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available 29 July , call-off 19th July 

JULY 29 2013

AUGUST 

BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 

Opera Choice 

• DUCALE DUC045/47 Mercadante I Due Figaro/Riccardo Muti 

Instrumental Choice 

• harmonia mundi HMU907557 Francesco da Milano Il Divino / Paul O’Dette 

Chamber Choice 

• Onyx ONYX 4116 Rachmaninov, Shostakovich Sonatas 

Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Alexei Grynyuk (piano) 

JULY 

GRAMOPHONE 

EDITOR’S CHOICE 


EDITOR’S CHOICE & BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE DISC OF THE MONTH [June] 

• Glossa GCD922606 I viaggi di Faustina / Roberta Invernizzi 

JULY/AUGUST 

INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW 

IRR Outstanding 


• Aparté AP054 Art Nouveau Ravel etc / Teodora Gheorghiu

Label: harmonia mundi 

File Under: Classical/Choral 

Catalogue No: HMU807572 

Barcode: 093046757267 

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Format: 1 HYBRID SACD 

Packaging: digipack 

Stile Antico 

William BYRD: Ave verum corpus, 

Mass for five voices 

Thomas TALLIS: Salvator mundi (I) 

Thomas MORLEY: Nolo mortem peccatoris 

Orlando GIBBONS: O clap your hands together, 

Almighty and everlasting God 

Robert WHITE: Portio mea, 

Christe qui lux es et dies (IV) 

John TAVERNER: O splendor gloriae 

The Phoenix Rising 

The Carnegie Trust & the revival of Tudor Church Music 

Stile Antico 

RELEASE DATE 

29TH JULY 2013 

Amongst the many endeavours funded by the Carnegie Trust marking its centenary in 2013), was the publication and 

editing of 'Tudor Church Music' in ten large folio volumes of music, with 50 performing pieces published individually. This 

had a considerable impact on the revival of this important music: for the first time a significant body of the greatest Tudor 

compositions became accessible to scholars, performers and listeners having languished in cathedrals, museums and 

colleges. It also inspired a further generation of English composers after its resurrection including Howells, Britten and 

Vaughan Williams. 

Stile Antico presents a varied selection of the finest pieces from TCM in a programme centred around William Byrd’s 

masterful five-part mass. 

Stile Antico is an elite ensemble of young British singers, working without a conductor, each contributing artistically to the 

musical result. They are now established as the crack ensemble to beat, having enjoyed huge success, via their SACD 

recordings for harmonia mundi USA. Awards include the 2009 Gramophone Award for Early Music [Song of Songs] 

which also reached the top of the US Classical Chart. 

Their performances have repeatedly been praised for their vitality, commitment and imaginative response to text. 

Highlights of Stile Antico's 2012-13 season include a series of concerts as co-curators of the Wigmore Hall's William 

Byrd: Sacred Music festival, and this new recording celebrating the centenary of the Carnegie UK Trust, publisher of the 

pioneering Tudor Church Music edition. 

Carnegie Trust: changing minds, changing lives 1913-2013 

Set up by Andrew Carnegie in 1913 to improve the wellbeing of the people of the United Kingdom and Ireland, it is one of 

the oldest and most respected charitable trusts in the British Isles. The Carnegie medal of philanthropy, given to those 

who have dedicated their private wealth to public good, will be presented in the Scottish Parliament in October 2013, in a 

week of events seeking to engage the Scottish public with the legacy of Andrew Carnegie. 

ADVERTISED IN CLASSICAL MUSIC PRESS 

Gramophone online news story 

1st August: In Tune performance singing works from the new recording


File Under: Classical/Orchestral 

Catalogue No: HMC902146 

Barcode: 3149020214626 

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Format: 1 CD 


Isabelle Faust [violin] 

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra 

Daniel Harding [conductor] 

ADVERTISED IN GRAMOPHONE 

IRR Cover artist September 

BBC Music 1st Listen podcast 

BARTOK Violin Concertos 

Violin Concerto No.1, Sz 36 Op. posth. 

Violin Concerto No.2, Sz 112 

Isabelle Faust 

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra 

Daniel Harding 

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Isabelle Faust's first recording for harmonia mundi, Bartok Sonatas, won her a Gramophone Young Artist of the Year. 

Here she returns to Bartok, perfoming the two concertos, accompanied by Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio SO. 

Such is the fame of Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto (1937-38), that it has virtually eclipsed the First, written 30 years 

before. Yet, this earlier work, rediscovered long after the composer’s death, has a fascinating story all of its own. True to 

form, Isabelle Faust has gone back to the multiple musical sources of this First Concerto, a work that came ‘straight 

from the heart’, as Bartók’s romance with a young violinist lay at the core of its creative process. 

"I owe my enthusiasm for the music of Béla Bartók to the wonderful Hungarian violinist Dénes Zsigmondy, who was 

privileged to know the composer personally. At the age of eleven, I was lucky enough to study the Sonata for solo violin 

with him and thus to discover Bartók’s world in a very emotional and instinctive way. In the years since then, Dénes 

Zsigmondy, his conception of music, and especially his interpretation of Bartók have formed an important component of 

my artistic career. It seemed only logical to choose the Bartók sonatas for my debut CD. I am now delighted to present 

the two violin concertos in this recording. It is intended as a musical expression of my admiration for the composer Béla 

Bartók and my gratitude for the continued inspiration and faithful friendship of Dénes Zsigmondy. 

My warm thanks go to László Somfai and László Vikárius of the Bartók Archives in Budapest and to Felix Meyer of the 

Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel for their generous support of this project. 

Finally, I would like to express my profound appreciation of and indebtedness to Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio 

Symphony Orchestra for their absolutely fantastic contribution to the recording sessions." Isabelle Faust 

"Her sound has passion, grit and electricity but also a disarming warmth and sweetness that can unveil the music’s hidden 

strains of lyricism" The New York Times 

ALSO AVAILABLE: 

HMG508334/35 Bartok Violin Sonatas [2cds]



Catalogue No: HMC902169 

Barcode: 3149020216927 

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Format: 1 CD 


Ensemble Correspondances 

Sébastien Daucé [conductor] 

Ens Correspondances on our Youtube channel: 

http://bit.ly/19EKXzN 

CHARPENTIER: Litanies de la Vierge 

Motets for the House of Guise: Miserere H193, Antienne H526 

Annunciate superi H333, Overture H536, Litanies de la Vierge H83 

Ensemble Correspondances 

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In their first release on harmonia mundi France, Sébastien Daucé and his musicians present a sumptuous interpretation 

of the six-voice motets composed by Marc-Antoine Charpentier for the House of Guise. These works, headed by the 

'Miserere', constitute an unexpected parenthesis in the music of the Grand Siècle. The creative genius, the inwardness 

and the intense fervour of a composer surrounded by his faithful company of singers and instrumentalists speak to us all 

the more intimately because Charpentier appears here as both copyist (the surviving scores are in his handwriting) and 

performer: he sang countertenor. 

Since its formation in 2008, the Ensemble Correspondances has devoted itself chiefly to French sacred music of the 17th 

century. Brought together by Sébastien Daucé during their studies at the Conservatoire de Lyon, the musicians of 

Correspondances pursue this work (focusing notably on Marc-Antoine Charpentier) with infectious enthusiasm. Its most 

recent engagements have taken it to Royaumont, Ambronay, Lanvellec and Pontoise festivals, Rome, Hamburg and 

Hong Kong. 

