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FEBRUARY 10 2014

available10thFebruary,call-off 31st Jan

harmonia mundi UKClassicalnew release

BBC MUSIC MAGAZINEOPERA CHOICE, FEBRUARYGRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICEharmonia mundi HMC902172 Che puro cielBejun Mehta, René Jacobs

GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICEWIGMORE HALL LIVE WHLIVE0063 Schumann, ReimannWolfgang Holzmair, Imogen Cooper

BBC Radio 3 Disc of the Week 4/1/2014ONYX ONYX4112 Schubert: Die schone Mullerin Florian Boesch, Malcolm Martineau

BBC R3 Building a Library 28/12/2013 Haydn The creation, René Jacobs see page 9

BBC R3 Building a Library 11/1/2014 HMG501522 Berlioz, Nuits d’ d’ete Op. 7; HerminieBrigitte Balleys, Philippe Herreweghe

BBC R3 Essential Classics CD of the Week 10/2/2014AP070 Christophe Rousset’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2

CPE Bach is 300 [1714-1788] see page 3

Welcome: Edition Classics, Convivium Records

RELEASE DATE10TH FEBRUARY 2014

Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: HMC902167Barcode: 3149020216729NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDElizabeth Watts [soprano]Wiebke Lehmkuhl [alto]Lothar Odinius [tenor]Markus Eiche [bass]RIAS KammerchorAkademie für Alte Musik BerlinHans-Christoph Rademann

C.P.E. BACH: MagnificatHeilig ist Gott Wq 217, Symphony in D major Wq 183/1Elizabeth WattsRIAS KammerchorAkademie für Alte Musik BerlinHans-Christoph Rademann

On April 9, 1786, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach conducted a charity concert in Hamburg featuring three of his finest andmost representative works: the Symphony Wq 183/1, the Magnificat (written in 1749 in the hope of succeeding his fatheras Cantor in Leipzig) and his stupendous 'Heilig' for double choir, of which he wrote, "It will be my swan song of this kind,and will serve to ensure that I shall not soon be forgotten after my death." Released to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the composer's birth, this recording recreating the programme of thishistoric concert confirms the prophetic nature of the composer's words. Hans-Christoph Rademann leads the RIASKammerchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and a stellar cast of soloists (including soprano Elizabeth Watts) indefinitive recordings of these fascinating and innovative works.


Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/SecularVocal musicCatalogue No: HMC902109/10Barcode: 31490202109252 FOR 1.5Format: 2 CDMatthias Goerne [baritone]Helmut Deutsch [piano CD1]Eric Schneider [piano CD2]

Matthias will be on the cover ofOpera Now's special Lieder issue in February

SCHUBERT: Wanderer's NachtliedMatthias Goerne Schubert Edition 8Matthias Goerne

CD1: An die untergehende Sonne D457, Der Tod und das Mädchen D531, Die Rose D745, Erinnerung (Totenopfer) D101, Litanei D343, Auf dem Wasser zu singen D774, Abendbilder D650, Nach einem Gewitter D561, Der Zwerg D771, Im Frühling D882, Die Blumensprache D519, Viola D786, An die Entfernte D765, Bei dir allein D866/2, Ganymed D544

CD2: Wanderers Nachtlied D768, Schäfers Klagelied D121, Heidenröslein D257, Rastlose Liebe D138, An den Mond D259, Trost in Tränen D120, Erster Verlust D226, Der Musensohn D764, Geheimes D719, VersunkenD715, An Schwager Kronos D369, Geisternähe D100, Das war ich D174, Das Rosenband D280, Furcht der Geliebten D285, An Sie D288, Die Liebe hat gelogen D751, Lachen und Weinen D777, Dass sie hier gewesen D775, Der Einsame D800, Die Sterne D684

Not 'just another Schubert recording, but a major artistic achievement’ [Christian Girardin, harmonia mundi] Matthias Goerne is totally invested in the recording and editing process. Vol. 9 (the last one in the series) is due outtowards the end of 2014. Future recordings will include Brahms with Christophe Eschenbach and Mahler (arr. Berio)Early Songs to be recorded in September 2014 with Josep Pons and the BBCSO.

ALSO AVAILABLE: HMC902141 Schubert Erlkonig MGSE Vol.7 DISC OF THE WEEK – RADIO 3, CD REVIEW 9 Feb 2013EDITOR’S CHOICE - GRAMOPHONE March 2013***** Sinfini 5 March 2013***** (perf) – BBC Music Magazine April 2013

"...Goerne has no equal today… a thrilling, no-holds-barred send-off to a recital that is self-recommending for thebaritone’s many admirers … no singer cares more than Goerne for the beauty and eloquence of Schubert’s melodies."Richard Wigmore, GRAMOPHONE EDITOR’S CHOICE – March 2013

"I would rank this among the finest recital discs I have ever heard."Michael Tanner, ***** perf / **** rec BBC Music Magazine – April 2013


Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/ChambermusicCatalogue No: HMC902125Barcode: 3149020212523NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackIsabelle Faust [violin]Jean-Guihen Queyras [cello]Alexander Melnikov [Graff fortepiano]

BEETHOVEN: Piano Trios Op.70 No.2 & Op.97 'Archduke'

Isabelle Faust,Jean-Guihen QueyrasAlexander Melnikov

By giving the stringed instruments the status of genuinely equal partners with the piano, it was Beethoven who gave thepiano trio the form it was to retain throughout the 19th century. This album presents the composer's last two works in thegenre, Op.70 No.2 dedicated to Countess Marie Erdödy, and the celebrated 'Archduke' trio, which marked the final publicappearance of its composer. Three eminent Beethovenians, Isabelle Faust, Jean-Guihen Queyras and Alexander Melnikov join forces here inperformances that aim to highlight Beethoven's humour in their interpretation and set a new benchmark in the process.Their next project will be Schumann Piano Trios to be recorded in May and released in 2015.

ALSO AVAILABLE: HMC902025/27 Beethoven Violin Sonatas Faust/MelnikovGRAMOPHONE AWARD 2010“performed by Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov with intelligence, intensity, lithe flexibility, and a sense of partnership and mutual understanding that's utterly persuasive.”Andrew McGregor, CD Review, 30 August 2009

“These are the most stimulating and fascinating accounts of the Beethoven violin sonatas I have heard in many years…these stimulating performances demand to be heard.”Misha Donat, Chamber Choice, BBC Music Magazine, October 2009 *****/*****

HMC901867 Dvorak Cello Concerto, Trio Faust/Melnikov/Queyras


Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/OrchestralCatalogue No: HMC902176/77Barcode: 31490202176272 FOR 1.5 Format: 2 CDFreiburger Barockorchester

J.S. BACH: Brandenburg Concertos

Freiburger Barockorchester

Six characters in search of a form

The Brandenburg Concertos need no introduction – doubtless because they owe their fame to a systematic explorationof a genre recently inherited from the Italians, with a still youthful Bach devising as many different scorings as there areconcertos. When he received the manuscript of the six works, Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg, must havebeen terrified by their demands, and his musicians even more so! Three centuries later, the cycle is as open as ever to new ‘historically informed’ interpretations, as this set demonstrates.The CD cover represents the importance of numbers in these works eg Concerto No 3 which is scored for threeinstruments, in 3 time, 3 sections etc. The trumpeter is particularly impressive. Freiburg are recording and touring Bachthroughout 2014.


Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: HMU807526Barcode: 093046752668NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 SACDGlen Miller [basso profundo]ConspirareCraig Hella Johnson

The Sacred Spirit of RussiaGretchaninov / Kastalsky / RachmaninovConspirare

To understand and partake of the 'Sacred Spirit of Russia' requires one, first and foremost, to experience the beauty andsplendour of the Russian Orthodox liturgy, which has been an integral part of the Eastern Slav identity for over 1000years. The sacred music of the New Russian Choral School features sublime settings of the liturgy that draw on a rich history ofOrthodox chants and native traditions, creating music of unprecedented colour and textural richness. Following the leadof Tchaikovsky, composers such as Kastalsky, Gretchaninov, Chesnokov, Rachmaninov and a host of others have left usa treasure-trove of musical delights. Craig Hella Johnson and the 35-strong Conspirare (featuring the astounding basso profundo Glenn Miller) present aglorious sampling of some of the finest works in this genre including Martynov's mesmerising 'Beatitudes' for threesopranos and choir and Kedrov's setting of the Lord's Prayer. Conspirare's esteemed language coach is the editor of Musica Russica, Vladimir Morosan who has also written thebooklet notes. The only 'inauthentic' part of this SACD recording for hm USA is the spot-on intonation.


Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: HMC971829/30Barcode: 3149020182901MID PriceFORMAT 2 CDS Packaging: digipackMarlis Petersen [soprano]Werner Güra [tenor]Dietrich Henschel [baritone]RIAS KammerchorFreiburger BarockorchesterRené Jacobs [direction]

HAYDN: The SeasonsRené Jacobs

"Haydn was on a roll when he started The Seasons, having just completed The Creation. His unique blend of drama andnaiveté gives rise to music which is at worst charming, and at best overwhelming. René Jacobs shapes a performancewhich is quite brilliant, even by his own high standards. It oozes character and invention – just like the music itself. Thevocal soloists Marlis Petersen, Werner Güra, and Dietrich Henschel complete the cast. There’s not a weak link inearshot." BBC Radio 3, CD Review

Gramophone Editor’s ChoiceBenchmark, BBC Music MagazineClassic FM Magazine Very Best of 2004Daily Telegraph Classical CDs of the YearSunday Times Records of the YearSunday Telegraph Records of the YearGramophone Critics’ ChoicePenguin Guide 100 Outstanding Recordings (Rosette)BBC Radio 3 Top Choice, Building a Library

“It would be hard to imagine a more joyful account of Haydn's culminating masterpiece. René Jacobs and his outstandingteam perfectly capture the exuberance with which the composer seemed to be defying the years.” Edward Greenfield,Editor’s Choice, Gramophone, Awards issue, 2004

"Not content with winning Gramophone's Record of the Year for his Figaro, René Jacobs turns his loving attention toHaydn's final oratorio. There have been some splendid recordings of this charming, bucolic masterpiece, but none asinfectiously exuberant as this, which is given extra vitality by the richness of Jacobs' period-instrument forces. All thisand his three soloists beat all their rivals, to boot." Andrew Clarke, The Independent, 16-22 October 2004, *****

“Buy a copy and banish Seasonal Affective Disorder for good.” International Record Review, December 2004

“Jacobs seems at the peak of his achievement in the interpretation of the Viennese classics and surely there can be fewsuch comparatively neglected masterpieces that so much call for his enthusiastic advocacy. And who better to cheer thespirits than the ever-inventive and human Haydn?” Alan Blyth, Critics’ Choice, Gramophone, December 2004


Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: HMC972039/40Barcode: 3149020203903MID PriceFormat: 2 CDPackaging: digipackJulia Kleiter [soprano]Maximilian Schmitt [tenor]Johannes Weisser [baritone]Freiburger BarockorchesterRIAS Kammerchor

HAYDN: The CreationDie SchöpfungRené Jacobs

BBC Radio 3, Building a library Top Choice, Saturday 28th December 2013

Sunday Times Classical CD of the WeekGramophone Editor’s Choice***** Financial Times***** Times

"...but it is Jacobs who makes The Creation sound new-minted, surprising and cutting-edge. His Freiburg musicians havebracing string sounds, wonderfully alfresco, natural-sounding winds and brass; and his professional choir, singing in theirnative language, far outclass their LSO counterparts. With relatively small numbers, the great outburst on the word Licht(Light) in the opening chorus has rarely had the jump-out-of-your-seat effect that it does here. Jacobs’s soloists arewinning, too: Julia Kleiter is a pristine-toned Archangel Gabriel and an innocent Eve, while Johannes Weisser is anall-too-human Adam and a Raphael only slightly gravelly at the bottom of the basso range. Best of all is MaximilianSchmitt’s lyrical and articulate Uriel, one of the finest on disc since Fritz Wunderlich." Hugh Canning, Classical CD of theWeek, Sunday Times, 18 October 2009

"Haydn’s Creation, part-inspired by Handel’s oratorios and sung here in German, represents the summit of hisachievement. At least, that’s how it seems in this glorious performance. Jacobs, directing the Freiburger Barokorchesterand RIAS Kammerchor, underlines Haydn’s purity of vision and wealth of dramatic characterisation, without lettingstylistic correctness get in the way of the music. Johannes Weisser, Maximilian Schmitt and Julia Kleiter are thefresh-voiced soloists." Andrew Clark, Financial Times, 31 October/1 November 2009 *****

"A marvellous performance of Haydn’s oratorio...The conductor Jacobs’s springing gait sets the pace, niftily followed bythe crack musicians of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Their fruity period instrument colours bring God’s menagerie ofcreatures to thrilling life. Outstanding solo singing too, especially from Johannes Weisser, a Norwegian baritone of greatpotential." Geoff Brown, The Times, 31 October – 6 November 2009 *****

“From the dessicated opening to the luminous explosion of Light and the final blazing celebration of the First Day’s work,it is clear that Rané Jacobs’s Creation is something special… a truly special occasion, a feeling powerfully engenderedby the magnificent recording itself.” International Record Review, November 2009


Label: LSO LiveFile Under: Classical/OrchestralCatalogue No: LSO0746Barcode: 822231174622MID PriceFormat: 1 SACDPackaging: cristalLondon Symphony OrchestraBernard Haitink

BRUCKNER: Symphony No 9London Symphony OrchestraBernard Haitink

Bernard Haitink, internationally renowned for his interpretations of Bruckner, returns at the helm of the LSO following hisacclaimed recording for the label of the fourth Symphony.Bruckner’s symphonies are often described as ‘Gothic cathedrals in sound,’ an apt description considering thecomposer’s devout faith and early vocation as an organist. He died before he could finish his 9th Symphony but within itsthree movements can be found some of his most complete music, imbued with a sense of deep solace and resolution.Bernard Haitink’s Beethoven Symphony cycle received the title of Benchmark Beethoven Cycle from BBC MusicMagazine. Haitink has also released a complete Brahms Symphony cycle and Strauss’ 'Eine Alpensinfonie' tointernational acclaim.

Concert Reviews"Even by Haitink’s already impressive standards, this was really special … the grand masses of Brucknerian sound couldnot have been delivered by anyone else … A gripping Brucknerian evening" ***** The Guardian

"a far-reaching symphonic journey and a special occasion." Classical Source

"Throughout, the LSO played with total conviction, the brass overwhelming in their assault on the shattering climaxes ofthe first movement, the indomitable hammering of a steady-paced and brutal Scherzo, and the final dissonantcatastrophe that crowns the Adagio … It was very moving – indeed, absolutely shattering." bachtrack.com

ALSO AVAILABLE:LSO0716 Bruckner Symphony No 4"A GREAT RECORDING" BBC Radio 3, Building a Library

"not only the most sumptuously beautiful, it’s also the most satisfying … few performances capture so well the sense ofmystery at the heart of this symphony." Stephen Johnson, BBC Music Magazine – July 2013


Label: Wigmore Hall LiveFile Under: Classical/SecularVocal musicCatalogue No: WHLIVE0065Barcode: 5065000924669MID PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: cristalIestyn Davies [countertenor]Richard Egarr [harpsichord]Pamela Thorby, Tabea Debus [recorder]Bojan Cvicvic´, Stephen Pedder [violin]Julia Kuhn [viola, violin]Mark Levy [viola da gamba]William Carter [theorbo, baroque guitar]

Arise my MuseMusic of the RestorationIestyn Davies Richard Egarr Pamela Thorby William Carter

PURCELL: Arise, my muse, Strike the viol, Here the Deities approve, The pale and the purple rose, ’Tis Nature’s Voice, Crown the altar, If music be the food of love Z379b 1st setting/1st version, Fantasia: Three parts on a ground, O solitude, my sweetest choice! GABRIELI: Sonata XXICLARKE: The Glory of the Arcadian Groves BLOW: Poor Celadon, he sighs in vain, Suite from Venus and AdonisCROFT: Ye tuneful Numbers: A song with symphonies ENCORE: Spoken introduction (Iestyn Davies), Fairest isle

Famed for the crystalline beauty of his voice and the breath-taking daring of his artistry, British countertenor IestynDavies returned to Wigmore Hall with a programme reaching back to the Restoration Court to reveal the wealth ofmusical riches of the late 17th-century London.

For this recital, Iestyn Davies and the ensemble stepped beyond the bounds of convention to explore the works withfresh insight, delivering an invigorating yet refined and delicate performance.

Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, on 27 February 2013

ALSO AVAILABLE: WHLIVE0038 Handel Nine German Arias Purcell"A breathtaking performance ...another triumph for Wigmore Live recordings." *****/***** BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE


Label: MariinskyFile Under: Classical/OrchestralCatalogue No: MAR0548Barcode: 822231854821NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 SACDPackaging: cristalDenis Matsuev [piano]Mariinsky OrchestraValery Gergiev

TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

Denis MatsuevMariinsky OrchestraValery Gergiev

Since winning the 11th International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1998, Denis Matsuev has established a reputation asone of Russia's leading pianists. His début release on the Mariinsky label featuringRachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3 and Paganini Variations, received widespread acclaim. His second Mariinskyrelease featured piano concerts by Shostakovich and Shchedrin, which was awardedClef du Mois by ResMusica and ***** by Audiophile Audition. For his third release, Matsuev turns to the music ofTchaikovsky, with the two Piano Concertos. His first Piano Concerto is one of his most popular works: Tchaikovskybalances core motivic elements with a sense of lyrical spontaneity to create a technically challenging but instantlyappealing work. The Piano Concerto No.2 was dedicated to pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, with whom the composer had a close workingrelationship. Tchaikovsky wrote, “I want to dedicate it to N. G. Rubinstein in recognition of his magnificent playing of myFirst Concerto and of my Sonata, which left me in utter rapture after heperformed it for me in Moscow.” After a tremendous piano cadenza in the first movement, Tchaikovsky allows otherinstruments to shine, with prominent solos for violin and cello in the second movement.Other Tchaikovsky recordings on the Mariinsky label include a DVD/Bluray release of his last three symphonies, and2011 Tchaikovsky Competition winner Daniil Trifonov’s interpretation of the first Piano Concerto on SACD.In March and April Denis Matsuev joins the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev for a European tour, withconcerts in London, Paris and Turin.

