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Felix MENDELSSOHN Hommage à Grieg , Vol. 3

Naxos International (Far East) Limited 5B, Blue Box Factory Building, 25 Hing Wo Street, Tin Wan, Aberdeen, Hong Kong Tel: 2951 9557 Email: [email protected] Sergey RACHMANINOV THE LOST CITY (1873–1943) Lamentations Through the Ages No. 3 in A minor, Miranda Laurence1 and Susanna Op. 44 Fairbairn2 () Robert Vanryne (trumpet 3) • Sospiri Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 • Christopher Watson Detroit Symphony Orchestra • Leonard Slatkin The Lamentations of Jeremiah may be unremittingly sad, but they have Completed in 1936, two years after had a deep resonance for the hugely popular Rhapsody on a throughout the ages. This is a Theme of Paganini, Rachmaninov’s collection that reflects that diversity Third Symphony was considered by the to be one of his – from John Mundy’s setting, which highlights the grave concern finest works. Both this and the Symphonic Dances, his last work, offer over schisms in the Catholic Church of the sixteenth century, through a summation of his late style in blending intense rhythmic energy with to Rudolph Mauersberger’s motet, which mourns the destruction of rich romanticism. Leonard Slatkin and the DSO’s recording of the the city of Dresden in 1945. Two new pieces were commissioned Second Symphony (8.572458) was hailed by BBC Music Magazine as especially for this project, and are recorded here for the first time: John “a performance warmed by musicians who clearly love this symphony”. Duggan’s haunting set of three Lamentations for choir, trumpet and solo ; and Cecilia McDowall’s exotic and powerful The Lord is

CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL Internationally renowned conductor Leonard Slatkin is currently Music Good, which was shortlisted for a BASCA award in 2012. Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and of the Orchestre National de . He is also the author of a new book entitled Founded in 2006 and directed by the dual team of conductor/vocalist Conducting Business. Christopher Watson and composer John Duggan, vocal ensemble Sospiri has gained a reputation for richly expressive performances of choral repertoire which has been carefully selected for its reflective and 8.573051 moving qualities. This is their first recording for Naxos. 8.573078

Michael DAUGHERTY (b. 1954) Ernest John MOERAN Mount Rushmore • Radio City (1894–1950) The Gospel According to Cello Concerto • Serenade in Sister Aimee G (original version, 1948) Paul Jacobs (organ) • Pacific Lonely Waters Symphony • Pacific Chorale Carl Whythorne’s Shadow St.Clair Guy Johnston (cello) • Rebekah World Première Recordings Coffey (Soprano) Ulster Orchestra • JoAnn Falletta GRAMMY® Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty explores three The Cello Concerto is one of Anglo- icons of “The Greatest Generation”, Irish composer E. J. Moeran’s most important works. Composed in a turbulent period of adversity and achievement in the United States 1945, its deft scoring and memorable melodic material mark it as a of America spanning the Great Depression of the 1930s through the work of his maturity. At its heart is the raptly lyrical and profoundly felt Second World War. Mount Rushmore is a dramatic oratorio inspired slow movement but the whole concerto reflects the singing qualities by the monumental sculpture of four American presidents carved into of the solo instrument. The much-admired Serenade is heard in the the Black Hills of South Dakota. Radio City is a symphonic fantasy on 1996 edition of the original 1948 version with eight movements. Lonely the legendary , who conducted the NBC Symphony Waters is a brief but evocative orchestral rhapsody, and Whythorne’s Orchestra in live radio broadcasts heard by millions across America. Shadow a touching fantasy based on an Elizabethan madrigal. The Gospel According to Sister Aimee is an organ concerto inspired by the rise, fall and redemption of religious celebrity Aimee Semple The outstanding young soloist Guy Johnston has been receiving McPherson. Under the masterful baton of Music Director Carl St.Clair, outstanding international reviews, and this disc marks the early the renowned Pacific Symphony is joined by Pacific Chorale, one of partnership of the Ulster Orchestra with JoAnn Falletta. America’s greatest choirs, and GRAMMY® Awardwinning organist Paul Jacobs. 8.559749 8.573034

Camille SAINT-SAËNS BULLY (1835–1921) The Musical Legacy of the Music for Violin and Piano, Legendary • Impresario Vol. 1 Domenico Barbaja Fanny Clamagirand (violin) With music by Rossini • Weber • Vanya Cohen (piano) Bellini • Donizetti • Mercadante

“I like nothing better than chamber Domenico Barbaja (1777–1841) music,” Saint-Saëns once wrote to was the legendary impresario who a violinist friend and, indeed, he did dominated European operatic much to promote the genre in stages for thirty years. The ruthless during the second half of the mogul was at the very heart of the bel canto era in which beautiful 19th century. Prominent among his works for violin and piano is the singing, allied to flawless technique, was brought to perfection. This technically challenging 1885 Violin Sonata No. 1 which balances release celebrates his legacy in exploring how Barbaja influenced the passion with clarity. The Triptyque of 1912 shows his mastery of way opera was written and performed, by commissioning a series melody, rhythm and metre, and elsewhere in this first volume one finds numerous examples of his instinct for charm and characterisation. of masterpieces from the greatest composers of the time, such as Rossini, Donizetti and Weber, and staging them in his magnificent Fanny Clamagirand is considered one of the leading violinists of opera houses, performed by the most glamorous singers of the age. her generation, and the elegance, sensitivity and authority of her performances are warmly received by critics. Her Naxos recording of This is an unusual disc inasmuch as it’s something of a ‘concept’ album the Saint-Saëns Violin Concertos (8.572037) was awarded a Choc by centering on the impresario Domenico Barbaja, the most important and Classica in February 2011. celebrated opera impresario of the nineteenth century. The roster of great composers whom he commissioned is a roll call of the elite, such as Rossini, Donizetti, Schubert, Weber and many others. The focus of the music was on bel canto, that fusion of beautiful singing and flawless 8.572750 technique that marked this period. 8.578237

2 MAR-APR 2013 Zdeněk FIBICH (1850–1900) Luigi MANCINELLI Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 (1848–1921) Czech National Symphony Orchestra Scene veneziane – Suite • Marek Štilec Cleopatra – Sei intermezzi Zdenĕk Fibich’s career overlapped sinfonici (excerpts) those of his countrymen Smetana Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma • and Dvořak, but his music remained Francesco La Vecchia poised between the twin poles of Includes World Première Recordings Czech Nationalism and the New German School. His earliest surviving Of the composers who inaugurated symphony is No. 1 in F major, Op. the renaissance of Italian 17, completed in Prague in 1883. Whilst it is the most conventional instrumental music in the late nineteenth century, Luigi Mancinelli of his three it is excellently proportioned and reveals the is probably the least well-known. Older than Martucci, Respighi and influence of Schumann on his developing art. Impressions from the Casella, he was in the vanguard of that creative resurgence. As a Countryside, Op. 54 is, in effect, a symphonic suite and was highly conductor he was admired by Wagner and Verdi, and as a composer influential on the younger generation of Czech composers. he wrote music of sophistication and style, such as the colourful and touching Scene veneziane (Scenes of Venice). The music for Although Fibich’s First Symphony was written during his twenties Cleopatra shows why, in its increased complexity, Mancinelli was whilst a student in Leipzig, it is extremely interesting in what it reveals admired for his orchestral mastery. MUSIC CLASSICAL of the Leipzig school of the 1870s and has plenty of clever writing. There are several recordings around, including a classic Supraphon Francesco La Vecchia was appointed Artistic Director and Resident historic recording from 1957 but the principal competitor is on Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma in 2002. The orchestra Chandos with the Detroit Symphony and Neeme Järvi. Naxos has has rapidly achieved success in Europe under his leadership. already recorded Symphony No. 1, coupled with No. 2 and conducted by Andrew Mogrelia, released back in 1999. Impressions from the Countryside, Op. 54 is far less often encountered on disc. 8.572985 8.573074

Peter MAXWELL DAVIES Nino ROTA (1911–1979) (b. 1934) Clarinet Sonata • Clarinet Strathclyde Concerto No. 2 Trio • Improvviso • Toccata • Cello Sonata ‘Sequentia Fantasia in G major Serpentigena’ Goran Gojevic (clarinet) • Mary Vittorio Ceccanti (cello) Kenedi (piano) • Lynn Kuo (violin) Bruno Canino (piano) • Winona Zelenka (cello) • Michael Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Sweeney (bassoon) RAI • Peter Maxwell Davies World Première Recordings Although he is best known for his film scores and The Godfather in This is the second disc of works focussing on Peter Maxwell Davies’ particular, Nino Rota’s concert music continuing artistic relationship with the Ceccanti family. The Second combines traditional tonality and forms with characteristically heartfelt Strathclyde Concerto is notable for its eloquently expressive cello melodies and appealing clarity. Contrasts abound in this selection lines and the composer’s signature transparency of orchestration. The of chamber works, from bassoon buffoonery in the Toccata to the Sonata ‘Sequentia Serpentigena’, written for Vittorio, was inspired Brahmsian eloquence of the Clarinet Sonata, and from the dramatic by early medieval stone carvings in Tuscany and uses Gregorian Improvviso and melancholy moods of the recently discovered chant to bring the serpent’s symbolism of temptation and betrayal to Fantasia, to the jocular instrumental exchanges in the exquisite Trio. life. The Little Tune for Vittorio is a song based on an original theme in a Scottish folk style. Vittorio and Mauro Ceccanti can be heard in Maxwell Davies’ Linguae Ignis and Vesalii Icones on Naxos 8.572712. 8.573017 8.572778

