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Strauss II) from The Glyndebourne Festival – a outstanding document of contemporary opera theatre, with the suburbs of Moscow during the reign of Tsar Ivan IV, “the over 30 great American orchestras, and conducted by Gerard quintessentially English summer event. Michael Schulz’ fine and highly intelligent staging. Terrible”, during the latter half of the 16th century. Schwarz. 6DVD-Video BOA 1074D $14.99 $29.99 1Blu-Ray Video AHM 101354 $19.99 $39.99 1Blu-Ray Video BAC 405 $19.99 $39.99 1DVD-Video NXS 2110561 $11.49 $22.99 22 23 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Medieval & Renaissance MusicNEW RELEASES - EARLY MUSIC Voices of Byzantium / Cappella Romana, The Organ Tradition of Apulia- from Recommended Early Music Releases Alexander Lingas Renaissance to Baroque / Margherita Sciddurlo, Cappella Romana performs exquisite Byzantine musical organ The Sweetest Songs: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks III / treasures – from the cathedrals and monasteries of the This anthology presented by the organist Margherita Sciddurlo Owen Rees; Contrapunctus Eastern Roman Empire – preserved from destruction in is performed on the precious historical instrument: the Petrus De’Simone 1747 organ of the Church of San’Antonio in Mola The richest single source of Tudor polyphony, preserving almost 170 works many of which survive nowhere the Egyptian desert at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of di , fully preserved and in excellent condition. The organ in else, is a set of manuscript partbooks copied between about 1575 and 1581 by John Baldwin, a lay clerk St. Catherine at Mt. Sinai. Features music for the medieval at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. This album is the third and final installment in a series of recordings by celebration of Vespers in honor of St. Catherine, and question becomes the medium to reviving a cross-section of the Contrapunctus exploring contrasting aspects of this remarkable treasure house of sacred music covering much of Byzantium’s only liturgical drama, the Service of the Three Apulian organ tradition whose roots are deeply connected to the the 16th century. Youths in the Fiery Furnace. musical activity of the Kingdom of Naples since the 16th century. 1CD TCT 670004 $16.99 1CD SIG 633 $17.99 1CD CPLR 407 $18.99 V1: Gregorian Chant Melodies / Monks of Solesmes Tallis: Spem in Alium / Peter Phillips, Guerrero: , Lamentations & Canciones / This album is Volume 1 in a two-release set that contains the best of the Monks of Solesmes – including the El León De Oro; Peter Phillips , , and Ave Maria, chants for the Liturgical Year from Advent to Pentecost, hymns from the “Not only is the choir superb and the service of Compline, as well as the Mass of the Angels. Sung with grace and style, the chants on this release are Francisco Guerrero is still insufficiently interpretation an intelligent one; this ideal for those who are familiar with the chant liturgy as a collection of familiar melodies. well known by comparison to his is also the only recording in which the 1CD PRCP 844 $18.99 great contemporary and compatriot eight choirs genuinely seem to sing Victoria. El León de Oro here affirms from different positions in the stereo his rightful place in the history of the spread, a techinical achievement that Golden Age of Spanish polyphony. leads to some thrilling antiphonal V2: Gregorian Chant Melodies / Monks of Solesmes 1CD HYP 68347 $19.99 exchanges.” – Gramophone This album is the second a two-volume set that contains the best of the Monks of Solesmes. “The program offers 1CD GIM 006 $25.99 alternate settings… of the sprinkling of water, the Ordinary of the Mass, Benediction hymns, and the most familiar pieces marking the liturgical year… exactly what is needed for those who long to hear the familiar chants again.” (Fanfare ) “Setting the standard for Gregorian performance.” (American Record Guide ) Gardens of Delight: Roses, Lilies & The Music of Leonardo’s Age / Nadia Caristi, 1CD PRCP 845 $18.99 Other Flowers in Medieval Song / Ciconia soprano; Massimo Marchese, lute This album features a beautiful program of works from the References to lilies and roses and many other flowers abound Renaissance for Soprano, accompanied here by lute, which in both secular and sacred texts that were set to music from was probably the most favored instrument for this during the across European medieval repertoire from the 12th to the Renaissance. Nadia Caristi graduated with degrees in classical Verdelot: Madrigals for Four Voices / Gesualdo: Madrigali Books 3 and 4 / early 15th century. The Telling has a growing reputation for piano and singing before going on to explore and ultimately Profeti della Quinta Les Arts Florissants [2 CDs] creating intimate, staged concerts to bring medieval music dedicate herself to the historically informed performance practice off the page and reach wider audiences. Formed in 2009, of the Renaissance and Baroque vocal repertoires. The Ensemble Profeti della Quinta Following the acclaim which met their The Telling draw from a pool of leading musicians who also 1CD CEN 3807 $15.99 presents a selection of four-part madrigals 2-CD set devoted to the first two books from a anthology of Gesualdo’s madrigals, Paul Agnew perform for several other collectives. published posthumously. A special and Les Arts Florissants now focus on 1CD FHR 68 $19.99 Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia / Cappella Romana feature of their performance is that each the composer’s Ferrara period. Books III (Blu-ray Audio+CD) [2 CDs] singer reads from the originally notated and IV mark a turning point in Gesualdo’s Machaut: The Lion of Nobility / Orlando Consort single voice. This spontaneity can be felt output. These madrigals, whose reliance Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia is the first throughout the recording, and takes the on chromaticism and dissonance was so The titular ‘lion of nobility’ was vocal album in the world to be recorded listener to the beginnings of the Italian far ahead of it’s time that it’s like would not (probably) King John II of France, entirely in live virtual acoustics. It madrigal in a very intense way. be heard again until centuries later. brings together art history, music making the most expansive work on 1CD PAN 10422 $18.99 2CD HAR 8905309 $22.99 history, performance, and technology this album a lament for a historical to re-create medieval sacred sound in Frescobaldi: Unpublished Music from the Josquin: Motets & Mass Movements / event: the French defeat at the the cathedral of Hagia Sophia as an “Codici Ghigi” / Ivana Valotti The Brabant Ensemble; Stephen Rice Battle of Poitiers in 1356. Elsewhere, aural virtual reality. Enjoy more than Machaut’s protagonist continues to Tactus begins the world premiere of the 75 minutes of medieval Byzantine Biographical and musicological certainties scrutinize the joys and sorrows of Frescobaldi unpublished manuscripts, may be in short supply in the life and work chant for the Feast of the Holy Cross in whose attribution has finally come to an of Josquin, but there’s no gainsaying the courtly love in obsessive detail. Constantinople. end after years of work by Constance Frei magnificence of the music. This program of 1CD HYP 68318 $19.99 2CD CPLR 420 $29.99 and Etienne Darbellay, the most accredited shorter works, from The Brabant Ensemble musicologist in the studies concerning the and Stephen Rice, most in unusual guise, great composer from Ferrara, and curator celebrates his 500th anniversary. EARLY MUSIC TITLES IN BRIEF of the most important printed edition 1CD HYP 68321 $19.99 ever made of his keyboard works. Ivana Valotti performs a variegated anthology of Le Secret de Monsieur Marin Marias / , viola da gamba, toccatas, canzonas, and ricercars. Luca Pianca, archlute 1CD TCT 580609 $16.99 In Chains of Gold – The English This album, entirely devoted to the music of Marais, alternates recits for solo viola with orchestral pieces, all of Music of the Renaissance Set / Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem, Vol. 2 / them reinterpreted in the light of the new discovery of Monsieur Marais’s ‘codes.’ Gloriae Dei Cantores [2 CDs] Magdelena Consort; et al. 1CD AHP 453 $18.99 This Renaissance Collection features Leading performers of 17th-century music Roland de Lassus: Inferno / Daniel Reuss; Cappella Amsterdam sacred music from one of the most the Magdalena Consort, Fretwork and His inspired periods in the arts. 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More than any Renaissance include Palestrina who wrote composer before him, William Byrd catered Spanish Madrigals: Juan Navarro, Sebastian Raval / José Duce Chenoll; Amystis music of unsurpassed grace and beauty. prolifically to a wide variety of musicians. 2CD GLDC 8296 $29.99 1CD SIG 609 $17.99 The ensemble’s first two issues, devoted to Cabanilles and Cornes, showed Chenoli’s deep interest in the neglected music of the homeland. These performances display the same devotion and skill. Fading / Owain Park; The Gesualdo Six 1CD BLC 95905 $10.49 “Ingeniously programmed and impeccably delivered, with that undefinable excitement that comes from a group of musicians working absolutely as one. The Gesualdo Six ‘Fading’ is startingly, urgently excellent… The Gesauldo Six are The Food of Love: Songs, Dances, and Fancies for Shakespeare / the real deal. Far from fading, they’re just coming into focus.” – Gramophone 1CD HYP 68285 $19.99 The Baltimore Consort The Baltimore Consort has explored early English, Scottish, and French popular music. Here they perform music of Shakespeare, who authored the lyrics to some of these songs. 1CD SUIN 92234 $13.99 24 25 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Music of the Baroque NEW RELEASES - BAROQUE

