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BOOKLET_CCS SA SEL 4606 24-10-2006 14:55 Pagina 3 Forward to the future, proud of the past A new sampler means looking back to those recordings that have appeared since our last compilation. Every track represents a brief ‘sample’, not only of the technical side of the SACD, but also of the artists’ musical interpretation. Many music lovers like these samplers because the tracks can be completely different from one another in instruments and styles. Always a surprise! Channel Classics continues to be fully committed to the Super Audio CD format. We believe that offering the highest quality of sound recordings to the public is a logical answer to the changing circumstances in the recording industry. For whatever medi- um the public uses in the future, at least the original recording will be of the highest quality in stereo and multichannel. Channel has been developing ties with China during the last two years by introducing SACD technology and recording in Beijing and Shanghai. We have created a sub label for these recordings called ‘Channel of China’. By recording traditional instruments like the Erhu, the Pipa along with the China National Symphony Orchestra, we are indeed looking forward and backward by creating a new series of recordings with some of the most talented newcomers on the Chinese musical scene. also available: CCS SA SEL 2603 volume 1 CCS SA SEL 3404 volume 2 CCS SA SEL 3705 volume 3 ‘All of this is presented in multi-channel SACD that is as brilliant and natural as you will hear anywhere’ ..... ‘a superb multichannel listening experience’ ..... ‘The recording quality is excellent’ ..... ‘in SuperAudio Surround it could be sensational’ ..... ‘excellent SACD mastering’ ..... ‘a crystal-clear SACD recorded sound’ ..... ‘more presence and sparkle’ ..... ‘wholly natural balances’ ..... ‘the best sounding SACDs on the planet’ ..... BOOKLET_CCS SA SEL 4606 24-10-2006 14:55 Pagina 4 CCS SA 23005 track 1 •Gramophone: CD of the Month Amsterdam Sinfonietta Candida Thompson, artistic leader LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN String Quartet opus 135 in F major (1826) SIR WILLIAM WALTON Sonata for Strings (1971/73) Amsterdam Sinfonietta concentrates on the scintillating pre- (...) The rhythmic precision of sentation of sensitively chosen programs, based on the emo- the Amsterdam Sinfonietta is tional power of the stringed instruments. The core of Amster- simply astounding (...) dam Sinfonietta is an ensemble of 23 string players which Classics Today performs chamber works and, more especially, compositions scored for string orchestra. (...) a terrific performance (...) great delicacy and sweetness (...) Gramophone 4 BOOKLET_CCS SA SEL 4606 24-10-2006 14:55 Pagina 5 CCS SA 24106 track 2 Paolo Giacometti, piano ROSSINI ‘Album de Château’ complete works for piano, vol.7 Prélude Prétentieux Spécimen de Mon Temps Valse Anti-Dansante Prélude Semipastoral Tarantelle pur Sang (avec Traversée de la Procession) Un Rêve Prélude soi-disant Dramatique Spécimen de l’Avenir instrument: Pleyel (1858) Paolo Giacometti records exclusively for Channel Classics. His impressive discography has been widely acclaimed by the international press. His recordings include Rossini’s complete piano works, a remarkable project that started in 1998. In Rossini’s homeland, critics say: “... Rossini has finally found his pianist ...”. For the third recording of this series Paolo Giacometti was distinguished with the Edison Classical Music Award 2001. • NEW RELEASE 5 BOOKLET_CCS SA SEL 4606 24-10-2006 14:55 Pagina 6 CCS SA 22805 track 3 Gary Cooper, fortepiano Rachel Podger, violin WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin VOL. 2 Sonata in C Major, KV 303 (293c) Sonata in D Major, KV 7 Sonata in G Major, KV 301 (293a) Sonata in F Major, KV 30 Sonata in E flat Major, KV 481 Instruments: Fortepiano: Anton Walter, Vienna 1795; copy by Derek Adlam, 1987 Violin: Pesarinius 1739 In recording these Mozart Sonatas, a paradox quickly beca- (…) again, warmly me apparent. I feel Mozart’s music is aimed at the heart. recommended. (...) Approaching his music instinctively comes most naturally to International Record Review me: it seems so effortlessly composed, and communicates to us directly. After all, why do children react so positively to (...) Mozart grows up, as Cooper this music of the heart? And yet I also found my experience and Podger impress. (...) of Performance Practice in Baroque music helped me find a Gramophone way of understanding and appreciating Mozart’s style. 