisco Guerrero. Overture) BWV 831, the Partita No. 2 BWV 826, as well as excerpts from the Well-Tempered 1SA CD# BIS 2407 $17.99 Clavier Book 1. – BBC Music Magazine August 2019 Recording of the Month 2CD# NIM 5950 $29.99 Music from the Netherlands from Rembrandt’s John Dowland (1563–1626): Lachrimae / Time / Bob van Asperen, original couchet Cristiano Contadin; Opera Prima Consort Music from the Fitzwilliam Collection – works by J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, harpsichord; Rijksmuseum Amsterdam The seven Lachrimae Pavan of 1604 are widely Galeazzo Sabbatini, Giulio Cesare Arresti, Vol. 1 / Steven Devine, harpsichord [2 CDs] held to mark not only the high point of Dowland’s The musical side of the great Dutch baroque Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, Domenico Zipoli / Following on from his acclaimed recording of Jean- work. Dowland takes a lamenting pavan that he painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) is the had written some years earlier and develops its Sophie Yates, harpsichord Philippe Rameau’s complete solo keyboard works, inspiration for this new release. This collection harpsichordist Steven Devine returns to Resonus theme into a cycle which takes the listener through includes works by Jan Sweelinck, Johann Jacob different states of tearfulness, from loneliness to All the music in this program comes from the to record one of the great pinnacles of the Baroque Froberger, Heinrich Scheidemann, Joachim van Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and most of it was keyboard repertoire, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Das despair through hope to love and finally joy the true den Hove, Gisbert Steenwick, Henderick Speuy tears of the final pavan. For his second recording collected by its founder, Richard, Seventh Viscount wohltemperierte Klavier (‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’). and others. The Amsterdam-born Bob van Asperen, Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745–1816). “Read carefully. “His playing throughout is of such a high standard of the cycle, however, the Italian violist Cristiano one of the most famous early music specialists Contadin has boldly created a broken consort This is not a disc of music from the Fitzwilliam Virginal that it is difficult to pick out any particular pieces for on the clavichord, is an ideal artist to realize this Book… The Fitzwilliam connection is clinched by comment. Very highly recommended.” performance which mixes the recorder and also extraordinary project. “The performance of each early violin and viola in with the uniquely grainy Yates’s use of the Museum’s early 17th-century Tuscan – Choir & Organ piece leaves behind it the strong image of a perfect harpsichord by Boni, a crisp, full-throated and deep- 2CD# REOA 10239 $20.99 timbre of the viols. vignette – a musical miniature entirely freestanding 1CD# BLC 95699 $10.49 colored beauty. Her playing is strong-fingered, buoyant and meticulously crafted.” – Gramophone and well-paced… this is an unusual and well-conceived 1CD# AEOL 10164 $18.99 program, appealingly performed.” – Gramophone Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700–1775): Johannes Ockeghem (1420–1497): 1CD# CHA 0819 $18.99 Guillaume Dufay (1397–1474): Missa Se la Face Harpsichord Sonatas / Simonetta Heger, Masses 2 / Beauty Farm [2 CDs] Johann Jakob Froberger (1616–1667): harpsichord Ay Pale / Antoine Guerber; Diabolus in Musica There is no doubt about Ockeghem’s position as Suites for Harpsichord, Vol. 1 / Gilbert Rowland, After the success of the Red, Yellow, Blue and the most important representative of the second Giovanni Battista Sammartini was without doubt the Pink collections (a total of 56 reissues), which generation of Franco-Flemish composers. But harpsichord [2 CDS] most active and prolific musician in Milan for three brought the pearls from the Baroque catalogues of what its effect actually was and how its artistic quarters of the eighteenth century. The most original Gilbert Rowland is one of Europe’s most senior and the house labels back into the spotlight, here are development can be described, there was a trait in his keyboard sonata works is the pursuit of accomplished exponents of the harpsichord. This fourteen new titles offering a chance to rediscover long lack of clarity about it, which has only been variety and innovation within a consistent and logical 2-album set is the first volume in a projected complete more Baroque treasures and rarities. Like the somewhat cleared up in recent decades thanks to context. This release offers a significant selection survey of the Harpsichord Suites by Johann Jakob last series, this fifth installment also opens up to intensive research and discographic exploration. of the approaches, technical solutions, styles and Froberger, whose organ and harpsichord music is the Classical (Mozart) or Renaissance (Dufay) The FRA BERNARDO recording of the Masses with innovations used by Sammartini in his keyboard individual in nature and ground breaking. Froberger repertories recordings that are an integral part of the vocal ensemble Beauty Farm is undoubtedly music. The program does not follow chronological was one of the first composers to settle the ‘dance- Alphas identity and history. This series reissues are an impressive way of illustrating the significance order but rather is ordered by the personal criterion of movement’ style of Suite taken up by Couperin, Bach, performed by the finest musicians in the field; most of Ockeghem. the performer, Simonetta Heger. and Handel among many others. of these recordings received one or more awards 2CD# FRAB 1909373 $29.99 1CD# DYN 7841 $15.49 2CD# ATH 23204 $24.99 on their first release. 1CD# AHP 495 $10.99 Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377): Harpsichord Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, Soler, de Ferdinando Gasparo Turrini: 12 Sonatas for Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia, Medieval Byzantine The Single Rose / The Orlando Consort Albéniz, Felix Maximo López, Sebastien de Albero / Harpsichord / Michele Barchi, harpsichord [2 CDs] Chant / Cappella Romana [2 Blu-ray Audio CDs] Machaut: The Single Rose – The Orlando Amaya Fernández Pozuelo, harpsichord Consort bring their customary virtues of ‘supreme Early-Classical keyboard sonatas by a north-Italian Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia is the first vocal album text-sensitivity and beauty of tone’ (Early Music Amaya Fernández Pozuelo writes of her new contemporary of Beethoven, Ferdinando Gasparo in the world to be recorded entirely in live virtual Today) to another recital showcasing the breadth of release: “The limits of notation...lie in the performer’s Turrini (1745–1820) much esteemed in his day acoustics. It brings together art history, music Machaut’s musical and poetic inventiveness. The profound understanding of the author style and of the and now almost unknown. Turrini’s 12 Sonatas are history, performance, and technology to re-create rose as a symbol of both the beloved and of love relationship intertwining structural rigor, stylistic-formal written in two movements, one fast and lively, the medieval sacred sound in the cathedral of Hagia itself is paid due homage in this latest installment of perfection, and free inventiveness. For this to occur, other calm and meditative. Michele Barchi is an Sophia as an aural virtual reality. Lost Voices of their essential series which continues to garner the the musician-performer’s intuition is to transcend and experienced early music keyboard musician who has Hagia Sophia presents more than 75 minutes highest critical plaudits. “The singers combine pin- make the written signs meaningful and make them his worked with the likes of the late Claudio Abbado and of medieval Byzantine chant for the Feast of the sharp tuning and gentle phrasing in this seductive or her own.” “Harpsichordist Amaya Pozuelo performs with Riccardo Muti. This album marks his debut on Holy Cross in Constantinople, one of the greatest collection.” – BBC Music these works with a nice passion. Her articulation is Brilliant Classics. celebrations in the yearly cycle of worship at Hagia 1CD# HYP 68277 $19.99 clear and bright. She alters registration as needed, 2CD# BLC 95522 $12.99 Sophia. Let Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia transport outlining the often static lines, especially in the you back in time to medieval sound and ritual in this Scarlatti.” – Fanfare monumental sixth-century cathedral. 1CD# SVS 37140 $16.99 2Blu-Ray Audio# CPLR 420 $29.99 C.P.E. Bach: Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 38 – The Earliest Works / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525–1594): Lamentations, Book 2 / Cinquecento Miklós Spányi, harpischord Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was perhaps the preeminent composer of the sixteenth century. His settings of the Lamentations of Jeremiah would have been integral to the liturgical rites of Holy Week. On this release, Cinquecento offer performances that bring Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was more systematic than his composer colleagues when it came to keeping track of his own works, out every nuance of this emotionally powerful music. “The singing is exquisite… The listener may not notice, but the singers bring a but even so, there are a number of pieces that slipped through the net, and several of them can be found on this album. As devised new awareness to the words in each changing setting. This is music to touch the soul, not to be passed up.” – Fanfare by Miklós Spányi, the program is a colorful mix of brief dance movements and other miniatures. It ends with Bach’s Variations on a 1CD# HYP 68284 $19.99 Menuet by Locatelli, composed in 1735 when he was a young man of 21. “Prowess and sophistication… are two attributes Spányi possesses in spades…” – BBC Music 1CD# BIS 2337 $17.99

14 15 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Music of the Baroque Era NEW RELEASES - BAROQUE J.S. Bach: Complete Cello Suites / Emmanuelle J.S. Bach: The Secular Cantatas / Masaaki Instrumental Music of the Baroque Bertrand, Baroque cello [2 CDs] Suzuki; Bach Collegium Japan [10 SACDs] The Berlin public of the mid-18th century was fascinated by the ‘original In 1995 Masaaki Suzuki and his Bach Carlo Tessarini (1690–1766): 6 Violin Sonatas; 6 Trio Sonatas / genius’ of C.P.E. Bach and never tired of listening to his concertos. – Collegium Japan began the monumental task of recording J.S. Bach’s extant church Valerio Losito, Baroque violin; et al. [2 CDs] These works call for a talented soloist capable of mastering the multiple facets of an original and finely worked musical texture: a challenge cantatas – an adventure that was brought to a close 18 years later. But Bach also composed Another chapter in the rediscovery of an 18th-century master by Brilliant Classics. Special care has been taken on taken up with panache (and on a period instrument) by the oboist Xenia a number of cantatas for secular occasions Löffler, surrounded by her distinguished colleagues of the Akademie für the present recording to highlight the greater degree of imitation in the exchange between the solo instrument and of which some twenty works have survived the basso continuo as well as the well-constructed variety of the various movements... They are interspersed here Alte Musik Berlin. intact. Released on individual discs between with three Preludes or partimenti by Fedele Fenaroli, a Neapolitan composer even less familiar to us now than 2CD# HAR 902293 $22.99 2004 and 2018, Masaaki Suzuki’s recordings of Tessarini... Valerio Losito and Federico Del Sordo deliver very fine performances which convincingly bring out the these works have now been gathered in a box characteristics and qualities of Tessarini’s sonatas.” – MusicWeb International J.S. Bach: Double & Triple Concertos / Zsolt Kalló; set, available as a limited edition. 2CD# BLC 95861 $12.99 Capella Savaria on Period Instruments 10SACD# BIS 2491 $73.49 Oboe Concertos by Bach, Alessandro J.S. Bach: Concertos for 2 harpsichords; Prelude & Fugue / The Capella Savaria (Szombathely) was Olivier Fortin; Emmanuel Frankenberg founded in 1981 by Pál Németh. Their aim is Marcello / Céline Moinet, oboe; l’arte del to play 17th and 18th century music using the mondo The practice of composing for two keyboard instruments, very common in the illustrious Bach family, naturally documents of the period. The play on authentic achieved its apotheosis with Johann Sebastian, whose three concertos for two harpsichords are performed instruments with copies of bows of the epoch, On her new album, Céline Moinet links cantata movements with concertos here by Olivier Fortin and Emmanuel Frankenberg with the Ensemble Masques. These works, particularly the studying the instrumental tutors of the Baroque that pose a special challenge of their own: “technically virtuosic, with simply unending passages of elaboration, giving you scarcely a chance to breathe.” concertos in C minor, are among the composers most admired. The recording on two harpsichords of the Prelude era, referring to articulation, embellishment She is thinking of pieces like the D minor Concerto BWV 1059 reconstructed and Fugue BWV 552, originally composed for organ, is in keeping with the 19th-century tradition of transposing and, in wider sense, the characteristic sound of the whole period. The basis of the ensemble is from surviving fragments. Céline was just a girl when she first heard the Bach’s works with the aim of giving their refined polyphony greater clarity. strings, which are joined by other instruments Marcello concerto, with its famous second movement in the arrangement by 1CD# AHP 572 $18.99 as required. Bach. “I connect strong childhood memories with it.” It is her fourth album and 1CD# HGR 32836 $18.99 the first that the solo oboist of the Dresden Staatskapelle has recorded with Boismortier: Sonatas pour Violin, Op. 20 / Olivier Brault, Baroque violin; orchestra. Dorothea Ventura, harpsichord Händel Tribute, Instrumental Works / Ramiro 1CD# BER 0301284 $16.99 Sonate 1704 was formed in 2003 by Baroque violinist Olivier Brault with Dorothea Ventura (harpsichord) and Morales; Ensemble L’Apothéose J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio / Mélisande Corriveau (bass viol), with the particular objective of exploring and promoting French music for violin In their last recording project Händel Tribute, L’Apothéose pays homage Gotthold Schwarz; Gewandhausorchester and continuo. Their repertory catalog features more than 100 works, many of which have been first modern to the great composer by performing six chamber music top pieces Liepzig [2 CDs] performances. 1704 refers to the year in which the first book of French violin sonatas, composed by Francois chosen from his Op. 2, Op. 5 and solo instrument with basso continuo Ever since it was first performed by the Duval, was published. French taste intervenes through the use of figures, ornamental possibilities, rhythmic repertoire. Mozart is reputed to have said of G.F. Händel (1685–1759): variety, and the use of dance movements. Thomaskantor between Christmas Day in Händel understands affect better than any of us. When he chooses, 1734 and Epiphany 1735 in Leipzig’s two 1CD# ANA 28769 $18.99 he strikes like a thunderbolt. L’Apothéose is considered as one of the main churches of St. Thomas and St. Nikolai, reference groups in the historical interpretation in Spain. In recent years Bach’s six part musical masterpiece has History of Coffee! Works by Nicolas Bernier, J.S. Bach, et Henry Purcell: Royal Welcome Songs for King the ensemble has won 12 national and international awards. become a cornerstone of the city’s identity and al. / Olivier Fortin; Ensemble Masques Charles II / Harry Christophers; The Sixteen 1CD# IBSC 162019 $15.99 musical heritage. The performance presented here, led by Bach’s 17th successor Gotthold The history of coffee is fascinating! From On this release, Harry Christopher’s and Schwarz together with the Thomanerchor and the opening of the first establishments in The Sixteen continue their exploration of Purcell’s J.S. Bach: Flute Sonatas / François Lazarevitch, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, features stunning music written for royal occasions on the Constantinople in the middle of the 16th a lineup of renowned soloists, enabling one century to the appearance and diffusion of the third album in their acclaimed series. King Charles II flute; Jean Rondeau; Lucile Boulanger; liked to project a strong, stable, divinely legitimated to experience the festive grandeur of what many consider the epitome of drink in Europe in the following century, coffee image. Whilst that image had no basis in reality, the Thomas Dunford Christmas music in its original setting. and coffee houses were highly fashionable. scale of his deception and financial skulduggery did 2CD# ACTS 30469 $29.99 The Coffee Road Olivier Fortin has mapped François Lazarevitch has concentrated not emerge until 19th-century historians discovered his apprenticeships, research and musical out here makes a detour to London around secret treaty documents between Charles and King J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba / practices on the diversity of sources he deems 1660, where the composer Matthew Locke Louis XIV of France. Purcell had no idea of course, Antoine Tamestit, viola da gamba; frequented the Turks Head Coffee House and and so all of the music on this album celebrates the necessary for recreating the early and Baroque promoted a string fantasia. political triumphs that he and his colleagues thought repertoires today. The driving force behind Masato Suzuki, harpsichord 1CD# AHP 543 $18.99 they had witnessed. Mr. Lazarevitch performances is rhythm. This 1CD# COO 16173 $16.99 impulse born of dance calls more on what is Antoine Tamestit and Masato Suzuki, Principal Conductor of the famous Bach J.S. Bach, Vivaldi Concertos / Alexander Loskutov; felt than on what is written on paper. This is Collegium Japan, immersed themselves in Bach’s three sonatas for viola da Volgda Philharmonic Society Chamber Orchestra Italia per Sempre / Annelies Van Gramberen, sop; why his recording of J.S. Bach’s Flute Sonatas gamba and harpsichord in order to present this sublime interpretation using a (‘Choc’ Classica) surprises and charms with modern viola. The change in instrumentation allows the artists total freedom to The Volgda Philharmonic Society Chamber Patrick Denecker; Redherring Baroque Ensemble the eloquence, invention and refinement of his rediscover the exquisite qualities of these all too rarely played masterpieces. Orchestra, lead by Alexander Zagorinsky, In 16th-century Italy was by far the largest exporter art of phrasing and ornamentation. “The contrast with the thinnish sonorities of the fretted, six-stringed viola da a Russian cellist, Honored Artist of Russia of music. But some Italians preferred to stay at 1CD# AHP 490 $10.99 gamba is stark, Tamestit producing a luscious array of velvety colors and and professor, and Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, a home: big names like Alessandro Scarlatti and luxuriant phrasing. Heresy, some might say, but it works beautifully.” Albinoni, but also delightful incogniti such as Norwegian pianist, two-time Grieg Prize winner – Sunday Times Leonardo Leo, Nicolo Fiorenza, Giovanni Antonio and professor at the Norwegian Academy 1CD# HAR 902259 $19.99 of Music, is well known to a wide range of Canuti or Francesco Mancini. Their works are virtually unknown, but as local archives are music lovers. This album is built as a dialogue shedding their treasures through digitization between German and Italian Baroque the Bach projects, more and more gems are finding their NEW BAROQUE RECORDINGS IN BRIEF and Vivaldi concertos are performed by turns. ways to recordings such as the present one. Zagorinsky and Steen-Nøkleberg have taken There is no better advocate for this sun-drenched part in the orchestras concerts on a regular repertoire than the Antwerp ensemble RedHerring. basis. 1CD# ARCT 014 $16.99 Dietrich Buxtehude: Il Mondo Che Gira / María Cristina Kiehr; 1CD# MELY 1002592 $18.99 Víctor Torres; Stylus Phantasticus Handel: Brockes-Passion / Richard Egarr; J.S. Bach: (re)inventions, Vol. 2 / Eric Lamb, flute; Elisabeth Kufferath, viola; Martin Rummel, cello Dietrich Buxtehude’s Ciaccona: Il Monde Che Gira is performed by María Cristina Kiehr, Víctor Torres and Stylus Choir and Orchestra of the Academy of Phantasticus. (Re)inventions Vol. 2 is the much-anticipated Ancient Music [3 CDs] continuation of ensemble paladinos successful 1CD# AHP 492 $10.99 This release celebrates the 300th anniversary of collaborative adaptation project of musical J.S. Bach: Cello Suites Nos. 1–6 / Adolfo Gutiérrez Arenas, cello [2 CDs] Handel’s great Brockes-Passion: a long-neglected examples from Bach’s keyboard works, this time masterpiece by this most brilliant composer. Richard for flute, viola and cello. The entry point of this The quality of the sound recording, the instrument used, the player’s technical skill, all make this album a Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music are joined exploration are Bach’s fifteen Sinfonias, BWV 787 wondrous voyage through the most intimate feelings of the soul and the inner human self. by a stellar line-up of soloists in this recording, the to 801, followed by a carefully selected collection culmination of two years of scholarly research. To of three-part fugues and preludes. The Sinfonias 2CD# VESO 2051 $18.99 create its new edition of the score (Handel’s original are a natural pedagogical extension of the two-part being long-lost), the Academy of Ancient Music inventions and were considered by Bach to be assembled a team of scholars and musicologists musical exercises to achieve a cantabile style in 17th Century Italian Music / Marion Fourquier; Ensemble Poïesis from the University of Oxford, University of playing and at the same time acquire a strong Cambridge, King’s College London and more. foretaste of composition. This album features selections from the Libro de don Luis Rossi, considered a source of primary importance for 3CD# AAMR 007 $53.99 1CD# PANO 0094 $18.99 early 17th-century Italian music, performed by Ensemble Poïesis and Marion Fourquier. J.S. Bach: Cantatas and Arias for Bass / Dominik Wörner, bass; 1CD# AHP 496 $10.99 Alfredo Bernardini; Zefiro Singing voice and instruments enter into a special relationship in these pieces. The dense yet sensitive Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672): The Christmas Story / David Hill; Yale Schola Cantorum polyphony is filled with a warmth and tenderness that seems to bring us closer to Bach, who is otherwise so Schütz’s charming tableaux of angels, shepherds and wise men is a delight. “Yale University’s Schola Cantorum hermetically closed. The I voice in the poems of cantatas BWV 56 and 82 becomes the composers voice. sing and play like seasoned professionals, and Hyperion’s documentation is excellent.” – The Arts Desk Bach’s solo cantatas are precious gems whose subtle beauties go straight to the listeners heart. “Zefiro’s 1CD# HYP 68315 $19.99 playing remains an abiding pleasure…” – Gramophone 1CD# ACAA 466 $18.99 16 17 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Music of the Baroque Era NEW RELEASES - BAROQUE Sacred Music of the Baroque A.C. Destouches: ISSÉ, pastorale héroïque / Carl Heinrich Gruan (1704–1759): Apollo & Dafne / Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas; Ensemble Hannah Morrison; Main-Barockorchestra Les Surprises [2 CDs] Carl Heinrich Graun, like other Italian- Amadio Freddi (1580–1643): Vespers (1616) / Jamie Savan; The Gonzaga Band Under the direction of Louis-Noël Bestion influenced or Italian-trained German composers of his time, composed Italian Following the international success of their first album on Resonus, eniceV 1629, Jamie Savan with de Camboulas, and in the company cantatas throughout his entire creative his acclaimed period group The Gonzaga Band continue their exploration of lesser-known music in of the cream of young French singers period. The three cantatas belong to a the Venetian orbit. Here they uncover a forgotten masterpiece by Amadio Freddi, maestro di cappella (Judith Van Wanroij, Mathias Vidal, small group in Graun’s output, for soprano. of Treviso Cathedral during Monteverdis tenure at St. Marks in Venice. Luminous vocal textures and Chantal Santon, Thomas Dolié etc), the The greater part of his 38 positively sparkling instrumental writing, together with harmonic originality and melodic invention combine to reveal ensemble Les Surprises offers us the attributed Italian cantatas were composed a fascinating composer with a unique voice, heard again for the first time in this world premiere recording world premiere recording of Isse, a heroic for tenor, and thus probably for his own 1CD# REOA 10245 $16.99 pastoral by Andre Cardinal Destouches, voice. Graun’s soprano cantatas were the composer who was also a musketeer. probably written in his Berlin years after Friedrich’s accession to the throne in 1740, when virtuoso castrati and Alessandro Melani (1639–1703): Concerti Spirituali / Samuele