CLASSICAL new release harmonia mundi UK available 11th ...

CLASSICAL new release 

harmonia mundi UK 

available 11th January 2010 call off 30th December 

J a n ua ry 2010 

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calliope, CSO resound, delphian, fraprod, fuga libera, glossa, hat[now]art, K617, KML, LSO Live, mariinsky, 

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france, RAM, RCOC, RCO Live, ricercar, sfz, signum classics, stradivarius, unicorn kanchana, walhall, 

wergo, winter & winter, ysaye

DVD OF THE MONTH 

2056958 / 2056954 El Sistema 

SIGCD174 Don't talk, just listen / The Clerks 

GRAMOPHONE 

SIGCD172 Grieg, Rachmaninov Cello Sonatas 

Jamie Walton (cello); Daniel Grimwood (piano) *****/***** 

GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE 2009 

HMC902025/27 

Beethoven Complete Violin Sonatas 

Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov 

HMU807496 

David Lang Little Match Girl Passion ToV, Ars 

Nova Copenhagen/Hillier 

Glossa GCD921525 Handel Italian Cantatas Vol 5 La Risonanza/Bonizzoni 

Mirare MIR088 W F Bach Fantaisies, Fugues, Polonaises Maude Gratton 

Mirare MIR085 Bach Harpsichord Concertos Stradivaria/Bertrand Cuiller 

Paradizo PA0007 A French Collection Skip Sempe 

Signum SIGCD160 Korngold Sonnet fur Wien Sarah Connolly, Iain Burnside 

Signum SIGCD159 Hindemith Britten Sinfonia 

INTERNATIONAL PIANO AWARDS 2009 

DVD OF THE YEAR PERFORMANCE CATEGORY WINNER: 

Medici Arts ALFRED BRENDEL Plays and introduces Schubert, vols.1-5 

[2057808, 2057818, 2057828, 2057838, 2057848] 

“…Played like this, impassioned and unconstrained, Schubert emerges as a 

flesh-and-blood composer of shattering emotional resource…for anyone who 

cares deeply about this music, these DVDs are an essential purchase” 

International Piano Sep/Oct 09 

BBC MUSIC

HMU807509 

Barcode: 093046 750961 

NORMAL PRICE SACD 

John SHEPPARD (c.1515-1558) 

Media vita, 

Te Deum, Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria 

virgo, The Lord's Prayer, I give you a 

new commandment, Christ rising again, Haste thee, Oh 

God 

Stile Antico 

Performing editions reconstructed and prepared by members of 

Stile Antico 

For its fourth recording, Stile Antico spotlights the work of a neglected Tudor master: John Sheppard. The 

programme displays his genius across the range of genres in which he composed, including Catholic liturgical 

responds and hymns alongside simple English-texted anthems written in the reign of Edward VI. As its 

centerpiece, the great antiphon 'Media Vita' is a reflection on the frailty of human life and the hope for 

salvation. 

Stile Antico is an ensemble of young British singers, now established as one of the most original and exciting 

new voices in its field. Prizewinners at the 2005 Early Music Network International Young Artists' 

Competition, the group is much in demand in concert, performing regularly throughout Europe and North 

America. The group's most recent release, Song of Songs, won the 2009 Gramophone Award for Early Music 

and reached the top of the US Classical Chart. 

Notable engagements in the 2009-10 season include a New York debut in the Music before 1800 series, 

appearances in the Spitalfields, Rheingau, Barcelona and Al-Bustan Festivals, and performances in France, 

Belgium and Estonia. 

"Stile Antico is hot property nowadays and was hardly likely to turn down a gig at York - it was 

through taking part in the Young Artists Competition a few years ago that they got their break. .. 

Spanning more than two centuries of music, it was a programme of works by composers aware of 

their own mortality. …The highlight of the concert was John Sheppard's Media vita, a vast work, 

which was beautifully paced by the group - another motet that mirrored the great arching roof of 

York Minster's chapter house particularly well. 

This was a wonderfully homogenous sound: 

the ensemble sings through the phrases in 

such a way that gives direction while never 

appearing rushed." Early Music Today 

CONCERTS: 

Thursday 14 January 2010 

In Paradisum 

Kings Place, London 

Celebrating the launch of 'Media Vita' 

[London A Cappella Festival] 

23 February St Mary’s Warwick 

harmonia mundi UK- released 11th January 2010

HMA195208 

Barcode: 794881942121 

TALLIS 

Lamentations of 

Jeremiah 

Deller Consort / Alfred Deller 

HMA195389 

Barcode: 794881942428 

ARABO-ANDALOUSE 

MUSIC 

Atrium Musicae Madrid / 

Gregorio Paniagua 

HMA1951043 

Barcode: 794881941629 

OFFENBACH 

Suites for two cellos 

Roland Pidoux, Etienne Péclard 

HMA1951256 

Barcode: 794881942527 

CORSICA 

E Voce di u Cumune 

HMA1951548 

Barcode: 794881941926 

GIUSEPPE TARTINI 

Cello Concertos 

Roel Dieltiens (cello); 

Ensemble 415 / Chiara 

Banchini 

SUPERBUDGET CD 

NEW DESIGN 

HMA1951679 

Barcode: 794881941728 

J.S. BACH 

French Suite No. 5 

BWV816, 

French Overture 

BWV831 

Piotr Andersjewski (piano) 

HMA1951680 

Barcode: 794881941827 

MONTEVERDI 

Pianto della Madonna, 

Motetti a voce sola 

Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano); 

Concerto Soave / Jean-Marc 

Aymes 

HMA1951746 

Barcode: 794881942022 

BUXTEHUDE 

Sonatas Op.1 

Manfredo Kraemer & Juan 

Manuel Quintana…… 

HMA1951768 

Barcode: 794881941520 

TELEMANN 

Trauer-Actus 

Cantus Cölln / Konrad 

Junghänel 

HMA1957048 

Barcode: 794881942329 

BRAHMS 

Clarinet Quintets 

Juan Enric Lluna / Tokyo String 

Quartet 


HMC902032 

Barcode: 794881941124 

NORMAL PRICE CD 

Gabriel FAURE 

Piano Quartets No. 1 Op. 15, No. 2 

Op. 55 

Trio Wanderer, Antoine Tamestit (viola) 

Gabriel Fauré was a remarkable pianist who included 

his instrument in almost all his compositions, but 

seldom as a soloist: he preferred to combine it with 

chamber ensembles to produce the intimate 

atmosphere he so favoured. 

Until the early 1870s, Parisian musical life revolved 

around opera, to the detriment of instrumental works. 

Existing institutions paid little attention to the scores of 

young French composers. The Société Nationale de 

Musique, founded in 1871 and presided by Camille 

Saint-Saëns and Romain Bussine, set itself the mission of promoting French music and offering a forum for the 

dissemination of orchestral and chamber works. Its founder members also included César Franck, Lalo, d'Indy, 

Duparc, Massenet, and Fauré, who became secretary in 1874. In an interview with Le Petit Parisien in 

1922, he spoke of the importance of the Société: “The truth is that, before 1870, I would not have dreamt 

of composing a sonata or a quartet. Only when Saint-Saëns founded the Société Nationale de Musique in 

1871, whose primary aim was to put on works by young composers, did I set about doing so.” 

And in fact almost all Fauré's chamber works had their 

premieres under the auspices of the SNM: the two violin sonatas, their counterparts for cello and piano, the 

piano quartets, the First Piano Quintet, and the Piano Trio. 

Since 1999, the Trio Wanderer has released, on the Le Chant du Monde and harmonia mundi labels, a series 

of recordings that have received a warm welcome from the press. 

Born in 1979, Antoine Tamestit studied with the Tokyo Quartet at Yale University and Tabea Zimmermann in 

Berlin. He was a BBC New Generation Artist (2005-07) and a Borletti- Buitoni Trust scholarship holder in 

2006. He made his debut at the Lucerne Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic and Riccardo Muti in 2008. 

The Berlin Konzerthaus has offered him a residency in 2009/10. He will premiere in several cities (Berlin, 

Vienna, Graz, London) a concerto written for him by Olga Neuwirth. 

