New on Naxos August 2014

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Myroslav Skoryk

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Myroslav Skoryk

Myroslav SKORYK (b. 1938) Carpathian Concerto

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World Première Recordings

Diptych† • Violin Concerto No. 7†1 Cello Concerto†2 • Dytynstvo (Childhood) from the ‘Hutsul Triptych’ • Melody† Caprice No. 19 from ’24 Paganini Caprices’† Spanish Dance from ‘The Stone Host Suite’† Nazary Pilatyuk, Violin1 • Valery Kazakov, Cello2 Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra • Hobart Earle †

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Myroslav Skoryk holds the title of People’s Artist of Ukraine and is one of his country’s outstanding composers. Both the Cello Concerto and the Seventh Violin Concerto combine bittersweet lyricism with explosive dynamic contrasts. With its swinging rhythms and folk-music pungency the Carpathian Concerto is one of Skoryk’s most engaging and popular works. The pensive Melody for strings propelled him to the forefront of Ukrainian music, while the slapstick in his transcription of Paganini’s Caprice No. 19 reveals the composer’s humorous side. These live recordings were made at Myroslav Skoryk’s 75th anniversary concerts in Odessa.

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Sales Points • With only a very thin scattering of recordings available on general release the music of Myroslav Skoryk is a genuine rarity. This wholly undeserving neglect is redressed in this fine recording, which also showcases young violin soloist and rising star Nazary Pilatyuk.

Anyone encountering the sheer color and verve in Skoryk’s remarkable Carpathian Concerto, the lonely majesty of his Melody or the profundity and grandeur of his moving and exciting Cello Concerto will be instantly hooked, and we are confident that this release will raise the status of Myroslav Skoryk from national hero to that of an internationally acclaimed musical voice for his country.

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Born in Venezuela of American parents, Hobart Earle has developed a reputation on several continents as a dynamic and exciting conductor. As Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, Mr. Earle has elevated the orchestra to a position of international prominence, unprecedented in the history of the organization. In recognition of his work with the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, Hobart Earle was awarded the title “Distinguished Artist of Ukraine”, the first and only foreigner in the history of Ukraine so honored.

© Joe Bangay

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Sir Peter MAXWELL DAVIES (b. 1934) Ressurection Opera in one act with prologue Music and Libretto by the composer

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Sir Peter Maxwell Davies began work on his parodic opera Resurrection whilst studying at Princeton in the early 1960s but it wasn’t until the 1980s that he resumed composition. It was finally staged in 1987. Its violent diversity – though any stylistic jolts are deliberate – takes aim at a series of targets (state, church, and media) and is expressed in a dazzling but masque-like succession of scenes, and through the blackly comic pastiche of hymn tunes, marching bands, saccharine waltzes, and banal TV advertisements.

Sales Points • This is an ex-Collins Classis release and is part of the long running sequence of reissues from that (and other) labels released

by Naxos. Resurrection is a blackly comic, parodic opera full of a dazzling variety of pastiches of various musical genres, such as hymns and waltzes. The theme of the opera is the conformity of the individual when browbeaten by the forces ranged against him – state, church, and media.

The plot is often hard to follow but the music anchors it to recognisable themes. This is its only recording.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

Universally acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of our time, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has made a significant contribution to musical history through his wide-ranging and prolific output. He has written across a broad range of styles, yet his music always communicates directly and powerfully, whether in his profoundly argued symphonic works, his music-theatre works or witty light orchestral works. Maxwell Davies’ major dramatic works include two full-length ballets, musictheatre works Eight Songs for a Mad King and Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot, and operas including Resurrection, The Lighthouse, The Doctor of Myddfai, Taverner and Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!). Maxwell Davies has held the position of composer/conductor with both the Royal Philharmonic and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras.

© Jon Parker Lee

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© Philip Taylor

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Tippett Quartet

String Quartets Tippett Quartet

Andrzej PANUFNIK (1914-1991)

String Quartet No. 1 String Quartet No. 2, ‘Messages’ String Quartet No. 3, ‘Wycinanki’

Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI (1913-1994) String Quartet

2014 is the centenary year of Andrzej Panufnik and, while his orchestral music has received attention, his innovative string quartets remain neglected. Bitter-sweet harmonies characterise the First Quartet. The Second Quartet, whose subtitle ‘Messages’ refers to the mysterious sounds of telegraph poles vibrating in the wind, is notable for its motivic coherence and emotional intensity. The Third Quartet, subtitled ‘Wycinanki’, a reference to paper cuts familiar in Polish rustic art, ends with one of Panufnik’s most moving statements. Lutosławski’s dramatic and experimental String Quartet was written when he was at the forefront of the European avant-garde.

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Sales Points • Andrzej Panufnik’s music has received attention from certain quarters, but his string quartets have remained neglected, with only the Chilingirian Quartet providing a complete set on a long deleted release from Conifer Classics and the Silesian Quartet only available on download. These three superb works are satisfyingly brought together with Lutoslawski’s dramatic String Quartet, making it an addition to our already exhaustive catalogue of the composer’s orchestral and vocal works. The Tippett Quartet has already shone in the quartets of their namesake Sir Michael Tippett: Vol. 1 (8.570496) described as “beautifully shaped and controlled”, and Vol. 2 (8.570497) “a pleasure throughout”

by Gramophone.

