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Haydn wrote around sixty keyboard sonatas and this selection of eleven focuses on those from the 1770s, including the great C minor sonata from the composer’s ‘Sturm und Drang’ period, with its dynamic contrasts and virtuoso demands. In all these fascinating, idiosyncratic works, Marc-André Hamelin wears his renowned virtuosity lightly, while playing with understated wit and the elegant, immaculate musicianship that has come to define one of the greatest pianists of our time.

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Reviews of recent releases

More Haydn from Marc-André Hamelin

Street Date: May 8, 2012

Treading on hallowed ground, tenor Mark Padmore triumphs in a stunning album featuring Britten’s haunting Serenade and Finzi’s Dies Natalis (p.11) for harmonia mundi. Pianist Andreas Staier’s latest fascinating musicological project features Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations coupled with music written by other composers to the same theme (p.10). Also from harmonia mundi, the Jerusalem Quartet is joined by pianist Alexander Melnikov for Schumann’s Piano Quartet and Piano Quintet (p.13) and Joel Frederiksen brings an Elizabethan flavor to the music of cult favorite Nick Drake on Requiem for a Pink Moon (p.12). Soprano Rosemary Joshua is accompanied by Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques on Harmonia Sacra - an album of sacred songs by Henry Purcell for Aparté (p.4). Hyperion’s key releases for the month include pianist Steven Osborne’s Beethoven Bagatelles (p.15) and the debut of violinist Chloë Hanslip in concertos by Vieuxtemps (p.16). Other highlights of the month include Gianandrea Noseda’s Britten War Requiem for LSO Live (p.19) and Dennis Russell Davies’ debut of the Symphony No.9 by Philip Glass on Orange Mountain (p.22). On the non-classical front, Jazz Village’s second release features soul-jazz singer Sandra Nkaké’s Nothing For Granted (p.27) and World Village artists Bratsch are back with a new album entitled Urban Bratsch (p.29).

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IMPORTToday, French Baroque composer and keyboard virtuoso Louis Marchand is perhaps best known for failing to take up J.S. Bach on his challenge to a musical ‘duel.’ Unfortunately, this colorful legend has overshadowed Marchand’s ample gifts as a composer of organ and harpsichord music. Writing in the ‘old fashioned’ style of d’Anglebert, he employs a profusion of ornaments that enrich the sustaining power of the sound. In contrast, the music of Rameau is always deliberately clear, favoring transparency over bombastic effects. Christophe Rousset, performing on a rare Donzelague harpsichord, explores the connections and contrasts between these two giants of the period.

IMPORTPorpora’s 1744 Vespro per la Festivita dell’Assunta was first performed in Venice at the Ospedaletto, one of four orphanages for girls that specialized in music. The most famous of the four was the Pietà, where Vivaldi taught violin. The music is conceived in the early Classical style as developed during the 1720s by Porpora and his rivals, Leonardo Vinci and Johann Adolph Hasse. For Porpora, the work was likely pivotal in his transformation from fashionable opera composer to revered maestro di cappella and teacher. For several years now, Le Parlement de Musique has been exploring the concertante repertoire of the Venetian ospedali.

PORPORAVespro per la Festivita dell’Assunta

Le Parlement de Musique, La Maîtrise de Bretagne,

Martin GesterAmbronay • AMY 030

MARCHANDPièces de clavecin Books I & II

RAMEAUSuite de pièces de clavecin Book I

Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)Ambronay • AMY 032

Baroque music from France and Italy

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IMPORTPurcell was not just a creature of the theatre — h i s g en iu s w i th the human voice also

extended to sacred and secular songs. Among his least well-known works, many of Purcell’s sacred songs remained in manuscript and known only to a select few. It is possible that they were intended solely for an elite audience at court. Published by Henry Playford, Harmonia Sacra was a two-volume anthology of devotional song containing compositions by Purcell and several of his contemporaries. The settings here are scored for small forces — one to two voices, accompanied by continuo. The emotional range, however, is huge. This disc, featuring soprano Rosemary Joshua supported by Christophe Rousset and members of Les Talens Lyriques, presents a selection of sixteen of Purcell’s solo songs interspersed with his works for harpsichord played by Christophe Rousset.

Sacred music by Purcell

PURCELLHarmonia SacraRosemary Joshua (soprano), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe RoussetAparté • AP 027

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Also availableArias for Anna De AmicisAparte • AP 021 (3149028005820)

“Teodora Gheorghiu certainly has the requisite glittering coloratura technique...”

— GRAMOPHONE

“ A brilliant lyric voice and vibrant stage presence... This wonderful artist goes from strength to strength and she has an awesome arsenal of technical skills at her command.”

— OPERA TODAY

IMPORTClarinetist Shirley Brill studied with Sabine Meyer at the Musikhochschule Lübeck and with Richard Stoltzman at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Her career was launched with a performance as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. She has since performed around the world, both as a soloist and with pianist Jonathan Aner as part of the Brillaner Duo, playing in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall and the Beethoven-Haus. On her first recording for Aparté (and her first with an orchestra), Brill presents a selection of fine but rarely recorded works. Its release is intended to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Jean Françaix (1912-1997).

IMPORTSACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSDAlthough rarely heard in the concert hall, Giovanni Bottesini’s compositions for double bass are staples of the instrument’s repertoire. This disc of favorite works by Bottesini features Rick Stotijn, making his debut on Channel Classics. Stotijn is currently leader of the double basses in the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and the Swedish Radio Orchestra. The disc also features the bass player’s sister mezzo-soprano Christiane Stotijn, and orchestral support from his friends in the Amsterdam Sinfonietta.

