Naxos Catalogue: December 2015

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DECEMBER 2015 World Première Recording

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Franz Hauk

Simon MAYR (1763–1845)

Supplementary Promotional Material • Podcast

Requiem in G minor

Siri Karoline Thornhill • Katharina Ruckgaber, Sopranos Theresa Holzhauser • Brigitte Thoma, Altos Markus Schäfer • Robert Sellier, Tenors Martin Berner • Ludwig Mittelhammer • Virgil Mischok, Basses Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble Theona Gubba-Chkheidze, Concertmaster Franz Hauk

Born in Neuburg an der Donau in 1955, Franz Hauk studied church and school music, with piano and organ, at the Munich Musikhochschule and in Salzburg. In 1988 he took his doctorate with a thesis on church music in Munich at the beginning of the nineteenth century. He has given concerts in Europe and the United States and made a number of recordings. Since October 2002 he has taught in the historical performance and church music department of the Munich Music and Theatre Hochschule, while winning a reputation for his research and the performances he has directed. He founded the Simon Mayr Choir in 2003, and in 2013 was awarded the German Order of Merit.

Admired for his fusion of German and Italianate musical elements, Johann Simon Mayr is increasingly recognised as one of the most intriguing and influential composers of his time. His Requiem in G minor is shrouded in compositional obscurity but it is clear that the published version is surpassed both in scale and instrumentation by the elaborate edition performed here, which has been assembled from the autograph manuscripts. Small sections were composed by Donizetti and then corrected by his teacher, Mayr. Church style and more Romanticised elements are finely balanced in this important example of Mayr’s compositional language.

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Another release in the extensive Mayr series performed by his leading contemporary champions, Franz Hauk and the Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble.

• Their discs have been overwhelmingly well received by critics worldwide.

• Booklet notes by Franz Hauk outlining the unique edition performed that differs from any previous performance or recording.

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Important to note Donizetti’s collaboration in small sections; he was Mayr’s pupil and Mayr’s influence in Italian operatic music was transmitted via Donizetti amongst others.

Private Photo

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Very likely that this Requiem was performed at both Donizetti’s and Mayr’s funerals.

Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble

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Acclaimed Releases of Simon Mayr’s Music

by Franz Hauk & the Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble 8.572719-20

NEW UPCOMING RELEASE: January 2016

“Hrachuhí Bassénz… possesses a full tone, rounded in the middle and with a mezzoish hue, and is most gratifying throughout…”

– International Record Review

8.660367-68 MAYR, Simon Saffo

Brown, Jun, Schäfer, Papenmayer, Ruckgaber Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble Franz Hauk Draft cover artwork.

Final artwork available soon.

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“Enthusiastically recommended.”

– Fanfare

“This performance will provide much pleasure…

Highly recommended.”

– Fanfare

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“The energy never flags. …Viva Mayr!”

– American Record Guide

“…excellent solo and choir singing, and the orchestra is likewise good. Highly recommendable.”

– Pizzicato

“All the singers [are] extremely capable and alert to whatever morsels of characterisation come their way.”

– Gramophone

“the performances are sprightly and enjoyable” – American Record Guide

“American soprano Andrea Lauren Brown is brilliant and expressive in the fiery role of Sebia” – Opera News

“This is a surprise favorite for me.”

– American Record Guide

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Music for Brass Septet, Vol. 3

SHOSTAKOVICH: Quartet No. 8, Op. 110 PROKOFIEV: Suite • March from ‘The Love for Three Oranges’ SCRIABIN: Six Preludes RACHMANINOV: Vocalise • Four Pieces Septura - Alan Thomas • Simon Cox, Trumpets in B flat Huw Morgan, Trumpet in E flat Matthew Gee • Matthew Knight, Trombones Dan West, Bass Trombone Peter Smith, Tuba Stretching back from the stark Soviet soundscape of Shostakovich, through the early modernism of Prokofiev to the pre-revolutionary opulence of Scriabin and Rachmaninov, Septura redresses a lack of original music for brass by these great composers by charting a turbulent seventy years of Russian history. Brass instruments feature prominently in these composers’ symphonic output, and Septura is a natural fit for their chamber music. The focus is piano music with one prominent exception: perhaps Septura’s most ambitious transcription to date, