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TABLE OF CONTENTS
æon 7
Améson 19
Audiomax 26
AVIE Records 5–6
Brussels Philharmonic 25
CAvi-music 22
Challenge Classics 10–11
CORO 4
Delphian Records 9
Delta 18
Editions Hortus 29
Etcetera 31–32
Flora 28
Fryderyk Chopin Institute 25
Fuga Libera 6
GIA Publications, Inc. 22
Indésens 30
La Bottega Discantica 28
Melodiya 13–18
Music & Media 19
Opera d’Oro 3, 20–21
Quartz 23
Ricercar 9
Smekkleysa 26–27
SOMM Recordings 12
Stone Records 8
Syrius 31
Tactus 24
TransArt 10
ZOHO Classix 12
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Opera d’Oro
OPERA D’ORO CELEBRATES WAGNER’S BICENTENNIAL YEAR
“Hear this Ring, and find out what this music, and
Richard Wagner, are all about.” — New York Times
Richard WAGNER
Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Hans Hotter, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Josef Greindl, Astrid Varnay, Wolfgang Windgassen, Ramon Varnay: vocal soloists
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus
Clemens Krauss: conductor
WAGNER: Der Ring des Nibelungen (complete opera)
A deluxe edition of one of the most beloved complete Opera d’Oro recordings! This new package contains newly translated complete
English librettos for all four music dramas, along with a fifth book of essays.
“I will proceed to proclaim the 1953 Bayreuth Festival Ring conducted by Clemens Krauss the best on records … Hotter in his
prime as Wotan, Wolfgang Windgassen in his first Bayreuth Siegfried … and Astrid Varnay as a womanly, impassioned Brunnhilde.
The rest of the cast, with minor exceptions, matches the competition point for point and easily surpasses all other Rings … The
sound, remarkably solid and natural for a live recording of that era, favors the voices in a way that doesn’t slight the orchestra. But
what lifts this Ring to preeminence is the conducting of Clemens Krauss … Tempos move forward purposefully, on the whole,
but without slighting the music’s mystery and tragedy. And the intensely dramatic and ecstatic moments, those great outbursts to
which Wagner rises with satisfying frequency, are delivered with blinding passion. Hear this Ring, and find out what this music, and
Richard Wagner, are all about.” — John Rockwell, New York Times
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CORO
Claudio MONTEVERDI
Selva morale e spirituale Vol. III
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The Sixteen
Harry Christophers: conductor
MONTEVERDI: Laudate Dominum (Secondo) • Iste confessor (Secondo) • Magnificat (Secondo) • Credidi propter quod locutus sum •
Pianto della Madonna “Iam moriar, mi fili” (Sopra il Lamento dell’Arianna) • Beatus vir (Secondo) • È questa vita un lampo • Confitebor
tibi Domine (Secondo) • Memento Domine David • Laudate pueri (Secondo) • Salve Regina (Terzo) • Magnificat (Primo)
The third and final volume in The Sixteen’s acclaimed Selva morale e spirituale series! Included on this final volume are the eight-part
Magnificat (Primo), one of the most impressive of all Monteverdi’s settings; the old style Credidi and Memento featuring the full choir;
and the exquisitely beautiful soprano solo, Pianto della Madonna “Iam moriar, mi fili,” performed by Grace Davidson.
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Selva morale e spirituale Vol. I
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Avie Records
Hans GÁL & Robert SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 2 & Symphony No. 4
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Orchestra of the Swan
Kenneth Woods: conductor
GÁL: Symphony No. 2 • SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
“Hats off to conductor Kenneth Woods and his Orchestra of the Swan, who have been making a case for Gál’s elegantly built
orchestral pieces.” — NPR’s All Things Considered
Kenneth Woods, Principal Guest Conductor of Stratford-upon-Avon-based Orchestra of the Swan, has made international headlines
for his ongoing cycle of world premiere recordings of Hans Gál’s Symphonies. The set, paired with the symphonies of Robert
Schumann, has been featured by National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Performance Today, the New York Times, Washington
Post, Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, and dozens of other newspaper and online reviews, introducing a new generation to
Gál’s wide-ranging and extensive oeuvre.
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Avie Records
Frank Almond: violin
William Wolfram: piano
TARTINI: Devil’s Trill • SCHUMANN: Sonata in D minor • plus works by
Julias Röntgen & Karol Lipinski
“Intoxicating brilliance and immense panache.” — The Strad
Frank Almond
A Violin’s Life
Cat # AVR 2279
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A Violin’s Life traces the provenance and history of the “Lipinski” Strad, one of
the most notable of the coveted string maker’s instruments, which are worth
millions today. Crafted in 1715, the violin is named for Polish virtuoso Karol
Lipinski, who played this instrument from c. 1818 until his death in 1861.
Frank Almond, concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, has
played on the “Lipinski” Strad since 2008. Envisioning a project that chronicled
the extraordinary history of this violin and its associations, he has made a
recording that includes Tartini’s most famous work, the “Devil’s Trill” Sonata,
as well as a virtuoso solo piece by Karol Lipinski, one of Julius Röntgen’s
unjustly neglected violin sonatas, and the stupendous Sonata in D minor of
Robert Schumann, certainly performed during their lifetimes with Schumann
at the piano and Lipinski playing this very instrument. William Wolfram is
Frank’s estimable accompanist.
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Fuga Libera
Yin-Yang Piano Duo
Inge Spinette & Jan Michiels: pianos
Track List: BACH/KURTÁG: Liebster Jesu wir sind hier, BWV 633
(a) • Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 611 • Christe, du Lamm
Gottes, BWV 619 (a) • BARTÓK: Suite for two pianos, Op. 4b, BB 122
(1941)(transcription of Orchestral Suite No. 2, Op. 4, BB 40) • BACH/
KURTÁG: Két Kép (Two Images), Op. 10, BB 59 (1910) (transcription
for two pianos by Zoltán Kocsis, 1978) • Dies sind die heil’gen zehn
Gebot’, BWV 635 • Alle Menschen müssen sterben, BWV 643 • Aus tiefer
Not schrei’ ich zu dir, BWV 687 • Das alte Jahr vergangen ist, BWV 614 •
BARTÓK: Seven pieces for two pianos from Mikrokosmos, BB 120
(1939–40) (transcriptions of Mikrokosmos, BB 105) • BACH/KURTÁG:
Christe, du Lamm Gottes, BWV 619 (b) • Ach wie nichtig, ach wie
flüchtig, BWV 644 • Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 633 (b)
Yin-Yang Piano Duo
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After La Valse à mille temps, Jan Michiels and Inge Spinette return with
a new two-piano program for Fuga Libera. This recording pays tribute
to Bach, Bartók, and Kurtág, and also to two legendary piano duos:
Dittá and Béla Bartók, and Márta and György Kurtág. The recording
highlights the strength of the union of two minds, which — like Dittá
and Béla Bartók, Márta and György Kurtág, and Inge Spinette and Jan
Michiels — can phrase music with a rare degree of intensity and acuity.
