harmonia mundi UK Classical new releases

NOVEMBER 4

available November 4th 2016, call-off October 23rd

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WIGMORE HALL LIVE

RELEASE DATE4TH NOVEMBER 2016

Label: Alia VoxFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: AVSA9918Barcode: 8435408099189FULL PriceFormat: 1 SACDPackaging: digipackMarta Mathéu, Marta Bayodi-Hirt [sopranos]Anthony Roth Costanzo [alto]Makoto Sakurada [tenor]Furio Zanasi [bass]La Capella Reial de CatalunyaLe Concert des NationsManfredo Kraemer [concertino]Direction : Jordi Savall

Dixit Dominus: Vivaldi, Mozart, HandelLa Capella Reial de CatalunyaLe Concert des NationsJordi Savall

Alia Vox presents three composers in three masterpieces based on a cornerstone of the Bible, the psalm 'Dixit Dominus'in the latest programme from Jordi Savall.Following the critically acclaimed 'Magnifcat & Concerti' two years ago, 'Dixit' highlights the full maturity of his ensembles.The vivid orchestral colours, the ideal spacing of the instruments, the effortless virtuosity of the choir, the bright recordedsound bringing out the detail within the works all prove that Jordi Savall has established a new standard for the recordingof 18th Century music.

1-11 VIVALDI: Dixit Dominus, RV 59512-16 MOZART: Dixit & Magnificat, KV 19317-27 HANDEL: Dixit Dominus, HWV 232 ALSO AVAILABLE:AVSA9909 Bach, Vivaldi Magnificats & Concerti “To watch as well as hear two outstanding Baroque Magnificats is a thrilling experience. Jordi Savall's forces are in fine form, his soloists matched yet distinctively characterised...Savall paces the Magnificats to sustain the continuity of the text, despite the musical independence of each verse...the overall exuberance, technicaly control and commitment of the whole ensemble are infectious from the start.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2015 *

RELEASE DATE4TH NOVEMBER 2016

Label: Signum ClassicsFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: SIGCD452Barcode: 635212045220FULL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: cristalNicky Spence,Oxford Bach Choir, Portsmouth Grammar School Chamber ChoirChildren’s Choir:The Minster Junior SchoolMonks Orchard Primary SchoolEcclesbourne Primary SchoolLondon Mozart PlayersMelvyn TanNicholas Cleobury conductor

For An Unknown SoldierAn Airmail Letter from MozartLondon Mozart PlayersMelvyn TanNicholas Cleobury

'For An Unknown Soldier' is a cantata of remembrance to mark the centenary of the First World War. Commissioned bythe London Mozart Players and Portsmouth Grammar School, Jonathan Dove’s poignant work combines the words ofwar poets such as Wilfred Owen, William Noel Hodgson & Isaac Rosenberg. It lay at the centre of a multi-faceted projectthat encompassed primary and secondary schools, nursing homes and the local communities of Portsmouth andCroydon. The world premiere of the work took place in November 2014 and there are plans to tour the project in 2018.It is paired with the ensemble’s performance of Dove’s 'An Airmail Letter from Mozart', for 2 horns, string quartet andpiano, directed by Melvyn Tan. Dove uses the 'Theme and Variations', and one or two other ideas, from Mozart’sDivertimento K287 to write an imaginary letter to his wife Constanze.

1-4 An Airmail Letter from Mozart2-13 For An Unknown Soldier: 1914, The Poets are Waiting, The Call, Women at Munition Making, Before Action, Dead Man's Dump, To His Love, The Wind on the Downs, An Imperial Elegy

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/531927175/recording-for-an-unknown-soldier-marking-ww1-cente

RELEASE DATE4TH NOVEMBER 2016

Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/OrchestralCatalogue No: HMC902220Barcode: 3149020222027FULL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackThe Orchestra of St LukesPablo Heras-Casado

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 1 'Winter Dreams', The TempestThe Orchestra of St LukesPablo Heras-Casado

