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Haydn wrote around sixty keyboard sonatas and this selection of eleven focuses on those from the 1770s, including the great C minor sonata from the composer’s ‘Sturm und Drang’ period, with its dynamic contrasts and virtuoso demands. In all these fascinating, idiosyncratic works, Marc-André Hamelin wears his renowned virtuosity lightly, while playing with understated wit and the elegant, immaculate musicianship that has come to defi ne one of the greatest pianists of our time.

“Hamelin’s gift for making light of complex textures... is here harnessed to music of classical clarity and economy. It is without doubt one of his fi nest achievements....”

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Treading on hallowed ground, tenor Mark Padmore triumphs in a stunning album featuring Britten’s haunting Serenadeand Finzi’s Dies Natalis (p.11) for harmonia mundi. Pianist Andreas Staier’s latest fascinating musicological project features Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations coupled with music written by other composers to the same theme (p.10). Also from harmonia mundi, the Jerusalem Quartet is joined by pianist Alexander Melnikov for Schumann’s Piano Quartetand Piano Quintet (p.13) and Joel Frederiksen brings an Elizabethan fl avor to the music of cult favorite Nick Drake on Requiem for a Pink Moon (p.12). Soprano Rosemary Joshua is accompanied by Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques on Harmonia Sacra — an album of sacred songs by Henry Purcell for Aparté (p.4). Hyperion’s key title for the month is a special Canada-only pre-release of Angela Hewitt’s recording of the Schumann Piano Concerto (p.15). Other key titles include pianist Steven Osborne’s Beethoven Bagatelles (p.15), the debut of violinist Chloë Hanslip in concertos by Vieuxtemps (p.16), and Gianandrea Noseda’s Britten War Requiem for LSO Live (p.19). On the non-classical front, Jazz Village’s second release features soul-jazz singer Sandra Nkaké’s Nothing For Granted (p.27) and World Village artists Bratsch are back with a new album entitled Urban Bratsch (p.29).

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IMPORTToday, French Baroque composer and keyboard virtuoso Louis Marchand is perhaps best known for failing to take up J.S. Bach on his challenge to a musical ‘duel.’ Unfortunately, this colorful legend has overshadowed Marchand’s ample gifts as a composer of organ and harpsichord music. Writing in the ‘old fashioned’ style of d’Anglebert, he employs a profusion of ornaments that enrich the sustaining power of the sound. In contrast, the music of Rameau is always deliberately clear, favoring transparency over bombastic effects. Christophe Rousset, performing on a rare Donzelague harpsichord, explores the connections and contrasts between these two giants of the period.

IMPORTPorpora’s 1744 Vespro per la Festivita dell’Assunta was fi rst performed in Venice at the Ospedaletto, one of four orphanages for girls that specialized in music. The most famous of the four was the Pietà, where Vivaldi taught violin. The music is conceived in the early Classical style as developed during the 1720s by Porpora and his rivals, Leonardo Vinci and Johann Adolph Hasse. For Porpora, the work was likely pivotal in his transformation from fashionable opera composer to revered maestro di cappella and teacher. For several years now, Le Parlement de Musique has been exploring the concertante repertoire of the Venetian ospedali.

PORPORAVespro per la Festivita dell’Assunta

Le Parlement de Musique, La Maîtrise de Bretagne, Martin Gester

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MARCHANDPièces de clavecin Books I & II

RAMEAUSuite de pièces de clavecin Book I

Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)Ambronay • AMY 032

Baroque music from France and Italy

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IMPORTPurcell was not just a creature of the theatre — h i s g en iu s w i th the human voice also

extended to sacred and secular songs. Among his least well-known works, many of Purcell’s sacred songs remained in manuscript and known only to a select few. It is possible that they were intended solely for an elite audience at court. Published by Henry Playford, Harmonia Sacra was a two-volume anthology of devotional song containing compositions by Purcell and several of his contemporaries. The settings here are scored for small forces — one to two voices, accompanied by continuo. The emotional range, however, is huge. This disc, featuring soprano Rosemary Joshua supported by Christophe Rousset and members of Les Talens Lyriques, presents a selection of sixteen of Purcell’s solo songs interspersed with his works for harpsichord played by Christophe Rousset.

