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To launch their exciting new partnership Robin Ticciati and the DSO present Debussy’s La mer, Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande and the premiere recording of composer Brett Dean’s arrangements of Debussy’s Ariettes oubliées featuring Magdalena KoženA. Following his DSO debut Ticciati chose La mer to perform when he returned as the newly announced Principal Conductor in 2016. Ticciati has conducted La mer and Pelléas et Mélisande across Europe with the LPO, Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Budapest Festival Orchestra receiving excellent reviews. Brett Dean’s orchestration of the Ariettes premiered in Sydney in 2015 and at once displayed Debussy’s music in a new light. Dean’s new arrangements expand on the colours heard in Debussy’s original six songs applying unbelievably delicate orchestration that sounds like gossamer; The Daily Telegraph declared it ‘a revelation’. The all-French programme also includes the prelude to Fauré’s opera Pénélope and his orchestral suite Pelléas et Mélisande in a perfectly judged recording which augurs well for this exciting new partnership.

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Frederieke Saeijs' Linn debut has enabled her to realize her lifelong ambition to take the walk that all aspiring violin maestros do and put her personal stamp on Ysa�e's canonical Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27. Brimming with poetry, imagination and a quicksilver energy, Saeijs playing is well suited to Ysa�e's sonatas with their thrilling dynamic pyrotechnics along with the lyrical expression that defines these pieces.

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Featuring ambitious and accomplished music for voices and viols, ‘Ward: Fantasies & Verse Anthems’ offers a privileged glimpse of a special moment in English music history. The four-part viol fantasies show a fluent and skillful style exemplifying Jacobean consort fantasy at its best. The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, Emily Ashton and Christopher Terepin join Phantasm to perform Ward’s verse anthems that contain an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of textures and generous word painting amidst a polyphonic swirl of viols. This recording is a fitting tribute to John Ward, whose efforts have been rediscovered in our own time and whose mellifluous music deserves a closer look. The award-winning ensemble has been applauded across the globe for its moving performances and is recognized as the most exciting viol consort active on the world scene today. Critics have described their performances and recordings as 'intoxicating', 'revelatory', 'electrifying', and ‘interpretations pervaded by a truly burning spirit'.

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Originally released in 2004, Sir Charles Mackerras and the SCO’s ‘Bartok & Kodaly’ has been re-issued as part of Linn’s ECHO series. Both Bartók works represented here would figure in any roundup of 20th c. masterpieces; this was Sir Charles Mackerras’ first recording of ‘Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste’, the composer’s spectacular tour de force. Kodály shared Bartók’s fascination with folk music; his ‘Dances of Galánta, distinguished by brilliant orchestration, takes its material from 18th c. Verbunkos (Hungarian dance) music. “…vivid... a real sense of drama.’ (The Guardian)

On Wenlock Edge combines the best interpreter of English song with some of the most important pieces from the 20th century repertory. Upon release the album stayed in the UK classical charts for six weeks in a row and was a Finalist at the 2008 Gramophone Awards. Vaughan Williams, a tour de force of English song, set A.E. Housman's On Wenlock Edge following a visit with Ravel in Paris. The French influence can be clearly heard in the distinctive piano quintet accompaniment- an innovation in English song. This is the premiere recording of Gurney's masterpiece Ludlow & Teme using the composer's revised and corrected version which, after studying with Vaughan Williams, he declared to be his favorite: "the alterations are simple (and striking)." Peter Warlock's The Curlew and Arthur Bliss's Elegiac Sonnet, completes this beautiful collection. The Fitzwilliam String Quartet and pianist Ann Tilbrook display their substantial talents as accompanists providing flawless support and enhancing Gilchrist's interpretation.

The first of two Haydn recordings from Robin Ticciati and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra presents a “D Major” overview of Franz Joseph Haydn’s symphonic repertoire. From Haydn’s early period the Baroque influenced Symphony No. 31, ‘Horn Signal’ has an almost Gothic tinged feel with highly contrapuntal elements. Counterpoint is found in abundance throughout Symphony No. 70, a work written in the devastating aftermath of a fire on the Esterházy grounds, destroying buildings, instruments and consuming music scores. One of the famous ‘London Symphonies’, No. 101, ‘The Clock’ has its focus firmly on the future. Robin Ticciati is in his fifth season as Principal Conductor of the SCO. Gramophone named Robin one of the top ten young ‘conductors on the verge of greatness’ and one of 'Tomorrow's Icons'. “[an] exhilaratingly free performance of The Clock…the tick-tock Andante had a fragile grandeur that was disarming and poignant.” (The Guardian)

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