After postgraduate study with Yves Rechsteiner and Françoise Lengellé at the CNSM de Lyon, Sébastien Daucé went on 

to play under the direction of such conductors as Kenneth Weiss, Gabriel Garrido, Geoffroy Jourdain (Les Cris de Paris) 

and Raphaël Pichon (Ensemble Pygmalion). For the past few years he has dedicated himself to the music of 

Marc-Antoine Charpentier, three of whose operas he edited in collaboration with William Christie. His first two recordings 

with the Ensemble Correspondances, both for Zig-Zag Territoires, earned him widespread praise in the specialist press, 

with such distinctions as the Choc de Classica, Diapason Découverte, Coup de Cœur de l’Académie Charles Cros and 

**** in Fono Forum.


File Under: Classical/Contemporary 

Catalogue No: HMU907580 

Barcode: 093046758028 

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Format: 1 CD 

Packaging: slipcased 

Conspirare / Craig Hella Johnson 

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 

Marin Alsop [conductor] 

Kevin PUTS: Symphony No.4 

To touch the sky, If I were a swan 

Conspirare 

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 

Marin Alsop 

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Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts (b. 1972) is known for his distinctive and richly coloured musical voice. 

Making their label début, Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform Kevin Puts’ Symphony No.4 (From 

Mission San Juan), inspired by Native American melodies. Opening this programme of world première recordings, Craig 

Hella Johnson leads Conspirare in two choral settings of texts by women poets: 'To Touch the Sky' and 'If I Were a 

Swan'. 

Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for 'Silent Night', an opera commissioned by Minnesota Opera and co-written with 

librettist Mark Campbell, Kevin Puts has been hailed as one of the most important composers of his generation. His work 

has been commissioned and performed by leading orchestras in the United States and abroad, including the New York 

Philharmonic, Tonhalle-Orchester (Zurich), the Saint Louis Symphony, Houston Symphony, and the Minnesota 

Orchestra, and by soloists and chamber ensembles such as Evelyn Glennie, Yo-Yo Ma, Jeffrey Kahane, the Eroica Trio 

and the Miro Quartet. 

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, he received his training as a composer and pianist at the Eastman School of Music and 

Yale University. Since 2006, he has been a member of the composition department at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, 

Maryland.

Label: Signum Classics 

File Under: Classical/Opera & 

Vocal 

Catalogue No: SIGCD348 

Barcode: 635212034828 

2 FOR 1.5 

Format: 2 CD 

Packaging: cristal 

Chorus of Opera North 

Chorus of the Guildhall School of Music & 

Drama 

Britten–Pears Orchestra 

Steuart Bedford [conductor] 

BRITTEN: Peter Grimes [Grimes on the Beach] 

Alan Oke [Peter Grimes] 

Giselle Allen [Ellen Orford] 

David Kempster [Captain Balstrode] 

Gaynor Keeble [Auntie] 

Alexandra Hutton [First Niece] 

Charmian Bedford [Second Niece] 

Robert Murray [Bob Boles] 

Henry Waddington [Swallow] 

Catherine Wyn-Rogers[Mrs Sedley] 

Christopher Gillett [Rev. Horace Adams] 

Charles Rice [Ned Keene] 

Stephen Richardson [Hobson] 

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Britten’s powerful and masterful evocation of the North Sea in all its moods has become inextricably linked, to audiences 

all over the world, with the Aldeburgh that was home to Crabbe in the 18th century and Britten in the 20th. 

Steuart Bedford leads a vast and accomplished group of performers on this new recording, created shortly before the 

company performed the work on the beach at Aldeburgh as part of the festival, further celebrating Britten's centenary 

year, 2013. 

Rave reviews on the Independent, Guardian, Artsdesk websites and on Gramophone's blog

Label: FRA Musica 


Vocal 

Catalogue No: FRA008 

Barcode: 3770002003138 

NORMAL Price 

Format: 1 DVD, NTSC 16:9 

Elliot Madore [Ramiro] 

François Piolino [Torquemada] 

Stéphanie d’Oustrac [Conception] 

Alek Shrader [Gonzalve] 

Paul Gay [Don Inigo Gomez] 

Khatouna Gadelia, Elodie Mechain, 

Elliot Madore, Paul Gay 

Julie Pasturaud, François Piolino, 

Kathleen Kim, Natalia Brzezinska, 

Hila Fahima, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, 

Kirsty Stokes 

RAVEL: L’Enfant et les Sortilèges & l’Heure Espagnole 

Glyndebourne, August 2012, production by Laurent Pelly 

Elliot Madore 

Stéphanie d’Oustrac 

London Philharmonivc Orchestra 

Kazuki Ono 

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Ravel’s two one-act operas reunited in 2012 director Laurent Pelly and conductor Kazushi Ono, who made their 

Glyndebourne debuts in 2008 with Humperdinck’s 'Hänsel und Gretel'. 

While 'l’Enfant et les Sortilèges' shares with that opera a child’s-eye view of a sometimes threatening world, 'l’Heure 

Espagnole' is a thoroughly adult confection. Pelly addresses Ravel’s very different operas with imagination, wit and – 

when required – humanity. 

These productions were streamed live on the Guardian's website, see the link for an excellent synopsis 

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/aug/14/glyndebourne-2012-ravel-double-bill-synopsis-cast-creatives] and given in 

concert performance at the Proms 2012 to rapturous acclaim. 

"Glyndebourne's new double bill of L'heure espagnole and L'enfant et les sortilèges matches the composer's ethereal 

precision with near flawless performances and dazzling stagings, conducted by Kazushi Ono...beautifully rendered by the 

London Philharmonic Orchestra in full erotic flight. 

Ensemble cast and chorus excelled... A friend of Ravel's once described this small, dapper man, whose favourite 

possession was a mechanical nightingale in a gilded cage, as both a child and an old man. He would surely have been 

overjoyed by this near perfect double bill." Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian, 12/8/2012 

"Pelly and his team have worked a miracle here – everything works and everything fits. The dusky, misty lighting is 

superb in creating something off-the-wall, and not just the wallpaper, allowing all the tormented characters to wreak 

revenge on the Child in a hallucination and nowhere more so than in the garden where animals and forestry are simply 

captivating. Surreal, yes, but the boy has created his own nightmare. 

There isn’t a weak link in the cast – most of the singers from L’Heure espagnole returning to multi-task; and there is 

some great choreography and costumes, too. The music’s jazziness, pastiche, suggestion and compassion are treated 

as one by Ono and handsomely delivered by a meticulous LPO. 

The ovation that the first-night audience afforded this very special staging was fully justified – it’s been a while since I 

have seen trees bowing in strict formation! This Ravel pairing is one of Glyndebourne’s finest two hours, L’Enfant et les 

sortilèges being exceptional in every dreamlike and frightening particular." Colin Anderson, Classical Source

Label: FRA Musica 


Vocal 

Catalogue No: FRA508 

Barcode: 3770002003145 

NORMAL Price 

Format: 1 Blu-ray 

Elliot Madore [Ramiro] 

François Piolino [Torquemada] 

Stéphanie d’Oustrac [Conception] 

Alek Shrader [Gonzalve] 

Paul Gay [Don Inigo Gomez] 

Khatouna Gadelia, Elodie Mechain, 

Elliot Madore, Paul Gay 

Julie Pasturaud, François Piolino, 

Kathleen Kim, Natalia Brzezinska, 

Hila Fahima, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, 

Kirsty Stokes 

RAVEL: L’Enfant et les Sortilèges & l’Heure Espagnole 

Glyndebourne, August 2012, production by Laurent Pelly 

Elliot Madore 

Stéphanie d’Oustrac 

London Philharmonic Orchestra 

Kazuki Ono 

RELEASE DATE 


Ravel’s two one-act operas reunited in 2012 director Laurent Pelly and conductor Kazushi Ono, who made their 

Glyndebourne debuts in 2008 with Humperdinck’s 'Hänsel und Gretel'. 

