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ARS SACD 38130 Label Code 449 Price Code V LEOS JANACEK: PIANO WORKS ZdenkaVariationen (Variations for Zdenka) Auf verwachsenem Pfade (On an overgrown path I)Sonate 1.X.1905 Eine Erinnerung (A recollection) ARTISTS: Danae dorken, piano "What makes Leo Janek's music so appealing to me apart from its many peculiarities is that he saw the piano as an instrument to confide his innermost conflicts and aspirations to in times of trouble. When I first came in contact with these pieces, I immediately felt that they offered a sincere and direct window into Janek's soul. I am delighted by the challenge to perform the music's abrupt changes from recurring moments of tranquility and bliss to forceful interjections that border on insanity exactly as they were written." Danae Drken BIS SACD 1756 Label Code 419 Price Code P BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO. 1 Symphony No.1 in C minor, Op.68 Liebeslieder-Walzer from Op.52 & Op.65 (orchestrated by the composer) Hungarian Dances Nos 1, 3 & 10 (orch. by the composer) ARTISTS: Swedish Chamber Orchestra / Thomas Dausgaard

A weighty symphony, swaying Viennese waltzes and fiery Hungarian dances make up the colourful programme when Thomas Dausgaard and his Swedish Chamber Orchestra engage with Johannes Brahms in Opening Doors, the teams acclaimed series of Romantic orchestral composers. Johannes Brahms was only twenty years old when Robert Schumann hailed him as one whose genius gave rise to the greatest symphonic hopes. It is therefore striking that he didnt complete his First Symphony until more than twenty years later, in 1876 even though the earliest sketches for it date back to 1855. Brahms who once said that he constantly heard the giant Beethoven marching behind him had such a deep respect for what his great predecessor had achieved with the genre that he for a long time doubted that he would ever be able to write a symphony of his own by the time he did, it must have been gratifying to him that it was hailed as Beethovens Tenth. While working on the symphony, Brahms composed his Op.52, the cycle Liebeslieder-Walzer for piano four-hands (and song ad libitum). He kept the forces as flexible as possible: the waltzes were performable with or without voices; if used, the vocal parts could be sung either by soloists or by a choir. Even so, he was soon asked for another version, for choir and orchestra. Brahms initially rejected this idea, but finally agreed to make a partial orchestration: selecting eight of the Op.52 waltzes, he supplemented them with an early version of one of the not yet published Neue Liebeslieder-Walzer, Op.65. Around the same time, he was asked to orchestrate another collection of dances composed for piano four-hands: his first set of Hungarian Dances, which had quickly become a great hit. It took him four years to comply with this wish, and even then he only accepted to orchestrate three of the dances, leaving the field open for various other arrangers (including Dvok) to satisfy the demand for more.

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BIS SACD 1827 Label Code 419 Price Code P CHRISTIAN POLTERA PLAYS SAMUEL BARBER Samuel Barber: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Op. 22 (1945) Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6 (1932) Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (1936) ARTISTS: Christian Poltera, cello, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Litton, Kathryn Stott, piano.

On previous discs, Christian Poltra has combined concertos with chamber works by composers such as Frank Martin and Arthur Honegger. The recipe proved highly successful, resulting in more rounded portraits of each composer, as well as of the performer himself: while Poltras performance of Martins Cello Concerto was described in Gramophone as having an inspirational intensity to compare with the celebrated Du Pr/Barbirolli recording of the Elgar Concerto, the reviewer in Fanfare praised him for playing with the kind of semi-arrogant, swashbuckling carefree attitude that suits Honnegger to a tee. As he now proceeds to Samuel Barber some twenty years younger than both Martin and Honegger Poltra opens his programme with the Cello Concerto, tailored especially for the Georgian-born cellist Raya Garbousova in 1945. The 25-minute long work is one of only three concertos by Barber, and is remarkable for the way in which he balances out the natural lyric expressiveness of his earlier music with a more urgent, acerbic style, highly rhythmic and intense. That lyricism and expressivity is of course most famously heard in the enormously popular Adagio for strings, which closes the disc in a performance by the strings of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Andrew Litton. But before that, Christian Poltra and his regular chamber-music partner Kathryn Stott gives a performance of the Sonata for Cello and Piano, composed while Barber was still a student, but brilliantly written for the two instruments.

BIS SACD 2013 Label Code 419 Price Code P EMILIA AMPER - TROLLFAGELN ARTISTS: Emilia Ampera, nyckelharpa & vocals, Johan Hedin: nyckelharpa / Anders Lfberg: cello / Dan Svensson: percussion, guitar, vocals / Olle Linder: percussion, guitar / Helge Andreas Norbakken: percussion / Strings from the Trondheim Soloists

Emilia Amper, one of Swedens most exciting young folk musicians, is also one of the finest nyckelharpa players in the world today. (In fact, she can even boast of being a World Champion on the instrument, a title she won in 2010.) For Trollfgeln, her first solo disc, she has devised a programme which demonstrates the numerous facets of her own musical personality, and of her instrument. With its roots stretching back to medieval Europe, the nyckelharpa (keyed fiddle) almost died out in the middle of the twentieth century, but has made a remarkable comeback and is attracting an increasing number of performers in Sweden and around the world. Firmly grounded in Swedish traditional music, Emilia Amper has also worked with musicians from many other backgrounds, and regards folk music as a common international language, and a way of combining tradition with spontaneous improvisation in a playful reflection of our own times. Consequently, on Trollfgeln (The Magic Bird) a traditional dance tune such as Bredals Nckapolska stands next to Emilias own take on rock music, Kapad (Hijacked). Similarly, Ut i mrka natten (Into the Dark Night), a song about budding love that shes written and composed herself, is contrasted with Herr Lager och skn fager, her setting of a poem from the late 1800s describing the sad outcome of a love affair. Solos are mixed with settings in which Emilia is joined by a string ensemble from the famous Norwegian chamber orchestra the Trondheim Soloists, or by another well-known virtuoso on the nyckelharpa, Johan Hedin, as well as by some of her regular collaborators: Anders Lfberg, Dan Svensson and Olle Linder.