Lastrucci; Isse borrows its subject from Book VI of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Its poet, Antoine Houdar de La Motte, took singers were available for the demanding solo parts. I Musici del Gran Principe [2 CDs] pains to point out the fact in the epigraph that appeared at the head of 1CD# ACT 24362 $18.99 each edition of the libretto until 1756. Brilliant Classics has long been renowned for reviving little-known figures from the Baroque and Francesco Geminiani (1687–1762): Renaissance eras. Little enough is now known about Alessandro Melani, and his music has almost been 2CD# AMBR 053 $28.49 Chamber Music, True Taste in the Art of Musick / forgotten, but this beautifully prepared collection of his religious music should go some way to reviving Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantatas & Recorder his reputation. Born in 1639 in the city of Pistoia to the cathedrals bell-ringer, the youngest of seven sons, Apollo’s Cabinet Alessandro Melani undertook his musical apprenticeship at the cathedral before taking up directorships in Concertos / Roberta Invernizzi, sop; Collegium Pro Musica No other master equaled him in tone; grander Italian cities. the sweetness and singing of his violin 2CD# BLC 95970 $12.99 Having worked with countless luminaries of sound; his fine and elegant taste; his A Spanish Nativity, Works for Christmas & Epiphany by de Victoria, Guerrero, early-music performance over the last three perfection in tempo and intonation. decades, Roberta Invernizzi has become What contemporaries attest to the Lobo, et al. / Stile Antico renowned for a crystalline soprano and an violin playing of Francesco Geminiani The Spanish ‘Golden Age’ witnessed an astonishing musical flowering, fully worthy of the nation’s new-found unfailing dramatic sense in Baroque and (1687–1762) applies without restriction preeminence on the world stage. Focusing on works for Christmas and Epiphany, Stile Antico explores this pre-Baroque music, especially from her to his compositions, which are still far too glittering musical treasury, drawing together an irresistible mix of sumptuous polyphony and infectiously joyful folk native Italy. Here she lends distinction to little known. He attached less importance dances. The centerpiece of the is the superbly rich and luminous Missa Beata Dei genitrix Maria by Alonso Lobo. a unique collection of three cantatas and to virtuoso effects à la Vivaldi, but rather Interspersed between it’s movements are motets by Tomás Luis de Victoria, Francisco Guerrero and Christóbal two concertos by the jewel in the crown of to the “melodic grace and adornment” à la Corelli, so much appreciated de Morales, an exuberant ‘ensalada’ by Mateo Flecha, and classic villancicos. Baroque-era music from Naples, Alessandro in his adopted country England. Some of the delicate chamber music 1CD# HAR 902312 $23.99 Scarlatti... imaginative and lively, dramatic treasures are presented here by the Ensemble Apollo’s Cabinet. when needed, but also have intimacy, whenever the music asks for it The 1CD# CVEL 91923 $ 18.99 virtuosic solo passages are perfectly executed. J.S. Bach: Sonata Cantatas for Bass, BWV56, 82 & 158 / Händel: Brockes-Passion / Lars Ulrik Mortensen; 1CD# BLC 95721 $10.49 J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos / David Greco, bass; Luthers Bach Ensemble Concerto Copenhagen [2 SACDs] Anamorfosi, Baroque Vocal Music / Kati Debretzeni, violin; John Eliot Gardiner; These solo bass cantatas are often reserved for The Concerto Copenhagen is Scandinavia’s most English Baroque Soloists singers of more mature years due to their weighty renowned Baroque ensemble and one of the Vincent Dumestre; Le Poème Harmonique themes of worldly fatigue, death and redemption, but most innovative such formations worldwide. Its Allegri’s Miserere, with its heartbreaking To maintain the conversations flow the the interpretations here are infused with youth and trademarks are its unusual program combinations harmonies, its verses alternately chanted soloist needs not just to master the different cosmopolitan openness, with the aim of finding a featuring Scandinavian rarities and famous Baroque technical demands of each concerto and united expression and interpretation in order to pay masterpieces. This world-class orchestra now turns and ornamented, its seraphic voices, tribute to the universal nature of J.S Bach’s music, to Händel’s great Brockes-Passion in a recording is sheer Baroque magic. Since its to capture moods that range from the and to the personal, touching expression at the heart based on the Halle edition of this composers composition in Rome in 1630, the work has playful to the profound, but also to locate of each musical phrase. I’ve always had a deep works. The Passion text published by the well-to-do constantly been transformed. Le Poème the spirit of each individual movement and, affinity for this music, says David Greco. Hamburg resident Barthold Heinrich Brockes was Harmonique approaches the score through as a result, to touch your soul. To me that 1CD# BLC 95942 $10.49 a literary bestseller during the early eighteenth is exactly how it felt when we recorded century. Composers set his poetic text, the first to add narrative elements to the Biblical the prism of its metamorphoses, the J.S. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin / Thomas Passion texts, more than thirty times. ornaments and transpositions added since these four miraculous concertos with Kati Debretzeni and members of the EBS last Zehetmair, violin [2 CDs] 2SACD# CPO 555286 $31.99 the time when Mozart himself transcribed J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Consort – I / the piece, then jealously guarded by December – with everyone sharing a Thomas Zehetmair, one of the great violinists palpable delight in the music-making. John Eliot Gardiner Phantasm the Vatican, which punished publication of it with anathema. Vincent of our time, returns after almost four decades to Dumestre celebrates the 20th anniversary of his ensemble. 1CD# SDG 732 $17.99 that summit of the violin repertory, the solo works In this new recording Phantasm 1CD# AHP 438 $18.99 of Bach. Zehetmair uses period instruments and make no excuses for arranging some of Bach’s techniques playing the music with vividness and remarkable keyboard music for a consort of Back to Bach / Ofra Harnoy, cello intelligence to produce a recording that, deeply viols. Led by director Laurence Dreyfus they go J.S. Bach: Toccatas, BWV 910–916 / steeped in the music and true, is at the same on a conscious mission to uncover the hidden Ofra Harnoy has established herself as time powerfully original. “Zehetmair is among the riches concealed behind the more neutral one of the greatest cellists on the worlds Blandine Rannou, harpsichord most characterful of living violinists, a forceful resources of the harpsichord and organ so as to concert stage. She has won many awards The French harpsichordist, Blandine personality whose ego is employed at the service and distinctions for her recordings, including liberate the fascinating characters lurking in the Rannou, is the outcome of a training of whatever music he happens to be playing…” 5 JUNO Awards, including Instrumental shadows and behind the scenes within Bach’s started with 3 first prizes (harpsichord, – Gramophone individual polyphonic lines. In the process Artist of the Year and Best Classical Album basso continuo, chamber music) at the 2CD# ECM B003131102 $33.49 of fugal confrontation among three to six of the Year in Canada. After taking a career Paris National Superior Conservatorium J.S. Bach, Thorsten Encke: Suites, Solo Cello Works / musicians, they come face to face with the astounding psychological insights of hiatus to raise her children and then deal Bach’s most radical inventions. where she teaches currently basso Tanja Tetzlaff, cello with a near career-ending shoulder injury, 1CD# LINN 618 $16.99 Ofra Harnoy started performing again in continuo, with a training at the Sweelink Tanja Tetzlaff writes: “We come to hear Bach’s J.S. Bach: Trumpet Concertos / Matthias Höfs, tpt; 2018. This album presents a number of tried Conservatory in Amsterdam with Bob van Asperen, and the prize in 1992 of the works differently because Encke’s unfamiliar Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bremen and true Baroque favorites on the cello, like Bach’s ‘Air’ from Orchestral sonorities startle and disturb us. Inserted Suite #3, Bist Du Bei Mir, as well as some slightly lesser known gems. An International Harpsichord Competition in between the suites, Encke’s pieces open up an Johann Sebastian Bach sadly left no amazing recording and an inspiring comeback. Bruges; she was also awarded the RTB trumpet concertos known to us in the twenty-first entirely different world of sound. With his two 1CD# ANA 28907 $18.99 prize and the jury’s special prize. pieces, Encke builds bridges among the three century. The trumpeter Matthias Höfs has now 1CD# AHP 488 $10.99 suites and refers to them directly in his music. remedied this situation by arranging a number of Bach’s solo concertos for his instrument. His modern Cantate Domino, Sacred Music / I find that the two works are quite different in Giovanni Legrenzi (1626–1690): Canto & Basso – piccolo trumpet is able – unlike the valveless Baroque Gordon Safari; Ensemble BachWerkVokal character: Cracks is loud and noise – fragile, as trumpet – to bring out the brilliant sound of the trumpet Vocal & Instrumental Music / Ensemble Zenit well – whereas Clouds is more melodious at the in the demanding melodies of the concertos. Together Gordon Safari, the ensembles founder, onset Both pieces feature powerful, incredible Born in 1626, Legrenzi was a native of with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen he has completed the Cantata BWV 190, drama within a small space. Both pieces are threatening, but also gorgeous.” has produced an album that furthers a long tradition. the Marches region of northern Italy who a work transmitted in fragmentary form. 1CD# CAVI 8553078 $17.99 At same time, he ably demonstrates yet again what a made his career as an organist first in This versatile conductor is now presenting seemingly familiar instrument is capable of. Bergamo and then the more cosmopolitan 1CD# BER 0301305 $16.99 this festive work for the first time. Truly a city of Ferrara, where he became maestro new song! As we gather from Buxtehudes di cappella of the Accademia dello Spirito J.S. Bach: Complete Oratorios / Helmuth Rilling; Bach-Collegium Stuttgart; Latin psalm setting, both Händel and Santo in 1656. The music on this album Bach learned from him. His Novum! – The various artists [4 CDs] dates from the following two decades, Lord! seems to have been tailor-made One of Germany’s largest and most important independent record labels, Hanssler Classic is renowned for having recorded when despite professional frustrations his for the BachWerkVokal. The remarkable every single piece of music written by J.S. Bach. Their 172-album set of the complete works of J.S. Bach performed by Helmuth work was fired with tireless compositional room impression of this three-dimensional Rilling and the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart was the first complete set of Bach’s works to be released together on album. It won the élan. On good stylistic and aesthetic recording shines with Baroque splendor even in the secular setting of prestigious 2001 Cannes Classical Award for best special edition and the 2000 Echo Classical award for Editorial Achievement. The grounds, the musicians of Ensemble Zenit have chosen to play a the home and lends Bach’s double-choral motets the radiance of a live present release is an exemplary showcase of each and every one of J.S. Bach’s Oratorios, recorded over the last four decades. selection of works from these collections on cornet and trombone. performance. 4CD# HAN 19047 $29.99 1CD# BLC 96006 $10.49 1SA CD# MDG 9022138 $18.99 18 19 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com New Recordings of the Classical EraNEW RELEASES - CLASSICAL Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 24 / Orli Mozart: String Quartets Vol. 2 – Quartet Nos. 1, 17 Recommended Haydn Orchestral Music Shaham, piano; David Robertson; St. Louis SO & 20 / Armida Quartett With the intention to record music that has The German Armida Quartett, winner of Haydn: Symphony No. 99; Mass in B-flat / Mireille Asselin, soprano; spoken to her, and driven her throughout the ARD competition 2012, is scheduled to Catherine Wyn-Rogers, mz; Jeremy Budd, tenor; Sumner Thompson, her career, Orli Shaham chose to record record all of Mozart’s string quartets as a Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos.17 and 24 cooperation with G. Henle Publisher’s. This baritone with the her husband David Robertson second volume includes String Quartet No. The Handel and Haydn Society continues its acclaimed Haydn exploration on CORO with one of the leading the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra 1 in G major, K. 80, No. 17 in B flat major, composer’s last major works – the dramatic and sumptuous Mass in B-flat major more commonly known as – two collaborators she knows and loves. K. 458 and No. 20 in D major, K. 499. the ‘Harmoniemesse’. “His approach to the symphonies with the venerable Handel and Haydn Society has It is a virtuosic display of his mastery of The first volume received rave reviews, emphasised the rich tone of his Boston-based orchestra, bearing a greater similarity, perhaps, to the suavity melodic invention, highlighting the spirit of the NDR Broadcast station resumed: and urbanity of Colin Davis’s Concertgebouw recordings than to the individualists and iconoclasts among his dialogue between soloist and orchestra. “extremely lively and full of energy, colleagues in the period-instrument movement.” – Gramophone Orli Shaham revels in their richness and breathtaking originality. “I transparent in the sound picture, following 1CD# COO 16176 $16.99 find these performances excellent: zestful and confidently played all of Mozart’s intentions.” Haydn: Organ Concertos Nos. 1, 2, & 6 / Sophie Gent, violin; Iain Quinn, organ; throughout.” – Fanfare 1CD# CAVI 8553444 $17.99 1CD# CNCL 18 $19.99 Jonathan Cohen; Arcangelo C.P.E. Bach: Piano Concertos / Michael Rische, Mozart: Quintet, K. 581; Clarinet Concerto, K. 622; piano; Morten Schuldt-Jensen; Leipzig CO; Iain Quinn is joined by Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen in this recording of organ concertos by Haydn. The violinist Arias K. 523 & 524 / Dirk Altmann, clarinet; Masato Sophie Gent joins the forces for the double concerto (No. 6). Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 for organ are among Rainer Maria Klaas; Leipzig CO [4 CDs] Haydn’s earliest works, and seem to have been written in the 1750s, before Haydn entered into the employ of Suzuki, piano; Ludwig Chamber Players Michael Rische is one of a group of the Esterházys, in 1761. The double concerto dates from 1766, when Haydn was fully established as a composer Clarinettist Dirk Altmann plays late musicians that is small even in international and Kapellmeister. “These are thoroughly enjoyable, glowingly recorded performances of music that offers limited terms, who consistently enrich the works by W.A. Mozart. It is common scope for ‘interpretation’.” – Gramophone music scene with their discoveries. After 1CD# CHA 20118 $18.99 knowledge that Mozart composed recording compositions on the notes “B-A- Haydn: Missa Cellensis / Johanna Winkel, soprano; Sophie Harmsen, alto; these pieces not long before his C-H” from Johann Sebastian Bach to the Benjamin Bruns, tenor; Wolf Matthias Friedrich, bass; Justin Doyle; Academy death, but for Dirk Altmann they are present, Michael Rische has been working not the creations of an angel on the with growing success on reaffirming the of Early Music Berlin way to heaven but where written in nearly forgotten piano concertos by his son Carl Philipp Emanuel. Since 2011, he has It was when the young Haydn was appointed Kapellmeister to Prince Nikolaus Esterházy that he composed his a very earthly environment. What been causing a stir with his recordings, and Missa Cellensis, a work of vast proportions, whose popularity is demonstrated by the many surviving copies. In happens when the clarinet concerto the media have been enthusiastically commenting on his recordings, this interpretation full of vivid contrasts, the RIAS Kammerchor and the Academy of Early Music Berlin confirm is played exempt of romantic, nearly religious enhancement? worldwide. their extraordinary ability to reveal every subtlety of a composition that possesses almost operatic energy. “ The 4CD# HAN 19043 $22.99 choral singing is both incisive and mellifluous; tempos, balancing dignity and exuberance, are aptly chosen; and We hear the inspirations of a joyful genius. Dirk Altmann has rhythms are always vital…” – Gramophone been solo clarinettist with the SWR Symphony Orchestra in Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 44, 75 & 1CD# HAR 902300 $19.99 Stuttgart for more than 30 years. 92 (piano arrangements) / Ivan Ilić, piano 1CD# TAC 252 $21.99 Haydn: String Quartets, Vol. 11 – Quartet, Mozart: Violin Concertos K. 207 & 219 / Gordan Mozart: Violin Concertos K. 216 & 219 / So Jin Ivan Ilić writes: ‘It is unclear to me Op. 17, Nos. 1, 3, 5 / Leipzig String Quartet Nikolić, violin; Netherlands Chamber Orchestra Kim, violin; Kurpfälzisches Chamber Orchestra whether these transcriptions were The Leipzig String Quartet presents us with all The orchestra, including the soloist, sits in a big ever meant to be played as concert six quartets from Op. 17 on the two CDs of this circle around the microphones. Of course, the Korean-American violinist So Jin Kim has repertoire, in public. Nevertheless, attractive box of Haydn’s earlier works. The result multi-channel version in TACET Real SS is much been praised by critics and audiences the enthusiasm I have encountered is uncommonly rewarding inasmuch as light is shed clearer even than what you would experience were alike for her “powerful interpretation...[and] on a highly interesting developmental advance from you sitting in the room. Gordan Nikolić, soloist flawless sound” (Cuxhavener Nachrichten) wherever I have played them divertimento mirth to mature chamber music and and leader of the recording, captivates everyone. and “creating tones of poetry” (The Strad has persuaded me to make this straight into the formative years of a revolutionarily He feels entirely at home with Mozart and he has new musical genre. In the careful hands of the a love for the unique and eccentric things in the Korea). Her debut CD was released in recording, to allow more people four top musicians from Leipzig these rarely heard music. While in the fast movements climbing and 2018 with raving reviews from publications to hear [Carl David] Stegmann’s quartets develop a fascinating appeal that could not clambering around on the strings like a child at the including Klassik Radio Austria, Klassik (1751–1826) idiomatic arrangements.’ “Ilic certainly plays be more charming. playground, in the slow ones he caresses his violin Heute, and Das Orchester. On her latest 1CD# MDG 3072141 $18.99 like a hug. these symphonies with conviction... A fascinating disc with recording she presents, together with 1SA CD# TAC 231SA $24.99 Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778–1837): Kurpfälzisches Chamber Orchestra, Mozart’s Violin Concertos K. 216 terrific sound.” – International Piano Piano Concertos, Vol. 2 / Alessandro Commellato, Maria Teresa Agnesi (1720–1795): Arias with & 219. 1CD# CHA 20142 $18.99 piano; Stefano Barneschi, violin; Didier Talpain; Instruments, 1749 / Elena de Simone, 1SA CD# ARSP 38295 $19.99 Bartolomeo Campagnoli: 6 Duos for Flute & Violin, La Galante; Milano Classica mezzo-soprano; Ensemble Il Mosaico Styrian Harpsichord Concertos – Works by Op. 2 / Stefano Parrino, flute; Francesco Parrino, The mezzo-soprano Elena De Simone and the A friend of Beethoven and Schubert, Hummel G.C. Wagenseil, J.M. Steinbacher, J.A. Scheibl / violin Ensemble Il Mosaico are the interpreters of this is a staple of the Classical and early romantic production that continues the journey of Tactus Michael Hell, hpsi; Lucia Froihofer, vln; repertoire. This album opens with the Concerto for Bartolomeo Campagnoli (1751–1827) in the rediscovery of various female characters piano and orchestra in A WoO 24a S.5, a work that Neue Hofkapelle Graz forgotten by history, that played a fundamental is an early-Classical violinist and languished in obscurity until the 1960s. The second role in the cultural and musical panorama of their composer whose music had until half of this release is given over to the Concerto for A collection of clavier concertos extant time. One of these cases concerns Maria Teresa piano, violin and orchestra Op.17 – an instrumental in the Studies Library in Ptuj (Pettau), recently been almost entirely lost Agnesi, a precocious musician and composer who combination few composers have attempted. “The dedicated her works to the major political authorities Slovenia, preserves the compositions to history. The duos on this new 1825 Böhm piano here adds character and charm of her world. recorded here in manuscript form. The to this duo of Hummel concertos. Despite several recording were written between 1CD# TCT 720101 $16.99 harpsichordist Michael Hell, along with lapses in pitch, the vigour of the performances 1780 and 1796 while in the employ the Neue Hofkapelle Graz, led by him and carries it through.” – BBC Music of Charles of Saxony, Duke of 1CD# BLC 95894 $10.49 Lucia Froihofer, performs these exciting Courland, in Dresden, and they are Józef Zeidler (1744–1806): Missa ex D; Antoni Michèl Yost: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 6, 12, works. Two highly outstanding instruments were available to Michael Hell for this expertly calibrated to appeal to aristocratic tastes for pleasant Habel (1760–1831): Symphony in D major / 14; Johann Christoph Vogel: Symphony in D / Susanne Heilig, clarinet; Marek Štilec; recording: the harpsichord built by Johann and lively music in the galant style, always falling easily upon Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski; Sinfonietta Cracovia; Leydecker in Vienna in 1755, now freshly restored, and its copy built Kurpfälzisches CO the ear. Polish Chamber Choir by Martin Pühringer in 2017. “Another valuable contribution to the 1CD# BLC 95974 $10.49 Michèl Yost (1754–1786), a Parisian by birth, was catalogue, both erudite and really entertaining.” – MusicWeb Featured on this album, Missa ex D by Józef a famous French clarinet virtuoso in his time. We 1CD# CPO 555269 $16.99 Zeidler was intended for four voices (SATB) and know of fourteen clarinet concertos by Yost, some Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas & instruments – two violins, two trumpets and organs. of which he composed in collaboration with the Beethoven: Symphony Nos. 5 & 7 / Andrew Concertos; Diabelli Variations / Paul Lewis, piano; Zeidler displays in it solid compositional skill, which German composer and Paris resident Johann Manze; NDR Radiophilharmonie abounds in a variety of employed means. The Christoph Vogel (1756–1788). The symphony Jiří Bělohlávek; BBC SO [14 CDs] collection also includes two compositions by Antoni by Vogel rounding off the album contains a last After their prize-winning Mendelssohn Habel, including one symphony. Symphonia was “One of the most highly prized recording movement with dramatic and even gloomy elements symphonies cycle and acclaimed written for two violins, a viola, two flutes, two horns and displays surprising musical turns of events marathons of recent years... an and a basso. Mozart symphonies album, the NDR setting it apart from the average symphonic music unmissable benchmark.” – Gramophone; 1CD# DUX 1574 $19.99 of its times. Radiophilharmonie and its chief conductor 1CD# CPO 555191 $16.99 Andrew Manze now present Beethoven’s “This is a superb set in which Lewis Fifth and Seventh symphonies. Both asserts his own inspiring voice together Mozart: Piano Concertos Vol. 1 – K. 415; K. 238 / Anne-Marie McDermott, piano; works display Beethoven’s mastery of with his mature insight into Beethoven’s Scott Yoo; Odense SO and audacious approach to musical form creative mind.” – The Telegraph; as well as the richness of his melodic “In rendering the five Beethoven piano Bridge Records launches Anne-Marie McDermott’s Mozart Piano Concerto cycle with Vol. 1 of the series offering Concerto invention, and are generally praised as concertos, Paul Lewis makes every note No. 6, K. 238, and Concerto No. 13, K. 415. The Odensesymfoniorkester (Denmark) is conducted by Scott Yoo. Of paragons of symphonic composition. “Honestly, it’s been a while since count.” – N.Y. Times “All the ingredients Ms. McDermott’s extraordinary musicianship BBC Music Magazine recently wrote: “McDermott’s heart has heft and I’ve heard interpretations where everything seems to be in its right are in place here to make this an exceptional release.” translucence, structural certainty and seasoned humanity.” As an Artistic Director, Ms. McDermott leads the Ocean Reef place… The engineering, too, is beyond