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For over a decade and a half, the celebrated Tippett Quartet has delighted critics and audiences alike with its animated and virtuosic performances, and its inspired and attractive programming. They have performed at the BBC Proms and numerous festivals in the United Kingdom and abroad, including tours of Europe, Canada, Mexico and beyond. Their impressive and diverse catalogue of releases has not only topped the classical charts but has also entered the pop charts. The quartet has given premières of works by composers including John Adams, Howard Goodall and Stephen Dodgson and has collaborated with artists such as Kathryn Stott, Stephanie Gonley and Lawrence Power.

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© Bethany Clarke

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Septura

Music for Brass Septet Septura

Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847) Organ Sonata in C minor Op. 65, No. 2

Anton BRUCKNER (1824-1896) Four Motets Two Aequali WAB 114 & 149 Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897) Geistliches Lied, Op. 30 Five Choral Preludes (from Op. 122) Robert SCHUMANN (1810-1856)

Vier Doppelchörige Gesänge, Op. 141

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What if four celebrated nineteenth-century composers – Mendelssohn, Schumann, Bruckner and Brahms – had written original works for brass septet? This disc explores that fascinating counterfactual twist, re-imagining choral and organ works by those composers. The arrangements call on the full dynamic and tonal range of the instruments – often extended with a multitude of mutes – to imitate the expressivity of the choir, the power of the organ, and the versatile sonorities of its different registrations and manuals. In dazzling and varied combinations the arrangers and performers together persuade us that this could indeed be original brass chamber music.

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Sales points: With arrangements by Simon Cox and Matthew Knight, a brass septet assumes a new colour for these largely organ and church music refashionings. None of these arrangements have been recorded before, and they make for a new, rich kind of listening experience. This is the first of a series of 10 discs for Naxos, to be released over the next 5 years.

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Septura is a brass septet specialising in the performance of music by the major classical composers. Septura’s members are the leading players of the new generation of British brass musicians, holding principal positions in the London Symphony, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Scottish Opera and Aurora orchestras. They are united by their belief in the potential of the brass septet to be a uniquely powerful vessel for chamber music. The group’s activities are fuelled by a desire to enhance the status of brass ensembles amongst the wider musical community, with a particular focus on developing new repertoire in the form of both transcriptions and original works.

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Ernest BLOCH (1880–1959) Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 Israel Symphony*

Lent et solennel • Allegro agitato • Moderato (andante grazioso)‡

Suite for Viola and Orchestra†

Lento – Allegro – Moderato • Allegro ironico • Lento • Molto vivo Adriana Kohutková, Soprano‡ • Katarína Kramolišová, Soprano Terezia Bajaková, Mezzo-soprano • Denisa Hamarová, Contralto Michael Mačuha, Baritone Yuri Gandelsman, Viola† Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra* • Atlas Camerata Orchestra† Dalia Atlas

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Bloch’s so-called Jewish Cycle – the Israel Symphony, Schelomo, Trois Poèmes Juifs and the String Quartet – earned the composer the kind of esteem in America that had been lacking in Europe. The Israel Symphony, premièred in Carnegie Hall in 1917, is the cycle’s centrepiece and originally intended as a gigantic three-part work, but later reduced in size. Powerful and evocative, it also fuses pastoral and sensuous elements in a rich tapestry. The awardDalia Atlas winning Suite for Viola and orchestra or piano is a rhapsodic but cyclical tour de force, a ‘vision of the Far East’, in Bloch’s own words.

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Muzio CLEMENTI (1752-1832) Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 33, No. 3 Symphony in B flat major, Op. 18, No. 1 Symphony in D major, Op. 18, No. 2 Minuetto pastorale in D major, WO36

Bruno Canino, Piano • Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma • Francesco La Vecchia These four works are among the few surviving examples of Muzio Clementi’s early orchestral music. The two Symphonies, Op. 18 follow Classical models but are full of the surprise modulations and dynamic contrasts to be found in his piano sonatas. The Piano Concerto has a dazzling solo part and some delightful orchestral touches. Clementi’s Symphonies Nos. 1-4 can be heard on Naxos 8.573071 and 8.573112.

Sales Points • This release joins two other Clementi titles from the Rome Symphony Orchestra conducted by Francesco La Vecchia. The first two Symphonies WoO 32 and 33 (8.573071) were described by ConcertoNet.com as “a treasure”, and these have been complimented nicely by the reconstructed Symphonies 3 & 4 (8.573112). With his piano sonatas taking the lion’s share of Francesco La Vecchia Clementi’s available recordings we have done well with these new Rome recordings, and collectors will certainly want these rare early works, as well as to unite the orphaned Minuetto pastorale with its presumed original home in the Symphony WoO 33.

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Kenneth FUCHS (b. 1956) Falling Man

Movie House • Songs of Innocence and of Experience Roderick Williams, Baritone London Symphony Orchestra • JoAnn Falletta

Kenneth Fuchs, one of America’s leading composers, deepens his bond with conductor JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra with this superb recording of vocal music featuring baritone Roderick Williams. The new works include Falling Man, a dramatic scena based on the powerful post-9/11 novel by Don DeLillo; Movie House, a cycle featuring settings of seven poems by John Updike; and Songs of Innocence and of Experience, four settings from William Blake’s iconic two-part illustrated collection of poems. Fuchs’s music continues to find its visual counterpart in the work of Abstract Expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler, whose art adorns the cover of this disc.

