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ROCK/ELECTRONIC NEW RELEASE - 14/4/2014

Amatorski From Clay to Figures

CRAM235 876623007128 CD CRAMMED DISCS £7.99 ROCK/ELECTRONIC

The second album by the mesmerizing young Belgian band is an inspiring collection which once again displays their ability to create moving songs, set in captivating, beautifully-crafted soundscapes, permeated with their trademark melancholy and elegance. 2013 was an eventful for the band - the international release of their debut album ‘tbc’; extensive tours in Europe and several side-projects showcasing the band's boundless versatility and creativity, including the launch of their award-winning interactive online project ‘Deleting Borders’, and the composition of several soundtracks including the recently released DVD, ‘Impatience’. The album was created in a variety of places. Songwriter and vocalist Inne Eysermans searched for solitude and seclusion in New York and Hamburg to work on sketches and new ideas and sent them to guitarist Sebastiaan Van den Branden, who added new layers. Through their continuous interplay, the new songs gradually took their definitive form, incorporating a rich yet subtle palette of textures, with vintage keyboards, brass arrangements, drums, and a variety of electronic and acoustic sounds. The Guardian described ‘Hudson’, the first digital single taken from the album, as: “a downcast slice of fidgety post-rock buffeted by big swathes of ominous synths and Inne's fractured vocal.” Personnel: Inne Eysermans (vocals, keyboards, beats and programming), Sebastiaan Van den Branden (vocals, guitar, keys, beats and programming, bass), Laurens Van Bouwelen: drums, percussion, beats – 8), Bart Indevuyst (French horn), Frederik Heirman (trombone, euphonium) Tracks: Hudson / U-Turn / Wild Birds / Boy/Girl / Fragment / Warszwawa / Deer The Wood / Tiny Bird / She Became A Ballerina / +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ / How Are You / Landscape Gardening / Unknown Tour Dates: 9 & 10 May: The Great Escape festival, Brighton; 19 May: The Old Blue Last, London

Promotion: featured on Music Week ‘Playlist’

Reviews confirmed in Mojo, Uncut, NME, The Fly, DIY, Clash, Loud & Quiet, CRACK, Notion, Metro, TNT, Big Issue + Time Out

Amatorski From Clay to Figures

CRAM235LP 876623007135 LP2 CRAMMED DISCS £11.99 ROCK/ELECTRONIC Double vinyl release of the second album by the mesmerizing young Belgian band, Amatorski. It’s an inspiring collection which once again displays their ability to create moving songs, set in captivating, beautifully-crafted soundscapes, permeated with their trademark melancholy and elegance. Disc 1: Side A: Hudson / U-Turn / Wild Birds / Boy/Girl / Fragment / Warszwawa / Deer The Wood; Disc 2: She Became A Ballerina / Tiny Bird / How Are You / +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ / Landscape Gardening / Unknown




EASY LISTENING NEW RELEASE - 14/4/2014

Various Artists

My Special Angel - Unforgettable Songs Inspired By ‘Call the Midwife’

GLMY67 5060088441138 CD2 MEMORY LANE £5.60 EASY LISTENING Inspired by the hit TV drama series ‘Call the Midwife’, this 2CD collection, part of Memory Lane’s ‘Yesterday's Britain’ series, includes more than fifty hits and memorable songs and melodies from the 1950s, many of which were featured in ‘Call the Midwife’. Included among the favourites are “Magic Moments” (Perry Como), “Walk Hand in Hand” (Andy Williams), “Everybody Loves a Lover” (Doris Day), “Why Do Fools Fall in Love “(Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers) and “Love is a Many Splendored Thing” (The Four Aces). Disc 1: Connie Francis - My Happiness / Nat King Cole - When I Fall In Love / Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine - Passing Strangers / Johnny Mathis - A Certain Smile / Pat Boone - Friendly Persuasion / The Fleetwoods - Come Softly To Me / Dean Martin - Memories Are Made Of This / Perry Como - Magic Moments / The Everley Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream / Tommy Edwards - It's All In The Game / The Platters - Only You / Malcolm Vaughan - My Special Angel / Andy Williams - Walk Hand In Hand / Mantovani and his Orchestra - Unchained Melody / Petula Clark - With All My Heart / Eddie Fisher - With These Hands / Percy Faith and his Orchestra - A Summer Place - Theme / Ella Fitzgerald - Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye / Kitty Kallen - Little Things Mean A Lot / Ruby Murray - Softly, Softly / The Four Aces - Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing / Tony Bennett - Stranger In Paradise / Cyril Stapleton and his Orchestra - Forgotten Dreams / The Dreamweavers - It's Almost Tomorrow / Doris Day - If I Give My Heart To You / Geoff Love and his Orchestra - Blue Star (Theme) Disc 2: Chorus and Orchestra from Original Broadway Cast - Praeludium (The Sound of Music) / Pat Boone - Love Letters In The Sand / The Everly Brothers - 'Til I Kissed You / Cliff Richard and The Shadows - Living Doll / Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender / Perry Como - Catch A Falling Star / Tab Hunter - Young Love / Ricky Nelson - Never Be Anyone Else But You / The Platters - The Great Pretender / Petula Clark - Baby Lover / The Kalin Twins - When / Andy Williams - Butterfly / Dean Martin - Volare / Doris Day - Que Sera Sera / Shirley Bassey - Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me / Michael Holliday - The Story Of My Life / Buddy Holly and The Crickets - Oh Boy! / The Champs - Tequila / The Chordettes - Lollipop / Danny and The Juniors - At The Hop / Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall In Love / Connie Francis - Stupid Cupid / Billy Haley and The Comets - See You Later, Alligator / The Poni-Tales - Born Too Late / Johnny Mathis - Wonderful, Wonderful / The Luton Girls Choir - The Nuns' Chorus




JAZZ NEW RELEASE - 14/4/2014

The Nels Cline Singers Macroscope

MAC1085 673203108523 CD MACK AVENUE £8.49 JAZZ ‘Macroscope’, the fifth album and Mack Avenue debut by the adventurous trio The Nels Cline Singers (led by guitarist Nels Cline), provides a measure of the long-running group’s staggering range. Captivating and continually surprising, the album finds the instrumental trio with the slyly deceptive name veering in one off-kilter direction only to suddenly be overwhelmed by another drastic stylistic shift, often within the space of a single tune. Serrated psychedelia becomes consumed by soulful Brasiliana, blissed-out electronica overwhelmed by garage-rock skronk. Then there’s the wholly unexpected “Red Before Orange”, where a howling Hendrix-inspired solo suddenly erupts in the middle of a slick lounge-jazz number, Cline unleashing the inner George Benson that few of us expected he even had. One of the most inventive and original guitarists across a wide range of genres, Nels Cline has worked with members of Sonic Youth and Deerhoof as well as artists including Tim Berne, Charlie Haden, Julius Hemphill, Carla Bozulich, Mike Watt, and The Geraldine Fibbers, and is the lead guitarist of Wilco. Cline has recorded an album of duets with guitarist Julian Lage and has toured in a free-improv meeting with jam/jazz trio Medeski Martin and Wood. Personnel: Nels Cline (guitar), Scott Amendola (drums), Trevor Dunn (bass), Plus Special Guests: Yuka C. Honda (keyboards), Cyro Baptista (percussion), Josh Jones (percussion), Zeena Parkins (harp) Tracks: Companion Piece / Canales' Cabeza / Respira / Red Before Orange / The Wedding Band / Macroscopic / Climb Down / Seven Zed Heaven / Hairy Mother / Sascha’s Book Of Frogs

Jackiem Joyner Evolve

ART7042 181475704225 CD ARTISTRY £8.49 JAZZ The fifth album by award-winning smooth jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Jackiem Joyner and his first collection on which he wrote, produced and arranged all the songs. ‘Evolve’ features guests Gerald Albright and Keiko Matsui, with whom he tours the world as a member of her band. Juxtaposing invigorating otherworldly sonicscapes under gentle sax melodies, ‘Evolve’ is a dynamic, highly-rhythmic session that is unpredictable and laced with traces of the familiar. The imaginative set has a greater purpose. “Rather than fitting in with the traditional, I'm bringing the audience along with songs that unfold over different and interesting soundscapes even as I move towards a live organic sound.” Tracks: Generation Next / Europa (feat. Keiko Matsui) / Double Bass / Breathe / Evolve / Born To Fly / Interlude / Later Tonight / See Through Me / Big Step (feat. Gerald Albright) / A Gentle Walk On Water





Olegario Diaz Basquiat By Night/Day

SCCD31774 716043177424 CD STEEPLECHASE £8.49 JAZZ Pianist/composer Oregario Diàz, graduate of The Manhattan School of Music, divides his time in his homeland Venezuela and New York performing with different groups he leads. On ‘Basquiat By Night/Day’ his all-star quintet includes the exceptional talents of trumpeter Alex Sipiagin, saxophonist Seamus Blake and drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts. The title song dedicated to the New York-born Haitian artist Jean-Michel Basquiat reflects Diaz’ deep appreciation of various art forms. For this his third album Diaz put together a highly cohesive ensemble to paint an attractive collage of joyful music, with seven of the tracks composed by Diàz alongside covers of songs by Irving Berlin and Victor Young. Ole Nimand of Jazz Special (Denmark) commented on Diaz’ previous release ‘The Skyline Session’ (SCCD31753), “The two tunes from Diaz’ own pen confirm again his compositional talent and his melodies and expressive solos steal the scene...This is a brilliant and stylish presentation of the kind of jazz that is otherwise no longer on the throne these days.” Personnel: Olegario Diaz (piano), Alex Sipiagin (trumpet), Seamus Blake (tenor saxophone), Scott Colley (bass), Jeff "Tain" Watts (drums) Tracks: J. M. Basquiat / Dance Steps / Wayne And Joe / By Night / Day / They Say It's Wonderful / Astoria Years / Trane Station / Try Not To Lose It / Alone At Last

