DEALER INFORMATION SERVICE: NO. 265
FEBRUARY 2014 REPRESENTING TODAY’S GREAT LABELS THIS MONTH'S HIGHLIGHTS
Select Music and Video Distribution Limited 3 Wells Place, Redhill, Surrey RH1 3SL Tel: 01737 645600 Fax: 01737 644065 Highlight Claudio MONTEVERDI of the month Madrigals of Love and Loss
James Gilchrist Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen
Gramophone Award-winning ensemble Arcangelo (in their first recording as a vocal and instrumental group) presents a selection from Monteverdi’s last three books of madrigals. These ardent and passionate works are microcosms of Monteverdi’s great operas, and among his most celebrated music. CDA68019
Franz SCHUBERT Der Wanderer and other songs Florian Boesch Roger Vignoles
Florian Boesch and Roger Vignoles were shortlisted for a BBC Music Magazine award for their first Hyperion CDA68010 album (Loewe Songs and Ballads). Boesch’s warm, sensuously attractive baritone voice, first-rate diction and remarkable acting ability were enthusiastically praised. Now the duo turn to a selection of Schubert’s Lieder from the dark heart of the repertoire.
Zoltán KODÁLY String Quartets Nos 1 & 2; Intermezzo; Gavotte Dante Quartet
In the chamber works recorded here, spanning Kodály's career, we can hear an unwavering desire to place genuine Hungarian folk music (rather than the ‘style hongrois’ espoused by the Strauss family and many CDA67999 other composers ) within classical music traditions. Bartók wrote of his compatriot that ‘if I were to name the composer whose works are the most perfect embodiment of the Hungarian spirit, I would answer, Kodály’.
Alexander ZEMLINSKY Symphony in D minor; Symphony in B flat major BBC National Orchestra of Wales Martyn Brabbins
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Martyn Brabbins perform two works from the crucible of the Viennese fin de siècle. CDA67985
Karol SZYMANOWSKI Masques, Métopes and Études Cédric Tiberghien In Cédric Tiberghien’s first solo recording for Hyperion he embraces the sensual, crepuscular sound-world CDA67886 of Szymanowski’s piano music. Tiberghien’s expressive, mercurial, quicksilver playing with its extraordinary pianissimos and kaleidoscopic range of colour makes him an ideal performer of this repertoire.
Antonín Herbert v DVORÁK HOWELLS
Piano Quintet in A, Op 81 Choral Music String Quintet in G, Op 77 Wells Cathedral Choir The Gaudier Ensemble Rupert Gough Malcolm Archer
(from CDA66796) (from CDA67494)
CDH55472 CDH55456
2 FEBRUARY 2014 Felix MENDELSSOHN Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 1
The Hebrides; Symphony No. 5 ‘Reformation’; Symphony No. 4 ‘Italian’
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner
‘Mendelssohn in Birmingham’ is an exciting new recording project with the CBSO and its Principal Highlight CHSA 5132 of the month Guest Conductor, Edward Gardner. It celebrates Mendelssohn’s special relationship with the city’s Town Hall and will feature the complete symphonies recorded there.
York BOWEN Chamber Works
Phantasy Quintet, Op. 93; Clarinet Sonata, Op. 109; Rhapsody Trio, Op. 80; Piano Trio, Op. 118; Piano Trio in D minor (unfinished)
Gould Piano Trio Robert Plane Mia Cooper CHAN 10805 David Adams
Chandos continues to champion the works of York Bowen, this time turning to the chamber works of this great composer who, after years of neglect, is finding ever growing audiences.
DEBUSSY, RABAUD, WIDOR, PIERNÉ, MILHAUD, MUCZYNSKI, BERNSTEIN, MARTINŮ The Virtuoso Clarinet, Vol. 2
Michael Collins Michael McHale
Chandos exclusive artist Michael Collins here presents the second volume in his series designed to display the extraordinarily wide range of music written for the clarinet. Volume 1 was BBC Music CHAN 10804 Magazine Editor’s Choice and received IRR Outstanding from International Record Review, which stated: ‘It is difficult to imagine a finer performance than is given here.’
Sergey PROKOFIEV Piano Concertos
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Gianandrea Noseda BBC Philharmonic
Exclusive Chandos artist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performs all five of Prokofiev’s formidable piano concertos in partnership with Gianandrea Noseda conducting the BBC Philharmonic. CHAN 10802(2)
Kurt ATTERBERG Symphonies, Vol. 2
Symphony No. 2; Symphony No. 8
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Neeme Järvi
Neeme Järvi and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra present Vol. 2 in their series of the Symphonies of Atterberg. CHSA 5133
FEBRUARY 2014 3 SHEPPARD, DAVY, MUNDY The Voice of the Turtle Dove
The Sixteen Harry Christophers
In 2014 The Sixteen returns to its grass roots for the repertoire of the 14th Choral Pilgrimage tour as it revisits COR16119 the golden age of Renaissance polyphony in England.
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791) Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K 491 Highlight Yevgeny Sudbin of the month Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä BIS1978 The sequel to BISSACD1758 (2010), Sudbin and Vänskä go one step further and include Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24, which is often regarded as having been the inspiration for Beethoven’s work. The mood is dramatic, even Romantic – memorably described as an ‘explosion of passion, of dark tragic emotions’.
Carl NIELSEN (1865-1931)
Symphony No. 4, Op. 29 ‘The Inextinguishable’; Symphony No. 5, Op. 50
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
These two central works in Nielsen’s production have now been selected for the first instalment of a complete Nielsen cycle by Sakari Oramo and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Having enjoyed a close BIS2028 collaboration since 2008, this team has become ever more fine-tuned, as demonstrated on their previous BIS release, a performance of Elgar’s mighty Symphony No. 2.
