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THIS MONTH’S HIGHLIGHTS:

OCT-NOV 2011NEW RELEASE GUIDE

Barenboim plays MOZARTDaniel Barenboim (piano)

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Richard STRAUSSDie Liebe der Danae

MEYERBEER / STRAVINSKYFrederick Ashton

DVOŘÁKGuarneri Quartet

James MACMILLANHarry Christophers & The Sixteen

Arthur HONEGGER (1892 - 1955)Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

Across the Sea Chinese - American Flute ConcertosSharon Bezaly (flute)

Francesco DURANTE (1684-1755)Neapolitan Music for Christmas Vol. 1

Claudio ARRAU (1903–1991)CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No.1 (1954)BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.4(1959)

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CLASSICS

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Leoš JANÁČEK (1854-1928)Glagolitic Mass / Sinfonietta

Christiane Libor (soprano) Ewa Marciniec (alto) Timothy Bentch (tenor)Wojciech Gierlach (bass) Jarosław Malanowicz (organ)Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra • Antoni Wit (conductor)

Leoš Janáček’s dramatic Glagolitic Mass is set to a ninth century

Old Church Slavonic text. With its highly individual synthesis of thunderous brass outbursts, rhythmic energy, radiant melodies and interludes of rapt contemplation, the work has established itself as a unique contribution to the choral repertoire.

Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918)Orchestral Music, Vol 7

Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) Emmanuel Ceysson (harp)Alexandre Doisy (saxophone)Paul Meyer (clarinet)Orchestre National de LyonJun Märkl

An important marker in Debussy’s compositional development, the Fantaisie reflects something of the influence of César Franck’s Symphonic Variations yet embodies his own new aesthetic. Unpublished in Debussy’s lifetime, it is heard here in its 1968 revision.

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ANOTHER NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS and SCROOGE with seasonal works by Liszt,Tchaikovsky and others

Simon Callow (narrator)RTÉ Concert Orchestra Royal Ballet SinfoniaGavin Sutherland

The Christmas net is cast wide in this captivating collection of

seasonal music. John Fox has crafted a delightful Carol Fantasia. Bryan Kelly’s Scrooge is an action-packed Dickens compression, brought to visceral life by esteemed actor Simon Callow, who also narrates Philip Lane’s Another Night Before Christmas, an update by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy of the classic poem.

SLEEP, HOLY BABEA Collection of Christmas LullabiesBlossom StreetHilary Campbell

This programme goes beyond the more usual Christmas carolrepertoire while keeping the traditions and atmosphere of the season intact. Blossom Street is a

popular and ambitious young vocal ensemble, and their flexibility of style is ideal for a selection from the new Shorter House published collection which ranges from the ancient to the brand new. This fine recording will be a first choice for originality this Christmas.

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Dmitry SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-75) / New Babylon

Basel SinfoniettaMark Fitz-Gerald

World Première Recording of the Complete Score

This recording of New Babylon, one of Shostakovich’s most inventive and truly symphonic film scores, is the first complete recording of

all the surviving music from the original ‘lost’ manuscript full score and the first to use five solo string players only, as conceived by the composer.

Gustav MAHLER (1860-1911)Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth)

Jane Henschel (mezzo-soprano)Gregory Kunde (tenor)Houston Symphony Hans Graf (conductor)

Known for his wide range of repertoire and creative programming, Hans Graf is the fifteenth and one of the

longest serving music directors of the Houston Symphony. In this recording, Graf is joined by two highly acclaimed singers: American mezzo-soprano Jane Henschel and American tenor Gregory Kunde.

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Bruno MADERNA (1920-1973)Piano Concertos • Quadrivium

Aldo Orvieto (piano)Fausto Bongelli (piano II)Gruppo 40.6Ochestra della Fondazione‘Arena di Verona’Carlo Miotto

Long considered lost, the two entirely distinctive versions of Bruno Maderna’s strikingly expressive 1942 Piano Concerto here receive their premiere recording. Maderna was still immersed in the world of Bartok as a brilliant young graduate, and this influence is again strong in the more complex and intricate Concerto for two pianos and instruments.

Wilhelm STENHAMMAR (1871-1927)Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2Niklas Sivelöv (piano) Malmö Symphony OrchestraMario Venzago (conductor)

A virtuoso pianist and renowned conductor in his day, Wilhelm Stenhammar achieved early success with his magnificently

wide-ranging and Brahmsian Piano Concerto No. 1. After many years of mixed fortunes as a composer he found his personal voice in the remarkable Piano Concerto No. 2. Conceived as a single span, this vividly affirmative romantic masterpiece was the wellspring for his Serenade (8.572186) and Symphony No. 2 (8.553888). Award-winning soloist Niklas Sivelöv has also recorded Stenhammar’s solo piano works (8.553730). 8.5722598.572642

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SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphonies No 6Symphony No 12‘The Year 1917’

Royal Liverpool PhilharmonicVasily Petrenko

Born in 1976 in St Petersburg, Vasily Petrenko was appointed Principal Conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

in 2006 and in 2009 became Chief Conductor until 2015. He was the Classical BRIT Awards Male Artist of the Year 2010. In 2009 he was awarded Honorary Doctorates by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool Hope University. Shostakovich Symphony No.10 with the RLPO under Vasily Petrenko has just won Best Orchestral Recording at the “2011 Gramophone Classical Music Awards”.