reproach. Enthusiastically – BBC Music Magazine Chamber Music Festival in Florida and the Avila Chamber Music Celebration in Curacao. recommended.” – Gramophone 14CD# HAR 2908880 $29.99 1CD# BDG 9518 $16.99 1SA CD# PTE 5186814 $17.99 20 21 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com NEW RELEASES - CLASSICAL NEW RELEASES - GUITAR New Recordings of the Classical Era Music for Guitar and Lute Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Twyla Robinson, Franz Xaver Richter (1709–1789): soprano; Karen Cargill, mz; John MacMaster, Flute Concerto; Trio Sonata; Harpsichord Renaissance & Baroque Programs tenor; Gerald Finley, bass; Bernard Haitink; Trios / Jana Semerádová, transverse flute; London SO & Chorus Ensemble Castor Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger: Intavolatura di Chitarrone, Books 1 & 4 / Jonas Nordberg, theorbo “The extraordinarily vivid recording, in Franz Xaver Richter was one of the most important representatives which the basses are caught to stupendous of the famous Mannheim school. As a composer, he primarily created At the end of the 16th century, the pursuit of greater, more vivid expressivity dominated music-making all across effect – especially in their passages of symphonic works in the galant Mannheim style at the interface Italy, taking madrigals and other vocal ensemble forms as its starting point but soon going on to explore the recitative … before welcoming the ‘Ode between baroque and classical music: variety, contrasts, surprises possibilities offered by solo singing. For some decades the theorbo (or chitarone, as it was also called) was to Joy’ theme – adds hugely to the effect.” and a very special orchestral sound. These characteristics can be regarded as the ideal instrument for accompanying singers, but as a leading exponent of the instrument Giovanni – BBC Music Magazine. “A magnificent impressively understood in the Flute Concerto in E minor, as well as in Girolamo Kapsperger soon also established it as a solo instrument in its own right. Ninth, done with total commitment under two harpsichord trios and a trio sonata for two violins. A flute concerto 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# BIS 2417 $17.99 Haitink’s inspiring leadership...with by Johann Stamitz, co-founder of the Mannheim School, rounds off the splendid chorus and soloists in full cry, and release. J.S. Bach: The Four Lute Suites / Franz Hálasz, guitar 1CD# PAN 10406 $16.99 orchestra in blazing form.” – Sunday Times (recorded for the first time on classical guitar) 1CD# MSLC 1387 $13.99 Georg Druschetetzky (1745–1819): Oboe Quartets, For this recording, Franz Halász has himself transcribed two of the suites, performing the others in arrangements Haydn: Flute & Oboe Concertos Nos. 1 & 3; Vol. 1 / Grundmann-Quartet by Ansgar Krause. These arrangements have made it possible to record all four works in their original keys for the Carl Stamitz: Flute & Oboe Concerto in G; Georg Druschetzky enjoyed a successful first time on the guitar. An unusually generous playing time furthermore allows them to be collected on a single Flute Concerto in D / Ana del la Vega, flute; career and wrote masses, symphonies, two disc. Franz Halász appears on a number of acclaimed albums for BIS, in a wide-ranging repertoire including Bach’s operas, and numerous chamber compositions. three sonatas for solo violin, which he, according to one reviewer makes ‘entirely his own’ – BBC Music Magazine Ramón Ortega Quero, oboe His chamber works include a cycle of ten 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# BIS 2285 $17.99 oboe quartets (1807–8) from his late years Flautist Ana de la Vega teams up with oboist Ramón Ortega Quero and that make an astonishing and lasting listening the Trondheim Soloists to explore the intricate and unique relationship impression – because of his rich imagination Giovanni Battista Dalla Gostena (1558–1593): between flute and oboe in concertos by Joseph Haydn and Carl Stamitz.The and his compositional wit and spirited harmonic programme consists of two concertos by Haydn, as well as Stamitz’s concerto daredevilry that we otherwise encounter 25 Lute Fantasies / Elliot Simpson, guitar for flute, oboe and orchestra in G major. The recording also features Stamitz’s only in the “surprise artist” Haydn. “Perfect vibrant and virtuosic but rarely recorded Flute concerto in D major, which These fantasias make extraordinary demands upon the performer, due in no small part to the complex polyphony entertainment.” – MusicWeb borrowed from his madrigals and masses. They belong to the repertoire of every skilled lutenist but they are offers some of the finest writing for flute of the entire Classical era. “Spaciously 1CD# CPO 555171 $16.99 recorded, these likely and charming pieces should give pleasure.” – BBC Music very rarely recorded as a collection, making Elliott Simpson’s new album an essential acquisition for collectors 1CD# PTE 5186823 $14.99 Giovanni Battista Gervasio (1725–1785): of Renaissance music on record. Born in 1987, this American guitarist has an abiding interest in and thorough Sonatas for Mandolin and Continuo / understanding of the Renaissance-era music which establishes the underlying elements and principles of modern Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838): Sextet, Op. 142; guitar repertoire. Trio WoO 70,2; Octet, Op. 128 / Franz Ensemble Marco Giacintucci, mandolin; 1CD# BLC 95944 $10.49 Ferdinand Ries delights in experimentation Walter D’Arcangelo, harpsichord in his Sextet and surprises us with his Giovanni Battista Gervasio was a composer, virtuoso and teacher in Angelo Gilardino (b. 1941) – Music for Guitar Ars Longa, Old and Nuew Music for original instrumental combinations. The the musical scene of ‘stile galante’ of the second half of 18th century. Quartet / Quartetto Santorsóla Guitar Quartet Theorbo / Elizabeth Kenny, theorbo solo piano is joined by the harp, which He also studied and improved the four-courses mandolin, which was also has to rise to the highest challenges, first built in Naples in that period. We have played an original mandolin Born in 1941, Angelo Gilardino enjoys Ars longa see theorbo specialist while the clarinet, horn, and bassoon form built in 1764 and a copy of an Italian harpsichord from the 18th century. an extensive discography on Brilliant Elizabeth Kenny perform a typically an accompaniment of orchestral character This is the first complete recording of all the sonatas for mandolin by Classics, which has won international inventive recital of diverse repertoire over the double bass foundation. The Giovanni Battista Gervasio and the first absolute world recording. acclaim both for the beauty of the music spanning five centuries. The theorbo’s pianist also has the opportunity to shine as 1CD# TCT 720702 $16.99 and the authority and sensitivity of the eccentric appearance and tuning belies a soloist in the Octet – which amounts to a Haydn: Symphony No. 25; Johann Simon Mayr: performances. Gilardino’s own work is its expressive and delicate qualities; its piano concerto en miniature. Unknown music in unusual combinations – complemented here by his transcription versatility extends to beautiful melodies, that is the specialty of the Franz Ensemble. Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Edna Stern, piano; of Andalucia, a piano cycle by the Cuban experimental harmonies and a wonderfully 1SA CD# MDG 9032136 $18.99 Ruben Gazarian; Georgisches CO Ingolstadt composer Ernesto Lecuona, composed resonant bass. The recital takes the in the Spanish heritage of Albeniz and listener from the early avant-garde Franz Joseph Clement (1780–1842): Containing two World Premiere Recordings, Granados. This version for four guitars repertoire for the instrument of Kapsperger this new recording on SACD celebrates Johann lives up to the color and brilliance of and Piccinini to the new and imaginative Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Mirijam Contzen, Simon Mayr (1763–1845). Known for a long Lecuona’s inspiration. sounds explored by today’s composers. violin; Reinhard Goebel; WDR SO time only as Donizetti’s teacher, Mayr’s body of work has experienced a well-deserved 1CD# BLC 95911 $13.99 1CD# LINN 603 $16.99 Clement was considered one of the greatest violin virtuosos of his time and his renaissance in recent years and these world Just National Guitar – Music for Solo Guitar / John Schneider, guitar contemporary, Beethoven, dedicated his Violin Concerto to Clement by writing premiere recordings are no exception. The on the score “Concerto par Clemenza pour Clement”. Viewed as a response Belgian-Israeli pianist Edna Stern and the John Schneider is the GRAMMY® award winning guitarist, composer, author and broadcaster whose weekly television to Clement’s first Violin Concerto of 1805, the similarities between Clement’s Georgisches Chamber Orchestra Ingolstadt and radio programs have brought the sound of the guitar into millions of homes. His recitals include Renaissance Violin Concerto No. 1 and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto Op. 61 reflect the way under Ruben Gazarian present Mayr’s Piano and Baroque repertoire in their original temperaments, as well as contemporary music in alternative tunings by such in which the two composers could refer directly to one another, tossing balls Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 alongside Haydn’s composers as Lou Harrison, Ben Johnston & others. This new release explores these compositions for this instrument, back and forth with a nod and a wink and sparking creative reactions. Symphony No. 25. with works by Lou Harrison, Terry Riley, Carter Scholz, and others. 1CD# SBMG 19075929632 $14.99 1 SACD# ARSP 38294 $19.99 1CD# MICR 12 $14.99 CHAMBER MUSIC OF BEETHOVEN IN BRIEF Beethoven: String Trio Op. 3; Serenade Op. 8 / Alessandro Milani, violin; LUTE MUSIC ALBUMS IN BRIEF Luca Ranieri, viola; Pierpaolo Toso, cello Viennese Lute Music / Toyohiko Satoh, Greiff lute of 1611/1673 In these two string trios may be heard the voice of the young Beethoven at its most personal and polished. “The Trio Italiano d’Archi presents stylish, polished, highly appealing performances of these two substantial On this release, lutenist Toyohiko Satoh plays music from the court of Vienna around 1700. A special discovery works.” – Fanfare on this album is the suite by Adam Franz Ginter, a forgotten composer who lived only for a brief time. 1CD# BLC 95819 $10.49 1CD# CARP 16317 $18.99 Beethoven: Piano Quartets / Konstantin Sellheim, viola; Klaviertrio Hannover The Lutenist – The Accent Recordings 1978–1980 / Konrad Junghänel, lute [3 CDs] At the young age of fifteen, the composer Ludwig van Beethoven wrote the Piano Quartets, which has been hailed as consummate, sparkling, and profound music. The three recordings of lute music from Italy and Germany – Bach, Piccinini, Kapsberger, and Weiss – which 1CD# GUIN 19673 $18.99 Konrad Junghänel recorded for the Belgian label Accent in the late 1970, are collected here. 3CD# ACT 24360 $19.99 Beethoven: Late String Quartets, Opp. 95, 127, 130, 131, and 135 / Brodsky Quartet [3 CDs] Bella Incognita, The Imagination of Marco dall’Aquila / Lukas Henning, lute The late quartets are among the last works that Beethoven completed, and are considered among the greatest compositions of all time. “I am struck by the sheer energy and belief that goes into the playing.” – BBC Music Lutenist Lukas Henning intersperses music of Marco dall’Aquila with some of his own sympathetic and informed 3CD# CHA 20114 $37.49 compositions, including a delightful piece which explores the nightmare of breaking a string! 1CD# GLS 923518 $16.99 Beethoven: Complete Works for Piano & Cello / Ori Epstein, cello; Omri Epstein, Simone Molinaro (1565–1636): Dances & Fantasies for Lute / Ugo Nastrucci, lute piano [2 CDs] Although Molinaro’s idiom is that of the Renaissance, the challenging fingerings of his musical ideas reveal the “The brothers Ori and Omri Epstein offer some fine and thoroughly musical performances… The recorded sort of horizontal, linear development that owes much to Flemish counterpoint. balance between the two instruments is ideal.” – BBC Music 1CD# BLC 95401 $10.49 2CD# LINN 627 $25.49 22 23 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com The Romantic Era NEW RELEASES - ROMANTIC Bruckner: Symphony No. 4; Symphony No. 7 / Joseph Mayseder: Chamber Music, Vol. 6 / Srebra New from Brilliant Classics Herbert Blomstedt; Staatskapelle Dresden [2 CDs] Gelleva, pno; Maria Grün, clo; Raimund Lissy, vln With this release, MD&G begins making The Viennese violin virtuoso Joseph Mayseder Schumann & Glinka: Chamber Music / Giovanni Punzi, clt; Toke Møldrup, clo; available top-quality recordings from the (1789–1863) is today considered an insider Galya Kolarova, pno extensive Denon catalogue. The Staatskapelle tip, he played under the baton of Haydn, Dresden was made in musical heaven for Beethoven and Schubert and wrote an Principal clarinet of the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Giovanni Punzi made this new album with Bruckner’s music. Richard Wagner called it impressive number of own compositions. colleagues from the orchestra alongside the Bulgarian-born, multi-award-winning pianist Galya Kolarova, who is his “wonder harp,” and Herbert von Karajan More than 900 printed editions of his works in also based in the Danish capital. Punzis previous album for Brilliant Classics also focused on a German Romantic characterized the sound of this oldest orchestra European countries and abroad illustrate the composer, Max Bruch: according to the Fanfare magazine review of May 2019, There is a pronounced Italian in the world as the “brilliant glow of old gold.” popularity of Mayseder, which nonetheless snap to these performances that provides an intriguing alternative coloration to these works. All this and much more is found in Herbert seemed to vanish over the course of time. His Blomstedt’s interpretation of both symphonies works are now continually being published as 1CD# BLC 95871 $10.49 from 1981, and we can look forward with world premiere recordings by violinist Raimund suspense to the continuation! Lissy, member of the Vienna Philharmonic. Mendelssohn: Chamber Music with Clarinet / Dario Zingales, clt; Marco Sala, 2CD# MDG 6502150 $18.99 1CD# GRAM 99197 $18.99 bst-hrn; Alexey Grots, pno Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 9 / Schumann, Brahms: Concertos for Violin / Antje The Italian clarinetist Dario Zingales has accordingly raided the cupboard for transcriptions and turned up seven Maxim Emelyanychev; Scottish Chamber Weithaas, violin; Manze; NDR Radiophilharmonie Songs without Words, as well as having new chamber versions made of clarinet-centered movements in the Scottish and Italian symphonies. Arranged together in a 75-minute sequence, these works range between the Orchestra Antje Weithaas probes every detail in the musical text, charged with energy lyrical and intimate tone of Mendelssohn’s voice to the brilliant virtuoso at ease with his own extraordinary gifts. “Emelyanychev [was] constantly balancing surface charm and vigor with a far and with her compelling musical intelligence and unrivaled command of Zingales is well placed to emulate their famed sensitivity and bullet-proof technical command. darker, more manic undertow not least in the towering cumulative energy of technique. Her charisma and stage presence are gripping but never force their 1CD# BLC 96081 $10.49 his propulsive finale. Schubert’s Ninth Symphony was the composer’s final way in front of the work. This recording brings together three great musicians major contribution to the genre and his maturity is reflected in its intensely and two composers who enjoyed the closest of relationships. Both works were lyrical melodies and monumental scale. Emelyanychev procures a very precise written for the outstanding violinist Joseph Joachim, who played a central role Franco Margola (1809–1992): Music for Mandolin / Raffaele La Ragione, mdln; blend and balance by applying a historical aesthetic similar to the one that has for Schumann as well as for Brahms. In these interpretations – an absolute Giacomo Ferrari, pno previously seen accolades heaped upon this award-winning orchestra.” listening must! – The Scotsman 1CD# CPO 555172 $16.99 One particular highlight is the Romanza senza parole, a song without words with an airy theme that alternates 1CD# LINN 619 $16.99 between the piano and the mandolin in a lyrical mood that naturally brings Mendelssohn and the world of Lieder Gounod: Solemn Mass of St. Cecilia; Bizet: to mind. Made in the composers home city of Brescia, these recordings are led by the mandolin player Raffaele Brahms: German Requiem / Daniel Harding; Te Deum / Hans Rudolf Zöbeley; Münchner La Ragione, an experienced soloist in music of the Baroque and Romantic eras, with a previous Brilliant Classics album of neglected Neapolitan music to his credit, Serenata Napoletana. Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Symphoniker 1CD# BLC 96037 $12.99 Ein deutsches Requiem, Brahms’s longest The St. Cecilia’s Mass represents a very choral work, was composed during three happy combination of strict Palestrina different periods of his life but completed style and modern opera elements. The Fernand de La Tombelle: Chamber Music / Herve Antonio Pasculli (1842–1924): Fantasies on Themes between 1865 and 1868. It is a sacred work, instrumentation with brass instruments is an Niquet; Brussels Philharmonic; Flemish Radio Choir by Giuseppe Verdi / Orchestra Senzaspine but non-liturgical. It features text chosen by open demonstration of firm Catholic conviction, Brahms from the German Lutheran Bible, and the clanging cymbals turn the ascension, [3 CDs] The endless genre of operatic fantasy, with passages from both the Old and New et ascendit in coelum, into a veritable triumphal This new album-book in the Palazzetto Bru which explodes and spreads without Testament. On this recording, soloists march. Gounod’s somewhat high-handed Zanes Portraits series reveals the multiple embankments in the musical culture of the Christiane Karg and Matthias Goerne are treatment of the liturgically prescribed text of facets of a captivating personality, ranging entire Italian nineteenth century, has already joined by the Swedish Radio Choir and the the Agnus Dei is also to be explained by his from orchestral music with operatic overtones been extensively explored in various Tactus Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, all under need to heighten the dramatic effect of the through introspective chamber works to choral productions dedicated both to chamber and the direction of maestro Daniel Harding. music at this point. music recalling the Renaissance madrigal. sacred music. This time, however, the main 1CD# HAR 902635 $19.99 1CD# HAN 19046 $18.99 The sublime Fantaisie for piano and orchestra protagonists are the oboe and the English horn, would suffice on its own to demonstrate fascinating orchestral instruments that, thanks Saint-Saëns: Works for Piano & Strings / Louis to the great virtuoso from Palermo, Antonino Fanny Hensel: Oratorios, German Requiem; Lili the quality of La Tombelles inspiration. To Lortie, piano; Edward Gardner; BBC Philharmonic champion his cause as it deserves, this set Pasculli, take part in that great musical activity Boulanger: Psalms / Helmut Wolf, Stuttgart PO – attended by myriads of Italian and European calls on no fewer than fourteen soloists, along The Carus Classics series features outstanding album productions from Carus Following the acclaimed release of Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2, and 4 in composers. with orchestra, chorus and conductor. past library of recordings. The Philharmonia Chor Stuttgart under the direction September 2018, Louis Lortie completes his survey of Saint-Saëns’s piano 1CD# TCT 841602 $16.99 3CD# ECIO 1038 $41.99 of Helmut Wolf presents sacred vocal music from two highly gifted female concertos with this recording of Concertos Nos 3 and 5, once again with Anton Bruckner: Symphonies 1–9 / Berlin Schumann: Cello Concerto; Brahms: Double composers: Formally, Fanny Hensel’s Oratorio to words from the Bible is Edward Gardner and the BBC Philharmonic. Lortie completes the album with Concerto / Zuill Bailey, cello; Various artists reminiscent of Bach and Handel, whereas it displays the clear tonal language two smaller works for piano and orchestra, both from 1884. The Rhapsodie Philharmonic; various artists [14 CDs] of the early Romantic era. The two imposing psalms by Lili Boulanger are d’Auvergne is an impressionistic evocation of the spectacular part of central Cellist Zuill Bailey’s new album is a celebration The edition is a document of a successful characterized by an impressive array of sound and by a moving intensity. France referenced in the title; the Allegro appassionato offers a virtuosic romp of the 10th anniversary of the Wimbledon artistic collaboration with highly esteemed 1CD# CRS 83468 $18.99 for soloist and orchestra alike. International Music Festival, where he partners of many years standing: Herbert 1CD# CHA 20038 $18.99 has often appeared. It includes gripping Blomstedt, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, performances of the Schumann Cello Concerto Paavo Järvi, Zubin Mehta, Seiji Ozawa, and the Brahms Double Concerto with violinist Christian Thielemann and Simon Rattle. The NEW ROMANTIC ERA ALBUMS IN BRIEF Philippe Quint. Zuill Bailey, widely considered high-quality hardcover edition presents the one of the premiere cellists in the world, is recordings on nine albums as well as pure a GRAMMY® Award winning, internationally audio and video recordings. The extensive Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; Les Francs-Juges, overture / François-Xavier Roth; Les renowned soloist, recitalist, Artistic Director and booklet contains an essay by the renowned teacher. His rare combination of celebrated Siècles musicologist Richard Taruskin plus portraits of artistry, technical wizardry and engaging the conductors, introductions to the individual personality has secured his place as one of the This new recording of Berlioz’ norm-smashing masterpiece is well served by the unique timbres of period symphonies and numerous photos. most sought after and active cellists today. instruments, including the church bell of the composer’s hometown, La-Cote Saint-André. 14Blu-Ray Audio / CD# BERP 190281 $118.99 1CD# STEI 30123 $17.99 1CD# HAR 902644 $19.99 Hermann Grädener (1844–1929): Violin Concertos Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 / Philippe Nos. 1 & 2 / Karen Bentley Pollick, violin Herreweghe; Antwerp Symphony Orchestra Schubert: Trios Nos. 1 & 2 / Paul Badura-Skoda; Wolfgang Scheiderhan; Boris The German-born, Vienna-based Hermann Philippe Herreweghe and the Antwerp Pergamenschikow Gradener is yet another composer whose Symphony Orchestra explore the tormented music, esteemed in its own time, has since world of Robert Schumann. Symphonies Nos. 2 These recordings provide a stunning experiencing of the superb individual class as well as chamber musical slipped between the floorboards of history. The and 4 plunge us into the psychological tangles abilities of three of the greatest musicians of musical history. conductor of this recording, Gottfried Rabl, of the composers mind, reflecting his relentless discovered Grädener’s scores in the second- 1CD# GRAM 99176 $18.99 struggle with melancholy and depression. The hand section of a Viennese music-shop many director from Ghent (and former psychiatrist) years ago and now, joined by the American Philippe Herreweghe manages to grasp the violinist Karen Bentley Pollick, they are Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 ‘New World’; Carnival Overture; Brahms: ‘Haydn’ Variations / full complexity of this cathartic process leading releasing this first album in a series intended to us from darkness into light. He delivers a lively Colin Davis; London SO put Grädener’s music before the modern public and urgent interpretation of these romantic for the first time. This album has the best possible couplings for the inimitable New World Symphony. “Unmissable... Superb in all masterpieces, confirming his reputation as an 1CD# TOC 0528 $18.99 unrivalled performer of the German repertoire. respects. Sound quality doesn’t come any better than this whatever the price. Don’t hesitate!” – Classic CD 1CD# PHIG 032 $18.99 1CD# MSLC 1405 $13.99 Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1; Four Ballades, Op. 10 / Lars Vogt, piano; Royal Northern Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 / Alan Gilbert; NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester Sinfonia With this recording, one will experience Bruckner’s breathtaking Seventh Symphony in the spectacular big As in previous albums in this series, Lars Vogt conducts from the keyboard. The evolution of Brahms 1st Piano Concerto took concert hall of Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, among the most famous concert halls in the world. several steps. Originally conceived to become a Sonata for Two Pianos through orchestration it was developed into a four- movement Symphony until reaching into its final form of a Piano Concerto in three movements. During the process, which lasted 1CD# SBMG 19075979532 $14.99 from 1854 to 1856, some movements were also discarded and replaced by new material. 1CD# OND 1330 $16.99 24 25 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com NEW RELEASES - POST ROMANTIC NEW RELEASES - POST ROMANTIC The Romantic Era Music of the Post Romantic Era Chamber Music of Brahms Post Romantic Music for Orchestra

Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas & Trio / Marie Ross, clarinet; Petra Somlai, piano; British Tone Poems, Vol. 2 / Rumon Gamba; BBC Philarmonic Claire-Lise Démettre, cello This edition features works from composers including Sir Arthur Bliss, Patrick Hadley, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Marie Ross is one of the most innovative leaders of the next generation of early music performers and frequently John Herbert Foulds, and more. British-born conductor Rumon Gamba held the positions of Principal Conductor performs with superstars like Cecilia Bartoli and Lawrence Brownlee in the world’s most famous theaters. She and Music Director of NorrlandsOperan between 2008 and 2015, of the Aalborg Symfoniorkester between 2011 is the Associate Principal Clarinetist with the French orchestra, Ensemble Matheus (Jean-Christophe Spinosi) and 2015, and of the Iceland Symphony between 2002 and 2010. He regularly leads the BBC orchestras and has where she performs everything from Mozart on the 5-key classical clarinet to premieres of contemporary works by appeared at the BBC Proms on a number of occasions. This release includes two world premiere recordings. composers like Guillaume Connesson on the modern clarinet. 1CD# CHA 10981 $18.99 1CD# CEN 3760 $16.99

Brahms: Violin Sonatas; Clara Schumann: Andante Molto / Alina Ibragimova, Julius Röntgen: Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 6 & 7 / Oliver Triendl, piano; vln; Cédric Tiberghien, pno Hermann Bäumer; Kristiansand SO Röntgen’s Piano Concertos Vol. 2. Our second album featuring piano concertos by Julius Röntgen presents The preeminent violin and piano partnership of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien give matchless accounts impressive Romantic music by this composer who was also an outstanding pianist and often interpreted his own of Brahms’s three Violin Sonatas. The works, which reveal the composer at his most lyrically reflective, are compositions. His Piano Concerto No. 3 of 1887–88, by way of exception in four movements, is more reminiscent coupled with a fabulous encore by Clara Schumann. “Magisterial performances from both players, worthy of of Brahms and not at all of the New German School of Liszt adherents. In December 1929 Röntgen began the finest on disc. They revel in the typically Brahmsian shifts of mood between songful nostalgia and turbulent composing his last two piano concertos, both of which are heard on this release. drama, yet suffused with a yearning melancholy. Deeply moving.” – Sunday Times 1CD# CPO 555055 $16.99 1CD# HYP 68200 $19.99 Brahms: The Five Sonatas for Violin & Piano, Vol. 2 / Ulf Wallin, Mahler: Symphony No. 8 / Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin violin; Roland Pöntinen, piano Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s new Mahler recording marks a return to the core symphonic repertoire with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mahler’s Eighth Symphony was billed as the “Symphony of a Thousand,” exploring themes Ulf Wallin and Roland Pöntinen made their first duo-recording for BIS in 1991 and have released acclaimed recital of redemption through the power of love. The “sublime, transcendent” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) performances albums ranging from Schumann and Liszt to Alfred Schnittke, by way of Schoenberg and Hindemith. With the under the baton of Nézet-Séguin in March 2016 marked the 100th anniversary of the U.S. premiere by the present disc they bring their most recent project to a close: a recording of all the works by Johannes Brahms for Philadelphia Orchestra in 1916, conducted by Stokowski. violin and piano. These include not only the three well-known and -loved numbered violin sonatas, but also the 1CD# DGG B003150602 $20.99 Scherzo from the so-called F.A.E. Sonata and the composers own violin versions of the two sonatas for clarinet and piano. 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# BIS 2419 $17.99

Bruckner: Requiem / Łukasz Borowicz; Akademie für Stanisław Moniuszko: Cantatas: Milda & Nijoła / Hans Pfitzner: Piano Concerto, Op. 31; Walter Paderewski: Muzyka Mojego Domu / Katarzyna Alte Musik Berlin Łukasz Borowicz; Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra Braunfels: Tag-und Nachtstücke / Markus Becker, Duda, violin; Hanna Samson, soprano; et al. On March 14, 1849, 24-year-old Anton [2 CDs] piano The works by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, according to the popular opinion, belong to Bruckner finished his first major vocal Milda and Nijoła, forgotten works by Stanisław Hans Pfitzner and Walter Braunfels – whose the most original pieces composed by Polish composition. The only requiem of the composer Moniuszko, whose content is based on work is concerto in all but name – make an apt artists. These recordings were made in, always who would later become the architect of big Lithuanian mythological motifs, are a unique pairing on volume 79 of Hyperion’s Romantic full of music, the Paderewski Court in Kasna symphonic “castles in the sky’’ was still created continuation of the cantata style and form in the Piano Concerto series. The two works dating Dolna the Polish home of the Master, his only during his work in St. Florian. Some references Polish music. It seems unbelievable that these from the twilight of German Romanticism are preserved estate in the world. Invitations to to older models and some stylistic incongruities cantatas have not yet been available on album. heroically dispatched by Markus Becker and participate in the project were accepted by in musical stature still refer to the phase of In this context, the double-album of the Poznan Constantin Trinks leading his Berlin Radio artists holding leading positions among Polish self-discovery of the young composer. But Philharmonic is an invaluable contribution to Symphony forces. “The third movement is a music performers Katarzyna Duda, Hanna those who listen closely will certainly discover restoring Moniuszko to his rightful place in the devilish scherzo with Germanic humor, the Samson, Jacek Jaskuła, Robert Marat, Robert the passages in which the mystical aura and forefront of 19th-century European composers, Adagio sensual. An outstanding release.” Morawski and a talented young pianist Cezary sublimity of the large orchestral scores shine not only operatic. – International Piano Karwowski. through already. 2CD# DUX 1640-01 $29.99 1CD# ACTS 30474 $16.99 1CD# HYP 68258 $19.99 1CD# DUX 1560 $19.99 Berlioz: Messe Solennelle / Hervé Niquet; Le Concert Jean Cras: La Flûte de Pan & Quintettes / Sophie Alexander Zemlinsky: Der Traumgörge / Gerd Spirituel Orchestra & Choir Mendelssohn: Concertos for Violin / Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin; Theodore Kuchar; Slovak National SO Karthäuser, piano; Oxalys Albrecht; Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt This remarkable work helps us both to The late romantic Jean Cras managed to unite [2 CDs] appreciate the development of Berlioz’s The Ukrainian violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv is his passion for the sea and music throughout style – already revolutionary in his early now based in the US, where she works as “He was too modern for the conservatives, and his life. A naval officer by career, Cras liked to years – and to understand what he owed both a soloist and a teacher, including Head of he did not manage to catch up with the ‘New combine free melody with austerity, but was as to his contemporaries, notably Cherubini, Strings at the University of Connecticut. She Music’, despite his close personal relationship influenced by the music of his Breton homeland whose monumental Requiem Herve Niquet is fluently partnered here by Antonio Pompa- to Schönberg” – This brief characterization of as he was by the sounds of the Orient or has already recorded. On the occasion of the Baldi, who has performed and recorded much Zemlinsky’s compositional style shows that other regions he discovered on his numerous 150th anniversary of Berlioz’s death, Herve of the supremely challenging late-Romantic the composer ‘fell between two stools’ even journeys. The formidable ensemble Oxalys Niquet, fascinated by this work – “There’s repertoire: a favorite performer at keyboard while he was alive. The opera was written at presents here three major works of chamber nothing he doesn’t know about dramaturgy and festivals such as Rarities of Piano Music in the suggestion of Gustav Mahler between 1903 music which show him as a remarkable vocal style. At the age of twenty!” – decided to Husum, he is also a member of the piano and 1906. In 1907 he was engaged by Mahler contemporary of Debussy and Ravel. program it and record it in the Chapelle Royale faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music. as director of music at the Court Opera; at the 1CD# PSSA 1067 $18.99 of the Chateau de Versailles. 1CD# BLC 95733 $10.49 same time, his third opera “Der Traumgörge” 1CD# AHP 564 $18.99 (‘Görge the Dreamer’) was accepted for its first Fanny & Felix / Marlin Broman, violin; Simon Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde / Margriet van performance. Dvořák & Khatchaturian: Violin Concertos / 2CD# CAP 5395 $16.99 Rachel Barton Pine, violin; Royal Scottish NO Crawford-Phillips, piano; Musica Vitae Reisen, mezzo; André Post, tenor; Oxalys Oxalys varied and much-celebrated Debussy: Nocturnes / Sophie Bevan, soprano; Traditional folk music elevated to high art: Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra is the discography is the perfect illustration of the that theme binds the unique coupling of ensemble that brings live music indeed the Anna Stephany, mezzo; Sir Mark Elder; Hallé ensembles versatility. With recordings of works Billboard chart-topping violinist Rachel Barton music of life to each and every individual by amongst others Gustav Mahler, Claude The Hallé and Sir Mark Elder follow their Pine’s latest release of the Violin Concertos member of the audience. The vast realm that is Debussy, Richard Strauss, Wolfgang Amadeus previous highly acclaimed Debussy albums, by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák and art music is handled with the utmost precision Mozart, Max Reger and Joseph Jongen, with a stunning orchestral collection including Soviet-Armenian Aram Khachaturian. “There and elegance by its 15 string players. The it points out its double focus on canonical a world premiere recording. This collection are few more interesting violinists on the repertoire consists of baroque and romantic repertoire on the one hand and lesser explored features works from across the composers worldwide scene than Rachel Barton Pine; she as well as modernist and contemporary music oeuvres on the other. Eager to look further than career, from his early winning of the Prix de is continuously giving us interesting and well- from a wide variety of genres. Musica Vitae its own genre and territory, Oxalys regularly Rome, as a result of which he composed the researched and thought-out concept albums appear on stages big and small in Sweden cooperates in theatre productions. It is also delicate cantata La Demoiselle elue in 1887. that stimulate the imagination, reinvigorate the and abroad. concerned with projects of a pedagogical and Recorded following the highly acclaimed Proms ears, and put wrinkles in the brain with their 1CD# DBP 191 $16.99 educational value. performance and featuring stand-out soloists intellectual depth.” 1CD# PSSA 1066 $18.99 Anna Stephany and Sophie Bevan, hailed by 1CD# AIE 2411 $15.99 reviewers. 1CD# HALE 7552 $18.99 Emil Hartmann: Chamber Music / Elisabeth Zeuthen Schneider; Nicolas Dupont; Justus Grimm Dukas: Polyeucte; The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; Roussel: Emil Hartmann (1836–1898) had a heavy family heritage to lift, being the son of one of the true greats in Danish music life, the The Spider’s Feast / Pascal Rophé; ONPL composer and organist J.P.E. Hartmann. In Denmark, Emil Hartmann had difficulty freeing himself from his father’s shadow, but Here are two great orchestral spectaculars of French music, scintillating and imaginative scores composed only 15 years apart. in Germany, things were easier. On this release, Elisabeth Zeuthen Schneider and friends provide the perfect showcase for the Roussel’s sophisticated use of timbres and his characteristic rhythmic pointillism conjures a micro-drama which also features a romantic flair of Emil Hartmann, making his lines sing beautifully and virtuosic passages dance, and finding intimacy and eloquence mayfly, a team of ants and a rather terrifying pair of praying mantises. The album opens with another piece by Dukas: Polyeucte, at telling moments. a concert overture inspired by a 17th century play and a work of a surprising expressive power. 1CD# DACO 8226183 $14.99 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# BIS 2432 $17.99 26 27 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Music of Modern Times NEW RELEASES - MODERN Allan Pettersson: Vox Humana, cantata; 6 Songs / Jean Françaix, Carl Nielsen: Clarinet Concertos / Chamber Music of the Modern Era Daniel Hansson; Musica Vitae; Ensemble SYD Paolo Beltramini, clarinet; Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana Martinů: Complete Piano Trios / Petr Jiříkovský, piano; Pavel Šafařík, violin; Vocal works occupy a relatively modest place in Pettersson’s oeuvre; after the composition of the Barfotasånger from 1943 to 1945, almost A unique pairing on record of 20th-century clarinet concertos, full of Jaroslav Matějka, cello thirty years passed before he again decided to write a work for the musical laughter and mischief. As principal clarinet of the Orchestra human voice. In 1973/74 he wrote his twelfth symphony based on texts Trio Martinů was formed at the Prague Conservatory in 1990. In 1995 the ensemble received the annual Award della Svizzera Italiana based in Lugano, Paolo Beltramini may be seen from Pablo Neruda’s Canto general and immediately thereafter, in 1974, of the Czech Chamber Music Society attached to the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. All three members are on many films of the orchestra in action. Outside his native France, the three-part cantata Vox humana, which is also often termed a song outstanding soloists and record regularly for the Czech Radio. Pavel Šafařík and Jaroslav Matějka have been the reputation of Jean Françaix has not flourished like that of Nielsen, cycle and likewise is based exclusively on South American texts. And as engaged in the Prague Symphony Orchestra as assistant leaders for many years, and Petr Jiříkovský, as well as especially since his death in 1997. Françaix was a fluent musician to a a bonus the album also contains Pettersson’s Six Early Songs for Middle his solo performances and conducting activities, teaches piano at the Prague Conservatory. fault, born and brought up within a deeply musical family unlike Nielsen, Voice and Piano. 1CD# MSP 56970 $14.99 and blessed with a ready way with melody. 1CD# CPO 999286 $16.99 1CD# BLC 95994 $12.99 Joly Braga Santos: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 1 / Irene Lima; Hanns Eisler (1898–1962): Works for Violin & Cello / Karl Weigl: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 / Jürgen Bruns; Leonor Braga Santos; Quarteto Lopes-Graça Ilya Gringolts, violin; Dmitry Kouzov, cello Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz Joly Braga Santos was one of the most important composers in 20th-century Portugal. In his early works These performances are the world In terms of style, with his works linked to his fondness for modal harmony, absorbed from the Portuguese masters of the Renaissance, and his busy premiere recording of the entire set of basic tonalities, Weigl drew on the sound counterpoint combine to make him sound surprisingly close to such particularly English composers as Vaughan both volumes of Widmann’s 24 Duos. The realm of late Romanticism. Whereas Williams and Moeran. In these recordings Portugal’s premier string quartet is joined in the Braga Santos Sextet album concludes with Maurice Ravels great his Symphony No. 1, written in 1908, by the composers daughter on viola. This is the first release in a series of three which will present for the first time Sonata for Violin and Cello. Dedicated associatively evokes the mood of a ever Braga Santos complete chamber music. to the memory of Claude Debussy, the composer thinking of new territory and 1CD# TOC 0207 $18.99 sonata is always a favorite with audiences. inquiring into the future, the dissimilar pair Dohnányi: Piano Quintet Nos. 1 & 2; String Quartet No. 2 / Gringolts and Kouzov form a superb duo. of his Symphonies Nos. 4 and 6 shows Marc-André Hamelin, piano; Takács Quartet Both are highly sought-after soloists and the musicians intellect at historically consummate chamber musicians. They distinctive periods, allowing an assessment The celebrated partnership of Marc-André Hamelin and the Takács Quartet has already set down reference perform with precision and excitement, to be made as to whether what could be recordings of piano quintets by Schumann, Franck and Shostakovich, and this latest addition is equally illustrious. undaunted by challenging music. expected, intended and hoped for at the time of his early works was These performances of Dohnányi’s Piano Quintets Nos. 1 and 2 alongside his String Quartet No. 2, are an 1CD# DEL 3556 $16.99 achieved or whether it developed in an entirely different manner. important milestone in the critical reevaluation of the composer’s work. 1CD# CAP 5385 $16.99 1CD# HYP 68238 $19.99 Hans Gál: Music for Viola, Vol. 1 / Hanna Pakkala, viola; Sakari Oramo; Ostrobothnian CO Fritz Hart: Complete Music for Violin & Piano, Vol. 1 / Susan Collins, violin; Stephanie McCallum, piano Hans Gál wrote extensively for the viola, including several remarkable The composer and conductor Fritz Hart led a peripatetic life: London- George Crumb: Vox Balaenae; Narong Prangcharoen: Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius / Sir Colin Davis; works dating from the first decade of his new life in Edinburgh, where Bencharong / Heare Ensemble he took refuge after the Nazis seized power in his native Austria. Hanna born, he moved to Australia to tour travelling productions of musicals London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus [2 CDs] Pakkala, the violist in all four works here, is the principal viola of the there and in New Zealand. Harts three violin sonatas poised but The Heare Ensemble, celebrates the 90th “A deeply felt, thoughtful and, where needed, Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra and also plays in the Kokkola String passionate reveal a musical language influenced by Debussyan birthday of iconic American composer George highly dramatic interpretation of an indisputable Quartet; and Toccata Classics is delighted to welcome the Ostrobothnian Impressionism but also colored by his own Celtic roots. Here they Crumb with a scintillating rendition of VOX masterpiece.” – Gramophone “…Orchestral Chamber Orchestra and its chief conductor, Sakari Oramo, to its roster receive their first recordings from two of Australia's most highly regarded BALAENAE [Voice of the Whale] for Three textures were sensuously colored, and the of artists. musicians, the violinist Susan Collins, in her first appearance onToccata Masked Players: Electric Flute, Electric vast symphonic structure flawlessly paced Classics, and Stephanie McCallum, a Toccata regular. Cello, and Electric Piano (1971). The Heare 1CD# TOC 0535 $18.99 and handled. The choral singing, thrilling in it’s 1CD# TOC 0470 $18.99 Ensemble first performed Vox Balaenae as immediacy and clarity, can only be described graduate students at the Eastman School as electrifying from start to finish.” – The Hans Gal: Works for Violin & Orchestra / Erez Ofer, Flute Concertos by Nielsen, Ibert, Arnold / Clara of Music. Since then, the ensemble has Guardian “For Davis, Elgar is a European performed this powerful, environmentally- violin; Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin Andrada, flute; Jaime Martín; Frankfurt RSO composer, and the links to Wagner are clear... conscious piece more than 25 times. It Davis is the star: guiding shaping, enhancing The present program offers music for solo In this album Clara Andrada, solo flutist of was written after Crumb heard hydrophone the beauty and the flow.” – The Times recordings of Humpback whale song that opened up a whole new/ancient sonic violin and orchestra by three 20th-century the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, performs 2CD# MSLC 1606 $14.99 world; timeless, reverberant, atmospheric. composers who share a common feature three 20th-century flute concertos together 1CD# INNO 040 $13.99 Dohnányi: Serenade; Tchaikovsky: Serenade for in their Jewish origins. “A convincingly with the orchestra conducted by Jaime Richard Strauss: Don Quixote; Till balanced diptych, the Concertino is Martín. As a Principal Flute player, she Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche; Don Juan / Strings / Anima Musicæ Chamber Orchestra continuous and a melodic delight from has worked with many leading orchestras, Vasily Petrenko; Oslo PO The 1st part of our series contains a late 19th first bar to last… Erez Ofer has just the including the London Symphony and an early 20th-century work. The Serenade right touch for his lovely work…Omer Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Swedish The score of “Don Juan” covers a great deal for String Orchestra is one of the best Meir Wellber takes up the baton for Radio, Rotterdam Philharmonic, and in its relatively short span. But Strauss was known and representative compositions by the final work, a sparkling rendition of NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under determined to demonstrate that a large-scale Tchaikovsky, a reverent homage to Viennese Bernstein’s brilliant Serenade after Plato’s esteemed conductors including Nikolaus tone poem was capable of pushing orchestral Classical serenades and Mozart’s genius. ‘Symposium’…With superb sound, strongly Harnoncourt, Valery Gergiev, Colin Davis, Bernard Haitink, Vladimir music to its expressive limits. If there was a Considered one of Dohnányi’s first mature faint suggestion in Don Juan’s score that the recommended.” – Gramophone Ashkenazy, Myung-whun Chung, and Lorin Maazel. works, the Serenade was composed in 1902 1CD# HAN 19020 $18.99 1CD# OND 1340 $16.99 character’s quest for women is also quest for during a course of a concert tour bridging meaning in life, another Don would provide London and Vienna. Its first performance was Strauss with the opportunity to explore that given in Vienna in 1904 by members of the MODERN ORCHESTRAL SCORES IN BRIEF idea. In 1897, the composer was drawn to Fitzner Quartet. Here, the work is performed by Cervantes’ 1605 novel “Don Quixote”, which Anima Musicæ Chamber Orchestra. María Teresa Prieto: The Complete Orchestral Works / José Luis Temes; Cordoba Orchestra tells of a chivalrous but deluded knight errant 1CD# HGR 32764 $18.99 setting out to put the world to rights. [2 CDs] 1CD# LAWO 1184 $15.49 Terterian: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4; Komitas: The works in this double album, María Teresa Prieto’s entire symphonic output, fill a broad chronological and creative frame, from Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978): Dear Shoger / Kirill Karabits; Bournemouth SO Piano Works / Iyad Sughayer, piano 1940 and the composition of Impresión Sinfónica, to 1967 and the dodecaphonic Tema variado y fuga. Armenian composer Avet Rubeni Terterians 2CD# VESO 2047 $18.99 Born in 1903, Aram Khachaturian became the third and fourth symphonies were written in most significant 20th-century musical figure the mid-1970s, during one of his most prolific George Antheil (1900–1959): Orchestral Works / John Storgårds; BBC Philharmonic in the then Soviet Republic of Armenia. The periods as a composer. Kirill Karabits and the expressive immediacy of his music, conditioned Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra make a The third volume in this series of the music of George Antheil includes his Capital of the World Suite and the first symphony. by his Armenian heritage with its sensuous compelling case for these rarely performed George Antheil first studied composition in Philadelphia with Constantin von Sternberg, a former pupil of Liszt. melodic writing, its vibrant orchestration and works. Terterian is regarded in his homeland as 1CD# CHA 20080 $18.99 rhythmic drive – all resulted in a popularity a giant of twentieth century Armenian music, equaled by few composers of his generation. and as the founder of his nations progressive For his debut disc, the Jordanian-Palestinian school of composers. The backbone of his pianist Iyad Sughayer has put together a recital achievement is enshrined in eight symphonies, Galina Ivanova Ustvolskaya: Suites & Poems / Mikail Turpanov, piano; Arvïds Jansons; spanning from the ample and demanding which Terterian composed over two decades Leningrad PO; et al. [2 CDs] Sonata to the delightful Children’s Album, consisting of ten miniatures, in turn from 1969 onwards; a ninth was in progress at playful and poignant. the time of his death. These suites for orchestra conducted by Yevgeny Mravinsky and Arvïds Jansons receive their first digital transfers and release in 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# BIS 2436 $17.99 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# CHA 5241 $19.99 Europe with this new Brilliant Classics album, an essential acquisition for students of Soviet contemporary music. Fritz Volbach: Symphony No. 33; Es waren zwei Königskinder / Golo Berg; 2CD# BLC 96084 $14.99 Sinfonieorchester Münster Ernst Krenek: Orchestral Pieces (7), Op. 31; Symphonie ‘Pallas Athene’, Op. 137 / Since 2017 Golo Berg has been the general music director of the Münster Symphony Orchestra, which was founded by the Karl-Heinz Steffens; Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz composer Fritz Volbach in 1919. It was only logical that Berg would also occupy himself with the composer around this centennial year, and Volbach turned out to be a significant personality both as a musicologist and as a composer. During the first decade of the Ernst Krenek stood between the sometimes antagonistic musical worlds of his mentor Franz Schreker, on the one hand, who wrote 20th-century Volbach’s name continued to be thoroughly familiar to people who were interested in music; his works were regularly in the world of late Romanticism, and Arnold Schoenberg, on the other, who broke new ground. included in programs, but then they were forgotten somewhat. 