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Hello everybody,

Starting October Outhere Music will do the honour to distribute our label in the Benelux.

Then we would like to introduce you briefly Bonsaï Music.

Bonsaï Music takes its first steps in 2004 in the music industry and has been quickly catalogued as a “Jazz record label”.

However this image is a little simplistic because we believe that “Jazz” is more a musical philosophy than a specific musical genre.

For thirteen years our work consisted in reconciling jazz and popular music and then promote and release Artists albums that can be enjoyed by jazz fans and lay people with this musical genre.

The characteristics that most defines Bonsaï Music is our constant search of melody and/or great voices.

Our catalog includes about fifty elegant albums recorded with splendid Artists such as Ben Sidran, Leo Sidran, Enrico Pieranunzi, André Ceccarelli, Chrystel Wautier, Matthieu Boré, Olivier Ker Ourio, Christophe Wallemme, Musica Nuda…

In the great majority of cases those album have been awarded by the French Jazz Radio & Press (Selection FIP, Must TSF…)

Most of our albums are illustrated by videos that you can see on our YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/BONSAIMUSIC

Pierre Darmon

6 classical releases 8 VIVALDI - The Concertos For Recorder Stefan Temmingh - Capricornus Consort Basel

Stefan Temmingh is a member of the new young generation of world-class recorder players. Born in Cape Town, he comes from a Dutch-South-African family of musicians and now lives in Munich. Being an early music specialist, he plays internationally with his baroque ensemble at renowned festivals and concert series, and can also be heard as a member of ensembles of all sizes in ACC24332 Europe, Asia and Africa. His fine playing is regularly compared to the style of 1 CD - 68’40 the legendary Frans Brüggen. PPD : 12,95€ On this collaboration with the Capricornus Consort Basel, he makes use of his wide array of technical and musical resources to render a reference version of Vivaldi’s Recorder Concertos.

also available: ACC 24315 J. A. Hasse/J. S. Bach – BACHASSE Stefan Temmingh/Benno Schachtner/The Gentleman’s Band

PURCELL - DOWLAND & HUME - Clear Or Cloudy Benno Schachtner - Axel Wolf - Jakob D.Rattinger - Andreas Küppers

The countertenor Benno Schachtner is widely regarded as one of the most promising singers in his field. With a special focus on music of the German Baroque period, he is much in demand as a soloist with some of the best ensembles committed to historic performance practice. Conductors such as René Jacobs or Christoph Spering regularly enjoy working with him. ACC24333 For this English program of songs by Dowland, Purcell, Johnson and Blow, 1 CD - 59’04 Schachtner teams up with a small instrumental ensemble which provides an PPD : 12,95€ exquisite instrumental background to the rising star’s fine singing.

also available: ACC 24315 J. A. Hasse/J. S. Bach – BACHASSE Stefan Temmingh/Benno Schachtner/The Gentleman’s Band

HANDEL- Lotario Festspiel Orchester Göttingen / Laurence Cummings - Sophie Rennert - Marie Lys - Ursula von den Steinen The king is dead! Berengario and Matilde are determined to seize power over Italy at all costs. To this end, they intend their son Idelberto to marry the newly widowed Adelaide. But the proud monarch has long since summoned Lotario, the noble German king, to her aid. The struggle for power begins... The Göttingen Handel Festival continues its close collaboration with the Accent ACC26408 label, which has already yielded great recordings of works like Siroé, 3 CD - 3H07 Faramondo, Joshua, Susanna or Agrippina. The addition to the series of this PPD : 29,00€ May 2017 recording of Lotario is without doubt a very welcome one for all Handel lovers.

also available: ACC 26407 George Frideric Handel – WATER MUSIC HWV 348-350 Laurence Cummings/FestspielOrchester Göttingen 9 SCIARRINO - CARTER - NUNES - BOULEZ - Caprices Irvine Arditti

Over and above his legendary career as leader of the Arditti Quartet, Irvine Arditti has worked on many solo projects and is still today one of the foremost interpreters of the music of our time. Over the past decade he has given the world premieres of a whole host of large-scale works written especially for him. His approach to the contemporary violin is fascinating. The works by Salvatore Sciarrino, Elliott Carter, AECD1755 Emmanuel Nunes and Pierre Boulez assembled in this album are among the most 1 CD - 56’05 widely known in the recent repertory for violin, both on account of the transcendental PPD : 12,95€ character of the pieces themselves and the impetus they have given the instrument’s technique, but also and above all because of the accomplishment manifest in the variety of their modes of expression. Irvine Arditti’s performance of them on this disc is masterly and already sets a benchmark.

HANDEL - Messiah 1754 Piau - Watson - Pichanick - Charlesworth - Wolf - Le Concert Spirituel Hervé Niquet Why yet another Messiah? ‘I went through the different scores that exist and decided on the very interesting 1754 version, which features five soloists. You must remember that, when Handel arrived somewhere to perform his oratorio, he had soloists of varying standards available to him. So he quickly revised his score accordingly... All this is directly related to the reality of Handel’s ALPHA362 situation as a concert promoter. In those days, to earn a living from his music, 2 CD+BOOK - 116’22 a composer absolutely had to get his works performed and make a profit on the SPECIAL PRICE evening. The idea of not retouching a work to avoid “spoiling” or “distorting” it PPD : 15,00€ is a much more modern one. There must be around a dozen versions of Messiah (I won’t list them all). The 1754 version is rarely played because it calls for five soloists: two sopranos, alto, tenor and bass... I’ve opted here for an operatic interpretation, taking its cue from the drama inherent in this account of the life of Christ.’ (Hervé Niquet)

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10 SCHUBERT - Arpeggione Sonata & Trio No.2

Marie-Elisabeth Hecker - Antje Weithaas - Martin Helmchen

ALPHA284 1 CD - 73’24 PPD : 12,95

Following a first recording on Alpha devoted to Brahms which garnered much praise – ‘real duo playing’ said Gramophone, while Classica discerned ‘shared music making . . . a world full of nuances and subtlety, boundless sonic imagination (Marie-Elisabeth Hecker), playing of rare intelligence (Martin Helmchen)’ and awarded the disc a ‘Choc’ – the duo is reunited. In the latter, the duo is joined by an eminent musician with whom they enjoy playing, Antje Weithaas, ‘one of the great violinists of our time’ (Fonoforum) .

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11 VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Anime Amanti Roberta Mameli - Luca Pianca A voice, a lute, a sigh. Nothing could be simpler and more immemorial. This expression of sentiments and emotions, of the intermittencies of the heart and the shadows of the soul, is of course as old as the world. Yet it was truly a reconquest of the Renaissance. With Caccini, the ‘new music’ at once found a miraculous melodist. He composed a Euridice, performed in 1602, two years after Jacopo Peri’s setting and five years before Monteverdi’s Orfeo. The Renaissance did not know opera, but long ALPHA291 secreted that genre soon to be born. And it is brand-new opera that opens and closes 1 CD - 68’16 this recording, through the voice of its first visionary, Claudio Monteverdi. The Italian soprano Roberta Mameli is a great lover of this music, which she performs PPD : 12,95€ with an outstanding feeling for words and drama. Luca Pianca offers her his artistry and his great experience. Roberta Mameli is joining Alpha for several recordings, which will guide us towards other rarities and other periods..

DEBUSSY - RAVEL - CHAUSSON - String Quartets Quatuor Van Kuijk - Kate Lindsey - Alphonse Cemin

The first disc of the quartet founded by Nicolas Van Kuijk, a programme of Mozart, was awarded a ‘Choc de Classica’ and ‘Diapason Découverte’. Now they return to their roots with key works from the French repertory: the single quartets of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy and the Chanson perpétuelle of Ernest Chausson, in which they are accompanied by the mezzosoprano Kate ALPHA295 Lindsey, who recently joined Alpha, and the pianist Alphonse Cemin, also 1CD - 64’58 well-known on the label. PPD : 12,95€ The Quatuor Van Kuijk gives these works all their youthful impetuosity. The quartet is already a BBC New Generation Artist, having won First Prize and the Haydn and Beethoven Prizes at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, and First Prize and the Audience Prize at the Trondheim International String Quartet Competition. It has just joined the roster of ECHO Rising Star artists for the 2017-18 season.

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12 BEETHOVEN - LISZT - Complete Symphonies Yuri Martynov

ALPHA374 6CD - 363’14 PPD : 21,00€

This set brings together the five separate discs containing Franz Liszt’s transcriptions of Beethoven’s nine symphonies performed by the pianist Yury Martynov. Reducing these complex works for piano solo was an enormous challenge for Liszt, who nevertheless succeeded in recreating their prodigious character and their incredible power. ‘An event on a period piano, thanks to which we rediscover the colours... of the orchestra’ (Pianiste): the piano combines the whole orchestra, sometimes even with vocal soloists and chorus, bringing their voices together in a single instrument. The energy and the textures of the symphonies are laid bare and magnified in the interpretation of Yury Martynov on a Blüthner piano dating from 1867 and an Érard piano of 1837, both from the collection of Edwin Beunk: the ussian pianist reveals ‘details usually obscured in orchestral performances, which come to light thanks to his meticulous phrasing and colouring of every bar’ (The Guardian).

TELEMANN - Quatuors Parisiens

NEVERMIND

After their first recording on Alpha, ‘Conversations’, featuring rarely heard pieces by Quentin and Guillemain, Anna Besson (flute), Louis Creac’h (violin), Robin Pharo (viola da gamba) and Jean Rondeau (harpsichord) continue to introduce the public to the riches of a repertory that has been too long ignored, with this recording of Georg Philipp Telemann’s ALPHA299 Nouveaux Quatuors parisiens. 1 CD - 64’08 At the height of his glory, the German composer left Hamburg in 1737 to PPD : 12,95€ spend time in Paris and appreciate the city’s vibrant musical life. There he composed a new set of quartets that came to be called the ‘Paris Quartets’ and in which he celebrated the union of the European styles of his time, at the zenith of the Baroque. The four musicians and friends of Nevermind pursue their exuberant conversation, as virtuosic and eloquent as ever.

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13 BACH - RAVEL - FAURÉ - TCHAIKOVSKY - KHATCHATURIAN Aïrés Airelle Besson - Edouard Ferlet - Stéphane Kerecki

ALPHA298 1 CD - 61’22 PPD : 12,95€

Édouard Ferlet has already explored intriguing byways for the Alpha label: in 2015 he and Violaine Cochard recorded ‘Plucked Unplucked’, an album associating piano and harpsichord.The bassist Stéphane Kerecki has already made several recordings for Outhere, including ‘Nouvelle Vague’, a prizewinner at the Victoires de la Musique. The career of the trumpet player Airelle Besson has been on a high since 2015, when she won both the Prix Django Reinhardt of the Académie du Jazz and the ‘Révélation’ Award at the Victoires du Jazz. These three jazz musicians met and decided to form a trio in order to combine their universes and their ambitions. Here is the fruit of their first year of companionship, an album wearing the colours of jazz but featuring several tracks directly inspired by great standards of the classical repertoire.

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ALPHA229 ZZT110402 OTN017 OTN021 1CD - PPD : 12,95€ 1CD - PPD : 12,95€ 1CD - PPD : 12,95€ 1CD - PPD : 12,95€

14 CHOPIN - Nocturnes Nelson Goerner

ALPHA359 2CD - 108’07 PPD : 17,50€

Sophisticated colourist and cerebral virtuoso though he is, Nelson Goerner nevertheless brings out the moments of weakness, the hesitations, the lightning passions in the labyrinth of Chopin’, wrote Diapason on the release of the Preludes in 2015 (Diapason d’Or, Choc de Classica). ‘Serenity’, ‘balance’, ‘clarity’, ‘phrasing’ are the key words that recur in reviews of the discs and concerts of the Argentine pianist, whose fifth solo release on Alpha this is. His latest venture is a complete recording of the Nocturnes, a highpoint of Chopinesque poetry. These twenty-one miniatures accompanied Chopin over a good part of his life, for he composed them between 1827 and 1848. They are tributes to Italian bel canto, expressing reveries but also complexity of feeling and a profundity that far transcends their apparent simplicity. Nelson Goerner’s feeling for melody and tempo works wonders in these pieces, which he recorded in the ideal surroundings of the Salle de Musique of La Chaux de Fonds (Switzerland).

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15 STRADELLA - Lagrime E Sospiri

Chantal Santon Jeffery - Galilei Consort / Benjamin Chénier

The life of Stradella, murdered on a Genoese piazza at the age of forty-two on the orders of a jealous rival in love, has achieved mythical status and inspired several novels and operas featuring Stradella the adventurer, the rebel and above all Stradella the Don Juan, whose amorous escapades, from abducting a novice from a convent in Florence to a ight across Italy with the high-born ancée of a senator, were never a hindrance to ALPHA 297 his ourishing musical career. 1CD - 58’05 From the demonic Salome to Ariadne, the model wife turned into a Fury by despair; from PPD : 12,95€ Pelagia, the repentant sinner who ends her days living in a cave disguised as a man, to Susanna, the very image of innocence and purity, this programme presents a series of portraits of women whom Chantal Santon embodies in their turn with all her artistry, her intimate knowledge of this repertory and her sense of theatre.

