DEALER INFORMATION SERVICE: NO. 259 AUGUST 2013 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 Franz SCHUBERT Complete Works for Violin and Piano DISC 1 Violin Sonata in D major ‘Sonatina’ D384; Violin Sonata in A minor ‘Sonatina’ D385; Violin Sonata in G minor ‘Sonatina’ D408 DISC 2 Violin Sonata in A major ‘Duo’ D574; Rondo in B minor D895 Fantasy in C major D934; Sei mir gegrüsst! D741 Alina Ibragimova, Cédric Tiberghien The luminous partnership of Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien returns to Hyperion for this double album containing Schubert’s complete music for violin and piano. Their intelligence and technical prowess, Highlight their seamless and intimate connection as performers and their profound of the month understanding of the music combine in magical performances. CDA67911/2 Judith BINGHAM (b. 1952) Choral Music Jonathan Vaughn (Organ) Wells Cathedral Choir, Matthew Owens This album features first recordings of a number of Bingham’s sacred choral works. The living relationship between the composer and the musicians is CDA67909 clear from the vivid, committed performances given by the children and gentlemen of the choir. Cipriano de RORE (c1515/16- 1565) Missa Doulce mémoire Missa a note negre The Brabant Ensemble, Stephen Rice The Brabant Ensemble continue their investigation into unknown jewels of the Low Countries Renaissance, researched by their director Stephen Rice CDA67913 and recorded with equal amounts of passion and erudition by the young £9.00 singers of the group. Sergei Time Stands Still RACHMANINOV Emma Kirkby (Soprano) Anthony Rooley (Lute) Piano Trios The Moscow Rachmaninov Trio CDH55431 CDH55462 The Moscow Rachmaninov Trio show great insight Lute songs on the theme of mutability and into the composer and their performances bring metamorphosis by John Downland and his depth to the works. contemporaries. 2 AUGUST 2013 Composers including: CHOPIN • SCHUMANN • BRAHMS • LISZT • DEBUSSY Moura Lympany (1916-2005) The HMV recordings presented here emphasize her virtuoso credentials and feature APR6011 many of the piano’s most fearsome warhorses. This is repertoire she excelled in and her performances of, for example, Feux follets, or the toccatas of Ravel and Prokofiev, have rarely been equalled. Kaija SAARIAHO (1952) Chamber Works for Strings Meta4 (Finnish String Quartet) Anna Laakso (Piano) Marko Myöhänen (Electronics) Highlight of the month This is the first of two releases of Chamber Works for Strings by Kaija Saariaho. Kaija ODE 1222-2 Saariaho is renowned across the world for her vivid orchestration. Her chamber works highlight her ability to create unique sound worlds with only a few instruments. Here she also adds live electronics to create a unique colour. Highlight of the month Nikolay MEDTNER 4 Fairy Tales Op.26; Tragic Sonata Sergei RACHMANINOV Variations on a theme of Corelli Op.42 Sergei PROKOFIEV Sonata No.6 Op.82 CHRCD064 Sofya Gulyak (Piano) This new release showcases Sofya Gulyak. Gulyak has appeared all over the world to great acclaim. BRAHMS Sonatas GADE Fantasy Pieces Maximiliano Martin (Clarinet), Julian Milford (Piano) CHRCD065 Maximiliano Martín, one of the most charismatic clarinet players of his generation, plays iconic late works by Brahms: the two clarinet Sonatas on his debut recording for Champs Hill. Carl DAVIS The Lady of the Camellias – A Ballet in Two Acts Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Carl Davis The Lady of the Camellias has inspired plays, films, operas and ballets. Carl Davis’ new score, CDC023 based closely on Alexandre Dumas’ novel, was commissioned by the National Ballet of Croatia premiered in Zagreb in 2008 and subsequently performed for 2 successive sold out seasons. The tragic love story of Marguerite and Armand still rings out across the centuries. AUGUST 2013 3 Poul SCHIERBECK (1888-1949) Fête Galante (1930) Bo Skovhus, Dénise Beck, Michael Weinius, Andrea Pellegrini, Gert Henning-Jensen, Palle Knudsen, Mathias Hedegaard Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Michael Shønwandt Dalliance, deceit and dastardly blackmail are all in the air at the rococo palace of Versailles, 6220637-38 where the Danish composer Poul Schierbeck’s only opera Feˆte Galante unfolds its colourful plot. The opera maintains an exquisite musical balance between the lyrical and the comic, and this recording brings new life to Schierbeck’s tuneful music. George PERLE (1915 –2009) The String Quartets Vol. 1 Vol. 1; Molto Adagio (1938); String Quartet No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14 (1942); String Quartet No. 5 (1960); Windows of Order: String Quartet No. 8 (1988) BRIDGE 9398 Daedalus Quartet The recipient of a Pulitzer Price, George Perle occupied a commanding a position among American composers of our time. W. A. MOZART Piano