Locatelli: Il labirinto armonico / Ilya Gringolts; Greco: Music for Bass Violin / Mvsica Perdvta; New Baroque Discoveries Finnish Baroque Orchestra Renato Criscuolo, bass violin Published in 1733, Pietro Locatelli’s The early-music cellist Renato Vivaldi’s Seasons / Bolette Roed, recorder; Arte dei Suonatori [2 CD] L’Arte del violino for solo violin, Criscuolo and his Mvsica Perdvta Recorder player Bolette Roed and Arte dei Suonatori present Vivaldi’s famous violin concertos, “The Four strings, and basso continuo took ensemble have specialized in Seasons”, combined with other concertos that share a kinship with them, resulting in Vivaldi’s Seasons; a both violin technique and the solo reviving vocal and chamber music by programme consisting of sixteen concertos, four for each season, including favorites such as Il rosignuolo and concerto as a genre into a whole -based composers from the 17th l’Amoroso. new realm. The twelve concertos and 18th centuries.Their latest album 2CD PTE 5186875 $24.99 included in the collection also played revives the name and the music of a part in forming the image of the Rocco Greco, a cellist-composer violin virtuoso, reaching its full bloom who can be considered the founder with Paganini towards the end of the of the distinguished Neapolitan cello tradition that later Avison, Scarlatti: Concerti Grossi / Tiento Nuovo, century. produced more renowned names such as Lanzetti and Ignacio Prego, harpsichord 1SACD BIS 2445 $19.99 Caporale. 1CD BLC 96100 $10.49 Harpsichordist Ignacio Prego directs a new selection of the concerti grossi by Charles Avison drawing inspiration Le Coucher du Roi: Music for Louis XIV’s from keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. The Madrid-born Prego is alive to the variety of musical ideas Chamber / Rignol, Cottet, Leconte [CD+DVD] Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier / embedded in these concertos – four of the concerti grossi “after Scarlatti” that Avison had published in 1744: each Aaron Pilsan, piano [2 CDs] concerto is a sequence of movements, the melodious and playful contrasting with the restful and contemplative. Night is falling. In this twilight of the reign of Louis XIV and 1CD GLS 923526 $18.99 at the end of his Grand Coucher, the king is at last free from Aaron Pilsan is only 25 years old, but he already has a busy protocol. He then orders the musicians of the King’s Chamber career to his credit, with a solo album devoted to Beethoven Bach: Cello Suites / Asier Polo, cello [2 CDs] to come to him; they are the most excellent in the kingdom. and Schubert – very well received by the critics – and another The six Suites are today the musical bible of cellists, the work with which they touch the sky, the limit which marks These “Petits Concerts” which were held in the evening before of duo repertory with the cellist Kian Soltani. A student of Lars their arrival to absolute maturity. And this is how Asier Polo also approaches it. His interpretation goes to the His Majesty enabled the king to hear his preferred repertoire Vogt, he has also received guidance from András Schiff – essential. It is modern and made from the knowledge of historicist criteria. It puts music and its author before the from all that he had loved and even danced to. Bach has always been at the center of their work together. performer. 1CD CHUV 029 $18.99 2CD AHP 669 $24.99 2CD IBSC 182020 $16.99 Bach Transcriptions / Various Artists [20 CDs] Pergolesi: Stabat Mater / Ensemble Resonanz This fascinating set provides a Two of Bach’s finest , refreshing window onto a much both for solo alto, composed in studied, much idolized, and oft Weimar (1714) and Leipzig (1726) Lalande: Les Fontaines de Versailles – Bach: Nostalghia / Francesco Piemontesi, piano performed master of composition, respectively, are here coupled Le Concert d’Esculape On Bach Nostalghia, his second Pentatone allowing many of his familiar works to with Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater of 1736, the 18th century’s favorite Michel-Richard de Lalande is regarded as album, pianist Francesco Piemontesi appear in a new light, recognizable one of the great composers of the French presents original works of Bach, alongside and yet transformed. Many of sacred work. The gap between Baroque, and so it is not surprising that Bach transcriptions and works inspired the transcriptions included here austere Lutheran piety and searing the Boston Early Music Ensemble has by Bach from , Wilhelm represent the work of contemporary, Mediterranean emotionalism might Kempff and Maximilian Schnaus. Whereas now turned to him. Along with his many world-class performers bringing Bach’s masterpieces into the seem unbridgeable, yet Bach so admired the composition of sacred works, de Lalande also wrote for many modern-day musicians aim to revive the instruments used in Bach’s own time, repertoire of their own instruments or ensembles. his Neapolitan colleague that he made his own ‘parody’ of it to the various court occasions that required a German text. secular music. Les Fontaines de Versailles, Piemontesi explores the tradition of Bach 20CD BLC 95943 $56.99 transcriptions for piano. 1CD HAR 902637 $19.99 the work occupying a central position Johann Joseph Fux / Gesù Cristo negato da on this release, above all contributed to 1CD PTE 5186846 $15.99 Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri / Ensemble Pietro / Ars Antiqua [2 CD] de Lalande’s increasing popularity. Correspondances [2 CDs] 1CD CPO 555097 $16.99 Francesco Venturini: Concerti di camera; The Viennese Court Kapellmeister Johann Joseph Fux Overtures Nos. 5 and 6 / La Festa Musicale Since it’s formation in 2008, the Ensemble Correspondances J.S. Bach: Partitas BWV 825–830 / (1660–1741) is regarded in music history as the forefather of The Concerti of the violinist-composer has devoted itself chiefly to French sacred music of the modern counterpoint, and his instructional work “Gradus ad Lorenzo Ghielmi, harpsichord [2 CDs] Francesco Venturini are a real discovery – 17th century. Brought together by Sébastien Daucé during parnassum” continues to influence education in the present The Partitas are the first work for melodious, virtuosic, elegant and dance-like, their studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de day. After 300 years the oratorio Gesù Cristo negato da Pietro harpsichord published by Johann combining Italian and French stylistic Musique (CNSM) de Lyon, the musicians of Correspondances elements to form a “mixed taste”, as was performed for the first time in January 2020, and is now Sebastian Bach. Between 1726 and 1730, pursue this work (focusing notably on Marc-Antoine Telemann described this melange. Inspired available here. the partitas were published separately, one Charpentier) with infectious enthusiasm today. per year, before being brought together in a by the pulsating cultural and intellectual life 2CD ACT 24374 $21.99 single collection in 1731. Lorenzo Ghielmi, at the Hanoverian court, Venturini wrote 2CD HAR 902350 $22.99 one of the most famous interpreters of ambitious orches­tral music full of joie de Bach’s works, presents us with a recording vivre, for both wind and string instruments. NEW BAROQUE RELEASES IN BRIEF in which elegance and measure allow the 1CD ADT 97775 $18.99 beauty and formal rigour of these pages to coexist. : The Bach Box / Glenn Gould, piano Marais: Troisième Livre De Pièces / François Joubert-Caillet, viola de gamba [4 CDs] 2CD PSSA 1105 $29.99 [30 CDs] Ten years after his Third Book was published, had to reaffirm his position as the reigning master of Campana (1819–1982): Arie a una, due, e tre voci / This new release from Sony presents the genre, a mission accomplished to perfection with this new opus. Glenn Gould’s complete Bach recordings 4CD RCR 424 $36.99 Francesco Tomasi, Ricercare Antico for Columbia Masterworks in a neat and The collection of Francesca Campana handy 30 album set, pulled from the 2015 arias recorded here was published in remastered complete collection. To this Molter: Forgotten Treasures Vol. 12 – Ouvertüre, Sinfonia and Concerti day renowned Canadian pianist Glenn 1629. It enjoys the notable status of the Michael Alexander Willens and his Kölner Akademie present some of the concertos and orchestral works of very first published collection of music Gould (1932–1982) continues to fascinate Johann Melchior Molter in first recordings with remarkable inventiveness. solely dedicated to a female composer. and entice fans and artists alike. Gould Francesca dedicated it to the Mantovan was very forward thinking and embraced 1SACD ARSP 38252 $19.99 nobleman Luigi Gonzaga, and it was technology in a way that was unique followed the following year by a book of among performing artists. madrigals. 30CD SNYC 19439753902 $89.99 Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol. 4 / Benjamin Alard, harpsichord and organ 1CD BLC 96008 $10.49 [3 CDs] Volume 4 of Benjamin Alard’s complete recording of Bach’s keyboard works continues to explore the Weimar Bach: St. Matthew Passion / Gaechinger Cantorey; Hans-Christoph Rademann period. Benjamin Alard performs on three instruments, including a magnificent 1702 harpsichord. [2 CDs] 3CD HAR 9024620 $28.99 In November 2020, Hans-Christoph Rademann and the Gaechinger Cantorey ensemble and chorus set out to lend a Storace: Complete Harpichord and Organ / Enrico Viccardi, organ, harpsichord and spinet new and fresh perspective to Bach’s timeless masterpiece of raging choirs, intimate chorales, and emotionally charged arias, which, with its drama and pictorial quality, allows the listener to experience the well-known Passion story again and [2 CD] again as something completely new and unheard-of. To convey the varied colors and textures of Bernardo Storace’s music for this new recording, Enrico Viccardi has 2CD ACTS 30535 $29.99 chosen to play four different historically significant instruments. 