FEBRUARY 2015 | NEW RELEASES Harry MANX 20 Strings & The Truth Page 24 WORLD Page 26 BLUES Page 28 ROCK Page 30 Page 31 Institut du Monde Arabe Jazz Village Just Looking K617 La Dolce Volta La Música Les Arts Florissants Les Dissonances Long Distance Loreley MCO Records Mélisande Mirare Mi‘ster Productions MN Records Ocora Onyx Classics Opella Nova Opera Rara Orange Mountain Otá Paradizo Paraty Penguin Cafe Philharmonia Baroque Praga Radio France Rajaton RCOC Savant SFS Media Signature Spirit of America Tahra Testament Van Cliburn Wahoo Wergo World Village Ysayë Zarathustra contacts Canada Wholesale & Retail Tel: (705) 930-5516 Email: [email protected] Press & Radio A new release from Harry Manx is always a cause for celebration, but his latest recording takes it to the next level. 20 Strings & The Truth is the instrumental album Manx fans have been waiting for (p.28). Jazz fans will appreciate the latest from the HighNote group. Jeremy Pelt’s Tales, Musings and other Reveries offers an interesting session of originals and standards (p.24), while Jim Snidero’s Main Street takes listeners on a compelling sonic trip across America (p.25). New music from Morocco is the focus of the World Village’s new release featuring Aziz Sahmaoui and the University of Gnawa (p.27). Going from strength to strength, Hyperion’s star pianist and Canada’s own Angela Hewitt plays Liszt on a new release featuring the B Minor Sonata (p.15). Hyperion’s popular Romantic Cello Concerto series reaches volume six with a disc of works by Vieuxtemps featuring cellist Alban Gerhardt (p.13). Pianist Gloria Cheng’s second release for harmonia mundi entitled Montage features works by some of today’s most acclaimed film-music composers including Alexandre Desplat and Randy Newman (p.9). The latest rediscovery from harmonia mundi’s René Jacobs is Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s musical drama Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo - arguably the first opera ever written (p.7). Elgar’s Symphony No.1 kicks off Onyx’s new series of recordings of the composer’s orchestral music featuring conductor Vasily Petrenko (p.21). IN THE PRESS The New York Times Top Recordings of 2014 Rameau: Pièces de clavecin Mahan Esfahani Hyperion • CDA 68071 labels Accords-Croisés Actes Sud Ad Vitam Agogique Albion Ambronay Analogue Productions Aparté APR Archie Ball Armide Asphalt Tango Belvedere Black Saint Bonsaï Camera Lucida Channel Classics Chant du Monde Classic Records Contre-Jour Daqui Dawn of Freedom Delphian Discograph Dog My Cat Doumtak Ducale Dutton East Meets West Eloquentia Fedora First Hand FRA Musica Gimell Gloriae Dei Cantores Gramercy Park Music harmonia mundi Helicon HighNote Howe Records Hyperion NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS “This is stylish playing... with a natural wit..” “A rich, immediate and intense performance...” “Detailed, profoundly moving interpretations...” —THE NEW YORK TIMES —THE NEW YORK TIMES —THE NEW YORK TIMES COMING NEXT MONTH Pärt: Tintinnabuli The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips Gimell • CDGIM 049 CONCERT CALENDAR STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 10, 2015 Schubert: The Late Piano Sonatas Paul Lewis harmonia mundi • HMC 902165 Page 3 Bernstein: West Side Story San Francisco Symphony SFS Media • SFS 0059 JAZZ contents CLASSICAL The Tallis Scholars comemmorate Pärt’s 80th Birthday To celebrate Arvo Pärt’s 80th birthday, Gimell presents a new recording of his finest a cappella choral works. This is the first album of contemporary music from The Tallis Scholars since their famous 1984 recording of works by John Tavener. Tel: (705) 772-5516 Email: [email protected] Editor-in-chief: Matthew Owen Design: Stephanie Jacobson CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 Lux Aeterna – Visions of Bach Piano transcriptions by Kempff, Siloti & Busoni IMPORT For her début recording on Aparté, acclaimed Swiss pianist Beatrice Berrut offers listeners an intimate vision of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Playing on a rare Bösendorfer prototype, Berrut has assembled a program comprised of transcriptions by Wilhelm Kempff, Alexander Siloti and Ferrucio Busoni, a selection of Chorales and three Études in Baroque style by the contemporary French composer Thierry Escaich. Together these works demonstrate both the timelessness and universality of Bach’s music and the Baroque period’s lasting effects on composers of today. D14opw8c)%!