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MAY 2019 CONSUMER INFORMATION SERVICE: NO. 328 THIS MONTH'S HIGHLIGHTS All orders must be received a week prior to release date. Orders are shipped on the Wednesday preceding release date Please click on a label below to be directed to its relevant page. Thank you. CDs Accentus Music Lyrita Alba Music & Media APR Nimbus Alliance Austrian Gramophone Nimbus Music Publishing BIS Oehms Classics Cantaloupe Music Ondine Capriccio Orange Mountain Music Chaconne Orchid Classics Chandos Orfeo Claudio Records Profil Coro Raumklang CPO Reference Recordings Dacapo Resonus Classics Danacord Retrospective Delos Rondeau Production Divine Art Saydisc Doremi Sheva Collection Dynamic Solo Musica Genuin Classics Somm Recordings Gramola Sterling Grand Piano SWR Classic Hanssler Classic Tactus Hyperion Talanton ICA Classics Toccata Classics ICSM Records Wergo Klanglogo Winter & Winter DVDs Accentus Music Dynamic C Major Entertainment Opus Arte Select Music and Video Distribution Limited Unit 8, Salbrook Industrial Estate, Salbrook Road, Salfords Redhill RH1 5GJ Tel: 01737 645600 • Fax: 01737 644065 • E: [email protected] • E: [email protected] • Twitter: @selectmusicuk Highlight of the Month Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonatas Op. 109, Op. 110, Op. 111 Steven Osborne CDA68219 1 CD 03/05/19 HYPERION About this Release Beethoven’s three final sonatas constitute one of music’s great spiritual journeys, one which only a very few pianists are qualified to undertake. Steven Osborne, whose Beethoven has been widely acclaimed, need fear no comparisons. Please click on the link below to download cover jpg: https://www.dropbox.com/s/w2zldwrfsyg3q4v/CDA68219.jpg?dl=0 Select Music and Video Distribution Limited Unit 8, Salbrook Industrial Estate, Salbrook Road, Salfords Redhill RH1 5GJ Tel: 01737 645600 • Fax: 01737 644065 • E: [email protected] • E: [email protected] • Twitter: @selectmusicuk Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow, Sir William Harris, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford Choral Works The Choir of Westminster Abbey, Peter Holder, James O’Donnell CDA68259 1 CD 03/05/19 HYPERION About this Release Three composers whose contributions to the Anglican choral tradition are rich in historical significance: no less than the Abbey itself, much of this music is inseparably bound up with the national celebrations or commemorations appropriate to war, coronation and royal marriage. Please click on the link below to download cover jpg: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wv0rutu3n9pecrt/CDA68259.jpg?dl=0 Select Music and Video Distribution Limited Unit 8, Salbrook Industrial Estate, Salbrook Road, Salfords Redhill RH1 5GJ Tel: 01737 645600 • Fax: 01737 644065 • E: [email protected] • E: [email protected] • Twitter: @selectmusicuk Camille Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 2, Symphony in F major ‘Urbs Roma’, Danse macabre Utah Symphony, Madeline Adkins, Thierry Fischer CDA68212 1 CD 03/05/19 HYPERION About this Release Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 2 is, by any standards, an outright winner and deserves to be much better known. Here, it’s one of two substantial works flanking a rambunctious account of ‘Danse macabre’. Please click on the link below to download cover jpg: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f72wgos013rlb0n/CDA68212.jpg?dl=0 Select Music and Video Distribution Limited Unit 8, Salbrook Industrial Estate, Salbrook Road, Salfords Redhill RH1 5GJ Tel: 01737 645600 • Fax: 01737 644065 • E: [email protected] • E: [email protected] • Twitter: @selectmusicuk Guillaume Dufay Lament for Constantinople & other songs The Orlando Consort: Matthew Venner, Mark Dobell, Angus Smith, Donald Greig CDA68236 1 CD 03/05/19 HYPERION About this Release One of the most immediately accessible of fifteenth-century composers, Dufay and his world are artfully summoned by The Orlando Consort. This is no mere musicological exercise, but a full-blooded realization of a truly great songwriter. Please click on the link below to download cover jpg: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1g2tzg4ukl04bcb/CDA68236.jpg?dl=0 Select Music and Video Distribution Limited Unit 8, Salbrook Industrial Estate, Salbrook Road, Salfords Redhill RH1 5GJ Tel: 01737 645600 • Fax: 01737 644065 • E: [email protected] • E: [email protected] • Twitter: @selectmusicuk Highlight of the Month Edvard Grieg, Ole Bull, Agathe Backer Grøndahl, David Lang Edvard Grieg Kor sings Grieg Edvard Grieg Kor, Audun Iversen, Paul Robinson, Håkon Matti Skrede CHSA 5232 1 CD 03/05/19 CHANDOS About this Release The Norwegian vocal ensemble Edvard Grieg Kor is the resident acappella ensemble at Troldhaugen, the home of Edvard Grieg. Displaying versatility across all musical genres, they perform regularly