Jason Palmer Places

SCCD31780 716043178025 CD STEEPLECHASE £8.49 JAZZ Trumpeter/composer Jason Palmer has surprised audiences with each of his releases, which have been full of fresh concepts and amazing execution. This his forth release is no exception. ‘Places’ features a number of leading jazz artists, including saxophonist Mark Turner, guitarist Mike Moreno and drummer Kendrick Scott. The album consists entirely of original compositions by Palmer, which have all been inspired by the places he has visited during his numerous tours throughout the world. These include the two towns closest to his heart: his birth place High Point, North Carolina and his current home town near Boston, Roslindale. Jon Ross of Downbeat remarks of Jason, “Palmer is an exciting player - achieving pinpoint focus in his attack one minute, turning his concrete bebop lines into caramel, sliding through pitches and bending them to his will the next...he should go far.” Personnel: Jason Palmer (trumpet), Godwin Louis alto saxophone), Mark Turner (tenor saxophone), Mike Moreno (guitar), Edward Perez (bass), Kendrick Scott (drums) Tracks: Urban Renewal (for High Point) / Falling In (for Guimaraes) / Berlin / Bern / Rising Sign (for Paris) / Silver (for Xalapa) / American Deceptionalism Part I (for DC) / Spirit Song (for Rozzy) / American Deceptionalism Part II





Paolo Sapia Mostly Music

SCCD33113 716043311323 CD STEEPLECHASE LOOKOUT £8.49 JAZZ The debut album from Italian-born Ney York-based saxophonist Paolo Sapia. ‘Mostly Music’ features the great Jimmy Cobb on drums, Philip Dizak on trumpet, Peter Zak on Rhodes and piano and John Webber on bass. They perform a mixture of original compositions by Sapia and interpretations of songs by David Bowie, Willard Robison, Anthony Newley and others. Originally from Italy, Paulo started his professional career as jazz pianist. Paolo changed his instrument to alto saxophone in 2004 and moved to New York City with a scholarship from New York University in 2005. Paolo has studied, performed and recorded in the USA with a broad range of musicians including Antonio hart, Mark Turner, Reggie Workman, Vincent Herring and Wayne Escoffery, among others. Personnel: Paolo Sapia (alto saxophone), Philip Dizack (trumpet), Peter Zak (piano, Fender Rhodes), John Webber (bass), Jimmy Cobb (drums) Tracks: Desire / Where Are We Now? / Old Folks / 621 Willoughby Ave / Don't Follow The Crowd / Planet P / Stapled Mates / Saudade de Bahia / On A Clear Day / Pure Imagination

Vasilis Xenopoulos The Wind Machine

33JAZZ240 5020883337401 CD 33JAZZ £7.99 JAZZ UK-based Greek saxophonist Vasilis Xenopoulos presents this special quintet adaptation of nine classic Big Band charts. Composers featured include Jimmy Giuffre, Neal Hefti and Sammy Nestico. He performs alongside outstanding UK musicians Steve Fishwick, Nigel Price, Bill Mudge and Pete Cater. Vasilis formed his first quartet in 2005 and gradually established himself as one of London’s best up and coming jazz saxophonists. He has worked with some of the leading musicians in the British jazz scene, such as Jim Mullen, Steve Waterman, Alan Barnes, Derek Nash, Bruce Adams, Martin Shaw, Nigel Price, Ray Gelato and many others, as well as international artists such as the pianist Hiromi. Personnel: Vasilis Xenopoulos (tenor saxophonist), Steve Fishwick (trumpet), Nigel Price (guitar), Bill Mudge (Hammond organ), Pete Cater (drums) Tracks: Four Brothers / The Groove Merchant / Tin Tin Deo / Corner Pocketr / The Fun Club / The Wind Machine / Prelude to a Kiss / Sophisticated Lady / Splanky / Playhouse “Jimmy Giuffre’s Four Brothers gets things off to a cracking start, and exemplifies an album packed with flair, excellent musicianship and a commitment to an earlier style of jazz that’s delivered with respect for its creators and scant regard for nostalgia...a triumph.” - LondonJazzNews Review confirmed in the Evening Standard, Jazzwise + Jazz Journal Review published on LondonJazzNews





Tori Freestone Trio In the Chop House

WR4648 0609613793905 CD WHIRLWIND RECORDINGS £7.99 JAZZ ‘In the Chophouse’ is the debut album from Tori Freestone, a saxophonist, flautist and violinist who has been performing at the forefront of the British improvised music scene as both a side women and highly regarded bandleader for over a decade. Her multi-faceted skills have seen her work as a core member with such diverse bands as the Ivo Neame Quintet/Octet, 'Compassionate Dictatorship' (her own co-led group with Jez Franks), Loop Collective's Rory Simmons as well as artists such as the Cuban group 'Orquesta Timbala', singer Brigitte Beraha, saxophone colossus Andy Sheppard and trumpeter Neil Yates. This wealth of experience has shaped Freestone’s playing and composing and this is highly evident on her debut. A robust tenor sound, melodic invention and a balance between wit and playfulness in her original songs mark Freestone’s music out, not to mention a strong willingness to blur the lines between the written and improvised. Comprised of long-time musical associates in the uber-creative drummer Tim Giles and highly original bassist Dave Manington, the trio has been developing Tori’s repertoire which explores the openness that the saxophone trio allows while taking inspiration from some of the non-chordal sax-led trios of the moment. “It’s forward thinking acoustic jazz...Freestone has her own playing voice and the trio display real rapport that’s stimulating and fresh.” - Marlbank Personnel: Tori Freestone (tenor saxophone), Dave Manington (double bass), Tim Giles (drums) Tracks: Bubble and Squeak / The Universal 4 / Lonesome George / Both Sides Now / But Not For Me / Mrs PC / My Lagan Love - In the Chop House / Pottering Around Review published on Marlbank Reviews confirmed in The Guardian Jazzwise, Jazz Journal Airplay confirmed on Jazz FM (Chris Philips, The Blueprint)





Snarky Puppy Tell Your Friends

MIG80150 885513801500 CD ART OF GROOVE £6.99 JAZZ After the successful release of the original issue of ‘Tell Your Friends’ as a CD+DVD, here comes an audio only release as a single CD. With the release of the two CD+DVD sets ‘Tell Your Friends’ and ‘Ground Up’ Snarky Puppy has gone from an underground secret to one of the most internationally respected names in contemporary jazz. Over the last four years of touring, the group has gained a reputation for putting on a live show unparalleled in energy, virtuosity, and musicianship. They seamlessly fuse a deep knowledge and respect for the jazz tradition with sonic and conceptual innovation in a way that is able to reach the most critical - or most carefree - audience. Tracks: Whitecap / Flood / Good Men Deliver And The Best Is Blessed / Skate U / Slow Demon / Ready Wednesday

Snarky Puppy groundUP

MIG80160 885513801609 CD ART OF GROOVE £6.99 JAZZ After the successful release of the original issue of ‘groundUP’ as a CD+DVD, here comes an audio only release as a single CD. With the release of the two CD+DVD sets ‘Tell Your Friends’ and ‘groundUP’ Snarky Puppy has gone from an underground secret to one of the most internationally respected names in contemporary jazz. Over the last four years of touring, the group has gained a reputation for putting on a live show unparalleled in energy, virtuosity, and musicianship. They seamlessly fuse a deep knowledge and respect for the jazz tradition with sonic and conceptual innovation in a way that is able to reach the most critical - or most carefree - audience. Tracks: Thing Of Gold / Bent Nails / Minjor / Binky / Mr. Montauk / 06. Like A Light / Young Stuff / Quarter Master