ALSO AVAILABLE: 

HMG501968 Haydn Piano Trios 

" Trio Wanderer give marvellously exhilarating 

performances." BBC Music Magazine, June 2009 

*****/***** 

HMC901825 Shostakovich, Copland Piano Trios 

"No other ensemble in my experience - not even 

the trios headed by Sviatoslav Richter or the 

composer himself - captures this despairing sense 

of being overwhelmed by expressive needs as 

powerfully as does the Trio Wanderer" IRR 

HMC901862 Saint-Saëns Piano Trios 

"an excellent vintage wine" Tully Potter, The Strad 

HMC901915/16 Brahms Complete Piano Trios 

"This is some of the most elegant playing I have 

heard in Brahms's chamber music… 

superb playing." BBC Music Magazine 

HMC901961 Mendelssohn Piano Trios 

"There have been fine recordings of 

these pieces but none that brings them 

more vividly to life." 

Chamber Choice, BBC Music Magazine 

HMC902002/03 Schubert Piano Trios 

Chamber Choice, BBC Music Magazine 

HMC901987 Messiaen 

Quatuor pour le fin du temps 

"The Trio Wanderer, with clarinettist 

Pascal Moraguès, strikes a near-ideal balance 

between modern 'cool' and espressivo inflection, 

well matched by crystal-clear engineering." 

The Strad 


HMU907501 

Barcode: 093046750121 

Bela BARTOK 

44 Duos for two Violins 

Angela & Jennifer Chun (violins) 

Rather than mere technical studies, Béla Bartók's 44 Duos for 2 

Violins are studies in musicianship and the integration of folk song 

into the composer's personal idiom. All but two of the themes are 

traditional - culled from the 'peasant' tunes Bartók gathered in his 

fieldwork. For this spirited recording, Angela and Jennifer Chun 

have prepared a new grouping of these colourful miniatures. 


Fantasy HMU907444 "Recommended." Classic FM Magazine 

HMC905267 

Barcode: 794881941223 

Thierry PÉCOU 

Symphonie du jaguar / Vague de Pierre* 

Ensemble Zellig, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France / 

François-Xavier Roth & Jonathan Stockhammer* 

An irresistible energy irradiates the entire sound material of 

Thierry Pécou's orchestral music, right down to the silences. 

This almost spiritual celebration of rhythm is extremely rare in 

contemporary composers. Impelled by their rhythmic drive, the 

Symphonie du Jaguar and Vague de pierre explore the mysteries of 

the pre-Columbian mythologies of Maya Mexico and the literary 

painters of ancient China. The Symphonie du Jaguar refers to the 

cyclic course of time and the trajectory of the sun (Kin), in its incarnation as the daystar, and in the form of a 

red jaguar in its journey into the bowels of the earth where it is regenerated. Here there are five cardinal 

points - east, west, north, south, and centre, symbolised respectively by the four solo instruments (clarinet, 

trombone, violin and cello) and, in the centre, the female chorus; at the end of the work, the clarinet and 

trombone emit calls in the five directions. 

Whereas the Symphonie du Jaguar was inspired by Mayan civilisation, Vague de pierre - 'Stone wave', a literal 

translation of 'Shi Tao', the name of a Chinese literary painter of the late Manchu dynasty - is underpinned by 

an external source, the writings of François Cheng and François Jullien on art and philosophy in China. 

Born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1965, Thierry Pécou has received many prizes for his compositions, which 

have been commissioned by leading institutions and performers. 

He frequently performs his own works at the piano, as director of Zellig, a flexibly sized ensemble devoted to 

new music of which he is the founder, or as soloist with orchestra in his piano concertos (Tremendum and 

L'Oiseau innumérable). 

ALSO AVAILABLE: HMC901974 L'Oiseau innumérable/Alexandre Tharaud 

"His collaboration with Pécou brilliantly synthesizes the delicacy and translucency of French composition 

post-Ravel…The result is an appealing sound world and a highly recommended recording." 

International Piano, September/October 2008 


CHOPIN 2010 

HMX2908375 

Barcode: 794881 941421 

Frédéric CHOPIN 

The Essentials: 

Andante spianato Op.22 Alain Planès, Nocturne Op.9 No.2 Brigitte Engerer, 

Valse Op.69 No.1, 'Grande Valse brillante' Op.18 Alexandre Tharaud, 

Ballade No.1 Op.23 Cédric Tiberghien, Étude Op.10 No.3 'Tristesse' Frederic 

Chiu, Prélude Op.28 No.6, Prélude Op.28 No.15 Alain Planès, 

Sonate No.2 Op.35 Marche funèbre Olga Kern, Mazurka Op.7 No.1 Frederic 

Chiu, Polonaise 'héroïque' Op.53 Jon Nakamatsu, Fantaisie-impromptu Op.66 

Olga Kern, Étude Op.10 No.1, Étude Op.10 No.12 Nobuyuki Tsujii, Concerto 

No.1, 3-Rondo: Vivace Olga Kern,Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Antoni Wit 

Idealised by romantic myth, Frédéric Chopin is one of the most celebrated composers in history. 

This virtuoso pianist devoted his whole output to his instrument and developed a unique style which made 

him “an extraordinary artist” (Berlioz). Here the musicians of harmonia mundi present some of his most 

famous pieces, a glimpse of the inner world of this genius who “made use of art solely to fulfil his own tragic 

destiny” (Liszt). 

HMX2901927 

Barcode: 794881 941322 

CD-Catalogue harmonia mundi 2010 

Frédéric CHOPIN 

Complete Waltzes; MOMPOU Valse- Evocation 

Alexandre Tharaud (piano) 

Previously available as HMC901927 

"All these performances suggest a fastidious musical 

intelligence with an immaculate technique…Harmonia 

Mundi's sound is as crystalline as the playing, and these 

scrupulously modern and sensitive performances are 

among the finest available." 

Gramophone recommended 

• Tharaud, front cover, Pianist, Jan-Feb issue 

CONCERTS: 

23 February Reform Club Chopin, Couperin programme 

24 February Wigmore Hall 


LSO0682 

Barcode: 822231168225 

2 SACDS 

Sergei PROKOFIEV 

Romeo & Juliet 

London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev 

DSD recording, live at the Barbican November 2008 

LSO Live celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2010. 

The label's first release of the year features Prokofiev's 

spectacular score for the ballet Romeo & Juliet 

conducted by Valery Gergiev. 

Gergiev is a tireless champion of Prokofiev's music. 

In 2004 he conducted the complete cycle of the 

composer's symphonies with the LSO which then won 

a Gramophone Award. Shortly afterwards Gergiev 

became Principal Conductor of the LSO and spent 

much of 2008 and 2009 touring Prokofiev's symphonies 

with the orchestra in Europe, Japan and the USA. 

Gergiev's Mahler cycle continues in February 2010 with the release of the Fourth Symphony. Other upcoming 

releases on LSO Live include a Rachmaninov symphony cycle as well as music by Ravel, Stravinsky, Debussy 

and Strauss. 

Concert reviews: 

"The strings were supple and radiant ... 

The brass, much used by Prokofiev, were 

tirelessly accurate, and the woodwind 

especially characterful, with some of the 

orchestra's younger members playing out of 

their skins. The best ballets contain music 

almost too good to be wasted on dancers. 

Freed from the need to adopt dance 

tempi, this wonderful music swaggered, 

sparkled and shimmered as it rarely does in 

the theatre" Mail on Sunday 

"Most concert conductors only take bites 

out of Prokofiev's virile but lengthy ballet. 

