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Classical New Release harmonia mundi UK 27 2011 JUNE Classical new release New Label philharmonia BAROQUE ACTES SUD, ALIA VOX, AMBRONAY, APARTE, ARte VERUM, audIte, BEL AIR CLassIQues, CHRISTOPHORUS, CSO ResOUND, deLphIAN, FRapROD, GLOssa, harmonia mundi, hat[NOW]ART, HYPHEN PRESS MUSIC, K617, KML, LSO LIVE, MARIINskY, MIRARE, MOde, NascOR, OpaL, OpeLLA NOVA, ORFEO, PAN CLASSICS, paRadIZO, peaRL, PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE, PHIL.HARMONIE, PIANO CLASSICS, PRAGA DIGItaLS, RadIO FRANce, RAM, RCOC, RCO LIVE, RETROSPECTIVE REVIVAL, SFZ MusIC, SIGNUM CLassIcs, stRadIVARIus, WAHOO, WALhaLL eteRNITY, WERGO, WIGMORE HALL LIVE, WINteR & WINteR, YsaYE available 27th June 2011 call-off 17th June July BBC Music Magazine DISC OF THE MONTH HMC902071 Diabelli Variations Paul Lewis (embargoed until 7 June) IRR Outstanding, June issue July Gramophone Editor’s Choice WHLive0045 Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Volume 3: Op30/1; Op12/3; Op.47 Alina Ibragimova (vln), Cédric Tiberghien (pf) IRR Outstanding, May issue RPS YOUNG ARTIST AWARD FOR ALINA July Gramophone Editor’s Choice DCD 34071 Bruckner: Motets Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh; RSAMD Brass/Duncan Ferguson July Gramophone Editor’s Choice MARO511 Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 3 & 10 Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre/Valery Gergiev June IRR OUTSTANDING AMY028 Venezia: Rosenmüller, Legrenzi, Stradella Rare Fruits Council / Manfredo Kraemer harmonia mundi UK released June 27 2011 harmonia mundi UK released June 27 2011 PBP01 Barcode: 8 52188 00301 0 NORMAL PRICE CD BERLIOZ Les Nuits d’Eté, HANDEL Arias: Giulio Cesare: Figlio non è, L'angue offeso mai riposa, La giustizia ha già sull'arco; Ottone: Ben a raggion, Vieni, o figlio, e mi consola; Arianna in Creta: Mirami altero in volto; Radamisto: Ombra cara di mia sposa, Qual nave smarrita; Agrippina: Ogni vento, ch'al porto lo spinga [1991] Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano); Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra / Nicholas McGegan In conjunction with the Orchestra’s 30th Anniversary Season, Music Director Nicholas McGegan and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra announce the launch of the ensemble’s own recording label, Philharmonia Baroque Productions. The label’s début release showcases the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in a live 1995 recording of Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été and a live 1991 recording of arias from Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Ottone, Arianna, Radamisto and Agrippina. Hunt Lieberson had a long and fruitful relationship with McGegan and Philharmonia Baroque. The Berlioz is the last of seven acclaimed recordings she made with the orchestra and the first time she ever sang the full Berlioz song cycle in performance. Lorraine was in her element and the result was splendid. These incredibly moving performances are now available to a wide audience for the first time. In more than two decades as its music director, Nicholas McGegan has established the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Philharmonia Chorale as the leading period-performance ensemble in America – and at the forefront of the 'historical' movement worldwide, thanks to notable appearances at such venues as Carnegie Hall, London Proms, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and the International Handel Festival in Göttingen, Germany, where McGegan has been artistic director since 1991. Born in England, he was educated at Oxford, Cambridge and the Royal College of Music. In 2010, he was awarded an OBE for “services to music overseas". Other awards include an official 'Nicholas McGegan Day' declared by the Mayor of San Francisco to mark his 20th anniversary with Philharmonia Baroque.The next release from Philharmonia Baroque will be of Haydn's Symphonies. “Hunt Lieberson’s sings with refreshing honesty and self-effacement. The result is a level of musical truth that is rarely encountered.” OPERA NEWS ALSO AVAILABLE: HMU907500 Recital at Ravinia “This is simply how songs should be sung.” CLASSICS TODAY harmonia mundi UK released June 27 2011 harmonia mundi UK released June 27 2011 in ‘bend-it’ eco packaging HMA1951119 Barcode: 0794881509720 SUPERBUDGET CD Pergolesi Stabat Mater Sebastien Hennig, RenéJacobs, Concerto Vocale HMA1951142 Barcode: 0794881702626 SUPERBUDGET CD Mendelssohn Motets & Psalms Op. 23 No. 3, Op. 69 No. 1, Op. 78 Nos. 1 & 3, Op. 79 La Chappelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe HMA1951441 Barcode: 0794881836123 CONCERT: SUPERBUDGET CD Ens Organum 25th June Ockeghem Requiem Blythburgh, Aldeburgh Festival @ 4pm Ens Organum / Marcel Pérès HMA1951638 Barcode: 0794881766628 SUPERBUDGET CD Great Slavic Orthodox Liturgy Choeur Rybine HMA1951021 Barcode: 0794881628025 SUPERBUDGET CD Musique Judeo-Baroque Boston Camerata / Joël Cohen HMA1951295 Barcode: 