Catalogue Naxos - January 2015

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Playing Time 57:45

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Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835–1921) Symphony No. 3 ‘Organ’*

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Sound • 24-bit, 96 kHz PCM

Danse macabre* • Cyprès et Lauriers* Vincent Warnier, Organ Orchestre National de Lyon* • Leonard Slatkin*

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To celebrate the inauguration of the newly restored former organ of the Palais du Trocadéro and Palais de Chaillot in Paris, the Orchestre National de Lyon and their organist-in-residence, Vincent Warnier, present two major works for organ and orchestra by Camille SaintSaëns, both of which are historically linked with the great CavailléColl organs. The composer himself conducted the French première of Cyprès et Lauriers at the Trocadéro in October 1920, entrusting the solo part to Eugène Gigout.

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Sales Points: The organ is the focus of this disc, which is performed on the famous, monumental and newly restored 1878 instrument formerly in the Trocadéro in Paris but now in Lyon. Three works are involved. Cyprés et Lauriers is rare on disc. Stefan Johannes Bleicher’s 4-CD set devoted to the organ music on Arte Nova (in 2006) includes it. Ian Tracey couples it with a work by Dupré on Chandos, whereas Ben van Oosten couples it with other of the composer’s works for solo organ for MDG in 2012. The arrangement of the Danse macabre is a sonic spectacular for solo organ. The Symphony No.3 is one of the most famous and brilliant in the repertoire, and frequently recorded, and which also features the organ prominently.

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Internationally renowned conductor Leonard Slatkin began his musical studies on the violin and studied conducting with his father, followed by training with Walter Susskind at Aspen and Jean Morel at The Juilliard School. He was named music director of the Orchestre National de Lyon in its 2011–2012 season. His over a hundred recordings have brought seven GRAMMY® Awards and more than sixty GRAMMY® Award nominations. He has received many other honours, including the 2003 National Medal of Arts, France’s Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and the League of American Orchestras’ Gold Baton for service to American music.

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© Jesùs Ruiz

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Pepe Romero and Vicente Coves

Federico Moreno TORROBA (1891–1982) Guitar Concertos, Vol. 1

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Concierto en Flamenco†

Diálogos entre guitarra y orquesta Aires de La Mancha • Suite castellana Pepe Romero and Vicente Coves, Guitars Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra • Manuel Coves †

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An outstanding figure in the history of modern Spanish music, Federico Moreno Torroba is best known for his guitar works, his traditional style embracing the folklore and character of Spain. The Concierto en Flamenco requires an exceptional soloist, and Pepe Romero is justly famous for his masterful interpretations in both classical and flamenco genres. The playful Diálogos entre guitarra y orquesta adds the luminous sonorities of harp and celesta to its colourful orchestration. Aires de la Mancha is evocative of this distinctive region in central Spain, while the Suite castellana includes Torroba’s first ever composition for guitar, Danza. This is the first of three volumes of Torroba’s complete works for guitar and orchestra.

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Sales Points: The rarely heard Concierto en Flamenco is the jewel in the crown of this fine new release of concertos and solos for guitar by the ever popular Federico Moreno Torroba. Combining specialist flamenco techniques with a classical concerto form, we are proud to be able to present the legendary Pepe Romero as soloist. This pairing with the substantial Diálogos entre guitarra y orquesta, Torroba’s early Suite castellana, and another Pepe Romero performance in the characterful Aires de la Mancha make this a feast for fans of the guitar and the best of 20th century Spanish music. This release also compliments our previous CD with the guitar music of Torroba on Naxos 8.557902

Manuel Coves

Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra

One of the most celebrated and versatile musicians of his generation, the Spanish-born guitarist Pepe Romero has enjoyed a varied and illustrious career. Among other honours, Pepe Romero has been knighted into the Order of Isabel la Católica, awarded an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Victoria, and the Premio Andalucía de Música, the highest recognition given by his native land for contribution to the arts. The classical guitarist Vicente Coves

studied with the legendary Pepe Romero. Coves belongs to the Versus Ensemble, with which he recorded for Naxos Piazzolla’s Suite María de Buenos Aires (8.570523) and Lorenzo Palomo’s Sinfonía a Granada (8.570420), for soprano guitar and orchestra, composed for Vicente Coves and María Bayo. In 2008 he was awarded the Rubinstein Medal by the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

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Sir Peter MAXWELL DAVIES (b. 1934) Caroline Mathilde – Ballet Suites © John Batten

Chat Moss • Ojai Festival Overture

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ ballet Caroline Mathilde premièred in 1991 and has been highly acclaimed ever since. Its story concerns the tragic marriage of Caroline to Christian VII of Denmark and is cast in a musical language that embraces expressionism, drama, parody, and overt lyricism. The two concert suites chart the young queen’s fall from grace and her eventual banishment into exile. Chat Moss is a richly textured tone poem, while by contrast the Ojai Festival Overture is a lively and extrovert concert piece reflecting Maxwell Davies’ fondness for American landscape and culture.

