harmonia mundi usa • new releases December 2009

The Matthias Goerne Schubert Edition p.5

DECEMBER 8, 2009 NEW RELEASES

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CLASSICALharmonia mundi . . . . . . . . . . . Page 3Alia Vox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 6Ambronay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 7APR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 7Caliope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 8Channel Classics . . . . . . . . . . . Page 9ClassicPrint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 10Eloquentia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 11First Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 12Opella Nova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 13Praga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 14Tahra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 15Wergo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 15

CONCERT CALENDAR Page 22

POPULARSoundtrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 16World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 17CONCERT CALENDAR . .Page 39

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Ludovico Einaudi describes his latest CD, Nightbook, as something transitional between light and darkness, between the known and the unknown. Gradually composed while Einaudi was on tour around the world, this new album comes three years after the international success of the previous work, Divenire. Whereas one might term Divenire an album that evokes movement toward the world outside, Nightbook opens a new gate on the world within. Recorded in Milan and at the Planet Roc studios in Berlin, the album also features cellist Marco Decimo, viola-player Antonio Leofreddi and Robert Lippok.

e OPERA NEWS AWARDS celebrate the distinguished achievements of ve of opera’s best and brightest. e 2009 honorees include Gerald Finley (Hyperion), Philip Glass (Orange Mountain) and Joyce Didonato (Eloquentia).

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Tinariwen will tour the US and Canada in February and March to support the release of their fourth album. Imidiwan: Companions has already been embraced by critics across the globe.

eMusic says it’s “rock at its most primal and basic: raw, passionate, and brutal, the music of hardship and survival,” while Entertainment Weekly calls it a “windswept synthesis that has

nally given the wandering Tuareg people a voice in concert halls and cafes from here to Timbuktu.” For more information see the concert calendar (p.17).

Tinariwen returns to North America in Spring 2010

Einaudi’s atmospheric Nightbook

Street Date: December 8, 2009

OPERA NEWS AWARDS honor harmonia mundi distributed artists

New this month on the harmonia mundi label are a disc of Schumann Lieder with the remarkable mezzo Bernarda Fink (p.4) and Heliopolis, the fourth volume in Matthias Goerne’s award-winning Schubert Edition, which also includes a bonus “making of” DVD (p.5). Alia Vox presents Arianna Savall’s Peiwoh, the second solo album by the talented soprano and harpist (p.6). New label ClassicPrint features a fascinating BBC documentary DVD entitled Mendelssohn, the Nazis & Me (p.10), and new label Opella Nova delivers Handel in the Playhouse with L’Avventura London (p.13). From First Hand comes the Complete HMV Stereo Recordings of the London Mozart Players in celebration of the group’s 60th anniversary (p.12). On the non-classical front, Asphalt Tango shakes things up with Mahala Rai Banda’s Ghetto Blasters (p.20), a mix of Romanian musical traditions, oriental pop, rumba Catalan and Roma pop. On World Village, Czech-born Latin-American artist Marta Topferova delights with silky hypnotic vocals and crisp cuatro and guitar playing on Trova (p.21).

Previously Available as HMX 2907109 (093046610920) Deleted July 2009“ True love may exist only outside of marriage, and a man must subject himself totally to the will of his beloved, whether or not her requests seem rational.” If you think these ideas strange, be glad you weren’t looking for love in France in the Middle Ages. These precepts course through the lyrics of the 13th century French motets that are featured on this exceptional recording by Anonymous 4. The group performs works found in a manuscript known as the Montpellier Codex. These polyphonic works often use texts in striking ways, such as when a love song, a diatribe against hypocrisy and a rousing drinking song are sung simultaneously. This highly successful follow-up to An English Ladymass has been an Anonymous 4 catalog favorite since its original release 15 years ago. The full-price version has been restored to the catalog to replace the Catalog-CD, which has been discontinued.

A perennial favorite returns to the catalog

Love’s IllusionAnonymous 4harmonia mundi • HMU 907109 Aa93046c&!)(@\R

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Recent mid-price releaseFour Centuries of Chantharmonia mundi • HMX 2907546 (093046754624)

“A tapestry of musical variety... ranging from startling harmonic juxtapositions to the gentle alternation

of voices. A tantalizing glimpse of thirteenth-century France.”

