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APRIL 13, 2010NEW RELEASESharmonia mundi usa

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On their new album Baltic Runes, Paul Hillier leads the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir in a program tracing the Balto-Finnic folksong tradition through the works of Jean Sibelius, Cyrillus Kreek, Erik Bergman and Veljo Tormis. Hillier’s previous forays into this repertoire (the Baltic Voices series) have been met with the highest critical acclaim. Hillier was also recently awarded a GRAMMY® for his recording of David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion.

Congratulations to Mark Padmore and Roger Vignoles, who have won the 2009 Prix Caecilia for their recording of Britten songs, Before Life & After. The Prix Caecilia is an award from the Union de la Presse Musicale in Belgium given to honor the best recording of the year. It is one of the highest awards in the classical music industry.

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Fresh off winning three GRAMMY® awards including the coveted Best Classical Album, Michael Tilson Thomas, director of the San Francisco Symphony and founder and artistic director of the New World Symphony, has been awarded the National Medal of Arts, the nation’s highest award for artistic achievement. He was recognized for his contributions to American culture by President Obama in a ceremony at The White House on February 25.

SFS’s Michael Tilson Thomas awarded National Medal of Arts

Paul Hillier’s haunting Baltic Runes

Street Date: April 13, 2010

Mark Padmore wins the 2009 Prix Caecilia

Our April release of the month is harmonia mundi’s Gershwin By Grofé (p.5) featuring the Harmonie Ensemble New York led by Steven Richman. This fascinating album offers the listener a chance to hear carefully restored original versions of some of the composer’s favorites. Also on harmonia mundi, Maurice Steger and The English Concert are heard on Mr. Corelli in London (p.7) - a dazzling disc of concertos and other works based on works by the Italian master and Andreas Scholl is back with Songs of Myself (p.8), a tribute to the fi fteenth-century German composer Oswald von Wolkenstein. Hyperion has two big hits for April, both featuring pianist Stephen Hough. Hough celebrates the Chopin Year with Late Masterpieces (p.11) and is soloist on the milestone 50th recording in Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series, featuring the complete Tchaikovsky concertos (p.11). The Mariinsky label presents its fourth release, Shchedrin’s The Enchanted Wanderer (p.17) while Orange Mountain Music offers Philip Glass’s Itaipu (p.19) with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Grant Gershon. In non-classical releases, World Village offers four key titles. The label’s star fadista Ana Moura presents Leva-me aos Fados (p.24), while jazz singer Catherine Russell delights with her latest blues-tinged album, Inside This Heart of Mine (p.35). World Village scores a major coup with the release of a thrilling live album featuring Lila Downs (p.25) and welcomes Counting Crows alum Matt Malley, who collaborates with Indian master V.M. Bhatt on Sleepless Nights (p.26). Rounding out the month are the debut of the East Meets West label, which will focus on historic recordings of Ravi Shankar (p.27) and Cesaria Evora’s powerful album Radio Mindelo (p.29) on Lusafrica.

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“Padmore is a master of the diffi culties of the dark and dangerous world of Britten’s John Donne.” – ClassicsToday 10/10

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Dear friends of harmonia mundi,

We regret to inform you that Bernard Coutaz, Chairman of harmonia mundi, has died in Arles, France on the afternoon of Friday, February 26. Coutaz, who founded harmonia mundi in 1958, was eighty-seven.

For over fi ve decades, Bernard Coutaz’s life was intimately linked with that of his company. Beginning as a classical music label, harmonia mundi soon took on its own commercial distribution, along with that of other, like-minded independent record labels. It subsequently diversifi ed into both book publishing and the distribution of other independent book publishers, a sector that now represents 40% of the company’s turnover in France. In the same spirit of independence, Coutaz established the harmonia mundi boutique retail chain. These specialty shops have been growing and thriving for over 20 years and today comprise forty-six shops throughout France and Spain. The company Mr. Coutaz founded half a century ago now employs over 300 people around the world and has subsidiary offi ces in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the USA.

Mr. Coutaz provided for his succession by appointing Eva Coutaz the Managing Director of harmonia mundi. Ms. Coutaz, who has been harmonia mundi’s Head of Production since the 1970s, will now lead the company. Together with Ms. Coutaz, the entire harmonia mundi staff will strive to continue its founder’s important legacy.

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“Mr. Coutaz remained faithful to his first loves, notably early and Baroque music. He was a daring spirit, staunchly dedicated to preserving the future of records throughout the entire world.”

— Frédéric Mitterrand, French Minister of Culture and Communication

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A rare masterpiece of sacred music

MARTINGolgothaJudith Gauthier (soprano), Marianne Beate Kiellland (alto), Adrian Thompson (tenor), Ma� ijs van de Woerd (baritone), Konstantin Wolff (bass), Cappella Amsterdam, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Reussharmonia mundi • HMC 902056

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“An intense and deeply moving performance.”

— GRAMOPHONE

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Rembrandt’s engraving The Three Crosses inspired Frank Mar t in’s power fu l s ac red oratorio Golgotha. As Martin explained while he was still working on the score, “Once I had seen these etchings, I was positively haunted by the idea

of realizing an image of the Passion with my own resources.” Inevitably, Martin’s work was infl uenced by the passions of J.S. Bach, which he had been familiar with since childhood. Golgotha is comprised of ten musical tableaux that relate the story of Christ’s Passion. Martin draws on all four Gospels, interspersed with excerpts from the Meditations and Confessions of Augustine of Hippo and individual verses from the Psalms and liturgy for Holy Saturday. The fi nal part of the work is an epilogue, anticipating the events of Easter Day, replacing mourning with hope. Here Martin seems to have captured that ‘strange white light’ of transfi guration that he so admired in Rembrandt’s etching — the paradox of a luminous darkness. Daniel Reuss leads the Cappella Amsterdam and a cast of fi ne soloists in the fi rst new recording of this important work in sixteen years.

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In this swinging set of symphonic jazz, Steven Richman and the GRAMMY® nominated Harmonie Ensemble New York perform a fascinating selection of music by George Gershwin. In addition to a reconstruction of Gershwin’s own 1934 orchestration of the I Got Rhythm Variations, Richman offers several orchestrations penned by composer and arranger Ferde Grofé in the 1920’s for the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. The disc’s main event is a red-hot performance of the original jazz band version of the immortal Rhapsody in Blue with pianist Lincoln Mayorga. The famous clarinet solo is played by the late, great Al Gallodoro, who was in his late nineties when the recording was made. Gallodoro played clarinet in the Whiteman Orchestra and can claim the distinction of having the world’s record for the most performances of the work’s iconic slide (over 10,000 times). Also included are a selection of Gershwin’s Broadway tunes including Summertime in a beautiful reading by Gallodoro and Mayorga, but the album’s special gem is a reading of The Yankee Doodle Blues, recorded by the Harmonie Ensemble New York on a wax cylinder (!) using a 1909 Edison Fireside phonograph.

