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CLASSICAL New Release Harmonia Mundi UK SEPTEMBER 2010 CLASSICAL new release harmonia mundi UK AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 13 ACTES SUD, aeon, AliA vox, AlphA, AmbronAy, ApArTE, ArcanA, Arte vErUm, audite, bEl Air Classiques, calliopE, CSo resoUnD, DEJA-vU, delphiAn, frAproD, fUgA libErA, glossa, harmonia mundi, hat[now]ArT, HYPHEn PRESS mUSiC, K617, KML, lSo livE, mAriinsky, mirArE, mode, nascor, opAl, opEllA novA, orfEo, pAn ClASSiCS, pAradizo, pearl, PHIL.HARMONIE, prAgA DigitalS, radio frAnce, rAm, rCoC, rCo livE, ricercar, SFZ musiC, SignUm Classics, stradivArius, UniCorn kanChAnA, wAlhAll eterniTy, wErgo, WIGMORE HALL LIVE, winter & winter, ysayE available 23rd August 2010 last orders 13th August hMc902053/55 beethoven PIano concertos / Paul lewIs bbc so belohlavek dcd34085 Mr Mc fall's chaMber bIrds & beasts CLASSIc fM edITOR's choIce whl0036 beethoven sonatas vol. 1 alIne IbraGIMova, cedrIc tIberGhIen CLASSIc fM edITOR's choIce HMU907519 schubert dIe schöne MüllerIn Mark PadMore, Paul lewIs Coming soon: the new album from Stile Antico InternatIonal record revIew Gcd922206 debussy MusIc for the PrIx de roMe /hervé nIquet HMC902068/70 Barcode: 0794881 966721 priority release 3 CDS for 2 314pp booklet with essay by René Jacobs available September 13 and full libretto Fr, Ger, Eng Included : special leaflet about Mozart by Jacobs W.A. MOZART The Magic Flute / Die Zauberflöte Tamino Daniel Behle, tenor Pamina Marlis Petersen, soprano Papageno Daniel Schmutzhard, baritone Papagena Sunhae Im, soprano Königin der Nacht Anna-Kristiina Kaappola, soprano Sarastro Marcos Fink, bass-baritone Monostatos Kurt Azesberger, tenor 1st Lady Inga Kalna, soprano 2nd Lady Anna Grevelius, mezzo-soprano 3rd Lady Isabelle Druet, mezzo-soprano Speaker Konstantin Wolff, bass- baritone 2 Priests Joachim Buhrmann, Konstantin Wolff 2 Armed Men Magnus Staveland, Konstantin Wolff 3 Boys Alois Mühlbacher, Christoph Schlögl, Philipp Pötzlberger (Sankt-Florianer Sängerknaben) 3 Slaves René Möller, Clemens-Maria Nuszbaumer, Christian Koch RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin / René Jacobs (conductor) We are proud to introduce our biggest priority release for the Autumn: Die Zauberflöte conducted by René Jacobs. This eagerly anticipated recording represents a major triumph for harmonia mundi and we will be giving it our full marketing support to ensure the album achieves the major success we believe it deserves. Here are some reminders of Jacobs’ achievements to date: from Gramophone Recording of the Year to the Grammy® Awards, Jacobs’ world-renowned Mozart opera recordings been celebrated by the most prestigious award organisations across the globe. A distinguished expert in the field, René Jacobs’ previous opera recordings have enjoyed a sales history of over 65,000 physical units per title. Die Zauberflöte will benefit from a diverse online marketing campaign, including a multi-lingual ‘magic flute discovery’ newsletter series and dedicated marketing blog reaching an audience of over 30,000 people. Enjoy one of the few full studio recordings made of such a popular opera in recent history. This recording represents the peak of René Jacobs’s Mozartian enterprise: after showing us an alternative way of looking at the Da Ponte trilogy and taking a profoundly innovative approach to the two great opere serie (Idomeneo and La clemenza di Tito), he has now sets out to harmonise and clarify the myriad viewpoints exposed in Die Zauberflöte, ranging far beyond its Masonic rituals and mixture of dramatic genres. As a result, Mozart’s most ‘nocturnal’ work is illuminated as if by . magic. harmonia mundi UK released September 13 2010 for such an exciting project, we have planned a daring publicity campaign combining the following elements: • samplers, featuring the best excerpts • a specific serialised blog in several installments, explaining the zauberflöte scenario, accompanied by relevant audio excerpts. it will be short and designed for a large audience, with illustrations and new installments & notifications with excerpts via newsletter, in french and English through Au- gust & September • we also hope to do our first ever podcast in plain English for this release + explanations by rené Jacobs himself • Special EpKs on line (teasers, interview wt rené Jacobs) • poS support includes a double face Kakemono banner, dedicated triptych display, postcards • new rené Jacobs discographies • Advertised in gramophone, bbC & irr René Jacobs conducts Mozart Opera http://www.harmoniamundi.com/pdf/Artist.php?lang=uk&id=54 “rené Jacobs’s mozart opera series [is] one of the recorded marvels of our time” James Jolly, gramophone, february 2009 HMC902036/38 3cds HMC901818/20 3cds Recorded 2009 Recorded 2004 Idomeneo, re di Creta Le nozze di Figaro Richard Croft, Bernarda Fink, Sunhae Im, Véronique Gens, Patrizia