CONSUMER INFORMATION SERVICE: NO. 272

SEPTEMBER 2014 REPRESENTING TODAY’S GREAT LABELS THIS MONTH'S HIGHLIGHTS

Select Music and Video Distribution Limited 3 Wells Place, Redhill, Surrey RH1 3SL Tel: 01737 645600 Fax: 01737 644065 George Frideric HANDEL Highlight of the month Arias

Radamisto: Quando mai, spietata sorte Alcina: Mi lusinga il dolce affetto; Verdi prati; Stà nell’Ircana; Hercules: There in myrtle shades reclined; Cease, ruler of the day, to rise; Where shall I fly? Giulio Cesare in Egitto: Cara speme, questo core Ariodante: Con l’ali di costanza; Scherza infida!; Dopo notte

Alice Coote The English Concert, Harry Bicket

Hyperion is delighted to present a tour de force from the supreme mezzo-soprano of today, Alice Coote, accompanied by The English Concert and Harry Bicket, making their Hyperion debut. Coote performs a selection of Handel’s greatest arias from opera and CDA67979 oratorio, employing an extraordinary range of vocal and dramatic colour, tone and emotion to produce triumphant and moving interpretations of these masterpieces.

Piano Sonatas Nikolai MEDTNER: Skazki, Op. 20; Sonata in B flat minor ‘Sonata Romantica’, Op. 53, No. 1 Sergei RACHMANINOV: Variations on a theme of Corelli; Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor Steven Osborne Steven Osborne has become increasingly admired for his performances and recordings of Russian romantic piano music, playing with a remarkable level of authority and a rare combination of technical ease, tonal CDA67936 lustre and idiomatic identification. Here he presents an impressive selection from two masters who lived and worked contemporaneously. Both were renowned concert pianists, and both wrote superbly for their instrument. Yet their reputations could not be more divergent. Rachmaninov utterly loved; Medtner only now becoming rehabilitated.

William BYRD The Three Masses Mass for five voices; Mass for four voices; Mass for three voices; Ave verum corpus Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker A new recording of the most perfect of Tudor masterpieces: Byrd’s three Mass-settings, from the cradle of their CDA68038 nineteenth-century rehabilitation. Westminster Cathedral Choir is enjoying a vintage period, and here we hear its trademark sound in all its glory: unfettered, natural singing from the trebles underpinned by warm yet clear tones from the gentlemen.

Camille SAINT-SAËNS The Romantic Cello Concerto, Vol. 5 Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33; Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 119; La muse et le poète, Op. 132; Allegro appassionato, Op. 43; Le cygnet Natalie Clein BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze CDA68002 Natalie Clein adds a remarkable collection of Saint-Saëns’ music for cello and orchestra to her impressive discography. Clein first came to prominence when she won the 'BBC Young Musician of the Year' award in 1994; it is appropriate that she now performs the music of another extraordinary child prodigy. Johannes BRAHMS The Songs of Brahms, Vol. 5 Romanzen aus L Tieck’s Magelone, Op. 33 Christopher Maltman, Graham Johnson A new recording from renowned recitalist and winner of the Lieder Prize at the 1997 'Cardiff Singer of the World Competition', Christopher Maltman. Graham Johnson is both accompanist and curator of this series that presents CDJ33125 the entire piano-accompanied songs and vocal works of Johannes Brahms.

William WALLACE Georgy CATOIRE Creation Symphony & other Piano Music orchestral works CDH55465 Marc-André Hamelin CDH55425 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (from CDA67090)

(from CDA66987)

2 SEPTEMBER 2014 Joseph HAYDN

Highlight Piano Concertos of the month Concerto in F major; Concerto in G major; Concerto in D major

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy

Jean-Effam Bavouzet is recognised today as one of the world’s fnest interpreters of Haydn’s piano works, International Piano having described him as ‘Haydn’s greatest contemporary keyboard exponent’. In this concerto recording he performs in partnership with the conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy, the two united by an admiration for Haydn’s infectious good humour and art of the unexpected.

CHAN 10808

Felix MENDELSSOHN Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 2 Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 3; Overture to ‘Ruy Blas’ City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner CHSA 5139 Edward Gardner and the CBSO present Vol. 2 in their series 'Mendelssohn in Birmingham', this time performing Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 and the Overture to Ruy Blas. The impressive frst volume was roundly praised, IRR commending the ‘powerfully engaging and alert performances’ whilst the Sunday Times made it their ‘Album of the Week’. Czech Violin Music v Leoš JANÁCEK: Violin Sonata; Allegro; Romance; Dumka; Josef SUK: Four Pieces, Op. 17; v Antonín DVORÁK: Romantic Pieces, Op. 75; Nocturne in B major, Op. 40 Jennifer Pike, Tom Poster CHAN 10827 Since bursting onto the musical scene as a prodigiously talented youngster, Jennifer Pike has earned admirers the world over with her intelligent musicianship and dazzling technique. Her stunning recent recording of Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, described in The Mail on Sunday as an ‘auspicious entry into the big league’, confrmed her status as a truly outstanding soloist of the highest calibre. Here she is joined by her established duo partner Tom Poster in music for violin and piano by three great Czech composers. Celtic Reflections My Lagan Love; Irish Lullaby; Home Away from Home; The Cliffs of Dooneen; Carrickfergus; The Coolin; Inis*; She Moved through the Fair*; The Mushroom Tree*; The Kid on the Mountain*; Danny Boy; The Raggle Taggle Gypsy; The Last Rose of Summer; Down by the Sally Gardens; The Pleasant Rocks; Open the Door Softly; The Lamentation of Eoin O’Neill; Planxty Dillon CHAN 10821 Barry Douglas, Eimear McGeown* Barry Douglas is best-known for his celebrated performances of great works central to the classical repertoire, not least through his acclaimed Brahms and Schubert series on Chandos. In his new disc, Celtic Reflections, we hear another side to his musical life. Sir Arnold BAX Four Orchestral Pieces; Phantasy for Viola and Orchestra; Overture; Elegy and Rondo Philip Dukes BBC Philharmonic, Sir Andrew Davis CHAN 10829 Sir Andrew Davis is among the most distinguished interpreters of British music today and here turns to the works of Sir Arnold Bax. With the inclusion of the Phantasy for Viola and Orchestra, this disc marks the completion of Chandos’s long-running project to record Bax’s complete orchestral music.

Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherazade Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Peter Oundjian This disc marks the beginning of a new recording relationship between Chandos and the Toronto Symphony CHSA 5145 Orchestra. Conducting this performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s ever-popular symphonic suite Sheherazade is Peter Oundjian, who this season celebrates his tenth year as Music Director of the Orchestra.

Thomas TOMKINS When David Heard Sacred Choral Music Freddie James CHAN 0804 Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha Thomas Tomkins, born in 1572, was one of the most accomplished and versatile English composers of his era. A total mastery of contrapuntal technique and expressive intensity are hallmarks of his style. Here the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge performs a collection of choral works complemented by several pieces for organ.

SEPTEMBER 2014 3 Kalevi AHO (b. 1949) Concerto for Horn and Chamber Orchestra Acht Jahreszeiten Concerto for Theramin and Chamber Orchestra

Annu Salminen, Carolina Eyck Lapland Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds

Widely regarded as one of today’s most important composers of orchestral music, Kalevi Aho has written ffteen symphonies as well as over twenty concertos. This disc also includes a video clip, playable on your computer, with Carolina Eyck’s introduction to the BIS2036 theremin and to Kalevi Aho’s concerto.

John PICKARD (b. 1963) Eden for brass band Symphony No. 4 ‘Gaia Symphony’ for brass band and percussion

Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag, Andreas Hanson

Composed over a period of fourteen years, John Pickard’s Gaia Symphony and Eden are scored for the standard ‘British’ brass band. Both works in different ways mirror concerns regarding the world and nature, and their relationship with the human species. BIS2061

Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)

Simple Symphony, Op. 4; Rhapsody; Quartettino; Phantasy in F minor for string quintet; String Quartet in F major

Emperor Quartet

For this fnal disc in the series, the Emperor Quartet have gathered fve works from the composer’s earliest period.

BIS1870

C. P. E. BACH The Solo Keyboard Music, Vol. 28

‘Zweyte Fortsetzung’ Sonatas Nos. 1-3

Miklós Spányi

C. P. E Bach’s ‘Zweyte Fortsetzung’ Sonatas, are a sequel to a previous collection, namely the famous Sonatas with Varied Reprises, published in 1760.