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BIS SACD - 2017 Label Code 419 Price Code P THEN RENAISSANCE AIRS AND DANCES Arrangements for Brass Quintet of Francisco de la Torre: Danza Alta sobre La Spagna Tielman Susato: Basse danse Mon Desir; Gaillarde II / Allemaigne VIII; Danse du Roy; Pavane Mille Regretz; Bergette Sans Roch; Passe et Medio; Gaillarde XV Le Tout Carlo Gesualdo: Tu muccidi, o crudele; Tamo, mia vita; Dolcissima mia vita John Dowland: The Earl of Essex Galiard; Semper Dowland semper Dolens; Lachrim The Frog Galiard; If my complaints ; Sir John Smith his Almain; The King of Denmarks Galiard; M. Giles Hobies Galiard Suite Renaissance (Tourdion, Je layme bien, Branle double, La Vielle, Vous me tuez / Au joly bois, La, la, la, je ne lose dire) Claudio Monteverdi: Sinfonia & Moresca from LOrfeo; Pur ti miro; Sinfonia a 7 from LOrfe; Damigella tutta bella ARTIST: Stockholm Chamber Brass Ensemble

The brass quintet as we know it is a modern constellation, but ensembles of wind instruments, involving shawms and sackbuts, were a staple before the Renaissance had even begun. Every princely court had its players, and soon every decent-sized town across Europe would follow. The music that such groups played would have varied from the ceremonial to more lightweight material, such as popular dances and settings of chansons. Arrangements of music of this kind still form an important part of the repertoire of most brass ensembles, including Stockholm Chamber Brass. Having earned international recognition for their several recordings of resolutely contemporary works, the five members here return to their roots, in a varied programme which mixes dances from Tielman Susato's famous Danserye collection, lute pieces by John Dowland, five-part madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo and excerpts from operas by Monteverdi. The disc opens with a fiery version of Francisco de la Torre's Danza alta sobre La Spagna, with trumpets that seem to announcing the start of a joust the same trumpets that in Pur ti miro, the closing love duet from Monteverdis L'incoronazione de Poppea, express the most tender feelings for each other. A set of French chansons includes the drinking-song Tourdion, a perennial favourite, while the melancholy of Dowland's Lachrimae is clothed in the mellowest sounds imaginable. The arrangements are by present and former members of the Stockholm Chamber Brass as well as by musicians with whom they have collaborated closely, including the trombone virtuoso Christian Lindberg.

BIS SACD 2047 Label Code 419 Price Code D BRAHMS AND HANDEL VARIATIONS Johannes Brahms: Piano Sonata No.3 in F minor, Op.5; Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op.24 ARTISTS: Jonathan Plowright, piano It was in October 1853 that the 20-year-old Johannes Brahms completed his Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, while staying with Robert and Clara Schumann in Dsseldorf. The work had occupied him for some months at least since the summer of the same year, when he had encountered Franz Liszt, and had heard his recently completed B minor Sonata. Strictly speaking, he may only have heard parts of it: according to some reports, Brahms fell asleep during the performance It is tempting to see the younger mans sonata as a response to Liszts work, but whatever the case may be, its heroic scale, unconventional layout and high quality made it one of the most impressive sonatas since those of Beethoven and Schubert. Significantly, Brahms never wrote another piano sonata, as if he had said as much as he wanted to say in that genre. Instead he would go on to compose in more concentrated formats, but he also wrote a series of large-scale sets of variations, among which the Handel Variations must be considered his crowning achievement. Completed in September 1861 and dedicated to Clara Schumann, the work shows Brahms at the height of his powers, confirming his position as the preeminent preserver and representative of tradition. In fact even Wagner saw its significance when Brahms played it to him, commenting that it showed what could still be done with the old forms by someone who knew how to use them. Performing these landmarks in the19th-century literature for solo piano is the British pianist Jonathan Plowright, hailed in Gramophone as one of the finest living pianists, and here making his dbut on BIS.

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MUSICAPHON SACD 56942 (2 CD Set) Label Code 247 Price Code B ARTHUR HONEGGER (1892-1955) COMPLETE SYMPHONIES Throughout his life as a composer, Arthur Honnegger, born in 1892 in L eHavre, France, as the son of Swiss parents, combined within himself the characteristics of the French- and German speaking cultural circles, which made him one of the most appealing musicians of his time. Manysidedness and openness with respect to the most varied styles, the desire and the skill to build on the (German-Romantic) tradition, as well as the courage to take up new themes and forms distinguish his oeuvre, which he created primarily in Paris, his permanent place of residence since 1913. He was among the six composers w ho in a curious way became members of a supposedly programmatic group, for ther establishment of the Groupe des Six came abouot more of less coincidentally. In fact, Honegger abstained from the Groupe des Sixs joint theoretic statements, yet participated in mutual projects such as the collective ballet Les Maries de la tour Eiffel (1929/30). By and large, he proved to be an artist who could productively work together with the most diverse personalities including movie producers, radio authors, playwrights of the most disparate provenance, or composers of the moset varying stylistic directions. From youth onwards, he was influenced most stongly by Richard Wagner, Max Reger, and Richard Strauss, thus by German late-Romantic music. The focus of his attention was the detailed and serious involvement with each individual instrument, as was best to be achieved in chamber music. At the same time, however, he had a sense for the provocative and unconventional, as he demonstrated in his programmatic orchestral works Pacific 231 (1923) and Rugby (1928), or in his film scores. With the titles relating to the modern world, they quickly became famous. Honeegger cultivated within himself a mixture of enfant terrible and solid craftsmanship, which made him to an- if not the- outstanding composer in the circle of the Six. ARTIST: Philharmonic Orchestra Lubeck

ACCENT 24273 Label Code 086 Price Code F ALFABETO SONGS GUITAR SONGS FROM 17TH-CENTURY ITALY Giovanni Stefani: Amante felice / Alama mia / O voi chintorno al lagrimoso canto / Partenza Girolamo Kapsberger: Rosa Bianca / Felici glanimi Giovanni Paolo Foscarni: Aria di Fiorenza / Ciacona in C Marcantonio Aldigiatti de Cesena: Deh volgetemi il guardo Flaminio Corradi: Odi Euterpe Francesco Cobetta: Passacaglia in A / Passacaglia in B Girolamo Montesardo: Anima dove sei / La Grave Tarquinio Merula: Quando io volsi Bartolomeo Barbarino da Fabrian: Bella la Donna mia Gaspar Sanz: Passacaglia in D ARTISTS: Raquel Andueza, soprano, Private Musicke, Pierre Pitzl This new programme from Private Musicke, with the young Spanish soprano Raquel Andueza, is dedicated to the light Italian delights of the early Baroque period. Everything centres on love in The labyrinth of hope, sorrow, optimism, disappointment and joy. This music is a small selection of the utterly incalculable amount of printed music that appeared between 1610 and 1640. At the sonic centre is the "chitarra espanola" which was explicitly conceived as the accompanying instrument for all the pieces; during these years, it began its soaring flight which has continued up to the present day.

