allegro classical april 2013 new release book
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Allegro Classical April 2013 New Release BookTRANSCRIPT
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Order Due Date: March 18, 2013
APRIL 2013
A d iv i s ion of Allegro MediA group
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allegro ClAssiCAl news
tOp 10 RECENt RELEASES
1. Luciano Pavarotti The Intimate Pavarotti (OPD 6012)
2. Jos van Immerseel Debussy: La Mer/Images (ZIG 313)
3. Pieter Wispelwey Bach: 6 Suites for Cello Solo (EPR 12)
4. Philippe Herreweghe Beethoven: Missa Solemnis Op. 123 (PHY 7)
5. Belcea Quartet Beethoven: Complete String Quartets Vol. 1 (ZIG 315)
6. Lara St. John Bach: The Violin Concertos (ANC 138)
7. The Sixteen Palestrina: Volume 2 (CRO 16105)
8. Kansas City Symphony Elgar: Enigma Variations (REF 129)
9. Mark O’Connor America On Strings (OMC 18)
10. Cold Blue Artists Cold Blue Two (CBM 36)
RAVE REVIEWS FOR REFERENCE
“An elegantly played and most sensitively conducted Elgar, perhaps the best on record yet, and certainly, to these ears, the most moving.” — HP Soundings
“Elgar’s very particular orchestration and dynamic markings have not been captured better on record.” — Audiophilia
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DANISh StRINg QUARtEt IN NY tIMES
“One of the most stylish and spirited accounts of a Haydn quartet to come along in a while … the Danish String Quartet has secured a position as a significant ensemble. A new recording, which pairs Haydn’s Quartet in D and Brahms’s Quartet in A minor, makes clear why this fast-rising ensemble has been having such international success in recent seasons. All the benchmarks of superior quartet playing are here.”
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pOLKAStRA hEAtS Up WEDDINg MUSIC
“The group gives vital life to music old and new with a wink and a smile … ‘I Do’ The Wedding Album benefited from the raging triumvirate of sharp talent, a sharper sense of humor, and the sharpest of themes. It is likely that this will be the finest recording of its kind (whatever that blissfully is) this year.” — All About Jazz
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GIA Publications, Inc. 22Indésens 30La Bottega Discantica 28Melodiya 13–18Music & Media 19Opera d’Oro 3, 20–21Quartz 23Ricercar 9Smekkleysa 26–27SOMM Recordings 12Stone Records 8Syrius 31Tactus 24TransArt 10ZOHO Classix 12
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opera d’oro
Hans Hotter, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Josef Greindl, Astrid Varnay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Ramon Varnay: vocal soloistsBayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus
Clemens Krauss: conductor
WAGNER: Der Ring des Nibelungen (complete opera)
A deluxe edition of one of the most beloved complete Opera d’Oro recordings! This new package contains newly translated complete English librettos for all four music dramas, along with a fifth book of essays.
“I will proceed to proclaim the 1953 Bayreuth Festival Ring conducted by Clemens Krauss the best on records … Hotter in his prime as Wotan, Wolfgang Windgassen in his first Bayreuth Siegfried … and Astrid Varnay as a womanly, impassioned Brunnhilde.
The rest of the cast, with minor exceptions, matches the competition point for point and easily surpasses all other Rings … The sound, remarkably solid and natural for a live recording of that era, favors the voices in a way that doesn’t slight the orchestra. But
what lifts this Ring to preeminence is the conducting of Clemens Krauss … Tempos move forward purposefully, on the whole, but without slighting the music’s mystery and tragedy. And the intensely dramatic and ecstatic moments, those great outbursts to
which Wagner rises with satisfying frequency, are delivered with blinding passion. Hear this Ring, and find out what this music, and Richard Wagner, are all about.” — John Rockwell, New York Times
OPERA D’ORO CELEBRATES WAGNER’S BICENTENNIAL YEAR
“Hear tHis ring, and find out wHat tHis music, and ricHard wagner, are all about.” — New York Times
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The SixteenHarry Christophers: conductor
MONTEVERDI: Laudate Dominum (Secondo) • Iste confessor (Secondo) • Magnificat (Secondo) • Credidi propter quod locutus sum • Pianto della Madonna “Iam moriar, mi fili” (Sopra il Lamento dell’Arianna) • Beatus vir (Secondo) • È questa vita un lampo • Confitebor
tibi Domine (Secondo) • Memento Domine David • Laudate pueri (Secondo) • Salve Regina (Terzo) • Magnificat (Primo)
The third and final volume in The Sixteen’s acclaimed Selva morale e spirituale series! Included on this final volume are the eight-part Magnificat (Primo), one of the most impressive of all Monteverdi’s settings; the old style Credidi and Memento featuring the full choir;
and the exquisitely beautiful soprano solo, Pianto della Madonna “Iam moriar, mi fili,” performed by Grace Davidson.
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Avie records
Orchestra of the SwanKenneth Woods: conductor
GÁL: Symphony No. 2 • SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
“Hats off to conductor Kenneth Woods and his Orchestra of the Swan, who have been making a case for Gál’s elegantly built orchestral pieces.” — NPR’s All Things Considered
Kenneth Woods, Principal Guest Conductor of Stratford-upon-Avon-based Orchestra of the Swan, has made international headlines for his ongoing cycle of world premiere recordings of Hans Gál’s Symphonies. The set, paired with the symphonies of Robert
Schumann, has been featured by National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Performance Today, the New York Times, Washington Post, Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, and dozens of other newspaper and online reviews, introducing a new generation to
Gál’s wide-ranging and extensive oeuvre.
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fuga libera
Frank Almond: violinWilliam Wolfram: piano
TARTINI: Devil’s Trill • SCHUMANN: Sonata in D minor • plus works by Julias Röntgen & Karol Lipinski
“Intoxicating brilliance and immense panache.” — The Strad
A Violin’s Life traces the provenance and history of the “Lipinski” Strad, one of the most notable of the coveted string maker’s instruments, which are worth millions today. Crafted in 1715, the violin is named for Polish virtuoso Karol Lipinski, who played this instrument from c. 1818 until his death in 1861. Frank Almond, concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, has played on the “Lipinski” Strad since 2008. Envisioning a project that chronicled the extraordinary history of this violin and its associations, he has made a recording that includes Tartini’s most famous work, the “Devil’s Trill” Sonata, as well as a virtuoso solo piece by Karol Lipinski, one of Julius Röntgen’s unjustly neglected violin sonatas, and the stupendous Sonata in D minor of Robert Schumann, certainly performed during their lifetimes with Schumann at the piano and Lipinski playing this very instrument. William Wolfram is Frank’s estimable accompanist.