BIS2045

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791) Quintets

Orlando Quartet, Nobuko Imai, Members of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, Vertavo String Quartet, Martin Fröst, Ensemble Villa Musica

Mozart’s string quintets, and particularly the last four (K. 515, K. 516, K. 593 and K. 614) are often cited as being among the fnest examples of his chamber music. BIS9046

4 SEPTEMBER 2014 Andrzej PANUFNIK Symphonic Works, Vol. 8 Violin Concerto; Cello Concerto; Piano Concerto Alexander Sitkovetsky, Raphael Wallfisch, Ewa Kupiec Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Lukasz Borowicz 777687-2 Andrzej Panufnik stands out in the compositional landscape of the western world. 'For me music is always the expression of the deepest human feeling and genuine emotion'. This month CPO are concluding their complete edition of Panufnik’s symphonic works with his three great concertos for violin, cello, and piano.

Georg Friedrich HÄNDEL Piano Concertos Nos. 13-16 After the original version for organ Matthias Kirschnereit 777854-2 Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss, Lavard Skou Larsen

Matthias Kirschnereit has now recorded the four concertos without opus numbers (Nos. 13-16), including the famous F major concerto popularly known as The Cuckoo and the Nightingale.

Richard STRAUSS Intermezzo, Op. 72: A bourgeois comedy with symphonic interludes in two acts Schneider, Eiche, Welschenbach, Homrich, Dries, Bulgakova, Gunnell, Kugel, Schone, Missenhardt, Mitterhuber, Fassbaender Müncher Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmir 777901-2 The tension between a high-fying artistic existence and down-to-earth, middle-class life was the theme of the 'Richard Strauss Festival' in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 2011. The musical highlight of the festival was the concert performance of Strauss’s opera Intermezzo by the Munich Radio Orchestra under Ulf Schirmer, recorded here on CPO.

Boris PAPANDOPULO Concerto for Piano & String Orchestra No. 2; Sinfonietta for String Orchestra, Op. 79; Pintarichiana for String Orchestra Oliver Triendl, Piano Zagreb Soloists, Sreten Krstic Boris Papandopulo is one of the most important Croatian composers of the 20th century, his music is 777829-2 always full of optimism, vibrancy, and captivating resilience to the oppression he suffered throughout the second World War. His Piano Concerto No. 2 and Sinfonietta form the ideal introduction to this artistic cosmos.

Franz LEHÁR Wo die Lerche singt

Chor des Lehár Festivals Bad Ischl, Franz Lehár-Orchester, Marius Burkert 777816-2 The most electrifying music ever penned by this master. This production occurred in conjunction with last year’s wonderful performances of this operetta in Bad Ischl.

Te Deum Laudamus Sacred Music from the Freiberg Latin School Library, performed on the Angel Instruments from 1594 in Freiberg Cathedral. Albinius FABRICIUS; Philipp de MONTE; Leonhard LECHNER; Rogier MICHAEL; Alfonso FERRABOSCO 777928-2 Chordae freybergensis, Ensemble Freiberger Dom-Music, Albrecht Koch CPO are now releasing sacred music from the Freiberg Latin School Library on Freiberg instruments from the time of this repertoire’s composition, bringing a largely unknown and forgotten sound world into the 21st Century.

Max REGER Organ Works, Vol. 1

Gerhard Weinberger

Following the great success of our new complete recording and the most comprehensive one ever - Bach’s 777717-2 organ works ('German Record Critics Prize' for the Year 2009) - Gerhard Weinberger now turns to a new edition featuring the organ compositions of Max Reger in performances on selected magnifcent organs surviving from the Reger period.

SEPTEMBER 2014 5 The Royal Opera: Great Performances

GLUCK: Alceste; MOZART: Cosi Fan Tutti; Don Giovanni; STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier; WAGNER: Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg; Parsifal; VERDI: Don Carlo; Otello; Un Ballo in Maschera; DONIZETTI: Lucia di Lammermoor; PUCCINI: Madama Butterfy; Tosca OACD9024D This budget price set brings together 12 classic live Royal Opera performances, spanning over forty years, from 1955 to 1997. It includes many of the world’s greatest performers from this period, including Joan Sutherland, Janet Baker, Victoria de los Angeles, Robert Tear, Boris Christoff, Tito Gobi, Geraint Evans, Amy Schuard, Kiri Te Kanawa, Thomas Allen, Anna Tomowa-Sintow and Jon Vickers.

HANDEL Jephtha

The Sixteen, Harry Christophers COR16121 Renowned for their Handel interpretations, Harry Christophers and his award-winning choir, The Sixteen, add to their glittering catalogue of Handel discs with this new recording of Jephtha. The Sixteen are joined by a stellar cast of soloists: James Gilchrist, Susan Bickley, Sophie Bevan, Robin Blaze, Matthew Brook and Grace Davidson.

PALESTRINA, Vol. 5 Missa Iam Christus astra ascenderat; Song of Songs: Nos. 13-15; Dum complerentur; Loquebantur variis linguis; Hymn: Veni Creator Spiritus; Veni Sancte Spiritus; Magnificat quarti toni The Sixteen, Harry Christophers COR16124 Harry Christophers and The Sixteen continue their exploration of Palestrina’s great art with the ffth disc in their celebrated series. This album features a selection of Palestrina’s music for Pentecost including his Missa Iam Christus astra ascenderat.

STRAUSS Don Juan Recorded live by the LPO at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London, on 3 December 1992.

Ein Heldenleben Recorded live by the BBC at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 29 August 1986.

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink LPO-0079 Strauss was only 25 years old when his tone-poem Don Juan was premiered in 1889, and it was this vivid depiction of a young man’s relentless pursuit that launched the composer’s reputation as a master of the genre. Composed ten years later, Ein Heldenleben recounts another life of conquest and passion, this time based on that of the composer himself. Both works exhibit the glorious orchestral colours and exhilarating energy that were to become the composer’s most admired hallmarks.

LEMPER; NISINMAN Forever: The Love Poems of Pablo Neruda

Ute Lemper, Juan Antonio Sanchez, Freddy Torrealba

Ute Lemper releases her second recording on the Steinway & Sons label, following the best-selling 2012 release, STNS 30020 Paris Days, Berlin Nights. On it she, and Marcelo Nisinman, set the poetry of Pablo Neruda to music for herself, her band, and special guest Freddy Torrealba on Charango.

TCHAIKOVSKY: Concerto for Piano No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 GRIEG: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 16

Stewart Goodyear Czech National Symphony, Stanislav Bogunia STNS 30035

This album marks Stewart Goodyear’s debut on Steinway & Sons and is the frst orchestral recording released on the label. In 2013, Stewart Goodyear gave a series of marathon performances in the US of the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas performing the complete cycle in a single, eleven-hour performance at each venue.

6 SEPTEMBER 2014 Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH The Complete String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich; plus Quartets by Miaskovsky, Prokofiev, Weinberg & Schnittke Pacifica Quartet The Pacifca Quartet’s acclaimed survey of Dmitri Shostakovich’s complete string quartets, The Soviet Experience, has been praised as ‘forceful, intimate, and consummately recorded’ (Positive Feedback). Now, record collectors have more reason than ever to acquire this exceptional series in its entirety with the release of this value-priced boxed set offering all four BOX 1003 volumes (each a 2-CD set) for the price of two CDs. Every instalment of The Soviet Experience has garnered praise in the U.S. and internationally. The New York Times, in a review of Volume I said, ‘the excellent Pacifca Quartet… offers electrifying interpretations’. BBC Music Magazine’s review of Volume III said the series ‘is turning out to be one of the most riveting of recent years. . . . Pacifca’s Shostakovich cycle is already shaping up as defnitive’. Alex SHAPIRO: Perpetual Spark; Jesse LIMBACHER: Air; Mason BATES: Red River; Caleb BURHANS: Excelsior CDR 90000 148 Excelsior Fifth House Ensemble Excelsior presents world-premiere recordings of works by Caleb Burhans, prolifc, award-winning composer Alex Shapiro, and Jesse Limbacher, winner of the 'ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award'. The disc also includes a work by Chicago Symphony Orchestra composer-in-residence, Mason Bates. Praised by The New York Times for its ‘conviction, authority, and fnesse,’ Fifth House Ensemble has pioneered the art of narrative chamber music. VARIOUS Intersection: Jazz Meets Classical Song Patrice Michaels, Kuang-Hao Huang, Zach Brock, Nicholas Photinos CDR 90000 149 Acclaimed soprano Patrice Michaels, ‘a formidable interpretative talent’ (The New Yorker), is a vocalist of uncommon intellect and sophisticated wit. The program ranges from jazz-infuenced classical works to contemporary pieces. With liner notes by veteran jazz critic, Neil Tesser, winner of the 2014 Grammy award for ‘Best Album Notes’ for an essay featured in Concord Music Group’s reissue of John Coltrane’s Afro Blue Impressions.