BOTTESINICapriccio di Bravura, Grand Duo

Concertant, Grande Allegro di Concerto, Duo Concertant, Une Bouche Aimée,

Tutto Che Il Mondo serraRick Stotijn (double bass), Christiane Stotijn

(mezzo-soprano), Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson

Channel Classics • CCS SA 32612

FRANÇAIXClarinet Concerto, Theme and Variations

PROKOFIEVSonata Op.94

Shirley Brill (clarinet), National Radio Orchestra of Romania, Adrian Morar

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IMPORTThe sixth volume in Dutton’s British Light Music Premieres ranges from Anthony Hedges’ bustling evocation of market day at the Yorkshire town of Beverley to John Fox’s powerful Portrait of Diana from 1997. Also featured are folk-inspired works by Welsh composers Alun Hoddinott and Mansel Thomas, Philip Lane’s Lyric Dances and a potpourri of show tunes by Richard Addinsell and Noel Gay from 1926. Rounding out the disc are David Morgan’s charming Music for Children and Carey Blyton’s Cinque Port suite and El Tango Ultimo. Featured artists include the Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Gavin Sutherland and the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth.

IMPORTThis disc features cello concertos by Lionel Sainsbury and John Foulds. The Foulds is a youthful essay in a melodious late-Romantic idiom. The work has long been requested by Foulds enthusiasts after Raphael Wallfisch had revived it in a broadcast over twenty years ago. The concerto by Sainsbury features an unabashedly tonal and opulent melodic language, recalling the neo-romantic idiom of composers such as William Walton and Samuel Barber. On this recording, cellist Raphael Wallfisch is joined by conductor Martin Yates leading the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for the Foulds (a world premiere) and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra for the Sainsbury, which was recorded in the presence of the composer.

SAINSBURY Cello Concerto Op.27FOULDS Cello Concerto Op.17Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Martin YatesDutton • CDLX 7284

British Light Music Premieres Vol.6Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland, BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry WordsworthDutton • CDLX 7283

Light music discoveries

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IMPORTJohn Wilson returns to lead the BBC Concert Orchestra in a third program of orchestral music by Edward German. Most of the works recorded here are either world premiere recordings or first digital recordings. This is repertoire on the stylistic cusp between light music and symphonic fare, and all of it informed by German’s characteristic lyricism and orchestral flair. The program is focused on theatre music — the music with which German came to fame — and includes extended suites from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Henry VIII. The Marche Solennelle of 1890 and the 1911 Coronation March and Hymn complete the program.

IMPORTThis disc presents the world premiere recording of Peter Horton’s new edition of Vaughan Williams’ fifth symphony. Horton’s version addresses many of the textural problems left in the published score. Horton explains, “The composer’s notoriously hard-to-read handwriting caused further problems, as the copyist assigned to make a fair copy of the score introduced a large number of mistakes, principally (but not exclusively) in the phrasing and articulation.” The coupling is Christopher Wright’s deeply felt violin concerto, sensitively played by Fenella Humphreys. Wright’s concerto was written in memory of his wife, and looks to Walton for its stylistic roots, especially in the scherzando elements of the middle movement. Tenor Christopher Watson is featured in the work’s final movement.

VAUGHAN WILLIAMSSymphony No.5

WRIGHTMomentum, Violin Concerto

Fenella Humphreys (violin), Christopher Watson (tenor), Royal Scottish National Orchestra,

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Martin YatesDutton • CDLX 7286

GERMANMuch Ado about Nothing, The Tempter,

Marche Solennelle, Henry VIII, Romeo and Juliet,

Coronation March and Hymn BBC Concert Orchestra, John Wilson

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The tuneful music of Edward German

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IMPORTPianist Hiroaki Takenouchi, in his first recording for Dutton, explores piano concertos by Georgy Catoire (1861-1926) and Percy Sherwood (1866-1939), two worthwhile but neglected contemporaries who came to musical maturity in the closing years of the nineteenth century. The music of Catoire, who was part of the circle of Tchaikovsky, Arensky and Lyadov, is gloriously romantic in the Russian tradition. It is remarkable that his heart-warming, lyrical concerto has been recorded only twice. German-born Percy Sherwood was a late romantic composer, who made a significant career as both pianist and composer. His output derives from the late-nineteenth century romantic tradition, a character particularly apparent in the gorgeous slow movement of his second concerto (1932-33).

IMPORTAs a coupling for their new recording of Frederic Austin’s romantic overture Richard the Second with Ronald Corp and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Dutton have reissued tracks from three different earlier recordings, all brilliantly remastered, to assemble a remarkable survey of Austin’s orchestral music. Austin’s big-boned Symphony of 1913 almost certainly influenced the young Arnold Bax, while the colorful orchestral tone painting in his overture The Sea Venturers adds yet another vibrant musical sea picture to the repertoire. Both are vividly played by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Douglas Bostock.

AUSTINSymphony in E Major, The Sea Venturers Overture, Rhapsody — Spring, Richard II OvertureRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Northern College of Music Symphony Orchestra, Douglas Bostock, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Ronald CorpDutton • CDLX 7288

CATOIREPiano Concerto Op.21SHERWOODPiano Concerto No.2 in E-flat MajorHiroaki Takenouchi (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin YatesDutton • CDLX 7287

Romantic piano concertos

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Orchestral music of Frederic Austin

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IMPORTFirst Hand Records offers a second volume in their series of recordings of the complete HMV stereo recordings made by the London Mozart Players and Harry Blech. This disc includes newly discovered Abbey Road Studio recordings from 1954 and 1956. All tapes were remastered at Abbey Road using original analogue session & masters. The London Mozart Players are the longest established chamber orchestra in the UK. Repertoire featured on this release includes the Symphony No.36, the Piano Concerto No.24 (featuring Louis Kentner at the keyboard) and the twelve Minuets of K568.