Sales Points • Ken Fuchs is one of America’s leading contemporary composers whose works have often been championed by the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor JoAnn Falletta. This disc concentrates on works for singer and orchestra and the soloist is the admired baritone Roderick Williams. Fuchs’ music is featured on other Naxos discs – 8.559723 has the Atlantic Riband and American Rhapsody, 8.559733 has chamber music for string quartet and 8.559335 has Canticle to the Sun. 8.559753

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Frederic RZEWSKI (b. 1938) Four Pieces

Hard Cuts* • The Housewife’s Lament

Ralph van Raat, Piano • Lunapark* • Arnold Marinissen* Frederic Rzewski is most celebrated for his virtuosic variations for piano, The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (8.559360). The Four Pieces began as a sequel to that breath-taking work, but whilst sharing certain similarities – Andean dance rhythms and tremendous drama – it occupies its own very distinct sound world, offering a compound of intense lyricism, shattering darkness, and hints of revolutionary fervour. The Housewife’s Lament is a set of variations on a 19thcentury tune by an anonymous composer with strong influences of Beethoven.

The punning title Hard Cuts refers to cuts both budgetary and musical, and Rzewski’s signature elements appear throughout: folk rhythms, pointillist clarity, minimalism, and unique craftsmanship.

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Sales Points • Frederic Rzewski is best known for his Variations for piano on the revolutionary song ‘The People United Will Never Be Defeated!’ which is available on Naxos 8.559360. Other of his works contain elements of protest, as do the Four Pieces for piano here, but Rzewski is above all a communicative artist, not a sloganeer. The Fourth of the Four Pieces, which is often extracted from the set for performance, has been recorded on a big 4-CD set devoted to modern American music on Mode CD – containing music by Copland, Griffes, Gershwin, Ornstein etc which is a wide-ranging set that contains little else by Rzewski and is not competitive with our disc.

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Bechara EL-KHOURY (b. 1957) Violin Concerto No. 1, ‘On the Borders of Nowhere’* Horn Concerto, ‘The Dark Mountain’† Clarinet Concerto, ‘Autumn Pictures’‡

Sarah Nemtanu, Violin* • David Guerrier, Horn† Patrick Messina, Clarinet‡ Orchestre National de France*† • Orchestre de Chambre de Paris‡ Kurt Masur* • Jean-Claude Casadesus† • Olari Elts‡ This fifth Naxos release of the music of the Franco-Lebanese composer Bechara El-Khoury features three concertos two of which, for wind instruments, are inspired by specific associations with the natural world of the composer’s native Lebanon.

The First Violin Concerto contains allusions to Alban Berg, its outer movements divided by a virtuoso cadenza for the soloist. The composer describes his powerful Horn Concerto as ‘mountains at night… reaching up into the sky and melting into mist and space’, and the Clarinet Concerto as ‘impressions and recollections in which poetic colours link together and disappear, like an autumnal cloud’.

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Sales Points • As with previous releases, this new recording of three concertos by Bechara El-Khoury is a collection of world première recordings. We now have a number of releases representing his remarkably fine and often startlingly profound work, of which New York, Tears and Hope (8.570134) has been described by the Penguin Guide as “the finest… [with] performances [which] are very persuasive indeed and excellently recorded.” The Penguin Guide also praised the preceding Orchestral Works release (8.557691): “El-Khoury’s orchestral sound-world is very much his own: he uses a remarkable range of orchestral effects.” We are fortunate to have soloists such as violinist Sarah Nemtanu, who won the French classical music industry’s Instrumental Soloist Revelation award in 2007, and acclaimed conductors Kurt Masur and Jean-Claude Casadesus, the latter of which has numerous acclaimed Naxos titles to his name.

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Jonathan DOVE (b. 1959) All You Who Sleep Tonight: Song Cycles Out of Winter 1 • Cut My Shadow†2 • Ariel3 All You Who Sleep Tonight†4

Claire Booth, Soprano3 • Patricia Bardon, Mezzo-soprano2,4 Nicky Spence, Tenor1 • Andrew Matthews-Owen, Piano1,2,4 †

WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDINGS

Jonathan Dove is one of Britain’s most resourceful and versatile contemporary composers, whose affinity for vocal setting is especially striking. From the operatic canvas of his acclaimed Flight to his song cycles, his acutely perceptive approach to texts is unmistakeable. Out of Winter, written in collaboration with Dove, is the late Sir Robert Tear’s poetic response to Thomas Hardy’s Winter Words. Cut My Shadow is a powerful and harrowing setting of three Lorca texts notable for a sense of constant unease and longing for a homeland. All You Who Sleep Tonight, to poems by Vikram Seth, is elegant, moving, and witty whilst Ariel explores Shakespeare’s elusive character from The Tempest in a rôle for unaccompanied soprano.

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Sales Points • Jonathan Dove is known primarily for his settings for voice – opera (he is well-known for his ‘community operas’ such as Tobias and the angel) and also song cycles. The cycles here set words by the late tenor Robert Tear, Vikram Seth, Lorca and Shakespeare.