6 BOOKLET_CCS SA SEL 4606 24-10-2006 14:55 Pagina 7 CCS SA 22905 track 4 Budapest Festival Orchestra Iván Fischer, conductor MAHLER Symphony no. 6 in a minor We continue our series with Fischer with Mahler’s 6th (...) lithe and alert, without Symphony. Again, well-known repertoire in a performance necessary sounding (...) trans- that will surprise you by it’s spontaneity and passion. The parent sound (...) recording took place in the beautiful new concerthall in Gramophone Budapest, the ‘ Palace of Arts’. (…) expressive balance (...) marvellous Budapest players (...) BBC Music Magazine 7 BOOKLET_CCS SA SEL 4606 24-10-2006 14:55 Pagina 8 CCS SA 80206 track 5 channel of china Yu Hong Mei, erhu Wulin, konghou (chinese harp) Liu Yin Xuan, yang qin (chinese cymbalo) Chen Zhe, piano ERHU CHANT Idyllic Tune, Weeping River of Sorrow, Celebrating the Harvest of Grapes, Ode to Shanmenxia Gorge, Birdsong echoing in a quiet valley, A Bunch of Flowers Moon reflected in the Twin- spring Lake, Ballad of North Henan Province The erhu is the most popular and typical stringed instrument of the huqin (bowed string instrument) family among the graet variety of traditional Chinese instruments. On this recording you can hear Yu Hong Mei who -as an excellent performer in the world of Chinese music- has attracted wide attention and is considered to be one of the most talented erhu soloists. • NEW RELEASE 8 BOOKLET_CCS SA SEL 4606 24-10-2006 14:55 Pagina 9 CCS SA 23306 tracks 6 channel crossings Vocal Ensemble THE GENTS leader Peter Dijkstra IN LOVE.... popsongs & folk songs from the British Isles Michelle, Lullabye, Blackbird, And so it goes, With a little Help from my Friends, Misschien niet de Eeuwigheid, Omarm, Dansen aan Zee, Londonderry Air, ‘Danny boy’, The Oak and the Ash, Molly Malone, Ca’ the yowes, The Turtle dove, Hey Jude, If I fell, A groovy Kind of Love, And I love her Peter Dijkstra: “ it gives me great pleasure to present this CD, (...) one of the world's top vocal which appears in response to repeated requests. At last we ensembles. (...) have taken the opportunity to record this repertoire. How Classics Today.com often we have had to disappoint members of the audience when we tell them that, unfortunately, there are no recor- (...) great joy in singing (...) dings available for the arrangements of Billy Joel’s ‘Lullabye’ Audiophile Audition or Toni Wine’s ‘Groovy Kind of Love’. Here they are at last! 9 BOOKLET_CCS SA SEL 4606 24-10-2006 14:55 Pagina 10 CCS SA 21005 track 7 Florilegium GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN Paris Quartets (1738) vol. 3 Quatuor No. 4 in b minor Quatuor No. 5 in A major Quatuor No. 6 in e minor Deuxieme Suite in b minor Regular performances in some of the world’s most presti- (...) Florilegium and Telemann – gious venues have confirmed Florilegium’s status as one of a match made in Baroque Britain’s most outstanding period instrument ensembles. heaven (...) The ‘Paris’ Quartets (1730) and ‘Nouveaux Quatuors’ (1738) Gramophone are a fine example of Telemann’s contribution to instrumental music in the Baroque era. (...) mightily impressive and alluring (...) International Record Review 10 BOOKLET_CCS SA SEL 4606 24-10-2006 14:55 Pagina 11 CCS SA 80106 track 8 channel of china Zhang Hong Yan, pipa solo AMBUSH ON ALL SIDES Dragon Boat, Falling Snow Flakes Dotting the Verdant Trees, Moonlit Night by the Flowery Spring Lake, High Spring and Pure Snow, Great Waves Wash Away the Sand, Ambush on all Sides, The Rising Moon, A Homesick Song from the War Frontier, King Chu doffs his armour The pipa is also known in the west as a four-stringed Chinese Lute or four-stringed Chinese guitar. It is one of the oldest Chinese musical instruments, and appears in Chinese written texts of the second century BC. There were once extensive repertoires of pipa music in Chinese history. These pieces, in all their beauty and elegance, have finally been revealed to the public after having slept for a thousand years. • NEW RELEASE 11 BOOKLET_CCS SA SEL 4606 24-10-2006 14:55 Pagina 12 CCS SA 20306 track 9 La Sfera Armonioso with Anne Grimm & Johannette Zomer, soprano FRANÇOIS COUPERIN Leçons de Ténèbres à une et à deux voix including instrumental works by Marin Marais, Robert de Visee and Jean-Henry d’Anglebert on period instruments In these ‘Leçons’, François Couperin used only the simplest (...) meditative austerity (...) of means: one or two voices plus basso continuo. Within this their blend in the third Leçon is setting, however, he achieved a high degree of expression by exquisite (...) means of his subtle declamation of the text and illustration of Independent on Sunday individual words. note! upsampling from 44.1 12 BOOKLET_CCS SA SEL 4606 24-10-2006 14:55 Pagina 13 CCS SA 23906 track 10 Bart Schneemann, oboe Paolo Giacometti, piano Rombouts Quartet WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Quartet in F, KV 370 (368 b) Sonata in F, KV 377 Quartet in d, KV 421 on period instruments Mozart had a kind of superior ease in composing. If your abi- lity is that great, and you have that kind of breadth to your soul, then apparently you can do anything: from amusement to the deeply serious, from polite to satirical, from profound to mundane, from dramatic to flip.

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