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 1 R. STRAUSS: Burleske DOHNÁYI: Variations on a Nursery Song SOMMCD 253 Valerie Tryon Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jac van Steen This new release offers a unique coupling, unavailable on any other label, of three of the most signifcant virtuoso works for solo piano and orchestra written during the 25 years 1889-1914 in thrilling performances by Valerie Tryon, one of this country’s greatest pianists, who celebrates her 80th birthday this year. Herbert HOWELLS When first thine eies unveil Choral Music by Herbert Howells Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir, Paul Spicer SOMMCD 0140 This recording brings together for the frst time Howells’ complete extant Latin church music for Westminster Cathedral, composed when he was a student of Stanford at the RCM. It also features other signifcant and rarely (if ever) heard music, including a frst recording of the extraordinary Holst-like anthem When first thine eies unveil.

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975) Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77; Violin Concerto No. 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 129

Christian Tetzlaff Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds ODE 1239-2

Christian Tetzlaff is considered to be one of the world’s leading international violinists. Recent highlights of his include Mozart’s violin sonatas - BBC Music Magazine 'Chamber Choice', and Schumann’s violin sonatas - Gramophone 'Disc of the Month'.

The Bells of Dawn Russian Sacred and Folk Songs KHRISTOV; CHENOKOV; BURMAGIN; ARKHANGELSKY; VARLAMOV; SHASHINA; SVIRIDOV Dmitri Hvorostovsky The Grand Choir ‘Masters of Choral Singing’, Lev Kontorovich ODE 1238-2 The title song of the album, Georgy Sviridov’s Bells of Dawn, is an atmospheric work creating an otherworldly and remote landscape. The music for this disc has been especially chosen to entice the listener into the beauty of traditional Russian music.

SEPTEMBER 2014 7 Johann Sebastian BACH The Art of Fugue Zhu Xiao-Mei ACC30308 Zhu Xiao-Mei is today regarded as one of the most signifcant interpreters of Bach’s music. In Leipzig, where Bach held his fnal professional position and where he composed The Art of Fugue, Zhu Xiao‐Mei recorded this contrapuntal masterpiece, for her: ‘the absolute zenith of polyphonic art’.

BARTÓK DEBUSSY Güher and Süher Pekinel with Zubin Mehta Concerto for two Pianos, En blanc et noir for two Pianos Percussion and Orchestra Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 2012 Ludwigsburg International Music Festival, 2012 Lutoslawski, Mozart, Schubert & more CD 1: BARTÓK: Concerto for two Pianos, Percussion and Orchestra; SCHUBERT: Fantasy in F minor; DEBUSSY: En blanc et noir for two Pianos; BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No. 5

GÜHER & SÜHER CD 2: MOZART: Sonata for two Pianos in D major; INFANTE: From Danses Andalouses, Sentimento 101792 PEKINEL LUTOSŁAWSKI: Variations on a theme by Paganini; POULENC: Élégie (en accords alternés) for two Pianos ZUBIN MEHTA MILHAUD: Scaramouche: III, Brazileiras The very different compositions combined on this CD are the perfect way to experience the pianists Güher & Süher Pekinel at their best. Recorded live at the 'Maggio Musicale Fiorentino' and the 'Ludwigsburg International Music Festival' 2012, these superb interpretations are easy to hear and hard to forget.

HAYDN The Creation Live-Recording: Munich, December 2013 Camilla Tilling, Mark Padmore, Hanno Müller-Brachmann 900125 Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernard Haitink Following Mahler’s Ninth and Bruckner’s Fifth, this live recording of Joseph Haydn’s The Creation is already the third CD recording to feature the masterly Bernard Haitink at the helm of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks.

CHAUSSON; RABL; BRAHMS/REIMANN; HINDEMITH; GRETSCHANINOW; BUSCH; CANTELOUBE; SCHILLINGS; STRAUSS; LEKEU Melancholy Lucia Duchonová, Ulrike Payer, Asasello Quartett C5144 This collection presents a splendid selection of songs, including some that are, undeservedly, located on the periphery of standard song repertoire. Mezzo-soprano Lucia Duchonová hails from Trnava in western Slovakia. A Grammy Award nominee in 2010, her frst solo CD featuring compositions by Joaquin Turina was up for ‘Best Vocal Performance’. Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH Rondos & Fantasias Christine Schornsheim C5201 Christine Schornsheim brings us a collection of C. P. E. Bach’s keyboard music: a selection of Rondos and Fantasias. For her, ‘every individual piece is a valuable and unique specimen’. Sumptuously recorded on a Tangentenflügel, Schornsheim tells us: ‘what characterizes a Tangentenflügel is that it unites all the timbres of stringed period keyboard instruments’.

VARIOUS Sambalá Cristiane Roncaglio, André Bayer, Hartmut Preyer, Mariano da Costa, Melo Soares C5195 A typical expression of urban popular culture in Brazil, the Samba is a sophisticated musical form from a poetic, instrumental and harmonic viewpoint. On this disc, Cristiane Roncaglio takes the listener on a voyage into the rich £9.00 world of Brazilian musical heritage, in Bossa Nova and Música Popular Brasileira.

Bernd Alois ZIMMERMANN (1918-1970) Alagoana: Caprichos Brasileiros; Sinfonie in einem Satz (Symphony in One Movement); Photoptosis: Prélude for Orchestra; Stille und Umkehr Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Karl-Heinz Steffens C5213 Zimmermann’s creative ethos was characteristic of the German tradition in the dimensions of idealistic and philosophical complexity. It was only the premiere of his opera Die Soldaten - soon considered the most important German opera since Alban Berg - that brought him broad and undisputed recognition. Here Karl-Heinz Steffens and his orchestra take care of the most unknown orchestral pieces of this composer.

8 SEPTEMBER 2014 Charles DIEUPART Les Suites Suite I, II, III & VI; (harpsichord solo); Prélude (l. Couperin) CD-16303 Corina Marti Yizhar Karshon, Tore Eketorp, Soma Salat-Zakarias, Ziv Braha The new CD of Corina Marti and her ensemble is an intoxicating and vividly played frst recording of the music of Charles Dieupart. It showcases the form of the trio sonata with recorder and treble viol.

Muzio CLEMENTI Sonata in F sharp minor, Op. 25, No. 5; Sonata in A major, Op. 10, No. 1; Monferrina in E major, Op. 49, No. 3; Monferrina in C major, Op. 49, No. 12; The Sprig of Shillelah (Variations), Op. 18; La chasse, Op. 16; Exercise No. 83 from ‘Gradus ad Parnassum’, Op. 44; Prelude I alla Clementi, Op. 19; Sonata in B flat major, Op. 24, No. 2 ACD199-2 Piotr Kępiński ‘The father of the pianoforte’ - the inscription on Muzio Clementi’s tombstone in Westminster Abbey reads. He was a man of versatile talent; the author of a vast collection of piano sonatas and, surely, one of the key fgures in the formation of the sonata cycle itself. With CD Accord, Piotr Kępiński presents a remarkable interpretation of some of these works.

CR6018-2 Johann Sebastian BACH: Goldberg Variations BWV 988; Ferruccio BUSONI: Bach-Busoni Chaconne in D minor; Franz LISZT: La Campanella Kawamura plays Goldberg CR6018-6 Sachiko Kawamura A technically gifted, and highly decorated pianist, Sachiko Kawamura won the ‘Bach-Busoni Award’ in 2010, and followed this up in 2011 by winning frst prize in the 'Classic Musica International Competition Festival' in Russia. After a busy tour schedule she now begins her recording career with this debut recording from 2013, released with Claudio.

Ernö DONHÁNYI; Zoltán KODÁLY Sonatas for cello & piano Raphaël Pidoux, Emmanuel Strosser CC 777.709 ‘Powerful in its popular evocations and innovative in its technique used, it is one of the most played pieces of the cello repertoire. […] With Emmanuel Strosser, perfect and complete chamber pianist, it is a delight to share moments of complicity and a longstanding friendship’ - Raphae¨l Pidoux.

Wood Works Nordic Folk Music The Danish String Quartet 8226081 The Danish String Quartet’s love of traditional Scandinavian folk music is becoming as well known as the quartet’s masterly approach to the classical repertoire. Their take of a 400 year old bridal song has already had over 50,000 plays on YouTube.

John FRANDSEN (b. 1956) Requiem Teitur, Sine Bundgaard, Andrea Pellegrini, Peter Lodahl, Halvor F. Meilen 6220649-50 Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Choirs, Henrik Vagn Christensen

This work unfolds as a full-scale ‘operatic’ setting of the entire Medieval Latin text in fascinating alternation with intimate solo hymns to Danish poems.

Friedrich KUHLAU (1786-1832) Violin Sonatas, Vol. 1 Sonata for Violin and Piano in E flat major, Op. 64; 3 Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Op. 79 8226082 Duo Åstrand/Salo Kuhlau fed Germany as a young man to Denmark, where his admiration of the slightly older Beethoven created new tones in Danish music during the 19th century. This recording lends new lustre to music that is very rarely performed.

