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AUGUST 2015

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heritage

AugustBBC MUSIC MAGAZINE Concerto Choiceharmonia mundi HMU807573 Vaughan Williams & MacMillan Oboe ConcertosNicholas Daniel; Britten Sinfonia

BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE Opera Choiceharmonia mundi HMC902212/13Rameau Castor et PolluxEnsemble Pygmalion/Raphael Pichon

BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE Choral & Song ChoiceSignum SIGCD408 In the midst of life/Baldwin PartbooksContrapunctus/Owen Rees

RELEASE DATE14TH AUGUST 2015

Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/Opera &VocalCatalogue No: HMY2921877/78Barcode: 31490201877532 FOR 1 Price Format: 2 CDPackaging: specialRosemary Joshua [Michal]Emma Bell [Merab]Lawrence Zazzo [David]Jeremy Ovenden [Jonathan]Michael Slattery [High Priest, Witch of Endor]Finnur Bjarnason [Amalekite, Abner]Henry Waddington [Doeg, Samuel]Gidon Saks [Saul]

HANDEL: SaulRIAS Kammerchor Concerto Köln René Jacobs

“Jacobs is dramatic in every number, and among his soloists Rosemary Joshua as Michal and counter-tenor LaurenceZazzo are outstanding.” Andrew Clements, The Guardian, 16 September 2005

"The sustained excellence of Concerto Köln in a score which is strikingly opulent by the standards of the day is furtherreason to place this dramatically satisfying performance at the head of the league table. Add to these many virtues one ofthe finest recorded sounds that I can recall having heard for some while and the result is an outstanding issue.” Nicholas Anderson, Disc of the Month, BBC Music Magazine, October 2005, Benchmark, *****performance/*****sound

“It is Jacobs’s thrilling, theatrical conducting, his excellent RIAS Chamber Choir and Concerto Köln which make this set amust for all Handelians…this is surely the Saul to have on your shelves if you don’t own one already.” Hugh Canning, International Record Review, October 2005

“this is certainly the most excitingly theatrical Saul on disc…Chorus and orchestra are superbly responsive throughout,and the soloists, led by Gidon Saks's baleful, black-voiced Saul, are at least as fine as those on the rival sets. LawrenceZazzo as David matches Andreas Scholl in lyrical allure and surpasses him in dramatic flair.” Richard Wigmore, The Daily Telegraph, 22 October 2005

“Jacobs’s understanding of the dramatic workings of Baroque opera and oratorio is second to none and, as usual, hisperformance is outstandingly successful in linking Handel’s sequences of numbers into a coherent whole...If it is dramaticinvolvement you want from Saul, then Jacobs’s is the one to have.”Lindsay Kemp, Editor’s Choice, Gramophone, November 2005

Sunday Times Classical CD of the WeekGramophone Editor’s ChoiceBBC Music Magazine Disc of the Month+BenchmarkAmazon.Com Best of 2005

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Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/OrchestralCatalogue No: HMY2921337/40Barcode: 31490201337504 FOR 1 PriceFormat: 4 CDPackaging: box setHugo Reyne, Sébastien Marq, Marie-Ange Petit, Gilles Rapin, Jérôme Hantaï

DELALANDE: Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy [Complete]La Simphonie du MaraisHugo Reyne

"In 1990, Hugo Reyne and his period-instrument ensemble La Simphonie du Marais recorded and Harmonia Mundipublished what was not exactly the "complete" Symphonies for the King's Suppers of Michel-Richard Delalande, but, with5 hours of music filling 4 CDs, the best thing to be had thus far - and still now...it was 5 hours of sheer enjoyment, thanks to his skilful instrumentations (the manuscripts come in the form of two- orthree-part scores with hardly any indication of instrumentation, so it falls on each interpreter to provide his own), his freeuse of percussion instruments in the dance numbers, adding great color and dynamism, and his genuine sense ofauthentic style and phrasings...But the good news now is that one doesn't need to settle for less anymore: Harmonia Mundi has announced, for August,the reissue of the complete set, Delalande Complete Symphonies, and at budget price. For those who'd still be on a dietof music feasting, this CD of selections, in this edition or in its original guise, depending on market price, remains thechoice." Amazon.com review

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Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: HMY2928464/65Barcode: 31490208464522 FOR 1 PriceFormat: 2 CDPackaging: digipackRafael Andia [guitar]