GERSHWIN- Gershwin Claron MCFadden - Bart Van Caenegem Anima Eterna Brugge / Jos Van Immerseel George Gershwin composed his Rhapsody in Blue in 1924. In the same year, he launched his collaboration with his brother Ira, which produced countless songs. He never achieved his ambition of studying with Maurice Ravel, but was always enthralled by the symphonic poem and the concerto. His masterpieces, such as An American in Paris and the opera Porgy and Bess, greatly enriched ALPHA289 the American musical heritage. 1 CD - 86’12 PPD : 12.95 Jos van Immerseel has always been fascinated by Gershwin, but it was the appearance of a new edition of the scores that prompted the pianist and conductor to record this extensive homage. Thanks to the very latest research undertaken by the University of Michigan, the Library of Congress and the Gershwin Estate, he and his companions in Anima Eterna have got closer than ever before to the composer’s intentions, making use of the appropriate ALSO AVAILABLE instruments.

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16 VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Les Maîtres Du Baroque

Various artists

This box gives you a chance to admire some of the most glittering jewels left to us by the Baroque era. Its fifteen discs outline an exciting panorama of musical Europe during that period, an inspired heritage performed by the finest soloists and ensembles: Vivaldi’s Gloria by Le Concert Spirituel and Hervé Niquet and his Four Seasons by Gli Incogniti and Amandine Beyer; Bach’s B minor Mass by ALPHA 372 Pygmalion and Raphaël Pichon, the Solo Cello Suites by Bruno Cocset, the 18CD - 19h07 Brandenburg Concertos by Café Zimmermann and the Goldberg Variations by Céline PPD : 30,00€ Frisch; Charpentier’s Te Deum by Le Poème Harmonique and Vincent Dumestre; Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas by MusicAeterna and Teodor Currentzis; Rameau harpsichord pieces by Blandine Rannou; Albinoni sonatas by Ensemble 415 and Chiara Banchini; and much else. A veritable treasure trove containing the indispensable works of the Baroque by today’s available on october 19 leading artists.

CANADA’S NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE ORCHESTRA Alexander Shelley

Life Reflected Life Reflected is a stunningly original live experience: a celebration of youth, promise and courage, revealed in the compelling and diverse portraits of four exceptional Canadian women: Alice Munro, Amanda Todd, Roberta Bondar and Rita Joe. Alexander Shelley, Music Director of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, brought together four remarkable Canadiancomposers to collaborate with Creative Producer and Director, Donna Feore, and an ensemble of extraordinary performers to create this unique symphonic AN288702 experience. 1CD - 86’12 “It’s must-hear, moving, new Canadian music that caps a PPD : 12,95€ strikingly diverse larger work”– Ottawa Citizen “One of the most interesting Canadian symphonic endeavours”– The Globe and Mail

Encount3rs

Encount3rs is an unprecedented project, event and recording which has resulted in remarkable new one-act ballets and original orchestral scores. This new album consists of the music from this landmark NAC commission which pairs three of Canada’s outstanding choreographic talents with three of the country’s most exciting composers. Alberta Ballet’s eminent and prolific Jean Grand-Maître joined forces with multiple award-winning new music visionaryAndrew Staniland; Ballet BC’s trail-blazing Emily Molnar met her AN288712 musical match with innovative composer Nicole Lizée; and Guillaume Côté, 2CD - PPD : 17,50€ gifted dancer and choreographic associate with the National Ballet of Canada, was perfectly paired with noted emerging composer Kevin Lau.

17 MAX RICHTER - Portrait

Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà Analekta is very proud to announce the release of Portrait: Max Richter by Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà. “I devote my new Portrait album to Max Richter and his impressive body of powerful and original works. I have selected sixteen works with his unique signature, which I revisit here with my violin and my orchestra, La Pietà.” - Angèle Dubeau O.C., C.Q., AN28745 DFA 1CD Max Richter is one of the most influential composers of his generation. PPD : 12,95€ Inspired by Bach, punk rock and ambient electronic music, he has composed works for more than 50 films, including Waltz for Bashir, Shutter Island by Martin Scorcese and Arrival by Denis Villeneuve, as well as HBO’s The Leftovers television series.

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MATHIEU - Concerto No.3 / GERSHWIN - An American In Paris Alain Lefèvre - Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / Joann Falletta

This new album by the great pianist and composer Alain Lefèvre unveils the results of three years of hard work by Jacques Marchand, GeorgeNicholson and Alain Lefèvre aimed at restoring André Mathieu’s famous Concerto No. 3. Presented as a world premiere in February 2017 in Buffalo, the reconstituted concerto was enthusiastically received by the audience. AN29299 It was in the fall of 1942, 75 years ago, that young Québec prodigy André Mathieu, 1CD just 13 years old and at the peak of his glory, began writing his Concerto No. 3, PPD : 12,95€ which he would finish the following summer. In 2008, George Nicholson discovered the original score of André Mathieu’s Concerto No. 3 written in the Québec composer’s own hand. The differences, which were noteworthy, between this original score and the Concerto de Québec, the well-known, modified, version of the work, were the starting point for an enormous undertaking aimed at restoring this masterwork of Mathieu’s.

18 VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Anthology Luc Beauséjour To celebrate his long and fruitful partnership with the Analekta recording label, the great harpsichordist and organist Luc Beauséjour delves into his recordings from the past 25 years and proposes three excellent programs. 1 – THE HARPSICHORD Works by Couperin, Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Rameau, and Bach organ music on pedal harpsichord. 2 – THE VOICE Featuring Julie Boulianne, Karina Gauvin, Philippe Sly, Shannon AN291568 Mercer, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux in excerpts from operas, cantatas, and sacred 3CD - PPD : 19,80€ works with Clavecin en concert. 3 – CHAMBER AND ORGAN MUSIC Bach with James Ehnes, Couperin and Rameau with Clavecin en concert, and organ works.

IBERT - RENIÉ - HALVORSEN - SCHUBERT - Trios For Harp

Valérie Milot - Stéphane Tétreault - Antoine Bareil

Valérie Milot, Stéphane Tétrault and Antoine Bareil, three young and well established musicians, are collaborating for the first time to carry out a major recording project. Focused primarily on French music from the first half of the 20th century, this CD reveals the subtle blend of sonorities formed by the harp, AN29888 cello, and violin through the major works by Jacques Ibert and Henriette Renié. 1 CD The trio also performs a dazzling, encore-worthy Passacaglia for violin and cello PPD : 12.95 by Handel/Halvorsen and a sweet, introspective finale in the form of a transcrip- tion of a Schubert lied.

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GIOVANNI CROCE - Motetti & Cantiones Sacrae Voce Suaves - Francesco Saverio Pedrini - Concerto Scirocco / Giulia Genini

One of the most talented singers of the new generation brings to light four gems for soprano and orchestra belonging to the great eighteenth -century tradition of Neapoltan sacred music. The three composers are representative of as many generations of an industrious dynasty: Francesco Feo (1691-1761) was the uncle of Gennaro Manna (1715-79), who A439 in turn was the uncle of Gaetano (1751-1804). 1 CD - 52’19 Comparison between their scores allows us to observe the extraordinary development PPD : 12,95€ from the austerity of the late Baroque to the elegance of the galant style. The short and bright Gloria by Gennaro Manna crowns the programme, symbolising the final achievement of a dimension of redemption and eternal salvation. 19 VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Dresden Zefiro / Alfredo Bernardini

A438 1 CD - 77’52 PPD : 12,95€

An ensemble selected from the excellent Capelle of Friedrich August I in Dresden, the Cam- mer-Musique and its leader, the phenomenal oboist Johann Christian Richter, inspired some of the leading German composers and Italian guests at the court around 1720 to write sonatas in which oboes and bassoon are challenged with extremely expressive and virtuosic parts. This was the time and place in which the largest amount of impressive music with oboe and bassoon as soloists in history was written. German composers such as Heinichen, Zelenka (to be heard by Zefiro on ARCANA A 394), Fasch and Quantz wrote these pieces in the Italian style, with the typical alternation between singing adagios and brilliant allegros. Telemann composed a sonata with ornamentation and affects inspired by the French style. Lotti, who resided in Dres- den between 1717 and 1719, also noticed the outs- tanding skills of the court’s wind players and wrote his only solo pieces for these instruments there. Vivaldi met Richter during the latter’s visit to Venice in 1716, when he accompanied the Elector to the city, and he too dedicated some remarkable oboe and bassoon solos to the German musician. ALSO AVAILABLE

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20 JOHANN MATTHESON - 12 Suites For Harpsichord

Gilbert Rowland

Gilbert Rowland is one of Europe’s most senior and accomplished exponents of the harpsichord. For this album he moves to the Athene imprint specialising now in baroque music and ‘period’ instruments. This 3-CD set presents the 12 Suites in full, uncut and with repeats observed. The tempi have not been speeded up in order to fit the program on two discs ATH23301 as has happened elsewhere. 3 CD - 74’24 Mattheson was a prodigious composer, conductor and was a friend of Handel, PPD : 24,00€ though the two did come to blows in the midst of an opera performance. His work follows the traditional ‘dance suite’ format with small variations and is a fine example of excellent baroque music which was not perhaps promoted enough in its own time and is only now once again being rediscovered and appreciated.

AT THE BOLSHOI

TCHAIKOVSKY - AUBER The Art Of David Hallberg At The Bolshoi A tribute to the art of David Hallberg, the first main American soloist ever to be hired by the Bolshoi Ballet, featuring The Sleeping Beauty (where he performs alongside Sveltana Zakharova & Maria Allash) and Marco Spada (with Evguenia Obtraztsova). All performances were recorded at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Moscow.

BAC618 BAC617 2BLU-RAY PPD : 29,50€ 2DVD PPD : 26,50€

TCHAIKOVSKY - MINKUS - PUGNI The Art Of Svetlana Zakharova At The Bolshoi

A tribute to the art and the elegance of Svetlana Zakharova, « prima ballerina assoluta » and queen of the Bolshoi Ballet, featuring Swan Lake (where she performs alongside Denis Rodkin & Artemy Belyakov), The Sleeping Beauty (with David Hallberg Maria & Allash), La Bayadère (with Vladislav Lantratov & Maria Alexandrova) and The Pharaoh’s Daughter (with Sergey Filin). All performances were recorded at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Moscow.

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21 AHO - Concerto For Soprano Saxophone - Quintet For Winds Anders Paulsson - Lapland Chamber Orchestra / John Storgårds

To date, Kalevi Aho has composed sixteen symphonies and twenty-eight concertos, several operas and a large number of chamber works – a rate of production which is all the more impressive considering the complexity and originality displayed by each new work. BIS2216 - 58’41 The orchestra and its artistic director John Storgårds have collaborated with 1SACD - PPD : 13,25€ the composer on several projects, and the Concerto for Soprano Saxophone is a commission from the orchestra, at the suggestion of the Swedish saxophonist Anders Paulsson. A specialist on the soprano saxophone, Paulsson also demonstrated the instrument’s capabilities to Aho as part of his preparations.

PAGANINI - 24 Caprices

Sueye Park

Born in 2000, the young Korean violinist Sueye Park has studied in Berlin since 2009. Her first encounter with Paganini was at the age of 11, when she performed the composer’s First Violin Concerto at the Komische Oper in Berlin, and she now makes her début on disc with this challenging programme. BIS2282 - 82’41 1SACD - PPD : 13,25€

DEBUSSY - BRIDGE - FAURÉ - WEBERN - The Cello In Wartime

Steven Isserlis - Connie Shih

As the centenaries of various events of the First World War are being commemorated, we are reminded of the great battles and the large-scale suffering. To imagine what day-to-day life may have been like in the trenches BIS2312 - 65’38 in Flanders is more difficult, however, 100 years later and with no living 1SACD - PPD : 13,25€ survivors of the war to bear witness. Poems and paintings can give us some idea – but, as this disc from Steven Isserlis proves, so can music! The main, more conventional section of the programme is a selection of cello works composed around the time of the war, by composers from three of the countries involved in it: France, Britain and Austria.

22 FRANCK - FAURÉ - PROKOFIEV - Sonatas

Sharon Bezaly - Vladimir Ashkenazy

The two sonatas by César Franck and Gabriel Fauré were composed with the violin in mind, and even though Prokofiev’s sonata was originally intended for the flute it is often heard in the composer’s own version for violin and piano. BIS2259 - 75’06 But joined by the legendary pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1 SACD - PPD : 13,25€ Sharon Bezaly now claims (and reclaims) the three works for her own instrument, in eloquent performances that make the best possible case for the flute.

MENDELSSOHN –Psalmen Johanna Winkel - Julian Prégardien - Krešimir Stražanac Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Howard Arman Mendelssohn himself considered “Wie der Hirsch schreit” («As pants the hart»), a multi-part, cantata-like setting of Psalm 42 for soprano, choir and orchestra, op. 42 (1837/38), to be the best work of this group. Also highly praised by Robert Schumann, it remains one of the composer’s most famous 900519 - 58’04 choral works to this day. For the newly-formed Berlin Cathedral Choir, he 1CD - PPD : 12,95€ also wrote a setting of Psalm 98 «Singet dem Herren ein neues Lied” (“Sing to the Lord a new-made song”) for soloists, choir and orchestra, op. 91, and in response to requests from London he composed «Hear my Prayer», a “hymn” based on Psalm 55 for soprano, choir and organ, which he later orchestrated.

