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THIS MONTH’S HIGHLIGHTS: LIMUHD060LE / LIMUHD060 BISCD1789 BISCD1789 8.572207

Gustav MAHLER The Super Telarc Sound 1 Pipe Dreams FIMLP005LE / FIMLP005R GP619-20 GP619-20 LPO-0064

TCHAIKOVSKY Pyotr Ilʼyich TCHAIKOVSKY BEETHOVEN 1812 (DVD) OA1085D / (Blu-ray) OABD7108D (DVD) 2058728 / (Blu-ray) 2058724 (DVD) 711308 / (Blu-ray) 711404

WAGNER A Tribute to Frederick the Great Gala from Berlin 2011

Naxos International (Far East) Limited 5B, Blue Box Factory Building, 25 Hing Wo Street, Tin Wan, Aberdeen, Hong Kong Tel: 2951 9557 Email: [email protected] Hector BERLIOZ (1803-1869) Gustav MAHLER (1860-1911) Le corsaire – Overture, Op. 21 Symphony No. 1 Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (including an alternative version of Marin Alsop Un bal with cornet obbligato) Orchestre National de Lyon This remarkably original work, Leonard Slatkin with its recurring quotations from the composer’s own songs, Immensely influential, the remarkable notably Lieder eines fahrenden Symphonie fantastique was Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) composed while Hector Berlioz and Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The was suffering an intense and Boy’s Magic Horn), is the perfect unreciprocated passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. Its expression of one of Mahler’s most quoted sayings, “The symphony autobiographical tale describes a young musician’s opium-poisoned is a world; it must contain everything”. The opening movement, filled nightmares of jealous despair and fatal justice following the murder with sounds that Mahler remembered from his childhood, depicts of his beloved. Berlioz wrote a second movement cornet solo into a “Nature’s awakening from the long sleep of winter”, and is followed by subsequent revision of the score, here included as an optional extra. an exuberant scherzo and trio based on a Ländler. The disturbing slow He wed his sweetheart actress but, recuperating in Nice, wrote Le movement funeral march, based on the children’s song Frère Jacques, corsaire after the final breakup of their marriage. is unlike anything that had been heard before, and the symphony CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL concludes with music of thrilling dramatic intensity. Internationally renowned conductor Leonard Slatkin began his tenure as Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in the 2008- 2009 season. He was recently named Music Director of the Orchestre Marin Alsop has been Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony National de Lyon, beginning with the 2011-2012 season. He completed Orchestra since 2007, a relationship now extended to 2015. Currently his twelfth and final season as Music Director of the National Conductor Emeritus of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra in June 2008, and finished his three-year Music Director Laureate of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, since commitment as Music Advisor to the Nashville Symphony Orchestra 1992 she has also been Music Director of California’s prize-winning in June 2009. Slatkin continues as Principal Guest Conductor of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. 8.572886 8.572207

Heitor VILLA-LOBOS Felix MENDELSSOHN (1887-1959) (1809-1847) Symphony No. 6 ‘On the Choral Music Outline of the Mountains of Peter Holder, Organ • St Albans Brazil’ • Symphony No. 7 Abbey Girls Choir • Lay Clerks of São Paulo Symphony Orchestra St Albans Cathedral Choir • Tom Isaac Karabtchevsky Winpenny

Heitor Villa-Lobos is generally Compared with large-scale oratorios such as St Paul, which includes the acknowledged as Latin America’s lyrical chorus How lovely are the foremost nationalist composer and his messengers, Mendelssohn’s smaller best known works, such as the Bachianas Brasileiras (Naxos 8.557460- sacred choral works were influenced by Palestrina, ranging from short 62), have tended to overshadow the rest of his work. Symphony No. liturgical motets such as the Sechs Sprüche to the canticle settings of the 6, which launched his mature symphonic style, derives some of its Magnificat and Nunc dimittis. The famous sacred melody ‘O for the wings themes from the contours of Brazilian hills and mountains, in a process of a dove’ is to be found in Hear my prayer. The fine choristers of devised by the composer to obtain a melody from an image by means St Albans Cathedral can also be heard ‘on sparkling form’ (Gramophone) of a graphic chart. The Symphony No. 7 is scored for a huge orchestra in John Rutter’s Gloria (8.572563). and is one of the composer’s most ambitious and significant statements. Both works represent the composer’s powerful desire to invent a Tom Winpenny is Assistant Master of the Music at St Albans specifically Brazilian idiom. This is the first volume of a complete cycle of Cathedral, where he accompanies the daily choral services and directs the Abbey Girls Choir. Previously, as Sub-Organist at St Paul’s the Villa-Lobos Symphonies. Cathedral, London, he performed with the Cathedral Choir at the AGO National Convention, with the London Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s 8.573043 Symphony No. 8, and played for great state occasions. 8.572836

Krzysztof PENDERECKI (b. 1933) Sir Peter MAXWELL DAVIES Hymne an den heiligen (b. 1934) Adalbert • Song of the Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5 Cherubim • Canticum Scottish Chamber Orchestra Canticorum Salomonis • Philharmonia Orchestra Kosmogonia • Strophen Peter Maxwell Davies Olga Pasichnyk (soprano) • Rafał Bartmiński (tenor) • Tomasz The orchestra used by Peter Maxwell Konieczny (bass) • Jerzy Artysz Davies for his Fourth Symphony is of (narrator) • Warsaw Philharmonic Classical period proportions, but this Choir and Orchestra • Antoni Wit relatively compact framework belies a richness of ideas and sonorities. The range of Penderecki’s music is exemplified by this disc, which With its starting point in the tone poem Chat Moss, the single- presents five works written over a period of nearly 40 years. Hymne an movement Fifth Symphony utilizes a more varied orchestral palette den heiligen Adalbert was composed in 1997 and evokes the martyred than its predecessor, with a large percussion section often in evidence. eighth-century Bishop of Prague through spare but fervent gestures. Both works are performed here by the orchestras for which they were More austere, but intense in its focus, is Song of the Cherubim, whilst Canticum Canticorum Salomis is a richly sensuous exploration of written. The First Symphony can be heard on 8.572348, the Second the Song of Songs. Kosmogonia explores a complex sound tapestry. Symphony on 8.572349, and the Third Symphony on 8.572350. Strophen (1959) was a breakthrough work – spare, intricate and marvellously tensile. Universally acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of our time, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has made a significant contribution These are among Penderecki’s most interesting and important works to musical history through his wide-ranging and prolific output. He for orchestral and vocal forces, written over a near four decade lives in the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland, where he period of growth and renewal. Wit and his forces have been highly writes most of his music. commended in this repertoire and are among Penderecki’s most ardent and experienced interpreters. 8.572481 8.572351

2 AUG-SEP 2012 Claude DEBUSSY Franz Joseph HAYDN (1862-1918) (1732-1809) Préludes (orch. Peter Piano Trios, Volume 3 Breiner) Kungsbacka Piano Trio Royal Scottish National Orchestra Jun Märkl Joseph Haydn’s long-term employment as Kapellmeister at the Debussy completed his two books palace of Eszterháza in Hungary of Préludes in 1910 and 1913 is reflected in the dedication of respectively, and they contain some his set of three Trios, Hob. XV:21- of his most visionary and poetic 23 to Princess Marie Ermenegild writing for piano. There are evocations of calm seascapes, delicate wind Esterházy, though these were tracery, and snow-covered landscapes. Some moments are steeped published in London during the second of Haydn’s visits. These in antiquity, such as La cathédrale engloutie, others in expressive delightful works are notable for the dexterity required of the pianist, portraiture, as in La fille aux cheveux de lin. There is even a cake- and all, including the Trio No. 14, involve lively and innovative use of walk. The Préludes are performed here in the subtle and colouristic tonality. Previous volumes in this series have been acclaimed for their “taste and stylistic insight”. (Daily Telegraph on Volume 1, 8.572040) orchestrations of much-admired Slovak-born composer Peter Breiner.

The Kungsbacka Trio takes its name from the Swedish town in which MUSIC CLASSICAL Throughout its history, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra has it gave its first performance and where it has established an annual played an important part in Scotland’s musical life, including performing festival. Winner of First Prize in the Melbourne International Chamber at the opening ceremony of the Scottish Parliament building in 2004. Music Competition, it has since appeared at numerous festivals and Jun Märkl has appeared as a guest conductor with the orchestras of venues throughout Europe, North and South America, Australia and Philadelphia, Cleveland, NHK Symphony, Tonhalle Zurich, and the New Zealand. Munich, Oslo and Czech Philharmonics among others, and at the Met, Covent Garden, Vienna State and Dresden Semper Operas. 8.572584 8.572063

Piotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY Robert SCHUMANN (1810-1856) (1840-1893) Piano Quintet in E flat major, Swan Lake, Op. 20 (Highlights) Op. 44 • Piano Quartet in E Russian State Symphony Orchestra flat major, Op. 47 • Dmitry Yablonsky Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tchaikovsky was ideally equipped to Tale Narrations), Op. 132 write the music for the ballet Swan Fine Arts Quartet Lake. His gift for vivid theatricality, Xiayin Wang (piano) for lively, memorable melodies, and for rich characterisation was allied to Between 1841 and 1843 Schumann a mastery of dance rhythms. These wrote some of his greatest chamber qualities were augmented by his command of orchestral colour. And works, among them the Piano Quartet and the Piano Quintet, both yet early performances were disappointingly received. It was only in E flat major. Written in an astonishing five-day period, the Quintet after some structural and choreographic revisions in 1895, two years displays both the heroic and the lyric impulses in his music, boldness after the composer’s death, that the work was fully appreciated for the contrasting with songful tenderness, and march themes with lyricism. masterpiece that it is. The Piano Quartet also exudes such qualities, not least in the ravishing slow movement, and the masterful breadth of Schumann’s expression. For four years Dmitry Yablonsky has been Principal Guest Conductor The four Märchenerzählungen are happy, energetic pieces. of Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and has conducted many other orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, collaborating Winning high praise from the American press, pianist Xiayin Wang has with leading soloists. He has made more than seventy recordings, toured with the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra in St Petersburg many of them prizewinning, as conductor and cellist for Naxos. itself, as well as in the United States. Founded in Chicago in 1946, and based at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 1963, the Fine Arts Quartet is one of the elite few to have recorded and toured 8.572932 internationally for over half a century. 8.572661

Alfredo CASELLA (1883-1947) William Vincent WALLACE Suite in C major, Op. 13 (À (1812-1865) • Chopinesque Jean Huré) • Pagine di guerra Rosemary Tuck (piano) (‘War Pages’), Op. 25bis Tait Chamber Orchestra • Richard Bonynge (piano, conductor) Concerto, Op. 61 Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma The scintillating virtuoso pianist and Francesco La Vecchia composer William Vincent Wallace wrote a sheaf of memorable World Première Recordings compositions for his instrument. He met the huge demand for sheet Alfredo Casella identified three music by producing a series of different periods in his composing career, and this disc features one waltzes, nocturnes, mazurkas, barcarolles, and other works dazzling work from each. The Suite in C major is early Casella, a fascinating in their variety, invention, wit, humour and charm. Their tone ranges combination of influences from the French Baroque through Domenico from Latin American to Spanish and from seascape to melancholy Scarlatti to Mahler. War Pages are images of the horrific mechanised reflection. Widely admired exponents of Wallace’s music, Rosemary warfare of 1914-18, as seen on silent cinema newsreels: among the Tuck and Richard Bonynge are joined by the Tait Chamber Orchestra music’s admirers was Puccini. Casella himself felt that the Concerto, for the brilliant Grande Fantaisie La Cracovienne. Op. 61 – a commission for the fiftieth birthday of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra – was his ‘most complete achievement in In 2001, Rosemary Tuck gave the first official performance in the the field of orchestral music’. William Vincent Wallace Millennium Plaza in Waterford, Ireland and has appeared in an all Wallace programme in London conducted by In 2002 Francesco La Vecchia was appointed Artistic Director and Richard Bonynge. Her previous recordings include music by Liadov, Resident Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma. Under his Ketèlbey and Wallace. leadership the orchestra has rapidly achieved success in Europe and in highly successful tours to St Petersburg, Madrid, Belgrade, Brussels, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, London, Athens, Berlin, Beijing and Shanghai. 8.573004 8.572776