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æon
Ludwig van BEETHOVEN
The Late String Quartets Op. 135 & Op. 132
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Brentano String Quartet
Mark Steinberg: violin
Serena Canin: violin
Misha Amory: viola
Nina Maria Lee: cello
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet Op. 135, No. 16 • String Quartet Op. 132, No. 15
“The glittering clarity of the Brentano’s sound is intoxicating.” — The Strad
“Brilliant, virtuosic, and still mellow … one of the great musical hopes of a field overcrowded with contenders.” — Los Angeles Times
Founded in 1992, the New York-based Brentano String Quartet is particularly recognized for their interpretations combining perfect
technique with peerless musicality. Their previous release — also devoted to Beethoven’s late quartets, and named Editor’s Choice by
Gramophone — served as the soundtrack for Yaron Zilberman’s film A Late Quartet, which featured a galaxy of stars including Philip
Seymour Hoffman and Christopher Walken.
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BEETHOVEN
The Late String Quartets Op. 127 & Op. 131
Cat # AEN 1110
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Stone Records
Franz SCHUBERT
Winterreise
Cat # SNR 8022
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Matthew Rose: bass
Gary Matthewman: piano
SCHUBERT: Winterreise
“A robust bass voice and dignified presence.” — New York Times
“Utterly compelling.” — Opera Now
Stone Records is delighted to announce the release of Matthew Rose’s debut recital disc. Together with pianist Gary Matthewman,
he performs Schubert’s masterpiece Winterreise. Rose, renowned for his performances at the world’s leading opera houses
(The Metropolitan, La Scala, Covent Gardent), is becoming one of the most sought-after basses of his generation. He has teamed
up with rising star Matthewman, and together they worked on Winterreise over the course of several years prior to making this
recording. The result is one of the most dramatically thrilling and intelligently planned renditions of this great work!
The recording was made at the Snape Maltings near Aldeburgh in the UK, a suitably remote and inspiring location for such a
piece. Superbly captured by award-winning producer Sébastien Chonion, the disc is presented in a collectible CD-sized hardback
booklet, with articles by Warwick Thompson and Susan Youens, full texts in German & English, and — as downloadable files on the
CD itself — transposable sheet music for the entire work.
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Ricercar
Vox Luminis
Lionel Meunier: conductor
Les Trompettes des Plaisirs
Jean-François Madeuf: conductor
Lingua Franca
Benoît Laurent: conductor
Guy Penson: virginal
Funeral music for Queen Mary and Elizabeth I, by Purcell, Paisible,
Tollett, Morley, Weelkes, and Tomkins
This recording assembles the music composed for the funeral of Queen
Mary, and that used at the funeral of Elizabeth I in 1603. The program is
completed by Purcell’s sublime a cappella anthems and a moving anthem by
Weelkes on the death of Thomas Morley. After the success of the recording
of Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien, voted Record of the Year by Gramophone
magazine, this disc will be one of the major events of spring 2013!
Vox Luminis
English Royal Funeral Music
Cat # RCE 332
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SCHUTZ
Musicalische Exequien
Cat # RCE 311
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Gramophone
Record of the
Year 2012
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Delphian Records
Gordon Ferries: guitars, lute, theorbo
DE VISEE: Allemande ‘La Royalle’ • Suite in D minor • LE ROY: Pavane ‘Est
il conclud’ • Gaillarde plus diminuée • Allemande • CORBETTA: Suite in
D major • BRAYSSING: Fantasie des Grues • Fantasie No. 5 • BRAYSSING:
Fantasie no. 6 • DE SERMISY, arr. Attaingnant: Une bergerote • HUREL: Suite
in C major • CORBETTA: Allemande ‘La Royalle’ • Sarabande ‘La Stuarde’ •
LULLY, arr. Hurel: Les Pellerins • CERTON, arr. Morlaye: Robin • SANDRIN,
arr. Morlaye: Jay veu que j’estoys franc et maistre • LE HEURTEUR, arr.
Morlaye: Regretz soucy et peine
“A master of musical subtlety.” — International Record Review
Gordon Ferries
La Royalle: Music for Kings & Courtiers
Cat # DPH 34111
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Gordon Ferries’ fifth solo disc for Delphian spans two centuries of music for
kings and courtiers. Performing on four instruments matched to the periods
in question, and captured in sumptuous recorded sound, Ferries takes in the
chansons and elegant counterpoint of sixteenth-century France’s cultivated
humanist courts and the exquisite melancholy and refined dance forms from
the private chambers of Louis XIV’s Versailles, and investigates the place
of guitar music at the heart of the decadence, sexual intrigue, and Baroque
splendor of Charles II’s Restoration court.
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TransArt
Nemanja Radulović: violin
Marielle Nordmann: harp
CHOPIN: Nocturne in C sharp minor No. 20, Op. posth. • OBERTHÜR:
Berceuse, Op. 299 • Le Sylphe (solo harp) • TCHAIKOVSKY: Polina’s Romance
(from The Queen of Spades) • BARTÓK: Romanian Folk Dances: Stick
Dance • Sash Dance • Stamping Dance • Hornpipe Dance • Polkas • BARRIOS
MANGORÉ: La Catedral: Andante religioso (solo harp) • Preludio (Saudade)
(solo harp) • Allegro solemne (solo harp) • Etude de Concert (solo harp) •
RAVEL: Pièce en forme de Habanera • MASSENET: Meditation from Thaïs •
SAINT SAËNS: Fantaisie for violin and harp in A major, Op. 124 • FAURÉ:
Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1
“Engaging and exactingly articulated.” — New York Times
Nemanja Radulović &
Marielle Nordmann
Après un rêve…
Cat # TAP 174
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“A musician who is actually worthy of the prizes he has taken … a thoughtful,
intelligent, and fiery player … It’s playing like this that reminds one of the
story that Paganini sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his virtuosity.”
— Musicweb-International
Young violinist Nemanja Radulović unites his fire and modernity with the
supreme elegance of harpist Marielle Nordmann, as the unconventional pair
offers a captivating program of sparkling delicacy and angelic music.
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Challenge Classics
Isabelle van Keulen: violin
Ronald Brautigam: piano
PROKOFIEV: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 94 • Violin Sonata in
F minor, Op. 80 • Cinq Mélodies, Op. 35A
Isabelle van Keulen’s breakthrough came in 1984, when she won BBC
Young Musician of the Year. The competition was broadcast all over
Europe, and watched live on television by millions. Her versatility lies in
the fact that she plays both the violin and the viola with the same energy,
performing chamber music in all possible combinations and directing
chamber orchestra performances. Her duo partner of 22 years is Ronald
Brautigam, one of Holland’s most respected musicians, and their
chemistry is immediately obvious! Brautigam has received numerous
awards including the Dutch Music Prize and the 2010 MIDEM Classical
Award for Best Concerto Recording.
