harmonia mundi distribution • usa new releases February 2016

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NEW RELEASE HIGHLIGHTSThis month we début a sleek and stylish new look for our release brochures. The larger, letter-size format offers more room to showcase our new titles. Please note that we now have multiple street dates for each month. The red box in the upper right hand corner of each page will indicate the street date for titles on that page. In most cases, release dates will be the first and third Fridays.

Leading off February’s list of notable titles is a new harmonia mundi disc of Prokofiev Piano Concertos featuring Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Vadym Kholodenko. Backed by conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Kholodenko displays his superb technique and burnished tone in dazzling performances that will not disappoint. The latest volume in Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series explores the music of Ludomir Rózycki. Jonathan Plowright plays the Polish composer’s two concertos. Choral music fans will rejoice over Hyperion’s new album of music by Alec Roth. Performed by Jeffrey Skidmore and Ex Cathedra, Roth’s heartbreakingly beautiful music is heard in superb performances on a disc that is sure to be one of the year’s best. Another outstanding British choir, ORA, makes their harmonia mundi début this month with Upheld by Stillness – a disc that pairs Renaissance masterworks by William Byrd with ‘reflections’ on those pieces by six acclaimed contemporary composers. Both modern and period interpretive styles are featured in new discs by the Akademie für Alte Music Berlin and pianist Angela Hewitt. Hewitt presents a superb disc of Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, while the Akademie offers their take on Handel’s immortal Water Music. Releases by two stars of the jazz world round out the month. GRAMMY® nominated pianist Omar Sosa is featured on a new trio disc called JOG, and British jazz superstar Ian Shaw makes his Jazz Village début with The Theory of Joy.

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ISserlis plays elgar and walton Cello concertos Sir Edward Elgar’s sublime Cello Concerto receives an impassioned new performance from Steven Isserlis, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Paavo Järvi. With additional works by Sir William Walton and Gustav Holst, as well as a miniature suite for solo cello by Imogen Holst, this is unquestionably one of the year’s most eagerly awaited releases.

Elgar & Walton: Cello ConcertosSteven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra, Paavo JärviHyperion • CDA 68077

RENÉ JACOBS CONDUCTS BACH’s ST. JOHN PASSIONJust in time for Easter, René Jacobs leads the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Staats-und Domchor Berlin and RIAS Kammerchor in a definitive performance of Bach’s choral masterpiece, the St. John Passsion. The Super Audio CD recording features a superb cast of soloists that includes soprano Sunhae Im, countertenor Benno Schachtner, baritone Johannes Weisser and tenors Sebastian Kohlhepp and Werner Güra.

Bach: St. John PassionAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobsharmonia mundi • HMC 802236 SACD

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Mozart: Symphony No.39Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, PaumgartnerBelvedere • 10146 (4280000101464) Price Code: A21 - SRP: $21.98

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Mozart’s infrequently performed String Quintets for two violins, two violas and cello, penned during the last four years of his life, show the composer at his best. Mozart created models for the genre so imposing that it is hard not to speculate on what its future might have been if Mozart had not died so young. This two-DVD set of the complete quintets features an all-star ensemble including Renaud Capuçon, Alina Ibragimova, Gérard Caussé, Léa Hennino and Clemens Hagen. The performances were filmed live in January 2014 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

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• Features chart-topping violinist Alina Ibragimova• Three hours of live concert footage• Recorded in Salzburg’s famous Mozarteum

MOZART String Quintets Nos.1-6

Alina Ibragimova (violin), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Gérard Caussé (viola), Léa Hennino (viola), Clemens Hagen (cello)

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Mahler: Das Klagende LiedBayerischen Rundfunks, KubelíkPraga • PRD 350118 (3149028039122)Price Code: A23 - SRP: $23.98

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The Stabat Mater is Dvořák’s most celebrated choral work. He began composing the piece in late 1875, but set it aside. Then, two tragedies befell him and he was plunged into an uncharacteristically melancholic mood. The deaths of his eleven-month-old daughter and three-year-old son compelled Dvořák to complete his masterpiece. Even though stricken with grief, Dvořák still could not resist writing simple, folk-like, melodies for his luminous Stabat Mater. On this performance, acclaimed conductor Mariss Jansons leads four superb soloists and the combined forces of the chorus and orchestra of the Bayerischen Rundfunk.