AUG-SEP 2012 3 Simon MAYR (1763-1845) Hans PFITZNER (1869-1949) Gioas (Oratorio) Symphony in C major, Op. 46 Andrea Lauren Brown (soprano) • Robert SCHUMANN Robert Sellier (tenor) • Cornel Frey (1810-1856) (tenor) • Andreas Burkhart (bass) Bavarian State Opera Chorus • Konzertstück, Op. 86 Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble Robert Bonnevie (horn) • Mark Directed from the harpsichord by Robbins (horn) • David C. Knapp Franz Hauk (horn) • Scott Wilson (horn) Seattle Symphony • Gerard Schwarz Bavarian-born Johann Simon Mayr achieved renown as an Italianate The musical expression of German opera composer, his earlier work taking the form of sacred oratorios. Romanticism is the theme of this disc. The trajectory of Schumann’s Gioas is a combination of both forms, being a parody-oratorio closely Konzertstück, Op. 86, written for four horns and orchestra, goes following Mayr’s opera I misteri eleusini, which was considered by from heroism to introspection. Two of his Symphonic Etudes, Op. Stendhal to be “among [the] most powerful musical works of the age”. 13, were orchestrated by no less a figure than Tchaikovsky, while This mythical drama of kings, priests and goddesses was ideally suited Albert Parlow orchestrated four of Brahms’ most exciting Hungarian for its intended devotional use, and it joins other pioneering recordings Dances. Mendelsssohn’s Overture to his Ballad Opera Die Heimkehr from Franz Hauk which include David (8.570366-67) and Samuele aus der Fremde (Song and Stranger) embodies classical virtues. CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL (8.572721-22). Anton Webern’s Langsamer Satz for string quartet has been vibrantly orchestrated by Gerard Schwarz. Hans Pfitzner, one of the last representatives of the movement, is represented by his concise, melodic Symphony in C major. 8.572710-11 (2 CDs) 8.572770

Laureate Series • Baldassare GALUPPI Cecilio Perera Guitar Recital (1706-1785) First Prize • 2011 Michele Pittaluga Keyboard Sonatas, Volume 3 Guitar Competition • Alessandria Matteo Napoli (piano)

Winner of a remarkable number Known as Il Buranello after his of awards and acknowledged as island birthplace of Burano, opera one of the most important guitarists composer Baldassare Galuppi was to emerge from Mexico in recent also admired as a keyboard player. years, Cecilio Perera demonstrates His sonatas are quiet, refined gems the strength and beauty of the of the utmost elegance and lyricism, guitar tradition in Central and South with expressive contrasts ranging America in this recital. Manuel Ponce’s evocative Sonata Mexicana from poignant operatic aria style movements to the energetic influence contrasts with the exciting meeting of ancient and modern in Leo of Scarlatti. This selection includes late works from the Passatempo Brouwer’s Sonata, Julio César Oliva’s Tangomania, ‘a sonata in the al Cembalo. Matteo Napoli has been praised for his “enviable poise” style of the modern tango influenced by Piazzolla’, and the haunting (International Record Review) in volume 1 (8.572263) and “finely and at times dazzling Pieces from Venezuela by Vicente Emilio Sojo. nuanced” playing (Fanfare) in volume 2 (8.572490). 8.573025 8.572672

Richard WAGNER (1813-1883) Orchestral Excerpts, Volume 3 Alessandra Marc (soprano) Seattle Symphony • Gerard Schwarz

Themes of love and passion dominate these orchestral excerpts from Wagner’s music dramas. The legend of Tannhäuser contrasts the sensual allure of Venus with the ideals of courtly love and religious devotion. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg pits an inspired but rash young singer against the traditions of the old masters in a song competition, with a beautiful girl as the prize. Tristan und Isolde, based on one of the world’s great love stories, is considered Wagner’s most revolutionary work, seamlessly blending themes of love and death into a shattering apotheosis. Gerard Schwarz’s other selections of Wagner excerpts can be found on 8.572767 and 8.572768.

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Gloria COATES (b. 1938) Krzysztof PENDERECKI String Quartets Nos. 1-9 (b. 1933) Kreutzer Quartet The Symphonies and Other Orchestral Works “Perched at a sonic event horizon, Polish National Radio Symphony the nine string quartets of composer Orchestra • Warsaw Philharmonic Gloria Coates exquisitely warp Choir and Orchestra • Antoni Wit listeners’ sense of place. The floorboards yield like latex and the “Antoni Wit’s ongoing cycle of supernovae above are seduced to Penderecki orchestral works is yet within an arm’s reach through her another of those truly outstanding elongating, microtonal alchemy. In the deft hands of the UK’s Kreutzer Naxos projects that’s unlikely to get the attention it deserves. Quartet, the nocturnal harmonies found here are rendered not bleak, The music isn’t easy, or popular, but Wit is a marvellous conductor in but radiant.” – Doyle Armbrust, Time Out Chicago this repertoire, and his unfailingly intense and idiomatic performances look to become the standard by which all others will be judged.” – David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

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4 AUG-SEP 2012 Great Singers • Kathleen Great Pianists • Women at FERRIER (1912-1953) the Piano, Volume 5 Arias and Songs An Anthology of Historic 1946-1950 Recordings Performances (1923-1955) Mark Obert-Thorn, producer and Marina A. Ledin & Victor Ledin audio restoration engineer (producers)

Kathleen Ferrier was one of the The fifth volume in this much greatest British singers of the 20th admired series offers another century. For ten years she enjoyed an fascinating anthology. Of the 17 unparallelled career, admired equally pianists, the two oldest are the for the generous warmth and sincerity long-lived Cornelia Rider-Possart of her interpretations as for her uniquely splendid contralto voice. This (1865-1963) who can be heard on an exceptionally rare, non- reissue features twelve arias and songs that Ferrier recorded for Decca commercial 1926 Berlin disc, in the first recording of Scriabin’s Etude, between 1946 and 1950. In addition there are eight treasurable items Op. 42, No. 3, and Etelka Freund (1879-1977), a pupil of Brahms, from a 1949 Norwegian Radio recital in Oslo, which include her only who performs one of his Intermezzos in 1952. Jean Melville, a distant published recordings of Hugo Wolf. relation of Arthur Sullivan, plays Valse arabesque in London in 1923, whilst Johana Harris who, together with her husband, the American

composer Roy Harris, enjoyed a highly successful career, can be MUSIC CLASSICAL heard playing Frescobaldi in Los Angeles. 8.112071 8.111219

Constantino GAITO (1878-1945) Dmitri KABALEVSKY Chamber Works for Piano & (1904-1987) Strings The Complete Works for Agustina Herrera (piano) Piano & Orchestra Sarastro Quartett Michael Korstick (piano) • NDR RADIOPHILHARMONIE CPO has the pianist Agustina Hannover • Alun Francis Herrera, the composer’s great- granddaughter, to thank for calling Dmitri Kabalevsky is ranked attention to the chamber music of with Shostakovich and Prokofiev Argentinean composer Constantino among the former Soviet Union’s Gaito. His intensive, tireless, leading composers, although his and multifaceted activity as a composer, conductor, pianist, music music is lesser known. Kabalevsky was not as adventurous as his dramatist, and educator exercised an indisputable influence on the contemporaries in terms of harmony and preferred a more conventional history of Argentine music. The Sarastro Quartet proves to be Agustina diatonicism, but his natural talent for catchy melodies and clear Herrera’s ideal partner for this project. 777 514-2 structures were appealing to audiences. 777 658-2 (2 CDs)

La Bella Mandorla Antonio Casimir Ballate, Cacce & Madrigale CARTELLIERI (1772-1807) from the Codex Squarcialupi Complete Symphonies 1-4 palatino87 Evergreen Symphony Orchestra, Gernot Schmalfuss The Squarcialupi Codex is an extensive, lavishly decorated CPO is pleased to present manuscript of the Italian Trecento Cartellieri’s Complete Symphonies and was compiled around 1410. The performed by the Evergreen manuscript contains works by twelve Symphony Orchestra and conducted composers – including Francesco by Gernot Schmalfuss. It is this Landini, Giovanni da Cascia, conductor whom we have to thank Jacopo da Bologna, and Lorenzo da Firenze – and presents them in for rediscovering two missing symphonies. chronological order. Cartellieri’s music bears the audible mark of Beethoven’s influence but 777 623-2 very much displays early romantic influences of its own. 777 667-2

Charles-Marie WIDOR Hieronymus PRAETORIUS (1844-1937) (1560-1629) Organ Symphonies Vol. 2 Complete Magnificat Symphonies opp. 42, 3 & 69 Compositions and other Christian Schmitt • Bamberger Works for Organ Symphoniker • Stefan Solyom Friedhelm Flamme (organ)

Widor epitomizes the French organ On volume 9 in cpo’s on-going music of the nineteenth century. He series featuring the organ music quickly made a name for himself as of the Northern German Baroque, a composer, and his ten symphonies Friedhelm Flamme interprets works for solo organ are regarded even by one of the most esteemed today as some of his greatest achievements. As with the first volume Hamburg musicians of his time: Hieronymus Praetorius. the symphonies are interpreted by Christian Schmitt, certainly the most distinguished German organist of the younger generation. The Magnificat cycles recorded here in full are based on the eight church modes of the particular Magnificat tones then in use in Hamburg. In contrast to Praetorius’ practice in his vocal Magnificat compositions, his organ works display a freer part writing style. 777 678-2 (Hybrid SACD) 777 345-2 (2 Hybrid SACDS)

AUG-SEP 2012 5 J.S. BACH (1685-1750) Secular Cantatas Vol. 2 Bach Collegium Japan • Masaaki Suzuki • Sophie Junker (Diana) • Joanne Lunn (Pales) • Makoto Sakurada (Endymion) • Roderick Williams (Pan) • Damien Guillon (Göttliche Vorsehung) • Makoto Sakurada (Zeit)

Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki present their long-awaited second volume of secular cantatas by J.S. Bach.

The “Hunt Cantata”, composed in 1713, is the oldest of his secular cantatas. The libretto includes a dramatic plot in which four divinities from ancient mythology appear.

