The Music Pages | May 2007


	Cat. No.: 4759152 Barcode: 0028947591528 Label: Decca CD Release Date: April 28			SOUNDTRACK \| The Namesake TRACK LISTING 1. Shoes to America 2. The Namesake Opening Titles 3. First Day in New York 4. Jhiri Jhiri Choyetali 5. Flight IC408 6. Airport Grief 7. Mo's Affair 8. Farewell Ashoke 9. Ashima Becomes a Widow 10. Aftermath 11. Ye Mera Divanapan Hai 12. Baul Song 13. Taj Mahal 14. The Chosen One 15. Max Arrives 16. Boatman's Song 17. Postales 18. Amra Reformed Hindus 19. The Namesake Reprise 20. The Same Song 21. Falling Links: www.foxsearchlight.com www.nitinsawhney.com The Soundtrack The Namesake is an original motion picture soundtrack. The soundtrack consists of half original score material composed by Nitin Sawhney and half licensed tracks that contain elements of Indian folk and pop or Dali music, to hip-hop by artists such as Geeta Dutt, State of Bengal, Susheela Raman, Lakhan Das, The Elements and Mykill Miers, Kartik Das, Federico Aubele, Partha Chatterjee, and includes the track "Falling" written and performed by Nitin Sawhney and Aqualung and featuring the vocals of Matt Hales from the band Aqualung. The Composer Over the last decade Nitin Sawhney has carved out a singular niche in British culture melding the musical barriers between East and West, between classicism and popularity, interspersing music from around the world to club-land-culture. His 4th album, Beyond Skin (released in 2000) was short-listed as one of the albums of the year for the Mercury Music Prize and it also won the prestigious South Bank Show Award. Its successor, 2001's Prophesy - recorded in five continents and featuring over 230 musicians - won Nitin further honors including a MOBO, an EMMA and a BBC Radio 3 Award. Sawhney's latest album, Philtre, was released in 2005. Besides his own albums, Nitin Sawhney film scores include Pure (directed by Gilles Mackinnon) and Anita and Me (directed by Metin Husseyin). The Film The Namesake is the story of the Ganguli family whose move from Calcutta to New York evokes a lifelong balancing act to meld to a new world without forgetting the old. Though parents Ashoke and Ashima (Irrfan Khan, Tabu) long for the family and culture that enveloped them in India, they take great pride in the opportunities their sacrifices have afforded their children. Paradoxically, their son Gogol (Kal Penn) is torn between finding his own unique identity without losing his heritage. Even Gogol's name represents the family's journey into the unknown. Produced and directed by the Academy Award®-nominated Mira Nair, (Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding, Kama Sutra and Salaam Bombay! to name a few) The Namesake is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. With The Namesake, Mira Nair found ways to link New York and Calcutta not only visually, but via sound as well. Like the story itself, the film's soundtrack traverses both time and cultures. "I love Indian classical music and I wanted to link that classical sound with the pulsating New York sound of today," comments Nair. "So the soundtrack not only crosses 25 years of time but also moves from Bengali folk music, Geeta Dutt's "Jhiri Jhiri Choyetali" to hip-hop, "The Chosen One." And then there is Nitin Sawhney's haunting score mixed throughout." The film's screen adaptation was penned by Sooni Taraporevala, with whom Nair previously collaborated on Mississippi Masala and the Oscar®-nominated Salaam Bombay! Showing in Cinemas from 5 April RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 442 9143 Barcode: 0028944291432 Label: DG CD Release Date: 28 April			VARIOUS ARTISTS \| Café Vienna ARTISTS Vienna Philharmonic John Eliot Gardiner Karl Böhm Lorin Maazel James Levine Amelia Farrugia TRACK LISTING 1. SUPPÉ: Overture - Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna 2 JOHANN STRAUSS II: Morning Papers 3 LEHAR: Gold and Silver 4 BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No. 11 in D minor 5 HEUBERGER: Overture - Der Opernball 6 JOHANN STRAUSS II: Roses from the South 7 KREISLER: Liebesleid 8 SCHUBERT: Trout Quintet - IV. Theme & Variations 9 LEHAR: Lippen, schweigen (from The Merry Widow) 10 JOHANN STRAUSS II: Czadas "Klänge der Heimat" 11 JOHANN STRAUSS II: Tales from the Vienna Woods 12 JOHANN STRAUSS II: An der