"In both these concertos it is hard not to enjoy Denis Matsuev's playing and that of the Mariinsky Orchestra under ValeryGergiev, if only for the sheer enthusiasm and larger-than-life presence. Even in the highly wrought passages in themassive Second Concerto, which he plays in Tchaikovsky's own revision, Matsuev copes with the fistfuls of notes withreal relish, while there's refinement, too, in the slow movement: with its violin and cello solos, it effectively becomes atriple concerto at times." Andrew Clements, The Guardian, Jan 2

Valery Gergiev and Denis Matsuev will feature in the opening ceremony of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games on 7February


Label: Myrios ClassicsFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: MYR011Barcode: 42601835101162 FOR 1.5 Format: 2 SACDPackaging: cristalTabea Zimmermann [viola]Thomas Hoppe [piano] ADVERTISED, WITH VOLUME 1, IN BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY ISSUE

HINDEMITH: Complete Viola Works Vol. 2 Sonatas for Viola & Piano and Solo ViolaTabea Zimmermann

Disc 1:1. Sonata for Viola and Piano Op. 11 No. 42.Sonata for Solo Viola Op. 11 No. 53.Sonata for Solo Viola Op. 25 No. 14.Sonata for Viola and Piano Op. 25 No. 4

Disc 2:1.Sonata for Solo Viola Op. 31 No. 42.Sonata for Solo Viola (1937)3.Sonata for Viola and Piano (1939)

Tabea Zimmermann commemorates the 50th anniversary of death of Paul Hindemith with the recording of his completeworks for viola. Hindemith is regarded as a key composer for the instrument and has been a famous violist himself whopremiered the viola concertos by Darius Milhaud and William Walton. Vol. 2 of the edition includes the complete sonatasfor solo viola and for viola and piano. Ordered by their creation date on this double album, the seven compositions givean impressive insight of Hindemith‘s development as a composer, from the early works of the year 1919 to the matureand epic sonatas of the late 1930‘s.

ALSO AVAILABLE:MYR010 Hindemith, Viola works Vol.1 Der Schwanendreher; Trauermusik; Kammermusik No. 5; Konzertmusik, Op. 48aTabea Zimmermann (viola); Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin/Hans Graf

“Tabea Zimmermann’s first volume of a complete survey immediately takes its place among the very best, not least forthe warmer, woodier tone that she produces and puts to such musically penetrating use.”John Allison, BBC Music Magazine, Choice – September 2013Gramophone Editor's ChoiceIRR Outstanding

Nominated for the BBC Music Awards 2014: Concerto


Label: Accent RecordsFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: ACC25318Barcode: 4015023253186NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 SACDPackaging: digipackLa Petite BandeSigiswald KuijkenGerlinde Sämann [soprano]Petra Noskaiová [alto]Christoph Genz [tenor]Jan Van der Crabben [bass]

J.S. BACH: Cantatas BWV 70, 9, 182, Vol. 18BWV 70 Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! 26th Sunday after TrinityBWV9 Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, 6th Sunday after TrinityBWV182 Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, PalmarumLa Petite BandeSigiswald Kuijken

In the beginning there was great scepticism towards the thesis that Bach’s sacred vocal works were originally written forsolo voices. Now this interpretation is firmly established. With this edition of one cantata for each Sunday and the greatfeasts of the ecclesiastical year Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande strengthen this 'new' approach in their excellentperformances.Vol. 18 offers three cantatas one for the twenty-sixth Sunday after Trinity, one for the sixth Sunday after Trinity and onefor Palmarum. This volume of the complete edition brings the cycle, began in 2005, to a close.

"Among current cantata series Sigiswald Kuijken‘s has a distinctive place, his one-to-a-part voices and few instrumentsachieving striking delicacy. His vocal soloists sing with disarming simplicity and ease in arias, and blend superbly inensemble. A rare treat, Kuijken – and Bach – at their very best.”BBC Music Magazine, March 2010 Sigiswald Kuijken is interviewed, for Rewind, in BBC Music and Classical Music Magazines about the Bach Cantatas series on Accent Happy 70th birthday Sigiswald!


Label: Accent RecordsFile Under: Classical/OrchestralCatalogue No: ACC24289Barcode: 4015023242890NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackJohannette Zomer [soprano]Arthur Schoonderwoerd [harpsichord &fortepiano]Cristofori

MOZART: Piano Concerto KV175, versions for: harpsichord 1773 & fortepiano 1782A lo previdi KV272Arthur Schoonderwoerd

With his recording of two different versions of the Piano Concerto, K175, Arthur Schooderwoerd, one of the mostsought-after interpreters on the fortepiano, presents the third part of his complete recording of Mozart's Piano Concertoson ACCENT. The early version of 1773 is Mozart's first piano concerto. In 1782 he revised the concerto, adapting it to thechanged prevailing taste by replacing the original final movement with a Viennese rondo (K382). Arthur Schoonderwoerdalso takes into account the advance in instrument building with his juxtaposition of these two versions: he uses aharpsichord for the early Salzburg version but plays the later Vienna version on a fortepiano .As in the two previous recordings, Schoonderwoerd and his ensemble Cristofori have set themselves the objective ofliberating Mozart's works from the sound ideals of the 19th and 20th centuries. The string parts in the orchestra have justone player each, resulting in a very slender and transparent sound that supports but never covers up the solo instrument.This recording is completed by the concert aria 'A lo previdi' (K272) for soprano and orchestra, sung by JohannetteZomer.


Label: Bel Air ClassiquesFile Under: Classical/Opera &VocalCatalogue No: BAC102Barcode: 3760115301023NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 DVDBoris Godunov: Alexander TsymbalyukFyodor: Yulia SokolikXenia: Eri NakamuraXenia’s nurse: Heike GrötzingerSchuisky: Gerhard SiegelAndrey Chelkalov: Markus EichePimen: Anatoli KotschergaGrigory Otropyev: Sergey SkorokhodovVarlaam: Vladimir MatorinMissail: Ulrich ReßSimpleton: Kevin ConnersNikititch: Goran Juri´c

MUSSORGSKY: Boris Godunov [dvd]Chor der Bayerischen StaatsoperBayerisches StaatsorchesterKent NaganoCalixto Bieito

Opera in four parts and seven scenes, First version (1868/1869)Libretto: Modest Mussorgsky after Alexander Pushkin & Nikolai Karamsins

Stage direction: Calixto BieitoSet design: Rebecca Ringst Costume design: Ingo KrüglerLighting: Michael BauerDramaturgy: Andrea SchönhoferHD recording: Bavarian State Opera, Munich, February 2013

Child murder, scheming monks and a Tsar lapsing into madness – Modest Mussorgsky spread the thematic arc wide inhis choral opera, which he began to work on from 1868, and with which he attempted to awaken an awareness of hisown time through the indirect route of a historic story.As an artist of the 19th century, he was driven by the psychology of the masses. Thus, in 'Boris Godunov', alongside thehero of the title, the main role is actually taken primarily by the Russian people, rejoicing, starving, demanding andquestioning.In conjuction with conductor Kent Nagano, Spanish stage director Calixto Bieito proposes an original reading of thisbrilliant work. The cast is led by Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris), with associates Gerhard Siegel (Schuisky), Markus Eiche(Chelkalov) and Anatoli Kotscherga (Pimen).