The music is direct, richly evocative and very approachable, as in some ways Dove is an inheritor of Benjamin Britten’s sensitivity in word setting. Despite this very few of his song cycles are to be found in the catalog. Of the four in this disc Ariel is probably the best known, set for unaccompanied soprano, and this has been recorded by Patricia Green on Blue Griffin [279] released last year – it is however a very mixed contemporary disc with music by Hilary Tann and R Murray Schafer.

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York BOWEN (1884-1961) String Quartets Nos. 2 and 3 Phantasy-Quintet*

Timothy Lines, Bass Clarinet* • Archaeus Quartet Described by Saint-Saëns as ‘the most remarkable of the young British composers’, York Bowen was widely known as a pianist and as a composer, his fame reaching its zenith in the years immediately preceding the First World War. The writer and composer Thomas Dunhill described Bowen’s chamber music as ‘an essentially healthy and breezy phase in modern art’. This is especially true of the 1922 Carnegie Trust Award-winning Second Quartet, and while both quartets are based on clear-cut classical models the Third is more elusive and intimate in feeling, revealing the composer’s rarely displayed private side. The atmospheric Phantasy-Quintet provides a rare opportunity to hear the beauty of the bass clarinet in a truly eloquent and expressive soloist capacity.

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Sales Points • Joining our growing series of new and re-released recordings from the British Music Society, the original appearance of this recording was described as “compellingly desirable” by MusicWeb International, and the Archaeus Quartet as “sterling advocates of all this rewarding material… a stimulating and enjoyable release” by Gramophone.

The performances and recording of this rarely heard repertoire are of a very high standard, and as ever we are confident that wider availability will generate another watershed moment in the acceptance of such fine music into the popular mainstream.

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Arnold COOKE (1906 - 2005) Three String Sonatas Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano1 Sonata for Viola and Piano2 Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano3

Susanne Stanzeleit, Violin1 • Morgan Goff, Viola2 Raphael Wallfisch, Cello3 • Raphael Terroni, Piano1-3 When Arnold Cooke died in 2005 at the age of ninety-eight, he was the last survivor of a great generation of British composers that included Michael Tippett, Alan Rawsthorne and Constant Lambert. A distinguished student of Paul Hindemith in Berlin, he slowly established a national reputation in the 1930s, writing a series of significant Symphonies and other orchestral works. His chamber music, however, is no less important, and the three string sonatas on this recording reveal his approachable, idiomatic, and technically eloquent writing for all three instruments.

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Sales Points • Arnold Cooke was a long-lived British composer, and a contemporary of Tippett and Constant Lambert. The three string sonatas in this disc were first released (in their première recordings) in 2010 on the British Music Society [BMS] label, so our disc is a reissue of that. The sonatas span the years 1936-80 and reveal Cooke’s wholly approachable idiom, toughly lyrical and not dissimilar to the music of another of his contemporaries, Alan Raphael Wallfisch Rawsthorne. The individual performers include some of Britain’s leading chamber players, including eminent cellist Raphael Wallfisch.

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Isaac ALBÉNIZ (1860-1909) Piano Music, Vol. 5

Siete estudios • Les Saisons Rapsodia cubana • Suite antigua No. 1 Juan José Mudarra Gámiz, Piano

In the latest volume of this critically admired series, a number of rarely heard pieces from Albéniz’s first compositional phase can be savoured. They were composed between 1881 and 1892 and reveal the variety and flair of which he was capable, even in the smallest of musical forms, such as the delicious mazurkas.

The Siete estudios (Seven Studies) are no mere exercises – rather they fuse the colour of Iberian music with the rigour of Central European traditions. Les Saisons is an evocative portrait of the seasons and can be seen as a forerunner of the impressionistic writing that would soon appear in French music.

Sales Points • This is another volume in the complete Albéniz piano work series, an undertaking carried out by several different pianists. Albéniz remains an important and influential composer – precursor to aspects of impressionism but also full of evocative scene setting and agile virtuosic vitality. The disc focuses on the composer’s first stage of compositional development. The works are very rarely heard on disc or even performed. Not even Martin Juan José Jones includes them in his 6-CD box set of the composer’s music Mudarra Gámiz on Nimbus. This Naxos series is building to be probably the most complete edition of the composer’s music yet to be recorded.

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Carter PANN (b. 1972) The Piano’s 12 Sides†

The Bills† • The Cheese Grater – A Mean Two-Step† • Your Touch Joel Hastings, Piano †

WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDINGS

Award-winning composer and pianist Carter Pann is a genuine “musician’s musician”, writing for and working with internationally acclaimed orchestras and ensembles. Composed especially for Joel Hastings, The Piano’s 12 Sides is a remarkable cycle which takes us through song-like introspection, fearless virtuosity, timeless impressions of cosmic realms and dances both ebullient and macabre. The Bills owes its ragtime influence to Scott Joplin while acknowledging two great exponents of the genre. The composer describes The Cheese Grater as “an adrenaline-driven, mean two-step”. Evocative of a smoky jazz club, Your Touch is the laid-back solo movement from Carter Pann’s GRAMMY®-nominated Piano Concerto (Naxos 8.559043).

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Sales Points • Unashamedly eclectic in style and the creator of “contemporary music that can be enjoyed by any listener” (ClassicsToday.com), Carter Pann’s work has seen a dramatic rise in worldwide exposure and popularity in recent years.