schönen Blauen Danube Universal Music Australia's first classical CD + Cookbook ! Vienna is home not just of the waltz king but also Sachertorte. Not just where Mozart had many of his successes but also the city that founded the now internationally-devoured Wiener Schnitzel. Café Vienna is one of those CDs you can literally "eat". Its temptingly positioned ' Mohr im Hemd' (Chocolate Hazelnut Pudding) on the front cover invites you to a world of mouth-watering (and original) recipes and to a CD packed with Viennese delights. Fittingly, this stunningly-packaged product is released on Deutsche Grammophon - the Rolls Royce of record labels. While the Vienna Philharmonic holds court for the majority of the tracks on this album, we also have the stunning Australian coloratura Amelia Farrugia bringing us Tales from the Vienna Woods, and in the perfect marriage of food and music, there's a recipe for a Trout Quartet and a movement from Schubert's Trout Quintet. The recipe book + music CD formula worked brilliantly for "Hot Food - Cool Jazz" and "Allegro al dente" - and there's no reason why this promotion shouldn't see a similar success. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 442 9399 Barcode: 0028944293999 Label: ABC Classics CD Release Date: 28 April			VARIOUS ARTISTS \| ENCORE! Romance ARTISTS INCLUDE Lesley Garrett Jane Sheldon Dominic Miller André Rieu David Hobson Bryn Terfel Patrizio Buanne Russell Watson Elina Garanca Sara Macliver Yvonne Kenny Saffire TRACKS INCLUDE He Was Beautiful Moon River Once upon a time in America My Father's Favourite (Sense and Sensibility) Meditation from Thaïs (Massenet) Aria Cantilena (Villa Lobos) If I Loved You (Carousel) Sheep may safely graze (Bach) Roses from the South (Strauss) Serenade (Don Giovanni) In the spirit of Encore! and Encore! Christmas, ABC Classics is proud to present Encore! Romance - your favourite love songs as sung by the world's greatest voices. With the amazing talents of David Hobson, Patrizio Buanne, Bryn Terfel, Yvonne Kenny, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Sara Macliver, and more this CD will add romance to any occasion. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 4765963 Barcode: 0028947659631 Label: ABC Classics CD Release Date: 12 May			SALLY-ANNE RUSSELL \| Enchanting: Sally-Anne Russell ARTISTS Sally-Anne Russell, mezzo-soprano Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Nicholas Milton conductor TRACK LISTING TCHAIKOVSKY: Oui, Dieu le veut...Adieu forêts ( The Maid of Orléans ) BIZET: Habanera: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle ( Carmen ) BIZET: Seguidilla: Près des remparts de Séville ( Carmen ) SAINT-SAËNS: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix ( Samson and Delilah) ROSSINI: Cruda sorte ( The Italian Girl in Algiers ) ROSSINI: Una voce poco fa ( The Barber of Seville ) GOUNOD: Faites-lui mes aveux ( Faust ) MOZART: Voi, che sapete ( The Marriage of Figaro) HANDEL: Iris, Hence Away ( Semele ) HANDEL: Verdi prati ( Alcina ) PURCELL: Dido's Lament ( Dido and Aeneas ) GLUCK: Sposa! Euridice!...Che farò senza Euridice ( Orpheus and Eurydice) Celebrate the magnificent mezzo-soprano operatic repertoire with this album of classic arias sung by the luscious voice of Sally-Anne Russell. Featuring favourites such as the lively Habanera from Carmen, Dido's heart-breaking Lament from Dido and Aeneas, the innocent Voi, che sapete from Le nozze di Figaro and the soul-wrenching Che farò senza Euridice from Orfeo ed Euridice, all performed with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, this disc shows why Sally-Anne is one of Australia's great mezzo voices. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 442 9077 Barcode: 0028944290776 Label: Decca CD Release Date: 5 May			OWEN BRANNIGAN \| A Little Nonsense ARTISTS Owen Brannigan Pro Arte Orchestra Charles Mackerras TRACK LISTING The Story of Cock Robin? Doctor Foster Sing a Song of Sixpence Oranges and Lemons Matilda Little Jack Horner The Jolly Beggar A Good Roarin' Fire Jack and Jill Old Mother Hubbard Henry King The Great Meat Pie The Owl and the Pussy Cat The Table and the Chair The Duck and the Kangaroo The Harrin' Heed The Grand Old Duke "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the Wisest Men" This record presents us with a rich