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CCS SA SEL 2603 volume 1

Forward to the future, proud of the past

A new sampler means looking back to those recordings that have appeared since our last compilation. Every track represents abrief ‘sample’, not only of the technical side of the SACD, but also of the artists’ musical interpretation. Many music lovers likethese samplers because the tracks can be completely different from one another in instruments and styles. Always a surprise!

Channel Classics continues to be fully committed to the Super Audio CD format. We believe that offering the highest quality ofsound recordings to the public is a logical answer to the changing circumstances in the recording industry. For whatever medi-um the public uses in the future, at least the original recording will be of the highest quality in stereo and multichannel.

Channel has been developing ties with China during the last two years by introducing SACD technology and recording in Beijingand Shanghai. We have created a sub label for these recordings called ‘Channel of China’.By recording traditional instruments like the Erhu, the Pipa along with the China National Symphony Orchestra, we are indeedlooking forward and backward by creating a new series of recordings with some of the most talented newcomers on theChinese musical scene.

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‘All of this is presented in multi-channel SACD that is as brilliant and natural as you will hear anywhere’ ..... ‘asuperb multichannel listening experience’ ..... ‘The recording quality is excellent’ ..... ‘in SuperAudio Surroundit could be sensational’ ..... ‘excellent SACD mastering’ ..... ‘a crystal-clear SACD recorded sound’ ..... ‘morepresence and sparkle’ ..... ‘wholly natural balances’ ..... ‘the best sounding SACDs on the planet’ .....

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Amsterdam SinfoniettaCandida Thompson, artistic leader

LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN String Quartet opus 135 in F major (1826)

SIR WILLIAM WALTON Sonata for Strings (1971/73)

(...) The rhythmic precision of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta is

simply astounding (...)Classics Today

(...) a terrific performance (...)great delicacy and

sweetness (...)Gramophone

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Amsterdam Sinfonietta concentrates on the scintillating pre-sentation of sensitively chosen programs, based on the emo-tional power of the stringed instruments. The core of Amster-dam Sinfonietta is an ensemble of 23 string players whichperforms chamber works and, more especially, compositionsscored for string orchestra.

•Gramophone: CD of the Month

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Paolo Giacometti, piano

ROSSINI‘Album de Château’complete works for piano, vol.7

Prélude PrétentieuxSpécimen de Mon TempsValse Anti-DansantePrélude SemipastoralTarantelle pur Sang(avec Traversée de la Procession)Un RêvePrélude soi-disant DramatiqueSpécimen de l’Avenir

instrument: Pleyel (1858)


Paolo Giacometti records exclusively for Channel Classics.His impressive discography has been widely acclaimed bythe international press. His recordings include Rossini’s com-plete piano works, a remarkable project that started in 1998.In Rossini’s homeland, critics say: “... Rossini has finallyfound his pianist ...”. For the third recording of this seriesPaolo Giacometti was distinguished with the Edison ClassicalMusic Award 2001. • NEW RELEASE


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Gary Cooper, fortepianoRachel Podger, violin

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin VOL. 2

Sonata in C Major, KV 303 (293c)Sonata in D Major, KV 7 Sonata in G Major, KV 301 (293a)Sonata in F Major, KV 30 Sonata in E flat Major, KV 481

Instruments:Fortepiano: Anton Walter, Vienna1795; copy by Derek Adlam, 1987Violin: Pesarinius 1739

(…) again, warmly recommended. (...)

International Record Review

(...) Mozart grows up, as Cooperand Podger impress. (...)

Gramophone


In recording these Mozart Sonatas, a paradox quickly beca-me apparent. I feel Mozart’s music is aimed at the heart.Approaching his music instinctively comes most naturally tome: it seems so effortlessly composed, and communicates tous directly. After all, why do children react so positively tothis music of the heart? And yet I also found my experienceof Performance Practice in Baroque music helped me find away of understanding and appreciating Mozart’s style.


Budapest Festival OrchestraIván Fischer, conductor

MAHLER Symphony no. 6 in a minor

(...) lithe and alert, without necessary sounding (...) trans-

parent sound (...)Gramophone

(…) expressive balance (...) marvellous Budapest

players (...)BBC Music Magazine


We continue our series with Fischer with Mahler’s 6thSymphony. Again, well-known repertoire in a performancethat will surprise you by it’s spontaneity and passion. Therecording took place in the beautiful new concerthall inBudapest, the ‘ Palace of Arts’.