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

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Sales Points: These are ex-Collins releases recorded in the 1990s, though originally differently coupled. This disc, in fact, is the last of the Collins reissues. The concert suite from Caroline Mathilde was coupled with Beltane Fire, for instance, and the Ojai Festival Overture with the popular and riotous Mavis in Las Vegas and An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise on Collins 1524. The trio of pieces offer very different pleasures. The ballet Caroline Mathilde is a modern classic, presented in two concert suites, very lyrical and standing in the great tradition of ballet scores from the nineteenth-century onwards, spiced with Maxwell Davies’ personal vocabulary. Chat Moss is a tone poem and the Ojai Festival Overture is extrovert and colourful.

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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. In a work list spanning more than five decades, 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. His substantial chamber and instrumental catalogue includes the landmark cycle of ten string quartets, the Naxos Quartets (8.505225), described in the Financial Times as “one of the most impressive musical statements of our time”. Maxwell Davies has held the position of composerConductor with both the Royal Philharmonic and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras. Maxwell Davies was knighted in 1987 and appointed Master of the Queen’s Music in 2004.

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Jordi Masó

Joaquín TURINA (1882–1949) Piano Music, Vol. 10

Jordi Masó studied with Josep M. Roger, Albert Attenelle, and at the Royal Academy of Music of London with Christopher Elton and Nelly Akopian, graduating in 1992 with the highest distinction. He has won first prize in many National and International competitions in Spain and has performed extensively. Jordi Masóʼs wide repertoire, covering all periods and styles, with special emphasis on music of the twentieth century, has brought first performances of many piano works written for him. He has made over forty recordings, including the 1993 world première of the complete works for piano of Roberto Gerhard (8.223867), the complete piano music by Frederic Mompou (8.554332, 8.554448, 8.554727, 8.554727, 8.570956, 8.572142), and Joaquín Turina (8.557150, 8.557438, 8.557684, 8.570026, 8.570370, 8.572141, 8.572455, 8.572682, 8.572915).

El Castillo de Almodóvar Rincones de Sanlúcar • Tocata y fuga Partita • Preludios • Pieza romántica Jordi Masó, Piano

The tenth volume in Jordi Masó’s ground-breaking series of the complete piano music focuses on the years of Joaquín Turina’s maturity and the works he called a Ciclo pianístico. El castillo de Almodóvar (Almodóvar Castle) and Rincones de Sanlúcar (Corners of Sanlúcar) are both memorably evocative and descriptive.

Elsewhere Turina takes classic forms, such as the toccata, fugue, partita and prelude and brings to them a more abstract but richly nuanced sensibility. The previous volume in this series has brought considerable acclaim: ‘In Masó you have an ideally committed and affectionate master of the idiom, finely recorded.’ (Gramophone, on 8.572915)

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Sales Points: This is volume 10 in this comprehensive Turina series. The last volume (8.572915) was very well received with both American Record Guide and Gramophone extolling the virtues of the playing (”an affectionate master of the idiom” wrote Gramophone).

This disc concentrates on Turina’s maturity with music that is often abstract, though there are also his famous more colourful evocations as well. This is sparsely recorded repertoire. The famous figure of Alicia de Larrocha has recorded the Preludios and Partita but they are marooned in a big DG 10-CD box. Likewise Martin Jones has recorded El castillo de Almodóvar, but in the context of a 5-CD box of Spanish piano music generally. Masó is generally considered the world’s leading current exponent of this composer’s music.

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Playing Time 75:08

JoAnn Falleta

Jack GALLAGHER (b. 1947) Symphony No. 2 ‘Ascendant’ Quiet Reflections

London Symphony Orchestra • JoAnn Falletta Jack Gallagher continues his association with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta with Symphony No. 2 ‘Ascendant,’ a robust, colorful work of dramatic contrasts and expansive architecture that seeks to express the aspirations and strivings of the human spirit. Quiet Reflections is a calm, serenely lyrical meditation which evokes a sense of longing for past tranquility.

Gallagher’s previous Naxos release Orchestral Music (8.559652) with the LSO conducted by JoAnn Falletta was awarded five stars by BBC Music Magazine and hailed as “fresh and exuberant” and for “its explosions of sound and colour” by Gramophone.

JoAnn Falletta, acclaimed by The New York Times as “one of the finest conductors of her generation”, serves as the music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Virginia Symphony Orchestra, and principal conductor of the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has guest conducted more than a hundred orchestras in North America and many of the most prominent orchestras in Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa, such as the London Symphony Orchestra, which is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading orchestras. Falletta is an ardent champion of music of our time, introducing over 500 works by American composers, including more than 110 world premières. Her extensive Naxos discography includes a double GRAMMY® Award-winning volume of works by John Corigliano and GRAMMY®-nominated discs by Fuchs, Gershwin, Holst, Respighi, Strauss, and Schubert.

Sales Points: The release of Jack Gallagher’s Orchestral Music (8.559652) in 2010 aroused a great deal of interest, with Audiophile Audition describing his Symphony in One Movement: Threnody “truly a work of genius”, Gramophone summing it up as “fresh and exuberant, Jack Gallagher’s music speaks proudly of his country’s cultural values in positive, eloquent and healthy ways... The LSO couldn’t sound finer”. Furthermore “the programme gets Rolls-Royce treatment from JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra” (BBC Music Magazine), and Gallagher is “one of JoAnn Falletta’s best discoveries in her continual search for underrated American composers” (Buffalo News). Composed between 2010 and 2013 and recorded here by GRAMMY® winning producer Tim Handley, the second symphony stands as a vitally energetic continuation of this success.