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• Dvořák’s most celebrated choral work• Four world-renowned solists• Available on DVD and Blu-ray

DvoŘák Stabat Mater

Erin Wall (soprano), Mihoko Fujimura (mezzo-soprano), Christian Elsner (tenor), Liang Li (bass)Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen RundfunksMariss Jansons

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Schumann: DavidsbündlertänzePaolo GiacomettiChannel Classics • CCSSA 28709 (723385287094)Price Code: A24 - SRP: $24.98

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• Prize-winning baritone’s Channel Classics début• Giacometti plays two different period fortepianos• Features Schumann’s best-known song cycle, Dichterliebe

Dutch baritone Thomas Oliemans, winner of the 2013 Prix d’ Amis of The Netherlands Opera, is accompanied by Italian pianist Paolo Giacometti on this recital of Schumann lieder. The program features Schumann’s best-known song cycle, Dichterliebe, and his most mysterious, Sechs Gedichte und Requiem. Schumann, believing mistakenly that the poet Lenau had died, added a requiem to the five settings. When word of Lenau’s actual death reached Schumann on the day of the cycles first performance, the work became an eerie prophecy. Also included here is the Sechs Gesänge, dedicated to Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. Oliemans and Giacometti are perfectly matched on the baritone’s Channel Classics début.

Dr Jekyll & Mr HydeSCHUMANN Dichterliebe Op.48, Sechs Gesänge Op.89, Sechs Lieder und Requiem Op.90

Thomas Oliemans (baritone)Paolo Giacometti (fortepiano)

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For her first solo disc, Marie van Rhijn brings together two of her passions: the French vocal repertoire of the “tragédie lyrique” and the music for the viola da gamba. This program explorers the musical colors of King Louis XIV’s court. Sometimes orchestral and at other times intimate, these works are beautifully performed by Rhijn on a rare harpsichord from 1679, which has never been recorded before.

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MARAIS Dans les jardins d’Eurytus

Marie van Rhijn (harpsichord)

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On Helldunkel / Clair Obscur, French pianist Cyril Guillotin brings his unique vision to a quartet of piano masterpieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann and Chopin. Guillotin’s program features works that (as the disc’s title indicates) explore an interplay of light and shadow.

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Helldunkel / Clair ObscurMozart Variations K265, Fantaisie K475Beethoven Piano Sonata Op.27 No.2Schumann Fantaisie Op.17Chopin Nocturne Op.20

Cyril Guillotin (piano)

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Musgrave: Chamber works for oboeNicholas Daniel, Chilingirian Quartetharmonia mundi • HMU 907568 (093046756826)Price Code: A19 - SRP: $19.98

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• Works by contemporary female composer Elena Langer• Three Royal Academy of Music Alumni: Dennis, Towers & Langer• Nicholas Daniel is a recipient of the Queen’s Medal for Music

This program features a selection of chamber works by Elena Langer, notable for their playful counterpoint and delicate textures: Landscape with Three People, Ariadne, John Donne Song. The Russian born, London-based composer delights in exploring the endless sound worlds of voices and instruments, all ably captured by soprano Anna Dennis, countertenor William Towers and oboist Nicholas Daniel.

LANGER Landscape with Three People, Ariadne, John Donne Song

Anna Dennis (soprano)William Towers (countertenor)Nicholas Daniel (oboe)

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Greig & Saint-Saëns: Piano ConcertosVadym Kholodenkoharmonia mundi • HMU 907629 (093046762926) Price Code: A19 - SRP: $19.98

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• 2013 Van Cliburn Gold Medalist• First Fort Worth Symphony “Artist in Partnership”• Russian pianist performing Russian repertoire

2013 Cliburn Gold Medalist Vadym Kholodenko became the first-ever “Artist in Partnership” with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra beginning in 2014-2015. Under the baton of Miguel Harth-Bedoya, he opens his complete cycle of Prokofiev Piano Concertos with the dark-hued but dazzling second concerto coupled with the less familiar fifth.