While 'l’Enfant et les Sortilèges' shares with that opera a child’s-eye view of a sometimes threatening world, 'l’Heure 

Espagnole' is a thoroughly adult confection. Pelly addresses Ravel’s very different operas with imagination, wit and – 

when required – humanity. 

These productions were streamed live on the Guardian's website, see the link for an excellent synopsis 

[http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/aug/14/glyndebourne-2012-ravel-double-bill-synopsis-cast-creatives] and given in 

concert performance at the Proms 2012 to rapturous acclaim. 

"Glyndebourne's new double bill of L'heure espagnole and L'enfant et les sortilèges matches the composer's ethereal 

precision with near flawless performances and dazzling stagings, conducted by Kazushi Ono...beautifully rendered by the 

London Philharmonic Orchestra in full erotic flight. 

Ensemble cast and chorus excelled... A friend of Ravel's once described this small, dapper man, whose favourite 

possession was a mechanical nightingale in a gilded cage, as both a child and an old man. He would surely have been 

overjoyed by this near perfect double bill." Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian, 12/8/2012 

"Pelly and his team have worked a miracle here – everything works and everything fits. The dusky, misty lighting is 

superb in creating something off-the-wall, and not just the wallpaper, allowing all the tormented characters to wreak 

revenge on the Child in a hallucination and nowhere more so than in the garden where animals and forestry are simply 

captivating. Surreal, yes, but the boy has created his own nightmare. 

There isn’t a weak link in the cast – most of the singers from L’Heure espagnole returning to multi-task; and there is 

some great choreography and costumes, too. The music’s jazziness, pastiche, suggestion and compassion are treated 

as one by Ono and handsomely delivered by a meticulous LPO. 

The ovation that the first-night audience afforded this very special staging was fully justified – it’s been a while since I 

have seen trees bowing in strict formation! This Ravel pairing is one of Glyndebourne’s finest two hours, L’Enfant et les 

sortilèges being exceptional in every dreamlike and frightening particular." Colin Anderson, Classical Source

Label: NAÏVE 


Vocal 

Catalogue No: OP30549 

Barcode: 709861305490 

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Format: 1 CD 


Roberta Invernizzi [soprano] 

Sonia Prina [contralto] 

Ensemble Claudiana 

Luca Pianca [lute, conductor] 

Amore e morte dell’amore 

Duets by Monteverdi, Marcello, Handel, Scarlatti, Lotti, Durante 

Roberta Invernizzi 

Sonia Prina 

Luca Pianca 

MONTEVERDI: Interrotte speranze, Mentre vaga Angioletta, ‘Pur ti miro’ from L’incoronazione di Poppea, 

Ohimè, dov’è il mio ben, Vorrei baciarti 

MARCELLO: Se morto mi brami 

HANDEL: Tanti strali 

Lotti: Giuramento amoroso 

D. SCARLATTI: Sonata K 90 

DURANTE: Son io barbara donna 

HANDEL: Sono liete, fortunate 

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This recording gathers together vocal gems from the Italian baroque and some of the most renowned artists in this 

repertoire: Il Giardino Armonico’s co-founder Luca Pianca, soprano Roberta Invernizzi and contralto Sonia Prina. 

This intense and heart-stretching programme on love and sadness gathers a series of amazing duets by Monteverdi, 

Handel (when living in Italy), Marcello, Scarlatti, Lotti...

Label: NAÏVE 


Vocal 

Catalogue No: V5351 

Barcode: 822186053515 

MID Price 

Format: 1 CD 


Sandrine Piau, Patricia Petibon, 

Julia Lezhneva, Lucy Crowe, 

Véronique Gens, Felicity Lott, 

Karina Gauvin, Verónica Cangemi, 

Barbara Schlick, María Bayo, 

Gemma Bertagnolli, Rosana Bertini, 

Gäelle Arquez 

The Sopranos 

Sandrine Piau, Patricia Petibon, 

Julia Lezhneva, Lucy Crowe, 

Véronique Gens, Felicity Lott, 

Karina Gauvin, Verónica Cangemi, 

María Bayo 

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Much like the American television series of the same name, the sopranos are a large family: although they all play the 

same role, stylistically speaking they are quite diverse, with the term 'soprano' encompassing a wide variety of voices. 

Let’s take a closer look! 

First come the coloratura sopranos, outstanding for their stratospheric high notes. Patricia Petibon is a great example; 

her voice is both agile and pure in Henry Purcell’s "Bid the Virtues", in which she and an oboe share a subtle musical 

conversation. Voices like Julia Lezhneva’s, which effortlessly negotiate wide leaps between the low and high registers, 

are known as coloratura mezzos. Lezhneva performs two excerpts from Italian opera here: in the first, from Vivaldi’s 

'Orlando furioso', she demonstrates flawless virtuosity and a rich timbre. The second, "Tanti affetti”, from Rossini’s 'La 

donna del lago', showcases her ease in perilous scales. 

The term 'light' soprano refers to a bright voice that is at home in the baroque and classical repertoires. Sandrine Piau, 

an exceptional Mozart performer, gives a dazzling rendition of “Ach, ich fühl’s” from 'The Magic Flute'. Barbara Schlick, 

who stands out for her interpretations of Bach’s music and her great respect for the text, sings an excerpt from Bach's 

Cantata BWV180. Magnificent performances by light sopranos Rosanna Bertini, in Monteverdi’s 'Lamento della ninfa', 

and Gemma Bertagnolli (in “Cujus animam” from Pergolesi’s 'Stabat Mater') round out the programme. 

A 'lyric' soprano generally indicates a voice with a solid and generous medium register. Lyric sopranos are excellently 

suited to the music of the 19th century as well as to Handel’s music. Here Lucy Crowe offers a highly convincing version 

of Handel’s “The Soft Complaining Flute” from the 'Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day'. Veronica Cangemi’s lusciously dark tone 

takes the well-loved “Lascia ch’io pianga” to new poetic heights, and Karina Gauvin demonstrates astounding control in 

“Piangerò” from 'Giulio Cesare'. Maria Bayo displays her abilities as a lyric soprano with an aptitude for coloratura singing 

in the exquisite 'Exsultate jubilate' by Mozart. 

The 'dramatic' soprano is the most intense soprano voice, as Véronique Gens, a habitué of tragic roles, ably shows in an 

excerpt from Mozart’s 'Don Giovanni', with her powerful performance of “Mi tradi quell’alma ingrata”, illustrating Donna 

Elvira’s tormented mind. These vocal categories do not define a singer for the whole of her career, however, and certain 

sopranos change registers with the passing years. Gäelle Arquez’s rare recording of “Amerò” from Vivaldi’s 'Orlando' 

demonstrates her talents as both a soprano and as a mezzo. Other voices simply defy classification. Such is the case of 

the inimitable Felicity Lott, who sings “Plaisir d’amour” with typically immaculate diction. 

full track listing available on request

Label: Audite 


Catalogue No: AUDITE92669 

Barcode: 4022143926692 

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WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln 

Eivind Aadland [conductor] 

Edvard GRIEG: Complete Symphonic Works • Vol. III 

WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln 

Eivind Aadland 

Concert Overture ‘In Autumn’, Op. 11, Lyric Suite, Op. 54, Klokkeklang, Op. 54, No. 6 

Old Norwegian Melody with Variations, Op. 51, Three Orchestral Pieces from ‘Sigurd Jorsalfar’, Op. 56 