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Marc Lewon

Argentum et Aurum

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Musical Treasures from the Early Habsburg Renaissance Ensemble Leones • Marc Lewon

The period of the early Habsburgs, from c.1340 to c.1520, saw the development of a richly diverse musical culture in the Austrian region.

This pioneering selection, the product of an extensive research project conducted at the University of Vienna, presents an overview of music in everyday life, in many cases in première recordings performed by Ensemble Leones. The music is sacred and secular, allowing the listener to eavesdrop on Tyrolean palaces, dance halls and bourgeois homes, and on the singer-poets who travelled the country where old local styles fused with the latest international fashions.

Sales Points • This recording is the product of much specialist work at the University of Vienna, conducted as part of a research project called ‘Musical life of the Late Middle Ages in the Austrian Region’. It documents music of the early Habsburg period from around 1340 to c.1520. There are a number of world première recordings of recently discovered music as well as hitherto unknown pieces in this disc.

Ensemble Leones have attempted in their performances to recreate the musical ethos of the time and are highly regarded specialists in this repertoire with several recordings to their name – composer Arvo Pärt has praised their performances!

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Marc Lewon specialises in medieval instruments of the lute family and medieval Germanic languages and literature. The combination of musicological scholarship and countless years of concert activities provide him with the ideal qualifications for an interdisciplinary approach to research and practice for the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. He plays regularly with a number of ensembles including Unicorn, Dulce Melos, Perlaro and Andreas Scholl & Shield of Harmony and especially with his own Ensemble Leones.

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Through the Centuries Amadeus Guitar Duo

Georg Frideric HANDEL (1685–1759) Suite in G minor, HV 432 Johann-Kaspar MERTZ (1806–1856) Nänien Trauerlieder Ünrühe Mario GANGI (1923–2010) Suite spagnola Franz BURKHART (1902–1978) Toccata Georg Philipp TELEMANN (1681–1767) Partita polonaise Carlo DOMENICONI (b. 1947) Fantasie d’Oriente e d’Occidente, Op. 50a

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Over the last 25 years the Amadeus Guitar Duo have consistently proved to be one of the world’s most exploratory and admired ensembles. Through their many international tours, recordings, and the symposium they established at Iserlohn in Germany, they have extended the repertoire for the duo and for guitar duo with orchestra.

In this release, their inaugural one for Naxos, the programme ranges across the centuries from the magnificent arrangement of Handel’s Suite in G minor, HV 432, through music by the nineteenth-century guitar composer Johann Kaspar Mertz, to contemporary works including the brilliant and virtuosic Fantasie d’Oriente e d’Occidente

by Carlo Domeniconi, which was given its world première by the duo.

Sales Points: The Amadeus Guitar Duo consist of Dale Kavanagh and Thomas Kirchhoff, an internationally admired ensemble who have been performing and touring for 25 years. They have performed repertoire for both for the guitar duo and for two guitars and orchestra, and extended it through commissions and first performances. For example they gave the world premiere of Carlo Domeniconi’s Fantasie d’Oriente e d’Occidente, which they play in this disc. They mix original works with arrangements and transcriptions. This is their first disc to be released by Naxos. They have recorded extensively for Hänssler Classics, about one of which discs Fanfare noted; ‘and when Dale Kavanagh partners with Thomas Kirchoff to form the Amadeus Guitar Duo, one is treated to elegant ensemble work – full of flashy virtuosity where needed, but best characterized by its subtle innigkeit.’

Dale Kavanagh (Canada) and Thomas Kirchhoff (Germany) have been playing together since 1991 and have given more than 950 concerts in more than 50 European countries and North, Central and South America and Asia. Critics and audiences acknowledge the young musicians bubbling temperament in virtuoso recital, their highly sensitive creative ability in musical phrasing and articulation,

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and their great guitar-tone, which fills large auditoriums with a warm, rich sound. The Amadeus Guitar Duo performs regularly with The Prague- Munich and Mannheimer Chamber Orchestra, The Philharmonia Hungarica, The Philharmonic State Orchestra Halle, the Prague Chamber Orchestra and the Thuringen Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Ge GAN-RU (b. 1954) Shanghai Reminiscences

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Butterfly Overture

Royal Scottish National Orchestra • Tsung Yeh Born in Shanghai, now resident in Greater New York, Ge Gan-ru is one of China’s foremost composers. Very different from his previous exploration of the Western avant-garde, Shanghai Reminiscences is a warm and affecting evocation of “the street scenes and sounds” of Gan-ru’s childhood in pre-Cultural Revolution Shanghai, viewed through the lens of his adopted American traditions. Butterfly Overture is the composer’s symphonic tribute to a beloved teacher from his Shanghai Conservatory days. International Record Review described Ge Gan-ru’s string quartets (8.570603) as “Nothing short of contemporary masterpieces”.

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Sales Points • A resident of New York, Ge Gan-ru is recognized as China’s leading avant-garde composer and one of the most original voices of his generation.