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ACCENT 24247 Label Code 086 Price Code F BERNHARD MOLIQUE: VIOLIN CONCERTOS NO. 3 & 6 Violin Concerto No. 3 in D minor op. 10 Violin Concerto No. 6 in E minor op. 30 The virtuoso violinist Bernhard Molique (18021869) was what is today called a child prodigy. At the age of fifteen he performed violin concertos of Kreutzer and Rode in Munich; at 18 he was appointed concertmaster there and, at the age of 24, took up a position as concertmaster in Stuttgart, where he remained for almost a quarter of a century. This successful career was rounded off by a professorship at the Royal Academy in London. Contemporary critics praised the clarity, grace and purity of his playing, placing him on a par with Paganini. Anton Steck one of the leading German baroque violinists with a weakness for the romantics has taken on the task of changing this state of affairs. He has gone into the archive and dug up the violin concertos of Molique. Having freed them from the dust of decades, he is now presenting with the support of Larpa festante (on historical instruments) conducted by Christoph Spering two concertos that are not only able to convince listeners with their demanding, virtuoso violin parts, but can also surprise them with their completely new treatment of the orchestra. ARCHIPEL 0539 Label Code 393 Price Code MP LUIGI CHERUBINI: DER WASSERTRAGER Der Wassertrager Opera in One Act from Jean Nicolas Bouilly ARTISTS: Graf Armand Fritz Wunderlich, Konstanza Hildegard Hillebrecht, Micheli - Marcdel Cordes, Antonio Robert Hoyem , Marzelline Christa Lippman, Rosette Christa Lippmann, Danie August Messthaler, Semos Gustav Adolf Franck, Ein Leutnant Klaus Bertram, Ein Wactmeister Walter Koniger, Sudfunk Choir, Sudfunk Sinfonieorchester. ARCHIPEL 0540 (2 CD Set) Label Code 393 Price Code MP ALBAN BERG - LULU Opera von Alban Berg ARTISTS: Lulu Iiona Steingruber, Grafin Geschwitz Maria Cerny, Ein Gymnasiast Friedl Riegler, Der Medizinalrat Clas Logau, Der Maler Waldemar Kmentt, Dr. Shon, Chefredakteur Otto Wiener, Alwa, Dr. Shons Sohn, Schritfsteller Hans Libert, Ein Tierbandiger Karl Loida, Schigolch, ei Greis Eimil Siegert, Der Prinz, ein Afrikareisender Waldemar Kmentt, Der Kammerdiener Willi Bacher, Der Theaterdirektro Hans Wild, Theatergarderobiere Hilde Matheis, Wiener Symphoniker, Herbert Hafner.

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ARS PRODUKTION 38518 Label Code 448 Price Code F CHARLES DOLLE: PIECE DE VIOLE Premire Suite in G major Deuxime Suite in c minor Troisime Suite in G major ARTISTS: Petr Wagner, viola da gamba, Jacques Ogg, harpsichord. Unfortunately we know absolutely nothing about the life of Charles Doll. Not even his approximate birth and death dates are known. From his six collections of instrumental works published between 1737 and 1754 we can logically infer that he was a Frenchman, a viola da gamba virtuoso, and a composer. The chronic dearth of further information about this musicians is evidently the reason why music historians have either completely passed him by or relegated him to mere footnote, in the shadow of his contemporaries Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray who are generally regarded as representing the best and technically most difficult works for viola da gamba. Petr Wagner get Doll's music out of his undeserved shadowy existence. ARS 38519 Label Code 448 Price Code F SANGERLIEBE, HOCH UND HERRLICH. UHLAND-SETTINGS Johannes Brahms: Scheiden und Meiden / In der Ferne / Heimkehr Norbert Burgmller: Nachtreise / Winterreise / Abreise / Einkehr Franz Liszt: Die Vtergruft / Hohe Liebe Robert Schumann: Des Knaben Berglied / Provenzalisches Lied Louis etsch: Lied des Gefangenen Felix Mendelssohn: Hirtenlied Edvard Grieg: Jgerlied / Lauf der Welt Heinrich von Herzogenberg: Das versunkene Kloster Carl Loewe: Graf Eberstein Othmar Schoeck: Der Kirchhof im Frhling / Frhlingsfeier BernhardKlein: Frhlingsahnung Franz Schubert: Conradin Kreutzer: Frhlingsruhe Hans Pfitzner: Naturfreiheit Christian Hornemann: Die Lerchen Max Reger: Sonntag / Hans und Grete Fanny Hensel: Die Nonne Adolf Jensen: Der Schmied Richard Strauss: Des Dichters Abendgang ARTISTS: Andreas Reibenspies, Baritone, Eckart Selheim, piano. CANTATE 58047 Label Code 157 Price Code B ZU GOTTES HER UND DEINEM TROST: LUTHER HYMNS AND CONTRAFACTS FROM NORTHERN GERMAN SOURCES ARTISTS: Ensemble devotion moderna, Ulrike Volkhardt Triggered by the rediscovery of medieval music manuscripts in the Lneburg convents, their accumulated historical links to those in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania were examined more closely, also in terms of musical aspects. Martin Luthers reformation of ecclesiastical music by means of his own hymns, the transformation of Catholic liturgical elements and domestic music practice were echoed in regionally-determined song books or manuscripts. Luthers hymns furthermore served as models for personal religious rewritings, the so-called contrafacts. Zu Gottes Ehr und deinem Trost includes contrafacts of Luther hymns by Lower Saxon, Pomeranian and related noble houses from two hymnals (1586/1592) published by the famous printing press at Barth and from a manuscript by Elisabeth of Calenberg. The hymn Gelobet seistu Jesu Christ, the text of which came from the convent at Medingen and rewritten in part by Luther, derives from the Witzendorff manuscript at the Lneburg Council Library, while the Magnificat, which documents the survival of Catholic elements in the religiosity of the Reformation, comes from the Barth hymnals as well as a rare cantional (Wittenberg 1573) preserved in the Barth Church Library as well as the convent at Isenhagen. Likewise discovered in the Barth hymnals as well as the cantional: a passion in song form as a further document of early Passions, against the backdrop of which the great Bach Passions appear in a new light.