Die Zeit, die Tag und Jahre macht was intended for the 1719 New Year celebrations in Köthen. The cantata is set as a dialogue between Time (tenor) and Divine Providence (alto), who in the final movement are joined by a chorus wishing ‘glückseligen Zeiten’ (‘joyous times’) BISSACD1971 (Hybrid SACD)

Pipe Dreams SIBELIUS – Saarella palaa Sharon Bezaly (flute) Fire on the Island Australian Chamber Orchestra / Dominante Choir

CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL Richard Tognetti (artistic director & Seppo Murto lead violin) Throughout his career, Jean Sibelius On a wide selection of recordings wrote pieces for choir which evince – solo, with orchestra, and in a consistently high standard as chamber music – Sharon Bezaly well as their creator’s characteristic has demonstrated not only ‘utter mode of expression. In spite of commitment to the works’ but also this, few of them have entered the ‘the most technically assured, international repertoire, largely breathtakingly brilliant flute-playing around’ (Fanfare). On Pipe Dreams, because of the challenges of the Swedish and Finnish texts to which she appears with the eminent Australian Chamber Orchestra and their they are set. Among the best-known ones are Rakastava (The Lover) leader Richard Tognetti in a programme which takes its name from the and the Six Songs, Op.18, a collection which includes Venematka Australian composer Carl Vine’s work for flute and orchestra. As the (The Boat Journey) and the piece which has provided the title of the composer writes, a basic idea for the work is ‘the folly that a flute – the present disc: Saarella palaa – Fire on the Island. Like so many of instrument itself – might harbour its own secret wishes. In a universe Sibelius’ compositions (whether instrumental or vocal), they take their where all is possible, what might a flute dream?’ Intriguingly this also inspiration from the two great national texts of Finland – the Kalevala offers a key for possible interpretations of the other works on the disc. and Kanteletar collections. BISCD1789 BISSACD1889

Kalevi AHO – Organ Music TCHAIKOVSKY Jan Lehtola playing the 1907/2008 ‘Pathétique’ Åkerman & Lund organ of S:t Swedish Chamber Orchestra Johannes kyrka, Malmö, Sweden Thomas Dausgaard

Largely known and admired for his These two works from either end large orchestral scores – including of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s career are fifteen symphonies to date – the Finnish linked by their tragic endings – the composer Kalevi Aho has actually Sixth Symphony with its concluding written in a wide variety of genres, Adagio lamentoso descending into including chamber music and opera. He the deep and gloomy catacombs of did arrive at the organ via the orchestra, a low string sound, and the ‘Fantasy however: in 1993, when composing his Eighth Symphony, he decided Overture’ Romeo and Juliet closing with a funeral march. Both of them to let the organ feature in it as a solo instrument. Although he integrated much-loved staples in the concert halls of the world, they appear here it into the orchestra, it was also provided with three interludes between in ‘Opening Doors’ – the series conceived by Thomas Dausgaard and the separate movements. Encouraged to recast these into a solo work his Swedish Chamber Orchestra in order to provide the opportunity of for the instrument, Aho composed a brief introduction for each interlude, hearing large-scale Romantic symphonic works in a new way, with the functioning as a short summary of what had appeared before it in the clarity that a chamber orchestra can offer. course of the symphony. BISSACD1946 BISSACD1959

BACH – Cantatas, Volume 51 Allan PETTERSSON Bach Collegium Japan directed by Symphony No.6 Masaaki Suzuki Norrköping Symphony Orchestra Hana Blažíková (soprano) • Christian Lindberg Damien Guillon (counter-tenor) • Christoph Genz (tenor) • Peter Among the symphonies by Allan Kooij (bass) Pettersson, the Seventh is often accorded a special importance, The four cantatas gathered here were partly because of the immediate all composed for specific events such success it enjoyed at its first as funerals and weddings. Like all the performance, in 1968, but also sacred cantatas, they contain biblical because it has come to be perceived references and include chorales, but Bach’s sacred occasional pieces as more closely associated than other works with the personal life of are independent works and did not form part of his cantata cycles for its composer. As a result, Symphony No.6, which was premièred less the Sundays and feast days of the church year. This makes it to some than a year before the seventh, has come to be overshadowed by its extent difficult to place the individual works in context: for instance two successor. It is nevertheless an imposing work: an almost hour-long of cantatas included here were intended for wedding ceremonies, and single-movement symphony in which the composer established a one for a funeral, but we do not know the circumstances regarding the specific, self-contained musical style which would serve as a basis for fourth piece, Nun danket alle Gott, BWV 192. Similarly, we do know the three symphonies that followed in quick succession. This work was the identity of the person whose death was mourned to the music of begun in the late 1940s, but although the composer never completed Ich lasse dich nicht… BWV 157, but the names of the couples whose it, he never abandoned it either. weddings were accompanied by BWV 195 and BWV 120a respectively are unknown. BISSACD1961 BISSACD1980

6 AUG-SEP 2012 Carl DAVIS Ballade for Cello and Orchestra Jonathan Aasgaard • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra • Carl Davis

Carl Davis on Ballade: I based my Ballade on the brief synopsis Fauré had used for his Poème d’un jour: a couple meet, swear eternal love and part. As a teenager I thought, “How cool!” The Ballade follows this tale in 5 linked sections: the 1st - searching; the 2nd - restless; the 3rd - a love scene, ending in a minor key; the 4th - stern, passionate; and finally, life carries on.

The brilliant cellist Jonathan Aasgaard, principal of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, asked me to compose a work for him after performing my score for Garbo’s sensual silent film Flesh and the Devil and the RLPO commissioned it. Thanks to you both. CDC017

Sergey PROKOFIEV The War Sonatas

Boris Giltburg (piano) MUSIC CLASSICAL

Boris Giltburg was selected by the great Zubin Mehta as the winner of the first Pnina Salzman Prize in Israel 2011 and has won many other prestigious prizes, including the top prize and Audience Prize in the Santander International Piano Competition, and second prize and Best Classical Concerto in the Artur Rubinstein Competition.

An exceptionally busy and versatile performer, he recently replaced Denis Matsuev at one day’s notice performing Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No.3 on tour in Germany.

This CD is the culmination of many months of constant performance and study of Prokofiev’s War Sonatas, and the highly detailed and insightful booklet notes have also been written by Boris. ORC100023

Nikolay MEDTNER (1880-1951) COMPLETE PIANO SONATAS • 1 PAUL STEWART

Like his near-contemporary Rachmaninov, who called him ‘the greatest composer of our time’, Nikolay Medtner was a composer, pianist and an exile from his native Russia. His portfolio of works includes a remarkable series of pieces for his own instrument, including fourteen sonatas and some hugely evocative, deeply poetic miniatures. Medtner’s gift for melody is immediately discerned in the early Sonatina in G minor. The Sonata No. 1, Op. 5, his first large-scale work, enshrines autobiographical elements and is both intense and spiritually charged. Poetry and nostalgia flood the beautiful Sonata-Reminiscenza in A minor. This is the first volume of a complete cycle of the Medtner Piano Sonatas.

Canadian pianist Paul Stewart has appeared in concerts and with major orchestras throughout Canada, the United States (including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center), Mexico, South America, Europe and Asia. His British début in London’s Wigmore Hall was broadcast by the BBC, and a performance of Rachmaninov’s 4th Piano Concerto with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra was heard throughout Russia and released on a bestselling CD. Other recordings include works by Beethoven, Britten, Honegger, Liszt, Prokofiev, Ravel, Schubert and Strauss. Paul Stewart has championed and performed Nikolay Medtner’s works on four continents. He is a Professor of Piano at the Université de Montréal. GP617

Ludwig Van BEETHOVEN Daniel Gottlob TÜRK (1770-1872) (1750-1813) COMPLETE PIANO DUETS KEYBOARD SONATAS AMY AND SARA HAMANN MICHAEL TSALKA

Beethoven’s compositions for piano Daniel Gottlob Türk is best known duet embrace works written for for his influential pedagogical treatise students as well as those designed for Klavierschule (1789). His 48 inventive aristocratic acquaintances and friends. and varied keyboard sonatas were This release presents two recordings influenced by Sonatas of other North of the complete works: the first (CD German composers such as C. P. 1) on a modern Yamaha piano, and E. Bach and J. W. Hässler. The five the second (CD 2) on chronologically accurate reproductions of the historical keyboards employed in this recording reflect the diversity of the fortepianos Beethoven was composing on at the time. The modern instruments available in Türk’s day. The twelve sonatas encompassed piano was recorded in a concert hall, whereas the period instrument in his first and second collections show how the composer’s sensitive, recording was made in a much more intimate space, showcasing the at times dramatic, oratorical style relates beautifully to the nuanced salon performance settings of the past. expressive capabilities of these instruments.

Heralded as “having the eloquence and ability to maintain their audience Michael Tsalka has won numerous prizes and awards throughout his under their powers*”, duo pianists Amy and Sara Hamann have career. A versatile musician, he performs solo and chamber music won international recognition, captivating audiences and critics alike repertoire from the Early Baroque to Contemporary on the modern piano, wherever they appear. The Hamann sisters are the first American duo to harpsichord, fortepiano, clavichord, square piano and chamber organ. win the Absolute First Prize in the Fryderyk Chopin Concorso Pianistico Michael Tsalka performs throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia, Internazionale held in Rome, First Prize in the International Grieg having appeared at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Forbidden City Competition, and First Prize of the Ellis Competition for Duo- Pianists. in Beijing, the Mozart Fest in Austin, the Osaka Festival in Japan, the Their performances have been broadcast on national and international Hermitage Festival in St Petersburg, the Early Keyboard Series in Buenos television and radio, including NPR’s Performance Today and Studio Aires, amongst others. Tsalka holds a master’s degree in chamber music/ 360. The sisters were recently appointed “Yamaha Artists” by Yamaha accompanying, a master’s degree in harpsichord performance and a Corporation of America. GP619-20 (2 CDs) doctorate in piano performance. GP627-28 (2 CDs)

AUG-SEP 2012 7 JÖRG SCHNEIDER World Famous Operetta Arias and Scenes Jörg Schneider (tenor) • Nina Berten (soprano) • Wiener Salonorchester

The Austrian tenor Jörg Schneider has enjoyed a career that has flourished in Europe and especially in Italy, where he has sung in almost every important opera house.

In this release for Capriccio, Jörg Schneider sings a selection of his favourite arias and scenes from world famous operettas, including Johann Strauss (Jr.): Die Fledermaus, Der Zigeunerbaron and Wiener Blut, Emmerich Kalman: Gräfin Mariza, Carl Millöcker: Der Bettelstudent, Eduard Künneke: Der Vetter aus Dingsda and Franz Lehar: Paganini. C5109

Piano Rarities Piano Rarities Frederico MOMPOU Wilhelm STENHAMMAR (1893-1987) (1893-1987) Olena Kushpler (piano) Cassandra Wyss (piano) CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL “To achieve a maximum level of Stenhammar was a virtuoso pianist expressiveness with a minimum and renowned composer in his day of means” was the defined goal of and achieved early success with his the Spanish pianist and composer piano works, even if he was less Frederico Mompou. He was well known outside of Scandinavia championed by Enrique Granados, than his colleagues and friends Carl but it was in early 1921 when his Nielsen and Jean Sibelius. piano teacher Ferdinand Motte-Lacroix presented the works of his student to the public that Mompou made his breakthrough. On this recording for Capriccio Cassandra Wyss performs three of Stenhammar’s piano works; the frequently played Three Fantasies Op. 11, These works are performed by Olena Kushpler, a Ukrainian pianist Nights of Later Summer, one of Stenhammar’s last works, and the whose concert performances are regularly greeted with enthusiasm by Sonata Op. 12. audiences and the media. C5115 C5117

