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Claudio Riberio, harpsichord / Herve Niquet; Le Concert Spirituel The goal of this Editor’s Choice feature is to Some reviewers state that bring collectors’ attention to new classical recordings Subtitled ‘Rediscovered Born Johann Paul Aegidius of uncommon yet exemplary repertoire, superbly his music foreshadows that Venetian Sonatas for Re- Martin in Bavaria , of Mahler, however more performed and recorded. It is my hope that you will corder and Harpsichord’ this the composer moved to discover music on these pages that will expand your similarities can be found program offers rare works where he adopted in the music of his countrymen Franck and espe- horizons, and that might inspire you to share with by Vivaldi, Francesco Gas- the Italianized version of his other music lovers. cially D’Indy, of whom Magnard was a student. 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The core of the instrumental ensemble Filatura di little known by both familiar orchestra, a for Bach concertos on a mod- Musica is that of a broken consort, which brings and less known composers cello and piano, and finally, ern piano accompanied by together instruments of the wind and string families from Verdi, Gounod and Re- a suite for four cellos. Little the Berliner Barock Solis- (recorder, flute, violin, viola da gamba) with a small ger to Friedrich Silcher, Felix of Moór’s music has been committed to disc. These ten, a modern instrument chest organ. Canzonas from around the turn of the Draeseke and Wilhelm Kienzl. 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Hanssler provides excellent sound with the soloist slightly forward and the orchestra v Slavic Soul opens with the brief Two Pieces for String Love Lies Beyond the Tomb, Songs and Song Octet, Op. 11 by Shostakovich followed by Nikolay Mariño, male soprano beautifully balanced. 1CD# HAN 19041 $18.99 Born in 1993, Venezuelan Cycles by Ian Venables Afanasyev’s (1821-1898) Double Quartet and Rein- Born in 1955, British com- hold Glière’s (1875-1956) String Octet, Op. 5. Aside male soprano Samuel vFrancis Cutting (1550-1596): Lute Music Mariño possesses an as- poser Ian Venables is widely from the Shostakovich Octet, which is present in the Lutenist and composer Francis Cutting died in tonishingly pure, lyrical, acknowledged to be among catalog on a handful of albums, the other two works 1596, just before the dawn of the Baroque era. His and when called for, power- Britain’s greatest are not well represented. This is a most enjoyable pavanes, galliards, almains and other dance pieces ful soprano voice – one not composers. Sung by so- program. The Andante from the Afanasyev work is for lute are of the Elizabethan golden age and are to be missed by any vocal prano Mary Bevan and tenor striking in its wistful beauty and the Glière Octet often characterized by episodes of complex polyphony arts enthusiast, and quite Allan Clayton we hear a recalls Borodin’s charms. 1CD# ARSP 38305 $19.99 and uncomplicated homophony with an occasion- possibly, a voice for the decade. Here Mr. Mariño half-dozen individual songs, ally daring harmonic hue. Lute player Domenico presents his debut album of sparkling baroque arias a cantata for soprano, tenor, string quartet and piano v Cerasani is soloist in this near hour-long program of Viotti: Flute Quartets, Op. 22 / Stefano by Christoph Willibald Gluck and Georg Friedrich and a for tenor, viola and piano. Encoun- Renaissance dance pieces, which are immaculately Parrino, flute; Viotti Quartet Handel, sensitively accompanied by the Händelfest- ters I’ve had with Venables’ music in the past have performed and recorded in a luminous, complimen- From the classical era spielorchester Halle under Martin Hofsstetter. always left me very impressed. As the album title sug- tary acoustic 1CD# BLC 96099 $10.49 gests, the music is mournful, and it is beautifully per- comes this program of 1CD# ORF 998201 $18.99 quartets by Giovanni Bat- formed by all artists involved. 1CD# SIG 617 $17.99 vFranz Strauss: Horn Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 et tista Viotti (1755-1824) vAgnes Zimmermann (1847-1925): Sonatas v for flute, violin, viola and al. / Marie Luise Neunecker, horn Philipp Scharwenka (1847-1917): Piano Trio; cello. These works were (3) for Violin & Piano While Richard Strauss’ two horn concertos are quite Violin Sonata; Concert Pieces (4) Agnes Zimmermann was one of Europe’s more im- conceived both for amateur common on disc, those of his father, Franz Strauss, Central to Philipp Scharwenka’s modest output is his portant pianists, as well as a composer. Her composi- and professional musicians are not. These performances by hornist Marie Luise chamber music. This excellent Capriccio release of- tional output was modest, but at its core lie these three alike and so have an un- Neunecker of the elder Strauss’ concertos reveal fers four chamber works for violin, viola and piano per- impressive sonatas for violin and piano written over complicated charm about them, which does nothing them as virtuosic examples of the genre. They ap- formed by violinist Laurent Albrecht Breuninger, violist the span of about a decade, between 1868 and 1879. to rob them of their allure. Flautist Stefano Parrino is pear in the middle of a program which begins with Lise Berthaus and pianist Oliver Triendl. Scharwenka’s The fact that she was a contemporary of Brahms is joined by members of the Viotti String Quartet, who a beautiful rendition of Richard Strauss’ Wind Ser- music is late Romantic in expression, often dreamlike not lost in this music, which exhibits grace and brawn have recorded the complete works by the composer enade Op. 7 and concludes with Mathias Weber’s but at the same time, formally taut. The music will be by turn. Violinist Mathilde Milwidsky and pianist Sam in that medium. Another venture off music history’s highly successful transcription for piano and orches- a welcome discovery for any romantic chamber music Haywood evidently relish the interesting interplay of beaten path by Brilliant Classics that rewards in tra of César Franck’s Piano Quintet in F Minor. enthusiast, especially in such delightful performances spades! 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The glory of his work in the studio, the [4 CDs] and these all prove fascinating, almost as major bonus of the set is a “home-made” playing dedicated and often thrilling, much as the performances themselves! recording of the violin sonata performed the music itself hugely varied, both Franz Xaver Ohnesorg writes of this Considering all of the praise heaped by the composer and David Oistrakh. in tone and scale – an approximate new release “Vive la France! – That is Shostakovich recorded concertos, chamber upon Walter as a ‘spiritual’ presence and blend of Shostakovich, Scriabin and the motto which stood as an emblem for his ‘humanity’, the rehearsals further ensembles and vocal cycles with some for the Ruhr Piano Festival in 2018, of the 20th Century’s most legendary Reger. 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This is a comprehensive and pianist’s personal explorations of these 7CD HAR 2904000 $33.49 deeply satisfying tribute to Beethoven, a extraordinary works reflect insights Flute Music of the Bach Family / Barthold Kuijken, transformative force who has enhanced gained through countless hours devoted Mozart: ‘Haydn’ Quartets; ‘Prussian’ Quartets / the lives of music-lovers for more than transverse flute; Le Petite Bande [8 CDs] to understanding one of the greatest Klenke Quartett [5 CDs] two centuries. monuments of western classical music. This 8-album set presents the complete 80CD WRNC 539882 $114.99 9CD ORPO 100117 $73.49 recordings of flute music by Johann This new release presents Mozart’s Sebastian Bach and his sons made by “Haydn“ Quartets & “Prussian“ Quartets. John Eliot Gardiner – Complete Beethoven Music for Oboe, The Accent Recordings 1978–1988 / Barthold Kuijken on the Accent label. “In the maturity of their musical Recordings / John Eliot Gardiner [15 CDs] disposition, the melancholy beauty of Paul Dombrecht, oboe; various artists [7 CDs] Always playing historically accurate All of Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Beethoven recordings on the Archiv transverse , on these albums, their melody and the absolute facility in label are brought together for the first time with this collection.This Few Flemish woodwind players are as renowned as Dombrecht, whose he teams up with harpsichordist the handling of the part-writing” (Dietmar 15-CD set features the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique name is well-known to all budding oboists. The recordings were made Ewald Demeyere and other fine early Holland), the three “Prussian” Quartets and the Monteverdi Choir under the leadership of John Eliot Gardiner between 1978 and 1988 and include music by Telemann, Zelenka, and music specialists in his recordings of surely constitute the most important with soloists Robert Levin and Viktoria Mullova in the Piano and other baroque composers as well as music for oboe from the romantic chamber music. The recordings were chamber music of Mozart’s final years. period. Dombrecht teams up with Wieland Kuijken, Robert Kohnen, Jos Violin Concertos. Also included is a bonus disc, never before made between 1978 and 2014 and are The works are brilliantly presented here commercially released, featuring an interview with Gardiner discussing van Immerseel, and other fine early music specialists. presented together for the first time. by the Klenke Quartett. the symphonies. 7CD ACT 24366 $33.49 8CD ACT 24365 $38.99 15CD DGG 4837269 $66.99 5CD PRF 19035 $33.49 12 13 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com New Releases from Naxos NEW RELEASES - NAXOS Beethoven: Works for Voice and Orchestra / Reetta : Orchestral Music / Ioannis Recommended Orchestral Programs Haavisto; Dan Karlstrom; Kevin Greenlaw; Turku PO Karampetsos, cornet; Stefanos Tsialis; Beethoven’s permanent move to Athens State Orch. Leopold Kozeluch: Symphonies, Vol. 3 / Marek Stilec; Czech PO Pardubice in 1782 allowed him direct contact with Despite his tragically short life, Nikos the operatic and Italianate culture of the Skalkottas has now become recognized In addition to his influence as a pianist and leading keyboard composer in ienna,V the Bohemian Leopold city. Beethoven also set strophic songs as one of the most important Greek Kozeluch wrote an important body of symphonies that rank among the most significant of their time.The four in German that form part of the popular composers of the 20th century. The examples here, heard in original, corrected editions, show consummate mastery of proportion. “This is highly Singspiel tradition which are genial and modernist style of his earlier period is distinguished playing, with an excellent recorded sound to match.” – MusicWeb International rare examples of his art. Here, the songs balanced by the four important mature 1CD NXS 8574047 $12.99 are performed by soprano Reetta Haavisto, neoclassical works presented here. Both tenor Dan Karlstrom, and baritone the Sinfonietta and the Classical Symphony Kevin Greenlaw. are expressions of the deep regard 1CD NXS 8573882 $12.99 Skalkottas had for traditional forms blended Saint-Saëns: Ascanio, ballet; Overtures / Jun Markl; Malmo SO with his unique musical language. Beethoven: Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph 1CD NXS 8574154 $12.99 Saint-Saëns’ operatic works contain instrumental music of vivacity and charm but have been undeservedly II / Leif Segerstam; Turku PO overlooked. Ascanio contains a substantial and elaborate divertissement that fellow composer Reynaldo Hahn Atanas Ourkouzounov (b. 1970): Guitar Sonatas termed ‘the entire Renaissance in a few pages’. “Ascanio is barely known today, but its ballet music contains the By the time of Emperor Joseph II’s death in 1790 Beethoven was Nos. 1–5 / Kostas Tosidis, guitar most delicious Renaissance pastiches, This, alongside a miscellany of other orchestral bits and bobs, makes for a a member of the court musical establishment in . To mark the delightful listen.” – BBC Music Magazine occasion, Beethoven was commissioned to write to cantatas, one to Atanas Ourkouzounov is one of Bulgaria’s foremost composers and has 1CD NXS 8574033 $12.99 mourn Joseph’s death and the other to celebrate the accession to the written prolifically for the guitar. These five sonatas reveal elements of throne of Emperor Leopold II. Although Beethoven was only 19 years old Bulgarian national music – sometimes through a textured soundscape at the time, both works show the embryonic marks of his greatness that includes percussive elements – cast in forms that are often 1CD NXS 8574077 $12.99 rhythmically asymmetric. Teeming with complex harmonies, contrapuntal Alberic Magnard (1865–1914): Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2, Opp. 4 & 6 / effects and poignant depth, the sonatas are a vivid contribution to the Freiburg PO, Fabrice Bollon contemporary guitar repertoire. 1CD NXS 8574117 $12.99 The tragic death of Albéric Magnard, killed defending his home against German troops in 1914, brought a Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto; premature end to the composer’s life but not before he had completed four powerfully expressive symphonies. Concerto / Giancarlo Guerrero; Sao Paulo SO “It’s a joy to hear Magnard’s music once more. Beautiful as it is – and it really is – his style was soon to be Paul Juon (1872–1940): Violin Sonatas Nos. 1–3 / superseded by the Impressionist movement. Finely wrought playing.” – BBC Music Magazine The concertos and chamber works on Charles Wetherbee, violin; David Korevaar, piano 1CD NXS 8574083 $12.99 this album show Villa-Lobos’s unceasing enthusiasm for new colors and sonorities Paul Juon’s musical education provided in his music. Soloists on this album are him with a direct link to the German guitarist Manuel Barreuco and harmonica Romantic style of Mendelssohn and Schumann, and he has even been called Folk Songs of Yunnan, Folk Music of China, player, Jose Standeck. “An enjoyable tour Beethoven: Complete Symphonies / Adam of the Brazilian’s concertos and chamber the ‘Russian Brahms.’ These three violin Fischer; Danish CO [5 CDs] Vol. 3 / Villagers of Banwen Village; various artists works including the lesser-known, winsome sonatas represent an important artistic Harmonica Concerto. The guitar Concerto statement by this neglected master, also Principal Conductor Ádám Fischer has This series explores China’s rich and gets a fine advocate in soloist Manuel showing his artistic evolution. The First been affiliated with the Danish Chamber diverse musical heritage. The songs Barrueco.” – BBC Music Magazine Sonata is reminiscent of Tchaikovsky in its Orchestra since 1997. He remains a featured on this recording are folk songs 1CD NXS 8574018 $12.99 melodic beauty, and the Second enriched strong initiator of the orchestra’s work and of three of the minority ethnic groups of with Scandinavian flavor. concert activities both in and Yunnan province – Wa, Blang, and De’ang. 1CD NXS 8574091 $12.99 internationally. “Ádám Fischer’s pragmatic As with Chinese traditional visual arts, André Jolivet: Complete Works for Flute, Vol. 2 / the song titles explain their mood and humane approach to performing and Hélène Boulègue, flute : Violin Sonatas Nos. 3–5 / recording Beethoven’s nine symphonies origin. The indigenous Wa music employs makes this one of the most entertaining pentatonic scales, as well as a low and In this second volume of Andre Jolivet’s complete works for flute, Kobe Laurence Kayaleh, violin; Jean-Fabien Schneider, piano modern cycles out there… witty, volatile narrow register. The melodic lines usually International Flute Competition winner Helene Boulegue explores enjoyed enormous prestige with a reputation as Germany’s and full of energy.” – The Arts Desk proceed without sharp fluctuations. further examples of some of the most individual and important of leading symphonist of his time. He also wrote music for the violin, an 5CD NXS 8505251 $38.99 1CD NXS 76090 $14.99 all 20th-century works for the instrument. The No. 1 instrument he had mastered when young, and for which he wrote with Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 / Janna exemplifies Jolivet’s genius for liquid melodic lines and frenetic bravura. great sympathy. The enduring success of his first two sonatas prompted Francesco Morlacchi: Tebaldo e Isolina / The intricately scored Suite en concert is one of the most fascinating in him to write three more: the charming, genial and joyous Sonata in D Shybayeva, pno; Luis Cabrera, dble bass; the repertoire. Antonino Fogliani; Camerata Bach Choir [2 CDs] major, and the symphonically conceived Sonata in G minor. Utrecht String Quartet 1CD NXS 8574079 $12.99 1CD NXS 8573842 $12.99 Morlacchi’s gifts as a lyricist and for Internationally established musicians characterization are heard here at their Hanna Shybayeva (piano), Utrecht best, with showpiece arias and duets in NEW NAXOS RECOMMENDED IN BRIEF String Quartet present on this album the a version of the Romeo and Juliet story rarely performed and even more rarely that ends in happiness and the victory recorded chamber music transcriptions Louis Spohr: Duets for Two Nos. 1–3 / Jameson Cooper, violin; of reason over vengeance. “There are of Beethoven’s piano concertos Nos. 3 traces of Rossini in the score, especially in James Dickenson, violin and 4 by Vinzenz Lachner. Since 2008 the very jolly Overture and some rousing Jameson Cooper and James Dickinson exult in the music’s spontaneous flow of sparkling invention, playing with a Shybayeva has been a member of the choruses, but the vocal writing isn’t terribly golden-toned poise and affectionately phrased precision that falls gracefully on the ear… exceptional performances. New European Ensemble, one of the distinctive...Antonino Fogliani leads a most innovative, vibrant, and versatile – The Strad spirited Virtuosi Brunensis.” – Gramophone ensembles for New Music. 1CD NXS 8573918 $12.99 2CD NXS 8660471 $25.98 1CD NXS 8551400 $12.99 Laurent Petitgirard (b. 1950): States of Mind / Petitgirard; Hungarian SO Richard Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua / Leopold Kozeluch: Joseph, Mankind’s Blessing / JoAnn falletta; Buffalo PO [2 CDs] Marek Stilec; Czech Chamber PO Pardubice Laurent Petitgirard’s career, including as a conductor at the highest level, has given him experience that accounts for the colorful richness of his orchestration. “Anyone enjoying accessible contemporary music will find much to enjoy here.” Richard Danielpour’s dramatic oratorio The slightly breathy Czech boys’ choir sound – MusicWeb The Passion of Yeshua – a work which suitably devotional and patriotic here and in 1CD NXS 8574034 $12.99 has evolved over the last 25 years – is a Mass that packs the whole long text into an intensely personal telling of the final under 12 minutes of music, rather in the hours of Christ on Earth. 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Give it a go. – BBC Music Magazine 1CD NXS 8573929 $12.99 1CD NXS 8574173 $12.99 Beethoven on Guitar / Volker Hoh, gtr; Dmitry Ablogin, pno; Verena Schoneweg, vln; Harald Schoneweg, vla Camillo Schumann (1872–1946): Works for Horn & Piano / Leo Halsdorf, horn; Beethoven lived in a time when the popularity of the guitar was vastly growing, especially in Vienna. For the present Kae Shiraki, piano recording Volker Hoh Volker Höh combined two Beethoven arrangements by Carulli and Matiegka with Beethoven’s own Camillo Schumann’s works for horn and piano enshrine the finest qualities of German Romantic music. “This is a fine mandolin pieces, played on historical Viennese guitars. Parts of the repertoire are world première recordings. disc with which to make the acquaintance of a composer who should be better remembered than he is at present.” 