A vast cosmological fantasy featuring an ensemble of three grand pianos, RUNE is the final part of the 'fashion-opera' cycle by Scottish composer Alastair White (b.1988) following the highly acclaimed releases of ROBE ('excellent' - BBC Music Magazine) and WOAD 'the height of compositional magnificence' (Fanfare). 809730862625 METI28626.2 42869580 .00 20.99 .27 METIER COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 09/09/2022 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/29/4119029-2887525.jpg 13 1 N VILLA-LOBOS / DANUBIUS QUARTET COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS Heitor Villa-Lobos once confessed that he loved to write string quartets, stating 'one could say that it is a mania.' His 17 quartets form a substantial part of his chamber music output, covering a long career that embraced national pride and musical experimentation leading to the rarefied atmosphere of the final masterpieces. Often drawing on the musical folklore of Brazil, these quartets are an outpouring of spontaneous and daring invention. Ranging from austere polyphony to compelling expressiveness and virtuosity, they represent one of the most distinctive bodies of chamber works in 20th-century music. 636943600610 NXS8206006.2 42869719 .00 51.99 .42 NAXOS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS 09/09/2022 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/42/4119042-2883091.jpg 12 6 Y BEETHOVEN,L.V. / JUGENDCHORAKADEMIE / NAZMI MISSA SOLEMNIS Jeremie Rhorer and Le Cercle de l'Harmonie launch a new collaboration with Alpha Classics, with several projects planned, following the Mozart operas released on the label in 2016 and 2017. Here they tackle a monument of the sacred repertoire that is fascinating for it's rich, complex, even 'mysterious' conception. Rhorer tells us that his interpretation pays close attention to the question of tempi, which have often become progressively slower and heavier since the post-Romantic period: the tempi have 'a direct bearing on the vocal comfort of the singers, since breath control is one of the great difficulties of this work', he says. For this recording, he has called in a quartet of top-flight soloists along with the Audi Jugendchorakademie, a remarkable German youth choir founded in 2007. In conjunction with his period-instrument orchestra, soon to celebrate it's twentieth anniversary, they offer a passionate vision of Beethoven's masterpiece. 3701624511114 ALLP1111.2 44734367 .00 20.99 .18 ALPHA COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 01/10/2025 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/85/4383285-3287498.jpg 10 1 N BERLIOZ / BOCCHERINI / DIEMER EARLIEST FRENCH PIANO RECORDINGS This latest issue in APR's ongoing French Piano School series is perhaps the most important yet. The set brings together some of the earliest and rarest piano recordings ever made, not just in France, but worldwide, and includes the complete solo recordings of all the pianists featured except Wurmser. Many are reissued for the first time. The French office of the Gramophone Company was a pioneer in bringing serious artists into the studio and the results are a legacy of the utmost historical importance. So too are the early Fonotipia recordings of the only Herz pupil to record, Roger-Miclos, and the later Columbia electric recordings of Plante, made in his 90th year. With Saint-Saens, Diemer and Plante we can hear pianists who were born in the first half of the 19th century - a unique window into the past. The latest digital technology has been applied throughout and, amongst other improvements, we are now able to hear Pugno's wonderful recordings, hitherto flawed by a notorious vibrato caused by the unstable recording turntable used in 1903, with their pitch stabilized. 5024709173181 APGS7318.2 44734534 .00 29.99 .41 APR RECORDINGS COMPACT DISCS CLASSICAL ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC 01/03/2025 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/90/4383290-3287510.jpg 18 3 N PAPANDOPULO / BEDEK / SEBASTIAN STRING QUARTET COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS GUITAR QUARTET CLARINET The Croatian composer Boris Papandopulo (1906-1991) has had a home in our catalog for a number of years. Until now, it was mainly concertante works and chamber music involving the piano that allowed us to hear an astonishingly idiosyncratic personality, even in his (relatively rare) use of modern compositional techniques. Now cpo is enriching the multifaceted profile of this striking artist with the release of the string quartets, which reflect practically the entire creative life span of the man from Zagreb: Folkloristic influences, the inevitabilities of the socialist-realist doctrine, the experiments with the compositional achievements of the West - all this combines to form a great musical documentary film", in which the extremely expressive Clarinet Quintet, composed during wartime, and the concise, playful Guitar Quartet also play no insignificant role.