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The WDR Sinfonieorchester and the Norwegian conductor Eivind Aadland continue their survey of Edvard Grieg’s 

orchestral works with this selection from the composer’s orchestral repertoire which he liked to conduct himself across 

Europe. Not all of Grieg’s orchestral works were originally conceived as such. As he became increasingly famous as a 

composer and conductor, the Norwegian also arranged piano works which later became popular above all in their 

orchestral versions. Amongst these is the suite from his 'Lyric Pieces', Op. 54, to which belongs another single piece, the 

almost impressionist study, 'Bell Ringing'. The 'Old Norwegian Melody with Variations', Op. 51, originally a set of 

variations for two pianos, was also skilfully provided with orchestral colours, at the same time increasing the musical 

drama. The Concert Overture 'In Autumn', completed by the 22-year-old composer during a stay in Rome, creates an 

exception: it was apparently conceived from the outset as an orchestral work, but as initially published as a piano piece 

and orchestrated at a later stage. Amongst all these innovative works, the only 'original' ones are the three pieces from 

the incidental music to Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson’s Norwegian play 'Sigurd Jorsalfar', of which the "Homage March" remains 

an obligatory item to the present day at coronations and festivities of the high nobility. 

Eivind Aadland was chief conductor and artistic director of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra from 2003 until 2010 and 

has also worked with many other Scandinavian, European and international orchestras. Aadland initially studied the violin 

with Yehudi Menuhin. From 1981 until 1989 he was concert master of the Bergen Philharmonic and from 1987 until 1997 

music director of the European Union Chamber Orchestra. He subsequently devoted himself fully to his conducting 

career and studied with Jorma Panula. 

ALSO AVAILABLE: 

• AUDITE92651 Edvard Grieg: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. I 

Symphonic Dances, Peer Gynt Suites, Funeral March 

GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE 

• AUDITE92579 Edvard Grieg: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. II 

Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34, From Holberg’s Time, Op. 40, Two Melodies, Op. 53 (Norsk / Det første møte), Two 

Nordic Melodies, Op. 63 (I folketonestil / Kulokk & Stabbelåten)

Label: RCO Live 


Catalogue No: RCO13002 

Barcode: 5425008378961 

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Format: 1 hybrid SACD+bluray 


Christine Brewer, Camilla Nylund 

Maria Espada, Stephanie Blythe, 

Mihoko Fujimura, Robert Dean Smith 

Tommi Hakala, Stefan Kocán 

Netherlands Radio Choir 

State Choir 'Latvija' 

Bavarian Radio Choir 

National Boys Choir 

National Children's Choir 

MAHLER: Symphony No. 8 

with bonus bluray 

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 

Mariss Jansons 

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"Try to imagine the whole universe beginning to ring and resound. There are no more human voices, only planets and 

suns revolving in their orbits," wrote Gustav Mahler to his friend, Willem Mengelberg, on 18 August 1906. The day before, 

he had completed the sketches of the Eighth Symphony in little more than three weeks, and that after a very hectic 

season. 

The legendary relationship between Gustav Mahler, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Willem Mengelberg has 

established a firm tradition of playing Mahler in Amsterdam. During the 1960s the orchestra and Bernard Haitink started 

recording a Mahler discography that still remains one of the cornerstones of any Mahlerian's collection. Ricccardo 

Chailly's tenure as chief conductor yielded another brilliant Mahler cycle and now Mariss Jansons is steadily building his 

tribute to the composer. 

Recorded during the same Mahler cycle as the recently released Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 – part of the full Mahler cycle 

that the orchestra performed in the 2009-2011 seasons to celebrate the composer's 150th birthday and 100th 

anniversary of his death - Mariss Jansons's interpretation of the Eight Symphony is one more jewel in the crown of the 

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; with a star-studded cast and excellent choral forces, this 'Symphony of a Thousand' left 

a lasting impression on the audience. 

"Triumph for Jansons in Mahler 8. …this was a performance to frame in gold, with the RCO and assembled choirs in 

great shape. Happily cameras and microphones witnessed this miracle." Peter van der Lint, Trouw 

The SACD/DVD version of this work will be [well] reviewed on Radio 3, 6th July, RCO13003

Label: Praga Digitals 

File Under: Classical/Instrumental 

Catalogue No: DSD350080 

Barcode: 3149028027723 

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Svjatoslav Richter [piano] 

BRAHMS: Piano Works 

Svjatoslav Richter 

Piano Sonata No.2 Op.2, Variations On A Hungarian Song Op.21 No.2 

Piano Sonata No.1 Op.1, Ballade Op.118/3, Intermezzo Op.118 No.6, Intermezzo Op.119 No.3 

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Svjatoslav Richter, unlike his childood friend Gilels, was not an ardent proponent of Brahms' repertoire. Considering that 

in 1948 Richter performed only the famous Concerto in B flat, Op. 81, this rare recital makes the young Brahms come 

across as an intuitive, even prophetic composer rather than merely discursive. 

Recorded live in Prague: stereo July 20 1988, June 1984; 

in Plzen, mono June 13 1984, previously released on PRD254059; stereo live in Leipzig No. 28 1963

Label: signum 

File Under: Classical/Choral/Contemporary 


Barcode: 635212033524 

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Format: 1 CD 


The Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford 

Owen Rees [director] 

David BEDNALL: Welcome All Wonders 

A Christmas Cantata 

The Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford 

Owen Rees 

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'Welcome all Wonders: A Christmas Cantata' is a large-scale work for choir, organ and trumpet spanning 15 movements. 

It celebrates the Christmas story through an imaginative selection and juxtaposition of poetry and liturgical texts, and 

provides a multifaceted telling of the familiar narrative. The celebratory aspects of Christmas are tainted by darker 

themes that are inherent to the story but are easily overlooked, culminating in an enlightened and engaging work that 

explores the Christmas story in a profound manner. 

The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford is among the finest and most active university choirs in the UK. Its 

wide-ranging repertory includes a rich array of Renaissance and Baroque music and contemporary works. 

WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING

Label: Signum Classics 



Barcode: 635212033425 

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Format: 1 CD 


Joseph Nolan 

[Cavaillé-Coll organ of La Madeleine, Paris] 

WIDOR: The Complete Organ Symphonies, Vol.3 

Organ Symphony No.3 in E minor, Op.13 

Organ Symphony No.4 in F minor, Op.13 

Joseph Nolan 

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The third volume in a new series of Charles-Marie Widor’s Organ Symphonies, performed by Joseph Nolan on the 

magnificent Cavaillé-Coll organ of L’église de la Madeleine, Paris. 

Bridging the generations from Mendelssohn to Messiaen, Empire to Republic, Widor was born to the organ. His 

Lyonnaise kinsfolk were organ-builders, he showed early talent for the instrument, and for decades was the embodiment 

of its might and splendour across the Gallic domain - his ‘Organ Symphonies’ were genre-defining in their influence. 

Joseph Nolan is an internationally renowned organist, acclaimed as ‘brilliant and such an astute musician’ (Gramophone 

UK). He was appointed to Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal, St James’s Palace in 2004, and has since been invited to 

perform and record in some of the world’s premiere venues – including the refurbished Organ of Buckingham Palace 

Ballroom (SIGCD114) and the Organ of Saint- Sulpice in Paris (SIGCD167). The Cavaillé-Coll Organ of La Madeleine, 

Paris is a similarly renowned instrument, with former chief-organists including Camille Saint-Säens and Gabriel Fauré. 

Reviews for the previous discs in this series (Vol.1 - SIGCD292 and Vol. 2 - SIGCD319): 

"The recording clarity is remarkable, only final chords revealing that we have been enjoying the fruits of some six 

seconds of reverberation. Joseph Nolan … is an utterly persuasive executant at the console. Thoroughly enjoyable." 