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YIN-YANG Piano Duo Inge Spinette & Jan Michiels: pianos
Track List: BACH/KURTÁG: Liebster Jesu wir sind hier, BWV 633 (a) • Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 611 • Christe, du Lamm Gottes, BWV 619 (a) • BARTÓK: Suite for two pianos, Op. 4b, BB 122 (1941)(transcription of Orchestral Suite No. 2, Op. 4, BB 40) • BACH/KURTÁG: Két Kép (Two Images), Op. 10, BB 59 (1910) (transcription for two pianos by Zoltán Kocsis, 1978) • Dies sind die heil’gen zehn Gebot’, BWV 635 • Alle Menschen müssen sterben, BWV 643 • Aus tiefer Not schrei’ ich zu dir, BWV 687 • Das alte Jahr vergangen ist, BWV 614 • BARTÓK: Seven pieces for two pianos from Mikrokosmos, BB 120 (1939–40) (transcriptions of Mikrokosmos, BB 105) • BACH/KURTÁG: Christe, du Lamm Gottes, BWV 619 (b) • Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig, BWV 644 • Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 633 (b)
After La Valse à mille temps, Jan Michiels and Inge Spinette return with a new two-piano program for Fuga Libera. This recording pays tribute to Bach, Bartók, and Kurtág, and also to two legendary piano duos: Dittá and Béla Bartók, and Márta and György Kurtág. The recording highlights the strength of the union of two minds, which — like Dittá and Béla Bartók, Márta and György Kurtág, and Inge Spinette and Jan Michiels — can phrase music with a rare degree of intensity and acuity.
Frank AlmondA violin’s life
YIN-YANg piano DuoMonument
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Brentano String QuartetMark Steinberg: violinSerena Canin: violinMisha Amory: viola
Nina Maria Lee: cello
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet Op. 135, No. 16 • String Quartet Op. 132, No. 15
“The glittering clarity of the Brentano’s sound is intoxicating.” — The Strad
“Brilliant, virtuosic, and still mellow … one of the great musical hopes of a field overcrowded with contenders.” — Los Angeles Times
Founded in 1992, the New York-based Brentano String Quartet is particularly recognized for their interpretations combining perfect technique with peerless musicality. Their previous release — also devoted to Beethoven’s late quartets, and named Editor’s Choice by Gramophone — served as the soundtrack for Yaron Zilberman’s film A Late Quartet, which featured a galaxy of stars including Philip
Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken.
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stone records
Matthew Rose: bassGary Matthewman: piano
SCHUBERT: Winterreise
“A robust bass voice and dignified presence.” — New York Times
“Utterly compelling.” — Opera Now
Stone Records is delighted to announce the release of Matthew Rose’s debut recital disc. Together with pianist Gary Matthewman, he performs Schubert’s masterpiece Winterreise. Rose, renowned for his performances at the world’s leading opera houses
(The Metropolitan, La Scala, Covent Gardent), is becoming one of the most sought-after basses of his generation. He has teamed up with rising star Matthewman, and together they worked on Winterreise over the course of several years prior to making this
recording. The result is one of the most dramatically thrilling and intelligently planned renditions of this great work!
The recording was made at the Snape Maltings near Aldeburgh in the UK, a suitably remote and inspiring location for such a piece. Superbly captured by award-winning producer Sébastien Chonion, the disc is presented in a collectible CD-sized hardback
booklet, with articles by Warwick Thompson and Susan Youens, full texts in German & English, and — as downloadable files on the CD itself — transposable sheet music for the entire work.
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ricercar
delphian records
Vox LuminisLionel Meunier: conductorLes Trompettes des PlaisirsJean-François Madeuf: conductorLingua Franca Benoît Laurent: conductorGuy Penson: virginal
Funeral music for Queen Mary and Elizabeth I, by Purcell, Paisible, Tollett, Morley, Weelkes, and Tomkins
This recording assembles the music composed for the funeral of Queen Mary, and that used at the funeral of Elizabeth I in 1603. The program is completed by Purcell’s sublime a cappella anthems and a moving anthem by Weelkes on the death of Thomas Morley. After the success of the recording of Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien, voted Record of the Year by Gramophone magazine, this disc will be one of the major events of spring 2013!
Gordon Ferries: guitars, lute, theorbo
DE VISEE: Allemande ‘La Royalle’ • Suite in D minor • LE ROY: Pavane ‘Est il conclud’ • Gaillarde plus diminuée • Allemande • CORBETTA: Suite in D major • BRAYSSING: Fantasie des Grues • Fantasie No. 5 • BRAYSSING: Fantasie no. 6 • DE SERMISY, arr. Attaingnant: Une bergerote • HUREL: Suite in C major • CORBETTA: Allemande ‘La Royalle’ • Sarabande ‘La Stuarde’ • LULLY, arr. Hurel: Les Pellerins • CERTON, arr. Morlaye: Robin • SANDRIN, arr. Morlaye: Jay veu que j’estoys franc et maistre • LE HEURTEUR, arr. Morlaye: Regretz soucy et peine
“A master of musical subtlety.” — International Record Review
Gordon Ferries’ fifth solo disc for Delphian spans two centuries of music for kings and courtiers. Performing on four instruments matched to the periods in question, and captured in sumptuous recorded sound, Ferries takes in the chansons and elegant counterpoint of sixteenth-century France’s cultivated humanist courts and the exquisite melancholy and refined dance forms from the private chambers of Louis XIV’s Versailles, and investigates the place of guitar music at the heart of the decadence, sexual intrigue, and Baroque splendor of Charles II’s Restoration court.