Waiting for Benny: A Tribute to Benny Goodman (1862–1918) Julien Hervé (clarinet) Four Hand Piano Music Jean-Hisanori Sugitani (piano) Jean-Pierre Armengaud Maud Lovett (violin) • Ying Lai Green Olivier Chauzu double () The recent discovery (2008) of Renowned as a virtuoso jazz the Première Suite d’orchestre clarinetist and legendary bandleader, for piano, four hands, is a large- Benny Goodman is also remembered scale, sonorous work which reveals for the works he commissioned Debussy’s interest in constantly from leading composers of his day. evolving form. Derived in part from Poulenc’s strikingly beautiful Clarinet Sonata was his last composition, his incidental music for the Chansons de Bilitis, an evocation of poetic while Bernstein’s was his first published piece. Both Gershwin and scenes from an ancient pagan world, Six Épigraphes antiques is a Stravinsky added their distinctive stamp to the swing vibe which colourful work of considerable creative freedom. The Petite Suite was all the rage in the early 20th century. The jazz flavour of Morton includes such well-loved movements as En bateau and Cortège, Gould’s Benny’s Gig is heightened by the unusual coupling of clarinet while the Marche écossaise is heard on this recording in its rare first and double bass, while pungent folk rhythms define Bartók’s virtuoso version. Contrasts. A pupil of Yves Nat and Jacques Février, and, in , of Stanislav Supported by leading musicians in their field, virtuoso clarinetist Neuhaus, Jean-Pierre Armengaud is one of the leading interpreters Julien Hervé steps nimbly into Goodman’s shoes, having been of French music from Rameau to Henri Dutilleux. Olivier Chauzu was named “ Revelation of 2005” by the ADAMI, and awarded the Prix Debussy at the Yvonne Lefèbure competition at winning the Grand Prix of the 7th International Competition of Musical Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Personnalities Alexandre Tansman in 2008 (Poland) amongst numerous other awards.

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MAR-APR 2013 3 Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY Wilhelm Friedemann BACH (1840–1893) (1710–1784) Laureate Series • Andrey Keyboard Works, Vol. 4 Yaroshinsky Piano Recital Julia Brown (harpsichord) • First Prize • 2011 Gabala International Barbara Baird (harpsichord 2) Piano Competition • Wilhelm Friedmann Bach was Tchaikovsky wrote music for the significant in developing throughout his life. The relatively new keyboard sonata form flamboyant and witty Scherzo à la between the Baroque and Classical russe is dedicated to the virtuoso periods. Combining stylistic elements Nikolay Rubinstein, but more from his father’s generation and often his piano pieces evoke a sense of nostalgia and longing, with his own, the ambitious Sonata in D major was admired as “the most even the dances of the Trois morceaux rich in minor key sensitivities. significant before Beethoven”. The scale of the substantial Sonata The remarkably varied and resourceful Six Pieces Op. 21 were in F for two keyboard instruments, one of W. F. Bach’s best-known dedicated to his former teacher Anton Rubinstein. Laureate of compositions, is such that it is sometimes referred to as a Concerto. numerous awards, Andrey Yaroshinsky was also 1st prize winner at Julia Brown’s recordings give W. F. Bach’s keyboard works “a liberty the 2011 Gabala International Competition. and sense of fun and engagement that make the music come alive”

CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL 8.573086 (Classical Net on Vol. 3, Naxos 8.572814). 8.573027

Ricky Ian GORDON (b. 1956) Rappahannock County Mark Walters () • Faith Sherman (mezzo-soprano) • Matthew Tuell () • Kevin Moreno (baritone) • Aundi Marie Moore (soprano) • Virginia Arts Festival Orchestra • Rob Fisher Late Afternoon Margaret Lattimore (mezzo-soprano) • Ricky Ian Gordon (piano)

Inspired by diaries, letters, and personal accounts from the 1860s, Rappahannock County is a music-theatre work which movingly and dramatically commemorates the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. The location of the Rappahannock River as a border between North and South is a metaphor for the region’s many conflicts. Performed by a cast of five singers who play over 30 rôles, the piece brings this dramatic historical period to life in songs which express the devastating impact of the Civil War on all of the people who endured it. Ricky Ian Gordon’s music has been described as ‘caviar for a world gorging on pizza’ (), and Rappahannock County has been commended for its ‘effusiveness and accessibility’ by The Washington Post. 8.669028-29

Ira HEARSHEN (b. 1948) Kenneth FUCHS (b. 1956) Strike Up The Band String Quartet No. 5 The USAF Heritage of America Band (‘American’) • The United States Air Force Band • Delray String Quartet Col. Lowell Graham Falling Canons World Première Recordings Christopher O’Riley (piano) Ira Hearshen is one of America’s Falling Trio most popular and successful Trio21 orchestrators and arrangers. He has written for many Hollywood films, Kenneth Fuchs is one of America’s such as Toy Story and The Scorpion leading composers and his music King. He has also written for the concert stage, especially wind band, is performed worldwide. After writing Falling Man, a work for baritone notably his Pulitzer Prize-nominated Symphony on Themes of John voice and orchestra based on the post-9/11 novel by Don DeLillo, Philip Sousa, which is adventurously constructed, richly melodic and Fuchs explored the principal theme in his rigorously developed Falling colorfully scored. His unique takes on Strike Up The Band and There’s Canons for solo piano. Falling Trio grows out of the same theme, No Business Like Show Business provide moments of rich humor and from its ethereal opening presents a series of seven fantasy whilst the Divertimento for Band mines the American jazz vernacular variations. String Quartet No. 5 is an exciting, large-scale work that with true rhythmic verve. explores the contrapuntal possibilities of a single ‘American’ theme.

Lowell Graham is the Chairman of the Music Department and the Formed in 2004, the Delray String Quartet has established itself as one Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of Texas at El Paso. of the leading musical groups of South Florida. Kenneth Fuchs’s String He is the recipient of the “Abraham Chavez” Professorship in Music. Quartet No. 5 (‘American’) is their first recording for Naxos. 8.573041 8.559733

GREAT CHAMBER MUSIC [10 CD Boxed Set] (1770–1827) The Complete Beethoven This collection of great chamber [12 CD Boxed Set] music brings together nine giants of music in works which reveal Triumphing over deafness and their most immediate and individual turbulent political times, Ludwig expressive worlds: proof if ever any van Beethoven singlehandedly was needed that less can be much, changed the course of music history, much more. laying down the foundations for the Romantic era. His nine symphonies grew out of the forms established in the time of Mozart and Haydn, but show a remarkable evolution which embraces heroic grandeur in the Third Symphony, patriotism and innovation in the Fifth Symphony, countryside imagery and narrative in the Sixth Symphony, and choral inspiration in the Ninth Symphony, the ‘Ode to Joy’ from which has become the Anthem for Europe. 8.501064 (10 CDs for 6) 8.501204 (12 CDs for 6)

4 MAR-APR 2013 Béla BARTÓK (1881-1945) Louis Théodore GOUVY Kossuth (1819-1898) Concerto for Orchestra Symphony No. 4 Rumänische Volkstänze Symphonie brève ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Fantaisie Symphonique Wien • Cornelius Meister Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Jacques Mercier Béla Bartók’s symphonic poem Kossuth stands in the shadow of This release concludes CPO’s his later works and is hardly ever Gouvy Edition which has featured performed. It was written when symphonic works by this German- Bartók was a mere twenty-year-old French composer. and celebrates the Hungarian freedom fighter Lajos Kossuth. It is a brilliantly instrumented, fiery work of his youth, and the opportunity to Fellow composers such as Ambroise Thomas and Charles Gounod get to know it is a rewarding experience. attended the Symphony No. 4 premiere in Paris, 1856, and were moved to amazed admiration. French critics approvingly wrote how Cornelius Meister debuted at the Hamburg State Opera at the young ‘finely thought out, expansively developed, and clearly and brilliantly age of twenty-one and numbers among today’s top young conducting written’ the score was.

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Sigismund Ritter von Carl REINECKE (1824-1910) NEUKOMM (1778-1858) Dornröschen Op. 139 Nonetto • Septuor concertant (Sleeping Beauty) • Nocturne • Ottetto • Quintet Catalina Bertucci • Gerhild • Septetto Romberger • Markus Köhler • Maria Kammerensemble Classic der Pönicke • Janina Hollich • Christian Deutschen Oper Kleinert • Peter Kreutz (piano)

Neukomm loved experimentation - in Reinecke’s Sleeping Beauty displays his chamber music he tested unusual consummate musical craftsmanship ensembles and programmatic and is highly romantic in style. This content. He is often concerned less with the dramaturgy of contrasting work is set for a small ensemble of themes than with the development of the tonal charm of instruments so singers (three soloists, chorus, and narrator) and is best described as very different in character. a Liederspiel, but on a grander scale and more in-line with an operetta.