ROCK & ROLL NEW RELEASE - 21/4/2014

Various Artists Doo Wop Chartbusters

600145 4053796001450 CD10 DOCUMENTS £8.49 ROCK & ROLL 10 CD box set containing 200 original versions of the greatest Doo Wop hits of all time. From the years 1944 - 1960 this set features songs by The Drifters, The Clovers, Maurice Williams, Frankie Lymon, Hank Ballard & The Midnighters, The Moonglows, The Five Royales, The Dominoes and many others. Disc 1: Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs - Stay / The Mills Brothers - Till Then / The Edsels - Rama Lama Ding Dong / The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You / The Silhouettes - Get A Job / The Five Red Caps - I Learned A Lesson I'll Never Forget / The Monotones - Book Of Love / The Flamingos - Nobody Loves Me Like You / The Bobbettes - Mister Lee / The Delta Rhythm Boys - Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin' / The Dell-Vikings - Whispering Bells / Eugene Church & The Fellows - Pretty Girls Everywhere / The Pastels - Been So Long / Andy Kirk & His Clouds Of Joy - I Know / The Shells - Baby Oh Baby / Jerry Butler & The Impressions - For Your Precious Love / Lee Andrews & The Hearts - Long Lonely Nights / The Chantels - Maybe / The Cats 'N Jammer Three - I Cover The Waterfront / The Clovers - Love Potion Number Nine Disc 2: The Orioles - It's Too Soon To Know / The Ravens - Ol' Man River / The Spaniels - Everyone Is Laughing / Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall In Love / The Pentagons - To Be Loved / The Drifters - Honey Love / Bill Johnson & His Musical Notes - Don't You Think I Oughta Know / The Rays - Silhouettes / The Skyliners - This I Swear / The Penguins - Earth Angel / The Shields - You Cheated / The Moonglows - Most Of All / The Dixieaires - Go Long / The Charts - Deserie / Shirley Gunter & The Queens - Oop Shoop / The Drifters - This Magic Moment / Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Work With Me Annie / The Crests - The Angels Listened In / Do Ray And Me - Wrapped Up In A Dream / The Quin-Tones - Down The Aisle Of Love Disc 3: Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go / The Falcons - You're So Fine / The Robins - If It's So Baby / The Chords - Sh-Boom / Jan & Dean - Gee / The Dominoes - Do Something For Me / The Five Keys - Ling Ting Tong / The Dubs - Could This Be Magic / The Shadows - I've Been A Fool / The Five Royales - I Do / The Capris - There's A Moon Out Tonight / The Drifters - Money Honey / The Coasters - Besame Mucho / The Five Royales - Baby Don't Do It / The Flamingos - Lovers Never Say Goodbye / The Orioles - Crying In The Chapel / The Impalas - Sorry (I Ran All The Way Home) / The Spaniels - Goodnite Sweetheart, Goodnite / The Clovers - Lovey Dovey / The Olympics - Western Movies Disc 4: The Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow / The Cardinals - The Door Is Still Open / The Vocaleers - Is It A Dream / The Olympics - Big Boy Pete / The Spaniels - Baby It's You / The Accents - Wiggle Wiggle / The Dominoes - Have Mercy Baby / Bobby Day & The Satellites - Little Bitty Pretty One / The Chanters - No, No, No / The Crows - Gee / The Cardinals - The Wheel Of Fortune / The Skyliners - Since I Don't Have You / Jan & Dean - We Go Together / The Clovers - One Mint Julep / The Spaniels - I Know / The Coronets - Nadine / The Students - I'm So Young / The Ravens - Rock Me All Night Long / The Crickets - You're Mine / The Shirelles - Dedicated To The One I Love Disc 5: Dion & The Belmonts - A Teenager In Love / The Five Royales - Too Much Love (Much Too Much) / The Five Satins - To The Aisle / The Royal Jokers - You Tickle Me Baby / Rochell & The Candles - Once Upon A Time / The Clovers - Good Lovin' / The Coasters - Searchin' / Jan & Dean - There's A Girl / The Swallows - Beside You / Little Anthony & The Imperials - Shimmy, Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop / The Dominoes - That's What You're Doing To Me / The Five Royales - Dedicated To The One I Love / The Five Keys - The Glory Of Love / The Paradons - Diamonds And Pearls / The Cues - Burn That Candle / The Swallows - Will You Be Mine / Wade Flemons & The Newcomers - Here I Stand / The Clovers - Ting A Ling / The Marigolds - Rollin' Stone / The Gladiolas - Little Darlin'





Disc 6: Dion & The Belmonts - I Wonder Why / The Mystics - Hushabye / The Clovers -

Don'T You Know I Love You / The Cadets (As The Jacks) - Why Don'T You Write Me / The Sevilles - Charlena / The Orioles - Baby Please Don'T Go / The Cardinals - Shouldn'T I Know / Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Teardrops On Your Letter / The Dominoes - I Am With You / The Fidelity'S - The Things I Love / The Spiders - Witchcraft / Dion & The Belmonts - Where Or When / Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - My Hero / The Hollywood Argyles - Alley Oop / Jan & Dean - Clementine / The Shirelles - Tonight'S The Night / The Robins - Smokey Joe'S Café / The Rivieras - Moonlight Serenade / The Clovers - Fool, Fool, Fool / The Shirelles - I Met Him On A Sunday Disc 7: The Elegants - Little Star / The Genies - Who's That Knocking On My Door / The G-Clefs - Ka-Ding Dong / The Mello-Moods - Where Are You / The Falcons - The Teacher / The Danderliers - Chop Chop Boom / Dion - Little Miss Blue / Rosie & The Originals - Angel Baby / The Clovers - Devil Or Angel / The Passions - Just To Be With You / The Platters - The Great Pretender / Danny & The Juniors - At The Hop / The Moonglows - See Saw / The Teen Queens - Eddie My Love / The Crests - Sixteen Candles / The Marcels - Blue Moon / The Kalin Twins - Forget Me Not / The Four Fellows - Soldier Boy / Jan & Dean - Baby Talk / Andre Williams - Bacon Fat Disc 8: The Coasters - Charlie Brown / The Cleftones - Little Girl Of Mine / Jan & Arnie - Jenny Lee / The Hearts - Lonely Nights / The Coasters - Down In Mexico / The Olympics - (Baby) Hully Gully / The Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes / Travis & Bob - Tell Him No / The Five Satins - In The Still Of The Night / The Turbans - When You Dance / The Fireflies - You Were Mine / The Jamies - Summertime, Summertime / The Cookies - In Paradise / Danny & The Juniors - Dottie / The Teddy Bears - To Know Him Is To Love Him / Bobby Vee - Rubber Ball / The Jive Bombers - Bad Boy / The Diablos - The Way You Dog Me Around / The Eternals - Rockinín The Jungle / The Six Teens - A Casual Look Disc 9: Phil Phillips & The Twilights - Sea Of Love / The Colts - Adorable / The Cadets - Stranded In The Jungle / The Du-Droppers - I Wanna Know / The Tune Weavers - Happy, Happy Birthday Baby / The Spiders - You'Re The One / The Dells - Oh What A Nite (Junior) / The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man / The Velours - Can I Come Over Night / The Drifters - What'Cha Gonna Do / Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - I Want You To Be My Girl / Hank Ballard & The Midnighters / The Hollywood Flames - Buzz, Buzz, Buzz / The Drifters - Ruby Baby / The Nutmegs - Story Untold / The Jesters - So Strange / The Moonglows - Sincerely / The Flamingos - I'Ll Be Home / The Willows - Church Bells May Ring / The Cellos - Rang Tang Ding Dong Disc 10: The Drifters - There Goes My Baby / The Cadillacs - Speedo / Little Anthony & The Imperials - Tears On My Pillow / The Heartbeats - A Thousand Miles Away / The Mello-Kings - Tonite, Tonite / The Dominoes - These Foolish Things Remind Me Of You / The Fiestas - So Fine / The Dell-Vikings - Come Go With Me / The Charms - Hearts Of Stone / The Chantels - I Love You So / The Four Tunes - Marie / The El Dorados - At My Front Door / The Valiants - This Is The Nite / The Spiders - I'm Slippin' In / Little Joe & The Thrillers - Peanuts / The Counts - Darling Dear / The Moonglows - Ten Commandments Of Love / The Magnificents - Up On The Mountain / The Five Keys - Close Your Eyes / The Isley Brothers - Shout Part I & II





Various Artists

Super Rare Teenage Rock & Roll

600146 4053796001467 CD10 DOCUMENTS £8.49 ROCK & ROLL 10 CD box set containing 200 original recordings of extremely rare rock and roll songs, you’re unlikely to find in any other collection. Featuring Gene Vincent, Boyd Bennett & His Rockers, The Threeteens, Jimmy Isle, Sonny Williams, Gene La Marr and others. Disc 1: Tommy Facenda - High School U. S. A. / The Dixieland Drifters - Don't You Be Still / Boyd Bennett & His Rockets - Seventeen / Gene Vincent - Teenage Partner / The Five Chesternuts - Teenage Love / Kenny Spivey - Woke Up This Morning / Eddie Quinteros - Come On Little Girl / Jimmy Isle - Stay By My Side / Collay & The Satellites - Little Girl Next Door / The Seniors - Baby Say The Word / The Cobra Brothers - Everybody's Looking / Tommy Steele - Teenage Party / Johnny Denton - Topsy Turvy / Ron Fury - When Ya Comin' Home / Frankie Tyler - I Go Ape / Ray Willis - Whatta You Do / Gerry Langford - Tell Me / Nancy Day - Teen Age Hop / Bob & Lucille - What's The Password / Doyle Wilson - You're The One For Me Disc 2: The Threeteens - Doowaddie / Reggie Perkins - High School Ceasar / Gene La Marr - I'm Gonna Make It Up To You / Jan Amber - The Little Martian / The Tielman Brothers - Record Hop / Sonny Williams - Lucky Linda / Portugese Joe - Teen Age Riot / Chico Holiday - Cuckoo Girl / Skip Milo - What's Wrong With Me / Whitey Gallagher - Crazy Legs / Rockin' Ronald &The Rebels - Cuttinóut / Ron Fury - Long Long Time / Bobby Doyle - Chug-A-Lug / Tony & Paul - Jellyfish / Edison Youngblood - Summertime Fool / Artie Lewis - Alone, All Alone / Bobby Towers - Gone, Gone, Gone Dreams / Mello Rose - Love My Baby / Rodney Rains - Yellow Moon / Jimmy Case - High School Hall Of Fame Disc 3: Budd Albright - Adrienne / Red Hewitt & The Buccaneers - The Girl In The Teddy Bear Coat / Mark Dinning - Cutie Cutie / Dick Wolf - Spine Tingalin' Love / Johnny Conville - Bye Bye Blackbird / Johnny Macrae - Betcha Johnny Knows / Frank Dean - Bubblin' / Pete Mann - So Help My Heart / Nick Darrow - Run Joe / Joe Weldon - Someone / Gene Montgomery - Slow Motion / Roger & The Tourains - Searchin' For A Girl / Ronnie Diamond - Candy Store / Lennie Richards - Teem Twist / Jimmie Helms - It Was Ours / Lou Picardi - Make Up Your Mind / Wally Lewis - White Bobby Socks / The Monarchs - Yes! Uh! Huh! Or Even Maybe / The Syllables - I've Been Jilted / Jimmy Piper - Don't Play Around Disc 4: Kip Tyler - Hali Lou / Johnny Sardo - Take A Ride With Me / George Walsh - Don't Let Me Down / Billy Smith - Johnny Machine / Andy Caldwell - She's So Fine / Jackie Dunham - All Around The World / Don Deal - The First Teenager / Buddy Lowe - Sherry Lee / Jim Ford - College Queen / Jimmy Williams - C'mon Baby / Jim White - Teenage Doll / The Tu Tones - Crazy Baby / Denny Reed - Hot Water / Dave Burgess - Lovey Dovey Baby / T-Johnny Jay - I'm Gonna Keep It / Ronnie Mcbee - My Bow Tie / Gene Ray - I'm Going To Hollywood / Jimmy Carter - Let Me Know / Bob Watts - Carolina Rock / Bobby Bristol - School's Out Disc 5: Jimmy Barbee - Cause I Love You / Budd Albright - Got No Sunshine In My Soul / Frank Pizani - Wanna Dance / Ron Jones - Hylander Drag / Phil Queen - Gonna Get Along Without You Now / Ronnie & The Rockin' Kings - You Know / Wayne & Ray - Yeah Why / Johnny Rivers - Everyday / Rocky Storm - Every Night / Sammy Salvo - Wolf Boy / The Harmony Brothers - Baby Tonight / Doug Warren & The Rays - Ain't That Love / Kimball Coburn - Please Please / Eddie Ferrell - Teach Me How To Rock / Wade Phillips - All Alone To Cry / Buzz & Al - Weirdo / Harley Davis & The Teen - Aires / Danny & The Duke - Rock Baby / Angie & The Monoccos - Sad As I Can Be / Don Wright - Switch