Sacred music by Purcell

PURCELLHarmonia SacraRosemary Joshua (soprano), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe RoussetAparté • AP 027

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Also availableArias for Anna De AmicisAparte • AP 021 (3149028005820)

“Teodora Gheorghiu certainly has the requisite glittering coloratura technique...”

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“A brilliant lyric voice and vibrant stage presence... This wonderful artist goes from strength to strength and she has

an awesome arsenal of technical skills at her command.”

— OPERA TODAY

IMPORTClarinetist Shirley Brill studied with Sabine Meyer at the Musikhochschule Lübeck and with Richard Stoltzman at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Her career was launched with a performance as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. She has since performed around the world, both as a soloist and with pianist Jonathan Aner as part of the Brillaner Duo, playing in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall and the Beethoven-Haus. On her fi rst recording for Aparté (and her fi rst with an orchestra), Brill presents a selection of fi ne but rarely recorded works. Its release is intended to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Jean Françaix (1912-1997).

IMPORTSACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSDAlthough rarely heard in the concert hall, Giovanni Bottesini’s compositions for double bass are staples of the instrument’s repertoire. This disc of favorite works by Bottesini features Rick Stotijn, making his debut on Channel Classics. Stotijn is currently leader of the double basses in the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and the Swedish Radio Orchestra. The disc also features the bass player’s sister mezzo-soprano Christiane Stotijn, and orchestral support from his friends in the Amsterdam Sinfonietta.

BOTTESINICapriccio di Bravura, Grand Duo

Concertant, Grande Allegro di Concerto, Duo Concertant, Une Bouche Aimée,

Tu� o Che Il Mondo serraRick Stotijn (double bass),

Christiane Stotijn (mezzo-soprano), Amsterdam Sinfonie� a, Candida Thompson

Channel Classics • CCS SA 32612

FRANÇAIXClarinet Concerto, Theme and Variations

PROKOFIEVSonata Op.94

Shirley Brill (clarinet), National Radio Orchestra of Romania, Adrian Morar

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SAINSBURYCello Concerto Op.27FOULDSCello Concerto Op.17Raphael Wallfi sch (cello), Royal Sco� ish National Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Martin YatesDutt on • CDLX 7284

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AUSTINSymphony in E Major, The Sea Venturers Overture, Rhapsody — Spring, Richard II OvertureRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Bostock, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Ronald CorpDutt on • CDLX 7288

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IMPORT [Insert Logo: Priority Release]In 1819, music publisher and composer Anton Diabelli sent a waltz of his own creation to all the

important composers of the Austrian Empire, asking each of them to write a variation on it. His plan was to publish the variations in a patriotic volume called Vaterländischer Künstlerverein and to use the Vaterländischer Künstlerverein and to use the Vaterländischer Künstlervereinprofi ts to benefi t orphans and widows of the Napoleonic Wars. Beethoven chose to write not just a single variation, but a set of thirty-three. His audacious submission, the Diabelli Variations, has since Diabelli Variations, has since Diabelli Variationsbecome one of the most revered examples of the genre. On this fascinating disc, pianist Andreas Staier, playing a fortepiano after Conrad Graf, pairs Beethoven’s magnum opus with a selection of the other works based upon Diabelli’s waltz. Here you can discover the very fi rst stirrings of Liszt’s virtuosity (aged eleven), the music of Mozart’s son, variations by Kreutzer, Kalkbrenner and even the great Franz Schubert. This fascinating album sheds welcome new light on both the music and the milieu of Beethoven’s timeless masterpiece.

“One of the world’s best harpsichordists.”— GRAMOPHONE

Diabelli’s gi� to music history

BEETHOVENDiabelli VariationsAndreas Staier (fortepiano)harmonia mundi • HMC 902091

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Also availableC.P.E. Bach: Keyboard Concertosharmonia mundi • HMC 902083 (794881984626)

“Vivacious and evocative performances...”— SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

IMPORTSACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSDCelebrated tenor Mark Padmore and the Britten Sinfonia present a program featuring some of the most beautiful English music for voice and orchestra ever written. The centerpiece is Benjamin Britten’s magical evocation of twilight and nightfall, the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op.31, for which he is joined by the dulcet tones of Stephen Bell on French horn. Completing the disc are Gerald Finzi’s song-cycle Dies Natalis, with its ecstatic mood refl ecting a child’s wide-eyed wonder at the world, and Britten’s fourth and fi nal orchestral song cycle, the poignant Nocturne, Op.60. Long associated with the great Peter Pears, Padmore makes this music his own in stunning performances that welcome comparison to any singer, past or present.