2CD BLC 95455 $12.99 26 27 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com The Classical Era NEW RELEASES - CLASSICAL Beethoven: Missa Solemnis / Rossini: 7 Complete Operas / Various Classical Era Recommendations René Jacobs; Frieburger Barockorchester [14 DVDs] Written between 1818 and 1823, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis The first misconception that the Rossini Renaissance has Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 76 / Chiaroscuro Quartet was the result of intensive theological and musical research gradually corrected is that Rossini was only able to excel in On a previous album, the Chiaroscuro Quartet has recorded the first half of Joseph Haydn’s Op. 76, including in the library of it’s dedicatee, Archduke Rudolph of Austria. It the comic genre. Rossini’s serious operas, as a matter of No. 3, the celebrated ‘Emperor’ quartet. This new release, like its predecessor, spans a wealth of moods and is, in Beethoven’s own view, his most ambitious composition. fact, are not only overall of high artistic quality but also quite atmospheres: from the magical sunrise of the opening of 76/4 to the manic minuet and boisterous finale of 76/6, a On this recording, René Jacobs shows us that it is also original. This collector’s boxset offers an interesting selection movement without a tune worth the name but utterly engrossing even so. his loftiest. This is the work of a compose creating that of Rossini’s main opera seria (and semiseria, with reference 1SACD BIS 2358 $19.99 which expresses in musical terms the universality of divine to La gazza ladra ) played by great interpreters, conductors transcendence. and directors. 1CD HAR 902427 $19.99 14DVD-Video DYN 37888 $74.99 Mozart – Violin Concertos Vol. 1 / Wranitzky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 / Haydn: Complete Piano Concertos / Aisslinn Nosky, violin; Max Mandel, viola Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Mélodie Zhao, Camerata Schweiz [2 CDs] Mozart’s Violin Concertos need Pianist Melodie Zhao teams up Czech-born Paul Wranitzky, a contemporary of Mozart, was the most important symphonist in Vienna at the turn of the 18th century. To mark the ascension to the throne of Franz II in 1792, Wranitzky wrote the grand Symphony little introduction – from No. 3 in with the Camerata Schweiz and in C major, a work of regal quality and festive exuberance. Wranitzky’s mature symphonic style is on display in the G major featuring the 19-year-old Howard Griffiths on this complete Symphony in B flat major, with its expanded orchestral forces, contrasting textures and broad musical invention. Mozart at his elegant, witty and recording of Joseph Haydn’s 1CD NXS 8574227 $12.99 beguilingly changeable best, to the concertos for keyboard instruments – Sinfonia Concertante – the string for harpsichord, for pianoforte, concerto masterpiece – with its and surprisingly also for organ. Reicha: Rediscovered Vol. 3 / Ivan Ilić, piano masterly mixture of noble strength The recording is based on the For this his third volume of works by Antoine Reicha, the pianist Ivan Ilić turns to one of the composer’s most and tender lyricism. The Handel and instrumental assignments and score extraordinary works, L’Art de varier, Op. 57. The set is remarkable for its scale and invention. Ivan Ilić describes Haydn Society with their inspirational text in the musicological complete the work as the missing link between Bach’s ‘Goldberg’ Variations and Beethoven’s ‘Diabelli’ Variations, which Concertmaster, Aisslinn Nosky, bring edition of Haydn’s works. was certainly influenced by Reicha’s work. The recording was made on a Steinway Model D grand piano. Mozart’s musical magic to life. 2CD CPO 555400 $33.99 1CD CHA 20194 $18.99 1CD COO 16183 $18.99 Anton Eberl: Complete Piano Sonatas / Luca Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 9 / Quintavalle, fortepiano [2 CDs] Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano Modern performers such as Luca Quintavalle have revived Following his acclaimed recording of Beethoven’s concertos Mozart-contemporary Anton Eberl for a new generation of Beethoven: Triple Concerto / Isabelle , violin François-Joseph Gossec: Requiem, La Nativité / with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet listeners. These seven piano sonatas by themselves should After a successful trilogy devoted to Various Artists returns to his exploration of Haydn’s sonatas, described by restore his name to a senior rank of Viennese composers. the concertos and trios of Schumann, François-Joseph Gossec was doubtless Gramophone as ‘a major modern recording landmark in the Eberl made uncommonly ambitious use of minor-key tonalities Freiburger Barockorchester and Pablo one of the most prominent French Haydn discography’. As in previous installments, Bavouzet for his time; there are two G minor sonatas of which the Heras-Casado could not ignore one of composers of the 18th century and wrote has programmed sonatas from Haydn’s early, middle, and late second, Op. 39, probably counts as his masterpiece, for its Beethoven’s most unusual works: the works representing almost all the musical periods, giving added interest to the recital. breadth of expression. Triple Concerto. Alongside Isabelle Faust, forms and genres. His oratorios and truly 1CD CHA 20131 $18.99 2CD BLC 95929 $12.99 Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander amazing Messe des Morts also made him Melnikov, they bring this score to life as a trailblazing figure. La Nativite to a text by Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4 / Beethoven: In Celebration of the 250th only true chamber musicians can, revealing Gossec’s contemporary Michel Paul Guy Peter Donohoe, piano Anniversary / Sophia Agranovich, piano it’s subtlest colors and balances. de Chabonon is his most famous oratorio, 1CD HAR 902419 $19.99 which premiered on Christmas Eve 1774. Volume 4 of Peter Donohoe’s This is a program featuring some This recording of his symphonic music was acclaimed survey of Mozart’s Piano of Beethoven’s greatest piano Michael Haydn Collection / Various Artists also awarded an Opus Klassik 2020. Sonatas on SOMM Recordings works, in celebration of the 250th 1CD CPO 777869 $16.99 [28 CDs] focuses on the composer’s adoption anniversary of his birth. A native of An inspiration to Mozart and a teacher to Beethoven’s World – Salieri, Hummel, Voříšek / of the newly emerging pianoforte Ukraine, Sophia Agranovich is an composers such as Diabelli and Weber, Reinhard Goebel; WDR Sinfonieorchester and his bold exploitation of its more internationally acclaimed soloist, Johann Michael Haydn was a respected The third album of this celebrated sophisticated voicing. Sonatas Nos.1 chamber musician, recording artist, and influential figure during his lifetime. The in C major (K279) and 5 in G major and educator. Agranovich is “a bold, earliest symphonies included here, No. 1 “Beethoven’s World” series continues the in C and No. 1B in F, date from 1758 and musical foray into the Vienna of the early (K283) were composed as a set of daring pianist in the tradition of the display the youthful energy of a composer 19th century with extraordinary rarities from six “difficult” sonatas by the 18-year-old prodigy in 1774. Golden Age Romantics… A tigress of finding his feet. Beethoven’s contemporaries. Recorded “This is a recording full of joy...” – Classical Music Daily the keyboard”. – Fanfare. 28CD BLC 95885 $69.99 with the WDR Symphony Orchestra, the 1CD SOMM 0629 $18.99 1CD CEN 3828 $15.99 recording proves once again that there was far more to hear for Vienna music lovers than piano concertos by Mozart or CLASSICAL ERA ALBUMS IN BRIEF Mozart Contemporaries: 18th Century Music for symphonies by Beethoven. / Mainer Martin, bassoon; 1CD SNYC 19075929602 $14.99 Domenico Cimarosa: 21 Sonatas for Organ / Andrea Chezzi, organ Violeta Mur, cello Benda: Medea / Katharina Thalbach, narrator; This new album of Domenico Cimarosa’s sonatas in versions for organ celebrates the variety and adaptability of Cimarosa’s idiom and demonstrates why he was so lionized in his own time. The starting-point for this unique recital is a Marcus Bosch; Cappella Aquileia true Mozart rarity, the Sonata for bassoon 1CD BLC 95781 $10.49 and cello K292 which Mozart wrote in In 1778 Mozart attested “the most 1775, pairing the bass members of string wonderful effect” to the melodrama The Harp in the Vienna of Maria Theresa / Margret Köll, harp; Marcello Gatti, transverse Medea (1775) of his contemporary Georg and wind families not to comic effect but flute rather demonstrating their expressive Anton Benda (1722–1795). Indeed, the versatility and contrasting tone-colors. combination of spoken texts with dramatic Margret Köll is one of the most important interpreters of the historical harp. In her new album she dedicates Rarer still on album is the creative output music unfolds a high emotional intensity here. Marcus Bosch and the cappella herself to the “single pedal harp”, which was developed at the beginning of the 18th century. of Dürnitz himself, represented here by four 1CD ACT 24369 $18.99 sonatas for bassoon and keyboard from a aquileia accompany this new discovery collection of six. of classical music theater with their usual Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 / Ann-Helen Moen, soprano; Marianne Beate Kielland, alto 1CD BLC 96020 $10.49 precise and transparent sound. 