Sergei PROKOFIEV
Complete works for violin & piano
Cat # CHR 72580
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Challenge Classics
Voces Intimae
Riccardo Cecchetti: piano
Luigi De Filippi: violin
Sandro Meo: cello
GOUVY: Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 18 • Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 19 • Piano
Trio No. 4, Op. 22
“A performance of inspired clarity and subtle expression, characterized
by a transparent interpretation and flawless intonation.” — The Strad
The second album from enchanting Italian trio Voces Intimae on
Challenge Classics! The trio goes straight to the core of the music,
resulting in extremely moving performances. They have appeared at
Wigmore Hall and St. John’s Smith Square in London, Carnegie Hall
in New York, the Musik Halle in Hamburg, the Vredenburg in Utrecht,
Amici della Musica in Florence, and many more. The trio received very
good reviews for their Warner album featuring the works of Hummel,
and for their debut album on Challenge Classics featuring Schumann.
Théodore GOUVY
Piano Trios
Cat # CHR 72571
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Arno Piters: clarinet
Marleen Asberg, Nienke van Rijn, Keiko Iwata: violins
Edith van Moergastel, Judith Wijzenbeek: violas
Benedikt Enzler: cello
Rob Dirksen: double bass
BRAHMS: Sonata for Clarinet and String Quintet in F minor, Op. 120/1 •
Sonata for Clarinet and String Sextet in E flat major, Op. 120/2 •
R. SCHUMANN: Fantasiestücke for Clarinet and String Quartet, Op. 73
This new disc features three arrangements by Geert van Keulen of
works by Schumann and Brahms, two of which were specially requested
by clarinetist Arno Piters. The superb ensemble consists of members of
the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
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Johannes BRAHMS & Robert SCHUMANN
Strings Attached [Hybrid SACD]
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SOMM Recordings
Clélia Iruzun: piano
MOMPOU: Cançons i Danses I, II, III, IV, V, VI • Pessebres • Dansa • L’ermita •
El pastor • Impresionaes Intimas • Plany I Lento cantabile espressivo • Plany II
Larguetto • Plany III Gracioso • Plany IV Agitato • Pájaro triste Largo • La barca •
Cuna • Secreto • Gitano • Variaciones sobre un tema de Chopin • Thème •
Variation I Traunquillo • Variation II Gracioso • Variation III Lento (pour
la main gauche) • Variation IV Espressivo • Variation V Tempo di Mazurka •
Variation VI Recitativo-Lento • Variation VII Allegro leggiero • Variation VIII
Andante dolce • Variation IX Valse • Variation X Évocation • Variation XI Lento
dolce • Variation XII Galope • Epilogo Lento
“Iruzun’s playing has flair, invigorating rhythmic élan, and a rich palette of colors.”
— Classic FM
Federico MOMPOU
Selected Works Vol. 1
Cat # SMM 121
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Brazilian pianist Clélia Iruzun has delighted critics over the years with her
performances and recordings of music by Villa Lobos, Granados, Ginastera,
Mignone, and Marlo Nobres, among others. Now, SOMM Recordings is
delighted to join her as she embarks on a series of recordings selected from
Federico Mompou’s large piano œuvre. The recording includes the Variations
on a Theme of Chopin, the theme being the Prelude No. 7 in A major, on
which Mompou composes 13 sparkling and inventive Variations. These are not
often recorded, and they make a wonderful addition to the catalog!
Recent Interview in the December edition of International Piano Magazine.
Radio Coverage on BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM.
Review Copies sent to all media and magazine press.
ZOHO Classix
Carlos Barbosa-Lima: guitar
Larry Del Casale: guitar
Havana String Quartet
LENNON/MCCARTNEY arr. Leo Brouwer: Beatlerianas for Guitar and
String Quartet • BROUWER: Paisaje Cubano con Fiesta • Cantilena de los
Bosques • Zapateo • String Quartet No. 5 • Micropiezas • Quintet for Guitar
and String Quintet
“This Grammy®-winning album should undoubtedly put Cuba on the
classical music map more firmly, with excellent performances from
the Havana String Quartet showcasing composer Leo Brouwer’s music.”
— All Music Guide (for ZMR 201108)
Leo BROUWER
Beatlerianas
Cat # ZMR 201304
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Beatlerianas features seven classic Lennon & McCartney songs, arranged
by Cuban composer Leo Brouwer for guitar and string quartet. Following
their 2010 Latin Grammy®-winning ZOHO release of Brouwer’s string
quartets, the Havana String Quartet now pairs with Brazilian guitarist
Carlos Barbosa-Lima in a “guitar and strings” recital that also includes the
premiere recording of Brouwer’s String Quartet No. 5.
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BROUWER
String Quartets & String Trio
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Melodiya
Tatiana Nikolayeva: piano
J.S. BACH: The Art of Fugue
The Art of Fugue is a cycle of fugues and canons that can be rightfully
considered the peak of J.S. Bach’s polyphonic mastery. Amazing thanks
to its unsurpassed polyphonic technique, the work left a mass of
mysteries and questions as to the author’s concept, its completeness,
and the instruments on which it could be played. This album features
the cycle as it was performed by Tatiana Nikolayeva, a recognized
master of interpretation of Bach’s music. In 1950, then a young pianist,
she became a winner of the International J.S. Bach Competition in
Leipzig; Dmitri Shostakovich had composed a cycle of 24 preludes and
fugues especially for her. Her performance of The Art of Fugue ranks
among the best-known piano interpretations of this work.
J.S. BACH
The Art of Fugue
Cat # MYD 1002006
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Mieczysław Weinberg: piano
Borodin Quartet
Rostislav Dubinsky: violin
Yaroslav Alexandrov: violin
Dmitry Shebalin: viola
Valentin Berlinsky: cello
WEINBERG: Quintet for piano, two violins, viola and cello in F minor,
Op. 18 • Quartet No. 8 or two violins, viola and cello in C minor, Op. 66
Mieczysław WEINBERG
Piano Quintet Op. 18 & String Quartet No. 8
Cat # MYD 1001998
Price Code: R (SRP $17.99)
Number of Discs: 1
Digipak, Box Lot 30
The music of Mieczysław Weinberg is one of the most beautiful pages
of unwritten music history of the 20 th century. Now, Melodiya presents
the best examples of Weinberg’s chamber music. His piano quintet,
composed during WWII, and eighth quartet (1959), a one-movement
piece filled with inner contrasts, unintentionally call up associations
with Shostakovich’s brightest chamber opuses composed during the
same years. Weinberg’s compositions are performed by the original
lineup of the Borodin Quartet, an outstanding chamber ensemble.