Our recording of three of his string quartets (8.570603) with the Modern Works quartet was an American Record Guide ‘Critic’s Choice’. It was also acclaimed as “a magnificent disc… The music is outstanding and deserves the widest possible audience” by International Record Review, while the New York Times considers that Ge Gan-ru’s music “deserves to be recognized alongside that of his betterknown compatriots like Bright Sheng and Tan Dun.” Shanghai Reminiscences is a departure from Ge Gan-ru’s engagement with the avant-garde lineage of John Cage and George Crumb, and while leaving aside more striking timbral effects this music will have a wide appeal, resonating with audiences more familiar with the populist works of Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein.

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Pierre RODE (1774-1830) Violin Concertos, Vol. 3

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Violin Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 3 Violin Concerto No. 5 in D major, Op. 7 Violin Concerto No. 9 in C major, Op. 17 Friedemann Eichhorn, Violin Jena Philharmonic Orchestra • Nicolás Pasquet

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Pierre Rode’s concertos represent the full flowering of the French violin school, the origins of which can be traced back to his teacher Viotti’s arrival in Paris in 1782.

Bold and youthful, the First Violin Concerto contrasts with the more pastoral and introspective moods of the Fifth Violin Concerto, while the Ninth was written during the composer’s stay in Russia. All three works share Rode’s signature finales which ‘sparkle with gracefulness, piquancy and impishness’. Performed using painstakingly prepared new editions, this is the third of five volumes containing all thirteen of Rode’s Violin Concertos.

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Sales Points • This is the third in a set of four volumes of Pierre Rode’s complete Violin Concertos. It joins a first volume (8.570469) the “virtuoso fireworks” of which were admired by Fanfare: “There’s enough double-stopping, rapid runs, and bowing tricks to satisfy even the most insatiable appetites for hire-wire circus acts. But there is Friedemann also a depth and breadth to Rode’s muse, and a sophisticated air Eichhorn to his melodic invention that elicits a strong emotional response and strikes a genuine responsive chord.” Volume 2 (8.570767) was a MusicWeb International ‘Recording of the Month’, “hugely entertaining and satisfying for the listener.” Including première recordings and inventively reconstructed cadenzas and features of interpretation, all of these releases fill a crucial gap and represent a significant contribution to the violin concerto repertoire.

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BRITISH MUSIC FOR CELLO AND PIANO Raphael Wallfisch, Cello • Raphael Terroni, Piano*

William WORDSWORTH (1908-88) Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 66* Nocturne, Op. 29* Scherzo, Op. 42*

Sonata for Violoncello, Op. 70 Josef HOLBROOKE (1878-1958) Fantasie-Sonate, Op. 19* William BUSCH (1901-45) Suite for Cello and Piano*

A Memory*

Elegy*

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This survey of British cello music focuses on three composers whose critical fortunes have never quite matched their undoubted musical gifts. William Wordsworth always displayed independence of mind and considerable melodic invention, and his cello works reflect a kinship with the music of Bartók and, later, Shostakovich. The short-lived William Busch is represented by his Suite, both a passionate oration and a brilliant dance. Much earlier in the twentieth century the prolific Josef Holbrooke composed a Fantasie-Sonata that is irresistibly lively and virtuosic.

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Sales Points • This is an ex-British Music Society release [BMS436CD] issued in 2010. The disc will be of particular interest to collectors of British chamber music of the twentieth-century as it contains rare never-before recorded works. Wordsworth and Busch both wrote approachable music. The only other widely available Wordsworth is the recording of his Symphonies on Lyrita.

Holbrooke is a somewhat earlier composer but better represented on disc on a wide variety of labels – CPO, Dutton, Cameo, Lyrita, Raphael Wallfisch Symposium etc. His music is also on Marco Polo and Naxos recorded his violin works on 8.572649. These performances of Wordsworth’s Sonata No.2 and Busch’s Suite are also on 8.571352, differently coupled with works by Leighton and Cooke.

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Sir Charles Villiers STANFORD (1852–1924) Piano Trio No. 2 Piano Quartet No. 1*

David Adams, Viola* • Gould Piano Trio

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One of Britain’s leading composers and educators of his day, Stanford considered chamber music an essential representation of ‘absolute music’. His mastery of extended instrumental forms truly comes of age in the First Piano Quartet, a work which breathes a confidence and fluency to rival Brahms. An adventurous harmonic palette distinguishes the Second Piano Trio, the Beethovenian pathos of its slow movement contrasting with the defiant turbulence of its cyclically related outer movements. The Gould Trio is ‘magnificently stylish’ (Gramophone) in their recording of Stanford’s First Piano Trio (8.572452).

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Sales Points • Our catalogue of Charles Villiers Stanford already includes four volumes of his complete symphonies, and our coverage of his excellent chamber music has already gone from strength to strength. The Gould Trio’s world première recording of his Third Piano Trio (8.570416) was a Gramophone ‘Editor’s Choice’ and acclaimed as “absolutely first-class”, while the First Piano Trio and Second Piano Quartet (8.572452) with David Adams was a MusicWeb International ‘Recording of the Year’, American Record Guide ‘Critic’s Choice’, and with Gramophone concluding that, with “top-notch production values throughout, this generously filled disc should be snapped up without delay.”

