Seaford Music Distribution - releases for November 1998


New Releases for November 1998	Seaford Music Distribution

MEDIAPHON - MED72.161 (mid price): FELIX MENDELSSOHN: STRING QUARTETS

String Quartet No.3 in D major, Op.44/1; String Quartet No.4 in E minor, Op.44/2.

The Henschel Quartet

Winner of a recent Deutsche Schallplatten prize, Mediaphon's disc of two of Mendelssohn's quartets presents the celebrated young Henschel Quartet in their usual splendid recorded sound. Vibrant performances of two of Mendelssohn's finest works.

Jonathan Swain in March 1999 Gramophone - "...a very desirable mix of modern facility...and old-fashioned manners. The sound is intimate but open, with just enough resonance enhancing timbre".

CEDILLE - CDR90000041 (full price): INSTRUMENT OF THE DEVIL

Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre; Tartini: Devil's Trill Sonata; Liszt/Milstein: Mephisto Waltz; Bazzini: Round of the Goblins; Berlioz: Dream of a Witches' Sabbath "Symphonie Fantastique; De Falla: Dance of Terror "El Amor Brujo"; Paganini: The Witches; Ernst: Grand Caprice on Schubert's Der Erlkonig; Stravinsky: The Devil's Dance "L'histoire du soldat"; Sarasate: Faust Fantasy.

Rachel Barton (violin) and Patrick Sinozich (piano), with David Schrader (harpsichord), John Mark Rozendaal (cello) & John Bruce Yeh (clarinet)

Virtuoso American violinist, Rachel Barton follows her best selling disc of Concertos by Black Composers with this spectacular recording of violin display pieces on satanic themes. Miss Barton's ex-Lobkowitz Amati violin is presented to special effect in these splendid Bill Maylone recordings.

Michael Quinn in February 1999 Gramophone - "...Barton herself, who has a keen and nimble technique ably expressed in a fiendishly demanding programme."

Julian Haylock in February 1999 The Strad - "This fine collection of some of the thorniest virtuoso violin works with 'devilish' connections is by any standards a formidable undertaking...It's the kind of disc that as Barton's career develops will surely become something of a collector's item.

Robert Maxham in January/February 1999 Fanfare - "...the larger-than-life presence the engineers have accorded the performers, enhance the appeal of a release that deserves a place in every violinist's library. A frightfully good, thoroughly entertaining fire and brimstone recital...hotly recommended".

CEDILLE - CDR90000040 (full price): 20^th CENTURY FRENCH WIND TRIOS

Francaix: Divertissement; Canteloube: Rustiques; Milhaud: Suite d'apres Corrette and Pastorale; Tansman: Suite pour Trio d'Anches; Ibert: Cinq pieces en trio; Pierne: Bucolique variee; Auric: Trio.

The Chicago Chamber Musicians - Michael Henoch (oboe), Larry Combs (clarinet) and William Buchman (bassoon)

A sparkling collection of wind trios by French composers, played by leading members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. One of Cedille's customary audiophile-quality recordings by celebrated WFMT engineer, Bill Maylone, captures these fine musicians clearly enjoying the opportunity to play and record outside their normal orchestral confines.

David Denton in January/February 1999 Fanfare - "A very attractive program of French music...that offers a mini-feast of Gallic appeal, piquant charm, and those naughty harmonies that fascinated French composers in the earlier part of this century...The Chicago Chamber Musicians is a very fine group of musicians who dispatch the most taxing passages with an effortless ease...".

Andrew Achenbach in March 1999 Gramophone - "High-class wind playing, realistically engineered...Their impeccable sense of teamwork and enjoyment are infectious throughout."

DIVOX ANTIQUA - CDX 79610 (full price): CANTIO TRIPLEX

Guillaume Dufay (1400-1474): Ave maris stella; Bon jour, bon mois; Helas, ma dame; Sanctus; Je, me complains piteuseement; O tres piteulx; Cantio triplex; O sancte Sebastiane; Vergene bella; Inclita stella maris; Sophronios (634 - 638): Outos ho theos; Andreas of Crete (660-732): Canon; Russian Anonymous (ca. 1650-1680): Gospodi Wozzwach; Heilige Dreifaltigkeit; Polielej, utrenja.

Ensemble Diferencias - Elsa Frank, Helma Franssen, Urs Haenggli and Conrad Steinmann (Renaissance recorders)

This recording, relatively unusually, presents purely instrumental music from 15^th Century western Europe, the early mediaeval eastern Mediterranean and mediaeval Russia. The Swiss-based recorder ensemble play on period instruments.

MORRISON & CO TRUST - MMT2015 (full price): BEETHOVEN GREAT PIANO SONATAS

Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp min., Op.27/2 "Moonlight"; Piano Sonata No.15 in D, Op.28 "Pastoral"; Piano Sonata No.23 in F min., Op.57 "Appassionata".

Michael Houstoun (piano)

New Zealand pianist, Michael Houstoun, regularly performs complete cycles of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas to great popular and critical acclaim, both in his own country and around the world. A Leeds Piano Competition finalist, Michael Houstoun's complete Beethoven Sonata recordings for Morrison & Co Trust will be released later in 1999. In the meantime, here is a sample of three popular sonatas to whet the appetite.