In the quintet, the author — who graduated from the Warsaw
Conservatory — plays the piano!
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Melodiya
The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov: conductor
KALINNIKOV: Symphony No. 1 in G minor • Symphony No. 2 in A
major • Intermezzo No. 1 in A major • Intermezzo No. 2 in G major •
Serenade for string orchestra • Nymphs, symphonic poem • Bylina,
overture • The Cedar and the Palm, symphonic picture • Suite • Tsar
Boris, music to the tragedy by Alexey Tolstoy
Melodiya presents a complete collection of symphonic heritage by
Vasily Kalinnikov, an outstanding and rarely performed composer
who combined various trends of 19 th -century Russian art. Kalinnikov,
who had to fight poverty and incurable disease for most of his short
life, created music that was amazing in its lyrical spirituality, melodic
richness, and epic power. This album features the composer’s two
best-known symphonies as well as his earlier compositions,
one-movement program works and experiments for drama theatre
(music to Alexei Tolstoy’s play Tsar Boris).
Vasily KALINNIKOV
Symphonic Works
Cat # MYD 1001995
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USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov: conductor
BALAKIREV: Overture on the theme of a Spanish march for symphony
orchestra • Overtures on the themes of three Russian songs • King Lear,
music to the tragedy by William Shakespeare
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837–1910) was an outstanding Russian
musician, pianist, conductor, and composer. Some of the most
remarkable events in Russian music culture of the second half of the
19 th century are linked with his name. Balakirev’s compositions for
symphony orchestra, in which the musical and aesthetic principles
inherited from Mikhail Glinka and Alexander Dargomyzhsky found
their development, take a central place in his creative work. This
program brings together seven symphonic works in chronological
order, all performed by the outstanding Evgeny Svetlanov and the
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra.
Mily BALAKIREV
Symphonic Works
Cat # MYD 1001877
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Melodiya
Evgeny Kissin: piano
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Dmitri Kitaenko: conductor
CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 • Piano Concerto
No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21 • Mazurka in F minor, Op. 63 No. 2 • Mazurka
in F minor, Op. 68, No. 4 • Waltz for piano in E minor, Op. Posth.
In March 1984, a fragile 12-year-old boy went onstage at the Big Hall
of the Moscow Conservatory to perform Chopin’s two concerts with
the Moscow Philharmonic Society Orchestra, conducted by Dmitri
Kitaenko. His name became instantly known both in the USSR and
overseas. From the very first performance, one could not help but feel
a rare combination of almost mutually exclusive qualities: freshness
and fascination of youth and very mature, conscious proficiency.
Today, almost 30 years later, the recording of his first concert at the
conservatory keeps that wonderful youthful fascination.
Frédéric CHOPIN
Piano Concertos 1 & 2
Cat # MYD 1001994
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Bolshoi Theatre soloists, choir, and orchestra
I. Agafonnikov, A. Rybnov: choirmasters
Fuat Mansurov: conductor
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Tsar’s Bride (an opera in four acts)
In 1849, translator, poet, and playwright Lev Mey (1822–1862) wrote
a drama called The Tsar’s Bride, based on one of the passages from the
era of Ivan the Terrible’s reign. In 1868, Mily Balakirev drew Nikolai
Rimsky-Korsakov’s attention to Mey’s work. However, the composer
did not set to creating an opera based on the plot of The Tsar’s Bride
until some 30 years later. Almost without changing Mey’s plot,
Rimsky-Korsakov enhanced the dramatic qualities of The Tsar’s Bride
with his musical means. The opera was premiered in Autumn 1899 at a
Moscow theatre of the industrialist and patron Savva Mamontov, with
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov as conductor.
Nikolai RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
The Tsar’s Bride
Cat # MYD 1001876
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Melodiya
Natalia Shakhovskaya: cello
USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Aram Khachaturian: conductor
KHACHATURIAN: Symphony No. 1 in E minor • Concerto-Rhapsody
for cello
Aram Khachaturian’s music is a sort of chronicle of his time and his
motherland; it is an enthusiastic tale of the life of his country, built
right before the artist’s eyes. Symphony No. 1 (1934), dedicated to the
15 th anniversary of Soviet Armenia, was the composer’s diploma thesis.
The Concerto-Rhapsody for cello was written in a burst of inspiration
in a free developing form similar to Chausson’s Poème and Ravel’s
Gitana for violin. The composer found quite a rigid structure that
connected the principle of rhapsodic development of music based on a
free flight of fantasy with important elements of sonata style that add a
clear logic of symphonic thinking to the whole.
Aram KHACHATURIAN
Khachaturian Conducts Khachaturian 3:
Concerto-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra & Symphony No. 1
Cat # MYD 1001839
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Great Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio and Television
Gennady Rozhdestvensky: conductor
STRAVINSKY: Le baiser de la fée
Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale The Ice Maiden was taken as a basis
for the libretto of Le baiser de la fée, a ballet that was ordered by Ida
Rubinstein for her seasons. However, Stravinsky admitted that only some
motifs were left from the Danish writer’s fairytale: the mother and her
child lost in a blizzard, and the Fairy who marked the child with her
magic kiss and then took him away to her miraculous world of eternal
life. Using some themes from pieces by Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky dedicated
his score to the great Russian composer. This CD presents a recording
from 1966, made by the Great Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio
and Television with conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
Igor STRAVINSKY
Le baiser de la fée
Cat # MYD 1001833
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Melodiya
Grigory Ginsburg: piano
LISZT: From the cycle “Years of Pilgrimage”: Italy, Venice, Naples:
No. 1 Gondoliera • No. 3 Tarantella • Switzerland: No. 2 At Lake
Wallenstadt • No. 4 Beside a Spring • No. 9 The Bells of Geneva • No. 6
Obermann’s Valley • RUBINSTEIN: Etude No. 2 in F major, Op. 23 •
Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70
Melodiya presents an album featuring Grigory Ginsburg, a wonderful
virtuoso pianist and one of the glorious representatives of the
Russian piano school of the 20 th century. Ginsburg’s name is now
overshadowed by some of his better-known peers such as Emil Gilels,
Sviatoslav Richter, Yakov Flier, and Stanislav Neuhaus. However, in
his time in the 1930s–’50s, his concert performances entranced
audiences and critics alike.
Grigory Ginsburg
Plays Anton Rubinstein and Franz Liszt
Cat # MYD 1002067
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USSR State Academic Choir
Moscow Chamber Choir
Vladimir Minin: conductor
SHCHEDRIN: The Sealed Angel
Melodiya presents one of the most significant choral works by modern
composer Rodion Shchedrin, composed after Nikolai Leskov’s story
The Sealed Angel. Shchedrin repeatedly worked in the choral genre;
he was often attracted to religious plotlines and liturgical texts. And
still, the choral music to The Sealed Angel has a special, personal
imprint that reflects how the composer perceived Leskov, and Russian
spirituality. “If the so-called Russian soul really exists, there’s no
one who can answer this sacramental question better than Leskov,”
Shchedrin wrote.