The Image of Melancholy
EIKE: Savin; HOLBORNE: Image of Melancholy; Wanton; Muy Linda; Last Will and Testament; DOWLAND: Sorrow, Stay; Flow My Tears; Susanna; BIBER: Die Kreuztragung; BUXTEHUDE: Klag-Lied; Ó CATHÁIN: Tabhair Dom do Lámh; BALKE: Introducing Susanne; BYRD: Ye Sacred Muses; GOW: Niel Gow’s Lament
Berit Norbakken Solset, Barokksolistene, Bjarte Eike (Artistic Director and Violin Soloist) BIS2057 This music does not belong to any particular style, but forms a musical matrimony between Nordic folk, the rich sounds of the Elizabethan consort and a modern approach to music-making (soundscapes by Jon Blake).
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
The Late Quartets arranged for String Orchestra
String Quartets Nos. 13-16
Camerata Nordica, Terje Tønnesen
Besides providing the greater dynamic spectrum that a larger ensemble can bring to the music, Tønnesen’s BIS1096 main aim in these transcriptions has been to strengthen the contrasts between intimate passages and fuller textures.
Allan PETTERSSON (1911-1980)
Symphony No. 9
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg
An ongoing cycle of all Pettersson’s symphonies - Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra have received great acclaim for previous instalments. Vol. 6 was described as ‘a release that could well be the BIS2038 ideal introduction to Pettersson’s singular musical vision’ (IRR on BIS1980) and this release is accompanied by a bonus DVD, ‘Vox humana’ an 81-minute documentary on the composer.
(Hybrid SACD + Bonus DVD)
4 FEBRUARY 2014 BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 in F major; Symphony No. 4 in E minor London Philharmonic Orchestra LPO-0075 Vladimir Jurowski
LPO Principal Conductor Vladimir Jurowski completes his survey of Brahms’s four symphonies.
Michael NYMAN The Piano Sings 2 Michael Nyman MNRCD131 The Piano Sings 2 features well-known music from well-known films (The Draughtsman’s Contract and The Piano), unknown music from unknown films (Conor McPherson’s The Actors and Michael Winterbottom’s Everyday) and also music from Enemy Zero (1997) which resurfaced in Michael’s soundtrack for Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera and in his own film Nyman with a Movie Camera.
PENGUIN CAFE The Red Book The Penguin Café: Neil Codling, Cass Browne, Darren Berry, Rebecca Waterworth, Andy Waterworth, Oli Langford, Des Murphy, Vincent Greene, Peter Radcliffe, Tom Chichester-Clark DPC104 Arthur Jeffes worked on a project with the International Space Orchestra and NASA Ames in 2012, out of which came the pieces Aurora and 1420, which have since been beamed into space as part of NASA’s Kepler project. These touchstones marked a ‘satellitic’ beginning for a new album, a collection of songs that would then return to earth to undertake a rich, cross-continental, musical journey.
Felix MENDELSSOHN
The Complete Works for Cello and Piano Marie Macleod Martin Sturfält 5060192780383 Having played hundreds of concerts together, this talented piano and cello recital duo decided to make this live recording of Mendelssohn’s complete works for cello and piano. The result is a thrilling account of the repertoire, brilliantly performed and wonderfully recorded.
Robert SCHUMANN Piano Music Leon McCawley The wonderful Leon McCawley continues his exploration of 19th century repertoire for SOMM with the piano music SOMMCD 0134 of Robert Schumann, one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era.
Leevi MADETOJA (1887-1947)
Symphonies Nos. 1-3; Okon Fuoko Suite, Op. 58
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds ODE 1211-2 This new release completes Ondine’s two-disc survey of Madetoja’s symphonies. Considered one of Sibelius’ finest contemporaries in Finnish orchestral music, Madetoja merges the landscape and folk songs of his native province of Ostrobothnia with a French elegance (Symphony No. 3) to create a unique voice.
FEBRUARY 2014 5 Paul GRAENER Orchestra Works Vol. 2 NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover Werner Andreas Albert 777679-2 This symphony numbers among the works composed by Graener in memory of his first son, who died in London at the age of eight. It is an impressive work, full of tragic vehemence and grandeur free of triumphalism.
Ernst & Jean Théophile EICHNER Four Harp Concertos Silke Aichhorn, Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Stefan Fraas 777835-2 This composer was Ernst Eichner, who during his short life of thirty-seven years first served as a court musician in Zweibrücken in the Palatinate and then at the court of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia in Potsdam.
Georg Philipp TELEMANN Luther Cantatas Siri Karoline Thornhill, Stefan Kahle, Susanne Krunbiegel, Tobias Hunger, Gotthold Schwarz, Sächsisches Barockorchester, Bach Consort Leipzig Gotthold Schawarz 777753-2 Georg Philipp Telemann, whose ancestors had been Lutheran ministers for many generations was himself a staunch Lutheran. The texts selected by him for his sacred music attest to his interest not only in poetic excellence but also in content and interpretive quality.
Anton BRUCKNER Symphony No. 9 in D Minor Berner Symphonieorchester Hardly any other complete recording in progress has provoked such a vehement pro and contra as this revolutionary reading by Venzago. Layers are exposed that until now have remained hidden and unheard under the pomp and pseudo-solemn pathos typifying most performances. 777787-2
Tambalagumbá Early World Music in Latin America Ensemble Villancico Peter Pontvik The Swedish Ensemble Villancico under its conductor Peter Pontvik once again guides us through the 777811-2 fascinating world of Latin America baroque music and the only continent where Indian, Spanish and African traditions merge together.