Neukomm composed all these works while residing or traveling in Reinecke’s compositions adopt models by Mendelssohn, Schumann, England. and Brahms but are always original and distinctive. CPO have been promoting his works for some time. 777621-2 999870-2

Gaspard FRITZ (1716-1783) Tor AULIN (1866-1914) 5 Sinfonias Master Olof La Stagione Frankfurt Four Swedish Dances Three Dances from Gotland We know next to nothing about WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln Swizz music in the 18th-Century. Niklas Willén This release by CPO rectifies this by bringing to the fore the Sinfonia’s of The Swedish composer Tor Aulin Gaspard Fritz. was primarily a virtuoso of the violin and was principle for the world-class It was in that Fritz served Aulin Quartet, the first professional from 1738 to 1745 as the music string quartet in Sweden. director of a group of young English nobles. His music is Sturm und Drang, Storm and Stress, full of power and on the same high level as Aulin’s incidental music to Master Olof is composed in a traditional the Mannheim School. A genuine discovery! euphonious Swedish style with quiet allusions to the German 777696-2 Renaissance. 777775-2

Lukáš VONDRÁČEK AMERICAN CLASSICS Sonate in C major Variations Piano Variations on a theme by Corelli Ben WEBER Sergei PROKOVIEF Sonate No 7 Fantasia Lukáš Vondráček Charles GRIFFES Roman Sketches TwoPianists Records is delighted to Samuel BARBER introduce Lukáš in his first major solo Piano Sonata in E-flat minor disc that features the Haydn C major Lori Sims Sonata (Hob. XVI:50), Rachmaninoff Corelli Variations and the Prokofiev This new release presents Lori Sonata no.7. Admittedly, these are standard repertoire, but the playing Sims, gold medalist of the 1998 Gina Bachauer International Piano is absolutely unique. What appealed to us about his playing is Lukáš’ Competition performing American Classics. immense musical personality – untamed, fresh, individual and above all, effortless. In an industry filled with talent, Lukáš Vondráček is most certainly a name to watch! TP1039176 TP1039152

MAR-APR 2013 5 Mario CASTELNUOVO- Gustav MAHLER (1860-1911) TEDESCO (1895-1968) Kindertotenlieder Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Alban BERG (1885-1935) Solo Piano Works Violin Concerto • Altenberg Lieder Pietro Massa Marion Eckstein (mezzo-soprano) Neubrandenburger Philharmonie, Winfried Rademacher (violin) Stefan Malzew Linos Ensemble

After intensive archival research, After numerous national and Pietro Massa discovered a copy of international prizes, Winfried Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s previously Rademacher has appeared as leader ‘lost’ second piano concerto. The first and as soloist with orchestras of European performance was given in the Berlin Philharmonie. international distinction both in the concert-hall and in the recording studio. He plays a Nicolo Gagliano violin from 1733. This double disc set couples the piano concertos with other rare piano works, whereas other titles often couple these works with Castelnuovo- Tedesco’s symphonic repertoire. C5156 (2 CDs) C5135 CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL Heitor VILLA-LOBOS • Claudio SANTORO • Tom JOBIM • Ronaldo MIRANDA Brazilian Sentiments Cristiane Roncaglio André Bayer (guitar) • Cristian Peix (piano)

Soprano Cristiane Roncaglio beautifully confirms all the associations connected with her home country of Brazil in this new recording from Capriccio. Combing through our extensive catalog, we have come up with a sure-fire assortment of manic, fun music that’s guaranteed to wake you up and get you going! And these snazzy, snappy performances are sure to please, coming as they do from Delos’ long list of top-tier recording artists and ensembles. It might even save you some money: with fewer trips to your neighborhood coffee emporium, the album could well pay for itself in NO time! C5159

Mario CASTELNUOVO- Valentin SILVESTROV (B. 1937) TEDESCO (1895-1968) Piano Works Complete Piano Works Elisaveta Blumina Pietro Massa • Neubrandenburger Philharmonie • Stefan Malzew Piano music is central to valentin Silvestrov’s output. With its frequent Manuel Ponce was the founder allusions to lingering recollections of of Mexican musical nationalism, the past, this programme presents an often incorporating the melodies overview of various creative periods. It of harmonised folk–songs into his begins with the composer’s reworkings music. Widely travelled – he studied of youthful sketches (Naive Musik), in europe, at first in and followed by Der Bote (The Messenger) then, between 1925 and 1933, as a pupil of Dukas in Paris – Ponce with its beautiful Mozartian theme leading into a sonatina in the style assimilated a wide range of styles and influences, including european– of the 18th century. After recent works from Silvestrov’s self–defined influenced Romanticism, indigenous idioms and a more advanced ‘Bagatelle’ period, the recording concludes with the striking Kitschmusik, harmonic language. This is the first of eight volumes devoted to Ponce’s which engages with the music of Schumann, chopin and Brahms. The complete piano music. Two Waltzes are dedicated to elisaveta Blumina.

Álvaro Cendoya started his piano studies in his native , followed by Elisaveta Blumina made her concert début as a soloist at the age of three years of studies in , and later in . in 1989 sixteen with the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra in Brahms’s Piano he won the prize for the best interpretation of Spanish music at the Concerto No. 1, which led to studies at the University of Music and international Premio Jaén competition. He made his international début Theatre in Hamburg and at the Conservatoire in Berne, and winning in Geneva in 1995 and at Wigmore Hall a year later. Cendoya went on the international Brahms Piano Competition along the way. Her to give recitals and master classes around the world, including the UK, recordings of Mieczyslav’s piano and chamber music has brought her several European countries, the USa, across South america, in iran, international acclaim. Her career has taken her to halls such as the Beirut, Shanghai and Beijing. Previous recordings include music by , Laeisz–Halle in Hamburg and in New Cuban composer ignacio Cervantes and the Basque composer Garbizu. York, and to significant music festivals including the Schleswig–Holstein, Verbier, and the Lockenhaus Festival. He is a professor at the Basque Conservatory of Music. GP638 GP639

Fiorent SCHMITT (1870-1958) Complete Original Works For and Duo The Invencia Piano Duo

Florent Schmitt remains one of the most important and influential French composers of the twentieth–century. Although he wrote successfully in almost all forms except opera, he was by training a formidable pianist and his writing for the instrument is colourful, bold and harmonically dextrous.

In the third of this four–disc series, the internationally acclaimed Invencia Piano Duo continues to unearth rare pieces from amongst Schmitt’s extensive output for piano duo and duets. Schmitt was an inveterate traveller and this permeates his poetic and Romantic Feuillets de voyage (voyage Pages), Op. 26 whilst Musiques foraines (carnival Music) Op. 22 reveals Schmitt the festive humorist.

The invencia Piano Duo has won high critical acclaim for its compelling interpretations of a vast and diverse repertoire. Lutsyshyn was a prize winner at the Modern Masters international Performers’s Recording awards Competition and the William Kapell international Piano Competition. Kasparov won the Prize at the Orléans international Piano Competition and gave the première of Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3 to great acclaim. GP623

6 MAR-APR 2013 Anthony Michaels-MOORE Lawrence BROWNLEE Songs of the Sea The Heart That Flutters Song of Travel Lawrence Brownlee Anthony Michaels-Moore Iain Burnside (piano) Michael Pollock (piano) With a negro spiritual, spectacular From ‘one of the most gorgeous bel canto, romantic song and comic voices on the opera stage today’ opera, Lawrence Brownlee unveils comes a marine song-recital by the breadth of his repertoire and the Stanford which celebrates a time lyric tenor voice that has won acclaim when England ruled the waves. The at the New York's Metropolitan cycles by Vaughan Williams look Opera (for his 'agility, elegance and further, from the Dorset vales towards America and the far horizon that Rossinian style) and farther afield. has always attracted poets and composers. Presenting the major singers of today and the stars of tomorrow, the Presenting the major singers of today and the stars of tomorrow, the Rosenblatt Recitals are London's only world-class season of opera Rosenblatt Recitals are London's only world-class season of opera recitals. This new partnership with Opus Arte will see 5-6 CDs released recitals. This new partnership with Opus Arte will see 5-6 CDs released per year, based predominantly on studio recordings with occasional bonus live tracks.