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Prokofiev Piano Concertos Nos.2 & 5

Vadym Kholodenko (piano)Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya

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Vivaldi: Il teatro alla modaGli incogniti, Amandine Beyerharmonia mundi • HMC 902221 (3149020222126)Price Code: A19 - SRP: $19.98

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Though the bass line of a certain celebrated Canon may have made Pachelbel the most frequently heard classical composer in the world, this sparkling program shows he was not just a ‘one hit wonder.’ It is built around suites for two violins and continuo from a collection called the Musikalische Ergötzung. The title means ‘musical delight,’ and indeed one cannot but be ravished by the extraordinary sonic hedonism displayed in these works. A few songs written for special occasions add further spice to this delightful recording featuring tenor Hans-Jörg Mammel and the ensemble Gli incogniti led by Amandine Beyer.

• A new look at Pachelbel’s famous Canon• Explores Pachelbel’s ‘other’ compositions• Follow up to Gli incogniti’s acclaimed Vivaldi recording

Pachelbel Un orage d’avril – Suites, Canon & Songs

Hans-Jörg Mammel (tenor)Gli incognitiAmandine Beyer

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Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem SerailAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Jacobsharmonia mundi • HMC 902214 (3149020221426)Price Code: 2A15 - SRP: $31.98

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• GRAMMY® Award winning artist• Over a million recordings sold• One of Handel’s most popular works

Handel’s Water Music is a collection of orchestral movements, often published as three suites. It was premiered on July 17, 1717 after King George I requested a concert on the river Thames. This timeless collection is brought to life by Baroque specialists the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, whose critical achievements include a GRAMMY® Award, a Diapason d’Or, the Cannes Classical Award, a Gramophone Award, an Edison Award and a German Record Critics’ Award.

HANDEL Water Music

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Led by Artistic Director and conductor Suzi Digby, the talented English choral ensemble ORA was founded in 2014. The choir’s mission is to showcase ‘classic’ masterpieces of Renaissance choral music alongside works by contemporary composers. For Upheld by Stillness, the group’s harmonia mundi début, ORA asked several composers to write works reflecting on the music of William Byrd, including his Mass for Five Voices. Included here, paired with Byrd’s originals, are world première recordings of newly commissioned works by Roxanna Panufnik, Francis Pott, Alexander L’Estrange, Owain Park, Charlotte Bray and Roderick Williams.

• Six world première recordings of newly commisioned works• ORA’s harmonia mundi début• First release in a series

Upheld by Stillness

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Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker SuiteHarmonie Ensemble / New York, Richmanharmonia mundi • HMU 907493 (093046749323)Price Code: A19 - SRP: $19.98

This CD Plus Catalog release pairs albums of music by two iconic American composers. On Music for Peter Gunn, the GRAMMY®-nominated Harmonie Ensemble / New York places their stamp on Mancini’s iconic orchestrations for the classic TV detective series. Gershwin By Grofé is a swinging set of symphonic jazz 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.

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GERSHWIN By Grofé – Original Orchestrations & ArrangementsMANCINI Music for Peter Gunn

Lincoln Mayorga (piano)Harmonie Ensemble / New York, Steven Richman

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Brahms: Violin SonatasIsabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikovharmonia mundi • HMC 902219 (3149020221921)Price Code: A19 - SRP: $19.98

Isabelle Faust’s performances of J.S. Bach’s immortal solo Sonatas and Partitas are now available complete at a special price, paired with a harmonia mundi catalog. For these recordings, Faust returned to the original manuscript sources to offer us her personal vision of these iconic masterpieces of the violin repertoire. In Bach’s time, music for solo instruments was still little-explored territory, and his Sonatas and Partitas immediately established themselves as a benchmark – both technically challenging and brimming with creativity.

