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2 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices OCTOBER 2015 Highlight of the month Janáček & Smetana String Quartets

Bedřich SMETANA: String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my Life’; Leoš JANÁČEK: String Quartet No. 1 ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’; String Quartet No. 2 ‘Intimate Letters’

Takács Quartet

A second new album this year from the much-fêted Takács Quartet presents three popular string quartets from Czechoslovakia. Janáček’s two quartets share with Smetana’s No. 1 narrative undercurrents, and draw from our four players performances of gripping engagement.

CDA67997 £9.00

Wilhelm FITZENHAGEN The Romantic Cello Concerto – 7

Cello Concerto No. 1 in B minor; Cello Concerto No. 2 in A minor; Variations on a Rococo Theme (Tchaikovsky arr. Fitzenhagen); Ballade; Resignation

Alban Gerhardt Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Stefan Blunier CDA68063 The music of Wilhelm Fitzenhagen bursts into the Hyperion catalogue with two triumphant cello £9.00 concertos, a couple of other original works, and his infamous version of the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations. Ace cellist Alban Gerhardt presides.

Arias for Benucci Giovanni PAISIELLO: Overture from Il re Teodoro in Venezia; Antonio SALIERI: Spiriti Invisibili from La Grotta di Trofonio; Idol Vano d’un Popol Codardo from Axur, re d’Ornus; Vincente Martín y SOLER: In Quegli Anni from Una Cosa Rara; Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Overture from Don Giovanni; Eh Consolatevi from Don Giovanni; Madamina, Il Caralogo è Questo from Don Giovanni; Overture from Le Nozze di Figaro; Bravo, Signor Pardone! from Le Nozze di Figaro; Se Vuol Ballare from Le Nozze di Figaro; Tutto è Disposto from Le Nozze di Figaro; Aprite un po’ Quegli Occhi from Le Nozze di Figaro; Ehi, sor Paggio! from Le Nozze di Figaro; Non Più Andrai from Le Nozze di Figaro; Il Core vi Dono from Le Nozze di Figaro; Ristati Quà! from Le Nozze di Figaro; Per Queste tue Manine from Le Nozze di Figaro; Giuseppe SARTI: Oime! Che Innanzi Agli Occhi from I Contrattempi; Penso, Che per Morire from I Contrattempi

Matthew Rose, Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen CDA68078 £9.00 Matthew Rose, Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen throw themselves into the riotous world of Francesco Benucci, the larger-than-life opera star for whom Mozart created the role of Figaro.

Calm on the Listening Ear of Night

René CLAUSEN: In Page; The Last Invocation; A Jubilant Song; A Clear Midnight; La Lumière; Pater Noster; Calm on the Listening Ear of Night; Stephen PAULUS: Gabriel’s Message; Jesu Carols; Arise, My Love; Evensong; Illusions; A Rich Brocade; The Road Home

Royal Holloway Choir, Rupert Gough

René Clausen and Stephen Paulus are two of the biggest names in American choral music of the last few decades. In the singers of Royal Holloway Choir they find worthy new champions. CDA68110 £9.00

Franz SCHUBERT Impromptus, Piano Pieces & Variations

Four Impromptus; Three Piano Pieces; Variations on a Theme by Anselm Hüttenbrenner

Steven Osborne

Steven Osborne shines in lyrical new performances of seven of Schubert’s greatest late works for piano, plus the extended Hüttenbrenner Variations of 1817. CDA68107 £9.00

OCTOBER 2015 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices 3 Highlight of the month Arthur BLISS Morning Heroes; Hymn to Apollo (original version)

Samuel West, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis

Sir Andrew Davis here conducts the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra in works by Sir Arthur Bliss, with Samuel West as orator. The disc was recorded after a remarkable performance of Morning Heroes at the Barbican in May 2015, The Guardian praising the ‘excellent’ Samuel West, and Davis who ‘got [the] mood exactly right, and both the orchestra and chorus did everything that he asked of them… [producing] a convincingly symphonic shape’. The piece is coupled with the Hymn to Apollo, recorded here for the first time in its original 1926 version. Like many of his works, Morning Heroes and Hymn to Apollo were composed as a tribute to his brother Kennard who had died on the front during WWI. Both works were premiered in the 30s to immediate success but have been rather neglected since then. CHSA 5159 £9.00 (Hybrid SACD)

Music for Winds

Samuel BARBER: Summer Music, Op. 31; Paul HINDEMITH: Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24 No. 2; Carl NIELSEN: Wind Quartet, Op. 43; Leoš JANÁČEK: Mládí; György LIGETI: Sechs Bagatellen

London Winds

The ensemble London Winds, praised by BBC Music Magazine for its ‘technical accomplishment, expressive commitment and warmth of timbre’, presents great twentieth-century works for winds. It features music by Hindemith, Nielsen, and Janáček, and, from the next generation, Barber and Ligeti. CHAN 10876 Although not equally prolific, all these composers brought the wind repertoire back to prominence, £9.00 after a quiet period of more than a century. The music is full of playfulness and European folk colours.

Francis POULENC Piano Concertos; Aubade

Louis Lortie, Hélène Mercier BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner

After a successful cycle of Chopin works for solo piano, exclusive Chandos artist Louis Lortie plays works by Poulenc with his duet partner Hélène Mercier. The French-Canadian pianists draw a persuasive portrait of the melancholic Parisian that Poulenc was: playful and depressed, like his tutor, CHAN 10875 Erik Satie. There is always a sense of palpable anxiety in these pieces, be it the sarcastic joie de vivre of the ‘choreographic concerto’ Aubade or the ironic melancholy of the explosive Concerto for Two £9.00 Pianos.

Johannes BRAHMS Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 5 Paganini Variations Op. 35, Book II; Piano Pieces, Op. 76 Nos. 3 and 4; Piano Pieces, Op. 118 Nos. 1, 4 and 6; Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 21 No. 1; Variations on a Hungarian Song, Op. 21 No. 2; Two Sarabandes, WoO 5 posth.; Scherzo in E flat minor, Op. 4; Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 Nos. 1, 3 and 5 Barry Douglas This album is the penultimate issue in what BBC Music Magazine has described as a ‘triumph of CHAN 10878 Brahmsian thought’, namely the survey by Barry Douglas of the composer’s complete works for solo £9.00 piano. Three years after the release of Volume 1, the winner of the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition is now performing this repertoire in the finest international venues, such as Concertgebouw ni 2016, when the series will come to a highly anticipated climax with the final volume.

Jerzy FITELBERG Chamber Works by Jerzy Fitelberg Music in Exile, Vol. 2

String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2; Serenade; Sonatine; Nachtmusik, Op. 9 ‘Fisches Nachtgesang’

ARC Ensemble This is Volume 2 in our series of works by Jewish composers who were forced to flee the hirdT Reich during the 30s. The Grammy-nominated ARC Ensemble (Artists of the Royal Conservatory, Toronto) here presents premiere recordings of chamber works by Jerzy Fitelberg. The disc offers two String Quartets, CHAN 10877 the early mysterious Nachtmusik for clarinet, cello, and celeste, the Sonatine for two violins, shaped by £9.00 Polish folk tunes, and the Serenade for viola and piano, composed in New York in 1943 and published in 1954, three years after Fitelberg’s death.

4 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices OCTOBER 2015 Highlight of the month Sally BEAMISH The Singing

The Singing; A Cage of Doves; Under the Wing of the Rock; Reckless; Trumpet Concerto

James Crabb, Branford Marsalis, Håkan Hardenberger Royal Scottish National Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, Martyn Brabbins

As a whole, this programme highlights the inspiration Sally Beamish has found in Scotland, her adopted homeland, and its landscape and history, while also reflecting her interest in jazz and Scottish traditional music. Its title, The Singing is taken from the opening work, but it also symbolizes her interest in song, be it Gaelic chants (as in the concerto) or a Scottish lullaby (Under the Wing of the Rock), and the more abstract concept of translating words into music, as in her Trumpet Concerto, which takes Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities as its starting point. BIS2156 £9.00 (Hybrid SACD)

Felix MENDELSSOHN

String Quartets No. 2 in A minor & No. 3 in D major

Escher String Quartet

In 1827, when writing his Op. 13, the eighteen-year-old Mendelssohn was especially interested in Beethoven’s late quartets – at a time when these works were generally written off as ‘confused fantasies of a deaf BIS1990 musician’. Ten years after the Op. 13 quartet, Mendelssohn composed the three quartets that make up his Op. £9.00 (Hybrid SACD) 44. The first volume in the Eschers’ series, released in April 2015, has been warmly received by the critics, being described as ‘a noteworthy addition to the Mendelssohn discography’ (Pizzicato).

Johann Sebastian BACH Masaaki Suzuki Plays Bach Organ Works Masaaki Suzuki The recipient of the 2012 City of Leipzig Bach Medal, Masaaki Suzuki has earned an enviable reputation as an interpreter of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. He here appears on a disc that combines some of BIS2111 Bach’s best-loved works for organ, including the D minor Toccata and Fugue, the Partitas on ‘O Gott, du frommer Gott’, BWV 767, the Canonic Variations, BWV 769, and the celebrated Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 548. The £9.00 (Hybrid SACD) recording was made in Groningen’s Martinikerk, with Suzuki performing on one of the most important and impressive organs in the Netherlands.