John IRELANDPiano Concerto in E flat

Legend • First Rhapsody in F sharp minor • Pastoral • Indian Summer A Sea Idyll • Three Dances

John Lenehan, pianoRoyal Liverpool PhilharmonicJohn Wilson

John Ireland’s radiant Piano Concerto was written for his protégée Helen Perkin, and is infused with her sense of vitality. The result is a brilliant work of high spirits and expressive longing. Perkin also premièred Legend, a dark, brooding evocation of the ancient landscape of Harrow Hill on the Sussex Downs.

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Charles DICKENSHard Times (unabridged)

Read by Anton Lesser

‘NOW, what I want is, Facts.’ One of Dickens’s most famous opening lines sets the scene for this powerful novel which questions the harsh, rational attitudes predominating in a world of fierce industrial growth. Dickens vividly presents industrial

Coketown — a quintessential northern English mill town in the 19th century — and the overbearing figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind with his utilitarian philosophy; and contrasts it with the right of every person to enjoy life regardless of social class. Particularly praised by renowned English critic John Ruskin (1819–1900), this moral fable is arguably Dickens’s most significant work.

Mervyn PEAKEThe Gormenghast TrilogyMaeve GILMORETitus Awakes (from a fragment by Mervyn Peake, abridged)

Read by Rupert Degas

The Gormenghast Trilogy was one of the most unusual cult cycles of the 20th-century. In this surreal, darkly comic fantasy

telling the story of Titus, 77th Earl of Groan, Mervyn Peake created a vivid world with strong characters enveloped in intrigue and fearful intent. Here are the three novels completed by Peake, and a fourth, a completion of a fragment left at his early death in 1968. Rupert Degas, an astonishingly versatile and compelling reader, reads all four books.

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BUSONI Piano Concerto in C Major Op.39

Roberto Cappello, pianoCorale Luca MarenzioOrchestra Sinfonica di Roma Francesco La Vecchia

Busoni’s monumental Piano Concerto was completed in 1904 and remains the longest piano concerto to have been heard in

public. He thought of the work as his ‘Italian Symphony’ but this Concerto for piano, orchestra and male chorus is an unclassifiable product, and an extraordinary synthesis of Austro-German and Italian impulses.

GRIEGMusic for String OrchestraFrom Holberg’s Time / Lyric Suite

Malmö SymphonyBjarte Engeset

Grieg’s beautiful works for string orchestra often owe their origin topoetic inspiration or to mountain vistas. Some were based on pianooriginals, including the Holberg

Suite, a masterpiece of invention. All of these pieces show Grieg’s assimilation of Norwegian folk culture and his lyrical mastery, through which he sought to ‘give expression to the hidden harmonies in our folk melodies’. 8.5724038.572523

Peter WHITFIELDThe History of Western Art

Read by Sebastian Comberti

What is art ? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves? This history of art shows how painters, sculptorsand architects have expressed the

belief-systems of their age; religious, political and aesthetic.

H. Rider HAGGARDShe (abridged)

Read by Bill Homewood

H. Rider Haggard’s novel about a supremely beautiful but vindictive African goddess by the name of ‘She’ is one of the best-selling books of all time. This wonderful multi-layered novel is at once a disarming imaginative fantasy, a fast-paced

adventure story and a fascinating examination of the themes of death, sexuality and power.

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Eleanor ALBERGA (b.1949)Roald Dahl’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Danny DeVito, Joanna Lumley, Griff Rhys Jones,Taliesin Orchestra, Peter Ash A wonderful and magical retelling of Roald Dahl’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs recorded in 1998 with new original music by Eleanor Alberga and until now never commercially released. The ideal Christmas present!

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Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)

Rhapsodies, Intermezzi, KlavierstückeRhapsodies, Op.79 Nos. 1 and 2Intermezzi, Op. 117Intermezzo, Op.116 No.6Klavierstücke, Op.118 and 119Jonas Vitaud

Jonas Vitaud is an acclaimed young French pianist, and this

is his debut solo CD recording. Jonas has been passionate about Brahms since an early age, and this CD is the culmination of a long-established desire to record Brahms’s music ‘A deep, resonant tone, the way he plays immediately captures the attention and works miracles’ (Alain Cochard, Diapason) ORC100020

Tristan PERICH1-BIT Symphony

Tristan Perich Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony is an electronic composition in five movements on a single microchip. Though housed in a CD jewel case, 1-Bit Symphony is not a recording in the traditional sense; it literally “performs” its music live when

turned on. A complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and assembled by hand—plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself.

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David LANGThis was Written by Hand

Andrew Zolinsky (piano)

This was Written by Hand was written for the pianist Andrew Zolinsky and was premièred June 23, 2003 at Wigmore Hall, London. It is dedicated to PeterHelm, in honour of his 50th birthday.

‘With his winning of the Pulitzer Prize …Lang, once a postminimalist enfant terrible has solidified his standing as an American master.’ -The New Yorker CA21073

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cantaloupe music

Unanswered Questions

Stefanie Schumacher was born near Freiburg and is a member of the “Ensemble Zeitsprung”. She performs regularly as a guest with other contemporary ensembles such as the “Ensemble Oktopus”.With works that she has herself commissioned, her goal is to allow the direct emotional expression particularly associated with the accordion in folk music to influence the contemporary creation of new music for her instrument.

