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JAZZ Jimmy Scott: Falling in Love is Wonderful FOLK Pete Clark & The Niel Gow Ensemble: Sycamore CLASSICAL MUSIC Beethoven: Piano Trios [Ralph Vaughan Williams]: Songs Carl Orff: Trionfo - Theatrical Triptych PERTHSHIRE fiddler Pete Clark paid tribute to the Birnam Oak on his last disc and dedicates this one to another ancient tree at Birnam. Sycamore I-IV forms the centrepiece of an album inspired by and devoted to Perthshire. Clark composed all of the music, ranging from evocative slow airs to lively reels and jigs. AMONG the glut of remastered classics from the Deutsche Grammophon archive comes a fascinating trilogy of 1950s recordings by the great conductor and friend of Carl Orff, Eugen Jochum, featuring not only the raunchy Carmina Burana, but also the less familiar Latin sequels, Catulli Carmina and Trionfo di Afrodite.
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EINOJUHANI Rautavaara is one of the most interesting and sure- footed Finnish composers of his generation. Born in 1928, his music springs directly from the Sibelius tradition, laced with luscious melodies, hauntingly beautiful orchestral colours and that elusive sense of naivety, innocence and free-flowing energy that is the hallmark of Nordics such as Sibelius, Nielsen and their successors. Conductor Hannu Koivula draws all these qualities from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in this splendid performance of the Seventh Symphony, Angel of Light. Nor are the glittering, often unwordly textures of the equally substantial Angels and Visitations lost in this inspired coupling. Hyperion GBP 12.99
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KELTIK Elektrik's third album of manic folk-meets-beats mayhem is guaranteed to prove irresistible at party time, but there is no shortage of great playing to savour in more sedate listening moments. Jack Evans produced the album and programmed Ken MacBeth's Scottish-built synthesiser, as well as playing his usual guitar, whistles and melodica. He is abetted by two of the brightest young talents around, piper Finlay MacDonald and fiddler Chris Stout. Piper Gordon Duncan is also featured in a foundation-shaking remix on Bass Drone Blitz! while the singing of the late Tony Cuffe provides a more reflective ending.
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WHAT a welcome relief to hear a singer-led operatic release by a quality singer, at a time record companies are busy marketing, and creating, too many second-rate celebrity voices. American tenor [Bruce Ford] demonstrates real class in this lightish compendium of Viennese operetta classics - hum-along numbers from Lehar's The Land of Smiles, Offenbach's La Belle Helene and Oscar Strauss's A Waltz Dream. Ford is joined by the delightful Helen Williams, Alan Opie and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. And it's refreshing to hear conductor Walter Weller let his Viennese hair down like this.
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SO YOU thought the hurdy-gurdy was a primitive street instrument of the beggar or blind peasant? Think again. This disc, featuring hurdy-gurdy virtuosi Matthias Loibner and Riccardo Delfino, is an astonishing eye-opener to the world of the Baroque hurdy-gurdy and the equally quirky music of such obscure Frenchmen as Philippe Dugue, Charles Buterne and Jean-Baptiste Dupuits. These sonatas are loaded with dance-like joie de vivre. It's what makes the Baroque truly baroque.
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CLASSICAL MUSIC Ives: Symphonies 1 & 2 Bruckner: Ninth Symphony Vpres Vnitiennes JAZZ Jamie Cullum: Pointless Nostalgic FOLK Eliza Carthy: Anglicana REPACKAGING is all the rage these days, not always for the best of reasons. In this case, however, Harmonia Mundi has put together a fascinating coupling of two sets of Venetian settings of the vespers - the famous Monteverdi one of 1610, and another from 1656 by the younger Francesco Cavalli. The former is in the colourful 1987 recording by Phillippe Herreweghe, La Chapelle Royale and the Collegium Vocale. The latter is Concerto Palatino's deliciously fresh 1995 version. On balance, the ripeness of the Cavalli performance stands out as the most alluring of the two. But the boxed pairing makes for interesting comparison.
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THIS unique survey of songs by Erich Korngold, sung by Dietrich Henschel, is one of the most exciting releases to come out of the Harmonia Mundi stable in recent months. We often forget that Korngold - better known for his later triumph as one of Hollywood's greatest film-track composers - grew up in early 20th-century Austria under the influence of Viennese progressives such as Zemlinsky and Schoenberg. Many of the pre-American songs in this comprehensive recording - the radical Drei Lieder, Op 18, for instance - seem a world away from the filmic Op 38 of 1948. Even more sensational is the delicious abandon of the Op 5 songs, written at the age of 14 for his father's birthday, and littered with unmistakable premonitions of the film career that lay ahead.
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FIRST talking point on this eclectic 4-CD retrospective is the box itself, an outsize clear plastic affair in which the booklet and discs are precariously suspended. The pianist made the selection from his years as a leader with Columbia (1972-86), split into two discs each of acoustic and electric music. The former consists mainly of hard-to-find material from the VSOP quintet, including an unreleased version of Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay. The electric discs explore both the experimental and populist sides of his electric music, including Mwandishi, Headhunters, and collaborations with Ray Parker, Bill Laswell and Bootsy Collins.
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FOLK Natalie MacMaster: Live JAZZ Tim Garland's Dean Street Underground Orchestra: Soho Story CLASSICAL MUSIC Ian Bostridge: The Noel Coward Songbook James MacMillan: Orchestral Music Barber: Piano Concerto IN AN interesting diversion, Ian Bostridge adapts his customary clean-cut Lieder style to the swingier, more seductive theatre songs of Noel Coward. And why not? The lanky tenor with the gaunt 1920s visage cuts a fine figure physically. Moreover, the heady, light- toned style, delivered with immaculate diction and suave sentimentality, is just the ticket for great Coward numbers like Poor Little Rich Girl, I'll See You Again and Twentieth Century Blues. Jeffrey Tate provides some nimble accompaniments on the piano, not least in Corin Buckeridge's irreverent arrangement of the immortal Mad Dogs and Englishmen. Soprano Sophie Daneman also joins the nostalgia trip.
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