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Challenge Classics
Nemanja Radulovic: violinMarielle Nordmann: harp
CHOPIN: Nocturne in C sharp minor No. 20, Op. posth. • OBERTHÜR: Berceuse, Op. 299 • Le Sylphe (solo harp) • TCHAIKOVSKY: Polina’s Romance (from The Queen of Spades) • BARTÓK: Romanian Folk Dances: Stick Dance • Sash Dance • Stamping Dance • Hornpipe Dance • Polkas • BARRIOS MANGORÉ: La Catedral: Andante religioso (solo harp) • Preludio (Saudade) (solo harp) • Allegro solemne (solo harp) • Etude de Concert (solo harp) • RAVEL: Pièce en forme de Habanera • MASSENET: Meditation from Thaïs • SAINT SAËNS: Fantaisie for violin and harp in A major, Op. 124 • FAURÉ: Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1
“Engaging and exactingly articulated.” — New York Times
“A musician who is actually worthy of the prizes he has taken … a thoughtful, intelligent, and fiery player … It’s playing like this that reminds one of the story that Paganini sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his virtuosity.” — Musicweb-International
Young violinist Nemanja Radulovic unites his fire and modernity with the supreme elegance of harpist Marielle Nordmann, as the unconventional pair offers a captivating program of sparkling delicacy and angelic music.
Isabelle van Keulen: violin Ronald Brautigam: piano
PROKOFIEV: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94 • Violin Sonata in F minor, Op. 80 • Cinq Mélodies, Op. 35A
Isabelle van Keulen’s breakthrough came in 1984, when she won BBC Young Musician of the Year. The competition was broadcast all over Europe, and watched live on television by millions. Her versatility lies in the fact that she plays both the violin and the viola with the same energy, performing chamber music in all possible combinations and directing chamber orchestra performances. Her duo partner of 22 years is Ronald Brautigam, one of Holland’s most respected musicians, and their chemistry is immediately obvious! Brautigam has received numerous awards including the Dutch Music Prize and the 2010 MIDEM Classical Award for Best Concerto Recording.
Nemanja Radulovic & Marielle NordmannAprès un rêve…
Sergei pROKOFIEVComplete works for violin & piano
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Challenge Classics
Arno Piters: clarinet Marleen Asberg, Nienke van Rijn, Keiko Iwata: violinsEdith van Moergastel, Judith Wijzenbeek: violasBenedikt Enzler: celloRob Dirksen: double bass
BRAHMS: Sonata for Clarinet and String Quintet in F minor, Op. 120/1 • Sonata for Clarinet and String Sextet in E flat major, Op. 120/2 • R. SCHUMANN: Fantasiestücke for Clarinet and String Quartet, Op. 73
This new disc features three arrangements by Geert van Keulen of works by Schumann and Brahms, two of which were specially requested by clarinetist Arno Piters. The superb ensemble consists of members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
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Voces Intimae Riccardo Cecchetti: piano Luigi De Filippi: violin Sandro Meo: cello
GOUVY: Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 18 • Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 19 • Piano Trio No. 4, Op. 22 “A performance of inspired clarity and subtle expression, characterized by a transparent interpretation and flawless intonation.” — The Strad
The second album from enchanting Italian trio Voces Intimae on Challenge Classics! The trio goes straight to the core of the music, resulting in extremely moving performances. They have appeared at Wigmore Hall and St. John’s Smith Square in London, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musik Halle in Hamburg, the Vredenburg in Utrecht, Amici della Musica in Florence, and many more. The trio received very good reviews for their Warner album featuring the works of Hummel, and for their debut album on Challenge Classics featuring Schumann.
théodore gOUVYpiano Trios
Johannes BRAhMS & Robert SChUMANNstrings Attached [Hybrid sACd]
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soMM recordings
ZoHo Classix
Clélia Iruzun: piano
MOMPOU: Cançons i Danses I, II, III, IV, V, VI • Pessebres • Dansa • L’ermita • El pastor • Impresionaes Intimas • Plany I Lento cantabile espressivo • Plany II Larguetto • Plany III Gracioso • Plany IV Agitato • Pájaro triste Largo • La barca • Cuna • Secreto • Gitano • Variaciones sobre un tema de Chopin • Thème • Variation I Traunquillo • Variation II Gracioso • Variation III Lento (pour la main gauche) • Variation IV Espressivo • Variation V Tempo di Mazurka • Variation VI Recitativo-Lento • Variation VII Allegro leggiero • Variation VIII Andante dolce • Variation IX Valse • Variation X Évocation • Variation XI Lento dolce • Variation XII Galope • Epilogo Lento
“Iruzun’s playing has flair, invigorating rhythmic élan, and a rich palette of colors.” — Classic FM
Brazilian pianist Clélia Iruzun has delighted critics over the years with her performances and recordings of music by Villa Lobos, Granados, Ginastera, Mignone, and Marlo Nobres, among others. Now, SOMM Recordings is delighted to join her as she embarks on a series of recordings selected from Federico Mompou’s large piano œuvre. The recording includes the Variations on a Theme of Chopin, the theme being the Prelude No. 7 in A major, on which Mompou composes 13 sparkling and inventive Variations. These are not often recorded, and they make a wonderful addition to the catalog!
Recent Interview in the December edition of International Piano Magazine.Radio Coverage on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM. Review Copies sent to all media and magazine press.
Carlos Barbosa-Lima: guitarLarry Del Casale: guitarHavana String Quartet
LENNON/MCCARTNEY arr. Leo Brouwer: Beatlerianas for Guitar and String Quartet • BROUWER: Paisaje Cubano con Fiesta • Cantilena de los Bosques • Zapateo • String Quartet No. 5 • Micropiezas • Quintet for Guitar and String Quintet “This Grammy®-winning album should undoubtedly put Cuba on the classical music map more firmly, with excellent performances from the Havana String Quartet showcasing composer Leo Brouwer’s music.” — All Music Guide (for ZMR 201108)
Beatlerianas features seven classic Lennon & McCartney songs, arranged by Cuban composer Leo Brouwer for guitar and string quartet. Following their 2010 Latin Grammy®-winning ZOHO release of Brouwer’s string quartets, the Havana String Quartet now pairs with Brazilian guitarist Carlos Barbosa-Lima in a “guitar and strings” recital that also includes the premiere recording of Brouwer’s String Quartet No. 5.
Federico MOMpOUselected works vol. 1
Leo BROUWERBeatlerianas
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Melodiya
Mieczysław Weinberg: piano Borodin Quartet Rostislav Dubinsky: violin Yaroslav Alexandrov: violinDmitry Shebalin: violaValentin Berlinsky: cello
WEINBERG: Quintet for piano, two violins, viola and cello in F minor, Op. 18 • Quartet No. 8 or two violins, viola and cello in C minor, Op. 66
The music of Mieczysław Weinberg is one of the most beautiful pages of unwritten music history of the 20th century. Now, Melodiya presents the best examples of Weinberg’s chamber music. His piano quintet, composed during WWII, and eighth quartet (1959), a one-movement piece filled with inner contrasts, unintentionally call up associations with Shostakovich’s brightest chamber opuses composed during the same years. Weinberg’s compositions are performed by the original lineup of the Borodin Quartet, an outstanding chamber ensemble. In the quintet, the author — who graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory — plays the piano!