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Ailyn PÉREZ Adam Walker Poème d’un jour Vocalise Ailyn Pérez Adam Walker (flute) Iain Burnside (piano) James Baillieu (piano)

A delightful programme of French Principal flute of the London and Spanish song explores the Symphony Orchestra, Adam Walker theme of love found, enjoyed and presents a recital of alternately lyric lost, from the dropped hints of and dynamic music for flute and Fauré to the fiery folk passion of piano. A lovelorn song from Die Turina, Obradors and de Falla. The schöne Müllerin forms the basis gentle charm of Reynaldo Hahn and of a set of variations by Schubert, impassioned fervour of Massenet’s Manon are equally captured by and reflective songs without words by Poulenc and Barber offer American soprano Ailyn Pérez, who has bewitched audiences on both mellifluous contrast with the dancing energy of Bartók, Messiaen and sides of the Atlantic in opera and song. OA CD9013 D Poulenc's sonata. OA CD9012 D

Dimitri SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Lullabies Mieczyslaw WEINBERG Rachel Barton Pine (violin) The Soviet Experience Matthew Hagle (piano) Volume III Pacifica Quartet

This is the third instalment in the Pacifica Quartet’s highly anticipated, and already highly acclaimed four- volume CD survey of the complete Shostakovich string quartets: The Soviet Experience: String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries.

It is the first Shostakovich quartet cycle to include works by other important composers of the Soviet era, adding variety and perspective to the listening experience. CDR 90000 138 (2 CDs for 1) CDR 90000 139

Dylan THOMAS Antonin DVOŘÁK In My Craft or Sullen Art Andris Nelsons Conducts Selected Stories and Poems Dvořák by Dylan Thomas Symphonieorchester des Geraint Wyn Davies • Francesca Bayerischen Rundfunks Faradany • Dana Ivey • Carole Andris Nelsons Shelley • Mark Stone • Glen Roven Andris Nelsons is a private student One of the most successful poets of of . Andris is one the 20th Century, Dylan Thomas’s of the most highly regarded young work comes alive in these riveting performances by Welsh Actor conductors and is under serious Geraint Wyn Davies. consideration as a potential successor to several blue-ribbon chief conductor positions. Internationally renowned actor Geraint Wyn Davies performs Dylan Thomas’s best-known and most beloved poems including “Fern Hill,” This release presents a live recording of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 “Death Shall Have No Dominion,” and the eternal, “Do Not Go Gentle.” from the Herkulessaal and Dvořák A Hero’s Song, Op. 111 from the Philharmonie im Gasteig, recorded in 2010 and 2012. The complete and abridged performances of the bestselling A Child’s Christmas in Wales and A Visit to Grandpa’s are also included. GPR20011 900116

MAR-APR 2013 7 Bent SØRENSEN (b. 1955) Ejnar KANDING Sieben Sehnsüchte Frank BRETSCHNEIDER The Masque of the Red Death Auxiliary Blue La Notte Contemporáne Rolf Hind (piano) Frank Bretschneider (electronics) David Alberman (violin) BBC Symphony Orchestra Ensemble Contemporánea’s Michael Schønwandt musicinas interact with a computer’s surround sounds and the recording These three works all are released introduces a genre mix of electronica, here for the first time on CD. The micro minimalism, glitch, and music of Bent Sørensen has been classical music. highly praised by all the major classical music magazines, with BBC Music Magazine awarding 5 stars and ‘Choral & Song Choice’ for This release sees electronic music performer Bretschneider and Sørensen’s (6.220571) in October 2012. electro-acoustic composer Ejnar Kanding create a new collaboration with three works from the past five years – see what happens when Rolf Hind is an English pianist and has earned an enviable reputation as the German electronica tradition meets a classically trained Danish one of today’s foremost interpreters of new music. The pairing with the BBC composer!

CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL SO gives this release a strong platfom in the UK market. 8.226045 8.226540

C. F. E. HORNEMAN Vagn HOLMBOE (1909-1996) Asger HAMERIK Concertos Arild String Quartet Erik Heide • Lars Anders Tomter Norrköping Symphony Orchestra • This disc features music by cousins Dima Slobodeniouk Horneman and Hamerik, both of who were never appreciated in their native The solo concertos for violin and during their lifetimes. viola are works that combine Holmboe’s own purist Nordic style The Arild Quartet is formed of leading with a huge declaration of love musicians from the Royal Danish for the wild and dancing eastern Orchestra and are one of the leading European folk music. chamber ensembles in Denmark. This is the Arild Quartet’s first recording with Dacapo. 8.226097 6.220599 (SACD)

ELA Aapo HEINONEN Luciano Mosetti and Anders Färdal HEALING FLOWS Aapo Heinone Quintet

The Aapo Heinonen Quintet’s young musicians are multi-faceted, award- winning virtuosos in the Finnish jazz arena, currently performing both in Finland and abroad.

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Michael NYMAN Vagn HOLMBOE (1909-1996) Collaborations Concertos David McAlmont • The Motion Trio (solo piano) Misra brothers • Sanju Sahia and U Shrinivas Kathryn Stott (piano) • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra was Michael Nyman’s collaboration with British soul singer The Piano Sings was the first David McAlmont. David wrote new album released on MN Records songs based on contemporary news and was Michael Nyman's most stories over pre-existing Nyman intimate recording to date. It neatly compositions. The album was voted one of the best albums of 2009 encapsulates the qualities that have made Nyman’s compositions by the BBC. Simon Price, Independent on Sunday, said “once heard, loved by millions of listeners around the world. The album features you’ll want never want to live without it”. solo piano arrangements, performed by Michael, of music originally recorded for film soundtracks including , , The Acoustic Accordions isthe extraordinary collaboration with Poland’s Diary of Anne Frank, End of the Affair and The Piano. foremost accordion trio, The Motion Trio. The album contains interpretations of nine of Nyman’s greatest hits. “Nyman’s music is so Michael Nyman's score for Jane Campion's 1993 film The Piano is wonderful it even sounds good on the accordion.”(Janusz Wojtarowicz). one of the most successful film soundtracks of all time. This concert suite, performed by The Michael Nyman Band, is an expanded form Sangam (a Hindi word meaning ‘a coming together’ or ‘meeting point’) of the soundtrack that Nyman chose to record as his own definitive is the culmination of a two year musical odyssey by Michael Nyman edition in the Abbey Road studios in April 2005. which began with a month-long visit to India at the end of 2000. Sangamis Michael’s ground-breaking collaborative work with leading Indian musicians reflecting both the commonalities and the differences Michael Nyman’s Piano Concerto is based on material selected from between Western experimental and Indian classical music traditions. the soundtrack for Jane Campion’s film The Piano. MNRCD205 (3 CDs for 2) MNRCD206 (3 CDs for 2)

8 MAR-APR 2013 Sacred and Profane Richard STRAUSS English choral music Strauss Lieder Collegium Vocale zu Christiane Oelze Franziskanern Eric Schneider (Piano)

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HAYDN, J. • NORDHEIM, A. • BARTOK, B. STRING QUARTETS vol. III Engegårdkvartetten CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL The combination of Haydn Opus 77/1, Nordheim's Duplex and Bartók's Fifth String Quartet, was an irresistible challenge for us. A choice of programme from our hearts. We aim for our recordings to be like our concerts, with balance throughout the programme and a feeling of having fulfilled a journey at the end. It is also imperative for us to have a close relationship with the works we record. Our primarius, Arvid, has a special connection with both Bartók's Fifth Quartet through his mentor Sándor Végh, and with Duplex because of his contact with Arne Nordheim. The great quartets of Joseph Haydn are an ongoing project, and the joyful opening of Opus 77/1 sweeps the listener headlong into our third programme with 2L. Duplex is also one of Nordheim's later works. It is an extreme work, filled with contrasts, virtuosity and beauty and is among the most accessible of Nordheim's output. As with Haydn in opus 77/1, Bartók has found a comprehensive and unique musical language in his Fifth Quartet, an undisputable masterpiece. 2L-091-SACD

Claudio MONTEVERDI Selva Morale e Spirituale Vol.III The Sixteen Harry Christophers

Without doubt, Monteverdi was the greatest of the early baroque European composers. He revolutionised the music of the theatre and the church by his dramatic and imaginative use of voices and instruments and by his daring harmonies and rhythms. Next to his Vespers of 1610, the Selva morale e spirituale of 1641 is his most significant and virtuosic collection of sacred music. Monteverdi stretches every singer’s versatility to the limit in this demanding but exhilarating music. Included on this final volume are the eight part Magnificat (Primo) - one of the most impressive of all Monteverdi’s settings with the added richness of doubling strings; the old style Credidi and Memento featuring the full choir; and the exquisitely beautiful soprano solo, Pianto della Madonna ‘Iam moriar, mi fili’, performed here by Grace Davidson. COR16109

Saudade Choral Music from Brazil Albert Schweitzer 100 Years Apollini et Musis of Humanity Vinzenz Weissenburger Ullrich Böhme Calmus Ensemble Apollini et Musis brings some extraordinary South-American flair On the 100th anniversary of the to our homely hearths. Their recent foundation of his ‘jungle hospital’ at production, titled "Saudade", features Lambarene, Rondeau Production Brazilian music from three centuries. dedicates a very special Bach recording to Albert Schweitzer.

Ullrich Böhme performs works by Johann Sebastian Back at the Silbermann organ at St Thomas, Strasbourg. ROP6049 ROP6073

Soli Deo Gloria

J.S BACH: Bach Cantatas Lenneke Ruiten • Meg Bragle • Andrew Tortise and Dietrich Henschel The Monteverdi Choir •

The quartet of soloists include one of the original Pilgrimage soloists, bass Dietrich Henschel, alongside a new generation of Bach interpreters who have worked with the ensembles since 2000 – making this recording a "bridge" between a Bach tradition started 13 years ago and today.