Much critical acclaim was given to our recording (8.559043) of his K. Serocki Competition prizewinning Piano Concerto and the Deux séjours, which “sound like newly discovered Gymnopédies by Satie… their melodies hovering like morning Joel Hastings mist or evening shadow over gently swaying accompaniments” (ClassicsToday.com). This world première recording of a major new cycle for piano solo along with the ever-attractive lightness of newly composed ragtime tracks will prove irresistible to a very wide audience.

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Laureate Series Emanuele Buono Guitar Recital 2013 Michele Pittaluga Guitar Competition Winner

Francesco Canova DA MILANO Mon per si ma marie Fantasia 33 Ricercar 34 ‘La Compagne’ Dionisi AGUADO No. 2. Andante – Rondo moderato Mario CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Sonata, Op. 77, ‘Omaggio a Boccherini’ Joaquín RODRIGO Invocación y Danza (Homenaje a Manuel de Falla) Antonio JOSÉ Sonata

Emanuele Buono has established himself as one of the most highly regarded and active guitarists of his generation. His numerous achievements include winning the prestigious Pittaluga competition in 2013. This fascinating programme brings together music from Renaissance Italy, the golden age of the guitar in early 19th century Europe, and modern classical sounds from 20th century Spain.

Sales Points • Our Guitar Laureate series has brought forth numerous startlingly talented musicians, but Emanuele Buono really does stand out. In recent years he has proven himself many times over as winner of the Fernando Sor prize (Italy 2010), the Agustín Barrios prize (Italy 2012) and the coveted Pittaluga prize (Italy 2013), and when you hear this recording you will immediately hear why. Buono’s beautiful legato touch and rich sonorities are truly striking and memorable. We would say he was a rising star, but even while still in his 20s we can consider him a valued and established artist, and one we are proud to have as part of our catalog.

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Paul HINDEMITH (1895-1963) Organ Sonatas Nos. 1-3

Eleven Interludes from Ludus Tonalis Two Organ Pieces Kirsten Sturm

Although Hindemith was not an organ music specialist, his three Sonatas, with their mastery of counterpoint, clarity of form, bold harmonic language and deeply expressive treatment of melody, are recognized as among the great works of modern organ literature. The Two Organ Pieces are Hindemith’s earliest works for the instrument, and the Interludien from his piano cycle Ludus Tonalis, here arranged for organ, form a sequence of beautiful and colourful fantasia-like character pieces.

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Sales Points • Hindemith’s three Organ Sonatas are widely popular amongst organists, though this is not entirely reflected in the number of recent recordings. They are performed here on the superb 1979 Sandtner Organ in Rottenburg Cathedral by organist Kirsten Sturm, whose contribution to our Max Reger edition (volume 12, Naxos 8.572821) was acclaimed by Choir & Organ as a place where “a large modern organ and skilled player combine to give persuasive performances…with great clarity and dexterity… spacious and compelling.” The unique addition of organ arrangements of the Eleven Interludien from Ludus Tonalis also gives this release added attraction to specialists and collectors alike.

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New Releases - Digital Exclusives Cello Sonatas*

Ina-Esther Joost Ben-Sasson, Cello • Allan Sternfield, Piano

Nikolay MYASKOVSKY (1881-1950) Cello Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 12 Cello Sonata No. 2 in A minor, Op. 81 Dmitry Borisovich KABALEVSKY (1904-1987) Cello Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 71 *Physical CDs for this release are available by request on a one-off basis.

Nicolay Myaskovsky was one of the most prolific and influential composers in 20th-century Russian musical life. These two works come from the beginning and end of his distinguished career: the warmly expressive First Cello Sonata recalling the style of Rachmaninov, and the equally romantic Second Cello Sonata revealing the subtle influence of folk music typical of Myaskovsky’s later years.

Dmitry Kabalevsky was a pupil of Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatoire. His Cello Sonata was premièred by Rostropovich and stands amongst his greatest post-war successes. The Joost Ben-Sasson/Sternfield duo’s recording of Fauré’s Cello Sonatas (8.570545) has been described as “masterful… very expressive, but direct and unaffected, without fuss or exaggeration.” (Strings Magazine)

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Crossings: Works for Cello and Piano Mercer-Park Duo

Hunter COBLENTZ Ex-Animo for 2 celli (2010) Kevin LAU Starsail (2008) Mark NERENBERG I Thirst (2008) Abigail RICHARDSON-SCHULTE Crossings for cello and piano (2011) William ROWSON Sonata (2012)

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This exciting programme consists of world-première recordings of new works by young Canadian composers. William Rowson’s Sonata is an expressive look at traditional forms, while Kevin Lau’s Starsail is a musical metaphor for a journey into the great unknown. Hunter Coblentz’s Ex Animo embraces the richness of tone offered by two cellos, Abigail Richardson-Schulte reshapes classical modes of musical interaction through all kinds of Crossings, and with a quote from The Seven Last Words, Mark Nerenberg’s “I Thirst” follows a journey through suffering, loss, perseverance and hope. This recording has been made in close collaboration with all these composers, and Rachel Mercer plays here on the 1696 Bonjour Stradivarius Cello.