feast of the nonsensical in word and sound, which should satisfy the appetite of even the wisest among us, young or old. Owen Brannigan, besides having made an enviable reputation as a singer of serious music of every type, has built up a vast public for the radio and television broadcasts and concerts in which he sings folk-songs, North Country ballads and humorous songs of all sorts in an inimitable manner. Here we have this side of Brannigan's art at its best. Besides unaccompanied folk songs, there are orchestral settings of three of Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs , two of Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales and four parodies of the style f Handel to the words of nursery rhymes. Add to these two of Ronald Binge's fantasies on children's songs and two more by Herbert Hughes and Victor Hely-Hutchinson and it will be seen that the menu of our feast is not only rich but varied and unusual. ALSO AVAILABLE The Wonderful World of Nursery Rhymes VERA LYNN & KENNETH McKELLAR DECCA 442 8681 RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 4765957 Barcode: 0028947659570 Label: ABC Classics CD Release Date: 5 May			SYDNEY SYMPHONY \| 75th Anniversary Box Set ARTISTS Otto Klemperer, conductor Eugene Goossens, conductor John Hopkins, conductor Willem van Otterloo, conductor Patrick Thomas, conductor Neville Amadio, flute Stuart Challender, conductor Charles Mackerras, conductor Birgit Nilsson, soprano Edo de Waart, conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti, conductor TRACK LISTING MAHLER: Resurrection Symphony BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.2 ANTILL: Corroborree GRAINGER: Youthful Suite BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique MOZART: Flute Concerto in G K313 MAHLER: Abschied ( Das Lied von der Erde ) MOZART: Ave Verum Corpus WAGNER: Immolation Scene ( Götterdammerung ) R. STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben DEBUSSY: La Mer To mark the 75th anniversary of the Sydney Symphony, ABC Classics is proud to present this 5CD box set. The Sydney Symphony is applauded around the world as an orchestra of distinction, a claim which is merited by the quality of playing on these CDs. Featuring landmark historic recordings, including excerpts from the opening concert of the Sydney Opera House, world-class conductors including Sir Charles Mackerras, Stuart Challender and Edo de Waart, and tracks previously unavailable on CD, this box set truly reflects an orchestra which for 75 years has helped to shape the musical landscape of Australia. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 477 6719 Barcode: 0028947767190 Label: DG CD+DVD Release Date: 5 May			LANG LANG \| BEETHOVEN: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 Album Website: www.deutschegrammophon.com/langlang-beethoven ARTISTS Lang Lang, piano Orchestre de Paris Christoph Eschenbach TRACK LISTING BEETHOVEN: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G major, Op. 58 Lang Lang records his first-ever Beethoven album. Lang Lang delivers his first-ever Beethoven recording, a stunning reading of the extensive Concerto No. 4 and the jubilant Concerto No. 1. Even though he has performed this repertoire extensively in concert, Lang Lang waited for the perfect moment and the perfect team to record his first pair of concertos, these milestones of the piano repertoire. When Lang Lang embarked on his international career, Christoph Eschenbach became one of his first and most enthusiastic proponents - and a mentor and close friend ever since, Eschenbach was the ideal collaborator for Lang Lang's first Beethoven recording. Nimbly supported by Eschenbach's superb Orchestre de Paris, with its tradition of having been the first orchestra ever in France to perform music by Beethoven, Lang Lang's performance gives further proof as to why he is one of today's most acclaimed pianists. The product includes a deluxe bonus DVD (approximately 50 minutes) featuring recording session footage and interviews with Lang Lang and Maestro Christoph Eschenbach - also includes a video listening guide in which Lang Lang explains his interpretation of these milestone concertos - a special treat for Lang Lang's fans and a unique chance to understand this great artist's approach to music. RETURN TO THE TOP