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NEWS & HIGHLIGHTSSTREET DATE: JANUARY 14, 2014

Our top releases for January will help chase away the winter’s chill. Britain’s favorite cellist, Steven Isserlis, is joined by fortepianist Robert Levin for collection of the complete works for cello and piano by Beethoven (p.17) and is featured on the Hyperion début album by pianist Sam Haywood, who is playing works by Isserlis’s grandfather (p.16). January’s four priority releases from harmonia mundi include the Jerusalem Quartet playing Janácek and Smetana (p.12), Richard Egarr playing Handel Suites (p.14), the final installment of Kristian Bezuidenhout’s Mozart series (p.13) and Jean-Guihen Queyras leading the Ensemble Resonanz in works by Berg and Schoenberg (p.11). In other highlights, the acclaimed Beethoven cycle by Onyx artist Jonathan Biss reaches volume four (p.22) and Rick Stotijn presents Basso Bailando, a spirited disc of works for double-bass on Channel (p.9). Two opera releases round out the month, with Orange Mountain’s recording of Philip Glass’s Galileo Galilei with the Portland Opera (p.23) and Aparté’s release of Lully’s Phaéton with Les Talens Lyriques (p.5). Non-classical priorities include three jazz releases - I Hear The Sound by Archie Shepp (p.31), Face Forward, Jeremy with Jeremy Pelt on HighNote (p.33) and a solo album by Omar Sosa entitled Senses (p.34).Accords-Croisés

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IMPORT This disc features a collection of works for viola da gamba by CPE Bach. Soloist Emmanuel Guigues studied viola da gamba with such luminaries as Jordi Savall, Paolo Pandolfo and Christophe Coin. She plays and records with several ensembles, notably the Ricercar Consort, la Simphonie du Marais and Doulce Mémoire. Coming from a family of organists, keyboardist Daniel Isoir studied with such great masters as Marek Jablonski, Claude Frank, Paul Badura-Skoda and Paul Tortelier. In addition to leading his ensemble Petite Symphonie, Isoir also works regularly on projects with the Royaumont Foundation and the Bach Academy.

C.P.E. BACH Sonatas, Rondos & Fantaisie

Emmanuelle Guigues (viola da gamba)Daniel Isoir (fortepiano)Agogique • AGO 012

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“Unfailingly excellent performances...”—GRAMOPHONE

IMPORT Of all Michelangelo Falvetti’s numerous compositions, only two magnificent dialoghi for five or six voices - Il diluvio universale and Nabucco - have survived intact. In these two masterful scores, Falvetti’s music is characterized by a

sensuality and a thoroughly Mediterranean expressivity, combined with studious respect for Baroque musical tradition. Leonardo García Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea’s previous release of Il Diluvio revived interest in Falvetti, and the recording received the highest critical praise.

IMPORTFounded in 2010, the period instrument ensemble Les Surprises takes its name from Rameau and his opera Les Surprises de l’Amour. Marrying stage drama and chamber music, the group’s début album (appropriately) draws on the music of

18th century French opera, focusing on the music of Jean-Fery Rebel and his son, François. Featuring soprano Juliette Perret and baritone Étienne Bazola, this recording presents a selection of works by both composers arranged for chamber orchestra, shedding new light on a mostly forgotten repertoire.

FALVETTI Nabucco

Mariana Flores (soprano), Capucine Keller (soprano), Magdalena Padilla Osvaldes (soprano), Caroline Weynants (soprano), Fabián Schofrin (countertenor), Fernando Guimarães (tenor), Matteo Bellotto (bass), Alessandro Meerapfel (bass), Keyvan Chemirani (percussion), Kasif Demiröz (ney), Choeur de chambre de Namur, Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García AlarcónAmbronay • AMY 036

Rebel de Pere en FilsJ. REBEL Les Caractères de la Danse; Tombeau de Monsieur de LullyF. REBEL Ballet de la paix, Prélude pour le Jugement de Paris, Musette pour Paris, Airs, ChaconneJuliette Perret (soprano), Étienne Bazola (baritone)Ensemble Les SurprisesAmbronay • AMY 303

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IMPORT Following on the success of their recording of Bellérophon, Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques present Phaéton, the eighth tragédie lyrique by Jean-Baptiste Lully and his faithful librettist, Philippe Quinault. It is truly one of their most remarkable creations. First performed in 1683, it proved so popular that it was referred to as the “opera of the people.” It portrays the story of a young man’s temerity in wishing to drive the chariot of his father, the sun god, and the son’s inevitable downfall.

LULLY Phaéton

Ingrid Perruche (soprano), Gaëlle Arquez (mezzo-soprano), Isabelle Druet (mezzo-soprano), Cyril Auvity (countertenor), Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (tenor), Benoît Arnould (baritone), Frédéric Caton (baritone), Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone)Choeur de chambre de Namur, Les Talens LyriquesChristophe RoussetAparté • AP 061

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“Excitingly conducted by Christophe Rousset, the recording is sensational.” —THE GUARDIAN

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IMPORT The phrase Memento mori (Latin for “remember that you will die”) is a symbolic reminder of the inevitability of death. Catholic prayer oratories in the early years of the 17th century employed the vernacular Italian instead of Latin, a significant

factor in attracting more participants. This works in this collection of ‘moral cantatas’ were designed to heighten the devotional feelings of those attending. The ancient practices of laude, basso ostinato and lamenti, as well as popular new musical genres, including opera, were used as a vehicle for spiritual messages in these works by Monteverdi & Rossi. Geoffroy Jourdain leads Les Cris de Paris in powerful readings of these deeply moving works.