1CD NXS 8551409 $12.99 – MusicWeb 1CD NXS 8579051 $12.99 14 15 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com New Releases from Naxos NEW RELEASES - NAXOS Anton Rubinistein: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; Leo Brouwer: Guitar Music, Vol. 5, Ritual & Festive Recommended New Releases Three Serenades, Op. 22 / Han Chen, piano Dances, Vol. 2 / Pedro Mateo Gonzalez, guitar Anton Rubinstein was the equal of Liszt as a pianist and a Volume 2 of Leo Brouwer’s Ritual & Festive Dances covers the Ēriks Ešenvalds: Translations, Choral Music / Ethan Sperry; Portland State technically gifted composerbut, in his own words, he was perceived gamut of virtuosic techniques and includes a movement dedicated Chamber Choir by his contemporaries as too German to be Russian and too to Pedro Mateo Gonzalez, while Brouwer considers the Sonata del Russian to be German. Although occasionally derivative, the first Pensador to be ‘one of my most valuable pieces.’ Rich in Cuban Ethan Sperry’s immaculate Portland State Chamber Choir clearly relish the luscious choral textures, which often expand into 16 parts. The engineering captures with great clarity both this sense of spaciousness (helped by the two sonatas are impressively bravura and passionate works which rhythms, introspection and astonishing virtuosity, Brouwer’s work resonant acoustic of the church recording venue) and the extreme dynamic range. All the solo vocal contributions pianist Han Chen approaches as if reading a 19th‑century Russian is the result of a lifetime of musical exploration alongside a passion are magnificent... A stunning, timely triumph, therefore, full of ravishing, transformative and deeply touching music. novel, digging down to the very essence of the human soul. for music of the past. – Gramophone 1CD NXS 8573989 $12.99 1CD NXS 8574016 $12.99 1CD NXS 8574124 $12.99 Domenico Cimarosa: Overtures, Vol. 6 / Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Patrick Gallois; Czech Chamber PO Pardubice Pancho Vladigerov: Seven Symphonic Bulgarian Dances / Nayden Todorov; Vol. 23 / Sergio Monteiro, piano Rousse PO Domenico Cimarosa’s were remarkably successful, being staged Written for his pupil the Infanta Pancho Vladigerov is considered by many to be the most influential composer that Bulgaria has yet produced. Maria Bárbara, Scarlatti’s legacy The three works recorded here are a testament to his mission to bring Bulgarian music to international attention, and re-staged in opera houses all over Europe. Success in his hometown of hundreds of single-movement successfully combining elements of folk music with European classical tradition. “The recordings are excellent and keyboard sonatas forms a valuable the playing enthusiastically creditable.” – MusicWeb International of led to court appointments resource for performers today. 1CD NXS 8573422 $12.99 and royal commissions, including his best-known work Il matrimonio segreto This collection includes a wealth of (‘The Secret Marriage’) composed for Spanish dances with virtuoso leaps, unusual modulations, flourishes and Mario Pilati: Orchestral Music / Adriano; Moscow SO Austrian emperor Leopold II. Other hits include L’impegno superato ornamentation, as well as Scarlatti’s The orchestral style of Mario Pilati (1903–38) was largely light-spirited and folky. The orchestra clearly enjoys itself (‘The Broken Engagement’), an irrepressible verve and energy. here in his sunny Neapolitan world. (BBC Music Magazine). Pilati was a leading member of the Italian generation instant success. 1CD NXS 8574075 $12.99 of composers born around the turn of the 20th century. His love of the Baroque can be felt in the sunny and joyful 1CD NXS 8574046 $12.99 immediacy of Preludio, aria e tarantella, originally conceived for violin and piano. Muzio Clementi: Keyboard Sonatas / 1CD NXS 8574168 $12.99 Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986): Complete Works Soyeon Kate Lee, piano for Solo Guitar, Vol. 2 / Andrea De Vitis, guitar Muzio Clementi was born four years before Mozart and outlived Performed after careful research into the original manuscripts, Beethoven by the same span. His legacy to pianists as a composer Andrea De Vitis’s programme brings together pieces that reference Shostakovich: The Bedbug; Love and Hate / Beethoven: Lieder, Vol. 1 / Elisabeth Breuer; Rainer and teacher was a significant one, introducing new virtuosity Tansman’s favorite musicians from history, in particular Bach and exploring the expressive possibilities of the piano, a recently Mark Fitz-Gerald; Deutsche SO Rheinland-Pfalz Trost; Paul Armin Edelmann; Ricardo Bojoruquez and Chopin – masterfully intertwining personal affections with developed instrument. In her recording of Scarlatti’s Keyboard sophisticated techniques to create some of the most important Shostakovich was still a young composer Beethoven’s contribution to the Sonatas Soyeon Kate Lee ‘applies her playful imagination to each when he was hired to provide incidental development of German song was guitar repertoire of the 20th century. one, polishing it into a unique gem.’ – The Whole Note music for The Bedbug, a surreal significant but it has inevitably been 1CD NXS 8573984 $12.99 1CD NXS 8573922 $12.99 and farcical satire on Illustrated by overshadowed by his mastery of orchestral Shostakovich’s powerful middle-period and instrumental music. Unlike Mozart Baroque Masterpieces – Handel, Couperin, Weiss, music, Love and Hate is a film about and Schubert’s works in the genre, little J.S. Bach, Vivaldi / ARTIS GuitarDuo Two with Grace / Marc Lewon & Gittern Paul female fortitude set in a mining village is known about the composition and Kieffer, plectrum lute; Grace Newcombe, vocals This album contains baroque during the 1919 Civil War. The innovative performance of Beethoven’s songs, but he score, newly reconstructed by Mark Fitz- is known to have greatly respected Goethe, masterpieces arranged for two This album includes the earliest printed Gerald from rough piano sketches and the as his settings amply show, not least in the guitars and performed by the German lute duos by Francesco Spinacino and 1935 soundtrack, combines symphonic incidental music to Egmont, from which ARTISGuitarDuo, an exceptional, highly Joan Ambrosio Dalza and the two- sections with popular songs. Freudvoll und leidvoll is taken. successful young duo, performing voice instrumental works by Johannes 1CD NXS 8574100 $12.99 1CD NXS 8574071 $12.99 all over the world. True to the motto Tinctoris. The often highly ornamented “the guitar is an orchestra” the two instrumental duos are mostly Andrew Earle Simpson: Birds of Love and Prey / Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki: Sonata for Two Violins, musicians cover the whole color reworkings of songs, some of which Deborah Sternberg, sop; Andrew Earle Simpson, pno Op. 10; String Quartet No. 3, Op. 67 / Tippett Quartet range of their instruments and the are given here in a performance with Soprano Deborah Sternberg brings The music in the Tippett Quartet’s guitar legend Pepe Romero praises the singer Grace Newcombe to provide together three song cycles themed on hands really sings... but there is also the duo as “exceptional guitarists and the context for the lute arrangements birds, each with its own unique flavour a breathtaking sense of control... The extraordinary musicians.” that follow. and expressive vocabulary. Andrew Earle recorded sound is superb, neither too 1CD NXS 8551420 $12.99 1CD NXS 8573854 $12.99 Simpson’s eloquent skills as a composer resonant nor too dry, allowing the Tippetts and pianist are united in Birds of Love and every opportunity for the full variety of Prey, in which both antique and modern their sound to shine – and shine is exactly NEW NAXOS RECOMMENDED IN BRIEF textual sources contrast songbirds and the word for playing of this quality... I predators in a variety of ways. cannot recommend this recording highly Idil Biret, Solo Edition, Vols. 10 & 11 – Debussy Piano Music / Idil Biret, piano [2 CDs] 1CD NXS 8579064 $12.99 enough, and have run out of superlatives. – Gramophone Biret’s reading of the Ravel Gaspard de la nuit takes its place among the most delicately wrought Ravel interpretations Beethoven: Grand Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3, arr. 1CD NXS 8574110 $12.99 by any of the many great pianists renowned for their performances of French piano music. – Soho Weekly Hummel for chamber ensemble William Mathias: A Vision of Time and Eternity / 2CD NXS 8571401 $25.98 Thanks to the musical sensitivity and sheer brilliance of Hummel’s arrangements, it is Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone possible to experience the thrill of hearing Mathias’s songs are among the most William Mathias: Choral Music / Graham Walker; The Gentlemen of St. John’s; these extraordinary pieces afresh. These communicative settings of their kind, St. John’s Voices chamber music reductions are performed including Pan Oeddwn Fachgen (‘A by Uwe Grodd, flute, Lucy Gould, violin, Dream of Youth’), considered by the Kudos to Naxos for reminding us of the variety of the Welsh composer William Mathias’s choral music with this Alice Neary, cello and Benhamin Frith, composer to be ‘one of the finest lyrical selection… [A May ] is a radiant end to a programme… all sung by Walker’s youthful choristers. piano. “While Hummel’s chamber-scale poems in modern Welsh’. “Diverse in both – The Sunday Times arrangements of Beethoven could never performing forces and moods, this is a 1CD NXS 8574162 $12.99 march the original for oomph, they are terrific introduction to Mathias beyond the Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Music / Robert Oberaigner, clarinet; deftly crafted. Elegant performances like Welsh composer’s well-known carols. The these help their cause.” mesmerising, mysterious harp Sonata is a Michael Schock, piano; et al. – BBC Music Magazine particular treat.” – BBC Music Magazine Though written some decades apart (1945–92), these three works share an intensity, maturity and virtuosic ebullience 1CD NXS 8574039 $12.99 1CD NXS 8574053 $12.99 that is hard not to love. The Concerto, especially, is a total joy. – BBC Music Magazine Boris Tishchenko: ; To My Brother; Testament / Ionella Marinutsa, hrp; 1CD NXS 8574192 $12.99 Anara Khassenova, sop Robert Groslot: Concerto for Piano, Cello, Harp / Jan Michiels, pno; Boris Tishchenko, often considered to be the direct musical heir of Shostakovich, maintained a prolific output across all Ilia Yourivitch Laporev, clo genres. The concise vocal trios – one written in memory of the composer’s brother – are alternately plaintive and urgent. The five movements of the Harp Concerto are played without pause, and the work is significant for expanding the harp’s The performances and sound quality are first-class. Pianist Jan Michiels and cellist IliaYourivitch Laporev… bring expressive range and requiring the soloist to alternate between two instruments. appropriate brilliance and color to the music. Groslot is an excellent conductor… receiving a tight response from the 1CD NXS 8579048 $12.99 Brussels Philharmonic. – Fanfare 1CD NXS 8579057 $12.99 16 17 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com All Titles Reduced 50% - 75% DEEP DISCOUNT CLASSICAL Maria Callas – The Complete Puccini The Second Viennese School [5 CDs] Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 Studio Recordings [15 CDs] The Birmingham Contemporary Music Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Callas [3 CDs] ‘Leningrad’ / Kurt Masur – New York PO Callas revealed just what depths of character Group have a justified reputation for excellence Callas’s singing and acting is the principal glory There are no unwarranted histrionics in [Masur’s] a great singing actress could find in Puccini’s in this repertoire… – MusicWeb International here ... There is a uniquely compelling quality performance and this vastly experienced heroines… – BBC Music Magazine about everything that she does. conductor is a good guide to this score. – Gramophone Magazine – MusicWeb 5CD WRNC 575622B $37.49 $9.37 3ECD WRNC 5099964072227 $27.99 $13.99 15CD WRNC 158942B $109.99 $27.49 1CD APX 2564659387 $20.99 $10.49 Rossini: William Tell / Antonio Pappano, Icon: Nicolai Gedda [11 CDs] Gerald Finley, John Osborn, Malin Bystrom, Stavinsky: Le Rossignol / Dessay, Rolfe Silent Noon – British songs by Britten, Johnson, Conlon [3 CDs] Gedda’s standard of vocalisation and his grasp of many et al. [3 CDs] Quilter, Purcell, Vaughan Williams et al. / Dessay is stunning, heading a strong cast in this unsurpassed Operababes styles are uniformly excellent… His humour is always special… Pappano draws gorgeous, stylish, graceful playing from account of The Nightingale. – BBC Music Magazine – Gramophone the orchestra and creates tremendous excitement… Highly Their voices are matched in loveliness, blending in precise beauty. 11CD WRNC 5099945609527 $81.49 $20.37 recommended. – All Music 3CD WRNC 565002B $27.99 $13.99 The singing is so enchanting… – ARG 3CD WRNC 288262B $35.99 $8.99 Elgar Edition: The Complete Electrical Toti dal Monte: A Tribute – Mozart, Rossini, 1CD WRNC 2564661403 $20.99 $10.49 Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Bizet, et al. / Recordings made by Elgar [9 CDs] Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker / Rossini: Zelmira / José Garcia, Cecilia Simon Rattle [Deluxe Edition] [2 CDs] Antonietta Meneghel [3 CDs] This set is a revelatory bargain – once you start Gasdia, William Matteuzzi, Bernarda Fink This long-overdue tribute offers an almost dipping in you can’t stop. – The Arts Desk This is a performance that really makes The [2 CDs] complete discography in reasonably good sound. Nutcracker come alive as a dramatic and The set is well worth having – a worthy memento Zelmira’ is the last of the operas Rossini wrote musical entity. – The Telegraph of an important and well-loved singer. for Naples. It is being rediscovered by opera – American Record Guide companies, and it fairly bursts with wonderful 9CD WRNC 956942 $65.99 $16.49 tunes, virtuosic arias, and striking ensembles. 2CD WRNC 5099963162127 $35.99 $8.99 3CD NEWC 8802170 $24.99 $6.25 Elgar: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2, etc / – ARG Mozart: ; 2CD ERA 2564646778 $20.99 $10.49 London PO, et al [5 CDs] : String Quartets Nos.1, 2 & 3; Divertimenti (3) / The Endellion Concertone / Amoyal, Cameraata de Lausanne Naturally, the sound is variable... but it’s consistently as good as Beethoven: Violin Concerto; Symphony Quartet [2 CDs] With buoyant tempi, Amoyal coaxes the players to deliver results the best sound of its time. Anyone who loves Elgar is going to have that are rhythmic and well-articulated. All the while, there is the No. 7 / Alexander Da Costa, violin; Taipei SO, to hear these discs. – All Music These new performances have a musical understanding that feeling of spontaneity. – MusicWeb Wildner [2 CDs] 5CD LPO 0016 $64.49 $16.12 bespeaks a lifetime of engagement with these works. 1CD WRNC 2564652158 $20.99 $10.49 Da Costa, with a clear, ringing tone and pure intonation, has – Sunday Times excellent qualifications for this concerto... the Seventh Symphony Dvorak: Sacred Music / Altrichter, 2CD WRNC 2564642008 $32.99 $8.25 Roxanna Panufnik: Love Abide – similarly offers neat, polished playing… – Gramophone Belohlavek, Pesek, SO [3 DVDs] New Choral Music, Diverse in Faith, Universal 2CD WRNC 2564643363 $20.99 $10.49 Britten: Les Illuminations; Serenade; in Love / London Oratory School Schola The stand-out performances are the Violin Concerto Nocturne, Folk Songs; Canticles et al. [6 CDs] and the Requiem... consider [this] if you want to …If you are on the prowl for something new and Dvorak: Symphony No. 7; In Nature’s witness much music-making of the highest order Basically, every fan of Britten and anyone different to bring you closer to your creator, don’t Realm; Scherzo Capriccioso / Serebrier interested in setting words to music should covet from – in effect – a different era. – MusicWeb let this wonderful release pass you by. – ARG This is a superb performance... Serebrier gets this set... Indispensable… – MusicWeb 3DVD-Video AHM 107512 $64.49 $16.12 the glowering opening exactly right. The dotted rhythms possess just the right kick... And despite Wagner: Der Ring Der Nibelungen 1CD WRNC 2564657206 $20.99 $5.25 6CD WRNC 151642B $27.99 $13.99 the gloom, the outbursts of joy are thrilling… [14 CDs] Ysaye: Passion Ysaye – The Arts Desk EMI Masters – Beethoven: Popular Piano 1CD WRNC 2564666562 $20.99 $10.49 A Furtwängler Ring does something no other Ring does: it makes The young Swiss violinist certainly gives an extremely Sonatas / Kovacevich [2 CDs] metaphysical music out of heartrending drama... if you love spirited performance... she attacks the virtuoso passages Sacred Verdi: Quattro Pezzi Sacri; Wagner, sooner or later, you’ll have to get one. – All Music Guide A powerful reminder that nobody plays this music more in all six sonatas with fearless energy and fierce commitment. Libera me; Ave Maria / Antonio Pappano 14CD WRNC 081612 $64.49 $16.12 authoritatively and eloquently...he is in his element. – Sunday Times – Gramophone Once again, Pappano’s blend of deep understanding and infallible 2CD WRNC 659222B $27.99 $13.99 1CD WRNC 2564683855 $20.99 $10.49 Maria Callas – Opera Highlights – instinct helps him arrive at a performance of unusual conviction. – BBC Music Bellini, Bizet, Verdi, etc [8 CDs] Schumann: Piano Trios Andsnes; Rachmaninov: The Bells; Vocalise C. & T. Tetzlaff [2 CDs] (orch. Serebrier); Shostakovich: Festive Ov. / 1CD WRNC 845242 $19.99 $9.99 Callas’ genius is recognised as supreme by Serebrier virtually all opera lovers… ...as you would expect from such fine musicians, Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Schubert: The major work here is, of course, ‘The Bells’. – BBC Music Magazine they make a formidably competent trio. [Their Symphony No. 8 ‘Unfinished’ / Sanderling This is one of Rachmaninov’s finest large playing] is technically beyond criticism… compositions, perhaps his greatest... this is a The Strauss is coupled on this disc with – The Guardian Sanderling’s only extant recording of Schubert’s 8CD WRNC 971042A $59.99 $14.99 fine performance of The Bells… – classical.net Unfinished. This is once again an account to be 2CD WRNC 5099909418028 $27.99 $13.99 BBC Legends: Janet Baker Box Set [3 CDs] 1CD WRNC 2564680255 $20.99 $10.49 treasured. – MusicWeb The disc closes with Song of the Wood Dove from 1930s Violin Concertos, Vol. 1 – Concertos 1CD BBC 42622 $19.99 $9.99 by Barber, Berg, Hartmann, Stravinsky, French Impressions: Works for Violin and Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder... Like much else here, it’s magnificent Orchestra / Rachel Kolly d’Alba, violin [and] boasts the most vivid sound on the disc. If you like Baker, Britten / Gill Shaham, violin [2 CDs] Beethoven, Mozart, Bridge: Trios / you need this. – Classics Today A passionate recital... featuring compositions by Eugene Ysaye, Menuhin, Gendron, Britten [Shaham] captures the full measure of Barber’s lyricism, rhythms, Ravel, Chausson and Saint-Saëns. This is a perfect showcase for 3CD BBC 50062 $42.99 $10.75 This is a remarkable performance... Their account of the great slow tone colors, and drama. Add Robertson with the New York a young player whose musical insights are of the highest calibre. Philharmonic to the mix: really good. – ARG movement is one of the most moving, atmospheric and musically : / – Classic FM revealing on record. ***** – BBC Music 2CD CNCL 12 $27.99 $6.99 Kubelik [4 CDs] 1CD WRNC 2564671814 $20.99 $10.49 1CD BBC 41342 $19.99 $9.99 Gounod: Romeo et Juliette / The plum of the set is Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s Bull, Wieniawski & Bruch Violin Concertos / Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7 / deeply-felt performance of the title role, which is Plasson [4 CDs] Charlie Siem, violin unlikely to be bettered. Van Beinum, Philharmonia Orch. There are many, many things to enjoy as one …What impresses most is Siem’s tonal purity – BBC Music Magazine listens to Alagna’s Roméo – Gramophone and emotional intensity, which combine in the These performances offer an accurate picture Bruch to create a reading of tender sincerity and of the concise, sober, undistorted, yet not 4CD WRNC 407402 $39.99 $9.99 coruscating brilliance. – Classic FM impassive of inflexible persona of a conductor whose discography is all too small. – ARG Brahms Inspired – works by Brett Dean, 4CD WRNC 407002B $39.99 $9.99 Avner Dorman, Bruce Adolphe, Schoenberg, 1CD WRNC 2564666612 $20.99 $10.49 1CD BBC 41242 $19.99 $9.99 Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, J.S. Thomas Adès: The Tempest / Bostridge, Dvorák: Symphony No. 9; Czech Suite; Tchaikovsky, Respighi / Silvestri, Bach / Orli Shaham, piano [2 CDs] Royal, Langridge, et al [2 CDs] Slavonic Dances / Serebrier Bournmouth SO With excellent sound... and some first class musicianship to go Simon Keenlyside’s no-nonsense Prospero, a force to be The high point of the performance is the finale, which Serebrier ...Silvestri puts the right abandon into this teeming score, and the along with ideas to make you think, the album deserves all the reckoned with from the very start of the opera, is outstanding... [a] gauges virtually to perfection, tracing every episode with the results are most telling. The other item is a brilliant account of the success it can garner. – ARG remarkable work. – The Guardian utmost care. – Gramophone Pines of Rome… – Classic CD 2CD WRNC 5099969523427 $27.99 $13.99 1CD WRNC 2564666563 $20.99 $10.49 1CD BBC 40072 $19.99 $9.99 2CD CNCL 15 $27.99$6.99 18 19 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com All Titles Reduced 50% - 75% DEEP DISCOUNT CLASSICAL J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations / Debussy: Images, Études / Prayers / Sumi Jo, James Conlon, Shostakovich: String Quartets Nicholas Angelich, piano Pierre-Laurent Aimard Gurzenich-Orchester; Kolner PO Nos. 4, 11 &14 / Hagen Qrt. ...that impulsive, improvisatory feel; the poetry, Aimard plays these works ideally, with liquid Sumi Jo’s lovely rendition of the nun’s chorus ... this group is known for taking risks, and the probity: Angelich made me fall in love with touch, evocative tone, atmosphere, color, and from Johann Strauss, Jr’s ‘Casanova’ is just they defend them brilliantly. Their playing of the work as if for the first time. –The Times masterly pedalling; and the recording faithfully one of the many unusual prayers that make this 14 is worth noting. There is genius in these captures his artistry. – ARG collection a delight. – ARG performances. – ARG

