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GMCD 7307 Volkmar Andreae Piano Trios op 1 & 14 KBAQ 89.5 FM ( Phoenix, AZ ) Sterling Beaff reviews the new Locrian Ensemble recording of piano trios by Swiss composer Volkmar Andreae.

GMCD 7304  Organ Spectacular from St. Paul's CathedralORGAN SPECTACULAR FROM ST. PAUL'S

GRAMOPHONE JANUARY 2007 - EDITOR'S CHOICE
“You’d have to go a very long way to hear an organ which can set the spine shivering ant the goose-bumps erupting so powerfully as the St. Paul’s instrument does”.

NEW RELEASES

November  2009

GMCD 7339 Schumann - Filas

This recording is a world premiere of Juraj Filas’ original piece, written for and performed by the Aulos Quartet and Peter Waters.  Juraj Filas composes in a lyrical language, full of emotion, consciously based on the great European musical tradition.

The disc further presents a fascinating version of one of Robert Schumanns greatest masterpieces, the Piano Quintet, op. 44, in E flat major. In the animated interpretation by the Aulos Quartet and Peter Waters, brand new colours are created. The recording quality is outstanding.

GMCD 7336 - Jaques Dalcroze

Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, who died in 1950 at the age of 85, was a Swiss musician and music educator who developed eurhythmics, a method of learning and experiencing music through movement and although his system has become world-famous, his own original compositions are less well-known. This outstanding new recording couples his two Violin Concertos, beautiful works which show his mastery of the craft, in fine new performances recently made in Moscow by one of the most gifted of all young Russian violinists today and given excellent support from the Moscow Symphony under its highly respected conductor. The recording quality is also very good indeed, and this CD will come as a revelation to many for the quality of the music and the commitedness of the performances.  
 

August 2009

GMCD 7337 – Organ Works by Carl Rütti

Carl Rütti is arguably the most significant Swiss composer of organ music, and this year he celebrates his 60^th birthday. It is therefore with considerable pride that Guild presents this very timely release of his complete organ music – played by the composer himself. These brand-new recordings are literally state-of-the-art with regard to organ recordings, and the performances of this important, dramatic and beautiful music by Carl Rütti himself are simply the most authentic that any lover of contemporary music could wish.

GMCD 7335 – My Beloved, A garland of carols and other works by Anthony Bolton

Many people know Anthony Bolton the investor but few know Anthony Bolton the composer. A colleague once said that in the long run Anthony may be remembered as much for his music as his investment expertise. Guild is delighted to publish the first CD of his music which includes four works. 'A Garland of Carols' is a set of 10 carols and harp interlude inspired and modelled on Benjamin Britten's 'A Ceremony of Carols'. It is performed by Oxford Voices directed by Mark Shepherd and accompanied by the renowned harpist Sioned Williams. This is followed by a song cycle 'Black Sea' which consists of five poems by the famous American poet Mark Strand set for tenor and piano. Anthony says 'I was completely enthralled by his haunting poems and decided that I had to set some of them to music'. Richard Edgar-Wilson is accompanied by Fali Pavri. The third work is a solo harp piece especially written for Sioned Williams to perform on this disc. The final piece is an Anthem 'My Beloved' which Anthony wrote for his daughter Emma's wedding in 2007 performed unaccompanied by Oxford Voices.

GMCD 7334 Piano Trios by Beethoven

This is the first release in an important new complete recording of Beethoven's music for Piano Trio played in accordance with the detailed editions and reminiscence of Beethoven's piano playing and performance practice in Vienna during first 25 years of the 19th-century by his great pupil and disciple Carl Czerny. The Three Piano Trios of Beethoven's Opus 1 were the works by which he chose to launch his career as a composer, and as such occupy a special place in his output. These new recordings, by one of the most admired ensembles currently before the public, is clearly a significant issue in terms of musical importance. The recording quality is outstanding.