Im Schönen Strome – Heine Lieder Robert SCHUMANN: Liederkreis, Op. 24; Robert FRANZ: Im Wunderschönen Monat Mai, Op. 25 No. 5; Mädchen mid dem Roten Mündchen, Op. 5 No. 5; Die Blauen Frülingsaugen, Op. 20 No. 1; Franz LISZT: Im Rhein, S. 272; Morgens Steh’ Ich Auf und Frage, S. 290; Anfangs Wollt’ Ich Fast Verzagen, S. 311; Ein Fichtenbaum, S. 309; Die Loreley, S. 273 Christian Immler, Georges Starobinski Although highly productive and respected in his lifetime as a composer of Lieder, Robert Franz has since become BIS2143 a peripheral figure in music history. However, in the songs of Franz, Christian Immler and Georges Starobinski £9.00 (Hybrid SACD) were moved by their findings to devise a programme which includes 23 of the composer’ssongs. Using the poet Heinrich Heine as their guiding star, they present these in the form of two ‘imagined’ song cycles, framed by further settings of Heine poems by Schumann and Liszt, who were both staunch supporters of Franz.

György KURTÁG Kafka Fragments Caroline Melzer, Nurit Stark György Kurtág composed his Kafka-Fragmente in the mid-1980s, and these settings of text fragments by Franz BIS2175 Kafka remain one of his most popular works. The cycle contains no single narrative thread and tells no coherent ‘tale’, yet it has become quite common to present it in staged versions. The composer extracted the texts from £9.00 (Hybrid SACD) Kafka’s letters, diaries and notebooks; shards that together form a complex mosaic. Kurtág’s ability to convey a range of situations and emotions transforms each fragment into a vision of dreamlike intensity, where the real becomes surreal.

Nybyggnan Adrian JONES: Nybyggnan; Tingsmarschen; Daniel REID: Ringar På Vattnet

Daniel Reid, Jeanette Eriksson, Sérgio Crisóstomo, Adrian Jones, Anna Wallgren

Adrian Jones has constructed his concerto in six parts using a set of newly written tunes in a folk idiom and with elements from jazz, heavy rock and classical music. Nybyggnan, a folk music saxophone concerto in chamber music BIS2119 format, was composed for saxophonist Daniel Reid. Composer and soloist were students together, and Nybyggnan is the result of a close collaboration between them. Reid is joined by a string quartet which includes the composer; £9.00 (Hybrid SACD) together the five also perform Reid’s Rings on Water as well as Adrian Jones’ arrangement of the Tingsmarschen.

OCTOBER 2015 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices 5 The Pilgrim’s Progress Ralph Vaughan WILLIAMS: Incidental Music from The Pilgrim’s Progress; Granville BANTOCK: Two Choruses

John Gielgud, BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Chorus, Adrian Boult This is the first commercial release of the BBC’s radio broadcast of a play based onThe Pilgrim’s Progress in September ALBCD023/024 1943, with incidental music by Vaughan Williams. This was eight years before Vaughan Williams completed his opera of the same name, so there are dramatic and musical differences. Sir Adrian Boult conducts the BBC Symphony £11.10 (2 CDs) Orchestra and Chorus, and the cast of actors is led by John Gielgud as Christian. Additionally, there are recordings from 1929 of two choruses by Sir Granville Bantock written to celebrate the tercentenary of John Bunyan.

Highlight of the month Richard WAGNER Das Rheingold

Michael Volle, Christian van Horn, Benjamin Bruns, Burkhard Ulrich, Elisabeth Kulman, Annette Dasch, Janina Baechle, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle

It has often been asserted, albeit without good reason, that Rattle and Wagner do not go together. This has now been conclusively disproved by the third collaboration between Rattle and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, together with a team of the very best Wagner singers. This concert performance of Das Rheingold, the first opera in Wagner’s mighty tetralogy was performed in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz. 900133 £18.00 (2 CDs)

George Frideric HANDEL Messiah Julia Doyle, Lawrence Zazzo, Steve Davislim, Neal Davies B’Rock Belgisches Barockorchester Gent, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Peter Dijkstra 900510 Handel’s Messiah portrays the life of the ‘anointed one’ (the literal meaning of the Hebrew word ‘Messiah’), from the Annunciation and his birth to his death on the cross and revelation, and contains a considerable number of baroque £13.80 (2 CDs) super-hits including the world-famous ‘Hallelujah’ chorus. This successful interpretation with its excellent line-up of performers makes the present complete recording into something really special.

Beethoven Symphony No. 6 Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 ‘Pastorale’; Giya KANCHELI: Dixi Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons The Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks has already performed Beethoven symphony cycles on several occasions. Mariss Jansons has now extended the cycle concept in two respects: with works specially commissioned 900136 from contemporary composers, who have contributed their own musical reflections on Beethoven symphonies, and by £9.00 presenting these outstanding concert events on the record market as a series of live recordings.

Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7 in A major Op. 92; Symphony No. 8 in F major Op. 93; Jörg WIDMANN: ‘Con Brio’ Konzertouvertüre für Orchester Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons 900137 Chief conductor Mariss Jansons has extended the cycle concept in several regards. The live recordings of £9.00 Symphonies Nos 7 and 8 were exceptionally well received by public and press alike. On the present recording they are complemented by Con Brio, a modern contribution by Jörg Widmann (b. 1973), one of the most important representatives of the young generation of composers.

Julia WOLFE Anthracite Fields Bang on a Can All-Stars, Choir of Trinity Wall Street

Haunting, poignant and relentlessly physical, Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields is a fitting recipient of the 2015 Pulitzer CA2111 Prize for Music. The work is a lovingly detailed oratorio about turn-of-the-20th-century Pennsylvanian coal miners £9.00 that weaves together personal interviews that she conducted with the miners and their families, along with oral histories, speeches, rhymes and local mining lore.

6 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices OCTOBER 2015 Highlight of the month Poetry in Music

William HARRIS: Faire is the Heaven; Michael TIPPETT: Dance, Clarion Air; Thomas WEELKES: When David Heard; James MACMILLAN: The Gallant Weaver; Ivor GURNEY: Since I Believe in God the Father Almighty; Robert RAMSEY: When David Heard; Benjamin BRITTEN: Hymn to Saint Cecilia; Edmund RUBBRA: There is a Spirit; Eternitie; Michael EAST: When David Heard; Herbert HOWELLS: Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing; Robert PEARSALL: Lay a Garland; Thomas TOMKINS: When David Heard; William HARRIS: Bring Us, O Lord God

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers

The transcendent nature of music and the power of poetry to challenge perceptions of reality flow through a programme that invites contemplation of life and death, love and loss, creation and eternity. In a journey spanning six centuries, The Sixteen performs anthems with powerful COR16134 texts by writers such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Fry and W. H. Auden. £9.00

The Complete Traditional Christmas Carols Collection

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers COR16136 Due to popular demand, CORO has packaged The Sixteen’s two most popular Christmas titles into one double CD set. The ensemble’s Traditional Christmas Carol Collections Volumes I and II feature some of the best-known and best-loved Christmas £9.00 (2 CDs) carols in arrangements with traditional harmonies and original words. There is also an abundance of festive music and The Sixteen includes some rediscovered treasures in this collection such as Masters in this Hall, Past three a clock and Gloucestershire Wassail.

Joseph HAYDN The Creation Sarah Tynan, Jeremy Ovenden, Matthew Brook Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers COR16135 £13.50 (2 CDs) Inspired by Haydn’s trips to England, where he first heard Handel’s oratorios,The Creation is widely considered Haydn’s crowning masterpiece. Harry Christophers says: ‘…with The Creation [Haydn] excels himself, allowing soloists, chorus and period orchestra to revel in vivid word painting’. The Handel and Haydn Society is America’s oldest operating arts organisation. Its Bicentennial celebration began with the 2014-2015 Season and continues into the 2015-2016 Season.

Kurt ATTERBERG (1887-1974) Cello Concerto in C minor, Op. 21; Horn Concerto in A major, Op. 28 Nikolaj Schneider, Johannes-Theodor Wiemes, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Ari Rasilainen 999874-2 This disc concludes CPO’s series of the concertos of Kurt Atterberg. The Swedish composer penned both works in the £9.00 1920s, and took an approach that was more intuitive than analytical - in the Horn Concerto he employs the unusual combination of strings, piano, and percussion to create a tonal phenomenon completely different from the Cello Concerto.

Heinrich SCHÜTZ (1891-1952) Symphoniae Sacrae I Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Manfred Cordes 777929-2 This disc is a continuation of CPO’s benchmark Heinrich Schütz edition with the Weser-Renaissance Bremen under the baton of Manfred Cordes. In this latest release the ensemble interprets the Symphoniae Sacrae I, the oldest printed £18.00 (3 CDs) collection of Schütz’s works.

Flos virginum Motets of the 15th Century Stimmwerck 777937-2 Here, Stimmwerck, the ingenious German vocal quartet, sets out on exciting and unknown paths of European musical £9.00 (Hybrid SACD) history. The present recording featuring late medieval motets and songs by Brassart, Martini, Roullet, and anonymous composers from various manuscript sources offers an in-depth cross section of early vocal music in which the joie de vivre and profound piety of that epoch are uniquely experienced. Leo FALL Die Kaiserin Operetta in Three Acts Miriam Portmann, Jevenij Taruntsov, Verena Barth-Jurca, Gerhard Balluch, Clemens Kerschbaumer, Gabriele Kridl 777915-2 Chor des Lehar Festivals Bad Ischl, Franz Lehar-Orchester, Marius Burkert £18.00 (2 CDs) Conspiratorial plots, affairs and intrigue surround the court of the legendary Austrian Empress Maria Theresa in Leo Fall’s marvellous musical love story, Die Kaiserin. The libretto is deliberately not rooted in a historical context to reflect the requirements of the operetta genre around 1915 - to keep abreast of the times both in its music and content while avoiding all-too-obvious references to current political events.

OCTOBER 2015 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices 7 Johann Nicolaus DENNINGER Piano Trios Trio 1790 777926-2 The rare piano trios featured on this disc are interesting representatives of stylistic musical development over the last £6.90 two decades of the 18th century. Denninger worked in Öhringen, the residence of Prince Ludwig Friedrich Carl von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, as the music director of the court ensemble from 1780 to 1800 and was also in charge of church music, producing compositions for both areas.