Padmore sings Bri� en and Finzi

BRITTENSerenade for Tenor,

Horn and Strings, NocturneFINZI

Dies NatalisMark Padmore (tenor), Stephen Bell (horn),

Bri� en Sinfonia, Jacqueline Shaveharmonia mundi • HMU 807552

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Bri� en: Before life & a� erharmonia mundi • HMU 907443 (093046744328)“A truly remarkable dramatic experience that’s

worth many repeat hearings.”— CLASSICS TODAY

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“There’s no denying the affinity and rightness of

this music under Padmore’s voice. We really were driven

‘almost mad with ecstasy,’ secure in his musical archi-tecture and tonal control.”

— THE ARTS DESK

IMPORTFollowing the success of his 2011 album Rose of Sharon — a celebration of 18th Century American music that landed on Billboard’s classical chart and critics’ year-end lists — the latest project by Joel Frederiksen and the

Ensemble Phoenix Munich takes them all the way back in time to... 1972. That was the year the late British troubadour and cult favorite Nick Drake released his third and fi nal album, Pink Moon. Initially, the album garnered a small amount of critical attention, but it was not until decades after Drake’s death that it received widespread public and critical acclaim. Today, the sparse and unadorned tracks of Pink Moon are regarded by many fans and music critics as the greatest efforts of a tragically short career. Drake’s was an art fi lled with melancholy, a feeling and a concept that unites him with the singer-songwriters of the Elizabethan age. Adapting Drake’s melodic guitar lines for Renaissance instruments, Frederiksen sheds new light on these fi nely crafted songs that speak directly and powerfully to the human condition and offers a fi tting tribute to a modern-day Thomas Campion.

“Frederiksen’s rich, clear bass seems capable of an almost infinite degree of tonal shading. His diction is impeccable, as is his taste.”

— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

Joel Frederiksen sings Nick Drake

Requiem for a Pink MoonJoel Frederiksen (bass), Ensemble Phoenix Munichharmonia mundi • HMC 902111

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Also availableThe Elfi n Knight — Ballads & Dancesharmonia mundi • HMC 901983 (794881847723)

“Not so much song recital as musical storytelling, a forgotten fireside art.”

— LONDON EVENING STANDARD

Rose of Sharonharmonia mundi • HMC 902085 (794881984923)“This one is to treasure, from

beginning to end.”— THE NEW YORK TIMES

SCHUMANNPiano Quintet Op.44, Piano Quartet Op.47

Alexander Melnikov (piano), Jerusalem Quartet

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IMPORTThe Piano Quintet Op.44 and Piano Quartet Op.47 date from a brief period during which Robert Schumann focused his attention intensively on chamber music (between June 1842 and January 1843). These works underline his wish to ‘escape’ from the solo piano, now ‘too restricted’ for his overflowing imagination, as he told Clara. The Piano Quintet, which made a powerful impression on Wagner, is probably one o f h i s most sophi s t i ca ted works, into which Schumann poured all the creative energy he derived from meticulous

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“Winning performances... brimming over with poignant melodies and rhythmic zest.”— THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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“Passion, precision, warmth, a gold blend:

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IMPORTAmong Schumann’s inspired late chamber works is a collection of music for more unusual instruments, composed in a concentrated fl urry of creativity between 1849 and 1853. It is to these exquisite short works that the world-famous Nash Ensemble turns its impeccable collective musicianship. While Schumann modeled his music specifi cally to the timbres of the instruments he wrote for, he also arranged these pieces for alternative instruments with an eye to maximizing sales. The Nash Ensemble presents the works in their original scoring in what are bound to be defi nitive performances. The set’s many delights include the fi ery and lyrical Märchenbilder (featuring star British viola player Lawrence Power), the Adagio and Allegro for horn and the Märchenerzählungen for clarinet, viola and piano.