1CD VCL 706642 $18.99 $9.49 1CD TLD 8573839402 $18.99 $9.49 1CD ERA 8573857722 $18.99 $9.49 1CD NEWC 8802056 $15.99 $7.99 R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben / Rattle, Kate Royal sings Rodrigo, Delibes, Britten: Cello Suites 1–3 / Truls Mork Motets by Croce; A & G Gabrieli and Berlin PO R. Strauss, Stravinsky, etc ...this work astounds in Mork’s performance...you’re left Bassano / Cappella Marciana A performance that delightfully captures the light-heartedness of chilled, yearning and penitent by the close. Mork always impresses Royal’s voice is just sublime; rich, warm and pure... This is music This is fine music, scored for multiple of instruments as well this music, with delectable rhythmic pointing in the 18th-century on disc, but this is a triumph. ***** – BBC Music and singing to savour. – BBC.CO.UK as voices. – ARG pastiche. – Gramophone 1CD VCL 453992 $18.99 $9.49 1CD NEWC 8802139 $15.99 $7.99 1CD WRNC 094633933927 $18.99 $9.49 1CD WRNC 094639441921 $18.99 $9.49 Vivaldi: La tempesta di mare, etc / Jan Ladislav Dussek: Sonatas for Piano Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 20 / Ballad for Edvard Grieg / Leif Ove Biondi, Europa Galante Nos. 3, 24 & 25 / Luca Palazzolo, piano Leif Ove Andsnes, et al Andsnes, et al Frankly, I love this program, and I hope you’ll Palazzolo plays the music very well... The sound [Mr. Andsnes’] stylish accounts of these How hard it is to over-praise the vitality and give it a chance. You might not always agree is excellent... All in all, this release is a tantalizing concertos are among the most revelatory Mozart distinction of this princely pianist... His authority with Biondi’s interpretations, but you nearly introduction to Dussek’s piano works. – ARG records of the year. – New York Times and finesse are total. – Gramophone Magazine always have to concede that he has a point… what flair, charm, and daring! – ARG 1CD VCL 454242 $18.99 $9.49 1CD NEWC 8802127 $15.99 $7.99 1ECD WRNC 5099950028122 $18.99 $9.49 1CD WRNC 943992 $18.99 $9.49 Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 / Filippo Gragnani: Sonatas for violin & Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2; Tchaikovsky: Mozart: No. 24; London PO; Skrowaczewski guitar, Op. 8 / Franco Mezzena, violin; Violin Concerto / Valeriy Sokolov, violin Schumann: Piano Concerto / Kissin This is outstanding. I would go so far as to put it alongside Massinto Scattolin, guitar With commanding entries and beautiful phrasing, the sheer the Bohm (1971 on Decca) as the two greatest recordings ever… Evgeny Kissin provides a very individual yet compelling view of Intonation is perfect, ensemble well coordinated. Both have a eloquence of his playing is a joy with the orchestra responding Wonderful sound. – ARG Mozart’s C minor Concerto – BBC Music sweet tone... this is a tasteful performance. It’s also a reissue, first beautifully… – Classic FM 1CD LPO 0084 $18.99 $4.75 1CD WRNC 094638287926 $18.99 $9.49 recorded in 1990, with excellent sound. – ARG 1CD VCL 420170 $18.99 $9.49 – Poulenc, Dutilleux, Sancan, et al / 1CD NEWC 8802113 $15.99 $7.99 Mozart: Mass in C / Langrée, Dessay, Gens, Mozart: Piano Concertos 20 & 27 / Kissin Pahud, Le Sage et al Mario Castelnuevo-Tedesco: [Kissin] reminds us that Mozart can ...with excellent piano partnership by Eric The spirit, sheer accomplishment, and Guitar Sonatas / Renato Samuelli, guitar withstand bold, meaty playing, with tempi slower, Le Sage, Pahud’s brilliant and sensitive exemplary recording quality make this a definite textures heavier and climaxes more expansive performances are outstanding... this is a winner I’m not familiar with Renato Samuelli; but he is, keeper. – ARG than most pianists now dare… – The Observer of a disc. – Gramophone or was, a fine player, with a solid technique and an excellent feel for this music... I’m glad to have 1CD WRNC 724355648822 $18.99 $9.49 1CD WRNC 5099962664523 $18.99 $9.49 1CD VCL 593092B $18.99 $9.49 this recording. – ARG Drama Queens / Joyce Didonato, sop.; Schumann: Liederkreis, Dichterliebe, etc / 1CD NEWC 8802106 $15.99 $7.99 Mozart: String Quartets K 465 & 499 / Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis Bostridge, Drake Belcea Quartet Bostridge makes one think anew about the music in hand, Busoni: Violin Sonatas / Alan Curtis’s Complesso Barocco’s partnership is invaluable… Guiliano Fontanella, Tania Salinaro This is a treasure of a disc, for the music, the orchestra and Joyce These are superb performances, with well-judged tempos, nicely interpreting all these songs as much through the mind of the poet DiDonato. – International Record Review sprung rhythms. – BBC Music Magazine as that of the composer… – Gramophone The performances of both works are elegant, yet powerful... 1CD WRNC 5099960265425 $18.99 $9.49 1CD WRNC 444552A $18.99 $9.49 1CD WRNC 724355657527 $18.99 $9.49 Fontanella plays with a rich, nutty tone, which eloquently explores the violin’s lower register. – ARG C.P.E. Bach: Sonatas H 138-139; Schubert: Songs / Ian Bostridge, tenor;} Mozart: Krönungsmesse, etc / Koopman, 1CD NEWC 8802099 $15.99 $7.99 Clavierstucke / Linda Nicholson, fortepiano Leif Ove Andsnes, piano [2 CDs] Schlick, Magnus, et al The performances here are very strong and hold Wagner: Opera Arias / Simon Estes Ian Bostridge is one of the most effective This is an absolute must for all lovers of choral up quite well even to later competition (as in the Schubert voices in Europe today – The Times music. ***** – Classic CD This offers a good overview of Simon symphonies and concertos). The sonics remain Estes as a Wagner baritone... His baritone is thoroughly satisfying. – ARG colorful and forceful, his intonation good... The recorded sound is rich… – ARG 2ECD WRNC 5099951644321 $18.99 $9.49 1CD ERA 630107052 $18.99 $9.49 1CD PHX 451 $18.99 $4.75 Brahms: Symphonies 3 & 4 / Jurowski, 1CD NEWC 8802071 $15.99 $7.99 Midsummer Night – Operatic arias of Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 14–16 / London PO nocturnal reflection / Kate Royal, soprano Barenboim, Berlin PO Gorecki: Kleines Requiem; Lerchenmusik The Third has a lot of surge in every movement... The Fourth is ... this is a reissue of material originally appearing on the Listening to Royal is like being thrown back to a bygone age when ...[These performances] are superb, and just about the best more of the same, and you’ll like it if you want a no-holds-barred Philips label and is offered at budget cost. The entire production... singers didn’t merely perform roles, they became indivisible from available for this particular trio of concertos. – Fanfare approach... These are exciting performances... Sonics are vivid. is fully up to the standards of a full-priced CD. – MusicWeb them. – Classic FM 1CD TLD 630168272 $18.99 $9.49 – ARG 1ECD WRNC 5099926819228 $18.99 $9.49 1CD LPO 0075 $18.99 $9.49 1CD NEWC 8802060 $15.99 $7.99 Martha Argerich – Live from the Grieg, Sibelius: Songs / Oramo, Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Montserrat Caballé sings Bellini & Concertgebouw 1978 & 1979 Mattila, et al Grimaud, Sanderling Verdi Arias The shaping intellect is always in control, even Mattila’s voice is quite large, smooth up and After several hearings, I am still marvelling at Recorded at her peak in the 1970s, this when the intensity is white-hot. down its wide range, and it’s crowned by a the sound and substance of a pianist capable of collection shows Caballe to be the master of splendid, very secure high register that includes – BBC Music Magazine meeting Sanderling on his own ground... I am both Bellini and Verdi, her incredible technique also marvelling afresh at the work. thrilling high Bs and Cs. – ARG focused on expressive aims. – BBC Music – Gramophone 1CD ERA 8573802432 $18.99 $9.49 1CD WRNC 569752B $18.99 $9.49 1CD ERA 3984216332 $18.99 $9.49 1CD WRNC 828722 $15.99 $7.99 Haydn: Armida / Bartoli, Prégardien, Liszt Songs / Diana Damrau, soprano; Ravel: L’enfant et les sortilèges, Ma Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie / Petibon, Schafer. Harnoncourt [2 CDs] Helmut Deutsch, piano mère l’oye / Simon Rattle, Berlin PO Haitink [Bartoli] remains the finest thing about this set... her tone is Damrau brings a languid voluptuousness to the more famous Rattle says it’s been a particular joy to bring Ravel’s music to the The orcherstra had an absolutely glowing string section, vibrant ravishingly beautiful when it needs to be… Patricia Petibon gives love songs... these interpretations are undeniably beautiful. , and this disc is a joy for the listener too.. Quite brass, and lovely winds... In an age where a lot of the orchestras... Bartoli a real run for her money as the second lady. – MusicWeb are beginning to sound the same, it’s nice to hear a distinct and – International Record Review wonderful. – bbc.co.uk 1CD VCL 709282B $18.99 $9.49 1ECD WRNC 641972 $18.99 $9.49 2CD TLD 2564660471 $16.99 $8.49 beautiful sound. – ARG 1CD NEWC 8802054 $15.99 $7.99 20 21 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Music Renaissance and Medieval Times NEW RELEASES - EARLY MUSIC Pietro Vinci: Quattordeci Sonetti Spirituali / Mare Balticum, Vol. 2 – Medieval Finland and Recommended Early Music Albums Julie Jeffrey, bass ; Sarah Mead; Nota Bene , 14th–16th Century / Ensemble Peregrina The fourteen Sonetti Spirituali of Pietro This volume provides an insight Spanish Madrigals – Juan Navarro, Sebastian Raval, Pedro Valenzuela, Vinci manifest an extraordinary blend into the local literature and musical of the secular and the religious. Vinci et al. / José Duce Chenoll; Amystis repertories of medieval Sweden marries the stylised gestures of the and Finland. Both Latin and the The ensemble’s first two issues, devoted to Cabanilles and Comes, showed Chenoll’s deep interest in the Mannerist madrigal and the spiritual vernacular are represented, as well neglected music of his homeland. These performances display the same devotion and skill. For devotees of this sincerity of the Latin motet, creating as the diversity of historical musical period, Chenoll is a dependable guide and the rare repertoire is an essential addition to any serious collection. an unusually expressive hybrid that instruments used in those regions at You will know if this lovely disc is for you. – Fanfare manages to be both texturally complex the time. Ensemble Peregrina is one 1CD BLC 95905 $9.99 and emotionally direct. The viol consort of the leading ensembles dedicated Nota Bene is joined by some of the best to the performance of early medieval early-music voices in New England. vocal music. “Superior scholarship and The Food of Love: Songs, Dances, and Fancies for Shakespeare / 1CD TOC 0553 $18.99 performance.” – Fanfare The Baltimore Consort 1SA CD TAC 248SA $24.99 Royal – John Dowland, Benjamin Britten, The Baltimore Consort has explored early English, Scottish, and French popular music, focusing on the Orlando di Lasso: Psalms; Laudes Domini / relationship between folk and courtly art song, and dance. Their interest in early music of English/Scottish heritage / Stefan Koim, guitar Die Singphoniker; Jonannes Euler; Daniel has also led them to delve into the rich trove of traditional music preserved in North America. “A very pleasurable Royal... noble sound in a courtly context is a short description of late-evening hour can be spent in the company of these musicians.” – MusicWeb International the music of the famous renaissance lutenist John Dowland, which Schreiber; et al. [2 CDs] 1CD SUIN 92234 $15.99 is the focus of Stefan Koim’s second album. These compositions, Following the successful albums Hymnus and Magnificat with including works by Benjamin Britten and Hans Werner Henze, music by Orlando di Lasso the Singphoniker are now concluding represent an impressive combination of heart, mind and intellect their little Lasso cycle with a recording of his complete Penitential Praga Rosa Bohemiae, , Johannes Tourout, , from the pen of a worldly musician of the 16th century. Psalms. Lasso set the texts verse by verse, in this way drawing et al. / Cappella Mariana 1CD MSP 56975 $14.99 on an old liturgical model for Psalm settings. This is finely crafted The focal point of the album is the recently rediscovered Prague manuscript of polyphonic masses, with the and highly impressive music and again and again the Singphoniker fabulously survived Missa Presulem ephebeatum by Heinrich Isaac, one of the most significant masters of the Luys de Narváez (1490–1547): Complete Works for amaze us with their sonorous renderings of it. Franco-Flemish polyphonic style. “Works by Josquin and Obrecht are among the gems in this excellent collection. Viguela Solo / Xavier Díaz-Latorre 2CD CPO 555264 $29.99 Crisp, one-to-a-part performances benefit from majestic recorded sound.” – BBC Music Magazine Xavier Díaz-Latorre here presents a Diego Ortiz: Trattado de Glosas / Bruno 1CD SPR 4273 $19.99 splendid version of the complete works Cocset & Guido Balestracci, viol da gmba; for solo by de Narváez; the Les Basses Réunies beauty of the composer’s counterpoint, Airs de cour, French Secular Music the clarity of his part-writing and the This program includes short pieces by Albert de Rippe (1500–1551): Lute Music / sensitivity of the performer cannot leave composers emblematic of the Golden (1560–1650) / Vincent Dumestre; Le Poème Paul O’Dette, lute & renaissance guitars the listener unmoved. Díaz-Latorre has Century of . “Bruno Cocset and Harmonique [2 CDs] As refined as it is technically challenging, the lute music of Albert de used the vihuela La Aldonza by the Guido Balestracci take turns playing the Rippe is notable for its lush palette and dense brilliance – illustrated To mark the twentieth anniversary of his ensemble, Vincent Dumestre luthier Carlos González and the vihuela solo bass (and sometimes treble) viol by the miniature masterpieces heard here. “This recital devoted to and Le Poème Harmonique has chosen to celebrate the air de cour by L’hollandaise by the luthier Patrick parts in these 27 ricercars, effectively de Rippe’s lute music and performed by that modern-day Orpheus bringing together excerpts from his five recordings devoted to the genre. Hopmans, both strung entirely with elegant fantasies on mostly pre-existing of the lute, Paul O’Dette, is certain to soften the hardest of hearts… A book accompanies this double album, a rich array of illustrations and gut strings. pieces. They bring burnished flair to Suggestion and subtlety abound in de Rippe’s fantasias in particular.” an article on the historical context by Alexandre Maral, Curator General 1CD PSSA 1049 $18.99 these varied gems, part of the Spanish – Gramophone at the Musée National du Château de Versailles. master Diego Ortiz’s 1553 treatise on 1CD HAR 902275 $19.99 2CD AHP 462 $25.49 The Leuven Chansonnier, Vol. 1 – Johannes ornamentation.” – The Sunday Times Ockeghem, Antoine Busnoys, Firminus Caron / 1CD AHP 563 $16.99 Polish Music of the Renaissance / Joachim Held, lute Renaissance Christmas: Tallis, Daley, Rathbone, Ensemble Sollazzo Venice in the East: Renaissance Crete and Praetorius, et al. / Owain Park; The Gesualdo Six Solo lute music flourished in large parts of Cyprus / Cappella Romana Europe in the first half of the 16th century. The Leuven Chansonnier (1470–75) includes fifty compositions Owain Park presents a program of In , its most important early exponents by leading 15th-century Franco-Flemish names as Johannes This profoundly moving and powerful music bears witness to how Christmas treats which effortlessly spans were Francesco Spinacino, Joanambrosio Ockeghem, Antoine Busnoys, and Firminus Caron but also ancient Greek and Latin liturgical traditions were richly embellished the centuries. “The group’s name suggests Dalza, Vincenzo Capirola and Francesco twelve newly re-discovered works, found in no other source! The during the Renaissance on the islands of Crete and Cyprus, all a band of wrongly imprisoned miscreants, da Milano. The leading lutenists in France but they make celestial sounds in Vaughan Ensemble Sollazzo, which was founded in 2014 in Basel, brings a within the shared cultural space of Venetian rule. Vocal ensemble were Albert de Rippe and Guillaume Williams’s neo-plainsong The Truth Sent selection of this music to life in the present recording in the most Cappella Romana combines passion with scholarship in its Morlaye. Germany’s composers of from Above and Holst’s Lullay My Liking. refreshing and brilliant interpretation. exploration of early and contemporary music of the Christian East unaccompanied lute music were Hans The Bach classic In dulci jubilo has rarely 1CD PSSA 1054 $18.99 and West. Judenkünig, Hans Newsiedler and Hans been more sweetly sung, with an almost 1CD CPLR 419 $18.99 Gerle. immaculate “choral” blend.” 