George ENESCU Symphony No. 4 in E minor; Nuages d’Automne sur les Forets; Chamber Symphony Op. 33 NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Peter Ruzicka 777966-2 The present recording, like the Symphony No. 5 in D major, is a world-premiere release conducted by Peter Ruzicka, and emphatically underscores Enescu’s rank as a great symphonist of the 20th century. £9.00

Josef SUK Kirill Petrenko Conducts Josef Suk Symphony Op. 27 ‘Asrael’; A Summer’s Tale; The Enchanted Lake Op. 62; The Ripening Op. 34; Tale of a Winter’s Evening Op. 9 Orchester der Komischen Oper Berlin, Kirill Petrenko 555009-2 While Petrenko was serving as the general music director at the Berlin Comic Opera, he conducted symphonic works by £15.75 (3 CDs) Josef Suk for CPO that we are now offering to you in a 3 CD box at a special low price. Petrenko has a particular interest in Josef Suk and offers a breath-taking interpretation of the great Asreal symphony, Suk’s symphonic poem A Summer’s Tale and finally a Tale of a Winter’s Evening overture, after Shakespeare’s drama A Winter’s Tale.

Lars GRAUGAARD (b. 1957) Venus Venus; Book of Throws; Layers of Earth; Three Places NYU Steinhardt Symphony Orchestra and Ensembles, NYU Percussion Ensemble, NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble, NYU Symphony Orchestra 6220628 £9.00 The four works on this CD by Lars Graugaard were composed especially for the ensembles of New York University Steinhardt. Adventuring into the complex relationship between composition, perception and emotion, Graugaard uses the computer as a sophisticated performance vehicle and a compositional tool in scored and interactive music, creating a unique and radical sound experience.

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 in C major; Coriolan Overture London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt These recordings were taken from live concert performances at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in February LPO-0087 1992 and at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms in August 1990. The best of Tennstedt’s abilities are heard in live concert recordings like this one. He was a musician of dynamism and spontaneous inspiration, and these £3.53 performances are a reminder of the commitment and expressive intensity he extracts from the LPO, with which he held such a strong relationship throughout his tenure as Principal Conductor and beyond.

Highlight of the month Anne Boleyn’s Songbook Music & Passions of a Tudor Queen

Clare Wilkinson, Jacob Heringman, Kirsty Whatley, Alamire, David Skinner

Anne Boleyn was brought up for a time under the guardianship of Margaret of Austria, patron to some of the most famous composers in all of Europe, and then in the French court where the young Anne developed her keen musical tastes. It was here that a collection of her favourite works began to be assembled into what is now known as the Anne Boleyn Songbook (Royal College of Music, MS 1070). Here Alamire explores the finest works in the Songbook by the greatest composers of the early 16th century, including Compère, Brumel, Mouton, and Josquin, interspersed with French chansons and instrumental items for lute, harp and voice. CD715 The programme concludes with a most haunting setting of ‘O Deathe rock me asleep’, not from £11.00 (2 CDs) the Songbook but possibly linked to Anne’s fate while awaiting her execution in the Tower of London.

8 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices OCTOBER 2015 Valentin SILVESTROV (b. 1937) To Thee We Sing Sacred Choral Works Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards K ava ḷ ODE 1266-5 Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov is an important contemporary voice in vocal music. In this new release Silvestrov’s hauntingly beautiful vocal works are performed by the Latvian Radio Choir under their director Sigvards £9.00 (Hybrid SACD) Kļava. They are spiritual works, inspired and influenced by his love of the Russian Orthodox Church music that Silvestrov imbues with his own unique sound and bursts of surprising harmonic moves.

Paul HINDEMITH (1895-1963) Symphony ‘Mathis der Maler; Symphony in E flat major

NDR Sinfonieorchester, Christoph Eschenbach

Ondine’s successful Paul Hindemith recordings with the NDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Christoph Eschenbach ODE1275-2 continue with another release featuring two major symphonic works by the composer: Symphony ‘Mathis der Maler’ £9.00 and Symphony in E flat major. The orchestra’s and Christoph Eschenbach’s previous Hindemith release together with Midori won a Grammy Award in 2014.

Johann Sebastian BACH Inventions and Sinfonias Zhu Xiao-Mei When Bach composed them, in his last years in Köthen, those pivotal years that were to lead him to Leipzig, he ACC30350 already had an incredible number of masterpieces behind him. He took the trouble to make a beautiful fair copy of this work. It’s a product of his maturity. But since these pieces serve as a basic tool for learning the piano, they’re £9.00 inevitably overshadowed by the larger cycles, like The Well‐Tempered Clavier, the Goldberg Variations, The Art of Fugue and so on. But that’s a mistake, because there’s an extraordinary density of music in the Inventions and Sinfonias.

The ART LAB FOR INNOVATION, ALFi Records is a worldwide distributed label based in the USA, Australia and Germany. ALFi is a record label of musicians, for musicians. ‘At ALFi Records, we nurture, develop and create, taking from the past and bringing to the future. We develop new talent and help propel established artists to new heights. ALFi Records is the future of the music business’ – Carl Griffin, Director. Only Human Nightly News; Only Human; Hotel Royal; Lonely Planet; Royal Beach; Round Trip; FunkChue; The Tale; Gravitational Pull; How Two Live Albare, Axel Tosca Laugart, Yunior Terry, Pablo Bencid ‘This album is a vibrant musical celebration of the common ground that makes us human. The music within, like the land in which it was made, was born of an equally multicultural ensemble: my fellow musicians, although most live in New York, come from Venezuela, Cuba and Italy. I would like to acknowledge their talent and thank them for their ALFI15001 extraordinary dedication to this project. This album represents our first project on ALFi Records, and is ALFi’s first £9.00 release. I hope you enjoy this music as much as we did making it’ – Albare. The New Goldberg Variations J. S. BACH: Goldberg Variations; Joe CHINDAMO: Aria Zoe Black, Joe Chindamo A feature of Baroque counterpoint is that it allows composers to include many layers without compromising the underlying architecture. Thus a version of J. S. Bach’s legendary Goldberg Variations, in which the piano part remains unaltered but an extra violin line is added, can represent an exciting and daring venture consistent with the ALFI15002 characteristics of the style. The playing throughout this music is of the highest quality. Ms. Black’s tone is rich, her sense of melodic line sure, and her rhythms powerful. Mr. Chindamo’s touch is liquid, his exposition cultured. £9.00

No Limits for Tumbao No Limits for Tumbao; La Rumba Esta Buena (Changüí); Jorozco (Joropo); Yobo; Vladitimba; Faith; Galeron; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square; Arrival; Para Ti Nengon (Nengón) César Orozco, Kamarata Jazz It could be said that ‘Tumbao’ is for Latin music what the swing is for Jazz. Do you know the Duke Ellington ALFI15004 tune: It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing? So, how about ‘if it ain’t got that tumbao’? I hope you’ve got £9.00 the idea now. This album adds new ingredients to the mix of Venezuelan music, Cuban music, and jazz I’ve been doing for a number of years. In the end, my goal is to transmit emotions through the music and show that there are absolutely ‘No limits for Tumbao’.

OCTOBER 2015 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices 9 Egon PETRI The complete Columbia and Electrola solo and concerto recordings 1929-1951 Egon Petri Egon Petri studied with Busoni and was perhaps his greatest disciple. In his fusion of intellect with an astonishing APR_7701 virtuoso technique he echoed his master and gives us today the clearest idea of Busoni’s own legendary pianism. Petri began recording quite late in his career (he was already 47 in 1928) and this set contains everything he did £22.20 (7 CDs) apart from a few chamber works, until his final recordings for Columbia in 1951. Some of hist material was previously available on APR but is now remastered, and in some cases where better source material was obtained (e.g. the Chopin Preludes), re-transferred.

Roger SESSIONS Music for Violin & Piano Duo; Adagio; Waltz for Brenda; Sonata for Violin; Second Sonata David Bowlin, David Holzmann BRIDGE 9453 This new recording presents three major Sessions scores in stunningly virtuosic performances. A sonata in all but name, Duo sees Sessions casting off the Stravinskian residue that had typified his earliest efforts. Rhythmically £9.00 sturdy, the music provides something of a justification for the ‘American Brahms’ monikercritics routinely applied to Sessions.

Bruno MADERNA (1920-1973) Requiem Diana Tomsche, Kathrin Göring, Bernhard Berchtold, Renatus Mészár MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Robert-Schumann-Philharmonie, Frank Beermann C5231 Bruno Maderna’s Requiem was long considered lost and was indeed only premiered in the Teatro la Fenice in Venice in November 2009. In 1943, Maderna was called up for military service and fought as a partisan against Italy’s £9.00 erstwhile allies, the Germans. He was taken prisoner by the SS, who interrogated him in Dachau and released him shortly afterwards. ‘At that moment, it was the only possibility to write a requiem and then to die’.

alla czeca Erwin SCHULHOFF: Five Pieces for String Quartet; Josef SUK: Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale ‘St. Wenceslaus’; Antonín DVOŘÁK: String Quartet in G major Op. 106 Signum Quartett C5257 Following their early 2015 album Sound Escapes the Signum Quartett delve into Bohemian music culture. Beside £9.00 the famous String Quartet Op. 106 by Antonín Dvořák and Josef Suk’s the Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale ‘St. Wenceslaus’, full of impressions of the beginning of the First World War, are Erwin Schulhoff’s Five Pieces for String Quartet, which all take on the virtuosic challenge of experimenting with dance forms.

Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937) Gaspard de la Nuit; Jeux d’Eau; Sonatine pour Piano; Pavane pour un Infante Défunte; Á la manière de – Alexander Borodine; ; Á la manière de – Emmanual Chabrier Stefan Vladar C5260 As one of the most eminent artistic personalities in Austria, Stefan Vladar has had, both as a pianist and a £9.00 conductor, an excellent international reputation for many years. The journal Fono Forum speaks of him as ‘one of the most remarkable pianists of our age’.

Karl WEIGL (1881-1949) Piano Concerto for the Left Hand; Violin Concerto Florian Krumpöck, David Frühwirth Norddeutche Philharmonie, Manfred Hermann Lehner C5232 In the early-1920s, Karl Weigl was approached by the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein to compose a left-hand £9.00 piano concerto. Unfortunately, for reasons unknown, Wittgenstein failed to perform the work. However, recordings such as this may yet help to further draw attention to his large and varied output and contribute to the repertoire it was designed to enrich.

Karl WEIGL (1881-1949) Ausgewählte Lieder (‘Selected Songs’) Five Songs from ‘Phantasus’ Op. 9; Five Songs for Soprano and String Quartet Op. 40; Drei Mädchenlieder Op. 12; Six Children's Songs; Das Rosenband; Five Duets for Soprano, Baritone and Piano; The Invisible Light; Ein Stelldichein C5259 Sophie Klußmann, Sebastian Noack, Oliver Triendl, Soloists of Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin £9.00 With the Nazis’ rise to power in the 1930s, Karl Weigl, as a prominent public figure of Jewish descent fled for the United States following Hitler’s annexation of Austria in 1938. Weigl died there in August 1949 at the age of 68 with much of his large output lying neglected and rarely performed.

10 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices OCTOBER 2015 Theme & Variations Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Sonata in E, Op. 109; Franz SCHUBERT: Impromptu in B-flat, Op. 142 No. 3;Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART: Sonata in A, K.331 Carol Rosenberger DE 3452 This program offers three great works featuring the ever-popular ‘theme-and-variations’ format: Beethoven’s immortal Sonata in E, Op. 109, Mozart’s ever-popular Sonata in A, K. 331, and Schubert’s irresistibly charming Impromptu in £9.00 B-flat, Op. 142, No. 3 – all performed to enthralling perfection on ‘Bösie’, her own Bösendorfer Imperial concert grand.

Stanislaw MONIUSZKO: Overture to the Raftsman; Frédéric CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21; Fantaisie on Polish Themes; Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI: Little Suite Marin Labazevich Beethoven Academy Orchestra, Ewa Struti ska ń DE 3463 Martin Labazevich, one of the finest young Polish pianists of our day, has teamed up with his compatriot, emerging £9.00 conducting sorceress Ewa Strusińska to record their first release for Delos: a supremely appealing all-Polish program of beloved musical gems for piano and orchestra as well as engaging orchestral selections. Add the brilliant young virtuosos of the Beethoven Academy Orchestra to complete a supremely gifted and accomplished musical team.

Antonio VIVALDI Di Trombe Guerriere Gabriele Cassone, Matteo Frigé, Francesca Cassinari, Marta Fumagalli, Roberto Balconi, Mauro Borgioni, Ensemble Pian & Forte, Franscesco Fanna CDS7710 Vivaldi’s vocal and instrumental works with trumpet are not only very interesting from a musical point of view but also £9.00 brilliantly written. This is the first recording that makes available virtually all of these compositions, which encompass the entire career of the Venetian composer.

Gioachino ROSSINI Otello Gregory Kunde, Carmen Romeu, Maxim Mironov, Robert McPherson, Josef Wagner, Raffaella Lupinacci, Maarten Heirman, Stephan Adriaens Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of Opera Vlaanderen Antwerp/Ghent, Alberto Zedda CDS7711/1-3 Otello is one of the finest of Rossini’s serious works. Rossini penned two alternate versions of the opera, one with a £18.00 (3 CDs) finale in which Otello gives up his murderous intentions. This production, recorded live in 2014 ta Antwerp’s Vlaanderen Opera, is based on the critical edition by the Rossini Foundation and features the original tragic Shakespearean finale.

Giuseppe VERDI This is My Verdi Amarilli Nizza, Janacek Philharmonic Ostrava, Gionluca Martinenghi, CDS7721 In 1993, while still very young, Amarilli Nizza won the Mattia Battistini competition and had her debut as Cio-Cio-San £5.55 in Puccini’s Madama Butterflyat Rieti’s Flavio Vespasiano theatre. Her agile voice and solid technique, together with fine acting skills, have granted her access to the most important venues and International Festivals across the world.

Vesselina Kasarova: Russian Arias Modest MUSSORGSKY: Khovanshchina: Marfa’s Song; Boris Godunov: Marina Mniszech’s Aria; Alexander DARGOMYZHSKY: The Stone Guest: Laura’s First Song; Pyotr TCHAIKOVSKY: Eugene Onegin: Olga’s Aria; The Maid of Orleans: Joan of Arc’s Aria; Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Tsar’s Bride: Monologue of Lyubasha; The Snow Maiden: Dance of the Skomorokhi; Mikhail GLINKA: Ivan Susanin – A Life for the Tsar: Vanya’s Aria; Alexander GEN15378 BORODIN: Prince Igor: Konchakovna’s Cavatina £9.00 Vesselina Kasarova, Philharmonie Baden-Baden,Pavel Baleff

Christopher TARNOW Theremin Sonatas Original Works for Theremin and Piano by Christopher Tarnow Carolina Eyck, Christopher Tarnow GEN15363 A mysterious instrument, ethereal sounds, explosive music and a virtuoso player of the highest order; Carolina Eyck £9.00 is one of the few internationally acclaimed Theremin players. For her instrument, the Leipzig composer and pianist Christopher Tarnow has now written two sonatas, that he and Carolina Eyck have recorded together on their Genuin Classics debut.

OCTOBER 2015 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices 11 Blue String Quartets by Claude DEBUSSY, Lin YANG and Maurice RAVEL Amaryllis Quartett After the release of their first CD White, which received an ECHO Klassik award, the Amaryllis Quartett continues its successful CD series with Blue. This time, alongside the shimmering magic of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, GEN15373 the young, internationally acclaimed and award-winning musicians perform the world premiere of a quartet by the Chinese composer Lin Yang. It is impressive how the tonal concentration of contemporary music and the richness of £9.00 impressionistic works unfold when juxtaposed. Cello Effect Sergei PROKOFIEV: From Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64: Juliet as a Young Girl; Mercutio; Dance of the Girls with Lilies; Masks; Dance of the Knights; Giacomo PUCCINI: Aria ‘E Lucevan le Stelle’ from Tosca; Sergei RACHMANINOFF: Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14; Antônio Carlos JOBIM: Desafinado;William Christopher HANDY: St. Louis Blues; Dave BRUBECK: Blue Rondo à la Turk; Leroy ANDERSON: The Syncopated Clock; Antônio Carlos JOBIM/Newton GEN15364 MENDONÇA: One Note Samba; ANONYMOUS: Bublichki; Bobby TIMMONS: Moanin’: Paul DESMOND: Take Five; Piotr TCHAIKOVSKY: Valse Sentimentale in F minor, Op. 51, No. 6 £9.00 Rastrelli Cello Quartet The enormously productive Rastrelli Cello Quartet, whose latest CD reached the top 10 list for four weeks straight on the Russian iTunes, offers a scintillating programme of works arranged for four cellos.

Leonid SABANEEV The Complete Works for Piano Vol. 1 Michael Schäfer For the 16th time, the pianist Michael Schäfer opens up new worlds for us in his Genuin Classics series. After the GEN15380 2013 release of the CD featuring rarely performed chamber music by Leonid Sabaneev, Schäfer is now presenting the £18.00 (2 CDs) first volume of Sabaneev’s piano works as a double CD. This music seems to be placed between all worlds and epochs: music of a composer who experienced Russia from the Empire up until long after Stalin’s death. Schäfer plays to his customary high standard, inspired and passionate.

Franz Anton HOFFMEISTER Sonatas for Piano, Vol. 3 Sonata in D major; Sonata in C major; Sonata in B flat major Biliana Tzinlikova Franz Anton Hoffmeister occupied an important place in Viennese musical and cultural life. This is the third and final GP668 volume in the series of the first complete recording of Hoffmeister’s sonatas ever to be released. Biliana Tzinlikova £9.00 was born in Sofia in 1974. She is interested in the work of living composers and in piano rarities from the past and has taught at the Mozarteum since 2001. Henrique OSWALD Pagine D’Album; Albums, Opp. 32, 33 & 36; 3 Études; Estudo Para A Mão Esquerda Sergio Monteiro Henrique Oswald, whose music was lauded by Saint-Saëns and Fauré, was one of the most important composers GP682 in South America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The spectacular winner of a major 1902 Composition £9.00 Competition, he became a significant figure in Brazilian musical life. This programme provides an excellent overview of his stylistic development, from the youthful salon music aesthetic of Pagine d’album to the French impressionism of the Album Op. 36 and the masterful Trois Études. Benjamin GODARD Piano Works, Vol. 1 Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 94; ‘Sonate Fantastique’, Op. 63; Promenade En Mer, Op. 86; Sur la Mer, Op. 44; Au Matin, Op. 83; Conte De Fée, Op. 62 Eliane Reyes GP683 Benjamin Godard was regarded as one of the most promising French composers of the second half of the nineteenth £9.00 century, his two powerful piano sonatas make him one of the very few French composers to have experimented with the form. The Belgian pianist Eliane Reyes gave her first concert at the age of five, and isnow professor of piano at the Brussels Conservatoire Royal de Musique and a frequent member of international competition juries.