Companion Titles

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New from Naxos Audiobooks

Faro’s Daughter

Dr Thorne

By Georgette Heyer Unabridged Read by Laura Paton

By Anthony Trollope Unabridged Read by David Shaw-Parker

NA0184 | 10 hours | 7 CD set

NA0158 | 22.5 hours | 18 CD set

9 781843 798613

9 781843 797890

The Castle of Otranto

Shirley

By Horace Walpole Unabridged Read by Neville Jason

By Charlotte Brontë Unabridged Read by Georgina Sutton

NA0186 | 5 hours | 4 CD set

NA0171 | 24 hours | 19 CD set

9 781843 798651

9 781843 798187

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Naxos Highlights, Spring 2014 “…Falletta brings a vivacity and enthusiasm to these works which is infectious.”

– Gramophone

“an essential purchase for anyone who loves Bruckner” – ClassicsToday.com

“excellent performances, colourfully and vividly recorded” – International Record Review

8.573106

8.501205

“a rare opportunity to traverse the symphonies more or less as Bruckner originally conceived of them.”

– Classical Net

“…Falletta’s… account is…spectacularly recorded and presents a fine case for a neglected symphony.”

– International Record Review

“what you hear on this magnificent CD is a brilliant recital!”

– Pizzicato

“the performance is a splendid one, full of color and energy. I can’t imagine that any other conductor today could make a better case for this music than Falletta does.”

– Fanfare 8.573161

8.573021

“steel-edged, brilliantly articulated fingerwork” – ClassicsToday.com

“Violinist Tianwa Yang has been in tremendous form throughout the series, and displays the same warmth, dazzling technique and interpretative skills that marked the earlier volumes.”

– The WholeNote

“The frenzy and the dances bite deep under Petrenko.”

– BBC Music Magazine “This is a sensational performance, the first that truly vies with the classic Rostropovich/Vishnevskaya/Reshetin for supremacy.”

– ClassicsToday.com 8.573132

8.573061

“Wit conducts with considerable insight and interpretative command and the recording quality is equally first-rate.”

– International Record Review

“This is a most entertaining collection…and, as expected, the orchestra really enters into the spirit of this music.… great fun.”

- MusicWeb International

“Tianwa Yang continues to delight us with her magnificent musicianship.”

– MusicWeb International

“Michał Nesterowicz leads a fine interpretation of this highly specialized music.”

- ConcertoNet.com 8.573076

8.572709

“Violinist Tianwa Yang has been in tremendous form throughout the series, and displays the same warmth, dazzling technique and interpretative skills that marked the earlier volumes.”

- The WholeNote

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COMPANION TITLES QTY.

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Ukrainian Composers

COMPOSER/TITLE English Song Series

8.572633

747313263370

KARABITS, I.: Concertos for Orchestra Nos. 1 - 3 / SILVESTROV, V. Elegy / Abschiedsserenade

8.572733

747313273379

DOVE, J.: Passing of the Year (The)

8.572158

747313215874

MARKEVITCH, I.: Orchestral Works (Complete), Vol. 8

8.572600

747313260072

BRITTEN, B.: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake / Tit for Tat / Folk Song Arrangements (English Song, Vol. 22)

8.553069

730099406925

PROKOFIEV, S.: Symphony No. 6 / Waltz Suite

8.572426

747313242672

BUTTERWORTH, G.: Songs from A Shropshire Lad / Folk Songs from Sussex (English Song, Vol. 20)

8.573161

747313316175

GLIÈRE, R.: Symphony No. 3, "Il'ya Muromets"

8.572514

747313251476

VENABLES, I.: On the Wings of Love / Venetian Songs (English Song, Vol. 21)

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, composer

British Music Society + string ensemble

8.660354

730099035477

MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Lighthouse (The)

8.571351

747313135172

JACOBSON, M.: Theme and Variations / Music Room Suite / Mosaic / The Song of Songs

8.572408

747313240876

MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: The Boyfriend Suite / The Devils Suite / Seven in Nomine / The Yellow Cake Revue

8.571352

747313135271

Cello Music - BUSCH, W. / LEIGHTON, K. / WORDSWORTH, W. / COOKE, A.

8.572355

747313235575

MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Strathclyde Concertos Nos. 7 and 8 / A Spell for Green Corn

8.571362

747313136278

COOKE, A.: Three String Sonatas

8.572356

747313235674

MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Strathclyde Concertos Nos. 9 and 10 / Carolísima

8.572580

747313258079

BOWEN, Y.: Viola Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 / Phantasy, Op. 54

8.570415

747313041572

BERKELEY, L.: String Quartets Nos. 1 - 3

Tippett Quartet 8.572474

747313247479

BAX, A.: Piano Quintet in G Minor / BRIDGE, F.: Piano Quintet in D Minor

8.572903

747313290376

ROZSA, M.: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / String Trio, Op. 1 (original unpublished version)

8.571351

747313135172

JACOBSON, M.: Theme and Variations / Music Room Suite / Mosaic / The Song of Songs

8.570496

747313049677

TIPPETT, M.: String Quartets, Vol. 1 - Nos. 1, 2 and 4

8.571352

747313135271

Cello Music - BUSCH, W. / LEIGHTON, K. / WORDSWORTH, W. / COOKE, A.