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BACH Complete Sonatas & Partitas

Isabelle Faust (violin)

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Victor Hugo in Music

Konstantin Wolff (bass-baritone), Trung Sam (piano)

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BRAHMS Horn Trio, Violin Sonata

Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Teunis van der Zwart (horn)


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Overtüren – Music for the Hamburg Opera

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HAYDN Symphonies Nos.91 & 92, Scena di Berenice

Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Freiburger Barockorchester, René Jacobs


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Brazilian AdventuresEx Cathedra, Jeffrey SkidmoreHyperion Records • CDA68114 (034571281148)Price Code: A19 - SRP: $19.98

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• Ex Cathedra performed the world première of A Time to Dance• A leading UK choir and early music ensemble founded in 1969• Gramophone Award winners

Alec Roth’s new oratorio, A Time to Dance, is a celebration of times and seasons. Jeffrey Skidmore and Ex Cathedra, who gave the première of the work in 2012, recreate the sheer exuberance of that live performance on this recording. The oratorio is paired with Roth’s Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Hatfield Service) and Men & Angels, a clever setting of John Donne’s Antiphon “Praised be the God of love.”

ROTH A Time to Dance, Hatfield Service, Men & Angels

Ex CathedraJeffrey Skidmore

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Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.66Howard Shelley, Tasmanian Symphony OrchestraHyperion • CDA 68100 (034571281001)Price Code: A19 - SRP: $19.98

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• Volume 67 in Hyperion’s ground-breaking series• Rarely heard works by Ludomir Różycki• Plowright is head of Keyboard at the University of Chichester

Volume 67 of Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series features Ludomir Różycki (1884-1953), a composer who remains frustratingly obscure outside of his native Poland. On this exciting disc, pianist Jonathan Plowright is the soloist in Różycki’s three works for piano and orchestra, accompanied by Łukasz Borowicz leading the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. These pieces showcase a composer with an accomplished ear for instrumental color, whose late-nineteenth-century musical language responds to the horrors of two world wars with an irrepressible spirit.

The Romantic Piano Concerto Vol.67Różycki Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Ballade Op.18

Jonathan Plowright (piano)BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz


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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol.5Angela HewittHyperion • CDA 68086 (034571280868)Price Code: A19 - SRP: $19.98

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• Hewitt is a Juno Award nominee• Features Scarlatti’s most popular sonata• US tour in 2016

Canadian Baroque keyboard specialist par excellence Angela Hewitt turns to the rich seam of Domenico Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas. The prolific Italian composer wrote over 555 sonatas in his lifetime. For this collection, Hewitt performs sixteen of the composer’s finest sonatas, including the ever-popular Sonata in E Major, Kk380.

Scarlatti Sonatas

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18th-Century Portuguese Love SongsL’Avventura London, Žak OzmoHyperion • CDA 67904 (034571179049)Price Code: A19 - SRP: $19.98

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• World première recording• Ozmo is Director of Early Music at the University of Hull• Ozmo founded the ensemble L’Avventura London

The modern sequence of keys had yet to be invented when Vincenzo Galilei set out to traverse them all, well over a century before Bach’s seminal Well-tempered Clavier. The resulting demands on the sixteenth-century lutenist were ferocious, and Žak Ozmo here fully rises to the challenge in their first recording.

GALILEI The Well-tempered Lute – Tones I-IV

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• Adrian La Marca’s recording début• La Marca won first Prize at the French Young Artists Competition• Only classical musician to receive the “Fondation Lagardère”

English Delight is a tribute to the viola and English composers from across different eras and styles. From John Dowland to Jonathan Harvey, Adrien La Marca takes us on a journey through four centuries. Each composer influences the next, but each speaks their own different and sublime language.