Symphonic Gershwin

GERSHWINBy Grofé

Original Orchestrations & ArrangementsLincoln Mayorga (piano),

Al Gallodoro (clarinet & saxophone), Harmonie Ensemble New York,

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More Gershwin on harmonia mundiGershwin: Piano Concerto in Fharmonia mundi • HMC 807441 (093046744168)“One of the snappiest Gershwin

discs in years.”— THE NEW YORKER

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“ Lincoln Mayorga reveals unquestioned flair for the Gershwin style and demonstrates wonderful rhythmic esprit in all that he does.”

— STEREOPHILE

A supreme monument of the lied repertoire, Schubert’s song cycle Die Winterreise, composed in 1827, is the embodiment of Romanticism in music. It is the ultimate expression of ‘sehnsucht’ — an existential longing that haunts the creations of this artistic movement in all its forms. This ‘winter journey’ presented by Werner Güra and Christoph Berner is also a journey back in time, with Berner playing a period-style Rönisch fortepiano.

Güra sings Schubert’s Winterreise

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Also availableSchubert: Schwanengesangharmonia mundi • HMC 901931 (794881834228)“ Precision, insight into the text and just enough freedom in the musical line to give the impression that the composer’s musical choices were inevitable.”

— OPERA NEWS

Advance Review“ His earlier recordings of Die Schöne Müllerin and Schwanengesang won wide critical acclaim, and this Winterreise looks set to rival the most distinguished accounts by lyric tenors.”

— THE SUNDAY TIMES

Any e ighteenth-century Engl i sh gentleman wishing to signal his impeccable taste in music would often do so by referring to the works of Arcangelo Corelli, whose oeuvre was considered to be beyond reproach in matters of style and construction. The period saw an explosion of amateur musical societies all over the country. Gentlemen attending these societies could try their hand at ‘fi ddling’ and ‘piping,’ and their meetings were usually enlivened by food, alcohol and tobacco. Between 1725 and 1750, over fi fty clubs subscribed to Corelli reprints and publications. Corelli was literally written into their founding constitutions. English composers and musicians took advantage of this opportunity, creating arrangements, divisions and other re-workings of Corelli’s compositions, often featuring spectacular, fully notated ornaments. Recorder virtuoso Maurice Steger, together with The English Concert led by Laurence Cummings, performs a dazzling selection of concertos and other works fashioned from Corelli’s visionary Opus 5 Violin Sonatas, penned by Francesco Geminiani and other admirers.

“Steger is a terrific virtuoso.” — AUDIOPHILE AUDITION

Dazzling recorder wizardry

CORELLIMr Corelli in London

Recorder Concertos, La FolliaMaurice Steger (recorder),

The English Concert, Laurence Cummings

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Also availableVenezia 1625harmonia mundi • HMC 902024 (093046738822)

“A sumptuous program of sonatas, symphonias, canzonas and toccatas.”

— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

Star lutenist Paul O’Dette turns his focus on Marco dall’Aquila (c1480-1544), a composer of remarkable individuality and creativity. In the lute’s transition from late-medieval style into fully formed Renaissance idiom,

dall’Aquila was a pivotal fi gure, and his trademark style brisé infl uenced the development of instrumental music for the next 200 years. dall’Aquila was based in Venice, where he was given a license to print lute tablature. He is acknowledged in the preface to Francesco da Milano’s work published in 1536 as an important predecessor. Relatively little survives of dall’Aquila’s lute music and nothing of what he may have printed himself in the early days of music printing at the beginning of the 16th century. Though perhaps best known for his recitals and recordings of virtuoso solo lute music, Paul O’Dette maintains an active international career as a continuo player, performing with today’s most respected conductors and ensembles. He is also the Artistic Director of the Boston Early Music Festival and conducts baroque operas and orchestral programs throughout the United States and Europe.

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Also availableNeusidler: Lute Musicharmonia mundi • HMU 907388 (093046738822)

“As good as it gets… O’Dette’s career is a service and a gift to lovers not only of the lute,

but of music.”— EARLY MUSIC NEWS

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Few composers can have boasted quite such a colorful existence as the medieval poet and sometime diplomat Oswald von Wolkenstein (c.1376-1445). Having grown up in a Tyrolean castle, in a world recently ripped apart by the Black Death and immersed in religious and territorial conflict, Wolkenstein became something of a wandering knight with a complicated private life. If his travels greatly embellished the subject matter of his works, they also enriched the musical form, as he incorporated French songs forms into the German style. A singer of warm humanity, Andreas Scholl’s strikingly communicative voice has greatly endeared him to critics and public alike. This program, the result of new research into Wolkenstein, features previously unrecorded songs and instrumental arrangements and Scholl singing in both his counter-tenor and baritone voice ranges.

Colorful early Renaissance songs

WOLKENSTEINSongs of Myself

Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor, baritone), Shield of Harmony

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Also availableCrystal Tearsharmonia mundi • HMC 901993 (794881868520)“ One of the best recordings of Renaissance art songs… it is practically without compare for sheer polish and simple beauty.”

— AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

“ Scholl’s singing is always a pleasure for its sonic richness and clarity, but he doesn’t stop there. His poetic sensibility and chamber-music skills endear him to connoisseurs, but his musical charm and technical ease exert plenty of power over average listeners.”

— OPERA NEWS

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The cello was Frederic Chopin’s other favorite instrument. He loved for its closeness to the human voice. Chopin took an interest in opera from an early age, becoming what today we would call an ‘opera buff.’ He was familiar with the voices of all the singers of his time, fl irted with the German soprano Henriette Sontag and fell in love with singer Constantia Gladkowska, from whom he penned several superb pieces. When Chopin composed for cello, he heard the voice in its music. Ophelie Gaillard has thus chosen to pay tribute to the poet of the piano through the voice of the cello.

Poulenc composed L’histoire de Babar in 1940. As the story goes, Poulenc was improvising at the piano when his three-year-old cousin Sophie asked him to ‘play’ her book. It was the story of the inimitable little elephant Babar, written and illustrated by Jean de Brunhoff in 1930. Originally for piano and narrator, the work was orchestrated by Jean Françaix and is played here in an arrangement by David Walter. The pairing is Le Vent Tourbillon, (The Whirlwind) Claude Bolling’s musical story describing the history of wind instruments. Both works are delightful and will please music fans of all ages.

POULENCL’histoire de Babar le petit éléphantBOLLINGLe Vent TourbillonPascal Le Guern (narrator), Anne-Elly Tévi (soprano), Orchestre de PicardieCalliope • CAL 9396

CHOPINCello TranscriptionsOphélie Gaillard (cello), Edna Stern (piano)Aparté • AP 003

Chopin’s other favorite instrument

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSDThe latest release in Channel’s ‘First Chairs of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra’ series features Jasper de Waal, who has held the position of fi rst horn with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra since 2004. This fascinating series allows musicians to present their personal calling cards, as it were, with their very own choice of music from their particular instrument’s repertoire. This disc features works for horn in various combinations written by the brothers Franz Josef and Michael Haydn.