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HOLST: The Planets (f.Organ)

Gustav Holst’s most popular work is The Planets. The work is usually heard in a luxuriant orchestral instrumentation in the concert hall. The music is often used as a background to fantasy films or video-games. Interpreters of pop-music such as Sarah Brightman, Frank Zappa and Vangelis have also quoted parts of The Planets in their own pieces.

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BOCCHERINI: Symphonies Neues BERLINER 

Kammerorchester / Michael Erxleben

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BOCCHERINI: String Quartets. And Quintets

Petersen Quartett

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Across the Sea – Chinese-American Flute Concertos

Sharon Bezaly (flute) Singapore Symphony OrchestraLan Shui (conductor) The three composers represented on this disc are all resident in the USA, but have their roots across the Pacific Ocean, in China. Philosophical, musical and literary

aspects of this Chinese heritage are in evidence in the works recorded here. Zhou Long has composed his Five Elements inspired by the traditional Chinese concept of the five ‘elemental energies’ (wu xing): metal, wood, water, fire and earth. In Zhou Long’s flute concerto each element is represented in a separate movement in which the activities of yin and yang are manifested as cyclic changes of nature regulating life on earth. BIS-CD-1739

GUBAIDULINA – In tempus praesens /Glorious Percussion

Vadim Gluzman (violin); Glorious Percussion (Anders Loguin, Anders Haag, Mika Takehara, Eirik Raude, Robyn Schulkowsky); Lucerne Symphony Orchestra Jonathan Nott (conductor)

Coinciding with her 80th birthday, this substantial addition to Sofia Gubaidulina’s discography on BIS presents two recent works by the grande dame of contemporary music. As always with this composer, the music is intimately connected to her religious and philosophical beliefs.

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Carl Maria Von WEBERCLARINET CONCERTOS 1 & 2CONCERTINO

Karl-Heinz SteffensBamberger SymphonikerRadoslaw Szulc

SACD Hybrid Surround-Sound 5.1Original Multichannel Recording

Johnnes BRAHMSHaydn-VariationenSerenade No. 1 · 3 Ungarische Tänze

Bamberger Symphoniker Robin Ticciati

SACD Hybrid Surround-Sound 5.1Original Multichannel Recording

TUD 7183 (SACD Hybrid)TUD7159 (SACD Hybrid)

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VIVALDI – Concertos for Strings

Arte dei Suonatori It is a familiar fact that Antonio Vivaldi was a prime mover in the creation of the solo concerto, but what is less well known is that he also was the leading exponent of the older concerto a quattro – music in four parts, with several

players to a part, intended for what we nowadays would call a string orchestra with continuo. As Vivaldi expert Michael Talbot explains in his informative liner notes, these works are notable not only for their beauty, but also for their experimental character and for providing the most important examples of fugal writing in Vivaldi’s

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KUUSISTO – Orchestral Works

Pekka Kuusisto (violin) Jorma Hynninen (baritone) Lahti Symphony OrchestraJaakko Kuusisto

Ilkka Kuusisto began his career as a jazz pianist at the age of 15, and has since been active in a number of fields, including the theatre, as an organist, a choral conductor

and as chief executive of the Finnish National Opera. With such a background, it is not surprising that as a composer he is highly eclectic – a quality which Kuusisto has embraced wholeheartedly, comparing the result to ‘a stew that I am constantly stirring.’

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Im Herbst – choral works by BRAHMS and SCHUBERT

Ingrid Andsnes (piano) Kåre Nordstoga, (organ) Catherine Bullock and Madelene Berg (viola) Øystein Birkeland and Ole Eirik Ree (cello)Dan Styffe (double bass)Det Norske Solistkor / Grete Pedersen (conductor)

‘Some of the most striking and moving singing put down on disc for years’ is how White Night (BIS-SACD-1871), the previous release with the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir and its conductor Grete Pedersen, was described on the website of Gramophone. Having focused on music from their home country before, the team here presents a German programme, featuring two of the most influential composers in 19th-century choral music: Johannes Brahms and Franz Schubert.

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The Father, the Son and the Godfather

Paradiso Musicale(Dan Laurin, recorder; Henrik Frendin viola; Mats Olofsson, cello; Anna Paradiso, harpsichord)

The Father, the Son and the Godfather is a snapshot from a time when art music escaped from the courts and churches. Domestic music-making

in the company of close friends became a treasured extension of social interaction, and the resulting boom in ‘market opportunities’ offered composers a tremendous freedom in their choices of genres and styles, as demonstrated by this colourful programme.

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Claudio ARRAU (1903–1991)

CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No.1 (1954)BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.4

(1959)

Claudio Arrau, Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Otto Klemperer,Christoph von Dohnányi 

Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau was described at various times as

‘Prince’, ‘Emperor’ and ‘King’ of the keyboard, conveying something of the awe in which he was held. Few artists of any generation prompted such consistent praise, a pianist who embraced virtually every part of the repertoire, including marathon cycles of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin and Liszt.