George ENESCU Complete Works for Piano Solo Raluca Stirbat George Enescu is mainly known as a legendary violinist; yet he was not less known as an exceptionally gifted pianist 98.060 who has been admired and worshiped by his colleagues for his musicality. His expressive and elaborate compositions for piano are underrepresented in the world of CD records. Raluca Stirbat, who is one of the most outstanding £16.65 (3 CDs) representatives of her age in the Rumanian piano generation, has recorded Enescu’s complete works for piano on three CDs, comprising numerous premiere and world premiere recordings.

12 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices OCTOBER 2015 Gilles Vonsattel: Shadowlines Domenico SCARLATTI: Sonata in A minor K. 3; Sonata in A minor K. 54; Sonata in C major K. 502; Olivier MESSIAEN: Quatres Etudes de Rythme: No. 4 Île de Feu II; Préludes; Anton WEBERN: Variations Op. 27; George BENJAMIN: Shadowlines: Six Canonic Preludes for Piano; Claude DEBUSSY: Préludes deuxième livre; Masques; D’un Cahier d’Esquisses; L’Isle Joyeuse Gilles Vonsattel 201501CD This recital album is Swiss-born American pianist Gilles Vonsattel’s second studio recording on the Honens £7.29 label. The 2009 Honens Laureate built the recording around George Benjamin’s ‘Shadowlines’—the composer’s 2001 large scale work for piano. The album also includes works by Debussy, Messiaen, Scarlatti and Webern.

Hinrich Alpers: Complete Piano Works of Ravel Maurice RAVEL: Sérénade Grotesque; Menuet Antique; Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte; Jeux d’Eau; Sonatine; Miroirs; Gaspard de la Nuit; Menuet sur le Nom d’Haydn; Valses Nobles et Sentimentales; Prélude; A la Maniére de… Borodine; A la Maniére de… Chabrier; Le Tombeau de Couperin; Menuet in C-sharp minor; La Valse; Alfredo CASELLA: A la Maniére de… Ravel; Arthur HONEGGER: Hommage à Ravel; Kendall BRIGGS: Hommage à Ravel; Marcus AYDINTAN: Encore avec Ravel; Anton PLATE: Encore avec Ravel; Benedict MASON: Galoches en d’Août Hinrich Alpers 201502CD German pianist and 2006 Honens Laureate Hinrich Alpers’ second studio recording features the complete piano £11.10 (2 CDs) works of Ravel, presented on two discs. Alpers complements the oeuvre with contemporary commissions in homage to Ravel.

Concertos for Cello and Orchestra Sergei PROKOFIEV: Symphony-concerto for cello and orchestra in E minor, Op. 125; Johannes BRAHMS: Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, Op. 102 Natalia Gutman, Oleg Kagan, The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Lazarev, Evgeny Svetlanov Melodiya presents recordings of Brahms and Prokofiev concertos performed by Natalia Gutman and Oleg Kagan. MELCD 1002380 One of the world’s best cellists, a People’s Artist of the USSR, and an owner of the State Prize of Russia, Gutman received four competition prizes when she was a student. Her brightest artistic alliance was with her husband £7.25 and remarkable violinist Oleg Kagan, who was famous as a soloist and ensemble performer as well as a fine interpreter of classical and contemporary music.

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Kirchensonaten (‘Church Sonatas’) Sonatas for two violins, cello and organ Vladimir Spivakov, Anatoly Sheinyuk, Yuli Turovsky, Sergey Dishur Melodiya presents an album of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Church Sonatas. Vladimir Spivakov is known for MELCD 1002265 his Mozart interpretations as a soloist, chamber ensemble member and conductor. In his renditions, Mozart’s £7.25 concertos, violin sonatas, ensembles, divertimentos, symphonies and masses preserve the combination of lightness and inner depth, youthful naivety and philosophic wisdom which were so characteristic of the great Salzburger.

Pyotr TCHAIKOVSKY Romances Complete Collection: Special Edition E. Obraztsova, M. Magomaev, Y. Mazurok, V. Atlantov, T. Milashkina, I. Arkhipova, S. Lemeshev Melodiya presents a complete collection of romances and songs by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky timed to the composer’s 175th anniversary. ‘As a matter of fact, poetry and music are so close to each other,’ Tchaikovsky MELCD 1002361 wrote to Nadezhda von Meck. Chamber vocal music has a very special place in the extensive legacy of the £19.60 (6 CDs) composer who was a symphonist of genius, a creator of operatic and ballet masterpieces, and a prominent master of the concerto genre.

Kimmo POHJONEN Sensitive Skin Kimmo Pohjonen, Tuomas Norvio, Kronos Quartet, Samuli Kosminen, Timo Kämäräinen, Sami Kuoppamäki, Inka and Saana Pohjonen, Arto Järvelä, Ismo Alanko, Lauri Porra, Paul Malmström, Jukka Eskola, James Spectrum, Tomi Leppänen, Ville Riippa, Ilpo Laspas, Joona Ruusula OCTO 413-2 Award-winning Finnish accordionist and composer Kimmo Pohjonen releases his new album Sensitive Skin on £9.00 Ondine’s new sub-label: Octopus. The album follows the successful Uniko album with Kronos Quartet and Samuli Kosminen.

OCTOBER 2015 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices 13 Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) Sämtliche Symphonien (‘Complete Symphonies’) OC027 Leonard Elschenbroich, Lilya Zilberstein Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Dmitrij Kitajenko £24.00 (8 CDs) Dmitrij Kitajenko will celebrate his 75th birthday on 18 August. On this occasion, Oehms Classics is presenting the complete Tchaikovsky symphonies recorded with the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln in a deluxe box in quality audio.

Johann STRAUSS (1825-1899) Eine Nacht in Venedig (‘A Night in Venice’) OC450 Herbert Lippert, Richard Samek, Otto Jaus, Heinz Zednik, Dagmar Schellenberger, Joesi Prokopetz, Verena Scheitz, Ernst-Dieter £7.00 Suttheimer, Marina Alsen, Annika Gerhards, Roman Martin, Barbara Pöltl, Mörbisch Festival Orchestra, Mörbisch Festival Choir, Andreas Schüller Oehms Classics proudly present the new recording of Johann Strauss’ A Night in Venice. This brand new portrayal of the operetta features a superlative cast or renowned artists.

Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847) Lieder ohne Worte (‘Songs without Words’) OC452 Michael Endres £14.00 (2 CDs) Michael Endres was the piano partner of the legendary baritone Hermann Prey for many years, and performed in such venues as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Musikverein and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He has already recorded Schumann, Schubert, Weber and Gershwin for Oehms Classics.

Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949) Don Juan, Op. 20; Symphony in F minor, Op. 12 OC890 Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Sebastian Weigle £7.00 Don Juan is the second tone poem by Richard Strauss – inspired by the dramatic poem of Nikolaus Lenau. The second work on this CD is the Symphony in F minor (actually No. 2), premiered in 1884 in New York.

Richard STRAUSS (1864-1949) Die Frau ohne Schatten (‘The Woman without a Shadow’) OC964 Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal £24.00 (3 CDs) Tamara Wilson, Terje Stensvold, Sabine Hogrefe, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Burkhard Fritz Ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera, Choir of the Frankfurt Opera, Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Sebastian Weigle In this performance of The Woman without a Shadow Strauss specialist Weigle has brought both established singers and role debutantes to the stage, including Terje Stensvold, who said farewell to the Frankfurt stage in this 2014 series.

Robert SCHUMANN (1810-1856) OC1819 Adrien Boisseau & Gaspard Dehaene Play Schumann £7.00 Adrien Boisseau, Gaspard Dehaene, Pierre Génisson Adrien Boisseau (viola) presents his debut album with works of Robert Schumann. Named Young Artist of the Year in April 2014 at the ICMA in Warsaw Boisseau has already worked with such conductors as Manfred Honeck, Pierre Boulez, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Kazushi Ono and Myun-Whun Chung.

Antonín DVOŘÁK (1841-1904) Piano Trio, Op. 90 ‘Dumky’; Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 OC1828 Sebastian Klinger, Lisa Batiashvili, Milana Chernyavska £7.00 German Radio Philharmonic of Saarbrücken/Kaiserslautern, Simon Gaudenz For his third CD with Oehms Classics, Sebastian Klinger, solo cellist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, has chosen a programme made up exclusively of works by Dvořák. In the so-called Dumky Trio he is accompanied by Lisa Batiashvili and Milana Chernyavska. DOPPLER, PAGANINI, SHOSTAKOVICH, MENDELSSOHN Souvenirs OC1832 Music Days with Rudens Turku & friends £7.00 Rudens Turku, András Adorján, Yumiko Urabe, Franz Halasz, Lena Neudauer, Malte Refardt, Wen-Sinn Yang, Adrian Oetiker Rudens Turku is the artistic director of the Starnberg Music Days and of the Music Days of the Olympic Region of Seefeld, which will take place in August for the seventh time. Together with artists of the highest calibre he has assembled a programme to coincide with each festival.

Domenico SCARLATTI, Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART, Ludwig van BEETHOVEN, Nikolai MEDTNER, Alexander SCRIABIN profundum OR0017 Maria Walzer £9.00 Austro-Russian pianist Maria Walzer pays tribute to both of her musical heritages with music by Mozart and Beethoven as well as Medtner and Scriabin. Praised by Paul Badura-Skoda as ‘a creative talent, to be encountered very rarely’, the pianist invites us to join her on a very intimate journey through serious and deep music for piano solo. 14 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices OCTOBER 2015 Guido MANCUSI Orchestral Works Joe Hofbauer, PAN European Philharmonia Budapest Concert Orchestra, Schönbrunn Festival Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper, Guido Mancusi PMR0066 Guido Mancusi‘s orchestral music covers a surprisingly wide stylistic variety: from a homage to Bartók, to polkas and £11.10 (2 CDs) waltzes that have a strong connection to the music of the Strauss family.