Guillaume de Machaut was the most accomplished and versatile composer of the 14th century. The period’s intense melting pot of cultures gave birth to a wealth of new musical and poetic forms. One of the last of the trouvères, Machaut is credited with codifying a form called the lay, a long narrative poem depicting the joys and torments of courtly love. Marc Mauillon’s important new recording for Eloquentia features the premiere complete recording of Machaut’s fi rst lay, Loyauté que point ne delay. Comprising nearly 36 minutes, this is one of the most important and infl uential works of the period.

MACHAUTL’Amoureus TourmentMarc Mauillon (tenor),

Vivabiancaluna Biffi (vielle), Pierre Hamon (fl ute)

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HAYDNHorn Concertos Nos.1 & 2, Divertimento a Tre

HAYDN, M.Romance, Serenade

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The second disc of Stravinsky’s ballet music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov features the composer’s fascinating recreation of the music of Tcha ikovsky and Adam. Stravinsky’s advocation of the-then unfashionable music of

Tchaikovsky was well known: he was a public champion of the composer over the Russian ‘nationalists’ such as Rimsky-Korsakov. In 1928, Stravinsky was commissioned by Ida Rubinstein to compose a ballet based on music by Tchaikovsky. Stravinsky probably envisaged a set of free orchestrations, but the music seems to have taken over and dictated its own terms, with the result that Stravinsky soon found himself entangled in an intricate recreative process, and having to compose day and night to get the work completed in time for the fi rst performance. The result, The Fairy’s Kiss, is a complex and highly original masterpiece that brilliantly challenges our perhaps too comfortable way of listening to late romantic music. Scènes de ballet is in its way another ‘recreation’ — a ballet ‘after Giselle’ written for performance on Broadway in 1944. Stravinsky devised a semi-abstract scenario with vague allusions to Giselle among other nineteenth-century ballets. He then proceeded to compose, as it were, ‘away from’ such models, to the extent that his music constantly suggests their ethos and formulae but always through a neo-classical prism and without direct quotation.

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STRAVINSKYThe Fairy’s Kiss, Scènes de balletBBC Sco� ish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan VolkovHyperion • CDA 67697

Stravinsky’s neo-classical ballets

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Also availableStravinsky: Orpheus, AgonHyperion • CDA 67698 (034571176987)“These performances are about as good as any

you will hear in a long time.”— FANFARE

Described as a jewel in the label’s crown and one of the glories of the recording industry, Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series has reached an amazing milestone: Volume 50. Rarely in the history of recorded music has such a rich seam of undiscovered delights been mined to such consistently dazzling effect. These fi rst fi fty volumes include 131 works for piano and orchestra. Fifty-nine of these are premiere recordings and many others have only been recorded once before. The performers include some of the greatest pianists, orchestras and conductors in the world, and each disc in itself is a miracle of virtuosity, scholarship and musicianship. For volume 50, a typically stellar cast has been assembled for a two-disc set that includes, unusually, one of the most famous concertos in the repertoire. Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 has certainly achieved warhorse status — but in the expert hands of Stephen Hough, it sounds new once again. Recorded live with the Minnesota Orchestra under their acclaimed conductor Osmo Vänskä, this fascinating two-disc, complete survey of Tchaikovsky’s music for piano and orchestra also delves into less well-known music by the famous composer. The result is a release of unique importance: a winning combination of a pianist at the zenith of his artistry, a world-class orchestra and director, a pre-eminent producer and engineer, repertoire both familiar and unknown and packaged with even more than the usual care that customers have come to expect from Hyperion.

Hyperion’s latest piano music gem

Romantic Piano Concerto — Vol.50TCHAIKOVSKY

Piano Concertos Nos.1-3, Concert FantasiaStephen Hough (piano),

Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo VänskäHyperion • CDA 67711

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Also availableRachmaninov: Complete Piano ConcertosHyperion • CDA 67501 (034571175010)“ The best set of Rachmaninov Piano Concertos ever recorded.”

— CLASSICSTODAY.COM

“The epitome of a ‘golden age’ virtuoso

with his balletic elegance and dazzling

rhythmic reflexes.”— THE INDEPENDENT

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Hagai Shaham and Arnon Erez have been enthusiastically acclaimed for their dazzling duo performances. For their latest disc, they turn to two composers who were seminal figures of Eastern European music during the early twentieth century. Dohnányi composed a number of signifi cant pieces for the violin, including two violin concertos. One of his most important chamber works is the Violin Sonata, Op.21, composed in 1912. The work shows his individual development of stylistic traits

of Brahms and Liszt. Also recorded here is Dohnányi’s most overtly folk-infl uenced work, Ruralia hungarica, and a movement from his fi rst Orchestral Suite arranged as a thoroughly idiomatic piece for violin and piano by Jascha Heifetz. In the fi rst days of World War I, Dohnányi’s native Hungary was invaded by the Russian army. This portentous event provided the creative spark for Leos Janácek’s Violin Sonata (his only surviving violin sonata; two very early ones he composed in Dresden and Vienna in 1880 are lost). Other works by Janácek in this recital include early pieces from his student years and an arrangement of the delicate mood study “A blown-away Leaf” from his celebrated piano work, On the Overgrown Path.

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DOHNÁNYIViolin Sonata, Ruralia hungarica, RomanzaJANÁCEKViolin Sonata, Dumka, Romance, Allegro, Lístek odvanutyHagai Shaham (violin), Arnon Erez (piano)Hyperion • CDA 67699

Eastern European chamber music

Also availableWeiner: Violin SonatasHyperion • CDA 67735 (034571177359)“Shaham and Erez make the best possible case

for these pieces, duly wearing hearts on sleeve where appropriate.”

— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

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Stephen Hough joins the celebrations for Chopin’s 200th birthday with a disc containing much of the composer’s most extraordinary music, written in the last years of his life where the expressive possibilities of his art were constantly unfolding and he imbued his favored forms with previously unknown levels of complexity and emotional depth. This disc includes the intoxicatingly ornamented Berceuse Op 57 and the sublime Barcarolle in F sharp major as well as the Polonaise-Fantasy in A fl at major and the towering Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor. Also included are two late Nocturnes that demonstrate how Chopin’s art had evolved since he fi rst composed in that genre in his youth. The program is completed by a selection of Mazurkas, each a tiny jewel, containing no less mastery than their larger counterparts, and providing moving sonic evidence of the contemplative profundity of Chopin’s late style. Stephen Hough’s extraordinarily sensitive playing is informed by his limitless technique and engaging musical imagination.