0794881698424 SUPERBUDGET CD Chants of the Milanese Church Ens Organum / Marcel Pérès harmonia mundi UK released June 27 2011 harmonia mundi UK released June 27 2011 AVSA9882 Barcode: 7 619986 398822 2 SACDS for 1 deluxe digipack Jean-Philippe RAMEAU L’Orchestre de Louis XV Les Indes Galantes 1735: Ouverture, Musette en Rondeau, Air vif, Air des Incas pour la dévotion du Soleil, Air pour les amants qui suivent Bellone, Air pour les guerriers, Menuets pour les Guerriers et Amazones I&II Orage, Air pour les esclaves africains, Air pour Borée et la Rose, 2ème Air pour les Zephirs, Tambourins I/II, Chaconne Naïs 1748: Ouverture, Musette tendre, Rigaudons I /II, Sarabande, Gavotte pour les Zéphirs, Loure, Musette, Tambourins I/II, Entrée des Luteurs, Chaconne, Air de Triomphe Zoroastre 1749: Ouverture, Passepieds I/II, Loure, Air des Esprits, Infernaux II, Air tendre en Rondeau, Air Grave, Gavotte en Rondeau, Sarabande, Contredanse Les Boréades 1764: Suite d’Orchestre, Ouverture, Entrée, Entrée des Peuples, Contredanse en rondeau, Les Vents Gavotte I&II pour les heures et les Zephirs, Menuets I- II, Contredanse très vive Le Concert des Nations, Manfredo Kraemer (concertino) / Jordi Savall Following the success of the albums L’ Orchestre de Louis XIII (Philidor l’Aisné) and L’ Orchestre du Roi Soleil (Lully), Jordi Savall delivers another dynastic opus consisting of music by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Le Concert des Nations sparkles in these four orchestral suites which document the genius of the French composer and Jordi Savall’s affinity with the repertoire of the the XVIIIth century. ALSO AVAILABLE: AV9824 L'Orchestre de Louis XIII "I cannot enthuse enough about this splendid recording, which is utterly professional in all departments. The lavishness of AliaVox's packaging is another incentive to add this CD to your collection." classical.net AVSA9877 Louis XV - Le Concert Spirituel "Jordi Savall’s celebration with his Concert des Nations of composers who featured during the reign of Louis XV.... This hugely varied repertoire is delivered in performances of real vitality and flair." Irish Times "Dances from Rameau’s Les Indes galantes are played so freshly that you pant for more, while three Telemann pieces offer quieter pleasures. The textures are so luxurious that some solo lines get choked: a small price to pay for music this warm and free-spirited." The Times "Jordi Savall, master of ingenious programming … Sumptuously produced with generous notes, this release is highly recommended." BBC Music Magazine harmonia mundi UK released June 27 2011 harmonia mundi UK released June 27 2011 FRA005 Barcode: 3 770002 003077 2 DVDS NTSC 16.9, Dolby 5.1, All zones Language: Fr, Subtitles: Eng, Spa, Ger, Ita, Fr 3h 18min 18s Jean-Baptiste LULLY Armide Stéphanie D’Oustrac (Armide); Paul Agnew (Renaud); Claire Debono (La Gloire, Phénice, Lucinde); Isabelle Druet (La Sagesse, Sidonie, Mélisse); Nathan Berg (Hidraot ); Marc Mauillon (Ubalde Aronte); Marc Callaghan (Artémidore); Andrew Tortise (Le Chevalier Danois); Laurent Naouri (La Haine); Anders J. Dahlin (Un Amant fortuné) Les Arts Florissants / William Christie ALSO AVAILABLE ON BLURAY: Book: Philippe Quinault; direction: Robert Carsen; designer: Gideon FRA505 Davey; Production: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées October 2008 Barcode: 3 770002 003084 BLURAY PRICE For any enthusiast of Baroque music, the production of Lully's Armide at the Theatre des Champs Elysées, directed by William Christie and staged by Robert Carsen, was an exceptional event. The last and most successful collaboration between Lully and his librettist Quinault, Armide is the ideal of the genre as desired by Louis XIV: a tragic opera that achieves the perfect fusion of music, song and dance. William Christie leads the orchestra and chorus of Les Arts Florissants and a dazzling cast. Stephanie D’Oustrac is the imperious sorceress Armida, overcome by the violence of a forbidden passion. The bewitching choreography is by Jean-Claude Gallotta. Almost 25 years ago William Christie and Les Arts Florissants gave a performance of Lully's Atys in what was a watershed for the Early Music movement. We have Christie and his groundbreaking colleagues to thank for the fact that in 2008, Robert Carsen's new production of Armide at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées - conducted by Christie - was one of the hottest tickets in town. Atys has recently been revived at the Opéra Comique using singers from Christie's 'Jardin des Voix' “Carsen has worked with Christie before, and his bristling intelligence is never in question. He opened this show with guides showing groups around Versailles. Tourists threaded in and out of the auditorium before bursting into song for the opening choruses in praise of the king. It was a magical moment, as the physical presence of the voices brought its own frisson of excitement. From here Carsen drew the public into the
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