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July 2015 UK for Musicweb WYASTONE ESTATE LIMITED DISTRIBUTED LABELS JULY 2015 NEW RELEASES NEW RELEASE NI 6298 TITLES AVAILABLE TO ORDER FROM FRIDAY 3RD JULY 2015 TO PLACE AN ORDER CONTACT DISCOVERY RECORDS LTD TEL: 01380 728000 EMAIL: [email protected] DISCOVERY RECORDS LTD, NURSTEED ROAD, DEVIZES, SN10 3DY For further details visit our website: www.discovery-records.com /NimbusRecords @NimbusRecords /NimbusRecordsTV [details in this release book are correct at time of production] JULY 2015 NEW RELEASE To Order: Tel: 01380 728000 Email: [email protected] MASTERWORKS & MINIATURES This programme explores Italian keyboard music ORGAN & HARPSICHORD of the sixteenth century with works by Girolamo MUSIC FROM RENAISSANCE VENICE Diruta, Claudio Merulo, Andrea and Giovanni Gabreli, Gioseffo Guami, and Antonio Mortaro. As Richard RICHARD LESTER Lester explains in his extended liner note, his own ORGAN study of contemporary performance treatise, 1 Gioseffo Guami: Toccata in the IInd tone 2:08 particularly that of Diruta, for correct period fingering, 2 Andrea Gabrieli: Canzona francese detta Qui la Dira 3:50 ornamentation and registration for these works, 3 Giovanni Gabrieli: Ricercar in the VIIth and VIIIth tones 2:36 informs his performances of these pieces and expresses 4 Andrea Gabrieli: Canzona alla francese Petit Jacquet 2:03 their unique character. 5 Andrea Gabrieli: Ricercar Settimo tono 4:28 RICHARD LESTER 6 Claudio Merulo: Canzona à 4; La Leonora 2.48 His distinguished musical career has spanned almost 7 Andrea Gabrieli: Ricercar Arioso 3:10 five decades. His landmark recordings of the complete 8 Annibale Padovano: Toccata VIth tone 4:12 sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti were described in the HARPSICHORD Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music as ‘a really 9 Adrian Willaert: Ricercar à 3 4:08 exceptional issue on every count.’ Besides these 10 Gioseffo Guami: Canzona; La Guamina 1:51 recordings, his comprehensive discography includes 11 Giovanni Gabrieli: Ricercar mode X 3:48 works by Seixas, Soler, Haydn and Mozart, played on 12 Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzona; La Spiritata 2:25 original instruments and a five volume set of MASTERWORKS & MINIATURES 13 Jacques Buus: Ricercar Primo 4:05 Frescobaldi’s keyboard music. His solo concert schedule 14 Andrea Gabrieli: Canzona alla francese detta Je ne included broadcasts for BBC Radio and Television, ORGAN & HARPSICHORD diray moy bergiere 2:06 harpsichord recitals at the Royal Festival Hall South Bank Centre, Wigmore Hall, Bath International Festival, MUSIC FROM RENAISSANCE VENICE ORGAN Bruges Festival and master classes at Dartington 15 Claudio Merulo: Toccata Prima, Primo Tuono 1598 5:04 Summer School. On BBC Desert Island Discs in 1982, RICHARD LESTER 16 Giovanni Gabrieli: Intonazione mode I 0:41 Dame Janet Baker chose his recording of Scarlatti 17 Claudio Merulo: Toccata Ottava Quarto tuono 1598 6:40 Catalogue Number NI 5931 18 Andrea Gabrieli: Intonazione primo tuono 1:20 sonatas as her favourite and ‘something I’d like to wake up with every morning.’ Total Playing Time 77.53 19 Claudio Merulo: Toccata Settima Ottavo Tuono 1604 7.20 20 Giovanni Gabrieli: Intonazione Secondo Tono 0:45 A 90-page score has also been compiled and 21 Claudio Merulo: Toccata Undecimo detto Quinto edited by Richard Lester, NMP 1015, which includes Tuono 1604 6:16 this CD and a DVD video where Richard BUY NOW 22 Andrea Gabrieli: Ricercar Quinto tuono 5:14 demonstrates the techniques for accurate and correct 23 Giovanni Gabrieli: Intonazione Duodecima Tono 0:53 performance of these works. JULY 2015 NEW RELEASE To Order: Tel: 01380 728000 Email: [email protected] Compiled and edited by harpsichordist Richard Lester this 90 page volume of music contains 17 complete works by Girolamo Diruta, Claudio Merulo, Andrea and Giovanni Gabreli, Gioseffo Guami, and Antonio Mortaro. In an extended preface Richard examines the contemporary performance treatise and based on them suggests possibilities for correct period fingering, ornamentation and registration for these works. The publication includes a 48 minute DVD Video, ‘Venetian Reflections’ in which Richard demonstrates the practical considerations of period fingering and ornamentation and includes several complete performances on both harpsichord and organ. The publication also includes the Nimbus CD recording NI 5931 of works featured in the publication performed by Richard Lester at the organ and harpsichord. COMPOSERS FEATURED IN THE SCORE MASTERWORKS & MINIATURES Girolamo Diruta (c 1554-c 1610) ORGAN & HARPSICHORD MUSIC FROM RENAISSANCE VENICE Claudio Merulo (1533-1604) Andrea Gabrieli (1532/33-1585) PRINTED SCORE, CD & DVD VIDEO Gioseffo Guami (1542-1611) 90 PAGES, WIRE BOUND, A4 LANDSCAPE Antonio Mortaro (fl 1587-1610) Giovanni Gabrieli (c 1555-1612) Catalogue NMP 1015 Number COMPOSERS FEATURED ON THE CD Printed Score, Adrian Willaert (c 1490-1562) Includes CD & DVD Jacques Buus (c 1500-1565) Annibale Padovano (1527-1575) Andrea Gabrieli (1532/33-1585) Claudio Merulo (1533-1604) BUY NOW Gioseffo Guami (1542-1611) Giovanni Gabrieli (c 1555-1612) JULY 2015 NEW RELEASE To Order: Tel: 01380 728000 Email: [email protected] FRANZ SCHUBERT Pianist and conductor Vladimir Feltsman is one of the PIANO SONATAS VOLUME 2 most versatile and constantly interesting musicians of VLADIMIR FELTSMAN our time. His vast repertoire encompasses music from the Baroque to 20th-century composers. A regular Sonata in A major D 664 (1819) 21.43 guest soloist with leading symphony orchestras in the 1 I Allegro moderato 9.01 United States and abroad, he appears in the most 2 II Andante 4.25 prestigious concert series and music festivals all over 3 III Allegro 8.17 the world. 