English DelightWorks for viola by Clarke, Dowland, Britten, Bridge, Harvey, Vaughan Williams & Purcell

Adrien La Marca (viola)Thomas Hoppe (piano)

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Bach: Musical OfferingRicercar Consort, PierlotMirare • MIR 237 (3760127222378)Price Code: A23 - SRP: $23.98

At the end of the Thirty Years War, the Viennese Imperial Courts supported the compositions of an extraordinarily talented generation of musicians who spoke with virtuosity, humor and depth. This collection from the Ricercar Consort and Philippe Pierlot features an assortment of works from flagship composers of the period: Schmelzer, Biber, Kerll and Poglietti.

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BIBER Imitatio

Ricercar ConsortPhilippe Pierlot

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Scriabin: Complete ÉtudesAndrei KorobeinikovMirare • MIR 218 (3760127222187)Price Code: A23 - SRP: $23.98

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Brahms had an extraordinary skill for taking classical forms to new heights. Some twenty years separate the Cello Sonata No.1 from Cello Sonatas Nos.2 and 3. All three are performed here by the Russian duo of cellist Alexander Kniazev and pianist Andrei Korobeinikov. These works remain perfect examples of the composer’s ability to resolve the textural problems raised when combining two instruments.

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BRAHMS Cello Sonatas Nos.1-3

Alexander Kniazev (cello)Andrei Korobeinikov (piano)

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ElementsLudovico EinaudiPonderosa • CD 132 (8030482001648)Price Code: A21 - SRP: $21.98

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• Now available on 180 gram high-fidelity vinyl• Reached No.2 on Billboard’s Classical Crossover Chart• Reached No.1 on the UK Official Charts, Classical Artist Albums

Following on the worldwide success of In a Time Lapse, Ludovico Einaudi presents his new work, [Elements], available now on vinyl. The work’s sound is lush and deep and interwoven with a freshness that naturally blends Einaudi’s piano with acoustic and electronic sounds. In addition to his usual collaborators, the album also features the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Berlin-based electronic musician Robert Lippok, Brazilian percussionist Mauro Refosco and South African violinist Daniel Hope. The composer said of the album, “Elements sprang from a desire to start anew, following a different path of knowledge. I saw new frontiers — on the edge between what I knew and what I didn’t know — that I had long wanted to explore... gradually, everything came together in a dance, as if all the elements were parts of the same world, and myself within it.”

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Shostakovich: Symphony No.8Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, MravinskyPraga • PRD 350120 (3149028039320)Price Code: A23 - SRP: $23.98

In the spring of 1945, the intelligentsia in Russia and the rest of the world expected Shostakovich’s Symphony No.9 to glorify Stalin’s victory with a hymn worthy of Beethoven’s. What emerged was a symphonic scherzo, more Rossini-like than majestic, except for the solemn brass call of the largo. Performed here by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra led by Zdeněk Košler, the symphony is paired with the Piano Trio in memory of his the composer’s friend Ivan Sollertinsky, who had lost favor with the Kremlin, and the String Quartet No.3, his last diatribe against vice and violence.

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In the wake of World War IISHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.9, Piano Trio No.2, String Quartet No.3

Trio Oistrakh, Smetana Quartet, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Zdeněk Košler

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Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos.14 & 15Pražák QuartetPraga • PRD 250306 (3149028043228)Price Code: A24 - SRP: $24.98

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Shostakovich’s string quartets are the epitome of eloquence. The four selections here progress from the golden age of Soviet realism with Quartet No.10, though to the Webernian purity of Quartet No.13. The Beethoven Quartet, Shostakovich’s frequent collaborator, was the first to record these works. He dedicated several of his fifteen quartets to the group and its members.

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SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos.10, 11, 12 & 13

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Beethoven: Triple Concerto, Violin ConcertoDavid OistrakhPraga • PRD 350082 (3149028027921)Price Code: A23 - SRP: $23.98

Beethoven’s fifth violin sonata, often called Spring Sonata, is modeled after Haydn and Mozart. The sixth is a gracious work with a fascinating central adagio. The ninth, subtitled the Kreutzer-Sonata, is arguably the first romantic violin sonata. All three are performed here by David Oistrakh with accompaniment by Frida Bauer and Sviatoslav Richter.