Not Valery Gergiev. He knows that the 

complete score is a treasure chest of 

musical characterisation, orchestral colour, soaring melody and blasting drama: manna from 

heaven for himself and the London Symphony Orchestra" The Times 

"Gergiev and the LSO's performance was simply magnificent, not just in the quality of the orchestral 

playing but in the range of colours and delicacy Gergiev drew from his players" classicalsource. 

com 


RCO09004 

Barcode: 5425008376967 

MID PRICE SACD 

Modest MUSSORGSKY 

Pictures at an exhibition (instr Maurice Ravel 1922) 

Promenade, Gnomus, Promenade, Il vecchio castello, Promenade, Tuileries, 

Bydlo, Promenade, Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques, 

Samuel Goldenberg und Schmuyle, Limoges, le marché, 

Catacombae, sepulchrum Romanum, Cum mortuis in lingua mortua, 

La cabane sur des pattes de poule, La grande porte de Kiev 

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / 

Mariss Jansons (chief conductor) 

Recorded Live Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 22, 23 May & 29 Aug 2008 

A special-priced release on RCO Live of Mussorgsky's much-loved Pictures at an exhibition in Ravel's 

orchestration. Recorded live at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Mariss Jansons and the Royal 

Concertgebouw Orchestra, on magnificent form, produce a wonderful palette of colours and sonority in this 

dazzling orchestral piece. 

RCO09003 

Barcode: 5 425008 376875 

SACD 

HORIZON 2 - A TRIBUTE TO OLIVIER MESSIAEN 

Paul DUKAS/Geert van Keulen La plainte, au loin, du faune; 

MESSIAEN Les Offrandes Oubliées, Chronochromie; 

DALBAVIE La source d'un regard; Zuidam Adam-Interludes 

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / George Benjamin, Ingo 

Metzmacher (conductors) 

Recorded live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 8, 9 November 2007 

(Dukas/Van Keulen, Dalbavie, Messiaen, and 13, 14 June 2008 (Zuidam) 

IN CONCERT: 12th December Barbican Centre with Mariss 

Jansons 

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra focused extensively on 

Messiaen in its 2007-8 season. A major musical figure of the 20thcentury, 

Messiaen (1908-1992) created an entirely unique musical 

œuvre in which such divergent elements as divinity, as it relates to Catholicism and other doctrines, ornithology 

and the synaesthetic perception of sound as colour are all interconnected with his innovative rhythmic 

and harmonic musical language and tonal organisation. As a thinker and teacher, Messiaen carried out groundbreaking 

work in music during the second half of the century, but his work as a composer has remained 

unsurpassed. During this special season, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra programmed works not only 

by Messiaen himself, but also compositions by his musical predecessors, students and disciples, including three 

premières of works commissioned by the RCO: Geert van Keulen's orchestration of Paul Dukas's La plainte, 

au loin, du faune…, Marc-André Dalbavie's La source d'un regard (The Source of a Look) and Robert Zuidam's 

Adam Interludes. 

With this second release in the Horizon CD series, dedicated to contemporary repertoire, RCO Live has 

captured this resounding homage to Olivier Messiaen in superb five-channel stereo. 

ALSO AVAILABLE: RCO08003 Horizon 1 

"one of the most spirited collages of every style under the sun to have come my way." 

The Sunday Times 

"Markus Stenz is a natural interpreter of these pieces, and I hope that Horizon 1 will have numerous 

successors." Richard Whitehouse, Gramophone 


WER6730-2 

Barcode: 4010 228 673029 

Frederic RZEWSKI 

The People United Will Never Be 

Defeated 

Kai Schumacher (piano) 

Rzewski studied with such names as Walter Piston, 

Roger Sessions and Randall Thompson. He studied 

composition with Milton Babbitt and the music of 

Richard Wagner with Oliver Strunk at Princeton 

University from 1958-60, where he also studied Greek 

literature and philosophy. In addition, he studied 

composition privately with Luigi Dallapiccola in Rome 

in 1960. As a pianist, he frequently performed with the 

flautist Severino Gazzelloni in the 1960s. He then 

co-founded with Alvin Curran and Richard Teitelbaum 

the improvisational and live electronic ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva, in Rome in 1966 and performed with 

it from 1966-71. Since then, he has been active as a pianist, primarily in performances of his own pieces and 

music by other contemporary composers, making an appearance at Huddersfield Festival in 2009. 

The People United Will Never Be Defeated is based on the Chilean protest song, '¡El pueblo unido jamás será 

vencido!', written by Sergio Ortega a few months before Pinochet's military coup in September of 1973. 

"One day in June, 1973, three months before the bombing by Pinochet's military coup, I was walking through 

the plaza in front of the Palace of Finance in Santiago, Chile, and saw a street singer 

shouting, "The people united will never be defeated" - a well known Chilean chant 

for social change. I couldn't stop, and continued across the square, but his incessant 

chanting followed me and stuck in my mind. 

On the following Sunday, after the broadcast of the show "Chile Says No to Civil 

War", which I directed for Channel 9, we went with a few artists to eat at my 

house outside Santiago. Upon arrival I sat down at my piano and thought about the 

experience in the plaza and the events at large. When I reproduced the chant of 

the people in my head, the chant that could not be restrained, the entire melody 

exploded from me: I saw it complete and played it in its entirety at once. The text 

unfurled itself quickly and fell, like falling rocks, upon the melody. In their 

enthusiasm some of my guests made suggestions that were too rational for the 

situation I was composing in. Out of courtesy I pretended to accept, but arranged myself to leave the text in 

its symptomatic landscape." Sergio Ortega, on El Pueble Unido 

"when I did record "The people united", I haven´t met Frederic before. I´ve sent him my recording in 

February (before I got in contact with Wergo) to make sure, that he will like my interpretation and would 

support a release - what he absolutely did. We first met in Den Haag at a concert, where an american pianist 

was playing the piece - which was the first time for me to hear "The people united" live, except played by 

myself. The second time we´ve met in Cologne in June, where Frederic was invited to a festival. We had the 

time to work on the piece for a while, but that was no "teaching" by him in a common sense, but more a 

discussion about different emotions when the theme comes at the end again, because for me it´s less a 

victorious ending but more a kind of melancholic reminiscence. Our meeting did end in a little private 

concert he played for me, with some of his new "Nanosonatas" - which really was a pleasure for me." 

Kai Schumacher 

Feature in the Daily Telegraph on this recording 


Antonin DVORAK 

Symphony No.7, Symphony No.8 

The Philharmonia Orchestra / 

Sir Charles Mackerras 

SIGCD183 

Barcode: 635212018323 

Signum's highly successful series of releases with The 

Philharmonia Orchestra continues with these live 

performances of Dvorak's symphonies Nos. 7 and 8, led 

by Sir Charles Mackerras. 

This is the second disc to feature Sir Charles, following 

on from last year's widely praised live recording of 

Schubert's Symphony No. 9. 


SIGCD133 Schubert Symphony No. 9 

"In an age of deodorised live 

recordings, this rough diamond 

document of that concert is thrilling 

... A miraculous work played with 

humour, wisdom and daring." 

The Independent on Sunday 

"This staggering recording … is the 

most remarkable recording of this 

elusive work since Furtwängler's 

famous Berlin account in 1951." 

*****/***** BBC Music Magazine 


C803091A 

Barcode: 4 011790 803128 


Richard STRAUSS 

Ein Heldenleben, 

Suite from Der Rosenkavalier 

CBSO / Andris Nelsons 

What Ein Heldenleben needs is not only a first-class 

orchestra but also a conductor with a clear sense of the work's underlying structure, a conductor, moreover, 

who is able to maintain the tension and respond quickly and consistently to the work's countless details. This 

is certainly how Andris Nelsons sees his task, a task that he realises magnificently in this, his second ORFEO 

recording with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra and its music director allow the 

orchestral colours to gleam and ensure that the individual sections that make up the score flow smoothly, 

sweeping the listener along with them. This reading of Ein Heldenleben has such stringency and rigour that 

many of the aesthetic objections to the work merely add to our pleasure at individual details, while never 

calling into question the piece's overall design. 

The fact that Nelsons is also a master of the art of transition in the music theatre and can achieve this on 

the concert platform, too, is clear from his recording of the Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, which under 

Nelsons' direction becomes spontaneously compelling and coherent, and which the CBSO clearly take 

pleasure in. 