1CD CVEL 92014 $18.99 Bach Collegium and Masaaki Suzuki now give us their rendering of Beethoven’s last and greatest symphony, joined by a fine quartet of vocal soloists. Hans Rosbaud conducts Beethoven / Südwestfunk-Orchester Baden-Baden [7 CDs] 1SACD BIS 2451 $19.99 This is the new installment of the series dedicated to the SWR recordings of the conductor Hans Rosbaud. It contains all Beethoven’s Symphonies and Overtures Rosbaud has recorded for the SWR, C.P.E. Bach: Complete Piano Trios Nos. 1–6 / Linos Piano Trio [2 CDs] among them two different versions of the 8th Symphony. Additionally, famous interpreters Ginette Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach publish these Six Sonatas for the Harpsichord or Pianoforte accompanied by Violin Neveu and Géza Anda are to be heard on this album with the Violin Concert, respectively with the and Violoncello (Wq. 89), in 1776. Piano Concert No. 5. 2CD CAVI 8553480 $19.99 7CD SWRM 19089 $38.99 28 29 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com The Romantic Era NEW RELEASES – ROMANTIC Janáček: On An Overgrown Path / Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Jakub Hrůša, Romantic Era Recommendations Lars Vogt, piano Bamberger Symphoniker Lars Vogt’s new solo piano release is The Bamberg Symphony were involved dedicated to the piano works of Leoš at an early stage in investigating Fauré: Works for Violin & Piano / Jane Gordon, violin; Jan Rautio, piano Janáček (1854–1928), one of the most the effects of performing during the Bridging the end of Romanticism and the beginnings of Modernism, Gabriel Fauré is considered to be one of the original voices among the 20th century onset of the coronavirus, and helped most important French composers of the 19th and early 20th centuries. This collection of Fauré’s works for violin composers. This album includes three to develop concepts for safe concert and piano are performed on period instruments. Duo Jane Gordon (violin) and Jan Rautio (piano) here celebrate of the composer’s most well-known and performances. Their renowned Mahler their significant milestone of two decades of musical partnership. most extensive solo piano works. These Competition took place in July 2020. 1CD REOA 10275 $16.99 works by Janáček are marked by deep These were the first symphonic melancholy and passion. They manifest performances after months, which led the composer’s rich inner world through to one of the first symphonic album a musical language that remains to be recordings in times of the pandemic timeless. – seated apart, but musically closer Mahler: Symphony No. 2 / Ádám Fischer; Düsseldorf Symphonic 1CD OND 1382 $14.99 than ever. The much acclaimed series of the complete Mahler Symphonies with the Düsseldorf Symphonic under the baton 1CD ACTS 30532 $19.99 Bruch: Symphony Nos. 1–3 / Robert Trevino, of Ádám Fischer gets more complete with the release of the Symphony No. 2. Fischer writes: “Mahler’s Second Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for Solo Violin / Symphony has special significance for me… The first reason is biographical. As far as I am concerned, Mahler is Bamberger Symphoniker [2 CD] just as much a part of Vienna Classicism as Haydn.” Kerson Leong, violin 1CD CAVI 8553485 $17.99 “Bruch’s three symphonies are a gift to a sympathetic interpreter, and Robert Trevino joins a select group of conductors who have Kerson Leong recently participated in the award-winning Tribute succeeded in making these awkward but intensely lovable works to Ysaÿe. This is his first solo recital for Alpha. Here he tackles sing... This is music of rolling vistas, sunlit hillsides and good wine, a monument of the violin repertory, the Sonatas for solo violin and the sound of the Bambergers suits it beautifully.” of Eugene Ysaÿe: ‘These sonatas are of course a big test...The Rebay: Complete Music for Clarinet, Flute & Guitar / Esteso Trio – Gramophone music is highly emotional, pervasive and in some ways also very 2CD CPO 555252 $33.99 sombre, which makes it extremely powerful’, says Leong of these Viennese composer Ferdinand Rebay (1880–1953) remained largely unaffected by the turbulent musical currents six sonatas. swirling around him in the Austrian capital during the early 20th century. Instead, he composed highly appealing 1CD AHP 455 $18.99 music, Romantic in harmony and Classical in form, with a particular focus on the guitar. The Italian Esteso Trio Sullivan: Ballet Music / RTÉ Concert Orchestra here presents three variation sets scored for clarinet, flute and guitar. Soon after his return from studies in Brahms: Piano Concerto After, Op. 25 / 1CD BLC 96063 $10.49 Leipzig, Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote his Silver-Garburg Piano Duo second work, L’Île Enchantée. This Music by for four premiere recording restores passages hands would be nothing out of the Sullivan cut when presenting the work ordinary as a recital program given by for concert performances. Thespis, a the renowned Silver Garburg Piano collaboration with W.S. Gilbert, is a Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Igor Levit, Catoire: Piano Concerto, Op. 21, Piano Quintet, Op. 28, Duo – but a concert featuring piano four flamboyant opera cum pantomime of Xiaohan Wang Piano Quartet, Op. 31 / Oliver Triendl, piano hands with orchestra? The versatile which only fragments now remain – the Austrian composer and arranger In 2005 Igor Levit and Xiaohan Wang Although the originality of his musical language work’s lost ballet has been rediscovered performed, together with the Kölner paved the way for Russian modernism, Georgy Richard Dünser has arranged Brahms’s and restored by Roderick Spencer and Kammerorchester under Helmut Catoire’s work still followed the artistic ideals Piano Quartet Op. 25 and dedicated the Selwyn Tillett. Müller-Brühl, as outstanding talents of the of Russia and not the new culture of the Soviet resultant work to Sivan Silver and Gil semi-final of the “International Beethoven Republic. His work is highly expressive and 1CD NXS 8555180 $12.99 Competition for Piano Bonn”. The young of enormous polyphonic density, greatest Garburg. This is a very special piece of pianists, today successful all over the world, expressiveness, fine colors, rhythmic and Brahms: Sonatas Op. 120 Nos. 1 & 2 / Antoine music with an exciting genesis. performed on that occasion Beethoven’s Piano harmonious scope. “Now I have come across 1CD BER 0301263 $18.99 Concertos Nos. 1 & 2. On this recording, Igor someone who really has a great creative Tamestit, viola Levit performs the First Concerto, and Xiaohan talent.” (Peter Tchaikovsky ) Scriabin (1872–1915): Mazurkas, Poèmes & Magisterially rounding off one of the 19th century’s most Wang the Second. 1CD CAP 5403 $16.99 Impromtus / Dmitri Alexeev, piano [3 CDs] 1CD NXS 8551447 $12.99 remarkable bodies of chamber music, Brahms’s two Sonatas Wolf-Ferrari: 3 Violin Sonatas / Davide Alogna, violin; op.120 call for a virtuosity wholly dedicated to their extraordinary This multi-album set of piano works by Scriabin is the fourth and lyricism. The melodic line develops with an almost organic Visions of Childhood – Music of Mahler, Wagner, Constantino Catena, piano final installment in Dmitri Alexeev’s monumental endeavor to Humperdinck & Schubert / English SO naturalness. Hence it is hardly surprising in this context to record Scriabin’s entire oeuvre for the piano on Brilliant Classics, Previously known principally for his operatic discover two lieder in which baritone and viola are treated as an eight-album collection that includes the earlier complete wrote his Siegfried Idyll as a and dramatic works such as I gioielli della equals, and which are here interpreted by three exceptional birthday present for his wife, Cosima, after the , Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari built up a preludes, complete etudes and complete piano sonatas. This set birth of their son, Siegfried. Nowhere else in body of instrumental music that was played musicians. gathers all the works that do not belong to the uniform cycles of the music is there so tender an evocation of those across Europe during his lifetime. The First 1CD HAR 902652 $19.99 previous three releases. fragile and precious first weeks of life. Gustav Violin Sonata was written while the 19-year-old 3CD BLC 95931 $14.99 Mahler’s 100-minute Third symphony and his Wolf-Ferrari was still studying with Joseph Fourth grew out of the musical material in the Rheinberger in Munich. However, its long- short, beautiful song which forms the final breathed melodies and grasp of large-scale ROMANTIC ERA RELEASES IN BRIEF movement of the Fourth Symphony, which form bely its composer’s relative inexperience. concludes these Visions of Childhood. 