— THE NEW YORKER

“I would like to sing myself to death like a nightingale,” wrote Schumann in 1840, revealing a sudden passion for the lied, a genre he had hitherto disdained. His deeply romantic song cycles disclose in the piano part what the words do not express, to the point where he completely dissolves the traditional forms of versifi cation. Written in 1852, Die Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart, songs set to poems attributed to Mary, Queen of Scots, stands out for its austerity and exceptional concentration of resources. It was the last song cycle Schumann composed and it epitomized the fateful gloom that was a hallmark of his declining years. Most of the poetry set in these cycles was a fabrication, pure and simple, born of sentimental imagination. In treating these texts, Schumann must have hoped to capture the large contemporary audience attracted to such tales.

Bernarda Fink sings Schumann’s last songs

SCHUMANNLiederBernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Spiri (piano)harmonia mundi • HMC 902031

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Also available with Bernarda FinkSchubert: Liederharmonia mundi • HMC 901991 (794881890828)“Moments like this are what people talk about when using words such as ‘vocal genius.’”— PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

“Fink’s rich, warm voice boasts the perfect blend of colour

and clarity.”— THE OBSERVER

Brahms: Liederharmonia mundi • HMC 901926 (794881832927)

“This is a treasure for all lovers of Brahms and singing.”— CLASSICS TODAY

harmonia mundi • HMC 901926 (794881832927)

Goerne’s Schubert cycle continues

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Includes Bonus DVDDuring his career, Franz Schubert wrote over six hundred songs to texts by over one hundred and fi fty different poets. However, more remarkable than his prolifi c output was his exceptional skill. The lied had previously been the province of amateurs — a genre for composers and performers of modest means and limited ambition. Schubert elevated the lied to the status of art through his extraordinary musical and poetic sensitivity. Heliopolis is the fourth volume of harmonia mundi’s Matthias Goerne Schubert Edition, a series that has already created quite a stir, garnering a Gramophone Editor’s Choice and a Choc du Monde de la Musique, among other awards. The release is further augmented by a free DVD about the making of this recording.

“The most intellectually and vocally gifted male art-song interpreter of his generation.”

— PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Also available in the seriesSchubert: Sehnsuchtharmonia mundi • HMC 901988 (794881868223)

Schubert: An mein Herzharmonia mundi • HMC 902004 (794881892822)

Schubert: Die schone Mullerinharmonia mundi • HMC 901995 (794881911127)

Schubert: Die schone Mullerinharmonia mundi • HMC 901995 (794881911127)

SCHUBERTHeliopolis

Ma� hias Goerne Schubert Edition Vol.4Ma� hias Goerne (baritone),

Ingo Metzmacher (piano)harmonia mundi • HMC 902035

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Peiwoh is the long-awaited second solo album by the extraordinary singer/harpist Arianna Savall. Both the music and the repertoire of Peiwoh expand greatly on her debut album Bella Terra. Here, the music is performed by a unique nine-piece ensemble including brother Ferran Savall on vocals and theorbo. The album’s theme is based on the taoist tale of Prince Peiwoh, who played a magical harp whose stubborn spirit could only be tamed but by the greatest of musicians. This album, like so many on the Alia Vox label, represents a seamless blending of various traditions from east and west, classical and world. Arianna Savall plays a variety of instruments ranging from the small Gothic harp to the majestic Celtic harp.

The wondrous harp of Arianna Savall

PeiwohArianna Savall (harp)

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of varied expression and nuance...”— CLASSICS TODAY

Bella TerraAlia Vox • AV 9833 (7619986098333)

“ Arianna marries grace, childlike innocence and simplicity while performing complex music. She makes it all seem effortless; leaving her listeners breathless from the sheer beauty of these 12 songs…” — WORLD MUSIC CENTRAL

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This disc explores the oldest existing polyphonic music of medieval Europe, coming from 10th century Winchester England and Fleury sur Loire during the period of the famous monk Saint Abbo, considered by scholars to be ‘the most cultivated man of his times.’ Notated in a very complex system of neumes that allow several possibilities for reconstruction, these rich polyphonies would normally have been condemned to oblivion because of the impossibility of fi nding a unique solution for their deciphering. For this recording, Dialogos worked with Susan Rankin of Cambridge University, the principal international specialist in Winchester polyphony. The four singers create a powerful ambiance of words and sounds, in which 10th century music dialogues entwine with improvisations in the style of the medieval cantors whom Abbo might have heard in his own abbey.