Robert de VISEE: Complete Works for GuitarRafael Andia

"Andia's recording follows the natural order of the pieces, presenting first the two printed books of 1682 and 1686, 12 Suites... Rafael Andia was born in France, of Spanish parents, and his musical development was shaped by Alberto Ponce and Emilio Pujol, the latter no doubt mainly responsible for his interest in the early guitar and its music... I recommend this album for your turntable. Baroque music is rarely to be played as it looks on the page, a point (or points) well made by Andia's stylish performances.Two guitars are used in the recording, reproductions based on a string-length of 68cm, that of Voboam, made by CharlesBesnainou of Paris (1980, 1983)... the guitars have strong and full sounds, and the recording transmits the strength,energy and fluency of Andia's playing of them. The music may be enjoyed even if you don't bother to open the booklet!" John Duarte, Guitar International 12/86

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Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/Opera &VocalCatalogue No: HMY2921515/17Barcode: 31490201515563 FOR 1 PriceFormat: 3 CDPackaging: digipackMaria Bayo (Calisto), Marcello Lippi (Giove), Hans Peter Kammerer (Mercurio),Graham Pushee (Endymion), Louise Winter (Diana), Alexander Oliver (Linfea), Dominique Visse (Satirino, une furie); Barry Banks (Pan, Natura), Reinhardt Dorn (Silvano), Sonia Theodoridou (Giunone) Robin Tyson (furie)

CAVALLI: La CalistoConcerto VocaleRené Jacobs

"Long a champion of Cavalli’s rarefied, but seductive oeuvre, the Belgian early-music specialist René Jacobs has nowrecorded this masterpiece, in a comprehensive, if unorthodox, three-act, almost three-hour version...It is also very wellsung. Maria Bayo’s determined nymph, Calisto, is impeccable, her purity of voice beautifully complemented byAlessandra Mantovani’s creamily toned Diana and Sonia Theodoridou’s soaring Juno. As Jupiter (a baritone who has toassume the falsetto guise of Diana), Marcello Lippi demonstrates a formidable range, even if he is not absolutely securein the higher register, and he is well matched by a gloriously robust and Leporello-like Mercury from Simon Keenlyside,the most exciting baritone to have emerged for some time." BBC Music Magazine

"When this was first released in 1995, I thought it was the finest recording of a Baroque opera I’d ever heard. Since thenthere have been many others as good, but this one remains positively superb, making the case for an otherwiseunknown work, bringing to the fore all of its colors, wit, bawdiness, and complications... Furthermore, Cavalli’s tunes arealmost catchy. It’s a gem, and this performance is just about perfect...Simon Keenlyside’s Mercury is wise and snide.Since this recording was made he has gone on to become world-famous, and deservedly so. René Jacobs and his bandturn this into a great, sharp drama, beautiful to listen to and endlessly appealing. Don’t miss it – it’s a great work and thisis a great performance." Classicstoday.com 10/10

RELEASE DATE14TH AUGUST 2015

Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: HMY2921155/57Barcode: 31490201155583 FOR 1 PriceFormat: 3 CDPackaging: digipackBarbara Schlick, René Jacobs, Howard Crook, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Peter Kooy, Ulrich Cold, Collegium Vocale Gent, La Chapelle Royale

J.S. BACH: St Matthew PassionPhilippe Herreweghe

"The major selling point of this recording is Howard Crook, finest of all evangelists, who astonishes with his ability to leapfrom dark bass notes to an upper register glowing with soft colours...The St Matthew Passion has never sounded darker - or more beautiful." Damian Thompson, Top Choice, The Classic Collection, The Daily Telegraph, 3 April 2004

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Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/Opera &VocalCatalogue No: HMY2921826/27Barcode: 31490201826592 FOR 1 PriceFormat: 2 CDPackaging: digipackJohanna Stojkovic [Emira]Sunhae Im [Laodice]Ann Hallenberg [Siroe]Gunther Schmid [Medarse]Sebastian Noack [King Cosroe]Timm de Jong [Arasse]Capella ColoniensisAndreas Spering

HANDEL: Siroe, Ré di Persia Johanna Stojkovic / Sunhae Im / Ann Hallenberg Gunther Schmid / Sebastian Noack / Timm de Jong Capella Coloniensis / Andreas Spering

Classical CD of the Week, The Sunday TimesRecord of the Week, The GuardianCD of the Week, The Daily Telegraph

“This is, without doubt, one of the most dazzling performances of any Handel opera on disc.”Hugh Canning, International Record Review, May 2004

“Spering fields an excellent cast headed by the Swedish mezzo Ann Hallenberg and the well-contrasted sopranosJohanna Stojkovic and Sunhae Im. Spering’s conducting is a sheer delight.” Three stars (Outstanding) Hugh Canning,The Sunday Times, 14 March 2004

“Spering draws a lithe, crackling performance from his expert orchestra, dangerously precipitate at times but alwaysexcitingly alive. The nimble, diamantine-toned Sunhae Im and the richer-voiced Johanna Stojkovic sing and characterisewith fluency and panache, but the real star of the show is the mezzo Ann Hallenberg. Her pure, gleaming tone, supple,shapely phrasing and immaculate coloratura give constant pleasure.” Richard Wigmore, Opera, August 2004