1CD BLC 96093 $10.49 1CD NIM 6408 $18.99 Music by Chopin and Liszt / Jin Ah Kwon, piano Rott: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 / Christopher Ward, This is a great program of works for piano by Chopin and Liszt. A native of Korea, Jin Ah Kwon began playing the piano Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 / Gürzenich Orchester Köln at the age of five. 1CD CEN 3849 $15.99 Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich The 1989 premiere of the Symphony No. 1 Principal Conductor and Music Director of the in E major by Hans Rott, written almost 100 Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich since October 2019, years earlier, introduced the international music Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 ‘Romantic’ / Bavarian Radio SO Paavo Järvi continues his complete cycle of world to a composer who had been unknown Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, following a first or known only by name even to most pundits. It was on the borderline between High and Late Romanticism, that Anton Bruckner once again conjured up the very volume devoted to Symphony No. 5 and the Besides Wagner, Bruckner was the most essence of the Romantic attitude to life with his Fourth Symphony. important model for Rott’s first symphonic work. symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini. This 1CD BRK 900187 $16.99 second volume features Symphonies Nos. The symphony is his first and final finished 2 and 4. The Fourth, composed in 1878 and major work. nicknamed the ‘Fate’ Symphony because of its 1CD CAP 5414 $16.99 somber coloring. Medtner: Complete Songs, Vol. 2 / Ekaterina Levental, mezzo; Frank Peters, piano 1CD AHP 735 $18.99 “The melancholy, autumnal atmosphere evokes Tsarist Russia, of which the once Uzbek but long Dutch-resident Gernsheim Complete Violin Sonatas / Christoph Schickedanz, Ernst Breidenbach Ekaterina Levental has perfectly captured the spirit. Her smooth singing is a joy to listen to.” – Opus Klassiek [2 CDs] 1CD BLC 96061 $10.49 Friedrich Gernsheim again and again returned to chamber music during the course of his life, from his beginnings in Leipzig and Paris to his later Berlin years. The violin sonatas in particular stand out in this group within his oeuvre because they truly document Works for Cello and Piano by Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn / Johannes Moser, cello; his compositional development. Works range from the 14-year-old’s Sonata in E minor, to the mature Op. 50, 64, and 85, with 13 to 14 years separating the composition of each of these works. Alasdair Beatson, piano 2CD CPO 555330 $33.99 German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser and Irish pianist Alasdair Beatson present a moving portrait of the Mendelssohn family with this recording of pieces by the siblings Felix and Fanny. 1SACD PTE 5186781 $19.99

30 31 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com ROMANTIC ERA NEW RELEASES – CHORAL The Romantic Era Music for Chorus Dušek: Complete Music for Fortepiano / Marius Carl Maria von Weber: Complete Works Easter in Ireland / Newman Vocare Ensemble Nordic Choral Music of Sweden, Norway, Bartoccini, fortepiano & harpsichord [5 CDs] for Piano and Orchestra / Ronald Brautigam, GIA Publications, Inc. is pleased to offer Easter in Ireland, their first Finland, Denmark / WDR Rundfunkchor Köln Brilliant Classics now presents the fortepiano recording by Steve Warner and the Newman Vocare Ensemble. The cultures of Scandinavia have always exerted a huge This album offers a taste of the rich fabric of sounds found in first-ever complete survey of František Carl Maria von Weber wrote music fascination over people. This fine collection of contemporary Ireland. It is a merging of traditions: four-part choral singing; Xaver Dušek, who comes to life as not that has been admired by composers choral music spans the Nordic region, with novel sounds and Uilleann pipes, low whistle, harp and harmonium; strings, organ merely a Czech contemporary of Mozart as diverse as Schumann, Berlioz, provoking scores. These aspects have set new standards on the and guitar. All of the selections are directed toward the joy of but the father of the Czech piano Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel and Scandinavian choral scene, leading to a continual professionalism Easter. school. Across 24 numbered sonatas, Stravinsky. Like other composer- making waves across all of Europe. 1CD GIA 1072 $16.99 a divertimento, a set of variations and a pianists he wrote works to use as his 1CD HAN 20064 $17.99 handful of works for keyboard duet, his personal calling cards, among them own output traverses the era, beginning the two piano concertos recorded here. McDowall: Sacred Choral Music / Trinity College Villa-Lobos – Choral Transcriptions / Valentina with the Baroque conventions and This disc brings the team of Ronald Choir Cambridge Peleggi; São Paulo Symphony Choir youthful high spirits of his early sonatas. Brautigam and Kölner Akademie to Choral music holds a central position 5CD BLC 95863 $17.99 the very crossroads of Classicism and McDowall’s keen sensitivity to text in Villa-Lobos’s catalogue of works, Romanticism. and her flair for writing vocal lines but among these famous pieces is a Helena Munktell: Violin Sonata, Dix Mélodies / 1SACD BIS 2384 $19.99 that are grateful to sing are just two of the virtues which justify the success series of little-known transcriptions for a Ringborg, Asplund, Winiarski, Johansson cappella choir taken from the standard Fauré: Piano Quartets, Op. 15 & Op. 45 / Quartetto of her choral music. Her original and This is the first ever album devoted to distinctive voice is well served by classical repertoire. This album also the chamber music of Helena Munktell, Werther Stephen Layton and his Trinity College includes the first ever recording of Villa-Lobos’s complete set of a cappella one of the earliest female composers With this release, their debut forces. transcriptions from Bach’s The Well- in Sweden. The Dix Mélodies are finely commercial recording, the Quartetto 1CD HYP 69251 $19.99 Tempered Clavier. crafted musical scenes displaying a Werther has produced finely calibrated, 1CD NXS 8574286 $12.99 wide expressive range and variety of beautifully engineered versions of the moods. The third work on this album two piano quartets which make an ideal Handel: Messiah Refreshed / Royal PO [2 CDs] is a small-scale piano trio, probably introduction to the voice of Gabriel Distance / Choir of the Church of St. Andrew & St. The Goossens Messiah, recorded for the first and only time by an early work and possibly composed Fauré in the realm of chamber music. Paul the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus under Sir Thomas for performance at one of the musical The romantic, passionate melodies Beecham, has stood as a landmark of the classical catalogue for The Choir of the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal salons at the Munktell family home in of the Op. 15 celebrated Quartet in C 60 years. Goossens’ richly orchestrated version is set to reach presents an album around the theme of isolation due in part to Stockholm. minor are enclosed within relatively a new audience thanks to Maestro Griffith and DCINY. This new the Covid-19 pandemic. Distance explores different aspects of 1SACD BIS 2204 $19.99 strict classical forms, with a songlike recording has captured the score’s vibrant tone colors in thrilling isolation and silence, but also determination and “breaking the Adagio at its expressive heart. high-definition sound. silence”. Included are several choral pieces ranging from Bach 1CD BLC 95961 $10.49 Sibelius Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 / Leopold 2CD SIG 610 $25.99 motets with continuo to 21st century repertoire for a cappella choir Stokowski; NBC Symphony Orchestra by Barber, Elgar, and many others. Raff: Chamber Music, Vol. 1 / Leipziger 1CD ATMA 22840 $16.99 Leopold Anthony Stokowski was an English conductor of Polish descent. Streichquartett Campkin: True Light / Colin Spinks, organ; One of the leading conductors of vOx Chamber Choir The Choral Collection – Works by Handel, In Weimar, Joachim Raff orchestrated Penderecki, Schumann, Whitacre / Various Artists the early and mid-20th century, he is some of Liszt’s early symphonic poems Alexander Campkin is renowned as a best known for his long association and gained his appreciation. He rarely leading young choral composer who [30 CDs] with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He performed publicly, though he was an has been commissioned by some of the Covering a vast array of repertoire, was especially noted for obtaining a excellent pianist. As founding director of most prestigious musical organizations this essential collection presents the characteristically sumptuous sound the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt he in Britain. True Light reveals the greatest choral masterpieces in critically from the orchestras he directed. He nevertheless enjoyed great recognition energy and majestic sound world that acclaimed performances. From the brings his own vision of Nordic grandeur among his contemporaries. To rekindle he commands, as well as qualities of sacred music of the Medieval era, to to the first two of the Finnish master’s this in our time, the new recording of reflective intimacy. His Missa Brevis the refinement of the Renaissance and symphonies in these recordings. the Leipzig String Quartet is a highly was inspired by seeing a beam of the Baroque; to the Romantic worlds of 1CD SIG 2071 $17.99 welcome beginning. sunlight pierce a cloud of moving Schumann, Brahms and Dvořák; and to 1CD MDG 3072187 $18.99 incense, ebbing and flowing. the exciting new sounds of Penderecki, Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7 / Kevin John 1CD NXS 8574186 $12.99 The Choral Collection is a fantastic Edusei; Munich SO Chopin: 4 Ballades, 4 / Anna celebration of the art of choral singing. 