IMPORTViolist Lise Berthaud studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Gérard Caussé. In 2005, she won the Hindemith Prize at the Geneva International Competition, was short listed by the Victoires de la Musique Classique

2009 as ‘Révélation de l Année’ (Newcomer of the Year) and since September 2013, has been part of the prestigious BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme. Pianist Adam Laloum studied at the Paris Conservatoire before receiving international recognition when he won first prize at the prestigious Clara Haskil Competition. This collection of works by Schubert, Schumann and Brahms is their first recital together and Berthaud’s début recording.

Memento MoriMONTEVERDI Chi vol che m’innamori, Lamento de la MaddalenaROSSI Disperar di se stesso, O Cecità del misero mortale

Les Cris de ParisGeoffroy JourdainAparté • AP 059

SCHUBERT Arpeggione SonataSCHUMANN Märchenbilder Op.113BRAHMS Viola Sonata Op.120, No.2

Lise Berthaud (viola), Adam Laloum (piano)Aparté • AP 069

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IMPORTOver the course of his career, Christophe Rousset has consistently excelled – both as a harpsichordist and as the director of Les Talens Lyriques. Following on several critically acclaimed albums of keyboard music for Aparté, Rousset turns to Bach’s great musical testament: the Well-Tempered Clavier. Written 20 years after the first volume, the second book of this collection contains the musical and spiritual legacy of the composer. Rousset performs on a 1628 Ruckers harpsichord, one of the best examples of its kind in the world, which has been preserved in the château de Versailles since 1946.

BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier – Book 2

Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)Aparté • AP 070

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“Rousset is an undisputed master in this repertoire...”—FANFARE

IMPORT The output of composer Arcangelo Corelli dominates a crucial period in the history of instrumental music. During the years 1681 to 1713, the Pre-classical sonata and concerto grosso reached a degree of maturity, and Corelli’s

became a designated model for all composers of his generation. At the same time, Corelli’s work entirely devoted to bowing and performance became the violin teaching guide for nearly a century at various European schools, and whose first elements are still the basis of today’s techniques. This recording features a collection of sonatas performed by the French chamber ensemble Stravaganza.

IMPORTEthel Bartlett and Rae Robertson both studied with Tobias Matthay in the 1910s. They established a two-piano duo that quickly became the first such team to achieve truly international fame. From the 1930s they based themselves in the USA where they gave important American

premieres of works by Poulenc and Stravinsky. They made first recordings of much of the standard two-piano repertoire and also inspired many new works and arrangements. Given their significance, it is surprising that this important legacy has been completely neglected since the 1950s and this issue is the first CD release ever devoted to their recordings.

CORELLI SonatasREALI Capriccio Primo, Folia Op.1

StravaganzaAparté • AP 073

Bartlett & Robinson – Selected Recordings 1927-1947

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IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSDBasso Bailando - mixed Spanish and Italian for ‘dancing bass’ - is the perfect description for the pieces of this collection featuring Dutch Music Prize winner Rick Stotijn, whose début recording of music by Bottesini was met with the highest praise. Stotijn is joined by a cadre of great musicians including violinist Malin Broman, harpist Lavinia Meijer and members of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The repertoire includes arrangements of music by Piazzolla and Falla and an original work by Nino Rota – all ‘border-crossers’ between the worlds of popular and classical music.

Basso BailandoPIAZZOLLA Cuatro Estaciones PorteñasROTA Divertimento Concertante for Double Bass and OrchestraFALLA Siete Canciones Populares Espanolas

Rick Stotijn (double bass), Malin Broman (violin), Lavinia Meijer (harp), Swedish Radio Symphony OrchestraChannel Classics • CCS SA 33613

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IMPORT Pure Audio Blu-ray/ 5.1 Surround SoundGimell presents their first release in the Pure Audio Blu-ray format. The Tallis Scholars’s 2007 release of Allegri’s Miserere and works by Palestrina is a classic recording and has been a top seller for the label worldwide. This set includes

one Blu-ray Audio disc with both high resolution stereo and multi-channel surround sound, one standard compact disc and a 24-page booklet. There is no video on the disc, just glorious top-quality audio. The surround sound rendering of Allegri’s Miserere is a special highlight. Pure Audio Blu-ray is an ideal format for listeners who own a home theater system.

DOMESTIC SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSDThrough the E. M. Skinner Organ at the Church of the Transfiguration in Orleans, Massachusetts, Dr. SharonRose Pfeiffer gives voice to works by master composers from the Baroque to the

twentieth century. The program on this Super Audio CD includes Sonate der 94ste Psalm by Reubke, Job for Organ VI by Eben, the Allegro from Symphonie No.6 by Widor, J.S. Bach’s Fantasia BWV651, Resurrection: Lament, The Rising, The Ecstasy, Reflection by Larry King, and the finale of Messiaen’s Messe de la Pentecôte. The inspirations for all of these text-based works are outlined in the detailed program notes.