SEPTEMBER 2014 9 John TAVERNER; Thomas TALLIS; Orlando GIBBONS Sing, Ye Birds, A Joyous Song Music of the English Renaissance and 20th Century

Thomas Murray Yale Schola Cantorum, Simon Carrington DE 3458 The program features mesmerizing sacred music spanning the entire English Renaissance by John Taverner, Thomas Tallis and Orlando Gibbons. The album’s centerpiece is The Glory and the Dream, a substantial and moving choral cycle setting of Wordsworth’s poetry by the late, lamented Sir Richard Rodney Bennett – to whose memory the album is dedicated.

Richard STRAUSS The Richard Strauss Project: Complete Works for Piano Solo, Vol. 1 Dario Bonuccelli Following Dario Bonuccelli’s extremely well-received survey of the piano music of Wagner in 2013, the acclaimed pianist, together with Dynamic, now brings us The Richard Strauss Project. Winner of forty-two awards, of which twenty-fve are frst prizes in national and international competitions, this collection CDS7695 promises a detailed and consummate portrayal of Strauss’s piano repertoire.

Alan HOVHANESS (1911 - 2000) Piano Works: Twelve Armenian Folk Songs, Op. 43; Ghazal, Op. 36a; Ghazal-Suf, Op. 36b; Shalimar, Op. 177; Cougar Mountain sonata, Op. 390; Dark River and Distant Bell, Op. 212 This CD offers a selection of works by the American composer of Armenian origin Alan Hovhaness. An eclectic choice in terms of chronology and inspiration, the set gives a glimpse into a prolifc composer who is under-performed in Europe. CDS7701

JONGEN: Sonata for fute and piano, Op. 77; Wolfgang FRANCK: Sonata in A major Amadeus MOZART for Flute and Piano; Chamber Music with Winds: Flute Quartet No. 1 in D major, K. 285; DEBUSSY: Prélude à l’après- Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370 midi d’un faune (K. 368b); Quintet in A major for Clarinet and Strings, K. 581 La flute enchantée Swiss Chamber Soloists: Felix Renggli, Heinz Holliger, Francois Benda, Esther Hoppe, Daria Zappa, Jürg Dähler, Hans-Udo Heinzmann, Elisaveta Blumina Daniel Haefliger The turn of the century in 1900 was once called the golden th Edition Artist age of the fute. Here, Hans-Udo Heinzmann introduces GEN 14318 An illustrious guest on the 17 CD of the GEN 14319 three works from this period together with his piano Consort: the grand seignior of the oboe, Heinz Holliger, partner Elisaveta Blumina. In them, Heinzmann allows his plays Mozart’s sparkling Oboe Quartet with his Swiss friends. instrument to shine, cajole and shimmer in the French Also featured on a disc of chamber woodwind masterpieces, style, with all the clarity of the Mediterranean world! Felix Renggli interprets the magnifcent Flute Quartet, and Francois Benda revels in the Clarinet Quintet.

J. S. BACH: Praeludium in C, BW Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Sonata V 566; Contrapunctus 14 from 'The Art No. 30 in E major, Op. 109; Sonata No. 31 of Fugue', BW V 1080; Organ Sonata in A-fat major, Op. 110; Sonata No. 32 in C No. 6 in G major, BW V 530; Toccata, minor, Op. 111; Sonata No. 29 in B major, Op. Adagio and Fugue in C major, BW V 564; 106 ‘Hammerklavier’

SWEELINCK: Fantasia à 4, SwW V 273; Paul Badura-Skoda plays Ludwig van SCHUMANN: Vivace (Lebhaft) from 'Six Beethoven Fugues on B. A .C.H., Op. 60'; Paul Badura-Skoda KUHL: Variations on B-A-C-H Bach and B-A-C-H

GEN 14324 GEN 14331 Johannes Lang This set of Beethoven sonatas combines old and new recordings by Austrian piano-master Paul Badura-Skoda The highly virtuoso winner of the ‘Leipzig Bach that form an exhilarating unity. His 40 year old rendering Competition’ 2012, Johannes Lang, pays homage of the Hammerklavier Sonata is combined here with to Bach on his Genuin debut. Beethoven’s fnal sonatas, recorded in late 2013.

10 SEPTEMBER 2014 MOZART 1914 BRUCKNER Charles KOECHLIN: Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 64; Louis VIERNE: Symphony No. 3 Fantasias KV 475 & KV 397; Preludes for Piano, Op. 36; Quintet for Sonatas Nos. 14 & 18 Piano and String Quartet, Op. 42

98990 Tamara Atschba, Louise Chisson, 99040 99044 Paul Badura-Skoda Altomonte Orchester St. Matthias Adensamer, Alexander Florian, Rémy Ballot Znamensky, Christophe Pantillon

v Alexander Jan Hugo VORIŠEK Eduard Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 1: ABRAMIAN TCHEREPNIN Impromptus, Op. 7; Fantasy, Op. 12; Complete Piano Music, Sonata quasi una Fantasia, Op. 20 24 Preludes for piano Vol. 8

Giorgio Koukl GP659 Biljana Urban GP670 Mikael Ayrapetyan GP665

Maurice RAVEL The Complete Solo Piano Works CD 1: Jeux d’eau; Miroirs; A la manière d’Chabrier; A la manière de Borodine; Pavane pour une Infante défunte Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn; Menuet cis-Moll; Sonatine; CD 2: Le tombeau de Couperin; Prélude a-Moll; Daphnis et Chloé (Fragments Symphoniques); La Valse – Poème 93.318 chorégraphique; CD 3: Gaspard de la nuit; Sérénade grotesque; Menuet antique; La Parade; Valses nobles et sentimentales Florian Uhlig This year, Florian Uhlig continues his exploration of the piano works of Maurice Ravel, perhaps the most concentrated corpus of music ever produced by a major composer. GLINKA; RACHMANINOV; TCHAIKOVSKY; SCHNITTKE; TENEJEW; GUBAIDULINA Russia 93.317 SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Wakako Nakaso, Sabine Czinczel, Alexander Yudenkov, Mikhail Shashkov, Marcus Creed This CD offers a wide range of Russian composers who composed in the tradition of Orthodox Church music; from romantic-nationalist musical settings of the 19th century to the more intensely expressionist sounds of the two more recent composers. Claude DEBUSSY Piano Works, Vol. 3 Michael Korstick 93.319 The focus of this third release in Michael Korstick’s exploration of Debussy is the three volumes of the Piano Images from the years 1894, 1905 and 1907. They contain some of Debussy‘s most famous and popular piano works.

Joseph HAYDN Symphony No. 98 in B flat major; Symphony No. 103 in E flat major Heidelberger Sinfoniker, Thomas Fey 98.031 Haydn’s Symphonies Nos. 98 and 103 come from his set of 12 so-called 'London' symphonies, written at the height of his mastery and celebrity.

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 93.326 Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (SWR), Andrey Boreyko The recordings of the gifted Shostakovich interpreter Andrey Boreyko have hitherto been considered with great acclaim. This new recording of the Fifth Symphony is destined to become a new benchmark for this popular work.

SEPTEMBER 2014 11 Sergei PROKOFIEV Symphonies: Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 ‘Classical Symphony’; Symphony No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40; Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 44; Symphony No. 4 in C major, Op. 112; Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100; Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor, Op. 111; Symphony No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 131 Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky MELCD 1001797 Prokofev’s works refected the tempestuous domestic history of the 20th century, from the most glorious accomplishments to the most bitter and tragic events. His music responded to the pressing problems of his era; ‘I wanted to sing a hymn to a free and happy man, to his mighty powers, his pure and noble spirit’, Sergei Prokofev wrote. Here his symphonies are brilliantly performed and recorded for Melodiya from 1965–1967 by the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra of the USSR under Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The recording of the 7th and last symphony was awarded the ‘Grand Prix du Disque’ of Academie Charles Cros in France.

Pyotr Ilych TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies: Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13, 'Winter Dreams'; Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17; Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29; Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36; Symphony 'Manfred' in B minor, Op. 58; Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64; Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'pathétique' The State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov MELCD 1002157 It would not be an overstatement to call Tchaikovsky, a composer of a universal gift, one of the creators of the Russian symphonic tradition. The recording of all Tchaikovsky’s symphonies were realized by the USSR State Orchestra conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov in 1967 when a, then, young conductor stood before the major orchestra of his country. In this moment, he showcased an outstanding mastery and understanding of these symphonies that would truly set a precedent.

STRAVINSKY: Petrushka; WEBERN: Six Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6; DEBUSSY: La Mer

The Moscow Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez

The arrival of Pierre Boulez in the USSR in 1990 became a key event in the country’s musical life and, at the same time, a symbol of MELCD 1002255 the fall of the Iron Curtain. During his stay he organised a concert with the Moscow Conservatory symphonic orchestra on 5 March, featuring a programme of music by three of the most infuential 20th-century composers. His portrayal does not emphasise so much the different, even contrasting trends of musical development, but rather reveals common features in their rhythm, voice leading and orchestral texture.