VARIOUS COMPOSERS – Music For Strings Antoine Tamestit - Korbinian Altenberger - Tristan Cornut - Apollon Musagète Quartet - Armida Quartet - Quartet Amabile - Quatuor Ébène The highly varied programme on this CD includes compositions by Rodion Shchedrin, Nikolaus Brass, Wolfgang Rihm, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Erkki-Sven Tüür, David Sawer and Johannes Maria Staud in prizewinning interpretations by Korbinian Altenberger (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Tristan Cornut 900715 - 75’12 (violoncello), the Apollon Musagète Quartet, the Armida Quartet, the Quartet 1CD - PPD : 12,95 Amabile and the Quatuor Ébène. This is a representative cross-section of the current repertoire of contemporary music for strings, providing convincing proof of the high quality of musicianship among these young performers.

ROSSINI - Amor Fatale - Rossini Arias

Marina Rebeka The Latvian soprano has quite some experience with roles in Rossini, above all from his great tragic operas: the role of Anna Erisso from Maometto II, which she performed in 2008 at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, the composer’s birthplace, marked the very start of her career. She went on to attract international attention in 2009 when she debuted at the Salzburg Festival, as 900321 - 69’05 Anaï in Moïse et Pharaon. For her album she has worked through Rossini’s 1CD - PPD : 12,95€ original handwritten manuscripts and included this in her performance; she also developed her own coloratura, which not only suits her voice both musically and technically, but also best corresponds to the specific stage events and emotions encountered in her respective operatic roles. 23 BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS - GONG LINNA - Cloud River Mountain Bang On A Can All-Stars - Gong Linna

Co-composed by Lao Luo and Bang on a Can founders Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, Cloud River Mountain is an edgy cross-cultural collaboration between the Bang on a Can All-Stars and the extraordinary Chinese vocalist Gong Linna. Linna channels the otherworldly and experimental spirit of Björk with her ad- CA21133 venturous range, embracing Chinese folk, pop, and avant-garde art music with 1 CD - 32’35 a sure-footed con dence that transcends borders. On Cloud River Mountain, PPD : 11,50€ she sings in both Mandarin and English over the groove-driven melodies and lush soundscapes of the All-Stars, weaving ancient Chinese storytelling together with Western songwriting in a raucous musical mix. Inspired by the verses of classical Chinese poet Qu Yuan, these seven songs channel the mystical stories of the past and merge them with the churning, clanging sounds of the future.

ROBERT BLACK - Possessed Robert Black

Recorded and lmed among the arches, cliffs and otherworldly rock formations of the Moab Desert in Utah, Possessed documents one musician’s self- actualized journey toward musical discovery and enlightenment. Equipped with only his upright bass and an intrepid production crew, Robert Black ventured into Moab in the summer of 2013 with the specific goal of engaging the environment itself CA21134 in a duet, improvising his way toward a nished recording that perfectly captures the 1CD+DVD - 1H04 haunting majesty, mood and power of the American desert. PPD : 11,00€ “Listen closely and feel the music,” he encourages in the album’s liner notes. “The sound, the look, the feel -- it affects me. It gets inside my head, inside my body. My hands move, the bass sings, the landscape responds and directs the movements, controls the sound. The music comes...from I don’t know where. I close my eyes. I lose myself. I give in. I surrender. I am transported. I am...possessed.”

BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS - More Field Recordings Bang On A Can All-Stars

This is the second, and perhaps more meditative, installment in the Bang on Can All-Stars’ acclaimed commissioned composer series. Like its predecessor, More Field Recordings once again explores strange new terrain where found sound, samples and archival audio collide with contemporary classical music, written by a wide range of artists and performed by the All-Stars. CA21136 In keeping with the “ground rules” of the Field Recordings project, each 2CD - 1H16 composer was asked to go into the eld of recorded sound itself — to find PPD : 16,95€ something old or record something new, and to respond with their own music, in dialogue with what they found. Featuring new works by Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), Caroline Shaw, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Dan Deacon, Ben Frost and more, this two-disc set embraces the classical and electronic in uences of the first Field Recordings collection (released on Cantaloupe in 2015) and extends its reach into futuristic worlds of ambient and ethereal sound. 24 VICTOR BRUNS- Chamber Music For Woodwinds

Mathias Baier - Alexander Voigt - Berhold Große Sung Kwon You - Soloists Of Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

Victor Bruns was born in 1904 in Ollila, which now forms part of Finland. He wrote more than 20 solo concertos, 50 chamber pieces and several ballet scores. In 1924, he entered the Leningrad Conservatory to study bassoon; three years later, he was appointed bassoonist with the Leningrad State Opera. He served as C5327 bassoonist with the Staatskapelle Berlin from 1946 until his retirement in 1969. 2CD His works became frequently performed and proved popular with musicians and PPD : 15,50€ audience alike, far beyond the borders of the German Democratic Republic. In 1960, Bruns was awarded the Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic. In 1971, he was appointed an honorary member of the Berlin State Orchestra. Twenty years later the International Double Reed Society in the USA also made him an honorary member. ALSO AVAILABLE

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SCHUBERT - Winterreise Bo Skovhus - Stefan Vladar

Twenty years ago, Bo Skovhus made his first recording of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin (The Fair Maid of the Mill) as a young baritone at the outset of his career. Now an established interpreter of opera and Lieder, he presents the last of three new recordings of Schubert’s song cycles: “I’m very thankful to be able to do this again. As a young man you tend to not reflect C5291 as much. Now that I’m older, I understand the music more and more. Especially for 1CD this cycle, it’s important to have another point of view.” PPD : 11,50€ (Bo Skovhus) Skovhus’ accompanist is Stefan Vladar, the renowned Viennese pianist who casts the virtuosity of the piano part in a completely new light.

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25 MARTINŮ - The Symphonies

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra / Cornelius Meister Bohuslav Martinů was destined not to enjoy the same level of popularity and widespread appeal as his compatriots Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák and Leoš Janáček. Although his talents were recognised, most of his works have remained generally unfamiliar. Having avoided composing a symphony for many years, Martinů finally wrote his first in 1942 and then continued prolifically, writing one C5320 symphony every year until 1946, followed by a gap of seven years before 3CD composing his Sixth Symphony. The symphonies were composed during his time PPD : 15,50€ in the United States, so they are sometimes referred to as ‘American’ symphonies. However, while the works do in some measure reflect his experiences, they are generally devoid of any graphic representation of his life and times.

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VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Nostalgia

Daniel Behle - WDR Rundfunkchor Köln / Helmut Froschauer

Daniel Behle is one of today’s most versatile German tenors, equally at home with concert performances, lieder and opera. “The basic idea for this programme was originally a tribute to the golden age of the 1950s and 1960s, and to Fritz Wunderlich, who is my favourite singer from that C5317 period. Past times had their good aspects, even in music theatre. That’s the reason 1CD why I would like to revive the great ‘pearls’ again and introduce them to a younger PPD : 11,50€ audience.” (Daniel Behle)

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26 VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Choral Music For Christmas

Various Artists

“Choral Music for Christmas” presents the very best of Advent an Christmas choral music from the Carus catalog. Contemporary arrangements of popular Christmas carols by composers such as Fredo Jung and Giacomo Mezallira feature alongside works by well-known composers including Handel, Bach, Heinichen, and Mendelssohn Bartholdy. CAR83486 - 55’45 The performers, including the Calmus Ensemble, the Kammerchor 1CD PPD : 12,95€ Stuttgart conducted by Frieder Bernius, the Dresdner Kammerchor conducted by Hans- Christoph Rademann, and the ensemble L’arpa festante, guarantee an absolute choral treat.

KAY JOHANNSEN - Sunrise

Kay Johannsen - Julie Stewart - Stiftsphilharmonie Stuttgart / Mihhail Gerts

Kay Johannsen is a firmly established figure in Stuttgart musical life. His concert series “Bach:vokal” in the Stiftskirche – performances of the complete sacred works of J. S. Bach – enjoys recognition nationwide. Johannsen, however, is not only a successful conductor and church CAR83485 - 61’42 musician, he is also a productive and highly-regarded composer, as his 1 CD PPD : 12,95€ new CD “Sunrise” demonstrates. It includes works for organ solo and for organ and orchestra.

LIGETI- Requiem Gabriele Hierdis - Renée Morloc - Kammerchor Stuttgart Danubia Orchestra Óbuda / Frieder Bernius “For me György Ligeti is the most important composer of the second half of the 20th century” said the conductor Frieder Bernius about the composer who died in 2006. The underlying composition of the CD is a recording of the Requiem with the Kammerchor Stuttgart, recorded in early 2006, which Ligeti himself CAR83283 - 56’16 praised as being “an outstanding interpretation.” The Requiem is being 1CD PPD : 12,95€ issued for the first time together with Ligeti’s Lux aeterna which, so to speak, represents, with regard to its content, a “completion,” as Ligeti had not set this in his Requiem, even though it is the final sentence of said liturgical text.

VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Weihnachtslieder - Christmas Carols Of The World Various artists

Throughout the world Christmas is celebrated – and everywhere, singing Christmas carols is part of the celebrations. This limited special edition offers over 100 of the most beautiful German and international carols: For the first time, the «Weihnachtslieder» (German Christmas Carols) as well as the «Weihnachtslieder aus aller Welt» (Christmas Carols of the CAR83031 4CD PPD : 25,50€ World) of the prize-winning «LIEDERPROJEKT» are being issued together in a box set of 4 CDs. The “LIEDERPROJEKT” is a charity project produced by Carus and Southwest German Radio. For every box set sold, 2 EUR will be donated to projects which promote singing with children. 27 SCHÜTZ - Die Gesamteinspielung Box II

Dresdner Kammerchor / Hans-Christoph Rademann

The first part of the Heinrich Schütz Complete Recording with the Dresdner Kammerchor under Hans-Christoph Rademann has set new artistic and editorial standards. Now the second of three box sets is being released. It encompasses Volumes 9 to 14 of the Complete Recording, including the St John Passion. CAR83042 8CD PPD : 36,00€ This work, representative of the high standard of the whole series, was awarded the German Record Critics’ Award in 2016. Once again, top performers such as Hille Perl, Lee Santana, Dorothee Mields, Harry van der Kamp, and many others join the ensemble. ALSO AVAILABLE

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VIKTOR ULLMANN - DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH - SZYMON LAKS - Voices of Defiance Dover Quartet Voices of Defiance, the Dover Quartet’s second Cedille Records album, presents quartets of passion, hope, and resilience whose beauty defies the horrors that surrounded their crea on. “The young American string quartet of the moment” (The New Yorker) delivers an original, deeply felt program of three European composers’ CDR90000173 - 73’06 distincti ve responses to the destruc on and despair of World War II. 1 CD PPD : 10€ Winner of a 2017 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the rst prize and all special prizes awarded at the 2013 Ban Interna onal String Quartet Compe on, this “terri c quartet” (Na onal Post) brings its “con dent, sinewy playing of distinc ve sound and ample nuance” to this recording of profound 20th century masterworks.

BACH - Bach - anders

Joachim K.Schäfer - Die Dresner Bach-Solisten

The new CD of the trumpeter Joachim K. Schäfer focusses on Bach and Dresden. Bach, who never actually worked at Dresden, yet had a close relationship with the Dresden court, and was influenced by the local preference for the Italian style. Bach adapted concertos by Vivaldi and Marcello, which Schäfer again CHR77415 - 58’58 arranged for his Dresden Baroque Soloists. 1 CD PPD : 12,95€ They play Bach’s music in a chamber music formation, in which Schäfer can show his great skills as a trumpeter, converting his instrument into an equivalent partner to the

28 VARIOUS COMPOSERS - The Patriarch Choir

Moscow Patriarch Choir of Christ The Saviour Cathedral / Ilya Tolkachev

This documentary is dedicated to the Moscow Patriarch Choir of Christ the Saviour Cathedral and its director Ilya Tolkachev, rightly considered one of the best choirs of the Orthodox world. After over 130 years in existence, it continues the glorious traditions of church singing in Russia. The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow is the seat of Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Church, which was destroyed by the Stalin regime and rebuilt in the 1990s. It is itself a symbol CHR77416 for the tradition and the reinvigoration of the Russian Church. 1DVD PPD : 20€

PIERRE-ADRIEN CHARPY – Sillages

Pierre-Adrien Charpy

THE MUSIC BEHIND THE MUSIC / Monographic double album - Pierre-Adrien Charpy’s music is an organic multifaceted music, through which run visible strata and unsuspected crevices, enlivened by surface currents and subterranean flows. His way of composing is characterized by stratification, working the depths, renewing formal milestones, CYP2623 employing the resources of creative constraint. 2CD PPD : 21,20€ The pieces presented in the first volume of this album belong to the composer’s collection of jewellery, his etchings, his small-scale works with the delicate wash of the watercolour or the precise impasto of the paintbrush. The second volume unfurls in one breath a concert-work which is nothing less than a panorama painted on fresh plaster, depicting an almost hallucinatory voyage in which the listener is invited to dance just as much as to meditate. This hour of music, a sequence of baroque, contemporary and traditional music, forms an innovative opening to the music of our time, into which some will venture who would otherwise never have dared.