1CD# CAP 5379 $16.99 1CD# CPO 777886 $16.99 28 29 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Explore The Music of our Time NEW RELEASES - CONTEMPORARY Ingrid Laubrock (b. 1970): Contemporary Chaos Daniel Ott (b. 1960): Pieces of Reich; Fantasy on a Orchestral Music of our Time Practices, two works for orchestra with soloists Falling Line / Jeffrey & Karen Savage, pianos Ingrid Laubrock’s credentials as an Works for piano duet are all too often Christopher Gunning: Symphonies Nos. 2, 10 & 12 / Kenneth Woods; ambitious, skillful composer of intricate deemed an entertainment relic from a BBC Nat’l Orch. of Wales yet visceral works for small ensembles is time when one had to make music to hear well established. She has demonstrated some. Daniel Ott’s Navona Records debut Christopher Gunning is a composer of both concert music and film scores. He studied with Edmund Rubbra a formidable capacity for writing music FALLING PIECES aims to do away with and Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and has composed twelve symphonies to date. This album includes the early of intricacy, integrity, and broad appeal. this preconception in two piano duets that Symphony No. 2 as well as Nos. 10 and 12. The Tenth was composed in a very natural way; the starting material This program contains two works, are as energetic as they are technically of the symphony allowed Gunning to move from one section to the next with ease. Symphony 12 is the most tonal Contemporary Chaos Practices and demanding. Daniel Ott’s music has been of the three symphonies. Vogelfrei. Soloists on the album are Mary described as “epic and intimate, embracing 1CD# SIG 593 $17.99 Halvorson, guitar, Kris Davis, piano, Nate and overpowering” and “of considerable Wooley, trumpet and Ingrid Laubrock, artistic seriousness” – MusicWeb Gary Carpenter – Orchestral Works / Clark Rundell; Royal Liverpool PO saxophone. International 1CD# ITKT 314 $19.99 1CD# NVA 6233 $14.99 Gary Carpenter – one of Britain’s most diverse and engaging composers whose work’s span: dance, film, opera, musicals and concert music, releases a highly anticipated album of his orchestral works titled ‘Set’. His is a sound Gernot Wolfgang (b. 1957): Vienna and the West – Michael Hersch (b. 1947): Chamber works for world enthused with quirky jazzy undertones and lush orchestrations, a truly contemporary composer whose Groove-Oriented Chamber Music, Vol. 4 violin, cello & piano musical language speaks to all. Soloists on this album are saxophonist Iain Ballamy and mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge. This intriguing and ingenious album by Gernot Wolfgang bridges Michael Hersch’s newest release, “Carrion-Miles to Purgatory”, features 1CD# NIM 6380 $18.99 sophisticated Viennese elements with edgier and rawer textures found three intensely introspective duos performed by close collaborators of in more contemporary American works. The compositions are for his, virtuoso violinists Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Miranda Cuckson, eclectic chamber groups, beginning with a bassoon-piano opener and cellist Jay Campbell, and Hersch himself on piano. His work described concluding with a piano quartet. These many forms reveal the multiplicity by The New York Times as “viscerally gripping and emotionally Philippe Chamouard (b. 1952): Symphony No. 4 ‘Le Vagabond des Nuages’ / of Wolfgang. Described as a “master composer with important things to transformative music… claustrophobic and exhilarating at once, with Nayden Todorov; Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra communicate to his listeners”. moments of sublime beauty nestled inside thickets of dark virtuosity.” 1CD# ALB M176022 $19.99 1CD# NEWF 229 $16.99 With a majestic, contemplative and mysterious orchestration, the Symphony No. 4 by Philippe Chamouard (b. 1952) subtitled ‘Le Vagabond des Nuages’ follows the essential stages of the enlightened man’s life. From Christophe Enzel: Rosary Soundscapes; Karl Aage Rasmussen – The Four Seasons the effervescence of the world to the bliss of nature, Chamouard’s music has a unique power of expression. He Summer Songs; 5 Duos; Close to the Edge; after Vivaldi / Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Concerto was born in 1952 in Paris. After studying piano with Guy Lasson and harmony, counterpoint and composition with Copenhagen Roger Boutry, he obtained a doctorate in musicology at the University of Paris. Wagner Paraphrases 1CD# INDS 112 $18.99 At its heart, this album is a conversation The musical style presented on this between past and present, between album is contemporary, yet atmospheric classical composition and new discoveries, and accessible. The program includes and between composers over spans Music of Avner Dorman (b. 1975) / Amanda Heim, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė (b. 1974): In Search of Lost “Rosary Soundscapes” for choir, organ of time. Danish composer Karl Aage soprano; Le Poulis, baritone; Gil Shaham, violin Beauty / FortVio and saxophone quartet, which is based on Rasmussen (b. 1947) has always been the amazing music of Ignaz Franz Biber Written in 2013 to commemorate the 150th This release presents the premiere keen on exploring our experience of time as well as solo and duo compositions for anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Letters recording of Žibuoklė Martinaitytė’s and movement. Building bridges between saxophones. Performers include world from Gettysburg, a work scored for soprano, seductively immersive, 70-minute ‘In cultures and traditions, he here sheds new class saxophonists from the Netherlands, baritone, large chorus and percussion, is the Search of Lost Beauty...,’ performed by the light on Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and centerpiece in this all-Dorman release. It is Australia and Germany, the “Consenus prize-winning Lithuanian piano trio FortVio. Respighi’s The Birds. Also included is an paired with two Dorman works commissioned Vocalis” choir conducted by Klaas Stok and Ingram Marshall writes, “If this music original work by Rasmussen, Follia, follia. by Orli and Gil Shaham. After Brahms is three the Axes Quartet. transports you into a haunting, mysterious 1CD# DACO 8226220 $14.99 intermezzos, pieces for solo piano that cleverly 1CD# COCN 0052 $14.99 dream world, don’t worry about it – it’s extend the harmonic language of Brahms and Spark – Common Sense Composers’ Collective / Nigunim for violin and piano draws on the only doing its job.” and The Wire writes Philip Glass: Music with Changing Parts, et al. / musical influences of Jewish song. “stimulating music that bristles with energy Friction Quartet 1CD# CNCL 17 $19.99 and tension...”. Philip Glass Ensemble [2 CDs] Not quite a school, a movement, or a tribe, the composers of the 1CD# STK 231 $14.99 Xtended Hearts and Unheard Herds, chamber This special release coincides with the launch of the Philip Glass Common Sense Composers’ Collective formed in 1993 nevertheless works / Thomas Rimul, Ensemble Ernst Speak, Be Silent / Sarah Saviet, violin; Riot Ensemble Institute and the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Philip Glass share musical and professional dreams and values that find strength Ensemble. The group, now in residence at The New School, remains together as demonstrated by their fifth album, Spark. It is kindled by the Ensemble Ernst’s “Xtended Hearts In ‘Speak, Be Silent’, London’s Riot the authority on Glass’s early music. Orange Mountain’s two-disc set Oakland-based Friction Quartet, who breathe their own unique fire into and Unheard Herds” is the second Ensemble present works by four of the features legendary recordings of Philip Glass works from the late 1960s these works for string quartet by Marc Mellits, Dan Becker, John Halle, release on the LAWO Classics label by most important composers in contemporary and early 1970s. Included are Music with Changing Parts, Two Pages, Belinda Reynolds, Melissa Hui, Ed Harsh, Carolyn Yarnell and Randall the distinguished contemporary music music today – Chaya Czernowin, Liza Music in Contrary Motion, Music in Fifths, and Music in Similar Motion. Woolf. ensemble. The group combines their own Lim, Rebecca Saunders, and Anna 2CD# OMM 0136 $24.99 1CD# INNO 024 $14.99 commissions with works of international Thorvaldsdóttir – alongside music of rising appeal. Their intention is to let well-known star composer Mirela Ivičević. Four of the names help Norwegian composers gain works are recorded here for the first time. CONTEMPORARY CHAMBER WORKS IN BRIEF greater recognition worldwide. We hear Riot Ensemble is one of the UK’s most works of the Norwegian composers ambitious new music ensembles, dedicated Krzysztof Baculewski (b. 1950): String Quartets, complete (4) / Tana String Quartet Ragnhild Berstad, Jan Martin Smørdal and to creating and producing a diverse array Jan Erik Mikalsen, together with Serbian- of projects in the UK and Europe. Krzysztof Baculewski’s first three string quartets were composed in the 1980s and constitute a specific musical Swedish composer Djuro Zivkovic. 1CD# HCRR 20CD $18.99 cycle with refined mutual connections. The Quartet No. 4 is characterized by formal precision, transparent 1CD# LAWO 1177 $15.49 Frédéric Ledroit: La Passion du Christ selon textures and an eye to music of the past. Scott Wollschleger (b. 1980) “American Dream” / Saint-Jean, Op. 56 1CD# DUX 1238 $19.99 Bearthoven After his Mass for a New Century and The members of Bearthoven, pianist Karl his Requiem, the French composer and Juha Leinonen (b. 1956): Chamber Music / Various Artists Larson, double bassist Pat Swoboda and organist Frédéric Ledroit has written a Juha Leinonen’s style incorporates a strict formal style influenced from as far back as the Baroque to a freer, percussionist Matt Evans, are a piano new Saint John Passion for soloists and aesthetically unfettered mode of expression. This release is made up of works for four to six stringed and wind trio in the jazz sense of the term, but in large orchestra, first performed in 2018 practice, they’re a progressive classical in Germany by the interpreters of this instruments. ensemble that has become an expressive recording. Vocal soloists are Cristina 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# ABA 447 $18.99 vehicle for a growing contingent of young Obregon, soprano, Gaelle Malada, composers. ‘American Dream’ focuses on mezzo-soprano, Clara Pertuy, contralto the work of composer Scott Wollschleger, Alessandro Rinella and Bernard Causse, Jeffrey Holmes: May the Bridges I Burn Light My Way – Chamber Works with and without a and includes the epic title work, as well baritone. Robert Reimer conducts the Guitar [2 CDs] as Gas Station Canon Song and We See Chamber Choir of Europe and Deutsche Things That Are Not There. Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. On this two CD set we can hear chamber works, about half of which feature the guitar. Jeffrey Holmes’ music 1CD# CPE 1145 $19.99 1CD# SKA 2194 $16.99 has been described as “Captivating... haunting and slightly disorienting.” – LA Times 2CD# MICR 13 $24.99 Sandeep Bhagwati: Miyahi Kaikus 1–5 / Various artists [2 CDs] On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake in the sea off the east coast of Japan triggered a tsunami that flooded large South of the Circle / Siggi String Quartet parts of the region Tohoku, severely damaged the Fukushima nuclear power plant, and cost about 200,000 lives. This event prompted Sandeep Bhagwati to write seven musical elegies – chamber works for strings, brass, voice and piano – The Siggi String Quartet was founded in 2012. Here the Siggi perform works by Daníel Bjarnason, Una in memory of the victims, but also as a “meditation on the thin skin of our civilization on this restless planet.” – Bhagwati Sveinbjarnardóttir, Valgeir Sigurðsson, Mamiko Dís Ragnarsdóttir and Haukur Tómasson. 2CD# DYGO 21113 $29.99 1CD# SUIN 92232 $15.99

30 31 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Music for Piano through the CenturiesNEW RELEASES - PIANO Piano Works by Russian Composers Beethoven: Sonata, Op. 31 ‘The Tempest’; Haydn: Beethoven: Piano Sonatas / Lang Lang Sonata in E-flat; Mozart: Sonata in F / Walewein Marking Beethoven’s 250th anniversary in 2020, world-renowned pianist Witten, piano Lang Lang has released this album featuring the famous Piano Sonata Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894): Music for Piano Four Hands, Vol. 2 – Bal No. 23, “Apassionata”, Sonata No. 3, Op. 2/3 and as a bonus the third costumé, Op. 103 / Duo Pianistico di Firenze [2 CDs] Berlin-based Dutch keyboardist Walewein Witten makes his Resonus movement of the “Tempest” sonata. The recordings were taken from the Classics debut with this program of piano sonatas from the golden 2010 Live in Vienna album, a release which garnered Lang Lang public Anton Rubinstein’s works for piano 4 hands are high quality salon music: picturesque tone painting, romantic and period of the fortepiano in the late-18th and early-19th century. The last and critical praise. idyllic, with an occasional touch of Russian folklore. His creative roots were, despite his Russian origin, in the of Joseph Haydn’s piano sonatas, is combined with a late period F major 1CD# SBMG 19075951552 $14.99 German Romantics Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt. This second volume of the complete music for 4-hand sonata by Mozart and Beethoven’s Op. 31 Sonata, ‘The Tempest’. Using piano is completely dedicated to the Suite “Le Bal Costumé”, a suite of 20 pieces, and the longest work ever a copy of an 1805 Walter fortepiano, Witten brings new energy to these Viktor Kalabis (1923–2006): written for piano duet. outstanding works from the late-classical era. 2CD# BLC 95965 $12.99 1CD# REOA 10242 $16.99 The Complete Piano Works / Ivo Kahánek, Robert Palmer (1949–2003): Piano Music / piano [2 CDs] Alexey Stanchinsky (1888–1914): Complete Piano Works, Vol. 1 / Olga Adam Tendler, piano Even though Kalabis drew inspiration from Solovieva, piano the music of other 20th-century masters, Robert Palmer earned a reputation in the he soon arrived at his own, singular and Alexey Stanchinsky’s music anticipated Stravinsky, Prokofiev and others, paving the way towards many aspects mid-20th-century as one of the country’s unique musical idiom, which is already of 20th-century style. His tragic early death and publishing difficulties meant that his music was hidden for leading, most daring and, at the same palpable in his early opuses. This album decades. Volume 1 of this complete edition contains his entire output until 1910. “Olga Solovieva...play[s] with time, appealing modernists. Palmer’s maps more than half a century of Kalabis’s all the power and stylistic empathy the music demands... This new release is a most compelling one... Alexey unique musical language combined a work, from the post-war Sonata No. 1 to Stanchinsky really does have original things to say.” – MusicWeb deeply emotional impulse with complex the masterful miniatures dating from the 1CD# GRPO 766 $16.99 counterpoint and rhythmic structures. very end of the millennium. “It’s impossible Aaron Copland named Palmer among to conceive of more devoted, meticulously Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; selected piano works / François seven composers whom he considered conceived interpretations, or any that could “the best we have to offer among the Dumont be more thoroughly musical...” – Fanfare new generation,” along with Lukas Foss, 2CD# SPR 4259 $22.99 Pictures at an Exhibition is one of François Dumont’s warhorses. Alongside this epic work, the French pianist Leonard Bernstein, and John Cage. offers a selection of rarely heard piano works by Mussorgsky. They hail from two very different periods – his 1CD# NWR 80809 $26.99 Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865–1950): 20 Caprices early years, and the very last year of the composer’s life. “All told, this is a reliable account of a great work, Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op. 54 & 78; and Rhythmic Studies; Cascades / Paolo Munaò, accompanied by good renditions of most of his smaller piano pieces. It is very well recorded, and the booklet notes are engaging.” – ARG Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 36 / Ivo piano 1CD# AEVA 18080 $18.99 Pogorelich, piano The Swiss composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze is best remembered for his As the climax of his hugely successful 2018/19 season, in which he development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. But Jaques-Dalcroze, who studied with Delibes, Chopin: Polonaises Nos. 1–5, 8, 9; Szymanowski: 4 celebrated both his 60th birthday and the 40th anniversary of the launch Haydn: Capriccio; Fantasia; Variations; 12 of his sensational career, legendary Croatian pianist Ivo Pogorelich Fauré, Bruckner and Fuchs, was a considerable composer in his own Studies, Op. 4; Juliusz Zarebski: Grande Polonaise, Deutsche Tanze / Ekaterina Derzhavina, piano [2 CDs] releases an eagerly-anticipated new recording on Sony Classical. This right. His 20 Caprices and Rhythmic Studies combine a relaxed lyricism Op. 6 / Halina Czerny-Stefańska, piano will be his first new album since 1998. The repertoire comprises two with technical challenges of considerable subtlety for the player. Paolo Ekaterina Derzhavina records ‘Variations & Munao is a winner of the prestigious Premio Claudio Abbado and Pieces for Piano’, a double disc of Haydn sonatas by Beethoven – No. 22, Op. 54, and No. 24, Op. 78 – and a This is a 1960 studio recording of pianist UNESCO Aschberg Prizes for Artists. Halina Czerny-Stefańska performing her core classics. The release of Haydn’s Complete work written just over a hundred years later, Rachmaninoff’s Second 1CD# TOC 0532 $18.99 repertoire., with live bonus tracks from 1966 Piano Sonatas on 9 CDs in 2013 was critically Piano Sonata Op. 36. featuring two works by Szymanowski and acclaimed throughout the world and nominated 1CD# SBMG 19075956602 $12.99 Zarebski. The release shows highly sensitive in 2014 for the International Classical Music Schubert: Impromptus, D899, D935 / Amandine Chopin interpretations with a clear Polish Award. The Boston Globe wrote: ‘Ekaterina Beethoven: Diabelli Variations, Op. 120 / Gustav Savary, piano empathy. Halina Czerny-Stefańska studied Derzhavina’s name was new to me, but this Piekut, piano piano at the Ecole Normale de Musique in 9-CD set of Haydn’s complete piano sonatas French pianist Amandine Savary offers a Paris, and later in Warsaw. She was a joint should broaden her recognition considerably. Gustav Piekut (b. 1995) is establishing fascinating interpretation of Schubert’s two First Prize winner at the International Chopin Her playing is elegant, stylish, and above all, himself as one of the most interesting young cycles of Impromptus, superb, stylistically Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1949, sharing imaginative.” classical musicians in Scandinavia. He ‘free’ works that are finely contrasted as this prize with Bella Davidovich. 2CD# PRF 19027 $22.99 has been described by the West-Deutsche regards structure, tempo, duration and 1CD# SWRM 19077 $13.99 Maurice Ravel: Complete Music for Solo Piano / Allgemeine Zeitung as “a poet and virtuoso character. The musical sweep Schubert Schubert: Piano Sonata D 959; Minuets D 334, 335, Håkon Austbø, piano [2 CDs] at the piano” and stunned the audience with gives these pieces enables her to breathe his transparent playing and sense of timing. into them intense, sustained passion with 600; Trios / Arcadi Volodos, piano Håkon Austbø has a special place in the “[Gustav Piekut] provides the listener with at times unleashed violence. “Amandine Internationally acclaimed pianist, Arcadi French repertoire, with his complete recordings an increasingly compelling journey through Savary, continually charming to the ear Volodos returns with Schubert’s Piano Sonata of Messiaen and Debussy as references in the Beethoven’s challenging stop-start musical thanks to her fluidity of touch, favors D 959, Minuets D 334, 335 and 600, and Trio catalogue. Celebrating his 70th birthday this landscape... His sound is as quiet and balance and rhythm.” – Diapason autumn Austbø releases the complete works D 610. This stunning album comes 17 years controlled as it is possible to be, and the effect is truly luminous...” 1CD# MUSO 015 $18.99 for solo piano of another towering French after Volodos recorded his critically acclaimed – Pianist Magazine composer – Maurice Ravel. His readings interpretations of Schubert’s Piano Sonatas 1CD# DCD 837 $16.99 1 & 18 which was hailed by Gramophone as reveal the darker side of Ravel’s music. “The a “triumphant recording”. “Like all the great more one penetrates into the complex and virtuosos, he knows how to bring spaciousness mysterious universe of Ravel as revealed to MUSIC FOR SOLO PIANO IN BRIEF to the most technically demanding passages us through his music, the more one is left with and inner life to the simplest…” – Gramophone riddles never to be solved.” says Austbø. 