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CENTAUR 3158 Label Code 079 Price Code C MUSIC BY TURINA, RODRIGO AND GRANADOS Joaquin Turina (1882-1949): Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano Op. 92 Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999): Rumaniana (1943) Enrique Granados (1867-1916): Danza Andaluza from Danzas Espanolas Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999): Sonata Pimpante (1966) Enirique Granados (1867-1916) Sonata for Violin and Piano ARTISTS: Jorge Avila, violin, Adrienne Kim, piano CENTAUR 3199 Label Code 079 Price Code C WHEN HOPE STILL HAD ITS CHANCE: THE SONGS OF KEITH GATES 01: Psalm 121, 02: Psalm 23, 03: Lorica (St. Patrick), 04: Prayer (1969; Gates), 05: Friendship (Dina Maira Craik), 06: Prayer (Ruth Bell Graham), 07: Life (Helen Marshall), 08: On the First Day of the Week, 09:Who is a God like Our God?, 10: Orfano (Giovanni Pascoli), 11: Wanderers Night Song (after Goethe), 12: Willow Song (Shakespeare), 13: The Little Mute Boy, 14: Barren Land, 15: Song of the Barren Orange Tree, 16: Flemish Scene, 17: Oydsseys of Desire Thoughts of Cavafy, 18: Star Washer, 19: Garden Walk, 20: Soliloquy (from Symphony No. 2, Tony Kushner). ARTISTS: Carol Lines, Soprano, Lina Morita, piano, Judy Hand, flute CENTAUR 3205 Label Code 079 Price Code C STAR SPLENDOURS Cappuccino Lovely 01: Choco 02: Milk, 03: Vanilla Cream, 04: The S.E.A. Kaleidoscope 05: Pray for a wish, 06:Caf without sugar, 07: Fresh Expectation, 08: The Ocean, 09: Flyscape, 10: Star Splendour ARTISTS: Chin Cheng Lin, Marimba Total Playing Time: 6142

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CENTAUR 3211 Label Code 079 Price Code C STEVEN STARYK: BACH A RETROSPECTIVE VOL. 3 J.S. Bach Concerto No.1 in A minor, BMV 1041 Sonata in E minor, BMV 1023 Partita No. 2 in D minor, BMV 1004 Sonata in G minor BMV 1020 Concerto No. 2 in E Major BMV 1042 ARTISTS: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conductor Bernard Haitink, Kenneth Gilbert, harpsichord, Steven Staryk, violin Total Playing Time: 7234 CENTAUR 3219 Label Code 079 Price Code C CDCM COMPUTER MUSIC SERIES VOLUME 39: MUSIC FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS CENTER FOR EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC AND INTERMEDIA Larry Austin, Redux (2007), David Bithell, Hithering (2009), Zwei Parabeln nach Franz Kafka (2006), Thomas Clark, The Fourth Angel (2007), Jon Christopher Nelson, Gerry Rigged (2004), David Stout, Reentry (2011), Andrew May, Still Angry (2007) ARTISTS: Patricia Strange, violin, David Bithell, trumpet, Jeffrey Snider, narrator, Heidi Dietrich Klein, soloist, Patrick Gnage, soloist, Jonathan Greer, soloist, Henry Gibbons, conductor, F. Gerard Errante, clarinet, Peter Kusek, improvisational performer, Elizabeth McNutt, flute, Esther Lamneck, clarinetist. Total Playing Time: 6755 CENTAUR 3239 Label Code 079 Price Code C HECTOR BERLIOZ: LES NUITS DETE OP.7 NORBERT PALEJ: THE POET AND THE WAR Hector Berlioz: Les Nuits dete Op. 7 Norbert Palej The Poet and the War Norbert Palej Rorate Coeli ARTISTS: Shannon Mercer, soprano, Group of Twenty-seven, Eric Paetkau, conductor Total Playing Time: 5924 CENTAUR 3255 Label Code 079 Price Code C EMILY HOWELL - BREATHLESS 01: Silver Blood, 02: SpaceTime, 03: Breathless, 04: From the Willows Keep, 05: Coming Home, 06: Prescience ARTISTS: Emily Howell

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CHRISTOPHORUS 77366 Label Code 034 Price Code F SWEET FRIENDSHIP, PRECIOUS BOND Overture No.2 in b flat major Aria Mein Seufzer for Soprano, String und B.c. Sonata terza in a major (Version for two Violins and B.c.) Aria Trocknet euch, ihr heien Zhren for Alto, String and B.c. Overture No.4 in d minor Duet Se Freundschaft, edles Band for Soprano, Alto, String and B.c. ARTISTS: Miriam Feuersinger, Sopran Franz Vitzthum, Countertenor Barczi/Capricornus Consort Base Philipp Heinrich Erlebach is one of those composers who was utterly forgotten by history. Originally from East Frisia, he arrived at the court of Rudolstadt in Thuringia at the age of 24 to serve as music director, remaining there for the rest of his life. This was why he was forgotten: during the course of history, the lustre of the court faded and the collection of over 2500 works by himself and others, amassed by Erlebach during the course of his life, was destroyed by fire. Thus this once significant composer "from the Province" faded from memory. Only a few works by Erlebach have survived, but these give an indication of what artistic treasures have most likely been lost. With the present CD, the Capricornus Consort of Basel is making a first attempt to introduce a representative crosssection of those works of Erlebach that are still within grasp. They are strongly influenced by the French style, as is particularly evident in the two grand OvertureSuites which bear the mark of Lully. As a contrast, the Ensemble performs three secular arias sung by countertenor Franz Vitzthum and soprano Miriam Feuersinger. In the concluding duet, the two voices attain such a fantastic harmony that one can hardly distinguish precisely which of them is singing.