VARIOUS COMPOSERS – Udiverse

Fabrice Alleman & Chamber orchestra

This project is an adventure, probably the most important one in my life as a musician: I wanted to know who I am as an artist, a composer, a saxophonist and quite simply as a man. Ten years to think about it, including five years to develop it, and one additional year of recordings, post-production, mixing, design have created UDiverse (Unity in CYP0610 - 61’22 Diversity), a unique musical suite for soprano saxophone and chamber 1 CD PPD : 12’95€ orchestra which brings together my roots, influences and sensitivity. But it is other people who help you to discover who you are. I’m so grateful to Michel Herr for his total commitment, his humanity, his friendship and his talents as composer and arranger. Without him UDiverse would robably not exist. (Fabrice Alleman)

29 RUED LANGGAARD - Complete Works For Violin And Piano Vol.I Gunvor Sihm - Berit Johansen Tange

In the veritable musical frenzy that struck Rued Langgaard (1893- 1952) near the end of his life he composed several violin sonatas – a genre he had not paid much attention to since his early days. In this first in a series of three recordings presenting Langgaard’s complete works for violin and piano the award-winning violinist Gunvor Sihm and the 8226130 - 53’33 Langgaard expert Berit Johansen Tange perform three late, incitingly 1CD PPD : 11,50€ Romantic works in addition to the unfinished sonata of Langgaard’s youth, which is given its world premiere recording.

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CARSON COOMAN- The Cloak With The Stars

Erik Simmons

Carson Cooman is many things musical – organist and Composer in Residence at the Memorial Church, Harvard University; writer, critic and consultant, concert organist, and above all a highly prolific composer of music in a wide variety of genres, from orchestral to song. His organ compositions come in many styles, from liturgical models, to more DDA25159 gritty and substantial pieces such as his organ symphonies and preludes and fugues. 1CD - PPD : 12,95€ Much of the music here, tonal and accessible though never lacking in complex chromaticism, was written for and dedicated to the German composer Andreas Willscher whose works Cooman is also recording for Divine Art.

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30 VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Violin Muse

Madeleine Mitchell - Nigel Clayton - Cerys Jones BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Edwin Outwater

Seven world premiere recordings of works by British composers with a range of styles but all in a modern but approachable and often very lyrical idiom from the deep and heartfelt Violin Concerto ‘Soft Stillness’ by Guto Puw to the stunningly simple yet beautiful new work from Michael Nyman. DDA25160 Many of these works were specifically written for, and premiered by, Madeleine 1CD PPD : 12,95€ Mitchell so this is a very special album for her personally as well as being a fine virtuoso concert. Most works on the album are for violin and piano with Nigel Clayton; Cerys Jones appears in the super violin duet ‘Atlantic Drift’ by Judith Weir, and Puw’s Concerto is a BBC recording with the BBCNOW and American conductor Edwin Outwater. Madeleine Mitchell is an internationally acclaimed soloist with a fine discography and has been an inspiration to composers and painters, including Gerald Marks who created his artworks ‘The Madeleine Series’ between 1989 and 1991. ALSO AVAILABLE

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ANDREAS WILLSCHER - Organ Symphonies 19&20

Carson Cooman - St.Bartholomew’s Church

German composer Andreas Willscher has won many awards for his compositions, which range widely from symphonic forms and oratorio to cabaret jazz and rock. His organ works are especially fine and varied – involving often a mélange of post-tonal modernism, minimalism, and jazz and rock elements. Willscher is also an active writer of literary and scientific DDA25162 articles and as a collector and preserver of ‘lost’ and forgotten music of the 1CD PPD : 12,95€ past. Carson Cooman is organist of the Memorial Church at Harvard University and also a most prolific composer, writer and teacher. His works have appeared in many recordings and have been played in every inhabited continent. This is his second recording of Willscher’s music for Divine Art as performer, and the label has already released eight CDs of Cooman compositions with many more planned.

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31 ONSLOW - DEBUSSY - POULENC - French Piano duets Robert & Linda Ang Stoodley Husband and wife team Robert and Linda Stoodley are an adventurous duo with a very wide range of repertoire from the pops to major classical works which they present to appreciative audiences all around the world, spending much time as recitalists on cruise ships. This new album features a programme of French music, including Debussy’s well known Petite Suite and the superb First Sonata for Piano DDA25132 Duet by George Onslow, contemporary of the young Mozart and on this 1CD - PPD : 12,95€ showing an equal in compositional skill. Add to that Poulenc’s ‘Songs of Love and War’ arranged by Linda into a new suite of pieces, and we have a very entertaining and instructive album beautifully played.

JOHN TURNER - Christmas Card Carols

Sasha Johnson Manning - Richard Simpson - Anna Christensen Intimate Voices / Christopher Stokes Presented by the chamber choir Intimate Voices (which also performs as Voces Intimae) and featuring sopranos Sasha Johnson Manning, Eleanor Gregory and Philippa Hyde in solo and duet pieces, with obbligato harp and oboe in some, this is a lovely mixed program of Nativity carols, composed very much in DDA25161 traditional style, in new settings of ancient texts. 1CD - PPD : 12,95€ John Turner is a fine composer but is chiefly known as a recorder player and champion of contemporary composers, with dozens of recordings to his credit, many from Divine Art and Métier.

BELLINI - Norma

Maria José Siri - Sonia Ganassi - Michele Gamba

This production of Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma from the Macerata Opera Festival was described by the Italian press as «a perfect synthesis of cast, direction, sets, lighting and costumes»; the aria Casta diva received a standing ovation. Among the superb cast, Uruguayan soprano Maria José Siri stands out in the title role, along with Italian mezzo Sonia Ganassi, who shines as Adalgisa.

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32 Rare Piano Works Mario Patuzzi The Italian virtuoso pianist Mario Patuzzi made this recording on a historic 1923 Pleyel piano at the Swiss Radio studios. The programme features works by Camille Saint-Saëns that are very rarely heard. Mario Patuzzi has had a distinguished career as a pianist, with performances at Teatro alla Scala, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Hessischer Rundfunk. CDS7796 - 67’00 pecialization courses for universities in Lugano, Trento, Piacenza and Tokyo. 1CD PPD : 11,50€

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BENJAMIN GODARD - Dante Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Müncher Rundfunkorchester Ulf Schrmer Edgaras Montvidas - Véronique Gens Dante Alighieri, born in Florence in 1265, was at once a poet and an important political figure of his time. His celebrated Divine Comedy relates his supposed descent to Hell and slow ascent to Paradise. Godard’s operatic treatment of his life (1890) skilfully juxtaposes the political milieu – crowd scenes in Florence and the quarrel between Guelfs and Ghibellines – with the expression of the courtly love he feels for Beatrice, betrothed to his friend Bardi. The most remarkable element of the opera is the integration of a ‘Vision’ that is nothing less than a synthesis of the Divine Comedy set to music. Its third act is built around a fantasy ‘Hell’ and ‘Paradise’, featuring an ES1029 Apparition of Virgil, Chorus of the Damned, Infernal Whirlwind, Divine 2 CD PPD : 19,80€ Radiance and Apotheosis of Beatrice. Godard is here at the peak of his melodic inspiration and compositional mastery, in a style that brings Gounod up to date and need not fear comparison with Massenet ALSO AVAILABLE

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33 CRUMB - HAHN - DEBUSSY - Les Poètes Maudits Lore Binon - Inge Spinette

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In 1884, Paul Verlaine published an anthology entitled Les poètes maudits, a work paying homage to French Parnassianism and giving meaning to the concept of the poète maudit (accursed poet), so speci fic to the period towards the end of the nineteenth century and to the angst of its writers. Their names – Verlaine, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, de Lautréamont, Corbière, de Nerval and Mallarmé and their existential malaise are re ected in the works of the musicians of their time. This is Inge Spinette’s fifth release with Fuga Libera, and this time she is joined by the talented soprano Lore Binon. In this album, the duo focus on the enduring link between poetry and music, applying their talents to works by Claude Debussy and Reynaldo Hahn, in dialogue with the American composer George Crumb. They create a perfect alchemy in which the hues of these composers are revealed in all their delicate nuances. ALSO AVAILABLE

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SCHUBERT - Wanderer-Fantasie, Four Impromtus And other Works For Fortepiano Naruhiko Kawaguchi The winner of the International Bruges Musica Antiqua Competition, Naruhiko Kawaguchi has made a name for himself thanks to his sensitive and nuanced interpretations and his expressive style of fortepiano playing. In this album, the young artist has put together a programme devoted to Schubert and performed on a period instrument. FUG744 Always keen to get involved with talented young musicians, Outhere Music 1 CD PPD : 12,95€ has been a partner of the MAFestival for several years now and offers one of its winners the chance to make a recording – which will be released this year on the Fuga Libera label. Naruhiko Kawaguchi is a new example of Outhere’s wish to promote promising young artists and aid their career development. 34 VARIOUS COMPOSERS - A Due Alti

Filippo Mineccia - Raffaele Pe - La Venexiana / Claudio Cavina Filippo Mineccia and Raffaele Pe – two of the most compelling international countertenor voices currently around – unite to deliver a recital of Baroque vocal duets, in A due alti, a programme for Glossa which demonstrates that there was much music of quality being composed in this genre beyond that by Handel. Testament to that is the increasing GCD920942 - 79’29 interest on record in recent years of vocal music by the other composers represented on this recording – Steffani, Bononcini, Caresana 1CD - PPD : 12,95€ and Marcello. Stefano Russomanno delves into the history of the vocal duet and provides a fascinating commentary to the mellifluous music-making of the two countertenors. ALSO AVAILABLE : GCD 920940 Francesco Cavalli - SOSPIRI D ‘AMORE Giulia Semenzato/Raffaele Pe/ Claudio Cavina/La Venexiana 1CD - PPD 12,95€

VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Un Opéra Pour Trois Rois

Chantal Santon-Jeffery - Emöke Baráth - Thomas Dolié - Purcell Choir - Orfeo orchestra / György Vashegyi

For approaching a century and a half in France – across the reigns of Louis XIV, XV and XVI – the Palace of Versailles played host, both indoors and outdoors, for an extraordinary sequence of dramatic musical performances. Un Opéra pour trois rois, conducted by György Vashegyi, represents the legacy of that time, a specially constructed operatic entertainment drawn from works by composers GCD924002 - 88’06 from Lully to Gluck, commissioned – and even, on occasion, performed – by 2CD - PPD : 17,50€ kings, their queens and inamoratas. Further attractions are the performances from the three soloists: Chantal Santon-Jeffery, Emöke Barath and Thomas Dolié.

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CIPRIANO DE RORE - Portrait Of The Artist As A Starved Dog Graindelavoix / Björn Schmelzer

The sixteenth-century madrigalist Cipriano de Rore perhaps remains something of a mystery figure in modern times, awaiting penetrating simplification and clarification. Rather than simplification, a new recording of selections from his expressive output from Björn Schmelzer and Graindelavoix, entitled Portrait of the artists as a starved dog, is more GCDP32114 - 75’22 likely to yield illumination and fascination. That is Schmelzer’s way. 1CD - PPD : 12,95€

ALSO AVAILABLE : GCDP32113 Orazio Vecchi - REQUIEM (Antwerpen, 1612) Graindelavoix/ Björn Schmelzer 1CD - PPD 12,95€ 35 MANOLIS KALOMIRIS - Complete Works For Solo Piano

Olivier Chauzu

Recognised as the father of modern Greek music, Manolis Kalomiris was also devoted to education, as can be heard in the superbly crafted volumes For Greek Children written throughout his life. Kalomiris’ early piano works build on the Romantic legacy of Chopin and Liszt, the Ballades filled with poetic references.

GP748 1CD OLIVIER CHAUZU trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de PPD : 10,00€ Musique in Paris, where he studied under Gabriel Tacchino, Théodore Paraschivesko, Jean-Claude Pennetier and György Sebök.

LUBOŠ FIŠER - Complete Piano sonatas Zuzana Šimurdova

Luboš Fišer was one of the most influential and versatile Czech composers of the 20th century. Fišer’s eight piano sonatas (of which the second is lost), were composed for the instrument described by the composer as ‘his greatest love of all’. Retaining a special place in Fišer’s oeuvre, they became an intimate diary of his constantly evolving compositional style, from his student days and the GP770 neo-classical Sonata No.1, through the experimental sonatas of the 1960s and 1 CD PPD : 10,00€ 1970s, to the simplicity of melodic line and the immediate emotional impact of the final sonata, No. 8. Czech-Canadian pianist ZUZANA ŠIMURDOVÁ began her international career as a laureate of the UNESCO-Aschberg Bursarie Awards in Paris.

JOHANNES BRAHMS –Trio For Piano, Violin And Horn - Clarinet Quintet Christopher Williams The 19th century witnessed an almost insatiable demand for arrangements and transcriptions to be played on domestic pianos. Brahms himself wrote such works under the names GW Marks and Karl Würth but friends and colleagues also contributed. The violinist, pianist and conductor Paul Klengel, brother of the eminent cellist Julius, made solo piano versions of the Horn Trio and the Clarinet Quintet, transcribing with remarkable fidelity and sensitivity Brahms’ GP749 myriad expressive and technical demands. 1 CD PPD : 10,00€ Born in Wales, CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS is a music graduate of Cardiff University and now leads a busy and varied professional life as a pianist, composer, conductor, teacher and arranger.