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Carlo Maria GIULINI (1914–2005)ROSSINI: Il barbiere di Siviglia (1960)

Rolando Panerai, Teresa Berganza, Luigi Alva, Fernando Corena, Ivo Vinco, Ronald Lewis, Josephine Veasey, Robert Bowman, The Covent Garden Chorus, The Covent Garden Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini

Carlo Maria Giulini was without question, along with fellow Italians Arturo Toscanini, Victor de Sabata and Guido Cantelli, one of the greatest conductors of his generation. His opera performances at Covent Garden were landmarks for the Company, notably Verdi’s Don Carlos, Falstaff, Il trovatore and La Traviata.

Maurice RAVEL :Mehr als Bolero

Peter FitzHendrikje FitzSibylle Briner

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Birth of the Strings

Birth Of The CelloJulius Berger

Birth Of The String QuartetCasal Quartett

Birth Of The ViolinRebekka Hartmann

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Otto KLEMPERER (1885–1973)

MENDELSSOHN: Midsummer Nights Dream (Incidental Music)Käthe Möller-Siepermann (soprano), Hanna Ludwig (mezzo)Kölner Rundfunkchor Chorus, Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.8Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester

Otto Klemperer was widely regarded as one of the leadingconductors of the 20th century along with his compatriots,Wilhelm Furtwängler and Bruno Walter. These performancesdate from 1955, a period when Klemperer was at his mostauthoritative, spending a number of seasons guest conductingin Cologne with great success.

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Julius KATCHEN (1926–1969)

BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No.1, Op.15CHOPIN: Ballade No.3, Op.47LISZT: Mephisto Waltz No.1 S.514SCHUMANN: Prophet Bird Op.82, No.7ALBÉNIZ: Triana (from Iberia Book 2)

Julius Katchen (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra Rudolf Kempe (conductor)

The American pianist Julius Katchen (1926–1969) was a child prodigy who at age 11 performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Ormandy. In 1946 Katchen toured Europe, settled in Paris in late 1947 and became a frequent performer on the European concert platform. His technique was ‘gold plated’ and despite his early death at aged 43 from cancer, he had a large discography which still sells today.

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CLASSICS

The NightingaleNew Nordic Music for Recorder and Choir

Michala Petri (recorders)Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Stephen Layton

All World Premiere Recordings!

Four modern masters explore the musical possibilities of combining the recorder and choir!

Featuring the virtuoso Danish National Vocal Ensemble under the direction of Stephen Layton.

Recorded in state-of-the-art Super Audio Sound!

The “idea” of combining the recorder with a choir is certainly nothing new; the recorder has joined the human voice in song for almost as long as the instrument has existed. The recorder is in a sense the closest instrument to the human voice, producing a pure sound without mechanisms, reeds or elaborate mouthpieces to alter the tone. However, until recently, few contemporary composers have explored the expressive potential that this combination can deliver.

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Gülsin Onay plays LISZT, HAYDN & SCHUBERT

Gülsin Onay (piano)

One of the greatest musical artists of modern Turkey, Gülsin Onay is an exceptional phenomenon, and Sono Luminus is excited to release her latest project, Liszt, Haydn, Schubert. Listeners will marvel at the kaleidoscopic range of colours

she can produce from the instrument, with her unique touch in which even the least important, fleeting note has its own special meaning.

Gülsin Onay excels both in recital and in concerto, playing alongside many leading orchestras - among them the Philharmonia, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, Wiener Symphoniker, the Radio Symphony Orchestras of Copenhagen and Helsinki, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic, Sinfonia Varsovia, and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic - and conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenzy, Erich Bergel, Michael Boder, Andrey Boreyko, Jörg Faerber, Edward Gardner, Emmanuel Krivine, Ingo Metzmacher, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jose Serebrier, Vassily Sinaisky and Stanislaw Wislocki.

Ames Piano Quartet play HAHN, SCHMITT & DUBOIS

Ames Piano Quartet

Sono Luminus has once again partnered with the Ames Piano Quartet to create their latest release, Hahn - Schmitt - Dubois, a celebration of the masterful work of composer Théodore Dubois and two of his most gifted students, Reynaldo Hahn and Florent Schmitt.

The Ames Piano Quartet, the resident chamber music ensemble at Iowa State University, holds a distinctive position in the chamber music field as one of the few professional touring piano quartets in the world. The combination of their lush string sound, blended with the orchestral quality of the piano, produces an exquisite and rare sonority. The Washington Post aptly described it as “one of the most heavenly combinations of instruments around.”

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Robert SCHUMANN(1810–1856)Felix MENDELSSOHN(1809–1847)

Schumann: Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 131Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO1

Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra,Paavo Järvi

This CD features German star violinist Christian Tetzlaff with virtuoso Romantic concertos by Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann. The Mendelssohn Concerto is one of the most frequently performed violin concertos of all time, with an unfailing popularity among audiences. Also included is Schumann’s more seldom recorded Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, which he completed shortly beforewriting the Concerto.