Michael Zadora is one of the most obscure pianists to have recorded prolifi cally in the 78rpm era. Only a handful of 78s have ever been reissued and no LP or CD has ever been devoted to him. It would appear that his concert career was also not particularly high profi le, yet from these recordings it seems he was a very signifi cant artist. Zadora, a disciple of Busoni, seems to have been a rather reserved character, much more an intellectual than someone who enjoyed public performance and it is likely that family wealth allowed him the luxury of not have to pursue his career too aggressively. On the other hand, studio recording suited him very well indeed and he seems equally at home in the standard repertoire and in more rarefi ed material. Of particular interest are Zadora’s own unusual transcriptions and also the works of ‘Pietro Amadis’ who was actually a pseudonym of the pianist.

Michael Zadora - The Complete Recordings, 1922-1938

Michael Zadora (piano)APR • APR 6008

Abbo AbbasDialogos, Katarina Livljanik

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Dialogos explores early polyphony

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The guitar works of Heitor Villa-Lobos form only a small part of the composer’s overall output of more than a thousand works. However, they clearly and delightfully show the three main sources of his inspiration: the luxuriance of his native Brazil, the music of Bach and the European avant-garde, in which he had immersed himself in the Paris of the 1920s, with friends including Varèse, Picasso and many more. On this new disc from Calliope, guitarist Pascal Boëls plays a generous selection of music, including the 12 Etudes, 5 Preludes, the Suite populaire brésilienne and the Choros No.1.

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Maria Yudina is perhaps the greatest maverick amongst the Soviet pianists. She was a champion of contemporary music, but she was also renowned for her playing of Bach and Beethoven. Yudina made many recordings, which are at last making their way onto CD, but one of the fi nest is undoubtedly her towering rendition of Beethoven’s great masterpiece, the Hammerklavier sonata which is included here. Victor Merzhanov is one of the youngest pianists to be featured in this series. He was most prolifi c in the recording studio in the 1950’s and his performances are characterized by peerless technique and a generous, but never self-serving, emotional involvement with the music.

VILLA-LOBOSGuitar Works

Pascal Boëls (guitar)Calliope • CAL 9415

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Russian Piano Tradition: The Goldenweiser SchoolVictor Merzhanov (piano)APR • APR 5671

BEETHOVENPiano Sonatas Nos.12, 28 & 29

Russian Piano Tradition: The Nicolayev School

Maria Yudina (piano)APR • APR 5670

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BACHSt John PassionStam Caroline (soprano), Peter de Groot (counter-tenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor), Stephan McLeod (bass), Bas Ramselaar (bass), Netherlands Bach Society, Jos van VeldhovenChannel Classics • CCS SA 31309

BACHChristmas Oratorio

Netherlands Bach Society, Jos van Veldhoven

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The Christmas Oratorio is one of Bach’s best loved works. This Channel Classics recording features a transcendent performance by the Netherlands Bach Society under the direction of the Dutch conductor Jos van Veldhoven. The Netherlands Bach Society’s recording of Bach’s St. John Passion was made with similar forces. The group performs Bach’s earliest version of this work (1724) in a reconstruction by musicologist Dr. Pieter Dirksen. Both of these sets, recorded in state of the art Super Audio surround-sound, are being re-issued at a very attractive price.

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSDPreviously Available as CCS SA 22005 (723385220053) Deleted November 2009

59 Minutes/ Stereo / EnglishFelix Mendelssohn was a passionate Christian. He was also born a Jew. This fi lm, marking the 200th anniversary of his birth, tells the extraordinary story of what happened, generations later, both to Mendelssohn’s family and to his music, when the Nazis remembered the Jewish roots of Germany’s most celebrated composer. It also examines how the infl uences of both Judaism and Christianity affected Mendelssohn’s music and was made by documentary-maker Sheila Hayman, Mendelssohn’s great-great-great-great niece.