Johann Sebastian BACH, Felix MENDELSSOHN, Fanny HENSEL Piano Solo Works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel Miku Nishimoto-Neubert SM223 This album is a compilation of music by the Mendelssohn siblings and keyboard works by Johann Sebastian Bach. The latter was one of the pillars upon which the musical education of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn rested, making this £9.00 programme even more intriguing. Miku Nishimoto-Neubert is rightly regarded as a prominent Bach soloist and in these works she cements this position.

Anmut: My Favourite Arias Marija Vidovic Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Francisco Araiza Marija Vidovic has performed regularly in concerts and song recitals in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, SM225 Croatia, Italy, China and Mexico. Anmut: My Favourite Arias will premiere in October 2015, with the Baden-Baden £9.00 Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Francisco Araiza.

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Mozart Preussische Quartette (‘Mozart Prussian Quartets’) Stradivari Quartett SM230 The Prussian Quartets are the last set of string quartets Mozart composed before his premature death. Although the set was planned to comprise six quartets, only three were published: K575 in D major, K589 in B flat major and K590 £9.00 in F major. They were written between 1789 and 1790 and performed here by the Stradivari Quartet, among the few ensembles in the world performing exclusively on instruments of the famous violin maker Antonio Stradivari.

Mason BATES, Ken UENO, Mohammed FAIROUZ Scrapyard Exotica Del Sol String Quartet DSL-92193 Scrapyard Exotica is Del Sol String Quartet’s third full studio album on Sono Luminus. The triumvirate of composers £12.25 featured on this album represent leading voices in very different flavours of music within the classical avant-garde. Diverse influences run the gamut from club beats to throat singing to Middle Eastern dance rhythms, from the melodic beauty of Schubert to swinging jazzy grooves to the world of science fiction. (Blu-ray Audio & CD) From Whence We Came Ensemble Galilei On From Whence We Came the musicians of Ensemble Galilei have brought together a repertoire unparalleled in breadth, and they perform these pieces with unfettered virtuosity. Each track tells its own story; a tragedy from DSL-92194 Sweden, a joke from Ireland, a lament from Scotland, a life well lived from America. Borders crossed, genres bent, new approaches to old music, this CD is unbelievably compelling as a work of art, rapturously accessible as a piece £12.25 of music.

(Blu-ray Audio & CD) What Artemisia Heard Music and Art from the Time of Caravaggio and Gentileschi El Mundo, Richard Savino What Artemisia Heard is the profoundly engaging culmination of a unique project envisioned by El Mundo artistic DSL-92195 director Richard Savino. Enraptured over the work of female Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, Savino began to question why the music of Artemisia’s time is not as widely appreciated as the visual arts of the era. Here, Savino £9.00 integrates the sublime paintings of Artemisia and her contemporaries with equally sublime music composed by contemporaries including Uccellini, Kapsberger, Ferrari, Frescobaldi, Gagliano, Caccini and Monteverdi.

OCTOBER 2015 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices 15 Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker Complete Ballet: arranged for solo piano Stewart Goodyear STNS 30040 Steinway & Sons present a tour-de-force from Stewart Goodyear for the 2015 holiday season. This is a world £7.29 premiere recording of The Nutcracker arranged for solo piano. ‘Everything from this young Canadian is skilfully enunciated with unobtrusive, conversational phrasing’ – Gramophone.

BRITTEN, HARVEY, MACMILLAN, TAVERNER, MAXWELL DAVIES Great Britain SWR Vokalensemble, Marcus Creed Great Britain’s music culture is marked by a centuries-old tradition of choral singing, as is shown, for instance, in 93.342 the institution of college choirs. Church policy had a beneficial effect on the development of sacred music. After the Anglican Church separated from Rome in the sixteenth century and the abbeys were secularized, many cathedral £9.00 choirs were founded which took over the Holy Office from the monastic communities.

Bachiana Bach transformations from MOSCHELES, SCHUMANN, REINECKE Duo d’Accord The album presented here takes us back to an epoch in which Bach was played in a free, occasionally downright 93.338 carefree, style. What no one would permit themselves today was modern back then: a sense of theatrical effects, an exuberant dynamic richness and a rather elastic perception of the metrical element, as was simply in £9.00 accordance with the Romantic attitude toward life, heard in these transformations.

Antonín DVOŘÁK String Quartets No. 10 & 13 Bennewitz Quartet 93.340 The Bennewitz Quartet is one of the top international chamber ensembles, a status confirmed not only by the group’s victories in two prestigious competitions – Osaka in 2005 and Prémio Paolo Borciani, Italy in 2008, £16.54 (2 CDs) but also by the acclaim of the critics. The ensemble has the privilege of working with the outstanding artists Alexander Melnikov, Vadim Gluzman and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

Arthur HONEGGER Symphony No. 2; Symphony No. 3 ‘Liturgique’ Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Stéphane Denève 93.343 Arthur Honegger, was a Swiss merchant’s son from Le Havre, France. Here, his Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 are admirably portrayed by the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR), founded in 1945, under chief £9.00 conductor Stéphane Denève.

Gian Francesco MALIPIERO (1882-1973) Opere per pianoforte Sabrina Alberti Gian Francesco Malipiero, was one of the most creative Italian composers within the so called ‘Generation of the TC 881302 Eighties’. The piano pieces presented here give us an idea of his great spirit of creative innovation. Sabrina Alberti, £9.00 a great and sensitive interpreter, is highly specialized in the repertoire of this historical period.

Laude, Ballate, Saltarelli, Villanelle Tradizione scritta e tradizione orale tra Mediovo e Rinascimento Aquila Altera Ensemble The Aquila Altera ensemble blends the music of two historical traditions, the former being music from the learned – TC 300004 and therefore written – tradition and the latter, music that owes its existence to oral transmission. This collection juxtaposes pieces drawn from manuscripts or printed collections from the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries with £9.00 pieces (and performance practices) that stem from an oral tradition and from the use of musical instruments of the Italian tradition, including one of the most widespread and musically important: the bagpipe.

16 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices OCTOBER 2015 Bronius KUTAVIČIUS The Seasons: Oratorio Darius Meškauskas, Vilnius Municipal Choir Jauna Muzika, St Cristopher Chamber Orchestra, Donatas Katkus

Bronius Kutavičius’ oratorio The Seasons (2005–8) sets texts from a classic Lithuanian poem by the eighteenth- century pastor-poet Kristijonas Donelaitis which describes the lives of the peasants as they toil throughout the year. TOCC 0200 Kutavičius has long been fascinated with Lithuania’s folk-heritage, and The Seasons mixes musical modernism and £9.00 folk-inspired primitivism in a powerful portrayal of the interaction of human activity and natural forces. This live recording is of the first complete performance, given in St Catherine’s Church, Vilnius, on 13 eptemberS 2012. Niklas SIVELÖV Piano Music Preludes; Due Notturni; Toccatina Feroce; Two Impromptus; Jeux de Cordes Niklas Sivelöv TOCC 0271 The tradition of the pianist-composer features some of the best-known names in music, among them Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms and Rachmaninov. Now the Swedish pianist Niklas Sivelöv joins their ranks in this first- £9.00 ever recording dedicated to his own compositions. Another tradition is the composition of 24 Preludes, and this set, written between 2010 and 2014, takes its place in the tradition established by Chopin, Skryabin, Shostakovich and others. The composer supplies the booklet essay himself, explaining what he was trying to achieve in each piece.

Matvey NIKOLAEVSKY (1882–1942) Two Dances for Orchestra; Piano Music; Songs Svetlana Zlobina, Mikhail Mordvinov, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Philipp Chizhevsky This CD reveals for the first time the light music of a minor master of the day, Matvey Nikolaevsky. Nikolaevsky’s TOCC 0324 songs and dances were enormously popular in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. His style moved effortlessly £9.00 from the salon music of the late 19th century to the foxtrots, Charlestons and tangos that were now in vogue. Most of his substantial output was lost and this CD presents most of his surviving compositions.

Nigel CLARKE Music for Thirteen Solo Strings Parnassus; The Scarlet Flower; Dogger, Fisher, German, Bight, Humber, Thames, Dover, Wight; Pulp and Rags; Epitaph for Edith Cavell

Sébastien Rousseau, Malene Sheppard Skӕrved, Longbow, Peter Sheppard Skӕrved TOCC 0325 For three decades the English composer Nigel Clarke (born in 1960) has worked in close collaboration with the £9.00 violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved and Longbow, Sheppard Skærved’s virtuoso thirteen-member string ensemble. Here his music features two tributes to Edith Cavell, the British nurse shot in the First World War, one for solo violin, the other for the unusual combination of flugel horn and strings.

Antonín DVOŘÁK Bagatelles Op.47; Terzetto Op. 74; String Quintet Op. 77 Scharoun Ensemble Berlin TUD7187 These works are among Antonín Dvořák’s most valued creations. His youthful String Quintet is a ‘symphony for strings’; scoring it with a double bass produced a novel, visionary and highly romantic soundscape. In his Bagatelles £9.00 the inclusion of a harmonium lends the pieces a unique magic. Finally, his Terzetto, despite its rather modest technical demands, presents singular masterpieces, with a sonority unmatched in music history.

Brilliant Brass

Wien-Berlin Brass Quintett

Brilliant Brass depicts the repertoire of the brass quintet, first with two ‘classics’ by VictorEwald and Malcolm TUD7201 Arnold (composer of the film-music to The Bridge over the River Kwai). The album also features a transcription of the melodious Steyrische Tänze by Joseph Lanner, Flotter 5er by Thomas Gansch, and the suite L’homme au Marteau dans la £9.00 Poche (‘The Man with a Hammer in his Pocket’) – three sparklingly witty works of breath-taking virtuosity.

