New Release Round-up,
New Release Round-Up - 20th May 2022
Today's new releases include Mendelssohn, Schubert and Mozart from Riccardo Chailly and the Filarmonica della Scala, Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin (in a new English translation by Jeremy Sams) from Nicky Spence & Christopher Glynn, a Parisian recital from flautist Ana de la Vega and pianist Paul Rivinius, and a newly revised version of John Williams's 1994 Cello Concerto from its dedicatee Yo-Yo Ma and New York Philharmonic Orchestra (with the composer conducting).
Recorded in Dolby Atmos at La Scala, Chailly's celebration of his homeland as muse centres on Mendelssohn’s ‘Italian’ Symphony (given here in the revised 1834 version), and also features Schubert’s two Overtures in the Italian Style, plus the overtures to three early Mozart operas which were premiered in Milan: Mitridate, Re di Ponto, Ascanio in Alba, and Lucio Silla.
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This celebration of the forty-year friendship between cellist and composer features Highwood's Ghost (written to mark the Leonard Bernstein centenary in 2018) and a new revision of the Cello Concerto which Williams composed for Ma in 1994. The programme also includes new arrangements for cello and orchestra of the main theme from Schindler's List, 'With Malice Toward None' (from Lincoln), and 'A Prayer for Peace' (from Munich).
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Following recordings of Winter Journey with Roderick Williams and Swan Song with Sir John Tomlinson, Glynn continues his Schubert in English series with Scottish tenor Nicky Spence, who's established a fine reputation for singing works in translation through his long-term relationship with English National Opera (including a powerful Siegmund in The Valkyrie last year). As on previous instalments, the translation is by writer and director Jeremy Sams, whose 'Winter Journey' was praised as 'lucid and poetic' by The Sunday Times.
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Taking its title from the Norwegian word for 'light', Samuelsen's programme of music by thirteen female composers includes Clarice Jensen's Love Abounds in Everything, Laura Masotto's Sol Levante and Meredi's White Flowers Take Their Bath, plus new arrangements of Hildegard von Bingen's O vis eternitatis, Dobrinka Tabakova's Nocturne, Hannah Peel's Reverie and Beyoncé's Halo.
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The Australian flautist's billet-doux to the French capital includes Chaminade's Concertino for Flute and Mozart's Violin Sonata No. 21 in E Minor (both in versions for flute and piano), Poulenc's Flute Sonata, and shorter pieces by Massenet, Fauré, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Satie, Lili Boulanger, Maria Theresia von Paradis and Ravel.
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In A Dream
Quatuor Diotima, Suzana Bartal (piano), Alexandra Conunova (violin), Edgar Moreau (cello), Lise Berthaud (viola), Pierre Génisson (clarinet), David Kadouch (piano), Rosanne Philippens (violin)
This collection of chamber works by the French composer Eric Tanguy (b.1968) takes its title from a piece for violin and piano which was commissioned by the International Music Festival Nippon and violinist Akiko Suwanai in 2014, and also includes the Quintet for Piano and String Quartet (2018-19), Spirales for violin and piano, the Sonata Breve for solo violin, and the Piano Trio from 2012.
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This recital of works for harp and cello by contemporary composers includes Alexandre Grogg's Three Variations on 'La Folia' and Swan to Swan, François Vallières's Double-Monologue: Divertissement sanitaire, Caroline Lizotte's Close for Couloir, Marjan Mozetich's Transfigured Sentiment, and Kelly-Marie Murphy's Si veriash a la rana.
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The Portuguese pianist makes his solo recording debut with a programme of works by Spanish and Portuguese composers who have had a profound impact on his musical life: sonatinas by Armando Jos Fernandes and Xavier Montsalvatge, José Vianna da Motta's Cenas Portuguesas, Albéniz's España, and three shorter pieces (all dedicated to Portuguese artists) by Pedro Blanco.
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Bayrakdarian's journey 'through Romany songland' traces the influence of gypsy melodies on art-song and opera/operetta, and includes Brahms's Zigeunerlieder, Dvořák's Cigánské melodie, Henry Gilbert's Two South American Gypsy Songs, and excerpts from Lehár's Zigeunerliebe, Victor Herbert's The Fortune Teller, Kalman's Die Csárdásfürstin & Bizet's Carmen.
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Monteverdi: Il Ritorno D’ulisse in Patria (DVD)
Furio Zanasi, Hana Blažíková, Lucile Richardot, Michał Czerniawski, Gareth Treseder, Gianluca Buratto, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
Filmed at Teatro La Fenice in 2017, this is the second instalment of Gardiner's Monteverdi trilogy celebrating the composer's 450th anniversary; the live performances were described as 'a career climax' for the conductor by BBC Music Magazine, whilst The Guardian praised the 'easy, long-practiced flexibility' which he brings to the recitatives and MusicWeb International observed that 'the consistency and naturalness in [the cast's] enunciation of the Italian text is a real joy'.
Available Format: DVD Video
Released to mark the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin's fortieth birthday, this 11-disc set includes Johann Sebastian's complete Orchestral Suites and Brandenburg Concertos, symphonies and concertos by Carl Philipp Emanuel and Wilhelm Friedemann, Johann Ludwig's Trauermusik, and Johann Christian's Requiem and Miserere.
Available Format: 11 CDs
Katherine Cooper - Head of Editorial