IMPORTAcclaimed pianist Piers Lane and his fellow Australians, the Goldner String Quartet, reprise their highly successful partnership in world-premiere recordings of the two String Quartets and Piano Quintet of Irish composer Hamilton Harty. Harty (1879–1941) was a remarkable, self-taught musician who wrote in a lyrical Romantic idiom, while incorporating a modal astringency and folk-music charm that are reminiscent of Percy Grainger. In particular, the winding, pentatonic melody of the Lento of the quintet and the delightful ‘jig’ of the fi rst movement of the second quartet seem like settings of folk-melodies that have echoed for centuries around the green hills of Ireland. Intriguingly, however, they are entirely Harty’s own invention.

HARTYString Quartets Nos.1&2, Piano QuintetPiers Lane (piano), Goldner String QuartetHyperion • CDA 67927

SCHUMANNAdagio and Allegro, Märchenbilder, Fantasiestücke, Märchenerzählungen, Drei Romanzen, Violin Sonata No.1The Nash EnsembleHyperion • CDA 67923

Schumann’s inspired chamber music

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IMPORTFollowing up his highly acclaimed release of Beethoven sonatas, Hyperion’s Gramophone-award-winning pianist Steven Osborne turns his talents to Beethoven’s complete Bagatelles. Though the composer himself referred to these thirty short piano works, which he penned throughout his life, as ‘trifl es,’ these are nonetheless trifl es from the mind of a genius. In this polished album, Osborne lends his remarkable artistry to everything from the Six Bagatelles of Op 126, which at times occupy the same rarefi ed spiritual world as the late quartets and were the very last works Beethoven ever wrote for the piano, to the composer’s most famous stand-alone piano piece, the mysterious little A minor Bagatelle known to all the world as Für Elise.

Beethoven’s glorious ‘trifl es’

BEETHOVENBagatelles

Steven Osborne (piano)Hyperion • CDA 67879

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“This is pretty remarkable Beethoven playing...”— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

“Osborne’s musi-cal intelligence and

refined virtuosity command respect.”— CLASSICS TODAY

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IMPORTAngela Hewitt’s recordings of Schumann’s solo piano works for Hyperion have been described as, “revelatory… something to cherish” (Gramophone) and, “unreservedly superb” (The Guardian). Now she turns her attention to the works for piano and orchestra in a stunning release which includes the beloved Piano Concerto in A minor — one of the most treasured concertos in the repertoire — and two other works also written for Clara Schumann. Hewitt’s trademark clarity of line, and her technical control which never limits the expression of passion, are clearly in evidence. She is supported by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the brilliant Finnish conductor Hannu Lintu. A fascinating booklet note by Hewitt herself completes this disc which is sure to delight her ever-increasing legion of fans.

SCHUMANNPiano Concerto,

Introduction and Allegro appassionato, Introduction and Concert-Allegro

Angela Hewi� (piano), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin,

Hannu LintuHyperion • CDA 67885

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Also availableSchumann: Humoreske, Piano Sonata No.1Hyperion • CDA 67618 (034571176185)

“Never have they sounded easier or more natural than in Angela Hewitt’s

seemingly effortless but always adventurous interpretations.”

— BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Kinderszenen, Piano Sonata No.2Hyperion • CDA 67780 (034571177809)“Few performances could be less studio-

bound, more fleet, hallucinatory and above all more deeply imaginative.”

— GRAMOPHONE

“ Her awareness of counterpoint and her skill at putting it across suits Schumann’s colourfully woven textures to perfection.”

— BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

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Romantic Violin Concerto Vol.11Hyperion • CDA 67892 (034571178929)

“I have not heard a performance of his Violin Concerto which has excited or moved me

as much as this one...”— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

IMPORTWith this new volume in their ongoing Romantic Vio l in Conc e r t o s e r i e s , Hyperion proudly announces a new collaboration with the brilliant young British

violinist Chloë Hanslip, the former child prodigy famously signed to Warner Classics at the age of just fourteen. Here, she lends her now-mature talents to the second release in Hyperion’s overview of Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concertos. Henry Vieuxtemps (1820–1881) was a French violin virtuoso who, after the death of Paganini, was widely considered to be the best violinist in Europe. Besides being a brilliant player, he was a remarkably fi ne composer, as demonstrated in these, his fi rst two concertos. Alongside the memorable violin fi reworks, Vieuxtemps here shows a well-argued musical sensibility that straddles both the Classical and Romantic eras as well as the ability to write gorgeous, almost operatic slow movements in the best bel-canto tradition.