Rodion SHCHEDRIN
The Sealed Angel
Cat # MYD 1002070
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Melodiya
Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY & Franz SCHUBERT
From conducting legacy of A. Melik-Pashaev
Cat # MYD 1002072
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USSR Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Alexander Melik-Pashayev: conductor
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 “Pathétique” •
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D 759 “Unfinished”
Melodiya presents recordings of the outstanding Soviet conductor
Alexander Melik-Pashayev, whose performing career at the USSR
Bolshoi Theatre lasted more than 30 years and made up a whole era
in the life of the famous company. His numerous recordings of opera
sets, including those awarded with prestigious foreign prizes such as
Borodin’s Prince Igor, Prokofiev’s War and Peace, and Mussorgsky’s
Boris Godunov, are very well known. He is less known as a symphony
conductor, but Melik-Pashayev’s concerts with the Bolshoi orchestra
were some of the brightest ones in Moscow’s eventful musical life. His
repertoire included not only fragments from operas, but also symphonic
and oratorio compositions by Beethoven, Verdi, Schubert, Brahms,
Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich, and Shebalin.
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Delta Classics
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Nicolas Fink: chorus master
Berliner Mädchenchor
Sabine Wüsthoff: chorus master
Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin
Ingo Metzmacher: conductor
HUMPERDINCK: Königskinder
Engelbert Humperdinck, born in 1854, composed a total of 14 operas
and musical comedies. Six of them are fairytale operas, of which one
remained popular throughout the years: Hänsel und Gretel. The shadow of
this major success hides his other works, which deserve an equal share of
appreciation for their quality; for example, Königskinder. The trio of the
main protagonists is the same: an evil witch and two young people who are
introduced to the seriousness of life through several severe tests. However,
while Hänsel und Gretel features a happy ending, Königskinder ends in
tragedy; the grief is elaborately reflected in Humperdinck‘s composition.
Engelbert HUMPERDINCK
Königskinder: An opera in three acts
Cat # DLT 90044
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Améson
Georges APERGHIS
Á portée de voix: Vocal Works
Valérie Philippin: soprano/Ensemble Kiosk
APERGHIS: Calme plat(s) • Dialogue amoureux • Simulacre II • Rire Physiologique • Monomanie(s) •
Fidélité • Pub I et II
Cat # AMN 1019
Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99)
Number of Discs: 2
Digipak, Box Lot 20
Valerie Philippin, an accomplished artist with a wide-ranging, eclectic virtuoso repertoire, gives
us a radiant and personal version of a number of solo vocal works by Georges Aperghis, some of
which were dedicated to her. The package contains a bonus DVD, produced by Thierry Tibolla,
which includes performance clips and an interview with Valerie Philippin by musicologist Corinne
Schneider. DVD is PAL, not NTSC, but will play on most computers.
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Jill Kemp
English Recorder Works
Music & Media
Jill Kemp: recorders/Aleksander Szram: piano/Brodowski Quartet
BERKELEY: Sonatina • ARNOLD: Sonatina, Op. 41 • Solitaire • Fantasy for Recorder & String Quartet •
JACOB: Suite for Recorder & String Quartet • BOWEN: Sonata, Op. 121 • RUBBRA: Meditazioni sopra
‘Coeurs Désolés’ Op. 67
Cat # MME 103
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A great introduction to 20 th century English recorder pieces performed by young player Jill Kemp, a
highly talented pupil of the world’s leading recorder player, Michala Petri.
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Martin Eastwell
Lady Maggie’s Lilt: Music from the Lute Book of Lady Margaret Wemyss 1629–1648
Martin Eastwell: lute
Cat # MME 104
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ANONYMOUS: The days dawes in the morning • Sinkpays • Port Robart • I left my tru love • Corant •
Sarabande • I wish I wer there • General Lesly’s Goodnight • Ladie lie ner me • Tom of Bedlam • The
Spanish Pavin • Ane Curant • I never knew I loved thee • Buckingham’s Gast • The Corbie and the
Pigot • Holi and Faire • Ruthven’s Lilt • Newburn • Shooting Dance • Broom of Cardenowes • Fare and
Loucky • Goodnight • The Flowers of the Forest • GAULTIER: Almond Goutier • Curent Goutier •
Gautirs Current • Sarabande du Guteir • Almond Gautier • Almond (“Old Gaultier’s Nightingale”) •
DE LESPINE: Current Lysabelle • DE MERVILLE: Mervell’s Sarabande • MESANGEAU: Almond
Goutier • Almond dafo • DUFAULT: Curent dafo • DE CHANCY: Curent dafo
A fascinating insight into the world of music for the lute in the first half of the 17 th century, with
emphasis on French compositions.
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Opera d’Oro
Luciano Pavarotti: tenor
Music from Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti, Bellini, Mozart, and Massenet
The career of Luciano Pavarotti spanned 45 years, one of the longest careers
of any operatic singer. His debut took place in Italy in Puccini’s La bohème in
April 1961, and this remained one of his signature roles throughout his life.
Later that same year, he made his first appearance in Verdi’s La traviata. The
next year, in Palermo, he first sang the Duke in another Verdi masterpiece,
Rigoletto. The single performance, however, that propelled Pavarotti into world
fame was at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1972, when he sang the
role of Tonio in Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment (La fille du régiment).
The nine brilliant high Cs that he effortlessly emitted in the single aria “Ah,
mes amis” brought down the house, and earned him the nickname he would
carry ever after: “King of the High Cs.”
Luciano Pavarotti
A Life in Music
Cat # OPD 6013
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Luciano Pavarotti: tenor
Music from Verdi, Bellini, Donizetti, Giordano, Tosta, Sibella, Puccini,
and Massenet
In modern times, “superstar” status for an opera singer is unusual. Not so in
the 19 th century, when opera singers were commonly accorded the adulation
reserved for rock stars today. Luciano Pavarotti’s numerous appearances on
television, both in operas and commercials, as well as his sharing the stage
with major pop singers, the huge arena performances of “the three tenors”
(along with Plácido Domingo and José Carreras), and performances at other
mass venues made him a true “superstar” equal to, or even greater than,
many of pop music’s biggest stars. This disc surveys the breadth and depth
of Pavarotti’s recordings of opera and song over the decades.
Luciano Pavarotti
The Superstar
Cat # OPD 6014
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Opera d’Oro
Luciano Pavarotti: tenor
Music from DeCurtis, Tosta, De Crescenzo, Bixio, Buzzi Peccia, Lazzaro,
and Donizetti
The Neapolitan song is a specific genre of classical vocal music with a
distinctive style that, once heard, is never forgotten. It originated officially at
a music festival in Naples, Italy, in 1835 but reached its international heyday
in the early 20 th century when the great tenor Enrico Caruso, himself a native
of Naples, sang Neapolitan songs as encores to many of his opera recitals.