Pablo Heras-Casado enjoys an unusually varied conducting career—encompassing the great symphonic and operaticrepertoire, historically informed performance and cutting-edge contemporary scores. He has served as PrincipalConductor of Orchestra of St. Luke’s since 2011, now extended to September 2017. OSL began as a chamber ensemblebased at The Church of St. Luke in the Fields in Greenwich Village. Today, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble consists of 21virtuoso artists who perform a diverse repertoire and make up OSL’s artistic core.harmonia mundi are proud to release OSL's debut album for the label featuring two of Tchaikovsky's earliest notableworks, both of which are dramatic and vibrant: Symphony No. 1, 'Winter Dreams' and 'The Tempest', a sprawling andturbulent seascape.

òunder the leadership of its firebrand music director, Pablo Heras-Casado, this is an ensemble towatch é the orchestra is brimming with enthusiasmó ðThe New York Times

òNew York has caught one of the most exuberant leaders aroundó ð The Wall Street Journal

òBoth Heras-Casado and the Orchestra of St. Lukeõs have the ability and vision [to be at the forefrontof new music in New York City]ó ð Seen and Heard International

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Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: HMC902253Barcode: 3149020225325FULL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackNadja Zwiener, Fiorenza de Donatis, KatharinaHeutjer [violin]Jonas Zschenderlein [violin & viola]Mauro Valli [cello & cello piccolo]Vanni Moretto [double-bass]Naoki Kitaya [harpsichord]Philippe Grisvard [harpsichord & organ]Gianluca Capuano [organ]Margit Übellacker [dulcimer]Michele Pasotti, Daniele Caminiti [theorbo] David Bergmüller [theorbo & guitar]Shai Kribus [oboe]Giulia Genini [bassoon]

Souvenirs d'ItalieCount Harrach's Musical DiariesMaurice Steger [recorders]

Concerti and Sonatas by Sammartini, Caldara, Vinci, Hasse, Piani, Forenza....

“Naples is the capital of the musical world”, wrote Charles de Brosses in one of his letters from Italy from 1739/1740. He also wrote “Naples is the sole Italian city that seems truly a capital…” and this was not an exaggeration: it was thelargest city in 17th century Europe and possessed four conservatories. Musicians trained there spent most of their livesin the service of sovereigns and aristocrats in other major European courts, such as Paris and Vienna. During their lifetime, they were internationally regarded among the finest exponents of their art and their music adds an entirely new dimensionto the history of Italian instrumental music. That variety of tastes and colours is the hallmark of this recording from Maurice Steger, devoted to the staggeringly virtuosicmusic for recorder brought back from Italy by Count Harrach [the Austrian diplomat Aloys Thomas Raimund], who served asHapsburg viceroy in Naples from 1728 to 1733. Hasse, Vinci, Sammartini, and the less familiar names of Antoni, Fiorenza, Leo and Sarro represent these souvenirs of a six-year gilded exile, which is preserved in his collection of precious manuscripts.

Tracklist:1-3 Giuseppe SAMMARTINI (1695-1750): Concerto per flautino in F Major 4 Lelio COLISTA (1629-1680): Sinfonia à 3 5-7 G.A. HASSE (1699-1783): Cantata per flauto in B flat Major8-10 Domenico SARRO (1679-1744): Concerto per flauto in D Minor 11 Antonio CALDARA (c. 1671?-1736): Ciaccona a 3 12-15 Leonardo VINCI (c. 1696-1730): Overture & Song from the Opera Elpidia “Tortora che il suo bene”16 Leonardo LEO (1694-1744): Toccata XIII per cembalo in C Major 17-20 Nicola FIORENZA (c. 1700-1764): Sonata per flauto in A Minor 21-23 A. M. MONTANARI (1676-1737): Concerto per flautino in B flat Major 24-28 G. A. PIANI (1678- after 1759): Sonata IV for recorder in D Major

RELEASE DATE4TH NOVEMBER 2016

Label: Signum ClassicsFile Under: Classical/OrchestralCatalogue No: SIGCD467Barcode: 635212046722FULL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: cristalJuliette Bausor [flute]Royal Northern Sinfonia, Jaime Martin [conductor]