#@ s Price Code: CA22 (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) “A standout in all categories...” —THE PLAIN DEALER 3 aparté Beatrice Berrut (piano) Aparté • AP 100 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 CHAUSSON Concert Op.21 FRANCK Violin Sonata IMPORT This release featuring violinist Rachel Kolly d’Alba, pianist Christian Chamorel and the Spektral Quartet Chicago, presents two major works of chamber music written at the dawn of the twentieth century. Few works of the period are more recognizable than César Franck’s magnificent Violin Sonata. The work has been transcribed for nearly every instrument on the planet, and is a permanent staple of the repertoire. Franck’s influence on Ernest Chausson’s Concert is unmistakable. A lateRomantic hybrid, the work blends elements of piano quintet and string quintet styles. D14opw8c)%($@&s Price Code: CA22 (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) “She is one of the gifted few who lives through the music...” —BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 4 aparté Rachel Kolly d’Alba (violin), Christian Chamorel (piano), Spektral Quartet Chicago Aparté • AP 102 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 MOZART String Quartet K421 MENDELSSOHN String Quartet Op.13 IMPORT The Chiaroscuro Quartet was founded in 2005 by four students from the Royal College of Music in London, led by violinist Alina Ibragimova. Playing on period instruments and bows, the group’s repertoire focuses primarily on works of the Classical period. This release pairs Mozart’s String Quartet K421 with the String Quartet Op.13 by Felix Mendelssohn. These masterpieces of the repertoire are illuminated by the Chiaroscuro Quartet’s insightful performances. “Ibragimova and her colleagues have in two recordings come to the top of the heap. No other ensemble excites me as much in this repertoire.” D14opw8c)%)%@#s Price Code: CA22 —POSITIVE FEEDBACK (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) Also available Beethoven & Mozart: String Quartets Aparté • AP 051 (3149028031324) “Readings that capture the music’s enigmatic, Shakespearean layers of tragedy, beauty and comedy.” —THE HUFFINGTON POST 5 aparté Chiaroscuro Quartet Aparté • AP 092 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 Wim Van Hasselt (trumpet) Jörgen Van Rijen (trombone) Channel Classics • CCS SA 36315 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD On this collection, principal trombonist of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Jörgen van Rijen Price Code: CA22 and Wim Van Hasselt, professor of trumpet at the (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) University of Music Freiburg in Germany, team up to explore compositions written for the combination of trumpet and trombone. The recording is named after Folke Rabe’s composition Tintomara – a dualistic figure from The Briar Rose Book by the Swedish author Jonas Love Almqvist. This richly rewarding recording includes both duets and solo works. Hk23 85c#^#!%[Q channel classics Tintomara Music for Trumpet & Trombone FAULKES Organ Works An Edwardian concert with England’s organ composer IMPORT William Faulkes – England’s most prolific organ composer – was one of the leading figures in a generation of organists and organ composers whose Price Code: CA20 style of writing went out of fashion. His music is (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) melodious, spirited, uplifting – a manifest example of the national confidence present in the early part of the twentieth century. The St. Mary’s organ has the ideal color palette for Faulkes, and Duncan Ferguson is a compelling advocate, reveling in the music that speaks from and of the golden age of organ concert-going. Il01918c#$!$*+U 6 delphian Duncan Ferguson (organ) Delphian • DCD 34148 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 [PRIORITY RELEASE] Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo-soprano), Mark Milhofer (tenor), Gyula Orendt (baritone), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Marcos Fink (bass-baritone), Staatsopernchor, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, René Jacobs harmonia mundi • HMC 902200 IMPORT Composed at a time when neither oratorio nor opera existed, Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s musical drama Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo combines song, stage action, dance, and instrumental music in perfect harmony. The work’s libretto, attributed to Agostino Manni, presents a musical morality play in which soul and body dispute, with the participation of other allegorical characters and angels and souls both in heaven and hell. On this new recording, maestro René Jacobs illuminates this key work, which was written at the dawn of the Baroque revolution. D14opw0c@ ) @#s Price Code: CA23 (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $23.98) “Maestro Jacobs’s bold choices yield extraordinary results...” —VOIX DES ARTS Also available Bach: St. Matthew Passion harmonia mundi • HMC 902156 (3149020215623) “Jacobs’s Passion is intimate, dramatic, conducted with audible love.” —THE TIMES 7 harmonia mundi CAVALIERI Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (piano) harmonia mundi • HMC 902199 IMPORT The summer of 1846 was to be the last that Chopin would spend at George Sand’s estate in Nohant. It was there that he composed or completed the core of his works over a period of seven years. That last, golden summer produced some of Chopin’s most ambitious pieces, including the Barcarolle, the Nocturnes Op.62a, and of course the Cello Sonata, the very last work published in his lifetime. Pascal Amoyel and Emmanuelle Bertrand plunge us into the heart of those few months before the couple’s separation; the ailing Chopin did not yet know that he was leaving his musical testament. “Under Bertrand’s hands, the cello takes on an almost human character, a living voice.” D14opw0c@!