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS – Symphonies Nos 4&6

Hallé / Sir Mark Elder The Sixth Symphony caused a sensation at its premiere in 1948 and was performed 100 times in the following two years. It was composed during a period in which Vaughan Williams was writing film scores, the experience of which had the effect of sparking his imagination in the extravagant use of the orchestra. The work is claimed by many to have an external ‘war’ CDHLL7547 programme, a fact dismissed by the composer. Either way the result is 1 CD PPD : 11,50€ undoubtedly one of Vaughan Williams’ finest works; a tightly woven musical statement, with stunning melodies and orchestration which is at turns dramatic and expressive. 36 MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY - The Collection

Various artists

Make time to listen to this music, as the musician made time to prepare for it. Don’t wedge it into a pile of other CDs clamouring to be heard. Don’t immediately applaud it and move on to the next thing. Play it again. You’ll be playing it for years.

HC16052 45CD PPD : 50,00€

SCHUBERT - LOEWE - In Erlkönigs Reich

David Jerusalem - Eric Schneider David Jerusalem, born in Munich in 1985, finished his studying 2010 at the «Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg». 2013 he graduated from his «Konzertexamen» with honor at the «Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf» studying with Prof. Konrad Jarnot.In November of the same year he sang the role of «Astolpho» in «Orlando furioso» (Vivaldi) at the Prinzregententheater Munich in a production of Christof Nel and HC17012 1CD PPD : 11,50€ conducted by Michael Hofstetter.

BEETHOVEN - BACH - Sonatas - Transcriptions & Toccata

Pavlos Hatzopoulos Pavlos Hatzopoulos was born the son of Greek immigrants near Stuttgart, Germany, in 1964 and started to learn the piano at three years of age. He made his first public solo appearance at ten years of age. The ideas he explains and the combination of accomplished elocution with expressive and virtuosic piano-playing distinguish him as one of the most HC16021- 62’42 extraordinary pianists of our time. 2CD PPD : 17,50€

MOZART - Complete Sonatas Dmitri Sitkovetsky - Antonio Pappano - Konstantin Lifschitz

“Sitkovetsky’s Mozart sonatas provide real pleasure and are strongly recommended.” (Fanfare) RE-ISSUE

HC17013 - 4H53’ 4CD PPD : 12,95€

37 MORTON FELDMAN

MORTON FELDMAN - Triadic Memories & Piano

John Snijders

Morton Feldman’s preoccupation with what he called ‘acoustical reality’ was the primary subject of all his work but the intimate acoustic reality of the piano, the instrument at which he worked, became a particular focus during the last decade of his life. Piano (1977) and Triadic Memories (1981) sound like Feldman of course - both share that ART205 - 115’15 extraordinary sense of time sus- pended, of instrumental colour refracted 2CD PPD : 17,50€ through pitch and back again- but each also offers a radically different conception of the piano.

MORTON FELDMAN - Trio

Ives Ensemble

Feldman’s canvas contains sparse, isolated tones and commentary in an environment of heightened concern. (Concern negates the idea that Feldman’s music embodies an existential void.) Concern creates tension, energized by the composer’s sense of res- ponsibility, and desire. The music sounds familiar at times, where a motif occurs and is not forgotten, ART155 - 76’12 but returns in another place in another guise. Or multiple motifs 1 CD PPD : 11,50€ (eachinstrument’s persona!statement) are reassembled into something resembling something else, or only itself. Even Feld- man’s repetition is never exact, as there are slight shifts in weight, shade, density, inten- sity. And when, eventually, the music ends, it just ends, for no need, or reason, with no explanation, no answers..

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38 GALINA USTVOLSKAYA - Trio For Violin, Clarinet And Piano

Reinbert De Leeuw - Vera Beths - Harmen De Boer Ustvolskaya’s music is dark, somber, even rem ote wh en a solitary voice holds sway. Her rejection of easily recognizable form suggests that, metaphorically, time is not a factor; as temporal references are acutely literai, the means to escape an oppressive time and place are found in spiritual, not social, values. ART194 - 58’44 Similarly, the chilling sparseness of textures becomes an emotionallandscape, scarred, sometimes painfully severe, where inner 1CD - PPD : 11,50€ strength is necessary for survival. But there is,too, especially in the duet for Violin And piano, a sanctity of mood (shared with the later Shostakovich, when he was obsessed with death, and where, in his final works u ch as the Viola Sonata and Sonata For Violin And Piano, the in uence of Ustvolskaya may be felt). ln moments like this, rare is the music where the human will is so immediate, so enduring.

STÉPHANE KERECKI - VINCENT LÊ QUANG - Modern Art

Daniel Humair, Stéphane Kerecki, Vincent Lê Quang This Modern Art CD project is an invitation to discover new ideas, and these pieces of music by Vincent Lê Quang, Stéphane Kerecki and myself are not really tributes ; I prefer to think of them in terms of correspondences, parallel ideas, encounters, affinities, out-of-the-ordinary phenomena. INC001 - 43’29 We’ve chosen several 20th century painters to give us one of two 1CD - PPD : 12,95€ possibilities : either we already had such and such a composition in our pack that matched up with the pictorial world of a certain artist, or we’ve written an original composition inspired by an artist’s work. All this in spirit rather than literally. For Modern Art is about relationships : between neighbours or others close to us, members of the same family, free associations. I’m both a musician and a painter, but I’m not trying to establish any direct link between these two art forms.

PEDRO RUIMONTE - Pedro Ruimonte En Brusselas

La Grande Chapelle / Albert Recasens

At the beginning of the 17th century the Brussels court experienced an extraordinary cultural splendour thanks to the Archdukes Albert and Isabella Clara Eugenia, during a period of peace and prosperity in the Southern Low Countries under Spanish Habsburg rule. The sovereigns, who were great collectors and patronized artists such as Brueghel de LAU017 - 114’85 Velours and Rubens, maintained a magnificent musical chapel with a 2CD - PPD : 17,50€ substantial number of Spanish, Italian and English musicians. It was in this context that the work of the Zaragoza native Pedro Ruimonte unfolded. Master of chamber music under the Archdukes, his Parnaso español (1614) represents one of the capstones in the history of Spanish music. This CD reconstructs the musical landscapes of the Archdukes’ chapel and chamber music, characterized by a variety of styles and genres and an innovative spirit.

39 SCHUMANN & MAHLER - Lieder Florian Boesch - Malcolm Martineau

This recording brings together Florian Boesch, one of today’s foremost Lieder interpreters, and Malcolm Martineau, who is widely recognised as one of the leading accompanists of his generation.With a partnership honed over many concerts and several recordings together, including a GRAMMY-nominated Die schöne Müllerin, the pair turn their attention CKD511 to two of the greatest song cycles of the nineteenth century. 1 CD - 62’22 An expressive and accomplished storyteller Boesch’s perceptive phrasing PPD : 12,95 € and exquisite range of colours is well matched by Martineau’s virtuosic and perfectly synchronized accompaniment.

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HAYDN - COUPERIN - MONN - Chrysalis

Corinne Morris

Corinne Morris’s debut concerto recording is a landmark in a career shaped by extraordinary talent and remarkable determination. Chrysalis marks Corinne’s return to form, as she takes centre stage in concertos by Monn and Haydn plus Couperin’s Pièces en Concert. Corinne returns to Monn’s original notes for her performance of the CKD562 concerto made famous by Jacqueline Du Pré. In staying true to the 1CD composer’s intentions Corinne creates a purposeful and stylistic journey PPD : 12,95 € towards the Haydn Concerto.

VARIOUS COMPOSERS - A Christmas Festival RSNO Junior Chorus - Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Christopher Bell

This new recording captures the magic of the season as the RSNO and its Junior Chorus deliver a perfect selection of classic festive favourites in A Christmas Festival. These charming performances show why their joyous, fun-packed Christmas concerts, conducted by the inimitable Christopher Bell, are CKD580 always a highlight of the Scottish seasonal calendar. 1CD PPD : 12,95 €

40 VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Parle Qui Veut Moralizing Songs Of The Middle Ages Solazzo Ensemble

Sollazzo Ensemble makes its recording debut following its prize- winningperformance at the highly respected biennial York Early Music International Young Artists Competition. Comprising sopranos Perrine Devillers and Yukie Sato, tenor Vivien Simon,medieval CKD529 fiddles Anna Danilevskaia and Sophia Danilevskaia, and harpist Vincent Kibildis 1CD this vibrant young ensemble offers a fresh perspective on mediaeval repertoire. PPD : 12,95€ On Parle qui veut the performers embrace the exuberant style of flourishing melodies which was fashionable in the north of Italy in the fourteenth century. All in all, this represents a remarkable debut.

PETER RACINE FRICKER - Symphonies 1-4

BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra / Bryden Thomson ‘For me music is as exciting as a sporting event. I wish that ... critics and public could get as worked up about new music as they do about football and cricket’. This cri de coeur from composer Peter Racine Fricker (1920-1990) captures the passion and conviction with which he approached his craft. Fricker was the first British composer to make his reputation entirely after REAM2136 World War II. Among the first composers in Britain to be influenced by the PPD : 12,95€ 2CD music of Béla Bartók, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, Fricker assimilated aspects of their very different styles into a distinctive voice of his own. He proceeded to build an impressive body of work in his highly expressive, urbane and freely atonal language.

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SHOSTAKOVICH - WEINBERG - RAVEL - 3x3 Lukas Geniušas - Aylen Pritchin - Alexander Buzlov

Three young musicians play three piano trios written by three 20th century composers. The names of Maurice Ravel, Dmitri Shostakovich and Moisey Weinberg are featured on this extraordinary release. The performers of the trios are well known to music lovers. The violinist Aylen Pritchin is a prize-winner of numerous international competitions.Alexander Buzlov, a MELCD1002491 - 72’03 prize-winner of more than fteen international competitions, is, in the 1CD PPD : 8,85€ opinion of the New York Times, “in the Russian tradition, a cellist with a huge capacity to make the instrument sing ... pulling his audience into the sound”. A grandson of Vera Gornostayeva, the pianist Lukas Geniušas is a representative of the out- standing music dynasty and silver medallist of the Chopin and Tchaikovsky international competitions. 41 SCARLATTI - PROKOFIEV - SHOSTAKOVICH - Piano

Dmitry Masleev _ Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra Alexander Sladkovsky The musician’s name became widely known after his convincing victory at the latest International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2015 when he received the rst prize and a special prize for his performance of a Mozart concerto. This disc is focused on Russian music of the 20th century. Shostakovich’s MELCD1002517 - 58’15 Piano Concerto No. 2 dedicated to the composer’s son Maxim was recorded 1CD PPD : 10,00€ by Dmitry Masleev as part of the project comprising Shostakovich complete concertos recorded by the Tatarstan State Orchestra and conductor Alexander Sladkovsky.

SCHUBERT - Piano Sonatas Nos 16&21

Yury Martynov

Yury Martynov is one of the most interesting and versatile Russian musicians of our days whose performing art blends the best traditions of the Russian piano and West European clavier schools. He is also known as one of those rare musicians who have a complete command of actually all historical varieties of keyboard instruments – such performers are few and MELCD1002504 - 82’29 far between. 2CD PPD : 15’50€ The bright drama of the Sonata in A minor (No. 16) with its almost orchestral richness of sound in the extreme movements receives a thoughtful and convincing rendition from Yury Martynov.

ROSTROPOVICH

VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Young Slava

An anniversary boxset Young Slava dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Mstislav Rostropovich’s birth. The musician of genius – a cellist, conductor, concertmaster, educator, composer and public gure – played a colossal part in the history of music art of this country and the whole world. Knowing about the range of his activities, the role of a performing soloist and a purely musical domain were too small for his mighty talent and temperament. Nevertheless, there were only few who enriched the cello literature with new works, who changed the view of solo cello art and who gave himself up to Music as he much as he did, for without Music he “could not live and could not breathe”.

MELCD1002505 9CD PPD : 80,00€

42 MEDTNER - PROKOFIEV - KURBATOV - SHOSTAKOVICH - Quintet+Live VARIOUS ARTISTS

Melodiya presents the album Quintet+ as part of the Melodiya Apriori project. This recording is a live broadcast of one of four concerts under a seasonal ticket of the same name that took place at the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. This album features Ludmila Berlinskaya, a pianist, teacher and MELCD1002486 - 75’55 representative of the glorious music dynasty, performing with the New 1CD PPD : 8,85€ Russian Quartet, a string ensemble formed in 2008 that has won the recognition of domestic and international audiences. The recording also features Igor Fedorov, one Russia’s best clarinetists.

MICHAEL ALEC ROSE - Il Ritorno

Peter Sheppard Skærved - Diana Mathews Michael Alec Rose is a leading light in the contemporary music world with compositions in many genres. He has received thirty composition awards to date, and is also an author of books and essays. The soloists are both highly regarded both in their native England and internationally. Skærved is well represented in many recordings as soloist and MSV28574 - 57’01 as leader of Longbow Ensemble and the Kreutzer Quartet. 1CD PPD : 12,95€ Violist Diana Mathews is sought after as soloist, chamber and orchestral player and is very active in the new music world.