“Hanslip’s radiant artistry and phrasal sensitivity is highly seductive.”— BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

The Romantic Violin Concerto Vol.12VIEUXTEMPSViolin Concertos Nos.1 & 2, Greeting to AmericaChloë Hanslip (violin), Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Martyn BrabbinsHyperion • CDA 67878

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IMPORTChristopher Tye fl ourished as a church musician in England during the mid-sixteenth century. A direct contemporary of Thomas Tallis, he held the prestigious post of Master of Choristers at Ely cathedral and successfully managed to compose music for both Protestant and Catholic services during a politically unstable time. He wrote remarkably individual music, characterized by unpredictable cadences and phrases of often unexpectedly startling beauty. The two major works on this recording are his masterful Missa Euge bone for six voices, and his Western Wynde Mass, probably an early work, and likely written as a complement to John Taverner’s own mass based on this secular English song. The Westminster Abbey Choir directed by James O’Donnell performs these sparsely beautiful a cappella works with their customary freshness and a sense of grandeur.

TYEMissa Euge bone, Western Wynde Mass, Give almes of thy goods, Christ rising, Peccavimus cum patribus nostris; Nunc dimi� isThe Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’DonnellHyperion • CDA 67928

Choral music of Christopher Tye

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MACKENZIECricket on the Hearth Overture, Twel� h Night, Benedictus, Second Scotch Rhapsody, Coriolanus Incidental MusicBBC Sco� ish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn BrabbinsHyperion • CDH 55395

HANDELHeroic AriasJames Bowman (counter-tenor), The King’s Consort, Robert KingHyperion • CDH 55370

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IMPORTK617 presents a special collection celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Olivier Schneebeli and Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles. This choir’s unique combination of children’s and adult voices, in the great tradition of the Versailles Chapelle royale, has helped Schneebeli develop the ideal ‘instrument’ to showcase French repertoire of the 17th and the 18th centuries. This exceptional boxed set features sacred masterpieces by the composers of the “Grand Siècle,” from the reign of Henri IV to the end of the reign of Louis XIV. In particular it explores, with the aid of numerous unpublished recordings, the birth of the musical genre most associated with Chapelle royale — the grand motet.

IMPORTFrench harpsichordist Frédérick Haas has made a name for himself with an aristocratic, pensive style more attuned to introspection than pyrotechnics. He has a profound knowledge of the inner workings of harpsichords and the secrets of their fi ne-tuning. Haas owns the spellbindingly beautiful 1751 Henri Hemsch Harpsichord used on this recording of Bach’s immortal Goldberg Variations. Explaining why he chose a French harpsichord for a decidedly German work, Hass explains, “Since the 1751 Hemsch is one of the most beautiful harpsichords in existence and its tone and mechanics are perfect, why not use it here? The interpreter’s role is to make sure his French harpsichord speaks decent German.”

BACHGoldberg Variations

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Olivier SchneebeliK617 • K 617234

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IMPORTSACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSDFor his fi rst LSO Live recording, Gianandrea Noseda is joined by three of today’s most widely acclaimed singers for a magnifi cent performance of Benjamin Britten’s choral masterpiece. Premiered 50 years ago, the War Requiem saw its composer unite many of the themes that ran through his music and beliefs. Britten had been commissioned to write a work for the re-dedication of Coventry Cathedral, which had been destroyed during devastating bombing raids on the town during the Second World War. As a young man, Britten had written many choral works based on religious texts before achieving fame as a composer of opera. He was also a pacifi st and a conscientious objector during the War. Using the Latin mass of the dead, interspersed with texts by war poet Wilfred Owen, he created a work that both mourned the dead and pleaded the futility of war. Leading the London Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus, Noseda is joined by soloists Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside and Sabina Cvilak.

Bri� en’s powerful War Requiem

BRITTENWar RequiemIan Bostridge (tenor), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Sabina Cvilak (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Eltham College Choir, Gianandrea NosedaLSO Live • LSO 0719

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PROKOFIEVToccata Op.11, Ten Pieces Op.12, Sonata No.2, Sarcasms Op.17, Visions Fugitives Op.22Abdel Rahman El Bacha (piano)Mirare • MIR 165

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Voyage to RussiaClaire-Marie Le Guay (piano)Mirare • MIR 169

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MUSSORGSKYPictures at an ExhibitionMEDTNERPiano Sonata No.1TANEYEVPrelude and FugueDavid Kadouch (piano)Mirare • MIR 170