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Yu Hong Mei, erhuWulin, konghou (chinese harp)Liu Yin Xuan, yang qin (chinesecymbalo)Chen Zhe, piano

ERHU CHANT

Idyllic Tune, Weeping River ofSorrow, Celebrating the Harvestof Grapes, Ode to ShanmenxiaGorge, Birdsong echoing in aquiet valley, A Bunch of Flowers Moon reflected in the Twin-spring Lake, Ballad of NorthHenan Province


The erhu is the most popular and typical stringed instrumentof the huqin (bowed string instrument) family among thegraet variety of traditional Chinese instruments. On thisrecording you can hear Yu Hong Mei who -as an excellentperformer in the world of Chinese music- has attracted wideattention and is considered to be one of the most talentederhu soloists.

channel of china

• NEW RELEASE

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Vocal Ensemble THE GENTS leader Peter Dijkstra

IN LOVE....popsongs & folk songs from theBritish Isles

Michelle, Lullabye, Blackbird,And so it goes, With a little Helpfrom my Friends, Misschienniet de Eeuwigheid, Omarm,Dansen aan Zee, LondonderryAir, ‘Danny boy’, The Oak andthe Ash, Molly Malone, Ca’ theyowes, The Turtle dove, HeyJude, If I fell, A groovy Kind ofLove, And I love her

Peter Dijkstra: “ it gives me great pleasure to present this CD,which appears in response to repeated requests. At last wehave taken the opportunity to record this repertoire. Howoften we have had to disappoint members of the audiencewhen we tell them that, unfortunately, there are no recor-dings available for the arrangements of Billy Joel’s ‘Lullabye’or Toni Wine’s ‘Groovy Kind of Love’. Here they are at last!

(...) one of the world's top vocalensembles. (...)

Classics Today.com

(...) great joy in singing (...)Audiophile Audition

CCS SA 23306 tracks 6 channel crossings


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Florilegium

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN Paris Quartets (1738) vol. 3

Quatuor No. 4 in b minor Quatuor No. 5 in A majorQuatuor No. 6 in e minor Deuxieme Suite in b minor

Regular performances in some of the world’s most presti-gious venues have confirmed Florilegium’s status as one ofBritain’s most outstanding period instrument ensembles.The ‘Paris’ Quartets (1730) and ‘Nouveaux Quatuors’ (1738)are a fine example of Telemann’s contribution to instrumentalmusic in the Baroque era.


(...) Florilegium and Telemann –a match made in Baroque

heaven (...)Gramophone

(...) mightily impressive andalluring (...)

International Record Review


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Zhang Hong Yan, pipa solo

AMBUSH ON ALL SIDES

Dragon Boat, Falling SnowFlakes Dotting the VerdantTrees, Moonlit Night by theFlowery Spring Lake, HighSpring and Pure Snow, GreatWaves Wash Away the Sand,Ambush on all Sides, TheRising Moon, A Homesick Songfrom the War Frontier, King Chudoffs his armour

The pipa is also known in the west as a four-stringed ChineseLute or four-stringed Chinese guitar. It is one of the oldestChinese musical instruments, and appears in Chinese writtentexts of the second century BC. There were once extensiverepertoires of pipa music in Chinese history. These pieces, inall their beauty and elegance, have finally been revealed tothe public after having slept for a thousand years.

CCS SA 80106 track 8 channel of china

• NEW RELEASE


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La Sfera Armoniosowith Anne Grimm & JohannetteZomer, soprano

FRANÇOIS COUPERINLeçons de Ténèbres à une et àdeux voix

including instrumental worksby Marin Marais, Robert deVisee and Jean-Henryd’Anglebert

on period instruments

(...) meditative austerity (...)their blend in the third Leçon is

exquisite (...)Independent on Sunday


In these ‘Leçons’, François Couperin used only the simplestof means: one or two voices plus basso continuo. Within thissetting, however, he achieved a high degree of expression bymeans of his subtle declamation of the text and illustration ofindividual words.

note! upsampling from 44.1


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Bart Schneemann, oboePaolo Giacometti, pianoRombouts Quartet

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Quartet in F, KV 370 (368 b)Sonata in F, KV 377 Quartet in d, KV 421

on period instruments

Mozart had a kind of superior ease in composing. If your abi-lity is that great, and you have that kind of breadth to yoursoul, then apparently you can do anything: from amusementto the deeply serious, from polite to satirical, from profoundto mundane, from dramatic to flip. And this all applies to thethree works which we recorded for this CD.


• NEW RELEASE


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Meridian Arts Ensemble

BRINK

David Sanford:Corpus

Elliott Sharp:Beyond The Curve

Nick Didkovsky:Slim in Beaten Dreamers

All three of these pieces draw on various styles of musicavailable to today’s listener, from free improvisation in adensely notated art-rock setting to evocations of Africanvocal polyphony, from oblique references to 1970’s televi-sion themes to the rhythms and intonations of a sermonizingpreacher. Yet each piece creates its own unique style andlanguage.