GMCD 7331 – Piano Duos by Honegger & Messiaen

These new recordings form a release of the greatest musical importance. In 1947, Shostakovich travelled to Prague for the Spring Festival, where he heard Arthur Honegger's new Third Symphony, the Symphonie Liturgique. Impressed by the work, he made a version of the Symphony for two pianos for his students in Leningrad which was first published as recently as 2005. This previously unknown important transcription by Shostakovich is here recorded for the first time, together with Messiaen's 'Visions de l'Amen' - the premiere of which was attended by Honegger in Paris in 1943. The result is an album that will garner world-wide interest.

GMCD 7328 Volkmar Andreae
The music of the fine Swiss-born composer and conductor Volkmar Andreae has recently come to the attention of a wide international public, where it has been revealed as being of the highest musical quality. It appears that Adreae's career as a composer was completely overshadowed by his career as a conductor, but this outstanding new CD, the second to feature his chamber music from Guild (GMCD 7307 - Piano Trios), contains his two string quartets and a delightful late Divertimento for flute and string trio. The performances are quite superb - as is the music, ranging in influences from Richard Strauss to the later French Impressionists - and the recording is one of the best we have issued in recent years. A most significant issue for Swiss music.

June 2009

GMCD 7332 Jota - Francisco Tárrega (1852 – 1909) Michael Erni guitar

This is a very important album which will be widely greeted by lovers of the Spanish Guitar. Tárrega was in many respects the founder of the modern Spaniosh Guitar movement, in that he not only was of the greatest importance in introducing a new style of guitar playing, but also the instrument on which it should be played. Before his death in 1909, Tarrega wrote and arranged much music for the guitar, and we have on this record a unique selection, embracing his own compositions as well as several of his best-known transcriptions. The Swiss guitarist Michael Erni is one of the finest currently before the public, and the recording quality is virtually state of the art. This is one of the very few CDs entirely devoted to Tárrega.

GMCD 7330 – Gasparo Fritz (1716-1783) The Flute Sonatas Op. II – Claire Genewein – transverse flute, Nicoleta Paraschivescu harpsichord, Maya Amrein cello

The compositions of the great 18^th-century flautist Fritz Gasparo have fallen into undeserved neglect, and this brand-new album will come as a welcome revelation to many lovers of this fine instrument. Gasparo lived from 1716 to 1783, and made a major contribution to the development of the flute as well as contributing, in his beautifully written and stylishly expressive Sonatas, a body of work for the instrument which many will wish to acquaint themselves with.

We are proud to present on this new-recorded CD the very gifted young flautist Claire Genewein, with Maya Amrein, cello and Nicolette Para-Schivescu harpsichord as continuo. The music is a wonderful example of the High Baroque period at its best; the performances are exemplary, and the recording quality is one of the finest we have produced in recent years. We are very proud of this important record.

April 2009

GMCD 7326_27 – CD – 1  Hans Schaeuble (1906-1988) Zweite Sonate für Violine und Klavier op. 31 (1946) – Paul Hindemith (1895 – 1963) Violinsonate E-dur (1935) Max Reger (1873 – 1916)  Violinsonata in c-moll, op. 139 (Herrn Generaldirektor Adolf Sommer zugeeignet) 67:00  CD-2  Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886 – 1954) Sonate für Violine und Klavier in d-moll (1. Sonate) Bettina Boller voilin Walter Prossnitz piano  57:31

The four twentieth-century Violin Sonatas on this double-album constitute a remarkably fine, wide-ranging and unique programme. The works were composed during a thirty-year period from 1915 to 1946, and each of the four composers representated - although very different - are actually connected by a number of musical threads. Thus we begin with Max Reger's magnificent final Violin Sonata, No 9, and follow with two Sonatas from the mid-1930s - by Paul Hindemith and Wilhelm Furtwängler. These are very different works in terms of scale - Hindemith's lasting barely eleven minutes and Furtwängler's almost an hour. To end we have the very fine Second Sonata by Hans Schaeuble of 1946 - a little-known work which does not deserve its unjust neglect. The performances by this most gifted young duo are excellent, as is the modern recording quality.

