July 2019 Catalogue Issue 39 Prices valid until Wednesday 28 August 2019 unless stated otherwise Image taken from the cover of Linn 0115 982 7500 CKR467: Quartets and Concertos by JF Fasch performed by the Ensemble Marsyas (reissue) [email protected] Your Account Number: {MM:Account Number} {MM:Postcode} {MM:Address5} {MM:Address4} {MM:Address3} {MM:Address2} {MM:Address1} {MM:Name} 1 Welcome! Dear Customer, Clara Schumann has been posthumously enjoying a mini-revival of interest in her work this year, the 200th anniversary of her birth being just around the corner. We have seen around a dozen new releases this year (so far) that feature her music in some fashion - around double what we would usually see in an entire year. July is no exception, and it is especially pleasing to see a major label like Decca pick up on the celebrations, given their ability to expose their recordings to a slightly wider audience. Theirs is also one of the few discs that is devoted to her music alone, and features Isata Kanneh-Mason (sister of Sheku) playing the Piano Concerto alongside a selection of solo piano works and transcriptions. Also of note is a new disc from Avie that includes some of her songs, coupled with both of the Liederkreis cycles by her husband. We managed to get a sneak preview and can report that tenor Kyle Stegall is superb, beautifully accompanied by Eric Zivian on a period instrument. We are thoroughly looking forward to getting to know this repertoire better. Nicola Benedetti has returned to the studio for the first time in three years, having worked with Wynton Marsalis on the world premiere recording of his jazz-infused Violin Concerto. Continuing the classical-jazz traditions of composers such as Bernstein and Gershwin, the disc also includes his ‘Fiddle Dance Suite’ and is brilliantly performed by all involved. Other new releases worth pointing out include a stunning complete Kullervo (Sibelius) from Thomas Dausgaard and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (see ‘Disc of the Month’ below and our review on p.39); two excellent cycle-continuances from Chandos in the shape of Berlioz from Andrew Davis and Haydn from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, plus they commence a new series of the Schubert song cycles from Roderick Williams; Dutton Epoch offer us four new titles featuring their usual lesser-known yet fascinating repertoire; and we are also now able to offer the boxset of Beethoven Symphonies from Adam Fischer on Naxos, recently featured on Record Review and about which we have received several enquiries. Don’t miss the headline boxset from Warner Classics on p.6 too: ‘The British Line’ collects together the excellent recordings made by Teldec in the 1990s with Andrew Davis and the BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrating great British composers. Special offers include some decent-sized catalogues to get your teeth into - Ondine, Dynamic (CDs and DVDs/Blu-rays) and Alto - plus we have a wide selection of 2CD sets from Decca and DG at bargain prices, and two smaller labels well worth investigating: Odradek from the US and Skani from Latvia. Best regards from, The Europadisc Team DISC OF THE MONTH Sibelius Kullervo £12.95 Helena Juntunen, Benjamin Appl, Lund Male Chorus, BBC Scottish Symphony or pay just Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard Hyperion CDA 68248 £9.95 if your order value It is difficult to overstate the impact of the premiere of Sibelius’s Kullervo symphony on 28 April 1892, both upon the reputation and career of its twenty-six-year-old composer exceeds £50* and also upon the idea of a national music in Finland. The performance, which took * to qualify for the special price, your order value must exceed a place in the ceremonial Aula or great hall of Helsinki University, was conducted by total of £50 excluding this Sibelius himself and showcased two of the country’s leading soloists: baritone Abraham recording and before any applicable carriage charges. Ojanperä and soprano Emmy Achté (mother of the great Wagnerian diva Aino Ackté, for Offer available while stocks last. whom Sibelius later wrote his great tone poem Luonnotar in 1913). The significance of the event was marked by its illustrious audience, including a pantheon of Finnish dignitaries, and by its critical reception, which was unreservedly enthusiastic. In the febrile climate of the early 1890s, as Finland was struggling to assert itself over its increasingly oppressive Russian rulers and gain some form of independence or self-determination (a goal that was only eventually achieved in 1917), such high-profile musical performances gained a powerfully political symbolism. With the benefit of historical distance, the symphony can be perceived as the vital first step in a far more wide-ranging musical journey, and as a salutary glimpse of the originality and brilliance of the young musician’s compositional imagination. It is impossible to perceive the shape and quality of Sibelius’s later symphonies without the searing experience of Kullervo. 