Since then almost every famous tenor has continued the Caruso tradition,
and in modern times almost everyone has left an album of Neapolitan songs
along with their operatic recordings. Naturally, Pavarotti did also, and these
short songs with their direct emotional impact, usually full of sweet nostalgia
and a touch of melancholy, graced virtually every vocal recital he ever gave.
Luciano Pavarotti
Neapolitan Songs
Cat # OPD 6015
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Luciano Pavarotti: tenor
Music from Puccini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Tosti, and Massenet
A survey of hundreds of popular and classical song titles throughout the
centuries shows that love is by far the leading theme of vocal music. Yet only
one track on this album is technically a love song: Tosti’s “L’ultima canzone.”
The rest are arias, the operatic equivalent of the love song. Luciano Pavarotti
made his professional debut in Puccini’s La bohème, and this remained
probably his most famous signature role for the rest of his long career. Rodolfo
sings tenderly to Mimì “O soave fanciulla” (“O gentle girl, o sweet face bathed
in soft moonlight, in you I see the dream I have dreamed forever”). Can
you get more romantic? Some of opera’s great lovers are here, including the
Duke from Verdi’s Rigoletto, who starts out as a callous seducer and ends up a
gibbering jellyfish, madly in love with the lady he kidnapped for sport.
Luciano Pavarotti
Love Songs
Cat # OPD 6016
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CAvi-music
Cat # AVI 8553273
Price Code: 3N (SRP $38.99)
Number of Discs: 3
Box Set, Box Lot 14
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Cat # AVI 8553422
Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99)
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INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE
Ruhr Piano Festival
France, America & New Music (2012)
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Lucy Jarnach
Im Freien: Ravel, Jarnach, Bartók
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Juan Pérez Florestán, Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, Cheng Zhang,
Bertrand Chamayou, Ya-Fei Chuang, Robert Levin, Tamara
Stefanovich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Fabian Mueller: pianos
RAVEL: Jeux d’eau • Miroirs • La Valse • Sonatina in F sharp minor •
DEBUSSY: Suite bergamasque • GERSHWIN: Three Preludes •
American Song Book • An American in Paris • The Man I Love • I
Got Rhythm • WILD: Seven Virtuoso Etudes after George Gershwin •
CAGE: Music for Piano II • Sonata No. II • GLASS: Modern Love
Waltz • HOELLER: Double Play
Lucy Jarnach: piano
RAVEL: Gaspard de la Nuit • JARNACH: Three Piano Pieces,
Op. 17 (premiere) • BARTÓK: Im Freien
Next to Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit and Bartók’s Im Freien,
the music of German composer Philipp Jarnach fits nicely, as
performed by his granddaughter Lucy Jarnach.
Another great edition from the Ruhr Piano Festival, this time
focusing on the music of France and America as well as new music.
GIA Publications
Cat # GIA 894
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Cat # GIA 895
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North Texas Wind Symphony
Audibles
North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon: conductor
DIETZ: Sasei Fanfare • WHITE: Miniature Set •BRYANT:
Concerto for Piano • TURNER: Rumpelstilzchen • MARTINEZ
GALLEGO: La Concepcion 1910 • PANN: Hold This Boy and
Listen • FREER: Rio’s Convergence
Audibles is the eleventh recording in GIA’s wonderful WindWorks
series, which represents the relationship between the North Texas
Wind Symphony and GIA Publications.
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North Texas Wind Symphony
Voicings
North Texas Wind Symphony/Eugene Migliaro Corporon: conductor
ZARE: Lift Off! • LINDROTH: Passage • TICHELI: Songs of
Love and Life • TULL: Toccata • GANDOLFI: Flourishes and
Meditations • DZUBAY: Snake Alley
Voicings is the twelfth recording in GIA’s wonderful WindWorks
series, which represents the relationship between the North Texas
Wind Symphony and GIA Publications.
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Quartz Records
Osvaldo GOLIJOV
Dreams & Prayers
Paul Roe: clarinet, bass clarinet/Con Tempo
GOLIJOV: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (1994) • O’LEARY: Soundshapes II (2007) •
ROTH: Clarinet Quintet for klezmer clarinet/bass clarinet and string quartet (2010)
A new recording from Paul Roe and Con Tempo.
Cat # QTZ 2097
Price Code: P (SRP $16.99)
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Franz Joseph HAYDN
Piano Sonatas
Alexander Kobrin: piano
HAYDN: Sonata in D • Sonata in E minor • Sonata in B minor • Sonata in E Flat • Andante
with Variations
A new recording of the Haydn sonatas by Russian pianist Alex Kobrin.
Cat # QTZ 2098
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Fernando Marin
sCORDAtura
Fernando Marin: lyra-viol, baroque cello, viella
FERRABOSCA: Lessons for Lyra-viol: Lesson 17, 19, 8, 9 • DA FIRENZE: Sento D’Amor (Ballata) •
Codex: Mente Pura • GABRIELLI: Ricera 6 & 7 • J.S. BACH: Suite No. 5
sCORDAtura is an Italian concept that implies the tuning of strings in different combinations,
through which the instrument receives a special sound, rich in color and resonant in certain tones.
Cat # QTZ 2100
Price Code: P (SRP $16.99)
Number of Discs: 1
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Tactus
Giuseppe Maria CAMBINI
Chamber Works
Sans Souci Ensemble/Marcello Defiant: violin/Giuseppe Nalin: oboe/Serena Mancuso: cello/Marco
Vincenzi: harpsichord
CAMBINI: Cinque quartetti for harpsichord, violin, oboe and cello • Trio No. 5, Op. 45 in D major
for violin, oboe and cello
Cat # TCT 740303
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It is quite likely that Giuseppe Cambini influenced the Parisian milieu with his typically Italian
originality. He is regarded as a pre-Romantic composer not only because he anticipated the era of
Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Chopin, but above all because of his pensive search for expression.
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Luigi DE GRASSI
Six Organ Sonatas
Manuel Tomadin: organ
DE GRASSI: Sonata I in C major • Sonata II in C major • Sonata III in C major • Sonata IV in E-flat
major • Sonata V in A minor/A major • Sonata VI in C major (incomplete)
Cat # TCT 760401
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The vast group of works by Luigi De Grassi comprises masses, psalms, motets, chants, and more —
either accompanied by the organ or a cappella — for all kinds of vocal ensembles. A great number of
compositions for solo organ also testify to his work as organist. The Sonatas recorded on this CD are
some of the most interesting and ambitious creations for organ by this master composer from Grado.