2CD# SIM 1366 $24.99 Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888): Symphony for Solo Piano; Concerto for Solo 1CD# SBMG 19075868292 $14.99 Piano / Paul Wee, piano Impressionist Era Pieces for two pianos / Xie Sisters Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 23, 30, 32; Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 / Victor Schiøler, This album contains two pinnacles of Alkan’s legacy. “Wee is a sensation; there’s no other word to describe his In the wake of the Vienna World Fair of piano [2 CDs] jaw-dropping playing. An exceptional release, urgently recommended to everyone.” – Fanfare 1873, the Paris world fairs of 1878 and 1889 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# BIS 2465 $17.99 served as a particular trigger for a veritable Victor Schiøler was undoubtedly the greatest Asian craze at the turn of the 19th and 20th Danish pianist ever. His fame was legendary Erik Satie (1866–1925): Piano Music Volumne 6 / Steffen Schleiermacher, piano centuries. Claude Debussy was fascinated and he made some of the most impressive by the exotic soundscapes generated by the recordings for the Danish HMV and TONO On Vol. 6 of Satie’s piano works, Steffen Schleiermacher turns to Parade and other works for the theatre, Far Eastern gamelan orchestra, and from this labels together with a giving concerts all over including the lengthy music for Uspud and the ‘Cinq Grimaçes’, which marked the beginning of the collaboration listening, distilled pioneering elements for the the world. His recorded legacy is among between Satie and Cocteau. development of his own impressionistic musical the most fascinating and Danacord proudly language. Included here are pieces by Ravel, presents the third volume in an ongoing series 1CD# MDG 6132142 $18.99 Jianer Zhu, Xiangping Zou, Xilin Wang, and of his rarest and most sought-after recordings. Ignaz Joseph Pleyel: Piano Sonata; Nocturnes of John Field, Camille Pleyel, & Chopin Debussy. MusicWeb International described this set as 1CD# TEOS 232 $17.99 “A splendid package.” Ignaz Pleyel’s mastery of piano composition is apparent in many of these pieces. This recording also offers 2CD# DCD 832-833 $16.99 Nocturnes of John Field, Camille Pleyel and Frédéric Chopin. Varvara Manukyan performs on an original Pleyel The French Piano School – Works by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, PianoForte of 1838. Sinding, Schubert, Chabrier, Mozart, et al. [2 CDs] 1CD# ARSP 38828 $18.99 For around 150 years France has nurtured a distinctive style of pianism centered on the teaching of the Paris Conservatoire. This Andrea Tarrodi (b. 1981): Pieces for Piano (12); Suite; Ylva Skog: Five Moon Pieces; series of recordings aims to explore in depth these often-forgotten recordings, and this release is devoted to the artistry of Victor Staub (1872–1953) and Lazare-Lévy (1882–1964). “[Victor Staub’s] exquisitely pellucid touch, as consistent in fleet passagework as Winter Poem; Staying in Tune / Ann-Sofi Klingberg, piano in sustained cantabile playing, is a joy to the ear.” – Gramophone “The Twelve Pieces for Piano – one for each month of the year – are luminous, crystalline and sound like fun to 2CD# APRC 6028 $19.99 play.” – BBC Music “A disc that should convert listeners who still think that anything composed after the Great War is unlistenable.” – MusicWeb 1CD# DBP 190 $16.99 32 33 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Music for ‘The King of Instruments’ NEW RELEASES - ORGAN Arrangements for two Organs & Percussion, French Éclat at Saint Thomas Church, NYC – Organ Music by 20th Century Composers Vol. 2 – Holst, Dukas / Jörg Endebrock & Susanne The Arents Memorial Organ / Jeremy Bruns, organ Rohn, organs Organist Jeremy Bruns was one of four North Organ Music of Louis Vierne, Maurice Duruflé / David M. Patrick, Coventry Volume Two of the series, Arrangements for 2 American finalists chosen to compete in the Organs and Percussion with arrangements by 1998 Calgary International Organ Festival Cathedral Organ the organist Jörg Endebrock unites two famous and Competition and was second prize winner in the 1993 International J.S. Bach Organ A welcome return to the catalogue of David M. Patrick’s celebrated recording of Durufle’s organ works on the compositions. The orchestral suite The Planets, written in 1916, remains Gustav Holst’s most Competition held at the Kennedy Center for organ of Coventry Cathedral. This was “Critic’s Choice of the Year” in the BBC Music Magazine in 1997 and in the Performing Arts in Washington DC. On the final list of three highly recommended recordings on the BBC Radio 3’s “Building A Library” in May 2006. In a successful composition with hints of early Stravinsky, plus Vaughan Williams, Dukas this release he plays the music of Nicolas letter to David M. Patrick, the late Marie-Madelaine Duruflé wrote: “Your interpretations of Mr. Duruflé’s works are and Debussy, but also Elgar and English folk de Grigny, Charles-Marie Widor and Olivier excellent, I congratulate you ... very good ... brilliant ... BRAVO.” music. Also here is Paul Dukas’ ‘The Sorcerer’s Messiaen at the Arents Memorial Organ at 1CD# GUI 7804 $12.99 Apprentice’. Our two organists, Endebrock Saint Thomas Church in New York City. and Rohn, are joined by percussionist, Konrad 1CD# POR 7220 $17.99 Peter Racine Fricker (1920–1990): Organ Music / Tom Winpenny, organ of Graf. 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# CYBL 001901 $24.99 Bridlington Priory The Friedrich Ladegast Organs at Merseburg Salome’s Dance, Robert Parkins Plays the Aeolian Cathedral and Schwerin Cathedral / Jan Ernst, organ The London-born Peter Racine Fricker was once a prominent figure on the British musical landscape but slipped [2 CDs] from view after he took up a teaching post in California in 1964. This first-ever survey of his organ music reveals a Organ / Robert Parkins, organ vigorously contrapuntal style, one which reconciles a taste for crunchy dissonance with a strong sense of melodic Robert Parkins plays the newly renovated 1932 Aeolian organ at Duke the last Especially with his first large organ at Merseburg Cathedral, Friedrich Ladegast direction, its moods ranging from angular elegance to fierce climaxes swirling with energy and glittering with light. built by this builder and the only organ of its size and significance built for a set the benchmark for organ building and at the same time influenced the The organist here is Tom Winpenny, Assistant Master of the Music at St. Albans Cathedral and one of Britain’s church. His unusual program includes American works influenced by German further development of organ music. The 200th anniversary of his birth marks brightest young stars in the organ firmament. Romantic and jazz/blues traditions. Robert Parkins, who received his degrees the occasion for the release of two albums on the Querstand label, played at two of the greatest Ladegast Organs: the instruments at Merseburg Cathedral 1CD# TOC 0518 $18.99 from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the Yale University School of Music, performs Reger’s Toccata & Fugue, Op. 59, and at Schwerin Cathedral in programs of David Hermann Engel, J.S. Bach, Nordic Journey, Vol. 8: The Islands / James D. Hicks, organ of Hallgrímskirkja transcriptions of music from Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs and Salome as Hermann Schellenberg, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, Hesse and well as music of Florence Price, Kent Keman, Robert Ward and Dan Locklair. Hartmann. Reykjavík, Iceland [2 CDs] 1CD# LFT 1147 $18.99 2CD# QRST 1816 $23.99 James D. Hicks has recorded eight collections of organ music on the Pro Organo label. This is the third release Harald Vogel and the Hamburg Organ Tradition in his Nordic Journey project, which seeks to create new repertoire from Nordic lands (thirty commissioned Organ Works of Jacob Praetorius; Melchoir Schildt / / Harald Vogel, Arp Schnitger Organ St. Jacobi works thus far), rediscover unpublished or forgotten works from the 20th-century and finally, include a few of the Bernard Foccroulle, organ standard masterworks. This two CD program includes many premiere recordings with works by Arthur Wills, Jon Hamburg Leifs, Gottfred Pedersen, Niels Gade, Fredrik Sixten, Knut Nystedt, Lars Karlsson and Jesper Madsen. Bernard Foccroulle devotes his latest recording The grand Arp Schnitger organ in St. 2CD# POR 7287 $24.99 the last of the anthology of Northern German Jacobi (Church of St. James) in Hamburg is organ music of the Baroque period to Jacob remarkable in several respects. This instrument Praetorius and Melchior Schildt, both pupils of with four manuals boasts of the largest extant Sweelinck. Praetorius’ and Schildt's music is American Classic English – Works by Alec Rowley, Heinrich Scheidemann (1596–1663): Organ Works / inventory of original pipes from the 16th and not only strongly marked by Lutheran tradition, Healey Willan, Basil Harwood et al. / Joby Bell, organ Hilger Kespohl, organ 17th centuries, and the Trompete 16 in the in which the chorale played a fundamental great organ is the very oldest of its kind. Harald part, but also by other influences, principally Organist Joby Bell brings to his performances Heinrich Scheidemann was highly esteemed Vogel, the recent recipient of the Buxtehude Italian, that prepared the way for the explosion a contagious affability and a keen sensitivity already during his lifetime and so famous Prize of the Hansa City of Lübeck, presents of the stylus fantasticus at the end of the 17th toward increasing an audiences appreciation that he could afford to have a copperplate this magnificently restored organ in music of century. Foccroulle has made his name as an for organ music. His recital programming engraving made of his portrait. These Dieterich Buxtehude, Joachim Decker, Jacob organist as well as a composer and artistic demonstrates a varied and interesting chorale variations number among the first Praetorius, Matthias Weckmann, Heinrich director of major musical institutions. repertoire, always enhanced by illuminating great highpoints in the genre. However, Scheidemann, Harald Vogel. 1CD# RCR 400 $18.99 program notes designed to embrace all Scheidemann also looked beyond the 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# MDG 9142125 $18.99 audiences. As case in point, this Centaur Hanseatic city’s borders: intabulations, release includes Alec Rowley’s Suite for Organ, transfers of motets by others to the organ, Organ Music of Bach, Verdin, de Grigny, Mendelssohn The Friedrich Ladegast Organ at Schwerin Cathedral / Hubert Parry Chorales, Three Pieces by Frank belonged to the duties of this church musician & Boëly / Christian von Blohn, Bouxwiller Silbermann Bridge, selected chorales by Healey Willan and – just listen to the ravishing beauty of Verbum Jan Ernst, organ Basil Harwood’s Sonata No. 1, Op. 5. caro factum est after Hans Leo Hassler. His occupation with Dowland’s Pavana Organ Friedrich Ladegast was one of the most important organ builders of the second 1CD# CEN 3677 $16.99 Lachrimae also displays an inquisitiveness far beyond the call of duty. With this recording, produced on a single day, Christian von Blohn would like half of the 19th century. He was born in 1818 in Hochhermsdorf, and so the Complete Organ Music of Delphin & Nicolaus Adam 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# MDG 9062113 $18.99 to demonstrate above all the versatility of the instrument in Bouxwiller. He quite musical world has recently celebrated his 200th birthday. On behalf of this occasion Querstand has released two albums which contain the programs Strungk; Peter Mohrhardt / Manuel Tomadin, organ Carson Cooman: Music for Organ, Vol. 11 – Organ deliberately selects music from completely different periods, also performing his own works. The famous organ was built by Johann Andreas Silbermann in of the first concerts played at two of the greatest Ladegast Organs. On this [2 CDs] Symphony No. 3; et al. / Erik Simmons, organ 1778 and, following several renovations, is under monumental protection today. program, the music of Adolph Friedrich Hesse, J.S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, Mozart, Schubert and Christian Heinrich In this release we dive headfirst into 17th- Carson Cooman is many things musical – Mr. von Blohn, born in 1963 and a specialist in church music, performs the Rinck is performed at the Ladegast Organ at Schwerin Cathedral. century Northern Germany, a time of innovation organist and Composer in Residence at the music of J.S. Bach, Joris Verdin, Nicolas de Grigny, Mendelssohn, Alexandre- 1CD# QRST 1811 $18.99 and experimentation in music for the organ. Memorial Church, Harvard University; writer, Pierre-François Boëly. As these imposing instruments were installed critic and consultant, concert organist, and 1CD# OEH 1705 $15.99 in cathedrals across Europe, the repertoire above all a highly prolific composer of music flourished. Three composers grace this set: in a wide variety of genres, from orchestral to ORGAN MUSIC OF J.S. BACH IN BRIEF Delphin Strungk, his son Nicolaus Adam song. His organ compositions come in many Strungk and Peter Mohrhardt, and their musical styles, from liturgical models, to more gritty output sheds light on the transition period and substantial pieces such as his organ Bach: Clavier-Übung III / James Johnstone, Joachim Wagner organ 1739–41 Nidaros between the Renaissance and Baroque eras. symphonies and preludes and fugues. In this Delphin Strungk opens the set with an organ 11th Volume of Cooman’s organ music, Erik Cathedral, Trondheim [2 CDs] arrangement of a motet by Orlando di Lasso, a Simmons performs several fine works including James Johnstone performs one of the great organ collections in Bach’s musical legacy on a baroque organ pioneer of the polyphonic style. the Third Organ Symphony. 2CD# BLC 95758 $12.99 1CD# DVT 25195 $17.99 contemporary with J.S. Bach made by Joachim Wagner in Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway. British Light Music – Organ Music of Arthur Sullivan The Anglo-American Classic Organ / Scott Dettra, 2CD# MET 1094 $31.49 and Michael Thomson / John Kitchen, organ Organ at the Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, Texas Ricercare: Bach in Lövstabruk, Organ Works / Cristina García Banegas, organ John Kitchen resurrects the cinema organ On this release, Scott Dettra plays a varied style neglected for decades in a collection program on the Anglo-American Classic organ This varied all-Bach program performed on the wonderful 1728 Cahman instrument at Lövstabruk Church, of entertaining favorites, well known to his of Church of the Incarnation (Dallas). Hailed Sweeden ranges from the gravitas of his Prelude and Fugue BWV 534 to the touching simplicity of his Lutheran regular Usher Hall audiences. This recording as a brilliant organist (Dallas Morning News) brings together the music of Johns boyhood and an outstanding musician (The Diapason), chorale tunes BWV 776. hero Arthur Sullivan with the witty and original Scott Dettra is acclaimed as one of Americas 1CD# FOOT 103 $16.99 arrangements of East-Coast Scot Michael leading concert organists. Mr. Dettra, whose Thomson. With a performance radiating playing has been praised for its clarity, J.S. Bach: Organ Works, Clavier Übung Teil III / Andreas Fischer, organ [2 CDs] warmth and joy, John Kitchen celebrates the rhythmic intensity and musical elegance here Golden Age of British light music in this, his performs Wagner’s Die Meistersinger Prelude, Andreas Fischer has freshly recorded this Third Part of the Clavier Übung on his very own St. Catherines organ eighteenth appearance on Delphian. “Dazzling The Leipzig Chorales of J.S. Bach; Vincent in a rendering that would have brought joy to Bach, who could not praise this instrument enough. Persichetti’s Dryden Liturgical Suite and works by Joseph Jongen, James playing, great fun.” – The Herald 2Super Audio Hybrid CD# MDG 9062120 $29.99 1CD# DELP 34212 $19.99 D’Angelo and Healey Willan. 1CD# GTHC 49309 $18.99 Franck: Choral Nos. 1–3; Pastorale, Op. 19; Grande Pièce Symphonique / David M. Patrick, organ J.S. Bach: Organ Works / Francis Jacob, organ; Philippe Froeliger, tenor; David M. Patrick’s latest project is to record César Franck’s organ music for Guild on the magnificent Harrison & Harrison organ Caroline Magalhaes, mezzo-soprano [2 CDs] of St. Albans Cathedral. The first album contains some of Franck’s greatest music, including the three Chorals, the Pastorale and Grand Piece Symphonique. Superbly recorded by Paul Crichton, David’s interpretations certainly eschew the sacred approach to Alpha continues the reissue of many of their finest recordings at a most attractive price point.The present Franck’s organ music. David M. Patrick who was born in Devonshire, England, is one of the most brilliant British organists of his release offers a two CD set of Bach’s organ works, with several chorales presented both for solo organ and with time. voice. 1CD# GUI 7816 $12.99 2CD# AHP 489 $10.99 34 35 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Music for Chamber Ensembles NEW RELEASES - CHAMBER MUSIC Xwpal, Chamber Music of Japan, Traetta Opera Edge of Youth, Violin Works of Enescu, Mazzoli, Works for Violin, Cello & Piano Festival / Tokyo Academy of Music; Tokyo Musica Britten / Janet Sung, violin; William Wolfram, piano Association [2 CDs] Janet Sung writes of her new release: Edge of Youth represents a time when Transformations – Piano Trios by Frank Bridge, Pierre Jalbert, Ernest Bloch, This double album traces two centuries of chamber music for voice and piano one starts to discover a new, more mature version of their own voice or self. We find confidence in that voice when we allow ourselves to go to the edge of İhan Baran / Morgenstern Trio tracing a red thread between Apulia and Japan, lands of great musicality, which today meets in the sharing of projects and repertoires. Apulia (Puglia) what is known or comfortable. Brought up steeped in the traditions of classical The Morgenstern Trio’s second release for Azica Records highlights their passion for music. After only two short years of is the region of southern Italy that has produced more musicians than any music, and deeply influenced by some of the greatest violinists of the old world, working together, the Morgenstern Trio emerged on the German Music Scene by being awarded top prizes and awards, other in the last five centuries. A good part of the great composers, singers this album represents some of that artistic journey for me... These works have such as the prestigious US Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio Award in 2010. The Washington Post wrote: “the group and instrumentalists who made the “Neapolitan School” famous in the world taken me on a journey that I will continue to traverse. displayed a unanimity, polished technique and musical imagination that I thought had vanished from the scene with the between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, were in fact born in Apulia. 1CD# SUIN 92230 $15.99 demise of the Beaux Arts Trio”. 2CD# DIGR 86 $33.49 1CD# AZI 71326 $15.49 As You Like It – Works by Mendelssohn, Chopin, Cobbett’s Legacy, Works by Hurlstone, Martin, Tchaikovsky: The Seasons; Piazzolla: The Four Seansons of Buenos Aires / Trio Beran, et al. / Patrizio Mazzola, piano; various artists Osborn, Colin Matthews / Berkeley Ensemble The name of Walter Willson Cobbett is Bohème German-Italian pianist Patrizio Mazzola synonymous with chamber music from the first Over the oceans and beyond time, hear what these two legendary composers are saying, in the timeless, universal presents an exciting musical journey from half of the 20th-century his contribution to the language of Music: They speak of what the soul perceives when Dance takes hold. Ballet or Tango, it matters not. A Jan Beran’s piano concerto (with the genre was immense, particularly through his Pas de Deux can convey both melancholy and heart-warming emotion. The finesse of the faithful transcribers and the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie under Kevin many commissions and the prize for chamber communicative enthusiasm of the Trio Bohème bestow on us the gift of these sublime confidences, by which we will ever be Griffiths) to the two Swiss composers Ruth music that bore his name. The Berkeley deeply moved. Dürrenmatt and Jürg Lietha. In between are Ensemble have sought to build on this unique 1CD# CLLO 1859 $18.99 works by Mozart, Chopin, Chaminade and legacy, introducing The New Cobbett Prize for Tailleferre and a rare miniature by the 19th Chamber Music. This new recording from the century child prodigy Carl Flitsch. Patrizio ensemble, brings together the three winning Mazzola was born in Italy and grew up in Her Voice – Piano Trios by Louise Farrenc, Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Rebecca works from the inaugural competition with the Switzerland. He studied with Hubert Harry at the Lucerne Conservatory where work that won the first original competition Clarke / Neave Trio he obtained a teaching diploma and graduated with distinction as a soloist. William Hurlstone’s Phantasie for string quartet. 1CD# OLNO 0040 $18.99 The first female Professor at the Paris Conservatoire, the first female player in the Queens Hall Orchestra and the first 1CD# REOA 10243 $16.99 female American Symphonist to be published. The Neave Trio celebrate these three outstanding pioneers on this captivating album. Since forming in 2010, Neave Trio violinist Anna Williams, cellist Mikhail Veselov, and pianist Eri Nakamura has Stories, Music for Tuba, Piano & Vibraphone / Thomas earned enormous praise for its engaging, cutting-­edge performances. WQXR explains, “’Neave’ is actually a Gaelic name Leleu Trio Tangos & Something More – Works by Roggero, meaning ‘bright’ and ‘radiant’, both of which certainly apply to this trio’s music making.” Piazzolla, Lucio Demare, et al. / Grupo Encuentros 1CD# CHA 20139 $18.99 The international press described Leleu as the world star of the tuba (Europe 1), the tuba prodigy (La Crois), and the tuba has found its Paganini (France Alicia Terzian is a world-recognized, award-winning composer, conductor, and Musique). The absolute genius of the tuba (La Nouvelle Republue) has forged musicologist. She is on the faculty of the Fine Arts Academy of Chile and Spain an impressive career as a crossover artist, performing both classical as well and is the conductor of Grupo Encuentros, the official group of the International as world and pop music. He deploys his astonishing musicality and versatility Palimpsest’ Bach, McKinley, Piazzolla, Ravel Chamber Music by Sarasate, John Williams, Pavkovic, Encounters for Contemporary Music Foundation and the only permanent in this varied program of music by Tom Jobim, Kurt Weill, Erik Satie, Reynaldo group in Latin America. The pieces leading up to Terzians masterwork create a & Zorn / Mika Stoltzman, marimba; Richard Brahms, Gade, Monti, et al. / Kosmos Ensemble Hahn, Michel Legrand and Brahms as well as his own original works for the nostalgic backdrop to the beginning of the album. The tangos pay homage to Trio. Stoltzman, clarinet The performers write: “The Greek word kosmos the decadence of Old Hollywood and the jazz age, but with a haunting touch 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# ARSP 38275 $19.99 Clarinet legend Richard Stoltzman and virtuoso is our ethos in a nutshell. It means the world, added by the ghostly sound effects tucked within Cristal. the universe, people, order from chaos, honor marimbist Mika Stoltzman present a stunning Aaron Jay Kernis: String Quartet No. 3; Debussy: 1CD# NVA 6246 $14.99 collection of arrangements evoking the past and is also the name of a flower. Kosmos and new works of the present, including music transcends boundaries, and connects people String Quartet, Op. 10 / Jasper String Quartet by J.S. Bach, William Thomas McKinley, Astor from all around the world. With our shared Capriccios – Works by Haydn, Robert Fokkens, passion for music from across the globe from The Jasper String Quartet writes of this new Piazzolla, Maurice Ravel and John Zorn. release: This album marks the culmination of Ysaÿe, Weinberg, Mendelssohn / Quatuor Capriccio Two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning clarinetist Argentina to Japan we create bridges between our decade-long journey with Aaron Jay Kernis The award-winning Quatuor Capriccio presents Richard Stoltzman is known as a captivating classical and non-classical music, and our music for string quartet. From the moment an album inspired by its own name: Capriccio. recitalist, chamber musician, and jazz music dances across them. All the music on we put bow to string for Aaron’s Second There is a long tradition of capricious or performer, as well as a prolific recording artist. this album is arranged and composed together Quartet, we realized his special voice and our whimsical virtuoso movements adding He gave the first clarinet recitals in the histories by us for our signature combination of violin, connection to his music’s ability to capture sparkle to the classical repertoire, and the of both the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall. viola and classical accordion.” both the complexity of the world and the earliest example featured on this collection 1CD# AIE 2409 $15.99 1CD# NIM 6389 $18.99 Chiaroscuro’, Music of Bach, Mozart, simplicity of a moment. This depth fascinated forms part of Haydn’s Quartet No. 2, Op. 20. Songs Without Words / Rebecca Rust, cello; Friedrich us, inspired our playing and prompted us to Mendelssohn’s Four Pieces for String Quartet Edelmann, bassoon; Nikolai Gangnus, piano Mendelssohn, Webern, Janáček & Gershwin / dream of commissioning Aaron’s 3rd Quartet... are rounded off with a Capriccio of emotional Schumann Quartett The music too is constantly evolving, from depth, and the virtuosic tradition of Paganini’s Rebecca Rust and Friedrich Edelmann (cellist moment to moment never predictable, never Caprices is at the heart of a work by another and bassoonist, respectively) have played We are standing in a picture gallery of music. repeating itself. virtuoso violinist-composer, Ysaÿe. together in duos, trios, and larger chamber All around us we can hear snippets of the great 1CD# SUIN 92233 $15.99 1CD# ORPO 100094 $16.99 music groups for over 30 years. From their works for string quartets, along with unfamiliar home base in Germany, this husband and wife things to delight the ear; it is truly a music- team performs in America, Europe, and Japan lover’s paradise. “Chiaroscuro” forms the including radio and TV productions. As a duo or conclusion of a rather special trilogy of albums CHAMBER MUSIC IN BRIEF single together with piano they have recorded by the Schumann Quartet. After searching for fourteen well-received albums. This new their own roots in “Landscapes” and engaging release is a wide-ranging yet well-integrated with their namesake Robert Schumann in String Quartets by Ullmann, Krása, Schulhoff, & Haas / Bennewitz Quartet program of works for cello and piano, cello and “Intermezzo”, the four musicians complete their The Bennewitz Quartet launched their career following their victories at the prestigious competition in Osaka (2005) and the bassoon, and cello, bassoon and piano together. The duo is joined by pianist trilogy with the album “Chiaroscuro”, which in Premio Paolo Borciani in Italy (2008). The music of the Theresienstadt composers has found in them splendid interpreters. Nikolai Gangnus. 1CD# CEN 3645 $16.99 itself represents an equally exciting journey through time and temperament. 1CD# SPR 4265 $17.99 Silenced Voices: Early 20th Century Works by 1CD# BER 0301213 $16.99 Kattenburg, Kuti, Krása, Hermann / Black Oak Sounds of Pannonia, Quartets by Haydn, Bartók, Ensemble Brahms / Pacific Quartet Vienna Greek Music for String Quartet by Kanakis, Mazis, Papari, Platanou, et al. / NeoQuartet The Black Oak Ensemble comprises The young international Pacific Quartet Vienna Swiss-American violinist Desiree Ruhstrat has chosen as repertoire focus works of the This new release is a noteworthy album of the outstanding NeoQuartet consisting of music for string quartet by Hari Kanakis, and British-born cellist David Cunliffe of the First and Second Viennese Schools. Its second Dimitris Kostopoulos, Spiros Mazis, Giorgos Papamitrou, Elena Papari, Charalambos Platanou and Dimitris Tsimpanos. ® acclaimed, GRAMMY -nominated Lincoln Trio album presents Sounds from Pannonia, with 1CD# PHAS 007 $18.99 and French-born violist Aurelien Fort Pederzoli, Haydn’s String Quartet Op. 54/2, the second a founding member of the groundbreaking, from the group of Tost Quartets, Bartók’s 2nd ® GRAMMY -nominated Spektral Quartet. String Quartet (in which the composer used Silenced Voices was inspired, in part, by the the impressions of his four-year research on EntArteOpera Festival – Chamber Music / Hermine Haselböck, mezzo-soprano; Franz educational efforts of violist Pederzolis mother, Pannonian songs and dances during the First a history teacher of Sephardic Jewish descent World War) and Brahms’ Quartet Op. 51/2 are Bartolomey, cello; Clemens Zeilinger, piano who led annual student field trips to locations representative of the music of the landscape such as Prague, Budapest, Auschwitz, between Vienna, Burgenland, Hungary, The present recordings main focus is on songs and works by the female composers Henriëtte Bosmans, Vally Weigl, Charlotte Treblinka, and Terezin. Slovenia, Croatia and parts of Slovakia. Schlesinger and Vítězslava Kaprálová, with the addition of the Love Song H 259 by Bohuslav Martinů. 1CD# CDL 189 $16.99 1CD# GRAM 99182 $18.99 1CD# GRAM 99183 $18.99 LIFELINE: Music of the Underground Railroad / Lifeline Quartet Michelle Mayne-Graves and her Lifeline Quartet perform spirituals from the Civil War and earlier celebrating code songs for the Voyage Central Park / Lisa Friend, flute; Craig Ogden, guitar; Aquarelle Guitar Quartet Underground Railroad. These spirituals include hidden messages about maps, navigational strategies and timing for slaves to Lisa Friend leads this collection of original works and transcriptions for flute and guitars, joined by Craig Ogden and theAquarelle escape toward freedom in the Northern States and Canada. “Wade in the Water” serves as a reminder of where to walk in the rivers Guitar Quartet. The wide-ranging program includes Faure’s Pavane and Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise. to make it harder for dogs to scent people escaping at night. “I’m On My Way to Canaan’s Land” talks about the route to Canada. 1CD# YARL 78677 $19.99 1CD# CHA 20037 $18.99