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Johann Sebastian BACH (1685–1750) The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II (24 Preludes and Fugues) Luc Beauséjour, Harpsichord

When Luc Beauséjour recorded Book I of the Well-tempered Clavier [8.55762526] he was hailed by International Piano for ‘his instinct for discovering exactly the right tempo; his playing is so natural’. He turns now to Book II of the Preludes and Fugues in all twenty-four keys, assembled for publication in 1742. A number of the pieces survive in earlier versions from previous decades, which Bach revised or transposed. Together with Book I, this constitutes one of the pinnacles of Western music.

Sales Points • The Well-tempered Clavier is one of the greatest pieces in Western music. It has been recorded many times, and is here recorded on harpsichord – it’s often performed on piano. Luc Beauséjour recorded Book I of the Well-tempered Clavier a number of years ago and it has been quite a long wait until Book II. That earlier set was lavishly praised [8.557625-26]. He was hailed by International Piano for ‘his instinct for discovering exactly the right tempo; his playing is so natural’.

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Andrea ANTICO (c.1480-after 1538) Animoso mio desire

16th-Century Italian Keyboard Favourites Glen Wilson, Harpsichord

Andrea Antico was a printer from Dalmatia who obtained, through the first Medici Pope, Leo X, a monopoly on printing keyboard music. His 1517 collection of frottole – a quasi-rustic word meaning a deceitful, silly story – contains highly advanced, but textually corrupt arrangements of part-songs for keyboard made by an anonymous musician. This world première recording of the complete Frottole Intabulate incorporates a new edition by harpsichordist Glen Wilson.

Sales Points • Frottola means a deceitful, silly story. They were wildly popular songs in the later part of the fifteenth and the first third of the sixteenth centuries. An anonymous musician arranged them for keyboard and they were then published by the printer Andrea Antico in 1517. The arrangements were radical for the time and the arranger succeeded in producing a real polyphonic keyboard style.

Some were performed by organist Kimberly Marshall on the Loft Glen Wilson label in 2002 and just a few by Silvano Rodi on Gall in the same year. Nothing as comprehensive as this Naxos collection has ever been released.

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GUITAR MUSIC OF COLOMBIA

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José Antonio Escobar, Guitar Adolfo MEJÍA (1905-1973) Gentíl MONTAÑA (1942-2011) Lucas SABOYA (b. 1980) Hector GONZÁLEZ (b. 1961) †

Bambuco en mi Suite Colombiana Nos. 2 and 3 Suite Ernestina† Preludio

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© R. Duarte

Colombia’s thriving cultural heritage derives from Spanish, African and Amerindian elements. The rich blend of colour and rhythmic vitality found in the synthesis of dance forms and styles, notably the sharply accented Andean bambuco (‘pursuit dance’), the flowing, graceful pasillo and the traditional, rhythmic guabina, recurs throughout this programme. Poignant expressiveness and intricate virtuosity are features of Montaña’s Suite Colombiana Nos. 2 and 3. Saboya’s Suite Ernestina includes characteristically South American melodies and rhythms, while Caribbean rhythmic patterns are recreated in González’s Preludio. José Antonio Escobar’s Guitar Music of Chile (Naxos 8.570341) was described as “absolutely stunning” by MusicWeb International.

Sales Points • This release joins one of many successful titles in our catalogue which focus on the musical character of a particular nation in guitar music. José Antonio Escobar appeared way back in 2001 with one of our Guitar Laureate recital discs (8.555719) which was summed up as “outstanding” by American Record Guide, and of his playing in the Guitar Music of Chile (8.570341) MusicWeb International concluded that “guitar aficionados need to hear Escobar’s absolutely stunning playing… [it] has something new to offer every time.” This colorful and vivacious recording is an excellent package of highly attractive new music for guitar which will have wide appeal across the board.

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Idil Biret Archive: Solo Edition, Vol. 8 Alexander SCRIABIN (1872-1915)

Etude, Op. 2, No. 1 Twelve Etudes, Op. 8 • Eight Etudes, Op. 42 Fantasie, Op. 28 Idil Biret, Piano

“Never have I heard such superb, resonant, clear piano sound on a record…

Included on this LP are two Chopin Mazurkas, Prokofiev’s 2nd Sonata and Scriabin’s 10th Sonata. They are superb performances, filled with marvelous dynamic contrasts.”

BILLBOARD (USA) – 1977 “For well versed insiders of music, Idil Biret has been for many years a trusted and respected artist. Her Scriabin, Bartok and Prokofiev interpretations are exemplary classical benchmarks.”

DIE WELT (Germany) – 1979

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“The Idil Biret Solo Edition, featuring recent rather than historical performances by the Turkish pianist, is turning out to be a truly exceptional experience. The IBA (Idil Biret Archive) label has been releasing a flood of Biret recordings in its “Beethoven”, “Concerto” and “Archive” series, but the Solo Edition ones are in some ways the most impressive of all.”