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Einojuhani RAUTAVAARA(b. 1928)

Works for Children’s ChoirMarjatta the Lowly Maiden

The Carpenter’s Son; Suite de Lorca Lorulei; Waltz of the Innocents Wenn sich die Welt auftut; Love Never Dies; Children’s Mass

Tapiola Choir. Tapiola Youth SO, Pasi Hyökki

This new release features works for children’s choir by Einojuhani Rautavaara, performed by the world-renowned Tapiola Choir and their director Pasi Hyökki. Mostly written for the Tapiola Choir, these pieces cover a wide range of topics and moods, extending from humorous nursery rhymes to more serious philosophical issues and religious solemnity. ODE 1169-2

James MACMILLAN

Miserere; The Strathclyde Motets; O bone Jesu; Tenebrae Responsories

Harry Christophers & The Sixteen

Continuing their work with Scotland’s most prominent living composer, James MacMillan, Harry Christophers and The Sixteen will release the première recording of his exquisite new work Miserere for the CORO label in November. The Sixteen’s UK premiere of theMiserere at the 2010 Spitalfields Festival won both public and critical acclaim.

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Arthur HONEGGER (1892 - 1955)Pastorale d’été (Summer Pastoral); Symphony No. 4 (‘Deliciae Basilienses’);Une Cantate de Noël (A Christmas Cantata)

Christopher Maltman (baritone), London PhilharmonicOrchestra and Choir, New London Children’s Choir, Vladimir Jurowski

Today the Swiss-born composer Arthur Honegger is often remembered as a member of ‘Les Six’ – that embodiment of 1920s Parisian modernism. But far from rejecting late Romantic expression, Honegger embraced it. In these live concert recordings, Vladimir Jurowski conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in three of Honegger’s most lyrical works: the dreamy Pastorale d’été, the nostalgic Fourth Symphony, subtitled ‘The Delights of Basel’ and his final composition, the reflective and heartfelt Cantate de Nöel.

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Paul BEN-HAIM (1897-1984)Symphony No. 1

Fanfare to Israel; Symphonic Metamorphoses on Bach Chorale “Wer nun den lieben Gott laesst walten”

NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover,Israel Yinon

Paul Ben-Haim was a Jewish composer who left Germany for

Palestine, then a British mandate, not long after the Nazis came to power. Under his Hebrew name, Ben-Haim soon became one of the pioneers of classical music in Israel. His compositions are in a late Romantic vein with Middle Eastern overtones.

Georg Friedrich HANDEL(1685-1759)Apollo e Dafne

Apollo e Dafne “La terra e liberate” HWV 122; Concerto grosso op. 3/2 HWV 313; Overture HWV 336; Suites HWV 352 & 353 “Die verwandelte Daphne”; Suite HWV 354 “Der beglueckte Florindo”; Chaconne from “Terpsichore” HWV 8b

Andrea Lauren Brown (Dafne), Dominik Woerner (Apollo), cantus firmus consort, Andreas Reize

The cantus firmus consort under the experienced leadership of Andreas Reize present Handel’s Apollo e Dafne together with four other compositions by Handel, including two suites from the lost opera Die verwandelte Daphne and a chaconne from the ballet Terpsichore. 777228-2777417-2

Felix Bartholdy MENDELSSOHN(1809-1847)String Quartets Vol. 1String Quartets No. 2 op. 13 & No. 6 op. 80

Minguet Quartett

This is the start of a new series dedicated to the seven String Quartets of Felix Mendelssohn in gripping interpretations by the

Minguet Quartett. His second quartet was composed in 1827, the year of Beethoven’s death, and in it quite clearly drew on the tone and formal structures from the late composer’s String Quartet op. 132 without becoming his epigone.

Fritz von BOSE (1865-1945)Piano Works

Suite Nr. 2 op. 20;Drei Klavierstuecke op. 10;Elegie op. 21/1;Thema und Variationen op. 17;Suite Nr. 1 op. 9

Alexandra Oehler (piano)

This new CPO recording presents a selection of piano works by the German pianist and composer Fritz von Bose. Having spent the majority of his life living and working in Leipzig, he became known as the ‘Leipzig Brahms’ and his music displayed a certain lightness reminiscent of Mendelssohn.

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Wilhelm STENHAMMAR (1871-1927)

String Quartets 3-6

Oslo String Quartet

Unlike Grieg, Nielsen and Sibelius, Stenhammar never attained the status of a musical icon in his native country Sweden. On this new SACD recording of Wilhelm Stenhammar’s

String Quartets 3-6, the Oslo String Quartet impressively demonstrates that he merits much greater representation in today’s concert world than is currently the case. It has been said that Stenhammar’s six string quartets are the most important written between those of Brahms and Bartok. Tonally, they range from the middle late Romantics to a style akin to mature Sibelius. 777426-2 (2 Hybrid SACDs)

Ermanno WOLF-FERRARI(1876-1948)

Orchestral Works

Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmer

During the decades prior to World War I, Ermanno Wolf Ferrari was one of the most-performed living opera composers next to Puccini

and Strauss. After the early 1930s Wolf Ferrari largely withdrew from the stage and composed the series of orchestral works now being presented by us on this CD. These are works comparable to thelate works of Strauss and Pfitzner.

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Francesco DURANTE (1684-1755)Neapolitan Music for Christmas Vol. 1Robert Mameli, Ursula Eittinger, Andreas Post, Stephan MacLeod, Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens

Francesco Durante was one of the great Neapolitan church composers and teachers during the first half of the eighteenth century in Naples. He chose to focus on sacred music

and his Magnificat in B flat major is doubtless the best known, most beloved, most performed, and most recorded work by him among the Neapolitan Christmas compositions on volume 1.