Krzysztof PENDERECKI; Jason BARABBA Debut Janaki String Trio YAR53964-376V The short, two-movement String Trio of Krzysztof Penderecki dates from 1991 — later, therefore, than the time of his £18.80 (LP) violent, dramatic works such as his opera The Devils and the large choral works. Here is Penderecki in a conversational, almost neo-romantic mood. This piece is coupled here with a string trio by Los Angeles-based composer Jason Barabba. His is in four movements and echoes Bartók, especially in the haunting third-movement nocturne.

OCTOBER 2015 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices 17 Highlight of the month Benjamin BRITTEN A Britten Collection Peter Grimes; The Rape of Lucretia; Billy Budd; Gloriana; Death in Venice From Teatro alla Scala, English National Opera, Glyndebourne, and Royal Opera House

Outstanding singers, conductors and directors come together in five diverse but compelling operas by Benjamin Britten. The turbulent, inward fishing community of Peter Grimes is transposed to a merciless 1980s society in Richard Jones’ production, where mutual distrust and dislike have appalling consequences. An ‘outstanding’ Sarah Connolly (Guardian) stars in The Rape of Lucretia, navigating the difficult tale with superb poise and supported by acclaimed OA1198BD baritone Christopher Maltman in the role of Prince Tarquinius. Billy Budd is grippingly staged £26.50 (7 DVDs) aboard the claustrophobic HMS Indomitable, with Jacques Imbrailo portraying the troubled sailor and John Mark Ainsley as the tormented Captain Vere in the 2010 Glyndebourne Festival Opera production by Michael Grandage. More light-hearted is the Royal Opera House staging of Gloriana, penned by Britten to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Focusing on the first Queen Elizabeth’s stormy relationship with the Earl of Essex, the production features Susan Bullock as the monarch and Toby Spence as the hot-headed and ultimately treacherous OABD7189BD Essex. Finally, Edward Gardner conducts the English National Opera in Deborah Warner’s highly £33.50 (5 Blu-rays) acclaimed production of Death in Venice. John Graham-Hall stars as the ageing Gustav von Aschenbach, whose attraction for a beautiful young Polish boy has fatal consequences.

Napoli Recorded live at the Royal Danish Ballet, Copenhagen, February 2014 Choreographed by August Bournonville; Staged by Nikolaj Hübbe and Sorella Englund Alexandra Lo Sardo, Alban Lendorf, Benjamin Buza, Corps de Ballet of the Royal Danish Ballet, Det Kongelige Kapel, Graham Bond OA1195D One of the cornerstones of the Royal Danish Ballet, Napoli – created in 1842 by the Company’s most £17.01 (DVD) celebrated choreographer and ballet master, August Bournonville – is a timeless tale of love set in the beautiful, rustic surroundings of Naples, which centres on young fisherman Gennaro’s quest to rescue his beloved Teresina, supposedly drowned at sea. For their latest production of this seminal Danish work, the Company chose to propel the action forward to the 1950s, taking inspiration from the early films of Federico Fellini in their masterly portrayal of raw, urban life. Elaborate sets and costumes by Maja Ravn and OABD7185D an entirely new musical score for Act II assist in the updating, while Nikolaj Hübbe and Sorella Englund’s £20.41 (Blu-ray) striking new choreography melds with Bournonville’s classic routines, inviting ‘superb’ character dancing (New York Times) and providing a showcase for the Company’s young dancers in virtuosic solo roles – the sensational Alban Lendorf among them.

Highlight of the month Arvo PÄRT Adam’s Passion Stage Direction, Set Design & Lighting Concept by Robert Wilson

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tõnu Kaljuste, Michalis Theophanous, Lucinda Childs

Adam’s Passion is the first collaboration between two ‘masters of slow motion who harmonize perfectly with each other’ (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). In the spectacular setting of a ACC20333 former submarine factory, American director and universal artist Robert Wilson creates a poetic £13.61 (DVD) visual world in which Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s musical language can cast its meditative spell. Three of Pärt’s major works are brought together here using light, space and movement to create a tightly‐woven Gesamtkunstwerk in which the artistic visions of these two great artists mirror each other. ACC10333 £20.41 (Blu-ray)

Anton BRUCKNER The Mature Symphonies Symphony No. 4 in E flat major ‘Romantic’; Symphony No. 5 in B flat major; Symphony No. 6 in A major; Symphony No. 7 in E major; Symphony No. 8 in C minor; Symphony ACC70217 No. 9 in D minor £44.00 (6 DVDs) Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin Anton Bruckner’s symphonies are gigantic mountain ranges carved out of sound, traversed by steep chasms, broad steppes, and dark valleys. Daniel Barenboim guides the Staatskapelle Berlin to the heights of Bruckner’s lofty sound formations, with its ‘obsessive monumentality, terrifying expressive strength, and dizzying compositional syntheses of ACC60217 elements from the middle Ages to Schubert and Wagner’ - Berliner Zeitung. This unforgettable £60.00 (6 Blu-rays) Bruckner cycle sets new standards, guaranteeing the ensemble and its conductor ‘a place in the Bruckner pantheon’ (Der Tagesspiegel).

18 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices OCTOBER 2015 Best wishes from Luciano Pavarotti 101790 Giacomo PUCCINI: Aida; Giuseppe VERDI: La Bohème £17.01 (3 DVDs) Includes the documentary: The Aida File

With Luciano Pavarotti, Ghena Dimitrova, Maria Chiara, Mirella Freni, Lorin Maazel Luciano Pavarotti is probably the most significant tenor of the 20th century. His career spanned 45 years and every one of his stage performances are unforgettable, especially La Bohème and Aida. Arthaus Musik is very 101791 proud to offer these marvellous performances in a celebratory 80th anniversary edition. £17.01 (3 Blu-rays)

Claudio MONTVERDI, Bruno MORETTI Caravaggio Choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti 109082 With Vladimir Malakhov, Polina Semionova, Beatrice Knop, Mikhail Kaniskin, Dmitry Semionov, Elisa Carrillo Cabrera, £17.01 (DVD) Shoko Nakamura, Michael Banzhaf, Leonard Jakovina Staatsballett Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin, Paul Connelly Caravaggio, born Michelangelo Merisi, has entered history due to his paintings of dramatic intensity. Despite his work being admired, there was harsh opposition towards his extraordinary realism in painting human beings. Due to his passionate personality, he encountered more than several conflicts with people around him, as well as 101795 with sponsors and the law. One of his foremost artistic twists was the extreme contrast between brightness and £20.41 (Blu-ray) darkness, light and shadow. Mauro Bigonzetti is one of the leading choreographers of Italian ballet. Mieczysław WEINBERG The Passenger Staged by David Pountney; Recorded at Bregenz Festival, 2010 109079 Michelle Breedt, Roberto Saccà, Elena Kelessidi, Artur Rucinski, Svetlana Doneva, Liuba Sokolova, Angelica Voje £17.01 (DVD) Wiener Symphoniker, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Lukáš Vasilek, Teodor Currentzis

Continuing its tradition of unearthing little-known twentieth-century operas, the Bregenz Festival presented the first staged production of Polish-Russian composer Mieczysław Weinberg’s The Passenger in 2010. Written in 1967/68, the opera relates the chance meeting of a former concentration camp guard and one of her former inmates on an ocean liner years after the war. The work is well served by David Pountney’s stage direction and 109080 Johan Engels’ two-level set, with the ocean liner above and the concentration camp below. £20.41 (Blu-ray)

Franz LEHÁR The Merry Widow 109129 Choreography by Ronald Hynd £10.40 (DVD) Karen Kain, John Meehan, Raymond Smith, Yoko Ichino National Ballet of Canada, National Ballet of Canada Orchestra, Ermanno Florio Ronald Hynd’s three act ballet The Merry Widow to the music of Franz Lehár is an exciting studio production. Australian John Meehan gives an outstanding performance in the role of Count Danilo, who is ordered by the Pontevedrian Embassy to avert their impending bankruptcy by marrying into the fortunes of the recently widowed 109130 Hanna Glawari – beautifully portrayed by Canadian prima ballerina Karen Kain. Raymond Smith dances the part of £10.40 (Blu-ray) the French attaché, Camille, who falls madly in love with the Ambassador’s wife, Valencienne (Yoko Ichino).

Henryk GÓRECKI The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs 109131 A Film by Tony Palmer £10.40 (DVD) Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, David Zinman When military rule almost destroyed democracy in Poland, the music of Henryk Górecki was an eloquent voice of protest, a rallying cry for the oppressed and a symbol of hope. In 1970 he found a book about the German occupation. In the footnotes he discovered examples of messages scratched on the walls of the prison; the simple words ‘Mama, don’t cry’ were the words which inspired the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. This emotional, 109173 disturbing and powerful film by the award-winning director Tony Palmer includes a performance of the Third £10.40 (Blu-ray) Symphony.

Claudio MONTEVERDI Orpheus; Odysseus; Poppea 109078 Staged by Barrie Kosky; Recorded at the Komische Oper Berlin, 2013 £44.00 (5 DVDs) With Tansel Akzeybek, Thomas Michael Allen, Alexey Antonov, Brigitte Geller, Julia Giebel, Dominik Köninger, Theresa Kronthaler, Ezgi Kutlu, Jens Larsen, Tom Erik Lie, Annelie Sophie Müller, Julia Novikova, Christiane Oertel, Günter Papendell, Peter Renz, Helene Schneiderman, Stefan Sevenich, Roger Smeets, Frank Soehnle, Adrian Strooper, Mirka Wagner Orchestra and Chorus of the Komische Oper Berlin, André de Ridder Monteverdi’s operas are rightly considered as the first masterpieces in opera history. Much ikel DNA, they contain 109127 all characteristics of today’s opera. Elena Kats-Chernin used Monteverdi’s musical material, though it barely contains £44.00 (3 Blu-rays) any concrete orchestration details, and has provided a new and idiosyncratic instrumentation. This new creation of Monteverdi’s opera uses the traditional orchestral instrumentation, and adds exotic instruments from around the world. Barrie Kosky uses strong, comic, enthralling, stark and sensitive images to fascinate the audience.