Nielsen and Mozart Flute ConcertosJuliette BausorRoyal Northern SinfoniaJaime Martin

For her debut concerto recording, 2014 ECHO ‘Rising Star’ Juliette Bausor performs works for flute and orchestra byMozart and Nielsen, with Royal Northern Sinfonia and conductor, Jaime Martin.Juliette Bausor joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra in July 2016 as Principal Flute, having previously held the sameposition with Royal Northern Sinfonia for 11 years. She also plays Principal Flute with the London Mozart Players and isa member of the celebrated chamber group Ensemble 360. Described by John Allison in The Times as a “rising star inthe arts firmament”, Juliette Bausor enjoys a growing reputation as one of the foremost flautists of her generation.

MOZART: Flute Concerto No. 1 in G Major, K 313, Andante for Flute in C Major, K 315, Rondo for Flute in D Major, K 373Carl NIELSEN: Flute Concerto, FS 119

"Northern Sinfonia’s exceptional principal flautist Juliette Bausor takes the soloist’s role. She handles the long-breathedlines with ease and spiritedly engages with the bass trombone…"Alfred Hickling, The Guardian (Nielsen Flute Concerto/ Royal Northern Sinfonia/ Zehetmair)

RELEASE DATE4TH NOVEMBER 2016

Label: GlossaFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: GCDP32112Barcode: 8424562321120FULL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackGraindelavoix,Björn Schmelzer,

HANELLE: Cypriot VersesGraindelavoixBjörn Schmelzer,

The little-known composer Jean Hanelle was a professional musician at Cambrai Cathedral and possibly later a teacherof Guillaume Dufay, also spending more than 20 years from 1411 onwards at the French court of Lusignan in Nicosia,Cyprus, a stay which involved him becoming the chapel master there. According to leading scholars, Hanelle was theauthor of the ars subtilior cycle of Magnificat-antiphons - the so called 'O'-antiphons traditionally performed during the lastweek of Advent - found in the Codex Turin J.II.9 and included in this new Graindelavoix production. Both the original plainchant and the Hanelle troped antiphons are presented in a series of nine pairs, between which theensemble also performs an appropriate and context-defining selection of Maronite and Byzantine chants.The Belgian ensemble, as always directed by Björn Schmelzer, performs these pieces, marked by a moving beauty, withone female and eight male singers, producing another of their peculiar and intriguing soundscapes.These Cypriot Vespers come with an interview with Björn Schmelzer carried out by Anne-Kathryn Olsen, a selection oflate 19th-century photographs taken in Cyprus by John Thomson, and the first English translation of the antiphons, madeby scholar Jeannine De Landtsheer from the University of Leuven.

Cycle of nine 'O'-Antiphons for the last week of Advent, both in their reconstructed plainchant versions and JeanHanelle’s troped versions, plus five pieces from the Maronite and Byzantine traditions.

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Label: GlossaFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: GCD923510Barcode: 8424562235106FULL PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackIgnacio Prego [harpsichord]

JS BACH: Goldberg VariationsIgnacio Prego

Ignacio Prego is a leading member of the rising generation of Spanish early music specialists recording for Glossa suchas Fahmi Alqhai and Josetxu Obregón. Prego has a busy concert schedule across Europe, the US and Asia, and isfrequently to be heard performing harpsichord concertos with ensembles such as the The English Concert, collaboratingwith eminent musicians such as Monica Huggett and Nicholas McGegan, or giving solo harpsichord recitals, where he isable to demonstrate his special preference for the works of J.S. Bach.This new recording of Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' represents Prego’s third solo CD but his first for Glossa. Heardplaying a splendid copy of a 1738 Christian Vater harpsichord on this Federico Prieto-engineered recording, IgnacioPrego illustrates perfectly the points put forward in scholar David Schulenberg’s essay for the booklet, in which particularemphasis is placed on Bach’s threefold cycling of the 30 variations, each time combining one free variation, one duet anda canon. Fine photographs from Noah Shaye round up a new inspiring Glossa title.The release of this recording will precede various international performances from Prego, including two US tours, first inNovember 2016 and then in March 2017, at venues such as the Benaroya Hall in Seattle and the National Gallery of Artin Washington DC.