HANDEL: SAUL MOZART The Sixteen • Harry Christophers CORONATION MASS Harry Christophers Renowned for their Handel Handel and Haydn Society interpretations, Harry Christophers and his award-winning choir, The Mozart’s Mass in C major is one Sixteen, add to their glittering of his most popular and enduring catalogue of Handel discs with this works. Know as the ‘Coronation new recording of Saul. Mass’ – a nickname it acquired following a performance conducted In his biblical oratorio, Saul, Handel by Antonio Salieri in 1791 in Prague wrote an epic work of great and at the coronation of Leopold II noble drama and of thrilling musical inventiveness. Saul represents as King of Bohemia – it includes the beautifully tender Agnus Dei. Handel’s first proper foray into oratorio and it is a masterpiece full Alongside the Mass on this CD are Mozart’s soprano solo Exsultate, of great and magical moments. It is bursting with exceptional music, jubilate, beautifully performed by Teresa Wakim, and Joseph Haydn’s extraordinary orchestration (replete with trombones, deep-sounding Symphony No. 85, which was a favourite of Marie Antoinette, leading drum and perky carillon), extended choruses both profound and to the name ‘La Reine’, by which it is still known today. ebullient, symphonies, concerto movements for organ, recitatives which explore the varying moods of the characters, and the most Harry Christophers was appointed Artistic Director of Boston’s stunning arias. internationally acclaimed Handel and Haydn Society in 2008. Founded in 1815, the Society is considered the oldest continuously performing In Saul Handel gifted soloists with roles of vivid characterisation and arts organization in the U.S. and has given the American premieres of the artists on this disc are some of the finest Handelian interpreters major works by Handel, Bach and Haydn, has won a Grammy Award, of today including Christopher Purves - a baritone whose talent for and will celebrate its Bicentennial in 2015. dramatic realisation is matched by superb musical craftsmanship - and Sarah Connolly - whose intensely radiant performance of David on this CD confirms her status as one of our most sought-after Handel performers. COR16103 (3 CDs) COR16104

WEILL • IBERT • BERG Baton Rouge Symphony Chamber Players John Gilbert (violin) • Dmitri Schteinberg (piano) • George Work (cello) • Timothy Muffitt (conductor)

The Baton Rouge Symphony Chamber Players is a collection of talented artists taken from the larger parent group, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. Celebrating its 63rd year, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra has become an ambassador for the arts in the greater Baton Rouge region and neighboring communities. The BRSO currently offers over 40 concerts a year, bringing in internationally-known guest artists and offering a broad range of programs to the people of the area.

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8 AUG-SEP 2012 BRAHMS: Piano Concerto RACHMANINOV: Symphony No.2 • DEBUSSY: Images No.2 • BERNSTEIN: Candide – Book 1 • PROKOFIEV: Overture Sonata No.3 op.28 Evgeny Svetlanov Emil Gilels Philharmonia Orchestra Kolner Rundfunk LSO Orchester • Mario Rossi The great Evgeny Svetlanov (1928–2002) was music director of the The Russian pianist Emil Gilels USSR State Orchestra (1965–2000) (1916–1985) was born in Odessa. with permanent positions with the After completing his studies with LSO, the Residentie Orchestra in the Heinrich Neuhaus in 1937, he was Hague and with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He frequently awarded first prize at the 1938 Ysaÿe International Festival in Brussels. guest conducted the NHK Orchestra in Japan and the Orchestre National After the war, he toured the Soviet Bloc countries of Eastern Europe in Paris, as well as the Philharmonia Orchestra in London. May 2012 as a soloist. He was one of the first Soviet artists, along with David marked the tenth anniversary of his death and ICA celebrated this with a Oistrakh, allowed to travel and concertise in the West. coupling of Rachmaninov’s The Bells – from Svetlanov’s last concert – and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky, works by two composers who were very His US debut in 1955, playing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1, was closely associated with the conductor. a triumph. His UK debut in 1959 was met with similar acclaim while his MUSIC CLASSICAL Salzburg Festival debut came in 1969. Emil Gilels is regarded by many Rachmaninov was, by his own account, Svetlanov’s favourite composer. as one of the most significant pianists of the twentieth century and is This new live recording of his Symphony No.2 from the Royal Festival Hall universally admired for his superb technical control and burnished tone. in 1993 with the Philharmonia Orchestra has never been issued before. His interpretations of the central German-Austrian classics formed the core of his repertoire, in particular Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann The recording is in excellent stereo and Svetlanov was at his most as well as twentieth-century music like Debussy, Bartók and Prokofiev. exciting when caught live as opposed to working under studio conditions. This is a riveting performance. ICAC 5077 ICAC 5078

GRIEG: Piano Concerto MAHLER: Das klagende Lied Liszt: Piano Concerto No.1 JANÁČEK: The Fiddler’s Child Fantasy on Hungarian Folk Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Themes Bela Dekany (VIOLIN) Georges Cziffra BBC Symphony Orchestra Orchestre National de l’ORTF Only the most eminent and respected Georges Tzipine Russian musicians were allowed André Cluytens extensive foreign tours in the early 1960s, and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky Hungarian born György Cziffra was awarded this status. He (1921–1994) was one of the most appeared several times in Britain, celebrated and individual piano mainly with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and at Covent Garden. virtuosos of the post-war decades in Europe, especially noted for his powers of improvisation and as a Liszt pianist. In 1971, he conducted the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra at the Proms. Rozhdestvensky became Artistic Director of the Stockholm In 1950 Cziffra was arrested after he attempted to escape from Philharmonic Orchestra (1974–77 & 1991–95), and principal conductor Hungary’s Soviet-sponsored regime and was severely tortured. When of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (1978–81) and Vienna Symphony he was released in 1953, Cziffra started to record for the Qualiton Orchestra (1980–82). He worked with the Berlin Philharmonic and Supraphon labels (ICAC 5008) which began to circulate in Western Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Chicago and Cleveland Europe, propelling him to legendary status. When Russia invaded orchestras. He also is the honorary conductor of the Yomiuri Nippon Hungary, Cziffra fled to Vienna making his debut there in November Symphony Orchestra. 1956, with outstanding success. Debuts elsewhere in Europe followed. Cziffra gained international stardom not without critical disfavour, Rozhdestvensky was the first Russian-born conductor to perform and adhering to a nineteenth-century approach to music that allowed for record all Mahler’s symphonies in his country. taking ‘liberties’ with the texts. Cziffra settled in France. He retired from recording in 1986 and left the concert platform in 1988. In the same Mahler’s Das klagende Lied is a rarity and here is performed live, year, France named him a cultural ambassador to a newly liberalised complete in the original three-part edition The performance was Hungary. He set up the Fondation Cziffra with his wife who runs it reviewed by Gramophone magazine as follows: ‘Rozhdestvensky’s today. highly dramatic account of Mahler’s three-movement drama’. ICAC 5079 ICAC 5080

SCHUMANN: Symphony No.4 DEBUSSY: Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien – SuiteLa Mer Guido Cantelli Philharmonia Orchestra

The extraordinarily gifted Guido Cantelli (1920–1956) was born in Novara, Italy. After studies at the Milan Conservatory, he returned to Novara in 1941 to become conductor and artistic director of the Teatro Coccia which had been founded by Toscanini. After the war, in which he served in the Italian Army, he started to conduct the La Scala Orchestra in Milan and appeared with other European orchestras. In 1948 Toscanini, who held him in the highest regard, invited him to be a guest conductor with the NBC orchestra in New York. From 1949 each year, Cantelli conducted the NBC, the New York Philharmonic and Boston Symphony orchestras. In 1950, he was at the Edinburgh Festival and in 1951 Lucerne, Salzburg and Venice Festivals. He started recording with the Philharmonia Orchestra for EMI but was tragically killed in an air crash in Paris in 1956. Walter Legge wrote, ‘no other conductor in the history of the art has established, so early in life, so wide a fame’. While studio recordings validate that encomium, none quite captured the incandescence of his live performances.

These important and very rare live recordings featuring the Philharmonia Orchestra derive from the Music Preserved archive and have never been released before. They have been carefully restored by Paul Baily.

The Glasgow Herald stated that Cantelli’s Schumann nearly raised the roof with its excitement but it also noted ‘the plasticity of line and transparent textures’. ICAC 5081

AUG-SEP 2012 9 BOCCHERINI Giovanni CROCE Guitar Quintets Missa sopra la battalgia Massimo Scattolin (guitar) • Motets by Bassano • Croce Franco Mezzena • Stefano Pagliari A. Gabrieli • G. Gabrieli • Willaert (violins) • Luca Volpato (viola) • Cappella Marciana Julius Berger (cello) Marco Gemmani

Boccherini’s works may be Detailing many an inspiring undervalued today, but in his time performance, this release celebrates the Italian achieved considerably the rich musical heritage of St renown as a lyrical melodist. Set Mark’s Basilica through a selection apart from the Austro-German of liturgical works – all of which were mainstream, he retained an individual and distinctive voice – and for written by composers employed at the cathedral during the 16th and a composer whose most admired traits included expressiveness and 17th centuries. intimacy, it should come as little surprise that his major legacy is a fine body of distinctive chamber music. Using several choruses as well as a rich instrumental consort, Croce’s Mass shows how richly developed was the music at St Mark’s by the Full of energy and charisma, these are highly evocative pieces end of the 16th century. Its glorious traditions continue, as we can hear from the current choir and instrumentalists of St Mark’s, Cappella CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL that deserve more recognition. Massimo Scattolin’s performances represent an important addition to the Boccherini discography that will Marciana. help ensure that the unique delights of the composer’s music continue to be treasured. 8802138 (2 CDs) 8802139

TARTINI TARTINI Violin Concertos Violin Sonatas Giuliano Fontanella • Enrico Alberto Martini, Casazza • Sebastiano Maria Giovanni Guglielmo (violins) Vianello • Paolo Ciociola & Antonio Pocaterra (cello) Cristiano Rossi violins Ilario Gregoletto (harpsichord) Interpreti Veneziani Born in 1692, in what today is Slovenia, Giuseppe Tartini ranks Born in 1692, in what today is among the most famous of late- Slovenia, Giuseppe Tartini originally Baroque composers. A colourful studied law before turning his hand figure who was the subject of various to composition and the violin. Having scandals during his lifetime, the Italian was forced to flee Padua in returned to Padua from Prague, where he spent three years immersed 1710 when it was discovered he had secretly married the niece of the in the musical world of the Hapsburgs, he went on to establish a city’s Bishop. Tartini sought refuge at the monastery in Assisi, and it music school and write treatises on subjects such as the principles was there that he began lessons in both the violin and composition. of harmony. Today Tartini is regarded as one of the most important composers of his generation. 8802140 (2 CDs) 8802141 (3 CDs)

SAINT-SAËNS MOZART Complete Piano Concertos Bass Arias Philippe Entremont (piano) Ferruccio Furlanetto bass-baritone Orchestre National du Capitole Wiener Symphoniker • Ion Marin de Toulouse • Michel Plasson The compilation traces Mozart’s four Full of youthful ambition and recalling most famous operas and details nine Mendelssohn’s lively style, Saint-Saëns’ separate characters in the space of First Piano Concerto was written an hour. From Figaro’s military-style when the composer was just 23; ‘Non più andrai’ to the Count’s display another ten years followed before of jealous insecurity in ‘Hai già vinta the Second, which is generally la causa!’ – two of four arias from Le considered the masterpiece of the set. Written especially for a concert nozze di Figaro – Furlanetto also explores the servant-nobleman roles conducted by Anton Rubinstein, No.2 is certainly Saint-Saëns’s most in Don Giovanni, performing the infamous ‘Madamina! il catalogo è popular: high in spirits and full of invention, it was soon followed questo’ and ‘Champagne Aria’ among others. Così fan tutte, Mozart’s by the Third Piano Concerto of 1869 and much later by the Fourth, third and final collaboration with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte, sees the whose adventurous and novel five-section structure reveals a mature bass-baritone take on the role of Guglielmo, while in Die Zauberflöte, composer at the height of his career. The Fifth is an exotic-sounding written just a couple of months before the composer’s death, the singer work that was written during the composer’s annual vacation to Egypt contrasts the naivety of Papageno the birdcatcher (‘Der Vogelfänger bin in 1895. ich ja’ and ‘Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen’) with the wisdom and purity of 8802144 (2 CDs) Sarastro (‘In diesen heil’gen Hallen’). 8802179