Stephen Maddock, the CBSO's chief executive says: "At a time when record labels are reducing their 

commitment to the core symphonic repertoire, we're delighted to have found in Orfeo a partner who is 

showing this level of commitment to Andris and the CBSO. In this way we can bring what we are sure will 

be outstanding accounts of composers who are very close to Andris's heart - and who have mostly not 

featured until now in the CBSO's large discography - to the widest possible international audience". 


C780 091A Tchaikovsky 5 

"it's one thing to make this music sound natural and idiomatic, quite 

another to make an old warhorse of a symphony sound fresh, as he 

does." CD OF THE WEEK Daily Telegraph 

"The opening of Tchaikovsky's fifth symphony has seldom sounded so 

taut and introspective, conductor and orchestra breathing as one. 

Nelsons and Birmingham promises to be one of the great partnerships 

of the coming decade." Norman Lebrecht 

"The CBSO may not command the sheer power of the BPO/Karajan or 

VPO/Gergiev Fifths, but for sensitivity to balance and phrasing you would have to go back to 

Kempe's to match this Symphony Hall recording under the orchestra's new Latvian conductor." 

Hi-Fi News Album of the Month, November 2009 


GCD921526 

Barcode: 8 424562 21526 9 


G.F. HANDEL 

Le Cantate Italiane di Handel VI Rome, 1708 / 

Italian Cantatas 6 

Olinto, pastore arcade 

(Oh! Come chiare e belle) HWV143, 

Duello amoroso (Amarilli vezzosa) HWV82, 

Alpestre monte HWV81 

Roberta Invernizzi,Yetzabel Arias Fernández (sopranos); 

Romina Basso (alto) 

La Risonanza / 

Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord & direction) 

Recorded in Saint-Michel en Thiérache, France, June 2008 

The Accademia degli Arcadi - that thought provoking and ideas-creating literary circle set up by a group of 

poets, composers, aristocrats and churchmen, which championed a return to classical (and pastoral) ideals 

and one of whose keenest members was the Marquis Francesco Maria Ruspoli, Handel's patron in Rome - 

forms the aesthetic background for this sixth and penultimate release in the series of Italian cantatas by the 

Saxon composer which Fabio Bonizzoni and La Risonanza are making for Glossa. 

In an engrossing essay written by Carlo Vitali, which benefits from the counsels of Michael Talbot, the reader 

is introduced to the social and political references contained within the pastoral texts of Olinto, pastore arcade, 

Duello amoroso and Alpestre monte, the three Handel cantatas which make up this CD. Bonizzoni turns again 

to three of his regular singers as well as counting upon the services of his exceptional first violinist, the young 

Swiss Leila Schayegh, an up-and-coming player whose talent is undisputed. 

The spring of 2010 is anticipated as seeing the conclusion of this Handel collection, the grand finale being the 

marvellous cantata Apollo e Dafne. Volume five is a Gramophone Critics Choice 2009. 

ALSO AVAILABLE Handel Italian Cantatas: 

GCD921521 Handel: Le Cantate per il Cardinal Pamphili 

GCD921522 Handel: Le Cantate per il Marchese Ruspoli 

GCD921523 Handel: Le Cantate per Il Cardinal Ottoboni 

GCD921524 Handel: Aminta e Fillide 

GCD921525 Handel: Clori, Tirsi e Fileno 

"another essential disc from La Risonanza, whose project is shaping up to 

become the most rewarding Handelian discographic undertaking of the 

decade." David Vickers, Editor's Choice, Gramophone, June 2009 


910162-2 

Barcode: 0 250910162 28 


G.F. HANDEL 

Amore X Amore - Viaggio in Italia - Journey to Italy 

Organ Concerto No. 6 Op. 4 HWV 294, Violin sonata HWV392a, 

Harpsichord Suite No. 7 HWV432, Clori, degli occhi miei HWV91a, 

Nel dolce tempo HWV135b, Ho fuggito amore anch'io HWV118, 

Dolc'è pur d'amor l'affanno HWV109a, 

Lungi da me, pensier tiranno! HWV125b 

Forma Antiqva:: 

Aarón Zapico [harpsichord, musical director]; 

Pablo Zapico [archlute, theorbo]; Daniel Zapico [theorbo]; 

Rami Alqhai [viola da gamba]; Enrike Solinís [guitar, theorbo]; 

Xavier Sabata [alto] 

Recorded at Fundació Auditori Palau de Congressos, Girona, Spain, 

May 23-26, 2009 

Handel came to Italy as a promising, ambitious young composer bursting with talent, and left it as a mature 

composer, permanently impregnated with the light and the vocal art of Italy. Some of the great works were 

written during these significant years in his development (La Resurrezione, Dixit Dominus, Il trionfo del tempo e 

del disinganno, Aci, Polifemo e Galatea, Rodrigo…) His cantatas, however, are the great unknowns in his output, 

within which it is precisely these works that emerge as an important test bed for his music. 

Winter & Winter has entrusted this task to a young ensemble, Forma Antiqva, which marks the Munich label's 

first collaboration with Spanish musicians. 

The work of the three Zapico brothers with Forma Antiqva inevitably recalls the Kuijkens from Belgium, and 

in the youngest generation, the Ashby sisters who form part of the excellent group Stile Antico. 

This first Spanish 'commitment' by Winter & Winter is completed by the participation of the young singer 

Xavier Sabata: he possesses everything that is needed for these cantatas: clear diction, imagination, passion, 

engagement and the power of conviction. Thanks to him, the epoch of Spanish 'sopranisti', who enjoyed welldeserved 

fame throughout Euope, and inspired many to undertake their own personal 'Viaggio in Italia', has 

made its way back into our consciousness. 

GCD921303 

Barcode: 8 424562 21303 6 


MICROCOSM CONCERTO 

Harp music by G. F. HANDEL 

HANDEL Suite in D minor HWV448, Concerto per la Harpa HWV294; 

William BABELL Lascia ch'io pianga, Rinaldo; 

ANON Theme and Variations pour Harpe composé par G. F. Handel; 

Edward JONES The Microcosmo Concerto composed by G. F. Handel 

Nicolas Charles BOCHSA O let eternal honours and From mighty kings, 

For unto us a child is born (Messiah) 

Mara Galassi (Welsh triple harp & Érard harp); 

Giovanni Togni (organ, harpsichord & fortepiano) 

Recorded in Modena and Milan in September 2008 and March 2009 

In an original and novel CD the harpist Mara Galassi performs on two contrasting period instruments, a 

Welsh triple harp and an Érard pedal harp. It contains both compositions written by Handel for the 

instrument, as well as later arrangements by composers such as Edward Jones and Nicolas Charles Bochsa, in 

new works partially attributed (in a somewhat doubtful manner) to Handel. 

This is Galassi's third disc for Glossa (following Il Viaggio di Lucrezia in 1998 and Les Harpes du Ciel in 2003, 

two CDs which have been quietly acquiring cult status), and on it she shares centre stage with the keyboard 

player Giovanni Togini, who acts as the ideal musical companion on organ, harpsichord and fortepiano. 

harmonia mundi UK- released 11th January 2010 

WINTER & WINTER

J.S. BACH 

Magnificat BWV243, Missa BWV235, 

Fuga sopra il Magnificat BWV733, 

Prelude & Fugue BWV541 

MIR102 

Barcode: 3760127221029 

NORMAL PRICE CD+DVD 

Carlos Mena, Maria Keohane, Anna Zander, 

Hans-Jörg Mammel, Stephan MacLeod 

Ricercar Consort / Philippe Pierlot 

Continuing their exploration of the sacred vocal music 

of the great Johann Sebastian Bach, Philippe Pierlot and 

his Ricercar Consort couple the Magnificat with the 

Mass BWV235 for their latest release on Mirare. 

They are joined by the distinguished soloists Maria 

Keohane, Anna Zander, Carlos Mena, Hans- Jörg Mammel and Stephan MacLeod, all of whom appeared in the 

same programme at La Folle Journée in Nantes and Tokyo in 2009. 