Illuminations Organ Works by King, Widor, Eben, Bach, Messiaen & Reubke

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ALLEGRI MisererePALESTRINA Missa Papae Marcelli

The Tallis ScholarsPeter PhillipsGimell • GIMBD 641

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IMPORTThe First World War, a crucible of artistic change, intervened between Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Berg’s Lyric Suite. From opposite sides of that traumatic divide, these works tell stories of adulterous love. Richard Dehmel’s poem that inspired Verklärte Nacht evokes the conception of an illegitimate child and its pardon. The amorous dialogue between Berg and Hanna Fuchs and its painful epilogue form the subtext to the Lyric Suite. Cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras leads the Ensemble Resonanz in striking and virtuosic accounts of both these seminal works of the second Viennese school.

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“Not only sparkles with virtuosity but engages us with crucial charm, and that vivid yet not overstated individuality.” —SINFINI MUSIC

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BERG Lyric SuiteSCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht

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IMPORTThe acclaimed Jerusalem Quartet’s latest release focuses works by two giants of Czech music. Though Smetana, the founder of the Czech national school, and Janácek, his spiritual heir, are best known as operatic composers, they also left strongly autobiographical chamber works. Composed when he was already profoundly deaf, Smetana’s String Quartet No.1 looks back over the different stages of his life. Also written late in life, Janácek’s second quartet, subtitled Intimate Letters, describes his unfulfilled passion for Kamila Stösslová, his junior by 38 years.

JANÁCEK String Quartets Nos.1 & 2SMETANA String Quartet No.1

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“Jerusalem Quartet know the composer, and they have something to say.”—AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

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IMPORTWith this double set encompassing volumes five and six, fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout completes his multi-disc survey of Mozart’s music for solo keyboard. The first four volumes in the series have been met with the highest critical acclaim from around the world. On this collection, Bezuidenhout performs a mix of Piano Sonatas, Variations and other works on a fortepiano by Paul McNulty that was modeled after an instrument by the great instrument maker Anton Walter.

MOZART Keyboard Music Vols.5 & 6

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“Bezuidenhout is steeped in Mozart’s idiom and

able to explicate it with the erudition of a scholar

and wisdom of a sage. More than most of his colleagues, he is his

instrument, exploiting its every expressive

potential with ease.”—INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

Mozart: Keyboard Music Vol.4harmonia mundi • HMU 907528 (093046752828)

“His Mozart could change the way other performers think about the composer - and I hope it does.” —AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

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IMPORTToday, Handel is best known for his many vocal masterpieces. However, during his lifetime, more copies of his keyboard works were in circulation than Bach’s or Scarlatti’s. A famed virtuoso and improviser, much of Handel’s harpsichord music was never written down. However, in 1720, not long after he had settled in England, a collection of eight ‘Great Suites’ was issued in London. Published by the composer himself, it includes works from both his Hamburg and English periods. The music’s tone is heroic, balancing secular Italianate panache with French nobility and decorum. Performed here by Richard Egarr, this magnificent collection demonstrates Handel’s unique ‘orchestral’ keyboard style and grand sweep.

HANDEL Eight ‘Great’ Suites for Keyboard, HWV 426-433

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imaginative as ever…”—INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

Bach: The English Suites BWV 806-811harmonia mundi• HMU 907591 (093046759124)

“The best harpsichord recital of these Suites on disc.”—BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

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BRAHMS PortraitPiano Concerto No.1, Violin Concerto, String Sextet No.2, Piano Quintet, Piano Quartet, Clarinet Quintet, Horn Trio, Violin Sonata No.1, Fantasien Op.116, Ballades Op.10, Handel Variations, Hungarian Dances, Zigeunerlieder, German Requiem

Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Gerald Finley (tenor), Isabelle Faust (violin), Olga Kern (piano), Cédric Tiberghien (piano), Arcanto Quartett, Trio Wanderer, RIAS Kammerchor, Markus Creed, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Harding, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano, La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre Des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe

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MOZART PortraitSymphonies Nos.40 & 41, Piano Concertos Nos.21 & 24 , Clarinet Concerto, Serenade No.10 “Gran Partita,” Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Adagio & Fugue in C minor, String Quartet No.17, Clarinet Quintet, Piano Sonata No.11, Lieder, Così fan tutte, Requiem

Bernarda Fink (mezzo soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Werner Güra (tenor), Stefan Vladar (piano), Kölner Kammerchor, Jerusalem Quartet, Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs, La Chapelle Royale, Orchestre Des Champs-Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe, The English Concert, Andrew Manze


HANDEL PortraitDixit Dominus, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, Famous scenes from Serse, Rodelinda & Alcina, Concerti Grossi Op.3, Organ Concerto HWV 295, Giulio Cesare, Messiah

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IMPORTThe 20th-century produced a wealth of talented Jewish violinists. Although the list includes a galaxy of stars, the most extraordinary of all may be the Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman. Huberman posessed superb technique, but his

legacy goes far beyond that. In the early 1930s, he saw the situation for Jews deteriorating in Europe. So Huberman recruited the finest Jewish musicians to form an orchestra, the Palestine Symphony, later renamed the Israel Philharmonic. This set makes available for the first time recordings from a 1982 festival honoring the centenary of Huberman’s birth. It features a literal who’s-who of the finest violinists of our time.