Michael HAYDN Complete Wind Concertos Vol. 1
Salzburger Hofmusik Wolfgang Brunner 777781-2 Following the success of Michael Haydn’s chamber divertimenti and the grand edition of his complete symphonic works which met with such great resonance, CPO are pleased to present the Salzburg Haydn’s complete wind concertos.
Carl NIELSEN Complete Chamber Works for Winds
Ensemble MidtVest
Composed over a period of 40 years, these compositions offer an exemplary overview of a substantial part of Nielsen’s overall musical development. Nielsen himself was very much taken with the individual sound of the 777872-2 various wind instruments and the possibilities offered by their playing technique.
6 FEBRUARY 2014 Johann STRAUSS
Die Fledermaus
Chen Reiss, Paul Armin Edelmann, Aga Mikolaj, Rainer Trost, Sebastian Holecek, Jürgen Sacher, Natasha Petrinsky, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Friedrich Haider
Johann Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, the Waltz King’s main work, is still abreast of the times today. The situation in 1874, when the operetta was premiered was considerably more dramatic than the current crisis: the collapse and the closure by the police of the Vienna stock exchange on 9 May 1873 with more than a hundred bankruptcies in a single day. C5167 So, even at that time there were good reasons for saying ‘Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, was doch nicht zu ändern ist’ (‘Fortunate is he who can forget what cannot be changed’), which flutters like a flag over Die Fledermaus.
Robert SCHUMANN
Augeswählte Lieder – Selected Songs
Paul Armin Edelmann Charles Spencer
C5172
Knudåge RIISAGER (1894-1974)
The Symphonic Edition, Volume. 3
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra Bo Holten
In this series of world premiere recordings of the symphonic music of Knudåge Riisager, you get to know the charming Danish composer through a genre he once tried to ‘kill off’, yet at the same time refused to abandon.
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Rued LANGGAARD String Quartets, Volume. 2
Nightingale String Quartet
Rued Langgaard’s string quartets are passionate works from the eccentric composer’s youth. This recording series presents all nine quartets together for the first time in the distinctly dramatic interpretation of the prizewinning Nightingale String Quartet.
6220576
FEBRUARY 2014 7 Johann Sebastian BACH 60 Years of the Munich Bach Choir
Munich Bach Choir, Munich Bach Orchestra, Hansjörg Albrecht OC1801 Oehms presents 60 Years of the Munich Bach Choir who have been in existence since 1954.
Ludwig Van BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas
Alexej Gorlatch
Oehms presents a recording of famous Beethoven sonatas which was made in July 2013. This release highlights the exceptional talents of Alexej Gorlatch. OC879
TCHAIKOVSKY, PROKOFIEV & SHOSTAKOVICH
Russian Soul
Apollon Musagete Quartett
The young string quartet rapidly became established as key players within the European music scene and OC874 they continue to thrill audiences and the press alike with their stirring and moving interpretations.
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Concerti Per Il Violino
Mirijam Contzen, Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic, Reinhard Goebel OC862 The soloist Mirijam Contzen has written all the cadenzas for the concertos herself, and performs here with Reinhard Goebel and the Bavarian Chamber Philharmonic.
Richard WAGNER Rienzi
Peter Bronder, Christiane Libor, Falk Struckmann, Claudia Mahnke, Daniel Schmutzhard, Alfred Reiter, Beau Gibson and Peter Felix Bauer, Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Choir of the Frankfurt Opera,Sebastian Weigle
The aim of this music is to create excitement: with its trombone attacks, bell tolls and horrors, with OC941 sentimental cantilenas, sweet love duets and the famous overture: there was never any doubt that Sebastian Weigle and the Frankfurt Ensemble would succeed. With Rienzi, Oehms now presents the last of the three operas attributed to the youthful years of Richard Wagner.
Arlene SIERRA Game of Attrition Vol. 2 Huw Watkins Jac van Steen BBC National Orchestra of Wales
This recording presents first performances of four recent scores by Arlene Sierra from The BBC National BRIDGE 9414 Orchestra of Wales, led by their Principal Guest Conductor, Jac van Steen. Their superb performances capture the visceral quality and detail of Sierra’s virtuosic scores.
8 FEBRUARY 2014 Antonio Maria MAZZONI ANTIGONO Enrico Onofri, Singers Orchestra, Divino Sospiro
Antigono - an opera thought to be lost forever during an earthquake back in 1755, and not played for CDS7686/1-3 over 255 years, has been put together in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon. A world premiere recording of its music will now be released on CD by DYNAMIC, so that it won't be missed again.
Franz LISZT Liszt all’ opera Andrea Trovato It is fascinating to see how, by transcribing the works of Donizetti, Verdi, and Wagner, Liszt analysed CDS7682 the characteristics of opera’s writing and performing praxis and made them his own, performed here by Andrea Trovato.
Pietro Antonio LOCATELLI
The Masters of Violin Vol 1 Luca Fanfoni Reale Concerto CDS7690 Locatelli dedicated the 12 concertos L’Arte del Violino, Op. 3, to his favourite instrument, the violin, published in 1733, and played here by Italian violinist, Luca Fanfoni, and the Reale Concerto Ensemble.
Giovanni Battista VIOTTI The Masters of Violin Vol. 2
Franco Mezzena Symphonia Perusina CDS7691 Viotti left us 29 violin concertos, written roughly between 1781 and 1808. With their wide range of stylistic and expressive nuances, the works featured on this disc undoubtedly represent the apex of his output.