The DVD shows the singers and Pierlot recording their solos whilst the orchestra mess around! 


the Week, CD Review 

MIR002 J S Bach Actus 

tragicus 

"The singers are 

wonderful, never 

over-acting, and 

managing to sound as 

though this marvellous 

work is being minted 

afresh for us on the 

spot. The recording is a 

beauty" Radio 3 Disc of 

MIR030 Bach Cantatas 

198, BWV234, 544, 727 

"a compelling and 

instinctive new Bach 

recording." 

Editor's Choice, 

Gramophone, 

September 2007 

harmonia mundi UK- released 11th January 2010 

MIR041 De Profundis 

"Macleod's voice is as 

imbued in this music as 

the Ricercar Consort, 

whose offerings on 

Mirare over the years 

are always exquisitely 

rendered." 

Gramophone 

MIR057 Bach 

Cantatas 

"a richly studded crown" 

Nicholas Anderson, 

BBC Music Magazine, 

2009 *****/*****

MIR090 

Barcode: 3760127 220909 


BEETHOVEN 

Piano Sonatas Nos 17, 24, 30 & Bagatelles Op. 126 

Andrei Korobeinikov (piano) 

Each of Beethoven's 32 sonatas has its own special character. And, 

modest though they are in their aims and dimensions, the 

Bagatelles show the composer at his very greatest. 

Andrei Korobeinikov, born in Moscow in 1986, has performed in 

more than 20 countries all over the world and won more than 

20 prizes in national and international competitions, among them 

the Alexander Scriabin International Piano Competition in 2004 

and the Rachmaninov Piano Competition in Los Angeles in 2005, where he also received the Audience Prize. 

At the age of 19, he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory with an exceptional award as 'best student of 

the decade'. In 2005 he pursued his studies at the Royal College of Music in London with the aid of a 

Scholarship. Now regularly invited over the world, he has appeared at Festival International de Piano de La 

Roque d'Anthéron, the Auditorium du Louvre in Paris, the Wigmore Hall and the Chipping Campden Festival 

in London, the Gstaad Festival, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and the Performing Arts Center 

in Washington. 


MIR061 Scriabin: Piano Sonatas Nos 4, 5, 8 & 9; Poèmes; Vers la Flamme 

"Korobeinikov unleashes the sonatas' pent-up fury with such wonderfully unbuttoned directness that 

it is hard to complain. There are no half measures in his playing, the technique is formidable; it is a 

genuinely thrilling disc." The Guardian 

"Andrei Korobeinikov's recital of music taken from the composer's middle and late periods will surely 

become a compulsory addition to all lovers of Scriabin's neurotic and compulsive genius…Such 

playing, finely recorded and presented, makes further recordings by this phenomenally gifted 

young pianist a necessity rather than a probability." Bryce Morrison, Gramophone 


ALPHA098 'An Clara' 

"we hope that Alpha will continue this series, so that 

we can hear Le Sage put his fine pianistic colourings 

to such masterpieces as the Fantasy and 

Kreisleriana." Pianist 

ALPHA154 

Barcode: 3 760014 191541 

2 CDS FOR 1.5 

Robert SCHUMANN 

Klavierwerke & Kammermusik - VIII 

Allegro Op. 8; Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Fantasiebilder Op. 26; 

Vier Klavierstücke Op. 32, Drei Clavier-Sonaten für die Jugend, 

Studies for the Pianoforte from Paganini's Caprices Op. 3 

Eric Le Sage (piano) 

Eric Le Sage continues his complete survey devoted to Robert 

Schumann. 

ALPHA121 Piano Works & Chamber Music Vol 3 

"All in all, an ideal introduction to the world of late 

Schumann." BBC Music Magazine *****/***** 

ALPHA124 Humoreske; Bunte Blätter; Etudes 

Symphoniques; Piano Sonata Op 11 

"a really striking player…very musicianly in 

Schumann" CD Review, BBC Radio 3 


ALPHA888 

Barcode: 3 760014 198885 

SPECIAL PACKAGING: ROUND METAL TIN 

ENCORES - Songs for a cappella choir 

Peaches en regalia Frank Zappa 

Womanizer (Briscoe/Akinyem) Britney Spears 

Toi mon toit (Medeiros) Elli Medeiros 

Cherchez le garçon (Biehler/Rozoum) Taxi Girl 

Manon Serge Gainsbourg, Hunter Björk 

Nahna wil amar jiran (A. & M. Rahbani) Fairouz 

Brava (Canfora) Mina, 

Hung up (Andersson/Ulvaeus) Madonna 

The look of love (David/Bacharach) from Casino Royale 

Can't get you out of my head (Dennis) Kylie Minogue 

Dugenou Thomas Fersen 

A day in the life (Lennon/McCartney) The Beatles 

The folks who live on the hill (Hammerstein/Kern) Peggy Lee 

Wild is the wind (Washington/Tomkins) Johnny Mathis 

Les Marquises Jacques Brel, Cher (Fontaine/Belkacem) Brigitte Fontaine 

Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille 

Les Cris de Paris / Geoffroy Jourdain (conductor) 

adaptations by David Colosio, Morgan Jourdain & Vincent Manac'h 

For many years, the Chamber Choir 'Les Cris de Paris', renowned for its commitment to contemporary 

creation, has had the habit of ending its shows with an 'Encore'. Specially written by the arranger of the band, 

and derived from songs outwith the world of classical music, a bold new repertoire has been built from 

Madonna, Zappa, Björk, Kylie Minogue and Spears (Britney…) but also Brel and Gainsbourg… 

To celebrate its 10th birthday with a wink, Alpha has supported this special venture that scrambles the 

boundaries and the brains. The pure pleasure of music making is to be found here, exclusively realised by the 

singers, including all the instrumental and percussion effects, with a technical level of virtuosity from each of 

the singers; and finally a quality and the creativity in the arrangements which brings new life to the original 

pop songs. 

Special project means special packaging. The Encores album has little in common with their usual collections, 

and so ALPHA in festive anniversary mood have given it a distinctive identity with a tactile circular metal box. 

LIMITED EDITION 

Guillaume de MACHAUT 

Ballades 

Ensemble Musica Nova / Lucien Kandel 

AECD0982 

Barcode: 3 760058 369821 


"The work of Guillaume de Machaut dominates the French 14th 

Century. It was bequeathed to us thanks to 6 illuminated 

manuscripts kept in the French National Library in Paris. Those 

manuscripts assemble the full poetical and musical works of the 

composer, structured as a very precisely organised entity. The 

musical part is composed of motets, virelais, ballads, lais, rondeaux 

and the famous Messe de Notre Dame. 

Thanks to the research of 20th century musicologists, we can now 

assess the full importance of this work enabling performers to read his music directly from manuscript sources 

and make us more and more familiar with this ancient media. This proximity with Guillaume de Machaut is 

an essential component of our work as a polyphonic ensemble. In this new recording devoted to the canon 

of Reims, we invite you to follow our poet-musician in the fantastic and experimental world of his ballads." 


CAL9424/5 

Barcode: 794881936724 

2 MID PRICE CDS 

Jean-Philippe RAMEAU 

Platée 

Bruce Brewer, Isabelle Poulenard, Gilles Ragon, Nicolas 

Rivenq, Ens Sagittarius, Ens Vocal du Centre Nayional 

d’Insertion d’Art Lyrique de Marseille, Grande Ecurie & 

Chambre du Roy/Jean-Claude Malgoire (conductor) 

Platée - opera in prologue and three acts by Jean-Philippe 

Rameau with libretto by Adrien-Joseph Le Valois d'Orville. 

Rameau bought the rights to the libretto Platée by Jacques 

Autreau and had d'Orville modify it. The ultimate source 

of the story is a myth related by the Greek writer 

Pausanias in his Guide to Greece. 