The Ascension Oratorio “Lobet Got in seinen Reichen” (BWV11) is a heart-warming, uplifting work. Beginning and ending with two grand festive choruses, it is full of rhythmic swagger, jazz-like nonchalance, stratospheric glitter for the high trumpet and vocal acrobatics for the choir. SDG185

MAR-APR 2013 9 Georg Philipp TELEMANN Theodor GRIGORIU (, 1681–1767) (Romania, b. 1926) Harmonischer Gottes– Byzantium after Byzantium Dienst, Volume 5 Sherban Lupu (violin) • Sinfonia da Bergen Barokk • Mona Julsrud Camera • Ian Hobson (conductor) (soprano) • Bjarte Eike (baroque Andrei Tănăsescu (piano) violin) • Hans Knut Sveen (harpsichord and organ) • Thomas C. Theodor Grigoriu (born in Galaţi, Boysen (theorbo) • Moldavia, in 1926) is one of the Markku Luolajan-Mikkola (baroque major Romanian composers in the cello) period after Enescu.

This is the fifth CD in the first complete recording of the 72 cantatas His vast output is little known outside his own country, although it from Georg Philipp Telemann’s collection Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst, includes oratorios, symphonies, cantatas, chamber music, film-scores published in Hamburg in 1726 – the first complete set of cantatas for and much more. the liturgical year to be appear in print. TOCC 0102 TOCC 0131

CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL Bohuslav MARTINU Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD Early Orchestral Works, (Austria, 1897–1957) Volume One Much Ado about Nothing, Sinfonia Varsovia Op. 11 Ian Hobson University of North Carolina School of the Arts • Drama Soloists and Martinů’s mature orchestral works are Symphony Orchestra now a mainstay of the repertoire, but John Mauceri (conductor) the generous quantity of orchestral music he wrote between his late Korngold’s incidental music for teens and early thirties is as good as Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado unknown. about Nothing, premiered in Vienna in 1920, enjoyed instant success and soon spread round the world in a This major new series of six CDs presents first recordings of some series of arrangements that are still performed today. astonishingly attractive music, much of it showing the good-natured influence of Czech folk traditions, some of it evocative and atmospheric A recent ‘complete recording’ omitted a number of cues, reconstructed – and almost all of it irresistibly charming. TOCC 0156 for this recording for the Vienna materials. TOCC 0160

Heino ELLER (Estonia, 1887–1970) Complete Piano Music, Volume Three Sten Lassmann (piano)

The third release (in a series of seven CDs) continues Toccata Classics’ pioneering releases of music by Baltic, and especially Estonian, composers.

Heino Eller (1887–1970) was one of the founding fathers of Estonian music – the best-known of his students is Arvo Pärt.

The music on this CD ranges from charming romantic miniatures and virtuoso showpieces to expressionist preludes and quirky folk-pieces. The main item is his 1939 Theme and Variations – one of his best works for piano, but not published or recorded before now. TOCC 0161

Sergej RACHMANINOFF Sonata for Cello & Piano in G minor Op. 19 Sergej PROKOFIEV Sonata for Cello & Piano in C major Op. 119 Julian Steckel, Paul Rivinius

Julian Steckel won first prize at the international ARD competition in 2010 where he also won the audience prize.

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Claude DEBUSSY J. S. BACH Images Sechs Sonaten und Partiten Frédéric CHOPIN Gottfried Schneider (Violine) Préludes Paris Tsenikoglou

Greek pianist Paris Tsenikoglou won first prize at the Athens International Piano Competition in 2001 at the young age of 12 years old, having given his first public recital at the age of 11 performing Bach’s Goldberg variations amongst other works. OC864 OC868 (2 CDs)

10 MAR-APR 2013 Roberto PATERNOSTRO LISZT Bizet Carmen Originals and transcriptions Württembergische Philharmonie for cello and piano Reutlingen • Pamela Pantos • Harro Ruijsenaars (cello) Corneliu Murgu • Claudio Otelli Rian de Waal (piano) Izzo D’Amico This recording is a welcome reissue The music of Carmen has been of Liszt’s own transcriptions of his widely acclaimed for its brilliance of piano works for cello and piano. melody, harmony, atmosphere and Rian de Waal, who unfortunately orchestration, and for the skill with passed away last year, was which Bizet represented musically famous for his Liszt interpretations. the emotions and suffering of his characters. Together with Harro Ruysenaars, who was the first cellist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for many years, he recorded this program, Now, one of the most popular opera’s ever, the opera is widely which is unique in its kind. There are only very few recordings available performed and recorded. This production, as part of the series of live and thus is this set a very welcome addition to the catalogue again. recordings of famous opera’s, on United Classics is conducted by Roberto Paternostro. T2CD2012062 (2 CDs) T2CD2012122 CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL Walter ATTANASI Mozart Lieder Verdi Bente Vist (sopran) Opera in Ahoy Choir • Netherlands Henrik Metz (piano) Ballet Orchestra • Michele Kalmandi • Gabriella Morigi • Harry Peeters • Mozart created masterpieces in virtually Marianna Kulikova • Felipe Rojas all the established genres. We know him as symphonist, writer of a great Premiered in 1842, Nabucco has many concertos, especially for piano, been always one of Verdi’s most and a unique and very productive opera popular opera’s. composer. His sublime chamber music was written for numerous ensembles, Famous for its Chorus of the slaves and he composed dozens of the most and its spectacular setting it reflects the struggle of the Jews in the beautiful serenades and divertimentos. But as a lied composer he is time of the Babylonian King Nabucco. Walter Attanasi conducts a perhaps rather neglected, perhaps because in the minds of many music great cast and the Netherlands Ballet Orchestra in a production, lovers the German lied is a phenomenon that came into being with Franz which was performed in front of 10.000 people in the Ahoy Arena in Schubert some decades after Mozart’s death in 1791. In fact, Mozart wrote Rotterdam. It was a spectacular event and one of the most impressive about thirty lieder, fourteen of which were published during his lifetime. It is live opera productions ever performed in the Netherlands. hardly too much to say that he was also the most important lied composer T2CD2012126 (2 CDs) of his day. T2CD2012123

Once I had a Sweetheart J.S. BACH Women in love: Songs of The Famous Cantatas yearing, bliss and despair Holland Boys Choir, Netherlands Evelyn Tubb (soprano) Bach Collegium • Pieter Jan Leusink Michael Fields (lute) (conductor) • Ruth Holton (sopranos) Sytse Buwalda (alto) • Nico van der This project is a continuation of Meel () • Knut Schoch (tenors) research into those 17th century Bas Ramselaar (bass) English songs whose lyrics look at life from a female viewpoint, exploring This set of Bach cantatas with Pieter a woman’s feelings and experiences. Jan Leusink contains the 13 most Through this collection we share a famous cantatas including Wachte few moments in the lives of some imaginary women; they invite us to auf, ruft uns die Stimme and Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen. listen to their songs - once popular, now forgotten; to hear their stories Leusink recorded all of Bachs 200 cantatas in the late nineties and - not so very different from those of today’s TV characters; to share this project became one of the most successful sets ever, selling in the their secrets - the secrets of all women in ah ages; and to enter their millions! world, where we may well find reflections of ourselves and hear echoes of the songs of our own hearts. Beautifully sung by Evelyn This welcome set of highlights is presented in an attractive box with 5 Tubb, this disc is a great find for all music lovers interested in the cd’s. development of English vocal music. T2CD2012124 T2CD2012125 (5 CDs)

HANDEL: Julius Caesar BACH, J.S.: Orchestra Pro Arte Bassano • ST JOHN PASSION Marcello Panni (conductor) • Martine The Choir of King's College Dupuy (alto) • Raquel Pierotti (alto) • Giuseppe De Matteis (bass) • Josella Ligi (soprano) • Patrizia Orciani (soprano) • Susanna Anselmi (alto) • Pietro Spagnoli (bass) • Sara Mingardo (alto)

It was first performed in London on 20 February 1724. The opera was an immediate success. Handel revived it (with changes) in 1725, 1730, and 1732; it was also performed in Paris, Hamburg, and Brunswick. Like Handel’s other works in the opera seria genre, Giulio Cesare fell into obscurity in the 19th century.