MORRISON & CO TRUST - MMT2025 (full price): FANTASTIC MUSIK FOR THE ITALIAN HARPSICHORD

Michelangelo Rossi: Toccata Settina; Johann-Jakob Froberger: Fantasia 1; Suite VI in C; John Bull: Canon 2 in 1; My Self; In Nomine IX; Georg Bohm: Capriccio in D; Partita; J S Bach: Toccata in G, BWV916.

Anthony Jennings (harpsichord)

Anthony Jennings was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and died tragically at the age of 50 in July 1995. Well known throughout New Zealand as a baroque music specialist, organist, harpsichordist and conductor, on this, his last recording, he plays a modern copy of a Venetian harpsichord by Giovanni Trasuntino (1531).

NEW RELEASES FROM NORWAY

AURORA - ACD5001 (full price): PIANO

Edvard Hagerup Bull: Prelude con fuoco; Knut Vaage: Like a Rondo; Mark Adderley: Homage to CPE Bach; Yngve Slettholm: Landscapes in Transformation; Nicolay Apollyon: Clavier Sonata II "Mirror".

Einar Henning Smebye (piano)

AURORA - ACD5004 (full price): EGIL HOVLAND

Hovland: Concerto for Trombone & Orchestra, Op.76 (1980); Concerto for Violin & Orchestra, Op.81 (1974); Concerto for Piccolo Flute & Orchestra, Op.117 (1986).

Per Brevig (trombone), Andrew Cunningham (piccolo flute), Stavanger Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Dmitriev; Isaac Shuldman (violin), Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by Igor Guluvchin

Guy Rickards in May 1999 Gramophone: "Solo piccolo works are rare but Hovland's commands attention, and not simply as a curiosity. His Violin Concerto is appealing and well crafted, that for trombone a touch routine...very entertaining and imaginatively scored. Splendid performances, too. Recommended."

HEMERA - HCD2924 (full price): JOHN PERSEN - RECYCLED ENCORES

Persen: Arvesol/Heirloom Waste; Recycled Encores; Xex; Bugs.

Oslo Sinfonietta conducted by Christian Eggen, Cikada String Quartet, Cikada Ensemble conducted by Christian Eggen, BIT 20 Ensemble conducted by Peter Kates

HEMERA - HCD2926 (full price): MUSICA CONCERTANTE

Per Hjort Albertsen: Concerto Piccolo for Violin and String Orchestra; Ståle Kleiberg: Dopo for Cello and String Orchestra; Eberhard Böttcher: Concerto Ripieno for String Orchestra; Divertimento Concertante for Obligato Solo Violin and Strings; Terje Bjørklund: Cantio for Viola and String Orchestra

Elena Denisova (violin), Grigori Alumjan (cello), Vladimir Stopichev (viola), Collegium Musicum Carinthia conducted by Alexei Kornienko

Paul A Snook in January/February 1999 Fanfare - "For anyone interested in either the current Norwegian music scene or the beautifully coordinated sound of strings in unison - or both - this release will be a prized acquisition."

Ken Smith in March 1999 The Strad - "Whatever the ingredient essential to successful composing, it can't be sunlight, given the talent on display these days in Scandinavia. Musically, these composers are in fine hands...Each soloist seems particularly adept at illuminating the essence of the work at hand."

HEMERA - HCD2929 (full price): JOHAN KVANDAL

Kvandal: Concerto for Violin & Orchestra, Op.52; Variations & Fugue for Orchestra, Op.14; Sinfonia Concertante, Op.29; Triptychon, Op.53.

Isaac Shuldman (violin), St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alexander Kantorov

Paul A Snook in July/August 1999 Fanfare - "This generous sampling of four major orchestral scores certifies that Kvandal is one of most knowing and impeccable craftsmen in Nordic music...Performances are exceptionally convincing and idiomatic, given that they emanate from St Petersburg and not the composer's native country...No collection of Scandinavian music can be without this significant and very satisfying release."

EURIDICE - EUCD008 (full price): GAMLE ORGAN IN NORDLAND

Buxtehude: Toccata in G; Knecht: Fantasie mit Laufen & Arpeggien; Hovland: Preludium over St. Tomasklokkelåtten; Husby: Den norske Daleviise; Böhm: Partita "Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ"; Partita "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten"; Pedersen: Improvisata over Hellig Olav; Pachelbel: Aria quarta; Laukvik: 3 Slåtter; Gade: Faestpreludium "Lover den Herre"; J S Bach: Fugue in D, BWV948; Tveitt: Fløitelåt; arr. Drage: Maria, ho er ei Jomfru rein; I himmelen, i himmelen; Polsdans fra Gildeskål; Gamleåret seig i hav; Jesus, din sote forening å smake.

Bjørne Andor Drage playing organs of Gildeskal,Tjeldsund and Hemnes gamle churches in Nordland, with Birgitte Christensen (soprano), Susanne Lundeng (folk musician), Ole Thomas Gjaerum (trumpet) and Kent Robin Nilsen (trombone)



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