CONSUMER INFORMATION SERVICE: NO. 302 MARCH 2017 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 Index Please click on a label below to be directed to its relevant page. Thank you. 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................................................................................................ page 19 Dynamic ................................................................................................................... page 18 Opus Arte ................................................................................................................. page 12 2 MARCH 2017 RELEASE A Highlight of the month Amy BEACH, Cécile CHAMINADE Dorothy HOWELL Piano Concertos Danny Driver BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rebecca Miller International Women’s Day falls on 8 March, celebrating the ‘social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women’. Volume 70 in our Romantic Piano Concerto series champions three female composers, and three works whose in-the-face-of-it-all joie de vivre makes them irresistibly worthy of our attention. CDA68130 Beneath the Northern Star The rise of English polyphony, 1270-1430 The Orlando Consort This new album from The Orlando Consort charts the radical development of music between the late-thirteenth and mid-fifteenth centuries, and the transition from what is, in essence, embellished chant, to the extraordinary mathematical intricacies of experimental polyphony. CDA68132 Béla BARTÓK Sonata for two pianos and percussion & other piano music Cédric Tiberghien A welcome return to the piano music of Béla Bartók and a programme that includes the popular Sonatina, the aggressively experimental Op. 18 Études and the Piano Sonata of 1926, the composer’s ‘year of the piano’. Cédric Tiberghien is then joined by François-Frédéric Guy, Colin Currie and Sam Walton for the Sonata for two pianos and percussion—a high-spirited conclusion to this successful mini-series. CDA68153 Alexander BORODIN Piano Quintet & String Quartet No. 2 Goldner String Quartet, Piers Lane Russia in the nineteenth century had little need for chamber music, but out of this very isolation came a small, but nonetheless mighty, handful of works: those by Borodin are among the finest. Piers Lane and the Goldner String Quartet revel in what they find. CDA68166 MARCH 2017 3 RELEASE A Highlight of the month Sir Arthur SULLIVAN Songs Shakespearean settings, Famous poets, Songs to words by Lionel Lewin, The beginning, Tennyson, The ‘Liederkreis’ of Sullivan and Tennyson, Songs from the stage, Songs in foreign tongues, Others Mary Bevan, Ben Johnson, Ashley Riches, David Owen Norris This exceptional recording gathers the finest young vocal talents in a unique programme of songs by Sullivan, many of them very rarely recorded. Currently widely acclaimed for key operatic title roles in the UK and abroad, the soprano Mary Bevan, tenor Ben Johnson, and bass-baritone Ashley Riches – who here appears on Chandos for the first time – span fifty years of Arthur Sullivan’s large non-operatic vocal output. CHAN 10935(2) British Tone Poems, Vol. 1 Frederic AUSTIN (1872-1952): Spring Sir Granville BANTOCK (1868-1946): The Witch of Atlas William ALWYN (1905-1985): Blackdown Henry Balfour GARDINER (1877-1950): A Berkshire Idyll Ivor GURNEY (1890-1937): A Gloucestershire Rhapsody Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958): The Solent BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Rumon Gamba Alongside their British Isles Overtures series, the BBC NOW and the conductor Rumon Gamba launch a project to bring often neglected symphonic poems by British composers to wider CHAN 10939 attention and fame. Franz LISZT From Années de Pèlerinage: Italie, S 161: 1. Sposalizio, 2. Il penseroso, 3. Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa, 5. Sonetto; 104 del Petrarca ‘Gretchen’, S 513, from Eine Faust-Symphonie; Bagatelle sans tonalité, S 216a; Nuages gris, S 199; La lugubre gondola I, S 200 / 1; Deuxième Valse oubliée,