INFODAD Reviews (USA) – 2013 Companion Titles

8.571291

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8.571298

8.571301

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Digital Exclusives Reinhold GLIÈRE (1875-1956) Symphonies Nos. 1-3

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra • Stephen Gunzenhauser Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra • Donald Johanos • Keith Clark The symphonies of Reinhold Glière (1875 - 1956) were composed over the course of no more than a dozen years. Yet, despite their temporal proximity within the composer’s lifetime, each of the three distinct symphonies represent a different style and mood, highlighting the composer’s talent and range. Glière began to write his Symphony No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 8 in 1899, while he still attending the Moscow Conservatory. The work is a demonstration of romantic structure and harmony, with a melody that is jubilant, youthful, and characteristically Russian. In contrast, Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 25 features more contrastic movements of dramatic intensity and rich lyricism. Dedicated to Sergei Koussevitsky, a friend of Glière’s who also conducted the premiere in 1908, the second symphony is the work of a more mature composer, despite its proximity to the first. Just three years later, Glière completed his Symphony No. 3 in B minor, Op. 42, representing a drastic change in style. Accompanied with the subtitle “Il’ya Muromets,” the name of a mythic warrior from Russian lore, the third symphony uses folk-like melodies, an impressionistic array of colors, and an uncommonly large orchestra to retell an ages-old Russian legend. Glière’s three symphonies represent his greatest work, and evoke the history of his majestic homeland, both past and present.

8.503280 3 CDs 7

47313 32803 1

Karol SZYMANOWSKI (1882-1937) The Complete Piano Works of Szymanowski Martin Roscoe, Piano

The life of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski (1883 - 1937) spans the most pivotal period in the history of Western classical music. From the start of his compositional career, at the turn of the twentieth century, the widening cracks in the monolith of European romanticism had already formed, pushing the genre to the brink of a stylistic schism. Impressionism had already blossomed in France, and the non-traditional harmonies of modernism and the avant-garde were just on the horizon.The piano works of Szymanowski reflect this decisive time in musical history. His earliest pieces use a harmonic and melodic language akin to that of another popular Polish pianist; Frédérich Chopin, whose music had a major influence on Szymanowski. Later, as he and his music matured, Szymanowski’s style grew impressionistic and dissonant, a period which includes his twelve Études, Op. 33 (1916), and Sonata No. 3, Op. 36 (1917). After WWI, his style shifted yet again, returning to Poland for inspiration. With the music of his homeland in mind, Szymanowski composed a series folk-inspired works, including his twenty Mazurkas, Op. 50 (1924-25), and culminating in Two Mazurkas, Op. 62 (1933-34), his last known work. Szymanowski’s piano music not only reflects the full scope of the composer’s stylistic palette, but also that of an ever-shifting time in history. His masterpieces are certainly of their time.

8.504045 4 CDs 7

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Naxos Audiobooks The Diary of Samuel Pepys Volume I: 1660−1663

By Samuel Pepys Unabridged Read by Leighton Pugh

9 781843 798392

The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most entertaining documents in English history.

Written between 1660 and 1669, as Pepys was establishing himself as a key administrator in the Navy Office, it is an intimate portrait of life in 17th-century England, covering his professional and personal activities, including, famously, his love of music, theatre, food, wine and his peccadilloes. This Naxos AudioBooks production is the world premiere recording of the diary in its entirety. It has been divided into three volumes.

Volume I covers the opening years of the Restoration and introduces us to many of the key characters − family, government and royalty. Pepys was there when Charles II returned to England, and he lived through those opening years of the Stuart monarchy, with its revenge on the regicides. He also recorded the reopening of theatres, and how England relaxed from years of the Puritan way of life.

Companion Titles NA0174 34 CD set

Playing Time: 42.5 Hours NA428812

NA0191

Framley Parsonage

By Anthony Trollope Unabridged Read by David Shaw-Parker

9 781843 798491

In Framley Parsonage, the fourth novel of Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire, the author leaves the confines of Barchester and looks to the countryside, where he relates the moral difficulties of Mark Robarts, the young clergyman who has recently been appointed Vicar of Framley.

Desperate to keep up socially with the local aristocracy, the country parson is persuaded to underwrite the debts of Sowerby, a well-respected peer. However, when the debts are called in, Robarts finds himself in a serious predicament.

Written with acute insight, together with a great deal of warmth and humour towards his characters’ attendant charms and foibles, Framley Parsonage is sure to delight.

Companion Titles

NA0178 17 CD set

Playing Time: 21 Hours

NA0147

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Rip Van Winkle

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & The Pride of the Village

By Washington Irving Unabridged Read by Adam Sims

9 781843 798002

Kindly Rip Van Winkle, loved by all, lives a quiet existence in a small village at the foot of the Catskill Mountains. Until one day, travelling in the mountains, he somehow falls asleep. Upon waking, he finds that twenty years have passed!

For adults and children alike, Rip Van Winkle is a charming story that vividly captures a nostalgic period in American history. It is counted among the earliest examples of American fiction.

The collection also contains The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Irving’s story about the headless horseman, which explores the nature of legend, and The Pride of the Village, a mythic tale of love and loss.