Tatiana Nikolayeva: piano
J.S. BACH: The Art of Fugue
The Art of Fugue is a cycle of fugues and canons that can be rightfully considered the peak of J.S. Bach’s polyphonic mastery. Amazing thanks to its unsurpassed polyphonic technique, the work left a mass of mysteries and questions as to the author’s concept, its completeness, and the instruments on which it could be played. This album features the cycle as it was performed by Tatiana Nikolayeva, a recognized master of interpretation of Bach’s music. In 1950, then a young pianist, she became a winner of the International J.S. Bach Competition in Leipzig; Dmitri Shostakovich had composed a cycle of 24 preludes and fugues especially for her. Her performance of The Art of Fugue ranks among the best-known piano interpretations of this work.
J.S. BAChThe Art of fugue
Mieczysław WEINBERgpiano Quintet op. 18 & string Quartet no. 8
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USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov: conductor
BALAKIREV: Overture on the theme of a Spanish march for symphony orchestra • Overtures on the themes of three Russian songs • King Lear, music to the tragedy by William Shakespeare
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837–1910) was an outstanding Russian musician, pianist, conductor, and composer. Some of the most remarkable events in Russian music culture of the second half of the 19th century are linked with his name. Balakirev’s compositions for symphony orchestra, in which the musical and aesthetic principles inherited from Mikhail Glinka and Alexander Dargomyzhsky found their development, take a central place in his creative work. This program brings together seven symphonic works in chronological order, all performed by the outstanding Evgeny Svetlanov and the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra.
The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov: conductor
KALINNIKOV: Symphony No. 1 in G minor • Symphony No. 2 in A major • Intermezzo No. 1 in A major • Intermezzo No. 2 in G major • Serenade for string orchestra • Nymphs, symphonic poem • Bylina, overture • The Cedar and the Palm, symphonic picture • Suite • Tsar Boris, music to the tragedy by Alexey Tolstoy
Melodiya presents a complete collection of symphonic heritage by Vasily Kalinnikov, an outstanding and rarely performed composer who combined various trends of 19th-century Russian art. Kalinnikov, who had to fight poverty and incurable disease for most of his short life, created music that was amazing in its lyrical spirituality, melodic richness, and epic power. This album features the composer’s two best-known symphonies as well as his earlier compositions, one-movement program works and experiments for drama theatre (music to Alexei Tolstoy’s play Tsar Boris).
Vasily KALINNIKOVsymphonic works
Mily BALAKIREVsymphonic works
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Bolshoi Theatre soloists, choir, and orchestraI. Agafonnikov, A. Rybnov: choirmastersFuat Mansurov: conductor
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Tsar’s Bride (an opera in four acts)
In 1849, translator, poet, and playwright Lev Mey (1822–1862) wrote a drama called The Tsar’s Bride, based on one of the passages from the era of Ivan the Terrible’s reign. In 1868, Mily Balakirev drew Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s attention to Mey’s work. However, the composer did not set to creating an opera based on the plot of The Tsar’s Bride until some 30 years later. Almost without changing Mey’s plot, Rimsky-Korsakov enhanced the dramatic qualities of The Tsar’s Bride with his musical means. The opera was premiered in Autumn 1899 at a Moscow theatre of the industrialist and patron Savva Mamontov, with Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov as conductor.
Evgeny Kissin: piano Moscow Philharmonic OrchestraDmitri Kitaenko: conductor
CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 • Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 • Mazurka in F minor, Op. 63 No. 2 • Mazurka in F minor, Op. 68, No. 4 • Waltz for piano in E minor, Op. Posth.
In March 1984, a fragile 12-year-old boy went onstage at the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatory to perform Chopin’s two concerts with the Moscow Philharmonic Society Orchestra, conducted by Dmitri Kitaenko. His name became instantly known both in the USSR and overseas. From the very first performance, one could not help but feel a rare combination of almost mutually exclusive qualities: freshness and fascination of youth and very mature, conscious proficiency. Today, almost 30 years later, the recording of his first concert at the conservatory keeps that wonderful youthful fascination.
Frédéric ChOpINpiano Concertos 1 & 2
Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOVThe Tsar’s Bride
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Great Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio and TelevisionGennady Rozhdestvensky: conductor
STRAVINSKY: Le baiser de la fée
Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale The Ice Maiden was taken as a basis for the libretto of Le baiser de la fée, a ballet that was ordered by Ida Rubinstein for her seasons. However, Stravinsky admitted that only some motifs were left from the Danish writer’s fairytale: the mother and her child lost in a blizzard, and the Fairy who marked the child with her magic kiss and then took him away to her miraculous world of eternal life. Using some themes from pieces by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky dedicated his score to the great Russian composer. This CD presents a recording from 1966, made by the Great Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio and Television with conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
Natalia Shakhovskaya: celloUSSR State Symphony Orchestra Aram Khachaturian: conductor
KHACHATURIAN: Symphony No. 1 in E minor • Concerto-Rhapsody for cello
Aram Khachaturian’s music is a sort of chronicle of his time and his motherland; it is an enthusiastic tale of the life of his country, built right before the artist’s eyes. Symphony No. 1 (1934), dedicated to the 15th anniversary of Soviet Armenia, was the composer’s diploma thesis. The Concerto-Rhapsody for cello was written in a burst of inspiration in a free developing form similar to Chausson’s Poème and Ravel’s Gitana for violin. The composer found quite a rigid structure that connected the principle of rhapsodic development of music based on a free flight of fantasy with important elements of sonata style that add a clear logic of symphonic thinking to the whole.
Aram KhAChAtURIANKhachaturian Conducts Khachaturian 3: Concerto-rhapsody for Cello and orchestra & symphony no. 1
Igor StRAVINSKYle baiser de la fée
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USSR State Academic Choir Moscow Chamber Choir Vladimir Minin: conductor
SHCHEDRIN: The Sealed Angel
Melodiya presents one of the most significant choral works by modern composer Rodion Shchedrin, composed after Nikolai Leskov’s story The Sealed Angel. Shchedrin repeatedly worked in the choral genre; he was often attracted to religious plotlines and liturgical texts. And still, the choral music to The Sealed Angel has a special, personal imprint that reflects how the composer perceived Leskov, and Russian spirituality. “If the so-called Russian soul really exists, there’s no one who can answer this sacramental question better than Leskov,” Shchedrin wrote.