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Richard WETZ (1875-1935)Ein Weihnachtsoratorium auf alt-deutscheGedichte op. 53Marietta Zumbuelt, Máté Sólyom-Nagy,Dombergchor Erfurt, Philharmonischer Chor Erfurt,Thueringisches Kammerorchester Weimar,George Alexander Albrecht

After Richard Wetz’s Requiem, a sacred composition regarded as the summit of his oeuvre, we are now releasing his Christmas Oratorio to Old German Poems, which occupied him for two years (1927-29).

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Late String Quartets, Nos. 12–14Terzetto

Guarneri Quartet

‘These are excellent performances, one and all. The group has the ability (similar to the great Czech ensembles) of being able to attack a phrase with sharp, clean rhythms without coarsening their tone or stiffening

the phrase, and this is critical in Dvořák … The result is stylish, lively, and singing, just as it should be.’(www.classicstoday.com, March 2009)

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Late String Quartets, Nos. 13–15Quartettsatz

Guarneri Quartet

‘Lovely playing, as nearly always from these artists... The Quartettsatz was written four years before the A minor Quartet. There’s certainly nolack of shivers and shudders here:

indeed, you get the impression that the players were deliberately saving up all their disquiet for the key of C minor. The recording quality is very natural throughout.’ (Gramophone, February 1973)

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WAGNERScenes and Arias

Kirsten Flagstad, Lauritz Melchior,Gordon Dilworth, San FranciscoOpera Orchestra, Victor SymphonyOrchestra, Edwin McArthur, The Philadelphia Orchestra,Eugene Ormandy

‘For sheer vocal opulence in Wagner, these tracks would be hard to equal. Her ‘Ho-jo-to-ho!’ in 1935 announced on the Gramophone her arrival as a Wagnerian prima donna and the splendour of the singing is unsurpassed.’ (Gramophone, October 1990)

JANÁČEK

Piano MusicOn an Overgrown Path; Sonata; In the Mists

Rudolf Firkušvny

A comparatively tiny body of music – fitting on one CD – Janáček’s piano music may lie less easily under the fingers than (to cite a contemporary miniaturist) that of Anton Webern, but it’s

affecting and intriguing out of all proportion to its size, fromthe violent Sonata inspired by a brutally quelled demonstration of social unrest, through the elliptical tonepoem In the Mists, to the almost diary-like intimacy of From an Overgrown Path.

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Missa: ‘Et ecce terrae motus’; Dies Irae

Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel

The most famous work of this 15th-century French polyphonist,the ‘Earthquake’ Mass is named after a plainchant, but perhaps also refers to the nickname given to his formidable employers, the Duke Alfonso d’Este of Ferrara. Brumel’s waves of immaculate multi-voice polyphony may impress us now, but the principal reason for the Mass’s survival at all is the esteem in which it was held in its day.

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Mariss Jansons conductsSCHUBERT and GOUNOD(Live Recording, Munich, March 2007)

Franz SCHUBERT: Mass No. 2 G major, D 167Charles GOUNOD: Messe solennelle en l’honneur de Sainte-Cécile (St. Cecilia Mass)

Luba Orgonášová (soprano), Christian Elsner (tenor), Gustáv Beláček (bass), Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons

Schubert and Gounod: two popular nineteenth-century orchestral masses united on one CD. After Haydn’s Harmony Mass the second BR-KLASSIK CD with masses under the direction of Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons.

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ART BLAKEYThe Sesjun Radio Shows

CHET BAKERThe Sejun Radio Shows

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A Concert for New YorkIn Remembrance and Renewal -The Tenth Anniversary of 9/11

Gustav MAHLER: Symphony No. 2,“Resurrection”

New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano)New York Choral Artists

The New York Philharmonic - America’s pre-eminent symphony orchestra - gave “A Concert for New York” to mark the tenth anniversary of the events of 9/11.

The Philharmonics: Waltzes by Johann STRAUSS

Arrangements by Arnold Schoenberg“Kaiserwalzer“ Op. 437, “Lagunenwalzer“ Op. 411, “Rosen aus dem Süden“ Op. 388Arrangement by Alban Berg: “Wein, Weib und Gesang!“ Op. 333Arrangement by Anton Webern:“Schatzwalzer” Op. 418Arrangement by Leopold Godowsky: “Alt-Wien“Arrangement by Fritz Kreisler: “Marche miniature viennoise“,“Schön Rosmarin“, “Caprice viennois“Arrangement by Tibor Ková : “Yiddische Mame“

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The Little Mermaid

A ballet by JOHN NEUMEIERMusic by LERA AUERBACHBased on a story by Hans Christian Andersen

SAN FRANCISCO BALLETSolo dancer YUAN YUAN TANDirected by Thomas Grimm

Bonus material includes the making of The Little Mermaid.

Kinshasa Symphony

A film by Claus Wischmann andMartin Baer

The award winning film about asymphony orchestra in the Congo.

Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste,Armand Diangienda

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Boston Symphony Orchestra

This series of DVDs will make the publicly broadcast BSO concerts from this era available for the first time since they were broadcast. This rare material represents some of the earliest televised concerts with the Boston Symphony and Erich Leinsdorf, and has been restored using the greatest care and state-of-the-art techniques. It is of exceptional musical interest and historic value.