IMPORTIn 1989, pianist Sam Haywood was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Julius Isserlis Scholarship. Years later, via his friendship with Julius’s grandson Steven, Haywood discovered Julius Isserlis’s piano compositions. Struck by

the beauty of the music, Haywood decided to make his own performing edi-tion. Julius Isserlis studied with Taneyev and Widor, but the music of Frédéric Chopin seems to have been his strongest influence. The playful virtuosity of several of the works is an indication not only of Isserlis’s own agility on the keyboard but also of that of their dedicatees (including cellist Pablo Casals, who inspired the Ballade, for which Haywood is joined here by Steven Isserlis).

The Huberman Week Festival – 30th Anniversary

Daniel Benyamini (violin), Ivry Gitlis (violin), Ida Haendel (violin), Shlomo Mintz (violin), Itzhak Perlman (violin), Shira Ravin (violin), Roy Shiloh (violin), Isaac Stern (violin), Henryk Szeryng (violin), Chaim Taub (violin), Pinchas Zukerman (violin)Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin MehtaHelicon • 029667

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IMPORTOn this recording, Steven Isserlis, together with his regular collaborator, fortepianist Robert Levin, presents a magisterial compendium of Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano, including Beethoven’s own arrangement of his Horn Sonata. The use of the fortepiano opens up a wealth of sonic possibilities for these works. The five Cello Sonatas span Beethoven’s compositional epochs and comprise the most important cycle of cello sonatas in the entire repertoire. Isserlis writes that the composer, “transforms himself from confident virtuoso to supreme master of classical form, and then beyond that to a mystic exploring strange new worlds of unearthly beauty – a wondrous transfiguration.”

BEETHOVEN Cello Sonatas

Steven Isserlis (cello)Robert Levin (fortepiano)Hyperion • CDA 67981

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“Isserlis’ instrumental mastery is complete, but entirely

unobtrusive. His tone is pure, warm, and infinitely variable

in color, inflection, and intensity. His phrasing and expressiveness are natural

and spontaneous, reflecting the immediacy and integrity of his response to the music.”

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Also availableDvorák: Cello ConcertosHyperion • CDA 67917 (093046746728)

“An impassioned account... in tune to the work’s tragic ethos...” —AUDIOPHILE AUDITION

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IMPORTHyperion is delighted to present the début recording by harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani. Esfahani was the first harpsichordist to be named a BBC New Generation Artist as well as the first to be awarded a fellowship prize by the Borletti-

Buitoni Trust. On this disc, Esfahani performs C.P.E. Bach’s six Württemberg Sonatas. His thrilling performances make the best possible case for this dramatic and endlessly imaginative music. The sonatas range stylistically from Sturm und Drang to High Baroque to the idiom of his famous father. Mahan writes in his booklet notes that C.P.E. Bach, “makes the most combative statement possible to assert his new musical language.”

IMPORTOn this album, the halls of Westminster Abbey ring with the voices of choir and organ lifted in the great hymns that are a vital part of England’s national character and history. The recording brings the experience of Abbey occasions – from

royal weddings to state funerals to regular services – into the home. The singing of hymns has its roots in the earliest days of the Christian church and remains a central part of the liturgy. In the Anglican church, and nowhere more so than in Westminster Abbey, this is a tradition that thrives, and where tunes from the sixteenth century sit happily alongside arrangements by the Abbey’s musicians of today.

C.P.E. BACH Württemberg Sonatas

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Rejoice, the Lord is king!

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IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 66848 (034571168487) Deleted July 2012William Wallace was a classical scholar, a doctor, a poet and dramatist, a writer on music and musicians, and the man described by Shaw as, “a young Scotch composer with a very tender

and sympathetic talent.” His orchestral compositions rank amongst the earliest attempts at the genre of the symphonic poem to be made in the British Isles. His choice of subjects for these was at least as wide-ranging as his own interests and achievements. This mid-priced collection of tone poems features Martyn Brabbins leading the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 66410 (034571164106) Deleted July 2012Stravinsky’s popular, extroverted choral work Les Noces – the epitome of his Russian style – is placed in context in this marvelous recording featuring James Wood’s New London Chamber Choir.

Joined by the Voronezh Chamber Choir, who bring an authentic Russian sound to the ensemble, Woods also performs Russian folksongs and the Slavonic versions of Stravinsky’s Ave Maria, Credo and Pater Noster. Other aspects of Stravinsky’s compositional style are represented by the austere TS Eliot setting The dove descending and the memorial to TS Eliot himself.

WALLACE Symphonic Poems

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn BrabbinsHyperion • CDH 55461

STRAVINSKY Les Noces and other choral music

New London Chamber Choir, James WoodHyperion • CDH 55467

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IMPORT Recorded between 1972 and 1976, The Golden Age of French Organ Music is one of the most comprehensive anthologies ever dedicated to the instrument. On it, André Isoir surveys music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a period in which the French organ school matured in the service of the Roman Catholic Church. Composers of this period focused on color and timbre, resulting from techniques of instrument building that anticipated the tendencies of the repertory itself. From Titelouze to Dandrieu, the works presented here bear witness to one of the most prosperous periods for French music, which coincides almost exactly with the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV.