Rameau's first attempt at comic opera, the plot concerns an ugly water nymph 

who believes that Jupiter, the king of the gods, is in love with her. It was written 

for the celebrations of the wedding of Louis, Dauphin of France, son of King Louis 

XV of France, to the Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain, who, according to contemporary 

sources, like the title character, was no beauty. 

Instead of getting the composer into trouble, the entertainment at Versailles 

seems to have been well received, and Rameau was appointed a few months later 

to the position of Composer of the King's Chamber Music with a sizable annual 

pension. The opera was first performed on 31 March 1745 at the Grande Ecurie, 

Versailles. UK performances by the Mark Morris Company played to consistently 

packed houses and rave reviews. 


CAL9410 

Barcode: 7 94881 89762 9 


SCHUBERT / BERG 

SCHUBERT String Quartet No. 13 'Rosamunde' D804, Gretchen am 

Spinnrade D118, Die Götter Griechenlands D677, BERG Suite Lyrique, 

Schliesse mir die Augen beide (1900+1925 versions), 

Quatuor Thymos; Salomé Haller (soprano); Christoph 

Eschenbach (piano) 

'Thymos': a word that was used by the ancient Greek philosophers 

to refer to feeling and emotion… And it was 

the spirit of thymos that brought together the musicians of 

the eponymous quartet, first-prize winners from the Paris 

and Lyon Conservatoires and members of the Orchestre 

de Paris. 

The Thymos Quartet, like Calliope, is keenly interested in music of the Viennese school. This recording 

presents two masterpieces, representing two different periods in the rich history of Viennese music: Franz 

Schubert's String Quartet No. 13 'Rosamunde', completed in March 1824, and Alban Berg's Lyric Suite, a “suite 

for string quartet” (Berg's own words), written between September 1925 and October 1926. The latter is 

Berg's first extended 12-note composition, using the technique that Schoenberg had developed in 1923. 

In January 1977 the American musicologist George Perle discovered a copy of the score of the Lyric Suite 

annotated by Berg, in which the composer revealed its secret programme: without that key to the code, the 

complexities of this work would be indecipherable. The Lyric Suite is the story of a passion, recounting the 

episodes in the personal drama of an impossible love: that between Berg and Hanna Fuchs-Robettin. 

The musicians of the Thymos Quartet feel in tune with the aesthetic of this work, which calls for a very subtle 

balance between individual performance and harmony between all the players. It is a very difficult work 

to perform and one that is deeply moving for the performers. 

Schubert's String Quartet No. 13, also a moving work, refers to the inevitability of death; we discover in this 

composition an almost symphonic expression of violence, and it is also a tragic yet intimate confession. In 

this quartet Schubert quotes his lieder Gretchen am Spinnrade D118 (text by Goethe) and Schöne Welt, wo bist 

du? D677 (text by Schiller); Berg's Schliesse mir die Augen beide, to a poem by Theodor Storm, is connected 

with his Lyric Suite. These songs are therefore presented on this recording in order to give a fuller picture. 

These songs, as well as the sixth movement of the Lyric Suite, are performed the young soprano Salomé 

Haller, who was as enchanted by this programme as the musicians of the Thymos Quartet are. 

The musicians of the Thymos Quartet have played this programme many times. They came to the notice of 

the conductor Christoph Eschenbach when they presented it at the Théâtre Mogador in Paris, as a result of 

which he subsequently invited them to the Ravinia Festival (Chicago, USA) where, in August 2005, they performed 

Alban Berg's Lyric Suite with the Debussy String Quartet and (with Eschenbach at the piano) Dvorak's 

Piano Quintet (to be recorded on the Calliope label in November 2010). 

In 2006 Christoph Eschenbach invited the Thymos Quartet 

to take part in the Orchestre de Paris's Boulez cycle at the 

Salle Pleyel in Paris, where they performed Webern's Five 

Movements, Opus 5, and Berg's Lyric Suite. From that time 

dates their desire to take their work one step further by 

recording the latter. 


RAM040 

Barcode: 5050693245320 


GOETHE'S GIRL'S & MÖRIKE'S 

MEN 

Songcircle: 

Angela Bic (soprano); 

Charlotte Stephenson (mezzo soprano); 

Thomas Hobbs (tenor); 

Gerard Collett (baritone); 

George Humphreys (bass-baritone); 

Pianists: Robin Davis* and Timothy End† 

Recorded at All Saints Church, Tooting 19-20th January 2009 

Love poems of Wolfgang von Goethe and Eduard Mörike in settings by Beethoven, Brahms, Loewe, 

Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann and Wolf. 

Each year a small group of the Royal Academy of Music's most accomplished performers of song repertoire 

are selected to form Song Circle. Since its inception in 2004, Song Circle has given more than 20 concerts, 

including thematic programmes on Spring, Spain, Seduction and Farewell. 

Song Circle's annual Schubertiade has become a much anticipated feature of the Academy's events calendar. 

As well as regular performances at the Academy, Song Circle has twice given concerts at Wigmore Hall. This 

is Song Circle's third CD. 

"A showcase for outstanding vocal talent at the 

Royal Academy of Music, this well-planned 

disc also offers an attractive programme" 

London Evening Standard 

Flirtation: WOLF Begegnung Gerard Collett * 

SCHUMANN Singet nicht in Trauertönen Angela Bic * 

Love Letters: MENDELSSOHN Die Liebende schreibt 

Charlotte Stephenson † 

WOLF Jägerlied Thomas Hobbs † 

The Nature of Love: 

BRAHMS Es rauschet das Wasser 

Charlotte Stephenson & Gerard Collett * 

WOLF Frage und Antwort Gerard Collett * 

Adolescent Love: LOEWE Mädchenwünsche 

Charlotte Stephenson † 

WOLF Der Knabe und das Immlein Thomas Hobbs † 

Military: WOLF Der Tambour Thomas Hobbs † 

BEETHOVEN Die Trommel gerühret Charlotte Stephenson † 

Sexual Obsession: WOLF Die Bekehrte Angela Bic * 

WOLF Nimmersatte Liebe George Humphreys * 

Loss of Love: MENDELSSOHN Erster Verlust Angela Bic * 

WOLF Lebe wohl George Humphreys † 

Longing: SCHUBERT Mignon und der Harfner 

Angela Bic & Gerard Collett * 

Distant Love: WOLF Heimweh George Humphreys † 

Love for One of Higher Birth: WOLF Der Gärtner Thomas 

Hobbs † 

SCHUBERT Gretchen am Spinnrade Angela Bic * 

Prayer: SCHUBERT Gretchens Bitte Angela Bic * 

WOLF Gebet Gerard Collett * 

Renunciation: WOLF Verborgenheit George Humphreys † 

SCHUBERT Heiß mich nicht reden Charlotte Stephenson † 

Farewell: WOLF Abschied Gerard Collett * 


DCD34023 

Barcode: 801918340239 


John TAVERNER (c.1490-1545) 

Sacred choral music 

Dum transisset Sabbatum, Leroy Kyrie, Missa Corona spinea: 

Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei; 

Dum transisset Sabbatum (II), O splendor glorie 

The choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh / 

Duncan Ferguson 

John Taverner brought the English florid style to its 

DCD34901 An Edinburgh Christmas 

DCD34027 Gabriel Jackson Sacred Choral Works 

DCD34017 Ascension 

DCD34037 Peter Maxwell Davies Sacred Choral Works 

DCD34007 A Gaelic Blessing 

"Abundant atmosphere ... Natural clarity" Gramophone 

"Complex, colourful and exciting" Choir & Organ 

culmination and final flowering; his music is quite unlike anything 

written by his continental contemporaries and, viewed 

retrospectively, represents not only the culmination of 

one period but also the beginning of something new. 

In his debut recording with the critically acclaimed Edinburgh choir, Duncan Ferguson presents this music 

with forces akin to those of the 16th century - a small group of children and a larger number of men. The 

singers respond with their characteristic freshness, and an emotional authenticity born of the daily round of 

liturgical performance. 



