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October, 2008
The October new releases are now available on our website at MLSCMUSIC.COM  
 
The Gramophone Awards were announced recently and are available as a "Special List" after logging into our website so you can quickly see if you have already purchased these titles.  You can read the reviews of the winners at the Gramophone website or see the list of winners below:
 
Record of the Year & Instrumental
BEETHOVEN,L.V.  / PNO SON VOL. 4   Harmonia Mundi 901909

Editor`s Choice
ABEL,C.F. / VIOL MUSIC-MR ABEL'S FINE AIRS    Hyperion 67628

Gold Disc
SAINT-SAENS,C. / COMPLETE WORKS FOR PIANO & ORCH  Hyperion 67331

Baroque Instrumental:  BACH,C.P.E.  / SIX CONCERTOS   Avie 2119

Baroque Vocal
MONTEVERDI,C. / L'ORFEO FAVOLA IN MUSICA   Glossa 920913

Choral:  HAYDN,J.  / CREATION       DG 1086502

Contemporary:  HARVEY,J.  / BODY MANDALA         NMC 141

Solo Vocal:  BARBER,S. /  SONGS         Hyperion 67528

Recital: BARTOLI,CECILIA  / MARIA     Decca 1025202

DVD:  MOZART /  LE NOZZE DI FIGARO       OpusArte 990

Early Music
LUDFORD,N. / MISSA BENEDICTA ET VENERABILIS     K617 617206

Orchestral:
MIASKOVSKY,N. / INTEGRALE DES SYMPHONIE  Warner Classics 513844

Historic Archive:  WILLIAMS,V.  / SYM 5    Somm 71

Historic Reissue: SIBELIUS,J. / SONGS   DG 916802

Opera JANACEK,LEOS / EXCURSIONS OF MR. BROUCEK   DG 1086902

Concerto  ELGAR,E. / CON VN SERENADE OP.20   Onyx 4025

Chamber  BRAHMS/SCHUMANN  / PIANO QUINTETS    Virgin 95143
 
Artist of the Year:  Hilary Hahn
Young Artist of the Year:  Maxim Rysanov
Label of the Year:  Hyperion
Lifetime Achievement:  Andre Previn
Special Achievement:  Sir Peter Moores
Classic fm Award for Audience Innovation:  Tasmin Little

 
American Choir Music
Amadeus Choir with Nicol Matt
Ars Produktion 38041 
There are almost a hundred years between the dates of birth of Charles Ives, 1874, and Eric Whitacre, born 1970, the youngest composer in this Kaleidoscope of American choral music.  This disc contains pieces by Barber, Copland, Whitacre, Christiansen, Ungerer, Hogan, Lauridsen, and Ives.
Susan Graham: A century of French Song 
Onyx 4030
The mezzo Susan Graham, a Francophile and expert in French music, Graham was decorated by the French government as a "Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres." This month marks her recording debut for Onyx Classics with a disc featuring twenty-two of her favorite French songs.
 
"The project is a fascinating one, bringing together twenty-four songs from twenty-two French composers, taking us from the 'founding fathers' of mélodie in the nineteenth century - Bizet, Franck, Gounod - to Poulenc's melodrama 'La Dame de Monte-Carlo' of 1961. The result is as sharply insightful an overview of French song as you could hope to find on a single disc."  musicalcritism.com
Mark O'Connor: Folk Mass
Gloria Dei Cantores
OMAC Records 10
Folk Mass, featuring the acclaimed Massachusetts-based Gloriae Dei Cantores vocal ensemble, comprises the choral works to date of American composer, Mark O'Connor.
 
George Tsontakis: Violin Concerto No. 1; Mirologhia; October
Albany Symphony, David Alan Miller
Koch International 7680
Debut of three works on CD by Tsontakis with the Albany Symphony.
 
Musical Treasures from the East
UNESCO Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity from Wind Music (label) 
From the label's website:  "Wind Music has published numerous collections of documentary recordings in order to preserve and protect cultural heritages facing extinction. We have traveled to the remote countryside and recorded the music and sounds of isolated minority cultures. We actively try to live up to our ideals and are very proud to play a part in preserving the history of Chinese music."
 
Kunqu Opera  Wind Music 1026
Guqin            Wind Music 1027
Uyghur Muqam   Wind Music 1028
Mongolian Folk Long-Song   Wind Music 1029
Other Releases to Note
  • American pianist, Jonathan Biss releases Mozart Piano Concertos 21 & 22 with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.  EMI Classics 17270
  • Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Hommage a Messiaen DG 1205602
  • Britten:  Billy Budd with Ian Bostridge and the London Symphony Chorus.  Virgin 19039
  • John Adams: Hallelujah Junction is a Nonesuch retropective 2 cd set that serves as a soundtrack or companion piece to Adam's new memoir.  Nonesuch 512396
  • Bellini: La Straniera with London Philharmonic Orchestra.  Opera Rara 35
  • Brahms: Symphony 1.  John Eliot Gardiner's first disc in a new series exploring the music of Johannes Brahms.  SDG 702
  • Daniel Asia: Piano Trio/Violin Sonata.  Summit 509
  • Nonesuch releases two more in the Explorer Series/East Asia/Japan. 451900 & 511729
  •  Hank Williams: Unreleased Recordings. A 3cd set of the best of the 1951 recordings from the Mother's Best Flour Company - performances not heard in 57 years.
  • Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison is a 2cd and DVD set which is the first documentary film to consider this concert from January, 1968.
DVDs
  • The Promise of Music: Gustavo Dudamel is a film that documents Dudamel preparing the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela in Caracas for their upcoming concert at the Beethovenfest in Bonn, 2007.
  • Robert Schumann: Genoveva  recorded live at Zurich Opera House in 2008 with Nikolaus Harnoncourt.  Arthaus 101327
  • Bolshoi Ballet: Spartacus with Carlos Acosta.  Decca 1217109
  • Bizet: Carmen with Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House.  Decca 1216709
  • Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore from the Bergamo Music Festival, October, 2007.  Dynamic 33577
  • History of the Organ, Volume 3.  Arthaus 102151
  • Hans Werner Henze: Der junge Lord recorded at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1968.  Medici Arts 2072398