Grigory Ginsburg: piano
LISZT: From the cycle “Years of Pilgrimage”: Italy, Venice, Naples: No. 1 Gondoliera • No. 3 Tarantella • Switzerland: No. 2 At Lake Wallenstadt • No. 4 Beside a Spring • No. 9 The Bells of Geneva • No. 6 Obermann’s Valley • RUBINSTEIN: Etude No. 2 in F major, Op. 23 • Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70
Melodiya presents an album featuring Grigory Ginsburg, a wonderful virtuoso pianist and one of the glorious representatives of the Russian piano school of the 20th century. Ginsburg’s name is now overshadowed by some of his better-known peers such as Emil Gilels, Sviatoslav Richter, Yakov Flier, and Stanislav Neuhaus. However, in his time in the 1930s–’50s, his concert performances entranced audiences and critics alike.
grigory ginsburg plays Anton rubinstein and franz liszt
Rodion ShChEDRINThe sealed Angel
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delta Classics
USSR Bolshoi Theatre OrchestraAlexander Melik-Pashayev: conductor
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 “Pathétique” • SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D 759 “Unfinished”
Melodiya presents recordings of the outstanding Soviet conductor Alexander Melik-Pashayev, whose performing career at the USSR Bolshoi Theatre lasted more than 30 years and made up a whole era in the life of the famous company. His numerous recordings of opera sets, including those awarded with prestigious foreign prizes such as Borodin’s Prince Igor, Prokofiev’s War and Peace, and Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, are very well known. He is less known as a symphony conductor, but Melik-Pashayev’s concerts with the Bolshoi orchestra were some of the brightest ones in Moscow’s eventful musical life. His repertoire included not only fragments from operas, but also symphonic and oratorio compositions by Beethoven, Verdi, Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich, and Shebalin.
Rundfunkchor BerlinNicolas Fink: chorus masterBerliner MädchenchorSabine Wüsthoff: chorus masterDeutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin Ingo Metzmacher: conductor
HUMPERDINCK: Königskinder
Engelbert Humperdinck, born in 1854, composed a total of 14 operas and musical comedies. Six of them are fairytale operas, of which one remained popular throughout the years: Hänsel und Gretel. The shadow of this major success hides his other works, which deserve an equal share of appreciation for their quality; for example, Königskinder. The trio of the main protagonists is the same: an evil witch and two young people who are introduced to the seriousness of life through several severe tests. However, while Hänsel und Gretel features a happy ending, Königskinder ends in tragedy; the grief is elaborately reflected in Humperdinck‘s composition.
pyotr Il’yich tChAIKOVSKY & Franz SChUBERtfrom conducting legacy of A. Melik-pashaev
Engelbert hUMpERDINCKKönigskinder: An opera in three acts
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Améson
Music & Media
Martin EastwellLady Maggie’s Lilt: Music from the Lute Book of Lady Margaret Wemyss 1629–1648
Martin Eastwell: lute
ANONYMOUS: The days dawes in the morning • Sinkpays • Port Robart • I left my tru love • Corant • Sarabande • I wish I wer there • General Lesly’s Goodnight • Ladie lie ner me • Tom of Bedlam • The Spanish Pavin • Ane Curant • I never knew I loved thee • Buckingham’s Gast • The Corbie and the Pigot • Holi and Faire • Ruthven’s Lilt • Newburn • Shooting Dance • Broom of Cardenowes • Fare and Loucky • Goodnight • The Flowers of the Forest • GAULTIER: Almond Goutier • Curent Goutier • Gautirs Current • Sarabande du Guteir • Almond Gautier • Almond (“Old Gaultier’s Nightingale”) • DE LESPINE: Current Lysabelle • DE MERVILLE: Mervell’s Sarabande • MESANGEAU: Almond Goutier • Almond dafo • DUFAULT: Curent dafo • DE CHANCY: Curent dafo
A fascinating insight into the world of music for the lute in the first half of the 17th century, with emphasis on French compositions.
Jill KempEnglish Recorder Works
Jill Kemp: recorders/Aleksander Szram: piano/Brodowski Quartet
BERKELEY: Sonatina • ARNOLD: Sonatina, Op. 41 • Solitaire • Fantasy for Recorder & String Quartet • JACOB: Suite for Recorder & String Quartet • BOWEN: Sonata, Op. 121 • RUBBRA: Meditazioni sopra ‘Coeurs Désolés’ Op. 67
A great introduction to 20th century English recorder pieces performed by young player Jill Kemp, a highly talented pupil of the world’s leading recorder player, Michala Petri.
Georges APERGHISÁ portée de voix: Vocal Works Valérie Philippin: soprano/Ensemble Kiosk
APERGHIS: Calme plat(s) • Dialogue amoureux • Simulacre II • Rire Physiologique • Monomanie(s) • Fidélité • Pub I et II
Valerie Philippin, an accomplished artist with a wide-ranging, eclectic virtuoso repertoire, gives us a radiant and personal version of a number of solo vocal works by Georges Aperghis, some of which were dedicated to her. The package contains a bonus DVD, produced by Thierry Tibolla, which includes performance clips and an interview with Valerie Philippin by musicologist Corinne Schneider. DVD is PAL, not NTSC, but will play on most computers.
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opera d’oro
Luciano Pavarotti: tenor
Music from Verdi, Bellini, Donizetti, Giordano, Tosta, Sibella, Puccini, and Massenet
In modern times, “superstar” status for an opera singer is unusual. Not so in the 19th century, when opera singers were commonly accorded the adulation reserved for rock stars today. Luciano Pavarotti’s numerous appearances on television, both in operas and commercials, as well as his sharing the stage with major pop singers, the huge arena performances of “the three tenors” (along with Plácido Domingo and José Carreras), and performances at other mass venues made him a true “superstar” equal to, or even greater than, many of pop music’s biggest stars. This disc surveys the breadth and depth of Pavarotti’s recordings of opera and song over the decades.