“To play Chopin with the rhythmic subtlety he requires without it seeming contrived is a rare gift. Stephen Hough has it in abundance.”

— SUNDAY TIMES

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CHOPINLate Masterpieces

Stephen Hough (piano)Hyperion • CDA 67764

Stephen Hough celebrates Chopin

Also availableChopin: BalladesHyperion • CDA 67456 (034571174563)

“This is astonishing piano playing, and Chopin interpretation at its very best.”

— GRAMOPHONE

The Choir of Westminster Abbey under their inspirational director James O’Donnell delve into the Abbey’s vaults for this latest fascinating disc. The triumphant mood of the Restoration required much glorious liturgical music, and the Abbey was home to some of the greatest composers and performers of the age. This recording presents music written for-the Choir of Westminster Abbey during the late 1670s and early 1680s. They sing four canticles from the compendious Service in B fl at by Henry Purcell, together with psalmody in reconstructed contemporary style, and anthems and motets by Purcell and his contemporary John Blow, who famously both preceded and succeeded Purcell as organist of the Abbey.

Although well known and highly regarded in his lifetime and in the years following his death in 1596, the music of Philippe Rogier is largely unknown today. One of a long line of Flemish composers who worked at the Spanish court, Rogier is one of the most fascinating and rewarding composers of the late sixteenth century. The main work on this disc is parody mass Missa Ego sum qui sum, based on a motet by Gombert. It must rank as one of the fi nest settings of the Mass ordinary of the late sixteenth century, dazzling in its invention and sheer beauty. Two twelve-part accompanied motets are also recorded here, pointing to a well-developed polychoral tradition at the Spanish court. The much admired Choir of King’s College London and their director David Trendell appear in their Hyperion debut.

ROGIERMissa ego qui sum, MotetsChoir of King’s College London, English Corne� and Sackbut Ensemble, David TrendellHyperion • CDA 67807

O praise the LordRestoration Music from Westminster AbbeyThe Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell, Robert Quinney (organ)Hyperion • CDA 67792

Choral wonders from the Abbey vaults

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versatile and capable ensemble they are”— BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

Previously Available as CDA 66383 (034571163833) Deleted May 2008“Delightful… played with vivacity and finesse.”

— GRAMOPHONE

ALBINONIOboe Concertos

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Paul Goodwin (oboe), The King’s Consort, Robert King

Hyperion • CDH 55349

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSDFollowing works by Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky, for its fourth release Valery Gergiev’s Mariinsky label turns to music by one of Russia’s greatest living composers. Shchedrin’s concert opera The Enchanted Wanderer was premiered in New York in 2002, but did not receive its Russian premiere until 2007. However it has rapidly entered the Mariinsky Theatre’s repertory both in St. Petersburg and on tour. Based on a story by the 19th-century Russian author Nikolai Leskov, the opera is steeped in Russian folklore and beliefs. The release also features four fragments from Shchedrin’s 1955 ballet score The Little Humpbacked Horse and his 1963 concerto for orchestra entitled Naughty Limericks.

One of Russia’s greatest living composers

SHCHEDRINThe Enchanted Wanderer, Li� le Humpbacked Horse (four fragments), Naughty LimericksKristina Kapustinskaya (mezzo-soprano), Evgeny Akimov (tenor), Sergei Aleksashkin (bass), Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery GergievMariinsky • MAR 0504

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“A tour-de-force of recreative bravado, into which the Mariinsky Orchestra

throws itself with alacrity.”— CLASSSIC FM

“One would be hard pressed to find

a tauter ensemble performing today.”

— MUSICAL CRITICISM

This disc, a collection of live recordings taken from performances at the Royal Festival Hall and the Festival de la Grange de Meslay, provides yet another example of Boris Berezovsky’s stunning virtuosity and musicality. A Liszt recital, the disc features his famous Sonata in B Minor, often considered Liszt’s greatest composition for solo piano. Other works include Harmonies du soir, Venezia e Napoli and the Mephisto Waltz No. 1. Berezovsky closes the disc with one encore, the Chopin Waltz, Op.42.

Charles-Valentin Alkan’s neglected Sonate de concert is the most ambitious work for cello & piano of the Romantic period. Alkan wrote this monumental, virtuosic piece for the great cellist Auguste-Joseph Franchomme. It was for the same musician that Chopin, shortly before his death, composed his Sonata for cello and piano, a crepuscular, tormented work. Cellist Tatjana Vassiljeva and pianist Jean-Frédéric Neuburger provide their own unique perspective on these seminal works.

CHOPINCello Sonata,

Introduction et Polonaise brillanteALKAN

Sonate de concertTatjana Vassiljeva (cello),

Jean-Frédéric Neuburger (piano)Mirare • MIR 107

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Mephisto Waltz No.1, Harmonies du soir; Chopin: Waltz Op.42

Boris Berezovsky (piano)Mirare • MIR 099

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Orange Mountain Music presents a specially-priced sampler that surveys the great variety of Philip Glass’ music drawn from the label’s extensive catalog. This twenty-one track disc presents Glass’ music written for an incredible assortment of media including fi lm (Koyaanisqatsi, The Hours, Dracula, Candyman, The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line), opera (Orphée, Waiting for the Barbarians, The Witches of Venice), concert works (Saxophone Quartet Concerto, Piano Concerto No.2) and much more.

Pianist, percussionist and composer Mick Rossi is known for his diverse and progressive work in the New York music scene. Recent recordings include They Have A Word For Everything (Knitting Factory) and One Block From Planet Earth (OmniTone). Rossi was also nominated for a GRAMMY® in 1998. His ninth recording, Songs From The Broken Land, is a collection of compositions and improvisations for solo piano. Rossi is a long-time member of the Philip Glass Ensemble and frequently tours as both a soloist and a member of the Philip Glass Ensemble and the Philip Glass Trio.

ROSSI, M.Songs from the Broken LandMick RossiOrange Mountain • OMM 7003

GLASSOrange Mountain Music Philip Glass SamplerVarious ArtistsOrange Mountain • OMM 0064

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Itaipu is a large-scale work for orchestra and chorus composed by Philip Glass for the Atlanta Symphony and was premiered there under the baton of Robert Shaw in 1989. Orange Mountain Music presents this re-mastered recording of the work (originally released on RCM) featuring the renowned Los Angeles Master Chorale under the direction of Grant Gershon. Itaipu, a symphonic portrait for chorus and orchestra, was inspired by the giant hydro-electric dam in Brazil and is part of a series of the composer’s works involving depictions of man’s relationship to nature. The libretto is taken from the creation myth of the Guarani, and is sung in the Guarani language. The album is rounded out by the Crouch End Festival Chorus performing Philip Glass’ Three Songs for Choir a Cappella (originally issued on Silva Screen) set to texts by Leonard Cohen, Raymond Levesque and Octavio Paz.