IMPORTIn 1935, the German composer Hans Pfitzner wrote a rousing cello concerto for Rohan de Saram’s teacher, Gaspar Cassadó. With an abundance of irresistible qualities, the work possesses extraordinary richness and delight. A self-described anti-modernist, Pfitzner’s best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina, loosely based on the life of the great sixteenth-century composer. This recording, featuring de Saram accompanied by the Netherlands Radio Orchestra led by Bohumil Gregor, marks the work’s first appearance on CD. The concerto is coupled with two Indian influenced chamber works by John Mayer, the Prabhanda for cello and piano and the Ragamalas for cello and tanpura.

PFITZNERCello Concerto in G Major

MAYERPrabhanda, Ragamalas

Rohan de Saram (cello), John Mayer (tanpura), Netherlands Radio Orchestra, Bohumil Gregor

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Louis Kentner (piano), London Mozart Players, Harry Blech

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The legendary London Mozart Players

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IMPORTIn 1819, music publisher and composer Anton Diabelli sent a waltz of his own creation to all the important composers of

the Austrian Empire, asking each of them to write a variation on it. His plan was to publish the variations in a patriotic volume called Vaterländischer Künstlerverein and to use the profits to benefit orphans and widows of the Napoleonic Wars. Beethoven chose to write not just a single variation, but a set of thirty-three. His audacious submission, the Diabelli Variations, has since become one of the most revered examples of the genre. On this fascinating disc, pianist Andreas Staier, playing a fortepiano after Conrad Graf, pairs Beethoven’s magnum opus with a selection of the other works based upon Diabelli’s waltz. Here you can discover the very first stirrings of Liszt’s virtuosity (aged eleven), the music of Mozart’s son, variations by Kreutzer, Kalkbrenner and even the great Franz Schubert. This fascinating album sheds welcome new light on both the music and the milieu of Beethoven’s timeless masterpiece.

“One of the world’s best harpsichordists.”— GRAMOPHONE

Diabelli’s gift to music history

BEETHOVENDiabelli VariationsAndreas Staier (fortepiano)harmonia mundi • HMC 902091

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Also availableC.P.E. Bach: Keyboard Concertosharmonia mundi • HMC 902083 (794881984626)

“Vivacious and evocative performances...”— SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

IMPORTSACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSDCelebrated tenor Mark Padmore and the Britten Sinfonia present a program featuring some of the most beautiful English music for voice and orchestra ever written. The centerpiece is Benjamin Britten’s magical evocation of twilight and nightfall, the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op.31, for which he is joined by the dulcet tones of Stephen Bell on French horn. Completing the disc are Gerald Finzi’s song-cycle Dies Natalis, with its ecstatic mood reflecting a child’s wide-eyed wonder at the world, and Britten’s fourth and final orchestral song cycle, the poignant Nocturne, Op.60. Long associated with the great Peter Pears, Padmore makes this music his own in stunning performances that welcome comparison to any singer, past or present.

Padmore sings Britten and Finzi

BRITTENSerenade for Tenor,

Horn and Strings, NocturneFINZI

Dies NatalisMark Padmore (tenor), Stephen Bell (horn),

Britten Sinfonia, Jacqueline Shaveharmonia mundi • HMU 807552

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Britten: Before life & afterharmonia mundi • HMU 907443 (093046744328)“A truly remarkable dramatic experience that’s

worth many repeat hearings.”— CLASSICS TODAY

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“ There’s no denying the affinity and rightness of this music under Padmore’s voice. We really were driven ‘almost mad with ecstasy,’ secure in his musical architecture and tonal control.” — THE ARTS DESK

IMPORTFollowing the success of his 2011 album Rose of Sharon — a celebration of 18th Century American music that landed on Billboard’s classical chart and critics’ year-end lists — the latest project by Joel Frederiksen and the

Ensemble Phoenix Munich takes them all the way back in time to... 1972. That was the year the late British troubadour and cult favorite Nick Drake released his third and final album, Pink Moon. Initially, the album garnered a small amount of critical attention, but it was not until decades after Drake’s death that it received widespread public and critical acclaim. Today, the sparse and unadorned tracks of Pink Moon are regarded by many fans and music critics as the greatest efforts of a tragically short career. Drake’s was an art filled with melancholy, a feeling and a concept that unites him with the singer-songwriters of the Elizabethan age. Adapting Drake’s melodic guitar lines for Renaissance instruments, Frederiksen sheds new light on these finely crafted songs that speak directly and powerfully to the human condition and offers a fitting tribute to a modern-day Thomas Campion.

“Frederiksen’s rich, clear bass seems capable of an almost infinite degree of tonal shading. His diction is impeccable, as is his taste.”

— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

Joel Frederiksen sings Nick Drake

Requiem for a Pink MoonJoel Frederiksen (bass), Ensemble Phoenix Munichharmonia mundi • HMC 902111

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Also availableThe Elfin Knight — Ballads & Dancesharmonia mundi • HMC 901983 (794881847723)

“ Not so much song recital as musical storytelling, a forgotten fireside art.” — LONDON EVENING STANDARD

Rose of Sharonharmonia mundi • HMC 902085 (794881984923)

“ This one is to treasure, from beginning to end. ” — THE NEW YORK TIMES

SCHUMANNPiano Quintet Op.44, Piano Quartet Op.47

Alexander Melnikov (piano), Jerusalem Quartet

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IMPORTThe Piano Quintet Op.44 and Piano Quartet Op.47 date from a brief period during which Robert Schumann focused his attention intensively on chamber music (between June 1842 and January 1843). These works underline his wish to ‘escape’ from the solo piano, now ‘too restricted’ for his overflowing imagination, as he told Clara. The Piano Quintet, which made a powerful impression on Wagner, is probably one o f h i s most sophi s t i ca ted works, into which Schumann poured all the creative energy he derived from meticulous

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Also availableDvorak: Quartet, Piano Quintetharmonia mundi • HMC 901899 (794881800629)

“Winning performances... brimming over with poignant melodies and rhythmic zest.”— THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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examination of similar works by his predecessors, especially Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schubert. These performances by the Jerusalem Quartet and pianist Alexander Melnikov focus on the introspective nature of these gems of the Romantic period.