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Giulio RICORDI
Piano Works
Roberto Piana: piano
RICORDI: Romance Poudrée • Il racconto della nonna • Fantaisie Hongroise • Aquarelles • Le rêve de
l’Odalisque • Almanacco Musicale
Everybody knows Giulio Ricordi was the greatest editor and publisher of the most important Italian
operas, but very few know he also was a great musician and composer!
Cat # TCT 841801
Price Code: T (SRP $14.99)
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Fryderyk Chopin Society
Malcolm Frager: piano
R. SCHUMANN: Études symphoniques, Op. 13 • Sonata in G minor, Op. 22
The first album in the new series Music of Chopin’s Time contains Robert
Schumann’s Symphonic etudes, Op. 13 and the Sonata in G minor, Op. 22
in the interpretation of one of the greatest American pianists. The recording
was made on a historical piano from Vienna from 1845.
Robert SCHUMANN
Études Symphoniques & Sonata, Op. 22
Cat # FCS 100
Price Code: R (SRP $17.99)
Number of Discs: 1
Digipak, Box Lot 32
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Brussels Philharmonic Recordings
Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra
Michel Tabachnik: conductor
STRAVINSKY: Le sacre du printemps • Le chant du rossignol
The story of Brussels Philharmonic is a remarkable one. As the former
orchestra of the Belgian Radio, and later the Flemish, this orchestra managed
not only to survive independently, but also to build a successful national
and international career in the heart of Europe. With their label Brussels
Philharmonic Recordings, the orchestra presents itself in all its facets.
Igor STRAVINSKY
Le sacre du printemps
Cat # BRX 4
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Audiomax
Trio Alba
MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trios, Op. 49 & 66
Chamber music instead of Carnegie Hall! It must have been a great creative urge
indeed that compelled Felix Mendelssohn to compose his second piano trio while
turning down a conducting invitation to New York — and the result explains just
what was at stake here. Beginning with a sweeping symphonic dimension in the
first movement, the mighty work builds up to a finale in which quite significant
questions are posed, and on this sparkling debut CD the Alba Trio offers
refreshingly sophisticated answers to them.
PLAYABLE IN ALL CD PLAYERS.
For optimal sound, use compatible surround sound system.
Felix MENDELSSOHN
Piano Trios, Opp. 49 & 66 [Hybrid SACD]
Cat # AMX SACD 9031793
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Smekkleysa
Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir: viola
Steinunn Birna Ragnarsdóttir: piano
HALLGRÍMSSON: Notes from a Diary, Op. 33 • BRITTEN: Lachrymae
On his work Notes from a Diary, Hafliði Hallgrímsson says: “During a visit
to Amsterdam some years ago, I found myself standing by a dark window
covered in grey dense material in a house, No. 263 in Prinsengracht, where
Ann Frank and her family hid from the Nazis for two years during the
Second World War. Standing by the window in this environment and what
it represented was strangely muted. Suddenly a large bell was struck in the
Westertoren Church nearby and the deep resonance emanating from that
bell shook me profoundly for a split second. So this was the sound that Ann
found reassuring; I was for a few moments painfully aware of the terrible fate.
When I started to work on a composition for viola and piano, the experience
in the Ann Frank Museum became more and more the magnet that shaped
the musical character of the work.”
Hafliði HALLGRÍMSSON &
Benjamin BRITTEN
Notes from a Diary & Lachrymae
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For this disc, Hafliði Hallgrímsson asked the performers to perform Britten’s
Lachrymae to accompany his own Notes from a Diary — an appropriate
choice, as this year we celebrate Britten’s 100 th birthday!
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Smekkleysa
Cat # SMK 23
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Bára GRÍMSDÓTTIR
Virgo gloriosa
Jón LEIFS
Elegies
Hljómeyki Choir/Bernharður Wilkinson: conductor
GRÍMSDÓTTIR: Virgo Gloriosa
Virgo Gloriosa is the first large-scale work Bára Grímsdóttir has
composed for the choir Hljómeyki. Using Latin text, the poem
tells of how the Virgin Mary appeared to the poet in a magnificent
dream. The work also contains a number of ancient melodic lines,
some quite well known.
Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir: mezzo-soprano/Rut Ingólfsdóttir: violin/
Reykjavik Chamber Orchestra/Bernard Wilkinson: conductor
LEIFS: Scherzo concreto, Op. 58 • Quintet, Op. 50 • Variazioni
pastorale, Op. 8 • Elegies, Op. 35
Chamber music was never the main focus of Jón Leif’s
compositional activity. The ideal venue for his often rough and
primitive music was the large concert hall. And his “instrument”
was the symphony orchestra, enlarged by a unique assembly of
rare percussion instruments.
Cat # SMK 64
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Thorkell SIGURBJÖRNSSON
Choir Music
The Ethos Quartet
Icelandic String Quartets
Hamrahlíð Choir/Thorgerður Ingólfsdóttir: conductor
The Ethos Quartet
SIGURBJÖRNSSON: Choir Music
Since the founding of the Hamrahlíðar College Choir in 1967,
it has served as a kind of a musical greenhouse for the creation
of new Icelandic choral music. Thorgerður Ingólfsdóttir has
cultivated a remarkable “musical garden” premiering over 70
new works with her young students over the course of 40 years.
Of many Icelandic composers who have been associated with the
choir, Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson is the most prolific.
PÁLSSON: Theme with Variations and Fugue • NORDAL:
From Dream to Dream • TÓMASSON: A Long Shadow •
MAGNUSSON: Quartet No. 2
This album by the Ethos Quartet is dedicated to celebrating
Icelandic string quartets. The disc features four works, including
one of the first Icelandic compositions written for string quartet:
String Quartet No. 1 by Helgi Pálsson.
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Flora
Giovanna Pessi & Eduardo Egüez
Liquide perle: Music for harp and theorbo
Giovanna Pessi: harp/Eduardo Egüez: theorbo, guitar
A compilation of toccatas, dances, improvisations, and variations on popular tunes composed by
Frescobaldi and Anonymous composers, written for the harp and theorbo
Cat # FLO 1106
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The pieces presented here were chosen from the collection of a Roman manuscript from the first
half of the 17 th century known as the “Chigi manuscript.” By nature multiple and sometimes
sketched, these pieces reflect an art of improvisation as a natural practice for musicians of that time.
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Marin MARAIS
Charivary: Music from the Third Book of Viol Pieces
Philippe Pierlot, Rainer Zipperling: bass viol/Maude Gratton: harpsichord/Eduardo Egüez:
theorbo, guitar
MARAIS: Suite in D • Suite in C • Suite in A
Cat # FLO 1507
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Marin Marais’ Third Book of Viol Pieces is an important milestone in his production: the suites
are perfectly well ordered and the art of the violist is at its peak. This first volume devoted to the
“Third Book” contains three suites based on the classical dance forms, completed by a few character
pieces such as “La Musette,” “La Guitare,” and the famous “Charivary.”