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(...) ‘Brink’ is an impressive calling-card for the performance abilities of

the Meridian Arts Ensemble, anAmerican brass quintet that’s given

extra lift by John Ferrari’s kit drumming (...)

Philip Clark

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The Netherlands Bach SocietyJos van Veldhoven, conductor

Anne Grimm, soprano 1Johannette Zomer, soprano 2Peter de Groot,, altoAndrew Tortise, tenorBas Ramselaar, bass

D. BUXTEHUDEMembra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75Fried- und FreudenreicheHinfahrth, BuxWV 76

(...) a superb multichannel listening experience (...)

Audiophile Audition

(...) Magnificent (...)Gramophone


(...) In fact, we know unusually little about this great musi-cian; no personal letters or anecdotes have survived. Hismusic speaks to us all the more powerfully – especially theMembra Jesu Nostri, with its highly personal combination ofintroverted expressivity, deliberately simple declamatio andgreat harmonic richness.

• editor’s choice gramophone


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Matthew Wadsworth, lute andtheorbo

MASTERS OF THE LUTE

works by:John Dowland, GiovanniGieralomo Kapsberger , Robertde Visée, Heinrich Ignaz Franzvon Biber

Instruments:8 course lute by Stephen Gottlieb,2002 theorbo by Klaus Jacobsen,1990 13 course baroque lute byKlaus Jacobsen, 2004 Temperament 6th comma Strings gut, made by Aquilla inItaly and Daniel Larson, U.S.A.

We are happy to announce a new artist in our family ofartists: Matthew Wadsworth, lutenist, and in great demand asa soloist, continuo player and chamber musician.Masters of the Lute is an anthology of lute and theorbopieces from late Renaissance - beauty of harmony, balanceand an eloquent regard for structure - till early Baroque,when composers developed a taste for personal expressionand theatrical rhetoric.


• NEW RELEASE


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Chinese National SymphonyOrchestra, Li Xin Cao, conductor

SOLILOQUY AT COLD MOUNTAINTEMPLE

Girls from Mt. Alishan,Songtseyala, Soliloquy at ColdMountain Temple, Riddle-gues-sing song, Moon Reflection onthe Twin-Spring Lake, Peacockfans its tail, Journey beyondXikou, Overture no.2


The China National Symphony Orchestra is China's premierprofessional symphony orchestra. Founded in 1956 as theCentral Philharmonic Orchestra of China, the ensemble wasrestructured and renamed the China National SymphonyOrchestra (CNSO) in 1996.This release marks the 50th anniversary of the orchestra, andis the first recording of the orchestra that will be commercial-ly available in the West.

channel of china

• NEW RELEASE


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Paolo Giacometti, piano

GIOACCHINO ROSSINI‘Bolero Tartare’ complete works for piano vol. 6

Un CauchemarPlain-Chant ChinoisValse BoiteuseUne Pensée à FlorenceMarcheSpécimen de l’Ancien RégimePrélude Pétulant-RococoUn RegretUn EspoirBolero Tartare

instrument: Piano Erard 1858

(...) Between the instrumentand the engineering, every note

seems to wear a velvet bed-room slipper. No doubt Rossini

would have approved!International Record Review


Rossini’s prolific output of compositions for piano is a greatgift. This is already the sixth CD documenting our voyage ofdiscovery through the compositions of this exceptionally cre-ative spirit. I am gradually coming to see Rossini as almostmore of a piano composer who occasionally composed a fewoperas, rather than the other way around.


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Gary Cooper, fortepianoRachel Podger, violin

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin VOL. 3

Sonata in Bb, KV 454Sonata in C, KV 28Andante & Fugue in a, KV 402Andante & Allegretto in C, KV 404Sonata in Bb, KV 8Sonata in Eb, KV 380

InstrumentsFortepiano: Anton Walter, Vienna1795; copy by Derek Adlam, 1987Violin: Pesarinius 1739


(...) The most enjoyable Mozartdisc so far this year. (...)

The Times

(...) The playing is superlative,as is the give and take between

the duo. (...)Early Musica

The popularity of his sonatas, variation sets, and concerti forthe piano has tended to overshadow his violin compositions,but the first sounds that his baby ears received probablycame from his father’s violin. Until Wolfgang moved toVienna in 1781, the sound of the violin had accompanied himvirtually every day of his life.

• editor’s choice gramophone


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Budapest Festival Orchestra Iván Fischer, conductor

The Hungarian Radio Choir Kálmán Strausz, chorus masterLisa Milne, sopranoBirgit Remmert, alto

MAHLERSymphony no. 2 ‘Resurrection’


(...) and best of all Fischer really breathes in the atmos-phere of Mahler’s precipitous

flight to enternity (...)Gramophone

(...) one of the best recordingsof the ‘Resurrection’ Symphony

ever made (...)The Washington Post

Mahler’s Second Symphony, ‘Resurrection’ (1894) is agigantic work of enormous proportions, extreme contrasts,and a score that surpasses even his First Symphony fromtwo years earlier. Ten horns, eight trumpets, two harps,organ, five percussionists, two vocal soloists (soprano andalto), as well as a large mixed chorus, fill the podium. Andbehind all this, invisible, is a ‘Fernorchester’ (distant orches-tra) as a symbol of ‘the resurrection’.