“ Passion, precision, warmth, a gold blend: these are the trade-marks of this excellent Israeli string quartet.”

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IMPORTAmong Schumann’s inspired late chamber works is a collection of music for more unusual instruments, composed in a concentrated flurry of creativity between 1849 and 1853. It is to these exquisite short works that the world-famous Nash Ensemble turns its impeccable collective musicianship. While Schumann modeled his music specifically to the timbres of the instruments he wrote for, he also arranged these pieces for alternative instruments with an eye to maximizing sales. The Nash Ensemble presents the works in their original scoring in what are bound to be definitive performances. The set’s many delights include the fiery and lyrical Märchenbilder (featuring star British viola player Lawrence Power), the Adagio and Allegro for horn and the Märchenerzählungen for clarinet, viola and piano.

IMPORTAcclaimed pianist Piers Lane and his fellow Australians, the Goldner String Quartet, reprise their highly successful partnership in world-premiere recordings of the two String Quartets and Piano Quintet of Irish composer Hamilton Harty. Harty (1879–1941) was a remarkable, self-taught musician who wrote in a lyrical Romantic idiom, while incorporating a modal astringency and folk-music charm that are reminiscent of Percy Grainger. In particular, the winding, pentatonic melody of the Lento of the quintet and the delightful ‘jig’ of the first movement of the second quartet seem like settings of folk-melodies that have echoed for centuries around the green hills of Ireland. Intriguingly, however, they are entirely Harty’s own invention.

HARTYString Quartets Nos.1&2, Piano QuintetPiers Lane (piano), Goldner String QuartetHyperion • CDA 67927

SCHUMANNAdagio and Allegro, Märchenbilder, Fantasiestücke, Märchenerzählungen, Drei Romanzen, Violin Sonata No.1The Nash EnsembleHyperion • CDA 67923

Schumann’s inspired chamber music

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IMPORTFollowing up his highly acclaimed release of Beethoven sonatas, Hyperion’s Gramophone-award-winning pianist Steven Osborne turns his talents to Beethoven’s complete Bagatelles. Though the composer himself referred to these thirty short piano works, which he penned throughout his life, as ‘trifles,’ these are nonetheless trifles from the mind of a genius. In this polished album, Osborne lends his remarkable artistry to everything from the Six Bagatelles of Op 126, which at times occupy the same rarefied spiritual world as the late quartets and were the very last works Beethoven ever wrote for the piano, to the composer’s most famous stand-alone piano piece, the mysterious little A minor Bagatelle known to all the world as Für Elise.

Beethoven’s glorious ‘trifles’

BEETHOVENBagatelles

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“This is pretty remarkable Beethoven playing...”— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

“ Osborne’s musical intelligence and refined virtuosity command respect.” — CLASSICS TODAY

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“I have not heard a performance of his Violin Concerto which has excited or moved me

as much as this one...”— INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW

IMPORTWith this new volume in their ongoing Romantic Vio l in Conc e r t o s e r i e s , Hyperion proudly announces a new collaboration with the brilliant young British

violinist Chloë Hanslip, the former child prodigy famously signed to Warner Classics at the age of just fourteen. Here, she lends her now-mature talents to the second release in Hyperion’s overview of Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concertos. Henry Vieuxtemps (1820–1881) was a French violin virtuoso who, after the death of Paganini, was widely considered to be the best violinist in Europe. Besides being a brilliant player, he was a remarkably fine composer, as demonstrated in these, his first two concertos. Alongside the memorable violin fireworks, Vieuxtemps here shows a well-argued musical sensibility that straddles both the Classical and Romantic eras as well as the ability to write gorgeous, almost operatic slow movements in the best bel-canto tradition.

“Hanslip’s radiant artistry and phrasal sensitivity is highly seductive.”— BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

The Romantic Violin Concerto Vol.12VIEUXTEMPSViolin Concertos Nos.1 & 2, Greeting to AmericaChloë Hanslip (violin), Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Martyn BrabbinsHyperion • CDA 67878

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TYEMissa Euge bone, Western Wynde Mass,

Give almes of thy goods, Christ rising, Peccavimus cum patribus nostris; Nunc dimittis

The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell

Hyperion • CDA 67928IMPORTChristopher Tye flourished as a church musician in England during the mid-sixteenth century. A direct contemporary of Thomas Tallis, he held the prestigious post of Master of Choristers at Ely cathedral and successfully managed to compose music for both Protestant and Catholic services during a politically unstable time. He wrote remarkably individual music, characterized by unpredictable cadences and phrases of often unexpectedly startling beauty. The two major works on this recording are his masterful Missa Euge bone for six voices, and his Western Wynde Mass, probably an early work, and likely written as a complement to John Taverner’s own mass based on this secular English song. The Westminster Abbey Choir directed by James O’Donnell performs these sparsely beautiful a cappella works with their customary freshness and a sense of grandeur.

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Choral music of Christopher Tye

MACKENZIECricket on the Hearth Overture, Twelfth Night, Benedictus, Second Scotch Rhapsody, Coriolanus Incidental MusicBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn BrabbinsHyperion • CDH 55395

HANDELHeroic AriasJames Bowman (counter-tenor), The King’s Consort, Robert KingHyperion • CDH 55370

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IMPORTK617 presents a special collection celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Olivier Schneebeli and Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles. This choir’s unique combination of children’s and adult voices, in the great tradition of the Versailles Chapelle royale, has helped Schneebeli develop the ideal ‘instrument’ to showcase French repertoire of the 17th and the 18th centuries. This exceptional boxed set features sacred masterpieces by the composers of the “Grand Siècle,” from the reign of Henri IV to the end of the reign of Louis XIV. In particular it explores, with the aid of numerous unpublished recordings, the birth of the musical genre most associated with Chapelle royale — the grand motet.