The work is considered by many to be Handel’s finest , possibly even the best in the history of opera seria. It is admired for its superb vocal writing, its dramatic impact, and its deft orchestral arrangements. T2CD2012121 (3 CDs) T2CD2012088 (2 CDs)

MAR-APR 2013 11 Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Nun danket alle Gott Emil Gilels spielt Beethoven Die schönsten Bach-Choräle Emil Gilels

Emil Gilels in a pure Beethoven's concert of 1980, from the late phase of his artistic development. A native of Odessa, he trained with Heinrich Neuhaus in Moscow and was even in his youth an exceptional pianist pushing the boundaries of virtuosity. Over the last two decades of his career, he developed into a more thoughtful artist. This internalization is experienced in this late concert, performed five years before his death. An evening of the highest artistic intensity, a mature Beethoven interpretation. CD94.221 97.27

Robert SCHUMANN Robert SCHUMANN CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL und seine Töchter (Volume 5) in Wien Florian Uhlig (Piano) Florian Uhlig (Piano)

Robert and Clara Schumann were As was the case in the three certainly exceptional parents - not just previous installments, this program by the standards of the 19th century. is arranged "thematically". Each Especially striking was how much volume will contain unpublished time Robert devoted to his daughter works or fragments. Schumann Marie, their firstborn. Marie, Elise left many extended fragments and Julie were the daughters for that can easily be reconstructed whom Schumann composed these without daring speculations, and little pieces and with whom he also made music; and these are NOT in such cases, these fragments deserve to be heard and included "childish" pieces. This CD is a delightful overview of the pieces and little in our presentation of Schumann complete works for the piano.The melodies that Schumann produced with and for his girls and practically entire series production and booklet notes are the work of the highly brings to life again the spirit of the Schumann household. As might be respected Schumann scholar Joachim Draheim, who has provided not expected, two first recordings are represented on this CD. only invaluable biographical and historical background but has had access to many previously unpublished manuscripts and Schumann's CD98.011 own corrections and revisions to the printed scores. CD94.221

BARTOK, B. • STRAUSS, R. Rudolf Kempe conducts Bartok & Strauss Radio-Sinfonieorchester

Rudolf Kempe (1910-1976) was one of the leading conductors of his generation. A consumate craftsman in the German Kapellmeister tradition, he embodied the prototype of the modern conductor: his interpretations were of an unpretentious simplicity and sobriety combined with a subtle sense of drama and expression. Kempe's models were the great conductors, under whom he had played in the years 1929 to 1936 as an oboist with the Gewandhaus Orchestra: Furtwängler, Klemperer, Erich Kleiber, Fritz Busch, Bruno Walter and Richard Strauss. However, his repertoire was more extensive than his studio recordings would lead us to suppose. Above all, his advocacy for contemporary music is barely represented. The absence in his published discography of the music of Bela Bartok is particularly conspicuous - a gap happily closed in the present concert recording. CD94.220

Igor STRAVINSKY: Kaija SAARIAHO (b1952) Petrushka LA PASSION DE SIMONE Alexander BORODIN: In The Dawn Upshaw (soprano) • Finnish Steppes of Central Asia Radio Symphony Orchestra Tapiola Chamber Choir • Esa-Pekka Piotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY: Salonen 3 Movements from The Nutcracker Following its successful world Modest MUSSORGSKY: A première in 2006, Ondine is proud to present Kaija Saariaho’s La Passion Night on the Bare Mountain de Simone, for soprano solo, choir, MYTHOS orchestra and electronics for the first Bjarke Mogensen and Rasmus time on SACD. Schjærff Kjøller Kaija Saariaho considers La Passion de Simone - an oratorio about This stunning new transcription by MYTHOS of Stravinsky’s the life and thoughts of Simone Weil - to be her most important work. Petrushka has to be heard to be believed – marvel at the amazing This SACD features world class performers including Dawn Upshaw sounds that emanate from these two accordions! and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Tapiola Chamber Choir. MYTHOS are performing these works regularly in concerts and the Duo has recently made its Carnegie Hall debut in the USA Dawn Upshaw has achieved worldwide acclaim for her wide-ranging operatic and concert repertoire. Kaija Saariaho wrote the soprano part Russian masterworks transcribed and performed by the award- in La Passion de Simone and the opera L’Amour de loin for her. winning Danish bayan duo MYTHOS, winner of First Prize in the Danish Radio Chamber Music Competition 2011 and First Prize in the One of the most important artists in contemporary classical music, Almere International Chamber Music Competition. Esa-Pekka Salonen has become established both as a celebrated conductor and composer. ORC100029 ODE 1217-5 (SACD)

12 MAR-APR 2013 The Best of Play Bach LAGQ Jacques Loussier Trio Los Angeles Guitar Quartet

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MOZART, W.A.: Piano Concertos 21 & 24 Eugene Istomin (piano) • Gerard Schwarz • Seattle Symphony Orchestra

2-LP set, half-speed mastered by Paul Stubblebine, 200-gm vinyl from Quality Record Pressings in deluxe gatefold jacket! AUDIOPHILE MUSIC

A legendary pianist! Inspired performances by one of America's greatest musicians, with Gerard Schwarz conducting the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

Eugene Istomin's illustrious career spanned some fifty years with over 4,000 orchestral concerts and recitals around the world. His performances of Mozart have been called "vigorous and full-bodied" by The Washington Post. He has collaborated with Gerard Schwarz on these concertos many times in the past. The Seattle Symphony has won two Grammy® awards and is often called "the most recorded orchestra in America". RR2506 (2 LPs)

Oscar PETTIFORD Duke ELLINGTON LOST TAPES Orchestra Oscar Pettiford (b, cello) • Dusko Duke Ellington (p, arr) • Cat Goykovich (tp) • Lucky Thompson Anderson • Cootie Williams • Herbie (ss) • Hans Hammerschmid (p) • Jones • Mercer Ellington (tp) • Paul Hartwig Bartz (dr) • Rolf Kühn (cl) • Gonsalves (ts) • Johnny Hodges Jimmy Pratt (dr) • Hans Koller (ts) • (as) • Harry Carney (bs, cl) • Russell Attila Zoller (g) • Kenny Clarke (dr) • Procope (cl, as) • Jimmy Hamilton Helmut Brandt • Helmut Reinhardt • (cl, ts) • Chuck Connors • Lawrence Johnny Feigl (bs) • Rudi Flierl (as) Brown, Buster Cooper (tb) • John Lamb (b) • Rufus Jones (dr) MUSIC VINYL When Oscar Pettiford first arrived in Germany in September 1958 he could scarcely believe the enthusiasm with which his music was Ellington considered two topics to be off-limits: illness and death. It received there. Not that he had been short of success to that point – was for this reason he refused to make a will to the last, fearful of he had been a pioneer of bebop in the quintet of Dizzy Gillespie and tempting fate and provoking his own demise. He was able to maintain Max Roach even before Charlie Parker’s breakthrough. It was the his orchestra (“the most important thing in my life”) with the millions dawn of a new jazz era and with it the bass became a solo instrument. he earned from Tempo, his music publishing company – always conscious of the need to surround himself with individualists; some Everyone who worked with Pettiford enthused about his bold melodic players stayed with him for decades. Almost constantly on the road ideas, the bounce and swing of his playing. Between autumn 1958 following his comeback in Newport in 1956, his career staging posts and the summer of 1959 these sessions resulted in a set of unique were largely marked by the studio recordings. He released around recordings, standards mostly, which provided the alternating ensembles 35 albums between 1960 and 1967 alone, including adaptations of with a harmonic basis from which to launch into improvisation. Pettiford‘s classical works, the “Far East Suite” and the “Sacred Concerts”. 1967 duet with Goykovich on Gershwin‘s “But Not For Me” is brisk yet elegiac; was a year of triumphs: the outstanding trumpeter Cootie Williams, Koller’s lays down a cool interpretation of “The Nearness Of You”, unbelievable in “The Shepherd”, was back on board; but then tragedy before the bass demonstrates its melodic power; and in “All The Things struck again a few weeks after the Stuttgart concert with the death of You Are” Pettiford shows what the cello can do as a solo instrument. Duke’s alter ego Billy Strayhorn. 101719 (CD) / 101724 (VINYL) 101722 (VINYL)

Anthony TROLLOPE Ivan TURGENEV The Warden (Unabridged) Torrents of Spring (Unabridged) Read by David Shaw-Parker Read by Neville Jason

The first novel in Trollope's series When young Russian aristocrat Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Warden Dimitri Sanin, on his way home from is a compassionate portrait of the , enters a patisserie in Frankfurt, gentle, thoughtful warden and percent he little dreams it will alter the course of Barchester Cathedral, Mr Septimus of his entire life. Faced with Gemma, Harding. Loved and appreciated by the most beautiful girl he has ever all with whom he works, Harding seen, he is blown away by the lives an ordered, regular life in his spring torrents of love. But fate has a protected religious environment. Then a young reformer feels he has challenge in store for Sanin, one he uncovered a mismanagement of funds used to support twelve bedesmen must successfully overcome or lose his chance of future happiness. in the almshouse, Hiram's Hospital, and Harding is held to blame. The This tale of struggle against the force of natural passion speaks to the accusation comes as a shock not only to Harding himself but also to the hearts of all who have experienced the fragile beauty of first love and cathedral community. It then comes to wider notice when the cause is the dark power of desire. AUDIO BOOKS taken up by a national newspaper. NA0115 (6 CDs) NA0118 (5 CDs)

MAR-APR 2013 13 A Musical Journey: CRIMEA • A Musical Journey: NORWAY • RUSSIA • UZBEKISTAN FINLAND – Nordic Landscapes Music by Khachaturian • Borodin • Glinka • Music by Sibelius • Svendsen • Halvorsen Rimsky-Korsakov • Sinding