"A ‘Boris Godunov’ to die for...The bass Alexander Tsymbalyuk sings Boris with handsome, lean tone and ably conveysthe Czar’s mental disintegration’’ NEW YORK TIMES

1 DVD, Running time: 139 min.Booklet: FR / Eng / Ger; Subtitles: FR / Eng / GerColour, 16/9, NTSC; Sound: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1


Label: Bel Air ClassiquesFile Under: Classical/Opera &VocalCatalogue No: BAC402Barcode: 3760115304024NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 Blu-rayBoris Godunov: Alexander TsymbalyukFyodor: Yulia SokolikXenia: Eri NakamuraXenia’s nurse: Heike GrötzingerSchuisky: Gerhard SiegelAndrey Chelkalov: Markus EichePimen: Anatoli KotschergaGrigory Otropyev: Sergey SkorokhodovVarlaam: Vladimir MatorinMissail: Ulrich ReßSimpleton: Kevin ConnersNikititch: Goran Juri´c

MUSSORGSKY: Boris Godunov [BD]Chor der Bayerischen StaatsoperBayerisches StaatsorchesterKent NaganoCalixto Bieito

Opera in four parts and seven scenes, First version (1868/1869)Libretto: Modest Mussorgsky after Alexander Pushkin & Nikolai Karamsins

Stage direction: Calixto BieitoSet design: Rebecca Ringst Costume design: Ingo KrüglerLighting: Michael BauerDramaturgy: Andrea SchönhoferHD recording: Bavarian State Opera, Munich, February 2013

Child murder, scheming monks and a Tsar lapsing into madness – Modest Mussorgsky spread the thematic arc wide inhis choral opera, which he began to work on from 1868, and with which he attempted to awaken an awareness of hisown time through the indirect route of a historic story.As an artist of the 19th century, he was driven by the psychology of the masses. Thus, in 'Boris Godunov', alongside thehero of the title, the main role is actually taken primarily by the Russian people, rejoicing, starving, demanding andquestioning.In conjuction with conductor Kent Nagano, Spanish stage director Calixto Bieito proposes an original reading of thisbrilliant work. The cast is led by Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris), with associates Gerhard Siegel (Schuisky), Markus Eiche(Chelkalov) and Anatoli Kotscherga (Pimen).

"A ‘Boris Godunov’ to die for...The bass Alexander Tsymbalyuk sings Boris with handsome, lean tone and ably conveysthe Czar’s mental disintegration’’ NEW YORK TIMES

Running time: 139 min.Booklet: FR / Eng / Ger; Subtitles: FR / Eng / GerImage: HD, Colour, 16/9, NTSCSound: PCM Stereo, DTS HD Master Audio 5.1


Label: Pan ClassicsFile Under: Classical/SecularVocal musicCatalogue No: PC10297Barcode: 7619990102972NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackFilippo Mineccia [alto]Francesca Cassinari [soprano]Stile galante, Stefano Aresi

Leonardo VINCI: Alto AriasFilippo Mineccia

Bella pace dal seno di Giove [Gismondo re di Polonia]Sotto il peso tra sassi cadendo [Oratorio di Maria dolorata]Nella foresta, Vengo a voi, funesti orrori, Taci, o di morte [Medo]Se soffia irato il vento [Ernelinda]Ai lampi del tuo lume, Chi mi priega, chi m‘ama [Oratorio per la Vergine del Rosario]Alma grande, Ti calpesto, oh crudo Amore [Astianatte], Aprirti il seno, In questa mia tempesta [Eraclea]Che legge spietata [Catone in Utica]Non meno risplende [serenata La contesa de‘ Numi]

When he revived 'Artaserse' by Leonardo Vinci last year, the countertenor Max Emanuel Cencic did not revive just anyforgotten opera, but a work calling for five countertenors. Then, if not before, it must have become clear to everyone howlarge the hype surrounding the countertenor vocal range has become in recent years. This repertoire is suited, like noother, for the display of virtuoso vocal techniques for high male voices. The fact that there remains sufficient magnificent music yet to be discovered in the archives of Rome and Naples isimpressively shown by the present recording of unknown opera arias of Leonardo Vinci. He masters these demandingand highly virtuosic arias with stupendous technique and a wealth of style, accompanied by the ensemble Stile Galanteunder the direction of Stefano Aresi.

Filippo Mineccia began his musical studies as a choirboy at the School of Music of Fiesole. He has appeared in operaticroles in many theatres and festivals throughout Europe and has worked with Il Complesso Barocco, I Turchini, StileGalante, Collegium Marianum, Accademia Bizantina; conducted by Alan Curtis, Antonio Florio, Ottavio Dantone, DiegoFasolis and others. 'Vinci Alto Arias' is his first solo recording.


Label: GlossaFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: GCD923401Barcode: 8424562234017NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CD + bonus DVDPackaging: digipackEuropa GalanteFabio Biondi

Il Diario di ChiaraMusic from La Pietà in Venice in the 18th centuryEuropa GalanteFabio Biondi

Giovanni Porta: Sinfonia for strings in D majorAntonio Vivaldi: Sinfonia for strings in G major, RV 149, “Il Coro delle muse”Nicola Porpora: Sinfonia a tre in G majorAntonio Vivaldi: Concerto for Violin in B flat major, RV 372, “Per la S.ra Chiara”Antonio Martinelli: Concerto for Viola d’amore and strings in D major, “Per la S.ra Chiaretta”Antonio Martinelli: Concerto for Violin in E major, “dedicato all S.ra Chiara”Gaetano Latilla: Sinfonia in G majorFulgenso Perotti: Grave for Violin and Organ in G minorAndrea Bernasconi: Sinfonia for strings in D major

Abandoned at the age of two months and taken in by the Ospedale della Pietà, Chiara (or Chiaretta) rose – within thatenclosed charitable institution in Venice – to become one of the leading European violinists of the middle of the 18thcentury. No stranger to such acclaim, himself, two and a half centuries later, Fabio Biondi, on his first release for Glossa,has devised a CD drawing on the personal diary of this remarkable musician who was taught by Antonio Vivaldi, andlater became a virtuoso soloist on the violin, as well as the viola d’amore. The programme consists of concertos andsinfonias by composers who, like the prete rosso, taught at the Pietà: Porta, Porpora, Martinelli, Latilla, Perotti andBernasconi are all musicians whose compositions charm and delight as much today as they did in the time of Chiara.Along with this inspired vision-in-sound of the 18th century musical world of the Ospedale comes a half-hour long DVDdramatisation; CD and DVD admirably reflect both the virtuosic skills demanded of the instrumental soloists of the dayand the revolution in musical tastes (inside the Pietà as well as outside it), as the Baroque passed to Classicism via thegalant style.

Includes bonus DVD; ‘Il Diario di Chiara’, a film by Lucrezia Le Moli and Fabio Biondi [32 mins]


Label: Pan ClassicsFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: PC10296Barcode: 7619990102965NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackMusica Fiorita, Daniela Dolci [organ, harpsichord & direction]

CALDARA: RequiemTrio Sonata Op.1/5, Sonata No. 15Missa dolorosa: Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus DeiMusica FioritaDaniela Dolci

Antonio Caldara belongs to the great generation of musicians of the Venetian late Baroque period, born around 1670 inwhich he, himself, and Antonio Lotti excelled in the area of vocal music; Albinoni and Vivaldi in their respectiveinstrumental oeuvres. With an utterly inexhaustible imagination and a profoundly Italian cantabile nature, he alsoachieved the highest degree of representation of emotions, melodic sweetness, sophisticated dissonance and anoperatic element in his sacred works. It is no wonder, therefore, that the Viennese court kapellmeister Johann JosephFux, Caldara's colleague at the Habsburg court, called him a musician "of great virtù and capacity".When exactly and for what occasion Caldara composed his Requiem is unclear. The text of the requiem mass, at anyrate, inspired him to create music of strong character reflecting the gloomy, near-death atmosphere of the text.Particularly characteristic is the dark colouring of the instrumental ensemble. Only in the Tuba mirum does Caldara callfor two trumpets who proclaim the Last Judgement. The manuscript of Caldara's Requiem, which has been handed down in an incomplete state, is preserved in PragueNational Library. This CD is completed by appropriate chamber music by the composer and excerpts from his late 'Missadolorosa'.


Label: OrfeoFile Under: Classical/Opera &VocalCatalogue No: C876133DBarcode: 4011790876320MID PriceFormat: 3 CDPackaging: box setFilippo II: Ruggero RaimondiDon Carlo: José CarrerasRodrigo: Piero CappuccilliIl Grande Inquisitore: Matti SalminenElisabetta di Valois: Mirella FreniEboli: Agnes BaltsaTebaldo: Marjon LambriksIl conte di Lerma: Ewald AichbergerUn araldo reale: Thomas MoserLa voce dal cielo: Edita Gruberova

VERDI: Don CarloRuggero Raimondi, José Carreras, Piero Cappuccilli, Matti SalminenMirella Freni, Agnes Baltsa, Edita GruberovaChorus & Orchestra of the Vienna State OperaHerbert von Karajan

In this live recording from May 1979 we can now hear Karajan’s 'Don Carlo' with an absolute dream team, in the four-actversion that he preferred. He had his ideal ensemble of singers at his disposal in Vienna: Mirella Freni as Elisabetta hadalready played a major part in this production’s success in Salzburg. She repeated her triumph in Vienna, offering Verdisinging with a faultless line and just the right flexibility between lyrical and dramatic expression. José Carreras sang thetitle role of Elisabetta’s unlucky lover. His brilliant timbre and introvert expression were perfectly suited to his character,so full of hope and yet so hopelessly dependent on himself alone. His only friend Posa was sung by the leading Italianbaritone of the day, Piero Cappuccilli. Like Freni, he too was regarded as without peer in his role, and with good reason.Agnes Baltsa gave her debut as Eboli, and her mezzosoprano voice possessed both the lightness of touch necessary forher 'Veil Song' but also the power needed for 'O Don fatale'. Matti Salminen as the Grand Inquisitor was at an earlyhighpoint in his career, who would remain at the peak of his profession for many years to come.