“Glass at his best, is second to none.”— ROLLING STONE

Glass choral musicGLASS

Itaipu, Three Songs for Choir a CapellaLos Angeles Master Chorale,

Grant Gershon; Crouch End Festival Chorus, David Temple

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Also availableGlass: Symphony No.7Orange Mountain Music • OMM 0061 (801837006124)“ Glass does not simply go through the motions here: the work plumbs great depths…and scales vast heights.”

— GRAMOPHONE

“ Glass does not simply go through the

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Testament presents three further offerings in their series of reissues featuring the great conductor Carlo Maria Giulini. As before, the recordings are live performances of complete concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic, made in the sixties and seventies, at the height of Giulini’s powers. Repertoire ranges in periods from Renaissance (!) to modern, and features some of the fi nest soloists of the day. The Rossini Stabat Mater is of particular interest, and is offered at a special “2 for 1” price. A reviewer for Die Welt said of Giulini’s performance, “Giulini’s interpretation was reverent and dignifi ed without, however, making the charm of the work descend to the religious profundities that are only served up in the North.”

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First premiered in 1882, Wagner’s last music-drama, Parsifal, was performed at Covent Garden for the fi rst time in 1951. The opera still had a reputation, separate from Wagner’s other works, of being pretentious, religiose and above all, slow. Then in 1952 Decca published the fi rst complete recording made at performances given the year before at the reopening of the Bayreuth Festival under Hans Knappertsbusch. That recording made an immense impression, partly because the sound was so staggering, and partly because Parsifal revealed itself to its many skeptics as a work of overwhelming beauty, depth and humanity. This Covent Garden recording featuring Rudolf Kempe follows on Testament’s notable release of the conductor’s Ring from 1957. Made two years later and featuring a solid cast of soloists, this probing reading will be a must-have for Wagner enthusiasts.

Kempe’s Wagner from Covent Garden

WAGNERParsifal

Gerda Lammers (soprano), Karl Liebl (tenor), Eberhard Wächter (baritone),

Go� lob Frick (bass), Covent Garden Opera Chorus,

Covent Garden Orchestra, Rudolf KempeTestament • SBT4 1455

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Also availableWagner: Der Ring des NibelungenTestament • SBT13 1426 (749677142629)

“This Ring resounds with conviction.”— OPERA NEWS

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On her fourth album, Leva-me aos fados (Take Me to a Fado House), youthful Portuguese fadista Ana Moura reaches new heights of vocal mastery while, as is typical of this gracefully mournful, all-acoustic tradition, plunging to the depths of romantic disillusionment and unfulfi l led sexual longing. Interpreting songs by longtime collaborator Jorge Fernando, who produced and sat in on guitar, plus other noted composers, Moura’s rich, exquisitely bittersweet alto is breathtaking in its womanly, aching vulnerability. She negotiates sinuous, Moorish-infl ected wails and breathes poignancy into every melody, wringing every possible tear-drop from lyrics where even the occasional faint silver lining can cut to the bone. Whether facing down a triumphant rival (“Caso Arrumado” – A Settled Affair), dodging doom-infl ected omens (“Como uma nuvem no céu” – Like A Cloud In The Sky), or weeping in solitude at day’s end (“A Penumbra” – Dusk), Moura communicates world-weary, indomitable courage spiced with a risqué tang of dark passion that “hurts so good.”

“Her supple, dusky alto is an enviable meeting of sensuality and dulcet clarity, while her grasp of this time-honored genre belies her relative youth.”

— BILLBOARD

Leva-me aos fadosAna Moura

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Also availableGuarda-me a vida na mãoWorld Village • 468038 (713746803827)“ An alluring hypnotic adventure.”— AMAZON.COM

AconteceuWorld Village • 468053 (713746805326)“ A sparkling record... the voice truly aches.”— SING OUT!

Para além da saudadeWorld Village • 468072 (713746807221)“ Another triumph… powerfully emotional.”— CD HOTLIST

World Village • 468038 (713746803827)

AconteceuWorld Village • 468053 (713746805326)“ A sparkling

world village

File In: World / MexicoFor over a decade, acclaimed Mexican-American singer Lila Downs has traveled the world, performing her dramatic and highly unique reinvention of traditional music alongside original compositions fused with blues, jazz, soul and African roots. Lila Downs y La Misteriosa en Paris — Live à FIP is her fi rst live recording, recorded in May, 2009 at Radio France Studio 105. Downs is well-known for

her texturally rich and diverse recordings, as well as highly dynamic live performances. The album seamlessly delivers the best of both worlds, brilliantly capturing the exuberant energy of Downs’ and her band’s performances, weaving in traditional instruments such as accordion, harp, clarinet and trombone with driving bass and drums, electric guitar and infectious Latin percussion. The fi fteen tracks on this powerful new World Village CD span six albums, from 1999’s La Sandunga to 2008’s Shake Away. From the carnival like atmosphere of “Perro Negro” or the rootsy blues of “Minimum Wage,” to traditional Mexican songs that audiences have come to love such as “Paloma Negra,” few artists can successfully navigate the terrain of such seemingly disparate music. But Downs always seems to get to the core of it, making it her own and bringing the audience along for an emotional and memorable ride.

“Whatever Lila Downs touches turns to art.”— LA WEEKLY

“There is no doubt that she has earned her supreme confidence and reinvigorated the place in Mexican music where popular and traditional sounds collide. Downs is getting

better and better — and probably nowhere near the peak of her powers yet.”— THE WASHINGTON POST

Lila Downs live in ParisLila Downs y La Misteriosa en Paris — Live à FIPLila DownsWorld Village • 479027

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File In: World / Asia / IndiaIndian classical music legend Vishwa Mohan Bhatt has mesmerized the world with his dazzling musicality, virtuosity and astonishing command of the Mohan Veena (an instrument he designed — a modified and Easternized slide guitar). Bhatt is

best known in the US for his GRAMMY® award winning album A Meeting by the River, which he made with guitar great Ry Cooder. Guitarist Matt Malley is an Oscar®, GRAMMY® and Golden Globe® nominated songwriter who co-founded the multi-platinum rock group Counting Crows. Malley is also a big fan of North Indian classical music and a friend and student of Bhatt. When chance brings them together, either Malley is taking lessons from his “music guru” at Bhatt’s home in Jaipur, India, or he is recording with Bhatt in his home studio in Thousand Oaks, California. Speaking about Sleepless Nights, their new album for World Village, Bhatt says, “In my view, music is the melody for life. The seven musical notes carry all the diverse shades of love and this musical album is an endeavor to spread the message of love and harmony all over the world. In the contemporary world, love is the only emotion which needs to be experienced and appreciated, and Sleepless Nights, propagates this sacred emotion.” Malley adds, “I hope that our record will put at least one more brick in the bridge between the East, West and all races of the world.”