( @*s —CLASSICAL MUSIC SENTINEL Price Code: CA20 (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) Also available Shostakovich: Cello Concerto & Sonata harmonia mundi • HMC 902142 (3149020214220) “A satisfyingly varied but beautifully unified approach to both works.” —AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 8 harmonia mundi 1846, dernière année à Nohant CHOPIN Cello Sonata, Piano Works CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 [PRIORITY RELEASE] Gloria Cheng (piano) harmonia mundi • HMU 907635 IMPORT The six composers featured on pianist Gloria Cheng’s album entitled Montage are among today’s most sought-after creators of film music – composers that have amply demonstrated their skill at creating mood and propelling action. However, when working away from the movie screen, what melodies, harmonies, and cadences might haunt their private dreams? Cheng offers an answer to those questions with compelling first recordings of their works for solo piano, a medium that can often reveal a composer’s truest voice. Aa93046c&^#%@\R Price Code: CA20 (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) “The world of contemporary keyboard music has few champions as valiant and sensitive as Gloria Cheng” —SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Also available The Edge of Light harmonia mundi • HMU 907578 (093046757823) “Exquisitely shaped playing and bold musicianship in a compelling, haunting disc.” —THE INDEPENDENT 9 GRAMMY® Nominated harmonia mundi Montage Great film composers and the piano CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 Chant from Benevento Cathedral D14opw0c!$&^#$s Price Code: CA09 (Suggested Retail Price: $9.98) IMPORT Previously Available as HMC 901476 (093046147624) Deleted August 1999 LE JEUNE Missa ad Placitum, Magnificat CHARPENTIER Tenebrae Lessons for Ash Wednesday Ensemble Clément Janequin Dominique Visse harmonia mundi • HMA 1951607 Concerto Vocale René Jacobs IMPORT D14opw0c!^)&#@s Price Code: CA09 (Suggested Retail Price: $9.98) Previously Available as HMC 901607 (794881372928) Deleted October 20009 harmonia mundi • HMA 1951005 IMPORT Previously Available as HMC 901005 (3149021310051) Deleted September 2005 J.S. BACH Magnificat BWV 243a, Christmas Cantata BWV 63 D14opw0c!) %#)s Collegium Vocale Gent Philippe Herreweghe harmonia mundi • HMA 1951782 Price Code: CA09 (Suggested Retail Price: $9.98) D14opw0c!&*@#@s Price Code: CA09 (Suggested Retail Price: $9.98) IMPORT Previously Available as HMX 2971782 (794881819829) Deleted November 2007 FESTA La Spagna, 32 Contrapunti Huelgas-Ensemble Paul Van Nevel harmonia mundi • HMA 1951799 IMPORT Previously Available as HMC 801799 (794881719365) Deleted December 2007 10 D14opw0c!&( #@s Price Code: CA09 (Suggested Retail Price: $9.98) harmonia mundi Ensemble Organum Marcel Pérès harmonia mundi • HMA 19514764 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Stéphan MacLeod (baritone), Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes harmonia mundi • HMA 1951855 D14opw0c!*% #&s Price Code: CA09 (Suggested Retail Price: $9.98) IMPORT Previously Available as HMC 901855 (794881765621) Deleted February 2010 J.S. BACH Violin Concerto BWV1052, Double Concertos BWV1057, 1060 & 1062 D14opw0c!*&^#)s Price Code: CA09 (Suggested Retail Price: $9.98) Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin harmonia mundi • HMA 1951876 IMPORT Remains Available as HMC 901876 (794881785223) BRAHMS Symphony No.4 SCHOENBERG Variations Op.31 Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Kent Nagano harmonia mundi • HMA 1951884 D14opw0c!* $#(s Price Code: CA09 (Suggested Retail Price: $9.98) IMPORT Previously Available as HMC 901884 (794881804320) Deleted June 2011 BUXTEHUDE Membra Jesu Nostri D14opw0c!(!@#!s Cantus Cölln, Konrad Junghänel harmonia mundi • HMA 1951912 Price Code: CA09 (Suggested Retail Price: $9.98) IMPORT Previously Available as HMC 901912 (794881799022) Deleted April 2014 11 harmonia mundi MONTEVERDI Scherzi musicali CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 SCRIABIN Complete Poèmes hyperion Garrick Ohlsson (piano) Hyperion • CDA 67988 IMPORT Over the course of his tragically short life, Alexander Scriabin wrote monumental works of great import. In between these efforts he produced a steady torrent of miniatures – concentrated gems of this same expansive genius. Fascinatingly, the title Poème is applied both to symphonic works and to the extended series of thirty-four piano pieces recorded here. Their inspirations are as varied as their titles and they offer a key into their composer’s inner world. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson is an acknowledged master of the genre, and this new Scriabin recording will only enhance his already admirable reputation. Aa34571c!