Concertos (Chamber Version) Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K. 414; Concerto No. 13 in C Major, K. 415; Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 449 Anne-Marie McDermott (Piano), Calder Quartet BRIDGE 9403 The brilliant American pianist, Anne-Marie McDermott is joined by the Calder Quartet in rarely heard recordings of the chamber versions of three Mozart concertos. The Great Poets: John Clare Read by David Shaw-Parker NA0094 John Clare was the forgotten Romantic poet, until the late 20th century. Known by his contemporaries as the Peasant Poet, he recorded in his poems the natural landscape of rural England before the Industrial Revolution. John Bunyan The Pilgrim’s Progress (unabridged) Read by David Shaw-Parker For three hundred years The Pilgrim’s Progress has remained perhaps the best-loved NA0133 and most read of devotional fictions. In plain yet powerful and moving language, Bunyan tells the story of Christian’s struggle to attain salvation and the Gates of Heaven. Samuel Richardson Pamela (unabridged) Read by Clare Corbett and cast Samuel Richardson’s epistolary novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, published in 1740, NA0138 tells the story of a young woman’s resistance to the desires of her predatory master. 4 AUGUST 2013 Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828) Symphony No. 6 in C major D589 Music from Rosamunde D797 Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard Highlight of the month This is the second disc in an on-going cycle of Schubert’s symphonies with the SCO and Thomas Dausgaard, described by BBC Music Magazine described BIS1987 as ‘an excitingly combative, and ultimately very plausible new look at Schubert.’ Wilhelm STENHAMMAR (1871-1927) String Quartets Volume 1 String Quartet No. 4 in A minor Op. 25; Elegi and Intermezzo; String Quartet No. 3 in F major Op. 18 Stenhammar Quartet BIS1659 This is the Stenhammar Quartet’s debut recording for BIS, but they present the first disc in a trilogy which will include the six quartets published during the composer’s lifetime, as well as the F minor Quartet – for the first time on disc. The Unknown Sibelius Finland Awakes, The Oceanides, Jag kisser dig [och ledsnar] ej; Tule, tule kultani; Tanken; Italian Folk SongArr.; Fridolins dårskap; Jone havsfärd; Serenata; Ödlan; Andantino in D maj; Impromptu in B minor; Adagio in E Maj; Adagio ‘Rakkaalle Ainolle’; Four Fragments; Processional Artists include: Lahti SO, Va¨nska¨, Anne Sofie von Otter, Monica Groop, Dominante Choir… BIS2065 The Unknown Sibelius presents a spectrum of the music that is the least wide-spread of the Finnish master’s production, either because the pieces included belong to genres not usually associated with ‘Sibelius the symphonist’, or because they appear in versions that differ from the ones that are performed frequently all over the world. Piano Rhapsody Works by: Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Janácˇ ek, Albéniz, Debussy, Satie, Busoni, Granados, Stenhammar, Rachmaninov, Kreisler, Falla, Prokofiev, Ginastera and others… Roland Pöntinen Bamburg Symphony Orchestra, Leif Segerstam BIS9044 A collection of pieces well-known and less familiar, miniatures and bravura works written from the eighteenth to the twentieth century including the Piano Concertos by Tchaikovsky and Grieg. BRUCKNER Symphony No. 7 London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanisl/aw Skrowaczewski Highlight LPO-0071 of the month Stanisław Skrowaczewski is regarded as one of today’s greatest living Bruckner conductors. Now in his 90th year, he brings a lifetime’s accumulated wisdom to this work. Gioseffo ZARLINO (1517-1590) Modulations sex vocum (1566) Singer Pur Zarlino’s principle work Istitutioni harmoniche is based on the compositional OC873 technique of his teacher Adrian Willaert. Having recently recorded the motets by Willaert to great acclaim, Singer Pur now turn their attention to Zarlino and his skilled use of harmony-based keys, counter-point and fugue. AUGUST 2013 5 Andrzej PANUFNIK (1914-1991) Symphonic Works Volume 6 Concertino for Timpani, Percussion & Strings; Sinfonia di Speranza (Symphony No. 9) Konzerthausorchester Berlin, L/ukasz Borowicz 777685-2 The composition of a ninth symphony has represented a symbolic challenge within the tradition for almost every composer after Beethoven. Andrzej Panufnik met this challenge with his most ambitious and large-scale work and reflects his musical interpretation of hope. Daniel-François-Esprit AUBER (1782-1871) La Muette de Portici Opera in 5 Acts Diego Torre, Oscar de la Torre, Angelina Ruzzafante, Wiard Witholt Opernchor des Anhaltischen Theatres, Anhaltische Philharmonie, Anthony Hermus 777694-2 Although La Muette de Portici had already celebrated its fifth-hundredth performance