Organists Review 

“Joseph Nolan’s painstaking approach to registration yields a sound which is about as authentic as you could wish. Add 

to this his amazingly precise fingerwork, his total mastery of the score and his obvious empathy with this music ... this 

has few challengers when it comes to the utter authority of the performances.” Gramophone

Label: Delphian 

File Under: Classical/Chamber 

music/Contemporary 

Catalogue No: DCD34113 

Barcode: 801918341137 

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Format: 1 CD 


Robert Irvine [cello] 

Erkki Lahesmaa [cello] 

Fali Pavri [piano] 

William SWEENEY: Tree o’ Licht 

The Tree o’ Licht 

The Poet Tells of his Fame 

[electroacoustic fantasy for cello, pre-recorded samples & live processing] 

Sonata for Cello and Piano 

Robert Irvine 

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Both musically impassioned and socially engaged, William Sweeney’s music is at its most eloquent when voiced by that 

most human of instruments, the cello. The player navigates a stormy electronic landscape in the Borges-inspired 'The 

Poet Tells of his Fame', while Schumann lies behind the powerfully argued Sonata for Cello and Piano, recipient of a 

2011 BASCA British Composer Award. 

The Sonata bears a joint dedication to Delphian artist Robert Irvine and to Erkki Lahesmaa - ‘keepers’, as Sweeney calls 

them, ‘of the cello’s inner voice’ - and Irvine is joined by his Finnish colleague here in the 2008 duo 'The Tree o’ Licht', in 

which Gaelic Psalmody is transmuted into deepest instrumental expressivity. 

World premiere recordings made in the presence of the composer

Label: Delphian 


Catalogue No: DCD34109 

Barcode: 801918341090 

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John Kitchen 

[1755 double-manual harpsichord by Luigi Baillon] 

Music from the Age of Louis XIV 

John Kitchen 

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Louis MARCHAND: Suite No.1 in D minor 

Louis COUPERIN: Pavane in F sharp minor 

Elisabeth JACQUET de la GUERRE: Suite in F major 

Jean-Henri d’ANGELBERT: Tombeau de M. De 

Jean-Baptiste LULLY transcr. D’Angelbert: Menuets ‘Dans nos bois’ and ‘La Jeune Iris’ (from Trios pour le coucher du 

Roi), Les songes d’Atys, Chaconne de Phaeton, Chambonnières agréables 

François COUPERIN: Movements from Troisième Ordre in C minor 

John Kitchen continues his much-lauded series of recordings from the instruments of the world-famous Roger Mirrey 

collection of keyboard instruments. Recorded in St Cecilia's Hall, Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall, this 

programme is specifically designed to highlight the unique qualities of the 1755 double-manual harpsichord by Luigi 

Baillon. Built in Cyteux, Burgundy, it has a very different sound from Parisian instruments of the time; cleaner and 

brighter in tone, it is the perfect vehicle for Kitchen's subtly nuanced playing, which brings the sophistication of the period 

to new life. 

The familiarity born of Kitchen's daily experience with the Edinburgh collections and their setting shines through these 

performances.

Label: Stradivarius 

File Under: Classical/Secular 

Vocal music 

Catalogue No: STR33963 

Barcode: 8011570339638 

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Format: 1 CD 


La Dolce Maniera 

Luigi Gaggero [director] 

MONTEVERDI: Il Quarto Libro dei Madrigali 

La Dolce Maniera 

Luigi Gaggero 

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From the introduction by Luigi Gaggero: 

“In our interpretation of the Fourth Book, we have considered the poetic text as the guiding element that defines all other 

musical parameters: dynamics, rhythm, colors and vocal gestures. Absolute respect of the prosody of these texts (and 

not only the search for clear and correct pronunciation, but also the respect of the metric, rhyme and internal assonance) 

has led us to look for an ever-changing tonal palette, linked to the emotional movement of the affects, and a variety of 

vocal gestures closely related to the meaning of the poems. In particular, taking into account the fact that Monteverdi 

wrote 'L’Orfeo', the first true masterpiece in the history of opera, only four years after the publication of the Fourth book, 

we felt it was important to seek the harmony of the whole without losing the personality and autonomy of each single 

voice within the madrigal: only in this way, we believe, can one underline the genius of Monteverdi, who, with a sensitivity 

that has few equals in the history of art, tells us with infinite love about the human soul, and the voices that inhabit it”.




Barcode: 8011570339447 

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Insieme Strumentale di Roma 

Paolo Perrone [violin] 

Giorgio Sasso [violin and conductor] 

VIVALDI: Violin Concertos 

Insieme Strumentale di Roma 

Giorgio Sasso 

Concerto in F major RV 287 for violin, strings and continuo 

Concerto in C major RV 508 for two violins, strings and continuo 

Concerto in G minor RV 517 for two violins, strings and continuo 

Concerto in C major RV 113 for strings and continuo 

Concerto in G minor RV 321 for violin, strings and continuo 

Concerto in D minor RV 240 for violin, strings and continuo 

Concerto in D major RV 123 for strings and continuo 

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From the liner notes by Pablo Queipo de Llano: 

The seven concertos presented on this CD constitute an anthology of Vivaldi’s repertory for strings in his most preferred 

forms: the four-part concerto without a solo instrument, the concerto with one or two solo violins. Although the three types 

of the genre were already well known when Vivaldi began to cultivate them in the first decade of the 18th century, the 

advent of the Red Priest caused an authentic revolution in the repertory both in Italy and abroad. Apart from the 

sensuous musical substance which characterises them, the main formal novelty of Vivaldi’s concertos consists in the 

“stellar” arrangement of the solo parts, which in Vivaldi’s works is seen in a hitherto unknown splendour. Vivaldi raises 

the soloist to the position of authentic protagonist of the concerto, going beyond the discreet role which the fathers of the 

genre - Corelli, Torelli and Albinoni among others – had given them. Although the string concertos without a soloist – 

called 'Concerti Ripieni' by Vivaldi – prove to be less spectacular because of the absence of a soloist, the personality of 

the Venetian maestro still stands out.

Label: Eloquentia 


Catalogue No: EL1341 

Barcode: 3760107400413 

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Luis Beduschi [flute] 

Philippe Grisvard [harpsichord] 

CORELLI: Sonatas Op.V 

Luis Beduschi 

Philippe Grisvard 

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It is unlikely that Corelli expected the impact his Opus V would have throughout the 18th century and beyond. Indeed, the 

Corellian Solos, as they were called at the time, had been reprinted more than 50 times by the 1800s along with 

hundreds of manuscript copies and dozens of arrangements. No other collection of pieces has seen such evidence of free 

ornamentation. 

Luis Beduschi, the internationally renowned flautist, has chosen ornaments by Corelli, himself, to appropriate these works for 

the flute because of their undeniable beauty and coherence as a whole, removing the various unsatisfactory Baroque 

transcriptions to develop his own, with the aim of restoring the original line.

Label: NAÏVE 

File Under: Classical/Jazz crossover 

Catalogue No: V5339 

Barcode: 822186053393 

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Ensemble Contraste: 

Arnaud Thorette [viola] 

Johan Farjot [Fender Rhodes piano] 

Raphaël Imbert [saxophone] 

Karol Beffa [Fender Rhodes piano] 

Miroir(s) 

Ensemble Contraste 

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“Delicious contrasts occur when classical music and popular music rub elbows” is the motto of Ensemble Contraste, a 

French group founded in 2000 by some of the leading classical virtuosi of the new generation. They built their notoriety 

by making their own arrangements that have resulted in original programmes that range from classical music to tango, 

and from musicals to jazz, to premieres of contemporary works. The Ensemble Contraste has collaborated with artists 

from many fields. 