The tour starts in Uzbekistan, of which there Scenes of Finland and its capital Helsinki, are later glimpses. There is a visit to the the interlinked islands of Suomenlinna, historic Russian town of Suzdal and scenes site of an ancient castle and fortifications, from Crimea. Two important religious and the hills, valleys and fjords of Norway centres are seen, the Trinity Monastery at follow a journey through varied Nordic Sergiyev Posad (formerly Zagorsk) and the landscapes. Monastery of the Caves in Kiev. Finland found its musical identity largely The music for the tour is taken from through the work of Jean Sibelius, whose Russian composers who were, by and large, thoroughly imbued with Violin Concerto is the principal work included here. Other works are the spirit of their country and its exotic territories. This is reflected by the Norwegian composers Johan Svendsen, Johan Halvorsen and DVD / BLU-RAY in Borodin’s Overture to his unfinished opera and in the Christian Sinding. work of the pioneer Glinka, the Armenian Khachaturian and Rimsky- Korsakov. 2.110291 2.110320

A Musical Journey: SALZBURG (1809–1847) – The City of Mozart Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. Music by Mozart 64, MWV O 14 • Violin Concerto in D minor, MWV O 3 • Violin Sonata The places visited are associated in one way or another with Mozart. He was born in F minor, Op. 4, MWV Q 12 in 1756 in Salzburg, where his father was Tianwa Yang (violin) • Romain Descharmes a leading musician at the court of the (piano) • Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä • ruling Prince-Archbishop, and remained Patrick Gallois there, with occasional breaks for foreign concert tours, until he was finally able to Filled with Mendelssohn’s signature break free in 1781 and settle in Vienna, freshness and lightness of touch, the Violin where he spent the last ten years of his Concerto in D minor and the Sonata, Op. 4 short life. are youthful products but written with an assurance which is startling in its maturity. The substantial earlier concerto gives a foretaste of the The music chosen for the tour of Salzburg and its surroundings originality and soaring inspiration which has made the Violin Concerto, consists of two piano concertos by Mozart, written during his earlier Op. 64 one of the most enduring works of its age. Acclaimed as “an successful years of independence in Vienna for subscription concerts unquestioned master of the violin” (American Record Guide), Tianwa at which he performed as soloist. Yang has quickly established herself as a leading international performer and recording artist, with highly acclaimed discs of works by Sarasate, Piazzolla and Wolfgang Rihm. 2.110338 NBD0032

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Joseph HAYDN Great Piano Concertos Paladino Malcom Frager • Heidrun Holtmann • Zoltán • Tom Randle • Victor Kocsis • Radu Lupu • Aleksandar Madzar Torres • Pietro Spagnoli • Magnus • André Previn • Dezsó Ránki • Christian Staveland • Sunhae Im • Arttu Kataja Zacharias • Directed by János Darvas Alexandrina Pendatchanska • Freiburger Barockorchester This DVD Box includes 14 of the most René Jacobs (conductor) • Nigel Lowery • acclaimed performances of Mozart’s Great Amir Hosseinpour Piano Concertos: 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24, 26, 2, performed by the most For more than 25 years René Jacobs has outstanding artists such as Mitsuko Uchida dedicated his life to baroque and (Mozarteum Orchester, Salzburg), Zoltán works with the best ensembles for early Kocsis (Virtuosi di Praga) and André Previn music. On the occasion of the Haydn Year the renowned Freiburger (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra). Barockorchester and outstanding baroque opera singers such as Marlis Petersen, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Pietro Spagnoli and Tom Randle presented Haydn’s most successful opera from the Berliner 2001038 (4 DVDs) Staatsoper. 2057784

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Eugene Ormandy Conducts Piano Sonatas Nos. 29 to 32 Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky (piano) Itzhak Perlman Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (Director) The Eugene Ormandy • Kirk Browning New Release on Euroarts's sub-label: Recorded Excellence – Historical Value. Famous violinist Itzhak Perlman and The aim of the new series is to make Eugene Ormandy, long-standing conductor accessible to music lovers and collectors of the Philadelphia Orchestra recorded top-quality recordings documenting extra- this fantastic Russian program live at the special concert performances that were Academy of Music, Philadelphia, in 1978 hitherto unreleased or were no longer and 1979 in extraordinary sound quality. available, either for the first time or as re-releases on DVD and Blu-ray Disc. The Modest Mussogorsky’s most famous piano main focus is on artists and repertoire. The new series will showcase composition Pictures at an Exhibition which is deemed to be one of defining concert moments of music history. Ormandy’s specialties is orchestrated in the acclaimed Ravel version. 2066518 2072128

14 MAR-APR 2013 Peter von WINTER Solti Centenary Concert Das Labyrinth • René Pape Christof Fischesser • Julia Novikova • Malin Members of the Accademia Hartelius • Michael Schade • Thomas Tatzl World Orchestra for peace • Regula Mühlemann Conducted by Mozarteumorchester Salzburg • Salzburger Hosted by Valerie Solti Bachchor • Salzburger Festspiele Und Theater Kinderchor The Solti Centenary Concert in Chicago Ivor Bolton (Conductor) celebrated Sir georg Solti’s 100th birthday Alexandra Liedtke (Stage Director) on October 21, 2012, featuring the World Orchestra for Peace. This unique ensemble We are all familiar with Mozart’s Die owes its existence to the vision of its Zauberflöte () to the founder, Sir Georg Solti, who believed by (1751–1812). It passionately in peace and the power of music and musicians to be ambassadors for peace. is not widely known however that Schikaneder wrote a sequel to The DVD / BLU-RAY Magic Flute, which his friend Peter von Winter (1754–1825) set to music. 2012 the presented this operatic rarity in the Charmingly hosted by Solti’s widow, lady valerie Solti, and featuring form of a glittering fairy-tale opera full of magical events. soloists such as angela gheorghiu and rené pape as well as members of the georg Solti accademia, this memorable evening presents The happy couple Pamina and Tamino have to master trials and musical highlights, all of which played a significant role in Solti’s life tribulations, like the separation by Sarastro in order to wander through and career. Besides excerpts from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Die an underground labyrinth and the continuing machinations of the Zauberflöte and or Verdi’s La Traviata and , this Queen of the Night. Well-loved Papageno – who reunites with his concert finds lovely musical moments in the “Adagietto” from Mahler’s parents and finally marries his Papagena – helps Tamino and Pamina Fifth Symphony, Strauss’ Don Juan and Bartók’s masterful Concerto in their efforts to reach a happy ending. for Orchestra. Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever as the encore closes 101677 (2 DVDs) / 108076 (Blu-ray) the performance with a smash. 101668 (DVD) / 108 073 (Blu-ray)

Anton BRUCKNER Renée Fleming Symphony no. 4 Live at the Opéra National de Paris The Cleveland Orchestra Conductor Franz Welser-Möst Massenet MANON Marcelo Álvarez • Jean-Luc Chaignaud • When it comes to shaping a musical event Michel Sénéchal • Orchestra and Choirs of for the ears and the eyes, the monumental the Opéra national de paris majesty of Anton Bruckner’s (1824–1896) JesÚs lópez-Cobos (Conductor) symphonies and the exhilarating vibrancy Gilbert Defio (Stage Director) of St. Florian’s monastery in Austria are a perfect match – especially when they are captured on film so thrillingly by such an Dvořák RUSALKA eminent director as Brian Large. Larissa Diadkova • Sergei Larin • Franz Hawlata • Eva Urbanova The Fourth Symphony marks a major milestone in Bruckner’s attempt Orchestra and Choirs of the Opéra national de paris to establish a symphonic design suitable to sustain his innovative James Conlon (Conductor) • Robert Carsen (Stage Director) musical thought. Not surprisingly, the score was subjected to extensive revisions. The Fourth, in fact, represents the most convoluted revision Strauss CAPRICCIO history of all his symphonies – and this for a composer for whom Rainer Trost • Gerald Finley • Dietrich Henschel • Anne Sofie von Otter variant editions of a work, often involving substantial changes, became Orchestra of the Opéra national de paris the norm. The result is that the identification of the “authentic” final ULF Schirmer (Conductor) • Robert Carsen (Stage Director) score that should be performed is a matter of ongoing debate for many of his symphonies – in particular the Fourth. 101682 (DVD) / 108078 (Blu-ray) 107529