Le Livre d’Or de l’Orgue Français

André Isoir (organ)La Dolce Volta • LDV 147

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Bach: L’orgue concertantLa Dolce Volta • LDV 118 (3770001901558)

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IMPORTIn June 1978 at the age of nineteen, Lebanese pianist and composer Abdel Rahman El Bacha won the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition. Since then, El Bacha has enjoyed a busy concert schedule and has produced numerous acclaimed recordings. For his Mirare

début, El Bacha performs the complete numbered Piano Sonatas of Ludwig van Beethoven. In making the recording, the pianist chose to play the sonatas in exact chronological order to maintain the arc of the composer’s musical development. Mirare’s specially-priced set features deluxe packaging and extensive liner notes.

IMPORTThe triumphant life story of pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei, who overcame the setback of China’s Cultural Revolution and went on to a highly successful career in the west, is now legend. André Leblanc’s novel for children The Red Piano is based on her story. Xiao-Mei’s catalog

of acclaimed recordings for Mirare now includes this specially-priced reissue featuring the complete Well Tempered Clavier of J.S. Bach. Today, Xiao-Mei shares her time between her teaching activities at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique of Paris and her many concerts in France and abroad.

BEETHOVEN Complete Piano Sonatas

Abdel Rahman El Bacha (piano)Mirare • MIR 187

BACH The Well Tempered Clavier - Complete

Zhu Xiao-Mei (piano)Mirare • MIR 235

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IMPORT1801 saw Beethoven’s development of the piano sonata take a dramatic turn, testing the sonata’s limits with a set of slow variations in lieu of a sonata allegro in Op.26, a multi-movement work played without pause in Op.27 No.1, and the remarkable opening movement of the Moonlight. Operatic recitatives are incorporated into the Tempest. These features are without precedent. Volume three of Jonathan Biss’s acclaimed cycle of the sonatas contains two works from this year of experiment and innovation, though the innovations are less brazen – the Pastorale and the somewhat overlooked Op.31 No.1. The third sonata on this disc is one of the most famous of the 32 – the Waldstein, composed in 1803, is a work of life affirming spirit and energy.

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol.3

Jonathan Biss (piano)Onyx Classics • ONYX 4115

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“These are rare, intelligent, deeply

musical performances by a splendid pianist who is wise beyond his years. I urge you not to miss them .”—INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol.2Onyx • ONYX 4094 (880040409427)

“Biss unreels the music like a prayer to the universe.”—NPR

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DOMESTICOrange Mountain Music presents the world première recording of Philip Glass’s opera Galileo Galilei featuring The Portland Opera Orchestra conducted by Anne Manson. In 2010, the Portland Opera and Anne Manson teamed with Glass’s long-time producer Michael Riesman to produce the Glass masterpiece Orphée. The team reunited in 2012 during a run of performances in Portland to take on Glass’s 2002 opera Galileo Galilei, with a libretto by Mary Zimmerman and Arnold Weinstein, featuring a roster of dynamic singers. The opera draws from letters of Galileo and his family and various other documents to retrospectively journey through Galileo’s life. It explores his religiosity as well as his break with the church, and expands into the greater relationship of science to both religion and art.

GLASS Galileo Galilei

The Portland Opera, Anne MansonOrange Mountain • OMM 0091

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Also availableGlass: KeplerOrange Mountain • OMM 0071 (801837007121)

“Thoughtful, probing and charged with the excitement...” —OPERA NEWS

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IMPORTThe trademark sound of Skip Sempé and Capriccio Stravagante have graced the world’s concert stages for more than 30 years. Off the stage, Sempé has contributed insightful essays on a wide range of topics, from Renaissance virtuosity to the fine art of instrument building. Inspired by Bach’s famous Memorandum of 1730 – Bach’s personal ‘wish list’ for ideal performances – this set from Paradizo features forty of Sempé’s selected writings, paired with a collection of his groundbreaking recordings, brought together on five compact discs produced by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Astrée, Alpha and Paradizo. Offered in a sumptuous hardback book package, Memorandum XXI offers an overview of a rich career that is still evolving: musically, intellectually and esthetically.

Memorandum XXIEssays & Interviews on Music & Performance

Capriccio Stravagante, Skip SempéParadizo • PA 0012

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Also availableTerpsichore - Muse of the DanceParadizo • PAR 0011 (5425019972110)

10/10 “There’s certainly no shortage of variety and diversity here, and no matter how large or small the setting everyone involved unfailingly rises to the occasion.”—CLASSICS TODAY

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IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSDInspired by Mendelssohn’s chamber works, Johannes Brahms went on to define the sextet form. His two glorious String Sextets possess a rare sweetness, the full variety of colors of

both summer and autumn and the power and brilliance of a string orchestra. His works in turn inspired many later composers, most notably Reger and Schoenberg. On this super-audio CD, the Prazák Quartet, augmented by the talents of violist Petr Holman and cellist Vladimír Fortin, offer powerful and virtuosic interpretations of these evergreen chamber favorites.

IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSDThis release in Praga’s Reminiscences series features SACD remasterings of stereo recordings made by the great Russian conductor Igor Markevitch. Recorded in 1953, Markevitch leads the Berlin

Philharmonic in Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition and from June 1960, Markevitch conducts Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms with the Russian State Academic Choir and Russian Symphony Orchestra. The great soprano Galina Vishnevskaya was at her absolute peak in June 1962. She is heard here in Mussorgsky’s six Russian Songs performed in arrangements penned by Markevitch himself.

BRAHMS String Sextets Nos.1-2

Prazák QuartetZemlinsky QuartetPetr Holman (viola), Vladimír Fortin (cello)Praga • PRD 250297

MUSSORGSKY Russian Songs, Pictures at an ExhibitionSTRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms

Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Berlin Philharmonic, Russian State Academic Choir, Russian Symphony OrchestraIgor MarkevitchPraga • PRD 350096

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IMPORTAfter graduating from Yale University and earning an MFA from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Hugh Levick set off for Paris to write a novel. Eventually, he returned to his musical beginnings and the saxophone, studying and playing with Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy and the Chicago Art Ensemble. Later, he studied classical composition at Julliard with Stanley Wolfe and David Diamond, and privately with John Cage and Vinko Globokar. This recording features three of Levick’s works for string quartet played by the Quatuor Diotima.

LEVICK The Unimagined: preparations for the unknown,Empire Inc., Morning Evening Love Bears All

Quatuor DiotimaSignature • SIG 11079

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“One of the five quartets you should know about.” —Gramophone

IMPORTDuring the summer of 1962, the Czech Philharmonic and its conductor Karel Ancerl took part in the Montreux Festival and gave several concerts which, luckily, were recorded by Radio Suisse Romande. With this Tahra release,

listeners can finally enjoy two previously unissued recordings by the great conductor. Featured works include Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Nathan Milstein and Dvorak’s magnificent Stabat Mater.

IMPORTCommemorating Hans Knappertsbusch’s 125th birthday, this disc from Tahra presents the legendary conductor leading two works by one of his favorite composers, Ludwig van Beethoven. Even though these recordings are

not first-time issues, they are culled from the original sources. Géza Anda is the soloist in the Piano Concerto No.3 and Knappertsbusch leads his beloved Vienna Philharmonic in the Symphony No.7.

L’Art de Karel Ancerl — LiveDVORÁK Stabat MaterTCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto

Nathan Milstein (violin), Czech Singers’ Chorus, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel AncerlTahra • TAH 755

Beethoven by KnappertsbuschBEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.3, Symphony No.7

Géza Anda (piano), Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Hans KnappertsbuschTahra • TAH 762

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MAINTZ Fluchtlinie, Naht, Tourbillon, Ferner und immer ferner, Wenn steine sich gen himmel stauen

Otto Katzameier (baritone), Scharoun Ensemble, Robert HP Platz , Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Francesco Filidei (organ), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Jean DeroyerWergo • WER 6589

BLACK No Use In A Centre

Ensemble Ascolta, Johannes Kalitzke, Jessica Rona (viola), Annesley Black (electronics), Ernesto Molinari (clarinet), Theo Nabicht (clarinet), Martin Lorenz (drums), Erik Drescher (drums), Sebastian Berweck (drums), hr-Sinfonieorchester, David Robert ColemanWergo • WER 6590

DE GRANDIS Movimento perpetuo, Preludi per pianoforte

Antonio Tarallo (piano)Wergo • WER 6787

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IMPORTThe German Music Council campaigns for Germany’s vibrant existence as a land of music. Its renowned Contemporary Music Edition presents a basic listening library of contemporary composition in Germany. This month features two releases in the series. First is a selection of five works by composer Philipp Maintz. Wide ranging in both scoring and content, these works show Maintz as a powerful voice of today. The second features a selection of five works by composer Annesley Black. As a bonus, this release includes a DVD computer game entitled This Feels Great developed specifically for this CD. Renato de Grandis’s forty-eight Preludi per Pianoforte were composed several years after the composer decided, shortly after his 60th birthday, to stop composing. After building a reputation as one of the major composers in Europe’s avant-garde music scene, de Grandis decided to go on retreat. His withdrawal from composing lasted only a few years, however; it appears travelling led him back to music. Considered as a whole, one finds in the Preludes the entire spectrum of de Grandis’s musical thought.

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IMPORT All Zones/ 132 Minutes/ Stereo/ German with English SubtitlesThe opera Bluthochzeit (Bloodwedding) by Wolfgang Fortner is based upon the lyric tragedy of the same name by Federico García Lorca. The premonition of a crime yet to be committed

pervades the story from the very beginning. Premièred in Cologne in 1957, Bluthochzeit first became one of the most successful operas in the post-war era. However, today the opera is seldom performed. This DVD features an acclaimed new production staged by Christian von Götz for the Wuppertal Theater in January 2013.

IMPORT All Zones/ 97 Minutes/ English/ StereoAlvin Lucier is one of the most prolific American composers of new music of the 20th Century. As one of the first proponents of live electronic music, he explored in his work

the nature and effect of natural and acoustic sounds, resonance, echoes and interference. This documentary film by Viola Rusche and Hauke Harder explores Lucier’s entire career. Beginning with performances of early live electronic works from the sixties and seventies to the world premiere of the latest ensemble piece Panorama 2, it examines and comments on the composer and his music, and gives an insight into the beginnings of his pioneering work.