Live Recording, Vienna State Opera May 6, 1979


Label: NAÏVEFile Under: Classical/Opera &VocalCatalogue No: V5359Barcode: 822186053591MID PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: cristalSara MingardoMaire-Nicole LemieuxNathalie StutzmannSonia PrinaDelphine Galou

The ContraltosSara MingardoMarie-Nicole LemieuxNathalie StutzmannSonia PrinaDelphine Galou

VIVALDI: Gloria, Domine Deus Agnus DeiPERGOLESI: Stabat Mater, Quae moerebat et dolebatTHOMAS: Mignon, "Connais-tu le pays?"SCHUMANN: Myrthen, 'Der Nussbaum'BACH: Mass in B minor, Agnus DeiHAYDN: St-Cecilia Mass, Qui tollis peccata mundiVIVALDI: Ottone in villa, "Come l'onda"BIZET: Carmen, "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle"HAHN: L'heure exquiseCARISSIMI: Cantata, "Deh, memoria, e che più chiedi"SCHUMANN: Liederkreis, 'In der Fremde'VIVALDI: Teuzzone, "Ti sento, si, ti sento"Orlando 1714, "lo sembro appunto quell'augelletto"BACH/GOUNOD: Ave MariaHAHN: A Chloris

"Her voice had contralto inflexions, tender and deep": there we have an excellent summing-up of this voice that has beentraditional for at least a century and a half. One thinks of Kathleen Ferrier in Brahms and Mahler, of Erda in .The Ring..The quotation (by the French novelist Roger Martin du Gard) is taken from the 'Petit Robert' dictionary, which defines theword 'contralto' intself as "the lowest female voice".The contraltos Sara Mingardo, Maire-Nicole Lemieux, Nathalie Stutzmann, Sonia Prina, Delphine Galou interpretrepertoire from Vivaldi to Schumann.

ALSO AVAILABLE:V5328 The CountertenorsV5351 The Sopranos


Label: DelphianFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: DCD34131Barcode: 8019183413112 FOR 1.5Format: 2 CDPackaging: cristalSimon Smith [Steinway model D piano]with Richard Beauchampand John Cameron

SCHNITTKE: Complete Piano MusicSimon Smith

CD1: Piano Sonatas 1-3, Variations CD2: Prelude and Fugue, Improvisation and Fugue, Variations on a Chord Little Piano Pieces, Homage to Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich Five Aphorisms, Sonatina for piano four hands, Cadenza to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491, first movement (1975)Two Cadenzas to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K467 (1980) Cadenza to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 25 in C major, K503, first movement (1983) Two Cadenzas to Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major, K39 (1990)

Schnittke’s largest works for the piano are the three sonatas, which all date from the later part of his output. PianoSonata No 1 (1987) is a substantial work by any standard, structured in four movements played without a break, andlasting upward of half an hour. The emotional journey of the piece is in many ways typical of the composer’s work in theyears following his first stroke. Piano Sonata No 2 (1990–91), written for Schnittke’s wife Irina, follows a more traditionalthree-movement pattern. The opening is rather sensuous and overtly ‘Romantic’, wistful and bittersweet, its delicatecounterpoint recalling Berg’s Op. 1 Sonata. Piano Sonata No 3 (1992), first performed by Boris Berman in 1996, is anexample of what we might call Schnittke’s ‘late style’, pared down and without the extravagance of some of the works ofthe 1980s though of similar intensity. It was his last work for solo piano.The shorter works included here, which along with the sonatas comprise Schnittke’s entire published output for solopiano (including one piece for piano duet and another for six hands at one instrument), are mostly earlier than thesonatas, and are presented here in chronological order, with the cadenzas for four of Mozart’s piano concertos as a sortof appendix. Simon Smith studied piano with Richard Beauchamp [to whom these discs are dedicated] and composition with TomDavid Wilson. As a pianist he has performed many of the landmarks of the 20th-century piano repertoire, most notablymany of Stockhausen’s Klavierstücke and the Piano Concerto and complete Etudes of György Ligeti. Following aperformance of which latter he was acclaimed as ‘a phenomenon – nothing daunts him, technically or musically’ TheScotsman. For Delphian Records he has recorded solo music by James MacMillan and Stuart MacRae (DelphianDCD34009), Hafliði Hallgrímsson (DCD34051) and Thomas Wilson (DCD34079).

"I remember vividly the first time I heard a piece of music by Schnittke... It is not an exaggeration to say that that momentchanged my life and certainly turned on its head the way that I thought about music and its possibilities. Thereafter Iavidly devoured as much of Schnittke’s music as I could get my hands on, and this recording is one of the results." Simon Smith


Label: Onyx ClassicsFile Under: Classical/OrchestralCatalogue No: ONYX4127Barcode: 880040412724NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackPablo Ferrandez [cello]Stuttgart PhilharmonikerRadoslav Szulc [conductor]

DVORAK, SCHUMANN: Cello Concertos CASALS / traditional Catalan ‘The Song of the Birds’Pablo FerrandezStuttgart PhilharmonikerRadoslav Szulc

The young Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrandez has already been marked out for the very top of his profession with Diapasonmagazine in France saying "Pablo Ferrandez will be one of the best cellists in the future - No: he already is"After winning the prestigious Prix Edmond de Rothschild at the 2013 Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad in Switzerland, hewent on to record his concerto debut CD: Dvorak's masterpiece for the instrument, plus Schumann's intimate concertofrom his last years. The exquisite 'Song of the Birds' ends the disc, a much loved traditional Catalan song during theyears of the Spanish civil war, made popular by the great Pablo Casals.

Advertised in BBC Music Magazine and Gramophone


Label: Signum ClassicsFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: SIGDVD011Barcode: 635212001196NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 DVDJamie Walton [cello]

Benjamin Britten: Three Cello Suites, A Film by Paul JoyceJamie Walton

British Cellist Jamie Walton explores the unique atmosphere of Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh to perform Britten’s ThreeSolo Suites for Cello. The Suites are the summation of the long-standing friendship between Britten and Rostropovich,with the passionate third in particular inspired by the Russian cellist’s rich and romantic performances of Bach’sunaccompanied suites.

Chapter Points1. Jamie Walton in Conversation with Paul Joyce2.Suite No.1, Op.723.Suite No.2, Op.804.Suite No.3, Op.875.Tema ‘Sacher’

Also available as a studio recording on CD (SIGCD336):

“Britten’s suites for solo cello are not perhaps an easy listen any more than they are easy to play, but Jamie Walton’sabsorbing performances of all three seem to expose and explore the emotional heart and soul that went into the writingof them.” Daily Telegraph - 5 Stars


Label: Signum ClassicsFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: SIGCD368Barcode: 635212036822NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: cristalRoderick Williams [baritone]BBC SingersNash EnsembleNicholas Kok [conductor]

Harrison BIRTWISTLE: The Moth RequiemBBC SingersNash EnsembleRoderick Williams

The Moth Requiem (2003)Three Latin Motets from The Last Supper (1998)Carmen Paschale (1965)Lullaby (2006)On the Sheer Threshold of the Night (1980)The Moth Requiem (2012)

As 2014 marks the composer’s 80th year, Harrison Birtwistle remains one of the most popular voices in contemporarycomposition in the UK and beyond. This new collection of premiere recordings draws together recent commissions witholder works to mark the occasion, with characteristically flawless performances from the BBC Singers under NicholasKok. They are joined on this disc by the Nash Ensemble and baritone Roderick Williams.

This is the fourth in Signum's ongoing series of composer-led releases with the BBC Singers, with past discs featuringthe works by Judith Bingham, Richard Rodney Bennett, and most recently Edward Cowie.


Label: Signum ClassicsFile Under: Classical/SecularVocal musicCatalogue No: SIGCD369Barcode: 635212036921NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: cristalAlastair Miles [bass]Marie-Nöelle Kendall [piano]

Alastair Miles: Lieder by Wolf & Brahms

WOLF: Prometheus, Grenzen der Menschheit, Der Sänger, O wüsst ich doch den Weg zurück, Op.63 No.8, Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo,BRAHMS: Auf dem Kirchhofe, Op.105 No.4, Feldeinsamkeit, Op.86 No.2, Verrat, Op.105 No.5, Nicht mehr zu dir zu gehen, Op.32 No.2, Vier ernste Gesange Nos 1-4, Op.121

Alastair Miles is internationally recognised as one of the world's leading basses, appearing regularly with acclaimedopera companies such as WNO, Glyndebourne, ENO and the Royal Opera, as well as with conductors such as Giulini,Harnoncourt, Muti, Rattle, Gergiev, Gardiner, Norrington, Davis and Dohnanyi. On this new recording he explores some gems of the Lieder repertoire from Hugo Wolf and Johann Strauss, ablyaccompanied by pianist Marie-Nöelle Kendall.