4 12 Grätzer Walzer D 924 (1827) 10.05 Mr. Feltsman’s extensive discography has been released on the Melodiya, Sony Classical, and Nimbus Sonata in B-flat major D 960 (1828) 45.34 labels. His discography includes eight albums of 5 I Molto moderato 23.05 clavier works of J.S. Bach, recordings of Beethoven’s 6 II Andante sostenuto 9.07 last five piano sonatas, solo piano works of Schubert, 7 III Scherzo. Allegro vivace con delicatezza 4.20 Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Messiaen and 8 IV Allegro, ma non troppo 9.02 Silvestrov, as well as concerti by Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Total playing time 77.22 Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev. Mr. Feltsman is an American citizen and lives in Second Volume of Feltsman’s Piano Sonata Series. upstate New York. Volume 1 is available. FRANZ SCHUBERT NI 6297 Schubert Piano Sonatas Volume 1 "The recording by Nimbus is of irreproachable PIANO SONATAS VOLUME 2 Price Code N4 • UPC: 0710357629723 quality: warm, sonorous and spacious with just a welcome hint of reverberation. Hard to imagine better Schubert has been described as the last ‘classical’ and LADIMIR ELTSMAN PIANO advocacy than that from Feltsman." Ralph Moore, V F , as the first ‘romantic’ composer, but it is really www.musicweb-international.com impossible to pin a meaningful label on him. He was Catalogue Number NI 6298 and still is a very special case, a lonely figure in musical "...clearly, one of the supreme Bach keyboard Total Playing Time 77.22 history, a dreamer who brought into music a degree of intimacy, despair, hope and disappointment exponents of our time!" Chicago Tribune previously unknown. Schubert was a sincere, shy and vulnerable man (though he did not lack confidence in "...quite simply an amazing pianist!" BUY NOW himself as an artist) and his personality is clearly The New York Times reflected in his music. JULY 2015 NEW RELEASE To Order: Tel: 01380 728000 Email: [email protected] THE SONATAS “I search for new frontiers in music. The double bass is a fantastic and unique vehicle! My goal is BRAHMS, GUBAIDULINA, HINDEMITH, VASKS transcending my instrument. In performing, I always NIEK DE GROOT, DOUBLE BASS feel more a musician as a double bassist.’’ Niek de Groot is a leading classical double-bassist. CATHERINE KLIPFEL, PIANO In 2010 he found the supreme instrument to give his style voice in the Amati double bass made in Cremona, 1680. Niek has been given the lifelong privilege to play JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) this famous and only remaining double bass from that Sonata for piano and violoncello in E minor, era. op.38 (1862-1865) transcription Niek de Groot Following his formal studies Niek further 1 Allegro non troppo 14.18 developed his skills at the Canadian Banff Centre for 2 Allegretto quasi Menuetto – Trio 5.39 the Arts. In addition he gained inspiration in attending 3 Allegro 6.45 master classes especially with cellists Frans Helmerson, Lluìs Claret and Laurence Lesser and in SOFIA GUBAIDULINA (b.1931) close collaborations with Leonard Bernstein, Mstislav 4 Sonata for double bass and piano (1975) 13.36 Rostropovich, Vladimir Mendelsohn and György Sebök. The style Niek has developed allows him to also PAUL HINDEMITH (1895-1963) use the double bass as an integral solo instrument. At Sonata for double bass and piano (1949) the same time, in working closely with modern THE SONATAS FOR DOUBLE BASS 5 Allegretto 2.33 composers like Kurtàg and Stockhausen, he 6 Scherzo 1.41 contributed to the development of new and RAHMS UBAIDULINA B • G 7 Molto Adagio – Recitativo – Lied 8.54 contemporary double-bass repertoire. HINDEMITH • VASKS Until 2006 Niek held principal double bass PTERIS VASKS (b.1946) positions in many ensembles throughout Europe. Sonata for solo double bass (1986) NIEK DE GROOT Among them a 10 year tenure as principal with the 8 Monologo 3.29 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Since then he has 9 Fantasia 4.05 dedicated his career to performing chamber music and Catalogue Number NI 6312 10 Toccata 4.30 solo performances and plays the Amati to a growing Total Playing Time 70.24 11 Melodia 4.50 worldwide audience. From 1996 Niek has been teaching as a senior professor at the Folkwang Total playing time 70.24 University of Arts in Essen, Germany.
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