Pyotr Ilych TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35; Serenade melancolique, Op. 26; Alexander GLAZUNOV: Violin Concerto in A minor,Op. 82

David Oistrakh The USSR Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin MELCD 1002261 ‘King David’ was the unoffcial name given to David Oistrakh by music lovers. Here the violinist is accompanied by the USSR State Symphony Orchestra directed by a prominent conductor, and Oistrakh’s friend and permanent ensemble partner, Kirill Kondrashin. The recordings, from 1945–1957, were made during the golden age of the great musician’s concert life. According to Dmitri Shostakovich, Oistrakh constituted ‘a whole era of the Soviet performing art. Oistrakh and the violin, Oistrakh and music – these notions have become inseparable...’

Antonio VIVALDI Concertos: Concerto for oboe and string orchestra in A minor, RV 461; Concerto for violin, cello and strings in A major, RV 546; Concerto for violin, strings and cembalo in E minor, RV 278; Concerto for cello, strings and cembalo in B minor, RV 424; Concerto for violin, cello and strings in B flat major, RV 547; Concerto for flute and orchestra in G minor 'La Notte', (Night), Op. 10 No. 2, RV 439 Evgeni Nepalo, Oleg Kagan, Natalia Gutman, Albert Hoffman Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai, Lev Markiz, David Oistrakh MELCD 1002262

Melodiya presents a recording of instrumental concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. His legacy includes over 500 concertos that demonstrate his composition and virtuosic mastery with a truly Italian temperament. These instrumental concertos are performed by prominent representatives of Russian instrumental music and conducted by Rudolf Barshai and Lev Markiz. The Night concerto features an ensemble of soloists of the Moscow Philharmonic Society led by David Oistrakh.

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH 24 Preludes and Fugues Tatiana Nikolayeva A jury member for the ‘International Piano Competition’, dedicated to the 200th anniversary of J.S. Bach’s death in Leipzig, Shostakovich was witness to the unconditional triumph of the young Soviet pianist Tatiana MELCD 1002269 Nikolayeva; the dedicatee of Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes & Fugues. For Marina Sabinina, a researcher of Shostakovich’s music, the cycle was a ‘true encyclopaedia of Shostakovich’s mature style’.

VOLKOV: Sonata No. 5; CHUDOVA: Sonata; SHAKHIDI: Two pieces; VORONTSOV: Sirius; SERGUNIN: Origami; SYSOYEV; Antiphases Anthology of Piano Music by Russian and Soviet Composers, Vol. 7

I. Bogdanova, N. Mndoyants, E. Mechetina, F. Amirov, L. Geniušas, Y. Favorin In volume 7 of Melodiya’s ongoing collection, Tolib Shahidi’s Two Pieces synthesizes national cultural MELCD 1002256 features of Tajikistan with the achievements of Russian and European music. Kirill Volkov, Tatiana Chudova and Yuri Vorontsov are representatives of the academic tradition: pupils of the outstanding masters Aram Khachaturian, Tikhon Khrennikov and Evgeny Golubev. While Vorontsov’s piece Sirius evokes cosmic associations, the sonatas by Chudova and Volkov are inspired by the natural beauty of northern Russia.

12 SEPTEMBER 2014 Pyotr Ilych TCHAIKOVSKY Romances

Natalia Petrozhitskaya, Dmitry Zuev, Antonina Kadobnova One of the leading projects released on Melodiya in the framework of its anniversary year, and on the threshold of Tchaikovsky’s 175th anniversary, Romances holds a light to the dynamic duo that is MELCD 1002278 Natalia Petrozhitskaya and Dmitry Zuev. The award-winning pair revel in eighteen selected romances of Tchaikovsky.

VARIOUS Arias from Operas Muslim Magomayev Orchestra of Cinematography, Vladimir Terletsky, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Niyazi Tagizade Hajibeyov ‘Muslim Magomayev's admirable baritone, high artistry and heartfelt generosity conquered generations of listeners. His range of capabilities was uncommonly wide – from operas to musicals, from Neapolitan MELLP 0041 songs to vocal works of Azerbaijani and Russian composers’ wrote Sviatoslav Belza in the foreword to the singer’s book Melody Is My Love. In Magomayev’s art, the borders and divisions between high and low, classical and popular are negated; he could win hearts with an operatic aria, a folk song or a pop tune in his own inimitable style.

SCHUMANN: Fantasy Piece No. 1 for Cello and Piano, Op. 73; DEBUSSY: Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor; FRANCK: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major, FWV 8 (arrangement for Cello and Piano by J. Delsart); Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major, FWV 8 (arrangement for Cello and Piano by J. Delsart) Daniil Shafran, Vol. 1 Daniil Shafran, Daniil Gottlieb, Anton Ginsburg MELLP 0052 Emotional vividness, deep intellectualism, impeccable technique – one would forget all of this when listening to Daniil Shafran in concert performance or studio recording, struck by the effortlessness with which he presided over his instrument. The LP features works by Schumann, Debussy and Franck and was recorded in 1970.

Johannes BRAHMS: Sonata No. 1 for Viola and Piano in F minor, Op. 120 No. 1; Sonata No. 2 for Viola and Piano in E flat major, Op. 120 No. 2 Yuri Bashmet, Vol. 1 Yuri Bashmet, Mikhail Muntian The two viola sonatas, Op. 120, composed in 1894 by Johannes Brahms, signify the completion of the composer’s creative life and the epoch of German romanticism in general. Now, they glisten in the light MELLP 0053 of the fnest musical partnership, with the long-acquainted Yuri Bashmet and Mikhail Muntian. Their relationship is notable for absolute integrity of performing practice and in-depth comprehension of a musical text.

TELEMANN: Canon-Sonata for Two Violins in G major, TWV 40:118; LECLAIR: Sonata for Two Violins in G major, Op. 3 No. 1; Sonata for Two Violins in C major, Op. 3 No. 3; YSAŸE: Sonata for Two Violins in A minor Violin Duos Leonid Kogan, Elizaveta Gilels Leonid Kogan is often compared with Niccolò Paganini, for his performances, from frst to last, captivated audiences throughout the world. Here with Elizaveta Gilels, Melodiya presents a rare collection of violin MELLP 0054 duet music. Pieces from the German and French baroque – sonatas by Georg Philipp Telemann and Jean- Marie Leclair – sit alongside a duet by the great Belgian violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe.

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 ‘Pathétique’; Eight Bagatelles

Sviatoslav Richter, Vol. 1

Sviatoslav Richter

A wonderful musician and a man with the broadest interests, a pianist with a vast repertoire and an enormous palette of emotions and timbres that not every orchestra could compete with. ‘Richter’s art is MELLP 0055 the one of mighty, gigantic passions’, wrote his contemporary, musicologist Gennady Tsypin. On this LP Melodiya presents a collection of equally mighty Beethoven works: the Sonata Pathétique and eight bagatelles, recorded in 1959.

SEPTEMBER 2014 13 Eric CRAVEN Michael FINNISSY Christopher WRIGHT Piano Sonatas: Nos. 7, 8 & 9 Mississippi Hornpipes: Music for Violin and Pandora’s Last Gift: Chamber Music by Christopher Wright Piano Mary Dullea Various Artists Darragh Morgan, Mary Dullea, Michael Finnissy Following Eric Craven’s Christopher Wright celebrates his pioneering CD Set for Piano The 11th disc in Métier’s Finnissy 60th birthday with several major (MSV28525) we present series contains all of concerts and three three major sonatas in MSV28544 his music for violin and MSV28545 recordings, including this MSV28547 widely differing styles piano; ranging from the new album of chamber works, released by frm advocate super-miniature ‘jive’ to frmly embedded in the Mary Dullea. more substantial works. English pastoral tradition.

Edward GIBBON Georgette HEYER Joseph CONRAD The Decline and Fall of the Roman The Corinthian The Secret Agent Empire, Volume 5 Unabridged Unabridged Unabridged Read by Georgina Read by David Horovitch Read by David Timson NA0129 Sutton NA0181 NA0187

Gabriel PROKOFIEV Gabriel PROKOFIEV John RICHARDS Suite for Piano and Electronics String Quartet No. 1 String Quartet No. 2 The Elysian Quartet GéNIA, John Richards First Release on Vinyl 1LP 12” Remixes by Vex’ D, Starkey, Hot Chip & VINYL 12” in Black Disco Bag The Elysian Quartet Gabriel Prokofev John Richards is a composer working Remixes by Edwin Laliq, BOXSAGA, David Schweitzer The Elysian String Quartet were the frst within the spectrum of electroacoustics & Max De Wardener musicians to be involved with Nonclassical, and has received recognition for his The Elysian Quartet was formed in 1999, by prize- and premiered both the frst recording, experimentations with improvisation winning students at Trinity College of Music. One and club night of the label, with Gabriel and home-made instruments. A versatile of the most innovative Prokofev’s String musician, he has young ensembles in the NONCLSSV001 Quartet No. 1 and NONLASSV003 collaborated with NONCLSSV002 UK, they focus exclusively returned four years Gabriel Prokofev, on playing 20th Century, later to play his Napalm Death, contemporary, and second Quartet. and performed at experimental music. IRCAM.