OCTOBER 2015 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices 19 Highlight of the month Giacomo PUCCINI Turandot Staged by Marco Arturo Marelli; Recorded at Bregenz Festival, 2015 731408 £20.41 (DVD) Mlada Khudoley, Riccardo Massi, Guanqun Yu, Michael Ryssov Wiener Symphoniker, Paolo Carignani

Mention Puccini’s name and opera-lovers worldwide will think of grand opera and passionate love stories. One of the world’s most famous arias comes from Turandot: ‘Nessun dorma’ – none shall sleep because by morning the Chinese 731504 princess is determined to have discovered the name of the unknown prince. £20.41 (Blu-ray) The work is remarkable for its Chinese local colour, its powerful choruses and its characters overwhelmed by their emotions. Enthusiastically acclaimed by its audiences, the present production combines spectacular and touching scenes on the Bregenz Festival’s vast lakeside stage.

732208 Giuseppe VERDI £20.41 (DVD) Aida Staged by Peter Stein; Recorded at La Scala, 2015 Carlo Colombara, Anita Rachvelishvili, Kristin Lewis, Fabio Sartori Coro e orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Zubin Mehta 732304 Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece Aida at La Scala in Milan is an experience in itself. Consequently, this new production is an £20.41 (Blu-ray) event barely to be surpassed, especially when played before La Scala’s notoriously critical audience. Legendary stage director Peter Stein succeeds in delivering a lucid production acclaimed in equal measure by the press and public.

Richard STRAUSS 731808 Elektra £20.41 (DVD) Staged by Carius Padrissa and La Fura dels Baus; Recorded in Umea, Sweden, 2014 Ingela Brimberg, Susanna Levonen, Ingrid Tobiasson, Thomas Lander, Norrlands Operan’s Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba Norrlands Operan and the dramatic art collective La Fura Dels Baus have created a unique monumental outdoor performance of Richard Strauss’ one-act opera Elektra. Cranes, mechanical giants with singers standing inside their chests, skips filled with 731904 Blood – Elektra is Norrlands Operan’s biggest and most complex production ever, including many ‘special-effects’: ‘Suddenly, £20.41 (Blu-ray) the front of the large containers opened up. Bloody water came gushing out in copious amounts. The water level on the graveyard rose and turned red’ (Kulturkorren). Julia Fischer at the BBC Proms Antonín DVOŘÁK, Richard STRAUSS, Ludwig van BEETHOVEN 732008 Julia Fischer £15.65 (DVD) Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, David Zinman In this programme David Zinman appeared in his final concert as chief conductor of Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra, stepping down after almost 20 years. ‘This beautiful Prom marked the end of an era. David Zinman’s final concert as chief conductor of the Zurich Tonhalle was a superb example of his intelligent musicianship’ (The Guardian). Julia Fischer ‘was the accomplished and 732104 eloquent soloist’ (Evening Standard) performing with ‘the kind of flawless technique and steely vibrato that seems impervious to human fallibility’ (The Telegraph). £20.41 (Blu-ray) Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Davide Penitente 731608 Choreography by Bartabas £15.65 (DVD) Christiane Karg, Marianne Crebassa, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Salzburger Bachchor, Acadédemie Équestre de Versailles, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski For this spectacular production of Mozart’s Davide Penitente on the vast stage of the Salzburg Felsenreitschule at the Mozart Week 2015, Marc Minkowski and the equestrian choreographer Bartabas used dancing horses and thus restored the former 731704 riding school to its original function. The ensemble perform their elegant dressage arabesques within this exceptional setting. Soloists, chorus and orchestra are ranged over three levels on galleries cut from the bare rock. The result is a unique synthesis £20.41 (Blu-ray) of the arts. Jean SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5 & 7 732404 Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein £20.41 (Blu-ray) In the mid-1980s, Unitel began recording a complete cycle of Sibelius symphonies with Leonard Bernstein and the Vienna Philharmonic. Bernstein’s death in 1990 unfortunately cut short this project after the release of Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5 and 7. Recorded live at Vienna’s Musikverein, these ecstatic performances were the object of stellar reviews. On this disc, Bernstein’s unique and by now legendary interpretations of Sibelius are released for the first time on Blu-ray. 732908 Gustav MAHLER £44.00 (9 DVDs) Mahler Symphonies Nos. 1-10 Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi The HR-Sinfonieorchester has for decades been numbered among the world’s leading Mahler orchestras. Between 2008 and 733004 2013 it gave its most recent Mahler cycle as part of the Rheingau Music Festival under principal conductor Paavo Järvi. The £44.00 (5 Blu-rays) recordings were made in the unique space of the Basilica of Eberbach Monastery, in the magnificent ambiance of the Friedrich von Thiersch Hall at the Wiesbaden Kurhaus and in the outstanding acoustics of the Great Hall of the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. In all of these venues Mahler’s symphonies left a particularly fascinating impression.

20 All Prices Quoted are Dealer Prices OCTOBER 2015 Teatro Alla Scala – The Golden Years, Vol. 1 Enzo Biagi interviews

Maria Callas, Mario Del Monaco, Mirella Freni, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Romano Gandolfi, Antonino Votto, Luca Ronconi, Claudio Abbado, Giulietta Simionato

Milan’s La Scala theatre as told by the protagonists of its golden years. Enzo Biagi was one of Italy’s most famous and beloved journalists. His fondness of the prestigious Milanese venue led to the programmes we are now presenting on DVD, made in 1981/82. Documenting the La Scala productions of those years, Biagi entered the theatre during the rehearsals and interviewed the 37728 protagonists, not only the figures of those days but also the great stars of the past. A series originally produced on 16mm film, now restored and offered to the public by Dynamic. £15.65 (DVD)

Teatro Alla Scala – The Golden Years, Vol. 2 Enzo Biagi interviews

Riccardo Muti, Giorgio Strehler, Renata Tebaldi, Giulietta Simionato, Antonino Votto

Milan’s La Scala theatre as told by the protagonists of its golden years. Enzo Biagi was one of Italy’s most famous and beloved journalists. His fondness of the prestigious Milanese venue led to the programmes we are now presenting on DVD, made in 1981/82. Documenting the La Scala productions of those years, Biagi entered the theatre during the rehearsals and interviewed the protagonists, not only the figures of those days but also the great stars of the past. A series 37729 originally produced on 16mm film, now restored and offered to the public by Dynamic. £15.65 (DVD)

Waldbühne 2015 – Lights, Camera, Action Scott BRADLEY: Tom & Jerry; Bronislau KAPER: Mutiny on the Bounty; Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD: The Adventures of Robin Hood; Jerome MOROSS: The Big Country; David RAKSIN: Laura; Miklós RÓZSA: Ben Hur; John WILLIAMS: 2060978 Indiana Jones – Raider’s March; E.T. – Flying Theme; Star Wars – Main Title £17.01 (DVD) Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle The Waldbühne in Berlin, one of the most appealing outdoor amphitheatres in Europe, is the home of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s summer concerts. In 2015 the Berliner Philharmoniker surrounded themselves with plenty of celebrities, including not only conductor Sir Simon Rattle, but also many figures from film history: Robin Hood 2060974 and Ben Hur amongst many others. They were all brought to life musically when the orchestra performed some of Hollywood’s most famous film music, including scores from Star Wars, Indiana Jones and E.T. composed by John £20.41 (Blu-ray) Williams.

New Year’s Eve Concert 2014 The Life I Love – The pianist Menahem Pressler A film by Grete Liffers 2061138 Jean-Philippe RAMEAU: Suite from Les Indes Galantes; W. A. MOZART: Piano Concerto in A major; Frédéric CHOPIN; £17.01 (DVD) Nocturne in C-sharp minor Op. 27; Aram KHACHATURIAN; Gayaneh: Suite No. 1 Lezginka; Antonín DVOŘÁK: Slavonic Dances No. 2 & No. 7; Zoltán KODÁLY: Háry János Suite; Johannes BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No. 1 Menahem Pressler, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle The music world has known the outstanding artist Menahem Pressler for more than half a century. 2008, when his 2061134 Beaux Arts Trio decided to separate, was the restart of a memorable solo career. In 2013, the 90-year-old grand seignior of the piano gave his long overdue debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker. In this touching and emotional £20.41 (Blu-ray) portrait; the audience can gain deep insights into the life of Menahem Pressler – from new recorded talks, excerpts from one of his Master Classes, to interviews with artists like Daniel Harding, Quatuor Ébène, Leonidas Kavakos or Daniel Hope.

In Search of CHOPIN A film by Phil Grabsky

In a new film from the director of the award-winning and critically acclaimed trilogy In Search of Mozart, In Search of Beethoven & In Search of Haydn, Phil Grabsky brings us the music and life story of one of the world’s favourite composers, Fryderyk Chopin. In a quest to discover new insights into Chopin, the man and his musical genius, Grabsky travelled the globe over four years recording performances by world-class musicians and interviewing respected historians and musicologists. Featuring Daniel Barenboim, Ronald Brautigam, Jeremy Siepmann, Nelson Goerner, Kevin Kenner, SEV182 Janusz Olejniczak, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century conducted by Frans Brüggen, £12.25 (DVD) Leif Ove Andsnes, and Lars Vogt. Juliet Stevenson narrates and RSC actor David Dawson voices Chopin’s letters.

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