DAVID BRAID - Songs Solos + Duos

Emily Gray - David Braid - Claire Overbury& Elena Zucchini -Peter Cigleris - Sergei Podobedov & Rossitza Stoycheva

In the world of new music where ‘anything goes’ it is a very special composer who can create a sound and style so individual that it stands out as exceptional; such a composer is David Braid, whose writing is truly ‘art-music’ but has resonances with tone colours found in other genres MSV28575 - 76’35 which make its appeal almost universal, as seen by his recent album on 1CD PPD : 12,95€ Toccata Classics. Certainly one of the most distinctive and beautiful new-music albums of recent times.

BACH - Sonatas & Partitas

Miriam Fried Miriam Fried has been recognized for many years as one of the world’s preeminent violinists. A consummate musician - equally accomplished as recitalist, concerto soloist or chamber musician - she has been heralded for her ‘fiery intensity and emotional depth’ (Musical America) as well as for NI6351 - 2h17 her technical mastery. 2CD PPD : 17,50€ Her supreme blend of artistry and musicianship continues to inspire audiences worldwide.

43 VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Lux Memoriaque

Harmonia Sacra / Peter Leech

From the very earliest days of their formation in 2009 Harmonia Sacra has been strongly committed to the performance of new choral works and the support of both established and emerging choral composers. Almost every one of the choir’s concerts has included contemporary works, with names such as John Tavener, Arvo Pärt, Eric Whitacre, James Macmillan NI6349 - 59’23 and David Bednall featuring prominently. 1CD PPD : 12,95€ These have been juxtaposed with new works by Robert Hugill, Jonathan Lee, David Bednall and Peter Leech, many of which are set to texts which deal with the subjects of heavenly light and remembrance, hence the title of the CD.

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PHILIP SAWYERS - Symphony No3 - Songs Of Loss And Regret

English Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Woods

‘To me the symphonic ideal is one of ‘becoming’, of almost organic growth. It is a journey through a myriad of musical ideas that are as closely argued as any philosophical treatise.’ Philip Sawyers NI6353 - 66’54 This programme reveals Philip Sawyers as a composer at the height of his 1 CD PPD : 12,95€ powers whose music ranges across a relatively wide spectrum of harmonic intensity, from the very direct and straightforward tonal language of the Fanfare to the twelve-tone pyrotechnics of the Third Symphony. However, regardless of whether we look to the modal harmonies of Songs of Loss and Regret or the multi-layered serial counterpoint of the finale of the Third Symphony, we still find a unifying sense of a strong and individual artistic personality.

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44 ELGAR - SCHUMANN - KORNGOLD - Cello-Concertos Live From Taipei

Wen-Sinn Yang - National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan / Shao-Chia Lü

The cellist Wen-Sinn Yang and the conductor Shao-Chia Lü live and work OC1883 in Germany. Both were trained at important music aca- demies in Berlin 1 CD PPD : 12,95€ and Vienna. During the 2016/17 season, Wen-Sinn Yang was invited to perform several concerts as artist in residence with the Taipei National Symphony Orchestra. The performances of three concertos in June 2017 were so enthusiastically received that it was decided to release them as live recordings. The wonderful acoustics of the National Concert Hall in Taipei and the ami- cable dialogue between soloist and conductor have thus been preserved on this CD.

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OLLI VIRTAPERKO - Romer’s Gap Perttu Kivilaakso - Jonte Knif - Joonatan Rautiola - Jyväskylä Sinfonia Ville Matvejeff

This exciting new release of contemporary music includes three new concertos by Finnish composer Olli Virtaperko (b. 1973). The concertos are ODE1305-2 combining multiple styles from Baroque to prog jazz as well as different 1 CD PPD : 11,50€ performance practices. Romer’s Gap is a concerto for electrically amplified cello featuring as soloist Perttu Kivilaakso, best known as lead cellist in the multi-million selling rock band Apocalyptica. Multikolor, written for Joonatan Rautiola, is a single-movement work for baritone sax and small chamber orchestra. All three works are recorded by the Jyväskylä Sinfonia under conductor Ville Matvejeff.

45 BEETHOVEN - Triple Concerto - Piano Concerto No.3

Lars Vogt - Christian Tetzlaff - Tanja Tetzlaff - Royal Northern Sinfonia

Lars Vogt continues his cycle of Beethoven’s Piano Concertos with the Royal Northern Sinfonia with this second volume in the series. The recording also includes Beethoven’s Triple Concerto where Lars Vogt is ODE1297-2 joined together with his longtime artistic partners Christian Tetzlaff and 1 CD PPD : 11,50€ Tanja Tetzlaff. Vogt’s recordings of chamber music with the trio have gathered astonishing reviews and recording awards, including Grammy nomination for the recording of Brahms Piano Trios (ODE 1271-2D). In June 2017 Lars Vogt was nominated for the Artist of the Year 2017 Award by the Gramophone magazine.

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PAUL PATTERSON - MARTIN BUTLER - Revolting Rhymes And Marvellous Music Magnard Ensemble with Rebecca Kenny This autumn, The Magnard Ensemble presents Revolting Rhymes and Marvellous Music – an album continuing the celebration of the Roald Dahl centenary with suitably innovative and humorously engaging compositions. The featured composers expertly weave Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes into Marvellous Music in a programme that aims to thrill all who listen – from ORC100071 children to adults, and novices to musical connoisseurs. 1 CD PPD : 10,00€

46 ELGAR - GEORGE WHITFIELD CHADWICK - The New England Connection BBC National Orchestra Of Wales / Andrew Constantine

Entitled Elgar: The New England Connection, this album explores two masters of late-Romanticism whom history has treated very differently. Conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Andrew Constantine pairs George Whitfield Chadwick’s Symphonic Sketches with Edward ORC100074 Elgar’s Enigma Variations, exploring the dynamic between Chadwick and 1 CD PPD : 10,00€ Elgar through two of their most substantial works.

SHOSTAKOVITCH - BEETHOVEN - BRAHMS - Cello Sonatas Heinrich Schiff - Christian Zacharias A genuinely great instrumentalist who certainly left his mark on the music world was cellist Heinrich Schiff, who died last year and is not adequately represented on CD. He can be heard here in his full-on vigorous musicality with a partner who is unusually his equal, in three major works of the cello repertoire, the Sonata 1CD942 171B - 74’56 op. 40 by Shostakovich, the middle sonata by Beethoven and the last one by 1 CD PPD : 10,00€ Brahms.

BRAHMS - Lieder Grace Bumbry

One of the great and fascinating singers of her day was the “black Venus” of Bayreuth, Grace Bumbry, who demonstrated her exceptionally wide range at the Salzburg Festival with a gripping Lady Macbeth by the Wagner antipode Verdi (Orfeo C 843112) as well as with the impressive Lieder recital on this recording, exclusively devoted to the Wagner antipode 1CD941171B Brahms – from an age that was more friendly towards Lieder recitals than 1 CD PPD : 10,00€ today, yet still one full decade before Jessye Norman.

BEETHOVEN- Sonates Daniel Barenboim

It is exceptionally interesting to hear now, for the first time, Daniel Barenboim at the age of 27 making his solo debut with an all-Beethoven programme. At the time Barenboim had only just begun to unfold as a musical all-rounder and was at the zenith of a career that hitherto had concentrated on the piano. In the context of marked divergences between 1CD939171B - 80’66 successive generations, common in the music world at that time, 1CD - PPD : 10,00€ Barenboim asserts himself confidently and brilliantly, with remarkable pianistic eloquence and above all an array of musical virtues

47 MOZART - La Clemenza Di Tito

Hollweg - Neblett - Malfitano - Troyanos - Howells - Rydl - Wiener Philharmoniker / James Levine Another monumental musician of our time is without doubt the very great opera conductor James Levine. On this recording he can be heard at the age of 34 in a Ponnelle production of Mozart’s last opera La clemenza di Tito – which fits nicely with this year’s programme – in what was an exciting time of upheaval: just before the 2CD938 172I - epoch-making change in musical practice we associate with the name 2CD - PPD : 19,20€ Harnoncourt and which began coincidentally with Mozart’s other ‘opera seria’ Idomeneo. Here ‘Jimmy’ Levine delivers an energetic, ‘full’ and astute performance, not least thanks to a superbly well-suited ensemble of singers and a Vienna Philharmonic in excellent form.

BEETHOVEN - Symphonie No 9

Janowitz - Bumbry - Thomas - London - Chor Und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele / Karl Böhm Much less well-known and issued here for the first time in a live recording is a performance conducted by Karl Böhm in 1963 to mark the 150th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s birth and the 80th anniversary of his death. Here we witness the emergence of a new musical generation. Böhm had 1CD C935171B - 71’17 made his Bayreuth debut the year before with Tristan, which he returned to in 1963, additionally taking over Meistersinger the following year and 1CD - PPD : 10,00€ the Ring in 1965; he thus became one of the defining Bayreuth conductors of the 60s. Böhm chose a version with the orchestra retouched in places by Wagner himself and with a much strengthened choir of 217 singers.

BACH / BUSONI - BEETHOVEN - Chaconne aus Partita BWV 1004 - Piano Sonata n° 3 op 2/3 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli In 1965 the legendary Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, then 45, made his first and last appearance at the festival. Just how exceptional the appearance of this reclusive artist was can be seen in the fact that he strictly and successfully forbade the recording and broadcast of the second half of the concert. It is uniquely appropriate that one of the few 1CD943171B - 38’41 Bach pieces from his publicly performed repertoire should be the Bach 1CD - PPD : 10,00€ Chaconne for Violin – an instrument that Benedetti Michelangeli had himself studied and that he said he sought to imitate with his own highly sophisticated piano technique.

HANDEL - Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day Christina Grifone - Hans Jörg Mammel - Musica Fiorita / Daniela Dolci The fine Basel-based orchestra Musica Fiorita, conducted by Daniela Dolci, performs this well-known work with their trademark historically informed knowledge and elegance, perfectly translating Handel’s intentions in terms of underlining the text with very intentional use of musical affects. PC10382 - 59’41

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48 GEORG DANIEL SPEER - Liebesabenteuer

Markus Miesenberger - Ars Antiqua Austria / Gunar Letzbor In his Musicalisch-Türckischer Eulen-Spiegel, Speer sets texts from his picaresque novel Ungarischer oder Dacianischer Simplicissimus in music. Spear lets his hero Lompyn travel musically through all the countries then affected by the Turkish invasion. To this effect, the versatile composer created dances and melodies in the style of each of these almost exotic peoples. PC10339 - 51’48 From the large number of stories, Gunar Letzbor, the leader of Ars 1CD - PPD : 12,95 € antiqua Austria, chose two CD filling programs: the already released CD with War Stories (PC 10317) of our hero Lompyn and now his Love Affairs.

VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Troika

Matt Haimovitz & Christopher O’Riley

Acclaimed for their adventurous and wide-ranging recording projects – from Beethoven Sonatas on period instruments to genre-bending arrangements of Radiohead and Arcade Fire – the endlessly inventive duo of cellist Matt PTC5186608 Haimovitz and pianist Christopher O’Riley returns to explore music of the 2SACD PPD : 19,80€ Slavic soul. Anchored by the cello sonatas of the iconic triumvirate of Russian composers –Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich – and inspired by the subversive irony of Shostakovich’s Sonata, TROIKA also delves into more recently-written, unexpected, and popular works. Whether subtle or blatantly rebellious, each work potently reveals the strength of the artistic voice in the face of political repression in mother Russia.

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49 BEETHOVEN- Symphonies Nos 2&5

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Rafael Kubelik These recordings form part of the acclaimed cycle of Beethoven symphonies Rafael Kubelik made for Deutsche Grammophon in the 1970s, each symphony performed by a different orchestra. Although recorded in multi-channel sound, these winning performances have previously been available only in the conventional two-channel stereo format. Using state of the art technology which avoids the need for PTC5186249 - 69’06 1SACD - PPD : 11,50€ re-mixing, PENTATONE’s engineers have remastered the original studio tapes to bring the performances to life as originally intended: in compelling and pristine multi-channel sound. RE-ISSUE

HUMPERDINCK - Hänsel Und Gretel

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Marek Janowski To this day, Hansel and Gretel remains one of the most popular pieces in the German opera repertoire. One of the main reasons for this is certainly the seriousness with which Humperdinck approached the simple story. All emotions are truly felt: and this is obvious not only to a child, but also to any adult who has retained a childlike view of the world. PTC5186605 - 2SACD - PPD : 19,80€

BRITTEN & HINDEMITH - Violin Concertos Arabella Steinbacher - Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Vladimir Jurowski

Breathtaking virtuosity flows seamlessly with expansive lyrical passages and fiendish passagework in this commanding performance by Arabella Steinbacher of the restless and technically demanding violin concertos of Britten and Hindemith in this new release from PENTATONE. Britten’s haunting and mesmerising violin concerto is considered one of the 20th century’s finest.“Britten and Hindemith completed their concertos at about the same time” writes PTC5186625 - Steinbacher, “both are absolutely bursting with emotional turmoil, persisting 1SACD - PPD : 12,95€ precariousness, and latent despair.” Steinbacher feels a particular affinity with the Hindemith concerto. “Every artist introduces his own life experiences and personal feelings into his interpretations ... with the Hindemith concerto, I have an extremely close, even private connection, as my father knew Hindemith rather well.” ALSO AVAILABLE

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50 VARIOUS COMPOSERS RED PRIEST The Baroque Bohemians Red Priest

RP014 - 70’08 1SACD - PPD : 12,95€

Telemann believed that a composer could gain a lifetime’s inspiration from gypsies’ improvisations, but exactly what gypsy music might be is hard to pin down. Whether it is Spanish, Romanian or Hungarian ‘gypsy’ tunes that we hear, musicologists from each country tell us that we are, in fact, enjoying the country’s own folk-tunes through the distorting prism of gypsy players. Jewish Klezmer music is also conflated with gypsy music: one of the earliest famous gypsy players was in fact a Jewish fiddler. The Roma themselves were recently pinned down by DNA evidence to having originated as a low caste tribe of musicians from Northern India called the Doma or Rom. Since they first appeared in 14th century Hungary, they spread through Europe, becoming must-have players for village dances, for aristocrats and for the courts. Although written source material is by its very nature limited, the Uhrovska Collecion – a Slovakian fiddler’s songbook from 1730 – provided a starting point for this disc, out of which we have explored, speculated and re-imagined the multilayered relationships between folk and court music.