1 Aria2-31 Variatio 1 - 3032 Aria da capo

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Label: BelvedereFile Under: Classical/SecularVocal musicCatalogue No: BCD08022Barcode: 4260415080226MID PriceFormat: 1 CDPackaging: digipackPeter Schreier [tenor]Erik Werba, [piano]

Peter Schreier Mozart-Lieder

The concert that brought together Peter Schreier, the leading Mozart tenor of the 1970s from Dresden, and Erik Werba,the Vienna-born doyen of lied accompanists on 25 January 1978 featured 17 songs, the cantata with pianoaccompaniment “Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt” K619 from the final year of Mozart’s life, as well astwo encore pieces. Schreier and Werba obviously intended to present Mozart’s entire lied repertoire, except for those songs whose textswere too obviously written from the perspective of a female protagonist. From today’s perspective the interpretation of the Mozart songs in this recital is remarkably homogeneous. For PeterSchreier, the opera singer, Mozart was the first true romantic composer. The songs are presented in a deeply emotional,but never sentimental manner. The chosen tempos are therefore rather on the slow side of the spectrum and here aswell as in the ballad-like song “Das Veilchen” K476, Schreier makes it apparent how he reads Mozart’s mature,through-composed songs as text based and text centered, as if they were foreshadowing Schubert, Schumann andBrahms.

1. 1. An Chloe KV 5242. Ich würd auf meinem Pfad KV 3903. Sei du mein Trost KV 3914. Das Lied der Trennung KV 5195. Wie unglücklich bin ich nit KV 1476. Einsam ging ich jüngst im Haine KV 3087. Lied zur Gesellenreise KV 468II. 8. Kantate KV 619III. 9. Die betrogene Welt KV 47410. Die Zufriedenheit KV 47311. Die Verschweigung KV 51812. Komm, liebe Zither, komm KV 351IV. 13. Das Veilchen KV 47614. Das Traumbild KV 53015. Abendempfindung an Laura KV 52316. Sehnsucht nach dem Frühlinge KV 596 17. Der Frühling KV 59718. Das Kinderspiel KV 598Encore: 19. Die Zufriedenheit KV 34920. Lied der Freiheit KV 506

Have you ever stopped to think that some exceptional music has been composed and performed in the monuments and historic sites we all visit?From America to Europe, from New York to Vienna, Paris, Berlin, Venice and Granada, for over a 1000 years, the greatest composers have devoted their most beautiful masterpieces to these monuments.These memory sites offer infinite musical riches.

[Resonances] draws on harmonia mundi’s prestigious back catalogue to restore this monumental heritage: 8 volumes of 2 albums, complete with illustrated booklets, maps and chronologies, accompanied by a comprehensive website.

Historic sites hold musical memories, as revealed in the series [Resonances].Find out more at www.resonances-music.com

Teaser video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJReCkNtn8M&feature=youtu.be

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Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: HMX2908552/53Barcode: 31490208552492 FOR 1 Format: 2 CDPackaging: digipackstile antico, FretworkAcademy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr Romanesca / Nicholas McGeganCollegium Vocale Gent/Philippe HerrewegheRIAS Kammerchor / Marcus CreedChoir of Clare College, Cambridge / GrahamRossMark Padmore [tenor], Roger Vignoles [piano]The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford / BillIves

Music and musicians at Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, the church at which all English monarchs have been crowned since 1066, is one of the greatmusical centres of the United Kingdom. Over the centuries, leading British organists, singers and composers havebeen closely associated with the abbey, which still plays a preponderant role in the musical and cultural life of therealm. From Orlando Gibbons to Benjamin Britten, this two-disc anthology presents a musical tour of this prestigiousmonument, its cloisters and the grandiose abbey church itself. A musical guide complete with plan to take you on asumptuous pilgrimage through five centuries of creation.