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This trio of discs from Mirare features the talents of three pianists particularly noted for their affi nity to the Russian repertoire. Prokofi ev specialist Abdel Rahman El Bacha offers a fascinating selection of the composer’s piano works, ranging from the futurist strains of the Toccata Op.11 (1912) to the Visions Fugitives of Op.22 (1917) From Mussorgsky to Scrabin, Claire-Marie Le Guay journeys through the full range of Russian piano music. Embracing both the great Romantic repertory and intimate, lesser-known pieces, this musical portrait refl ects the vast Russian landscape. Russian composers have never ceased to celebrate their homeland in the form of tales and legends. In a program centering around Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, pianist David Kadouch assumes the role of storyteller in a selection of musical legends, mythical or imagined, taken from Russia’s long history.

CONCERT REVIEWS“ Noseda’s unashamedly dramatic interpretation held the audience transfixed. An overwhelming evocation of the grief, the waste and the pity of war.”

— THE TIMES

“ Noseda marshalled the finest War Requiem that I have heard. He showed total control of Britten’s vast structure.”

— THE NEW YORKER

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IMPORTOver the course of a few short years, with his ballets Petrushka and The Rite of Spring — premiered by the Ballets Russes in 1911 and 1913, Igor Stravinsky drastically changed the musical world and opened the path to the twentieth century and modern music. This recording of the piano transcriptions of these ground-breaking scores remain as faithful as possible to the orchestral versions. Played here by the duo of Lidija Bizjak and Sanja Bizjak, the vivid colors, startling rhythms and lyrical melodies of these works are given full voice and weight.

IMPORTFrom Tchaikovsky to Shostakovich, Russian music has often found its truest voice in elegies. With Glazunov and Tchaikovsky, they are recollections of childhood, or nostalgia for another world. While Rachmaninoff evokes purity in his Vocalise, in his Sonata, Shostakovich intones a swansong, a song of death. In the warm timbre of Gérard Caussé’s viola and the generous sonority of Brigitte Engerer’s piano, all the melancholy, tenderness and pain of Russia fi nd eloquent expression.

SHOSTAKOVICHViola Sonata Op.147GLAZUNOVElegy Op.44TCHAIKOVSKYNocturne Op.19 No.4, Mélodie Op.42 No.3, Valse Sentimentale Op.51 No.6Gérard Caussé (viola), Brigi� e Engerer (piano)Mirare • MIR 172

STRAVINSKYThe Rite of Spring (arr. for piano duo), Petrushka (arr. for piano duo), Five Easy Pieces for Piano Duet, Three Easy Pieces for Piano Duet Lidija Bizjak (piano), Sanja Bizjak (piano) Mirare • MIR 171

Stravinsky’s works for two pianos

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SCHUMANNÉtudes Symphoniques Op.13, Piano Sonata No.1; Toccata Op.7Nikolai Lugansky (piano)Piano Classics • PCL 0029

SCHUBERTPiano Sonatas D.157, D.664, & D.845Michelangelo Carbonara (piano)Piano Classics • PCL 0034

BERIOComplete Piano MusicFrancesco Tristano (piano)Piano Classics • PCL 0032

The Spanish AlbumPiano music by De Falla, Granados & AlbénizMichel Block (piano)Piano Classics • PCL 0031

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Ella sings songs of loveLike Someone In LoveElla FitzgeraldAPO • CVRJ 6000 SA

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Ben Webster Meets Oscar PetersonBen Webster, Oscar Peterson

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IMPORTSACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSDFile In: JazzBen Webster Meets Oscar Peterson brings together two of the greatest stylists American music has produced. Here, in a program of timeless songs, pianist Oscar Peterson is the perfect foil — his effortless swing an excellent set-up for the unhurried scoops, slurs, and bent notes of tenor saxophone balladeer Ben Webster — just the way he liked it.

IMPORTSACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSDFile In: JazzArranged by Frank DeVol and enlivened by what the liner notes described as, “the sensitive, poignant saxophone solos of Stan Getz” on four tracks, Ella Fitzgerald’s album Like Someone In Love was (not surprisingly) targeted at “people in love.” But its real audience, then as now, was anyone who loves timeless songs impeccably sung. What was timeless in 1957 still is today.