Luciano Pavarotti: tenor
Music from Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti, Bellini, Mozart, and Massenet
The career of Luciano Pavarotti spanned 45 years, one of the longest careers of any operatic singer. His debut took place in Italy in Puccini’s La bohème in April 1961, and this remained one of his signature roles throughout his life. Later that same year, he made his first appearance in Verdi’s La traviata. The next year, in Palermo, he first sang the Duke in another Verdi masterpiece, Rigoletto. The single performance, however, that propelled Pavarotti into world fame was at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1972, when he sang the role of Tonio in Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment (La fille du régiment). The nine brilliant high Cs that he effortlessly emitted in the single aria “Ah, mes amis” brought down the house, and earned him the nickname he would carry ever after: “King of the High Cs.”
Luciano pavarotti A life in Music
Luciano pavarotti The superstar
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opera d’oro
Luciano Pavarotti: tenor
Music from Puccini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Tosti, and Massenet
A survey of hundreds of popular and classical song titles throughout the centuries shows that love is by far the leading theme of vocal music. Yet only one track on this album is technically a love song: Tosti’s “L’ultima canzone.” The rest are arias, the operatic equivalent of the love song. Luciano Pavarotti made his professional debut in Puccini’s La bohème, and this remained probably his most famous signature role for the rest of his long career. Rodolfo sings tenderly to Mimì “O soave fanciulla” (“O gentle girl, o sweet face bathed in soft moonlight, in you I see the dream I have dreamed forever”). Can you get more romantic? Some of opera’s great lovers are here, including the Duke from Verdi’s Rigoletto, who starts out as a callous seducer and ends up a gibbering jellyfish, madly in love with the lady he kidnapped for sport.
Luciano Pavarotti: tenor
Music from DeCurtis, Tosta, De Crescenzo, Bixio, Buzzi Peccia, Lazzaro, and Donizetti
The Neapolitan song is a specific genre of classical vocal music with a distinctive style that, once heard, is never forgotten. It originated officially at a music festival in Naples, Italy, in 1835 but reached its international heyday in the early 20th century when the great tenor Enrico Caruso, himself a native of Naples, sang Neapolitan songs as encores to many of his opera recitals. Since then almost every famous tenor has continued the Caruso tradition, and in modern times almost everyone has left an album of Neapolitan songs along with their operatic recordings. Naturally, Pavarotti did also, and these short songs with their direct emotional impact, usually full of sweet nostalgia and a touch of melancholy, graced virtually every vocal recital he ever gave.
Luciano pavarotti neapolitan songs
Luciano pavarotti love songs
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giA publications
Ruhr Piano Festival France, America & New Music (2012)
Juan Pérez Florestán, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Cheng Zhang, Bertrand Chamayou, Ya-Fei Chuang, Robert Levin, Tamara Stefanovich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Fabian Mueller: pianos
RAVEL: Jeux d’eau • Miroirs • La Valse • Sonatina in F sharp minor • DEBUSSY: Suite bergamasque • GERSHWIN: Three Preludes • American Song Book • An American in Paris • The Man I Love • I Got Rhythm • WILD: Seven Virtuoso Etudes after George Gershwin • CAGE: Music for Piano II • Sonata No. II • GLASS: Modern Love Waltz • HOELLER: Double Play
Another great edition from the Ruhr Piano Festival, this time focusing on the music of France and America as well as new music.
North Texas Wind SymphonyAudibles
North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon: conductor
DIETZ: Sasei Fanfare • WHITE: Miniature Set •BRYANT: Concerto for Piano • TURNER: Rumpelstilzchen • MARTINEZ GALLEGO: La Concepcion 1910 • PANN: Hold This Boy and Listen • FREER: Rio’s Convergence
Audibles is the eleventh recording in GIA’s wonderful WindWorks series, which represents the relationship between the North Texas Wind Symphony and GIA Publications.
Lucy JarnachIm Freien: Ravel, Jarnach, Bartók
Lucy Jarnach: piano
RAVEL: Gaspard de la Nuit • JARNACH: Three Piano Pieces, Op. 17 (premiere) • BARTÓK: Im Freien
Next to Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit and Bartók’s Im Freien, the music of German composer Philipp Jarnach fits nicely, as performed by his granddaughter Lucy Jarnach.
North Texas Wind SymphonyVoicings
North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon: conductor
ZARE: Lift Off! • LINDROTH: Passage • TICHELI: Songs of Love and Life • TULL: Toccata • GANDOLFI: Flourishes and Meditations • DZUBAY: Snake Alley
Voicings is the twelfth recording in GIA’s wonderful WindWorks series, which represents the relationship between the North Texas Wind Symphony and GIA Publications.
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Quartz recordsOsvaldo GOLIJOVDreams & Prayers Paul Roe: clarinet, bass clarinet/Con Tempo
GOLIJOV: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (1994) • O’LEARY: Soundshapes II (2007) • ROTH: Clarinet Quintet for klezmer clarinet/bass clarinet and string quartet (2010)
A new recording from Paul Roe and Con Tempo.
Franz Joseph HAYDNPiano Sonatas Alexander Kobrin: piano
HAYDN: Sonata in D • Sonata in E minor • Sonata in B minor • Sonata in E Flat • Andante with Variations
A new recording of the Haydn sonatas by Russian pianist Alex Kobrin.
Fernando MarinsCORDAtura
Fernando Marin: lyra-viol, baroque cello, viella
FERRABOSCA: Lessons for Lyra-viol: Lesson 17, 19, 8, 9 • DA FIRENZE: Sento D’Amor (Ballata) • Codex: Mente Pura • GABRIELLI: Ricera 6 & 7 • J.S. BACH: Suite No. 5
sCORDAtura is an Italian concept that implies the tuning of strings in different combinations, through which the instrument receives a special sound, rich in color and resonant in certain tones.
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TactusGiuseppe Maria CAMBINIChamber Works
Sans Souci Ensemble/Marcello Defiant: violin/Giuseppe Nalin: oboe/Serena Mancuso: cello/Marco Vincenzi: harpsichord
CAMBINI: Cinque quartetti for harpsichord, violin, oboe and cello • Trio No. 5, Op. 45 in D major for violin, oboe and cello
It is quite likely that Giuseppe Cambini influenced the Parisian milieu with his typically Italian originality. He is regarded as a pre-Romantic composer not only because he anticipated the era of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Chopin, but above all because of his pensive search for expression.