FONTEYN/SOMES: TCHAIKOVSKY

Tchaikovsky’s three ballet masterpieces are all rare studio performances from the 1950s, featuring the legendary Margot Fonteyn. All three performances are released here for the first time on DVD with the extracts from Swan Lake representing one of the earliest appearances of Fonteyn on film.

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Günter WANDBRUCKNERSymphony No.5

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Renowned for his interpretations of Bruckner’s Symphonies, Günter Wand had a great affinity for Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony, as noted by the composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann. His first recording of the work became a great success, winning the German Record Prize in 1978. Wand’s London concerts with the BBC Symphony as Principal Guest Conductor acquired legendary status in his later years, rewarding him with the recognition that was so greatly deserved.

The ICA Classics Legacy series presents a collection of historic performances by some of the world’s greatest artists. These performances are released on DVD for the first time, incorporating rare archive footage that has been expertly and lovingly restored.

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Wolfgang Amadeus MOZARTLe Nozze di Figaro(Live recording from the Salzburg Festival, 1966)

Ingvar Wixell, Claire Watson, Reri Grist, Edith Mathis, Walter Berry, David Thaw, Zoltan Kelemen, Margarethe Bence, Chor der Wiener Staatsoper die Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm

No other work written for the music theatre has been performed at the Salzburg Festival as often as Le Nozze di Figaro.

Between Gods and DemonsA film by Marita Stocker

Featuring: Nora London, Hilde Zadek, Neil Shicoff, Catherine Malfitano, DeborahPolaski

George London was one of the mostimpressive bass-baritones of the post-war era. He sang on the side of Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi and Nicolai Gedda, to name only a few, and captured the audience’s hearts with his distinctive voice and his charismatic stage presence.

Jirví KYLIÁNForgotten MemoriesA film by Don Kent and Christian Dumais-Lvowski

Marlis Petersen, Kristina Antonie Fehrs, Fran Lubahn, Giuseppe Varano, James Rutherford, Opera Graz, Tecwyn Evans

Jirví Kylián is a living legend. He is the creator of more than one hundred works, several of which form part of the repertories of some of the greatest dance centres throughout the world.

Richard STRAUSSDie Liebe der Danae

Manuela Uhl, Mark Delevan, Matthias Klink, Thomas Blondelle, Burkhard Ulrich, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Andrew Litton

As Europe was about to go up in flames, Strauss was pouring his entire arsenal of melodic beauty and lushness into the score of Die Liebe der Danae. The rarely performed opera is nothing if not a feast for Strauss lovers, with arias, ensembles and orchestral interludes blazing with sumptuous colours and rich textures.

Giuseppe VERDILa Traviata

Marlis Petersen, Kristina Antonie Fehrs, Fran Lubahn, Giuseppe Varano, James RutherfordOpera Graz, Tecwyn Evans

The first ever production of La Traviata by Peter Konwitschny ofGraz Opera is a highly-focused, intelligent reading of the music that was widely acclaimed by audiences.

Jaques OFFENBACHLa Belle Hélène(Live recording from the Zurich Opera House, 1997)

Vesselina Kasarova, Deon van der Walt, Carlos Chausson, Volker Vogel,Oliver Widmer,Zurich Opera House, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

The story of the Greek queen who started off the Trojan war is, in this version, a humorous and satirical caricature of the vulgar, decadent Parisian upper classes of Offenbach’s own day.

Kurt WEILLAufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny(Live recording from the Salzburg Festival, 1998)

Gwyneth Jones, Catherine Malfitano, Jerry Hadley, Roy Cornelius Smith,Wilbur Pauley, Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, Dennis Russel Davies

Peter Zadek’s production of the opera, which combines Brecht’s text with Kurt Weill’s music, was recorded at the 1998 Salzburg festival. The opera was one of the greatest successes

of its day when it originally opened in 1931, and ran for over fifty performances.

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Wolfgang Amadeus MOZARTDie Zauberflöte(Live recording from the Salzburg Festival, 1982)

Edita Gruberova, Peter Schreier, Ileana Cotrubas, Edda Moser, Ann Murray, Martti Taleva, Christian Boesch, Wiener Staatsoper, James Levine

This production of Mozart’s Magic Flute received enormous andunanimous approval, when it was premiered in Salzburg.

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MEYERBEER / STRAVINSKYFrederick Ashton

Les Patineurs; Divertissement; Scènes de ballet

Darcey Bussell & Jonathan Cope, Leanne Benjamin & Carlos Acosta, Miyako Yoshida, Ivan Putrov, Steven McRae, Tamara RojoRoyal Ballet, Barry Wordsworth

Founder choreographer of The Royal Ballet, Frederick Ashton created more than 10 ballets over a 60 year career. Showcasing three of his shorter works, this disc reflects the breadth of his sophisticated, elegant and widely popular style. Les Patineurs evokes the Edwardian skating rink, with all its youthful charm and humour, in contrast to Scènes de Ballet where sharp geometric shapes and the music of Igor Stravinsky are combined to create perhaps Ashton’s most modernist work. Divertissements, a collection of eight short dances, features some of Ashton’s most lyrical choreography, including pas de deux set to Romantic masterpieces by Tchaikovsky and Massenet.