36 37 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Aria and Lieder Programs NEW RELEASES - VOCAL Schubert-Ellington / Karen Vourc’h, soprano; Thomas American Soul, From Broadway to Paris / Romantic Era Songs & Arias Savy, clarinet; Louis Rodde, cello; Guillaume de Duo Rosa Chassy, piano To grasp the audience’s attention and hold Schubert: Winterreise / Johannes Held, baritone; Daniel Beskow, piano During autumn 2019, intermingled them spellbound, Duo Rosa (Stephany melodies could be heard under the round Ortega, soprano & Léna Kollmeier, piano) “Held’s voice is on the light side, with a tenorial color in its upper range, but he uses it sensibly and intelligently. arches of Noirlac Abbey, amongst which have selected a series of popular songs He and Beskow have been performing the cycle together for some time and have developed an interpretation the strains of both Schubert’s “Trout” and combined with less well-known classical that is eminently communicative, slightly quirky, and in which one always feels a sense of hope and optimism…an Ellington’s famous “Take the ‘A’ Train” melodies. They perform famous Broadway eloquent, probing recording that’s well worth seeking out.” – Gramophone were heard. These musicians navigate tunes such as I feel pretty and Somewhere 1CD# ARSP 38562 $18.99 between the waters of the Lied and the by Bernstein from West Side Story, or Jazz Standard to produce this outstanding Gershwin songs including The man I love project connecting two geniuses of and I got rhythm from An American in Paris. melody with intelligent arrangements and The cabaret genre is likewise present, with Liszt: Petrarca Sonnets, opp. 47, 104, 123 / Andrè Schuen, baritone; Daniel improvisational extravagance. numbers by Kurt Weill and William Bolcom. Heide, piano 1CD# BREC 019 $18.99 1CD# HAN 19026 $18.99 This complete recording of Franz Liszt’s Petrarch Sonnets, performed by baritone Andrè Schuen and pianist Schubert, Wolf, Medtner: Songs / Ludwig Schubert: Winterreise / Philippe Sly, baritone; Daniel Heide, attempts to highlight the significance of his different versions of the three Sonnets 47, 109, und Mittelhammer, baritone; Jonathan Ware, piano Le Chimera Project 123 – possibly for the first time on CD. Musicologists are baffled by the fact that Liszt wrote several versions of the same works. He even set the same texts to different music: not twice, but occasionally three or more times – an Baritone Ludwig Mittelhammer and pianist Jonathan Ware interpret For this new album, Philippe Sly and the Chimera Project revisit absolute exception in the history of music. songs by Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf and Nikolai Medtner. This is the Schubert’s ultimate masterpiece, Winterreise, and offer a captivating 1CD# CAVI 8553472 $17.99 debut album of a young singer of whom great things are expected. After version of the story of a wanderer who embarks on a journey through a studying in Munich, Ludwig Mittelhammer attended master classes winter landscape. From Schubert’s score, only the vocal part remains with Dietrich Fischer Dieskau and Brigitte Fassbaender, among others. intact; the piano part is replaced by an ensemble that comprises of French & Italian Romantic Arias / Benjamin Bernheim, tenor; Emmanuel He recently gave his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz trombone, violin, accordion, clarinet and a hurdy-gurdy. This delightful Villaume; Prague Philharmonia Welser Möst. instrumentation brings this great work into musical territories that are 1CD# BER 0301246 $16.99 both familiar and foreign. Called “the major French lyric tenor the opera world is longing for” by the Chicago Tribune, Benjamin Bernheim 1CD# ANA 29138 $18.99 releases an album featuring selections of famous French and Italian romantic arias, including the aria “Parmi Fritz Wunderlich – Music of the 20th Century / Fritz veder le lagrime “ from Rigoletto, recorded with the Prague Philharmonia under the baton of its chief conductor Wunderlich, tenor; various artists [3 CDs] Gottlob Frick, “The Blackest Bass” – Mozart, Emmanuel Villaume. “Bernheim is a superb singer. The voice is handsome and beautifully regulated, and he sails Rossini & German Comic Opera; Oratorios; Folk through this taxing selection with ringing tone, true intonation and a seamless technique...” – Gramophone This is the 8th installment in the SWR 1CD# DGG B003119602 $18.99 CLASSIC series dedicated to Fritz Songs; et al. / Gottlob Frick, bass; Vienna PO [4 CDs] Wunderlich. It contains never before “The voice itself was world-class in range, released recordings as well as rarely volume and technical proficiency, with an Anton Beer-Walbrunn: Reisebilder & Ausgewählte Works for Mezzo & Ensemble / Sahar Hassan, mezzo; performed repertoire worth discovering, instantly recognizable timbre that could be Lieder / Angelika Huber, soprano; Lauriane Follonier, Ladyslipper Ensemble brilliantly sung by one of the most talented warmed or chilled at will… a sure sense tenors of all times. On a program devoted piano of legato and impressive flexibility: we can Mezzo-soprano Sahar Hassan sings this truly to the music of Hermann Reutter, Hans relish here the earthy panache with which beautiful program of songs for mezzo-soprano Anton Beer-Walbrunn (1864–1929) was a Pfitzner, Everett Helm, Günter Raphael, he delivers the wide intervals of Mozart’s and varied small ensembles by Alberto teacher of counterpoint, harmony, composition Stravinsky, Orff, Werner Egk, Berg and Osmin and the tongue-twisting patter of and piano at the Royal Academy of Music Ginastera, Kurt Weill, Charles Ives, André other eminent composers of the 20th Previn, Xavier Montsalvatge, Federico Mompou Rossini’s Bartolo” – Opera This program in Munich, where he was one of the leading century, these recordings were captured is made up of folk songs, German comic figures in the music scene, but his work is all and Manuel de Falla. The works are from the early to mid 20th-century. Egyptian American by the SWR between 1954 and 1960. opera and oratorios arias, and on a bonus but forgotten. To change this is the aim of this 3CD# SWRM 19075 $12.99 series from BAYER RECORDS, the third part mezzo-soprano Sahar Hassan is committed disc, duets with tenor Fritz Wunderlich. to bringing lesser known works to life and 4CD# PRF 18047 $29.99 of which presents the piano cycle Reisebilder About Every Hill & Valley – Swedish Op. 21, performed by pianist Lauriane maintains a busy schedule as a chamber Follonier, as well as selected songs, sung by musician and frequent oratorio soloist. Songs, Broadsides & Ballads from Medieval to Verdi: Arias / Ildar Abdrazakov, bass; Yannick the German soprano, Angelika Huber. 1CD# CEN 3683 $16.99 Present / Torsten Mossberg, tenor Nézet-Séguin; Metropolitan Orchestra of Montreal 1CD# BYR 100395 $18.99 Roberto Sierra: 33 Sueños for Baritone & Piano; Julia Torsten Mossberg writes of his new release: “For this album, I have Throughout his career, Verdi always played a big role in Ildar’s life. Musick to Heare / Oliva Hunt, soprano; John Hosking, for Soprano & Piano chosen both popular literary songs and ballads, from the middle ages Gramophone writes of this recording: “The expectation of a black-hued, until the present day. The early songs were released as broadsides, also harpsichord, organ & piano; Mark Hartt-Palmer, violin In par with another journey song cycle, Franz cavernous bass sound – à la Abdrazakov’s great compatriot Boris mentioning which melody that could be used. More recent songs and Schubert’s ‘Winterreise’, the music of 33 Christoff – is confounded early on... instead, [the Attila aria] reveals Musick to Heare is soprano Olivia Hunt’s debut ballads are often literary and were published with melodies in songbooks solo recording, and showcases a wide range Dreams by Roberto Sierra (b.1953) penetrates the vitality, smoothness and walnut-toned mellowness of Abdrazakov’s and song collections of individual songwriters.” Mr. Mossberg is of sacred and secular song throughout the not only inside the poetic text, but also into voice... The Canadian orchestra’s strings are vibrant and gutsy, and ages. John Hosking accompanies on three its interstices, to achieve a superior level accompanied by Stina Hellerg Agback, harp and Jonas Isaksson, guitar. Nézet-Séguin pounces on some orchestral details with swagger and rather striking instruments: an Italian replica of comprehension in which the daydream “A kaleidoscope of poems in attractive settings.” – MusicWeb charm.” – Gramophone harpsichord, an organ designed by George acquires reality and reality blurs into daydream. 1CD# STR 1834 $16.99 1CD# DGG B003083202 $18.99 Guest and William Mathias, and a Steinway A second brief cycle offered here, ‘Julia’ is Model D concert grand. In this program of based on poems by Julia de Burgos. The Purcell, Leonarda, Byrd, Merula, Downland, artists are Javier Povedano, baritone, Quiteria ARIA AND SONG PROGRAMS IN BRIEF Pepusch, Quilter and Gershwin, her effortless Muñoz, soprano and Juan Carlos Garvayo, upper range and rich lower range shine piano. Kristian Benedikt Sings Favorite Tenor Arias / Luthuanian National SO through. 1CD# IBSC 112019 $15.99 1CD# WOWH 055 $18.99 In this, his debut recording, Kristian Benedikt proves his wide-ranging artistry in a highly varied program of Caruso – 1873 / Roberto Alagna, tenor; Aleksandra The Croatian Lied / Nataša Antoniazzo, mostly well-known arias by Verdi, Puccini, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Tchaikovsky and Wagner. Kurzak; Rafal Siwek; Yvan Cassar, piano; Orchestre mezzo-soprano; Mia Elezović, piano 1CD# DEL 3571 $16.99 Nat’l Dile-de-France Since the beginning of the 19th century, the Croatian lied has shown an orientation towards Alagna honors his legendary predecessor with Songs of Alexander Wolf (b. 1969) / Various artists with Sergey Korolev, piano international styles. In addition to Croatian a selection of repertoire drawn from Caruso’s poetry, Croatian composers have set to music own recording career. Alagna is accompanied The singers breathe delicate life into these little treasures: on bats and stardust, pine trees, Mount Olympus, poems by German, Italian, French, and Czech by the critically acclaimed Orchestre National D’ile-de-France and conductor, pianist and and the solar eclipse. Powerful word images presented in an easily accessible, yet clearly contemporary musical poets. For this album priority was given to language. settings of German poetry by a diverse number arranger, Yvan Cassar. “Although there is no of Croatian composers in order to acquaint attempt to imitate Caruso’s tone or his famous 1CD# GUIN 19647 $18.99 an international audience with the Croatian ‘sob’, he does adopt the great tenor’s phrasing lied. The repertoire represented here is largely and tempos. But when his tenor rings out, it’s Robert Livingston Aldridge (b. 1954): Love Songs / Nicole Asel, mezzo; Robert Spillman, sourced from the Romantic and post-Romantic pure Alagna...There’s something very charming piano periods. about this album. It deserves every success” 1CD# BE 319302 $22.99 – Gramophone Contemporary composer Robert Livingston Aldridge composed this set of 15 songs set to love poems in 2004. 1CD# SBMG 19075950482 $12.99 These are touching, moving works, lovingly sung by mezzo-soprano Nicole Asel. Mozart Opera Arias / Daniel Behle, tenor; Michi Gaigg; L’Orfeo Barockorchester 1CD# CEN 3690 $16.99 Renowned lyric tenor Daniel Behle delivers refreshing interpretations of popular Mozart arias, including numbers from The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Così fan tutte and others. Gramophone writes of this release: “Buoyed by Shmuel Barzilai Sings Jewish Traditional, Hasidic and Cantoral Music / Mordechai Sobol, spirited and colorful support from Michi Gaigg’s period band, Daniel Behle confirms his high reputation as a Mozart lyric tenor... it’s S.F. PO & Choir hard to think of a contemporary tenor who could better encompass the varied demands of these arias.” 1CD# SBMG 19075964582 $14.99 The second CD that Shmuel Barzilai has recorded for Gramola shines like the first ‘Areshet Sefateinu’ with sophisticated orchestral and choral arrangements. Clearly, this is a tribute to Jan Peerce and the great cantors of their time. 1CD# GRAM 99185 $18.99 38 39 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com NEW RELEASES - CHORAL NEW RELEASES - OPERA Choral Music Through the Ages New, Complete Opera Titles Contemporary Works for Choir Opera of the Baroque Period

Rautavaara: Vigilia, All-Night Vigil in Memory of St. John the Baptist / Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea / William Christie; Les Arts Florissants Helsinki Chamber Choir [3 CDs + 1 DVD] As his inspiration, Rautavaara has himself described a visit to the Valamo monastery in the middle of Lake “Some of the most wonderful music in the world” is how William Christie describes Monteverdi’s The Coronation Ladoga in 1939: The bells began to ring, low-pitched booms and higher, shrill clinks - the world was filled with of Poppea, noting in particular the opera’s overriding humanism and interest in questions of morality and ambition. sounds and colors. Divided into two parts, Vespers and Matins, feature prominent parts for a bass and a tenor Christie’s acclaimed production of Poppea was recorded in 2018 at the prestigious Salzburg Festival. It is here soloist, as well as a number of solo voices emerging from the mixed choir. It is here performed by the 21-strong performed by an exceptional cast of soloists including Sonya Yoncheva, Kate Lindsey, Stéphanie d’Oustrac and Helsinki Chamber Choir, under its artistic director Nils Schweckendiek and “produces a radiant sound throughout”. Carlo Vistoli. – Choir & Organ 4CD# HAR 8902622 $29.99 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# BIS 2422 $17.99 Consolatio, Contemporary Choral Music of Ko Matsushita / Georg Grun; Jean-Baptiste Lully: Atys / William Christie; Les Arts Florrisants [3 CDs] KammerChor Saarbrucken All those present at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in January 1987 have a vivid memory of a the moment when an amazed France rediscovered a hitherto forgotten genre: the tragédie en musique. An unprecedented triumph on Matsushita has received several awards, including the “Robert Edler Prize for Choral Music” in 2005 - the first stage, followed by an international success on record, Atys was also the starting point for a new view of French Asian conductor to do so. Under the direction of Georg Grun, the KammerChor Saarbrucken, one of Germany’s Baroque music. This copiously illustrated CD-book release comes to mark the fortieth anniversary of William leading chamber choirs, dedicates this recording to Matsushita’s sacred works for a cappella choir. In addition, the Christie and Les Arts Florissants. Lieder cycle op. 6 by Max Reger and the famous choral transcription “I’m Abendrot” by Clytus Gottwald after the 3CD# HAR 8901257 $28.49 Adagietto from the 5th Symphony by Gustav Mahler can be heard. 1CD# CRS 83505 $18.99

Veneliti, Norwegian Folk Songs of Ørjan Matre / Hakon Daniel Nystedt; Oslo Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764): Les Indes Galantes / William Christie; Les Arts Chamber Choir [2 CDs] Florissants [3 CDs] Composer Ørjan Matre has worked with Oslo Chamber Choir for over a decade, profiting from the choir’s strong A signature work for Les Arts Florissants, Les Indes galantes owes much of it’s lasting success with the public to traditions in folk music in his sonic interpretations of Norwegian folk songs – fervent hymns, mystical legends and the seductive charm of it’s music and to a trio of memorable stage productions (directed by Alfredo Arias, Heinz bittersweet love songs. By returning to the songs’ sources and how they have traditionally been sung, Matre has Spoerli, and Andrei Serban). Rameau’s celebrated opéra-ballet remains one of the most beloved and joyful works preserved their core identity, giving it new life and meaning in his sonic world. Recorded here in immersive audio, in the entire Baroque repertoire. Principal singers here include Claron McFadden, Sandrine Piau and Howard you, the listener, take part in this world as if you were sitting in the choir yourself. Crook. 2Blu-Ray Audio / SACD# L2L 153SABD $33.49 3CD# HAR 8901367 $28.49

Matt Frey: One-Eleven Heavy, A Chamber Opera / Verdi: I Due Foscari / Leo Nucci; Guanqun Yu; The Pillar of the Cloud, Five Centuries of Oxford Choral Works of Mason Bates (b. 1977): Sirens; Jenny Ribeiro, soprano; Karim Sulayman, tenor; Bernadett Fodor; Ivan Magri; István Horváth; Miklós Anthems / Mark Williams; Choir of Magdalen College, Mass Transmission; Rag of Ragnar / Ragnar Rohlin; David Bloom, Hotel Elefant Sebestyén [2 CDs] Oxford Cappella SF On September 2, 1998, 229 passengers and The concert performance of Verdi’s early stage ® The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford bring GRAMMY winning choirmaster Ragnar crew members lost their lives in the Swissair work “I due Foscari” was recorded on November their beautiful sound to 14 glorious anthems Bohlin and Cappella SF deliver astonishing Flight 111 plane crash into the Atlantic ocean 25, 2018 by the Münchner Rundfunkorchester composed by great composers associated with performances that will both thrill Bates’ near Nova Scotia. Composer Matt Frey and the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks the city of Oxford, including Hubert Parry, John growing legions of fans and also serve as an commemorates the lives lost with his chamber under Ivan Repušić. Outstanding performers Taverner, Thomas Tomkins, William Walton, ideal introduction to his unique electronics - opera ONE-ELEVEN HEAVY. Filled with a provide an authentic atmosphere and vocal and many more. enhanced music. sense of anxiety and coming undone, the magnificence, with no less a person than the 1CD# BOA 9045D $19.99 1CD# DEL 3573 $16.99 opera builds to the point of no return where multiple award-winning Italian baritone Leo plane alarms can be heard and voices and Nucci in the role of the Doge of Venice. This instruments meet for a tumultuous climax, recording from late 2018 is now available from concluding with a chilling epilogue inundated BR-KLASSIK as a double album. by ocean sounds and ATC recordings. 2CD# BRK 900328 $19.99 Evensong Live 2019, Anthems and Canticles / 1CD# NVA 6226 $14.99 In Paradisum, Durufle: Mass; Requiem, Op. 9 / Stephen Cleobury; The Choir of King’s College, Heinrich Marschner (1795–1861): Hans Heiling / Randall Harlow, org; University of Northern Iowa Jon Gibson: Violet Fire, An Opera About Nikola Tesla / Cambridge Rebecca Teem; Heiko Trinsinger; Jessica Muirhead; Concert Chorale Mick Rossi; Violet Fire Orchestra [2 CDs] King’s College Recordings continues it’s Bettina Ranch [2 CDs] Orange Mountain Music proudly presents the This album features two choral masterpieces Evensong Live series with a new collection The link between Weber and Wagner, premiere recording of Violet Fire – An Opera by Durufle, the Mass, Op. 11 ‘Cum Jubilo’ and of popular anthems and canticles by British Marschner’s Hans Heiling, was staged in the About Nikola Tesla by composer Jon Gibson the organ intensive ‘Requiem, Op. 9’. The UNI composers. Recorded live across 2018 and Aalto Music Theatre in February 2018. The and librettist Miriam Seidel. A member of Concert Chorale is a mixed ensemble of 36 2019 during choral services at the famous production by Andreas Baesler received a the Philip Glass Ensemble for almost half a undergraduate and graduate students selected chapel, this album features A glorious collection mixed reaction, but the music was unanimously century, Gibson has been a vital part of the by competitive audition. of choral music by British composers. Popular lauded by critics, above all the performance of evolution of music in the 20th-century including 1CD# CEN 3715 $16.99 anthems like Hubert Parry’s I was glad and Essen Philharmonic under the baton of Frank performing in the first ever performance of Patrick Hadley’s My beloved spake are Beermann. The German Romantic opera in 3 Terry Riley’s In C. Violet Fire is Gibson’s largest included alongside settings of the Magnificat acts is the composer’s most successful opera, scale work and is presented here on two discs and Nunc dimittis through the centuries. Also and brought the composer a considerable with full libretto and photographs from the included here are settings from Byrd’s Great reputation. In this production, Heiko Trinsinger production. Service and Weelkes’ Short Service, alongside Stanford’s setting in G and performs the title role. 2CD# OMM 7018 $24.99 Avner Dorman (b. 1975): Letters from Gettysburg; William Mathias’ Jesus College Service. 2CD# OEH 976 $28.49 1CD# KING 0038 $13.99 After Brahms; Nigunim / The Gettysburg College Franz Lehár: Die Lustige Witwe / Joana Mallwitz; Bernhard Lang (b. 1957): ParZeFool / Simone Young; Choir Horizons, Vocal Music by Nikolai Kedrov, Sandeep Frankfurt Opera [2 CDs] Arnold Schoenberg Chor; Klangforum Wien [3 CDs] Bhagwati, Ivan Moody, J.S. Bach, et al. / Singer Pur Avner Dorman has fast become one of In May 2018 the premier of Franz Lehár’s There is something definitely “off” with the most sought-after composers of his SINGER PUR seeks to link the spirit from The Merry Widow was a thundering success. Bernhard Lang’s reimagination of Wagner’s generation. Letters from Gettysburg, a work different world religions, regions and cultures. It was not only Claus Guth’s sophisticated Parsifal – ParZeFool. As time progresses, stark scored for soprano, baritone, large chorus May the spirit-filled music inspire and move and insightful production that earned critical atonal passages as well as jazz and hip-hop and percussion, is the centerpiece in this all- you and waft you through the exotic and the acclaim, the musical performance also influences begin to rub up against the original Dorman release. familiar. Founded in 1991, the sextet is made received several accolades in its own right. score. The original libretto is stripped of all 1CD# CNCL M001174 $24.99 up of former members of the Regensburger The present release is a live recording of the Christian and pseudo-religious references, cut Domspatzen. Initially the group focused on phenomenal premier at Oper Frankfurt. “This is into smaller bits and pieces, and finally, looped jazz repertoire, but since 1994 the ensemble’s a perfectly enjoyable account, possibly closer into infinity, pushing far beyond Wagner’s focus has shifted to early and romantic music. in spirit to the piece’s light-footed, popular notion of the “Leitmotiv”. Vocal soloists include The ensemble, however, has proven that they theatre roots than the more sumptuous classic Daniel Gloger, Magdalena Anna Hofmann and have no stylistic limitations, and their programs recordings.” – Gramophone Wolfgang Bankl. include anything performable by voices. 