Leopald KOŽELUCH Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 2 GP643 Kemp English
Kemp English is one of New Zealand's leading keyboard performers.
Alexander TCHEREPNIN Complete Piano Music Vol 5
Giorgio Koukl GP650
Koukl’s effortless technique and expertise with this fascinating repertoire make him a perfect advocate for this composer’s remarkable music.
Arno BABADJANIAN
Complete Original Works for Solo Piano
Hayk Melikyan GP674 Last year, Melikyan was awarded the distinguished title of Honorary Artist of the Republic of Armenia. He has given premières of numerous works by contemporary composers, several of which were written for him.
FEBRUARY 2014 9 Franz SCHUBERT Gerhard Oppitz plays Schubert
Gerard Oppitz has played all the sonatas of the Viennese master Schubert in the course of his explorations, but he also has taken up many of the smaller pieces for the piano, which are less frequently played in concert and are still largely unknown. 98.617
Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH Hamburg Symphonies Wq 182
The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Wolfram Christ
In honour of CPE Bach’s 300th Birthday, Hänssler is releases an exciting series of recordings. At the beginning 98.637 the are the so-called “Hamburg” symphonies Wq 182, interpreted with great sensitivity and bite when necessary by the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.
Carl Philipp Emanuel BACH Violin Sonatas Wq 76.77.78; Arioso for Violin and Cembalo Wq
Albrecht Breuninger Piet Kuijken 93.312 The sonatas of 1763 presented here show not only the composer’s ability to express personal feelings, but are direct precursors of the great creations of Mozart and Beethoven in the field of instrumental sonatas with obligato piano accompaniment.
Anniversary Box – Sir Roger Norrington’s 80th Birthday
SCHUBERT: Sinfonie C-Dur “Die Große” D 944; Die Zauberharfe D 644 BERLIOZ: Les francs-juges; Symphonie fantastique op. 14 MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY: Sinfonie Nr. 3 a-Moll op. 56 “Scottish”; Sinfonie Nr. 4 A-Dur op. 90 “Italian” BRUCKNER: Sinfonie Nr. 4 Es-Dur WAB 104 “Romantic”
BRAHMS:v Sinfonie Nr 3. F-Dur op. 90; Sinfonie Nr. 4 e-Moll op. 98 DVORÁK: Sinfonie Nr. 9 e-Moll “Aus der neuen Welt” op. 95; Karneval Ouvetüre op. 92 TCHAIKOVSKY: Sinfonie Nr. 6 h-Moll op 74 “Pathétique”; Orchestersuite Ballet “De Nussknacker” op. 71a 93.313 MAHLER: Sinfonie Nr. 1 D-Dur; Sinfonie Nr. 4 G-Dur ELGAR: In the South (Alassio); Konzertouvertüre op. 50; Introduction and Allegro für Streichquartett und Streichorchester op. 47; Enigma Variations; Variationen über ein eigenes Thema op. 36
TELEMANN, FEDRIZI, PIANI, FIORENZA, LEO, HASSE, SARTI, SAMMARTINI Recorder Music with Daniel Rothert 98.028 Daniel Rothert Luca Quintavalle
This release presents mostly premier recordings of Baroque Recorder Sonatas from the collection of the Viceroy of Naples.
Draumsyn
Anne Hytta
Draumsyn is the debut solo album of Norwegian hardanger fiddle player Anne Hytta. This CD is a selection of her own compositions, rooted in the traditional Norwegian hardanger fiddle style, but truly unique and timeless in sound and expression. CD-16301
10 FEBRUARY 2014 GRIEG, CHAUSSON, FRANCK
Callum Smart Gordon Back
Prizewinner at the Menuhin International and BBC Young Musician Competitions, this is British violinist Callum Smart’s debut CD. ORC100040
Claude DEBUSSY
Preludes; Arabesques; Estampes; Clair de lune
Nino Gvetadze ORC100041 This CD, along with a film, forms part of a music education project that Nino Gvetadze is extremely passionate about, and includes many of Debussy’s most popular works.
PÄRT, MESSIAEN, TAKEMITSU, WEBERN, PURCELL, MARMEN, ECONOMOU, SCHNELZER “Sonic Philosophy: Colour and Affect” Hugo Ticciati ORC100038 Henrik Måwe
Ticciati, Artistic Director of Stockholm’s O/MODƏӘRNT festival, conveys his deep passion for both philosophy and music in this recording
POULENC, ELGAR, CHOPIN, QUILTER, PEARSALL, VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS, BARLEY, BRASSENS, LEE, NEWMAN, TURNER, YAZOO, HAYDN, BRIDGE
Songs of Love and War
Cantabile - ‘The London Quartet’
Well known as wonderful entertainers, the four singers of Cantabile here share some more serious and CHRCD074 hauntingly beautiful songs.
BRAHMS, MOZART Quintets
Badke Quartet: Charlotte Scott, Emma Parker, Jon Thorne, Jonathan Byers, Maximilliano Martin
Two of the greatest and best-loved chamber works for clarinet: Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A, CHRCD076 K.581 and the Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 by Brahms feature on this new release. It follows the release of the Brahms Sonatas for clarinet by Maximiliano Martin, one of the most charismatic players of his generation, principal clarinet of Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
Ludwig THUILLE The String Quartets
Allegri Quartet: Ofer Falk, Rafael Todes, Dorothea Vogel, Vanessa Lucas-Smith
Champs Hill Records continues its survey of the neglected music of Ludwig Thuille with a new recording CHRCD077 of his String Quartets Nos 1 & 2, performed by the Allegri Quartet.