CD1: 1 Robert WHITE (c.1538–1574): Christe qui lux es et dies (IV) (arr. Edward Tambling)2 Robert PARSONS (c.1530–1570): In nomine a 4 no.23 Orlando GIBBONS (1583–1625): O clap your hands together4-5 Christopher GIBBONS (1615-1676): Not unto us, O Lord, Voluntarie in C6 Orlando GIBBONS: See, see, the Word is incarnate7 Pelham HUMFREY (1647-1674): Hear my crying, O God8 Henry PURCELL (1659-1695): My heart is inditing, verse anthem Z309 Funeral Sentences (Funeral Music for Queen Mary)March Z860 / Man that is born of a woman, full anthem Z27 / Canzona Z860 / In the midst of life, full anthem Z17 /Canzona Z860 / Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts, full anthem Z58c / March Z860CD2:1 Ralph VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958): The truth from above 2-9 Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976): Sacred and Profane (1974-1975)10 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Blessed Son of God11 PURCELL realised by BRITTEN: Job’s Curse (1950)12-19 BRITTEN: Rejoice in the Lamb: A Festival Cantata (1943, arr. 1952)20 PURCELL, realised by BRITTEN: An Evening Hymn 21-22 BRITTEN: A Hymn to the Virgin, Hymn to St Cecilia op.27 (W. H. Auden)

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Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: HMX2908546/47Barcode: 31490208546482 FOR 1 Format: 2 CDPackaging: digipack1-11 Concerto Palatino: Bruce Dickey, CharlesToet12-17 Ensemble Vocal Européen, cond.Philippe Herreweghe

1 Huelgas-Ensemble, cond. Paul Van Nevel2-13 Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs14-17 Les Arts Florissants, William Christie18-19 Maria Cristina Kiehr, soprano, ConcertoSoave, dir. Jean-Marc Aymes

San Marco and Venice

At the very heart of a musical golden age that extends from Willaert to Vivaldi by way of Gabrieli and Monteverdi, StMark’s Basilica encapsulates the glorious past of Venice. A true temple to music, its directors of music disdained neithercomplexity nor a splendour that took full advantage of the spaces and galleries offered by the grandiose architecture.This programme highlights some of the rich musical moments as heard in this incomparable monument during itsheyday.

CD1: 1-11 G. GABRIELI: Sonate e Canzoni 'per concertar con l'organo12-17 HASSLER: Missa I super Dixit MariaCD2: 1 Exaudi me Domine à 162-13 Vespro della beata Vergine, Magnificat14-17 Selva morale e spirituale: Gloria, Laudate Dominum, È questa vita un lampo, Beatus vir 18 MERULA: Toccata19 MONTEVERDI: Pianto della Madonna- sopra il Lamento dell’Arianna

The musical memories of places and monumentsFamous places and monuments all have a musical history whose richness and variety we do not always realise. Forcenturies their beauties have nourished the imagination of composers and performers who, in return, have oftendedicated to them some of their finest works. Music is an immaterial heritage that the eye cannot see; it still resoundsover the centuries in these musical centres and in the collective imagination. To share this patrimony and to bring it backto life in the surroundings that witnessed its birth – that is the object of this new series.

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Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: HMX2908554/55Barcode: 31490208554472 FOR 1Format: 2 CDPackaging: digipackAtrium Musicae de Madrid, Gregorio PaniaguaAlia Mvsica, Miguel SánchezThe Dufay CollectiveEnsemble Clément Janequin, Dominique VisseAndrew Lawrence-King, Paul O'DetteAlbert Guinovart, pianoOrquesta Ciudad de Granada, Josep PonsBernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano / Anthony Spiri,pianoJavier Perianes [piano], BBC SymphonyOrchestra, Josep PonsAlain Planès, piano Bechstein 1897

Alhambra, a musical tour

From the Arab conquest to the 20th century, Granada was at once the centre and the object of intense musical creation,embodied in the emblematic Alhambra Palace and its gardens, the subjects of musical fantasies of all kinds. It was afascination shared by those who actually visited those places (Isaac Albéniz, Joaquín Turina) and those who went therein their imagination (Manuel de Falla, Claude Debussy). From the Puerta del Vino to the Albaicín by way of theGeneralife, this selection invites you to discover a thousand years of musical magic.