A fascinating BBC Television documentary

Mendelssohn, the Nazis & MeVarious ArtistsClassicprint • CPVP 020 DVD

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“One of most fascinating programs I’ve seen in some time... This entrancing film succeeded as a personal and justifiably proud celebration of not only the

endurance of Hayman’s forebears, but also that of Mendelssohn’s unconquerable music and the human spirit generally.”

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The two great works brought together on this recording, the Dixit Dominus by Georg Friedrich Handel and the Deus Judicium tuum by Georg Philipp Telemann, give us some idea of the splendid music that held such appeal for the church, the courts and concert audience in early eighteenth-century Europe. Written by two German composers for Rome and Paris respectively, they illustrate the blending of German, French and Italian styles, as well as the variety, yet unity, that was to be found in European music of that time.

Guillaume de Machaut is famous chiefl y for his Messe de Nostre Dame, the earliest known complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass attributable to a single composer. He was also the most famous and historically signifi cant representative of the movement known as the Ars Nova. Machaut was especially infl uential in the development of the motet and the secular song. In Machaut’s Remède de Fortune, the narrator is asked by his lady if the poem she has found was written by him. The narrator fl ees from her and comes to a garden where ‘Hope’ consoles him and teaches him how to be a good lover. He then returns to his lady, and all is right with the world.

MACHAUTRemède de Fortune

Marc Mauillon (narrator), Angelique Mauillon (harp), Vivabiancaluna Biffi (viol),

Pierre Hamon (recorder)Eloquentia • EL 0918

TELEMANNDeus judicium tuum

HANDELDixit Dominus

Ingrid Perruche (soprano), Yeree Suh (soprano), Bri� a Schwarz (alto), Markus Schäfer (tenor),

Alain Buet (bass), Arnaud Richard (bass), Arsys Bourgogne, Harmonie Universelle, Pierre Cao

Eloquentia • EL 0916

Sacred choral gems of the Baroque

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Machaut’s secular masterpiece

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Following First Hand Records’ highly-praised set of Cherkassky HMV recordings, they now publish the complete HMV stereo recordings made by the London Mozart Players and Harry Blech. They are issued here for the fi rst time on CD, most for the fi rst time in stereo. This welcome tribute is released in 2009 to celebrate both the 60th anniversary year of the group and the centenary of Blech’s birth. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, in 1956 & 1957 and sympathetically remastered there using the original HMV master tapes, these recordings sound magnifi cent. LMP are the longest established chamber orchestra in the UK and have always been greatly respected worldwide. Highlights from this issue include Mozart’s great Posthorn Serenade and a magnifi cent reading of the Jupiter Symphony.

London Mozart Players at their fi nest

The Complete HMV Stereo RecordingsLondon Mozart Players, Harry BlechFirst Hand • FHR 05

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Also available from First Hand RecordsCherkassky: Complete HMV Stereo RecordingsFirst Hand • FHR 04 (5060051619465)

“This is vintage Cherkassky...”— CLASSICS TODAY

F i g h t i n g t h e d e l u g e o f re-recordings and re-issued CDs in this Handel anniversary year, the brand-new Opella Nova Records label is pleased to present a new group with a completely different take on the venerated composer. The lighthearted, eminently-listenable Handel in the Playhouse is the debut album by early music ensemble L’Avventura London, directed by Žak Ozmo, based on new musicological research. An unusually large number of Handel tunes have been discovered in comic 18th-century musical theatre pieces called ballad operas. The authors of these theatre works cleverly stole Handel’s music from his fashionable operas and instrumental works, adding new English texts and using them in their own music theatre pieces. The ballad operas, which include the timeless Beggar’s Opera, were staged far more often than even the most successful of Handel’s Italian operas. Handel in the Playhouse is rich with new discoveries and the instrumentalists’ energetic and sensitive playing brings light to these novel and highly entertaining songs. Future releases on Opella Nova include a recording of unrecorded 18th-century Portuguese modinhas and a recording of 18th-century Scottish folk songs (all previously unrecorded).

A delightful new Handel discovery

HANDELHandel in the Playhouse

L’Avventura London, Žak OzmoOpella Nova • ONCD 014

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ADVANCE REVIEW“ Singers Mary Bevan and Greg Tassell perfectly convey the tongue-in-cheek humour and pathos of ballad opera songs, while movements from Handel’s instrumental works — often played as interval music in the Georgina playhouse — intersperse their contributions. All in all a much needed antidote to the operas and oratorios we’ve been wading through this past year.”