51 MUSIC IN GERMANY FROM SCHÜTZ TO BACH

RIC109 - 8CD +BOOK- PPD : 37,00€

After exploring the evolution of Italian and French music in the seventeenth century, Jérôme Lejeune devotes a new volume in his History of Early Music to Germany. During this century in which the Lutheran musical tradition developed further, Germany lived through a particularly enthralling period, bringing the musical world a highly original language, but also assimilating Italian and French models with talent and imagination; all of this unquestionably prepared the way that leads to Johann Sebastian Bach.

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52 ORLANDO GIBBONS- Fancies For The Viols

L’Achéron / Francois Joubert-Caillet

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Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) was one of the most complete musicians of the Elizabethan era. He made talented contributions to every genre of vocal and instrumental music. In the domain of the fantasia for viols, he wrote for numerous combinations of between two and six instruments and elaborated endlessly inventive formal structures, in which traces of Italianism are by no means absent. L’Achéron offers us a wide selection from this repertory, which it has recorded on viols based on early seventeenth- century English models. ALSO AVAILABLE

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53 EXHIBITION ON SCREEN MICHELANGELO : Love and Death

The spectacular sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo seem so familiar to us, but what do we really know about this renaissance genius? Who was this ambitious and passionate man? A virtuoso craftsman, Michelangelo’s artistry is evident in everything he touched. Spanning his 89 years, Michelangelo : Love and Death takes a SEV199 - 91’00 cinematic journey from the print and drawing rooms of Europe, through the 1DVD - PPD : 20,00€ great chapels and museums of Florence, Rome and the Vatican to explore the tempestuous life of Michelangelo. We go in search of a greater understanding of this most charismatic figure, his relationship with his contemporaries and his valuable artistic legacy.

VIVALDI- Between The Seasons Henning Kraggerud - Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra The extreme – wind, snow, cold, rainfall, thaw and heat – are vividly experienced in Kraggerud’s interpretation of The Four Seasons. Henning Kraggerud manages to capture the climatic range experienced on top of the world in his music-making. And there’s more – between the seasons. In Vivaldi’s day, Europe was experiencing the ‘Little Ice Age’ and the seasons in Italy were actually similar to what we experience in Norway today – a PSC1356 foundation for the powerful readings found on this album. Kraggerud has 1 CD - PPD : 13,75€ worked with Norwegian author Erik Fosnes Hansen (‘Psalm at Journey’s End’) for the program on this disc, which includes both The Seasons and premiere recordings of three new Kraggerud pieces.

BACH - Cage / Chorales

Julius Berger Johann Sebastian Bach’s suites for cello solo are arguably the purest form of music, works that require no explanation or background knowledge. Johann Sebastian Bach made one of his most profound affirmations, a Gradus ad Parnassum, which in six stages sets out an intellectual and technical challenge that is and will probably remain peerless in the history of music for SM270 our instrument. 3CD - PPD : 17,50€ I had always presumed so and was grateful for confirmation that the cello suites make allusions to chorales and religious messages. I have therefore found a musical way of opening a spiritual door to the suites and added chorales to Suites 1, 3, and 5 in the mould of sounds from John Cage’s work One 8, chorales that in my opinion are definitely consistent with messages conveyed in the suites. «I find that John Cage’s music shares similarities with Bach’s. His music allows for inner reflection, providing a contemplative point of calm. Cage said the purpose of music is “to cleanse the soul and bring it peace, thus making it amenable to divine ALSO AVAILABLE influences”. SMLP271 3LP- PPD : 48,00€

54 BRAHMS- The 2 Sonatas For Piano And Cello

Duo Leonore Maja Weber, cello, and Per Lundberg, piano, have been playing chamber music together for more than twenty years, mostly in piano quartets and quintets. Maja (also a Member of the Stradivari Quartet) plays the Bonamy Dobree-Suggia cello made by Antonio Stradivari in 1717. Per’s activities SM269 as a concert pianist and chamber musician form the two main focuses of 1CD - PPD : 12,95€ his artistic profile. As a chamber musician he performs in various ensembles across Europe. He works also with Sara Trobäck Hesselink and Claes Gunnarsson, who are respectively the leader and solo cellist of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. YSAŸE - BACH - ENESCU - KREISLER - TARTINI - Hommage à Ysaÿe

Sergey Malov

As one of the greatest violin virtuosos, Eugene Ysaÿe inspired the world. He was also a compassionate chamber musician, great teacher and fascinating conductor. Like the Solo sonatas and Partitas of Bach and like the 24 Capricci of Paganini, Ysaÿe’s sonatas demonstrate not only astonishing technical CDA1808-2 - 74’45 innovations, but are also a powerful poetic expression of his time. 1 CD - PPD : 12,95€ On his new CD Sergey Malov combines Ysaÿe’s violin sonatas with works by Bach and those European violinists, to whom these sonatas are dedicated.

VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Imagine Christmas

Various Artists

An inviting cloud of warm air envelops you as you thrust the first door open. Your ears prick up as you begin to Imagine Christmas...

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BACH - Six Cello Suites

Richard Narroway

«These are very expressive and finely moulded performances of some of Bach’s best-loved works. Richard Narroway draws on recent trends in historical awareness, though without dogma, and on the rich performing traditions of the modern cello, though without ever compromising the nobility and emotional integrity of this music. Extrovert and communicative, Narroway’s is a personal SLE-70010 - 1H16 voice in these often-performed works.” 2CD - PPD : 14,20€ —David Ledbetter (leading Bach Scholar and musicologist).

55 GRIEG - HONEGGER - CHOPIN - DE FRUMERIE - Works For Piano Maria Kihlgren

Maria Kihlgren started her piano studies at the Academy of Music and Drama in Gothenburg at the age of sixteen, and in that year made her debut performance with the Piano Concerto no. 21 by Mozart. She took a degree in piano teaching in 1976 and continued her studies in Vienna at the Hochschule fur Musik und darstellende Kunst. She concluded her studies in CDA1695 - 1979 achieving a diploma in solo performance. 1CD - PPD : 12,95€ Maria has great enthusiasm for playing chamber music : she has played with many different ensembles, including a series of chamber music concerts at the Stockholm Concert Hall

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CHARLES KOECHLIN

The 150th anniversary of Charles Koechlin’s birth in November 2017 is marked by the reissue of all the Koechlin recordings made by the Südwestrundfunk. They are compiled in two boxed sets of seven CDs each: Box 1 – vocal and orchestral music; Box 2 – piano and chamber music. This comprehensive Koechlin project began in 2001 as a collaboration between the Radio Symphony Orchestra of SWR Stuttgart, conductor Heinz Holliger, and Otfrid Nies of the Charles Koechlin Archive in Kassel. CHAMBER MUSIC Various artists This 7-CD box of chamber works by the great French composer Charles Koe- chlin is unique in several respects: rst, there is no comparable collection of this composer's chamber music; second, most of the performers were members of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra who became familiar with Koechlin’s works over many years; third, this familiarity produced highly relaxed and knowledgeable performances, which is naturally a huge advantage. SWR19047CD 7CD - PPD : 22,50€

ORCHESTRAL WORKS Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR - Heinz Holliger - SWR Vokalensemble

This release of Koechlin's orchestral works includes many world première recordings and gives a comprehensive overview of Koechlin’s output – from the early orchestral songs to his orchestrations of works by other composers, and to his huge later works. SWR19046CD 7CD - PPD : 22,50€

56 GRIEG - FRANCK - RAVEL - Piano Recital 1994

Svjatoslav Richter While there is no disputing Richter’s extraordinary technique, what set his interpretations apart was his ability to immerse himself completely into the music he performed, allowing the purity of the composer’s original vision to dominate his musical choices. Richter himself said: «The interpreter is really an executor, carrying out the composer’s SWR19409CD intentions to the letter. He doesn’t add anything that isn’t already in the 2CD - PPD : 12,50€ work. If he is talented, he allows us to glimpse the essence of the work that is in itself a thing of genius and that is re ected through him. He shouldn’t dominate the music, but should dissolve into it.» This extraordinary approach is on full display in this programme. Collectors have long regarded Richter’s performances of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces as de nitive, while his Ravel emphasises the inherent neo-classical structure underlying the virtuosic display.

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BRUCKNER - Hans Rosbaud Conducts Sinfonien 2 - 9 Hans Rosbaud - SWF Sinfonie-orchester Baden-Baden

Hans Rosbaud is remembered chie y as a committed performer of contemporary music. This resulted from his regular appearances in Donaueschingen, where he conducted either the world or regional premières of works by Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and many others. Crucially important was his conducting of SWR19043CD the rst concert performance of Arnold Schönberg’s opera Moses and Aaron 8CD - PPD : 48€ in Hamburg on 12 March 1954. Discipline, enthusiasm, detailed knowledge of orchestral instruments and faithfulness to the scores were qualities for which Hans Rosbaud was enormously admired.

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57 MOZART - BEETHOVEN - HAYDN - SCHUBERT Classical Arias Fritz Wunderlich Most interesting are the excerpts from Schubert operas, including previously unreleased arias from Fierrabras, and excerpts from the generally unknown opera Die Wunderinsel. Music journalist Kurt Honolka combined pieces by Schubert, mostly from Alfonso und Estrella, with parts of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Arias by Beethoven and from Haydn’s Die Jahreszeiten complete this SWR19048CD collection of classical arias. Of course, Wunderlich had a much wider 2CD - PPD : 12,50€ repertoire, which is duly reflected in the SWR Edition “Fritz Wunderlich – The SWR Recordings”. This series contains all the recordings that the young singer, opera performer and later world star recorded for the SWR. Fritz Wunderlich’s voice is simply incomparable, perfect in emotional expression. ALSO AVAILABLE

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VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Venetia Mundi Splendor

Ensemble Oktoechos / Lanfranco Menga

The Oktoechos ensemble, a sophisticated female vocal ensemble led by the specialist Lanfranco Menga, in this CD presents a program entirely dedicated to the union of music and politics in the Venice of the early fteenth century, time of its greatest economic growth and territorial TC390001 expansion. 1 CD - PPD : 10€

GIOVANNI BATTISTA SAMMARTINI - Sonate Per Clavicembalo

Susanna Piolanti

Giovanni Battista Sammartini, main exponent of the eighteenth century Milanese instrumental school, was not only a reference for local musicians. The award-winning harpsichordist Susanna Piolanti performs this unpublished collection of sonatas mostly edited in London during the TC701902 eighteenth century, in which the search for and the consolidation of a new 1 CD - PPD : 10€ language never ends: “I will, I will, but my harpsichord will kill me”, senior Sammartini answers to his customers’ requests. After all, the work of a composer always starts from the keyboard. 58 GIOVANNI ANTONIO - PANDOLFI MEALLI - Sonate, Roma 1669

Opera Qvinta / Fabrizio Longo Fabrizio Longo directs the Opera Quinta ensemble to the rediscovery of the music by Giovanni Antonio Pandol Mealli, a singular character and dynamic protagonist of the Italian and European music scene of the seventeenth century. Here Pandolfi composed the collection of songs presented in this CD, all TC621602 dedicated to Sicilian princes and musicians, including a singer that will later be 1 CD - PPD : 10€ murdered by the composer in unclear circumstances.

DIEGO CONTI - Quartetti Per Archi Officina Musicale

Diego Conti, violinist and contemporary composer, is certainly standing a tough challenge in creating these new string quartets, a genre that in the history of chamber music has seen the signatures of the most illustrious geniuses that produced hundreds of masterpieces. It takes courage, perhaps a bit of unconsciousness and, above all, an TC950390 - unshakable faith in a musical language that, after all, can still say something 2CD - PPD : 15,50€ new in this uncertain and unstable age where the non-culture and the resulting confusion seem to be reigning.

ANDREA ANTICO - Frottole Intabulate Libro Primo, 1517

Maria Luisa Baldassari

Organist and harpsichordist Maria Luisa Baldassari leads us to discover the singular gure of Andrea Antico da Montona, singular gure of musician and printer of the early Renaissance. For the recording of the “Frottole Intabulate” (the frottola is the most TC480101 popular Italian folk song in use between the fteenth and sixteenth 1 CD - PPD : 10€ centuries), Maria Luisa Baldassari takes advantage of performing original period instruments: the spinetta, the spinetta Harpsichord, clavichord, the rare and archaic “clavisimbalum”, and the magni cent 1533 Vincenzo Colombi organ of the Chiesa del SS. Corpo di Cristo in Valvasone.