Disc 6: Larry Dowd - Forbidden Love / Marty Derose - The Great Big Beat / The Gardenas - I'm Laughing At You / Ronnie Price - Look At Me / The Four J's - Rock & Roll Age / Billy Martin - If It's Lovin' That You Want / The Commodores - Who Dat / Rusty Howard - No Help Wanted / Frankie & The Echoes - Come Back Baby / Charlie Brown - Have You Heard The Gossip / John & Jackie - Little Girl / The Royal Rockers - Scramble / The Equadors - Say You'll Be Mine / Frank Virtuoso Rockets - Rollin' And A-Rockin' / The Five Jades - Rock And Roll Molly / Hoyt Johnson - Standing In Your Window / Dick Fagan - Rain, Rain / The Frontiers - You Shake Me Up / Lynn Vrooman - Let The Good Times Roll / The Rockers - Mean, Mean Woman Disc 7: Jerry Mercer - Seven Nights To Rock / The Silva-Tones - Roses Are Blooming / Bobby Lonero - Wham Bam / The Mints - Night Air / Al Turnage - Hollywood Rock / Bobby Brookes - You'd Better Move / The Twins - Classroom Rock / Jerry Ross - You Got My Baby / The Swallows - Rock-A-Bye Baby Rock / Ernie Cast - Cool It Baby / Wally Hughes - Pug Nose And Pony Tail / Glen Paul - I'm Learning To Live / Bill Tracey - One Chance / Billy & Don Hart - Chick-Mated & Bingoed / Eddie & Jimmie - Hold That Kiss / Dave Dupre - A Job Well Done / Alan Dale - You Threw A Dart / Chuck Reed - No School Tomorrow / Johnny Mann & The Tornados - Chick-A-Lou / The Sparks - Merry, Merry Lou Disc 8: Jerry Grant & The Rockabilly Bandits - Some Day, Maybe Tonight / Teddy Randazzo - Next Stop Paradise / Chuck Ranado - My Baby's Gone / Cliff Richard & The Shadows - I Cannot Find A True Love / Al Ferrier - Let's Go Boppin' Tonight / Jay Chevalier - Castro Rock / Billy Earl - Go Dan Tucker / Larry Hart - I'm Just A Mender / The Neutrons - Don't Be Cruel / Ted Harris - Just Thought I'd Set You Straight / Oscar Mclollie - Roll, Hot Rod, Roll / Johnny Jano - Mabel's Gone / Little Richard - Can't Believe You Wanna Leave / Jeanette Baker & Oscar Mclollie - Hey Girl, Hey Boy / Ray Vict - Bop Stop Rock / Billy Earl - Couple In The Car / Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Willie And The Hand Jive / Ted Forbes & The Kisses - The Flirt / Joe South - Play It Cool / Ray Campi - The Man I Met Disc 9: Michael Landon - Be Patient With Me / Kookie Jones - Yearning / Jerry Grant & The Rockabilly Bandits - Talkin' About Love / The Two Don's - Funny Honey / Chico Holiday - Please Don't Touch / Lenny Dean & The Rockin' Chairs - A Kiss Is A Kiss / Billy & Eddie - The King Is Coming Back / Ted Forbes - Knee Socks / The Tunes - Close The Door / Wes Bryan - Freeze / Tommy Facenda - Bubba Diddy / Chip Fisher - Oh Ye Louise / Lee Talboys - Lovin' Lies / Jerry Jaye Trio - You're My Sugar Plum / Brady & Grady Sneed - Little Bitty Heart / Russ Tamblyn - Fifteen Cents / Kenny Ambrose - Come On And Marry Me / Coy Werley - Black Jack / Tom Swift - Stormy / Edison Youngblood - Tennis Shoes Disc 10: Ralph Pruitt - Hey Mister Porter / Alvis Wayne - I Gottum / Joe Romero - Come On Pretty Baby / The Rock 'N' Rollers - For You / Bruce Gist - Searching For Love / Frank Virtuoso Rockets - Toodle-Oo Kangaroo / Paul Durham - Mean Woman Married Man Blues / Jimmy Prow - You Tell Her I Stutter / Gary Middleton - Don't Be Shy / The Echotones - My Baby Doll / Bobby Lonero - One More Time / Jerry Robinson - You're The Reason / Kenny Brown - Throw A Little Wood On The Fire / The Nightbeats - Lonesome Road Rock / Art Adams - She Don't Live Here No More / Jimmy Williams - Love Only Me / Art Buchanan - Time Will Tell / Leon & Carlos - Rock Everybody / Tommy Charles - Hey There Baby / Tony Senn - The King's Coming Home




WORLD/AMBIENT NEW RELEASE - 14/4/2014

Hakon Stene

Lush Laments for Lazy Mammal

HUBROCD2544 7033662025442 CD HUBRO £7.99 WORLD/AMBIENT On ‘Lush Laments for Lazy Mammal’, Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Håkon Stene has combined music by Britons Laurence Crane and Gavin Bryars with a new work by the distinctive Norwegian improvisational musician/composer and ECM recording artist Christian Wallumrød, who also plays on the album. Through performing these pieces together Stene has created a unique album of meditative contemporary music. It is not necessary to take more than a quick glance at Stene’s CV to realise that here is a musician with a broad horizon and a fearless attitude towards new instruments and genres. Stene has played folk music with Nils Økland and Benedicte Maurseth, electronica with Pantha de Prince and the Bell Laboratory, baroque music with Rolf Lislevand and contemporary music with asamisimasa, winner of a Spellemannspris (Norwegian Grammy). After many years of focusing on noise-based and complex contemporary music, Stene found it important to once again be able to work with clean, simple and harmonious expressive idioms. On the album he plays, in addition to melodic percussion instruments, both piano and guitar - the latter being an instrument he had not touched for nearly 20 years. Some listeners would undoubtedly place this music in the large drawer labelled “contemporary”, but it could equally well find a natural place in the record collections of post-rock, ambient or drone music fans. Personnel: Håkon Stene (vibraphone, quarter tone vibraphone, marimba, guitars, keyboards, piano), Heloisa Amaral (piano), Hans Kristian Kjos Sørensen (cimbalom), Tanja Orning (cello), Christian Wallumrød (piano) Tracks: Prelude for HS / Hi Tremolo / Bobby J / See Our Lake I) / Riis / Holt / Sit / Low Genths / Blue Blue Blue




CLASSICAL NEW RELEASE - 14/4/2014

Myung Whun Chung

Piano - Debussy, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann etc.