SIGCD184 

Barcode: 635212018422 

2CDS FOR 1 

Guiseppe VERDI 

Messa di Requiem 

Carmen Giannattasio,Veronica Simeoni, Alexander Timchenko, 

Carlo Colombara, Mikhailovsky Theatre Chorus; 

The St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra / 

Yuri Temirkanov (conductor) 

Signum Records are proud to present the first release in a new 

series of live orchestral recordings featuring the illustrious St 

Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, led by their chief conductor 

Yuri Temirkanov. 

These new recordings have been made possible thanks to the 

recent refurbishment of their home concert venue, the Grand 

Philharmonic Hall, allowing many of us to hear for the first time 

the excitement of the Philharmonic's performances in their 

resident city of St Petersburg. 

This release will be followed later in the year with their live 

performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad). 

SIGCD200 

Barcode: 635212020029 


LCO 2: MENDELSSOHN | BEETHOVEN 

BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture Op.84, 

Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat major Op.19*; 

MENDELSSOHN Symphony No.4 in A major Op.90 'Italian' 

Melvyn Tan (piano, direction*); 

The London Chamber Orchestra / 

Christopher Warren-Green 

The second release in our new series with the London Chamber 

Orchestra presents three more classic performances from the 

their home venue of St. John's, Smith Square, featuring principal 

conductor Christopher Warren-Green and the pianist and 

director Melvyn Tan. 

The remarkable acoustic and intimate ambience of St. John's, its 

London home, enable LCO - the only chamber orchestra 

resident in London - to give vibrant performances and establish a 

close rapport with its audiences. The recordings on the LCO Live 

label, in partnership with Signum Classics, are the result of this 

happy marriage of orchestra and venue. 

"The concerts of Warren-Green and the London Chamber 

Orchestra at St John's, Smith Square aren't often noticed in the 

press, but their large regular audience knows that they are some 

of the most exciting in London." The Times 


Audite95629 

Barcode: 4022143956293 

MID PRICE CD 

EDITION FERENC FRICSAY VOL. XII 

STRAUSS WALZES, POLKAS 

An der schönen, blauen Donau, Das Spitzentuch der Königin, Die Fledermaus: 

Tik-Tak Polka, Eine Nacht in Venedig: Lagunen-Walzer, Frühlingsstimmen, 

Kaiser-Walzer, Künstler-Leben, Leichtes Blut, Perpetuum mobile, 

Pizzicato-Polka, Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka 

RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester / Ferenc Fricsay (conductor) 

Berlin 1950 / 1952 

Ferenc Fricsay's love of the waltzes by Johann Strauss II 

exemplifies his opinion that there is no difference between 

‘popular’ and ‘serious’ music but, if needs be, between good and 

bad music. Thanks to his own musical education and his first post as conductor of a military band in Szeged, 

he was very familiar with the repertoire and the musical world of 19th century Vienna. When the 34-year-old 

was called to post-war Berlin in order to help rebuild musical life in the western part of the destroyed city as 

director of the newly founded RIAS Symphony Orchestra, he passionately performed the music of Strauss 

from the outset. This is also documented by his ravishing recording of Die Fledermaus [see audite 23.411]. This 

CD presents a representative cross-section of the most beautiful and famous waltzes and polkas by Strauss 

recorded between 1950 and 1952, issued here for the first time. In these, not only do Fricsay's (in)famously 

precise rehearsal methods become perceptible but also his unique talent of improvisation, i.e. an art of interpretation 

where the highest degree of precision becomes completely natural, and spontaneous, music-making. 

ALSO AVAILABLE with Ferenc Fricsay and the RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester: 

AUDITE95587 ED. FERENC FRICSAY VOL. XI G. Rossini Stabat Mater 

AUDITE95585 ED. FERENC FRICSAY VOL. X Brahms Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 2/Gioconda de Vito 

C763093D 

Barcode: 4 011790 763323 


Felix MENDELSSOHN 

The Complete String Symphonies 

Stuttgarter Kammerorchester / Michael Hofstetter (conductor) 

The thirteen string symphonies that Mndelssohn wrote between 

1821 and 1823 are not only evidence of his exceptionally rapid 

development, they are also examples of wonderful, virtuoso 

music that reveals the influence of CPE Bach, JS Bach and Handel. 

This new complete recording of these works on the ORFEO 

label features the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Founded more 

than 50 years ago, the SCO has gradually built up a repertory 

that extends from the Baroque to the present day, thereby guaranteeing a flexible and keenly differentiated 

kind of playing, due not least to the ensemble's principal conductor, Michael Hofstetter, who is likewise at 

home in a wide variety of styles. The verve of the first symphony's opening Allegro is maintained throughout 

all the fast movements, while the slow movements are characterised by their gently flowing cantabile lines, 

which extend to the quotations of folksongs found in the two 'Swiss' symphonies. The last two symphonies, 

finally, are notable for their contrapuntal procedures and polyphonic accomplishment. Here the composer 

and his interpreters have found an appropriately playful approach to complex fugal subjects and 

developments. In this way this set of youthful works is brought to a suitably masterly conclusion, providing a 

further powerful addition to the 2009 celebrations marking the Mendelssohn bicentenary. 


DSD250261 

Barcode: 794881915828 

NORMAL PRICE SACD 

Joseph HAYDN 

String Quartets Op.33 Nos. 1, 4 & 6, 

String Quartet Op. 42 

Parkanyi Quartet 

These last three Opus 33 quartets define the archetype of the 

classical string quartet, a genre that would henceforth blossom 

independently of its patrons. 

Haydn makes of it a music that is light, subtle, intentionally 

humorous, concise and radiant, capable of leaving private drawing 

rooms for public concert venues. 

Mozart immediately detected its originality as would the classic 

composers of the 20th century. 

NS06 

Barcode: 3760142231065 


ELGAR Cello Concerto Op.85; 

JANACEK The tale; PROKOFIEV Cello Sonata Op.119 

Istvan Vardai (cello); Balasz Fülei (piano); 

Orchestre de Chambre de Genève / Simon Gaudenz 

2009 was a busy year for Istvan Várdai, the latest young artist to 

grace the Ysaye Quartet's own Nascor label. 

In recent months, he has performed at the Palace of Arts in 

Budapest as well as in the Deák Square Lutheran Church. He 

has also toured China, Germany and Switzerland, and played at 

the Gergiev Festival in Saint Petersburg. 

"in the concluding part Várdai's performance took on an 

acidic bite, which added even greater poignancy. His 

refreshingly unmannered playing eschewed the usual 

agonised grimaces and heavy-handed scraping affected 

by so many star cellists who play to the gallery. For a 

musician so young his playing was remarkably mature and 

self-assured." Concert Review, SJSS 2003, musicweb 


AMY019 

Barcode: 3760135100194 


WORKS FOR SOLO VIOLIN FROM 

THE GERMAN BAROQUE ERA 

BACH, BIBER, PISENDEL, WESTHOFF 

Mira Glodeanu (violin) 

Baroque specialist Mira Glodeanu has studied and performed 

with Jordi Savall, Manfredo Kremer, and Sigiswald Kuijken as 

wellas performing as a soloist with La Petite Bande, Les Arts 

Florissants, La Fenice, Il Seminario Musicale, Il Gardellino, 

Arpeggiata, Le Poème Harmonique... 

She is regularly invited to lead the orchestra of Collegium Vocale 

Ghent, Les Agremens and Al Ayre Espagnol and has recorded 

over 30 discs with Philippe Herreweghe, Gerard Lesne, Veronique Gens, William Christie, Christophe Rousset, 

Sigiswald Kuijken... 

Her keen interest in French music of the 18th century lead her to rediscover the violin sonatas of Francois 

Francœur, of which she has made a world première recording for Alpha "As for Mira Glodeanu, we find intact 

once again her fervour, her compelling sonority, her rustic bow, and her heightened sense of mood as evident 

in the drunkenness of the adagios as in the joys of the finales" (Diapason). 

She performs on a violin by Augustin Chappuy (Paris, 1750), preserved in it's original condition, and a rare 

violin by Marcin Groblicz (Krakow, 1604). Here she peforms the German Baroque solo violin repertoire. 