30CD NXS 8503298 $69.99 The motto of this new release of Vinnitskaya, pianist Schubert’s Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7 in The pianist Anna Vinnitskaya has built E major might be “On to new horizons!” up an impressive discography: Bach, CHORAL MUSIC RELEASES IN BRIEF In general, this phrase has positive Brahms, Ravel, and of course the connotations, and it offers an apt Russian composers with whom she Gregory Spears: The Tower and the Garden / Donald Nally: The Crossing description for the sparkling innovative has been familiar since her childhood The artful dedication and sheer emotional power behind The Crossing’s performances draws a seemingly bottomless force driving forward Symphony No. 3 and her studies with Evgeni Koroliov. in D major. Here, Schubert is still in a interest from collaborators and listeners alike. She has now made her first Chopin 1CD NVA 6303 $14.99 state of experimentation characterized recording, coupling the 4 Ballades, by youthful energy, having overcome a cross between the miniature and the teething troubles which plagued the the sonata, with the 4 Impromptus he previous Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2. composed at different periods of his life, Patrick Hawes: The Fire of Love & Songs of Innocence / The Same Stream; James Jordan 1CD SOLO 339 $18.99 between 1835 and 1842. These works by Patrick Hawes bookend beautifully those deeply human aspects that teach us of both love and wonder 1CD AHP 728 $18.99 through words that relay the moral and personal intensity of life’s journeys. Brahms: Trio, Op. 114, Sonatas, Op. 120 / Miguel 1CD GIA 1092 $16.99 Da Silva, viola; Xavier Phillips, cello Romberg: Symphonies 1 & 3 / Orchestra of Brahms’s Trio Op.114, originally Gelderland & Overijssel, Griffiths Rosa Mystica – Musical Portraits of the Blessed Virgin Mary / conceived for clarinet (like the two Andreas Romberg is a recognized Sonatas Op.120 ), is presented here in composer situated on the interface Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir its version with viola: ‘Like all Brahms’s between Classicism and Romanticism. “The experienced choral director Paul Spicer is an ideal advocate of this varied repertoire, in both his interpretations and works, this trio is a vocal, melodic piece. Romberg was regarded as a celebrated his booklet notes… an adventurous and rewarding anthology.” – BBC Music Magazine And the viola is perhaps the instrument violin virtuoso, concertmaster, and 1CD SOMM 0617 $18.99 of the string quartet that comes closest composer, and his symphonies were to the human voice’, says violist extremely popular when they were A New Requiem, Sacred Choral Music of Scott Perkins / Da Capo Players & Choir Miguel Da Silva. written. For quite some time the 1CD AHP 648 $18.99 performance figures for his symphonies A New England Requiem joins traditional Latin mass text and poems by Dickinson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, and ranked second only to those for works Sigourney. “Perfectly Orchestrated… A remarkable and welcome musical surprise.” – Washington Times by the Viennese Classicists. Here you 1CD GTHC 49322 $18.99 can enjoy his Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3. 1CD CPO 777052 $16.99 32 33 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com New Vocal Programs NEW RELEASES – VOCALS Italian Opera Arias / Linda Richardson, soprano Songs by Paderewski, Koczalski, & Szymanowski / Stanisław Kierner, bass-baritone; Michał Rot, Recommended Vocal Albums British soprano Linda Richardson has performed extensively across the UK piano and continental Europe. Her extensive This release contains three series of Dreams of a New Day – Songs by Black Composers / Will Liverman, baritone repertoire includes roles ranging from songs by Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Raul Fast-rising American operatic baritone Will Liverman makes his Cedille Records debut as a featured artist with Dreams of Monteverdi and Mozart to Janáček, Koczalski and , a New Day, an intimate, heartfelt recital he calls “a passion project.” Praised for his “unique combination of eloquence and Britten, and Wagner. Linda Richardson written to the poetry of European unpretentiousness” (Opera News ), Liverman has assembled a program of songs that portray the trials, tribulations, and writes: ‘I have had the privilege of composers living at the turn of the triumphs of the African American experience through poignant texts and musical settings. performing many of the great leading 20th century: Catulle Mendès, Rainer 1CD CDL 200 $16.99 soprano roles in the operatic repertoire, Maria Rilke and Dmitri Davydov. The but as my career progressed, I found album, with interpretations of songs by a special love and affinity for the roles Polish composers, falls on the tenth that stood as pillars in Italian opera.’ anniversary of the artistic cooperation 1CD CHA 20155 $18.99 between Stanisław Kierner and Michał Chère Nuit: French Songs / Louise Alder, soprano; Joseph Middleton, piano Rot. The acclaimed British soprano Louise Alder returns for her second recital on Chandos, joined once again by star pianist Grieg, Brahms, Lang, Schumann: The dark night 1CD DUX 1273 $19.99 Joseph Middleton. Enthusiastic praise was widespread for her release, Lines Written during a Sleepless Night: The Russian has vanished / Catriona Morison, mezzo Connection, which earned significant accolades. For this recording the pair explore a rich and varied selection of French Selige Stunde – Romantic Songs by songs from the late 19th and 20th centuries. This spellbinding recital marks the Linn debut of Scottish mezzo- 1CD CHA 20222 $18.99 soprano Catriona Morison. Lang’s unpublished setting of Gestern Beethoven, Dvořák, Mozart / und Heute (‘Yesterday and Today’) is given its world premiere , tenor performance on this recording. 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Yoncheva’s fourth solo album for Sony Classical includes music spanning more than five centuries, and some of the most powerful moments in 17th-century opera. The Last Songs of Robert Owens / Jamie Reimer, composers.” – BBC Music Magazine 1CD SNYC 19439824022 $14.99 soprano 1CD SNYC 19439783262 $14.99 On January 5, 2017, Robert Owens passed away in Munich. He left behind Poison D’Amour / Oksana Volkova, mezzo a vital legacy of music that is just This richly rewarding album is Oksana now being fully discovered. 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Composed Ben-Haim: Symphony No. 1, Pastorale variée, This album release by the Lithuanian National between 1930 and 1947, the works span a “Gift Voucher: six Suites for Slava” This Pan / Claudia Barainsky, soprano; BBC PO Symphony Orchestra conducted by Modestas time of change in the musical landscape of note, scribbled on a paper napkin was Pitrėnas includes three works from this Great Britain; Pre 1939/40 the two predominant a promise supposedly made in 1964 by In 1933, Paul Frankenburger award-winning composer, including his early styles were those of Post-Romanticism to the cellist Mstislav immigrated to Mandatory Palestine, breakthrough work, Violin Concerto No. 1, and Nationalism, whereas post 1945, Leopoldovich “Slava” Rostropovich. where he changed his name to Paul alongside two other orchestral scores. Modernism became the dominant style. 1CD OND 1358 $14.99 1CD SIG 656 $17.99 He wanted to compose for his friend Ben-Haim. 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36 37 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com From the Modern Era NEW RELEASES – MODERN Bright Sheng: Let Fly, Zodiac Tales, Suzhou Poulenc: La voix humaine; L’Histoire de Babar / Recommended Recent Releases Overture / Dan Zhu, violin; Bright Sheng Daniela Mazzucato, soprano Inspired by the image of a violin melody Words drew the best out of Poulenc. ‘flying off’, Chinese-American composer Among the most dedicated of his Vasks: Orchestral Works / Ivan Repušić; Uladzimir Sinkevich, cello; Bright Sheng’s virtuosic three- interpreters was the soprano Denise Münchner Rundfunkorchester movement concerto Let Fly interweaves Duval, for whom Poulenc conceived La All the works of the Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks on this release are written for string orchestra: the three Chinese and Western classical voix humaine in 1958 to a monodrama connected compositions “Musica serena” (2015), “Musica dolorosa” (1983) and “Musica appassionata” (2002), elements. 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38 39 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com NEW RELEASES – CONTEMPORARY NEW RELEASES – ORGAN Contemporary Composers Organ Releases McDowall: Organ Works / William Fox, organ Bruckner: Symphonie No. 9 in D Minor / Gerd Schaller [2 CDs] Recommended New Releases Cecilia McDowall is one of Britain’s most acclaimed composers. Her choral Hailed as one of the most significant music, in particular, has earned her a Bruckner exponents of our time, Gerd Karnevicius: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 / String Quartet worldwide reputation, yet an equally Schaller is a freelance conductor distinctive voice is revealed in her organ in constant demand from leading Composer Jurgis Karnavicius (1884–1941) made significant contributions to the cultural life in Lithuania after returning to his home country in the late 1920s. His String Quartet No. 1 contains folkloristic elements which bring to mind works. 