Ciofi, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Angelika Kirchschlager, Lorenzo Regazzo, HMC901923/24 2cds Kenneth Tarver, Nicolas Rivenq, Simon Keenlyside, Antonio Abete, Recorded 2006 Luca Tittoto, Kobie van Rensburg, Nuria Rial, La clemenza di Tito RIAS Kammerchor, Marie McLaughlin, Elisabeth Rapp, Mark Padmore, Freiburger Barockorchester Yeree Suh, Collegium Vocale Gent, Alexandrina Pendatchanska Gramophone Editor’s Choice Concerto Köln Bernarda Fink, Marie-Claude Chappuis GRAMOPHONE RECORD OF THE YEAR Sunhae Im, Sergio Foresti, HMC901964/66 3cds 2004 RIAS Kammerchor Recorded 2007 Freiburger Barockorchester HMC901663/65 3cds Don Giovanni Top Choice, Building a Library, Johannes Weisser, Lorenzo Regazzo Recorded 1999 BBC Radio 3 Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Così fan tutte Olga Pasichnyk, Kenneth Tarver, Bernarda Fink, Véronique Gens, Werner Sunhae Im, Nikolay Borchev, Güra, Marcel Boone, Pietro Spagnoli, Alessandro Guerzoni, RIAS Kammerchor Graciela Oddone, Concerto Köln Freiburger Barockorchester BBC Music Magazine’s Best CDs of 1999 Gramophone Recording of the Month Classic FM Magazine Disc of the Month harmonia mundi UK released August 23 2010 HMC902050 Barcode: 0 794881966820 NORMAL PRICE CD ROBERT SCHUMANN Spanische Liebeslieder Op.138 Minnespiel Op.101, Spanisches Liederspiel Op.74 Marlis Petersen (soprano); Anke Vondung (mezzo soprano); Werner Güra (tenor); Konrad Jarnot (baritone); Christoph Berner, Camillo Radicke (pianos) The year 1849 was one of Schumann's most prolific. The inspiration for his Opp.74 and 138 was an anthology of Spanish texts translated by Emanuel Geibel. These short love poems were ideal material for music in the tangy ‘Spanish' style tinged with the colours of central Europe. Considerably more intimate, the Minnespiel Op.101 takes us from storybook Spain to German Romanticism. ALSO AVAILABLE: hmC901945 brAhmS liebeslieder-walzer op.52 & 65, Drei lieder op.64 Marlis Petersen, Stella Doufexis, Werner Güra, Konrad Jarnot Christoph Berner, Camillo Radicke “Topped by Marlis Petersen's crystalline soprano, the beautifully balanced vocal quartet sings with charm, tenderness and a piquant sense of drama. A word, too, for the guileful, spirited accompaniments from duetting pianists Berner and Radicke.” Richard Wigmore, The Daily Telegraph, 6 October 2007 harmonia mundi UK released August 23 2010 harmonia mundi UK released August 23 2010 HMC902067 Barcode: 0794881 966929 NORMAL PRICE CD STRING QUARTETS: RAVEL, DEBUSSY, DUTILLEUX DEBUSSY String Quartet Op.10 in G minor, DUTILLEUX Ainsi la nuit, RAVEL String Quartet in F major Arcanto Quartet: Antje Weithaas (violin); Daniel Sepec (violin); Tabea Zimmermann (viola); Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello) Antje Weithaas, Daniel Sepec, Tabea Zimmermann and Jean-Guihen Queyras founded the Arcanto Quartet in 2002. The four musicians, who in addition to their musical affinities share a close personal friendship, quickly conquered the world of chamber music and have played all the major European venues. The 2009/10 season started with a tour of Japan in September, followed by a residency at the Wigmore Hall, where the quartet invited Jörg Widmann, Silke Avenhaus and Olivier Marron for several concerts. This autumn, the Arcantos will visit North America. For their third CD for harmonia mundi they perform three French String Quartets, all by composers who wrote little chamber music. Debussy and Ravel composed their only string quartet at the start of their careers, whereas Dutilleux wrote Ainsi la nuit shortly before his 60th birthday. Debussy’s quartet, dedicated to the Ysaÿe Quartet, is his only work to possess an opus number. Written in 1892-3, it comprises the standard four movements and adopts sonata form in the two outer movements. The String Quartet of Ravel was composed in 1902-03 and premiered by the Heyman Quartet on 5 March 1904. It possesses undeniable signs of kinship with the Debussy work: it conforms to the cyclic principle, and begins and ends with a sonata form movement; its scherzo is similarly characterised by crackling pizzicatos which stylise the sound of the guitar and give the movement a Spanish colour; as with Debussy, the strings play with mutes in the first and last sections of the slow movement. The works of Dutilleux are rare and matured at length. Commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Foundation, Ainsi la nuit occupied the composer from 1971 to 1976. Dedicated ‘to the memory of Ernest Sussman [an American art-lover and friend of the composer] and in homage to Olga Koussevitzky’, it was premièred by the Parrenin Quartet at the Théâtre de l’Est Parisien on 6 January 1977. ALSO AVAILABLE: hmC901963 bartok String quartets nos.5 & 6 “No doubt about it, this is one of the most impressive, the most human accounts of Bartók Five I’ve heard in
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