1CD HAN 19034 $18.99 – The Sunday Times EARLY MUSIC RECOMMENDATIONS IN BRIEF 1CD HYP 68299 $19.99 : From Darkness Into Light / Deborah Orlando di Lasso: Lamentations of Jeremiah for 5 voices / Roberts; Laurie Stras; Lupus Hellinck: Sacred Music / Stephen Rice; Bruno Turner, Pro Cantione Antiqua Musica Secreta The Brabant Ensemble Based on a major new discovery, this recording features the complete An exquisite collection of Holy Week lamentations by an extraordinary group of voices. “These performances Salve celeberrima virgo receives a consummately-crafted reading, setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah for Good Friday by Antoine under Bruno Turner are expressive and vital. The recording too is spacious and warm.” – Penguin Guide its tangy false relations’ never exaggerated or attention-seeking. The Brumel, one of the most celebrated composers of the Renaissance. 1CD MSLC 1123 $10.99 Mass, too, opens with a poised precision, every note suspended within a Brumel’s Lamentations have been known, performed, and recorded for texture quietly reverential rather than overly emotional. The leave-taking many years in a much abbreviated form of two verses and the refrain, Cypriano de Rore: Missa Vivat Felix Hercules; Motets / Kees Jan de Koning; of the Agnus Dei is deeply affecting, and the euphonious swirling of the Jerusalem, convertere. The additional seventeen verses reveal a Osanna enchants. Weser-Renaissance monumental setting that is both intricate in its detail and imposing in its – BBC Music Magazine formal construction; a masterpiece brought from darkness into light. One can hear in the motets by de Rore how the composer assimilates techniques such as the canon, cantus 1CD HYP 68304 $19.99 1CD OBID 719 $17.99 firmus, and soggetto ostinato. “This is one of the finest recordings of de Rore on the market today.” – Fanfare 1CD CPO 777989 $15.49 Cristóbal de Morales (1500–1553): Music for Lent / Alfonso Ferrabosco (1578–1628): Albert Recasens; La Grande Chapelle Lessons for Solo Lyra Viol / Paolo Biordi, lyra viol In Nomine II, John Bull, John Baldwin, Gavin Bryars, Christopher Tye, Henry Purcell, Cristóbal de Morales’ fame and influence This world premiere recording offers et al. / Fretwork were enormous in his own time. He was a significant representation of the especially interested in texts for Lent, Fretwork, who started out with an album called In Nomine more than 30 years ago, are matchless performers of approaches, technical solutions, styles which include the celebration of Ash and innovations used by Sammartini this contemplative, introverted repertoire... a dark, melancholy modern classic. – The Observer Wednesday and the Septuagesima, in his keyboard music. A pianist and 1CD SIG 576 $17.99 Sexagesima and Quinquagesima Sundays. harpsichordist, Simonetta Heger teaches La Grande Chapelle takes full advantage at the Milan Conservatory. She is an active (1566–1613): Madrigals / La Compagnia del Madrigale of the extensive number of these motets international concert performer on both on liturgical texts for the Lenten season to These are near-flawless readings, effortlessly poised and formally legible. Their responses to textual and instruments, as soloist and in ensembles. pay homage to one of the great composers Her repertoire ranges from the 1600s to musical cues are never overdrawn but subtle and even humorous. – Gramophone of all time. contemporary music. 1CD GLS 922809 $18.99 1CD LAUD 019 $18.99 1CD DYN 7852 $16.99 22 23 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Music of the Baroque Era NEW RELEASES - BAROQUE (1692–1770): Sonatas for Solo Violin, Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński: Song Cycles, Sacred New Recommended Baroque Titles Vol. 2 / Črtomir Šiškovič, violin [3 CDs] Music / Wroclaw Baroque Ensemble [2 CDs] Črtomir Šiškovič, violinist from Trieste of Slovenian origin and a Stanisław Sylwester Szarzyński’s surviving output of music Alessandro Stradella: San Giovanni Battista / Damien Guillon, harpsichord; specialist in Tartini’s music, chose, for each sonata where there comprises ten compositions, whose excellent quality and attractive Le Banquet Celéste were alternative movements, those that he deemed best for his sound earn him a place among the most distinguished Polish interpretation. Just as Tartini would have expected. Together Baroque composers. Nearly all of his surviving works represent Paul-Antoine Benos-Djian has a beautiful countertenor voice, full and even at both ends of his range, which he with the previous release Dynamic is proud to have completed the seconda pratica and are structured in accordance with the uses to superbly expressive effect… Alicia Amo as Herodias the Daughter () is quite wonderful in her final recording the cycle of Tartini’s solo violin sonatas in the year of the concertato style typical of the second half of the 17th century, aria, where she exults in John’s death with dazzling coloratura… newcomers should try this present version under 250th anniversary of Tartini’s death. though the dates of his birth and death as well as the place or the excellent direction of Damien Guillon. The important thing is to get to know this ravishing piece. 3CD DYN 7869 $22.99 places of his activity are impossible to establish. – Gramophone 1CD AHP 579 $16.99 2CD CDAC 261 $21.99 Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (1580–1651): Che Fai Tu? – Villanelles / Les Kasper’girls Mannaggia Amore – Giuseppe Porsile (1680–1750): Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Histoires Sacrées / Sébastien Daucé; Ensemble Cantatas / La Cicala Baroque Ensemble Correspondances [3 CDs] Formed in 2015 by four young musicians, Les Kapsber’girls, by their Giuseppe Porsile (1680–1750) was This is superb. Here is a generous selection of sacred pieces by Charpentier, impeccably performed by Ensemble very name, send a nod and a wink one of the very few representatives of Correspondances under Sébastien Daucé, [...] underpinned by violins, recorders and those plangent . Do to one of their favorite composers. the Neapolitan School at the otherwise not miss these wonderful performances. (Gramophone). Like a miniature opera, each piece relates an exemplary It is thus quite natural that their first rather conservative Imperial Court in destiny, including several strong-willed women (Judith, Cecilia, Mary Magdalene). 3CD HAR 902280 $22.99 recording be dedicated to the works Vienna. Inês d’Avena and the ensemble of Girolamo Kapsberger, a virtuoso La Cicala continue their exploration of musician and exceptional composer in the Neapolitan repertoire, which had Rome in the early XVIIth century. The previously been ignored. The soprano Johann Bernhard Bach: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1–4 / Thüringer Bach Collegium extreme variety of his output bears Stefanie True lets several forgotten Johann Bernhard Bach’s four Orchestral Suites are amongst the most varied and sophisticated musical works of witness to the artistic effervescence of vocal jewels shine in first recordings the high baroque period in Middle Germany. “[These] recent recordings introduce us to a highly prepossessing pre-Baroque Italy. featured on this disc. and worthy aspirant. The question may occur to listeners: If composers of Vivaldi’s own time could enter so deeply 1CD MUSO 037 $18.99 1CD PSSA 1061 $18.99 into his individual style, why do composers of our own time produce such pallid pastiches? In any case, strongly recommended.” – Fanfare Violin Music at the Polish Vasa Court / Nicola Matteis (1672–1699): Chamber Music / 1CD ADT 97770 $18.99 Teresa Piech, violin; Krzysztof Urbania, organ Amandine Beyer; Gli Incogniti For over half a century, the Polish royal court chapel of the Vasa After the success of the Red, Yellow, Blue and Pink collections (a dynasty was one of the best ensembles in Europe. Known for total of 56 reissues), which brought the pearls from the Baroque his cultural tastes, King Zygmunt III – thanks to (for that time) catalogues of the house labels back into the spotlight, here are : Cantatas / Sybilla Rubens; Carlo Farina (ca. 1600–1640): Capriccio Stravagante; enormous funds allotted to music ensemble activity – was able to fourteen new titles offering a chance to rediscover more Baroque David Erler; Thomas Gropper; L’Arpa Festante Sonate / Leonardo Garcia-Alarcon; Clematis hire the best musicians from all over Europe. This release features treasures and rarities. The present album features Nicola Matteis’s The Baroque orchestra L’arpa festante Even though the astonishing Capriccio the works of Tarquinio Merula, Aldebrando Subissati, Marco Fanse Consonances of Melancholy performed by Amandine Beyer shows how much wonderful music was stravagante with all of its imitations of Scacchi, Giovanni Francesco Anerio, and more. and Gli Incogniti. created in the German High Baroque: in instruments and animals is well known 1CD RCRT 0031 $15.99 1CD AHP 497 $9.99 world premiere recordings the orchestra to all lovers of , the other presents four cantatas by composers works by this virtuoso violinist are almost Jean-Marie LeClair: Concertos for Violin / Leila Ninna Nanna, Lullabies from Baroque Italy / Pino de from Central Germany. The program is completely unknown – these include Schayegh, violin; La Cetra Barockorchester Basel Vittorio, tnr; Franco Pavan, thrbo; Laboratorio ‘600 complemented by a new reconstruction of polyphonic dances in the French style and the version of Johann Sebastian collections of brilliant sonatas for violin. With a quartet of violin concertos by With Ninna Nanna the haunting Bach’s cantata No. 80a “Alles was von This present collection of works by Farina Jean-Marie Leclair, Leila Schayegh tones, dramatic intensity and richly Gott geboren”. is a source not only of astonishment and continues her exploration of the characterized singing of Pino De Vittorio 1CD CHR 77437 $18.99 wonder but also of tenderness as well as instrument’s repertory, combining once again grace a recording project other emotions. musical insight, virtuosic brilliance led by Franco Pavan. Call it Wiegenlied, Johann Rosenmüller: German Sacred Concertos / 1CD RCR 139 $10.99 and historical understanding. For berceuse, nana, ninna nanna – or Arno Paduch; Johann Rosenmüller Ensemble this dazzling new exhibition of the countless other terms from around the Salve Regina, Natale Monferrato (1603–1685): Johann Rosenmüller (1619–1684) spent more than a decade at the Swiss violinist’s art, Schayegh directs world – the lullaby, with the rocking of Thomasschule in Leipzig. Almost all of Rosenmüller’s vocal music is Sacred Music / Ensemble Céladon Basel’s La Cetra Barockorchester, the child’s cradle, is possessed of a religious. He followed a northern German practice of circulating this Of those composers who held the highest positions at St Mark’s basilica which features Eva Saladin as its captivating charm, all neatly captured in music in manuscript only (he allowed publication of his instrumental in Venice, Natale Monferrato is manifestly one of the most thoroughly Konzertmeisterin and Christoph Rudolf this new collection with the lulling of De works). It was especially popular in northern Germany and for the most forgotten nowadays. After working with the leading musicians of this as a further principal violinist. Vittorio’s hypnotic voice. part the sources of his music, even that written in Venice, are German prestigious institution, he succeeded Francesco Cavalli as maestro di 1CD GLS 924204 $18.99 1CD GLS 33003 $18.99 rather than Italian. cappella in 1676. His output, consisting exclusively of sacred music, 1CD CHR 02212 $10.49 includes some twenty collections published between 1647 and 1681. BAROQUE MUSIC RECOMMENDATIONS IN BRIEF Nicolas Clérambault (1676–1749): Chamber Music 1CD RCR 405 $18.99 from the Brossard Collection / The Bach Players J.S. Bach: Works for Piano Duo / Lucas Jussen, piano; Arthur Jussen, piano; The Melancholic Bach / Emilio Moreno, viola da The chamber music of Nicolas Clérambault Amsterdam Sinfonietta bracchio; Aarón Zapico, harpsichord (1676–1749) is characterized by ...The Jussen boys have found perhaps the perfect collaborator in Sir Neville Marriner, who has conducted more Mozart expressivity, thematic inventiveness and a With The Melancholic Bach, Emilio Moreno than most; the Academy acquit themselves well. – Gramophone discreetly skillful way of composition. As in delves pensively and wistfully into the 1CD DGG B003122702 $18.99 the previous production of the ensemble realms of the music that Bach might have The Bach Players, this album contains little written for the viola. Moreno, of course, is a Telemann: The Grand Concertos for Mixed Instrument, Vol. 6 / La Stagione Frankfurt known works from the famous library of violinist as well as a violist: with the former Schneider oversees a reading of pure enchantment, with eloquently articulated phrases. A performance to the composer and music writer Sébastien he has been directing his ensembles La treasure… The series is a considerable achievement, filling in what had been a far from complete picture. de Brossard (1655–1730), which were Real C·mara and El Español, recorded here for the first time on whilst with the latter instrument for many – BBC Music Magazine historical instruments. years he has been leading the violas of 1CD CPO 555239 $15.49 1CD CVEL 91928 $18.99 Orchestra of the 18th Century. 1CD GLS 920316 $18.99 Tamaso Albinoni (1671–1751): Violin Sonatas Nos. 1–6, Op. 2 / Chiara Banchini; Johann Rosenmüller: Sacred Concertos / Ensemble 415 Jorg-Andreas Botticher; Abendmusiken Basel Jan Antonin Losy: Chaconne; Suites; Menuet / [The Ensemble 415] sounds absolutely stunning. If this were the way all period instrument ensembles and players Johann Rosenmüller shaped music in Germany in the second half of Jakob Lindberg, lute by Sixtus Rauwolf, Augburg sounded, you’d never hear a peep of criticism out of me again. Beautiful! – Fanfare the 17th century like hardly anyone else, and in particular influenced 1CD AHP 486 $9.99 Today we have almost 200 pieces by Count Losy, many of which once the development of sacred vocal music. This apparently happened belonged together in larger suites or partitas. As a composer, Losy in his Venetian exile as well, for the majority of the sacred concertos Thomas Tomkins: Verse anthems, Evensong canticles & psalm settings / followed the example of French masters such as François Dufaut, but for bass and instruments recorded here demand a rather unusual The Choir of HM Chapel Royal to this he brought a gift for Italianate melody, particularly in the many accompaniment of five string voices, compared to the Venetian music- surviving arias, rondeaux and minuets. For this amply filled tribute This album reminds us of Tomkins’s prominence as one of the greatest Chapel Royal composers of the late-English making practice of to Losy, Jakob Lindberg has selected 36 pieces, grouping them into that time. Renaissance. “This collection offers a vivid survey of the musical tastes of the court of Charles I, sung with refreshing six suites. 1CD CVEL 91927 $18.99 fervour.” – The Observer 1SA CD BIS 2462 $19.99 1CD REOA 10253 $16.99 24 25 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Music of the Baroque Era NEW RELEASES - BAROQUE Cantate Domino, Sacred Music / Gordon J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos / I Musici; Felix New Recommended Baroque Titles Safari; Ensemble BachWerkVokal Ayo; Heinz Holliger; Maurice Andre; et al. [2 CDs] Gordon Safari has completed the This new release features the rare and The Godfather, Masters of the German & Italian Baroque / Adrian Chandler; Cantata BWV 190, a work transmitted hard to find famous recording of the La Serenissima in fragmentary form. This versatile Brandenburg Concertos in 1963 by I conductor is now presenting this festive Musici together with the most important If Chandler’s programming of oddities and fragments sometimes looks like a musicological download, the sound work for the first time. Truly a new song! soloists of the time. I Musici, also his orchestra makes soon makes you forget that. Bright, clear, open and gloriously brassy, with expansive but As we gather from Buxtehudes Latin known as I Musici di Roma, is an Italian controlled windplaying, rat-a-tat drumming and boldly projected string sound led by Chandler’s wheeling and psalm setting, both Handel and Bach chamber orchestra from Rome formed diving solo violin – all is light and energy. In places it is nothing short of magnificent. – Gramophone learned from him. The remarkable room in 1951. They are well known for their 1CD SIG 602 $17.99 impression of this three-dimensional interpretations of Baroque and other recording shines with Baroque splendor works, particularly and even in the secular setting of the home – and lends Bach’s Tomaso Albinoni. Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans Devicta Holofernis Barbarie / Jordi Savall; double‑choral motets the radiance of a live performance. 2CD URA 121386 $29.99 Le Concert des Nations [2 CDs] 1SA CD MDG 9022138 $16.99 Trio Sonatas of & The ostentatious musical charms and theatricality of Juditha triumphans devicta Holofernes barbarie (1716) Francesco Maria Veracini (1690–1768): Recorder are served vividly in this live concert recording made at the Philharmonie de Paris by Le Concert des Nations, Jean-François Dandrieu / Le Consort who evidently had a field day bringing Vivaldi’s colourful instrumentation to life... Savall’s direction has dramatic Sonatas / Laura Schmid, rcdr; Ensemble D’Istinto Although Dandrieu is best-known momentum while allowing each number to breathe and speak for itself articulately. – Gramophone Laura Schmid, born in in 1989, 2SA CD AVX 9935 $64.49 for his talents as an organist, his trio began her recorder studies in Carsten sonatas deserve a prominent position Eckert s youth class at the Trossingen in the chamber music of the period. University of Music in 2007. The They show a stunning mastery of style Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer: Recorder Music / Erik Bosgraaf, recorder; program selected for her production ‘Il and variety of characters. Dances Francesco Corti, hrpsi Postiglione’ contains some particularly overflowing with energy, mischievous Erik Bosgraaf plays seven different instruments here, ranging from sopranino to bass, all of them built with a precious pearls of chamber music for and impetuous counterpoint between particular range of pitch but also distinct palette of . “Recorder players will be delighted to enhance their recorder. These are original works the three parts, movements with highly repertoire with these engaging pieces that are gratifying to play. Erik Bosgraaf has an enviable technique, and and arrangements, in keeping with the expressive Italianate suspensions, deserves special praise for the originality of this programme.” – BBC Music Magazine musical use of the late Baroque period. articulation, phrasing, rhythm, 1CD BLC 95907 $9.99 All three composers on this release for ARS PRODUKTION were gentleness, passion – in a word, life. closely associated with the musical life at the Saxon court 1CD AHP 542 $16.99 in Dresden. 