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In this new anthology of organ His symphonic style owes something to that of his uncle: it likewise patiently develops enormous power over large expanses Rinck: Works for Organ / Bernhard Dreymann, organ music, we delve deeper into the vast of sound, although there is also room for gently ironic touches of nostalgia. [2 CDs] 1CD TOC 0587 $18.99 soundscape, discovering an eclectic Like Beethoven, Johann Christian range of composers and their equally Heinrich Rinck (1770–1846) also varied works for what Mozart once celebrated his 250th birthday in 2020. described as ‘the king of instruments’. As a composer, organ virtuoso, and Naturally, a survey of the German expert in the service of Grand Duke organ music repertoire is not complete Ludwig I of Hesse-Darmstadt, he was without the contribution made by the American Recorder Concertos / Michaela Petri, recorder; John Pickard: Chamber Music / Susan Bickley, mezzo; Bach family, and seven members of Nordic String Quartet one of the outstanding figures in the history of church music in the 19th the family, including J.S. Bach, grace Michala Petri, the ‘First Lady of the Recorder’, Four previous releases on BIS have all featured century. Professor Gerhard Gnann and this set. invited four American composers to make John Pickard’s music for large orchestra – or, 50CD BLC 96139 $99.99 their own discovery of just what an Old World in the case of the Gaia Symphony, large brass his students play selected works by the Recorder can do. For the newest installment band. This new album, on the other hand, composer on the Dreymann organ in Bingham: Heaven & Earth / Tom Winpenny, organ of her ground-breaking Concerto Project, four presents scorings ranging from a solo oboe St. Ignaz Church in Mainz, built in 1837. works have been specially commissioned to to a chamber ensemble of eight players. 2CD CVEL 92101 $29.99 Judith Bingham is established as one of the foremost British showcase the sound of the modern recorder, The seven works cover just over 30 years; composers writing for the organ. The powerfully atmospheric and including the late Steven Stucky’s thoroughly the earliest one, Serenata Concertata, was Liszt: Complete Organ Works / Adriano Falcioni, organ evocative music in this recording richly demonstrates her gift for contemporary Etudes, and Sean Hickey’s Pickard’s first paid commission written at the [5 CDs] creating compelling works which draw inspiration from a broad boldly-wrought A Pacifying Weapon. age of twenty. range of historical, literary and artistic sources. The Åkerman & 1SACD OUR 8226912 $16.99 1SACD BIS 2461 $19.99 Liszt the piano virtuoso, the inventor of the orchestral symphonic Lund organ of Västerås Cathedral is the perfect vehicle for this poem, the apostle of ‘the music of the future’, is a familiar colorful program. figure. Liszt the organ enthusiast is not so well known. His Per Nørgård & Poul Ruders / Works for Solo Cello / Dream Catcher / Poul Ruders; 1CD NXS 8574251 $12.99 Wilhelmina Smith, cello Odense Symphony Orchestra fondness for the instrument is shown by frequent references in his correspondence, and by a handful of original masterpieces. Cellist Wilhelmina Smith’s second Bridge’s Poul Ruders Edition, Vol. 16, features Adriano Falcioni’s recordings for Brilliant encompass many of the album release on Ondine continues exploring the world premiere recording of a major contemporary Nordic repertoire for solo cello. new Ruders concerto, the seven movement Romantic era’s most celebrated organ composers. In her new album Smith has focus on Danish “Sound and Simplicity.” The album also 5CD BLC 95035 $18.99 contemporary composers, Per Nørgård and includes Mogensen’s transcription of Ruders’s Poul Ruders. Both Nørgård and Ruders are hypnotic “Dream Catcher” for solo accordion, known for their large-scale orchestral works. and the re-issue of one of the Danish NEW ORGAN RELEASES IN BRIEF Nørgård, in particular, is known for his eight composer’s masterpieces – his 26 minute symphonies and has been hailed by many as Symphony No. 3, which is subtitled “Dream Orgel in St. Jakobi Stralsund / Martin Rost, organ one of the greatest living symphonists. Catcher”. 1CD OND 1381 $14.99 1CD BDG 9553 $16.99 The idea for this release was to choose repertoire of the time of Johann Sebastian Bach and to present it with as many compositional forms of the organ as possible. 1CD QRST 2011 $18.99 Felix Treiber: Chamber Music 2005–2018 / John Luther Adams: The Become Trilogy / Leonhard-Trio Stuttgart; Various Artists [2 CDs] Seattle Symphony Chorale [3 CDs] Composer and violinist Felix Treiber’s works for Collected here for the first time, with newly American Classic Widor, Vol. 6 / Joby Bell, organ orchestra, concertos, song cycles and various remastered versions of Become Ocean combinations for mixed ensembles have been and Become Desert by acclaimed engineer This is Volume 6 in Centaur’s complete traversal of the organ works of Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937), performed on performed in Europe, Japan, Russia and the Nathaniel Reichman, The Become Trilogy pays classic American organs by Joby Bell. tribute to a magical partnership between John USA. His compositions have been broadcast 1CD CEN 3768 $15.99 on different radio stations and released on Luther Adams, conductor Ludovic Morlot and albums. This two-album release showcases the renowned Seattle Symphony. As a whole, his chamber music written between 2005 and the music speaks to the universally shared 2018. experience of living, giving and interacting as a Fährmann: Orgelwerke, Vol. 5 / Dietrich Von Knebel, organ 2CD ATS 149009 $34.99 citizen of the world. Organ player and specialist in German romantic organ music Dietrich von Knebel attends to the huge and multifaceted 3CD CPE 21161 $34.99 organ work of the Hans Fährmann. 1CD QRST 2012 $18.99 Ian Venables: Requiem / Gloucester Cathedral Choir; Jonathan Hope, organ SOMM Recordings presents this premiere recording of Ian Venables’ exquisite and moving Requiem with the Choir of Gloucester Cathedral. The Requiem received its first performance in the imposing surroundings of Gloucester Cathedral, where this recording Pietro Yon: Complete Organ Music / Tommaso Mazzoletti, organ [3 CDs] was made in 2019. Widely acclaimed for his songs and chamber music, the Requiem is a compelling piece full of fine melodies and gorgeous harmonies. Pietro Yon’s (1886–1943) music has a post-Romantic, mid-Atlantic flavour reflecting his background without belonging to 1CD SOMM 0618 $18.99 a single ‘school’. 3CD BLC 95912 $14.99

40 41 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com New Piano Releases NEW RELEASES – PIANO Vida Breve / Stephen Hough, piano Clara Schumann: Piano Works / Junghwa Lee, piano Recommended New Releases This stimulating recital from Stephen Hough spans centuries and Clara Wieck Schumann was a piano virtuoso, and a wonderful styles with assurance. Chopin’s Piano Sonata No.2 and Hough’s composer of piano works. Korean-born pianist Junghwa Lee own Piano Sonata No.4 are the twin peaks in a program that brings these works to life with vital performances. Lee performs Brillon de Jouy: The Piano Sonatas Rediscovered / Nicolas Horvath, piano [2 CDs] includes the unlikely pairing of Liszt’s Funérailles and Gouno’s Ave actively in solo recitals, chamber concerts and lecture recitals, and Maria. has frequently appeared in concerto performances as a soloist The thirteen sonatas on this premiere recording represent the complete music for solo piano by the Parisian keyboardist and composer Anne-Louise Brillon de Jouy, a musician much celebrated in her day and greatly 1CD HYP 68260 $19.99 including those with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, and Greeley admired by Boccherini. These sonatas reflect a gloriously rich musical environment, incorporating and Philharmonic Orchestra among others. transforming elements from music of the time with great imagination and wit. 1CD CEN 3840 $15.99 2CD GRPO 872 $24.99 Spendiarov (1871–1928): Complete Piano Works & Chamber Works with Piano [2 CDs] The Birth of the Étude: Piano Studies / Alexander Afanasyevich was a student Anna Petrova-Forster, piano of Rimsky-Korsakov and a close friend of Glazunov who wrote that he was a A number of prominent pianist- Beethoven: Bagatelles / Vladimir Feltsman, piano ‘musician with an impeccable, widely composers had already established the Alongside the many works of Beethoven that are staples of the concert repertoire there are a number of piano versatile technique’. Spendiarov’s piano study, or étude, in the decades pieces that have not received as much attention as their more famous siblings and remain infrequently performed. music combines Russian and Armenian before Chopin sat down to write his. This recording (with the notable exception of “Für Elise”) is dedicated to these works. Pianist and conductor elements and is saturated in folkloric Although this repertoire is as good as Vladimir Feltsman is one of the most versatile and constantly interesting musicians of our time. influence. His piano works, both for unknown today, it is a treasure-trove 1CD NIM 6399 $18.99 solo instrument and for chamber forces, of miniature jewels, many of them show the range of his gifts, not least announcing the dawn of Romanticism in his romances and lullabies, and range their combination of Classical delicacy across his entire compositional life. and a new harmonic warmth. 2CD GRPO 852 $24.99 1CD TOC 7005 $18.99 Prelude to Dawn, Arrangments for Piano / Bruce Livingston, piano Bruce Levingston’s exquisite new release, Prelude to Dawn, features the interwoven, haunting works of J.S. Bach, Brahms and Rihm. In Levingston’s hands, this timeless music exudes solace, joy and the possibilities György Ligeti: The 18 Etudes / Danny Driver, piano Beethoven: Piano Sonatas No. 7, 23, & 28 / of renewed life. “During the surreal existence of this past year, I found myself drawn closer than ever to Bach. His Jean-Nicolas Diatkine, piano music brought much solace and peace.” (Bruce Levingston) Composed during the 1980s and 1990s, Ligeti’s Études have 1CD SUIN 92245 $14.99 already become modern classics, absorbing the attention of Jean-Nicolas Diatkine comes from a family of recognized doctors musicians and audiences worldwide. They are as feared for the and considers commitment to others to be the basis of his uncompromising severity and intransigence of their technical profession. It seemed impossible for him to do without this basic demands as they are celebrated for their musical ingenuity, striking attitude in the exercise of his profession, which is why he always originality, range and variety of feeling, and astonishing diversity of sees his artistic development as a return to the essential artistic History of the Russian Piano Trio, Vol. 3 / Personal Demons – Piano Works by Busoni, Liszt, musical and non-musical inspirations and resonances. values to which he has devoted himself over the last thirty years. 