“Hallenberg is perfectly cast in the title role..In the Bordoni role of Elmira, Stojkovic shares with Hallenberg not only asensitivity to vocal nuance but also an idiomatic understanding of the art of ornamentation. She excites with astratospheric ascent during a cadenza, but has the good sense (and taste) to return to earth for the cadential resolution.”Andrew Jones, Early Music Today, December 2004/January 2005

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Label: FloraFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: FLO0705Barcode: 3149028051421NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackFrançois Fernandez, Luis Otavio Santos,Laurent Stewart, Eduardo EguezRainer Zipperling, Kaori Uemura, Philppe Pierlot

Carolus HACQUART: La Maistre de Musique - SonatasVan WICHEL: SonatasFrançois FernandezRainer ZipperlingPhilippe Pierlot

Carolus Hacquart: under this name is hiding one of the most ingenius composers of the 17th century in the Netherlands.He was born in Bruges and worked in the Hague but very little is known about his life. He referred to himself as 'maistrede musique' and he taught talented pupils from the Dutch aristocracy his favourite instrument, the viola da gamba. Hiscompositionas combine the very different influences in the Netherlands of the period.The sonatas of his collection 'Harmonia Parnassia', published in 1686, constitute the majority of this recording. PhilippePierlot and his musical collaborators have taken 3 sarabands out of his Chelys collection, dedicated to the viol. Theprogramme is completed with 2 sonatas from the Brussels composer Philippus Van Wichel.

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Label: FloraFile Under: Classical/ChambermusicCatalogue No: FLO0805Barcode: 3149028055429NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackFrançois Fernandez [violin]Rainer Zipperling [cello]Boyan Vodenitcharov [piano]

HAYDN: Piano Trios Hob.XV 10, 18, 21 & 23

Joseph Haydn composed his works always sitting at the fortepiano. He aimed to move the limits of the musical resultwithout touching the rules. He described it with his own words : “the art is free and should not be limited by craftchains.The mind and soul has to be free. The ear – a well educated of course- has to decide and I do not allow myself morethan others to invent new rules. Such bad manners have no merrit but I wished that someone tried to compose a realnew Menuet”. We wish you joy and pleasure with listening to these gems of chamber music.

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Label: AuditeFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: AUDITE97707Barcode: 4022143977076NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackFranziska Pietsch [violin]Detlev Eisinger [piano]

GRIEG: The Violin Sonatas• No. 2 in G major, Op. 13 • No. 1 in F major, Op. 8 • No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45Franziska PietschDetlev Eisinger

Franziska Pietsch and Detlev Eisinger make their Audite debut with chamber works by Edvard Grieg. The three ViolinSonatas represent half his oeuvre in this field, epitomising central stages in his artistic development: his emancipationfrom the inspirational proximity to Schumann, references to Norwegian folk music, and his expansive use of themes andtime.Grieg rated these three sonatas amongst his best works.

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Label: EDA RecordsFile Under: Classical/OrchestralCatalogue No: EDA40Barcode: 840387100401NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDFrédéric Tardy, Ulrike Petersen, Ignacy Miecznikowski, Claudio Corbach, Tatjana Blome

Joachim MENDELSON: En hommage Symphony No. 2, Chamber Symphony, Oboe Quintet, Violin SonataPolish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Jürgen Bruns

Joachim Mendelson was born in Warsaw in 1892. Like nearly all Polish composers of his generation, he went to Paris inthe 1920s and joined the Association des Jeunes Musiciens Polonais. In the mid-1930s, Mendelson accepted aprofessorship at the Warsaw College of Music. After Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland, he was interned in the Warsawghetto, where he was murdered in 1943. Only five of his compositions survived. Four of these works from the late 1930sare recorded here for the first time.

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Label: EDA RecordsFile Under: ClassicalCatalogue No: EDA31Barcode: 4012476000312NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDJudith Ingolfsson [violin]Leonid Gorokhov [cello]Vladimir Stoupel [piano]

Simon LAKS: En HommageTrois pièces de concert, Sonate pour violoncelle et piano, Suite polonaise,Ballade 'Hommage à Chopin'Judith IngolfssonLeonid GorokhovVladimir Stoupel