FEBRUARY 2014 11 The guitarist John Williams started JCW Recordings in 2008 as he wanted to remain in complete control of recording, editing, mixing, producing and design - in fact all presentation present and future. He takes particular care over the selection and sequence of tracks, including the gaps between them, and the full range of the guitar’s many colours. By retaining this control he can keep the essence of his original presentation and avoid the unmusical sequences inevitable in the never ending stream of compilations. He records at Air Lyndhurst Studios in London.
John WILLIAMS From a Bird
John Williams
Due to wide demand, “From a Bird” is now being released for general distribution. It consists mainly of music by John Williams including the hugely popular “Hello Francis” and a group of traditional Irish pieces. JCW1
WILLIAMS, YOCOH, GOSS, SCULTHORPE, KOEHNE, HOUGHTON, DODGSON, HAND Stepping Stones
John Williams JCW2 “Stepping Stones” begins with the delicate “Sakura Variations” by the Japanese composer Yuquiro Yocoh, which sets the tone for a mostly intimate programme of original guitar music featuring “Djilile” by Peter Sculthorpe, “Marylebone Elegy” by Stephen Goss, “The Midst of Life” by Stephen Dodgson and other pieces by John Williams, Graeme Koehne, Phillip Houghton and Frederic Hand.
Thomas HARDY The Return of the Native (Unabridged)
Read by Nicholas Rowe
Clym Yeobright, the returning native, comes home to the haunted Wessex moors after a cosmopolitan life in Paris. NA0168
Virginia WOOLF Jacob’s Room (Unabridged)
Read by Juliet Stevenson
Virginia Woolf’s third novel, Jacob’s Room, marked a radical, new departure in her style: the most NA0148 experimental of all her novels, it enacts the ‘smashing and crashing’ of form that Woolf called for in the modernist movement.
Haruki MURAKAMI Sputnik Sweetheart (Unabridged)
Read by Adam Sims
Sputnik Sweetheart is Murakami’s ninth novel, written in 1999, and tells the story of a young woman NA0165 − Sumire, an aspiring writer − who falls in love with an older, successful businesswoman and wine expert, Miu.
12 FEBRUARY 2014 Marcus BLUNT
Aspirations DDV24148 Murray McLachlan
Solo piano music
GRIEG, FINNISSY Piano Quintet, Quintettsatz
Roderick Chadwick Kreutzer Quartet MSV28541
REDGATE, GORTON, FOX, YOUNG, ROXBURGH, WRIGHT
Electrifying Oboe MSV77204 Christopher Redgate Ensemble Exposé
All of the works save one, Gorton’s Schmetterlingsspiel, employ electronics as part of the performance but in each work the electronics are used in very different ways.
BACH Bach and the Early Pianoforte
Luca Guglielmi
Luca Guglielmi demonstrates in a delectable programme the various instruments Bach knew and played on (and composed for): the Silbermann piano, the Cristofori piano and the “old fashioned” PCL0062 clavichord, each with their own specific sound and instrumental possibilities.
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition SCHUMANN Kinderszenen
Alexander Gavrylyuk PCL0063
For his second album on Piano Classics, Alexander Gavrylyuk has chosen a visual and imaginative programme: the unusual but logical pairing of two romantic cycles, Mussorgsky’s Pictures and Schumann’s Kinderszenen.
Giovanni Battista PERGOLESI Giovanni Lorenzo GREGORI Stabat Mater
Jonah Schenkel Alex Potter TUD7166 Barockorchester Capriccio Zürcher Sängerknaben Alphons von Aarburg
FEBRUARY 2014 13 EXTON has issued more than 900 titles to the Japanese market, and launched into the international market in 2006. The name EXTON comes from the pursuit of Extraordinary Tone, meaning that the label strives to create the very best music through the very best sound. Testament to the quality of its products has been high acclaim through prestigious discography magazines such as Gramophone.
MAHLER Symphony No.1 in D major; “Titan”
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck EXCL-00026
MAHLER Symphony No.3 in D minor Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck Michelle Deyoung Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh OVCL-00450 Children’s Festival Chorus of Pittsburgh Peter Sullivan George Vosburgh
MAHLER Symphony No.4 in G major
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck Sunhae Im EXCL-00048
MAHLER Symphony No.5 in C minor
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck OVCL-00460
VERDI: Overture - Opera "La forza del destino"
FLETCHER: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra (world premiere)
R.STRAUSS: Symphonic Poem "Ein Heldenleben" Op.40
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra OVCL-00338 Manfred Honeck Michael Rusinek Andres Cardenes
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No.5 in E minor Op.64
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck OVCL-00443
14 FEBRUARY 2014 Melodia was the state-owned major record company/label of the Soviet Union. As of 1973 Melodia released some 1,200 gramophone records with the total circulation of 190-200 million per year and 1 million compact cassettes per year and was exporting its production into more than 70 countries. After having disappeared from the market since 2004, Melodia started re-releasing their recordings in 2006 and are quickly building up a formidable catalogue.