GLOSSA 922605 Label Code 119 Price Code F IL TESORO DI SAN GENNARO SACRED MUSIC IN EARLY 18TH CENTURY NAPLES Domenico Scarlatti: Sinfonia a 5 CDur / Sinfonia a 4 DDur / Antra valles (Motette zu 5 Stimmen und Instrumenten)/ Sinfonia a 4 GDur Cristofaro Caresana: Canzona a 4 Per San Gennaro Nicola Fago: Confitebor a 3 Stabat Mater (zu 4 Stimmen und Instrumenten) Gaetano eneziano: Jam sol recedit (Hymnus) Iste confessor (Hymnus) / Ave Maris Stells (Hymnus) ARTISTS: Cristofaro Caresana, Nicola Fago, Domenico Scarlatti, Gaetano Veneziano Antonio Florios deep understanding of the Baroque musical terrain of Naples now takes him to the dawn of the 18th century when the fervour and visceral excitement held by Neapolitans for their chief patron saint San Gennaro was at its height, in an era when the city had been ravaged by plague and was living in constant fear of eruptions from nearby Mount Vesuvius.

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Great devotion was directed at San Gennaro, in the belief that he would ward off further evils: a richlyadorned chapel in Napless cathedral was dedicated to him and provided with its own musical ensemble, and a stream of composers (often pupils of the great Francesco Provenzale) such as Cristofaro Caresana, Nicola Fago and Gaetano Veneziano worked there. Central to the programme of I Turchini, prepared by Florio and Dinko Fabris, are performances of Fagos fourpart Stabat Mater and Caresanas canzona Sirene festose. There is a rare outing also for a motet, Antra valles Divo plaudant, written by the young Domenico Scarlatti three of whose string sinfonias are also included here when he was one of the organists in the Real Cappella; musicians in Naples regularly moved in and out of different ensembles, then as now. A booklet essay by Fabris himself splendidly underpins the popular traditions and musical and religious colour surrounding San Gennaro in a Naples still alive today; moreover, an evocation brought to potent life by the performances of Florio, with his singers and instrumentalists of I Turchini. GLOSSA 922801 Label Code 119 Price Code F GESUALDO LA COMPAGNIA DEL MADRIGALE SIXTH BOOK OF MADRIGALS To sense the emotional charge coursing through Carlo Gesualdo at the time when he was composing his Sixth Book of Madrigals, there is no better starting point than a thrilling new recording being issued on GLOSSA from La Compagnia del Madrigale. Some of the finest singers in the madrigal repertoire today including Giuseppe Maletto, Daniele Carnovich and Rossana Bertini, and they have been refining their a cappella artistry over more than twenty years with groups such as La Venexiana and Concerto Italiano now restore humanness, warmth, pictorial beauty and richness to one of the most complex cycles in all music. This marks the groups triumphant entry onto a label which has always made the exploration of the Italian madrigal repertory one of its cornerstones. Allied to the ensembles musical reading is a reevaluation of the essence of the madrigalism of Gesualdo (the Prince of Venosa) by Marco Bizzarini in an absorbing accompanying essay, which draws upon many reactions to the music made during the composers own lifetime. Bizzarini highlights the extraordinary beauty, the intense expression of the sentiments and the mastery of counterpoint in Gesualdos 23 canaps of caviar (as Stravinsky termed them). This new interpretation and its wealth of nuances offered by La Compagnia del Madrigale majestically surmounts all the dissonances and difficulties in these madrigals to lay bare the expressive intensity of the music. Graced by an attractive cover design, wholly in keeping with standards of the house, this new recording of Gesualdos Sixth Book is a joy to behold and read, as well as to listen to. ARTISTS: LA COMPAGNIA DEL MADRIGALE

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HERITAGE 242 Label Code 485 Price Code A ITALIAN AND SPANISH GUITAR MUSIC JULIAN BREAM 01: Frescobaldi Aria Detta la Frescobalda (con variazioni) 02: D. Scarlatti Sonata in C minor K. 11 03: D. Scarlatti Sonata in B minor K.87 04: Cimarosa Sonata in C sharp Minor 05: Cimarosa Sonata in A Major 06: Rodrigo En los trigales 07:Albeniz Sonata in D major 08:Sor Minuetto from Sonata in C major Op.22 09: Sor Andate Largo from 6 Little Pieces Op. 5 10: Sor Etude No. 20 in A minor Op. 31 11:Sor- Estudio No. 5 in B minor 12: sor Estudio No. 12 in A Major 13: Sor Largo from Fantasia Op. 7 14: Sor Rondo Allegretto from Sonata in C major Op. 22 15: Turina Homejanje a Tarrega Op. 69 Garrotin 16: Turina Homenaje a Tarrega Op. 69: Soleares 17: Turina Fandanguillo Op. 36 18: Turina Rafaga 19: Falla - Homenaje Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy 20: Torroba Preludio in E Major 21: Torroba Sonatina in a Major: Andante 22: Torroba: Sonatina in A Major 23: Torroba Burgalesa in F sharp Major ARTISTS: Julian Bream HERITAGE 245 Label Code 485 Price Code A ELGAR CONCERTOS Violin Concerto in B minor. Op. 61 Cello Concerto in E minor , Op 85. ARTISTS: Alfredo Campoli (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Pablo Casals (cello), BBC Symphony Orchestra.