STRADELLA: Chamber Music Mario Ferraris • Angelo Ephrikian • Giovanni Adamo • William Bignami • Giuliano Nalesso • Federico Zampieri (violins) • Giorgio Alessandri • Franco Borgatti • Armando Burattin (violas) • Enrico Miori • Antonio Pocaterra • Francesco Bruni • Nazareno Cicoria • Enrico Emiliani (cellos) • Bruno Ferraris • Osvaldo Rizzoli • Artemio Versari (double basses) • Maria Isabella de Carli (harpsichord & organ) • Emilia Fadini (harpsichord) • Edward Hankins Tarr • Holger Eichorn (trumpet & cornets)

Born in 1639, Alessandro Stradella stands as one of the most productive and popular musicians of his generation – a composer who enjoyed such a high reputation that he never lacked powerful patrons and commissions. Regarded by some as the Mozart of the 17th century, Stradella wrote most of his works for voices; this set documents Stradella’s other side. Twelve sonatas for violin and continuo, nine Sonatas for two violins and continuo, various other ‘miscellaneous’ compositions such as the Sonata ‘for two choirs’, featuring two violins and two cornets (each with continuo); a joyful cornucopia of styles and instrumental combinations. Although there is little key contrast in each individual piece, variation of tempo and metre offer contrast between movements, and Stradella is deftly inventive in his use of figures based on adjacent notes. For all the density of their counterpoint, these sonatas revel in a continual readiness to push the boundaries of 17th-century conventions. 8802142 (4 CDs)

10 AUG-SEP 2012 Kein schöner’ Land Alessandro SCARLATTI Deutsche Volkslieder Vespro della Beata Vergine Windsbacher Knabenchor Vokalakademie Berlin (Windsbach Boys Choir) Frank Markowitsch Karl-Friedrich Beringer The Vokalakademie Berlin under The Windsbacher Knabenchor Frank Markowitsch release their (Windsbach Boys Choir) performs debut recording: Alessandro much-loved German folk songs in Scarlatti’s (1660–1725) seldom heart-warming settings. Many of recorded Vespers for the Blessed these songs were recorded by the Virgin consists of psalm settings choir in 1982: this makes the present and motets which had previously recording one of the first to be produced under the baton of Karl- been scattered across many different European libraries. They provide Friedrich Beringer. The production’s first pressing was awarded the sounding evidence of the Italian maestro’s impressive compositional prestigious Deutscher Schallplattenpreis. ROP1008 prowess. ROP6062

Voci a corde WIDOR, VIERNE Duette zur Harfe Orgelsinfonien Christine Wolff (soprano) • Britta Organ Symphonies MUSIC CLASSICAL Schwarz (alto) • Maria Graf (harp) Tobias Frank at the Seifert Organ at St Matthias • Berlin-Schöneberg Together with the soloists Christine Wolff, Britta Schwarz, and Maria Graf, For his recording, Tobias Frank Rondeau Production approaches selected the organ at the St-Matthias- this Romantic Zeitgeist from a new Kirche in Berlin: a grandiose perspective: well-known and unknown instrument with the sound-palette of duets are clothed in fresh robes by a pseudo-French cathedral organ. As the accompanying harp, and the spirit one of the few large-scale organs of of chamber music making in private homes is reawakened. the early years of the West German Federal Republic, until today, it can ROP6061 be considered “en vogue” down to the smallest detail. ROP6063

Johann Sebastian BACH Claudio MONTEVERDI Kantaten BWV 215, 195 Marienvesper Barbara Schlick (soprano) • Klaus Hanover Boys Choir Haffke (altus) • Paul Elliott (tenor) • Vox Werdensis • Himlische Cantorey Stephen Varcoe (bass) • Concerto Palatino • Musica Alta Windsbach Boys Choir Ripa • Jörg Breiding Collegium Musicum des WDR Karl-Friedrich Beringer The five Psalms of the Vespers are framed by antiphons chosen Bach had performed the congratulatory especially for this performance. The cantata Preise dein Glücke, idiomatic sound of a boys’ choir gesegnetes Sachsen BWV 215 on 5 and boy soloists, also available to October 1734 in celebration of August IIIʼs coronation. Exactly one year Monteverdi in Venice, makes the present liverecording even more earlier, the Elector of Saxony had been crowned king of Poland. The unique and establishes its unmistakable character and authenticity. second cantata recorded on this disc, Dem Gerechten muss das Licht BWV 195, was composed for another festive occasion: the marriage of two of Leipzig’s most prominent citizens. ROP2006 ROP7012/13 (2 CDs)

BEETHOVEN TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 Symphony No. 5 Symphony No. 7 Capriccio Italien Dallas Symphony Orchestra Dallas Symphony Orchestra Jaap van Zweden Jaap van Zweden

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is one of Van Zweden brings the thrill of music’s most recognised and popular discovery to these wellknown pieces, a beloved favourite imbued works, probing each composition for with palpable spark and energy. nuance, excitement and interpretive layers. DSOLIVE001 DSOLIVE002

TCHAIKOVSKY Steven STUCKY Symphony No. 4 AUGUST 4, 1964 Suite No. 4, Mozartiana Indira Mahajan • Kristine Jepson • Dallas Symphony Orchestra Vale Rideout • Rod Gilfry Jaap van Zweden Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus • Jaap van Zweden The Fourth Symphony shows Tchaikovsky’s darker side, the This is the world premiere recording turbulence, despair and hopelessness of Steven Stucky’s August 4, 1964, a in his personal life. ‘concert drama’ commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

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AUG-SEP 2012 11 Georges ENESCO Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Impressions d’enfance Transcriptions for flute and - Sonata ‘Torso’ - Les 3 viola sonates Patrick Gallois (flute) Amiram Ganz (Violon) Pierre-Henri Xuereb (Viola) Alexandre Paley (piano) Gallois and Xuereb’s playing is well Composed in 1940 Impressions phrased and filled with all the poetry d’enfance is Enesco’s last work inherent in Mozart’s music and their for violin and piano. It is less a transcriptions are intelligent and pure programme work than a series of in style. tableaux evoking aural and visual memories of the composer’s childhood. LVC 1114 (2 CDs) LVC 1124

Franz and Karl Iannis XENAKIS DOPPLER Zyia • Six Chansons Greques Claude Arimany and Friends • Psappha • Persephassa CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL Angelica Cathariou (mezzo soprano) • This disc allows the music lover to Cécile Daroux (flute) • Daniel discover the richness and variety of Ciampolini (percussions) • Nikolaos the Doppler brothers' compositions. Samaltanos (piano) • Dimitri Flautists will discover pieces that Vassilakis (piano) are less well known along with others that, up until now, have remained Xenakis’s musical career was totally neglected. striking, unconventional, and far removed from the halls of academia. Regardless of all the admiration one might have for his remarkable scientific knowledge, it nurtures but does not explain the transcendental LVC 1178 (2 CDs) incantatory, physical aspect of his music. LVC 1168

Piotr Ilʼyich TCHAIKOVSKY Complete works for Violin and Orchestra Régis Pasquier (violon) Baltic Chamber Orchestra Emmanuel Leducq-Barôme

Born into an illustrious family of musicians, Pasquier won his premiers prix in violin and chamber music at the Paris Conservatoire aged 12. Encounters with Isaac Stern, David Oistrakh, Pierre Fournier and Nadia Boulanger were decisive in the affirmation of his concept of music.

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Helmut ROGL: Complete Alberto Mesirca Saxophone Works So Far British Guitar Music 4saxess • Gerhard Hofer • Martin Alberto Mesirca • Martin Rummel Rummel Music in England has always had Born in Enns (Upper Austria) in a specific and definite character, 1960, Helmut Rogl had piano lessons from its very early period. Award- from an early age. Following first winning guitarist Alberto Mesirca compositions as an autodidact, he has compiled some of Britain’s finest then started studying composition at music to a spectacular album of what was at the time the Bruckner known and new repertoire. Dowland Conservatory in Linz, learning from and Britten are both milestones Helmut Schiff and Gunter Waldek. Later, he studied at the “Mozarteum” for any guitarist. Alongside Sir Lennox Berkeley’s relatively newly in Salzburg with Helmut Eder. Parallel to his music studies, he studied discovered “Four Pieces” and a transcription of Sir Peter Maxwell business at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz and received Davies’ “Farewell to Stromness”, this disc also contains two world his PhD, thus now living a dual view of the world between arts and premiere recordings of works by Graham Whettam (1927–2007). business or avocation and profession. PMR 0022 PMR 0027

Ferruccio BUSONI Complete Works for Clarinet and Piano Benjamin Feilmair • Florian Feilmair

Benjamin & Florian Feilmair about Ferruccio Busoni: “For our second CD recording as a clarinet/piano duo we are embarking on a special project – Ferruccio Busoni’s complete works for clarinet and piano. In addition to everything in print we are also including here an unreleased Sonata K 138, the fragmentary status of which I have developed, a Prelude K 19 and a track only identified as Piece K 162. For clarinettists the pieces represent an enormous challenge, as the young Ferruccio Busoni enjoyed pushing against the limits of the clarinet’s technical abilities in his compositions and paid little attention to the fact that a clarinettist also needs to occasionally breathe in and out. Nevertheless we have set out to tackle this task and, in doing so, time and again discovered new surprises in the brief, individual pieces.“ PMR 0029

12 AUG-SEP 2012 BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN 9 Sinfonie Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Kurt Masur Op. 125 ‘Choral’ Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Kurt Masur

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SMETANA Anton BRUCKNER Mein Vaterland Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major Gewandhausorchester Leipzig ‘Romantic’ MUSIC CLASSICAL Vaclav Neuman Heinz Rögner RSOB

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HANDEL BEETHOVEN Water Music Suites 1–3 & Violin Concertos & Fireworks Music Romances, Karl Suske Helmut Koch Karl Suske RSOB Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Kurt Masur

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Modest Peter MUSSORGSKY Amoretti Bilder einer Ausstellung Arias by MOZART Peter Rösel GLUCK and GRETRY Christiane Karg Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen

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Georg Philipp TELEMANN Fantasias (12) for solo violin, TWV 40:14-25 Ori Kam

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AUG-SEP 2012 13 John PICKARD Leo ORNSTEIN Chamber Music Piano Music, Volume One Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin, viola) Arsentiy Kharitonov (piano) Sophie Harris (cello) Ian Mitchell (bass clarinet) The Russian-born American Matthew Rickard (piano) composer Leo Ornstein (1893–2002) lived long enough – an astonishing Reviews of music by the English 109 years – to see his music both fall composer John Pickard (b. 1963) into and re-emerge from obscurity. have stated that ‘he has the His earliest surviving work dates from technique and the temperament around 1905; his last was composed to emerge as one of the great in 1990. Not surprisingly, his music symphonists of the 21st century’, even that ‘his place among the embraces a range of styles, ranging on this first CD – in the first greats is secure’. This conspectus of his chamber music traces the extended series devoted to his piano works – from the atmospheric evolution of his style over two decades, from the Piano Trio of 1990 to impressionism of the Four Impromptus via the fiery virtuosity of the Snowbound of 2010, revealing a powerful rhythmic drive, a feeling for Fourth Piano Sonata to the Rachmaninov-like Romanticism of the toughly argued drama and a poetic sensitivity to atmosphere among its Cossack Impressions and In the Country. most prominent characteristics. TOCC0150 TOCC0141 CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL David BRAID: Chamber and The Unknown ENESCU, Instrumental Music Volume One: Music for Violin Grace Davidson (soprano) • Peter Sherban Lupu, violin (conductor) Cigleris (clarinet) • Yuri Kalnits (violin) Masumi Per Rostad (viola) • Julia Morneweg (cello) • John Paul Marin Cazacu (cello) Ekins (piano) • Sergei Podobedov Dmitry Kouzov (cello) (piano) • Jelena Laković (piano) Ian Hobson (piano) Tippett Quartet (string quartet) Ilinca Dumitrescu (piano) Erato Piano Trio (piano trio) • Samir Golescu (piano) Rossitza Stoycheva and Mikako Hori Enescu Ensemble of the University of (piano duo) Illinois (ensemble)