TCHAIKOVSKY, MELCD 1002123 Dimitri MELCD 1001077 RACHMANINOV & SHOSTAKOVICH MUSSORGSKY Complete Quartets The Art of Irina Arkhipova Sviatoslav Richter (Piano) Irina Arkhipova The Borodin String Quartet
Ludwig Van BEETHOVEN & Robert SCHUMANN & Pyotr TCHAIKOVSKY MELCD 1002121 Franz LISZT MELCD 1002145 Early Recordings Romantic Sonatas
Vadim Repin Lazar Berman
Johann Sebastian BACH Claude DEBUSSY Favourite Pages Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord MELCD 1002154 MELCD 1002152 Ivan Stolbov (Clarinet) Alexander Korneyev (Flute) Kim Jan Ran (Piano) Alexander Bakhchiev (Harpsichord)
Edvard Grieg Sergey RACHMANINOFF Lyric Pieces MELCD 1002118 Works for Piano and Orchestra MELCD 1002128 Alexander Goldenweiser (Piano) Viktor Yeresko (Piano), The USSR State Historical recordings of 1950-1954 Academic Symphony Orchestra Gennady Provatorov (Conductor) Edvard Grieg (Piano) Historical Sviatoslav Richter (Piano) recordings The Welte-Mignon Piano The Leningrad Philharmonic Society Symphony Orchestra Rolls, 1906 Vladimir Fedoseyev (Conductor)
TCHAIKOVSKY, RACHMANINOV Johann Sebastian BACH & MUSSORGSKY MELCD 1002100 Harry Grodberg Plays MELCD 1002132 J.S Bach Ekaterina Mechetina (Piano) Harry Grodberg
Bolshoi – The Best of Melodia Johann Sebastian BACH Featuring works by: Glinka, MELCD 1002164 Dargomyzhsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Goldberg Variations MELCD 1002049 Glazunov, Asafiev, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Rubinstein, Rachmaninov, Grigory Sokolov Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Mozart, Beethoven, Donizetti, Adam, Minkus, Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Gounod, Saint-Saëns, Wagner and Bizet.
Aram KHACHATURIAN Modest MUSSORGSKY
Anniversary Edition MELCD 1002146 Pictures of an Exhibition MELLP 0017 Leonid Kogan (Violin), Moscow Philharmonic Limited Edition Orchestra, Conductor Kirill Kondrashin, Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello), USSR State Symphony Maria Yudina (Piano) Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov (Conductor), Vazgen Vartanian (Piano), Jivan Gaparian (Duduk), Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Sergei Skripka (Conductor)
v Antonin DVORÁK Pyotr TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Trio, Volume 1 MELLP 0013 Evgeny Svetlanov MELLP 0015 Limited Edition Limited Edition
David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Knushevitsky The USSR State Academic and Lev Oborin Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov (Conductor) Johannes MELLP 0011 BRAHMS David Oistrakh: Volume 1 Limited Edition David Oistrakh (Violin)
FEBRUARY 2014 15 Piotr MOSS Chagall for Strings
Opium String Quartet ACD195-2 Jadwiga Rappé
Brahms, Moór Inspirales
Double Concertos Hillel Zori Arnon Erez Qian Zhou Qin Li-Wei CC1031 CC1030 Sebastian Comberti Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Orchestra, Jason Lai
de Saram in Concert Volume 2
Rohan de Saram Druvi de Saram CB6005-2
BEETHOVEN Diabelli Variations FDS 58017 Gabriel Chodos
Caitriona O’LEARY Sleepsongs DU’LRA Caitríona O’Leary HERESY014 Adrian Hart Emer Mayock Kate Ellis Mel Mercier
BEETHOVEN BRAHMS: Symphony No.3 Piano Concerto No.1 DEBUSSY: La Mer CHAUSSON: Poème de l’amour et de la mer; La Mort de l’amour; MOZART Le Temps des lilas Piano Concerto ICAC 5121 ICAC 5123 No.12 London Symphony Orchestra Leon Fleisher Evgeny Svetlanov Janet Baker
16 FEBRUARY 2014 BACH, BEETHOVEN, MENDELSSOHN, RAVEL, PIERNÉ, ESCAICH, BARTHOLDY, MOZART, SCHUBERT FRANÇAIX Friedrich Wilhelm Schnurr GEN14543 plays for Otjikondo GEN14296 Bolero Friedrich Wilhelm Schnurr Ellipsos Quartet
MEDELSSOHN, BARTHOLDY, Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART SHOSTAKOVICH, GERASSIMIEZ, SAY The “Haydn” Quartets GEN14297 Free Fall GEN14304 The Merel Quartet Wassily Gerassimez Nicolai Gerassimez
Johannes BRAHMS BEETHOVEN, SCHUBERT, LISZT German Requiem 99014 op. 45 Meeresstille 99018
Chorus sine nomine Dora Deliyska Johannes Hiemetsberger
STAHEL, GABRIELLI, GALLI, BACH 99024 Solitude
Michal Stahel
W. A. MOZART
Arias
L’arte del Mondo NC0715602 Werner Wehrhardt Edita Gruberova
STRAVINSKY, REICH, HARTZELL, WIDMANN, STAAR, APOSTEL, BISCHOF, MORIMOTO Solitary Changes OR0006
Stefan Neubauer
SCHUBERT Works for Violin and Piano Boris Kucharsky PMR0045 Elizabeth Hopkins
FEBRUARY 2014 17 Ferdinando CARULLI
Opere inedite per chitarra / Unpublished Works for Guitar
Raffaele Carpino TC 770302
The three works presented here have all been recorded for the very first time.
Rosario SCALERO
Opere per violino e pianoforte / Works for Violin and Piano
Mauro Tortorelli TC 871901 Angela Meluso
Twentieth century chamber music.
Giuseppe TARTINI and the School of Nations
Orchestra Andrea Palladio Giovanni Gugliemo TC 692005 Late Baroque chamber music.