1CD ARSP 38561 $18.99 Telemann: Overture and Concerti pour Darmstadt / Alexis Kossenko; Kapsperger: Virtù e Nobiltà, Theorbo Music in Anamorfosi, Baroque Vocal Music / Jean-Baptiste Lully: Dies Irae; De Les Ambassadeurs Baroque Rome / Fred Jacobs, theorbo Vincent Dumestre; Le Poème Harmonique Profundis; Te Deum / Leonardo García Fred Jacobs, Dutch advocate of the theorbo, that outlandish scale lute Allegri’s Miserere, with its heartbreaking harmonies, its verses Alarcón; Millenium Orchestra This series’ reissues are performed by that became the rage at court and also in the opera in 17th century alternately chanted and ornamented, its seraphic voices, is sheer the finest musicians in the field; most Europe continues his solo recital series of theorbo music for Metronome Baroque magic. Since its composition in Rome in 1630, the work has These works demand a conductor of these recordings received one or with an album devoted to the music of Kapsperger. This recording constantly been transformed. Le Poème Harmonique approaches the with theatrical instincts, and Leonardo more awards on their first release. The concentrates on his Roman works, written for a noble audience and for score through the prism of its metamorphoses, the ornaments and García Alarcón certainly supplies transpositions added since the time when Mozart himself transcribed albums come with proper booklets, the private entertainment of the court of pope Urban VIII Barberini. that...his ability to shape expressive the piece. Vincent Dumestre celebrates the twentieth anniversary of including notes in three languages 1CD MET 1093 $18.99 his ensemble. gestures within the music through (French, English, German). The 1CD AHP 438 $16.99 added rests, dynamics, ornamentation, present album features Georg Philipp Johann Erasmus Kindermann: Opitianischer and articulation marks is both shrewdly Telemann’s Overture and Concerti Orpheus / United Continuo Ensemble Antonia Bembo (1643–1720): Produzioni judged and sensitive to the needs of pour Darmstadt, performed by Alexis Armoniche, 1701 / Armonia Delle Sfere [3 CDs] the music itself – as in the repeatedly Kossenko, Zefira Valova, and By his own account, Erasmus Kindermann halting performance of the Dies irae’s Les Ambassadeurs. was pressured by friends into setting Within this new album the Armonia delle “Pie Jesu.” Warmly recommended. 1CD AHP 499 $9.99 poems by Martin Opitz to music and did Sfere ensemble is delivering to us the – Fanfare so in works such as his Opitianischer complete Produzioni Armoniche work 1CD AHP 444 $16.99 Orpheus. The poems that he chose for the by Antonia Bembo, a collection of 41 Charpentier: Vespers of St. Louis / Les most part were selections from the Bücher motets dedicated in 1701 to Louis XIV, Carl Heinrich Gruan (1704–1759): Apollo & Dafne / Pages et Les Chantres du Centre de Deutscher Poemata. The texts of the songs in whose court she landed after a series Musique Baroque de Versailles mostly focus on themes taken from ancient of vicissitudes occurred in Venice. After Hannah Morrison; Main-Barockorchester being trained under the musical guidance Like the last releases in this series, models: carpe diem and memento mori as Carl Heinrich Graun, like other Italian- of Francesco Cavalli, organist of the ducal this fifth installment also opens up to well as loves joy and loves grief. chapel of San Marco, Antonia secretly influenced or Italian-trained German the Classical (Mozart) or Renaissance 1CD CPO 555123 $15.49 married Lorenzo Bembo, a Venetian composers of his time, composed (Dufay) repertories – recordings that are nobleman, from whom she had two children. Italian cantatas throughout his entire an integral part of Alpha’s identity and O Carta Amorosa! Lettres en Musique / La Gioannina 3CD TCT 640280 $35.98 creative period. These three cantatas history. These reissues are performed belong to a small group in Graun’s From the apparition of the stile rappresentativo (Monteverdi’s famous by the finest musicians in the field, most Back to Bach / Ofra Harnoy, cello output, for soprano. The greater part Lettera Amorosa) and the monophonic madrigal (Frescobaldi, Negri), to having received one or more awards on Ofra Harnoy has established herself as one of the greatest cellists on of his 38 positively attributed Italian the heyday of bel canto (Carissimi, Stradella, Melani), to its parody (with their first release. The present album the very burlesque and unpublished Lettera del Signor Carlo Antonio the worlds concert stage. She has won many awards and distinctions for cantatas were composed for tenor. features Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Benati alla Signora Vittoria Tesi by Marcello), the letter in music is her recordings, including 5 JUNO Awards, including Instrumental Artist Graun’s soprano cantatas were Vespers for Saint Louis, performed by Les Chantres du Centre de attempted in the golden age of Italian cantata, by numerous composers. of the Year and Best Classical Album of the Year in Canada. This album probably written in his Berlin years when virtuoso castrati and Musique Baroque de Versailles and Olivier Schneebeli. 1CD ENPS 006 $18.99 presents a number of tried and true Baroque favorites on the cello, like singers were available for the demanding solo parts. 1CD AHP 493 $9.99 Bach’s ‘Air’ from Orchestral Suite #3, Bist Du Bei Mir, as well as some 1CD ACT 24362 $18.99 slightly lesser known gems. An amazing recording and an inspiring Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantatas & Recorder comeback. The Court and the Village – Boistmortier: Roma ‘600, Music from 17th Century Rome / Concertos / Roberta Invernizzi, sop; 1CD ANA 28907 $18.99 Chamber Music / Cappella Musicale Enrico Onofri, violin; Emoke Barath, soprano; I Collegium Pro Musica Nicolo Porpora (1686–1768): Cantatas / Enrico Stuart Bassifondi Having worked with countless luminaries Musica Perduta of early-music performance over the last Capella Musicale Enrico Stuart has This album is a journey through three decades, Roberta Invernizzi has This new recording brings together a toured internationally and received seventeenth-century Rome, the rough become renowned for a crystalline soprano number of Cantatas written about flowers much critical acclaim along the way. and magnificent city where Caravaggio and flowery landscapes, serving as the and an unfailing dramatic sense in Baroque The ensemble takes its name from and Stradella lived. Strict counterpoint and pre-Baroque music, especially from background for romantic stories about and learned polyphony in the lute the bliss or curse of love: highly attractive Enrico Stuart, Duke of York, who, exiled her native Italy. Here she lends distinction and keyboard pieces by Kapsberger, to a unique collection of three cantatas works, full of drama, expressive effects from England because of his Catholic and two concertos by the jewel in the and virtuoso roles for both vocalists and faith, settled in Rome and became Pasquini and Frescobaldi mingle crown of Baroque-era music from Naples, instrumentalists. It’s another enterprising Bishop of Frascati, where he was with light dances and popular songs Alessandro Scarlatti. recording project of Musica Perduta, led by known as a benefactor and patron of for guitar. Soprano Emoke Barath cellist Renato Criscuolo. 1CD BLC 95721 $9.99 the Arts. This album is a rare find, and and violinist Enrico Onofri are the 1CD BLC 96077 $9.99 Boismortier’s refined and elegant music distinguished guest artists who join I will delight any listener. Bassifondi in this new adventure. 1CD BLC 96036 $9.99 1CD ACAA 467 $18.99 26 27 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com New Recordings of the Classical Era NEW RELEASES - CLASSICAL Gervasio: Sonatas for Mandolino and Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, 9 / New Classical Period Recommendations Continuo / Inchordis Ensemble on historical Philippe Jordan; Vienna SO [5 CDs] instruments For the first time in their history, the Wiener The music recorded here is a performance Symphoniker now release a complete Beethoven: Sonatas for Fortepiano & Violin, Vols. 1–4 / Ian Watson, piano; of the six sonatas in manuscript form Beethoven symphonies cycle. Marking Susanna Ogata, violin [4 CDs] preserved in Uppsala and Paris, the an irrefutable turning point in the history of music, they transformed audiences’ In celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, CORO Connections is delighted to present Ian complete corpus of Gervasio’s currently known sonatas. The InchordisTrio expectations of the symphony and Watson and Susanna Ogata’s acclaimed complete exploration of the Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin in one influenced the genre’s future development stunning boxed-set edition. “There’s something positively gleeful about the way the pair deliver the opening has been performing Giovan Battista Gervasio’s (1725–1785) sonatas for through their experimental, dramatic and gambit of Op. 30 No. 3, and the same sonata’s Haydnesque finale practically swings.” – Gramophone expressive weight. A complete cycle of 4CD COO 16177 $33.49 mandolin and basso continuo since its establishment, including them in its Beethoven symphonies is viewed as one of concert programs. It is a very interesting, the ultimate challenges in the repertoire. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Ann-Helen Moen, soprano; Marianne Beate sometimes even surprising, music. 5CD VSO 018 $48.99 Kielland, alto; Allan Clayton, tenor; Neal Davies, bass; Masaaki Suzuki 1CD TCT 720701 $15.49 With impeccable credentials from their 65-disc series of Bach’s complete cantatas, and acclaimed recent Mozart: Haffner March; Serenade No. 7; recordings of Mozart’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, Bach Collegium and Masaaki Suzuki Gottfried Homilius: Advent & Christmas A Musical Joke / Michael Alexander Willens; now give us their rendering of Beethoven’s last and greatest symphony, joined by a fine quartet of vocal soloists. Cantatas / Michael Alexander Willens; Die Kölner Akademie “This marvelous performance is reproduced in superb, lifelike sound, full of impact but without any sense of artificial enhancement.” – Fanfare Kölner Akademie The Musical Joke benefits from being played ‘straight’, by and large, 1SA CD BIS 2451 $19.99 This CD marks the recording premiere of four cantatas by Gottfried and it’s always a peculiar delight to hear natural horns squawking away August Homilius for Advent and Christmas. Homilius was the in the ‘wrong’ key... It’s the Haffner music that provides the greatest rewards. With only the merest hint of string insecurity at the highest Beethoven: Complete Piano Concertos, Nos. 1–5 / Stewart Goodyear, piano; BBC number‑one composer of Protestant church music during the second half of the eighteenth century and during his lifetime was regarded as extreme of the range, Michael Alexander Willens and his players Nat’l Orchestra of Wales [3 CDs] ‘perhaps todays very best church composer’. Arias of great tonal beauty, demonstrate their immersion in Mozart’s idiom. – Gramophone Goodyear is a pianist of tremendous clarity and precision. He has a beautiful, silver sound, with perfectly lucid the naturalness of their expression, and the dramatic suspense of the 1SA CD BIS 2394 $19.99 trills that must be the envy of his colleagues. Overall, his music-making is reminiscent somehow of the young various numbers continue to fascinate listening audiences! Rudolf Serkin... Andrew Constantine and the BBC NOW players provide clean, crisp partnership... These are 1CD CPO 555278 $15.49 Anton Eberl (1765–1807): Complete Piano expertly tailored Beethoven interpretations that may raise the benchmark in terms of objectivity. – Gramophone Sonatas / Luca Quintavalle, fortepiano [2 CDs] 3CD ORPO 100127 $31.99 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Bernard Haitink, A Viennese contemporary of Mozart and Bavarian Radio SO & Chorus Beethoven, praised by Haydn and Gluck, and forerunner of Chopin and Liszt: the This recording of Beethoven’s great choral unique voice of Anton Eberl can be heard symphony under the direction of Bernard in these new, historically informed studio Heroic Beethoven: Piano Sonatas; Piano Concerto; Beethoven: Egmont, Op. 84; Antonín Reicha: / Haitink and with excellent instrumental and recordings. Eberl’s seven Piano Sonatas Symphonies / Various artists [3 CDs] Frieder Bernius; Prague Chamber Choir et al. [2 CDs] vocal soloists is not only an outstanding differ strongly from Mozart, Haydn and interpretation of the work but also very As a man of spirit and inspiration, he Antonini Reicha’s dramatic cantata Lenore Beethoven and show a more romantic much an event in itself – because these triumphed over deafness to produce a is the musical setting of the eponymous idiom. His compositions have some recordings document Haitink’s last ever wealth of masterpieces. Over the course horror ballad by the German poet Gottfried common stylistic elements coming from concerts with the Symphonieorchester of more than two centuries, his works have August Bürger. In comparison with the School, the note-repetitions des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Only a few delighted, surprised, amazed and moved Beethoven, in musical terms Reicha’s of the melody and his trade-mark crossing months after his two concerts on listeners. The greatest moments of his cantata does not point into the future of hands. February 21 and 22, 2019, the great Dutch multi-faceted genius – from the heroic to despite all its onomatopoetic effects, 2CD BLC 95929 $11.99 conductor announced the end of his career. the intimate – can be experienced here in but takes its bearings audibly from the 1CD BRK 900180 $16.99 performances by instrumentalists, singers epic oratorio style of Reicha’s mentor Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801): and conductors of the utmost distinction. and friend, Joseph Haydn. Beethoven’s eminently appealing music to Egmont Mozart: Divertimento, KV563 / TrioTaus 21 Sonatas for Organ / Andrea Chezzi, organ 3CD WRNC M323455 $14.99 rounds out this Orfeo release. Domenico Cimarosa may still be better known as a composer of With its six movements, a playing time of around 50 minutes and 2CD ORF 1903 $14.99 comic opera, but this new album of the sonatas in versions for organ Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710–1784): Complete the grandeur of its musical lines it puts all earlier chamber music celebrates the variety and adaptability of Cimarosa’s idiom and Chamber Music / Ricercar Consort [2 CDs] compositions in the shade. Mozart biographer Alfred Einstein writes: “it demonstrates why he was so lionized in his own time. On this new Antonín Rejcha (1770–1836): Wind Quintets is a true chamber-music work and grew to such large proportions only A surprising amount of chamber music is to be found amongst the recording the Sonatas are played on the organ, a common practice Op. 88/1 & 2; 91 / Belfiato Quintet because it was intended to offer... something special in the way of art, surviving works of ’s eldest son. Above in a time when the distinction between instruments was not clearly invention, and good spirits... one of his noblest works.” all else, it is music at its most intimate, for it seems to have been Notwithstanding its being challenging to perform, his music comes defined yet. 1SA CD L2L 148SA $24.99 composed primarily for the enjoyment of the players themselves. The across as bright, airy and gracious. The Belfiato Quintet selected three – 1CD BLC 95781 $9.99 Ricercar Consort continues to explore the Baroque repertoire, from the most beautiful and most engrossing – of Rejcha’s 24 wind quintets, chamber music to opera and oratorio, and to enthrall music-lovers with which they have recorded at the acoustically exceptionable Rudolfinum performances that are both profound and rigorous. hall in Prague. It would seem that the virtuoso and passionate musicians RECOMMENDED CLASSICAL ERA TITLES IN BRIEF 2CD RCR 138 $10.99 have found in Rejcha a kindred spirit. It’s one hell of a ride… 1CD SPR 4270 $19.99 Franz Xavier Richter: Super Flumina Babylonis; Rodolphe Kreutzer: Violin Concertos, Nos. 1, 6, & 7 / Laurent Albrecht Breuninger, violin Miserere / Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra & Mozart: Divertimenti, K136-8; Serenade, K525 / Choir This eminently captivating CD of three of Kreutzer’s Violin Concertos really makes an excellent case for affording him the real Luigi Pivano; Archi di Santa Cecilia credit he deserves in his own right as a composer and performer. – MusicWeb International Over the first years he spent in Strasbourg The Arcana label continues its fruitful 1CD CPO 555206 $15.49 (1770–73), Richter wrote three settings of collaboration with the Archi di Santa Psalm 50, Miserere mei Deus, intended Cecilia, the Rome-based ensemble formed for the night liturgy of Tenebrae, a Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 / Marek Janowski; WDR Symphony Orchestra religious service held during the three from members of the famous Orchestra of days preceding Easter. The present album the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. An exceptional disc: I don’t think I’ve heard a more powerful, inexorable Fifth. It renews the work. The woodwind is wonderfully features the third setting of the Miserere, They now offer us a brand new recording vivid (beautiful playing by the important first bassoon). The Pastoral is hardly less fine. – The Sunday Times in F minor, in a premiere recording. Here, devoted to Mozart: the famous Serenade 1SA CD PTE 5186809 $19.99 Czech Ensemble Baroque discover the yet Eine kleine Nachtmusik K525 and the less to be mapped legacy of the distinguished familiar but equally brilliant Divertimenti 18th-century composer. K136, K137 and K138. Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1–5 / Ronald Brautigam, piano; 1CD SPR 4274 $19.99 1CD ACAA 471 $18.99 Orchester der Kölner Akademie [2 CDs] Beethoven: Piano Trio, Op. 97; Triple Claude Ledoux (1736–1806): Surgir; Henri Dutilleux: There’s nothing pompous or heavyhanded in these readings. Both Brautigam and Willens are alive to Beethoven’s every indication Concerto, Op. 56 / Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch; Trois ; Sonata / Elodie Vignon, piano on the page, and that most precious of all commodities in music, the life of the phrase, is sacrosanct. – Gramophone Orchestra of the Swan 2SA CD BIS 2274 $38.99 Dutilleux had a close relationship with Debussy in his sensory approach Inspired by the sinfonie concertante for two or more soloists and to music. Composed just after the Second World War, his Piano Sonata orchestra, Beethoven transports the piano trio into an orchestral context reminds us, in some aspects, of ’s Pour le piano, Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 24 / Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano; Les Violons du Roy with his Triple Concerto in C major Op. 56. His choice of this particular also composed after another Great War. Likewise, Claude Ledoux These Mozart concertos are replete with passionate outbursts, startling contrasts, rich orchestration and overt emotional fervor. solo combination was unprecedented in the literature and, in his words, emerges from the shadows and delivers a work that seeks to translate “There’s a simplicity to Richard-Hamelin’s approach that is beguiling (and far from simple to achieve).” – Gramophone ‘really something new’. The piece is performed with panache on this the world in which we live, a world of silence and sound in perpetual 1CD ANA 29147 $18.99 release by the Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch. transformation. 1CD NIM 5978 $16.99 1CD CYRS 4658 $18.99