8.570497

747313049776

TIPPETT, M.: String Quartets, Vol. 2 - Nos. 3 and 5

8.571366

747313136674

BOWEN, Y.: String Quartets Nos. 2 and 3 / Phantasy-Quintet

8.572640

747313264070

ARNOLD, M.: Cello Concerto / Symphony for Strings / Fantasy

8.572595

747313259571

SWAYNE, G.: Stabbat mater / The silent land / Magnificat I / Ave verum corpus

British Music Society + Raphael Wallfisch, cello

Brass Ensemble Arrangements 8.572193

747313219377

PROKOFIEV, S.: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts) (arr. For brass)

8.559123

636943912324

BERLIN, I.: Berlin for Brass

8.570726

747313072675

Symphonic Brass

8.554311-12

636943431122

ALBÉNIZ, I.: Piano Music, Vol. 1 - Iberia / Suites Espanolas Nos. 1 and 2

8.572244

747313224470

Brass Quintets (Arrangements) - BERNSTEIN, L. / BARBER, S. / WILLIAMS, J. / GOLDSMITH, J. / ARNOLD, D.

8.570553

747313055371

ALBÉNIZ, I.: Piano Music, Vol. 2 - Recuerdos da viaje / Espagne / Azulejos / La Vega / Navarra

Dalia Atlas, conductor

8.572196

747313219674

ALBÉNIZ, I.: Piano Music, Vol. 3 - 6 Danzas espanolas / 6 Pequenos valses / 6 Mazurkas de salon

8.573241

747313324170

BLOCH, E.: Symphony in C-sharp Minor / Poems of the Sea

8.573294

747313329472

ALBÉNIZ, I.: Piano Music, Vol. 4 - Suite ancienne No. 3 / Piano Sonata No. 5 / 3 Improvisations / Serenata Árabe

8.573290

747313329076

BLOCH, E.: Symphony in E-flat Major / Macbeth: 2 Interludes / 3 Jewish Poems / In Memoriam

8.570259

747313025978

BLOCH, E.: 4 Episodes / 2 Poems / Concertino / Suite Modale

8.559043

636943904329

PANN, C.: Piano Concerto / Dance Partita / Deux sejours

8.557151

747313215126

BLOCH, E.: America / Suite Hebraique

8.570074

747313007479

MACKEY: Redline Tango / MOWER: Flute Concerto / PANN: Slalom

8.572762

747313276271

8.573071

747313307173

CLEMENTI, M.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 / Overture in D Major

Isaac Albéniz, composer

Carter Pann, composer + Wind ensemble

Francesco La Vecchia, conductor

Wind Band Music - GRANTHAM, D. / JACOB, G. / BRYANT, S.

Guitar Laureate Series

8.573112

747313311279

CLEMENTI, M.: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 / Overture in C Major

8.573306

747313330676

Guitar Recital: Baranov, Anton - PUJOL, M.D. / BRAVO, J.E. / ANGULO, E. / SANTÓRSOLA, G.

8.573006

747313300679

GHEDINI, G.F.: Architetture / Contrappunti / Marinaresca e baccanale

8.573226

747313322671

Guitar Recital: Cherouana, Lazhar - RAMEAU, J.P. / REGONDI, G. / LEGNANI, L. / ASENCIO, V. / MANJON, A.J.

8.573073

747313307371

PETRASSI, G.: Piano Concerto / Flute Concerto / La follia di Orlando Suite

8.573225

747313322572

Guitar Recital: Park, Kyuhee - SCARLATTI, D. / DIABELLI, A. / BERKELEY, L. / MALATS, J. / BARRIOS MANGORÉ, A.

Ken Fuchs, composer

8.573179

747313317974

8.559224

636943922422

FUCHS, K.: American Place (An) / Eventide / Out of the Dark

8.559723

636943972328

FUCHS, K.: Atlantic Riband / American Rhapsody / Divinum Mysterium / Concerto Grosso

8.572907

747313290772

REGER, M.: Organ Works, Vol. 14 - 5 Easy Preludes and Fugues / 52 Easy Chorale Preludes: Nos. 1-15

8.559335

636943933527

FUCHS, K.: Canticle to the Sun / United Artists

8.572908

747313290871

REGER, M.: Organ Works, Vol. 15 - 52 Easy Chorale Preludes: Nos. 16-35 / Monologe: Nos. 1-4 / Postludium in D minor

8.559733

636943973325

FUCHS, K.: String Quartet No. 5, "American" / Falling Canons / Falling Trio

8.573119

747313311972

SCHEIDEMANN, H.: Organ Works, Vol. 7

8.572912

747313291274

Guitar Recital: Mamedkuliev, Rovshan - ALBENIZ, I. / TURINA, J. / AMIROV, F. / LLOBET SOLES, M. / TARREGA, F.

Organ Encyclopaedia Series

Frederic Rzewski, composer

WALCHA, H.: Chorale Preludes, Vol. 3

8.559360

636943936023

RZEWSKI, F.: People United will never be Defeated (The)

8.559760

636943976029

RZEWSKI, F.: Piano Music - Fantasia / Second Hand, or, Alone at Last / De Profundis

8.557722

747313272228

SHOSTAKOVICH, D.: Cello Sonata / Violin Sonata

8.572087

74731320877

Class of '38: RZEWSKI, F.: 4 North American Balads: No. 4. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues / HARBISON, J. / CORIGLIANO, J.