Johannes BRAHMS Choral Works Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus 8802103 Sir Colin Davis Nathalie Stutzmann
Antonio CALDARA Cello Sonatas Marco Dalsass 8802118
PERGOLESI La Contadina - Mass in F Concertos and Sonatas
I Solisti Di Milano 8802124 I Solisti del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Coro Polifonia Angelo Ephrikian
Camille SAÏNT-SAINS Violin Concerto No. 3; Violin Concerto No. 2 8802130 Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Zubin Mehta Julian Rachlin
BRUCKNER Symphonien Nr. 8 & Nr. 0 “Die Nullte”
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 8802143 Zubin Mehta
18 FEBRUARY 2014 Paul BEN-HAIM Chamber Music for Strings TOCC 0214 Carmel Quartet Shuli Waterman
Ferenc FARKAS Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 TOCC 0176 MA’V Symphony Orchestra Péter Csaba Miklós Perényi
Otto MALLING Organ Music TOCC 0224 Sverker Jullander
Jean-Philipe RAMEAU The Complete Keyboard Music, Vol. 3
Stephen Gutman TOCC 0052
MOZART, SCHUMANN, CHOPIN Piano Concertos SM189 Vienna Symphony Orchestra Margarita Höhenrieder Fabio Luisi
Astor PIAZZOLLA New Tango Songbook 88843021572 Marcela Arroyo Julio Azcano
Guitar Freaks
Katona Twins 88843018462
Georg Philipp TELEMANN Simplicity and Variety
Hansjörg Schellenberger C130182 Margit-Anna Süß Josef Radauer
FEBRUARY 2014 19 SCHMITT Le Petit Elfe Ferme-l’Œil ; Introït, Récit et Congé 1C1212 Henri Demarquette Aline Martin Orchestre national de Lorraine Jacques Mercier SCHMITT Complete Works for female Voices 1C1218 Marie-Cécile Milan Régine Théodoresco
SCHMITT Piano Works 1C1219
Laurent Wagschal
J.S. BACH Frank LISZT Organ Works St. John Passion highlights
T2CD2013019 T2CD2013022
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge Brandenburg Consort Jetty Podt Stephen Cleobury
J.S. BACH RUTTER, BRITTEN, TIPPETT St. Matthew Passion highlights Celebration of the Spirit The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, The Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge T2CD2013020 The Choir of Clare College, T2CD2013021 Brandenburg Consort Cambridge Stephen Cleobury Timothy Brown
BACH, FRANCK, LEFKOWTIZ, BRAHMS Petteri Iivonen YAR76721 Kevin Fitzgerald
Music from the Court of Burgundy YAR05785 Ciaramella
Dialoghi YAR78876 Elinor Frey David Fung £9.00
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Additional music by Arensky, Coleman, Édouard Lalo, Massenet, Sibelius
Le Corsaire
Ballet du Capitole
Kader Belarbi’s new production of Le Corsaire is a bold reinvention of a 19th-century classic. Belarbi’s fresh scenario and choreography give this colourful yet ultimately tragic story of the corsair (Davit Galstyan) and the beautiful slave-girl who captures his heart (Maria Gutierrez) renewed clarity and simplicity. David Coleman conducts a score based on Adolphe OA1129D Adam’s original work, but enhanced with music by composers from Massenet to Sibelius, as well as new compositions and orchestrations by Coleman himself.
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PITA The Metamorphosis
Recorded live at The Royal Opera House, March 2013
Arthur Pita (Choreography/Director) Frank Moon (Music) Simon Daw (Designs)
‘It’s unique and absurd … timeless and universal.’ So choreographer and director Arthur Pita describes Kafka’s powerful novella The Metamorphosis, which has inspired this award- OA1126D winning production for The Royal Ballet.
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GLORIOUS GLYNDEBOURNE Featuring excepts from:
MOZART: Le nozze di Figaro JANÁCEK: The Cunning Little Vixen PUCCINI: Gianni Schicchi MOZART: Così fan tutte BRITTEN: Billy Budd VERDI: Falstaff OA1127D BIZET: Carmen HANDEL: Giulio Cesare WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde STRAVINSKY: The Rake’s Progress ROSSINI: La Cenerentola WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg OABD7138D
FEBRUARY 2014 21 Gioachino ROSSINI 101649 Le Comte Ory Live Recording from the Rossini Opera Festival 2009 Yijie Shi, Lorenzo Regazzo, Laura Polverelli, Roberto De Candia, María José, Natalia Gavrialn, Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna Conductor: Paolo Carignani 108063 Stage Director: Lluís Pasqual Written in French in 1828 for the Paris Opéra, Le Comte Ory, has maintained its success to this day. Re-using some of the music of his Viaggio a Reims, Rossini turns the disguise-based libretto into a spirited play of erotic lightness.
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail
Live from the Staatsoper Stuttgart, 1998 Catherine Naglestad, Kate Ladner, Matthais Klink, Heinz Göhrig, Roland Bracht and Chorus and Orchestra of the Staatsoper Stuttgart Conductor: Lothar Zagrosek 102189 Stage Director: Hans Neuenfels
Legendary director Hans Neuenfels once again proves his great skill with this interpretation of Mozart’s Entführung aus dem Serail. This extraordinary production conducted by Lothar Zagrosek, and with Catherine Nagelstad, Kate Ladner and Matthias Klink in the main roles, won the Bavarian Theatre Prize in 1999 and offers a refreshingly new view.
Pyotr Ilyich TCHAIKOVSKY The Sleeping Beauty Place de Arts, Montréal, 1989 Larissa Lezhnina, Farukh Ruzimatov, Yulia Makhalina and the Kirkov Ballet Conductor: Viktor Fedotov 100313 Choreographer: Oleg Vinogradov Original Choreography: Marius Petipa
The stylish grandeur of choreographer and artistic director Oleg Vinogradov’s production shows the entire company at its best.