Born in 1901 in Warsaw, Laks belonged to a group of Polish musicians and composers who banded together in Paris inthe late 1920s as the Association des Jeunes Musiciens Polonais. Under the stewardship of Paderewski, Szymanowski,Arthur Rubinstein and Nadia Boulanger, it was considered the most important non-French music association inwhat was then the music capital of the world. Laks, who had studied at the University of Warsaw and the Conservatoirein Paris, began his auspicious career as a composer in the early 1930s. He composed for famous ensembles such as theRoth Quartet and renowned soloists such as Maurice Maréchal and Vlado Perlemuter. Laks’s Jewish background led tohis internment in 1941 and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he led one of the camp’s orchestras – andnarrowly survived the Shoah “after an endless series of wonders.” This CD presents a collection of world-premiere recordings of Laks’s works from the pre-war era that marked his breakthroughinto the French music scene. It also includes his ballad, 'Hommage à Chopin', which he composed in 1949, commissioned by the Chopin competition in Warsaw, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the great composer’s death. These recordings present a composer who succeeded in creating a highly original synthesis of Slavic and French elementsof style.

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Label: StradivariusFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: STR37013Barcode: 8011570370136NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackGiacomo Susani [guitar]

Giacomo Susani plays Petrassi, Bach, Tansman, WeissGiacomo Susani

PETRASSI: NuncJ.S. BACH: Preludio Fuga Allegro BWV 998TANSMAN: Variations sur un thème de Scriabine, CavatinaWEISS: Tombeau sur la mort de M. comte de Logy

Giacomo Susani's debut album is devoted to music by Petrassi, Bach, Tansman and Weiss with a sound that isimmediately recognisable, warm and immediate. Despite being only 20 years old he has a technical ease and artisticmaturity that belies his years. His CV is impressive: born in Padua in 1995 he has studied with Stefano Grondona and in2014-15 he is at the Royal Academy of Music of London, where he has been awarded a Julian Bream Trust Scholarship,the first Italian to achieve this recognition.

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Label: StradivariusFile Under: Classical/OrchestralCatalogue No: STR33946Barcode: 8011570339461NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: cristalGregorio García Karman [live electronics]Orquesta de la Comunidad de MadridJosé Ramón Encinar [conductor]

Cristóbal HALFFTER [b.1930]: Homo electricusLíneas y puntos, Variaciones sobre la resonancia de un grito, Planto por las víctimas de la violenciaOrquesta de la Comunidad de MadridJosé Ramón Encinar

Although Halffter’s electronic production has enjoyed some international prestige, it continues to be little known. Thethree compositions on this CD are interesting, not only because they represent an important period for the composer, butalso because they are good creative examples of Halffter's use of electro-acoustics. One of the most characteristicelements of these compositions is the use of live electronics to broaden the instrumental possibilities and communicativepotential. The 'Variaciones sobre la resonancia de un grito' relates to the tension accumulated through dictatorship and tothe simultaneous cry of a multitude: the cry which circles the earth is an image which Halffter borrows from Chardin’s'noosphere' (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in 1922[4] in his Cosmogenesis: the noosphere/noösphere) is the sphere ofhuman thought. As Halffter himself asserts: “I believe the freedom we can achieve with electro-acoustic means is not only greater butalso of a different nature, as long as it is we who dominate the means and not the means which dominates us”.

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Label: WergoFile Under: Classical/ChambermusicCatalogue No: WER7321-2Barcode: 4010228732122NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDElole-Klaviertrio

Charlotte SEITHER: Equal Ways of DifferenceChamplève, Cry, Gran Passo, Playing Both Ends Towards the Middle, Merging StrainElole-Klaviertrio

Charlotte Seither is one of the most promising German composers of her generation. She has received many honoursand prizes, including the 2010 Praetorius Musikpreis for Composition and the 2012 Pfalzpreis für Musik. In August 2013,her orchestral piece 'Language of Leaving' was prèmiered by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Proms and wasbroadcast live from Royal Albert Hall. This collection of Seither's chamber music played by the Elole-Klaviertrio includestwo trios, a duo for violin and cello and solo works for each of the three instruments of the group.

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Label: WergoFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: WER6798-2Barcode: 4010228679823NORMAL PriceFormat: 1 CDEnsemble HorizonteKatrin Bähre [soprano]Nicole Pieper [alto]Jörg-Peter Mittmann [direction]

Jörg-Peter MITTMANN: Kontrapunkte...mit bach, dona nobis pacem, lamento, kreuzgesang, passacalia, dem unendlichenEnsemble Horizonte

Jörg-Peter Mittmann's compositions approach music in the broader context of history and philosophy. This programme,performed by Ensemble Horizonte, features pieces that are inspired by some of the greatest works of our time:contemporary works forged on the building blocks of the past. 'Mit Bach' borrows from Bach's Cantata 147, 'Dona nobispacem' was inspired by Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, 'Lamento' echoes Monteverdi's 'Lamento della Ninfa' and 'DemUnendlichen' is based on Mahler's 'Kindertotenlieder'.