The British composer David Braid, born in North Wales in 1970, George Enescu (1881–1955) is one of the great composers, although studied in London, Oxford and Kraków, and his music shows the world has yet to realise the extent of his achievements. Enescu’s something of that double inheritance, bringing together the lyricism of small published œuvre of 33 opus numbers belies the amount of such English composers as Dowland and the dynamism of the Polish music he produced: he composed prolifically but, as he was both a school of Lutosławski. This debut CD of his music presents chamber perfectionist and a busy performer, much of his music is still unknown. and instrumental works written between 2006 and 2011. Steve Reich This CD reveals solo, chamber and concertante pieces featuring the described the raga-like Morning for soprano and string quartet – the violin, played by his fellow Romanian Sherban Lupu, who understands Pablo Neruda setting which opens this disc – as ‘beautifully done Enescu’s idiom like few other musicians. – very honest stuff’; the other works here encompass a divergent range of moods, from the melancholy of Infinite Reminiscence to the energetic drive of Music for Dancers. TOCC0149 TOCC0047

Cello Heroics Vol.1: Cello Heroics Vol. 2: SCHUMANN.R: Concerto for SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Cello & Orchestra Op.129 in Concerto No.1 Op.107 in A minor E-flat major Sinfonia Varsovia (Orchestra) Sinfonia Varsovia (Orchestra) Misha Katz (Conductor) Wojciech Rodek (Conductor) Gavriel Lipkind (Cello) Gavriel Lipkind (Cello)

The Cello Heroics recording series aims to become an exhaustive anthology of the concertante repertoire for cello (“The Heroes of the Cello“), but also serves as a kind of touring diary of solo cellist Gavriel Lipkind. A carefully planned audio documentary over many albums wherein every composition is seen as a “Hero”, and each is celebrated as a stand alone production serving the needs of one specific work.

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14 AUG-SEP 2012 Sergei PROKOFIEV Magnus LINDBERG (1958) (1891–1953) Chamber Works Symphony No. 5 & 6 Kari Kriikku (clarinet) Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Anssi Karttunen (cello) Sakari Oramo Magnus Lindberg (piano)

This new release features the Finnish Magnus Lindberg has written many Radio Symphony Orchestra under the pieces for clarinettist Kari Kriikku and baton of Sakari Oramo performing cellist Anssi Karttunen, two important Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphonies Nos. figures on the contemporary music 5 and 6. scene in Finland.

These two symphonies, composed in 1944 and 1947, are very different The Clarinet Trio – including fine reminiscences of Brahms and Ravel in mood, but stylistically closely related. The Fifth was written amid the – now brings these two musicians together, joined by the composer chaos of the Second World War and seeks to find a positive solution; himself on the piano. but in the Sixth, completed soon after war, the mood is darker. Both feature Prokofiev’s melodic writing at its best. Anssi Karttunen is a passionate advocate for contemporary music. 24 concertos have been written for him and he premiered Magnus Lindberg’s cello concerto. ODE 1181-2 ODE 1199-2 MUSIC CLASSICAL

Virpi Räisänen: The Legacy of MAHLER Virpi Räisänen (mezzo-soprano) Marita Viitasalo (piano)

Having already performed as a successful violinist, Virpi Räisänen has since appeared as a singer at the Staatsoper in Berlin, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Netherlands Opera and the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Ingo Metzmacher in Nono’s opera Al gran sole carico d’amore in 2009 and in the premiere of Wolfgang Rihms’s Dionysos in 2010.

Virpi Räisänen is equally at home with contemporary and baroque music with her beautiful timbre able to fit well with all genres. ODE 1208-2

Pyotr Ilʼyich TCHAIKOVSKY Jean SIBELIUS (1865–1957) (1840-93) Symphony No. 5 & 6 SYMPHONIES NOS. 4 & 5 The Swan of Tuonela Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) Paavo Berglund (conductor) London Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra

Throughout his life, Tchaikovsky was Finnish conductor Paavo Berglund, preoccupied with the idea of Fate, who passed away in January 2012, describing it as ‘that fatal power was one of the last remaining which prevents one from attaining conductors with a direct personal the goal of happiness’. This dark connection to Sibelius. With the force haunts both the Fourth and Second and Seventh Symphonies already released on the LPO Fifth symphonies, which each juxtapose some of Tchaikovsky’s most Label, Berglund’s Sibelius legacy is further cemented in these live beautiful and graceful melodies with music of intense power and concert recordings with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, in which dark despair. Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski continues his he vividly captures the natural flight of the Fifth Symphony and the journey through the composer’s six symphonies, leading the London freefall journey of the Sixth. Philharmonic Orchestra in these live concert recordings. The affinity Berglund felt with the music of Jean Sibelius went Since his appointment as Principal Conductor of the London beyond shared nationality and personal acquaintance. Berglund Philharmonic Orchestra in 2007, Vladimir Jurowski has led the revealed a rare physicality in Sibelius’s scores. It was there in Orchestra in some of the finest recordings on the LPO label, including his three recorded symphony cycles, but in these late London 2011’s popular and critically acclaimed Mahler Symphony No. 2. performances it emerged in a different, darker light. Berglund wasn’t as meticulous about observing marked tempi as some of his younger compatriots are. Instead he was impulsive, rugged and heartfelt. But his instincts always seemed to serve the musical architecture, the LPO - 0064 (2 CDs) curious symphonic meta-flow unique to Sibelius. LPO - 0065

21st century portraits 21st century portraits SHIH (*1950) Christian JOST (*1963) Ensemble ‘Die Reihe’ • Georg Viviane Hagner (violin) Fritzsch (conductor) Essener Philharmoniker National Symphony Orchestra Christian Jost (conductor) Taiwan • Chien Wen-Pin (conductor) The next disc in Caprccio’s 21st Capriccio releases another century portraits series features the instalment of their 21st century much sought after German composer portraits series, this time showcasing Christian Jost. Here his Violin the work of the Taiwanese-Austrian Concerto ‘TiefenRausch’ (Rapture of composer Shih. Shih actively the Deep) is performed by Viviane mediates between European and Far Eastern musical cultures and Hagner alongside the CocoonSymphony. Both pieces showcase Jost’s his own mean of expression is sound. His highly individual works are musical manifesto – all compositions develop around a nucleus, but interpreted on this recording by the Ensemble ‘Die Reihe’ and the musical developments are sound-driven. National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan. C5111 C5118

AUG-SEP 2012 15 CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CONTEMPORARY Grey MCMURRAY Insofar WHERE (WE) LIVE Arthur Jeffes • Oli Langford SO Percussion • Grey McMurray The often mathematically intricate and Masters at crafting alluring sonic precise rhythms thrown against warm landscapes from the most unlikely and emotive melody are the point. It found objects, So Percussion allows for a direct intensity that can explores the idea of home with a apply to any aspect of life. Taking bold experiment in collaborative Philip Glass, Wim Mertens and Simon art-making. Where (we) live is Jeffes’ work into account, Arthur has a multi-media, multi-artist, fully- been working since then on an idea staged theatrical event and album of transparent music that can be both featuring music written by the intellectually satisfying and quietly Brooklyn-based quartet. touching. This is a music which, because of its origin, can work happily under any number of names; classical, minimalist, chamber, or electronica. As a live event, So Percussion has invited video artists, songwriters, painters, choreographers, directors (including Martin The last track on the new Penguin Cafe album, Coriolis, was the first Schmidt (Matmos), Ain Gordon and Emily Johnson) and others to time Jeffes had recorded something in this vein. Playing violin with him substantively alter their process. The resulting performance contains was Oli Langford, who is the other half of Sundog. It is a place where a society of possibilities: composed pieces, chance elements, visual Arthur’s imagination can run wild - whether creating beautiful themes associations, and theatrical interactions. The core of the experience, or playing with the old technology of the Fender Rhodes or the even however, is the album itself; a distillation of the performance as it older technology of the dulcitone – he takes strange routes to create has evolved. CA21087 gorgeous music. DPC103

Brubeck & American Poets Pacific Mozart Ensemble CONTEMPORARY MUSIC CONTEMPORARY

The GRAMMY®-nominated Pacific Mozart Ensemble (PME) and Lynne Morrow have had a long association with Dave Brubeck. Performances of Brubeck’s oratorios and cantatas led to PME’s 2010 recording of his sacred choral works. The Pacific Mozart Ensemble performs in many genres, including jazz. Founded in 1980 by Artistic Director Richard Grant, the Pacific Mozart Ensemble delivers passionate, expert and engaging choral performances of music from Brahms to Brubeck to the Beach Boys. During its time, PME has grown to fill an important role in the cultural life of the San Francisco Bay Area, presenting courageous and innovative programs of many works that have never been performed in concert settings.

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Back to Nature VIVALDI: The Four Seasons Seiki Ozawa Boston Symphony Orchestra

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Esther Autumn in Seattle Esther Ofarim (Vocals) Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (piano) Erich Ferstl (guitar) Ken Kaneko (bass) Munich Philharmonic Chamber Oshio Ostumi (drums) Orchestra

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The Magus Gulliver’s Travels John Fowles (Unabridged) Jonathan Swift Read by Nicholas Boulton Retold for younger listeners by Roy McMillan (Abridged) John Fowles’s The Magus was Read by Benjamin Soames a literary landmark of the 1960s. Nicholas Urfe goes to a Greek Lemuel Gulliver sets out on a series island to teach at a private school of travels, but each time he finds and becomes enmeshed in curious himself shipwrecked in new and happenings at the home of a unfamiliar lands. And how unfamiliar! mysterious Greek recluse, Maurice In Lilliput, everyone is tiny, and it Conchis. Are these events, involving takes thousands of them to capture attractive young English sisters, just him; in Brobdingnag, they’re huge psychological games, or an elaborate joke, or more? Reality shifts and treat him as a sort of living toy; in Laputa, they live on a floating as the story unfolds. The Magus reflected the issues of the 1960s island inventing impossibly mad projects; and the Houyhnhnms are perfectly, but even almost half a century after its first publication, it horses! But through all his adventures, Gulliver learns to see humans

continues to create tension and concern, remaining the page-turner in a different way, too. AUDIO BOOKS that it was when it was first released. NA0108 (21 CDs) NA0073 (2 CDs)

Allan QUATERMAIN The Captive H. Rider Haggard (Unabridged) Marcel Proust Read by Bill Homewood Remembrance of Things Past Volume 5 (Unabridged) We have met the intrepid hunter- Read by Neville Jason tracker Allan Quatermain before, in H. Rider Haggard’s marvellous King Remembrance of Things Past is one Solomon’s Mines. This time, grieving of the monuments of 20th-century from the tragic loss of his son, literature. Neville Jason’s widely Quatermain longs to return to his praised 36 CD abridged version beloved Africa. He sets out in search has rightly become an audiobook of a lost white tribe, the Zu-Vendis, landmark and now, after numerous ruled by two beautiful sister Queens. requests, he is recording the whole Once again, Quatermain’s companions are the indefatigable Sir Henry work unabridged which, when complete, will run for some 140 hours. Curtis and Captain Good, and the magnificent Zulu warrior Umslopogaas. The journey is incredibly dangerous, and thrillingly The Captive is the fifth of seven volumes. The Narrator’s obsessive told. After a fantastic underground journey by canoe, our heroes are love for Albertine makes her virtually a captive in his Paris apartment. embroiled in a bloody civil war when both queens fall in love with the He suspects she may be attracted to her own sex. irresistibly handsome Curtis. NA0088 (10 CDs) NA0104 (16 CDs)

Boneland Alan Garner (Unabridged) Read by Robert Powell

Boneland is Alan Garner’s continuation of the story thread which began in his first and enduringly popular fantasy children’s novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. The Weirdstone was published in 1960 (it has never been out of print since), and The Moon of Gomrath followed, in 1963. This took the story further with the same two children, Colin and Susan. But Boneland is particularly fascinating because it takes the story into adulthood, with Colin again the main proponent. Boneland is read by the experienced actor Robert Powell, at the request of Alan Garner himself.