— EARLY MUSIC TODAY

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

Párkányí QuartetPraga • PRD 250261

MARTINŮString Quartets Nos.1, 3 & 6Prazák QuartetPraga • PRD 250254

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSDMartinu wrote seven string, quartets forming a succession of testimonies stretching from 1920 to 1947. This second volume (the fi rst is PRD 250205) juxtaposes the fi rst quartet, a lengthy and luxurious homage to Debussy, Reger and Dvorak, the shortest quartet (No.3) and the sixth, a fantastic counterpoint of madrigals for strings. The last three of Haydn’s Opus 33 quartets defi ne the archetype of the classical string quartet, a genre that would henceforth blossom independently of its patrons. Here, Haydn makes 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.

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This new series from Tahra will feature, as usual, previously unissued recordings of high artistic interest. The fi rst volume sets the standard, with four fi rst-time releases. The disc includes two Mozart concertos with Christian Ferras and Ida Haendel, the Mendelssohn concerto with Zino Francescatti and the Brahms concerto with Gioconda de Vito under the baton of Eugen Jochum . All these recordings have one point in common: the violinists play a violin built by the famous violin maker Antonio Stradivarius of Cremona.

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La Fête à Stradivarius — Vol.1Christian Ferras, Zino Francesca� i, Ida

Haendel, Gioconda de Vito (violins)Tahra • TAH 670

Recorded between 1960 and 1973, the original eighteen LPs that comprise Earle Brown’s legendary Contemporary Sound Series have been highly sought after in the secondary market since 1978 when they were discontinued. These rare and historically important recordings of international avant-garde music have been carefully digitized and remastered by the Earle Brown Music Foundation. Volume two includes music by Luigi Nono (Polifonica - Monodia - Ritmica), Bruno Maderna (Serenata No. 2), Luciano Berio (Différences) Peter Maxwell Davies (Antechrist) Harrison Birtwistle (Ring a Dumb Carillon) David Bedford (Come In Here Child), Richard Orton (Cycle for 2 or 4 Players), Morton Feldman: (Durations I-IV) and Earle Brown (Music for Violin, Cello and Piano, Music for Cello and Piano, and Hodograph I).

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Earle Brown series continuesEarle Brown Contemporary Sound Series Vol.2Various ArtistsWergo • WER 6931

Rare violin music

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File in: SoundtrackArgentine pianist and composer Carlos D’Alessio was born in Buenos Aires in 1935. From the age of four, he showed special singing talent and although he couldn’t read music, he could reproduce entirely by ear all the tunes he’d heard and these in turn would serve as the basis for his own improvised “melodies.” His work as a fi lm music composer is epitomized in this transcendent score for Marguerite Duras’ 1975 film India Song. The film, starring Dephine Seyrig and Michael Lonsdale is

somewhat of a cult classic. Set in India in the late 30’s, Anne-Marie Stretter is the wife of the French ambassador and leads a solitary yet privileged life in Calcutta. The tedium of her existence is relieved by numerous illicit love affairs with government offi cials, young men who fi nd her an object of desire and fascination. The Vice Consul is driven insane by his unrequited love for her and ultimately is expelled from the ambassador’s palace.

India Song — Original SoundtrackCarlos D’AlessioChant du Monde • 2741745

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File in: World / Asia / PakistanThierry “Titi” Robin’s first album was recorded in 1983, so he is hardly a newcomer. However, he only played his fi rst UK gig this year, followed by a three date mini tour and the reissue of his 1993 classic album Gitans. Hot on the heels of this burst of activity comes this new album with the acclaimed qawwali vocalist Faiz Ali Faiz. These two talented musicians have created more than a simple dialogue. For this project Robin composed several original melodies, selecting modes and rhythms that best represent the world of qawwali. Faiz, on the other hand found sacred poetic texts that would match the instrumentals. Their combined creation is unique. For the recording, Robin and Faiz are joined by a multi-cultural cast of musicians on voice, harmonium, accordion, winds and percussion.

