New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-Up - 24th August 2018
Today’s new releases include Ravel, Debussy and Satie from Alice Sara Ott, two very different Debussy tributes on Harmonia Mundi, a thought-provoking and engaging debut album from American soprano Nadine Sierra, and Brahms’s Hungarian Dances from Cyprien Katsaris and Hélène Mercier.
As the title suggests, Ott’s album has a distinctly nocturnal (and Gallic) flavour, with Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit as the centrepiece; also includes Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque and Rêverie, Satie’s Trois Gymnopédies, and Ravel’s Pavane pour une infant défunte. Look out for our interview with her about the project over the coming weeks.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Debussy: Harmonie du soir
Sophie Karthäuser (soprano), Stéphane Degout, Eugene Asti (piano), Alain Planès (piano)
Two of today’s leading exponents of the title-roles in Pélleas et Mélisande joins forces with two outstanding mélodie pianists to mark the centenary of Debussy’s death; Karthäuser and Asti take the Trois chansons de Bilitis, Mandoline and the first set of Fêtes galantes, whilst the second set (plus the Trois Ballades de François Villon and the Trois chansons de France) are performed by Dégout and Planès.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The American soprano (who will sing Maria in West Side Story for Antonio Pappano in Rome this autumn) makes her debut on Deutsche Grammophon with a programme celebrating the diverse heritage of composers who hailed from or settled in the Americas, including music by Stephen Foster, Golijov, Stravinsky, Villa-Lobos, Douglas Moore and Bernstein.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The ninth volume of Goode’s Bach series from Trinity College Cambridge (available on CD exclusively through our Manufacture On Demand service) includes the Prelude & Fugues BWV531 and 543, Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott, Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig, and trios after Fasch and Telemann.
Available Formats: Presto CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The Tyrol-born baritone (who had a small role on Simon Rattle’s recording of Carmen in 2012, and made his solo recording debut three years ago with a recital of Schumann, Wolf & Frank Martin) explores the theme of wandering in an all-Schubert programme including An dem Mond, Der Fischer, Im Frühling, Im Abendrot, and of course Der Wanderer and Der Wanderer an den Mond.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Six years after their recording of the Brahms Sonata for Two Pianos (coupled with an arrangement of the Schumann Piano Quintet), Katsaris and Mercier share a piano-stool once more for the composer’s best-known work for piano four hands; Katsaris observes that ‘we tried never to lose sight of the improvisatory character symbolising the freedom of the Gypsies’.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
The New Zealand opera-singer performs a diverse programme of songs from around the world depicting journeys of various kinds, including Haydn Wood’s Roses of Picardy, WG James’s Comrades Of Mine, Schubert’s Du bist die Ruh, Tchaikovsky’s None but the lonely heart, and traditional favourites such as Shenandoah, Deep River and Loch Lomond.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
7 discs charting Bernstein’s relationship with the Paris-based orchestra during the 1970s, including a previously unreleased live concert marking the centenary of Ravel’s birth (with Bernstein directing the G major concerto from the piano), plus music by Milhaud, Rachmaninov, Bloch, Schumann, and Bernstein himself.
Available Format: 7 CDs
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