14 SEPTEMBER 2014 Louis SPOHR Die Letzen Dinge WoO 61: Oratorium nach worten der hl. Schrift (The Last Judgement: Oratorio based on Holy Scriptures) Sally Matthews, Katharine Goeldner, Jeremy Ovenden, Andrew Foster-Williams Salzburg Bach Choir, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Ivor Bolton OC438 The Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra dedicates itself here to a forgotten master. In drastic, enigmatic images of the Apocalypse of St. John, Louis Spohr’s oratorio The Last Judgement deals with the fundamental questions of humanity: justice, responsibility and redemption. This live recording comes from the Mozarteum in Salzburg on 6 June 2013.

Max REGER The Britannic Organ, Vol. 8

Max Reger, Günter Ramin, Kurt Grosse, Walter Fischer, Joseph Messner

This double CD contains, for the frst time, roll recordings made by Max Reger and several of his contemporaries OC847 manufactured by the frm of M. Welte & Sons on a Welte Philharmonie recording organ. Also included are interpretations of his own compositions by his contemporaries Günter Ramin, Kurt Grosse, Walter Fischer and Joseph Messner.

Georg Philipp TELEMANN Sonaten; Trios Concerti

L’accademia giacosa OC897 A co-production with BR-Klassik, this disc delves into the musical legacy of Georg Philipp Telemann. Solo oboist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Schilli, has strongly committed himself to this repertoire, and with his L’accademia giocosa this joint venture is in excellent hands.

Jerry BOCK Anatevka: Fiddler on the Roof (German translation by Sheldon Harnick)

Mörbisch Festival Choir & Orchestra, David Levi OC437 Anatevka will be seen on the Lake Stage in Mörbisch in 2014 for the frst time; with its wonderfully beautiful melodies, scenery and a brilliant production. This German translation promises to be a true feast for the eyes and ears.

Richard STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche; Symphonia Domestica Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Sebastian Weigle

Part 2 of the Richard Strauss orchestra works from Frankfurt with Sebastian Weigle, and during the composer’s OC889 jubilee year, includes the roguish pranks of Till Eulenspiegel as well as the less frequently performed Symphonia Domestica. Recorded in January 2012 and March 2013 at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt by the much-lauded and proven team of the Frankfurt Opera.

Harold in Italy VARIOUS BERLIOZ (arr. Liszt) Popular Renaissance Music Harold in Italy, Op. 16 Lucie Guerra Žáková, organ LISZT Nuages Gris; Romance Oublie; Oh! Quand je dors; Schlafos!

Jennifer Stumm Elizabeth Pridgen The young Czech organist Lucie Guerra Žáková has compiled a hugely Harold in Italy was originally commissioned by Italian virtuoso Paganini to entertaining programme of popular Renaissance music, performed on showcase his new Stradivarius viola; there is no one better to perform this one of the most treasured instruments in the world: the famous organ new recording on Orchid Classics than Jennifer Stumm, at Rozay-en-Brie, France. winner of three major international competitions, including the 'Concert Artists Guild'. 'If one player ORC100044 OR 0011 should be singled out, it is Jennifer Stumm', The Guardian.

SEPTEMBER 2014 15 The Percussion Universe of Axel BORUP-JØRGENSEN

Solo; Music for Percussion & Viola; La Primavera; Periphrasis; Winter Music Gert Mortensen Percurama Percussion Ensemble, Tim Frederiksen, Duo Crossfire, Michala Petri, DNSO Brass Quintet The fve works presented here span the most important period of the composer’s artistic development, and all feature the full array of percussion instruments found in 20th century music; skin, metal and wood, everything from small bells 6220608 to a gong are employed to bring Borup-Jørgensen’s exquisitely crafted universe of sounds to life. Standing at the center of this universe is Gert Mortensen, percussion professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, one of the world’s leading scholars and performers of music for percussion.

BORTKIEVICZ: Five Melodies, from Johannes BRAHMS Alessandro POGLIETTI ‘A Thousand and One Nights’; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade, Hungarian Dances WoO 1 Rossignolo Op. 35; KHACHATURIAN: (arr. for harp and PMR 0036 PMR 0051 Joyce Lindorff PMR 0048 Trio for clarinet, violin piano) and piano Duo Praxedis Zurich Ensemble

LISZT; Organ Polychrome: MUSSORGSKY; The French School ARNOLD Jan Kraybill Mephisto & Co

Minnesota Orchestra, Eiji Oue

RM-2510 RR-133 Ghosts, goblins, spirits and demons run amok in this This program of French masterworks was designed program of infernal orchestral favorites featuring Mephisto to showcase all the colors and nuances of this Waltz, Night on a Bald Mountain, Tam O Shanter, and many outstanding new instrument. Including the world more in an explosive witches’ brew! premiere recording of Florent Schmitt's Prière.

Arthur HONEGGER König David (King David)

Devid Striesow, Irm Hermann Junges Ensemble & Choir Berlin, Prometheus Ensemble Berlin, Frank Markowitsch ROP6088 Arthur Honegger’s König David – only rarely is this work performed in German and in its frst version: the chamber music setting for ten brass and wind instruments, percussion, harmonium, and celesta. The timberal nuances of this original orchestration are truly delightful, colourful, and intriguing. Only later did Honegger re-arrange his composition for symphony orchestra.

VARIOUS Lost in Transition

Daarler Vocal Consort

This CD, the Daarler Vocal Consort’s second recording with Rondeau Production, follows their critically acclaimed ROP6087 Zwischen Himmel und Erde (ROP6034) that received a 'Pizzicato Excellentia' Award.

16 SEPTEMBER 2014 Clara SANABRAS El Vol Dispers – Songs of Spanish Exile Clara Sanabras, Elised Parra, Cobla Sant Jordi, Elysian Quartet SMU 606 Clara Sanabras brings her virtuosic voice and multi-instrumentalism to tales of love lost and homes fown in Scattered Flight - Songs of Spanish Exile. After the success of her critically-acclaimed albums, flm score credits and world tours, Sanabras returns to her roots for an intimate homage to exile – told in Spanish, Catalan and English. Expect a visionary, musically expansive voyage.

Igor STRAVINSKY Pyotr Ilych TCHAIKOVSKY BECKER; KLENGEL; TORTELIER Le Sacre du printemps: version for orchestra & Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, ‘Pathétique’ Suites for Violoncello solo version for piano four hands Markus Wagner Wiener Symphoniker, Philippe Jordan Dennis Russell Davies, Maki Namekawa, This CD presents the frst recordings of two Maestro Jordan has been Sinfonieorchester Basel original, very different and thus far unknown preparing for this great Romantic works for solo cello: Julius Solo Musica here present two task with incredibly precise SOB 06 WS 006 Klengel’s Suite in D minor and Hugo Becker’s SM 214 contrasting accounts of attention to detail. As a Fantastic Suite. Along with Paul Tortelier’s Stravinsky’s most celebrated result, listeners can enjoy strongly Bach-oriented Suite in D minor, ballet: the original version for every facet of Tchaikovsky’s orchestra, and a new arrangement they are important additions to the cello life (and work), no matter for piano four hands. repertoire. how small.

Hugo WOLF The Complete Songs, Vol. 8 Eichendorff Leider 5060192780420 Katherine Broderick, Nicky Spence, David Stout, Sholto Kynoch

This, the 8th volume in the complete songs series of Hugo Wolf, was recorded live at the world-famous 'Oxford Lieder Festival'. These songs, all settings of the poet Eichendorff, are a wonderful combination of some of Wolf’s best-known songs and a handful of rarities. J. S. BACH Trio Sonatas Robert Costin 5060192780468 Following on from Robert Costin’s critically-acclaimed recording of the Goldberg Variations, we are delighted to announce the perfect follow-up disc: a recording of all six of Bach’s Trio Sonatas for organ.