FORTNER Bluthochzeit

Wuppertal Theater, Hilary GriffithsWergo • MV 08075

No Ideas But In ThingsThe Composer Alvin Lucier - A film by Viola Rusche & Hauke Harder

Alvin LucierWergo • MV 08095

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IMPORTFile in: JazzMediterranean Sound marks brothers Lionel and Stéphane Belmondo’s musical reunion as they pay a vibrant tribute to their father Yvan, who passed down to them his deep love and knowledge of

jazz. Joining forces on an album for the first time, the three Belmondos are backed by guitarist Jean-Philippe Sempere, double-bass player Sylvain Romano and drummer Jean-Pierre Arnaud. Blending a wide range of influences including modern jazz, hard bop West-Coast styles, the Belmondo Family Sextet swings with panache and delight.

IMPORTFile in: JazzNot many gypsy guitarists can truly be considered heirs of Django Reinhardt. However, Angelo Debarre can claim that title. He carries on the gipsy jazz tradition while always renewing

the repertoire thanks to his uncommon creativity. On Complicité, Debarre joins forces with virtuoso violinist Marius Apostol and the band Gipsy Unity. In addition to pieces composed by the leaders, the album also contains three covers of Django originals.

Mediterranean Sound

Belmondo Family SextetDiscograph • 6150062

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Angelo Debarre, Marius Apostol, Gipsy UnityJust Looking • JLP 06

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IMPORTFile in: JazzOn September 9, 1971, a riot broke out in Attica Prison, New York State, and quickly spread. Five days later the prison was re-taken by force and 39 people were left dead: 29 prisoners and 10 hostages. At first, the administration tried to blame the guards’ deaths on the rioters, before being forced to renege. In January 1972, Archie Shepp recorded an album entitled Attica Blues in tribute to this rebellion. After the original and the repeat performance at the Palais des Glaces in 1979 by his Attica Blues Orchestra, in 2012, Shepp reprised this fantastic tribute, together with a brilliant and dynamic collective of performers. It is an album that transcends styles and epochs.

I Hear the SoundArchie Shepp, Attica Blues OrchestraArchie Ball • ARCH 1301

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“Attica Blues is an important part of African-American jazz history and it is revisited here with conviction. Still musically compelling and still, sadly, socially relevant.”

—ALL ABOUT JAZZ

Wo!manArchie Ball • ARCH 1102 (3149028003024)“Pack[s] an emotional punch...”—THE ABSOLUTE SOUND

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IMPORTFile in: JazzDuring his six years as Artistic Director of France’s Orchestre National de Jazz, Daniel Yvinec never stopped leading his musicians into new territories, tackling the full range of

contemporary music styles. For his swansong, Yvinec has joined forces with New York producer and arranger Michael Leonhart for a truly inventive and joyous musical celebration. The fruit of the duo’s collaboration is a playlist with a strong futuristic and international flavor, featuring several original pieces mixed alongside a series of reinterpretations that are as unusual as they are innovative. Amongst the artists revisited we find Serge Gainsbourg, Shuggie Otis, Talking Heads and Henry Mancini, whose song The Party provides the album with its felicitous title.

IMPORTFile in: JazzJazz pianists are often judged by the company they keep. Some eventually become soloists and front their own groups, but most have to make their living as accompanists and collaborators,

venturing out sporadically for solo or duo performances. George Cables has certainly achieved the highest marks. He toured as part of the famed Art Blakey Jazz Messengers, together with trumpet player Woody Shaw. In the studio again for HighNote, Cables takes a lifetime of experience and distills it into an unhackneyed program of originals, standards and not-so-standards that pays tribute to those artists whose talent, personality and in some cases genius have left their indelible marks on George Cables the man and the musician.

The Party

Orchestre National de Jazz, Daniel YvinecJazz Village • JV 570036

Icons and Influences

George CablesHighNote • HCD 7255

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IMPORTFile in: JazzLegendary jazz writer Nat Hentoff wrote in a lengthy article about Jeremy Pelt in the Wall Street Journal, “It is the beat of Jeremy Pelt’s heart that underscores the future of jazz.” High praise indeed, but Pelt lives up to it on every gig and with every new recording. Face Forward is a multi-textured, thought provoking release that incorporates a sparing use of electronica to widen Pelt’s already extensive canvas of tone colors while at the same time using unexpected acoustic instruments such as the cello and harp. The result is a wildly imaginative sonic landscape that exists in its own time and space as defined by the contributing artists and, of course, the leader himself.

Face Forward, Jeremy

Jeremy PeltHighNote • HCD 7259

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DOMESTICOmar Sosa’s new solo piano recording was born at EMPAC, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY in February 2012. Omar was invited to an artist residency at EMPAC with Zimbabwean dancer / choreographer Nora Chipaumire to compose the music for Nora’s dance-theater piece, Miriam, inspired partly by the life of legendary South African singer Miriam Makeba. During the residency period, Omar was able to use the state-of-the art facilities at EMPAC, including a magnificent Yamaha CFIII concert grand piano, to record solo piano. The resulting improvisations comprise Omar’s sixth solo piano CD, Senses. Senses is a very personal, intimate set of 16 piano improvisations – relaxed, introspective, infused with calm and tranquility.