CD1:1-7 Al Andalus - Arab-Andalusian music8-12 El Canto espiritual judeoespañol13-16 Music for Alfonso the Wise 17-19 Canciones y Ensaladas20 ¡Jácaras!

CD2:1 DEBUSSY: Estampes: La soirée dans Grenade2-6 Joaquin TURINA: Danzas gitanas op.55Manuel de FALLA 7 El pan de Ronda que sabe a verdad (María Martínez Sierra)8 Tus ojillos negros (Cristóbal de Castro)9 Cuatro piezas españolas (1906-09). 4. Andaluza. Vivo10 La Vida breve Scene I. Danza11 Siete canciones populares españolas. 5. Nana12 Nocturno (1896). Andante molto13-15 Noches en los jardines de España 16 DEBUSSY: Préludes, Book 2 La puerta del vino. Mouvement de Habanera https://youtu.be/RXMD3d-k7D0

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Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: HMX2908560/61Barcode: 31490208560482 FOR 1Format: 2 CDPackaging: digipackKonstantin Wolff, Bernarda Fink, Philippe Bernold, Isabelle Faust, DSO-Berlin,Alain Planès, Alexandre Tharaud Éric Le Sage, Ensemble Musique ObliqueFrank Braley, Brigitte FassbaenderCord Garben, Karin Küstner, accordionSophie Karthäuser, David Guerrier, Hélène Delavault, Yves Prin

Paris 1900

At the heart of musical Paris in the early 20th century.Between the end of the 19th century and the Second World War, Paris shared with Vienna the status of musical capitalof the world. The 23 works featured on these two discs are the living reflection of those rich years of Parisian history,teeming with music and traversed by many different artistic movements. A plan of Paris and chronological tables inviteyou on a journey through the traces left by time – not forgetting the imaginary journey of foreign composers in love withParis, whose music embodied their dreams.

CD1: The Old & the NewDEBUSSY: 1 Images Bk1: Hommage a Rameau 2 Images inédites: Souvenir du Louvre3 RAVEL: Menuet antique 4-6 Sonatine 7 CHAUSSON: Poème Op. 258 DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'aprés midi d'une faune9 RAVEL: Shéhérazade10 DEBUSSY: Images Bk 2 Poissons d'or11 SATIE: Gnossienne No. 312 HAHN: Si mes vers aavaient des ailes13 SATIE: Embarquement pour Cythère

CD2: Imagination and Modernism1 DEBUSSY: Images inédites (1894)2 SATIE: Cinéma (transcription by Darius Milhaud for piano four hands)3 -7 SAINT-SAËNS: L'Assassinat du duc de Guise, op.128 (film music, 1908)8 GERSHWIN: An American in Paris (1928). Transcription for solo piano by William Daly9 WEILL: Complainte de la Seine (1934) (Maurice Magre)10 BONNAY: Une petite valse pour rêverPOULENC: 11 Voyage à Paris FP 107 no.4 12 Montparnasse FP 127 no.1 13 Hôtel FP 107 no.2 14 SATIE: La Statue retrouvée, divertissement for trumpet in C and piano15 La Diva de l’Empire [text by Dominique Bonnaud and Numa Blès]16 MESSAGER: J'ai deux amants (Sacha Guitry, from L'Amour masqué) https://youtu.be/-FFlMnTFCRs

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Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/SecularVocal musicCatalogue No: HMX2908550/51Barcode: 31490208550412 FOR 1Format: 2 CDPackaging: digipack1-5, 7-14, 16-17, 18-19Ensemble Clément Janequin, Dominique Visse6, 15, 20 The Broadside Band, Jeremy Barlow

Music in the châteaux of the Loire

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Royal court resided from time to time in the Loire Valley. Its châteauxwere the showcase for an intense musical life. These palaces which have since become the emblems of the FrenchRenaissance resounded to music that today’s artists have rediscovered in concert and on record. Drawing widely onthat repertoire, this programme is an evocation of the round of pleasures, festivities, hunts and dances that regulated thedays and nights of the court of France, and of the ‘joyous life’ that reigned there for decades.