Gioachino ROSSINI Giovanni Pierluigi da Giovanni Battista Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of PALESTRINA PERGOLESI Seville) transcription for 'Harmonie' by Il Primo Libro de’Madrigali Cantate da Camera, Op. 2 Wenzel Sedlak (1776-1851) Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini Alessandra Rossi di Simone Ensemble Italiano di fiati, Paolo Pollastri The Primo Libro di Madrigali a quatro voci was, Ensemble Concerto, Roberto Gini A type of wind ensemble of varying forces known as chronologically speaking, the second work that The four cantatas by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Harmonie was born in Germanic and Hapsburg regions in Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina published, printed in recorded here, were published in Naples around 1736. th the 18 century. Original pieces were performed together 1555 in Rome. In 1739 Charles de Brosses judged the fourth cantata with transcriptions of of the collection to be celebrated works such as TB 791807 TB 521604 ‘la meillure des Cantates TB 711605 this adaptation by Wenzel italiennes’ (the best of the Sedlak of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Italian cantatas).

SEPTEMBER 2014 17 Niccolò PAGANINI 24 Capricci, Op. 1 Roberto Noferini TC 781690 ‘The electricity I feel when I’m dealing with the magic harmony’, wrote Paganini on 15 January 1832 in a letter to his friend Luigi Guglielmo Germi; there could be no better defnition of Paganini’s musical temperament. Liszt’s response when watching Paganini was the remark: 'how much passion, how much suffering in those four strings'. In Tactus’s latest release, we may experience this electricity for ourselves.

Vincenzo BELLINI; Frédéric CHOPIN Liriche da camera; Opere pianistiche Silvia Martinelli, Andrea Trovato TC 800004

The relationship between Bellini and Chopin may be seemingly limited to their era. However, these two coeval romantic composers share an affnity towards their melodic inspiration, both strongly rooted in the traditions of their respective homelands: Italy and Poland.

Pietro MORLACCHI; Antonio TORRIANI Fantasie d’opera Trio Hormus: Carlo Tamponi, Francesco Bossone, Stefano Micheletti TC 820002 Great opera-music fantasias, such as the fantasia for fute by Morlacchi on Mosè in Egitto and the fantasia for bassoon by Torriani on Lucia di Lammermoor were a mainstay of 19th-century chamber music in Milan. Now, courtesy of Trio Hormus, they are available from Tactus.

Albéric MAGNARD Complete Chamber Music

Laurent Wagschal, Solenne Païdassi, Camille Thomas, Quatuor Élysée, Ensemble Initium 4C4228 Long ignored, Magnard has, in the past few years, joined the pantheon of post-Franckist composers. He embodies what French music produced at the time: a combination of force and clarity, melodic and harmonic invention, and perfect mastery of orchestration. Included in this invaluable set is a commentary by the leading Magnard specialist, Harry Halbreich, who lends not his pen but his voice to an additional disc, discussing works he knows better than anyone.

Orlando Jacinto GARCÍA John KINSELLA Auschwitz (nunca se olvidarán); Varadero Symphony No. 5, The 1916 Poets; Symphony No. 10 Memories; In Memoriam Earle Brown Gerard O’Connor, Bill Golding Florida International University Concert Choir, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Colman Pearce S. Mark Aliapoulios Irish Chamber Orchestra, Málaga Philharmonic TOCC 0239 Gábor Takács-Nagy TOCC 0242 Orchestra, José Serebrier

John Kinsella (b. 1932) is the most This CD of Orlando Jacinto García’s Orchestral Music welcomes important Irish symphonist since Stanford. His Fifth Symphony, written in Grammy-winning conductor and composer José Serebrier to the 1992, is an impassioned setting of humanist poetry by three Irish poets Toccata Classics roster of artists. killed in the 1916 Uprising. Charles O’BRIEN Théodore GOUVY Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 Songs to Text by Pierre de Ronsard and other renaissance poets Warren Mailley-Smith MeeAe Nam, John Elwes, Charles O’Brien (1882–1968) is the archetypal composer TOCC 0256 Joel Schoenhals TOCC 0269 for a Toccata Classics release: Gouvy’s melodious songs show a this CD rescues a forgotten predilection for the 16th-century love- Scottish romantic from poems of Pierre de Ronsard. Only eleven oblivion. of the 26 songs on this CD have been recorded before, the other 15 songs are frst-ever recordings.

Gustav MAHLER VARIOUS Symphony No. 5 in C sharp Sophisticated Lady: Jazz Quartet minor Sophisticated Lady: JJ Kirkpatrick, Misha Adair Bigos, The Colburn Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz Gary Wicks, Andrew Boyle

‘No splicing or editing YAR41014 here—just a live-in-the- YAR65004 studio recording where the mood, playing and sonics are so solid that that jazz lovers will This album celebrates Gerard Schwarz at the top of his game, and wish that the mostly-classical label Yarlung wandered over to with an orchestra he describes as being ‘without question, among this side of the street more often’, Jeff Wilson, The Absolute the fnest orchestras in the world’. Sound. 18 SEPTEMBER 2014 SHAKESPERE A Midsummer Night’s Dream Recorded live at Shakespeare’s Globe, June 2013

John Light, Pearce Quigley, Michelle Terry, Luke Thompson, Matthew Tennyson, Tom Lawrence, Christopher Logan, Sarah MacRae, Dominic Dromgoole, Claire van Kampen OA1136D Hermia loves Lysander and Helena loves Demetrius – but Demetrius is supposed to be marrying Hermia… When the Duke of Athens tries to enforce the marriage, the lovers take refuge in the woods and wander into the midst of a dispute between the king and queen of the fairies.

The Fairy Tale Ballets Coppélia; Cinderella; Swan Lake; Sleeping Beauty

Paris Opera Ballet, Dutch National Ballet

This mid-priced ‘Fairytale Ballets’ DVD box-set is designed as the natural successor to the best-selling Ballets for Children box of autumn 2012. Containing some of the most popular ballets in the repertory, the four OA1146BD existing individual titles will be packaged in a slipcase featuring a specially-commissioned cover illustration from the artist that designs the covers for the top-selling Terry Pratchett fantasy novels. The set is intended to appeal to the 10-16 age group (Ballets for Children was aimed at the under-10s).

ADAM OA1144D Giselle Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, January 2014 Natalia Osipova, Carlos Acosta, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Marius Petipa after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot Boris Gruzin Giselle remains one of the most popular Romantic ballets of all time. The story brings together an engaging mix of human passions, supernatural forces, and the transcendent power of self-sacrifcing love. The production by OABD7151D Sir Peter Wright catches the atmosphere of this great Romantic ballet, especially in the perfection of its White Act, with ghostly maidens drifting through the forest in spectacular patterns - one of the most famous of any scenes of the corps de ballet. Giselle dances with lightness and fragility, giving the impression of foating through the mist.

MOZART OA1145D Don Giovanni Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, February 2014 Mariusz Kwiecien, Alex Esposito, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Véronique Gens, Antonio Poli, Malin Byström, Elizabeth Watts, Dawid Kimberg Mozart’s sublime tragic comedy offers boundless scope for directors, and Kasper Holten has chosen it to follow his directorial debut of Eugene Onegin. He wanted to shift the emphasis from Don Giovanni’s sex life OABD7152D into a darker place, showing Giovanni’s womanizing as an attempt to stave off his own mortality. Though it is a dark piece, Holten handles it with a light touch and works with a superb cast – Mariusz Kwiecien, one of the world’s leading Don Giovannis, Alex Esposito, a fresh, vigorous Leporello and acclaimed French soprano Véronique Gens.

The Incomparable Celibidache MOZART: Symphony No. 39; SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 2; BERLIOZ: Symphony 'Fantastique'; BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 9 in D; PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat; STRAUSS: Death and Transfguration Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino, Sergiu Celibidache The conductor Sergiu Celibidache was a legend in his own lifetime, mesmerising orchestras with his intensity OA1152BD and brilliance, both in rehearsals and in performances - which were always conducted from memory. The Incomparable Celibidache box-set celebrates the historic release on DVD of rare footage of performances with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino between 1969-70.

Piano Legends

Arturo Michelangeli, Martha Argerich, Alfred Brendel

Drawing on a vast range of classical repertoire that includes some of the greatest works in the piano literature, this special collection surveys the legendary status of three of the most outstanding recording artists of our time. From Martha Argerich’s thrilling live recordings of Mozart, which pay tribute to her teacher Gulda, to Arturo Michelangeli’s famously rare 1962 RAI television performances. The set also includes – in addition to his interpretations of Haydn, Mozart and Schubert – an illuminating 70-minute documentary exploring the private world of acclaimed pianist Alfred Brendel. OA1153BD

SEPTEMBER 2014 19 Giacomo PUCCINI Tutto Puccini: The Complete Giacomo Puccini Opera Edition LE VILLI (Teatro Antico, Taormina, 2004); EDGAR (Teatro Regio Torino, 2008); MANON LESCAUT (Teatro alla 107541 Scala, Milan, 1998); LA BOHÈME (San Francisco Opera, 1988); TOSCA (Arena di Verona, 2006); MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1986); LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (Puccini Festival, Torre del Lago, 2005); LA RONDINE (Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, 2008); IL TRITTICO (Teatro Comunale di Modena, 2007); TURANDOT (Live from the Wiener Staatsoper, 1983); Bonus Performances: ORF Archive Recordings; SCHWESTER ANGELICA (Studio Recording, 1959, sung in German); GIANNI SCHICCHI (Volksoper, Vienna, 1960, sung in German) Exclusive 11 DVD Box Set including all 12 Puccini operas plus previously unreleased bonus performances and a 107547 lavishly illustrated book with rare archive material.