File in: World / Europe / BalkansAt the invitation of Network records, many stars of the legendary Guca Festival got together for a special session. No sooner had they arrived in Guca, than they were all snowed in. For days there was no escape, but suffi cient supplies of food and drink were on hand, so the music rolled on. With the assistance of Ekrem Sajdic, the leading authority and oldest band leader among the trumpet players of Guca, a magnifi cent cast of musicians was assembled featuring no less than seven orchestras. The centerpiece of the album is the 34-minute track “Hot Water Festival” wherein trumpets, tubas, clarinets and saxophones play totally free and exuberant solos to the ancient Roma melodies. The album is a unique document, with lots of photos and text by Guca festival producer Ilija Stankovic.

Night Train for Lovers & ThievesGypsy Groovz Orchestra

Network • 495126

Jaadu — MagicFaiz Ali Faiz, Thierry Robin

Accords Croisés • AC 130

A multi-cultural connection

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Fake No MoreLa ChergaAsphalt Tango • ATR 1908

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Vinyl LPFile in: World / Europe / BalkansRipe, bright and tasty as stuffed peppers, La Cherga create 21st Century electro-roots music with a pan-Balkanic consciousness. The band consists of six musicians, all from former Yugoslavia. Named after a Balkan rag rug (appropriate for these musical recyclers) La Cherga weaves a sonic collage, inventing a Balkan internationalist music & manifesto. Their sound draws on the best of both East and West, bringing together Balkan brass, jazz vocals, Jamaican grooves and electronic beats. Almost three years on from Kal’s groundbreaking debut album, the vinyl re-issue of Radio Romanista is still a musical event. The band’s leader says, “We went from being this tiny Belgrade band to touring Europe and the US, hearing DJs blast our music in clubs, playing festivals, getting to spread the word and music of the Rom. What you get here is our live sound. We spend a lot of time touring and when we’re back home we’re playing clubs along the Danube, bars that put on live music. This has really shaped our sound, it’s Rock’n’roma!”

Radio RomanistaKal

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Fiesta BalkanicaVarious ArtistsNetwork • 495128

Fiesta TropicalVarious Artists

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On these two discs, Network has carefully selected tracks that fully capture the musical fl avor and spirit of these diverse and exciting regions of the world. On Fiesta Tropical, from Havana to Rio de Janeiro, this disc screams, “It’s party time!” Selections range from Cuban salsa and son montuno to Caribbean cocktails mixed by Izaline Calister and her band from Curacao and to tangos by Sexteto Mayor from Buenos Aires. In the Balkans, festivals and concerts have a dynamic of their very own. Musicians and audience quickly interact and mutually rouse each others spirits. Fiesta Balkanica recreates the joy, energy and excitement of these special events. Participants include the pan-Balkan group Sandy Lopicic Orchestra, the speedy Clejani Express from Romania, the “Gypsy Queen” Esma Redzepova, the Istanbul Oriental Ensemble and Bratsch from Paris.

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The supergroup of Roma pop

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File in: World / Europe / BalkansHow do you fi nd THE great Gypsy group, a sort of Balkan equivalent of the Memphis Horns with the rhythm section from Muscle Shoals, combining power and fi nesse, groove and virtuosity? It’s easy, just bring together the musicians from Clejani (home of Taraf de Haidouks) and Zece Prajini (home of Fanfare Ciocarlia). This magic equation almost guarantees you an orchestra - a taraf - that is hot as coals. And to add spice to this mixture, invite guest singers such Sorin Constantin, Jony Iliev and Dan Armeanca, the king of the manea, forerunner of what was to become the manele, the Romanian pop of the 21st century. The result is the Mahala Rai Banda, the supergroup of Roma pop. The band’s highly acclaimed fi rst CD was released on Crammed Discs in 2004. Ghetto Blasters marks a big step forward for Mahala Rai Banda. The album features a souped-up brass section and thirteen tracks of literally unstoppable rhythms.