&(* +U Price Code: CA20 (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) “A true virtuoso.” —FANFARE Also available Griffes: Piano Music Hyperion • CDA 67907 (034571179070) “Definitive performances...” —GRAMOPHONE 12 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 [PRIORITY RELEASE] Alban Gerhardt (cello), Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Josep Caballé-Domenech Hyperion • CDA 67790 IMPORT Volume six of Hyperion’s superb Romantic Cello Concerto series features German virtuoso Alban Gerhardt. Vieuxtemps and Ysaÿe are best known for their pyrotechnic compositions for the violin, but each also wrote two works for cello and orchestra. Little-known today, they are nothing short of a revelation. The two Vieuxtemps concertos contain all the elements familiar from their famous violin counterparts. The Ysaÿe works are shorter and make ideal companions. Gerhardt rises to the formidable challenges presented by these composers. Sympathetic orchestral support comes from the Royal Flemish Philharmonic led by Josep Caballé-Domenech. Aa34571c!& ()]T Price Code: CA20 (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) “An unfailingly charismatic soloist.” —GRAMOPHONE Previous release in the series Romantic Cello Concerto Vol.5 Hyperion • CDA 68002 (034571280028) “A winner on all counts.” —FANFARE 13 hyperion The Romantic Cello Concerto Vol.6 VIEUXTEMPS Cello Concertos Nos.1 & 2 YSAŸE Méditation Op.16, Sérénade Op.22 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 MACHAUT The Dart of Love IMPORT Western music as we know it today has its roots in the fourteenth century, and most famously in the pioneering works of Guillaume de Machaut. Why he chose to set his remarkable poetry to music in this way we may never know, but the results continue to hold those who hear it enraptured. Few groups have matched The Orlando Consort – formed in 1988 specifically to explore this repertoire – in capturing and recording the essence of Machaut. This is the group’s second volume in their Machaut Edition for Hyperion. Aa34571c@*) *?K Price Code: CA20 (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) “Machaut sung with authority and incredible beauty...” —AUDIOPHILE AUDITION Also available Machaut: Songs from Le Voir Dit Hyperion • CDA 67727 (034571177274) “Masterly.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES 14 hyperion The Orlando Consort Hyperion • CDA 68008 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 [PRIORITY RELEASE] LISZT Piano Sonata, Dante Sonata, Petrarch Sonnets IMPORT Angela Hewitt’s notes for this important new album describe a teenager’s moment of revelation when she first came to appreciate the epic masterpiece that is the Liszt Piano Sonata. Here we have a heartfelt recording where this palpable sense of wonder is manifest alongside Hewitt’s enthralling technical facility at the keyboard. The program is completed by the second half of Liszt’s dazzling second Année de pèlerinage collection: the three Petrarch Sonnets and the noble Dante Sonata, the latter composed as a fund-raiser for the Bonn Beethoven monument in 1839. Aa34571c@*)^&\R Price Code: CA20 (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) “A brilliant pianist...” —THE BUFFALO NEWS Recently released Bach: The Art of Fugue Hyperion • CDA 67980 (034571179803) “I won’t mince words. This Art of Fugue is marvellous.” —THE TIMES 15 hyperion Angela Hewitt (piano) Hyperion • CDA 68067 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 ESENVALDS Northern Lights and other choral works IMPORT The choral music of the young Latvian composer Eriks Ešenvalds is steadily gaining appreciation across the world. The works on this new album owe their genesis to commissions from the United States, England and northern Europe and encompass ethereal expressions of uniquely arctic phenomena, American ballads and several works in the Anglican tradition - the fruits of the composer’s recent residency at Trinity College Cambridge. Trinity College Choir Cambridge here returns the compliment, as it were, with superlative performances of these varied and engaging works, all recorded under the watchful eye of the composer and conductor Stephen Layton. Aa34571c@*)*#\R Price Code: CA20 (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) “Few choral ensembles anywhere today can match Trinity’s superbly blended tone, breathtaking dexterity in florid passages and exceptionally clear textual projection.” —OPERA NEWS Also available Pärt: Choral Music Hyperion • CDA 68056 “This one is something special.” —GRAMOPHONE 16 hyperion Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Stephen Layton Hyperion • CDA 68083 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 Treasures of the Spanish Renaissance IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 66168 (034571161686) Deleted January 2011 Recorded in 1985, this seminal album from the Price Code: CA12 Westminster Cathedral Choir and David Hill is a (Suggested Retail Price: $12.98) true jewel. These were among the first performances in modern times of the divine compositions of Francisco Guerrero and Alonso Lobo, and the disc also includes a Magnificat by Sebastián de Vivanco, a composer barely known even now. These recordings date from the peak of a golden era in the history of this most illustrious of choirs, and have yet to be bettered. Aa34571c!