Companion Titles

NA0163 2 CD set

Playing Time: 2.5 Hours

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NA200512

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COMPOSER/TITLE Chinese Classics Series

Leonard Slatkin, Conductor + Orchestre National de Lyon 8.572886

747313288670

BERLIOZ, H.: Symphonie fantastique / Le corsaire

8.570603

747313060375

GE, Gan-Ru: String Quartets No. 1, "Fu", No. 4, "Angel Suite" and No. 5, "Fall of Baghdad"

8.573297

747313329779

BERLIOZ, H.: Harold en Italie / Le carnaval romain / Benvenuto Cellini: Overture

8.570610

747313061075

SHENG, Bright: Blazing Mirage (The) / The Song and Dance of Tears / Colors of Crimson

8.572887

747313288779

RAVEL, M.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 - Alborada del gracioso / Rapsodie espagnole

8.572888

747313288878

RAVEL, M.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - Valses nobles et sentimentales / Gaspard de la nuit

8.570608

747313060870

TAN, Dun: Symphonic Poem of 3 Notes / Orchestral Theatre / Concerto for Orchestra (after Marco Polo)

8.572707

747313270774

CORDERO, E.: Caribbean Concertos - Concierto Festivo / Insula / Concertino Tropical

8.570604

747313060474

ZHOU, Long: Su / Pianogongs / Taiping Drum / Wild Grass / Taigu Rhyme / CHEN, Yi: Monologue / Chinese Ancient Dances

8.572527

747313252770

Guitar Recital: Coves, Vicente - PONCE, M.M. / ROMERO, C. / BROUWER, L. / MOREL, J. / BARRIOS MANGORE, A. (Latin-American Music for Guitar)

8.570469

747313046973

RODE, P.: Violin Concertos Nos. 7, 10 and 13

8.557135

747313213528

PALOMO, L.: Andalusian Nocturnes / Spanish Songs

8.570767

747313076772

RODE, P.: Violin Concertos Nos. 3, 4 and 6

8.572604

747313260478

RODE, P.: 12 Etudes for Violin Solo / Duos for 2 Violins

8.570958

747313095872

RODE, P.: 24 Caprices for Solo Violin

Pepe Romero & Vicente Coves, Guitars

8.572139

747313213979

PALOMO, L.: My Secluded Garden / Madrigal and 5 Sephardic Songs / Concierto de Cienfuegos

Pierre Rode, Composer

Gould Piano Trio

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer + BBC Philharmonic 8.572362

747313236275

MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Beltane Fire (The) / The Turn of the Tide / Sir Charles his Pavan

8.557698

747313269822

BAX, A.: Clarinet Sonatas / Piano Trio / Trio in One Movement IRELAND, J.: Piano Trios / Cavatina / Berceuse / Bagatelle / The Holy Boy

8.572359

747313235971

MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Black Pentecost / Stone Litany

8.570507

747313050772

8.660359-60

730099035972

MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Resurrection [Opera]

8.570416

747313041671

STANFORD, C.V.: Clarinet Sonata / Piano Trio No. 3 / 2 Fantasies

8.660354

730099035477

MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Lighthouse (The) [Chamber Opera]

8.572452

747313245277

STANFORD, C.V.: Piano Quartet No. 2 / Piano Trio No. 1 / Legend / Irish Fantasies

8.559224

636943922422

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

8.572309

747313230976

BACH, J.S.: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue / Partita No. 4 / English Suite No. 3

8.559723

636943972328

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

8.572006-07

747313200672

BACH, J.S.: Concertos for Solo Harpsichord (Complete)

8.559753

636943975329

FUCHS, K.: Falling Man / Movie House / Songs of Innocence and Experience

8.570577-78

747313057771

BACH, J.S.: Kunst der Fuge (Die)

8.559652

636943965221

GALLAGHER, J.: Orchestral Music - Diversions Overture / Berceuse / Sinfonietta / Symphony in 1 Movement, "Threnody"

8.570470-71

747313047079

Joaquin Turina, Composer

8.571291

747313129171

SCHUMANN, R.: Abegg Variations / Piano Sonata No. 2 / Fantasie, Op. 17 / Toccata (Biret Solo Edition, Vol. 4)

8.572141

747313214174

TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 6

8.571292

747313129270

SCHUMANN, R.: Kreisleriana / Blumenstuck / Faschingsschwank (Biret Solo Edition, Vol. 5)

8.572455

747313245574

TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 7

8.571298

747313129874

SCHUMANN, R.: Bunte Blatter / Fantasiestucke (Biret Solo Edition, Vol. 6)

8.572682

747313268276

TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 8

8.571301

747313130177

8.572915

747313291571

TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 9

8.570779

747313077977

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, M.: Music for Two Guitars, Vol. 2 - Fuga elegiaca / Les guitares bien temperees: Nos. 13-24

8.572757

747313275779

Guitar Duo Recital: ChromaDuo - GOSS, S. / PIERCE, C.W. / DYENS, R. (Hidden Waters)

8.573055

747313305575

MERTZ, J.K.: Guitar Duets - N채nien Trauerlieder / Unruhe / St채ndchen / La Rage / Barcarole / Wasserfahrt am Traunsee

Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer

JoAnn Falletta, Condcutor + London Symphony Orchestra

BACH, J.S.: Lute-Harpsichord Music Idil Biret Archive - Solo Edition Series

SCHUMANN, R.: Papillons / Carnaval / Arabeske / Waldscenen (Biret Solo Edition, Vol. 7) Jose Antonio Escobar, Guitar

Music for Two Guitars

8.570341

747313034178

ESCOBAR, Jose Antonio: Guitar Music of Chile

8.555719

747313571925

Guitar Recital: Jose Antonio Escobar

8.572433

747313243372

BYRD, W.: Fantasias for Harpsichord (Complete)

8.572475-76

747313247578

CABEZON, A. de: Tientos and Variations (Complete)