“[Bhatt is] one of the greatest and most expressive slides players in the world.”— ACOUSTIC GUITAR MAGAZINE

Sleepless NightsVishwa Mohan Bha� , Ma� MalleyWorld Village • 468097

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File In: World / Asia / IndiaEast Meets West Music’s inaugural release, Nine Decades — Vol.1, is the fi rst in a multi-volume series that will feature rare and never-before released recordings, hand-picked by the legendary Ravi Shankar from his vast archive. With live performances and studio recordings pivotal to his development as an artist and refl ective of unique times and places, the Nine Decades series will provide fresh insights on a career spanning 70-plus years and offer a direct bridge between the artist himself and his listeners. “Raga Gangeshwari,” the centerpiece of volume one, takes listeners to an outdoor concert at a temple on the banks of the Ganges in 1968. Though recorded with one hand-held microphone, “Raga Gangeshwari” is representative of the archive’s many treasures which the artist describes as, “not recorded with sophisticated audio equipment and yet they exhibit the power of life in live performance that has a value beyond any technological shortcomings.” The intimate quality of the recording and virtuosic playing allows listeners to experience a page from the artist’s diary circa 1968. Performed with Kamala Chakravarty on tanpura and the great Ustad Allah Rakha on tabla. East Meets West Music is the offi cial recording label of the Ravi Shankar Foundation.

“Ravi Shankar is the godfather of world music.”— GEORGE HARRISON

“One of my great heroes.”— ERIC CLAPTON

“The greatest musician of India.”— ZUBIN MEHTA

A new label celebrating the genius of Ravi Shankar

Nine Decades — Vol.1Ravi Shankar

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File In: World / Africa / MaliImidiwan: Companions Tinariwen’s fourth release for World Village and it possesses all the elements that have made them so magnetic to western ears: raw simplicity, melodic beauty and songs ranging from the epic and universal to the intimate and personal. The album was recorded in Malian village of Tessalit, home of band members Ibrahim Ag Alhabib and Hassan Ag Touhami. Already a certifi ed bestseller, Imidiwan: Companions is now being issued as a limited-edition, single-pressing LP.

Tinariwen on limited-edition vinyl

Imidiwan: CompanionsTinariwenIndependiente • ISOM 78 LP

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Also availableAman ImanWorld Village • 468067 (713746806729)

“A tangle of sidewinding riffs that sound like a mirage come true.”

— ROLLING STONE

File In: World / Africa / Cape VerdeRadio Mindelo features Cesaria Evora’s long-lost radio recordings from the 1960s, made by the Cape Verdean station Radio Barlavento. These twenty-two tracks document the fi rst tentative steps in the barefoot diva’s long and distinguished career. Listen to Radio Mindelo and you will discover the voice of Evora’s youth, a voice in which you will recognize the same phrasing, the same intonations and the same serenity it has today. However, the rough production quality of the original tapes and the spontaneity of the songs create a special feeling of discovery, of hearing the sound of a legend before the legend existed.

Cesaria Evora’s

Radio MindeloCesaria Evora

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“Enchanting.”— THE WASHINGTON POST

“ Her nonchalant, husky melancholy is magnificent.”— SONGLINES

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Lusafrica • 462962

The Spirit & Soul of Cabo VerdeVarious ArtistsLusafrica • 462862

Sample the music of Cape Verde

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File In: World / Africa / Cape VerdeThese two, comprehensive double-CD sets sample the full range of music from Cape Verde, both vocal and instrumental, and offer fantastic performances from a vast array of the country’s incredible recording artists. Over its 34 tracks, The Spirit & Soul of Cabo Verde features the inimitable music of world-renowned artists such as Cesaria Evora, Teofi lo Chantre, Bau, Simentera, Fantcha and Ildo Lobo. Similarly, the 35 tracks of Cabo Verde Instrumental explore the rich tradition of instrumental music on the islands with offerings from Luis Morais, Totinho, Voz de Cabo Verde, Humbertona and many more. The deluxe, long-box packaging includes extensive liner notes.

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Une Anthologie des Musiques TraditionnellesVarious Artists

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File In: World / Europe / FranceThis specially-priced release from Frémeaux & Associés is fi rst-ever comprehensive anthology representing the rich and complex cultural heritage of French traditional music. This 10 volume compilation, featuring nearly 300 tracks, provides the listener a complete ethnomusicological panorama of the musical culture of France. The individual titles (recorded between 1900 and 2006) reveal the timeless and lasting nature of a collective memory reaching across whole generations, a memory which, in these times of globalization and uniformity, asserts the diversity of the heritage left to us by popular art-forms.

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File In: World / Europe / FranceThis fascinating collection of French swing waltz and Manouche styles bridges the gap between jazz and world music, with a track list that plays like a soundtrack for a stylish Parisian café or a period film. Featuring a wide selection of some artists including Marcel Azzola, Minvielle, Richard Galliano, Jo Privat, Marc Perrone, André Minvielle and Didier Roussin, this disc from the enterprising company Frémeaux & Associés assembles the perfect playlist of charming, accordion-fueled music so identifi ed with the unrivaled romantic aura of Paris.

File In: World / CanadaThis record represents an excerpt from Frémeaux’s complete anthology of French traditional music (see p.31). Focusing on the contribution of French Canadians to the rich tapestry of French culture as a whole, this disc offers a fascinating study of how traditions are preserved and adapted by immigrants. The disc also features tracks from Wisconsin, Maine and Louisiana.

Francais d’Amerique — Canada 1928-2004Various ArtistsFrémeaux & Associés • FA 5270

Paris Muse� eVarious ArtistsFrémeaux & Associés • LLL 137

The romance of French café music

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File In: World / Caribbean / GuadeloupeFrémeaux’s Album d’Or de la Biguine has had considerable success throughout the Caribbean thanks to its selection of dance-music from Guadeloupe. Its recordings of this important folkloric heritage used sixties- & early seventies- era studio technology that was quite superior to the material used to produce the 78’s of previous decades. As a result, the record has already become a cult biguine-album for a new generation.

File In: World / Asia / IndiaThe hymns to Shiva heard on this recording, typically performed by the oduvar cantors, are sung at daily rituals and for calendar feasts in temples of Tamil Nad. Based on the raga and pan, these short hymns are sung for the pleasure of the faithful and the gods. Ocora has done their usual stellar job of collecting the best recordings possible in an effort to preserve musical traditions that in some cases date back centuries.

Flowers & Ashes — Hymns to ShivaVarious Artists

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Album d’Or de la BiguineOrchestre de Biguine, et al.

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The best in traditional music

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File In: JazzA serene and warm feeling of beauty takes hold while listening to the Moutin Reunion Quartet’s new disc, Soul Dancers. The band plays with such effortless intensity that the listener will feel enveloped by their unique and rich musical universe. The disc’s tracks are of such uniform high quality that you will be driven to play it again as soon as its last notes fade. The group is on tour in the US from April 26 through May 5 in support of their new album.