Luigi DE GRASSISix Organ Sonatas
Manuel Tomadin: organ
DE GRASSI: Sonata I in C major • Sonata II in C major • Sonata III in C major • Sonata IV in E-flat major • Sonata V in A minor/A major • Sonata VI in C major (incomplete)
The vast group of works by Luigi De Grassi comprises masses, psalms, motets, chants, and more — either accompanied by the organ or a cappella — for all kinds of vocal ensembles. A great number of compositions for solo organ also testify to his work as organist. The Sonatas recorded on this CD are some of the most interesting and ambitious creations for organ by this master composer from Grado.
Giulio RICORDIPiano Works
Roberto Piana: piano
RICORDI: Romance Poudrée • Il racconto della nonna • Fantaisie Hongroise • Aquarelles • Le rêve de l’Odalisque • Almanacco Musicale
Everybody knows Giulio Ricordi was the greatest editor and publisher of the most important Italian operas, but very few know he also was a great musician and composer!
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fryderyk Chopin society
Brussels philharmonic recordings
Malcolm Frager: piano
R. SCHUMANN: Études symphoniques, Op. 13 • Sonata in G minor, Op. 22
The first album in the new series Music of Chopin’s Time contains Robert Schumann’s Symphonic etudes, Op. 13 and the Sonata in G minor, Op. 22 in the interpretation of one of the greatest American pianists. The recording was made on a historical piano from Vienna from 1845.
Brussels Philharmonic OrchestraMichel Tabachnik: conductor
STRAVINSKY: Le sacre du printemps • Le chant du rossignol
The story of Brussels Philharmonic is a remarkable one. As the former orchestra of the Belgian Radio, and later the Flemish, this orchestra managed not only to survive independently, but also to build a successful national and international career in the heart of Europe. With their label Brussels Philharmonic Recordings, the orchestra presents itself in all its facets.
Robert SChUMANNÉtudes symphoniques & sonata, op. 22
Igor StRAVINSKYle sacre du printemps
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Audiomax
smekkleysa
Trio Alba
MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trios, Op. 49 & 66
Chamber music instead of Carnegie Hall! It must have been a great creative urge indeed that compelled Felix Mendelssohn to compose his second piano trio while turning down a conducting invitation to New York — and the result explains just what was at stake here. Beginning with a sweeping symphonic dimension in the first movement, the mighty work builds up to a finale in which quite significant questions are posed, and on this sparkling debut CD the Alba Trio offers refreshingly sophisticated answers to them.
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Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir: violaSteinunn Birna Ragnarsdóttir: piano
HALLGRÍMSSON: Notes from a Diary, Op. 33 • BRITTEN: Lachrymae
On his work Notes from a Diary, Hafliði Hallgrímsson says: “During a visit to Amsterdam some years ago, I found myself standing by a dark window covered in grey dense material in a house, No. 263 in Prinsengracht, where Ann Frank and her family hid from the Nazis for two years during the Second World War. Standing by the window in this environment and what it represented was strangely muted. Suddenly a large bell was struck in the Westertoren Church nearby and the deep resonance emanating from that bell shook me profoundly for a split second. So this was the sound that Ann found reassuring; I was for a few moments painfully aware of the terrible fate. When I started to work on a composition for viola and piano, the experience in the Ann Frank Museum became more and more the magnet that shaped the musical character of the work.”
For this disc, Hafliði Hallgrímsson asked the performers to perform Britten’s Lachrymae to accompany his own Notes from a Diary — an appropriate choice, as this year we celebrate Britten’s 100th birthday!
Felix MENDELSSOhNpiano Trios, opp. 49 & 66 [Hybrid sACd]
hafliði hALLgRÍMSSON & Benjamin BRIttENnotes from a diary & lachrymae
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smekkleysa
Bára GRÍMSDÓTTIRVirgo gloriosa
Hljómeyki Choir/Bernharður Wilkinson: conductor
GRÍMSDÓTTIR: Virgo Gloriosa
Virgo Gloriosa is the first large-scale work Bára Grímsdóttir has composed for the choir Hljómeyki. Using Latin text, the poem tells of how the Virgin Mary appeared to the poet in a magnificent dream. The work also contains a number of ancient melodic lines, some quite well known.
Jón LEIFSElegies
Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir: mezzo-soprano/Rut Ingólfsdóttir: violin/Reykjavik Chamber Orchestra/Bernard Wilkinson: conductor
LEIFS: Scherzo concreto, Op. 58 • Quintet, Op. 50 • Variazioni pastorale, Op. 8 • Elegies, Op. 35
Chamber music was never the main focus of Jón Leif ’s compositional activity. The ideal venue for his often rough and primitive music was the large concert hall. And his “instrument” was the symphony orchestra, enlarged by a unique assembly of rare percussion instruments.
Thorkell SIGURBJÖRNSSONChoir Music
Hamrahlíð Choir/Thorgerður Ingólfsdóttir: conductor
SIGURBJÖRNSSON: Choir Music
Since the founding of the Hamrahlíðar College Choir in 1967, it has served as a kind of a musical greenhouse for the creation of new Icelandic choral music. Thorgerður Ingólfsdóttir has cultivated a remarkable “musical garden” premiering over 70 new works with her young students over the course of 40 years. Of many Icelandic composers who have been associated with the choir, Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson is the most prolific.
The Ethos QuartetIcelandic String Quartets
The Ethos Quartet
PÁLSSON: Theme with Variations and Fugue • NORDAL: From Dream to Dream • TÓMASSON: A Long Shadow • MAGNUSSON: Quartet No. 2
This album by the Ethos Quartet is dedicated to celebrating Icelandic string quartets. The disc features four works, including one of the first Icelandic compositions written for string quartet: String Quartet No. 1 by Helgi Pálsson.
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la Bottega discantica Pietro NARDINISix Sonatas for two German flutes and a bass
Il Bell’Accordo Ensemble
NARDINI: Six Sonatas for two German flutes and a bass
The works for flute by Pietro Nardini (1722–1793) are currently the focus of a renewed interest by all experts in this field. The most recent acquisitions have, in fact, allowed a correct appraisal of a body of instrumental work of interest and charm, which can thus compete with the better known and more often performed violin repertoire by Giuseppe Tartini’s most famous pupil.
Marin MARAISCharivary: Music from the Third Book of Viol Pieces
Philippe Pierlot, Rainer Zipperling: bass viol/Maude Gratton: harpsichord/Eduardo Egüez: theorbo, guitar
MARAIS: Suite in D • Suite in C • Suite in A
Marin Marais’ Third Book of Viol Pieces is an important milestone in his production: the suites are perfectly well ordered and the art of the violist is at its peak. This first volume devoted to the “Third Book” contains three suites based on the classical dance forms, completed by a few character pieces such as “La Musette,” “La Guitare,” and the famous “Charivary.”