with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and also form the core of the Chorus for Bergen National Opera. They have had numerous works and arrangements written specially for them by leading composers including Jonathan Rathbone, and David Lang, both of whom are represented here on this the choir’s debut recording. Greig’s Fire Salmer, (Four Psalms) after Norwegian folk tunes (his final opus) and his shorter Ave Maris Stella (performed here in an a cappella arrangement made by the composer) are two rare examples of religion in Greig’s output. Works by fellow Norwegian composers Ole Bull and Agathe Backer Grøndahl, and a sensational and virtuosic arrangement of Greig’s Holberg Suite complete the programme. Please click on the link below to download cover jpg: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uwufue8x13bnrix/CHSA%205232.jpg?dl=0 Select Music and Video Distribution Limited Unit 8, Salbrook Industrial Estate, Salbrook Road, Salfords Redhill RH1 5GJ Tel: 01737 645600 • Fax: 01737 644065 • E: [email protected] • E: [email protected] • Twitter: @selectmusicuk Richard Strauss Concertante Works Tasmin Little, Michael McHale, Julie Price, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Michael Collins CHAN 20034 1 CD 03/05/19 CHANDOS About this Release The Romanze is Strauss’ first attempt at writing for a soloist and orchestra. The influence of Mozart’s piano concertos, which Strauss was studying at the time, is apparent, not least in the writing for solo clarinet and the orchestral bassoon, and re-visited by Strauss in his final instrumental work the Duett-Concertino from 1947. Like other of his late compositions, this work seems to reject the full-blown expressionism for which we know Strauss best, and reflects a more neo-classical sound. Another early work, the Violin Concerto was first performed in 1882, and demonstrates Strauss’ growing technical skill and developing compositional voice. Strauss ultimately came to distance himself from a piece which he presumably regarded as unrepresentative of his mature style. Many commentators on the works of Strauss have felt that the Burleske was a significant turning point in his development, seemingly pointing the way ahead to the technical dexterity and emotional palette of his later tone poems. Originally written for Strauss’s mentor in Dresden Hans von Bülow, the work was premiered by Eugen d’Albert, in 1890 following von Bülow’s rejection of the work. Please click on the link below to download cover jpg: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yxn1sdkw4frmw5q/CHAN%2020034.jpg?dl=0 Select Music and Video Distribution Limited Unit 8, Salbrook Industrial Estate, Salbrook Road, Salfords Redhill RH1 5GJ Tel: 01737 645600 • Fax: 01737 644065 • E: [email protected] • E: [email protected] • Twitter: @selectmusicuk Sir Edward Elgar String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83; Piano Quintet in A minor, Op.84 Martin Roscoe, Brodsky Quartet: Daniel Rowland, Ian Belton, Paul Cassidy, Jacqueline Thomas CHAN 10980 1 CD 03/05/19 CHANDOS About this Release The three great chamber works, the String Quartet, Piano Quintet, and Violin Sonata, were among the very last works that Elgar wrote, composed during an intensive and productive period in 1918 and 1919 whilst living at Brinkwells in Sussex, and under the twin shadows of the horrors of the Great War and the terminal illness of his wife, Alice. The String Quartet was dedicated to the original Brodsky Quartet (the name subsequently taken by the current group when they arrived as students at the Royal Northern College of Music) and was championed by this new Brodsky Quartet from the off, sitting alongside Delius’s Quartet on their debut recording (1984). It has remained a cornerstone of their repertoire ever since. The Brodsky Quartet took the opportunity of the centenary year of both works to perform the String Quartet alongside the Piano Quintet with their frequent co-performer Martin Roscoe, and this recording is a result of that commemoration. Please click on the link below to download cover jpg: https://www.dropbox.com/s/c40s69nvjxw1xgk/CHAN%2010980.jpg?dl=0 Select Music and Video Distribution Limited Unit 8, Salbrook Industrial Estate, Salbrook Road, Salfords Redhill RH1 5GJ Tel: 01737 645600 • Fax: 01737 644065 • E: [email protected] • E: [email protected] • Twitter: @selectmusicuk Il Cembalo Transalpino: Music from the Fitzwilliam Collection Sophie Yates CHAN 0819 1 CD 03/05/19 CHANDOS CHACONNE EARLY MUSIC About this Release All the music in this programme comes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and most of it was collected by its founder, Richard, Seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion. A polymath, lover of music, amateur composer and harpsichordist, musically active from about 1760 until his death, Fitzwilliam created a legacy of exceptional importance to English musical culture.