• gramophone: cd of the month • diapason d’or


technical informationMicrophones

Bruel & Kjaer 4006, SchoepsDigital converter

DSD Super Audio/Meitnerdesign A/D-D/APyramix Editing/Merging TechnologiesSpeakers

Audio Lab, HollandMonitoring

Bowers & Wilkins 805 www.bwspeakers.comAmplifiers

van Medevoort, HollandCables

Van den Hul* www.vandenhul.comMixing board

Rens Heijnis, custom design

* exclusive use of van den Hul cables The INTEGRATION en The SECOND®The SECOND®Currently van den Hul’s number one product, available in both coaxial and balanced interlink configuration as well as a nearto perfect microphone cable for extremely critical recordings. A first and final buy for the most demanding audio loversamongst us. This cable has a very natural, spacious signal transmission. It delivers a real, natural and, most importantunelectric feel to acoustic music. One word to describe The SECOND® is “smooth”.

The INTEGRATIONA van den Hul metal innovation called Fusion Technology is the basic conductive material in this cable. An amorphouscombination of copper, zinc and silver, free from intercrystalline boundaries, is applied in four separately isolated conduc-tors, coated with Linear Structured Carbon and three further different screens produce detail, extreme resolution and excel-lent space. Like most of our cables the outer jacket is made of HULLIFLEX®, another van den Hul patented innovation.

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•17 tracks•71 minutes

•13 composers•19 channel classics artists

SUPER ARTISTS ON SUPER AUDIO

1 CCS SA 23005Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida ThompsonL. van Beethoven•Excerpts from String Quartet opus 135 in F major

2 CCS SA 24106Paolo Giacometti, piano Pleyel 1858G. Rossini: Complete works for piano, vol.7•Album de Château: Prélude Semipastorale

3 CCS SA 22805Rachel Podger, violin & Gary Cooper, fortepianoW.A. Mozart: complete sonatas for keyboard and violin,vol. 2 •Sonata in D major KV 7 Allegro molto

4 CCS SA 22905Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival OrchestraG. Mahler: Symphony nr. 6 in a minor ‘Tragische’•Excerpts from Allegro energico, ma non troppo

5 CCS SA 80206Yu Hong Mei, erhuErhu Chant•Idyllic Tune

6 CCS SA 23306Vocal Ensemble The Gents, Peter Dijkstra‘In Love’: love and folksongs•A groovy kind of Love

7 CCS SA 21005FlorilegiumTelemann, Paris Quartets, vol. 3•Quator no. 5 in A major: Pas Vite

8 CCS SA 80106Zhang Hong Yan, pipaAmbush on all Sides•High Spring and Pure Snow

9 CCS SA 20306La Sfera Armoniosa & Johannette Zomer & Anne Grimm, sopranos

SUPER ARTISTS ON SUPER AUDIO•19 channel classics artists •13 composers •71 minutes •17 tracks

vol. 4

vol.4

STEMRA

SURROUND/5.0

F. Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres •Excerpts from Première Leçon de Ténèbres pour le Mercredi

10 CCS SA 23906Bart Schneemann, oboe & Rombouts QuartetW.A. Mozart •Quartet in F KV 370: Adagio

11 CCS SA 23206Meridian Arts EnsembleBRINK Nick Didkovsky •An Idle Saint Remembers

12 CCS SA 24006The Netherlands Bach SocietyD. Buxtehude:Membra Jesu Nostri Bux WV75•Ad pedes: Ecce super montes

13 CCS SA 24206Matthew WadsworthMasters of the Lute•John Dowland: Forlorn Hope Fancy

14 CCS SA 80406China National Symphony Orchestra•Soliloquy at Cold Mountain Temple,

Girls from Mt. Alishan15 CCS SA 22705

Paolo Giacometti, piano Erard 1858G. Rossini: Complete works for piano, vol. 6•Bolero Tartare: Un Espoir

16 CCS SA 23606Rachel Podger, violin & Gary Cooper, fortepianoW.A. Mozart: complete sonatas for keyboard and violin,vol. 3 •Sonata in Eb, KV 380 Rondeau: Allegro

17 CCS SA 23506Iván Fischer & Budapest Festival OrchestraG. Mahler: Symphony nr. 2 in c minor: ‘Resurrection’•Excerpts from Allegro maestoso

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