28 29 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com New Romantic Era Recordings NEW RELEASES - ROMANTIC Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Rêverei et Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker / Vladimir Jurowski; Recommended Romantic Era Albums caprice; La mort d’Ophélie / Philippe Quint, vln; State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia Thierry Fischer, Utah SO ‘Evgeny Svetlanov’ Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880): Le Royaume de Neptune / The choral versions of “La mort d’Ophélie” Vladimir Jurowski and the State Academic Howard Griffiths; Deutsches SO Berlin and “Sara la baigneuse” may be relative Symphony Orchestra of Russia “Evgeny rarities on record but both are vintage Svetlanov” continue their Tchaikovksy On his recently released Offenbach album featuring some of this composer’s unknown overtures, “Howard Berlioz. These short and striking pieces ballet series with this recording of The Griffiths is able to generate sparkling moments, dramatic buildups of suspense, highly expressive lyrical designs, should be much better known. They are Nutcracker. Tchaikovsky’s enchanting and frequently suddenly occurring shifts of mood with absolutely outstanding success” (klassik-heute.com). paired here with a terrific account of the masterpiece is an absolute audience And the latest Offenbach interpretation by Griffiths also does perfect justice to this composer’s highly effectively Symphonie fantastique. Thierry Fischer favourite, thanks to hits such as the Waltz instrumented and melodically very appealing music while transmitting infectious zest for life. leads the Utah Symphony Orchestra, the of the Flowers, Trepak and Dance of the 1CD CPO 555301 $15.49 combined Utah Symphony Chorus and Sugar Plum Fairy, but also due to the the Universtiy of Utah Chamber Choir, composer’s ability to evoke a sense of Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Yundi, piano; and violinist Philippe Quint is the soloist in wonder in listeners both young and old. Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra Berlioz’ ‘Reverie et caprice’. 1SA CD PTE 5186761 $19.99 1CD HYP 68324 $19.99 This is Yundi’s first release under a new agreement with Warner Classics on which he directs the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra from the keyboard. “This is aristocratic Chopin, unfailing in its clarity, elegance and unforced eloquence. Nothing is over-played, everything is expressed. Yundi Li ranks among the finest, his reading The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 80 – A Schubertiade with Arpeggione, Voice & of the F minor Concerto’s central love song hauntingly inward looking. The Warsaw Philharmonic offer stout Dupont & Benoit / Howard Shelley, pno; Guitar - Sonatas, et al. / L’Amoroso support, and sound and balance are exemplary.” – International Piano 1CD WRNC M320188 $18.99 St. Gallen SO The guitar was very popular in Vienna at that time, and Schubert was also fond Gramophone writes of this album: “One of it; the original version of Die schöne can only marvel at Howard Shelley’s Charles Villiers Stanford: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & 6 / Dante Quartet Müllerin was published with guitar industry in the triple role of musical accompaniment! Guido Balestracci and Hats off, folks: the completion of the first full recorded cycle of Stanford’s string quartets deserves a moment of archaeologist, conductor and pianist. It is the musicians of L’Amoroso have built acknowledgement... the more you listen to this music, the more distinctively Stanford’s own voice emerges... Few not just the fluency, power and precision a delightful Schubertiad around this quartets can have more experience of Stanford’s style than the Dante Quartet, and as with previous releases in of his playing that elevates both scores famous sonata, combining the arpeggione this series, their performances go far beyond mere read-throughs. They’re ardent, alert and thoroughly lived in. but the little understated moments when and the piano with voice and guitars to – Gramophone he pulls back to let the music breathe appropriate a rich selection of the Viennese 1CD SOMM 0607 $18.99 with exquisitely sensitive phrasing” and composer’s lieder. BBC Music adds: “The Sinfonieorchester 1CD RCR 409 $18.99 St Gallen is on first-class form… both performances could hardly be bettered.” Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3; Manfred, Henry Charles Litolff: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2; 1CD HYP 68264 $19.99 overture / Sir John Eliot Gardiner; London SO Serenade for Violin & Piano / Leonore Piano Trio Sacred Music of Reger, Mahler, Zemlinsky / The second album in Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Schumann series with Litolff’s fluency and confidence in his stylistic quirks are always winning. Brahms: Sonatas Op. 78 & Op. 120 in Christoph Prégardien, tnr; Basel Chamber Orchestra the London Symphony Orchestra travels from glorious fanfare to dream- As is the glow, bounce and ensemble spirit of the Leonore Piano Trio, Arrangements for Cello / Raphael Wallfisch, The music on this CD puts like passages with the lively Spring and Rhenish symphonies. From the most sympathetic of interpreters. Tim Horton deserves a special cello; John York, piano alongside his contemporaries Gustav the dramatic first trumpet-call which awakens the frozen landscape, bouquet for elegantly dispatching Litolff’s torrents of notes, though Mahler and . The Symphony No.1 is a celebration of spring. It moves through the season Gemma Rosefield’s soulful cello and Benjamin Nabarro’s violin, so often Cellists are fortunate indeed to have their Basel Chamber Orchestra is recognised and a gruff folksong Scherzo until finally a jubilant conclusion dances a lark ascending, spread their own joy. two Brahms sonatas, both masterpieces as one of the leading chamber orchestras into summer. – BBC Music Magazine in their genre. So one can, and certainly in the classical music scene. Precise 1CD LSO M184423 $14.99 1CD HYP 68305 $19.99 will, ask why we need or indeed dare to vocal control, clear diction, intelligent ‘borrow’ the G major violin sonata and the musicality and an ability to get to the heart Schubert: Piano Quintet; Mendelssohn: two clarinet sonatas and thereby make Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; Shepherds’ of everything he sings all ensure Christoph Streichoktett, Op. 20 / Forellen Quintett our two into five. I hope, listeners can Farewell from Romeo & Juliet / Colin Davis, Prégardien’s place among the world’s agree that the two clarinet sonatas and London SO The two works on this release are of foremost lyric tenors. special significance for the Henschel the G major violin sonata lose nothing in 1CD SOLO 328 $18.99 Berlioz’s greatest interpreter of modern Quartet, with their prolific chamber these ‘translations’ and even gain a great times recorded it three times, but music‑making over the past 25 years. The deal of new and perhaps unexpected depth this most recent version is the most three founding members of the Henschel and character. gripping and satisfying, deftly treading Quartet have a special artistic friendship 1CD NIM 5974 $16.99 Schumann: Piano Trio Nos. 2; Neils Gade: a fine line between self-revelation and with Gerold Huber and Alexandra self‑indulgence. The volcanic outpourings Novelletten, Op. 29; Mendelssohn: Piano Trio Hengstebeck. Recording ’s Brahms: No. 1; Academic of feeling are as intense as they should Trout Quintet together for the Henschel No. 2 / Phoenix Piano Trio be, yet in the quieter moments – Davis Quartet’s anniversary is a wish that the Festival Overture, Op. 80 / Claudio Vandelli; The Phoenix Piano Trio is established as achieves a wonderfully expressive ensemble has now fulfilled. Wurth PO one of today’s leading ensembles, bringing pianissimo, in which every detail seems to 1CD SOLO 332 $18.99 convey meaning. Conductors often become strangely together three renowned players and 1CD MSLC 1370 $9.99 Debussy: String Quartet; Franck: Piano Quintet / inhibited when conducting Schoenberg’s praised for performances with a ‘musical Marc-André Hamelin, pno; masterly rethink, keen, no doubt, to point narrative of tremendous, involving depth’ (Strings Magazine USA) and ‘unbuttoned Violin Sonatas of Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns / Takács Quartet up its myriad instrumental subtleties. Claudio Vandelli goes in the opposite exuberance’ (Financial Times). Violinist Jean Jacques Kantorow, violin; Jacques The César Franck Piano Quintet in F minor is paired with Debussy’s direction, however, allowing the music its Jonathan Stone is an internationally Rouvier, piano [2 CDs] String Quartet in G minor on this Hyperion album from pianist Marc- full head as though it were a freshly- acclaimed chamber musician, soloist and André Hamelin and the Takács String Quartet. Franck’s Piano Quintet discovered symphony…Some may prefer a concertmaster, and was a member of the This enthralling double album brings together opposites that normally Doric String Quartet for 13 years. would not attract: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s violin sonatas and and Debussy’s String Quartet make an apt and unusual coupling, each more measured, considered approach, yet Camille Saint-Saëns’s contribution to the same genre when this work it’s composer’s only, unsurpassable, contribution to the genre. Both Brahms’s music has rarely felt so bracingly 1CD SOER 5060192780949 $17.99 composer who had also begun his career as a wunderkind was a receive authoritative performances from Marc-André Hamelin and the alive. – BBC Music Magazine mature master. Jean-Jacques Kantorow and Jacques Rouvier very Takács Quartet. 1SA CD CHL 72831 $18.99 unpretentiously present this carefully preserved treasure from the 1CD HYP 68061 $19.99 Romantic Reflections for Clarinet & Harp – legendary Denon Archive as that which it is: great music. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1; Tchaikovsky: Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence; Mussorgsky: Schumann, Brahms, Schubert / John Corbett, clt; 2CD MDG 6502153 $16.99 Symphony No. 5 / Fabio Martino, piano; Pictures at an Exhibition / Camerata du Léman Simone Seiler, harp Enrique Granados: Piano Music / Stuttgarter PO The young players of the Swiss string Great works always attract artists of many Myriam Barbaux-Cohen, piano Ettinger regularly conducts at the ensemble Camerata du Léman make different instruments, and for good reason worlds great opera houses such as the their recording debut with energetic – it is only then that they are illuminated Enrique Granados’ music is full of an Metropolitan Opera in New York, the performances of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir in their full scope. New sounds and colors emotion and tenderness that rightly Washington National Opera, Londons de Florence and Mussorgsky’s Pictures enrich the original material. The unusual elevates him to the status of a national Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, at an Exhibition, in a new combination of clarinet/ and monument of the same rank as Isaac the Opéra National de Paris, the New by concertmaster Simon Bouveret. The harp reveals a powerful emotionality to Albéniz or Francisco Goya, whom he National Theatre in Tokyo, Opernhaus Camerata realize an ensemble sound that the listener and, particularly in Brahms’s adored. The Frenchwoman Myriam Zürich, the Salzburg Festival and the State is both homogenic and soloistic, and are Intermezzi, highlights complex chamber Barbaux-Cohen and the Spaniard Opera Houses of Vienna and Munich. driven by a shared desire for adventure music qualities already concealed within Granados: Two souls who understand each Since 2018 Ettinger has taken up his new and a common passion for chamber music. the piano version. other blindly meet here and harmonize post as Music Director of the Israeli Opera 1CD TYXA 18114 $18.99 even over the temporal separation of in Tel Aviv. On this recording, Ettinger interprets Tchaikovsky’s Fifth 1CD PTE 5186762 $15.99 a century. Symphony, and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1. 1SA CD ARSP 38288 $19.99 1CD HAN 19048 $18.99 30 31 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com New Romantic Era Recordings NEW RELEASES - ROMANTIC Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37a / Hubert Parry: Judith? William Vann; Recommended Romantic Era Albums Sissi Makropoulou, harp London Mozart Players; Crouch End Festival Having worked with the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Deutsche Chorus [2 CDs] Schubert: Piano Quintet, Op. 44; Piano Quartet, Op. 47 / Nils Anders Mortensen, Oper and MusicAeterna, Sissi Makropoulou has established a On the evidence of these CDs, conductor William Vann totally pno; Enegård Quartet reputation among the most talented harpists of her generation, believes in this piece; he offers a compelling reading, drawing from as well as a composer working under the name Sissi Radu. On Formed under the midnight sun in Lofoten in 2006, the Engegård Quartet has rapidly become one of Norway’s the excellent Crouch End Festival Chorus and LMP (all of whom this, her debut solo album, she brings both talents together. As most sought after ensembles. “Calmly authoritative, a sobering intellect, Nils Anders Mortensen rises to the would have been new to the piece) a thrilling account. The soloists an encore, Sissi Makropoulou plays her own arrangement of the challenge of this music, combining drama, momentum and climactic elation with soulful poetry and moments of are all on fine form, with Sarah Fox in the title role singing with skittish humour free of artifice. His ear for detail, clarity and open textures is matched by the recording team and second movement from Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. burnished tones, and Toby Spence as the conflicted king exploiting the Engegård Quartet.” – International Piano 1CD BLC 96034 $9.99 his ringing top register. – Choir & Organ 1CD LAWO 1189 $16.99 2SA CD CHA 5268 $35.98 Brahms: Violin Sonata, Nos. 1 & 2 / Lise Berthaud, Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 1; Carnival of the Animals; Symphony in A major / viola; Sarah Laulan, ; Éric Le Sage, piano Schumann: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2; Thierry Fischer; Utah SO Although both Sonates Op.120 may Fantasiestücke, Op. 88 / Kungsbacka Piano Trio be some of the last pieces written by These performances of Symphony No.1 and the Symphony in A major from Thierry Fischer and the Utah Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2 are filled to Symphony showcase the work of the young Camille Saint-Saëns, spreading his compositional wings and , they still sound capacity with imitative writing, sometimes displaying a technical fluency far beyond his teenage years. In between them, a musical menagerie roars, clucks, with the great vigor and sensitivity that conspicuously so but often subtly as if brays and squawks for attention. BBC Music remarks that the symphony by the 15-year-old composer bears “a belong to the great Viennese composer. on a subconscious level an aspect that remarkable assuredness that is admirably engaging in this lithe performance.” B Records continues to explore his the members of the Kungsbacka Piano 1CD HYP 68223 $19.99 whole chamber music, with an addition Trio, with more than 20 years of playing of two treasures. This is a program that together, are able to make the most of. 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This beautifully recorded debut release confirms not only their superb technical accomplishment and 1SA CD BIS 2437 $19.99 their impeccably blended sound, but also a maturity of interpretative approach that can only be achieved after Belle Epoque / Daniel Hope, violin; Lise de la Salle, piano; Simon Crawford-Phillips; long and patient engagement with the music.” – BBC Music Brahms: Viola Sonata Nos. 1 & 2; Cello Sonata 1CD FLA 757 $18.99 Zurich CO [2 CDs] No. 1 / Zhang Manchin, viola; Albert Tiu, cello This program unites late Romantic and Impressionist pieces as The two Brahms Sonatas for Viola and Piano are unquestionably well as early works from the Second Viennese School. “Hope’s two of the greatest chamber works for viola. Here we have Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Liszt: Solo Piano Viola Romance – Kreisler, Elgar, Dvořák, Brahms, glidings and throbbings can be delightful, as can the music itself. the addition of a great arrangement for viola and piano of the Works / Georg Li, piano; Vasily Petrenko; LPO Schumann, et al / Rivka Golani, vln; Zsuzsa Kollár, Some of the sweetest, rarest pieces come from Webern’s teacher Brahms Sonata for Cello & Piano in E minor, Op. 38. Violinist pno [2 CDs] Schoenberg, writing in the 1890s when he had yet to relinquish George Li gained international attention Manchin Zhang and pianist Albert Tiu are ideal performers for heart-tugging tunes... Treat this album like a big box of luxury in 2015 when he won the silver medal in Rivka Golani is one of the leading virtuoso this literature. Zhang Manchin is Principal Violist of the Singapore the International Tchaikovsky Competition chocolates: never eat them in one go” – The Times violists of modern times. Her mastery Symphony Orchestra. in Moscow. Now he has recorded one of 2CD DGG B003161002 $26.99 of the instrument combined with superb 1CD CEN 3686 $15.49 Tchaikovsky’s greatest and best-loved musicianship has been a source of works, the Piano Concerto No. 1 with inspiration to many players and composers. Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 / ; Nightingale, A Tribute to Jenny Lind / Elin the London Philharmonic Orchestra and More than 300 pieces have been written for conductor Vasily Petrenko. The New York her, including over 80 concertos to date – Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Rombo, sop; Simon Crawford-Phillips, pno; Times has called him a “real revelation” in Västerås Sinfonietta with several more in the pipeline. She has Dausgaard, taking fairly swift tempos, the work. performed as soloist with many orchestras and conducting with a strong rhythmic Swedish-based British conductor, 1CD WRNC M379575 $18.99 throughout the world. 2CD HGR 32811 $31.49 sense, has this enigmatic work Simon Crawford-Phillips, leads the The Lyrical Clarinet, Vol. 3 / Michael Collins, bounding along and at least made me award-winning Västerås Sinfonietta clarinet; Michael McHale, piano Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein: Cello Sonatas 1 & 2 / understand why Bruckner called it ‘the and acclaimed soprano Elin Rombo cheekiest’. Dausgaard has his wind on a musical journey charting the life Gert von Bülow, cello; Jose Ribera, piano [2 CDs] Committed for many years to expanding the repertoire of the clarinet, players getting up to mischief whenever and influence of the legendary singer Michael Collins has premiered works by some of today’s most highly These are the first recordings of the two sonatas for cello and piano possible… Anyone approaching this Jenny Lind. In the 200th year since regarded composers. Of this release, Gramophone writes: “A new and of the last trio for violin, cello and piano by the Russian romantic work for the first time, and wondering her birth this album celebrates “The CD from Michael Collins is like walking into a three-star Michelin composer Anton Rubinstein. The works are performed by three why it has its Cinderella status, should Swedish Nightingale’s” career through restaurant: you don’t know exactly what’s on the menu but you know fine musicians often playing together and giving a fully convincing whatever is on offer is going to taste wonderful.. One has to salute the listen to this and will wonder still more. the music of her musical friends, Felix performance of these rare works. A bonus album is included with the first – BBC Music Magazine Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and extraordinary facility and irresistibly seductive, lyrical grace of Michael release of the original master tape of the last Rubinstein trio. Collins’s playing. 1SA CD BIS 2404 $19.99 Hans Christian Andersen. 2CD DCD 858 $16.99 1CD CHA 20147 $16.99 1CD DBP 196 $16.99 Piano Works of Reinecke, Schumann, Friedrich Silcher: Choral Music / Anna-Katharina RECOMMENDED ROMANTIC ALBUMS IN BRIEF Clara Schumann / Andrea Kauten, pno; Kalmbach; Remigius Kammerchor Nagold Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim Silcher’s arrangements of Christmas and Undine – Reinecke, Taktakishvili, Prokofiev / Temo Kharshiladze, flt; Virtuoso brilliance and lyrical poetry- the Advent carols, with their pleasant simplicity, Ketevan Sepashvili, pno formal structure of works for solo piano are also immediately accessible to the with orchestra by both Clara and Robert listener and develop an irresistible magic All are delivered superbly here: tone colour is sensitively judged, dynamics well controlled. More freedom in interpretation Schumann and Carl Reinecke captivate in a completely natural way. The Remigius would be welcomed. – BBC Music Magazine the listener on first hearing them. Yet Kammerchor Nagold under the direction of 1CD GRAM 99201 $16.99 Anna-Katharina Kalmbach performs on this the selection of works chosen by Andrea Schumann, Brahms: Sonatas and Songs / Christian Poltéra, cello; Kathryn Stott, piano Kauten for this recording goes much recording with young voices, which present further. The works by Clara and Robert themselves unaffected, but also technically New arrangements result in gorgeously warm and intimate music making… performed with great ardour and exemplary Schumann may be seen as intentionally well-founded. clarity of texture. – The Strad 1CD BYR 100400 $18.99 eloquent individual testimony to the 1SA CD BIS 2167 $19.99 biographical situation of their creators. 1CD SOLO 315 $18.99 Julius Röntgen: Works for Violin & Piano, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel: Piano Trio, Op. 11; Vol. 2 / Christoph Schickedanz, violin; Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 / Colin Davis, London Symphony Orchestra Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 / Rödberg Trio Ernst Breidenbach, piano Regarding this performance of the 7th Symphony, The Sunday Times remarked; “This beautiful performance deserves to win many new friends for Dvořák’s most Brahmsian symphony. Davis’s love of this music shines out of On this disc, the two Mendelssohn siblings can be heard on a pair of The works on this CD feature the Scandinavian influences that the every bar…” works written for the same chamber ensemble. Though their respective Swedish violinist and the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg exerted musical languages share many points of similarity, Fanny and Felix on Julius Röntgens music for violin and piano. Amanda Maier was 1CD MSLC 1406 $9.99 Röntgens great love and his first wife, and Grieg was his best friend. Mendelssohn’s individual artistic personalities shine through in a Bruckner: Symphony No. 1, Vienna Version 1891 / Gerd Schaller; Philharmonie Festiva fascinating manner. We are especially thrilled to be able to present a Significantly, Edvard Grieg is represented in the first work on this CD in recording of these two works on suitable instruments for the period. It’s the form of the sonata that Röntgen composed “In Memory of Edvard Grieg.” An exceptional performance which makes a compelling case for the conductor’s own revised completion of the not as if there is a surplus of such recordings. Finale. (MusicWeb International). This release belongs to the project Bruckner 2024, celebrating the composer’s 1CD ABA 451 $18.99 1CD CPO 777769 $15.49 bicentenary in 2024. 1CD PRF 19084 $17.99 32 33 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com NEW RELEASES - POST ROMANTIC NEW RELEASES - HISTORIC From the Turn of the 20th Century Historic Reissues on CD New and Recommended Recommended Releases