IMPORTFrench harpsichordist Frédérick Haas has made a name for himself with an aristocratic, pensive style more attuned to introspection than pyrotechnics. He has a profound knowledge of the inner workings of harpsichords and the secrets of their fine-tuning. Haas owns the spellbindingly beautiful 1751 Henri Hemsch Harpsichord used on this recording of Bach’s immortal Goldberg Variations. Explaining why he chose a French harpsichord for a decidedly German work, Hass explains, “Since the 1751 Hemsch is one of the most beautiful harpsichords in existence and its tone and mechanics are perfect, why not use it here? The interpreter’s role is to make sure his French harpsichord speaks decent German.”

BACHGoldberg VariationsFrédérick Haas (harpsichord)La Dolce Volta • LDV 01

Sacred Music of VersaillesLes Pages & Les Chantres de Versailles, Olivier SchneebeliK617 • K 617234

Celebrating the glorious music of Versailles

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IMPORTSACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSDFor his first LSO Live recording, Gianandrea Noseda is joined by three of today’s most widely acclaimed singers for a magnificent performance of Benjamin Britten’s choral masterpiece. Premiered 50 years ago, the War Requiem saw its composer unite many of the themes that ran through his music and beliefs. Britten had been commissioned to write a work for the re-dedication of Coventry Cathedral, which had been destroyed during devastating bombing raids on the town during the Second World War. As a young man, Britten had written many choral works based on religious texts before achieving fame as a composer of opera. He was also a pacifist and a conscientious objector during the War. Using the Latin mass of the dead, interspersed with texts by war poet Wilfred Owen, he created a work that both mourned the dead and pleaded the futility of war. Leading the London Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus, Noseda is joined by soloists Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside and Sabina Cvilak.

Britten’s powerful War Requiem

BRITTENWar Requiem

Ian Bostridge (tenor), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Sabina Cvilak (soprano),

London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Eltham College Choir, Gianandrea Noseda

LSO Live • LSO 0719

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ConCert reViews“ Noseda’s unashamedly dramatic interpretation held the audience transfixed. An overwhelming evocation of the grief, the waste and the pity of war.”

— THE TIMES

“ Noseda marshalled the finest War Requiem that I have heard. He showed total control of Britten’s vast structure.”

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PROKOFIEVToccata Op.11, Ten Pieces Op.12, Sonata No.2, Sarcasms Op.17, Visions Fugitives Op.22Abdel Rahman El Bacha (piano)Mirare • MIR 165

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Voyage to RussiaClaire-Marie Le Guay (piano)Mirare • MIR 169

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MUSSORGSKYPictures at an ExhibitionMEDTNERPiano Sonata No.1TANEYEVPrelude and FugueDavid Kadouch (piano)Mirare • MIR 170

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This trio of discs from Mirare features the talents of three pianists particularly noted for their affinity to the Russian repertoire. Prokofiev specialist Abdel Rahman El Bacha offers a fascinating selection of the composer’s piano works, ranging from the futurist strains of the Toccata Op.11 (1912) to the Visions Fugitives of Op.22 (1917) From Mussorgsky to Scrabin, Claire-Marie Le Guay journeys through the full range of Russian piano music. Embracing both the great Romantic repertory and intimate, lesser-known pieces, this musical portrait reflects the vast Russian landscape. Russian composers have never ceased to celebrate their homeland in the form of tales and legends. In a program centering around Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, pianist David Kadouch assumes the role of storyteller in a selection of musical legends, mythical or imagined, taken from Russia’s long history.

IMPORTOver the course of a few short years, with his ballets Petrushka and The Rite of Spring — premiered by the Ballets Russes in 1911 and 1913, Igor Stravinsky drastically changed the musical world and opened the path to the twentieth century and modern music. This recording of the piano transcriptions of these ground-breaking scores remain as faithful as possible to the orchestral versions. Played here by the duo of Lidija Bizjak and Sanja Bizjak, the vivid colors, startling rhythms and lyrical melodies of these works are given full voice and weight.

IMPORTFrom Tchaikovsky to Shostakovich, Russian music has often found its truest voice in elegies. With Glazunov and Tchaikovsky, they are recollections of childhood, or nostalgia for another world. While Rachmaninoff evokes purity in his Vocalise, in his Sonata, Shostakovich intones a swansong, a song of death. In the warm timbre of Gérard Caussé’s viola and the generous sonority of Brigitte Engerer’s piano, all the melancholy, tenderness and pain of Russia find eloquent expression.

SHOSTAKOVICHViola Sonata Op.147

GLAZUNOVElegy Op.44

TCHAIKOVSKYNocturne Op.19 No.4, Mélodie Op.42 No.3, Valse

Sentimentale Op.51 No.6Gérard Caussé (viola), Brigitte Engerer (piano)

Mirare • MIR 172

STRAVINSKYThe Rite of Spring (arr. for piano duo),

Petrushka (arr. for piano duo), Five Easy Pieces for Piano Duet,

Three Easy Pieces for Piano Duet Lidija Bizjak (piano), Sanja Bizjak (piano)

Mirare • MIR 171

Stravinsky’s works for 2 pianos

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DOMESTICComposed on commission from the Bruckner Orchester Linz, Carnegie Hall, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philip Glass’ Symphony No.9 receives its world premiere here on a recording from Orange Mountain Music. Written for large symphony orchestra with expanded brass and percussion, Glass’ three-movement work received its US premiere at Carnegie Hall on January 31, 2012, Glass’ 75th birthday. This recording is conducted by Glass’ long-time collaborator Dennis Russell Davies, conductor and music director of the Bruckner Orchester Linz, Landestheater, and the Sinfonieorchester Basel, who has premiered all but one Glass symphony. The Bruckner Orchester Linz continues its long association with the music of Philip Glass having performed and recorded his sixth, seventh and eighth symphonies, as well as staging of his operas The Voyage, Kepler and Orphée.