CD1: Wars and Royal Banquets1-5 JANEQUIN: Mass 'La Bataille'6 ARBEAU: Orchésographie: Jouyssance vous donneray, Three French Corantos, Basse danse 'La roque',Recercada segunda 7-14 Chansons on poems by Ronsard15 ARBEAU: Orchésographie: Pavane 'Belle qui tiens ma vie', Gaillarde 'La Traditore my fa morire', Gaillarde Anthoinette, Gaillarde 'J’aymerois mieulx dormir seulette', La volte16-17 LASSUS: Chansons: Une puce j'ay dedans l'oreille, La nuict froide & sombre18-19 Chansons de la Renaissance françaiseSANDRIN: Doulce mémoire, CERTON: Finy le bien (Answer to 'Doulce mémoire')20 ARBEAU. Orchésographie: Bransles de Champagne couppez, Cassandra, Pinagay, Charlotte

CD2: A Feast with RabelaisCOMPÈRE: D27e l'ordre de Saint Babouyn, DE LA RUE:Autant en emporte le vent, DE SERMISY: Je ne menge point de porc, GOMBERT: Mille regres, LE PETIT: N'as tu poinct mis ton hault bonnet,SERMISY: Vien tost, ANON: La Brosse, basse danse for viols, GUIARD: Or oiez les introites de taverne, PRIMUS: Ce n'est pas trop, WILLAERT: Dessus le marché darras, GOMBERT: Puisqu'ainsi est, DE BUSSY: Las il n'a nul mal, SERMISY: Las je m'y plains, for organ, GOMBERT: Je prens congies, CLEMENS NON PAPA: Une fillette bien gorriere, Imcessament suis triste et doloreux,D'HESDIN: Ramonez moy ma cheminée, CLEMENS NON PAPA: Du laid tetin, JOSQUIN: Scaramella, ANON: Pavane et Gagliarde de "La Guerre" for viols, PIPELARE: Fors seulement, CERTON: La, la, la, je ne l'ose direFRESNEAU: Souspir d'amours, pensée de plaisir, COSTE: Celle fillette a qui le tetin point, GOMBERT: A bien grant tortFRESNEAU: La Fricassée

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Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/ChoralCatalogue No: HMX2908548/49Barcode: 31490208548462 FOR 1 Format: 2 CDPackaging: digipack1-8 Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès9-11 Deller Consort, Alfred Deller12-15 Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès

1-6 Anonymous 47-13 Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier

Voices of the Abbeys

Between the early Middle Ages and the 13th century, the great abbeys were key artistic centres, the focus ofintensive musical creation. From Santiago de Compostela to Saint-Denis, from Royaumont to Fontevraud by wayof Mont Saint-Michel, the walls of these imposing edifices echoed to the finest voices in the medieval West, in theservice of the original sung repertory of the Roman Church: Gregorian chant. This anthology is an invitation to exploreeight centuries of sacred music as it was celebrated in such monastic houses.