ADVANCE REVIEW“Romania’s Mahala Rai Banda

have added an invigorating new invention — the influ-ences of Western pop and

dance rhythms, from swing-beat to ragga. And if that

brings to mind some anaemic programmed fusion, you’re

reckoning without this music’s amazing vigour and capacity

to adapt.”— DAILY TELEGRAPH

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File in: World / LatinThe music of Marta Topferova, the Czech-born, New York-based singer and songwriter, fuses a range of Latin American musical styles and rhythms that Topferova has s tudied and mastered since her childhood in Prague. Described as “a leading light of the nueva cancion movement,” Topferova’s sound blends folk and jazz that Topferova conveys through her silky hypnotic vocals and her crisp cuatro and guitar playing. Trova, her latest release on World Village, continues this extraordinary artist’s growth and development of her own unique and decidedly sexy Latin groove.

“Topferova is proof that the outsider can not only inhabit, but liberate and extend a music’s spirit... [she] strikes a perfect balance between the folky and the left-field, between

bitter chocolate richness and dreamy ethereality.’’— THE TELEGRAPH

“One of the most graceful interpreters of Latin American folk music.”— THE TIMES

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Also available from Marta TopferovaLa MareaWorld Village • 468040 (713746804022)

Flor NocturnaWorld Village • 468062 (713746806224)

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Anonymous 4 harmonia mundi Dec 1 Villanova PA Villanova UniversityDec 3 San Francisco CA Herbst TheaterDec 6 Santa Fe NM Lensic Performing Arts CenterDec 9 Minneapolis MN Basilica of St. Mary'sDec 11 Chicago IL Cathedral of the Holy NameDec 12 Milwaukee WI St. Joseph Center ChapelDec 18 Philadelphia PA St. Mark's ChurchDec 20 New York NY Corpus Christi Church

James Ehnes Onyx Classics Dec 5 Beverly Hills MI Seligman Performing Arts CenterFeb 4, 6 Sea� le WA Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium

Ethel Cantaloupe Dec 18 New York NY World Financial Center Winter GardenBernarda Fink harmonia mundi Jan 22, 24 New York NY Alice Tully HallIván Fischer Channel Classics Dec 3-5 Cleveland OH Severance HallAlban Gerhardt Hyperion Dec 3-4 Miami FL Lincoln TheaterMarc-André Hamelin Hyperion Dec 12 New York NY Kaufmann Auditorium

Dec 15 San Francisco CA Herbst TheaterDec 18 La Jolla CA Sherwood AuditoriumJan 13 Philadelphia PA Perelman TheaterJan 17 Orono ME Collins Center for the ArtsJan 30 Oklahoma City OK Civic Center Music HallFeb 2 Forth Worth TX Bass Hall

Angela Hewi� Hyperion Dec 1 San Francisco CA Herbst TheaterDec 3 North Bethesda MD Music Center at StrathmoreFeb 10 Ann Arbor MI Hill Auditorium

Steven Isserlis Hyperion Jan 6 Washington DC Terrace TheaterJan 10 San Francisco CA Herbst Theater

Mariinsky Orchestra Mariinsky Jan 15 La Jolla CA Copley Symphony HallNicholas McGegan harmonia mundi Jan 15-17 Sea� le WA Mark Taper Foundation AuditoriumViktoria Mullova Onyx Classics Feb 11 San Francisco CA Herbst Theatre

Feb 12 Palo Alto CA First United Methodist ChurchFeb 13-14 Berkeley CA First Congregational Church

Jon Nakamatsu harmonia mundi Dec 5 Forth Worth TX Modern Art MuseumJan 9-10 Jacksonville FL Jacksonville UniversityJan 16 Des Moines IA Levi� AuditoriumJan 23-24 Yarmouth Port MA Barnstable High SchoolJan 30 Santa Cruz CA Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium Jan 31 Watsonville CA Mello CenterFeb 4 Lancaster PA Lancaster Mennonite High SchoolFeb 5 Lewisburg PA Weiss Center for the Performing ArtsFeb 6 Lansdale PA North Penn High School AuditoriumFeb 8 Burlington IA Memorial AuditoriumFeb 9 Rockford IL Coronado Theatre

The Newberry Consort harmonia mundi Jan 23 Pi� sburgh PA Synod HallGarrick Ohlsson Hyperion Jan 10 Berkeley CA Zellerbach Hall

Jan 15 La Jolla CA Sherwood AuditoriumJan 19 Philadelphia PA Perelman TheaterJan 22-24 Baltimore MD Meyerhoff Feb 3 New York NY Alice Tully Hall