Philip Glass at 75GLASSSymphony No.9Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Dennis Russell DaviesOrange Mountain • OMM 0081

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Recently releasedGlass: In The Penal ColonyOrange Mountain • OMM 0078 (801837007824)

“The familiar oscillations of Glass’s score, skillfully played by a quintet of strings

with electronic noises off, are put to intense, inventive use.”

— THE OBSERVER

“ Glass’s Ninth, with its multiple ethnic and historical references, shows the 75-year-old composer’s unbroken curiosity about the contemporary outside world — and the past.” — THE CLASSICAL

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IMPORTMichelangelo Carbonara is one of the most interesting and talented young Italian pianists. A student of the famous Imola Piano School he benefited from the advice of such luminaries as Dmitri Bashkirov, Leon Fleischer, Alicia de Larrocha, Menahem Pressler and Aldo Ciccolini. His recordings of piano music by Ravel, Scarlatti and Nino Rota brought him great critical acclaim in the international press. This disc for Piano Classics presents him in music very close to his heart, the piano sonatas by Franz Schubert (he is prize winner of the Schubert International Piano Competition in Dortmund), from the early joyful sonata in E major, through the lyrical A major D664 to the grim A minor sonata D845.

IMPORTMichel Block (1937-2003) gained international attention and fame when at the 1960 Chopin Competition jury member Artur Rubinstein was so outraged by the jury decision that he awarded Michel Block the special Artur Rubinstein Award on the spot. Two years later Michel Block, a Juilliard laureate, won the prestigious Leaventritt Award and then embarked on an international solo career. After joining the faculty of Indiana University, Block ceased his busy concert schedule and his rare public appearances after that were memorable events. Block had a special affinity for Spanish music (he grew up in Mexico). This recital offers gems from the Spanish repertoire including Granados’ Spanish Dances, Albeniz’s España and the four Spanish Pieces by De Falla.

The Spanish AlbumDE FALLA

Cuatro Piezas EspañolasGRANADOS

Danzas Españolas, Escenas PoéticasALBENÍZ

EspañaMichel Block (piano)

Piano Classics • PCL 0031

SCHUBERTPiano Sonatas D.157, D.664, & D.845

Michelangelo Carbonara (piano)Piano Classics • PCL 0034

Carbonara plays Schubert

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IMPORTTatiana Nikolaeva’s prophesy about her pupil Nikolai Lugansky — “He is the next one”- has come true. Lugansky is now regarded as one of the major pianists from the Russian Piano School, enjoying a dazzling career across all the continents, playing with the most important orchestras and conductors in world renowned concert venues. He is universally praised for his sincere interpretations, his honesty, his deep burning passion and (last but not least) his limitless and unbelievably perfected technique. This Schumann program offers two major large scale works, played with grandeur and nobility, and a dazzling performance of the fiendishly difficult Toccata.

IMPORTThe piano works of Luciano Berio span the entire life of the composer, and bear perfect witness of the style of this 20th Century genius. He composes a fascinating world of colors, inventions, wit and virtuosity, extremely challenging for both pianist and audience, but rewarding for those with open ears. Francesco Tristano is a phenomenal interpreter of this music. A Juilliard alumnus, in 2004 Tristano won the prestigious Competition for 20th Century Piano Music in Orléans, which was the start of a successful, if unorthodox, career. His first recordings were made on the French Sisyphe label. At present he is under contract with Deutsche Grammophon.

BERIOComplete Piano MusicFrancesco Tristano (piano)Piano Classics • PCL 0032

SCHUMANNÉtudes Symphoniques Op.13, Piano Sonata No.1; Toccata Op.7Nikolai Lugansky (piano)Piano Classics • PCL 0029

The virtuosity of Nicolai Lugansky

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IMPORTIn 2012, the Wergo label celebrates its 50th anniversary. For half a century, Wergo has been synonymous with contemporary music. The label’s catalog reads like a virtual who’s-who of modern music, both in terms of composers and performers. From the beginning, the intent of founder WERner GOldschmidt (from whom the label derives its name) was to provide listeners with a snapshot of current musical activity and innovation. Goldschmidt’s label and mission, now managed by the publisher Schott, is maintained to this day by a dedicated staff that is constantly striving to bring the best new music to the attention of the world. This specially-priced commemorative set features five discs, with one from each from the label’s five rich decades. Featured composers include Cage, Nono, Schnebel Stockhausen and Stravinsky.

Celebrating an icon of contemporary music

50 Years — 1962-2012STRAVINSKY

Sonata for 2 Pianos, Three Easy Pieces for Piano Duet

SCHNEBELChoralvorspiele I & II, Atemzüge

NONOPolifonica-Monodia-Ritmica, Canti per 13

CAGEWorks for Percussion: 3 Constructions,

Imaginary Landscape No.2STOCKHAUSEN

Kontra-punkte, Refrain, Zeitmasze, Schlagtrio Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky (pianos),

Interpretenensemble Darmstadt, Dieter Schnebel, Ensemble United Berlin, Helios Quartet,

Ensemble Recherche, Rupert HuberWergo • WER 6946

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Arranged by Frank DeVol and enlivened by what the liner notes described as, “the sensitive, poignant saxophone solos of Stan Getz” on four tracks, Ella Fitzgerald’s album Like Someone In Love was (not surprisingly) targeted at “people in love.” But its real audience, then as now, was anyone who loves timeless songs impeccably sung. What was timeless in 1957 still is today.