Christoph Willibald GLUCK (1714-1787) Gluck 300 Years featuring: Alceste, Iphigénie en Tauride and Orfeo ed Euridice
Live from the Staatsoper Stuttgart, 2006 107540 Christoph Willibald Gluck, called the opera reformer of the 18th century, greatly influenced the development of music theatre in this time.
The Russian Avantgarde
The Collector Costakis: Directed by Barrie Gavin Kazmir Malevich: Directed by Barrie Gavin & Reiner E. Moritz Marc Chagall: Produced and Directed by Kim Evans Kandinsky: Directed by André S. Labarthe
George Costakis counts as one of the most important art collectors of the 20th century. Collecting art for him was 107542 not a hobby, but an obsession aiming at the Russian Avant-garde. The painting of Chagall, Malevich or Kandinsky made his life complete.
Gaetano DONIZETTI Don Pasquale Live recording from the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, 2002 Alessandro Corbelli, Antonino Siragusa, Eva Mei, Roberto de Candia, Giorgio Gatti. Stages by the Teatro Comunale di Bologna Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari 107251 Conductor: Gérard Korsten Stage Director: Stefano Vizioli Lovers of this opera will be enthralled by Eva Mei’s high, clear voice. Gérard Korsten conducts the orchestra of the Teatro Lirico and proves that Donizetti’s spritely music gives room for fascinating interpretations.
22 FEBRUARY 2014 Vincenzo BELLINI La Sonnambula
Recorded at Oper Stuttgart, June 2013
Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Enzo Capuano, Helen Schneiderman, Ana Durlovski, Luciano Botelho, 2059338 Catriona Smith and Motti Kastón
In an extraordinary production the directing duo of Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabit, well-known for their psychological realism, address the dormant and profound questions of our civilisation and its myths that trouble the eponymous sleepwalker. 2059334
Carl ORFF Carmina Burana
Also features Ludwig van Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 and George Frideric Handel’s Halleluja (arr: Sir Eugene Goossens)
Sally Matthews, Lawrence Brownlee, Christian Gerhaher, Rundfunchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle
Recorded live at the Philharmonie Berlin, 31st December 2004
A joyful celebration welcoming the New Year, this Gala from Berlin presents the world-renowned Berlin 2053674 Philharmonic conducted by Sir Simon Rattle; in Carl Orff’s famous Camina Burana an intensely dramatic cantata that remains one of the most widely performed works from the twentieth century.
Europa-Konzert 2001 From Istambul Joseph HAYDN Symphony No. 94 “Surprise”
Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART Flute Concerto No. 2 Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Berliner Philharmoniker, Mariss Jansons
Recorded live at the Hagia Eirene church, Istanbul, 1st May 2001 2051444 This release features Mariss Jansons, one of today’s most sought-after conductors. This blu-ray also features Emanuel Pahud who is praised for his ravishing sound and his effortless phrasing.
Europa-Konzert 2000 from Berlin Ludwig van BEETHOVEN Concerto No 2 for Piano and Orchestra; Symphony No. 9
Karita Mattila, Violeta Urmana, Thomas Moser, Eike Wilm Schulte, Swedish Radio Choir, Mikhail Pletnev, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
Recorded live at the Philharmonie Berlin, 1st May 2000 2050504 The founding of the Berlin Philharmoniker on the first of May in 1882 is annually celebrated with a concert in a European city of cultural significance. For this newly released Europakonzert Blu-ray Disc all recordings were lovingly restored and converted to High Definition video.
BACH, BARTÓK, BEETHOVEN, BLOCH, BRAHMS, CHOPIN, DEBUSSY, FALLA, LECLAIR, MENDELSSOHN, PAGANINI, PROKOFIEV, RAVEL, SAINT-SAËNS, SHOSTAKOVICH, SCHUMANN The classic archive™ Collector’s Edition – Strings
Henryk Szeryng, Isaac Stern, Nathan Milstein, Christian Ferras, Ivry Gitlis, Leonid Kogan, Arthur Grumiaux, Mstislav Rostropovich, Paul Tortelier, Pierre Fournier 3073974 Great performances from legendary artists of the 20th century. The classic archive™Collector’s Edition – Strings offers unique insights in the world of music interpretation of the golden age.
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Jonas Kaufmann, Staatskapelle Dresden, Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden Christian Thielemann
Recorded at the Semper Oper Dresden, 2013
C Major presents a star cast production including Christian Thielemann, one of the most respected conductors of our time and Jonas Kaufmann, who will perform at the Metropolitan Opera House in February 2014. 714908
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Johannes BRAHMS The Complete Symphonies
Staatskapelle Dresden Christian Thielemann
After the great success of his Beethoven Cycle, Christian Thielemann now turns with his new orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, to the symphonic work of Johannes Brahms. Bonus features include an extensive 52 minute review with Christian 715108 Thielemann on Brahms’ Symphonies which provides and in-depth look into his interpretation of Brahms.
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STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring; Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra; Symphony of Psalms
Michel Béroff The English Bach Festival Chorus London Symphony Orchestra Leonard Bernstein
This memorial concert took place at the Royal Albert Hall in April 1972 on the first anniversary of the death of Igor Stravinsky, the ‘last great father-figure of Western music’ (Leonard Bernstein). Conducted by Bernstein, this electrifying, unique event is now being reintroduced to the public in DVD form.
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