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File In: JazzThese discs feature two of the most talented and highly respected guitarists of the Manouche tradition today. Tchavolo Schmitt is one of the fastest rising stars of Gypsy jazz and is considered by his peers to be a highly influential performer. This new live album offers a chance for the listener to experience the unique frisson that can only

Gipsy UnityAngelo DebarreChant du Monde • 2741772

Live In ParisTchavolo Schmi�

Chant du Monde • 2741741

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be experienced hearing an artist in person. Angelo Debarre’s new album Gipsy Unity features many original compositions including the title track, written as a tribute to the wildly exuberant energy of Gypsy music. As a whole, the album aptly showcases the rich diversity of his instrumental range.

File In: JazzRevered jazz vocalist Catherine Russell’s third album for World Village, Inside This Heart of Mine , showcases the ever-deepening interpretive wiles of her ripe, honey-dipped alto, as she personifies the living heart and proud history of each of the thirteen songs that make up this set. Opening with the title tune, a Fats Waller torcher that paces like a disappointed lover pulling an all-nighter, she then launches into “All The Cats Join In,” a sepia-tone snapshot from the heyday of 1940s swing. On “Troubled Waters,” she is a misunderstood but undeniably shady lady, her musky musings shadowed by a scorching muted trumpet and speaking solo piano that abet — and perhaps contradict — her hopes of redemption. “November,” a lyrical, poetic vignette, likens the dark turn of the year to loneliness and heartbreak, while a plangent banjo and rueful fiddle mark “Just Because You Can,” in which a man is warned to straighten up or deal with the consequences. Whether demanding stamina from lover (“Long, Strong and Consecutive”), playfully bemoaning the evils of the demon alcohol (“Quiet Whiskey”), or celebrating New Orleans-style swagger (“Struttin’ With Some Barbeque”), Russell is never less than achingly feminine, impassioned, genuine, vulnerable — and utterly indomitable.

“A masterful singer who knows how to inject her own personality into the heart of a great song.”

— THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Masterful jazz vocalsInside This Heart of Mine

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Also availableCatWorld Village • 468063 (713746806323)

“Incredibly talented and classy.”

— THE VILLAGE VOICE

Sentimental StreakWorld Village • 468075 (713746807528)

“[She] could melt the ice in a bourbon on the rocks.”— THE BOSTON GLOBE

File In: JazzLegendary underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and guitarist Dominique Cravic founded Les Primitifs du Futur in 1986 craving real Parisian musette instead of poor imitations heard in variety shows. Sounding like they’ve stepped right out the ‘30s, the members of Les Primitifs du Futur brilliantly blend world-musette and Django-style guitar into old-fashioned originals. With their three albums, including Trop de Routes, Trop de Trains, the band remains at the forefront of the renaissance of “chanson française” manifestly occurring in France today. The band is currently on tour in the US.

SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSDFile In: JazzLou Donaldson’s undisputed masterpiece, Blues Walk, marks the point where the altoist began to decisively modify his heavy Charlie Parker infl uence and add a smoky, bluesy fl avor of his own. The material is still fi rmly in the bebop style, and the mellower moments aren’t as sleepy as some of Donaldson’s subsequent work, so the album sounds vital and distinctive even as it slows down and loosens things up. APO’s new SACD version of this classic adds a new dimension of sonic depth.

Blues WalkLou DonaldsonAPO • CBNJ 81593 SA

Trop de Routes, Trop de TrainsLes Primitifs du FuturFrémeaux & Associés • LLL 247

Antiquarian Funk

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSDFile in: SoundtrackThe music on the sound track to The Hot Spot is an amalgam of swampy blues, jazz and rock. This recording is of incredibly high quality, and the musicians aboard on this Dennis Hopper fi lm read like a who’s who, including Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Taj Mahal, Roy Rodgers, Earl Palmer and Tim Drummond. This album has long been a highly sought after and collectible record among audiophiles. Originally released in 1990, this SACD is a true demonstration disc.

SACD Hybrid/ Stereo / DSDFile in: RockWhen Peter Frampton left Humble Pie, the band he co-founded, the group replaced him with fi reball guitarist Clem Clemson. And Humble Pie grew a whole lot more raucous, more freewheeling and downright greasy. Their third album, the fi rst with Clemson, is unquestionably their greatest, with Steve Marriott’s soulful wail totally unleashed. Smokin’ yielded the group’s most memorable anthem — “30 Days In The Hole.”

Smokin’Humble Pie

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John Lee Hooker, Miles DavisAPO • CAPB 8755 SA

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Anonymous 4 harmonia mundi Apr 9 Memphis TN Buckman Performing Arts CenterApr 10 Brevard NC Brevard College

Concerto Köln harmonia mundi May 1 Berkeley CA First Congregational ChurchMay 5 San Diego CA Irwin M. Jacobs Qualcomm Hall

Colin Currie Onyx Classics Apr 8-10 Baltimore MD Meyerhoff Apr 23-24 Salt Lake City UT Abravanel HallMay 22 Troy NY EMPAC

James Ehnes Onyx Classics Apr 8, 10, 11 Houston TX Jones HallApr 29 - May 2 Dallas TX The Meyerson Symphony CenterJun 10-13 San Francisco CA Davies Symphony Hall

Valery Gergiev LSO Live Apr 21-24, 27-30 New York NY Avery Fisher HallMay 1-2, 5-8 New York NY Avery Fisher Hall

Ma� hias Goerne; Christine Schäfer harmonia mundi Apr 29 - May 1 San Francisco CA Davies Symphony HallSusan Graham Onyx Classics Apr 29 Houston TX Brown Theater

May 1, 4, 7, 10 Houston TX Brown TheaterJun 3-5 New York NY Avery Fischer Hall

Bernard Haitink LSO Live Apr 22, 23, 24, 27, 29, 30 Boston MA Symphony HallMay 1 Boston MA Symphony Hall

Marc-André Hamelin Hyperion Apr 13, 15-17 Boston MA Symphony HallApr 21-24 San Francisco CA Davies Symphony HallMay 7-8 Indianapolis IN Hilbert Circle TheatreMay 20-22 Minneapolis MN Orchestra Hall

Stephen Hough Hyperion Apr 9 Pi¤ sburgh PA Heinz HallApr 10 Morgantown WV Lyell B. Clay Concert Hall TheaterApr 11 Pi¤ sburgh PA Heinz HallMay 13-16 Atlanta GA Atlanta Symphony Hall

Marielle & Katia Labèque KML Recordings Jul 20, 22 Los Angeles CA Hollywood BowlDejan Lazic Channel Classics Apr 16-17 Indianapolis IN Hilbert Circle Theatre

Apr 29 Sea¤ le WA S. Mark Taper Foundation AuditoriumMay 1-2 Sea¤ le WA S. Mark Taper Foundation AuditoriumMay 13-15 Costa Mesa CA Segerstrom Concert Hall