2 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES DG and Decca Schumann, C Marsalis Piano Concerto, Piano Violin Concerto, Fiddle Sonata, 3 Romances etc Dance Suite Kanneh-Mason, RLPO, Benedetti, The Philadelphia Mathieson Orchestra, Macelaru £12.50 £12.50 Decca 485 0020 Decca 485 0013 due 12/7 Also available 483 6606 Gateways Works by Rachmaninov, Qigang Chen and Kreisler Vengerov;Shanghai SO;Long Yu £13.50 483 6978 Tchaikovsky Symphonies 1-6 4CD + Blu-ray Audio BPO;Karajan £22.95 483 7137 Bruckner The Symphonies 9CD + Blu-ray Audio BPO;Karajan £43.95 The Ernst Haefliger Edition Marking the centenary of his birth £41.95 483 7122 (41CD) Marking the centenary of Ernst Haefliger, one of the foremost lyric tenors of his time; renowned for his interpretations of Mozart, Bach and Lieder. Showcasing his artistry and versatility in Bach and Handel (under Karl Richter), Mozart, Beethoven and Kodály (Fricsay), Bruckner and Mahler (Jochum), as well as the great songs of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Janáček. Includes the first release on CD of Beethoven’s Ich liebe dich, so wie du mich and Adelaide, and Adolphe Adam’s Der Postillon von Lonjumeau; plus the first international CD release of much more. The Art of Pierre Cochereau £25.95 476 2363 (6CD) Pierre Cochereau it can be said, restored Notre-Dame to its rightful place as the undisputed ‘grand fromage’ of French church music following years in the doldrums after the death of Louis Vierne in 1937. His penchant for gothic gesture was evocative and always a perfect fit for Notre-Dame’s instrument and acoustic, and his reconciling of the French romantic organ sound with the pillars of Bach’s organ repertory distinguished him as ‘a phenomenon without equal in the history of the contemporary organ’ as his teacher Marcel Dupré was to remark. It is doubtless as an improvisor that Cochereau’s musical legacy is most important, taking the ephemeral tradition of the French organ school to its apogee. This collection spans the breadth of Cochereau’s vast repertoire and includes two discs of improvisations. Sony Summer Night’s Vladimir Feltsman Concert 2019 The Complete Columbia Gershwin, Dvorak, Album Collection - Liszt, Barber, Sousa etc Rachmaninov, Schubert, Wang, VPO, Dudamel Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky etc £12.50 £42.95 19075 943542 19075 911432 (8CD) 3 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Chandos Berlioz Schurmann Symphonie fantastique, Film Music - Dr Syn, Fantasie sur la tempete Claretta, The Gambler, de Shakespeare The Ceremony etc Toronto SO, A Davis BBC PO, Gamba £12.95 £12.95 CHSA 5239 (Hybrid SACD) CHAN 10979 Haydn Schubert Piano Sonatas vol.8 - Die Schone Mullerin nos. 5, 6, 7, 51 & 59 Williams, Burnside Bavouzet £12.95 £12.95 CHAN 20113 CHAN 20087 BIS all Hybrid SACDs at £12.95 each Debussy Bach, JS Brahms Leifs Nocturnes, Printemps, The Lute Suites The 5 Sonatas for Violin and Edda II Rapsodie, Danses sacree et Halasz (guitar) Piano vol.1: op.120/1, Sturludottir, Gilbertsson, profane, Berceuse heroique BIS 2285 op.78, Scherzo from FAE Schola Cantorum, Iceland SO, Singapore SO, Shui Wallin, Pontinen Baumer BIS 2232 BIS 2369 BIS 2420 Signum Handel’s Queens Phibbs/Mozart Arias written for Cuzzoni Clarinet Concertos and Bordoni van de Wiel, Philharmonia, Crowe, Bevan, London Early London CO, Warren-Green Opera, Cunningham £13.95 £20.95 SIGCD 578 SIGCD 578 (2CD) due 12/7 Handel’s Queens features some of the most exquisite pieces of Mark van de Wiel joins the Philharmonia under Christopher music written by G.F. Handel and his contemporaries for the two Warren-Green in the premiere recording of Joseph Phibbs’ finest singers of the eighteenth century, Faustina Bordoni and Clarinet Concerto. Following a long friendship between composer Francesca Cuzzoni. Often wrongfully framed as rivals, these and soloist, Phibbs and van de Wiel collaborated to create this dazzling new recordings with Mary Bevan and Lucy Crowe reveal stunning and virtuosic new work, which features a thrilling the distinctive yet versatile talent of the Italian vocalists. cadenza at the end of the first movement. It is paired with a Conductor Bridget Cunningham continues her research and scintillating live concert-recording of Mozart’s timeless Concerto created Handel’s Queens and directs London Early Opera from the for Basset Clarinet in A Major, K. 622, performed with the London harpsichord. Chamber Orchestra. 4 PRIORITY NEW RELEASES Naxos at £8.50 each (except where stated) due 12/7 Beethoven Rossini Myaskovsky Rahbari Complete Symphonies Eduardo e Cristina Symphonies 1 & 13 My Mother Persia - Symphonic Danish Chamber Orchestra, Polverelli, Benetta,