IDIS 6658/9 (2 CD Set) Label Code 316 Price Code A THE ART OF BORIS GOLDSTEIN CD1: Johannes Brahms: Sonata no.1 in G major for violin and piano, op. 78 Sonata no.3 in D minor for violin and piano, op. 108 CD2: Cesar Franck: Sonata in A major for violin and piano Johannes Brahms: Sonata no.2 in A major for violin and piano, op 100 ARTISTS: Boris Goldstein, violin, Julia Goldstein, piano

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IDIS 6657 Label Code 316 Price Code A RENATO DE BARBIERI THE HISTORICAL HMV RECORDINGS 1956 VOL.2 Ludwig Van Beethoven: Violin Sonata no. 9 in A major op. 47 Kreutzer Camille Saint-Saens: Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso op. 28 Ottokar Novacek: Perpetuum mobile Fritz Kreisler: Schon Rosmarin Camille Saint-Saens: Le Cigne ARTISTS: Renato De Barbieri, Tullio Macoggi, piano, Guiseppe Guastalla, piano MUSICAPHON 56943 Label Code 158 Price Code B BEAUTIFUL KISSES: SONGS AND LUTE MUSIC BY JOHN DOWLAND ARTISTS: Hanna Thyssen, soprano, Susanne Peuker, lute A morning after a romantic night of passion. Half-empty glasses on the table. A few rays of sunlight peek through the white curtains and gradually bathe the room in a golden light. Drowsy, the young woman writhes, stretches her arms, searches for the dress that still lies on the floor. Day approaches. Parting is in the air. But her sweetheart will not let her go yet. John Dowland carries us off to this ambience with his song Sweete, stay awhile. Sweete stay a while, why will you rise? asks the first line, The day breakes not, it is my heart, / To thinke that you and I must part. It is wonderful how the melody caresses the tender words. And how the blisseful kisses in the second verse unleash a short round of musical hugging and kissing. Alas! What a yearning and sighing! The song with its blisseful kisses which give the CD its title is the programs heart. Because many of John Dowlands pieces have to do with love in all its facets between pleasure and sorrow. This is also reflected in the recording. From the four Books of Songs which appeared between 1597 and 1612 Hanna Thyssen and Susanne Peuker selected fifteen of Dowlands most beautiful songs, weaving them together with several lute pieces into an atmospheric Dowland homage. It documents his great compositional mastery, and his instinct for unpretentious melodies and subtle text settings. In this way, Dowland touches the listeners heart. It is no wonder that he was venerated already by his contemporaries as the English Orpheus, and that his music has found many admirers to the present day.

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MUSIQUES SUISSES 6275 (2 CD Set) Label Code 144 Price Code D FRANK MARTIN: INTREGRALE DES OEUVRES POUR FLUTE CD1: Ballade No1 pour flute, cordes et piano, Sonata de chiesa pour flute et orchestre a cordes, Ballade No2 pour flute, cordes, piano, timbales et percussions. Ballade No1 pour flute et grand orchestre CD2: Ballade No1 pour flute et piano, Sonata da chiesa pour flute et orgue, Ballade No 2 pour flute et piano ARTISTS: Emmanuel Pahud, flute, Francesco Piemontesi, piano, Tobias Berndt, orgue, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Thierry Fischer, direction

NEW PAN CLASSICS 10271 Label Code 250 Price Code F BOTTESINI BELCANTO ARIAS, ROMANCES & FANTASIAS FOR DOUBLE BASS Variazioni su Nel cor pi non mi sento (Paisiello) Fantasia su La sonnambula (Bellini) Romanza Une bouche aime Elegie Tarantella Aria Tutto che il mondo (Bellini) Fantasia su Norma (Bellini) Rverie ARTISTS: Emanuela Galli, soprano, Alberto Lo Gatto, double bass, Luca Antoniotti, forte piano. Bottesini is frequently compared to Paganini, and not without good reason: both were charismatic musical personalities who captivated the public wherever they appeared, and both revolutionised the playing techniques of their respective instruments. Bottesini introduced the solo bass strung with only three strings and tuned a wholetone higher than usual in order to attain a more brilliant and sustainable sound. This musician, already a legend in his own time, not only performed as a travelling virtuoso on the stages of the entire world but also as a celebrated operatic conductor and composer. It is therefore no wonder that the Italian opera also strongly influenced his compositional production. The double bassist Alberto Lo Gatto recorded his CD with the programmatic title "Belcanto" with an Italian bass built during the18th century, played in socalled solo tuning, and his accompanist Luca Antoniotti also plays an historic instrument, an rard grand piano built in 1871. They interpret variations and fantasias based on arias of Bellini and Paisiello in which Bottesini sounds out the entire spectrum of the double bass, from lyrical expressiveness to breakneck virtuosity. Moreover, we can also hear the soprano Emanuela Galli, who sings some of the opera themes in their original versions and interprets the wellknown romance "Une bouche aime".

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NEW PAN CLASSICS 10281 Label Code 250 Price Code F PROKOFIEV PIANO SONATAS 2, 4, 7 Sonata No. 2 d minor Op.14 No. 4 c minor Op.29 No. 7 b flat major Op.83 ARTISTS: Evgeni Koroliov, piano Evgeni Koroliov, born in 1949 in Moscow, although doubtless an outstanding phenomenon in the international pianists' scene, still remains an insider tip, albeit one who has long enjoyed cult status. With his recording of the 2nd, 4th and 7th Piano Sonatas of Sergei Prokofiev, we can now finally obtain an item that was not available for a long time. The 2nd Sonata, composed in 1912, is characteristic of Prokofiev's formally strict and sonically original personal style. It is marked by a modern aesthetic; numerous elements take up futuristic ideas of the period that "idolise speed and sing praises of modern machines", supporting the hypothesis that there is "a beauty of noises" as described in the magazine Muzika, the voice of the Moscow avantgarde consortium shortly after this Sonata was composed. The 4th Sonata of 1917 has a completely different character, its first movement beginning with restrain and archaic grace the oppressive sounds are explained by the dedication to a friend who had recently committed suicide. After many years abroad, Prokofiev returned to the Soviet Union in the early 1930s with a downright naive optimism. The 7th Sonata was composed there a decade later, about which Glenn Gould had the following to say: "The first movement not only contains some of Prokofievs best music, but is, in open disregard of the Soviet musical maxim of direct accessibility, perhaps the closest to an atonal harmonic plan he ever applied." REGIS 1394 Label Code 207 Price Code MP TALLIS SPEM IN ALIUM, LAMENTATIONS, MOTETS 01: Spem in Alium, 02: Hear the Voice and Prayer, 03: If ye Love Me, 04: O Lord give thy Holy Spirit, 05: Lamentations of Jeremiah 1&II, 06: O Sacrum convivium, 07: Salvator Mundi, 08: Ave dei Patris Filia, 09: Gaude Gloriosa, 10: Blessed are those that be undefiled. ARTISTS: La Chappelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon REGIS 6202 (2 CD SET) Label Code 207 Price Code MP HANCOCKS HALF HOUR THE BEST OF TONY HANCOCK CD1: 01: The Wild Man of the Woods, 02: A Sunday Afternoon at Home, 03: The East Cheam Drama Festival CD2: 01: The Publicity Photograph 02: The Secret Life of Anthony Hancock 03: The Blood Donor 04: The Radio Ham ARTISTS: Tony Hancock, Sidney James, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams, June Whitfield Patrick Cargill, Hugh Lloyd, John Bluthal, Clilve Dunn, Derek Guyler, Annie Leake, Frank Thornton.