CD1: The early times and the rise of monastic life1-2 Chant of the Church of Milan3-4 Chant from Benevento Cathedral 5 Offertorium: Terra tremuit [Chant of the Church of Rome] 6-8 Old Roman Chant: Vespers of Easter Day (6th-13th centuries)9-11 Gregorian Chant: Gallican responsories and monophonic chants12-15 Cistercian Chant: Responsories of Matins for the Feast of St Bernard

CD2: The Romanesque Era1-4 1000: Mass for the End of TimeThe Great Pilgrimages5-6 The Miracles of St JamesAbelard and Heloise: from Saint-Denis to the Paraclete7-10 Monastic Song: O quanta qualia, Virgines caste, Planctus cigne, De profundisTowards the Gothic Era11-13 Saint-Martial of Limoges and Aquitaine: Resonemus hoc natali, In hoc anni circulo, Orienti oriens

RELEASE DATE4TH NOVEMBER 2016

Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: HMX2908558/59Barcode: 31490208558432 FOR 1Format: 2 CDPackaging: digipackAkademie für Alte Musik Berlin/René JacobsJulia Kleiter (Eva)Maximilian Schmitt (Uriel)Johannes Weisser (Adam)RIAS KammerchorFreiburger Barockorchester/René JacobsPaul Lewis [piano]BBCSO/Jiri BelohlávekAndreas Staier, Cuarteto CasalsDietrich Henschel, Marlis Petersen, Anke Vondung, Werner Güra, Konrad Jarnot,Matthias Goerne, Andreas Haefliger

A Trip to Vienna

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert all left their imperishable mark on Vienna, which for 250 years has been theworld’s musical capital. This programme of music is a veritable feast of souvenirs of that first golden age, crisscrossingVienna in search of its theatres, palaces, artists’ residences and musicians’ districts. Plans and chronologies evoke thisprestigious past whose echoes may still be heard today.

CD1: The Viennese venues: Theater an der Wien, Altes Burgtheater, Mozart Figaro-Haus, Haydnhaus1 MOZART: Die Zauberflöte/Magic Flute K620 Overtüre2-7 HAYDN: Die Schöpfung / The Creation Part Three8-10 BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto no.3 in C minor op.37CD2: Vienna: Salons and Hausmusik1 MOZART: Ten Variations on 'Unser dummer Pöbel meint' in G major K4552-5 String Quartet no.19 in C major K465, 'Dissonance'6 BEETHOVEN: An die ferne Geliebte op.98 SCHUBERT: 7 Der Tanz D826 8 Die Geselligkeit (Lebenslust) D6099 An den Mond D259 10 Heidenröslein D257 11 Die Forelle D550

RELEASE DATE4TH NOVEMBER 2016

Label: harmonia mundiFile Under: Classical/InstrumentalCatalogue No: HMX2908556/57Barcode: 31490208556452 FOR 1 Format: 2 CDPackaging: digipackRaphael Alpermann, harpsichordAkademie für Alte Musik BerlinDavitt Moroney, harpsichord, John Phillips,1980Janet See, flute, Roderick Cameron, 1982John Holloway, violin, Michel de Hoog, 1985Jaap ter Linden, cello, Bastian Muthesius, 1985Martha Cook, harpsichord, John Phillips, 1985

Music at Sanssouci

An enthusiastic amateur flautist, Frederick the Great always gave music a key place in his daily schedule, as can beseen in the musical ornaments in the decoration of his palace. Indeed, the Music Room is one of the finest rooms in thislittle Rococo jewel. Works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and his father Johann Sebastian, as well as Johann GottliebGraun and the King of Prussia himself are the central focus of this programme. They vividly evoke the musicalatmosphere for which Sanssouci was the most elegant showcase.

CD1:1-2 JG GRAUN: Ouvertüre und Allegro GraunWV A:XI:2 in D minor3-5 Friedrich II The Great: Sonata, per il Flauto traverso solo e Basso 'pour Potsdam', no.190, in C minor "6-8 CPE BACH: Concerto for harpsichord, strings and basso continuo in C major Wq 209-11 Symphony in E flat major Wq 179 (1757-1762)CD2:JS BACH: Musikalisches Opfer BWV 1079 / A Musical Offering1-5 Regis Iussu Cantio Et Reliqua Canonica Arte Resoluta6-9 Sonata Sopr'il Soggetto Reale 10 Canon perpetuus11-16 6 Canones Diversi Super Thema Regium https://youtu.be/jjyUBJpZxuI