Mark Padmore harmonia mundi Dec 9 New York NY Gerald W. Lynch TheaterDec 10-11 New York NY Gerald W. Lynch Theater

Dorothea Röschmann harmonia mundi Dec 5 New York NY Zankel HallChristine Schäfer Onyx Classics Jan 20 New York NY Zankel HallYeol Eum Son harmonia mundi Jan 23 Corpus Christi TX Corpus Christi Chamber Music Society

Jan 26 Santa Fe NM The Lensic Performing Arts CenterJan 31 Li� le Rock AR Stella Boyle Smith Concert HallFeb 6 Midland MI Midland Center for the Arts

Tallis Scholars Gimell Dec 4 Berkeley CA First Congregational ChurchDec 10 Kansas City MO Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

Tokyo String Quartet harmonia mundi Jan 3 Wooster OH Wooster Chamber Music SeriesJan 23 New York NY Kaufmann Concert HallJan 26 New Haven NC Morse Recital HallFeb 3 Honolulu HI Doris Duke TheatreFeb 4 Kahului HI Maui Arts & Cultural Ctr: Castle TheatreFeb 5 Kamuela HI Kahilu TheatreFeb 6 Hilo HI University of Hawaii

Pieter Wispelwey Onyx Classics Jan 24 New York NY Alice Tully HallHaochen Zhang harmonia mundi Jan 21 Charleston SC Gaillard Municipal Auditorium

Jan 22 Charlo� e SC Halton TheatreJan 24 Urbana IL Foellinger Great HallJan 29 Gainesville FL Squitieri Studio TheatreJan 31 Clearwater FL Ruth Eckerd HallFeb 5 Jacksonville FL Jacoby Symphony HallFeb 6 Jacksonville FL Jacoby Symphony HallFeb 7 Stuart FL Lyric Theatre

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C.J. Chenier World Village Jun 6 Bath ME Chocolate Church Arts CenterJul 2-3 Lake Placid NY I Love Barbecue Festival

Zakir Hussain Network Mar 12-13 New York NY Rose TheaterShujaat Husain Khan World Village May 1 New York NY Symphony SpaceKlezmatics Piranha Dec 6 Richmond VA Modlin Center for the Arts

Dec 9-10 New York NY 92nd Street YDec 10 South Orange NJ South Orange Performing Arts CenterDec 12 Port Washington NY Jeanne Rimsky TheaterDec 13 Brooklyn NY Kingsborough Community CollegeDec 17 Westport CT Westport Country PlayhouseDec 19 Skokie IL Centre EastDec 20 Milwaukee WI Miramar TheatreJan 23 Ithaca NY State TheatreJan 30 New York NY Tavern On The GreenFeb 25 Saratoga Springs NY Skidmore CollegeMar 7 Greenwich NY Cole AuditoriumMar 10-11 Oswego NY SUNY OswegoMar 13 Somerville MA Somerville TheatreMar 20 Whitefi sh MT O'Shaughnessy CenterMar 21 Helena MT Myrna Loy CenterMay 6 Bethesda MD Strathmore Music Center GazeboMay 8 Hampton VA American Theatre

Masters of Persian Music World Village Feb 10 Los Angeles CA Walt Disney Concert HallFeb 12 Irvine CA Irvine Barclay TheatreFeb 13 Berkeley CA Zellerbach HallFeb 14 Saratoga CA Carriage House TheatreFeb 18 New York NY Skirball Center for the ArtsFeb 19 Somerville MA Somerville TheatreFeb 20 Cleveland OH Hanna TheaterFeb 23 Chicago IL Symphony CenterFeb 26 Atlanta GA Ferst Center for the ArtsFeb 28 Washington DC Kennedy Center Concert Hall

Ana Moura World Village Apr 17 Boston MA Berklee Performance CenterApr 18 New York NY Symphony SpaceApr 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

So Percussion Cantaloupe Feb 6 Ann Arbor MI University of Michigan Museum of ArtCatherine Russell World Village Feb 20 Ketchum ID Sun Valley Center for the ArtsTinariwen World Village Feb 15 Chapel Hill NC University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Feb 16 Columbus OH Wexner Center for The ArtsFeb 20 Los Angeles CA Royce HallFeb 21 San Francisco CA San Francisco Jazz Festival

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