DECEMBER 2018 DEALER INFORMATION SERVICE: NO. 323 THIS MONTH'S HIGHLIGHTS RELEASE DATE - FRIDAY 30TH NOVEMBER 2018 Download this month's information here: www.selectmusic.co.uk - USERNAME: dealer • PASSWORD: select All orders must be received a week prior to release date. Orders are shipped on the Wednesday preceding release date Please click on a label below to be directed to its relevant page. Thank you. CDs Accentus Music Hortus APR Kairos Arco Diva Melodiya BIS Orfeo Claudio Records Paladino Music Continuo Classics Profil CPO Prophone Dacapo Raumklang DB Productions Resonus Classics Delos Rondeau Production Divox Somm Recordings Doremi Sono Luminus Drama Musica Steinway & Sons Dynamic Toccata Classics Edition S Tudor Fondamenta Varese Sarabande Gramola Wergo DVDs Accentus Music Dynamic C Major Entertainment Vai Select Music and Video Distribution Limited Unit 8, Salbrook Industrial Estate, Salbrook Road, Salfords Redhill RH1 5GJ Tel: 01737 645600 • Fax: 01737 644065 • E: [email protected] • E: [email protected] • Twitter: @selectmusicuk Highlight of the Month Pascal Dusapin À quia; Aufgang; Wenn du dem Wind … Nicolas Hodges, Carolin Widmann, Natascha Petrinsky, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Pascal Rophé BIS2262 £9.00 SACD 30/11/18 BIS About this Release Pascal Dusapin has composed a number of works for the stage, one of the more recent being the opera Penthesilea, after the play by Heinrich von Kleist. From the opera he has also fashioned Wenn Du dem Wind…, the concert suite which opens this disc. Although beginning and ending with a single line from a solo harp, throughout its course takes the listener through the extremes of love, war and the demands of inflexible laws. Dusapin’s catalogue of works also includes several concertos, including Aufgang and À quia for violin and piano respectively. Soloists on this recording are Natascha Petrinsky, who sang the role of Penthesilea at the première production of the opera, and Carolin Widmann and Nicolas Hodges, both highly respected interpreters in the field of contemporary music. They are supported by l’Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire and Pascal Rophé, a team well acquainted with the composer and his music: Dusapin and Rophé have collaborated since the early 1990’s and during 2014 – 16 he was the orchestra’s composer-in-residence. Please click on the link below to download cover jpg: https://www.dropbox.com/s/gx61rjgdu95herb/BIS2262.jpg?dl=0 Download this month's information here: www.selectmusic.co.uk - USERNAME: dealer • PASSWORD: select Select Music and Video Distribution Limited Unit 8, Salbrook Industrial Estate, Salbrook Road, Salfords Redhill RH1 5GJ Tel: 01737 645600 • Fax: 01737 644065 • E: [email protected] • E: [email protected] • Twitter: @selectmusicuk Franz Schubert Sonatas Daniel Migdal, Jacob Kellermann BIS2375 £9.00 SACD 30/11/18 BIS About this Release As Jacob Kellermann points out in the liner notes to this disc, there is an unbroken tradition of performing arrangements of Franz Schubert’s music on the guitar. Schubert himself composed very little for the instrument, and there are doubts regarding Schubert’s own skills on the instrument. Nevertheless it is well known that the guitar was in fashion with the middle-class Viennese among which Schubert and his circle of friends moved. In his notes, Kellermann argues that elements of the light, melody-driven and carefree musical style favoured in that environment and present in stylized form in much of Schubert’s music is the very aspect that makes it so inviting to play on the guitar. DuoKeMi was formed by Kellermann and Daniel Migdal in 2006, and the two are constantly aiming to expand the repertoire for their combination of instruments. This has resulted in a number of commissions as well as new transcriptions, often by Kellermann himself as in the case of the much-loved Arpeggione Sonata recorded here. Please click on the link below to download cover jpg: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mwgeudyov3ny51l/BIS2375.jpg?dl=0 Download this month's information here: www.selectmusic.co.uk - USERNAME: dealer • PASSWORD: select Select Music and Video Distribution Limited Unit 8, Salbrook Industrial Estate, Salbrook Road, Salfords Redhill RH1 5GJ Tel: 01737 645600 • Fax: 01737 644065 • E: [email protected] • E: [email protected] • Twitter: @selectmusicuk Arvo Pärt, Johann Sebastian Bach Fratres Jörgen van Rijen, Camerata RCO BIS2316 £9.00 SACD 30/11/18 BIS About this Release Sensing a special relationship between Arvo Pärt and J.S. Bach, Jörgen van Rijen on his first recording for BIS brings together music by the two composers. Pärt has readily admitted to his love for the work of Bach, referring to it in titles such as Collage über BACH, but also by using the motif BACH (B flat-A-C-B). In addition, both composers share a fascination for religion, while at the same time composing music that is almost mathematically constructed, possessing