4810765 028948107650 CD ECM NEW SERIES £9.49 CLASSICAL The ECM New Series debut of Myung Whun Chung features the widely-celebrated conductor as pianist. Recorded at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice in July 2013, the album marks the first occasion that Chung has recorded solo. In a performer’s note, he describes the album as a gift for younger listeners, as well as a personal thanks to those who share his love of this music. Chung’s touch and sensitivity for dynamics cast a new light on familiar pieces - Debussy’s Clair de lune, two Chopin Nocturnes and a pair of Schubert Impromptus, Beethoven’s Für Elise, Schumann’s Träumerei and Arabeske, Tchaikovsky, and Mozart - as they are experienced in a gently flowing sequence which also serves to highlight affinities between the compositions. Although conducting now fully occupies his professional life, Chung (born 1953 in Seoul) made his debut as pianist with the Seoul Philharmonic at the age of seven. He later studied the piano with Maria Curcio, the last and favourite pupil of Artur Schnabel. In 1974 he was joint second prize-winner in the Tchaikovsky Competition (where he performed Tchaikovsky’s Autumn Song, revisited on this recording). He then began his career playing piano trios with his sisters, violinist Kyung Wha Chung and cellist Myung Wha Chung. Earlier recordings that feature Myung Whun Chung as pianist include albums of the Chung Trio playing Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Beethoven and more, as well as Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with Paul Meyer, Gil Shaham, and Jian Wang. Myung Whun Chung also recorded with Cecilia Bartoli on the critically-lauded Chants d’Amour, Mélodies Françaises. Personnel: Myung Whun Chung (piano) Tracks: 1. Debussy: Clair de Lune 2. Chopin: Nocturne in D-flat major, op. 27/2 3. Beethoven: Für Elise 4. Tchaikowsky: Autumn Song 5. Schubert: Impromptu in E-flat major, D899/2 6. Schumann: Träumerei 7. Schumann: Arabeske 8. Schubert: Impromptu in G-flat major, D899/3 9. Chopin: Nocturne in c-sharp minor, op.posth. 10. Mozart: Twelve Variations on Ah! Vous dirais-je, maman, K.265 Promotion includes advertising in Gramophone & BBC Music Magazine Reviews in Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, International Record Review, International Piano, Pianist, Hi-Fi News, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, Sunday Times, Observer, Scotland on Sunday, Irish Times Airplay on BBC Radio 3 (Breakfast, In Tune), Classic FM & RTÉ Lyric FM





Lisa Batiashvili, Adrian Brendel, Till Fellner & Roderick Williams

Harrison Birtwistle: Chamber Music

4765050 028947650508 CD ECM NEW SERIES £9.49 CLASSICAL This album of Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s chamber music and songs, mostly of recent vintage, is issued as the innovative Great British composer approaches his 80th birthday (he was born in Accrington in July 1934). It features an exceptional line-up of performers. Heard together and separately is the trio of Austrian pianist Till Fellner, Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili and English cellist Adrian Brendel. They are joined by London-born singers, soprano Amy Freston and baritone Roderick Williams. The compositions include “Bogenstrich” written in 2006 as a short piece in tribute to Alfred Brendel and first played by his son Adrian together with Till Fellner. It was subsequently expanded into a cycle with the addition of settings of Rilke for baritone, cello and piano. The Trio for piano, violin and cello is the newest piece, premiered in 2011, a 16-minute single movement work of elaborate patterning, gestures and responses. Settings of the concise writings of US Objectivist poet Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970), scored for soprano and cello in 1998 and 2000, begin and close the album. As Bayan Northcott writes in the booklet, “These concentrated songs demand the utmost of their performers in precision, expression and timing. As in Webern’s settings, the few words and notes on the page can seem to imply whole worlds of thought and feeling”. This highly-concentrated chamber-scale expressivity is felt throughout the entire album, recorded at Munich’s famed Herkulessaal, and produced by Manfred Eicher. Personnel: Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Adrian Brendel (cello), Till Fellner (piano), Amy Freston (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) Tracks: Three Settings Of Lorine Niedecker: 1. Always North Of Him 2. I Was The Solitary Plover 3. As I Shook Dust From My Father's Door 4. Trio for violin, violoncello and piano Bogenstrich: 5. Liebes-Lied 1 6. Lied ohne Worte 7. Variationen 8. Wie eine Fuge 9. Liebes-Lied 2 Nine Settings Of Lorine Niedecker: 10. There’s a Better Shine 11. My Friend Tree 12. Along The River 13. Hear Where Her Snowgrave Is 14. How the White Gulls 15. My Life 16. Paul 17. O Late Fall 18. Sleep’s Dream Promotion includes advertising in Gramophone & BBC Music Magazine Confirmed reviews in Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, International Record Review, Guardian, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Sunday Times, Observer, Irish Times, Tempo Airplay on BBC Radio 3 & RTÉ Lyric FM





Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & Kazuki Yamada

Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 1, Glazunov: Symphony No. 5, Khachaturian: Masquerade Suite

OVCL00487 4526977004873 Hybrid SACD2 EXTON £15.29 CLASSICAL Highly-regarded young Japanese conductor Kazuki Yamada already holds positions with several leading orchestras, including Principal Guest Conductor of Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and Resident Conductor of Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. For this two-channel double SACD recording, Yamada conducts the legendary Czech Philharmonic in a programme of music from Eastern Europe which includes works by Kalinnikov, Glazunov and Khachaturian. Now resident in Berlin, Kazuki Yamada was born in Kanagawa, Japan, in 1979. As a student, he formed the Yokohama Sinfonietta, where he remains Music Director. He was awarded the Ataka Prize in 2001 when he graduated from the conducting course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music. In 2011 he received the Idemitsu Music Prize for young artists in Japan. Vassily Kalinnikov’s Symphony No.1 in G Minor was written in 1894 but not published until after his tragically early death in 1901 at the age of 35. It is a work steeped in the Russian folk tradition. Alexander Glazunov is a major figure of the late Russian Romantic period. In all, he completed eight symphonies. The fifth of these, which skilfully synthesises nationalist tradition and western technique, was written in 1895 and is the most well-known. Personnel: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada (conductor) Disc 1: KALINNIKOV: Symphony No. 1 1. I. Allegro moderato 2. II. Andante commodamente 3. III. Scherzo. Allegro non troppo 4. IV. Finale. Allegro moderato Disc 2: GLAZUNOV: Symphony No. 5 1. I. Moderato maestoso - Allegro 2. II. Scherzo. Moderato 3. III. Andante 4. IV. Allegro maestoso KHACHATURIAN: Masquerade Suite 5. I. Waltz 6. II. Nocturne 7. III. Mazurka 8. IV. Romance 9. V. Galop





Japan Philharmonic Orchestra & Kazuki Yamada

Mussorgsky (arr. Stokowski): Pictures at an Exhibition

OVCL00489 4526977004897 CD EXTON £8.99 CLASSICAL On this recording the brilliant young Japanese conductor Kazuki Yamada conducts the Japan Philharmonic in a programme which features the less well-known orchestral arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition by Leopold Stokowski. The disc also includes Debussy’s Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, and Ravel’s La Valse. This CD is taken from a live recording made at the inauguration concert of the highly-regarded Japanese conductor Kazuki Yamada as Resident Conductor of Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. Now resident in Berlin, Kazuki Yamada was born in Kanagawa, Japan, in 1979. He was awarded the Ataka-Prize in 2001 when he graduated from the conducting course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music. In 2011 he received the Idemitsu Music Prize for young artists in Japan. Kazuki Yamada also holds positions with several other leading orchestras including Principal Guest Conductor of Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. The main feature of the programme performed at this event was Leopold Stokowski's arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. The most well-known orchestral version of this suite was written by Ravel in 1922 at the request of conductor Serge Koussevitzky, but several other composers and musicians made arrangements of the piece, including the legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski. His version was written in 1939, and is notable for being more overtly Russian in its musical colour and primitiveness. Personnel: Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Kazuki Yamada (conductor) Tracks: MUSSORGSKY (arr. Stokowski): Pictures at an Exhibition 1. I. Promenade 2. II. Gnomus 3. III. Promenade 4. IV. The Old Castle 5. V. Byldo 6. VI. Promenade 7. VII. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks 8. VIII. Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle 9. IX. Catacombs 10. Con mortuis in lingua mortua 11. Baba Yaga 12. The Great Gate at Kiev 13. DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune 14. RAVEL: La Valse





Anja-Nina Bahrmann, Maarten Engeltjes, Netherlands Radio Choir & Netherlands Chamber Philharmonic

Gavin Bryars: The War in Heaven

BCGBCD19 5052442004882 CD GB RECORDS £7.99 CLASSICAL The War in Heaven features not only that eponymous large-scale work by Gavin Bryars for voices and orchestra, but also the very first release of music from any of Bryars’ four operas, Epilogue from G. The recordings were made in the composer's presence and under his supervision. A large-scale cantata for two solo voices (soprano and male alto), half chorus, full chorus and orchestra, The War in Heaven was commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, who gave the first and, until now, only performance at the Royal Festival Hall in 1993. There are two parallel texts: one in English for the soloists that sets the monologue ‘The War in Heaven’ by Sam Shepard, the other in old Anglo-Saxon for the chorus. The solo vocal parts make extreme demands of the singers with virtuosic passages and very high notes - here two young singers with voices of extraordinary beauty and power, Anja-Nina Bahrmann and Maarten Engeltjes, who are not in the least intimidated by such things! The performance was recorded live in the Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam. Epilogue from G comes from the end of Gavin Bryars' third opera G (the full title is G, being the Confession and Last Testament of Johannes Gensfleisch, also known as Gutenberg, Master Printer, formerly of Strasbourg and Mainz). The opera, which is sung in German, uses two different singers for the principal role and the Epilogue is conceived as a kind of solo cantata. Here the benign older Gutenberg, sung by the Wagnerian bass-baritone Hans-Otto Weiss, with the younger Gutenberg alongside him, muses on his achievement and asks, now that the print era he inaugurated is over, to be left in peace. He is accompanied by 21 solo strings and off-stage low brass (solo horn, four Wagner tubas, two tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba). This is a studio recording, performed on the stage of the Staats Theater Mainz in October 2002, and was made shortly after the successful run of 11 performances earlier that year. Personnel: Anja-Nina Bahrmann (soprano), Maarten Engeltjes (alto), Netherlands Radio Choir, Gils Leenaars (director), Netherlands Chamber Philharmonic, Brad Lubman (conductor), Track 13: Hans-Otto Weiss (bass baritone), Elmer Andree (baritone), Staats Philharmonie Mainz, Gernot Sahler (conductor) Tracks: The War in Heaven 1. Choir (Haefdon gleam and dream), Alto (I died…) 2. Soprano Air sometimes earth 3. Soprano/Alto sometimes grief 4. Soprano Air now so many things 5. Choir (him poer sar gelamp,) 6. Alto There was a time 7. Soprano Air again it comes 8. Alto/Soprano I was here once before 9. Choir (pa woes sod swa oer ), Soprano (I was dead…) 10. Soprano But sometimes hate 11. Choir (dreama lease) 12. Soprano I died 13. Epilogue from G (2002)