Giuseppe VERDI Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Don Giovanni • Barbara frittoli • Manuel Benjamin Luxon • Stafford Dean • lanza • Daniil Shtoda • Gianluca Floris Horiana Branisteanu • Rachel Yakar • Teatro Delmaggio Musicale Fiorentino Leo Goeke • Elizabeth Gale (Conductor) The London Philharmonic Orchestra Luca Ronconi (Stage Director) (Conductor) Peter Hall (Stage Director) The Maggio Musicale in is the oldest and one of the most famous music Since its debut in 1934 the Glyndebourne festivals in Italy. When it’s director, Zubin Festival has put a focus on Mozart operas Mehta, celebrated his 70th birthday, the and developed a great competence in staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff was part staging them. Mozart’s operas seem to be of the festivities. The opera was conducted made for the small but fine opera house in by zubin mehta himself and directed by Luca ronconi. Glyndebourne and it’s not surprising that the 1977 Don Giovanni, one of Mozart’s great masterpieces, was a huge success. Adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare’s play The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff was Verdi’s last opera and one of his few comedies. This production is conducted by bernard haitink who holds the opinion, It was also the third of Verdi’s operas to be based on a Shakespearean that no other composer had more opera in his blood than Mozart. It play, and like his first adaptation of the English playwright, , has been proven, for example, that Mozart had no overture for Don it concludes with a fugue, the famous “Tutto nel mondo è burla” (“All Giovanni until the evening before the premiere in Prague and wrote it the world’s a joke”). The successful first performance took place at La down in just one night. Scala in in 1893. While not as immensely popular as the works that immediately preceded it ( and ) Falstaff’s refinement Like the premiere’s success of the opera in Prague in 1787 the and melodic invention have made it a long-term favourite with both artists and audience. Luca Ronconi’s production for the 2006 Maggio Glyndebourne’s version staged by peter hall was praised by audience Musicale Fiorentino finds ready equivalents for Shakespeare’s Windsor and critics alike: “We witness a lively and wide-awake ensemble piece in both the social context and imagery of modern Britain – an enjoyable that has easily survived all these decades, and still manages to teach comedy and a musical feast for home-viewing. many directors the art of playing theatre.” (WDR) 107309 102312

MAR-APR 2013 15 Giuseppe VERDI (1813-1901) Giuseppe VERDI (1813-1901) Rigoletto Aronica • Guanqun • Frontali • Mangione Demuro • Nucci • Machaidze • Spotti • Iranyi Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di • Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Andrea Battistoni • Guy Montavon Parma • Massimo Zanetti • Stefano Vizioli

C Major continues their Tutto Verdi project C Major’s Tutto Verdi project continues with with a production of Stiffelio from the Teatro a recording of Rigoletto from the Teatro Regio di Parma. Regio di Parma.

Stiffelio was based on the play Le pasteur, The opera was based on the play Le roi ou L'évangile et le foyer by Émile Souvestre s'amuse by Victor Hugo and is perceived to and Eugène be the first of Verdi’s great masterpieces of his mid-to-late career.

DVD / BLU-RAY Bourgeois and was originally censored due to it involving as it does a Protestant minister of the church with an adulterous wife. This performance features a top-class cast, led by Nino Machaidze and Leo Nucci. 723008 (DVD) / 723104 (Blu-ray) 723208 (DVD) / 723304 (Blu-ray)

Giuseppe VERDI (1813-1901) (1840-1893) Nucci • Sgura • Fantini • Romano • Alvarez Eugene Onegin Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma Kristine Opolais • Lena Belkina • Artur Yuri Temirkanov • Lorenzo Mariani Rucinski • Dmitri Korchak • Günther Groissböck • Orquestra De La Comunitat C Major continue their Tutto Verdi project Valenciana/Cor De La Generalitat with Il Trovatore, performed at the Teatro Valenciana Omer Meir Wellber • Mariusz Regio di Parma. Trelin’ski

Il Trovatore was based on the play El In his first year as Music Director of Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez and Valencia’s Palau de les Arts, the exciting was an instant success. young conductor Omer Meir Wellber has scored a triumph with Tchaikovsky’s The cast is here led by Marcelo Alvarez, Norma Fantini and Leo Nucci beloved opera Eugene Onegin. He leads a superb young cast headed and is conducted by Yuri Termirkanov. by Artur Rukin’ski as Onegin and Kristīne Opolais as Tatyana. 723408 (DVDs) / 723504 (Blu-ray) 712408 (2 DVDs) / 712504 (Blu-ray)

Anton BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4 “Romantic”, Symphony No. 7 Christian Thielemann Munich Philharmonic Orchestra

This blu-ray features performances of Bruckner´s two most popular works, Symphonies No. 4 and No. 7, which Christian Thielemann interprets as sublime cathedrals of late , impressing his listeners in ways that few other conductors can do.

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Gustav MAHLER Choreography by Bournonville SYMPHONY NO. 4 La Sylphide & Gewandhaus Orchestra Flindt • Aldous • Dixon and Chesworth Leipzig Flower Festival in Genzano Christina Landshamer (Soprano) Pas de deux Nureyev and Park “The greatest mix of colours that ever existed” was Gustav Mahler’s description Following studies in Paris as a young man, of the third movement of his Fourth August Bournonville became a solo dancer Symphony. Riccardo Chailly, one of the at in . From most adept interpreters of Mahler of our 1830 to 1877 he was choreographer for the time, and the Gewandhaus Orchestra Royal Danish Ballet, for which he created transformed the entire Fourth Symphony more than fifty ballets admired for their into this kaleidoscope of sound. exuberance, lightness and beauty. The bewitching ballet La Sylphide is his ‘best work, incorporating a unity of dance and drama that can The unmistakable timbre of the orchestra has become synonymous transform its apparent charm into a special grandeur’. with late Romantic repertoire and Mahler-esque style – it was described by Der Tagesspiegel as “uncommonly present, even in the Widely considered to be the first ‘romantic’ ballet, La Sylphide thread-fine pianissimo, compact, concentrated, satin”. Once more, the brimswith features of the romantic literature of the time, such as connection between Chailly, the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Mahler elements of the supernatural, the loss of innocence and a deep sense proved to be exceptional: The way Chailly “moulded the music, which of sadness. is so familiar to him, with loving gestures, confidently alluding to a thousand subtle details, allowing the orchestra to rise and fall – that is The story tells of the doomed love between a beautiful Sylph and the perfect.” soon-to-be-married farmer, James. The Scottish setting is perfectly evoked by the folk-infused score of Danish composer, Herman Severin Løvenskiold. ACC20257 (DVD) / ACC10257 (Blu-ray) ICAD 5099

16 MAR-APR 2013 JANÁČEK Lucy Crowe • Emma Bell • Sergei Leiferkus John Graham-Hall • Francesco Malvuccio • Mischa Schelomianski • Sebastien Davies • Susan Gritton • Christopher Purves • • Beatrice Watkins • Adrian Thompson • Felicity Palmer • Ida Falk Winland • Simona Orlando Woscholski • Louise Moseley • Mihal • Peter Hoare • Daniel Okulltch • Jean Rigby and Lucie Špičková Catherine Wyn-Rogers • Christopher Gillett The Glyndebourne Chorus • George Von Bergen London Philharmonic Orchestra Robin Ticciati (conductor) Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) The Italian and international press were The tale of a quick-witted fox and her unanimous in their praise for Peter Grimes escape from confinment for a life in the at , which revived the tradition of forest that is by turns joyful and violent. Britten's operas on the lyric stages of Italy.

The Cunning Little Vixen is an unsentimental parable of death and A strong British cast was marshalled by the baton of Robin Ticciati, DVD / BLU-RAY rebirth that instinctive and immediate world of nature, animal and who has already won golden opinions for his opera conducting. human, which Janácek loved so much. Melly Still’s production for Richard Jones's production focuses on the fisherman as the outsider in Glyndebourne finds the ‘delicate balance between whimsy and a brutal society, cut off by mutual suspicion and misunderstanding: an mysticism’ (Daily Telegraph) unforgettable production of an opera that never loses its power. OA1101D (DVD) / OABD7117D (Blu-ray) OA1103D (DVD) / OABD7119D (Blu-ray)

Hommage à Grieg , Vol. 3 NODEBOG dena piano duo Hans Olav Gorset (recorders and baroque flutes) • Cathrine Bothner-By (soprano) • There is a recurrent theme running through Elizabeth Gaver (baroque violin) • Vegard the program presented by the Dena Piano Lund (baroque guitar and theorbo) • Duo in this production; all four composers Lars Henrik Johansen (harpsichord) and works have a particular relationship to André Lislevand (viola da gamba) Edvard Grieg. Both Johannes Brahms and Kjell Tore Innervik (Norwegian folk drum) Camille Saint-Saëns were friends of Grieg, Håkon Mørch Stene (percussion) and in several of his works the inspiration Grieg gained from his colleagues in Vienna NODEBOG presents musical pleasures and Paris is easy to hear. In between the and "divertissements" from 18th century works of Brahms and Saint-Saëns the Norway. The melodies are found in hand- Dena Piano Duo play two Norwegian works they have commissioned written music books containing both international "hits" well known from the composers Wolfgang Plagge and Terje Bjørklund with this throughout Europe and local favourites - Halling dances and Pols recording in mind. dances are featured alongside minuets, marches and English country dances. These rediscovered treasures from the past can only be recreated through living performance today, here by flautist Hans Olav Gorset and his fellow musicians. These melodies may not seem important to the music historian, but to the listener they certainly are - being international "hits" of yesterday - and, who knows, perhaps becoming the hits of today! 2L-094-SABD (Blu-ray) 2L-088-SABD (Blu-ray)

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