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La Bottega Discantica
Pietro NARDINI
Six Sonatas for two German flutes and a bass
Il Bell’Accordo Ensemble
NARDINI: Six Sonatas for two German flutes and a bass
Cat # BDI 156
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The works for flute by Pietro Nardini (1722–1793) are currently the focus of a renewed interest by all
experts in this field. The most recent acquisitions have, in fact, allowed a correct appraisal of a body of
instrumental work of interest and charm, which can thus compete with the better known and more
often performed violin repertoire by Giuseppe Tartini’s most famous pupil.
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Editions Hortus
Ensemble Sagittarius
Michael Laplénie: conductor
SCHEIN: Opella Nova • Fontana d’Israel
A man of the Renaissance and a Humanist, J.H. Schein is one of the most
talented champions of early German Baroque sacred music, in which the
influence of Italian aesthetics are quite obvious.
Johann Hermann SCHEIN
Opella Nova – Fontana d’Israel
Cat # HOR 75
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Ensemble Sagittarius
Michel Laplénie: conductor
Orchestre Baroque Les Passions
LEVENS: Te Deum • Deus Noster Refugium
At the beginning of the reign of King Louis XV, the French provincial music
scene gained more prominence thanks to its bustling theatres, “Académies,”
and regional choir schools. Compositions by provincial music masters, such
as Charles Levens’ Grands Motets, were included in the repertoire of the
“Concerts parisiens” and the Royal Chapel at Versailles.
Charles LEVENS
Te Deum
Cat # HOR 960
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Indésens
French Army’s Choir
Aurore Tillac: conductor
VERDI: Ernani & Rigoletto (ext.) • FRANCK: Rebecca (ext.) • DONIZETTI:
La Fille du Régiment (ext.) • ROBERT: Quand Madelon • BOULANGER:
Pour les funérailles d’un soldat • SCHUBERT: Gesang der Geister über den
Wassern • GOGUEL: Chant des marais • MARLY: Le chant des partisans •
MÉHUL: Le chant du départ • GOUNOD: Faust (ext.) • STEFFE: Battle
Hymn of the Republic
This unique men’s professional choir in France, founded in 1982, counts 45
singers from among the greatest professionals. Part of the French Republican
Guard, it’s the official choir of the republic of France. The choir regularly
performs with the large French symphonic orchestras, under conductors
such as Yutaka Sado, Christoph Eschenbach, Pierre Boulez, Michel Plasson,
and Peter Eötvos.
French Army’s Choir
French Army’s Choir
Cat # IDS 33
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Jan Talich: violin
Agnès Pyka: violin
BARTOK: 44 Duets for 2 violins, Sz. 98
Although intended as part of a violin teaching method, Bartók’s Violin
Duos far exceeded the expectations of their commissioner. These exquisite
miniatures, imbued with traditional folk music, are beautifully rendered by
the bows of Jan Talich and Agnès Pyka.
Béla BARTÓK
44 Violin Duets
Cat # IDS 49
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Syrius
Helga Schauerte: organ
A collection of early organ pieces predating and leading up to the
compositions of J.S. Bach
The Kloster Oelinghausen (in the town of Arnsberg, Westphalia), which was
founded in 1174 by the order of the Premontarians, is one of the Meccas of
the sacred art and music of the Sauerland. While the altar and the organ are
a unique ensemble of baroque style in the interior of the abbey church, the
chapel also houses several treasures of Gothic religious art such as the Virgin,
called “Madonna of Cologne,” which dates from the first decades of the 13 th
century. The music presented on this wonderful CD is in harmony with the
beauty and the spirituality of this exceptional site.
Helga Schauerte
Organum Antiquum: Earliest organ music until J.S. Bach
Cat # SYR 141459
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Etcetera
De Nederlandse Opera & Chorus
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Reinbert de Leeuw: conductor
WAGEMANS: Legende
The original version of Legende was created as three acts, each approximately
55 minutes long, with two intervals. The version produced by De Nederlandse
Opera in Amsterdam, recorded here, differs from the original in that
substantial cuts have been made; however, Act 1 is almost complete, lacking
only a short aria for Ursula and Pontus.
Peter-Jan WAGEMANS
Legende
Cat # ETC 1443
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Etcetera
Franz LISZT
Via Crucis (version for piano solo, 1879)
Reinbert de Leeuw: violin/Vera Beths: violin
LISTZ: Via Crucis • La Notte
Cat # ETC 1458
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Via Crucis is one of Reinbert de Leeuw’s favorite pieces. In an interview in 2002, he said that the
“A in the Fourth Station was the most beautiful note” in the history of music. In that same year,
he performed for the first time the solo piano version that he would go on to feature more often
in recitals. On this CD he combines that piece with La notte, in a performance with his usual
violinist partner Vera Beths.
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RAYUELA
Made of Melting Snow: Elizabethan Consort Songs
RAYUELA/Andrea Lauren Brown: soprano/Claudia Gerauer, Martina Joos, Thomas Engel:
recorders/Christoph Urbanetz: viol/Thor-Harald Johnsen: lute, theorbo/Johannes Hämmerle:
harpsichord, organ
Cat # ETC 1909
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JOHNSON: Satyr’s Dance • BYRD: Though Amaryllis dance in green • All as a sea • Fantasia • In
fields abroad • Ye sacred muses • This sweet and merry month of May • MORLEY: April is in my
Mistress’s face • Now is the Month of Maying • ANNONYMOUS: When May is in his prime • My
Sweet Little Darling • The Dark is my Delight • NICHOLSON: In a Merry May Morn • SIMPSON:
Almande • Ballet • Bonny sweet Robin • BALDWINE: Coockow as I me walked • GIBBONS: The
Silver Swan • BEVIN: Browning • DOWLAND: Courant • HOLBORNE: Fantasia • PILKINGTON:
Diaphenia, like the daffdowndilly
RAYUELA was formed in 2004 as a result of the close cooperation between Claudia Gerauer,
Martina Joos, and Thomas Engel together with other musician friends. The members completed
their degrees at leading European music academies (Zurich, Vienna, Basel, Trossingen) and have
been active internationally as members of various ensembles for Early Music.
Johannes BRAHMS
Piano Quartets
Tetra Lyre/Nana Kawamura: violin/Tony Nys: viola/Geert De Bièvre: cello/Jan Michiels: piano
BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 • Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 •
Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 26
Cat # ETC 4041
Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99)
Number of Discs: 2
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Tetra Lyre is an ensemble of like-minded musicians that has grown in an organic way. All of the
players have gained experience in chamber music or as soloists. The ensemble, which basically
consists of a piano quartet, explores the history of music starting from the impressive canon of
19 th -century chamber music repertoire.
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