Label: MirareFile Under: Classical/ChambermusicCatalogue No: MIR231Barcode: 3760127222316NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackModigliani Quartet

HAYDN: String QuartetsOp.76 No. 1, Op. 50 No. 1, Op. 77 No. 1Modigliani Quartet

With 68 works to his credit, Joseph Haydn was not only the founding father the string quartet, but also an undisputedmaster of the genre. This influence continued through his direct successors, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven, throughthe romantic era and into the 20th century via the second Viennese School. Constantly renewed, his music is a constantsource of wonder, as evidenced by the three quartets that the Modiglianis have chosen for their second volume on Miraredevoted to Papa Haydn.

ALSO AVAILABLE:MIR065 Haydn: String Quartets Op 76, No 4 (Sunrise), Op 74, No 3 (Rider), Op 54, No 1“These musicians ooze musical insight, unanimity and polish.”Robin Stowell, theStrad Chamber Selection, October 2008

“these are remarkably perceptive, stylish and penetrating readings that give this glorious music its full due. For a groupthat has been in existence for only five years this is an especially impressive achievement.” International Record Review,September 2008

"the Quatuor Modigliani relish their Haydn, as the performances of these three works from, respectively, 1797, 1793 and1788 powerfully demonstrate. At first, I wondered if they were sufficiently alive to Haydn’s humour — until the leadermade the grace-note figure in the finale of the Sunrise bray like a donkey. The range of dynamics and colour is wide, therhythmic tension and drive, in the Rider’s finale and elsewhere, superb. They also give the music space, in the Rider’svisionary slow movement and in the deceptively leisurely opening of the Sunrise." David Cairns, Sunday Times


Label: MirareFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: MIR239Barcode: 3760127222392NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackShani Diluka [piano]with Natalie Dessay [soprano]

Route 66: American Piano MusicShani Diluka

Like Jack Kerouac, when he took to the American road, on the legendary Route 66, this Mirare cd hosts a programme asa specific musical path through the United States geographically and musically, "East of my youth, west of my future"(Kerouac).Shani Diluka has made some new discoveries: Amy Beach, composer of genius; Percy Grainger, who became Americanby vocation; a world premiere by Hyung-ki Joo, whose 'Chandeliers' was composed in New York after September 11; thehypnotic meditations of John Adams, John Cage and Philip Glass; the South American-influenced Bernstein, Coplandand Ginastera; and the intimate link between Gershwin and jazz that inspired Bill Evans or Keith Jarrett. To conclude thisjourney, Natalie Dessay gives us her unique presence in a new arrangement of Cole Porter composed especially for thisdisc by Raphael Merlin of the Ebene Quartet.

full track listing tbc

ALSO AVAILABLE:MIR126 Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 “Shani Diluka is clearly an artist to watch and her sense of individuality is refreshing.”Harriet Smith, Gramophone, June 2011

MIR026 Grieg Lyric Pieces “their love of the music is evident throughout, Diluka conveying a sense of excited discovery in every bar” InternationalPiano, November/December 2007


Label: AuditeFile Under: Classical/ChambermusicCatalogue No: AUDITE97690Barcode: 4022143976901NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 SACDPackaging: cristalSwiss Piano Trio

Eduard FRANCK: Piano TriosTrio E major (1835), Trio Op. 22 E flat major, Trio Op. 53 D majorSwiss Piano Trio

audite’s Eduard Franck series continues with three further chamber works of the composer. A celebrated pianist who,aged only sixteen, accompanied the violin playing of his musical mentor, Felix Mendelssohn, Franck will doubtlessly havehad a special affinity to the genre of the piano trio. This recording of the Trio in E major and the Trios Op. 22 and Op. 53now completes Franck’s contributions to the genre; both the Trio in E major and Op. 53 are première recordings.These works span nearly the entire composing career of Eduard Franck: the E major Trio, written in 1835 when thecomposer was seventeen years old, was both dedicated to, and a birthday present for, his mother.Op. 22 was composed in the 1850s, during Franck’s most successful period, and is the work of an artist who was highlyrespected in German music circles of the mid-nineteenth century. Op. 53, completed in 1886, is one of Franck’s finalworks, providing insights into the late oeuvre of a composer who was always committed to tradition and who must beconsidered as an important representative of nineteenth century music culture.Award-winning audite artists, the acclaimed Swiss Piano Trio complete this segment of the Eduard Franck recordingseries.


Label: Signum ClassicsFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: SIGCD337Barcode: 6352120337222 FOR 1.5 Format: 2 CDPackaging: cristalJoseph Nolan [The Cavaillé-Coll organ of LaMadeleine, Paris]

WIDOR: The Complete Organ Symphonies, Vol.4Symphony No.7, op.42 Symphony No.8, op.42Joseph Nolan

The fourth volume in Signum's Charles-Marie Widor Organ Symphonies, performed by Joseph Nolan on the magnificentCavaillé-Coll organ of L’église de la Madeleine, Paris. Bridging the generations from Mendelssohn to Messiaen, Empireto Republic, Widor was born to the organ. His Lyonnaise kinsfolk were organ-builders, he showed early talent for theinstrument and for decades was the embodiment of its might and splendour across the Gallic domain. His ‘OrganSymphonies’ have been genre-defining in their influence

Joseph Nolan is an internationally renowned organist, acclaimed as "brilliant and such an astute musician"(Gramophone). He was appointed to Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal, St James’s Palace in 2004, and has since beeninvited to perform and record in some of the world’s premiere venues – including the refurbished Organ of BuckinghamPalace Ballroom (SIGCD114) and the Organ of Saint-Sulpice in Paris (SIGCD167).

“This looks like shaping up to be the Widor Organ Symphonies cycle of the decade” Musicweb International


Label: AuditeFile Under: Classical/SecularVocal musicCatalogue No: AUDITE92703Barcode: 4022143927033NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 SACDPackaging: digipackIna Siedlaczek [soprano]Hamburger Ratsmusik

Fortuna scherzosaIna Siedlaczek

Philipp Heinrich ERLEBACH: Des Glückes Spiele, betrügen viele, Geduld kann überwinden, will sich das Unglück finden,Mein Sehnen ist gestillt, und mein Wunsch nun erfülltJohann ULICH: Ihr hellen Sterne des GlücksGeorg Philipp TELEMANN/MELANTE: Fortuna scherzosa, Amor heißt mich freudig lachen, HoffnungJohann Philipp KRIEGER An die Einsamkeit

Fortuna scherzosa, after Telemann’s eponymous cantata, provides the textual framework for the works recorded here:the subject matter is hope, yearning for fortune, fulfilment and non-fulfilment, happiness and suffering. With her pure,straight and flexible voice, Ina Siedlaczek expresses these diverse emotions with great authenticity. Her music-making ishistorically informed, free and relaxed. Her interpretations are natural and, in the most positive sense, simple.Philipp Heinrich Erlebach's oeuvre comprised hundreds of works in nearly all genres current at the time. During a fire,however, the great majority of his music was lost: only around 70 of Erlebach’s works are known today. The occasion ofthe tercentenary of his death on 17 April 2014 will hopefully make them more famous once again.Johann Ulich was released from complete oblivion only recently when some of his manuscripts were rediscovered. Ulichhad been Kapellmeister at the court of Zerbst between 1708 and 1742, and would therefore have been an accomplishedmusical director and a versatile composer. It is thought that the majority of his oeuvre was lost when the princes’ palaceof Anhalt-Zerbst was destroyed during the Second World War.Georg Philipp Telemann, however, won fame during his lifetime and remains one of the most famous composers of theBaroque era. However his cantata 'Fortuna scherzosa' did not come to light until 1999 when the historic music archive ofthe Berlin Sing-Akademie was rediscovered in Kiev (Ukraine), which included 16 works by Telemann that had, until then,been unknown.At the age of around 23, Johann Philipp Krieger already was Kapellmeister to a margrave; he enjoyed 45 years of employmentas a widely-known and famous Kapellmeister at the art-loving court at Saxe-Weißenfels, leaving behind a legacy of around 2500 compositions. Nonetheless, he is largely forgotten today as only a fraction of his compositions has survived.As a soloist, Ina Siedlaczek is in great demand both as an oratorio singer and as a consort singer. Alongside theclassical oratorio repertoire, one of her particular interests is historically informed interpretation of vocal music of the erabefore Johann Sebastian Bach.