8.572477

747313247776

CABEZON, A. de / CABEZON, H. de / CABEZON, J. de: Glosas

8.572997

747313299775

Glen Wilson, Harpsichord

SOR, F.: Guitar Duets, Vol. 2 - Le premier pas vers moi / Fantasia / 3 Duos / 3 Petits divertissements

RICHARDSON, F.: Keyboard Works (Complete)

8.553418

730099441827

8.572632

747313263271

Anima mea - Sacred Music of the Middle Ages

8.572576

747313257676

Glogauer Liederbuch (Das)

8.557803

747313280322

Lochamer Liederbuch (Das)

NA200512

9789626340059

GRIMMS: Grimms' Fairy Tales (Selections)

8.572449

747313244973

NEIDHART: Minnesinger and His Vale of Tears (A) - Songs and Interludes

NA230312

9789626343036

GRIMMS: Grimms' Fairy Tales, Vol. 2 (Selections)

NA692112

9789626349212

POE, E.A.: Essential Edgar Allan Poe (The) (Selections)

NA213912

9789626341391

WILDE, O.: Happy Prince (The) (Abridged)

Naxos Audiobooks - Memoirs

Medieval and Renaissance Music

747313136278

COOKE, A.: Violin Sonata No. 2 / Viola Sonata / Cello Sonata No. 2

8.571360

747313136070

HODDINOTT, A.: Landscapes - Song Cycles and Folksongs

8.571370

747313137077

McCABE, J.: Symphony No. 1 'Elegy' / Capriccio / Sostenuto / Fantasy on a Theme of Liszt / Tuning

8.571354

747313135479

9781843798750 9789626342886

GIBBON, E.: Memoirs of My Life (Unabridged) PEPYS, S.: Selections from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (Abridged) Naxos Audiobooks - Short Stories

British Music Society Series 8.571362

NA0191 NA428812

Naxos Audiobooks - Anthony Trollope, Author

Piano Music - HOLLOWAY, R. / HOWARD, L. / MATTHEW-WALKER, R. / SEARLE, H. (Malcolm Smith Memorial Album)

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9781843797661

TROLLOPE, A.: Barchester Towers (Unabridged)

NA0158

9781843797890

TROLLOPE, A.: Dr Thorne (Unabridged)

NA0115

9781843796862

TROLLOPE, A.: Warden (The) (Unabridged)

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This Month’s Highlights 8.573346

747313334674

Argentum et Aurum: Musical Treasures from the Early Habsburg Renaissance (Ensemble Leones, Lewon)

8.559768

636943976821

GALLAGHER, J.: Symphony No. 2 'Ascendant' / Quiet Reflections (London SO, Falletta)

8.572358

747313235872

MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Caroline Mathilde - Ballet Suites / Chat Moss / Ojai Festival Overture (BBC PO, Maxwell Davies)

8.573331

747313333172

SAINT-SAËNS, C.: Symphony No. 3 'Organ Symphony' / Danse Macabre / Cyprès et Lauriers (Warnier, ONL, Slatkin)

NBD0045

730099004565

SAINT-SAËNS, C.: Symphony No. 3 'Organ Symphony' / Danse Macabre / Cyprès et Lauriers (Warnier, ONL, Slatkin) [Blu-ray]

8.573439

747313343973

Through the Centuries: HANDEL. G.F. / MERTZ, J.-K. / GANGI, M. / BURKHART, F. / TELEMANN, G.P. / DOMENICONI, C. (Amadeus Guitar Duo)

8.573255

747313325573

TORROBA, F.M.: Concierto en Flamenco / Diálogos entre gitarra y orquesta / Aires de la mancha (Romero, V. Coves, Malaga PO, M. Coves)

8.573183

747313318377

TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 10 (Masó) More Exciting New Releases

8.572983

747313298372

ANTICO, A.: Animoso mio desire (Wilson)

8.570564-65

747313056477

BACH, J.S.: Well-Tempered Clavier (The), Book 2 (Beauséjour)

8.571361

747313136179

British Music for Cello and Piano: WORDSWORTH, W. / HOLBROOKE, J. / BUSCH, W. (Wallfisch, Terroni)

8.570609

747313060979

GE, Gan-Ru: Shanghai Reminiscences / Butterfly Overture (Royal Scottish NO, Tsung Yeh)

8.573059

747313305971

Guitar Music of Colombia: MEJÍA, A. / MONTAÑA, G. / SABOYA, L. / GONZÁLEZ, H. (Escobar)

8.572755

747313275571

RODE, P.: Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 5 and 9 (Eichhorn, Jena PO, Pasquet)

8.571302

747313130276

SCRIABIN, A.: Idil Biret Archive: Solo Edition, Vol. 8 (Biret)

8.573388

747313338870

STANFORD, C.V.: Piano Trio No. 2 / Piano Quartet No. 1 (Adams, Gould Piano Trio) Naxos Audiobooks New Releases

NA0174

9781843798392

Diary of Samuel Pepys (The), Vol. 1: 1660-63 (Unabridged)

NA0163

9781843798002

IRVING, W.: Rip Van Winkle (Unabridged)

NA0178

9781843798491

TROLLOPE, A.: Framley Parsonage (Unabridged)

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