'Miroir(s)' is a jazz recording that pays homage to some of the masterpieces of classical music. It gathers a jazz 

musician, a composer/improviser, a pianist who writes arrangements and a classical musician tempted by the jazz 

demon. Mozart’s 'Lacrimosa' turns Bossa Nova... 

Paraphrase gnossienne - Johan Farjot / Erik Satie 

Chinatown - Karol Beffa 

Lament - Johan Farjot / Henry Purcell 

Je t’invoque - Karol Beffa 

Stella hymnis - Raphaël Imbert 

Ich ruf zu dir, herr Jesu Christ - J. S. Bach 

Lacrymosa - Johan Farjot / W. A. Mozart 

Cracovia - Johan Farjot 

Cathédrales (improvisation) - Karol Beffa 

Echoes of gospel (improvisation) - Raphaël Imbert 

Amazing Grace (improvisation) - William Walker 

Herz und mund und tat und leben - J. S. Bach 

Un mot encore - Johan Farjot 

Choral - Johan Farjot 

En miroir - Karol Beffa

Label: Wergo 


Catalogue No: WER6859-2 

Barcode: 4010228685923 

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Uri Caine [piano] 

Omar Ebrahim [baritone] 

ensemble musikFabrik 

/André de Ridder [conductor] 

Liza LIM: Tongue of the Invisible 

a work for improvising pianist, baritone and 16 musicians 

text by Jonathan Holmes after poems by Hafiz 

Uri Caine 

Omar Ebrahim 

ensemble musikFabrik 

André de Ridder 

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A "story of 'fixed' and 'open' things" unfolds in Liza Lim's work 'Tongue of the Invisible' on this new CD on Wergo's 

edition musikFabrik. Of Chinese descent, the Australia-born composer was inspired by the lyric poetry of the Sufi Persian 

poet Hafiz. 

"An ecstatic vertigo: There still isn't enough Lim on disc for my liking, but this release of the 55-minute song cycle Tongue 

of the Invisible will fill the gap for a while...The piece was written for Musikfabrik, and they bring a headily sensual quality 

to their playing. The instrumental introduction, a sequence of increasingly elaborate solo curlicues over an increasingly 

massive drone, is one of the most absorbing passages I can recall in Lim's output. If you're looking for an introduction to 

Lim's music - and if you haven't already had one you should be - then this may be what you need." 

The Rambler 20/6/2013

Label: Wergo 


Catalogue No: WER6783-2 

Barcode: 4010228678321 

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Format: 1 CD 


Tomoko Hemmi [piano] 

Yukiko Sugawara [piano] 

Mark ANDRE: Piano Music 

S1 for two piano 

Un-fini III for piano 

iv 11a for piano 

iv 11b for piano 

Contrapunctus for piano 

iv 1 for piano 

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The piano works of Mark Andre are founded on his intensive examination of the fleeting phenomenon of sound 

reverberation and decay: there might be a thick cluster that reverberates on a single string, or a single note that causes 

the entire landscape of strings to resonate. An echo that has almost faded away may suddenly rise up from another spot 

inside the piano; diffuse clouds of sound change their colours or begin to flutter restlessly. 

These combinations and their manipulation in time and space are usually preceded by detailed frequency analyses. 

Experimental work together with the performers also plays an essential role in the construction of these unstable 

resonating states. While Andre's early piano compositions were generated with the help of algorithms, his later works are 

no longer the result of calculations. Instead, he now attempts the opposite: to develop the composition out of the 

structure of the sound and the “breath of the material”. Compared to the cool objectivity of the works from the 1990s, the 

more recent pieces seem softer and more playful, although they have hardly been conceived less systematically – here, 

too, the intrinsic logic and necessity of every transition and development is closely scrutinised.




Barcode: 8011570339522 

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Sylvano Bussotti [harpsichord & piano] 

Aldo Orvieto [piano] 

Ciro Longobardi [piano] 

Giovanni Mancuso [piano] 

Debora Petrina [piano] 

Carlo Lazari [violin] 

Claudio Ambrosini [inside piano] 

Alvise Vidolin [live electronics] 

BUSSOTTI: Four Pianos 

Quattro Pianoforti (2011) 

12 Folie d’après François Couperin le Grand (2008) 

La vergine ispirata (1982) 

PER TRE sul piano from Sette fogli. Una collezione occulta (1959) 

Bartók-Busoni, capriccio di 34 mikrokosmos (1995) 

Olof Palme (1987) 

Le pietre di Venezia from Foglio d’Album (1984) in the version by Claudio Ambrosini, 2012 

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There are not many composers of Sylvano Bussotti’s generation – by generation we mean a poetic more than numerical 

fact – for whom the piano has represented the, or an, authentic centre: a specific place for the invention and production of 

sounds which radiates towards other ideas, other fields of application. 

Despite not being a composer-pianist, or a musician linked to a craft by means of the keyboard, at the end of the 1950s 

Bussotti succeeded, like Cage, Boulez and Feldman, in defining authoritatively a contemporary language of the piano 

which is at the same time idiomatic, experimental and imbued with history. The presence of the piano in Bussotti’s 

extensive catalogue is not only frequent, but also indicative of innovation, of turning points, sometimes even of 

‘manifesto’; it is also not only the fruit of composition but also the living presence of the composer as a skilled and 

charismatic performer.

Label: NAÏVE 


Catalogue No: NC40017 

Barcode: 822186400173 

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Gemma Bertagnoli [soprano] 

Sara Mingardo [contralto] 

Concerto Italiano 

Rinaldo Alessandrini [conductor] 

VIVALDI: Gloria RV589, Dixit Dominus RV594 

Gemma Bertagnoli 

Sara Mingardo 


Rinaldo Alessandrini 

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Rinaldo Alessandrini’s rapport with this music borders on the love affair. We have him and his Concerto Italiano to thank 

for the triumphant return of these works to the concert platform, radiant and rejuvenated 300 years after they were first 

performed: using his expertise in the vocal parts as a guideline for his instrumental direction, the Italian conductor and 

harpsichordist, a pioneer in his home country since the 1980s, is an unstinting advocate of legibility, a dynamic of conviction, 

and stunning sensuality. Diapason praised: 

“A frank, vigorous mixed-voice approach with flawless tempi, making marvellous use of the sumptuous trumpets, 

colouring the energetic strings”.

Label: NAÏVE 



Barcode: 822186400180 

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Europa Galante 

Fabio Biondi 

VIVALDI: The Four Seasons, Violin Concertos RV171, 163 

Europa Galante 

Fabio Biondi 

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In the 1980s violinist Fabio Biondi emerged as a free-thinking and passionate adventurer, one of the first in Italy to board 

the time machine and re-explore this repertoire. To find a modern way of using the expressive instruments of the 18th 

century, he had to go back to the drawing board, with his Europa Galante orchestra, founded in 1989. 

In 1991, this dazzling interpretation by Europa Galante, the ensemble’s first recording, brought instant recognition, 

propelling the ‘Red Priest’ into the modern world. Fabio Biondi’s ensemble – featuring harpsichordist Rinaldo 

Alessandrini, another pioneer of the baroque renaissance with his own Concerto Italiano – gives the impression of 

overflowing off the concert stage. Vivaldi not only enjoys a second coming, but returns rejuvenated. 