%$#)ZP FINZI Intimations of Immortality, Dies natalis John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Corydon Singers, Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best Hyperion • CDH 55432 IMPORT Previously Available as CDA 66876 (034571168760) Deleted November 2014 This reissue brings together two of Finzi’s most Price Code: CA12 characteristic works. Dies natalis, a setting of prose (Suggested Retail Price: $12.98) and verse by the seventeenth-century metaphysical poet Thomas Traherne, vividly suggests the vision of a child’s innocence and unsullied perception of the world. Intimations of Immortality is by contrast a lament for the lost joys of Traherne’s idealized childhood. Finzi uses Wordsworth’s famous ode to convey his view that “a dead poet lives in many a live stockbroker” and the result is a work of arresting beauty. Aa34571c!%$#@+U 17 hyperion Choir of Westminster Cathedral, David Hill Hyperion • CDH 55430 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 Talich Quartet La Dolce Volta • LDV 18 la dolce volta DVORÁK String Quartets Nos.10 & 11 IMPORT In 1975, the Talich Quartet made their début in Paris. A recording of Dvorák’s beloved “American” quartet followed a year later, and both the group and Price Code: CA24 the recording soon became legendary. Through the (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) quartet’s successive formations, the Talich Quartet has always maintained a specific tone, a special sound that is emblematic of their unique style. The current lineup returns to Dvorák with this release featuring the String Quartets Nos.10 and 11, works that built Dvorák’s reputation as one of the most important chamber music composers of his time. D77p p1c()!#&$s DEBUSSY Complete Songs IMPORT This recording of the complete mélodies of Claude Debussy includes not only the published versions of each song but also alternate versions and recently Price Code: 4CA19 discovered and unpublished songs. It presents the (4 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $79.98) works in chronological order from the first song, composed when Debussy was a student at the Paris Conservatoire, to the last, composed in the midst of World War I. The booklet includes an essay by Denis Herlin, a leading Debussy scholar, and Jean-Louis Haguenauer’s thoughts about Debussy’s Blüthner piano, which is featured on this recording. D48utr9c()@*%$s 18 ligia Liliana Faraon (soprano), Magali Léger (soprano), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (mezzo-soprano), Gilles Ragon (tenor), François Le Roux (baritone), Jean-Louis Haguenauer (piano) Ligia Digital • LIDI 0201285 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 J.S. BACH The Musical Offering IMPORT On this disc, Philippe Pierlot and the Ricercar Consort perform Bach’s Musical Offering, a collection of canons, fugues and other works based on a single Price Code: CA24 musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) of Prussia. The work has its roots in a meeting between Bach and the King in 1747. Well known for his skill at improvising, Bach was asked to play a fugue based on the King’s complex theme. Two months after the meeting, Bach published this set of pieces, all based on the King’s theme. D76pqw7c@ @#&*s Sémélé Music of Marais, Handel & Destouches Les Ombres, Margaux Blanchard, Sylvain Sartre Mirare • MIR 260 IMPORT Mirare presents another fine recording by the talented ensemble Les Ombres, led jointly by group members Margaux Blanchard and Sylvain Sartre. Price Code: CA24 Baroque music combines violence and gentleness, (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) unity and plurality. This disc dedicated to the myth of Semele and Icarus combines music by Marin Marais, André Cardinal Destouches and George Frideric Handel. D76pqw7c@ @^)^s 19 mirare Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot Mirare • MIR 237 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 J.S. BACH Italian Concerto, Capriccio, Sinfonia No.11, Partita No.1, Invention No.14, Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue IMPORT French pianist Claire-Marie Le Guay studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Jacques Rouvier, Pascal Devoyon and Bruno Rigutto. Following her Price Code: CA24 education in Paris, Le Guay continued her studies (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) with a variety of established teachers, including Alicia de Larrocha, Andreas Staier and Leon Fleisher. This Bach recital displays her balanced approach to Baroque style with a selection of varied works including the Italian Concerto and the Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue. D76pqw7c@ @^$ s Ombre et Lumière SCARLATTI Keyboard Sonatas Anne Queffélec (piano) Mirare • MIR 265 IMPORT This disc by pianist Anne Queffélec is a kind of a homecoming. Forty years after her first recording of his music, she returns to a composer for which Price Code: CA24 she has always had a particular affinity - Domenico (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) Scarlatti. Aptly titled Ombre et lumiere (shadow and light), this recording’s selection of the composer’s famous sonatas ranges in mood from dreamy and tender to frenzied and jubilant. D76pqw7c@ @^%!s 20 mirare Claire-Marie Le Guay (piano) Mirare • MIR 264 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 [PRIORITY RELEASE] ELGAR Symphony No.1, Cockaigne Overture IMPORT Vasily Petrenko is recognized as one of the leading Elgarians of our time. This recording featuring Petrenko leading the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is the first in a series for Onyx that will contain symphonies, as well as the other major orchestral works and some of the delightful miniatures. Here, the Symphony No.1 is preceded by the sparkling concert overture Cockaigne. The symphony was premièred in 1908 to great acclaim, with over a hundred performances in its first year. “The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Vasily Petrenko plays with great purity...” Il80 40c$!$%@?K —THE FINANCIAL TIMES Price Code: CA20 (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) Also available Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Onyx • ONYX 4135 (880040413523) “Solid, propulsive accounts of both of these sprawling warhorses.” —BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 21 onyx Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko Onyx Classics • ONYX 4145 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 DOMESTIC On this release, Lisa Moore interprets iconic piano works from the catalogue of Philip Glass including Mad Rush, Metamorphosis Nos. I-V, Etude No.2, the Price Code: CA20 finale from Glass’s opera Satyagraha and Closing from (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) the Glass classic Glassworks. Moore is one of the preeminent new music pianists of her time, having played with or for the foremost composers and ensembles of the past half-century. Her journey to the solo piano repertoire of Philip Glass is propitious as there’s a growing interest in this most intimate part of a very public composer’s body of work. Il01837c) ( @\R DOMESTIC Following on their first, GRAMMY©-nominated recording of Haydn Symphonies Nos.104, 88, & 101, Music Director Nicholas McGegan and Price Code: CA22 Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra present (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) three inventive symphonies from Haydn’s middle period. The Symphonies Nos. 57, 67 & 68 are the fruits of a period in which Haydn was eagerly exploring the possibilities of symphonic form and expression. The performances were recorded live in 2014 at the First Congregational Church in Berkeley, California. Il5218 c) #!)WM 22 philharmonia baroque HAYDN Symphonies Nos.57, 67 & 68 Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan Philharmonia Baroque • PBP 08 orange mountain GLASS Mad Rush, Metamorphosis Nos.I-V, Étude No.2, Satyagraha Conclusion Act 3, Closing Lisa Moore (piano) Orange Mountain • OMM 0099 CLASSICAL FEBRUARY 2015 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSD Praga’s Reminiscences series features audiophile SACD remasterings of historic recordings. This Price Code: CA24 release is the label’s fourth disc devoted to the great (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. His repertory, which ranged from Scarlatti to Ravel, was not extensive, however Michelangeli’s playing was always praised for its clarity, luxurious tone and rich color palette. This recital includes the Bach/Busoni Ciaccona and Schumann’s Faschingsschwank aus Wien as well as works by Beethoven and Brahms. D14opw8c)@(@ @s TCHAIKOVSKY Moscow – Coronation Cantata, Voyevoda, 1812 Overture, The Tempest Luydmilla Legostayeva (mezzo-soprano), Daniel Damaniov (baritone), Moscow Radio Symphony Choir, Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nikolai Golovanov Praga • PRD 350117 IMPORT SACD Hybrid/ Bi-channel Stereo/ DSD Praga’s Reminiscences series features audiophile SACD remasterings of historic recordings. This release Price Code: CA24 of works by Tchaikovsky pays tribute to Soviet (Suggested Retail Price: $24.98) conductor and composer Nikolai Semyonovich Golovanov. Golovanov held some of the highest musical positions in the USSR, including chief conductor of the Bolshoi Opera. Nicknamed the “Russian Furtwängler,” his recorded output was substantial, and it featured full-blooded, powerful interpretations and extreme flexibility in tempo, phrasing and dynamics. D14opw8c)#()@#s 23 praga J.S. BACH Ciaccona (arr. Busoni) BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No.3 SCHUMANN Faschingsschwank aus Wien BRAHMS Paganini