Elgar: Symphony No. 2; Marches / Sir Colin Davis; London SO Elgar from America, Vol. 1 / , cello; Arturo Toscanini; This recording has garnered lavish praise; Classic FM proclaimed it the most passionate and detailed NBC SO; New York PO account with the world-class playing of the LSO. BBC Radio 3 described it as being “Larger than life, but capturing Elgar from America, Vol. 1 offers a fascinating transatlantic perspective on a titan of British music and includes every mood with humanity and tenderness”. The Guardian and Sunday Times included it in their list of best Variations on an Original Theme ‘Enigma’; , Op. 85; and Falstaff, Symphonic Study, Op. 68. releases of 2002 and the Penguin Guide chose to highlight the breathtaking gentleness, glorious brass and “This particular Toscanini performance of ‘Enigma’ is new to CD and Rodzinski’s Falstaff has never been issued remarkable dynamic range. commercially in any format. It’s also healthy and stimulating to hear performances from outside the English 1CD MSLC 1407 $9.99 performing tradition.” – MusicWeb International 1CD SOMM 5005 $18.99

Escales: French Orchestral Works / John Wilson; Sinfonia of London Wallenstein and Fournet conduct Berlioz / Jean Fournet, London SO (live 1957); Wilson has the ability to make familiar music sound wonderfully fresh and new-minted, all the while Alfred Wallenstein, BBC SO (live 1956) [2 CDs] carefully judging and calibrating the sound world of each piece… The enthusiasm that [he] elicits from his Le retour à la vie – this extraordinary work, half-literary, half-musical reflected much of the thoughts and ideas also orchestra is very much apparent on every track, though what really impresses is the finesse as well as the found in his letters of the time, using music that was largely written earlier in Paris. Roméo et Juliette is another virtuosity of the playing, the refinement of detail, the subtlety of texture and colour. – Gramophone uniquely constructed work, it moves away from the purely symphonic towards the realm of opera. “The BBC 1SA CD CHA 5252 $17.99 brass is especially impressive when depicting the Prince’s strictures in the opening and the woodwind playing throughout is lovely.” – MusicWeb International 2CD CMEO 9110 $18.99

Suk: Symphony No. 2 ‘Asrael’ / Jakub Hrůša; Bavarian Radio SO Brahms: Symphony No. 4; Hadyn: Symphony No. 101 / Otto Klemperer; Ever since its premiere on February 3, 1907 at the Prague National Theatre, “Asrael” has ranked as Josef Suk’s Bavarian Radio SO most important symphonic work – and as a visionary glimpse into the future. “The excellent recorded sound is Otto Klemperer was one of the most important German conductors of the 20th century. This new album from a vital component of this performance, allowing every aspect of the Bavarian Radio Orchestra’s magnificent BR-KLASSIK features Klemperer’s interpretations of Haydn’s Symphony No. 101, “The Clock” (recorded in the orchestral playing to emerge with clarity. Overall, this near-definitive performance is one to treasure.” concerts of October 18 and 19, 1956), and Brahms’ Fourth Symphony (recorded on September 26 and 27, 1957). – BBC Music Magazine “Insightful performances from a master musician at the height of his considerable powers.” 1CD BRK 900188 $16.99 – MusicWeb International 1CD BRK 900717 $14.99

Music of Ravel & Benjamin Attahir (b. 1989) / J.S. Bach: Magnificat, BWV 243; Cantatas Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Suzanne Danco, soprano; Reynaldo Hahn: String Quartet No. 2; Josef Krips; London SO Patrick Wibart, serpent Debussy: Ariettes Oubliees / Siobhan Stagg, soprano; Nos. 11, 67, 147 / Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; Alexandre Bloch and the Orchestre Noga Quartet Vienna PO & State Opera Chorus Noting Mahler’s repeated ‘nicht eilen’ (‘don’t rush’) markings, Josef Krips National de Lille present two favoirites by It goes without saying that [the Magnificat] never hurries the music or indulges in unnecessary point-making. The This excellent disc from the Noga Quartet bursts with colour, both , La Valse and Rapsodie is an important addition to Ferrier’s score unfolds with natural charm and warmth, lovingly communicated through its imaginative choice of repertoire and its vivid performance… Espagnole, with the music of another discography, and she is indeed marvellous by the LSO’s string section – led by Hugh Maguire. With Suzanne Soprano Siobhan Stagg shines throughout and the quartet brings real French composer, Benjamin Attahir. in it, singing ‘Esurientes implevit bonis’ Danco a pristine soloist in the finale, childlike but never childish, this is flair to this inventive project, meeting each twist and turn of the score Recorded for the first time is Attahir’s with that unique, indescribable tone and a beautifully-judged performance of a work which can too easily sound with nuance and imagination… This is an outstanding disc that radiates Concerto for Serpent and Orchestra that expressive sincerity that characterises overstated, faux-naif or both. a sense of discovery and integrity. – BBC Music Magazine showcases the splendid sound of this low her finest work… This is grand-manner 1CD CMEO 9112 $14.99 wind instrument, a member of the brass 1CD CAVI 8553106 $17.99 Bach on a scale that many would consider Menahem Pressler, Vol. 3 – W.A. Mozart; Ludwig van indefensible today, though Andreae family even though it is made of wood Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem; Mason Bates: covered in leather. conducts with great élan and energy. Beethoven / Menahem Pressler, piano [3 CDs] 1CD AHP 562 $16.99 Children of Adam – Gramophone Menahem Pressler was born in 1923 1CD SOMM 5004 $18.99 Reference Recordings is proud to present in Magdeburg, Germany. In 1938 he Mahler: Symphony No. 6 / Tomas Netopil; a World Première recording of Mason plays Rachmaninov & Prokofiev / emigrated to , where he received most of his musical training. His career Essener PO [2 CDs] Bates’ Children of Adam, songs of creation Rostropovich, Sanderling; Kondrashin et al. [11 CDs] coupled with Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis was launched following winning of the first The 6th symphony of was written between 1903 and pacem. 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The work was performed almost Areyzaga and baritone Kevin Deas with the left for posterity compositions for their instrument with some incredibly Ormandy was followed by tours of North exactly 113 years earlier, on May 27, 1906, by the same orchestra under Richmond Symphony Chorus conducted by difficult passages. To master them, in order to penetrate towards their America and Europe. He is one of the the composer’s direction. Erin R. Freeman musical core, requires first and foremost excellent piano technique. world’s most revered chamber musicians. 2CD OEH 1716 $28.49 1CD REF 732 $16.99 11CD PRF 19052 $40.49 3CD DRM 80835 $55.49 NEW POST-ROMANTIC RELEASES IN BRIEF HISTORIC RECORDINGS IN BRIEF Invitation au Voyage / Giorgos Kanaris, baritone; Thomas Wise, piano Beethoven: Complete Works For Cello And Piano / Pierre Fournier, cello; Friedrich Gulda, piano [2 CDs] Giorgos Kanaris is a recitalist and opera singer. This recording provides a colourful collection of French poems by Paul Verlaine, Charles d’Orleans, Paul Morand, and many more set to music by the leading French composers of their time. Pierre Fournier has recorded the complete works for cello and piano by Beethoven twice. This new release features the “aristocrat 1CD HAN 19068 $18.99 of cellists,” as he was known, in his first cycle from 1959, with pianist Friedrich Gulda. 2CD URA 121.383 $29.99 French Cello Music / Natasha Farny, cello; Jitka Fowler Franková, piano Hindemith conducts Hindemith / Dennis Brain, horn; Paul Hindemith; Berlin PO; Along with standards of the repertoire (Debussy’s Beau Soir and Cello Sonata; Ravel’s Sonata No. 1; and Faure’s 3 Philharmonia Orch. [2 CDs] Songs) are some wonderful, less often played works by Lili Boulanger (Nocturne and Cortege). This release features nearly all of the compositions by Paul Hindemith, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic and the Philharmonia 1CD CEN 3753 $15.49 Orchestra with the composer conducting. 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This latest release reveals yet more riches, and constitutes an excellent addition to this increasingly impressive series. 1936. The organ and probably also part of his music was destroyed A unique but logical coupling on record: lyrical cello sonatas of ready Wallfisch’s enthusiasm and commitment to these scores is exemplary. – MusicWeb International by the flames. The surviving works bear witness to an unmistakable melodic appeal, superbly written for the instrument by two 20th-century affinity with the French organ aesthetics of the late 19th century. On this 1CD CPO 555273 $15.49 Italian composers, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968) and recording Markus Eichenlaub plays an original English, three-manual Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880–1968), who remained aloof from both the lure Nelson organ from 1904. 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Poulenc: La Voix Humaine; L’Histoire de Babar / Miniatures; Eugenie Alecian: Un Quatuor Armenien / – BBC Music Daniela Mazzucato, soprano 1CD BRK 900185 $16.99 Akhtamar Quartet This new recording presents two vocal The miniatures of Komitas have the Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64; Tod und Verlarung, Op. 24 / Vasily Petrenko; Oslo PO works by Poulenc, showing two different merit of being able to condense in a few sides of the composer: the deeply tragic La So many excellent Strauss Alpine Symphonies have rolled off the recording production line in recent years, all with minutes all aspects of Armenian musical voix humaine and the comical L’histoire de culture. Each of them is an invitation to something individual to say. Vasily Petrenko’s, in his latest invaluable Strauss disc with the Oslo Philharmonic, does so Babar. 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By far seems equally at home with the demands chamber music player. of both.” – BBC Music the best of the three available recordings is this classic USSR SO/Kondrashin. – Gramophone Magazine 1CD BLC 96030 $9.99 1CD CYRS 1681 $18.99 1CD MSLC 1421 $9.99 36 37 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Music of Contemporary Composers NEW RELEASES - CONTEMPORARY Giya Kancheli (1935–2019): 33 Miniatures / George Helge Burggrabe: Stella Maris – Blaues Oratorium / Recommended New Releases Vatchnadze, piano; Suren Bagratuni, cello [2 CDs] Alexandra Busch-Sechser, sop; Various [2 CDs] For this album George Vatchnadze has gathered together 33 short The Oratorio Stella Maris is homage to the cathedral of Chartres, Bert Sørensen: Concertos / Leif Ove Andsnes, pno; Martin Fröst, clt; pieces drawn from the huge oeuvre of film music composed by the and it is an attempt to respond to this overall work of art with Thomas Søndergård; Danish National SO greatest Georgian composer of our time, Giya Kancheli. In each current and modern means of art. The composer of this creation is piece he outlines the directorial view of a given play or a movie, This recording assembles three recent concertos from the Grawemeyer Award-winning composer performed Helge Burggrabe, who as a young musician, first came to Chartres by distinguished Nordic soloists. “Three recent concertos by Bent Sørensen, which are full of attractive, vivid and not always emphasising the condition of sorrow or nostalgia to in 1996. Since then he visits there several times a year to stay instrumental effects, are brought together by Dacapo Records, all with their dedicatees as the soloists... It may be which most of Kancheli’s music aspires. and work. The words sung by soloists and choir are carried on by fundamentally undemanding music, but it is beautifully made.” – The Guardian 2CD PINC 10198 $21.99 instruments. 1CD DACO 8226095 $14.99 2CD HAN 19021 $22.99 Ludovico Einaudi (b. 1955): Melodia Afrincana I / The Very Best of Łukaszewski – Prayer to the I Giorni Guardian Angel; String Quartet No. 1; et al. / Timo Ruottinen (b. 1947): Missa Popularis / The New Segment Orchestra Pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi Various artists [2 CDs] Timo Ruottinen’s setting of the Mass undoubtedly serves its purpose extremely well and it is, of its kind, a was born in Turin on November 23rd high‑quality work. [... ] At first hearing, I’d say that the young composer has an extremely rich melodic seam and We present a selection of the most 1955. Perhaps it was his mother, an beautiful compositions by Pawel a well-developed ability to create unbroken lines in setting such a difficult text to music.The danger of monotony amateur pianist, who gave him the first was brilliantly avoided by different rhythmic contrasts that brought the music alive and made it interesting. Łukaszewski – an outstanding impulse to music, planting the seeds for – Keskisuomalainen contemporary Polish composer, whose 1CD ABA 442 $18.99 what would become a fruitful, illustrious music we have had the honor to record career. He began to study music at the and propagate on sixteen releases Conservatory of Turin and graduated published by DUX in recent years. Spark Catchers – Errollyn Wallen, James Wilson, Daniel Kidane, Hannah Kendall, with a diploma in composition under Łukaszewski is a composition professor, et al. / Chineke! 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Hannah Kendall’s The Spark Catchers, recorded at its taut Proms premiere in 2017. – The Times Boghos Gelelian: Cello Sonata; Piano Sonata; 2CD DUX 1515 $26.99 1CD NMC 250 $18.99 Dia Succari: 5 Pieces / Adrien Frasse-Sombet, clo; George Crumb: Three Early Songs; Voice of Zina Asfour, pno the Whale; Celestial Mehanics / Various artists Dia Succari’s works are written in a universal musical language, For over 60 years, George Crumb’s music has been recognised as inspired by the themes and rhythmic elements belonging to a sonoristic phenomenon that cannot be compared to the output of Figments, Solo & Chamber Works, Vol. 2 / Jessica The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named / the oriental traditional music. Boghos Gelalian is an Armenian Maxfield, sax; Jennifer Slowick, obo; Ruud Harte, gtr other artists composing at the same time; the catalogue of artistic Eklemes; Talea Ensemble; JACK Quartet; et al. composer, inspired by the rhythmic patterns of the Middle East and influences under which Crumb was, over the years, is extremely The album opens with Tell by Yuan-Chen Armenia. By experimenting their harmonization, Gelalian comes Castri’s compositions are an expression of a extensive. This album includes three completely stylistically Li, a work commissioned and performed closer to atonal music. His music strives to transcend all national different compositions by George Crumb, depicting different stages by saxophonist Jessica Maxfield, that joins searching artistry, mapping her explorations into the nature of experience onto musical and cultural barriers to reach a universal audience. of the composer’s sonoristic quest. the woodwind instrument in a holy dance 1CD MAGU 358432 $16.99 with the leaping yips, gasps, and cries of parameters. “The typewriter is treated as 1CD DUX 1510 $17.99 the human voice. This is followed by Mar part of the percussion section, a sensitive Henryk Górecki: String Quartets Nos. 1–3 / integration that means the additional timbre de Lurin, after paintings by Fernando de Flock, Solo Violin Works by Carola Bauckholt, Jan Quatuor Molinari [2 CDs] Szyszlo, in which composer Peter Dayton never feels tokenistic. There’s much to Martin Smordal / Karin Hellqvist, violin harnesses the creamy resonance of nylon explore in the other give pieces, performed Polish composer Henryk Górecki by a variety of musicians across multiple guitar strings to paint vibrant studies in light The meeting between a violin and enjoys an exceptionally high profile as and shadow. locations.” – BBC Music Magazine electronic sounds points toward 1CD NEWF 227 $16.99 a composer of contemporary music. 1CD NVA 6259 $14.99 oppositions that have structured our Now the Molinari Quartet has chosen Western self understanding: tradition to explore Górecki’s chamber works Ulrich Leyendecker: String Quartets Nos. 1–3; vs. innovation, material vs. immaterial, Dave Malloy (b. 1976): Octet, A Chamber Choir with this new recording of his complete Quintet for Strings / Volker Hemken, clt; history vs. present, nature vs. science. string quartets. The Molinari Quartet Musical / Original Cast Minguet Quartett The works of this recording explore, as been described by the critics as an It will probably come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the weird accentuate, attack, and erase these ‘essential’ and ‘prodigious’ ensemble, The present release features chamber Music of one of the most and wonderful work of Dave Molloy that this so-called ‘Chamber contradictions between the violin sound established German composers of the 20th century, Ulrich Leyendecker, even ‘Canada’s answer to the Kronos or Choir Musical’ is an extraordinary confection... The musical language and electronic sound in various ways. performed by one of Europe’s best ensembles. 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Her pianist, Paul Turner is adept at Charles Amirkhanian; various artists Scored for 24 unaccompanied voices, Anonymous Man is an hour- picking up and sustaining styles which are many and varied across these nine songs. – American Record Guide long piece that expands on Michael Gordon’s eclectic approach to Amirkhanian’s text-sound pieces often begin with a quasi-minimalist 1CD DVT 25188 $18.99 composition, layering minimalistic swirls of vocal sound on top of one basis in repetition, but their processes are playful and even humorous another to create a hypnotic incantation. Performing this tour de force rather than strict. Several of his earlier commercial recordings have Going for the Impossible – Raminta Šerkšnytė / Giedrė Šlekytė; Lithuanian National SO; is the Philadelphia-based choir The Crossing. Formed by a group showcased the text-sound pieces; the present two-disc set is a welcome of friends in 2005 they have dedicated themselves to expanding the Kremerata Baltica [CD + DVD Video] compendium of his sound landscapes. We might characterize the whole contemporary choral music experience. as three tone poems preceded by a set of ten etudes. Šerkšnytė’s music is free-flowing in its expression, form and range, offering moments of exquisite beauty and 1CD CPE 21154 $19.99 1CD NWR 81722 $48.99 quasi mysticism... there is something magical about hearing contemporary Lithuanian music performed by local experts. – BBC Music 2CD / DVD-Video DGG B003130700 $22.99 38 39 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com New, Complete Opera Titles NEW RELEASES - OPERA