Nikolai Lugansky Onyx Classics May 23 New York NY Grace Rainey Rogers AuditoriumMay 27-29 Philadelphia PA Verizon Hall

Jon Manasse; Jon Nakamatsu harmonia mundi Apr 13 Forth Worth TX Bass HallApr 30 Richardson TX St. Barnabas Presbyterian ChurchMay 5 Providence RI Brown University: Alumnae Hall

Andrew Manze harmonia mundi May 6, 8 Sea¤ le WA S. Mark Taper Foundation AuditoriumAnthony Marwood Hyperion Apr 8-10 Los Angeles CA Walt Disney Concert HallJon Nakamatsu harmonia mundi Apr 4-8 New York NY Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival

Apr 11 San Jose CA Le Petit Trianon TheatreApr 18 Burlingame CA Kohl MansionApr 22 Hilo HI University of Hawaii Hilo Performing Arts CenterMay 13-15 Sea¤ le WA S. Mark Taper Foundation AuditoriumMay 17 Olympia WA Governor's MansionMay 23 Rochester NY Rochester UnitarianJun 5 San Francisco CA Florence Gould Theatre

Garrick Ohlsson Hyperion May 13-15 San Francisco CA Davies Symphony HallMaxim Rysanov Onyx Classics Jul 9-10 Wilson WI Grand Teton Music FestivalJordi Savall Alia Vox May 2 New York NY The Allen Room

May 3 New York NY Rose TheaterYeol Eum Son harmonia mundi Apr 6 New Orleans LA Univ. of New Orleans: Performing Arts Ctr Recital Hall

Apr 10 Poughkeepsie PA BardavonApr 16 Fairfi eld IA Sondheim CenterApr 18 Cedar Falls IA Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts CenterApr 23 Huntsville AL The Trinity United Methodist ChurchMay 8 Ventura CA Ventura Music Festival

Takács Quartet Hyperion Apr 11 Pasadena CA Beckman AuditoriumApr 16 North Bethesda MD The Music Center at StrathmoreApr 18 New York NY Zankel Hall

Tokyo String Quartet harmonia mundi May 14 San Francisco CA Herbst TheatreNobuyuki Tsujii harmonia mundi Apr 18 Indianapolis IN Indiana History Center

Apr 24 Huntsville AL Trinity United Methodist ChurchApr 29 Germantown TN Germantown Performing Arts CentreMay 1 Washington DC Kennedy Center Terrace TheaterJun 3 Highland Park IL Ravinia Festival

Pieter Wispelwey; Paolo Giacome� i Onyx Classics Apr 17 Richmond VA Singleton Center for the Performing ArtsApr 19 Santa Fe NM St. Francis Auditorium

Haochen Zhang harmonia mundi Apr 20 Bridgewater VA Bridgewater College Apr 22 Wilmington NC Kenan AuditoriumApr 24 Huntsville AL Trinity United Methodist ChurchApr 25 Athens GA University of GeorgiaApr 27 Concord NH Capitol Center for the ArtsMay 8 Kenne¤ Square PA Longwood Gardens May 23 La Jolla CA Neuroscience Institute

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C.J. Chenier World Village May 1 Port Arthur TX Spring FestMay 6 Houston TX Discover Green Concert SeriesMay 30 Rehoboth MA 3rd Annual Bayou & Boogie FestJun 12 Bath ME Chocolate Church Arts CenterJun 15 Ridgefi eld CT Ballard ParkJul 2-3 Lake Placid NY I Love Barbecue FestivalJul 24 Lake Harmony PA Poconos Blues FestivalSep 4-5 Charlestown RI Rhythm & Roots Festival: Ninigret ParkJan 29 Mt. Pleasant MI Central Michigan University: Finch Field House

Lila Downs World Village Apr 15 Bronx NY Casita Maria Center for Arts EducationApr 17-18 New York NY City WineryApr 23 Tucson AZ TCC ArenaApr 30 Chicago IL House of BluesMay 1 St. Louis MO America's CenterJul 31 San Francisco CA Yerba Buena GardensOct 13 Chicago IL Symphony HallNov 6 Sea¤ le WA Moore TheatreNov 10 Los Angeles CA Walt Disney Concert Hall

Shujaat Husain Khan World Village May 1 New York NY Peter Norton Symphony SpaceKlezmatics Piranha Apr 24 Tarrytown NY Tarrytown Music Hall

May 6 Bethesda MD Strathmore Music Center, GazeboMay 8 Hampton VA American Theatre

Les Primitifs du Futur Frémeaux & Associés Apr 24-25 Raleigh NC Museum of ArtsApr 29 Columbus OH Wexner Center for the ArtsMay 1 Minneapolis MN Cedar Cultural CenterMay 2 Chicago IL Old Town School of Folk Music

Gary Lucas World Village Apr 2 Brooklyn NY BAM CafeApr 9 Boston MA The Magic Room at the Sound MuseumMay 4 New York NY The Stone

Ali Akbar Moradi World Village Apr 9 New York NY Symphony SpaceAna Moura World Village Apr 17 Boston MA Berklee Performance Center

Apr 18 New York NY Symphony Space: Peter Jay Sharp TheatreApr 20 Las Cruces NM Rio Grande TheatreApr 22 Los Angeles CA Skirball CenterApr 23 Modesto CA Mary Stuart Rogers TheaterApr 24 San Francisco CA Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

Christopher O'Riley World Village Apr 9 Irvine CA Irvine Barclay TheatreOmara Portuondo World Village Jun 27 Los Angeles CA Hollywood BowlCatherine Russell World Village Apr 10 Madison NJ Mohonk Mountain House

Apr 12 New York NY Dizzy's Club Coca-ColaApr 15 Boston MA Scullers Jazz ClubApr 16 Fall River MA Narrows Center for the ArtsMay 6 Albany NY The EggMay 21 Washington DC The Kennedy Center: Terrace TheaterMay 22 Arden DE Arden Gild Hall

Omar Sosa Otá Apr 10 Fort Lauderdale FL Miniaci Center for the Performing ArtsApr 11 Vienna VA Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing ArtsApr 12-13 Minneapolis MN Dakota JazzApr 14 Golden CO Mount Vernon Country ClubApr 15 Albuquerque NM Outpost Performance SpaceApr 16-18 Oakland CA Yoshi'sApr 21 Cleveland OH Tri-C Jazz FestivalApr 23 Detroit MI Detroit Institute of Art

Tinariwen World Village Jun 13 Manchester NY Bonnaroo Music FestivalJun 17-19 Chicago IL Millennium ParkJun 20 Los Angeles CA Hollywood BowlJun 26 New York NY Central Park Summerstage

Marta Topferova World Village Apr 17 Cape May NJ Cape May Jazz Festival

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