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REGIS 9011 (13 FOR THE PRICE OF 5) Label Code 207 Price Code MP PUCCINI THE GREAT OPERAS La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, La Fancuilla del West, Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Turandot ARTISTS: La Boheme: Bjorling, De Los Angeles, Merril, RCA Victor Chorus and Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham (1956), Tosca: Callas Di Stefano, Gobbi Calabrese. Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Victor De Sabata (1953), Madame Butterfly: De Los Angelses, Di Stefano, Gobbi, Canali. Chorus and Orchestra Opera Di Roma, Gianandrea Gavazzeni (1954), La Fanciulla Del West: Steber, Guelfi, Delm Monaca, Palma. Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Dimitri Mitropoulos (1954), Il Tabarro: Gobbi, Mas. Prandelli. Chorus and Orchestra Opera House Rome, Vincenzo Bellezza (1956), Suor Angelica: De los Angeles, Barbieri, Doro, Marimpietri. Chorus and Orchestra Opera House Rome, Tullio Serafin (1957), Gianni Schicchi: De Los Angeles, Gobbi, Cannali. Chorus and Orchestra Opera House Rome, Gabriele Santini (1958), Turandot: Callas, Schwarzkopf, Nessi, Zaccaria, Fernandi, Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan, Tullio Serafin (1954). STERLING 1097 Label Code 110 Price Code D HEINRICH HOFMANN (1842-1902) Eine Schauspiels Ouverture, Op. 28 Ungarishe Suite Op. 16 Symphony E flat Major Frithjof Op. 22 ARTISTS: Philharmonishe Orchester Altenburg-Gera, Eric Solen STERLING 1679 Label Code 110 Price Code D BO LINDE (1933-1970) & LARS-ERIK LARSSON (1908-1986) Annas Tales Fourteen Songs of Spring Various Songs ARTISTS: Lisa Gustafsson, soprano, Marten Landstrom, piano

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SIGNUM 314 Label Code 303 Price Code D WHITHER MUST I WANDER: ENGLISH SONGS BY RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, GERALD FINZI AND ROGER QUILTER Songs of Travel Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) Selections from Five Mystical Songs Ralph Vaughan Williams Let us Garlands bring, Op. 18 Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) Three Shakespeare Songs Roger Quilter (1877-1953) Silent Noon (From The House of Life) Ralph Vaughan Williams Linden Lea Blackmwore by the Stour Centered around Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel this collection of English song brings together three now influential figures in the world of British music, Vaughan Williams, his contemporary (in age rather than compositional approach) Roger Quilter, and the younger Gerald Finzi (whose work Let us Garlands Bring was composed to mark Vaughan Williams 70th birthday). The texts used are drawn from a variety of source: from Traditional Dorset songs, through settings of Shakespeare, to the central song-cycle of poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson. Baritone David John Pike has a widely varied repertoire covering early music, oratorio, symphonic, opera and commissioned works. In his native Canada, in the UK and across Europe, he has worked with leading ensembles including Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London Philharmonic and the Schweizerkammerchor under the direction of Christophers, Dutoit, Jurowski, Marriner, Metha, Rattle and Zinman. He now has a growing reputation as an operatic concert soloist. ARTISTS: David John Pike, baritone, Isabelle Trub, piano. SIGNUM 315 Label Code 303 Price Code D EDWARD ELGAR: GO, SONG OF MINE, PART-SONGS AND CHORAL WORKS Go, song of mine, O;. 57, As torrents in summer, O salutaris hostia, My Love dwelt in a northern land, Op. 18, No. 3, Ave Verum Corpus, Op. 2 No.1, I sing the Birth, Love Op. 19 No. 2, The Prince of Sleep, Four Chorals Songs Op. 53, O Hearken Thou Op. 64, Ave Maria Op.2 No2, Ave Maris stella, Op.2 No.3, Five Part Songs, Opp. 71-73, Give unto the Lord, Op. 74. Drawn from across the composer's lengthy career, this collection of Part-Songs and Choral Works explores the great variety and range within Elgar's work for choir and voices. Along with more well-known works such as Love and Deep in my Soul there are early pieces such as O Salutaris hostia (composed for small amateur choirs) that give hints of his later mature style, through to the 1928 piece I sing the Birth a work that shows Elgar's ability to adapt to more contemporary styles of 20th-century choral composition. The Rodolfus Choir have established themselves as one of the leading youth choirs in Britain, made up of singers aged from 16 to 25 who have been chosen from past and present members of the Eton Choral Courses for prospective choral scholars. Many members of the Choir are choral scholars, some are at music college, and most hope to make a career in music. The Rodolfus Choir and Ralph Allwood are well-known for imaginative programming, and for presenting new music. The Rodolfus Choirs recent CD recordings with Signum include music as diverse as Howells, Monteverdi, Grier, Tallis and the German Romantics. ARTISTS: The Rodolfus Choir, Ralph Allwood, director.