February 2009

GMCD 7329Amy Beach (1867-1944) Piano Music, Vol. 2:  The Turn of the Century - Kirsten Johnson, piano

Amy Beach (1867-1944) was a prolific composer of piano music, ranging from miniatures to large-scale pieces.  She is one of the great woman composers of all time.  This compact disc contains one of her most important works, Variations on Balkan Themes, op. 60, as well as all of the piano pieces composed at the end of the 19^th century and beginning of the 20^th.  he brilliant Serenade shows her mastery of virtuoso piano writing; Eskimos, op. 64 displays her ability to create delightful vignettes.  Moderato and Children’s Album, op. 36 are world première recordings.  Kirsten Johnson continues her series on the complete works of Amy Beach with this beautifully presented disc. Exquisite attention to detail, lovely tone colours and an amazing technique make this a recording not to miss.

November 2008 Releases

GMCD 7325 O be joyful in the Lord

The psalms, which have been used in worship for at least 2500 years, express a huge spectrum of human emotion and experience, and contain hymns, laments, songs of trust and thanksgiving, pilgrimage and wisdom. The beauty and immediacy of their texts has inspired some of the finest choral music, a vivid selection of which is presented here, on Lincoln Cathedral’s latest choir recording. Psalms sung to Anglican chant, accompanied by Lincoln’s boundlessly-colourful Willis organ, provide a glimpse of the Cathedral’s daily musical offering. The same texts are then presented in settings from across five centuries, from Palestrina to Jonathan Harvey.

GMCD 7323 Cæli porta - 17th-century sacred music from Lisbon and Granada -, The Choir of The Queen’s College Oxford –Charlotte Philips organ  - Owen Rees director

Portuguese music enjoyed its most spectacular flowering in the early seventeenth century. Many of the greatest composers were gathered in the capital Lisbon, and this was a period when many Portuguese musicians also made their careers in Spain, which was then linked to Portugal politically. This recording presents masterpieces of Portuguese polyphony from Lisbon and Granada brought to light by the choir’s director, Owen Rees. The Lisbon composers represented are Duarte Lobo (chapelmaster at the Cathedral), Pedro de Cristo (chapelmaster at the Monastery of São Vicente), and Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (organist at the Royal Chapel). Lobo’s beautiful and colourful four-voice Missa de beata Maria virgine is at the centre of the recording. We also give a picture of the rich variety of music adorning Vespers in Portugal at this time, including a thrilling two-choir setting of the psalm Dixit Dominus by Pedro de Cristo, Lobo’s dramatic two-choir treatment of the marian antiphon Alma redemptoris mater, and other psalms and canticles combining chant, polyphony, and organ music. The music of Manuel Leitão de Aviles – a Portuguese composer who directed the music at Granada’s royal chapel – remained in obscurity until brought to light by Owen Rees. Here we sing his works for Holy Week, including a fine set of Lamentations, and a celebratory motet for St Nicholas.

This is the fourth disc recorded for Guild by the Choir of the Queen’s College, Oxford, and forms a companion to Paradisi portas: Music from 17th-century Portugal, released in 2005. Owen Rees is at the forefront of research and performance of Iberian polyphony.

GMCD 7321 Bach on the Italian Lute

August 2008 Releases

GMCD 7324 César Franck

Flyer text:  This new recording of some of Cesar Franck's greatest organ works by the widely praised young British organist Colin Walsh, Organist Laureate,  at the magnificent instrument in Lincoln Cathedral is a significant addition to the catalogue of organ music.  From the Trois Chorales, composed in Franck's final months - he kept the manuscript of them by his death-bed - to the well-known Piece Heroique and the beautiful Cantabile, this collection spans virtually the entire gamut of this great composer's music for the one instrument above all which is central to his art. The recording quality is state-of-the-art

GMCD 7320 – Fritz Brun (1878-1959) Symphony No. 5 in E flat major – Symphony No. 10 in B major – Moscow Symphony Orchestra – Conducted by Adriano – 68:30

These new recordings of two of the most important of the Symphonies by the outstanding Swiss composer Fritz Brun are of the highest significance. These two works, amongst this composer's finest scores, demonstrate the fact that the Symphonic form in music was thriving during the middle part of the 20th-century. Brun's music was always regarded as being of the greatest interest and significance when it was first heard, but he was not a composer to push his own music, with the result that it tended to become unfairly neglected. It is only in recent years that the fine quality and importance of his work has come to be recognised, and this superbly played and recorded new disc is sure to win many new friends for the composer.