Variations Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano) Praga • PRD 350095 JAZZ FEBRUARY 2015 IMPORT File in: Jazz Jeremy Pelt stands as a strikingly unique musician, his work consistently sleek and polished yet bristling with the spirit of invention. A concise technician but also a charismatic improviser, Pelt flourishes in a lean, modernist language influenced by classic bebop phraseology. He delivers his lines with authority and economy, the pinpoint accuracy of his tone well-suited to the heightened elegance of his delivery. On this release, Pelt offers an interesting session of originals, standards and music by Wayne Shorter and Clifford Jordan. Gj32375c&@&)@YO Price Code: CA22 (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) Also available Face Forward, Jeremy Highnote • HCD 7259 (632375725921) “An acoustic-electric jazz wonderland, swarming with colorful fabrications and capacious sonic environs.” —ALL ABOUT JAZZ 24 highnote Tales, Musings and other Reveries Jeremy Pelt HighNote • HCD 7270 JAZZ FEBRUARY 2015 IMPORT File in: Jazz In his fifth release on Savant Records, alto saxophonist Jim Snidero draws from a quarter-century of touring to create a compelling sonic trip across America. Main Street is inspired by towns throughout the USA and features one of the hippest rhythm sections in Jazz; Fabian Almazan, Linda Oh and Rudy Royston. The result is a cohesive yet spontaneous concept album that deftly balances both tradition and modernism. Main Street offers an attractive mix of grooves and moods that lets this talented, young rhythm section stretch out and show that they mean business. Gj3 842c@!$@ VL Price Code: CA22 (Suggested Retail Price: $22.98) Also available Stream of Consciousness Savant • SCD 2127 (633842212722) “Snidero continues to surprise with each addition to his discography.” —ALL ABOUT JAZZ 25 savant Main Street Jim Snidero Savant • SCD 2142 WORLD FEBRUARY 2015 Trio Chemirani harmonia mundi • HMC 905273 IMPORT File in: World / Middle East / Iran Nearly 40 years ago, Djamchid Chemirani made his first recording for harmonia mundi (reissued this Price Code: CA20 month). Since then, his career has blossomed, and (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) he performs now with his sons Keyvan and Bijan at his side. Both separately and together, each has explored various universes of sound and honed their craft as musicians. But Trio Chemirani has constantly returned to the shared magnum opus: the elaboration of a universal rhythmic language. Dawâr fuses the spirituality, diverse cultural experiences and historical sensitivity of these three great artists. D14opw0c%@&#@)s Improvisations au zarb Classical Traditions of Iran Djamchid Chemirani harmonia mundi • HMA 195388 IMPORT Previously Available as HMA 190388 (093046860721) Deleted March 1999 File in: World / Middle East / Iran Price Code: CA09 To hear a great zarb player is to hear sounds of (Suggested Retail Price: $9.98) the great poetry of Iran – the cavalcades of the legendary conquerors, the whispers of the lovers Leyla and Majnoun, the fervor of the mystics. This budget-priced reissue, released for the first time in 1976, features the legendary Djamchid Chemirani. D14opw0c)#* # s 26 harmonia mundi Dawâr WORLD FEBRUARY 2015 Aziz Sahmaoui & University of Gnawa World Village • 479099 IMPORT File in: World / Africa / Morocco With Mazal, Aziz Sahmaoui and University of Gnawa conjure up sonorous dreams and intoxicating trance states. The Moroccan poetsinger has achieved a glorious harmony between Maghreb rock, jazz and gnawa music. Sahmaoui, a cofounder of the Orchestre National de Barbès and former associate of Joe Zawinul, confirms his reputation as one of the foremost singer-songwriters of contemporary world fusion music, a reputation that reaches across Europe and beyond to the Middle East and the United States. “A rocking, nuanced brand of gnawa trance...” D14opw6c)!)@ @s —THE GUARDIAN Price Code: CA19 (Suggested Retail Price: $19.98) 27 world village Mazal BLUES FEBRUARY 2015 20 Strings & The Truth IMPORT File in: Blues 20 Strings & the Truth is the instrumental album Harry Manx fans have been waiting for. His signature instrument, the 20-string Mohan Veena, is the focus of the album and vocals appear on just one track. Many of the tracks are based on Indian ragas, where Manx uses the ‘mode’ of the raga as a foundation in creating his own songs. Much like a good raga, this collection of instrumental works is a great soundtrack to whatever journey you are on. Il75 31c) ( ^ZP Price Code: CA20 (Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) “An original.” —THE NEW YORK TIMES Also available Om Suite Ohm Dog My Cat • DMCR 00874 (875531008746) “Om Suite Ohm holds the secrets to life’s deepest mysteries.” —BLUESRAG 28 dog my cat Harry Manx Dog My Cat • DMCR 00996 BLUES FEBRUARY 2015 Various Artists Accords Croisés • AC 156 IMPORT File in: Blues This collection explores the diverse, colorful and timeless music that was Price Code: 2CA20 inspired by and born on the banks of (2 