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For all ICA Classics releases please visit www.icaclassics.com 18 AUG-SEP 2012 Hector BERLIOZ (1803-69) Sergey PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) Le corsaire – Overture, Op. 21 The Year 1941, Op. 90 Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Orchestre National de Lyon Op. 100 Leonard Slatkin São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop 24-bit, 96 kHz Stereo and Surround recordings 24-bit, 96 kHz Stereo and Surround recordings Immensely influential, the remarkable Symphonie fantastique was composed Written in 1944, Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony while Hector Berlioz was suffering an is one of his greatest and most complete intense and unreciprocated passion for the Irish actress Harriet symphonic statements. At its première he himself called it “a Smithson. Its autobiographical tale describes a young musician’s symphony of the grandeur of the human spirit”. The first movement

opium-poisoned nightmares of jealous despair and fatal justice couples considerable strength with unexpected yet highly characteristic DVD / BLU-RAY following the murder of his beloved. Berlioz wrote a second movement twists of melody. After a violent scherzo followed by a slow movement cornet solo into a subsequent revision of the score, here included as of sustained lyricism, with a fiercely dramatic middle section, the finale an optional extra. He wed his sweetheart actress but, recuperating in blazes with barely suppressed passion. The Year 1941 is another Nice, wrote Le corsaire after the final breakup of their marriage. wartime work, a symphonic suite written in response to the German invasion of the Soviet Union. NBD0029 NBD0031

A Musical A Musical A Musical Journey: Journey: Journey: RUSSIA FRANCE SPAIN UKRAINE A Musical A Musical Visit UZBEKISTAN Visit to Paris, to Andalusia, Music by Versailles, Sitges, Seville Mussorgsky and Chantilly and and Granada Borodin the Pays de la Music by Ravel Loire and Albéniz Music by Beethoven

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György LIGETI Gioachino ROSSINI LE GRAND MACABRE SIGISMONDO Chris Merritt • Inés Moraleda • Ana Puche • Daniela Barcellona • Andrea Concetti • Werner Van • Mechelen • Frode Olsen • Olga Peretyatko • Antonino Siragusa • Barbara Hannigan • Gran Teatre Del Liceu Teatro Comunale • Di Bologna • Michele • Michael Boder Mariotti • Damiano Michieletto

Barcelona’s Grand Teatre del Liceu Early Rossini has something buoyant, presents György Ligeti’s sole opera “Le vibrant, youthful about it – even when grand macabre” in a stunningly imaginative it is a „dramma per musica“ such as and highly theatrical production by La Sigismondo, a dark swirl of an opera Fura dels Baus - a production that already revolving around a mad king and his claimed enormous success in Brussels, delusions, his wife who is allegedly dead London and Rome and - as the British but very much alive, the fate of Poland Independent proclaimed - “only comes along once a decade”. and much more. Premiered in 1814 but rarely played thereafter, the Ligeti’s (1923-2006) absurd-tragicomical masterpiece of the highest work deserves to be resurrected, if only for its many beautiful and order blends popular theater, comics, pop art, cabaret, caricature and the Apocalypse with fascinating imaginativeness. The orchestra, original arias and ensembles, some of which were such brilliant little for example, is enhanced with “instruments” such as car horns and masterpieces that he reused them in his later successes such as doorbells. Ligeti himself – one of the great composers of the later 20th Il turco in Italia, La Cenerentola and Il barbiere di Siviglia. century – called his work an “anti-anti-opera.” 101 643 (DVD) / 108 058 (Blu-ray) 101 648 (DVD) / 108 062 (Blu-ray)

Camille SAINT-SAËNS Claudio MONTEVERDI Il SAMSON ET DALILA Ritorno d‘Ulisse In Patria José Cura • Julia Gertseva • Stefan Stoll Vesselina Kasarova • Dietrich Henschel • Orchestra and Choir of the Badisches Malin Hartelius • Jonas Kaufmann • Rudolf Staatstheater • Jochem Hochstenbach Schasching • Isabel Rey • Martina Jankovà José Cura (Director) Orchestra La Scintilla Of The Zurich Opera House • Nikolaus Harnoncourt • Klaus- In this saga of hatred and holy war, of Michael Grüber • Gilles Aillaud power and desire, there is no victor and no truth. The god-like is diminished, power Il Ritorno d‘Ulisse in Patria is based closely restricted, taboos are broken, love on the fi nal books of Homer‘s Odyssey betrayed. Only the composer can afford and is hailed as the key work marking uninterrupted pathos in the wonderful duet the threshold between the Renaissance of Samson and Dalila in the second act, and Baroque periods. Together with which misleads us to believe in a moving story of love. Perhaps it truly producer Klaus Michael Grüber, Nikolaus Harnoncourt strikes a new is. The story of Samson is contradictory, it is human. Camille Saint- balance between musical polish and distillation of the essence of Saëns completed the work in 1876, but was only able to bring about dramatic action. „It is a kind of ‘théâtre pauvre’, which works with a its first performance in 1877 through the mediation of his friend Franz few carefully chosen and powerful symbols“, was how the newspaper Liszt – with pre-eminent success – in Weimar. 101 631 Neue Zürcher Zeitung reviewed the production. 101 660

AUG-SEP 2012 19 Sasha WALTZ Sergei PROKOFIEV Körper CINDERELLA Schaubühne Berlin Francoise Joullié • Dominique Lainé • Jayne Plaisted • Danièle Pater • Patrick In 1999 Sasha Waltz started working on her Azzopardi • Nathalie Delassis three-piece choreographic cycle about the human body. In »Körper«, following up Maguy Marin‘s highly original and magical this extraordinary research, she investigates version of the Cinderella story was an the anatomy and the physical appearance unparalleled success through out its world of the human being, relating her dancers‘ tour. Anna Kisselgoff of the New York bodies to architecture, science, and history. Times said that Marin‘s “vision reaches »S« searches for the origin of life, of Eros, back into the universals of everyone‘s and of sensibility. »noBody« asks about the childhood - the hurts and joys resonate metaphysical existence of humanity. 101 582 here with touching depth.” 100 235 DVD / BLU-RAY

Black & White MUSIC IN THE AIR Ballets A HISTORY OF CLASSICAL MUSIC ON TELEVISION Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián is one of Featuring Glenn Gould • Herbert von the most innovative and successful ballet Karajan • Leonard Bernstein • Anna masters on the contemporary dance scene. Netrebko • Igor Stravinsky • Arturo He always uses classical models as the Toscanini • Pierre Boulez • Sergiu foundation for his free and imaginative Celibidache • Francis Poulenc • Luciano modern style, whose novel fi gures and Pavarotti • Plácido Domingo • sequences never fail to astonish. The José Carreras • Jonas Kaufmann • Franz vitality of his works is supported by an Welser-Möst and the first television images especially highly developed feeling for ever of a regular service by the BBC in music, which makes it seem as if his 1936. dancers and the music they dance to both fl ow from a common inner impulse. His choreographies always Music on television has come in various guises over the last 50 years. investigate anew the meaning of dance in modern culture and society, It was already part of the programme mix at the very beginning and is and under his direction the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) has thus still around, more sophisticated than ever, live and event driven and gained international respect and importance. The series of plotless at it’s best reaching millions – at any rate more people than those dance pieces titled Black and White offers six examples of the rich experiencing music in opera houses, concert halls or other venues. inventive gifts of Kylián’s choreographic imagination. Television has been instrumental in popularizing music, preserving precious moments of music making and helping to create music and 100 085 performances which would not exist without it. 101 640

Classical Music and Cold War Giuseppe VERDI Musicians in the GDR Otello Helmut Schmidt • Peter Schreier • Kurt Renata Tebaldi • Hans Beirer • William Masur • Theo Adam • Otmar Suitner • Dooley • Mario Ferrara • Sieglinde Wagner Jochen Kowalski • Christine Mielitz • Deutsche Oper Berlin Siegfried Matthus • Walter Felsenstein Giuseppe Patané • Hans-Peter Lehmann • Wilhelm Reinking In 1945, after the war had ended, the world split into East and West in political terms. When Renata Tebaldi sang Desdemona The frontier between the two blocs cut in Verdi’s Otello at London’s Covent straight through Germany and quickly Garden in 1950, it was her first operatic became a dividing line between contrasting performance outside Italy. It was also cultural systems. In the Soviet occupation the role in which she made her last zone, major opera houses and concert halls rose again from the appearance on the opera stage, at the Metropolitan Opera New ruins and long-established orchestras and choirs were revived. Once York in 1973. Between these two performances she made close to a the GDR had been founded, the Socialist Unity Party took over hundred stage appearances as Desdemona, not to mention two studio responsibility for cultural affairs and quickly developed the idea of a recordings with Alberto Erede and Herbert von Karajan. It was Arturo nation of culture-loving working people in deliberate contrast to their Toscanini who coined for her the moniker “voce d’angelo” (voice of an portrayal of “Americanized, western capitalists softened by endless angel). She made her highly acclaimed debut as Desdemona at the consumptionˮ. Metropolitan Opera in 1955 and from that moment on made New York 101 655 the focus of her life. 101 644

Giacomo PUCCINI Giuseppe VERDI Turandot Rigoletto Luana Devol • Franco Farina • Barbara Leo Nucci, Elena Moşuc • Piotr Beczala • Frittoli • Josep Ruiz • Stefano Palatchi László Polgár • Opernhaus Zürich • Nello Gran Teatre del Liceu • Giuliano Carella Santi Núria Espert (Director) Gilbert Deflo (Director)

The story of the beautiful but cruel princess Special Price(Blu-ray) Turandot has a unique place among Puccini‘s works, displaying the composer‘s ability to reflect the musical trends of his time more convincingly than any of his other operas. Despite its wealth of inspired melodies (among them Calaf‘s aria “Nessun dorma” in the third act), even today the opera‘s chief fascination remains its imaginative tonality and subtle instrumentation. The title role is performed by Luana DeVol, who has been on the international opera scene for more than three decades and whose versatile, dramatic soprano perfectly suits the character of the despising, yet vulnerable Turandot. Lirico-spinto soprano Barbara Frittoli, one of the best-known Puccini/Verdi performers on the current scene, presents her lyrical vocal qualities in the role of the slave Liù. 107 305 108 057