IMPORTFile In: JazzThe energy is rock, the feeling pop, the spirit jazz and the groove implacable — this is the magic formula of the soul-jazz singer Sandra Nkaké. With magnifi cent support from a rhythm section recalling the heyday of Stax, this album, with compositions and lyrics by Sandra and her close partner, flautist-producer Jî Drû, packs a powerful punch. Old instruments, appealing arrangements, a retro-futurist atmosphere studded with echoes of sixties songs and soundtracks of cult fi lms, a spacey production — everything here conspires to make Nothing For Granted an explosive manifesto where Sandra Nkaké’s rough-hewn voice rings out like a cry of freedom.

Retro-futurist jazz from Sandra Nkaké

Nothing For GrantedSandra NkakéJazz Village • JV 570002

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“ Nothing for Granted is a collection of musical stories. Or more like a festival of short films in sound. Playing the lead role, Sandra Nkaké changes tone of voice to act out her characters as oth-ers might change costume. The singer creates a three-dimen-sional world peopled with fictional characters wandering round castles in the air, rebel-lious, off-the-wall, and jamming it up inside her mind’s eye.”

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IMPORTFile In: World / Europe / FranceFounded in 1975 by guitarist Dan Gharibian and violinist Bruno Girard, Bratsch is a French band that defi es nearly every attempt at simple categorization. Their fi ery blend of Gypsy, Klezmer, Balkan, rock and folk styles creates a heady mix that is uniquely Bratsch. The band’s work is not well known in North America, but they have played here on occasion and have built a small but loyal following. Their all-star guest extravaganza Plein du Monde was re-released on World Village in May, and now comes a brand new album, Urban Bratsch, the band’s discourse on cities and song and the interaction therein. Paris, London, Naples, New York, Berlin... all these and other cities form a wellspring of inspiration.

Darkly magical cityscapes from Bratsch

Urban BratschBratsch

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Also availablePlein du MondeWorld Village • 479056 (794881997626) “It sounds like a Central European band arriving in a summertime Paris — but late at night.”— FROOTS

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IMPORTFile In: World / EuropeMelos is an ambitious artistic creation gathering musical traditions of three Mediterranean countries: Spain, Tunisia and Greece. Around traditional songs and modern compositions, Keyvan Chemirani has gathered together a group of exceptional singers and musicians for a journey exploring the infi nite rhythmic strength which defi nes music of the Mediterranean region.

IMPORTFile In: World / Middle East / SyriaThe music on the Al Kindi Ensemble’s set entitled The Aleppian Music Room is a distillation of centuries of tradition, clothed in modern form. Recorded beneath the dome of a small palace in Aleppo, at the crossroads of the famous silk routes, the group presents an eternal dialogue, questioning each other, moving apart, converging, then fading away so as to let the voices of silence ring out.

IMPORTFile In: World / South America / ArgentinaDébora Russ’ Tangos Pendientes features sixteen tracks, each of which resonates in the listener’s mind with its own voice. These voices are of the singer’s relatives, family, friends, people known and unknown — those whose passage through Russ’ life has left a trace in her soul, and it is to those voices that this lovely and poignant album is dedicated.

The Aleppian Music RoomEnsemble Al KindiChant du Monde • 2741108

Tangos PendientesDébora RussAccords Croisés • AC 145

Melos: Mediterranean SongsKeyvan Chemirani, Dorsaf Hamdani, Juan Carmona, En ChordaisAccords Croisés • AC 146

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Susie Arioli World Village Sep 1 Piopolis QC Eglise St-Zénon de Piopolis

Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov harmonia mundi May 26, 27 Vancouver BC Telus Studio Theatre

James Ehnes Onyx May 23 Winnipeg MB MCO - Westminster Church

May 26 Hamilton ON Hamilton Place

Kellylee Evans Plus Loin May 2 Toronto ON Miles Nadal JCC

May 12 Toronto ON Young Centre

Jun 12 Toronto ON Young Centre

Nov 2 Cantley QC La Grange

Marc-André Hamelin Hyperion May 23 Quebec City QC Grand Théâtre du Québec

Angela Hewi� Hyperion May 18 O� awa ON Christ Church Cathedral

Emel Mathlouthi World Village Jul 14 Vancouver BC Vancouver Roots Festival

Jul 17 Montréal QC Festival Nuits d'Afrique

Michael Schade Hyperion May 30 Toronto ON Roy Thomson Hall

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