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David Oistrakh plays BeethovenBEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas Nos.5, 6 & 9

David Oistrakh (violin) Frida Bauer (piano)Sviatoslav Richter (piano)


David Oistrakh in PragueDavid Oistrakh, Frida Bauer Praga • PRD 250320 (3149028072624)Price Code: A24 - SRP: $24.98

Brahms’s Violin Sonatas have become a reference for the “romantic sonata form.” Each of the three works has its own sentimental mood. The first uses the theme from Brahms’s “Regenlied” and is obviously modeled on Beethoven’s last Violin Sonata. The second is warmer and more intimate, drawing inspiration from his affection for young German soprano Hermine Spies. The third has a vehemence and greatness which, this time, exceeds the Beethovenian model of the Kreutzer-Sonata. Iconic violinist David Oistrakh is accompanied by Frida Bauer on Sonata No.1 and No.3 and Sviatoslav Richter on No.2.

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David Oistrakh plays Johannes BrahmsBRAHMS Violin Sonatas Nos.1-3, Scherzo

David Oistrakh (violin) Frida Bauer (piano)Sviatoslav Richter (piano)


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Shostakovich: ConcertosOistrakh, Rostropovich, BernsteinPraga • PRD 350059 (794881896523)Price Code: A22 - SRP: $22.98

This is an unusual pairing of two romantic concertos by Tchaikovsky and Sibelius, performed by the legendary David Oistrakh on his Stradivarius Comte de Fontana. He is supported by conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, leading both the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra and the USSR Radio Symphony in readings that peer deep into the Baltic soul.

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Tchaikovsky Violin ConcertoSibelius Violin Concerto, Humoresques Op.87 Nos.1 & 2

David Oistrakh (violin)Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, USSR Radio Symphony, Gennady Rozhdestvensky


Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, MravinskyPraga • PRD 350111 (3149028038422)Price Code: A23 - SRP: $23.98

The “Lovers of Verona” have long inspired distinguished composers like Benda, Zingarelli, Bellini, Gounod and most famously, Berlioz, Tchaïkovsky and Prokofiev. Here combat, tumult and love scenes blend in fortuitous harmony that will delight the ears. Kyrill Kondrashin leads the Moscow Philharmonic, Pierre Monteux the London Symphony and Yevgeny Mravinsky the Leningrad Philharmonic in these classic readings.

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Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet – Fantasy-OvertureBerlioz Romeo & Juliet (excerpts)Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet – Ballet Suite No.2 (excerpts)

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Emil Gilels in PragueEmil GilelsPraga • PRD 250309 (3149028043525)Price Code: A24 - SRP: $24.98

Praga presents Slavonic Piano Masters of the 20th Century, featuring legendary keyboard virtuoso, Emil Gilels. This program features keyboard sonatas by Scriabin, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, each one a stunning piano masterpiece.

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Slavonic Piano Masterpieces of the 20th CenturyScriabin Piano Sonata No.3Prokofiev Piano Sonata No.8Shostakovich Piano Sonata No.2

Emil Gilels (piano)


Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2Sviatoslav RichterPraga • PRD 350103 (3149028037623)Price Code: A23 - SRP: $23.98

Having won fame as a great Beethoven interpreter, Claudio Arrau is no less celebrated for his Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Debussy and Brahms. His connection with Rafael Kubelík was particularly deep. This recording features Kubelík leading the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1. Also included is the solo Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op.24.

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Claudio Arrau plays Johannes BrahmsBRAHMS Piano Concerto No.1, Handel Variations Op.24

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• Two-time winner of the BBC Jazz Award for Best Vocalist• Jazz Village début• Advocate for Calais refugee relief

Twice winner of the BBC Jazz Award for Best Vocalist, Ian Shaw’s return to working with the singer-with-trio format has him teaming up with the in-demand young pianist Barry Green, legendary UK bassist Mick Hutton and an old cohort, drummer David Ohm. Following their appearance in 2014 at the prestigious North Sea Jazz Festival, Shaw returned to Hamburg’s Elbjazz this year with the trio to showcase his new work. These arrangements form the basis of The Theory of Joy.