Gavin Bryars Ensemble

Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic (Recorded live on 2012 centenary tour)

BCGBCD21 5052442004905 CD GB RECORDS £7.99 CLASSICAL This live version of Gavin Bryars’ seminal work The Sinking of the Titanic is regarded by the composer as “the definitive performance”, made with his ideal choice of musicians. It was recorded on the Gavin Bryars Ensemble’s tour in 2012, the centenary year of the disaster. It brings together in one performance elements that have appeared separately in the various versions that precede it: the inclusion of the improvising turntablist Philip Jeck; the presence of a second quartet of low strings that consists of his four children; the faint allusion to Aphex Twin’s remix The Raising of the Titanic made shortly after the release of the 1994 recording; the water gong first used by percussionist Martin Allen towards the end of a performance on a raft at the shallow end of a renovated Art Nouveau swimming pool in Brussels... Although there have been four previous recordings of The Sinking of the Titanic (and the original recording on Brian Eno’s Obscure label from 1975 is scheduled for re-release on GB Records), according to the composer this performance and recording is as near to a definitive one as there is ever likely to be. “One of the classics of British experimental music.” - The Guardian Personnel: Philip Jeck (improvising turntablist), Quartet I: Nick Barr, Morgan Goff (viola), Nick Cooper (cello), Gavin Bryars (double bass), Quartet II: Alexandra Maria Tchernakova (viola), Orlanda Bryars (cello), Ziella Bryars (cello), Yuri Bryars (double bass), Roger Heaton (bass clarinet), Dave Smith (tenor horn, keyboard, woodblocks), James Woodrow (electric guitar), Martin Allen (percussion) Tracks: 1. Applause 2. Prologue (Philip Jeck) 3. Crash 4. Titanic Hymn I Autumn - Quartet I 5. Titanic Hymn II Autumn - Quartet II 6. Titanic Hymn III Autumn - Quartet I 7. Hymn IV Aughton (He leadeth me) - Quartet I 8. Morse 9. Hymn V Autumn - Quartet I (cello solo) 10. Titanic Lament 11. Cadences 12. Lament extract 13. Water gong 14. La Maxixe music box 15. Hymn VI, last hymn - Quartet I





Jonathan Aasgaard & Martin Roscoe Brahms: Complete Works for Cello and Piano

AV2300 822252230024 CD2 AVIE £12.74 CLASSICAL Jonathan Aagaard, together with pianist Martin Roscoe, performs the complete music for cello and piano by Brahms, including both the Sonatas plus transcriptions of the composer's Hungarian Dances, Lieder, First Violin Sonata and the Andante of the Second Piano Concerto. Principal cellist of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Jonathan Aasgaard is an equally distinguished soloist as well as a notable arranger, talents in evidence on his previous AVIE release, From Jewish Life (AV2149) on which he solos in Bloch’s Schelomo and Bruch’s Kol Nidrei, and his own arrangement of Bloch’s Prayer. His 2-CD set of the Complete Works for Cello and Piano by Brahms includes the composer’s two Sonatas as well as arrangements of the popular Hungarian Dances, a selection of Lieder, the First Violin Sonata, and the Andante from his Piano Concerto No 2. His superb partner is pianist Martin Roscoe. Critical acclaim for Jonathan Aasgaard: “A highly accomplished, indeed aristocratic player.” - MusicWeb International Disc 1: Cello Sonata No.1 in E minor Op.38 1. I. Allegro non troppo 2. II. Allegretto quasi menuetto 3. III. Allegro Cello Sonata No.2 in F Op.99 4. I. Allegro vivace 5. II. Adagio affettuoso 6. III. Allegro passionato 7. IV. Allegro molto 8. F-A-E Scherzo (arr. Watson Forbes) Disc 2: Violin Sonata No.1 in G Op.78 (arr. Brahms) 1. I. Vivace ma non troppo 2. II. Adagio - Più andante - Adagio 3. III. Allegro molto moderato Hungarian Dances (arr. Alfred Piatti) 4. No.1 in G minor 5. No.2 in D minor 6. No.5 in F sharp minor 7. No.6 in D flat 8. No.7 in A Lieder 9. Feldeinsamkeit Op.86 No.2 10. Wie Melodien zieht es mir Op.105 No.1 11. Sapphische Ode Op.94 No.4 12. Wiegenlied Op.49 No.4 13. Liebestreu Op.3 No.1 14. Minnelied Op.71 No.5 15. Andante from Piano Concerto No. 2 in B major, Op. 83 (arr. Cord Garben) Advertising in Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, Listen, Strings + The Strad





Andreas Haefliger

Perspectives 6 - Beethoven, Berio, Schumann

AV2293 822252229325 CD AVIE £8.49 CLASSICAL Andreas Haefliger continues his captivating and thought-provoking Perspectives series with the sixth volume, juxtaposing Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Nos. 10 and 30, with seldom-heard miniatures by Berio, and Schumann’s great Fantasy in C. On ‘Perspectives 6’ Andreas Haefliger juxtaposes the Piano Sonatas of Beethoven with other composers, casting an enlightening glow on the works which one would not detect if played in isolation. Themes of humanity, nature and love run through a programme emphatically to be listened to rather than analysed intellectually. Haefliger opens with Beethoven’s early Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 14, then segues into two of Berio’s seldom heard encores, Erdenklavier and Wasserklavier. He emerges to perform Beethoven’s late Piano Sonata No. 30, Op. 109, followed by two more miniatures by Berio, Luftklavier and Feuerklavier. The album culminates with Schumann’s Fantasy in C major. Critical acclaim for Andreas Haefliger: “Haefliger delivers an interpretation [of Brahms’ Sonata No. 2] of formidable granitic strength that nonetheless manages to encapsulate the work’s more introspective and poetic aspects.” - BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the Month (on Perspectives 4, AV2173) “Solid virtuosity and serious, thoughtful musicianship...a happy fusion of drama, cumulative sweep and textural clarity.” - Gramophone (on Perspectives 3, AV2148) Tracks: Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 14 1. I. Allegro 2. II. Andante 3. III. Scherzo: Allegro assai Luciano Berio: from Six Encores 4. Erdenklavier 5. Wasserklavier Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30, Op. 109 6. I. Vivace, ma non troppo 7. II. Prestissimo 8. III. Andante molto cantibile ed espressivo Berio: from Six Encores 9. Luftklavier 10. Feuerklavier Robert Schumann: Fantasy in C major, Op. 17 11. I. Durchaus phantastisch vorzutragen 12. II. Mäßig 13. III. Langsam getragen Performance date: 9 April, London, Wigmore Hall - Perspectives 6 programme Advertising in Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, International Piano + Pianist





Goeyvaerts String Trio

Arvo Pärt: Stabat Mater, Ivan Moody: Simeron

CC72616 608917261622 CD CHALLENGE CLASSICS £8.49 CLASSICAL The Goeyvaerts String Trio was founded in 1997 and focuses exclusively on 20th and 21st century repertoire. On this CD the group performs pieces by contemporary composers Arvo Pärt and Ivan Moody. Both works featured here, Pärt’s Stabat Mater and Moody’s Simeron are musical evocations of religious icons. The vocalists on this recording are the soprano Zsuzsi Tóth, the countertenor Barnabás Hegyi, and tenor Olivier Berten. Arvo Pärt and Ivan Moody have both turned to Orthodox Christianity at some point in their lives and this has permeated the work of both of them in a particular way. Pärt’s relationship with the religious icon is well-known, however Moody’s piece Simeron also makes reference to an icon which, as with Pärt’s Stabat Mater, is meant to represent the transcendent truth. Although equal temperament is the most commonly known and used, for Arvo Pärt’s Stabat Mater the Goeyvaerts String Trio employs “Pure (Just) Intonation”, an early form of tuning where intervals are distributed unevenly but ‘purely’ across the octave. This lends the work a serene but deeply melancholy feel, while the composer creates tension by alternating simple triads with dissonances. Ivan Moody was born in London in 1964, and studied composition with Brian Dennis at London University, with William Brooks at York University and privately with John Tavener. He also studied Orthodox theology at the University of Joensuu, Finland. Moody's compositions show the influences of Eastern liturgical chant and the Orthodox Church, of which he is a member and priest (of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople). His Canticum Canticorum I, which was written for the Hilliard Ensemble and premiered in 1987, achieved enormous success and remains his most frequently-performed work. Since 1987, when the The Goeyvaerts String Trio was formed, it has collaborated with several major contemporary composers including Giya Kancheli and Peter Swinnen. It has already released two recordings for Challenge Classics, a disc devoted to music of the Second Viennese School (CC72375), and “String Trios from the East” which featured music by Gubaidalina, Kanchelli, Knaifel, and Paiberdin (CC72503). Personnel: Kristien Roels (violin), Kris Matthynssens (viola), Pieter Stas (cello), Zsuzsi Tóth (soprano), Barnabás Hegyi (countertenor), Olivier Berten (tenor) Tracks: 1. Arvo Pärt: Stabat Mater 2. Ivan Moody: Simeron





The Stolz Quartet

Dutch Masters and their Inspiration

CC72633 608917263329 CD CHALLENGE CLASSICS £8.49 CLASSICAL The album ‘Dutch Masters and their Inspiration’ features music by four major contemporary Dutch composers, Robert Zuidam, Theo Verbey, Klaas de Vries, and Einar Torfi Einarsson, alongside arrangements of compositions by Ravel, Liszt and Scriabin, composers from the past who have had a major influence on their work. The music is played by The Stolz Quartet, a group that is renowned for specialising in the commissioning and performance of new pieces for oboe quartet. The Stolz Quartet was set up with the specific aim of commissioning new works for oboe quartet. It consists of four highly talented young Dutch instrumentalists, the oboist Marieke Schut, the viola player Liesbeth Steffens, the cellist Doris Hochsheid, and the violinist Jellantsje de Vries. As well as playing with the Stolz Quartet, Marieke Schut is also oboist with the ASKO | Schönberg, and has worked with major composers of our time, including Ligeti and Stockhausen. She has also been heavily involved in the setting up of the Ligeti Academy, a training centre for contemporary music conservatory students. She has performed with many great conductors including Claudio Abbado and Leonard Bernstein, as well as with her two teachers, the oboists Heinz Holliger and Heinz Friesen. Personnel: Marieke Schut (oboe), Jellantsje de Vries (violin), Liesbeth Steffens (viola), Doris Hochscheid (cello), plus guest: Gerrie de Vries (voice) Tracks: RAVEL: Le Tombeau de Couperin (arr. Zuidam) 1., Prelude 2. Forlane 3. Fugue 4. Menuet 5. Rigaudon 6. ROBERT ZUIDAM: A Love Unsung - excerpt 7. KLAAS DE VRIES: Haiku’s 8. EINAR TORFI EINARSSON: Desiring-Machines - partial-object 0.1667 SCRIABIN: Preludes op. 33 9. I. No. 1 10. II. No. 2 11. III. No. 3 12. IV. No. 4 THEO VERBEY: Preludes to Infinity 13. I. Mysterious 14. II. Restless 15. III. Religious 16. IV. Luminous 17. LISZT: Via Crucis, Station IV - Jesu begegnet seiner heiligen Mutter





NDR Choir & Philipp Ahmann

A Quattro Cori - Music for 16 Voices by Fasch, Benevoli & Mendelssohn

ES2049 4015372820497 CD ES-DUR £8.49 CLASSICAL In 1783, musician and writer Johann Friedrich Reichardt visited what he regarded as “the cradle of ornate music”, Italy. The far-reaching consequences of this trip on the development of German choral music are demonstrated by the NDR Choir in a recording of three impressive 16-voice works for four choirs: Missa a 16 voci in quattro cori by Carl Friedrich Fasch, Mendelssohn’s Hora est , and Missa “In diluvio aquarum multarum” by the Roman Baroque composer Orazio Benevoli (1605-1672) – a world premiere recording. Reichardt (1752-1814) returned from Italy with Benevoli’s epic vocal work and showed it to his colleague and predecessor as Prussian Hofkapellmeister, Carl Friedrich Fasch (1736-1800). The older man was filled with inspiration by the piece, composing his Missa a 16 voci in quattro cori. None of the existing Berlin (boys’) choirs could handle the work, so Fasch created his own ensemble, in which the soprano and alto parts were sung by women. Since 1793 it has been known as the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. It took several more years before the Sing-Akademie was able to perform Fasch and Benevoli’s polychoral masses. In 1820, the then 11-year-old Felix Mendelssohn entered the Academy, where these works had become the choir's showpieces. In 1828, Felix took them as an incentive to compose his 16-voice Hora est, a motet which he presented to his sister Fanny on her 23th birthday. Performed by the Sing-Akademie - the choir by then comprised some 350 singers - it earned the highest praise for both composer and ensemble. The NDR Choir under Philip Ahmann presents this particularly demanding repertoire, showcasing many soloists from within its own ranks. Following the Venice CD released in 2012, this is the NDR choir’s second recording with Ahmann on the ES-DUR label. Personnel: NDR Choir, Philipp Ahmann (conductor), Christoph Harer (cello), Barbara Messmer (violin), Dennis Gotte (theorbo), Klaus Eichhorn, Jörg Jacobi (organ) Tracks: Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch: Missa a 16 voci in quattro cori 1. Kyrie a 16 2. Christe eleison 3. Kyrie a 16 4. Gloria a tre soprani soli 5. Et in terra pax 6. Laudamus. Soprano concertato 7. Gratias. Tenore concertato 8. Domine Deus 9. Quoniam a 6 voci concertante 10. Cum Sancto Spiritu Orazio Benevoli: Missa “In diluvio aquarum multarum” (World Premiere Recording) 11. Kyrie 12. Gloria 13. Credo 14. Sanctus 15. Agnus Dei 16. Felix Mendelssohn: Hora est





Eleonore Buhler-Kestler

J.S. Bach: Toccatas BWV 910 - 912, Fantasia and Fugue in A minor BWV 904

CHA3042 4015372830427 CD CHARADE £5.55 CLASSICAL Following her previous album of the Bach Toccatas BWV 913-916 (CHA3041), harpsichordist Eleonore Bühler-Kestler now turns her attention to the remaining three Toccatas for keyboard instruments: BWV 910-912. As a young composer, Bach demonstrated in these pieces unusual ideas and a playful exuberance, and their colourfulness particularly attracts Bühler-Kestler. She combines them here with the Fantasia and Fugue in A minor, BWV 904, another of Bach’s early works. The three Toccatas BWV 910-912 prove themselves to be youthful strokes of genius in which Bach, taking up the North German “stylus fantasticus”, pulled out all the artistic stops. Bach’s appreciation for his own toccatas is evident from the fact that several copies were disseminated during his lifetime. The virtuoso attack, embellished with improvisational gestures, also makes reference to the Bach of the harpsichord, who was regarded by his contemporaries as one of the greatest keyboard players of his time. Germany’s most significant contemporary artist Gerhard Richter also loves Bach and Eleanor Bühler-Kestler’s recordings. Richter has provided the cover image for this Bach disc, as he has done for the other Bühler-Kestler CDs produced by Charade. The two artists have been in correspondence for many years, and Richter has also guaranteed cover images for future CDs. Especially in her later years, Bühler-Kestler has worked tirelessly on “her” Bach, loving its complexity and the music’s inner warmth, which has acted as a strong source of support throughout her life. Today she lives in Bayreuth, where until 2009 she was a lecturer in music at the university. Personnel: Eleonore Bühler-Kestler (harpsichord) Tracks: Toccata in F sharp minor, BWV 910 1. Toccata 2. Presto e Staccato Toccata in C minor, BWV 911 3. Toccata 4. Adagio 5. Allegro Toccata in D major, BWV 912 6. Toccata 7. Allegro 8. Adagio Fantasie and Fugue in A minor, BWV 904 9. Fantasie 10. Fuga





Penderecki String Quartet

Beethoven: String Quartets No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 & No. 16 in F major, Op. 135

MAR81449 774718144928 CD MARQUIS £7.95 CLASSICAL This disc features Beethoven’s last two string quartets, No. 15 in A minor, opus 132, and No. 16 in F, opus 135. They are performed here by the award-winning Polish/North American ensemble, the Penderecki String Quartet. Formed in 1986, the Penderecki String Quartet began their career as winners of the Penderecki Prize at the National Chamber Music Competition in Łódz, Poland. The group is presently based in Waterloo, Ontario where they have been Quartet-in-Residence at Wilfrid Laurier University since 1991. The group champions music of our time, performing a wide range of repertoire from Haydn to Frank Zappa and has premiered over 100 new works to date. During a period of over 25 years it has recorded over 30 albums, and been described by Fanfare Magazine as “an ensemble of formidable power and keen musical sensitivity”. The music on this disc represents some of Beethoven's final utterances on the string quartet. Op. 132 traverses a spiritual development from near despair to a triumphant finale. In the middle is perhaps the greatest of all of Beethoven's adagios, the "holy song of thanksgiving”. A march then leads to a finale, culminating in a triumphant coda. Op. 135, written very near the end of his life, is another matter. Two of its four movements seem hardly serious at all - the first quite jocular, the second (scherzo) even lighter in mood. But the third is indeed altogether sublime - sweet, thoughtful, poignant to the last possible degree. The finale opens with a question, indicated by Beethoven himself: "Must it be?" - and answers “It Must Be!” Coming from a man as near death as Beethoven then was, that is an amazing testament to his indomitable spirit, and remains so to this day. Personnel: Jeremy Bell (violin), Jerzy Kaplanek (violin), Christine Vlajk (viola), Jacob Braun (cello) Tracks: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Opus 132 1. I. Allegro 2. II. Allegro ma non tanto 3. III. Molto Adagio; Andante 4. IV. Alla Marcia; assai vivace 5. V. Allegro appassionato; Presto String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Opus 135 6. I. Allegretto 7. II. Vivace 8. III. Lento assai 9. IV. Grave - Allegro