Label: GlossaFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: GCDP33202Barcode: 8424562332027NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackFahmi Alqhai [viola da gamba]Arcángel [voice]Pablo Martín [Caminero, violone & double bass]Pedro Estevan, Agustín Diassera [percussion]Juan Carlos Rivera [theorbo]Rami Alqhai [viola da gamba, violotto]Johanna Rose, Ignacio del Valle [violas dagamba]

A piacereMusic for viola da gambaFahmi AlqhaiArcángelPedro Estevan

In 'A piacere' Fahmi Alqhai demonstrates once again what an expressive musician he has become, and with the viola dagamba as his “Wondrous Muse”, he recreates for CD a concert programme which he has been touring and refining overrecent years. Following his ensemble album 'Rediscovering Spain' (performed with Accademia del Piacere) this new release from Glossa has a distinctively soloistic feel and approach to it, with Alqhai relishing the different moods and musical directions that his chosen musical “voice” permits him to take.Considering the instrument as so much more than a relic from the decaying aristocratic age of Louis XV in France, Alqhaidemonstrates – by his choice of programme and his playing – the viol’s versatility, flexibility and depth of emotionalresponse: music from Spanish, German and French Baroque masters of the instrument are joined by Alqhai’s ownversion of Joe Satriani's 'Always with me, always with you' rock number. Notably in his Satriani adaptation (but also in anold Spanish popular melody featuring the cantaor Arcángel, as well as elsewhere) Alqhai receives support from musicianfriends gathered at sessions in Seville, all helping to create – in marvellous sound – a new demonstration of the creativefreedom that old music can allow in the right hands.


Label: ACCENTFile Under: Classical/OrchestralCatalogue No: ACC24280Barcode: 4015023242807NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackXenia Löffler [oboe & oboe d‘amore]Batzdorfer Hofkapelle

Johann Gottlieb & Carl Heinrich GRAUN: Oboe ConcertosXenia Löffler

Johann Gottlieb Graun became a member of the small court orchestra of the Prussian Crown Prince Frederick in Ruppinin 1732, which Carl Heinrich also joined in 1735. With Friedrich's ascension to the throne in 1740, Johann Gottlieb wasappointed concertmaster and Carl Heinrich kapellmeister of the royal court. Johann Gottlieb remained until the end of hislife closely linked to Frederick the Great, as concertmaster and chamber musician. Whilst his brother Carl Heinrichbecame an important figure at the new Berlin Court Opera, Johann Gottlieb strongly influenced the musical life of Berlinand early classicism in general as a violinist and composer.One can no longer determine with any certainty which of the brothers wrote the oboe concertos recorded here – theexisting sources are too unclear and the differences in their personal styles are too slight. What is certain, however, isthat the name "Graun" was a kind of seal of approval in those days for zestful music rich in ideas – an estimation stillvalid today, as is readily apparent when listening to these concertos.The oboist Xenia Löffler has distinguished herself as a specialist for the North German repertoire of this period, as in herrecordings with oboe concertos from the Dresden Court and with works from the Dresden Pisendel Collection (ACC24202 and 24222). Alongside her teaching activities at the Academy of the Arts in Bremen, she is a member of theAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin and in great international demand as a soloist.

Also available:ACC 24202 OBOE CONCERTI AT THE DRESDEN COURTLöffler/Bosch/Deuter/Batzdorfer Hofkapelle


Label: ChristophorusFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: CHR77373Barcode: 4010072773739NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackConcerto RomanoAlessandro Quarta

Sacred Music for the Poor at Santa Maria in Vallicella, RomeConcerto RomanoAlessandro Quarta

After the downfall of the Roman Empire, the 17th century was in many respects the only epoch in which Rome was amodern city. Unlike today, however, one encountered the most abject poverty in the city centre near the river,namelywhere the danger of high water and flooding was greatest. La Vallicella is a neighbourhood in Rome that still existstoday, centrally located at the bend of the Tiber between the Via Giulia and the shore road Lungotevere Tor di Nona,within sight of the Castle of the Holy Angel and St. Peter’s Cathedral. In the Rome of the Counter Reformation, this areawas overpopulated with people of mostly modest origins; it was noted for its high level of crime and a complete lack offacilities for the assembly and edification of its inhabitants. It was precisely these conditions that caused the priest FilippoNeri (1515-1595), canonised shortly after his death and against his avowed will, to relocate his missionary activities toVallicella during the second half of the 16th century. In the heart of this district, the beautiful church of Santa Maria inVallicella (generally known simply as Chiesa Nuova, or new church) is still very impressive today, as is the prayer hall ofthe Philippian brothers affiliated with it, known as the Oratorium – a centre of liturgy and catechesis, initiated by Nerihimself, in which music played a fundamental role.Rome in those days was not only synonymous with colossal polyphony, multi-choral opulence and concertante virtuosity.In this urban environment with its variety of everyday realities, the Oratorium movement of the Philippian brothers wasone of the most active musical centres. They regarded music as probably the most important medium for thedissemination of their message. Already from the second half of the 16th century onwards, they encouraged andstimulated multifarious and quite specific musical production. In addition, they drew from the ancient, uninterruptedmedieval tradition of lauds and from the early Florentine Renaissance, creating a modernised version of sacred music ingeneral, and ecclesiastical lauds in particular, in the oratoria, churches and streets of the Vallicella district. Thisrepertoire, a link between sophisticated and popular music, represents an important part of Roman cultural history,forming one of the most beautiful points of contact between folk and art music.

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Label: Convivium Recordsnew label! File Under: ClassicalCatalogue No: CR020Barcode: 700153370011MID PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: cristalMatteo Cesari [flute & piccolo]

James ERBERThe Traces Cycle & other worksMatteo Cesari

Flourish, The Traces Cycle: Traces, Traces B, Traces C, A Small Revelation (2012), ein andrer Hauch (2012)

Born in London in 1951, James Erber worked as Music Editor for Peters Edition before further study with JonathanHarvey and Brian Ferneyhough. He combined composition with teaching and lecturing, including three years in the MusicDepartment at Goldsmiths’ College. In 1994 and 1996 he was shortlisted for the prestigious Hinrichsen Foundationbursary, and in 1994 received a Holst Foundation Award. Erber’s music has been performed and broadcast widely throughout Europe, in Australia, New Zealand and the USA bysoloists such as Mario Caroli, Matteo Cesari, Darragh Morgan, Ian Pace and Jonathan Powell, as well as by ensemblesincluding Lontano and the Arditti Quartet. Winner of the 2010 Kranichsteiner Music Prize for performance at the Darmstadt Summer Courses and of numerousother awards and scholarships, Matteo Cesari studied flute with Mario Caroli at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, and isat present a doctoral student at the Paris Conservatoire, pursuing research into the works of Brian Ferneyhough andSalvatore Sciarrino.He has worked with many of the leading figures in the music of our time, among them Pierre Boulez, Peter Eötvös,Salvatore Sciarrino, Ivan Fedele, Brian Ferneyhough, Stefano Gervasoni, Bruno Mantovani and Michael Finnissy.

"You do not, though, need undue taste for the conceptual in music to withstand and enjoy this astonishing erection of immense structure on so tiny a plinth. Erber has a way with the flute, and so, of course, does the virtusosic Cesari.Syrinx-sized pieces are offered too." Paul Driver, Sunday Times 15th December


Label: Convivium RecordsFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: CR010Barcode: 0609613794674MID PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: cristalPortsmouth Cathedral ChoirConvivium SingersMalcolm Archer

Music for SeafarersAnthems, Hymns, Partsongs & Folk-SongsPortsmouth Cathedral ChoirConvivium SingersMalcolm Archer

Bill IVES: They that go down to the sea in ships DOVE: Vast Ocean of Light Here I am, Lord Daniel Schutt (arr. Malcolm Archer)Carson COOMAN: Windswept Skies ARCHER: Anthem for Seafarers (Eternal Father, Strong to Save) WOOD: Never weather-beaten sail Sailing Trad. (arr. Peter Hunt)IRELAND: Sea Fever The water is wide Trad. (arr. William Drakett)Blow the wind southerly Trad. (arr. Timothy Salter)PARRY: There is an old belief, Crossing the Bar MASON: Nearer, my God, to Thee (arr. Malcolm Archer)

The Baltic Exchange, London, presents, in partnership with Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, Malcolm Archer and theConvivium Singers, an original and exciting collection of anthems, hymns, part-songs and folk-songs celebrating theExchange’s longstanding support of seafarers and England’s rich, maritime musical tradition. In commissioning MalcolmArcher to compose the “Anthem for Seafarers”, an anthem which draws on the well-known hymn “Eternal Father Strongto Save”, the Baltic Exchange continues its support for seafaring charities. Here is a collection of songs and anthemsassociated with the sea, beautifully performed by the Convivium Singers and Portsmouth Cathedral Choir. Malcolm Archer is Director of Chapel Music at Winchester College, where he trains and conducts the Quiristers andChapel Choir and teaches organ in the College. He has enjoyed a distinguished career in cathedral music, includingposts at Norwich, Bristol, Wells Cathedrals and then Director of Music at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. During his timethere he directed the choir for several State services, including the Tsunami Memorial Service, the London BombingsService and the 80th Birthday Service for HM The Queen, for which he was invited by Buckingham Palace to compose aspecial anthem, performed live on BBC1.