The Theory of Joy

Ian Shaw

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MechanicsSylvain RiffletJazz Village • JV 570089 (3149027005722)Price Code: A18 - SRP: $18.98

Pierrick Pedron has long been one of the most respected and in-demand jazz musicians in France. His latest album encompasses bop, funk, jazz, rock, pop and Afro pop. Recorded in Brussels and Paris with the help of a few faithful accomplices, he sculpts a state of the art sound using the groove as a guideline. On And The, this virtuoso saxophonist proves again that he is an inventive composer, a sound innovator and a catalyst of the music of our time.

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And The

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HeavensRaphaël ImbertJazz Village • JV 570011 (3149027001427)Price Code: A18 - SRP: $18.98

On Music Is My Home Act 1, Raphaël Imbert performs alongside an array of established, acclaimed musicians (Big Ron Hunter, Leyla McCalla, Alabama Slim, etc.) as well as some young, up-and-coming stars. The saxophonist takes on the role of ethnomusicologist, escorting us along the roads of the American deep south. Along with an unparalleled groove, Imbert provides his special insight into the roots of blues, jazz and soul.

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Le Splendid is the name of a Paris café-théâtre founded in the 1970s by a collective of writers and actors. The members of the company went on to become some of the most significant names in French cinema. Forty years after their début, Le Grand Orchestre du Splendid, the theatre’s house orchestra, is still performing, with its signature mix of good natured fun and irresistible swing.

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Les Années Splendid – Saison 1

Le Grand Orchestre du Splendid


On A Queen of Hearts, French-American vocalist Rosemary Standley, better known as the singer for the band Moriarty, turns her vocal talents to the cabaret era. In 2013, she performed in the musical A Queen of Hearts directed by Juliette Deschamps at the Theatre de la Bastille. Afterward, she and pianist Sylvain Griotto took the show on the road. Here, she slips into the skin of a star and evokes memories of Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Nina Simone and Billie Holiday.

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A Queen of Hearts

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• Sosa is a seven-time GRAMMY® Nominee• Features 2015 JazzAward recepient Joo Kraus• US Tour in spring 2016

Seven-time GRAMMY®-nominated Cuban composer and jazz pianist Omar Sosa has assembled a new trio with award-winning German trumpet player Joo Kraus and Venezuelan percussionist Gustavo Ovalles. Kraus was a member of Sosa’s Afri-Lectric Experience – the sextet that recorded Sosa’s GRAMMY®-nominated Miles Davis tribute album Eggun. Ovalles was featured on Sosa’s 2003 recording Ayaguna, and was also part of the octet that recorded Sosa’s Roots Trilogy recordings. JOG exemplifies Sosa’s philosophy of jazz as freedom. The music is improvisation-based, with each player bringing expression of his musical roots to the collective experience.

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Omar Sosa, Joo Kraus, Gustavo Ovalles

Otá Records • OTA 1028

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• Broadcast Film Critics Association Award “Best Composer”• New York Film Critics Online Award “Best Use of Music”• Online Film Critics Society Award Nominee “Best Original Score”

Philip Glass’s score for Neil Burger’s film The Illusionist was widely acclaimed upon its release in 2006. The music for the film, set in 1900s Vienna, evokes the feeling of mystery and wonder that surrounds the famous magician Eisenheim (played by Edward Norton) and it is performed brilliantly by the Czech Film Orchestra under the baton of Michael Riesman. As part of the ongoing series From the Philip Glass Recording Archive, this reissue from Orange Mountain Music aims to keep this brilliant score in print with this completely remastered edition from the original tapes.

The Illusionist — Original SoundtrackPhilip Glass Recording Archive Vol.7

Philip Glass

Orange Mountain • OMM 0108

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