Ben Webster Meets Oscar PetersonBen Webster, Oscar PetersonAPO • CVRJ 6114 SA

Like Someone In LoveElla Fitzgerald

APO • CVRJ 6000 SA

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SACD Hybrid/ Stereo/ DSDFile In: Jazz

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Jimi’s Colors — A Tribute To Jimi HendrixFrancis LockwoodFrémeaux • FA 565 D44ioy0c@%^%@)s

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IMPORTFile In: JazzThis tribute to Jimi Hendrix by French jazz pianist Francis Lockwood was first published by Owl Records (EMI) in the mid-nineties. It was immediately acclaimed by the International media, from France to Japan and beyond. The album’s eleven tracks feature both songs that Hendrix made famous (“Burning of the Midnight Lamp,” “The Wind Cries Mary”) and Lockwood originals. The immortal qualities of Hendrix’s music find an unexpected but welcome home in the sound-world of jazz.

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Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson brings together two of the greatest stylists American music has produced. Here, in a program of timeless songs, pianist Oscar Peterson is the perfect foil — his effortless swing an excellent set-up for the unhurried scoops, slurs, and bent notes of tenor saxophone balladeer Ben Webster — just the way he liked it.

Nothing For GrantedSandra Nkaké

Jazz Village • JV 570002

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IMPORTFile In: JazzThe energy is rock, the feeling pop, the spirit jazz and the groove implacable — this is the magic formula of the soul-jazz singer Sandra Nkaké. With magnificent support from a rhythm section recalling the heyday of Stax, this album, with compositions and lyrics by Sandra and her close partner, flautist-producer Jî Drû, packs a powerful punch. Old instruments, appealing arrangements, a retro-futurist atmosphere studded with echoes of sixties songs and soundtracks of cult films, a spacey production — everything here conspires to make Nothing For Granted an explosive manifesto where Sandra Nkaké’s rough-hewn voice rings out like a cry of freedom.

adVanCe reView“Nothing for Granted is

a collection of musical stories. Or more like a

festival of short films in sound. Playing the lead

role, Sandra Nkaké changes tone of voice to act out her characters as others might

change costume. The singer creates a three-dimensional world peopled with fictional characters wandering round castles in the air, rebellious, off-the-wall, and jamming it

up inside her mind’s eye.”— RADIO FRANCE

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IMPORTFile In: World / EuropeMelos is an ambitious artistic creation gathering musical traditions of three Mediterranean countries: Spain, Tunisia and Greece. Around traditional songs and modern compositions, Keyvan Chemirani has gathered together a group of exceptional singers and musicians for a journey exploring the infinite rhythmic strength which defines music of the Mediterranean region.

IMPORTFile In: World / Middle East / SyriaThe music on the Al Kindi Ensemble’s set entitled The Aleppian Music Room is a distillation of centuries of tradition, clothed in modern form. Recorded beneath the dome of a small palace in Aleppo, at the crossroads of the famous silk routes, the group presents an eternal dialogue, questioning each other, moving apart, converging, then fading away so as to let the voices of silence ring out.

IMPORTFile In: World / South America / ArgentinaDébora Russ’ Tangos Pendientes features sixteen tracks, each of which resonates in the listener’s mind with its own voice. These voices are of the singer’s relatives, family, friends, people known and unknown — those whose passage through Russ’ life has left a trace in her soul, and it is to those voices that this lovely and poignant album is dedicated.

The Aleppian Music RoomEnsemble Al KindiChant du Monde • 2741108

Tangos PendientesDébora RussAccords Croisés • AC 145

Melos: Mediterranean SongsKeyvan Chemirani, Dorsaf Hamdani, Juan Carmona, En ChordaisAccords Croisés • AC 146

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IMPORTFile In: World / Europe / FranceFounded in 1975 by guitarist Dan Gharibian and violinist Bruno Girard, Bratsch is a French band that defies nearly every attempt at simple categorization. Their fiery blend of Gypsy, Klezmer, Balkan, rock and folk styles creates a heady mix that is uniquely Bratsch. The band’s work is not well known in North America, but they have played here on occasion and have built a small but loyal following. Their all-star guest extravaganza Plein du Monde was re-released on World Village in May, and now comes a brand new album, Urban Bratsch, the band’s discourse on cities and song and the interaction therein. Paris, London, Naples, New York, Berlin... all these and other cities form a wellspring of inspiration.

Darkly magical cityscapes from Bratsch

Urban BratschBratsch

World Village • 479057

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band arriving in a summertime Paris — but late at night.”

— FROOTS

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Kristian Bezuidenhout harmonia mundi Jun 7-9, 12 Chicago IL Symphony CenterJonathan Biss Onyx Classics May 27 Chicago IL Symphony Center

May 31 Baltimore MD Music Center at StrathmoreJun 1-2 Baltimore MD Meyerhoff Symphony HallAug 1 Highland Park IL Ravinia Festival

Yefim Bronfman Helicon Aug 8 Highland Park IL Ravinia FestivalDanny Driver Hyperion May 26 New Orleans LA Dixon Hall

Jul 13-15 Minneapolis MN Orchestra HallAug 17-19 Annandale-on- NY Bard Music Festival

James Ehnes Onyx Classics May 11 Baltimore MD StrathmoreIsabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov harmonia mundi May 30 San Francisco CA Herbst TheatreBernarda Fink harmonia mundi Nov 9 Philadelphia PA Perelman Theater

Nov 16-17 Miami FL Adrienne Arsht CenterGerald Finley Hyperion Aug 9 Highland Park IL Ravinia FestivalFreiburger Barockorchester harmonia mundi May 1 New York NY Alice Tully HallPhilip Glass Orange Mountain Jun 23 Highland Park IL Ravinia FestivalMatthias Goerne harmonia mundi May 1 New York NY Carnegie Hall