Giovanni Paisiello: Le Gare Generose / Daniel-François-Espirit Auber: Le Maçon / Kurt Recommended Opera Releases Marianna Mappa; Bruno Taddia; Manuel Amati; Tenner; Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich Giulia Mattiello [2 CDs] Orfeo’s release provides true musical Beethoven: Leonore / Marlis Petersen, Maximilian Schmitt, Dimitry Ivashchenko, Paisiello wrote the music for ‘Le gare pleasure, prompting questions once Johannes Weisser [2 CDs] generose’ to be premiered at the again as to why Auber has fallen so Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples in the The original 1805 version of Beethoven’s only opera is a high-adrenaline experience in the hands of René Jacobs and completely out of favour. (Opera). This the Freiburger Barockorchester. “There is no question that Jacobs has here translated his academic argument into spring of 1786. This opera features opéra français, first performed on 3 May fervent advocacy... He is aided by a superlative performance from the Freiburger Barockorchester: the string playing, middle-class characters rather than 1825, relates to the venerable tradition by turns lightly pointed or fiery, is complemented by characterful winds... the set bodes well to be one of the Beethoven the usual aristocrats. Paisiello’s score of the rescue opera, which had been year’s enduring highlights.” – Opera features the arsenal of comic devices in fashion since the French Revolution. 2CD HAR 902414 $29.99 he would later employ in La Scuffiara Its libretto and score were equally or La Molinara. Music closely reflects successful. The opera represents a Berlioz: Les Troyens, opera / Sir Colin Davis; London SO & the action on stage: in the duet for Bastiano and Gelinda “Scopa, decisive development in Auber’s style. scopa, netta e spazza”, what the violins play resembles the broom 1CD ORF 985191 $14.99 Chorus [4 CDs] sweeping while the couple quarrel. 2CD BGV 2575 $28.49 “[Davis] magnificently crowns his whole career as a Berlioz interpreter, generally outshining even his pioneer Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice / Iestyn Davies; Sophie version of 30 years earlier... Petra Lang is superb, firm, rich and intense, investing every phrase with emotional Baldassarre Galuppi: L’Amante di Tutte / power, instantly establishing her dominance... Ben Heppner excels himself.” (Penguin Guide ROSETTE) Bevan; Rebecca Bottone; David Bates; La Nuova Gramophone Awards’ Best Opera; Opera News’ Recordings of the Year; Grammy Opera of the Year Award 2001. Marco Fracassi; Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana Musica 4CD MSLC 4006 $20.99 di Piacenza Bates is, like Gluck, wonderfully radical. Where other directors This opera includes all the main stylistic characteristics of smooth over disjunctions, he revels in rupture... This is directorship Galuppi’s art, starting with his concentration on the action and at its most alert, and aiding Bates is an optimal cast... Davies Johann Strauss: Die Fledermaus / Julia Varady; Lucia Popp; Hermann Prey; rhythm of the staging. Galuppi realized the need for a different radiates Orfeo’s impassioned tenderness, changing vocal Carlos Kleiber; Bayerisches Staatsorchester [2 CDs + Blu-ray audio] approach, with the arias (the highest moment in serious opera) colours as the drama demands. Sophie Bevan’s Euridice swings, Twenty-five years after its original release there’s still no recording of Die Fledermaus that, for many collectors, reduced in favor of a greater characterisation of the protagonists, with blazing bravura and increasing intensity, from anguish to matches this one for the compelling freshness of its conductor’s interpretation – the attention to every nuance concentrating more on the comic elements, constantly fed by irony narcissism... – BBC Music Magazine of the score and the ability to bring out some new detail, all allied to extreme precision of vocal and instrumental and wit. The present release showcases L’Amante di tutte. 1CD PTE 5186805 $15.99 ensemble... DG remastered the set to make it sound as though it were recorded only yesterday. – Gramophone 1CD BGV 23183 $11.99 Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz / Tomáš Netopil; 3Blu-Ray Audio / CD DGG 4837468 $33.49 Donizetti: Don Pasquale / Fritz Wunderlich; Chor und Essener PO; Aalto-Theater Opera Eztra Chorus Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper Munchen [2 CDs] [2 CDs] The Freischütz counts as a milestone in Detlev Glanert (b. 1960): Oceane / Donald Jacques Offenbach: Un Mari à la Porte, operetta / Not surprisingly, Fritz Wunderlich the history of German opera. Created Runnicles; Orchester und Chor der Deutschen Oper Valerio Galli; Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (1930–1966) in the role of Ernesto in 1821 under the impression of the Berlin [2 CDs] If it’s not quite Offenbach’s daftest score – no singing dogs, dead parrots receives the greatest attention. liberation wars against Napoleons, the Probably Germany’s greatest tenor Glanert’s music is very approachable – the opening of the opera is or laxative jokes, anyway – it’s still pretty daft. The performances are so-called National Opera expresses the stunning, with the soprano voice emerging from washes of choral sound, comparably broad – gestures are flamboyant and there’s a lot of mugging knew just how to cultivate the love-sick Germans’ desire for cultural identity. and the orchestral effects for sea and storm are exquisite. It is tonal and and slapstick. The musical numbers offer some respite from the silliness... bachelor, as he did with all his roles, The librettist Johann Friedrich Kind rhythmic and the music sings well, with the vocal line supported on the I laughed, and I’m still humming the tunes, and I don’t think Offenbach and to breathe life into the character temporally places the plot in the vicinity orchestral cushion. Donald Runnicles’ conducting makes the most of would have asked for more. – Gramophone with his inimitable voice. In addition to of the Thirty Years’ War. Here people in Glanert’s orchestral textures, and the cast is strong. – Opera Now 1CD DYN 7844 $12.99 lyric qualities, the role demands other a society are shaped by religious power 2CD OEH 985 $28.49 skills such as the canto fiorito style of struggles, war and outdated rituals. Handel: Almira, Queen of Castile / Emőke ornamented singing of the nineteenth 2CD OEH 988 $28.49 Rossini: Zelmira / Federico Sacchi; Gianluigi Baráth, soprano; Stephen Stubbs; Boston century. Gelmetti; Górecki Chamber Choir, Kraków; Virtuosi Early Music Festival Orch. [4 CDs] 2CD PRF 19075 $22.99 Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freichütz / Marek Brunensis [3 CDs] Janowski; Frankfurt RSO; MDR Leipzig Radio Choir Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs’ musical Per August Ölander (1824–1886): Blenda, opera in [2 CDs] The music is a magnificent mix of direction is slick ... Emőke Baráth and four acts / Michael Bartosch; Swedish Radio SO & everything that Rossini had polished in Amanda Forsythe possess pleasingly Choir [2 CDs] Maestro Marek Janowski leads a sensational cast – including Naples – grand marches, hair-raising contrasting , the former darker- crescendos, bubbling woodwinds and Per August Ölander was born in Linköping on 8 January 1824. He star vocalists Lise Davidsen and Andreas Schager – on this new toned, the latter brighter – and both recording of Der Freischütz, the German Romantic opera par dizzying cabalettas... The Wildbad cast greatly accomplished. (Opera Now). The was a composer, violinist, writer and critic, all on the side of his excellence. “[Davidsen] gives her finest performance to date, both hesitates at first but Mert Süngü’s Ilo Hungarian soprano Emőke Baráth sings official career as a civil servant by the Swedish Customs Service. gains in confidence even if strained under the role of Almira with a choice ensemble His musical production consists of works in a variety of genres, arias sung with a big, radiant voice, but always lyrically...She is pressure... In the pit Gianluigi Gelmetti of singers, all of whom have performed in including a symphony and an opera. Ölander’s four-act opera well matched by Sofia Fomina’s perky Ännchen...” steers a safe course, though sometimes the world’s most renowned concert halls Blenda is performed by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra – The Sunday Times the balance is rocky on the ear. and opera houses. and Choir under the direction of Michael Bartosch, and features 2SA CD PTE 5186788 $29.99 – BBC Music Magazine 4CD CPO 555205 $59.99 3CD NXS 8660468 $38.98 soprano Karin Ingeback in the title role. 2CD STR 1118 $29.99 Johann Joseph Abert: Ekkehard / Verdi: Ernani / Sung Kyu Park; Marian Pop; Pavel Jonas Kaufmann; Peter Falk; SWR Radio Kudinov; Leah Gordon; Stephanie Henke; Christoph NEW OPERA RECORDINGS IN BRIEF SO Kaiserslautern [2 CDs] Wittmann [2 CDs] Bosch shows that even the supposedly somewhat weaker works of the Georg Joseph Vogler: Gustaf Adolf och Ebba Brahe (1787) / Charles Farncombe; The fate of the lovesick monk Ekkehard unfolds against the historical great opera genius have their special charms. In Ernani’s case, this background of the battle against heathenism and the Hunnish invasion. Royal Swedish Orch. & Chorus [2 CDs] is once again a highly convincing success: Marcus Bosch, the Czech Abert set this very motley text to music in such a way that each of The present release is a recording from the performance of the first modern revival at Drottningholm PalaceTheatre, Philharmonic Choir Brno and the Cappella Aquileia, together with a the various worlds and situations is given its appropriate expression, hand-picked ensemble of singers, turn the first large piece of world Stockholm, June 7th, 1973. “The whole performance is vivid and alert... In every respect this is a quality product.” emulating ‘just about all the styles represented in opera today’. “A literature from Verdi into an intensive music-drama experience. – MusicWeb strange but rather fabulous opera... there is a lot to like.” – Opera Now 2CD STR 1121 $29.99 2SA CD CVEL 91925 $29.99 2CD CAP 5392 $15.49 Charles Villiers Standford: The Travelling Companion / Toby Purser; New Sussex Opera Orch. & Chorus [2 CDs] Joachim Raff: Benedetto Marcello / Grzegorz Bellini: Adelson e Salvini, 1825 First Original The principals are all first-rate, especially Julien Van Mellaerts as the companion and Kate Valentine as the conflicted Nowak; SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern verion / Maurizio Ciampi; Orchestra Accademica del [2 CDs] princess. As the wizard Ian Beadle is suitably menacing, while David Norton’s hero... is as ardent and noble as anyone Conservatorio [2 CDs] could wish. – Fanfare The opera is set in Venice in 1727, in the 2CD SOMM 274 $29.99 The three-act opera semiseria Adelson e Busoni: Turandot; Arlecchino / Gerd Albrecht; Berlin Radio SO [2 CDs] house of Marcello, a musician and poet Salvini by Vincenzo Bellini was based on and two of his pupils Rosana and Faustina. the 1772 novel Epreuves du Sentiment Josef Protschka is a warm-toned hero, and Linda Plech an excellent Turandot... an ideal combination... This new release features a recording by Francois-Thomas-Marie de Baculard Conductor Gerd Albrecht demonstrates mastery of both scores. – Opera Now from the world premiere performance of d’Amaud, and draws on a previously 2CD CAP 5398 $15.49 the opera in Metzingen Stadthalle, Bad performed French play of 1803 by Urach, Germany, October 4th, 2002. “It’s Prospere Delamare. With libretto by Andrea Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: Le Cheval de Bronze / Kurt Richter; Vienna Radio SO; performed with love, care, attention to Leone Tottola, the opera was first written Tonkünstler Chorus [2 CDs] detail and real commitment... A hugely as Bellini’s final project at the Naples San welcome release.” Sebastiano Conservatory. Daniel François-Esprit Auber (1782–1871) was the most amiable French composer of the 19th century. His sparkling and – MusicWeb International 2CD URA 14053 $48.99 beautiful overtures were once universally as famous as those of Rossini and Suppé. 2CD STR 1123 $29.99 2CD ORF 986192 $24.99 40 41 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com New Solo Vocal Programs NEW RELEASES - VOCAL Amore & Morte – songs of Claudio The Rossini Project, Vol. II / Edgardo Rocha; Gramophone Recommended Vocal Albums Monteverdi / William Matteuzzi, tnr; Michela Antenucci; Laura Polverelli; Mirco Palazzi Francesco de Poli, hpsi; A year after the release of a first volume dedicated to the young Rossini, Long Time Ago – Copland, Britten, Barber, Finzi, et al. / The voice of the Narrator (Testo) shall be clear, steady and with Markus Poschner and the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana explore the Adele Charvet, mezzo; Susan Manoff, piano good pronunciation, (... ) in keeping with the passions of the oration. composer’s later Neapolitan years, in search of rarely performed and Thus the recommendation by Claudio Monteverdi in the preface to previously unrecorded works. Gratitude (1821), a pastoral cantata of While she has already attracted attention in the opera house, Adele Charvet is also passionately interested in the his Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. Monteverdi’s remarks on the Neapolitan period of Rossini, is here available in its world premiere song repertory. “Much of it is beautifully done. Charvet has a warm, appealing mezzo, with a tangy lower register performance together with his actual music underline the tension recording. Opening and closing the album are two Sinfonias, Ermione and fine dynamic control at the top. She’s at her best in jazz-inflected or declamatory numbers...Manoff, as one between passions – here between love and death. (1819) and Elizabeth, Queen of England (1815). might expect, is consistently stylish and wonderfully insightful throughout.” – Gramophone 1CD BGV 2574 $15.49 1CD CTO 2118 $16.99 1CD AHP 556 $16.99 Augusta Holmes (1847–1903): L’Indomptable, Love! Works by Prokofiev, Stravinsky, J.S. 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Her masters were Richard and Germany, to England and timelessness to an impassioned urgency.” – Gramophone Wagner and César Franck, and she and the United States. About passionate 1CD SOMM 5007 $18.99 possessed the rare gift of the popular love, motherly love, forbidden love and accent, few musicians have had such as love lost. There is a love dance and much Holmès, and it is thanks to that, that she more. This is the second release on Handel: Cantatas / Beatrice Palumbo, soprano; Marco Vitale; will have immortality. The soprano Aurélie Challenge Classics by the unique duo of Contrasto Armonico Loilier began her piano studies at a very accordionist Marieke Hopman and violinist young age, at which time she first studied Cecile Hujnen. 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Selected Brahms: Complete Songs, Vol. 8 / Ingeborg & Hans von Bronsart, and from The Recueil de romances avec Harriet Burns, soprano; Robin Tritschler, tenor; Mario Lanza was once described by an RCA liner notes writer as having Amanda Maier-Röntgen & Julius Röntgen. accompagnement de guitare, most of these Graham Johnson, piano had the “cosmic misfortune” of possessing the personality of a devil Except for the Maier songs, that Sabina pieces are arrangements of popular tunes coupled with the voice of an angel. As a young boy, Freddie became recorded already with Bengt Forsberg for from the comic operas that were all the Buoyed by Johnson’s acutely judged accompaniments, the fresh-toned drawn to the family’s Victrola. With increasing intensity he would listen the previous issue “Amanda Maier Vol. 2” rage in Paris in Berlioz’s time. young soprano Harriet Burns, on her CD debut, spins a pure line to 78-RPM operatic recordings with the accent on his favorite, Enrico “(2017), all the tracks on this CD are first 1CD ATMA 22800 $16.99 and responds sensitively to the echt-Brahmsian moods of loneliness, Caruso. 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The second part of the CD is the number of his songs still in print is devoted to the Slavonic repertory. regrettably small. 1CD NIM 5983 $16.99 1CD OUTO 705 $18.99 Schubert: Schwanengesang; Winterabend; Die Sterne; / Markus Schafer, tenor; Reine de Coeur, Songs of Schumann, Tobias Koch, piano Baroque Sacred Arias at the Imperial Viennese Poulenc, Zemlinsky / Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, sop; Court / Sarah Van Mol, soprano; Oltremontano Markus Schäfer writes of his new release: “A musical interpretation should always strive to breathe new life into a composer’s Julian Ruf, pno legacy by making it audible and understandable in accordance with the here and now.” The musical life at the imperial court in Vienna had a strong Italian On her PENTATONE debut Reine de coeur, star soprano Hanna- 1CD CAVI 8553206 $17.99 flavor: Italians held the position of court Kapellmeister, with but one short Elisabeth Müller brings the German and French art song traditions break, from 1619 to 1715, and the position of court composer continued together, focusing on song cycles by , Alexander von Nuits Occitanes / Paulin Bündgen, countertenor; Ensemble Céladon to be dominated by Italians. 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They were the first Morrissey, Man!’, recorded in 1961, orchestra Globetrottin’ with Bones / Brother Bones & four broadcasts from a six-week season displayed in his tone, taste, and swing at Doc Dougherty’s Club Hangover in in winning fashion. Two years later This is the latest release in a new series that offers the American Juke His Shadows Box, Harlem Hit Parade, Race Record, and Rhythm & Blues chart hits San Francisco. Although the Club was a he recorded a follow-up, ‘Have You by a selection of the biggest stars of the 1940’s and 1950’s swing, jazz, Brother Bones recorded one of the most recognizable songs of the hotbed of the New Orleans revival in the Heard?’. For many years these albums jump blues and R&B scenes. 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