A Recital with Renée Fleming: Vienna at the Turn of the 20th Century

Live from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein Vienna, 2012

Renée Fleming Maciej Pikulski, Brian Large 102196 This concert is Renée Fleming’s very personal homage to 'Fin de Siècle' Vienna. At the turn of the last century, the capital of the Austrian Empire was also one of the cultural centres for the fine arts and, in particular, for music.

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Igor STRAVINSKY L’Histoire du soldat

Nederlands Dans Theater, Jiř í Kylián 100133 Jiří Kylián feels a great affinity for Stravinsky, who, like himself, was forced to leave his homeland. He describes the composer’s music drama, L’Histoire du soldat, as a 'surrealistic fairy tale for grown-up children'. His version of the piece uses the original French version libretto by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz. With scenery and costumes by John MacFarlane, this studio recording features Nacho Duato as the soldier who sells his soul to the Devil for wealth, but is forced to wander the world. 108134

Michael NYMAN: Make it Louder Please!

The Michael Nyman Band live at Studio Halle & Portrait by Silvia Beck

Michael Nyman, who is famous for his Oscar nominated film score for Jane Campion’s film The Piano is without doubt one of the great contemporary composers. This Blu-ray disc combines a live concert of the Michael Nyman Band at Studio Halle in Germany with the interesting portrait by Silvia Beck, which allows unprecedented access to the composer and his working life.

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Alexander EKMAN A Swan Lake World Premiere Recording from Oslo Opera House, 2014

Alexander Ekman, Mikael Karlsson, Henrik Vibskov 102195 The Norwegian National Ballet, The Norwegian National Opera Orchestra, Per Kristian Skalstad

'I wanted to do something big and wild and different. Something with water!' said choreographer Alexander Ekman. In A Swan Lake, his new full-length work created for the Norwegian National Ballet, the dancers are joined on stage by actors, a soprano, musicians and 1,000 rubber ducks. 108116

20 SEPTEMBER 2014 Güher & Süher PEKINEL in Concert

Live from the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Ludwigsburg International Music Festival, 2012

The two concerts from 2012 released on this DVD once again prove what Güher and Süher Pekinel are famous 102191 for: playing piano with the sixth sense.

PROKOFIEV 102200 Peter and the Wolf A Film by Suzie Templeton

It’s a wolf-eats-duck world. But it’s a world in which little boys can find extraordinary courage and – with a little help from a crazy bird and a dreamy duck (and none whatsoever from a fat, lethargic cat and two hooligan hunters) – can catch the wolf. 108113

Richard STRAUSS 717208 Arabella Staged by Florentine Klepper, Salzbug Easter Festival, 2014

Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Albert Dohmen, Gabriela Beňačková, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller Staatskapelle Dresden, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden, Christian Thielemann 717304 Celebrating the 150th birthday of Richard Strauss, C Major present a trio of his operas. After Capriccio (May 2014) the label now brings us Arabella from this year´s 'Salzburg Easter Festival' before Der Rosenkavalier this autumn. Amongst an all-star cast, Renèe Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Albert Dohmen and Gabriela Beňačková shine, and with Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden ‘the music of Richard Strauss is in best hands’, (ORF).

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART 717408 Don Giovanni Staged by Pier Luigi Pizzi, Teatro La Fenice, 2011 Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Andrea Concetti, Carmela Remigio, Myrto Papatanasiu, Marlin Miller, Manuela Bisceglie, William Corrò, Enrico Giuseppe Iori Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice, Riccardo Frizza 717504 A formidable cast bring Mozart’s timeless classic to life. Ildebrando D´Arcangelo, Carmela Remigio and Andrea Concetti are in excellent form at Sferisterio Opera Festival, Maccerata, Italy. D’Arcangelo, in particular, is at his brilliant best and unsurprisingly re-assumes the role of Don Giovanni at this year’s Salzburg Festival.

Christian SPUCK 2059748 Poppea

Gauthier Dance, Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart

For this production, Christian Spuck was inspired by Claudio Monteverdi’s last opera, L’incoronazione di Poppea. 2059744 The story of the marriage of the Emperor Nero and Poppea Sabina still brings a chill to audiences today, portraying the cruel lust for power and passion at the court of the Roman ruler.

BEETHOVEN; BERLIOZ; BRAHMS; BRUCKNER; DEBUSSY; FAURÉ; MOZART; MUSSORGSKY; RAVEL; SCHUBERT; SHOSTAKOVICH; STRAVINSKY; TCHAIKOVSKY; WAGNER

Classic Archive™

Collector’s Edition – CONDUCTORS 3075094

Herbert von Karajan, Yevgeny Mravinsky, Charles Munch, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Carlo Maria Giulini, Otto Klemperer, Leopold Stokowski, Eugen Jochum, Igor Markevitch Great performances from legendary artists of the 20th century, the Classic Archive™ Collector’s Edition: CONDUCTORS offers unique insights into the world of music interpretation of the golden age. (SD Video on Blu-ray Disc) SEPTEMBER 2014 21 André TCHAIKOWSKY 2072708 The Merchant of Venice Opera in three acts and an epilogue after William Shakespeare

Wiener Symphoniker, Erik Nielsen 2072704 Composer André Tchaikowsky frst made his mark in Great Britain as a concert pianist. Despite his immense success, Tchaikowsky’s real passion was for composition. The Merchant of Venice, after William Shakespeare’s play of that name, was to remain his only opera.

Yuri Temirkanov conducts RACHMANINOV and 2075068 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Live from the Annecy Classic Festival 2013

Denis Matsuev St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov 2075064 In its fourth edition, the Annecy Classic Festival has become a major player in the national and international cultural landscape. In residence at the 2013 Annecy Classic Festival, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic closes the festival and joins forces with its iconic conductor Yuri Temirkanov.

Gustav MAHLER ACC20299 Symphony No. 9 Includes bonus material: Riccardo Chailly on Mahler 9 and in conversation with Henry‐Louis de La Grange Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Riccardo Chailly Theodor W. Adorno regarded Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 as ‘the frst work of modern music’. Adorno’s teacher, ACC10299 Alban Berg, saw in it ‘the expression of a tremendous love for this world, a longing to live in peace’. This live recording of the composer’s last completed symphony is part of an ongoing Leipzig cycle of Mahler’s symphonies. It confrms once more the Gewandhaus Orchestra’s reputation as an exemplary ensemble for the performance of Mahler’s music.

Evgeny Kissin: The Gift of Music Plus Albert Hall Encores

'Christopher Nupen: King of the music documentary', and winner of the Gramophone ‘Documentary DVD of the Year’ award in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2010, now takes his audience into the world of one of the most A 18CN D extraordinary pianists of our time. From the director who gave us The Trout, the Jacqueline du Pré flms, and so many other classics, is a flm which shows Evgeny Kissin in preparation, interview, rehearsal and performance, with several dazzling performances shot live on stage, in true concert conditions.

Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten LAURIDSEN A flm by Michael Stillwater, co-produced by Doris Laesser Stillwater Featuring performances & soundtracks by: Volti, Con Anima Chamber Choir, S. F. Choral Society, Aberdeen Choral Society, The Dale Warland Singers, Polyphony & Britten Sinfonia, The Singers/Minnesota Choral Artists

This flm celebrates the life and music of the artist whom musicologist Nick Strimple describes as ‘the only American 98.046 composer in history who can be called a mystic’. Exploring the relationship of art, nature and spirituality, Shining Night reveals the composer through the lens of his love for silence and solitude together with his passion for music and literature, with commentaries from composers, conductors, singers and friends.

Richard WAGNER Das Rheingold Staged by Vera Nemirova, live Recording from Oper Frankfurt, June-July 2012 Includes 'The Making Of' the Ring of the Nibelung at the Frankfurt Opera Terje Stensvold, Dietrich Volle, Richard Cox, Kurt Streit, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Hans-Jurgen Lazar, Alfred Reiter, Magnus Baldvinsson, Martina Dike, Barbara Zechmeister, Meredith Arwady, Britta Stallmeister, Jenny Carlstedt, Katharina Magiera OC995 Frankfurt Opera & Museum Orchestra, Sebastian Weigle Oehms Classics are pleased to be releasing each opera from their acclaimed Ring cycle box-set individually. Recorded at Frankfurt Opera with Sebastian Weigle, the frst instalment, Das Rheingold, is a 2-DVD tour de force with revelatory bonus material of this esteemed production.

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