Duo Concertante

Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano

MAR81517 774718151728 CD3 MARQUIS £13.95 CLASSICAL Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas represent a turning point in the history of the violin and piano repertoire. Up until then pieces of this type were effectively piano sonatas with a violin accompaniment or obligato. Beethoven, however, adopts a new approach in which both instruments have an equal say. This 3-CD set presents all ten sonatas performed by the celebrated Duo Concertante, which features Nancy Dahn on violin and Timothy Steeves on piano. Duo Concertante was formed in 1987 by violinist Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves. They maintain a busy touring schedule across North America, Europe, and China, and have appeared at many of the great recital halls around the world including the Wigmore Hall in London, Weill Recital Hall in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing. Duo Concertante have released five previous CDs, of which the album ‘It Takes Two’ was described as “spectacular” by the American Record Guide. Personnel: Nancy Dahn (violin), Timothy Steeves (piano) Disc 1: Sonata in E flat major, op. 12, No. 3 1. I. Allegro con spirito 2. II. Adagio con molt' espressione 3. III. Rondo: Allegro molto Sonata in A minor, op. 23 4. I. Presto 5. II. Andante scherzoso, piu allegretto 6. III. Allegro molto Sonata in D major, op. 12, No. 1 7. I. Allegro con brio 8. II. Tema con variazioni: Andante con moto 9. III. Rondo: Allegro Sonata in G major, op. 30, No. 3 10. I. Allegro assai 11. II. Tempo di menuetto, ma molto moderato e grazioso 12. III. Allegro vivace Disc 2: Sonata in F major, op. 24, Spring 1. I. Allegro 2. II. Adagio molto espressivo 3. III. Scherzo: Allegro molto 4. IV. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo Sonata in A major, op. 12, No. 2 5. I. Allegro vivace 6. II. Andante piu tosto allegretto 7. III. Allegro piacevole Sonata in A major, op. 47, Kreutzer 8. I. Adagio sostenuto-presto 9. II. Andante con variazioni 10. III. Presto Disc 3: Sonata in C minor, op. 30, No. 2 1. I. Allegro con brio 2. II. Adagio cantabile 3. III. Scherzo: Allegro 4. IV. Finale: Allegro Sonata in A major, op. 30, No. 1 5. I. Allegro





Ulrik Spang-Hanssen

Dietrich Buxtehude: Complete Organ Works

233818 885150338186 CD6 CLASSICO £5.30 CLASSICAL This 6-CD set is devoted to recordings made in the 1990s by leading Danish organist Ulrik Spang-Hanssen of music by the great Dutch baroque composer Dietrich Buxtehude. The pieces featured were written for the major religious festivals of the church year. They are performed on some of the greatest instruments in Europe, organs built by Schnitger, Aubertin, Lund and Raphaelis, in Germany, France, Denmark and the Netherlands. In 1705 none other than the young Johann Sebastian Bach left his duties at Arnstadt to undertake a pilgrimage to Lübeck in order to watch his idol, the Dutch composer Dietrich Buxtehude, at work. On his own initiative he extended his educational leave to four months thereby putting his job at risk. During this time he prepared numerous copies of Buxtehude‘s works and studied them meticulously. Personnel: Ulrik Spang-Hanssen (organ) Organs built by Schnitger, Aubertin, Lund and Raphaelis in Germany, France, Denmark and the Netherlands.

6. II. Adagio 7. III. Allegretto con variazioni Sonata in G major, op. 96 8. I. Allegro moderato 9. II. Adagio con espressivo 10. III. Scherzo: Allegro-Trio 11. IV. Poco allegretto Duo Concertante 2014 UK tour: April 27 Conway Hall, London May 01 University of St Andrews, Younger Hall May 03 University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam College, Auditorium May 11 Sutton House Music Society, London





The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Beethoven: Complete Symphonies 1-9

233809 885150338094 CD6 MEMBRAN £5.30 CLASSICAL The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra was founded by Sir Thomas Beecham in 1946 and is one of the world’s most prestigious bodies of musicians. In 1993 the RPO began to record important works of classical music for their unique “Royal Philharmonic Collection”. It was in this connection that the present recordings of the Complete Symphonies of Beethoven were made. The conductors who took part in the project included Barry Wordsworth, for many years conductor-in-chief of the BBC Concert Orchestra, and James Lockhart who was musical director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in the 1960s. The internationally successful Günther Herbig, a Karajan pupil, is also featured here along with one of the few women to make a reputation as conductor during this period, Claire Gibault. Personnel: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Günther Herbig, Barry Wordsworth, Mark Ermler, James Lockhart, Raymond Leppard, Claire Gibault (conductors)

Mstislav Rostropovich

Legendary Recordings

600147 4053796001474 CD10 DOCUMENTS £8.49 CLASSICAL Legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich was born in Azerbaijan, formerly part of the U.S.S.R. The intelligence and creativity of his interpretations have inspired contemporary composers such as Shostakovich, Britten, and Prokofiev. This 10-CD compilation consists of recordings of music made in the years 1950 to 1960 that had a very personal significance for him. Amongst the featured works are Bach’s Six Cello Suites, Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No.1, and Prokofiev’s Symphony-Concerto. The music presented in this set also includes works by Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, Chopin, Fauré and Dvorák, as well as music by the great Russian composers Tchaikovsky, Glazunov and Borodin. To accompany the master cellist are artists who were personal friends such as Sviatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels and Leonid Kogan, as well as the conductors Eugene Ormandy and Kurt Sanderling with the Philadelphia Orchestra and a variety of renowned orchestras from Moscow and Leningrad.





Christa Ludwig

Her First Recordings - The Greatest Successes

600151 4053796001511 CD10 DOCUMENTS £8.49 CLASSICAL When the great mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig gave her farewell recital in Salzburg in August 1993 it brought to an end a stellar career that had covered over 50 years. These 10 CDs provide for the first time a wide-ranging portrait of this extraordinary artist. They include her first radio recordings in small roles made during her Frankfurt opera years, the Salzburg Mozart and Strauss premieres, and the Wagner roles of her later years. The set also features her great performances in the Lied and oratorio repertoire. Although born in Berlin, it was in Vienna and Salzburg that the legendary mezzo-soprano Christa Ludwig achieved her greatest and most lasting successes. In Salzburg alone she gave 126 performances during her 38 years association at the opera, 20 song recitals and 18 concerts. For conductors like Karajan, Klemperer, Böhm, Solti and Bernstein she was first choice for top-class recordings.

Orchestra and Chorus of Italian Radio & Wilhelm Furtwangler

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen

600154 4053796001542 CD13 DOCUMENTS £10.99 CLASSICAL None of Wilhelm Furtwängler’s “Ring” performances from Bayreuth or other places in Germany have survived as recordings. However three recordings do still exist, one from a performance in London and two recordings that were made in Italy. The first of these comes from a live performance at La Scala, Milan in 1950, and the second a 1953 radio production in Rome. It is the latter of these that is presented here in this bargain 13-CD set. Previously available in different packaging, this title is now released with new documentation in a clam style box that is a feature of the ‘Documents’ label sets. For this recording the orchestra of the radio station was supported by musicians from other orchestras, and Furtwängler had more than a month available for rehearsals. The star casts include Ferdinand Frantz, Wolfgang Windgassen, Gottlob Frick, Hilde Konetzni, Martha Mödl, Ludwig Suthaus, Josef Greindl and Margarete Klose. Personnel: Orchestra and Chorus of Italian Radio, Wilhelm Furtwangler (conductor), Soloists: Ferdinand Frantz, Wolfgang Windgassen, Hilde Konetzni, Martha Mödl, Ludwig Suthaus and others





Various Artists Classical Music for Weddings

600150 4053796001504 CD2 DOCUMENTS £4.75 CLASSICAL This 2-CD set presents a selection of pieces specifically chosen to accompany a wedding day. The music includes essential elements like Mendelssohn’s famous Wedding March and Wagner’s Bridal March alongside popular pieces by, amongst others, Mozart, Bach, and Handel. The artists performing on these recordings are top-class musicians such as José Carreras, Kathleen Ferrier, Alfred Deller, Claudio Arrau, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and many others. Disc 1: 1. MENDELSSOHN: Wedding March (A Midsummer Night's Dream) 2. WAGNER: Brautchor - Treulich geführt (Lohengrin) 3. J.S.BACH: Präludium & Fuge in C BWV 547 4. SCHUBERT: Ave Maria 5. PACHELBEL: Canon in D 6. SCHUMANN: Seit ich ihn gesehen 7. J.S.BACH: Air (Orchestersuite Nr. 3 BWV 1068) 8. GIORDANI: Caro mio ben 9. GRIEG: Morning (Peer Gynt Suite No. 1) 10. MOZART: Halleluja (Exultate jubilate KV 165) 11. SCHUBERT: Ungeduld D. 795, 7 12. JOHANN STRAUSS II: The Blue Danube op. 314 Disc 2: 1. HANDEL: Air (Water Music) 2. PARISOTTI: Se tu m'ami 3. MOZART: Overture - The Marriage of Figaro 4. SCHUMANN: Du Ring an meinem Finger 5. VIVALDI: Allegro (Violin Concerto No. 1, op. 8 Spring) 6. PURCELL: Epithalamium (The Fairy Queen) 7. HANDEL: Hornpipe (Water Music) 8. HANDEL: Ombra mai fu 9. J.S.BACH: Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Cantata BWV 147) 10. CHOPIN: Étude op. 10, No. 3 11. MONTEVERDI: Pur ti miro (L'Incoronazione di Poppea) 12. LEHAR: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (Land des Lächelns) 13. J.S.BACH/GOUNOD: Ave Maria 14. JOHANN STRAUSS II: Emperor Waltz