Giovanna Pessi & Eduardo EgüezLiquide perle: Music for harp and theorbo
Giovanna Pessi: harp/Eduardo Egüez: theorbo, guitar
A compilation of toccatas, dances, improvisations, and variations on popular tunes composed by Frescobaldi and Anonymous composers, written for the harp and theorbo
The pieces presented here were chosen from the collection of a Roman manuscript from the first half of the 17th century known as the “Chigi manuscript.” By nature multiple and sometimes sketched, these pieces reflect an art of improvisation as a natural practice for musicians of that time.
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editions Hortus
Ensemble SagittariusMichel Laplénie: conductorOrchestre Baroque Les Passions
LEVENS: Te Deum • Deus Noster Refugium
At the beginning of the reign of King Louis XV, the French provincial music scene gained more prominence thanks to its bustling theatres, “Académies,” and regional choir schools. Compositions by provincial music masters, such as Charles Levens’ Grands Motets, were included in the repertoire of the “Concerts parisiens” and the Royal Chapel at Versailles.
Ensemble SagittariusMichael Laplénie: conductor
SCHEIN: Opella Nova • Fontana d’Israel
A man of the Renaissance and a Humanist, J.H. Schein is one of the most talented champions of early German Baroque sacred music, in which the influence of Italian aesthetics are quite obvious.
Johann hermann SChEINopella nova – fontana d’israel
Charles LEVENSTe deum
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Jan Talich: violinAgnès Pyka: violin
BARTOK: 44 Duets for 2 violins, Sz. 98
Although intended as part of a violin teaching method, Bartók’s Violin Duos far exceeded the expectations of their commissioner. These exquisite miniatures, imbued with traditional folk music, are beautifully rendered by the bows of Jan Talich and Agnès Pyka.
French Army’s ChoirAurore Tillac: conductor
VERDI: Ernani & Rigoletto (ext.) • FRANCK: Rebecca (ext.) • DONIZETTI: La Fille du Régiment (ext.) • ROBERT: Quand Madelon • BOULANGER: Pour les funérailles d’un soldat • SCHUBERT: Gesang der Geister über den Wassern • GOGUEL: Chant des marais • MARLY: Le chant des partisans • MÉHUL: Le chant du départ • GOUNOD: Faust (ext.) • STEFFE: Battle Hymn of the Republic
This unique men’s professional choir in France, founded in 1982, counts 45 singers from among the greatest professionals. Part of the French Republican Guard, it’s the official choir of the republic of France. The choir regularly performs with the large French symphonic orchestras, under conductors such as Yutaka Sado, Christoph Eschenbach, Pierre Boulez, Michel Plasson, and Peter Eötvos.
French Army’s Choirfrench Army’s Choir
Béla BARtÓK44 violin duets
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etcetera
Helga Schauerte: organ
A collection of early organ pieces predating and leading up to the compositions of J.S. Bach
The Kloster Oelinghausen (in the town of Arnsberg, Westphalia), which was founded in 1174 by the order of the Premontarians, is one of the Meccas of the sacred art and music of the Sauerland. While the altar and the organ are a unique ensemble of baroque style in the interior of the abbey church, the chapel also houses several treasures of Gothic religious art such as the Virgin, called “Madonna of Cologne,” which dates from the first decades of the 13th century. The music presented on this wonderful CD is in harmony with the beauty and the spirituality of this exceptional site.
helga Schauerteorganum Antiquum: earliest organ music until J.s. Bach
peter-Jan WAgEMANSlegende
De Nederlandse Opera & ChorusNetherlands Radio Philharmonic OrchestraReinbert de Leeuw: conductor
WAGEMANS: Legende
The original version of Legende was created as three acts, each approximately 55 minutes long, with two intervals. The version produced by De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, recorded here, differs from the original in that substantial cuts have been made; however, Act 1 is almost complete, lacking only a short aria for Ursula and Pontus.
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etceteraFranz LISZTVia Crucis (version for piano solo, 1879)
Reinbert de Leeuw: violin/Vera Beths: violin
LISTZ: Via Crucis • La Notte
Via Crucis is one of Reinbert de Leeuw’s favorite pieces. In an interview in 2002, he said that the “A in the Fourth Station was the most beautiful note” in the history of music. In that same year, he performed for the first time the solo piano version that he would go on to feature more often in recitals. On this CD he combines that piece with La notte, in a performance with his usual violinist partner Vera Beths.
RAYUELAMade of Melting Snow: Elizabethan Consort Songs RAYUELA/Andrea Lauren Brown: soprano/Claudia Gerauer, Martina Joos, Thomas Engel: recorders/Christoph Urbanetz: viol/Thor-Harald Johnsen: lute, theorbo/Johannes Hämmerle: harpsichord, organ
JOHNSON: Satyr’s Dance • BYRD: Though Amaryllis dance in green • All as a sea • Fantasia • In fields abroad • Ye sacred muses • This sweet and merry month of May • MORLEY: April is in my Mistress’s face • Now is the Month of Maying • ANNONYMOUS: When May is in his prime • My Sweet Little Darling • The Dark is my Delight • NICHOLSON: In a Merry May Morn • SIMPSON: Almande • Ballet • Bonny sweet Robin • BALDWINE: Coockow as I me walked • GIBBONS: The Silver Swan • BEVIN: Browning • DOWLAND: Courant • HOLBORNE: Fantasia • PILKINGTON: Diaphenia, like the daffdowndilly
RAYUELA was formed in 2004 as a result of the close cooperation between Claudia Gerauer, Martina Joos, and Thomas Engel together with other musician friends. The members completed their degrees at leading European music academies (Zurich, Vienna, Basel, Trossingen) and have been active internationally as members of various ensembles for Early Music.
Johannes BRAHMSPiano Quartets
Tetra Lyre/Nana Kawamura: violin/Tony Nys: viola/Geert De Bièvre: cello/Jan Michiels: piano
BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 • Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 • Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 26
Tetra Lyre is an ensemble of like-minded musicians that has grown in an organic way. All of the players have gained experience in chamber music or as soloists. The ensemble, which basically consists of a piano quartet, explores the history of music starting from the impressive canon of 19th-century chamber music repertoire.
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