Label: Convivium RecordsFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: CR022Barcode: 0700153370004MID PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: cristalConvivium SingersEamonn Dougan [conductor]David Price [organ]

Margaret RIZZA: Officium DivinumA Journey through the daily office prayersConvivium Singers

"'Officium Divinum' as an idea was conceived by Tim Ruffer, Head of Publishing at the RSCM. While exploring projects,he came up with the inspiring idea of composing music for the four periods of daily prayer: Morning, Midday, Evening andNight Prayer from the ‘Common Worship, Daily Prayer’. I have always been attracted to and influenced by the Gregorianand Taizé chants, both of which have echoes in my music. The four days recording this album in the beautiful Portsmouth Cathedral were memorable and I want to convey hugethanks to Convivium Singers and the instrumentalists for their strong performances under the inspirational direction ofEamonn Dougan [assistant conductor with The Sixteen]. I have been blessed since 2009 to have had the opportunity to write for the RSCM, an institution which I admire somuch." Margaret Rizza

Margaret Rizza (b.1929) studied at the Royal College of Music, London and at the National School of Opera, London,and continued her training in Siena and Rome. She sang professionally for 25 years, under the name of MargaretLensky, under such conductors as Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein.She then taught singing at the Guildhall from 1977 to 1994. In 1986 she dedicated herself to the work of spirituality and tothe wider aspect of music in the community, taking groups of students to share their music with people in prisons,hospitals, hospices, inner city schools, MS centres, blind schools and working with people with physical and learningdifficulties. She was closely involved with Dartington International Summer School giving masterclasses and vocalworkshops over many years up until 2008.Margaret Rizza began composing in 1997, her contemplative choral music being widely acclaimed not only in the UK butalso abroad.


Label: Edition Classicsnew label! File Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: EDN1047Barcode: 5065001530517NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackCellophony:Richard Birchall, Matthijs Broersma Pau Codina, Reinoud Ford Ashok Klouda, Bart Lafollette John Myerscough, Ella Rundle

"Edition Records might be a cottage-industryoperation run out of a house in Cardiff, but therewas a time 40 years ago when ECM Recordswas at much the same stage in Munich, andEdition reveals a similar sixth sense foremerging innovators". GUARDIAN

VibrezCellophony

WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde, Prelude to Act I SCHUBERT: Three songs from Schwanengesang D957: Liebesbotschaft, Staendchen, AufenthaltLISZT: La Lugubre Gondola, S.200 No.2 WIENIAWSKI: Scherzo-Tarantelle, Op.16 MENDELSSOHN: Ave Maria, Op.23 No.2 BACH: Prelude No.11 in F major [WTC Bk 2] BARBER: Adagio, Op.11 Giovanni SOLLIMA: Violoncelles, Vibrez!

Edition Records are proud to present the debut release of celebrated cello octet Cellophony and the launch of EditionClassics. With a focus on new chamber music from a diverse collection of small ensembles and soloists, Edition Classicsworks with internationally renowned designers and artists to combine beautiful artwork, lining notes and photography tomatch the superb recording quality of each of its releases, making each ‘Edition’ a truly coherent product.London based cello octet, Cellophony, have carved a reputation as accomplished exponents of not only the standardcello ensemble repertoire, but also a diverse array of specially commissioned arrangements and adaptations. As Finalistsof the Royal Overseas League chamber music competition and Park Lane Group Young Artists, they have receiveduniversal critical acclaim for performances at some of the UK’s most prestigious venues including the SouthbankCentre’s Purcell Room and the Wigmore Hall.

CONCERT: 9TH MARCH, KINGS PLACE 1pm Beyond Cello

"Just blows you away… thrown off with terrific panache." Daily Telegraph

"But the real crowd-tickler was Violoncelles, vibrez! by the Italian cellist Giovanni Sollima. Cinematic and unashamedlysentimental, it had two solo cellos overlapping in increasingly stratospheric sequences, then furiously egging each otherthrough a rabid double-cadenza...the players (all graduates of the Guildhall School) sounded in a different league fromwhen I heard them last summer.” Richard Morrison, The Times


Label: Winter&WinterFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: 910208-2Barcode: 025091020829NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackExaudi: Juliet Fraser, Amy Moore, Tom Williams, Stephen Jeffes, Jonathan Saunders, JimmyHollidayJames Weeks [director]L'Instant Donné:Saori Furukawa, Julien Vanhoutte [violin]Elsa Balas, Soazic Lecornec [viola]; Nicolas Carpentier, Marlène Rivière [cello]

Stefano GERVASONI: Dir - in dirfor 6 voices and string sextet, descdesesasf (for stringtrio)Exaudi L'Instant Donné

"Dir - in dir" by Stefano Gervasoni for six singing voices and string sextet is based on a text by physician and mysticAngelus Silesius from the 17th century. The composer Stefano Gervasoni, born in 1962 in Bergamo in Northern Italy, in2003 set texts from Silesius's "Cherubinischer Wandersmann" to music and contrasted them a year later with a stringsextet. Also for the second piece on the CD, "descdesesasf", he was inspired by German lyric, Paul Celan's"Atemwende". The central theme in both works is not the accurate composing of exactly sung lyrics, but the resolution,the dwindling away of words in the music until both fuse into an inseparable, almost transcendental whole.Stefano Gervasoni began his compositional studies in 1980, encouraged by Luigi Nono. He read music at the Milanconservatory, with György Ligeti in Hungary and Paris, where he teaches today himself composition at the ConservatoireNational Supérieur de Musique et de Danse. Gervasoni has given numerous courses, for example inDarmstadt, Tokyo, Shanghai, at the Columbia and Harvard University. Important artistic encounters connect him withBrian Ferneyhough, Peter Eötvös and Helmut Lachenmann to name only few.The British Exaudi vocal ensemble that has striven since its foundation in 2002 to perform contemporary music, singswith touching sound beauty and pureness. The international press has enthused: "… the extraordinary ensemble of vocalvirtuosi" (The Sunday Times); "the dazzle of Exaudi's vocal pyrotechnics" (Financial Times) ; or "deftly convincingperformances of dizzyingly complex works" (The Guardian).


Label: WergoFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: WER6781-2Barcode: 4010228678123NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: cristalMarco Blaauw [trumpet, double-bell trumpet,cornet, flugelhorn, bukkehorn, conch shells]Markus Schwind [trumpet, double-bell trumpet]Nathan Plante, Ralf-Werner Kopp [trumpet]Christine Chapman[ horn]Bruce Collings [trombone]Michiel Braam [piano]

Marco Blaauw – Angels Composition for trumpetMarco Blaauw

Liza Lim: Wild Winged-One. Solo for C cornet with wacky whistle *Richard Ayres: No. 37C – Sjonnie Kurzak (a broken soul) ascends for four trumpets *Rebecca Saunders: Neither. Duo for double-bell trumpets *Georg Friedrich Haas: … Einklang freier Wesen …Solo version by Marco Blaauw for quartertone flugelhorn *Carl Ruggles: Angels Sextet for muted brassAgata Zubel: Wounded Angel for solo double-bell trumpet *Martin Smolka: Pianissimo for four trumpets with bucket mutes *Martijn Padding: 23 Sentences & Autograph for solo double-bell trumpet *Marco Blaauw: Deathangel. A multi-track recording of two conch shells with piano resonance,bukkehorn, double-bell trumpet, my father’s voice, and ambient noises *Jimmy Rowles: The Peacocks for double-bell trumpet and prepared piano* Premiere recording

The outstanding trumpet player Marco Blaauw has made the further development of the trumpet, its technique andrepertoire his aim and concern. He works closely together both with successful and younger contemporary composers.Some works were written specifically for him or suggested by him.On the present CD, Blaauw recorded a number of extremely varied compositions for trumpet: “The repertoire of this CDcomes from wonderful composers with totally different backgrounds and totally different stories to tell. Somehow I feltthese pieces were related. By practising, playing, performing, and recording, each piece took on its own identity anddeveloped a unique personality. The pieces became alive, turning into spiritual and angelic beings made of vibrating air.”


Label: WergoFile Under: Classical/OtherClassicalCatalogue No: WER2064-2Barcode: 4010228206425NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: cristalMelvyn Poore [tuba]

Death be not ProudMelvyn Poore plays compositions for Tuba and Electronics

Melvyn POORE: Death be not ProudCort LIPPE: Music for Tuba and CompGeorg KATZER: Dialog imaginär 9 für Tuba mit HegelValerio SANNICANDRO: Sonnet X

Melvyn Poore is a top solo performer, world-renowned interpreter and committed musical mediator. In his work he alwayslooks for new possibilities to extend the potential of his instrument, the tuba. The present CD recording gives an overviewof the current state of the studies of the sound researcher Poore: Apart from a composition of his own, this CD containsfurther works by Georg Katzer, Cort Lippe and Valerio Sannicandro. All pieces were commissioned by KunststiftungNRW and recorded and produced at the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics in 2009. In all constellations, Poore ismuch more than an interpreter, he rather is co-creator, designer and technician-performer. In the works, the tuba,interlocked with the live electronics, acts as a meta instrument, while at the same time being the calming influence, thetonally earthy pole of the pieces, no matter whether the works are meticulously fragmented or narratively structured. Inhis work that focusses on the interaction between technology and instrument, as noted by Ludger Brümmer in the CDbooklet, Melvyn Poore is one of the most fascinating artists of contemporary music.

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