1CD HYP 68286 $19.99 Here, he performs Beethoven’s Sonatas Nos. 7, 23 & 28. The Brahms Trio Schubert / Lowell Liebermann, piano [2 CDs] 1CD SOLO 344 $18.99 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s influence as Composer and pianist Lowell Liebermann composer and teacher was profound in says that “Personal Demons” consists Liszt: Buch der Lieder – Geharnischte Lieder / Russia and beyond, yet his chamber music of music that he has been personally Alexandre Dossin, piano Rachmaninov: Works for Piano / Irina Bogdanova, piano has been overshadowed by his operas and haunted by – pieces by other composers orchestral works. The unfinished Piano Trio that have preoccupied and inspired him for Franz Liszt’s masterful command of the The piano remained at the heart of in C minor was completed by Maximilian most of his compositional career. Framing piano and his ability to transform vocal Rachmaninov’s life, both as composer Steinberg to reveal a substantial work these works on the album are three of lines into purely instrumental sounds and performer. Daisies (Margaritki) is of considerable depth, while Borodin’s Liebermann’s own pieces that have special is evident throughout this album: the the third of the Six Songs, Op. 38 of Piano Trio in D major is reminiscent of significance for him. dramatic narrative in both versions of 1916 – the last group of songs written Mendelssohn in its joyous agility and 2CD STEI 30172 $24.99 Die Loreley, the watery, arpeggiated by Rachmaninov – and was later nostalgic beauty. texture of Am Rhein im schönen transcribed for piano by the composer in 1CD NXS 8574114 $12.99 Chukhajian: Piano Works – Mazurka; Grande Valse Strome and the orchestral qualities of the early 1920s (the score is undated), Fantastique / Mikael Ayrapetyan, piano Rachmaninov wrote his Polka de W.R. Prokofiev: Complete Piano Sonatas / Gastibelza being only a few examples in March 1911. These works are Dinara Klinton, piano [3 CDs] Tigran Chukhajian is highly significant in of these pianistic treasures. the history of Armenian music: he was 1CD NXS 8574106 $12.99 performed by world-renowned pianist Like many precocious composers, the first composer to combine Western Irina Bogdanova. Prokofiev recycled themes and ideas and Eastern cultures, and was referred 1CD QTZR 2138 $16.99 throughout his career: the earliest example to as the ‘Armenian Verdi’ amongst his being the first of his numbered piano contemporaries.These piano works are a sonatas, which the composer reworked sophisticated testament to Chukhajian’s NEW PIANO RELEASES IN BRIEF from a sonata originally composed when he Romantic inclinations, absorbing the was only sixteen. Stylistically, the Second influences of Chopin and Liszt, and Tangorama – An Anthology of 20th Century Tango, Vol. 1 / Mirian Conti, piano Sonata of 1912 is much more like the enriching them with Oriental nuances and mature Prokofiev in its structure, sonority descriptive themes. This panoramic survey of Argentine tangos shows the genre in all its rich variety of moods and virtuosity. It salutes Angel and harmonic language, with the contrast 1CD GRPO 859 $16.99 Villoldo, the father of tango. of the romantic and the sardonic. 1CD GRPO 856 $16.99 3CD PINC 10191 $18.99 Grigory Krein (1879–1955): Piano Music / Debussy, Chopin, & Mussorgsky / Jonathan Powell, piano Behzod Abduraimov, piano Grigory Krein (1879–1955), a member of Olivier Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus / Pi-hsien Chen, piano [2 CDs] an astonishing dynasty of Russian-Jewish Pi-hsien Chen recorded Messiaen’s magnum opus for piano live in 2005, which impressively testifies to her exceptional Behzod Abduraimov joins Alpha for several musician-composers, was recognized by status in the contemporary repertoire. recordings, starting with this ‘kaleidoscope his contemporaries as one of the major of miniatures’ – miniatures that are in fact composers of his day. His piano music 2CD GRAM 98015 $27.99 fairly gigantic, and showcase the Uzbek charts a stylistic evolution from the early pianist’s extreme virtuosity and sensitivity. influence of Grieg, Reger, and Debussy ‘Each movement is in itself a miniature, and towards a more complex and chromatic Ivan Moravec Edition / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Sir [4 CDs] taken together they form a kaleidoscope of language with harmonies that synthesize human emotions and images of all kinds,’ the sound-worlds of Skryabin and Long recognized as one of this century´s great pianists, Ivan Moravec’s performances and recordings alike have says Abduraimov. Szymanowski. 1CD AHP 653 $18.99 prompted critics in search of parallels to call up such names as Gieseking and Richter. 1CD TOC 0581 $18.99 4CD HAN 20084 $22.99 Alvin Lucier: Music for Piano XL / Nicolas Horvath, piano Alvin Lucier is one of America’s foremost experimentalists, challenging the fundamental principles of music and focusing Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer: Piano Music / Albert Brussee, piano on acoustic phenomena and how listeners perceive them. Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators explores the acoustic ‘beating’ effects and tuning phenomena of sine waves against piano tones. This new version The early piano music of the Dutch composer Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer (1888–1953) suggests the art of the expands the listening experience in a work described as ‘immersive, intense and enigmatic’. miniaturist painter. 1CD GRPO 857 $16.99 1CD TOC 0575 $18.99

42 43 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Opera Titles NEW RELEASES – OPERA Prokofiev – The Fiery Angel / Orchestra del Teatro Hagen: Orson Rehearsed / Roger Zahab; Recommended Opera Releases dell’Opera di Roma [DVD or Blu-Ray video] Fifth House Ensemble Sergey Prokofiev’s operatic tragedy The Fiery The opera film Orson Rehearsed is the Angel was never performed in the composer’s psychological, emotional, and spiritual Donizetti: / Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini [DVD or Blu-ray video] lifetime, but the music’s eloquent lyrical journey taken by the American actor, ’s Lucrezia Borgia is a dark and scandalous tale of murder and excess. Initially criticized for its audacious nature, tenderness would re-emerge in his Third polymath, and creator of Citizen Kane the opera has since become appreciated as one of the great masterpieces of Italian bel canto repertoire with glorious arias and Symphony. Director Emma Dante describes Orson Welles, as he finds himself on stirring choruses. Andrea Bernard’s spectacular Donizetti Festival production is “gripping and intense at every moment… this this opera as an explosive mix of fantastical the threshold between life and death. production ranks among the best all year.” (operawire.com) realism, and this Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Fusing live players with pre-recorded 1Blu-Ray Video DYN 57849 $29.99 production was acclaimed as “a presentation sounds and effects, the film version of 2DVD-Video DYN 37849 $29.99 of Prokofiev’s masterpiece which sparkles in all Orson Rehearsed has been a multiple its grotesque glory.” (operawire.com) award winner at festivals in the US, 1Blu-Ray Video NXS 0113 $24.99 Europe and beyond. 1DVD-Video NXS 2110663 $24.99 1CD NXS 8669049 $12.99 Hasse: Enea in Caonia / Carmela Remigio; Francesca Ascioti; Raffaella Lupinacci [2 CDs] Béla Bartók’: Bluebeard’s Castle / Donizetti: Torquato Tasso / Various Artists [DVD Video] The Enea Baroque Orchestra, founded by the mezzo-soprano Francesca Ascioti in 2018, is currently regarded as the best Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra This work is captivating in its intensity and focuses on aspects of Roman Baroque authority because of the high quality of its musicians. 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Gounod: Faust / Ettinger Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House from 2020. 1DVD-Video BGV 20040 $31.99 [DVD or Blu-ray video] 1SACD BIS 2388 $19.99 : Risurrezione / Orchestra e Coro del Disillusioned with life, the aged philosopher Faust calls upon Satan to help him. The devil Méphistophélès appears and strikes Le Corsaire / Ballet & Orchestra of Teatro Alla Scala Maggio Musicale Fiorentino [DVD or Blu-Ray video] a bargain with the philosopher: Faust can have youth and the love of the beautiful Marguerite, but only in exchange for his soul. Gounod’s masterpiece is given the grandest of Royal Opera stagings in David McVicar’s richly layered and theatrically exuberant [DVD or Blu-Ray video] Franco Alfano’s opera Risurrezione draws its production. 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44 45 www.hbdirect.com 1/800/222-6872 1/800/222-6872 www.hbdirect.com Titles Available on Blu-ray & DVD Video NEW RELEASES – VIDEO Giordano: Andrea Chénier / ; Orchestra Mozart: / Harnoncourt; Recommended on Blu-ray & DVD & Chorus of Teatro Alla Scala [DVD or Blu-Ray video] The Da Ponte Cycle [DVD or Blu-Ray video] Andrea Chénier, which premiered at La “He was out to create something ‘unheard- Scala in 1896, was last performed here 32 of’,” observed conductor Nikolaus Czernowin: Heart Chamber / Ensemble Nikel; Vocal Ensemble [DVD or Blu-Ray video] years ago by Riccardo Chailly. “By choosing Harnoncourt. 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