CD Set, Suggested Retail Price: $41.98) the mighty Mississippi river. The set’s cosmopolitan mix of music, from Minnesota in the north to Louisiana in the south, not only includes blues, Cajun, zydeco, jazz, rock and soul, but also folk and rap. D14opw8c)%&^@!s FEATURED ARTISTS Big A & The All Stars, Afrissippi : Nduumandii, Como Fife & Drum Band, Courtbouillon, Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias, Scott Dunbar, Les Getrex, John Hartford, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes, The Homemade Jamz Blues Band, The Hot 8 Brass Band, Reverend Charlie Jackson, Big Jack Johnson & the Cornlickers, The Jones Sisters, Little Freddie King, Spider John Koerner, Corey Ledet, Magnolia Sisters, Butch Mudbone, Rebirth Brass Band, Zachary Richard, Kermit Ruffins, South Memphis String Band, L.C. Ulmer, Cedric Watson, Leo Welch, Reverend John Wilkins, Zion Harmonizers 29 accords croisés The Mississippi The Song of the Rivers ROCK FEBRUARY 2015 FREE D OW CARD IN NLOAD CLUDE D Slag Tanz Félicité Thösz Magma Jazz Village • JV 33570051 Magma Jazz Village • JV 33570056 D14opw7c) !@&$s D14opw7c) !(& s Price Code: CA20 (VINYL • Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) Price Code: CA20 (VINYL • Suggested Retail Price: $20.98) IMPORT 180-gram Super Fidelity Vinyl; Free Download Card Included File in: Pop / Rock Jazz Village’s Magma series primarily focuses on classic recordings, reissued in celebration of the band’s 45th anniversary. However, Slag Tanz – a masterpiece of symphonic metal – has previously only been heard in live performance. Magma first released Félicité Thösz in 2012. Dominated by the celestial voice of Stella Vander, it was the band’s first studio album since they re-formed in the early part of the century. With lyrics in French (which is not common in the band’s discography) as well as Kobaïan, the language invented by Christian Vander, Félicité Thösz is a trip which will lead you from Japan to the Urals via Central Asia, with a detour to pay homage to Tamla Motown. Powerful, hypnotic and unclassifiable, there has been absolutely nothing like Magma in the last fifty years. Jazz Village Magma catalog on vinyl Ëmehntehtt-Ré JV 33570017 (3149027001878) Rïah Sahïltaahk JV 33570045 (3149027001076) 30 Köhntarkösz Anteria JV 33570049 (3149027001571) jazz village 180g VINYL Concert Calendar Full concert Details available at: harmoniamundi.ca Anna Aaron 2015-02-27 Montréal, QC --> L’Astral 2015-02-28 Montréal, QC --> Theatre Maisonneuve Benedetto Lupo 2015-02-08 Montréal, QC --> Pollack Hall (LMMC) Borodin Quartet 2015-05-03 Montréal, QC --> Pollack Hall (LMMC) Christianne Stotijn 2015-04-12 Montréal, QC --> Pollack Hall (LMMC) Christianne Stotijn & Julius Drake 2015-04-16 Toronto, ON --> Walter Hall Daniil Trifonov 2015-01-20 Toronto, ON --> Koerner Hall Dénés Várjon 2015-02-17 Toronto, ON --> St. Lawrence Centre Dublin Guitar Quartet 2015-04-12 Toronto, ON --> Walter Hall Elias Quartet 2015-03-19 Toronto, ON --> St. Lawrence Centre Ian Bostridge recital 2015-04-15 Vancouver, BC --> Vancouver Playhouse Iestyn Davies, Barbara Hannigan, Chris Purves 2015-03-07 Toronto, ON --> Roy Thomson Hall James Ehnes 2015-05-15 Toronto, ON --> Koerner Hall 2015-05-03 Winnipeg, MB --> Hotel Fort Garry Jean-Guihen Queyras 2015-03-22 Montréal, QC --> Pollack Hall (LMMC) Jean-Guihen Queyras & MCO 2015-03-17 Winnipeg, MB --> Westminster United Church Jean-Philippe Collard 2015-03-04 Montréal, QC --> Maison symphonique 2015-03-08 Montréal, QC --> Maison symphonique Jerusalem Quartet 2015-03-01 Montréal, QC --> Pollack Hall (LMMC) Jonathan Biss and NACO 2015-02-11 Ottawa, ON --> NAC Southam Hall 31 2015-02-12 Ottawa, ON --> NAC Southam Hall Jonathan Biss with Pinchas Zukerman and Amand 2015-02-15 Ottawa, ON --> National Gallery of Canada Joseph Moog 2015-04-12 Vancouver, BC --> Vancouver Playhouse Kayhan Kalhor 2015-03-13 West Vancouver, BC --> Kay Meek Centre Kristian Bezuidenhout 2015-03-07 Victoria, BC --> Oak Bay United Church 2015-03-08 Vancouver, BC --> Chan Centre La Rêveuse ensemble 2015-03-25 Montreal, QC --> Bourgie Concert Hall 2015-03-27 Vancouver, BC --> Orpheum Annex 2015-03-28 Victoria, BC --> Alix Goolden Hall Marc-André Hamelin 2015-03-01 Toronto, ON --> Koerner Hall Marc-André Hamelin & Les Violons du Roy 2015-03-08 Kingston, ON --> Isabel Bader Centre Paul Lewis 2015-03-27 Toronto, ON --> Koerner Hall 2015-05-03 Vancouver, BC --> Vancouver Playhouse Pavel Kolesnikov 2015-02-04 Toronto, ON --> Roy Thomson Hall 2015-02-05 Toronto, ON --> Roy Thomson Hall 2015-03-08 Edmonton, AB --> Winspear Centre Philip Glass 2015-03-07 Montréal, QC --> Maison symphonique Prazak Quartet 2015-03-10 Vancouver, BC --> Vancouver Playhouse Stephen Hough 2015-01-23 Calgary, AB --> Epcor Centre 2015-01-24 Calgary, AB --> Epcor Centre 2015-05-29 Edmonton, AB --> Winspear Centre COMING SOON harmonia mundi distribution 314 Cedar Bank Road • Otonabee, ON K9J 6Y3 • Tel: (705) 930-5516 harmoniamundi.ca • sales–[email protected]
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