Jul 16 Highland Park IL Ravinia FestivalMarc-André Hamelin Hyperion May 9 New York NY Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage

Jun 7, 9-10 Ojai CA Ojai FestivalAngela Hewitt Hyperion May 6 Baltimore MD Shriver Hall

May 13 Salem OR St. Pauls Episcopal ChurchMay 15 Seattle WA Meany Hall

Stephen Hough Hyperion May 4-6 St. Louis MO Powell HallJun 10 Chicago IL Orchestra HallJun 14-17 Seattle WA S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium

Alina Ibragimova Hyperion Sep 21-22 Salt Lake City UT Abravanel HallSteven Isserlis Hyperion May 9-10, 12 New York NY 92nd Street Y

May 19-20 San Francisco CA Herbst TheatreJerusalem Quartet harmonia mundi Oct 23 Pittsburgh PA Carnegie Music Hall Olga Kern harmonia mundi May 3-5, 10, 12 Phoenix AZ Symphony Hall

May 6, 13, 16 Phoenix AZ Scottsdale Center for the Arts Mariusz Kwiecien harmonia mundi May 18, 20, 24, 26 Los Angeles CA Walt Disney Concert Hall

Jul 21, 25 Santa Fe NM Santa Fe Opera HouseAug 3, 9, 14 Santa Fe NM Santa Fe Opera House

Paul Lewis harmonia mundi May 1 Napa CA First United Methodist ChurchMay 4 Middlebury VT Mahaney Center for the Arts

London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev LSO Live Oct 22, 24 New York NY Lincoln CenterMariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev Mariinsky Oct 31 New York NY Stern Auditorium/Perelman StageDenis Matsuev Mariinsky Jul 29-30 Highland Park IL Ravinia Festival

Sep 4 Los Angeles CA Hollywood BowlNicholas McGegan Philharmonia Baroque May 24-26 Atlanta GA Symphony Hall

Jun 7-9 St. Paul MN Ordway CenterNov 1 New York NY Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage

Tai Murray harmonia mundi May 1 Williamsburg VA Kimball Theatre Jun 10 Southfield MI The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival

Jon Nakamatsu harmonia mundi May 6 Rochester NY First Unitarian Church RochesterMay 25 Stanford CA Dinkelspiel AuditoriumJun 1-2 Austin TX Dell Concert HallJun 7, 10, 12 Colorado Springs CO Packard HallJun 16 San Jose CA California Theater

Gianandrea Noseda LSO Live Aug 2 Highland Park IL Ravinia FestivalAug 4 Philadelphia PA Verizon Hall

Paul O'Dette harmonia mundi Jun 24 Cleveland OH Harkness ChapelJun 27 Cleveland OH Harkness Chapel

Marlis Petersen harmonia mundi Oct 26 New York NY Weill Recital HallJordi Savall Alia Vox Jun 8 Rockport MA Rockport Chamber Music Festival

Jun 9-10 Berkeley CA First Congregational Church Jun 12 New York NY Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Takács Quartet Hyperion May 1 Lakewood CO Lakewood Cultural CenterNov 12 Pittsburgh PA Carnegie Music Hall

Alexandre Tharaud harmonia mundi Oct 24 New York NY Weill Recital HallTokyo String Quartet harmonia mundi May 5 New York NY Washington Irving High School

May 6 Philadelphia PA Independent Seaport MuseumJul 24 Highland Park IL Ravinia Festival

Shai Wosner Onyx Classics May 3 New York NY Zankel HallMay 15 Seattle WA S. Mark Taper Foundation AuditoriumJun 6 New York NY Alice Tully Hall

Haochen Zhang harmonia mundi May 4-6 Fort Worth TX Bass Performance HallMay 12 Longview TX S.E. Belcher Jr. Chapel and Performance CenterJul 15-16, 18-19 Santa Fe NM St. Francis Auditorium

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C.J. Chenier World Village Jun 9 New Orleans LA The Old U.S. MintJun 15 Louisville CO Louisville Street FaireJun 29 Memphis TN Overton ParkJul 13 Augusta ME Pete Gagne Memorial ParkJul 17 Ridgefield CT Ballard ParkJul 21 Reston VA Reston Community CenterAug 4 Big Bear Lake CA Swim Beach AmphitheatreSep 15 Bethlehem PA ArtsQuest Blast Furnace Blues Festival

Huun Huur Tu World Village Sep 23 Los Angeles CA Hollywood BowlAhmad Jamal Jazz Village May 4 San Francisco CA Bimbo's 365 Club

Jun 22 North Bethesda MD Music Center at StrathmoreSep 15 Champaign-Urbana IL Krannert CenterNov 24 Costa Mesa CA Segerstrom Center for the Arts

New Orleans Jazz Orchestra World Village May 26 Minneapolis MN Orchestra HallDec 8 Minneapolis MN Minneapolis Convention Center

Catherine Russell World Village Jun 15 Warm Springs VA Garth Newel Music CenterJun 30 Saratoga Springs NY Saratoga Performing Arts CenterSep 9 Princeton NJ Palmer SquareSep 22 Monterey CA Monterey Jazz FestivalSep 23 Woodside CA Filoli EstateDec 31 Morristown NJ Shanghai Jazz

Tinariwen World Village Jun 2 Ozark AR Wakarusa Music FestivalJun 10 San Francisco CA Herbst TheatreJun 12 Seattle WA Showbox at The MarketJun 14 Washington DC The Howard TheatreJun 16 Croton-on-Hudson NY Croton Point Park

António Zambujo World Village May 12 New York NY NYU Skirball Center

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