A Musical Journey –CZECH REPUBLIC • AUSTRIA • GERMANY • SWITZERLAND • BELGIUM

Music by Haydn

The Places • The tour visits historic sites in the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium. These include the castles of Litomyšl and Konopiště in Bohemia, and the historic town of Mělnik, the Horological Museum at Le Locle in Switzerland, relics of war from the Bavarian Army Museum in Ingolstadt, and a glimpseof the Belgian Château of Gaasbeek.

The Music • Music for the tour consists of string quartets by Claude Debussy and by Maurice Ravel, thirteenyears his junior. Debussy’s String Quartet, Op. 10, dates from 1893, while Ravel’s single String Quartet waswritten in 1902. Both works are highly characteristic of their relative composers.

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A Musical Journey – CHRISTMAS GOES BAROQUEA Musical Tour of Switzerland, Germany and Belgium

Christmas music in the style of Bach, Handel and VivaldiArranged by Peter Breiner

The tour lingers for some time in Zurich, in its celebration of Christmas. There is a visit to thefamous Toy Museum at Nuremberg, a city well known as the centre of the German toymaking industry.

A Musical Journey – GERMANY • ENGLANDBattle Music

Music by Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov, Liszt, Ippolitov-Ivanov

The tour visits the Tin Soldier Museum at Kulmbach, the National Army Museum, the Wellington Memorial and St Paul’s Cathedral in London, and the Bavarian Army Museum at Ingolstadt, with its relics of the Thirty Years War and of conflicts with the Ottoman Empire.

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PERGOLESIAdriano in SiriaMarina Comparato, Lucia Cirillo, Annamaria Dell’Oste, Nicole Heaston, Stefano Ferrari,Francesca LombardiAccademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone

For the festivities marking the Pergolesi’s tercentenary in his native Jesi, Ignacio García created a new staging of the imperial drama Adriano in Siria. A fine Italian cast and the distinguished Accademia Bizantina are led by the Accademia’s director, Ottavio Dantone.

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STRAVINSKYThe Rake’s Progress

Miah Persson, Topi Lehtipuu, Clive Bayley, Matthew Rose, Susan Gorton, Elena Manistina, Graham Clark, The Glyndebourne Chorus, LondonPhilharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski

In this celebrated Glyndebourne Festival production, David Hockney’s designs for director John Cox reinterpret the Hogarth etchings that inspired the opera’s libretto, written for Stravinsky by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman.

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BARENBOIM PLAYS MOZART

K.283 G major, K.284 D major, K.475 + K457 C minor, Recorded at Schloß Haimhausen, 1989K. 309 C major, K. 545 C major, Recorded at Schloß Haimhausen, 1989K. 279 C major, K.280 F major, K. 281 B flat major, K.282 E flat major, K.311 D major, Recorded at Schloß Haimhausen, 1990K.310 A minor, K. 330 C major, K. 570 B flat major, Recorded at Max-Joseph-Saal, Münchner Residenz, 1988K. 331 A major, K.332 F major, K.333 B flat major, K. 533 F major, K.576 D major, Recorded at Max-Joseph-Saal, Münchner Residenz, 1990

Daniel Barenboim (piano)

The Grammy award-winning pianist Daniel Barenboim, long known for his Mozart interpretations, turns his attention to Mozart’s piano sonatas, a body of work that, while forming the core of the pianist’s repertory, is not often heard in the concert hall. These sonatas showcase Mozart’s genius for the small-scale, and truly shine in Barenboim’s masterful rendering. This collection includes all eighteen sonatas, from well-known works like K 545 in C major and K 331 in A major, to lesser-known gems like K 284 in D major, the Fantasia and Sonata in C minor, K 475/457 and were recorded from 1988-1990.

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ABBADO – BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos. 1-9

Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Karita Mattila, Violeta Urmana, Thomas Moser, Eike Wilm Schulte, Swedish Radio Choir,Eric Ericson Chamber Choir

Recorded live at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome,February 2001 (Nos. 1-8); Recorded live at the Philharmonie, Berlin, May 2000 (No.9)

These recordings are the fruit of decades of Claudio Abbado’sdeep involvement with Beethoven.

Box-Set: Italian Operas

DVD 1: ROSSINI: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Vesselina Kasarova, Chorus andOrchestra of the Opernhaus Zürich, Nello Santi)DVD 2: VERDI: La Traviata (Kristiane Kaiser, Slovak PhilharmonicOrchestra, Ernst Märzendorfer)DVD 3: PUCCINI: Tosca(Maria Guleghina, Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Muti)DVD 4: CILEA: Adriana Lecouvreur(Sergei Larin, Giorgio Giuseppini, Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli)

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Box-Set: Masters of American Music

Charlie Parker; Billie Holiday; Thelonious Monk; Sarah Vaughan;The Story of Jazz

Masters of American Music is an award-winning television series – as entertaining as it is educational and memorable – that celebrate a pantheon of the greatest innovators in Jazz. Individual programmes trace the lives and works of master musicians who defined the course of America’s music.

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The Soundof the Soul

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MUSIC FOR QIN AND XIAO

Players from China’s National Orchestra

“Deep sense of sincerity in this music.”- Cecilia Linqvist

“Almost half of them form the very soul of qin music and have never been recorded before, including some of the most beautiful love songs ever written in the history of music.” - Cecilia Linqvist

DENG HONGCHEN SHASHAZHU LEICECILIA LINDQVIST

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