Diapason d’or, RTL d’or, 10/10 from Répertoire magazine, 

Gramophone Editor’s Choice

Label: NAÏVE 



Barcode: 822186400197 

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Marie-Nicole Lemieux [contralto] 

Philippe Jaroussky [countertenor] 

Ensemble Matheus / 

Jean-Christophe Spinosi 

VIVALDI: Nisi Dominus RV608, Crucifixus RV592, 

Stabat Mater RV621 

Marie-Nicole Lemieux 

Philippe Jaroussky 

Ensemble Matheus 

Jean-Christophe Spinosi 

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“As a specialist of Vivaldi’s music, Jean-Christophe Spinosi is aware of the permeability of the boundaries between 

sacred music and opera…The conductor and his musicians are past masters in spotlighting the key words to which 

Vivaldi brings his special colours and underlining the oppositions that the composer deployed so liberally”, reported Le 

Monde de la musique. 

This intense life that is so deeply engraved in the Nisi Dominus and the Stabat Mater, felt and revived for our modern era 

by the Matheus Ensemble and their conductor, nourishes the generous voices of Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Philippe Jaroussky: 

the former “expresses with rare nobility the pain of the woman who suffers and the compassion of the woman who recounts”, 

the latter, the “voice of the soul”. 

Since their 2003 revival of Vivaldi’s 'Orlando furioso', Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Philippe Jaroussky and Jean-Christophe 

Spinosi have been united in a beautiful and enduring win-win love affair with and around music. While they may pair off 

with Rossini or Handel, they come together again as a threesome for Vivaldi. [!] Recorded in 2007.

Label: NAÏVE 

File Under: Classical/Secular 

Vocal music 


Barcode: 822186400203 

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Montserrat Figueras [soprano] 

La Capella Reial de Catalunya 

Jordi Savall [conductor] 

El Cant de la Sibil-la 

Montserrat Figueras 

La Capella Reial de Catalunya 

Jordi Savall 

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The soprano Montserrat Figueras discovered the Songs of the Sibyl one Christmas, while still a teenager, at a Midnight 

Mass in Palma de Mallorca. She was fascinated, experiencing “the privilege of touching something essential”. With her 

husband, the Catalan conductor and viol player Jordi Savall, an indefatigable archaeologist of early music 

for 40 years now, she revived the generous timbres of the Songs of the Sibyl, explored at that time by no other singer. 

The result is a unique heritage, a testimony to an immense and enduring culture whose influence spread throughout the 

Mediterranean basin. This programme, recorded in 1988 a year after the foundation of their ensemble La Capella Reial 

de Catalunya, presents three Songs of the Sibyl: the understated and profound Latin version (10th – 11th century), the 

Provençal (13th century) with oud, influenced by the art of the troubadours, and the Catalan, a close cousin of the 

medieval Mystery plays. The gathering of these songs has unearthed an unparalleled repertoire eminently worthy of 

reassessment and resurrection.

Label: NAÏVE 



Barcode: 822186400210 

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Anne Gastinel [cello] 

Claire Désert [piano] 

SCHUBERT: Sonate Arpeggione D821 

Sonatina D.384, Lieder transcriptions: Ständchen, An die Musik, die Forelle 

Anne Gastinel 

Claire Désert 

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In 2005 Anne Gastinel and Claire Désert recorded this Schubert programme and were rewarded with a RTL d’or and a 

Gramophone Editor’s Choice. 

The magic of this iconoclastic programme (Anne Gastinel transcribed the lieder herself) lies in assimilation rather than 

imitation. The cello absorbs sonata, sonatina and lieder as though they had all been written for it: in fact it is the cello that 

has saved the sonata for posterity now that the arpeggione is long forgotten. 

Since winning the Rostropovich Competition in 1990, Anne Gastinel, has had scant regard for her “classical” image. 

Through her close rapport with pianist Claire Désert she has recreated a repertory of songs by a composer that she 

loves, without the absence of words taking anything away from the capacity to move. “Delicate, fine, natural. Never 

overstated, never the slightest trace of sentimentality, yet constantly singing, [this performance] is, warm and noble”, 

wrote Le Nouvel Observateur.

Label: NAÏVE 


music 


Barcode: 822186400227 

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Arditti Quartet 

SCHOENBERG: Verklärte Nacht Op. 4 

Arditti Quartet 

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The Arditti String Quartet recorded Schoenberg’s Transfigured Night in 1993; theirs has, to this day, remained the 

reference version. 

For 40 years, their unswerving faith in 19th and 20th century music and their intelligent choices of championed 

repertories have nourished their work as begetters, missionaries and major players in musical creativity. Their strong identity, 

stamped on the quartet by founder Irvine Arditti, “a prophet among musicians”, in the words of Harrison Birtwistle, and the last 

remaining member of the original 1974 lineup, stems from the Second Viennese School. Their immense discography has 

developed with a specific quality of string sound and a transparent technique capable of making the most demanding pages of 

chamber music accessible to a broad audience.

Label: NAÏVE 


music 


Barcode: 822186400234 

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Quatuor Mosaïques 

Wolfgang Meyer [clarinet] 

Patrick Cohen [hammerflugel] 

MOZART: Clarinet Quintet K581, Kegelstatt Trio K498 

Quatuor Mosaïques 

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The Mosaïques Quartet trained with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and his Concentus Musicus, cultivating a taste for 

authenticity, the path they subsequently trod, starting in Vienna in 1987 and illuminated by Haydn and Mozart, led them 

to develop a collective colour. Here, their mosaic stretches to the mellowness of the fortepiano and the basset 

clarinet, an instrument partly invented by Stadler and suggested by the wide tessitura of the Quintet, which is what 

makes this version so special. 

Wolfgang Meyer expresses the light and dark facets of Mozart’s close friend, both soloist and trusted ear, eschewing 

emphasis and torment, constantly radiant and bonded to the ensemble.

Label: NAÏVE 



Barcode: 822186400241 

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Gemma Bertagnolli [soprano] 

Sara Mingardo [contralto] 



PERGOLESI, SCARLATTI: Stabat Mater 

Gemma Bertagnolli 

Sara Mingardo 



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timeline: 1708-1717 Scarlatti writes his 'Stabat Mater', commissioned by the Neapolitan brotherhood of the Cavalieri della 

Vergine dei Dolor for the Lent services in the church of San Luigi di Palazzo. 

1734-1736 Pergolesi’s 'Stabat Mater', commissioned by the same brotherhood to supersede the Scarlatti version. 

1980 Pioneered in northern Europe, the Baroque revival continues in Italy, spearheaded by Rinaldo Alessandrini. 

1998 Rinaldo Alessandrini and his newly founded Concerto Italiano record the two Stabat Maters. 

The recording becomes a reference: ƒƒƒƒ Télérama, Timbre de platine Opéra international, Gramophone Editor’s 

Choice, 10 de Répertoire, Recommended by Classica.

Label: NAÏVE 



Barcode: 822186400258 

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Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble 

Marc Minkowski 

HAYDN: London Symphonies 

No. 102, No. 103 Drumroll, No. 104 London 

Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble 

Marc Minkowski 

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Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble have been working now for over 30 years on the vocal and symphonic repertories, 

expanding from the initial baroque repertory to span the centuries, taking in Mozart, Schubert, Berlioz and Wagner, without 

losing any vigour. 

Far from a solemn commemoration, Minkowski celebrates Haydn in a free, inventive spirit, refreshes the tempi, restores 

the original line-up of 60 musicians, and breathes vivacity to reveal “Haydn’s Dionysian side and also his inner garden”. 

Julian Sykes concludes: “The theatrical momentum produced by these interpretations […] is reminiscent of the sweeping 

energy of Leonard Bernstein. Minkowski does not stylise; he looks for the big picture, moves forward without the little 

mannerisms of the baroque...but without sacrificing detail” (Le Temps, October 2010). 