Senses

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“Like Miles, Sosa never imitates; he goes his own, sweet way.”

—DOWNBEAT

Eggun - The Afri-Lectric ExperienceOtá • OTA 1024 (616444102424)“Stunning... more of an experience than an album... let the music take you away.”—ALL ABOUT JAZZ

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IMPORTFile in: World / Europe / FrancePortrait illuminates the work of those universally recognized artists we all know and love – the leaders and the groundbreakers – those for whom we can all agree there was a ‘before’ and an ‘after’. The two indisputable champions of French chanson are Edith Piaf and Charles Trénet. Trénet was the first in a venerable line of great singer-songwriters, a spur to the creative energy of the likes of Georges Brassens, Léo Ferré and Serge Gainsbourg. Piaf left an enduring legacy, both to music hall and to musical performers (male and female alike), from Yves Montand to Mireille Mathieu, including Jacques Brel and Annie Cordy. For each artist in this series, the songs featured take this collection far beyond a simple ‘Best of,’ inviting the listener not only on a musical journey, but on a journey of love.

Portrait – la chance à la chanson

Charles TrénetChant du Monde • 5742262

Portrait – du trottoir au music-hall

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IMPORTFile in: World / Europe / FranceTake a walk on the wild side… everyone welcome! Violons Barbares (Barbarian violins) proves three times over that our own cultural heritage can only be enriched by contact with other cultures. Drawing collectively on their Mongolian, Bulgarian and French origins, these three musicians build a unique sound space; in concert, their creative union hits the right note every time and their first album is already a must-have for collectors. This second album explores many new directions without losing one drop of its phenomenal energy.

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Violons BarbaresWorld Village • 479090

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“Enthusiasm and virtuosity...” —Mondomix

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Artists Label Date City State VenueIsabel Bayrakdarian MCO Records Apr 9, 10, 12 & 13 Toronto ON Koerner HallJean-Philippe Collard La Dolce Volta Jan 10-11 Edmonton AB Enmax Hall, Winspear CentreGerald Finley Hyperion Jan 26 Vancouver BC Queen Elizabeth Theatre ComplexJames Ehnes Onyx Apr 2 Edmonton AB McDougall United Church Marcio Faraco Chant du Monde Mar 8 Vancouver BC BlueShore Financial Centre

Mar 13 Montreal QC L'AstralMar 14 Quebec City QC Palais MontcalmMar 15 London ON Aeolian Hall

Isabelle Faust harmonia mundi Jan 24 Toronto ON Koerner HallJoel Frederiksen harmonia mundi Feb 1 Calgary AB Rozsa Centre

Feb 4 Vancouver BC Presentation House TheatreMarc-André Hamelin Hyperion Jan 21 Toronto ON Jane Mallett Theatre

Jan 22 Lindsay ON Cambridge Street United ChurchFeb 5 Quebec City QC Grand Théâtre de QuébecMar 2 Montreal QC Chapelle historique du Bon-PasteurMar 4-5 Montreal QC Maison symphonique de MontrealMay 24 Toronto ON Koerner HallMay 25 Toronto ON Mazzoleni Concert Hall

Angela Hewitt Hyperion Mar 5 Vancouver BC Vancouver Academy of MusicMar 16 Montreal QC Pollack HallMar 20, 22 Toronto ON Roy Thomson Hall

Stephen Hough Hyperion Mar 2 Toronto ON Koerner HallMar 31 Calgary AB Jack Singer Concert Hall

Jerusalem Quartet harmonia mundi Mar 19, 20 & 21 Vancouver BC Vancouver PlayhouseKyriakos Kalaitzidis World Village Feb 20-21 Toronto ON Koerner Hall

Feb 22 Quebec City QC Palais MontcalmFeb 23 Montreal QC Maison symphonique de Montreal

Olga Kern harmonia mundi Apr 30 Vancouver BC Vancouver PlayhouseLo'Jo World Village Mar 7 Quebec City QC Palais Montcalm

Mar 8 Montreal QC Cabaret du Mile-EndLouis Lortie Onyx Mar 15, 17 Vancouver BC Orpheum TheatreHarry Manx Dog My Cat Feb 26 Maskinongé QC Magasin général Lebrun

Feb 27 Lavaltrie QC Chasse-galerieFeb 28 Victoriaville QC Pavillon Arthabaska

Alexander Melnikov harmonia mundi Jan 24 Toronto ON Koerner HallMidori Onyx Apr 30 & May 1 Montreal QC Maison symphonique de MontrealJeremy Pelt HighNote May 7-8 Quebec City QC Largo

May 9 Montreal QC L'AstralCatherine Russell World Village May 3 Winnipeg MB Winnipeg Art CentreSierra Maestra World Village Feb 28 Quebec City QC Palais Montcalm

Mar 1 Montreal QC L'AstralMar 6 St. Catherines ON Centre for the Arts Mar 7 Burlington ON Burlington Performing Arts CentreMar 8 London ON Aeolian Hall

Tragedie - Companie Olivier Dubois harmonia mundi May 1, 2 & 3 Montreal QC Theatre MaisonneuveErin Wall SFS March 1,6 & 8 Vancouver BC Queen Elizabeth TheatreJoyce Wang harmonia mundi May 10, 11 & 12 Vancouver BC Orpheum Theatre

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