FUG558 

Barcode: 5 400439 005587 


* WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING 

SONATINAS FOR CLARINET & PIANO 

ARNOLD Sonatina; MARTINU Sonatina; 

BACRI Sonatina lirica for clarinet & piano Op. 108/1*; 

SANCAN Sonatina; CHEVREUILLE Sonatina for clarinet & piano Op. 94*; POOT 

Sonatina*; HOROVITZ Sonatina for Clarinet & Piano (1981) 

Ronald Van Spaendonck (clarinet); Éliane Reyes (piano) 

Ronald Van 

Spaendonck (b.1970) is considered as one of the best clarinettists of 

his generation. He studied the clarinet with Walter Boeykens, 

Anthony Pay (London) and Karl Leister (Berlin). In September 2000, 

he was selected as a BBC New Generation Artist and gives both 

recitals and chamber music concerts at the Wigmore Hall, Djanogly Hall, St George's in Bristol and the 

Chester, Brighton, Buxton, City of London festivals as well as at the prestigious Edinburgh festival where he 

has been invited to return many times. This anthology alternates known and unknown, classical works from 

the 20th and 21st centuries. French spirit, jazz humour, bucolic charm - all are offered, including three works 

never recorded before. Eliane Reyes is the worthy partner of such clarinet fireworks: laureate of several 

international competitions since her début with the Concertgebouw at the age of eleven, she has devoted 

herself to a distinguished career as a soloist and chamber musician. She has collaborated frequently with 

Henri Demarquette, Pierre Lenert, Antal Szalai, and Ronald van Spaendonck, and is the pianist of the Agapé 

Trio. Other collaborations have included performances with Marc Coppey, Misha Maisky and José Van Dam. 


C785092i 

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Bedrich SMETANA 

Die Verkaufte Braut 

Hans Braun (Krušina); Hilde Konetzni (Ludmila); Irmgard Seefried (Marie); 

Ludwig Welter (Micha); Rosette Anday (Háta); Murray Dickie (Wenzel); 

Waldemar Kmentt (Hans); Oskar Czerwenka (Kecal); László Szemere 

(Zirkusdirektor); Liselotte Maikl (Esmeralda); Hans Schweiger (Muff); 

Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper / Berislav Klobucar (conductor) 

Live Recording 11. November 1960 

Smetana's The Bartered Bride, performed in German, it has long been a regular part of Vienna's mainstream 

operatic repertory. In 1960 this production was captured by Austrian Radio in a performance that 

immortalised the interpretations of the original principals from 1959. The cast was headed by Irmgard 

Seefried, a great favourite with Viennese audiences. At the time of this recording she could already look back 

on a stage career lasting 20 years, and yet she had retained the youthful freshness necessary for Marie/ 

Marenka. The other half of this dream couple was Waldemar Kmentt as Jeník, or Hans, one of the roles with 

which the Austrian tenor was rightly most closely associated. The tragicomedy of his stuttering stepbrother is 

well caught by Murray Dickie avoiding buffo excess. The self-infatuated and vainglorious marriage broker Kecal 

is entirely plausible when the role is played by another Viennese operatic institution, the distinguished 

Upper Austrian bass Oskar Czerwenka. The smaller roles are also cast from strength by singers of 

the calibre of Hilde Konetzni, Rosette Anday and László Szemere, all of whom milk their brief scenes for all 

that they are worth. A lively and yet always well-disciplined performance is further guaranteed by the Chorus 

and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera under the direction of Berislav Klobucar, who, often criminally 

undervalued, presided genially over countless repertory performances in Vienna. 

C598081B 

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MID PRICE CD 

IRMGARD SEEFRIED 

CORNELIUS Brautlieder; BRAHMS Die Trauernde, 

Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer, Nachtigall; 

WOLF Das verlassene Mägdlein, Der Gärtner, Im Frühling; 

KIENZL Maria auf dem Berge, Mai; MOZART Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling; 

SCHUBERT Die Forelle; BRAHMS Wiegenlied; MARX Marienlied, Erinnerung, 

Lied eines Mädchens, Zigeuner, Sankta Maria; STRAUSS Morgen, 

Die Nacht, Meinem Kinde, Du meines Herzens Krönelein, Ruhe, meine Seele, 

Allerseelen, Schlagende Herzen 

Irmgard Seefried (soprano); 

Leopold Ludwig,Viktor Graef, Erik Werba (piano) Vienna 1943-1952 

Irmgard Seefried’s interpretation of the Composer in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos is said to have inspired 

Strauss himself to exclaim that until then he had not known how good his Composer was. She was also one 

of the most sought-after concert singers and lieder recitalists of her age. Not released until now, the many 

recordings included in the present CD attest to the richness and variety of that palette even during the early 

years of her career. 

The earliest of these recordings are Peter Cornelius's Brautlieder from the heyday of the Romantic art song, 

settings in which the soprano's exemplary treatment of the words and the vocal line are fully in evidence. The 

affinities between this cycle of six songs and the traditional German folksong offer the singer - a native of 

Swabia - a welcome opportunity to colour her tone even further, an approach that is also found in her 

recordings of songs by Mozart, Brahms, Wolf and two lesser-known composers, Wilhelm Kienzl and Joseph 

Marx. This compilation of Irmgard Seefried's recordings from the first ten years of her career in Vienna 

additionally includes some of Strauss's most popular songs, songs such as Morgen and Allerseelen that make it 

clear why, as we noted above, their composer held the soprano in such high regard. 


WLCD0275 

Barcode: 4035122 652758 

3CDS 

MOZART - Don Giovanni 

George London (Don Giovanni);William Wilderman (Commendatore); 

Eleanor Steber (Donna Anna); Cesare Valletti (Don Ottavio); Lisa della Casa (Donna 

Elvira); Ezio Flagello (Leporello);Theodor Uppman (Masetto); Laurel Hurley (Zerlina); 

Metropolitan Opera / Karl Böhm (conductor) 14/2/1959 

Superb sound. Incredible cast with a reference conductor in charge - 

what else you need more for a great live recording experience? 

First release. 

WLCD0276 

Barcode: 4035122 652765 

2CDS 

VERDI - Don Carlo 

Leonie Rysanek (Elisabetta); Giulio Gari (Don Carlo); Robert Merrill (Rodrigo); Blanche 

Thebom (Eboli); Jerome Hines (Filippo II); Hermann Uhde (Il Grande Inquisitore); 

Martina Arroyo (Voce dal Cielo); Metropolitan Opera / Fausto Cleva (conductor) 

4/4/1959 

Superb sound, with the impressive Rysanek as Elisabetta and an early 

appearance by Martina Arroyo. 

WLCD0280 

Barcode: 403522 652802 


CIMAROSA-La baronesa Stramba 

Elena Rizzieri (Donna Gironda); Paolo Montarsolo (Pulcinella); 

Leonardo Monreale (Don Settimio); Gino Sinimberghi (Bastiano Malerba); 

Rosanna Giancola (Biondina); Angelica Tuccari (Lisetta); 

Napoli RAI Orchestra / Franco Caracciolo (conductor) 30.09.1958 

First release of a lovely opera with great singers - not to be missed! 

WLCD0286 

Barcode: 4035122 652864 


LEONCAVALLO-Pagliacci 

Lucine Amara (Nedda); Kurt Baum (Canio); Robert Merrill (Tonio); 

Charles Anthony (Peppe); Frank Guarrera (Silvio); Metropolitan Opera / 

Fausto Cleva (conductor) Boston Opera House 13/4/1957 

Good sound. First release. 

WLCD0288 

Barcode: 4035122 652888 


MASCAGNI-Cavalleria Rusticana 

Zinka Milanov (Santuzza); Rosalind Elias (Lola); Richard Tucker (Turiddu); 

Frank Valentino (Alfio);Thelma Votipka (Lucia); Metropolitan Opera / 

Fausto Cleva (conductor) Boston Opera House 13/4/1957 

Good sound

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