BIAGIO MARINI - Madrigali Et Symfonie OP.II

I Musicali Affetti / RossoPorpora

Biagio Marini, composer and violinist from Brescia is universally recognized as one of the most singular personalities of the first half of the seventeenth century especially for his great contribution to the development of violin technique and the genre of the triosonate. TC591304 - In fact, his pro le is much more articulated and as a whole is represented 1CD +1DVD- PPD : 10€ more by vocal works than instrumental.

59 GIACINTO SCELSI - Opere Per Pianoforte

Rossella Spinosa

The sensible and sophisticated pianist Rossella Spinosa faces the arduous task of performing the music by Giacinto Scelsi, a very special composer that grew within the Parisian scene influenced by: Debussy, the generation of the Eighties, the Dodecafonia of the German school, and the esotericism of Skriabin, reaching (after traveling to the east in India and Tibet) his very TC901901 personal idea of global spherical sound. So Scelsi became the interpreter of a 1 CD - PPD : 10€ new concept of sound that transcends the formal architecture almost renouncing to making music, becoming a link between the earthly world and cosmic forces.

AMBROSIONI - BOVIO - GARIBOLDI - PASI - TOJA - SOLA - Musica per Flauto e Arpa dell’Ottocento Italiano Claudio Ortensi - Anna Pasetti

Claudio Ortensi’s ute and Anna Pasetti’s harp take this world back to us through this premiere recording of the works by Michelangelo Sola, Giovanni Toja, Angelo Bovio and Giuseppe Gariboldi, active protagonists of the European and Italian compositional streams converging chamber music with the political and cultural trends that crossed the Classicism and the Romanticism. TC800005 1 CD - PPD : 10€

BERNARDO STORACE - Selva Di Varie Composizioni D’Intavolatura Per Cimbalo et Organo Venezia 1664 Francesco Cera The figure and work of Bernardo Storace are particularly fascinating because of the aura of mystery which surrounding both. The only information we have on this remarkable composer for keyboard instruments is printed on the frontispiece of his one known work, the “Selva di varie compositioni d’intavolatura per cimbalo ed organo by Bernardo Storace vice Chapel TB 601990 - Master of the Illustrious Senate of the Noble and Exemplary City of Messina” 2CD - PPD : 9€ Francesco Cera, renowned early music specialist, here uses three different historical instruments: organ, harpsichord and spinetta, for a refined and competent performance, supported by Fabio Tricomi at the percussions.

MADDALENA LOMBARDINI - Sei Quartetti Per Archi Paris, 1769

Accademia della Magnifica Comunità Forgotten as a composer in spite of her remarkable skills and obvious appreciation of her contemporaries - including Amadeus Mozart and JC Bach - Maddalena Lombardini was grown in Venice in a small bourgeois family, and given her exceptional musical talent, at only seven she was admitted at at the school of the Hospital of the Mendicanti (one of the four major music TB731202 - 61’43 education schools for girls who then served during the political and religious 1 CD - PPD : 5,85€ ceremonies of the city). The execution is entrusted to the splendor of the “Accademia della Magnfica Comunità”, under the guidance of Enrico Casazza. 60 FERENC FARKAS - Orchestral Music, Volume Five Gabor Farkas - MÁV Symphony Orchestra Gabor Takacs-Nagy

The Toccata Classics survey of the music of the Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas (1905–2000) continues with this fifth album of his orchestral music. Earlier releases have presented the lighter side of his music, with its quasi-Baroque textures and buoyant good humour, but this one shows Farkas working on a larger scale and in generally darker mood. TOCC0286 - 69’40 Here he uses the full resources of the symphony orchestra in a number of 1 CD - PPD : 10€ powerful and dramatic works, including two movements from a symphony that he later withdrew and an orchestration of Liszt’s Funérailles. A lighter bonne bouche – the Dances from the Mátra, rather like Kodály’s Dances from Gálanta – rounds things off. Arnold GRILLER - Orchestral Music, Volume One

Denis Myasnikov - Musica Viva / Alexander Walker

The English composer Arnold Griller (b. 1937), son of the violinist Sidney Griller, grew up in London, surrounded by some of the world’s best-known musicians. Griller’s music turns out to be highly individual, often moving unexpectedly between moods of excitement and drive, wry humour and deep emotion. TOCC0424 - 83’02 Griller’s influences and interests range widely, from Domenico Scarlatti to such 1 CD - PPD : 10,00€ twentieth-century masters as Milhaud (his main teacher) and Stravinsky, and on to composers of today. Melodic lyricism, rhythmic intensity, textural clarity and contrapuntal complexity combine with a generosity of musical ideas to produce a unique style and voice.

FRANZ LISZT - Songs for Bass Voice and Piano

Jared Schwartz - Mary Dibbern Liszt’s songs are perhaps the most neglected part of his enormous output. Throughout his long career, his songs took a radical approach to form, eschewing convention in search for a sincere musical response to each text. Liszt’s free-spirited creativity meant that a single song would often call on a range of stylistic devices, among them bel canto vocal lines, unaccompanied TOCC0441 - 68’07 recitative, orchestrally conceived piano textures and audacious harmonic 1 CD - PPD : 10€ procedures. This first recording of his songs by a bass voice brings out both the power and poetry of Liszt’s remarkable imagination.

ORLANDE DE LASSUS - Responsories for Holy Week

Ars Cantica / Marco Berrini Orlande de Lassus (1530/32–94) was one of the most prolific composers in history: he wrote more than 70 Masses and 700 motets, around 300 madrigals and 100 Magnificats, as well as hymns, German Lieder, French chansons and Italian villanesche. This is the first recording of the critical edition of the Responsories prepa- TOCC0404 - 54’14 red by the late Peter Bergqvist, the internationally recognised authority on 1 CD - PPD : 10€ Lassus’ music. In these miniature dramas Lassus skilfully supports the text, as was then required by the Council of Trent, illustrating the human tragedy of the Easter story with exquisite music that is all the more moving for its restraint. 61 62 jazz releases 64 CHRYSTEL WAUTIER - The Stolen Book

CHRYSTEL WAUTIER - Cédric Raymond - Lorenzo Di Maio Jacques Pili - Jérôme Klein - Michel Seba

Singer-Songwriter, Chrystel Wautier is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful voices of the actual European Jazz circuit. Granddaughter of Ukrainian immigrants, Chrystel was born in the Hainaut BON170601 region in Belgium. From the age of six she was initiated to Gospel by her 1 CD - PPD : 12,50€ father pastor and musician. Nourished by gospel influences, her tune bloomed with Brazilian and pop inspirations. It stands committed to the Jazz philosophy: innovative, unexpected and open-minded. In 2016, Chrystel Wautier was invited to perform in the land of her ancestors, and more precisely, at the Lviv Opera on the occasion of de 25th anniversary Ukrainian independency. An overwhelming travel which has been the trigger of a long work leading to this new intimate album. ALSO AVAILABLE Just after her return from Ukraine, Chrystel heard on a radio programme a young writer talking about a strange phenomenon: the book thieves in the libraries. Do the people have no access to Culture? Or can’t they recognize value of the artist’s work? The story of those stolen books rapidly became a second intense and heady reflexion. Therefore “The Stolen Book“ is the result of this double questioning. The question asked by each person part of the “second-generation immigrant”: Who am I and where do I come from? BON160201 “The Stolen Book“ tells about her own “stolen book” and story, the weight of 1 CD - PPD : 12,50€ being part of this “second-generation”, the research of our own identity.

VARIOUS COMPOSERS - Ménage à Trois ENRICO PIERANUNZI - André Ceccarelli - Diego Imbert Pianist, composer, arranger, born in Rome in 1949, Enrico Pieranunzi is one of the most famous and popular musicians of the international jazz scene. His formative years embraced both classical and jazz piano. Emerging in theearly ‘70s, his lyrical approach quickly brought him to the forefront of the European scene and, in 1984, he formed a trio with Marc Johnson and Joey Baron, the first of several outstanding groups with American BON160901 musicians – this trio was said to be “one of the very top tier trios wor- 1 CD - PPD : 12,50€ king today” by the famous on line magazine “All About Jazz”. Pieranunzi created a piano style of his own in which jazz and classical languages are unconsciously and organically interwoven and he is,furthermore, a true original and a fine composer. His new album is named: Ménage à Trois. Ménage à Trois because - in that album - Enrico Pieranunzi harmoniously- succeeds in making live together his wife (the classical music) live and his mistress (the jazz). Ménage à Trois also because Enrico Pieranunzi recorded it in trio with his faithful accomplices: André Ceccarelli (drums) & Diego Imbert (bass). On this all-too-rare intensity album, Enrico Pieranunzi «jazzify» with elegance & lyricism great works of the romantic classical repertoire demonstrating that majors artists such as Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Maurice Schumann, Gabriel Fauré, Frantz Liszt, Darius Milhaud, Bach, could have been fantastic jazzmen. 65 CATALOGUE LABEL BONSAÏ

Ben Sidran

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Léo Sidran

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Emmanuel Bex Carmine Ioanna Nico Morelli Mike Ladd

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Matthieu Boré

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66 Nico Morelli - Aldo Christophe Romano Michel Benita Wallemme

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Olivier Ker Ourio

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Musica Nuda

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67 TOBIAS MEINHART - Silent Dreamer

Tobias Meinhart As implied by the album’s title, Silent Dreamer is intended to recapture the essence of the unconscious imagination: both ethereal daydreams and bitter nightmares, as well as all the invisible worlds that live between the two. Tobias about his new album: “When improvising and composing, I like to think of myself as a ‘SOUND-PAINTER’ adding strokes to a canvas ENJA9754 and bringing it to life.” 1CD - PPD : 12,95€

BORDERLANDS TRIO STEPHEN CRUMP - KRIS DAVIS - ERIC MCPHERSON Asteroidea

CD295 1 CD - PPD : 12,95€

Borderlands Trio, the collective effort of bassist Stephan Crump, pianist Kris Davis and drummer Eric McPherson, has luck on its side. Less than a year old, its chemistry is unusually deep. And while I don’t often use the term, it’s also a band that boasts a bit of magic. ... The album title Asteroida is the Latin term for starfish – a creature that can regenerate parts of itself whenever need be. That idea resonates with Crump because of the trio’s abi- lity to steadily develop new landscapes, and the Stephan Crump reminds that the word starfish conjures notions of both the ocean and outer space. ‘Gravity, magnetism, con- stellations, nature. With this band, we’re always expanding and contracting, recontextualizing what’s around us and heading for the instantly inevitable.’... ALSO AVAILABLE

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68 HANS HASSLER - Wie Die Zeit Hinter Mir Her

HANS HASSLER

IntaktCD288 1CD - PPD : 12,95€

Hans Hassler, born 1945 in Graubünden, East Switzerland, is the true Swiss king of accordion. Hassler inspires the listener with his playful virtuosity, a good sense of humour and a musical imagination without borders. For Hans Hassler, performing on a variety of stages, to return to the studio as a soloist means adding something significant to anything which has already been played. It doesn’t necessarily have to be new or different; it has to be substantial. Hans Hassler has retained something of the originality of his playing. He combines this elemental, physical and spontaneously deployed music-making power with a finely tuned sense for artistic form.There are ethereal lone notes and powerful clusters of tones, and altogether a great deal of dynamics, scurrility, humour, drama and thoughtfulness. That, if we wish to name it, is Hassler music.

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VARIOUS COMPOSERS - His 19 Finest Johnny Windhurst

New York-born Johnny Windhurst (1926-1981) was playing alongside Sidney Bechet as a teenager, apparently destined for jazz immortality, and he was among the most highly regarded of the Eddie Condon ‘school’, one whose skill and imagination was spoken of with awe by fellow musicians. Yet somehow his career didn’t take off and he eventually opted to play in local obscurity. This collection of his rare studio recordings, plus a few RTR4316 - 1H16 spectacular live concert broadcasts, is a revelation, demonstrating the 1 CD - PPD : 7,85€ artistry of a true jazz master.

69 VARIOUS COMPOSERS - His 25 Finest

Dick Cathcart

David Matthews and Peter Sheppard Skærved have been collaborating on a series of works for violin for many years now, in a partnership that has resulted in over 30 works, from string quartets to many pieces for violin alone.

RTR4308 1 CD - PPD : 7,85€

70 other releases 72 VARIOUS COMPOSERS - His 25 Finest

Frank Crumit Always a great favourite, especially in the UK, the inimitable Frank Crumit (1889-1943) performs all his best-loved comic songs on one well-filled CD. A jocular and inventive singer and writer of comic novelties, the American Crumit was a leading figure in stage, radio and recorded entertainment in the 20s and 30s. Especially popular for his sprightly and humorous renderings, RTR4317- 1h19 he had a pleasant, warm-hearted nature that came through on his recordings, 1 CD - PPD : 7,85€ where his friendly voice and lively accompaniments to catchy tunes have given a lasting quality. Surprisingly, he was even more famous in Britain than in his native USA. He is credited with 31 ‘chart hits’ from 1920 to 1929.

VARIOUS COMPOSERS - HARPS, DULCIMERS & HURDY GURDIES

Harps, dulcimers &hurdy gurdies from grat britain, Ireland, N.America, China, Middle East, France, Italy and the low countries.

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