an underlying order that forms the basis of its timelessness. In collaboration with the composer, van Rijen has adapted four works by Pärt for the trombone, including the celebrated piece Fratres, which exists in numerous versions, as well as the two religiously themed An den Wassern zu Babel … and Vater unser. Pärt’s open-minded attitude to adaptations of his works is also something he has in common with Bach, who regularly reused his own compositions, rearranging them for new occasions. Bach also ‘borrowed’ from other composers, and the three concertos heard here are all arrangements for solo organ of works by Italian composers, which van Rijen in his turn has arranged for trombone and strings. Please click on the link below to download cover jpg: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1lvupkanrkf6tet/BIS2316.jpg?dl=0 Download this month's information here: www.selectmusic.co.uk - USERNAME: dealer • PASSWORD: select Select Music and Video Distribution Limited Unit 8, Salbrook Industrial Estate, Salbrook Road, Salfords Redhill RH1 5GJ Tel: 01737 645600 • Fax: 01737 644065 • E: [email protected] • E: [email protected] • Twitter: @selectmusicuk Toshio Hosokawa, Bent Sørensen, Ellen Lindquist, Kristin Norderval Mantra Trondheim Sinfonietta, Espen Aalberg, Kristin Norderval, Else Bø, Kai Grinde Myrann BIS2340 £9.00 SACD 30/11/18 BIS About this Release On this disc, the Trondheim Sinfonietta, founded in 1998, has gathered four works from the three decades encompassing the ensemble’s existence. All four seem to be haunted by an even deeper past: Bent Sørensen’s Minnelieder is the composer’s third version of a work originally sparked-off by a book about the 14th century, while Toshio Hosokawa’s Drawing, from a decade later, was inspired by the very start of life. Kristin Norderval’s Chapel Meditation began its existence as an improvisation, but looks back to music from centuries earlier, while the most recent work, Mantra by Ellen Lindquist, also mines a venerable musical tradition, that of the age-old Indonesian gamelan orchestra that for over 100 years has had an influence on Western composers such as Debussy, Britten, Steve Reich et al. Set for varying forces and numbers of performers, the four works together form a fascinating picture of the kaleidoscopic possibilities open to composers around the turn of the millennium. Please click on the link below to download cover jpg: https://www.dropbox.com/s/csuw553jkt1hyi0/BIS2340.jpg?dl=0 Download this month's information here: www.selectmusic.co.uk - USERNAME: dealer • PASSWORD: select Select Music and Video Distribution Limited Unit 8, Salbrook Industrial Estate, Salbrook Road, Salfords Redhill RH1 5GJ Tel: 01737 645600 • Fax: 01737 644065 • E: [email protected] • E: [email protected] • Twitter: @selectmusicuk Spring Will Come: Choral Rarities from the Grand Duchy of Finland Helsinki Chamber Choir, Nils Schweckendiek BIS2442 £9.00 CD 30/11/18 BIS About this Release On this programme of choral works, Nils Schweckendiek and his Helsinki Chamber Choir guide us through some 80 years of Finnish music for choir, from the period when the country formed part of the Russian Empire, as the Grand Duchy of Finland. It was during this time that a Finnish nationalist movement began to take form, in opposition towards the political and cultural dominance of Russia and Sweden respectively. This development can be traced in the way the idea of Spring – a staple in the songs of the Nordic countries – changes from a sense of joy at the end to the hardships of winter to a metaphor for liberation from political oppression. Another result was the Fennicization towards the end of the 19th century, during which many popular Swedish and German- language songs were translated into Finnish and the originals in effect suppressed – a case in point being the earliest piece on the disc, F. A. Ehrström’s Svanen (The Swan, 1833), which has had its original Swedish text restored for this recording. Please click on the link below to download cover jpg: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pbwki1w6o5mqqgn/BIS2442.jpg?dl=0 Download this month's information here: www.selectmusic.co.uk - USERNAME: dealer • PASSWORD: select Select Music and Video Distribution Limited Unit 8, Salbrook Industrial Estate, Salbrook Road, Salfords Redhill RH1 5GJ Tel: 01737 645600 • Fax: 01737 644065 • E: [email protected] • E: [email protected] • Twitter: @selectmusicuk Highlight of the Month Heinrich von Herzogenberg Columbus Andrè Schuen, Michael Schade, Markus Butter, Chor Extrachor der Oper Graz, Grazer Philharmoniker, Dirk Kaftan 555178-2 £18.00 2 CD 30/11/18 CPO About this Release Columbus: Dramatic Cantata for Soloists, Male Choir, Mixed Choir, and Full Orchestra, Op. 11, which celebrated its premiere at the Graz Music Society Concert Hall on 4 December 1870, is an extraordinary work within Heinrich von Herzogenberg’s oeuvre as a whole and differs greatly from many other compositions by him.