This 2009 Live recording in the Vienna Konzerthaus of the twelve “London” Symphonies, rewarded by a Diapason d’or, a 

Diapason d’or for 2010 and the German Record Critics’ award and is ranked in the Top 10 for 2010 by Belgium’s Le Soir.

Label: NAÏVE 


Vocal 


Barcode: 822186400265 

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Format: 1 CD 


Sandrine Piau [soprano] 

LeS Talens Lyriques 

Christophe Rousset 

HANDEL: Opera Seria 

arias for soprano from Scipione, Orlando, Giulio Cesare, Partenope, Amadigi 

Alesssandro, Rodelinda, Faramondo, Tamerlano, Deidamia, Arianna in Creta 

Sandrine Piau 

Les Talens Lyriques 

Christophe Rousset 

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This 2004 recording is far more than just a recital by a prima donna: it is a perfectly balanced dialogue between Piau and 

Rousset, both indelibly marked by their work with William Christie, the former from her discovery of early vocal music, the 

latter from his time as assistant leader of Les Arts Florissants before forming his own ensemble in 1991. The rapport 

between soprano and conductor has blossomed over time, notably through their collaboration, since 1994, on the 

operatic works of Handel. Their complicity reveals the deep humanity of Handel’s heroines behind the masks. 

Recorded in 2004 & awarded Gramophone Editor’s Choice in the UK.

Label: NAÏVE 



Barcode: 822186400272 

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Grigory Sokolov [piano] 

CHOPIN: 24 Preludes Op. 28 

Grigory Sokolov 

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Grigory Sokolov: a living legend of the piano whose public performances and recordings are as rare as the man is 

secretive. He stepped away from the limelight years ago, refusing to be idolised by a society avid for imagery. Under the 

winged fingers of the giant you hear the vibrancy of an inner song, wordless but not illegible. 

June 7 1990: concert and recording of Chopin’s Preludes by Grigory Sokolov, still relatively unknown in France. 

The record receives high praise from the critics.

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Barcode: 822186400289 

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Sandrine Piau [soprano] 

Stéphane Degout [baritone] 

Brigitte Engerer [piano] 

Boris Berezovsky [piano] 

Accentus / Laurence Equilbey [conductor] 

BRAHMS: Ein Deutsches Requiem [London version] 

Sandrine Piau 

Stéphane Degout 

Brigitte Engerer 

Boris Berezovsky 

Accentus 

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This two-piano version of Brahms' 'Requiem' was put to the test in 1871, in London, after the original version had been 

subjected to a flawed and chaotic premiere. In 2003, Laurence Equilbey's Accentus choir were joined by two legends of 

the keyboard, the late Brigitte Engerer and Boris Berezovsky, soprano Sandrine Piau and baritone Stéphane Degout. 

Dispensing with flowers and wreaths they transform affliction into comfort, the forsaking of life into celestial attraction, 

testifying above all else to the superiority of Brahms’ art.

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Catalogue No: NC40029 

Barcode: 822186400296 

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Pierre Hantaï [harpsichord] 

J.S. BACH: Goldberg Variations BWV988 

Pierre Hantaï 

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Pierre Hantaï’s incisive, ornate playing delights in the intellectual virtuosity and harpsichord pyrotechnics, feeds on the 

complexity of the counterpoint, finding freedom in the rigorously thought-out scoring. Ultimately, this is a perfectly 

structured book of metamorphoses, closing with the initial Aria, like an invitation to return to the starting point and travel 

again. An “art of the variation” just as there is an Art of Fugue. 

Pierre Hantaï, born in 1964, is one of the most inquisitive, determined and innovative of that generation. At the age of 19, 

he distinguished himself at the Musica Antiqua Bruges competition in Belgium and had scarcely turned 30 when he 

recorded his masterful 'Goldberg Variations'. While his meeting with Gustav Leonhardt sharpened his appetite for 

research and his quest for perfection, stimulating his instinct and development, his main inspiration remains Bach. 

His first love endures. Today Pierre Hantaï is still drawn back relentlessly to Bach’s work, either on the harpsichord or 

with his orchestra Le Concert Français

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Concerto Italiano / Rinado Alessandrini 

BACH: Brandenburg Concertos 1,3,4 & 5 



BBC Building a Library / Music Magazine ‘Best recording of the work’ 

Gramophone Editor’s Choice 

Classicstoday 10/10 

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In 2005, when Rinaldo Alessandrini decided to focus his recording work on Bach, he set out to explore the influence of 

the Italian concerto and repertory, so dear to him, on the German master. Preferring the light touch of an ensemble of soloists, 

he chose to reveal each timbre and clarify the musical arguments, underlining the interaction and differences. 

This innovative vision, honed since the 1980s by Concerto Italiano on instruments of the period, focuses not on effects but on 

articulations, suppleness, dynamics and respiration. 

Never has an old language been made so vibrant. “Bach’s music has it all”, concludes Rinaldo Alessandrini. “Our job is 

simply to bring elegance and a beautiful tone.”

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Barcode: 822186400319 

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Andreas Scholl [countertenor] 

Barbara Schlick [soprano] 

Christoph Prégardien [tenor] 

Gotthold Schwarz [bass] 

Ensemble Baroque de Limoges / 

Christophe Coin 

J.S.BACH: Cantatas BWV49, 115, 180 

Andreas Scholl 

Barbara Schlick 

Christoph Prégardien 

Ensemble Baroque de Limoges 

Christophe Coin 

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Unusually these three church cantatas are accompanied by a cello, which was uncommon, especially in church: in this case 

the five-string piccolo, fashionable at the start of the 18th century. The key to the originality and coherence of this recording 

by the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, with Concerto Vocale Leipzig, is to have approached these works from the 

instrumental angle. 

Conductor Christophe Coin, who studied with Jordi Savall and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, has, for the last 30 years, been 

France’s most fervent apostle of the music of the 17th and 18th centuries. It all came together in 1993: his first love of 

baroque music, his quest for authenticity in the interpretation of known and lesser known repertories, his approach to 

voices and period instruments, his work as a cellist himself, never sacrificed to a career as conductor… 

The record won a Diapason d’or, ƒƒƒƒ from Télérama and a Timbre de platine from Opéra International.

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Barcode: 822186400326 

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A Sei Voci 

Dominique Ferran [organ] 

Bernard Fabre-Garrus [conductor] 

ALLEGRI: Miserere 

Messe Vidi Turbam Magnam 

Motets: De Ore Prudentis, Depleti sunt omnes, Cantate Domino 

A Sei Voci 

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Bernard Fabre-Garrus, his A Sei Voci ensemble and the musicologist Jean Lionnet, with their characteristic fervour and 

concern for authenticity, pored over the writings of Allegri’s contemporaries and rediscovered the lost paradise of the 

original sources. In 1993, they restored the original intent of the piece in this unique interpretation, true to the tradition of 

improvised ornamentation, with its inventive, blossoming lines. 

The surprises do not stop there, because, A Sei Voci inserts between this 'authentic' version and the traditional, familiar 

version conveyed over the centuries and other forgotten works by Allegri, composed for liturgical services in the Pontifical 

Chapel in Rome. With its expressive sobriety, supported by the understated playing of organist Dominique Ferran and perfectly 

balanced voices that alternately come to the fore from within the counterpoint, A Sei Voci invites you on to the stairway to 

paradise...Bernard Fabre-Garrus died in 2006 and A Sei Voce disbanded some five years later.

JULY 29 wp - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution

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