2CD# OEH 983 $28.49 3CD# KAIR 0015037 $38.99 1CD# OEH 1714 $14.99 Michael Gordon (b. 1962): Acquanetta / Mikaela Bennett; Amelia Watkins; Eliza Bagg; Matt Liebesweisen, Songs of Love, Sacred and Secular Revelations / Voktett Hannover Boehler; Timur Ensemble An homage to the campy and spine-chilling horror films of the 1940s,Acquanetta, set in the heyday of Hollywood glamor, combines The eight members of the Ensemble Voktett Hannover make an impact, not least, with the exceptionally broad repertoire they bring theater, opera and film to explore the world of a real-life B-movie star known for her exotic beauty, Acquanetta. Michael Gordon’s together on the present release. They produce an impressive, rousing assortment of music historical delights, wrapped in rich, soaring and often comic score is a vivid metaphor for the ways in which the movie camera manipulates how we see and are seen. harmonious sounds. Here, Thomas Tallis’ setting of the hymn Te lucis ante terminum while Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to St Cecilia, Daniela Candillari leads the Bang on a Can Opera Ensemble and Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Giacinto Scelsis Gloria and Helmut Wormsbächer’s arrangement of the Low German evergreen Dat du min Leevsten büst ensure 1CD# CPE 21150 $19.99 that the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are also prominently represented. 1CD# RDAU 6172 $18.99 40 41 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Music for Solo Strings or EnsemblesNEW RELEASES - STRINGS The Golden Violin / Andrey Baranov, violin; Maria Zwischen Nostalgie & Revolution / Benedict Music for Cello & Orchestra Baranova, piano Kloeckner, cello; Danae Dörken, piano Although Russian violinist Andrey Baranov has a thriving solo career, as Benedict Kloeckner has been called one of the most exciting cellists Under the Shade of Vivaldi – Venetian Cello Sonatas / Gaetano Nasillo, cello is evidenced by his win at the Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium of the younger generation, and Danae Dörken has earned the title in 2012, he is also passionate about chamber music. Here, he performs “Piano Discovery of the Year.” For this release they have teamed up to Cellist Gaetano Nasillo is always tirelessly exploring new territories and forging new paths. His prior album with his sister, pianist Maria Baranova. Together, the duo explores perform works by Robert Schumann, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Bohuslav of Venitian music was devoted to composer Antonio Caldara. On this new release, he travels back to Venice a program of violin repertoire from Russian giants Tchaikovsky and Martinů. The title of the album translates to “Nostalgia and Revolution,” to explore cello sonatas from Vivaldi and his contemporaries, including Girolamo Bassani, Diogenio Bigaglia, Rachmaninov, French Romantics Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, a title that applies to each of these composers who mirrored and shaped Benedetto Marcello, Antonio Vandini, Giovanni Benedetto Platti, and Michele Stratico. Five of the works presented and Italian virtuosos Giuseppe Tartini and Niccolò Paganini. their times. here are world-premiere recordings. Harpsichordist Ann Fontana and cellist Sara Bennici assist. 1CD# MUSO 023 $18.99 1CD# GUIN 19660 $18.99 1CD# ACAA 465 $18.99 Béla Bartók: Duos for Violin / Enrico Onofri, Romances for Violin by Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, violin; Lina Tur Bonet, violin Dvořák, Bruch, Svendsen / Davide Alogna, violin Cello Concertos of Offenbach and Gulda / Edgar Moreau, cello In 1931 German violinist Erich Doflein The Romance is an often overlooked Known for his “commanding presence” and “singing tone” (Gramophone), Edgar Moreau presents on this album asked Béla Bartók for an arrangement of genre of classical music. With roots two cello concertos that challenge convention. Although Offenbach’s Grand Concerto in G major and Gulda’s Bartók’s piano collection ‘For Children.’ in the songs of medieval troubadours, Concerto for Cello, Wind Orchestra, and Band were written more than a century apart, both pieces dazzle Instead, Bartók decided to offer Doflein an vocal romanzas were popular through stylistically. Joining Moreau for this recording is the dynamic ensemble Les Forces Majeures and their conductor entirely new work. Thus, the 44 Duos for the 15th and 16th centuries. During the Raphaël Merlin. Two Violins were born. Based on folk tunes 19th century, composers began exploring 1CD# WRNC M526122 $24.99 from several eastern countries, each piece the possibilities of romances written as in the collection is at the same time simple instrumental songs. What better instrument in structure, and challenging in technique. on which to explore this music than the Enrico Onofri and Lina Tur Bonet are both violin, known for it’s near human-like Music for Cello & Orchestra by Friedrich Gulda and Tchaikovsky / Jakob well-known Baroque violinists, and perform singing quality? Violinist Davide Alogna, Spahn, cello [CD/Blu-ray Audio CD] the Duos on historical instruments. along with the Karsiyaka Municipality Chamber Orchestra, explores 1CD# PAN 10399 $16.99 romances by Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Dvořák, Bruch, and Svendsen. The present release was born out of a relationship between the Siemens Arts Program and the Orchestra 1CD# BLC 95896 $10.49 Academy of the Bayerisches Staatsorchester. The idea was to offer a young scholarship holder the opportunity to Limitless – Violin duos performed with the record an album under exceptional production conditions. Cellist Jakob Spahn, who currently holds the position of Oblique Strategies: Works for Solo Cello / principal cello of the Bavarian State Opera, has chosen Friedrich Gulda’s Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra Andrei Ioniță, cello composers / Jennifer Koh, violin [2 CDs] and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations for this release. Based on her groundbreaking project of the same name, violinist 2Blu-Ray Audio / CD# HAN 18016 $29.99 On his newest release, former BBC New Generation Artist Andrei Ioniță brings together some of the greatest solo cello music ever written. Jennifer Koh’s Limitless bridges the gap between composer and In addition to well known classics like Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 and performer, encouraging artistic collaboration and reviving the centuries- old tradition of composers interpreting and performing their own The Great War Centenary / Michael Foyle, violin; Queen Elisabeth Competition – Gidon Kremer, Violin Kodaly’s Sonata, this album also includes Black Run by contemporary Swedish composer Svante Henryson and the premiere recording of compositions. World premiere recordings of duets commissioned by Maksim Štšura, piano 1967 / Gidon Kremer, Violin Brett Dean’s 11 Oblique Strategies. “One of the most exciting cellists to the artist are featured here, with pieces written by some of today’s most highly accomplished contemporary composers, including Qasim Naqvi, During World War I, also known as the Gidon Kremer was barely twenty years have emerged for a decade.”– The Times Lisa Bielawa, Wang Lu, Du Yun, Tyshawn Sorey, Nina Young, Vijay Iyer, “Great War,” composers found unique old when he stepped onto the stage at 1CD# ORPO 100096 $16.99 and Missy Mazzoli. ways through their music to describe and the 1967 Queen Elisabeth Competition 2CD# CDL 191 $16.99 take a stand against the horrors they for the Violin. His program was unusual, Songbook / Jan Vogler, cello; Ismo Eskalinen, were witnessing every day in their home including the Elgar Concerto which was Sensations of Travel: Chamber Music by Nigel guitar countries. Debussy’s Violin Sonata in rarely performed for competition. While Osborne / Hebrides Ensemble G minor is a youthful celebration, while he would finish the competition in third Recorded in a small studio in New York, Respighi’s Sonata for violin and piano is place, he left an indelible mark on the this new release from cellist Jan Vogler On their third release for Delphian a romantic work that reminds us that the audience and jury members. This release and guitarist Ismo Eskelinen presents Records, Hebrides Ensemble has chosen future is still hopeful. Janáček’s Violin is a brilliantly remastered recording of that both pieces written for this unique to pay tribute to the incredible musical Sonata is patriotic and heroic, and Kenneth recital, and features the aforementioned instrumentation, such as the 3 Nocturnes achievements of Edinburgh-based Hesketh’s Inscrizione, the album’s modern contribution, is a somber Elgar as well as Schumann’s Fantasie for by Friedrich Burgmüller, as well as composer Nigel Osborne (b. 1948). The meditation on the dying man. All works are beautifully performed here by violin and piano Op. 131 and Chausson’s several famous works in arrangements pieces included on this album reflect the Foyle-Štšura Duo. Poème, Op. 25. for guitar and cello, including Erik Satie’s composer’s travels through Sarajevo, 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# CHL 72786 $18.99 1CD# MUSO 018 $18.99 Gymnopedie No. 1 and Paganini’s and Mostar, Afria and the Middle East. As My Favourite Paganini / Benjamin Schmid, violin Cantabile. Multiple works heard here are Gramophone wrote: “Osborne's travels Bach: Reflected / Benjamin Schmid, violin receiving their world premiere recording have become a kind of pilgrimage in Violinist Benjamin Schmid curated this search of relevance and responsibility that Austrian violin virtuoso Benjamin Schmid in this instrumentation, including Henry program of compositions to include all of deserves serious attention, and these well-crafted recordings offer many has an expansive repertoire, but the Mancini’s timeless classic Moon River. his favorite works by virtuosic composer different facets of an arrestingly contemporary musical voice.” music of Bach always seems to anchor 1CD# SBMG 19075959762 $14.99 Niccolò Paganini. His Sonata No. 12 in E 1CD# DELP 34198 $19.99 him to his roots. For the present release, minor is included, as well as Le Streghe, Schmid decided that after three decades Cantabile, an Non Piu Mesta, Op. 12. He ALBUMS FEATURING SOLO STRING INSTRUMENTS IN BRIEF of playing Bach’s works, he wanted to put has also included two of his most frequent a new spin on it – here, Schmid performs encores, Milstein’s Paganiniana and the improvisations on Bach. As the composer classic Devil’s Trill Sonata by Tartini. Two Works for Solo Cello by Esa-Pekka Salonen (b. 1958) & Kajia Saariaho (b. 1952) / himself was a master of improvisation, it’s renowned pianists join him for this release, Wilhelmina Smith, cello reasonable to assume he would look upon Lisa Smirnova and Ariane Haering. this project with delight. 1CD# OEH 1893 $14.99 An artist of sensitive insight and dazzling versatility, cellist Wilhelmina Smith presents works by two modern 1CD# OEH 1892 $14.99 Songs of the Cello – Homage to Pablo Casals / Finnish composers. Both composers utilize extended techniques to exploit the outer reaches of the instrument. 1CD# OND 1294 $16.99 Taeguk Mun, cello; Chi Ho Han, piano 20th Century Classics / Mischa Maisky, cello; Lily Maisky, piano [2 CDs] For his debut album, cellist Taeguk Mun Mozart: Divertimento for string trio, K.563; Alfred Schnittke: String Trio / Lubotsky Trio has chosen a program of well-known cello This release is a joint effort between father, While the two works on this release were born out of entirely different times, the pieces have much in common. cellist Mischa Maisky and daughter, pianist compositions. The disc opens with Bach’s Both boast bold innovation, both showcase versatility, and both have a deeply personal touch. Suite for Solo Cello No. 1, followed by Lily Maisky. Together, the take the listener Beethoven’s Sonata for Cello and Piano on a fascinating journey through some of 1CD# MELY 1002566 $18.99 in A Major, where Mun is joined by pianist the 20th-century’s most captivating cello Chi Ho Han. The album concludes with repertoire. Works include pieces by Britten, short pieces by Schumann, Schubert, Bloch, Bartók, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Salut D’Amour – Works for Violin & Piano / Sueye Park, violin; Love Derwinger, piano Prokofiev, Piazzolla, Webern, and Rubinstein, and Pablo Casals. “...the From virtuosic fireworks to sensitive adagios, Sueye Park is joined by pianist Love Derwinger for this recital reveals two highly accomplished Messiaen. In addition, a bonus CD is and sensitive musicians...” – BBC Music included wherein Mischa presents the varied program of compositions from Elgar, Kreisler, Dvořák, Milstein, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Falla, Grasse, Magazine world premiere recording of a cello Ernst, and Brahms. 1CD# WRNC M633134 $24.99 concerto by Benjamin Yusopov. 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# BIS 2382 $17.99 2CD# UNML B003107202 $26.99 French Music for String Orchestra / Ciconia Consort Brahms Alliance – Brahms: Sonatas Op. 120/1 & 2; Clara Schumann: Romances, Op. 22 / Rumen Cvetkov, viola; Ludmil Angelov, piano Dutch ensemble Ciconia Consort is a group of 20 or so young musicians led by Dick van Gasteren. American Record Guide wrote of this recording: “Their playing here is exemplary, with good ensemble and tone quality. Their discipline The project Brahms Alliance is inspired by the legendary friendship between the composers Johannes Brahms shows in their rhythmic precision...” The program they have chosen is French, and includes works from Jacques and Clara Schumann. The program is supplemented by Pauline Viardot’s 6 Pieces for Violin and Piano in its Castérède (1926–2014), Charles Koechlin (1867–1950), Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), Guillaume Lekeu (1870– version for viola. 1894), and Arthur Honegger (1892–1955). 1CD# GEG 390 $16.99 1CD# BLC 95734 $13.99 42 43 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com NEW RELEASES - STRINGS NEW RELEASES - STAGE & SCREEN Music for Solo Strings or Ensembles Music from Broadway & The Movies New from Deutsche Grammophon Motion Picture Soundtracks

My Double Bass – Music for Double Bass by Bottesini, Piazzolla, Rota / Ödön Great Classic Film Music / Iain Sutherland; Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra Rácz, double bass This fine collection of arguably the Greatest Film Music ever written brings together on one album music from Proving that the double bass is more than just a background instrument, Ödön Rácz presents his new album My some of the most memorable films ever made. This album looks back to the heyday of Hollywood, with scores Double Bass, which capitalizes on the instrument’s strength and versatility with this program of works by Bottesini, by Max Steiner from Gone With the Wind and the undisputed Master of the genre, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, with Piazzolla, and Rota. Racz is joined by American violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley who is the present concertmaster music from The Adventures of Robin Hood and the weepie Escape Me Never. All in all, this SOMM release should of the Berlin Philharmonic, along with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra led by Speranza Scappucci. form part of any collection, conducted by the great Scottish-born Maestro Iain Sutherland. 1CD# DGG B002963502 $18.99 1CD# SOMM 5006 $18.99

Reflections / Anoushka Shankar, sitar Thomas Newman: Tolkien, original motion picture soundtrack For this release, GRAMMY® nominated artist Anoushka Shankar has gathered together her favorite tracks from Thomas Newman recorded his score for the upcoming biographical drama Tolkien. The film is directed by Dome her prior albums such as Land of Gold, Traces of You, and Rise to create this new, personally curated program. Karukoski (Tom of Finland) and stars Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Tom Glynn-Carney, Craig Roberts and Colm She collaborates with important musical influences in her life, including her father Ravi Shankar and her sister Meaney. The movie tells the story of author J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Ringsbooks, as he finds Norah Jones, creating a personal statement of musical identity that will be enjoyed by long time fans and friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school and serves as a British soldier in newcomers alike. World War I. David Gleeson and Stephen Beresford (Pride) wrote the screenplay. 1CD# DGG B002976802 $23.99 1CD# SNYI 19075941982 $14.99

MARI – Works for Violin & Orchestra / Mari Samuelsen, violin; Christian Volker Bertelmann (b. 1966): Hotel Mumbai, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Badzura; Konzerthausorchester Berlin [2 CDs] Volker Bertelmann is better known by the name, Hauschka, under which the German pianist and composer who Norwegian virtuoso violinist Mari Samuelsen makes her debut here on Deutsche Grammophon as the first female has released more than a dozen contemporary classical albums. More recently he has made a name for himself violinist on the label’s New Repertoire roster. For this self-titled release, she has chosen pieces by Max Richter, in the world of film, most notably for the Oscar nominated film, Lion. Hotel Mumbai is about the harrowing 2008 Johann Johannsson, Peter Gregson, Philip Glass, Arvo Part, and more. Whether you are looking for an album terrorist siege at the world-famous Taj hotel, in Mumbai. The film stars Dev Patel, (Slumdog Millionaire, Lion), and for active listening or quiet contemplation, MARI covers all bases, showcasing incredible technical ability and Armie Hammer, (The Social Network, Call Me By Your Name). breathtaking sensitivity. 1CD# VSD 00101 $14.99 2CD# DGG B003017202 $26.99

Max Richter: My Brilliant Friend, Series Soundtrack / Federico Albanese (b. 1982): The Twelve, original Northern Lights / Felix Froschhammer, violin; Quartets with Double Bass, Vol. 2 / Niek de Max Richter, piano motion picture soundtrack / Federico Albanese Julia Froschhammer, piano Groot, double bass A friendship that defined a lifetime. When the The Twelve is a soundtrack, but it also is an Greatly influenced by folk music of different Entertaining, effortlessly enjoyable and most important friend in her life seems to have album very much in its own right, with tracks regions in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, beautifully performed. So wrote Gramophone disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a that stand on their own, “It tells the story of Scandinavian composers of the 19th century of the first volume in this series by Finnish trio now-elderly woman immersed in a house full [..] twelve people even without you seeing sought to create their own unique style and violinist Minna Pensola, violist Antti Tikkanen of books, turns on her computer and starts the film” explains Federico Albanese. The incorporate it into European music. This and cellist Tuomas Lehto. For the second writing the story of the lifelong friendship and pieces invoke feelings of meditation and unique sound is heard on the present release, volume, the trio completes two sets of string conflicts with a girl she met at primary school anticipation that convey a wonderful sense which includes compositions by Edvard quartets: the four Solo Quartets by Franz Anton in Naples during the early 1950s. Based on of storytelling, and hearing about Albanese’s Grieg, Tor Aulin, and Jean Sibelius, as well Hoffmeister and the six String Sonatas by the international bestselling novel by Elena inspiration for these only strengthens their as arrangements of folk songs. Founded in Gioachino Rossini. Both sets are unique in that Ferrante, Max Richter is the composer for the narrative. Being simultaneously able to adapt 1998, Duo Froschhammer is siblings Felix they include a part for double bass. Here, the soundtrack for the HBO show presented on this to the collaborative efforts of filmmaking while Froschhammer, violin and Julia Froschhammer, role is filled by Niek de Groot. Deutsche Grammophon CD. following his own internal creative process, piano. 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# BIS 2318 $17.99 1CD# DGG B003029502 $26.99 his album demonstrates the added value of 1CD# SOLO 314 $18.99 organic partnerships between artists. Music for viola and piano ‘Elles’ / Marina Thibeault, Zdeněk Liška: Marketa Lazarová, music from the 1CD# EDLB 0301211 $18.99 Jalbert: Violin Concerto; Bach: Violin viola; Marie-Ève Scarfone, piano motion picture / Martinů Voices; Baborak Ensemble Concerto; Pärt: Fratres; Vasks: Lonely Angel / Pure Imagination – Great Songs from the Stage & Two exceptional female musicians have [2 CDs] Margaret Batjer, violin Screen / Richard Glazier, piano chosen here a program of compositions Zdeněk Liška’s music for the feature film In this program of concertante violin works, by exceptional female composers. Violist “Marketa Lazarová” represents the height Richard Glazier has specialized in the music violinist Margaret Batjer and the Los Angeles Marina Thibeault and pianist Marie-Ève of the legendary composer’s legacy. The of The Great American Songbook throughout Chamber Orchestra cross distances of time Scarfone beautifully interpret these works work was performed as a 90-minute oratorio his career. Here he plays a wonderful program and space. A 20th-century work by American for viola solo and viola and piano. Boasting created by Petr Ostrouchov on the basis of of music from stage and screen. Glazier composer Pierre Jalbert (b. 1967) opens the prizes from the Pere-Lindsay Foundation and the authorial manuscript, retaining the original makes this music live and breathe a way few disc, followed by a concerto by Bach. We then Revelation Radio-Canada, Marina Thibeault orchestration. The performance featured are able to do. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, travel back to modern day with a composition is known across the globe for her sensitive vocal soloists Katerina Knežíková and Josef Glazier began studying piano when he was 6 by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt (b. 1935), and interpretations. Included are works by Clara Moravec and the ensembles Martinů Voices, years old. He earned his Bachelor and Master finally we close with Lonely Angel by Latvian Schumann, Nadia Boulanger, Fanny Hensel, conducted by Lukáš Vasilek, and Baborák degrees in Piano Performance from Indiana composer Pēteris Vasks (b. 1946). Rebecca Clarke and Lillian Fuchs. Ensemble, conducted by Radek Baborák. The University School of Music and a Doctorate 1CD# ATMA 22772 $16.99 of Musical Arts from the Cleveland Institute 1Super Audio Hybrid CD# BIS 2309 $17.99 production met with high critical acclaim and an enthusiastic response from the audience. of Music. Beethoven Plus Volume II / Krysia Osostowicz, violin; 2CD# ANML 071 $29.99 1CD# CEN 3716 $16.99 Daniel Tong, piano [2 CDs] The Protecting Veil / Matthew Barley, cello Violinist Krysia Osostowicz and pianist Daniel BROADWAY & ORIGINAL CAST RECORDINGS IN BRIEF Above the opening notes of The Protecting Tong reunite here to conclude their ambitious Veil, composer John Tavener writes that Beethoven Plus project, which saw the they should be played “Transcendent With duo commission ten leading contemporary Annie: Original 1977 Broadway Cast / Various artists Awesome Majesty.” Matthew Barley does just composers to write companion pieces for Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, based upon the book by this, magnificently interpreting the work that Beethoven’s seminal set of 10 Violin Sonatas. Thomas Meehan and with music by Charles Strouse. 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This CD offers the most complete recording of the show available. With numerous prizes and two GRAMMY® nominations under her belt, Maria Kliegel is one of the most sought-after cellists of our 1CD# SNYI 88985334092 $14.99 time. With her long time piano partner Oliver Triendl, Maria presents this release as a personal compilation of exciting music for cello and piano. She calls the program a “musical journey,” a lineup of shimmering gems that are at the same time full of passion Cabaret: Original 1968 London Cast / Judi Dench; Lila Kedrova; et al and darkness. The recital features compositions from Connesson, Poulenc, Debussy, de Falla, Granados, and Cassadó. 1CD# GUIN 19634 $18.99 The phenomenal success of ‘Cabaret’ on Broadway after its opening on November 20, 1966 was certain to translate into a much-acclaimed London production when it debuted at the Palace Theatre on February 28, 1968. 1CD# SNYI 97489 $17.99

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