8.570996

747313099672

ROSLAVETS, N.A.: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 / Meditation / Dances of the White Maidens / Viola Sonata No. 2 (arr. For cello)

8.553136

730099413626

PROKOFIEV, S.: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / Cello Sonata

8.570333

747313033379

WEINBERG, M.: Cello Sonatas Nos. 2 and 2 / Cello Solo Sonatas Nos. 1 and 3

Russian Cello Sonatas

Bechara El-Khoury, composer 8.557692

747313269228

EL-KHOURY, B.: Meditation poetique / Piano Concerto / Poems Nos. 1 and 2

8.570134

747313013470

EL-KHOURY, B.: New York, Tears and Hope / The Rivers Engulfed

8.557691

747313269129

EL-KHOURY, B.: Orchestral Works

8.572812

747313281275

Choral Music (Canadian) - CORLIS, T. / ENNS, L. / TIEFENBACH, P. / WATSON HENDERSON, R.

8.557043

747313204328

EL-KHOURY, B.: The Ruins of Beirut / Hill of Strangeness

8.573009

747313300976

FUNG, V.: Piano Concerto, "Dreamscapes" / Violin Concerto / Glimpses

8.573091

747313309177

HATZIS, C.: Flute Concertos - Departures / Overscript

8.572765

747313276578

RYAN, J.: Symphony No. 1, "Fugitive Colours" / The Linearity of Light / Equilateral

Canadian Classics Series

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This Month’s Highlights 8.660359-60

730099035972

MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Ressurection (BBC Philharmonic, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies)

8.573314

747313331475

Music for Brass Septet: MENDELSSOHN, F. / BRUCKNER, A. / BRAHMS, J. / SCHUMANN, R. (Septura)

8.573164

747313316472

PANUFNIK, A.: String Quartets Nos. 1 - 3 / LUTOSŁAWSKI, W.: String Quartet (Tippett Quartet)

8.573333

747313333370

SKORYK, M.: Carpathian Concerto / Diptych / Melody / Dytynstvo / Spanish Dance (Odessa Philharmonic, Hobart Earle) More Exciting New Releases

8.573293

747313329373

ALBÉNIZ, I.: Piano Music, Vol. 5 - Siete estudios / Les Saisons / Rapsodia cubana / Suite antigua No. 1 (J. Gámiz)

8.573283

747313328376

BLOCH, E.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4: Israel Symphony / Suite for Viola and Orchestra (Dalia Atlas)

8.571366

747313136674

BOWEN, Y.: String Quartets Nos. 2 and 3 / Phantasy-Quintet (T. Lines, Archaeus Quartet)

8.573273

747313327379

CLEMENTI, M.: Piano Concerto in C major / Symphony in B flat major (Canino, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, La Vecchia)

8.571362

747313136278

COOKE, A.: Three String Sonatas (S. Stanzeleit, M. Goff, R. Wallfisch, R. Terroni)

8.573080

747313308071

DOVE, J.: All You Who Sleep Tonight: Song Cycles (C. Booth, P. Bardon, N. Spence, A. Matthews-Owen)

8.572773

747313277377

EL-KHOURY, B.: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Horn Concerto / Clarinet Concerto (S. Nemtanu, D. Guerrier, P. Messina)

8.559753

636943975329

FUCHS, K.: Falling Man / Movie House / Songs of Innocence and of Experience (London SO, JoAnn Falletta)

8.573194

747313319473

HINDEMITH, P.: Organ Sonatas Nos. 1 - 3 / Eleven Interludes / Two Organ Pieces (Kirsten Sturm)

8.573362

747313336272

Laureate Series Emanuele Buono Guitar Recital

8.559751

636943975121

PANN, C.: The Piano's 12 Sides / The Bills / The Cheese Grater / Your Touch (Joel Hastings)

8.559759

636943975923

RZEWSKI, F.: Four Pieces / Hard Cuts / The Housewife's Lament (Ralph van Raat, Lunapark, Arnold Marinissen) Naxos Audiobooks New Releases

NA0171

9781843798187

BRONTË, C.: Shirley (Unabridged)

NA0184

9781843798613

HEYER, G.: Faro's Daughter (Unabridged)

NA0158

9781843797890

TROLLOPE, A.: Dr Thorne (Unabridged)

NA0186

9781843798651

WALPOLE, H.: The Castle of Otranto (Unabridged) Naxos Highlights, Spring 2014

8.573061

747313306176

BRAHMS, J.: Deutsches Requiem (Ein) (Libor, T.E. Bauer, Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Wit)

8.501205

730099120548

BRUCKNER, A.: Symphonies (Complete) (Tintner) (12-CD Boxed Set)

8.573161

747313316175

GLIÈRE, R.: Symphony No. 3, "Il'ya Muromets" (Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta)

8.573076

747313307678

MEYERBEER, G.: Ballet Music from the Operas (Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia NO, Nesterowicz)

8.573106

747313310678

MOERAN, E.J.: In the Mountain Country / Rhapsodies / Overture for a Masque (Frith, Ulster Orchestra, Falletta)

8.572709

747313270972

SARASATE, P. de: Violin and Piano Music, Vol. 4 - Transcriptions (Tianwa Yang, Hadulla)

8.573132

747313313273

SHOSTAKOVICH, D.: Symphonies, Vol. 10 - Symphony No. 14 (G. James, A. Vinogradov, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Petrenko)

8.573021

747313302178

TANSMAN, A.: Piano Music - Ballades Nos. 1-3 / Arabesques / Suite dans le style ancien / 5 Impressions / 8 Cantilenes (Reyes)

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