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SIGNUM 327 Label Code 303 Price Code D JODY TABLOT: ALICES ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND: FOOLS PARADISE Suite from Alices Adventures in Wonderland Fools Paradise ARTISTS: Royal Philharmonik Orchestra, Christopher Austin. SUPRAPHON MD 4119 Label Code 333 Price Code MP DEBUSSY DEUX ARABESQUES ESTAMPES IMAGES CHILDRENS CORNER Claude Debussy (1862-1918) - Deuz Arabesques, Estampes, Images (Series 1 & 2), Childrens Corner, Valses nobles et sentimentales ARTISTS: Ilja Hurnik, piano SUPRAPHON FL 4121 Label Code 332 Price Code C TELEMANN TWELVE FANTASIAS BRITTEN SIX METAPHORPHOSES AFTER OVID How many timbres shades and characters can a melodic instrument express? The repertoire for solo oboe is sparse, yet oboists can boast of a true gem: the inspiration brought to Benjamin Britten by the six oboe and the verse of the Roman poetry Ovid gave rise to the cycle Six Metamorphoses. In six personifications (Pan, Paheton, Niobe, Baaccus, Narcissus, arethusa), the impeccably refined miniatures represent contradictory human features. A similar abundance of characters is also rendered by the collection fo twelve Fantasias by G. P. Telemann, one fo the most productive composers of all ti me. This unique cycle was originally intended for the transverse flute, yet its being played by the oboe is fully in keeping with the Baroquen performance practice, affording the soloist the opportunity to display to the full the instruments virtuosity, as well as the wide colour scale and expressive abilities. A repertoire spanning the period between Baroquen and contemporary music is one of the most salient features of the recordings protagonist, Vilem Veverka, the winner of a number of international competitions and an acclaimed soloist. The 70 minutes simply fly by when l istening to a solitary oboe in the hands of an artist of such distinction. ARTISTS: Vilem Veverka, oboe.

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NORWAY 9603 Label Code 020 Price Code D GUNHILD SEIM & TIME JUNGLE: ELEPHANT WINGS ARTISTS: Gunhild Seim, trumpet, Marilyn Crispell, piano, Time Junglle The Stavanger-born trumpeters fusion of junglemusic, free jazz and classical makes her one of the most interesting musicians of today. The music of Gunhild Seim is getting more intriguing and more puzzling, yet even more meaningfull Erling Wicklund, NRK Jazz. Gunhild Seim & the Time Jungle got great international reviews on their first 2 albums Time Jungle (2007) and Morpho (2009). On Elephant wings they have included american piano player Marilyn Crispell, one of todays great jazz pianists. Her discography includes works with Anthony Braxton, Reggie Workman, Barry Guy, Gerry Hemmingway, Evan Parker, Anders Jormin, Marilyn Mazur, Gary Peacock and Paul Motian. PIROUET 3065 Label Code 234 Price Code C CHRISTIAN WEIDNER DREAM BOOGIE Windschoral, W, Alas Blues, Dream Boogie, Sub Melody, Monkey Spin, Cause, Chihiro, Walzer, Dark Ends, Lucky Lova. ARTISTS: Christian Weidner, alto saxophone, Achim Kaufmann, piano, Hennig Sieverts, bass, Samuel Rohrer, drums. Christian Weidner calls his new CD Dream Boogie - taken from a well-known poem by the Afro-American Langston Hughes. The title stands for a music that is dream-in-motion. With the lightness of a dancer, it flows forward in continually new layers and levels of imagination. Weidner wants his music to come "out of the depths of intuition". It is fascinatingly otherworldly music that has an intimacy at the same time. There is the masterful interplay of the musicians and the poignant beauty of the melodies - a dream to dance, a dance to dream! PIROUET 3066 Label Code 234 Price Code C PABLO HELD TRIO LIVE Klartram, Birkenhain, Joni, Corellia, Meta, Melody Meta - Carellia ARTISTS: Pablo Held, piano, Robert Landfermann, bass, Jonas Burgwinkel, drums. Pablo Held and his musical partners take "Interaction" as literally as possible. They radically do away with pre-set ideas or arrangements: everything is open - and the results are remarkable. Here is a theater of sound that has the strength to pull the listener in, and never betrays what comes next. Each composition travels through a unique landscape. With a sense of the subtle and understated, events are gradually transformed, space is extended, themes magnetically attract new musical fragments. Out of the quiet moments, bit by bit, there develops an enormous musical coherence - and in the end, it has all the qualities of a masterpiece of collective spontaneous composition.

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PIROUET 3067 Label Code 234 Price Code C BILL CARROTHERS CASTAWAYS Airborn, Siciliano, Trees, The Commons, Araby, Scottish Suite Rebellion, Scottish Suite Opression, Scottish Suite Rebirth, Castaways. ARTISTS: Bill Carrothers, piano, Drew Gress, bass, Dre Pallemaerts, drums Castaways - a beautiful CD unusual in its coherent combination of pieces played by a trio with a special feeling for atmospheric depth. Bill Carrothers and friends play with precision and nuance, creating an excitingly coherent group sound. Music that renews and reinvents, performed with unusual warmth and intimacy. PIROUET 3068 Label Code 234 Price Code C MARIA DE FATIMA STELLA Illuminados, O Cantador, Inutil Paisagem, Roda Viva, Isso e Aquilo, Papillon, Pra Dizer Adeus Trio, Catno de Ossanha, Medo, Velho Piano, Vivo Sonhando, Anguistia, Pra Dizer Adeus Duo. ARTISTS: Maria De Fatima, vocals, Sebastian Altekamp, piano, Nicolas Thys, Bass This CD is about the subtleties and the deep truths that may be painful as well as joyous - and the beautiful sounds and words of the Brazilian and Portuguese popular song forms. Maria de Fatima masterfully exposes every feeling and nuance that lies hidden within these songs. She sings with a clear, lean tone stripped of the superfluous, leaving the lead role to the atmosphere of the text. And such evocative lyrics, interpreted in de Fatima's unique style, so at home with the songs' intent, so far away from any of the clichs that commonly creep into Bossa Nova and Fado - a synthesis of elements from contemporary jazz, Brazilian music, and Fado - captivatingly compelling music.

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