New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-Up - 18th January 2019
Today’s new releases include the first-ever recording of the complete Sibelius symphonies from a French orchestra, Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique arranged for piano four-hands (with a twist…), the debut solo album from Hungarian soprano Emöke Baráth, and Carmina Burana from Beijing’s Forbidden City, filmed in concert last October as part of Deutsche Grammophon’s 120th birthday celebrations.
Schubert’s Unfinished is completed here with a scherzo based on the composer’s own sketches and realised by Nicola Samale and Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs, and the first entr’acte from Rosamunde by way of finale. It’s prefaced by seven orchestral arrangements of Schubert songs by Brahms and Webern, including Memnon, Geheimes, Du bist die Ruh, and Gruppe aus dem Tartarus.
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Sibelius’s reputation in France has suffered in the wake of the composer and theorist René Leibowitz’s description of him as ‘the worst composer in the world’; Järvi was awarded the Sibelius Medal in 2015 for his championing of the composer’s music during his time as music director of the Orchestre de Paris, and here conducts the first recording of the complete symphonies with a French orchestra.
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Schumann: Cello Concerto & Chamber Works
Gautier Capuçon (cello), Martha Argerich (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin) Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Bernard Haitink
Following the Cello Concerto, the French cellist is joined by his violinist brother Renaud and Martha Argerich (who has regularly collaborated with the siblings at the Lugano Festival) for the Fantasiestücke for Piano Trio Op. 88; he and Argerich also perform the Stücke im Volkston Op. 102 and the Fantasiestucke Op. 72.
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In addition to his recording of Les nations with Les Talens Lyriques (featured in last week’s new releases), Rousset marked last year’s Couperin bicentenary with this collection of personal favourites from the Pièces de clavecin, Concerts Royaux and Suites, including Les baricades mistérieuses, La Pompe funèbre, Les petits moulins à vent, and Le Tic-Toc-Choc.
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Heisser and Jude expand upon Liszt’s solo piano transcription of his ‘episodes in the life of an artist’ for piano four hands, performing on a Pleyel ‘vis-à-vis’ housed in Paris’s Musée national de la musique; still in pristine mechanical order, the instrument comprises two ‘nested miniature concert-grands’ set face-to-face, and dates from two years before the work’s premiere.
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The Hungarian soprano (who sang Amore to Philippe Jaroussky’s Orfeo on Diego Fasolis’s recent recording of Orfeo ed Euridice and took the title-role in the world premiere recording of Stradella’s La Doriclea) makes her solo debut on Erato with an homage to the seventeenth-century Venetian composer and singer Barbara Strozzi, supplemented by music by her contemporaries including Francesco Cavalli, Pietro Antonio Cesti, and Tarquinio Merula.
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