20 AUG-SEP 2012 Gala from Berlin 2011 Takács Quartet, Zoltán Kocsis & Evgeny Kissin (piano) András Schiff Berliner Philharmoniker play Robert SCHUMANN Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) Takács Quartet • Zoltán Kocsis • András Schiff In 2011 the Berliner Philharmoniker and their musical director Sir Simon Rattle These magnificent Schumann performances, welcomed in the New Year with a gala by some of the finest Hungarian musicians concert programmed with ‘Dances & to emerge during the 1970s, illustrate to Dreams’. perfection why the music of this German composer continues to fascinate audiences Spinetingling and inspiring performances of as much today as it did when it first appeared music by Dvořák, Ravel, Richard Strauss, about 175 years ago. Stravinsky and Brahms are complemented by the extraordinary talent of the multi-awarded Russian pianist Schumann´s passionate and ambiguous nature is encapsulated in DVD / BLU-RAY Evgeny Kissin. Kissin’s musicality, the depth and poetic quality of his works that range across the entire garnut of human emotions. interpretations, and his extraordinary virtuosity have placed him at the forefront of today’s pianists, and his passionate performance of the They are complemented by some of the most popular and delightful renowned Piano Concerto in A minor by Edvard Grieg is mesmerizing. works by Debussy and Bartók. 2058728 (DVD) / 2058724 (Blu-ray) 2066828

How to get out of the Cage EUROPA KONZERT 2006 A year with John CAGE Radek Baborák (horn) Documentary by Frank Scheffer Berliner Philharmoniker With 5 experimental films by Frank Scheffer Daniel Barenboim (piano & conductor)

From 1982 to 1992 Frank Scheffer An All-Mozart Programme with Daniel worked with John Cage on many different Barenboim in his familiar dual role as occasions, which resulted in a unique soloist and conductor. archive of historical audio-visual material. Based on this unique archive, including The Estates Theatre Prague is one of the interviews, musical performances and most beautiful historical theatres in Europe images of different locations related to his life and work - filmed on 16mm - the Part of its charm, magic and value lies in filmmaker Scheffer created “How To Get its historical significance. In 1787 Mozart conducted here the premier Out Of The Cage – A Year With John Cage”. of Don Giovanni, a work written specially for Prague. 2059168 2055304

MUSSORGSKY Khovanshchina Paata Burchuladze • Anatoly Kotscherga • Camilla Nylund • Doris Soffel • Klaus Florian Vogt • John Daszak Bayerisches Staatsorchester • Kent Nagano Dmitri Tcherniakov (Director)

Kent Nagano superbly masters the challenges presented by this score, shapes the dynamics with subtle intensity, and casts the score in a mellow glow.

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Johann Sebastian BACH DIE THOMANER St. Matthew Passion A Year in the Life of the St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig St. Thomas Boys Choir Leipzig Gewandhausorchester Leipzig A Film by Paul Smaczny & Günter Atteln St. Thomas Cantor Georg Christoph Biller, in St. Thomas Church • Leipzig Founded in 1212 the St. Thomas Choir Christina Landshamer (Soprano) Leipzig is one of the most famous and Stefan Kahle (Alto) prestigious boys' choirs in the world. This Wolfram Lattke (Tenor) documentary accompanies “Die Thomaner”, Martin Lattke (Tenor) aged between 9 and 18 years old, over a Klaus Mertens (Bass) period of one year. Their unique world, from Gotthold Schwarz (Bass) motets to boarding school and the football pitch, is distinguished by success, pressure to perform, doubt, pride, The renowned St. Thomas Boys Choir of Leipzig, which boasts homesickness, and friendship. The film charts the breadth of the boys' J. S. Bach as a former cantor, celebrates its 800th anniversary with an experience from the classroom to traveling on tour to South America. extraordinary interpretation of the St. Matthew Passion. The Guardian praised how “the harmonic lines interwove with a transcendence that BONUS can only be achieved through living, eating and working together”. Two tracks from Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” This Accentus Music production is the only audio-visual release of performed by the choir for which it was written - St. Thomas Boys Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, performed by the choir for which it was Choir - in St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, where the composer worked written, in St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, where the composer worked and is buried. and is buried.

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AUG-SEP 2012 21 A Tribute to Frederick the Great Flute Concertos from Sanssouci Emmanuel Pahud (flute) Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) Kammerakademie Potsdam

Emmanuel Pahud, principal flutist of the Berliner Philharmoniker, celebrates the 300th birthday of Frederick the Great with a concert recorded in the historic Royal Theater of the Neues Palais Potsdam, one of the architectural gems within the world-heritage palace ensemble of Sanssouci built by the Prussian king.

Trevor Pinnock is one of the pioneers of the modern revival of early music performance and he appears as a guest conductor with many of the world’s leading symphony orchestras. Emmanuel Pahud is one of today’s most exciting and adventurous musicians. Accompanied by the Kammerakademie Potsdam, Phaud and Pinnock perform works by C.P.E Bach, Franz Benda, Johann Joachim Quantz and a composition written by Frederick the Great himself. DVD / BLU-RAY 711308 (DVD) / 711404 (Blu-ray)

WAGNER BEILLINI DIE MEISTERSINGER VON I Puritani NÜRNBERG Daniel Borowski • Riccardo Zanellato • Finley • Jentzsch • Gabler • Selinger • John Osborn • Scott Hendricks • Gregorio Lehtipuu • Miles • Kränzle Gonzalez • Fredrika Brillembourg • The Glyndebourne Chorus, Mariola Cantarero London Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus of the Netherlands Opera Vladimir Jurowski • David McVicar (Director) Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Giuliano Carella (Conductor) English-speaking audiences have always Francisco Negrin (Director) found Die Meistersinger to be a life- enhancing celebration of wisdom, art and In Vincenzo Bellini’s last opera, Elvira’s song. So it proves in David McVicar's love for Arturo overcomes the power-games production – the first at Glyndebourne – which is updated to the early- in Puritan England, staged with darkly 19th century of Wagner's childhood. At the centre of a true ensemble dramatic flair by Francisco Negrin as a world of blind dogma. Mariola cast is Gerald Finley, a 'gleamingly sung', 'eminently believable' Sachs Cantarero is compelling as the heroine on the verge of insanity in one (The Independent on Sunday), supported by the dynamic conducting of the greatest mad scenes in the history of opera. One of the leading of Vladimir Jurowski which, like McVicar's production, uses lyric tenors today, John Osborn sings Arturo with fearless commitment Glyndebourne's special intimacy to bring sharp focus to bear on the and some spectacular top notes. In the pit is the bel canto specialist subtlety of Wagner's musical and dramatic counterpoint. Giuliano Carella. OA1085D (2 DVDs) / OABD7108D (Blu-ray) OA1091D (DVD) / OABD7111D (Blu-ray)

La Stupenda The NUTCRACKER • HANSEL and The Glory of Joan Sutherland GRETEL Australian Opera Christmas from The Royal Opera House This unique 6 DVD collection brings The Royal Opera • The Royal Ballet together, for the first time, the legendary Koen Kessels Australian soprano in four key dramatic Tiffin Boys’ Choir and Children’s Chorus coloratura roles that were cornerstones The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House of her repertory – Marguerite de Valois Colin Davis in Les Huguenots, Marie in La fille du Régiment, and the eponymous heroines in Settle down and enjoy Christmas fun and Adriana Lecouvreur and Lucrezia Borgia. fantasy for all the family with these two Accompanying them is the celebrated gala magical classics from the Royal Opera concert she gave in 1983 with her long- House. All-time ballet favourite The Nutcracker comes to life in this time colleague (and one-time protégée), Luciano Pavarotti, featuring stunning and captivating production – a real delight for adults and extracts from several other major Sutherland roles, including Violetta children alike. This is coupled with a spectacular and unforgettable (La Traviata), Ophélie (Hamlet) and, of course, her signature role, performance of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. Imaginatively Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor). All four operas and gala concert were staged and with a new and original interpretation, this classic fairy tale filmed in the iconic Sydney Opera House, and conducted by her provides the ideal seasonal treat. husband, Maestro Richard Bonynge. OAF4029D (6 DVDs) OA1096D (3 DVDs)

George Frideric HANDEL Sing Along Messiah Ivars Taurins • Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir • Jeanne Lamon

Resplendent in his powdered wig and 18th-century garb, Herr Handel (aka Director of the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir Ivars Taurins) leads the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Choir, a stellar cast of soloists — soprano Suzie LeBlanc, countertenor Daniel Taylor, tenor Rufus Müller, and baritone Locky Chung — and a mass audience choir made up of some 1,000 Tafelmusik fans as they perform Handel's baroque masterpiece. A beloved Toronto tradition, Tafelmusik’s annual Sing-Along Messiah has become a revered family ritual for many Torontonians over the past 25 years. This unique audience-participation phenomenon sells out every year, and participants are genuinely moved by the experience of joining their voices with hundreds of others to make music. This film was produced by the award-winning 90th Parallel Productions and originally telecast by Bravo!. Ivars Taurins received a Gemini Award nomination for his role in this film. BONUSES: The DVD includes five bonus audio tracks of Tafelmusik Chamber Choir performing music by Handel, Bach, Vivaldi and Mondonville. TMK1008DVD

22 AUG-SEP 2012 Les SYLPHIDES • COPPÉLIA • STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring GISELLE SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 5 Nadia Nerina • Robert Helpmann • Margot London Symphony Orchestra Fonteyn • Rudolf Nureyev Leonard Bernstein Philharmonia Orchestra • Robert Irving London Symphony Orchestra • John ‘Luckily for all of us, it wasn’t enough for Lanchbery • Pro Arte Orchestra • Leonard Bernstein to compose music Marcus Dods and conduct orchestras. He felt equally compelled to talk about music – to try and Originally titled ‘Chopiniana’, Les Sylphides explain what made it tick, what made it uses the music of Chopin to create a short good, and what made it affect us in all the ‘romantic reverie’, which though Romantic ways that music does. The other piece of in style, demands technical brilliance from good luck was that Leonard Bernstein and its dancers. Nerina – once described by television came along at the same time. Time Magazine as ‘the company’s most polished virtuoso’ – and her They were born for each other.’ (Jamie Bernstein) DVD / BLU-RAY colleagues capture the work perfectly. ICAD 5058 ICAD 5082

MOZART: Symphony No. 40 BRITTEN: Nocturne MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 3 ‘Scottish’ (extracts) Peter Pears • English Chamber Orchestra • Benjamin Britten

‘The point of Britten’s conducting was never how he looked when doing it; instead it was about the sheer musicality he brought to the task…’ (Paul Kildea). The revelatory films presented on this DVD feature Britten with his favoured English Chamber Orchestra performing at two very different times of his life, with equal value.

Filmed at Christmas 1964, the main programme of Mozart’s Symphony No.40 and Britten’s own Nocturne shows a man in his prime. The Mozart was a particular favourite of Britten’s and his admiration for it certainly comes across in the performance. This DVD release is a major addition to his discography as the symphony was previously only available on LP. ICAD 5083

Tim Janis An Enchanted Evening Fionnuala Gill • Lisa Fischer • Jim Cole The Tim Janis Ensemble

1. Danny Boy 2. High Sierra 3. August 4. Sleep with Angels 5. Twin Lights 6. Upon the Sea 7. The Rushing Wings of Dawn 8. White Mountains 9. My Rose of Joy 10. Shine Like a Lighthouse 11. Come Home to Me 12. Ocean Rose 13. The Promise 14. Ocean Ledges 15. Wild Mountain Thyme 16. Star Island 17. Beneath the Wings of an Angel

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