May 2008 Release
GMCD 7322 - Schoenberg - Kelterborn - Zimmerman with the Absolut Trio
 

This new recording by the widely-praised Absolut Trio is a major addition to the repertoire of modern music. It includes Schoenberg’s masterpiece Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) arranged for piano trio by Eduard Steuermann, Schoenberg’s pupil and disciple. This is a major addition to 20^th-century piano trio repertoire, and the disc also contains the world premiere recording of Rudolf Kelterborn’s recent and highly-acclaimed 15 Moments musicaux for piano trio together with Présence, a ‘ballet blanc en cinq scènes’ (1961) by the great post-war German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann. The performances by the Absolut Trio are magnificent making this an outstanding CD for lovers of contemporary music.

January 2008 Release

GMCD 7316 Songs without Words Andrea Kollé flute Jasmine Vollmer harp

The combination of flute and harp is one that has fascinated composers over the centuries, and this outstanding new recording features some of the best pieces written for these instruments alongside new and rhapsodic transcriptions of music that has been arranged admirably for the natural combination of these beautiful instruments by these very gifted instrumentalists.

The album takes its title from the pieces by Mendelssohn which open and interpolate the programme, and here also are two rare but very charming songs by Mozart, and a group of four by Gabriel Faure, with two by de Falla, alongside music from famous operas by Tchaikovsky, Mascagni and Massenet. There is music from France by Poulenc and from Russia by Rimsky-Korsakov, and this delightful album ends with a group of appealing Romanian folk-songs. A most charming record of wide appeal.

November Releases

GMCD 7318 - Piano Works by Emmanuel Nunes and Rudolf Kelterborn

This new recording of recent music for solo piano is played by one of the most interesting and unconventional pianists of his generation, See Siang Wong, an artist who has studied the works on this CD with the composers themselves, and is the pianist for whom Rudolf Kelterborn wrote two of his Piano Pieces. The authenticity of the performances on this record cannot be improved upon. The pianist’s insight and technical virtuosity, allied to his complete musical understanding, make these performances by See Siang Wong of the greatest significance to admirers of modern music. The sound quality is virtually state-of-the-art. The music itself covers a wide range of expression, from the panoramas of Emmanuel Nunes to the expressive miniatures of Rudolf Kelterborn. A magnificent record.

GMCD 7317 - Amy Beach - Piano Music Volume 1- The Early Years

Amy Beach (1867-1944) was a prolific composer of piano music, ranging from miniatures to large-scale pieces.  She is one of the great woman composers of all time.  This compact disc contains all of her early works for piano, written from childhood through her mid-twenties.  Mamma’s Waltz, Menuetto, Romanza, Petite Valse, Air and Variations and Bal Masque are world première recordings.  The pieces are fresh and accessible, full of charm and grace.  Beach was a trained pianist, and this is evident in her virtuosic writing in the larger works on this disc.  Kirsten Johnson masterfully captures the essence of the music with flair and imagination, backed by her extensive research into this repertoire.  This CD is a must for serious collectors, but is also a treat for those who enjoy listening to piano music composed in the romantic style.

GMCD 7315 - All of Wills Music by Arthur Wills - Ely Cathedral - Paul Trepte

Arthur Wills has enjoyed a forty-one year association with the Music of Ely Cathedral, nine years as Assistant Organist followed by thirty-two as Director of Music. In his 80th birthday year the current Director, Paul Trepte, suggested this recording for some of his music for Boys' Voices, featuring pieces composed from 1960 to 1985. In particular, the inclusion of two pieces 'ELY' - a setting of a poem extolling the fascination of the City and its Cathedral, together with the transcription for organ solo of the March 'City of Ely' sums up his abiding affection for this unique environment.

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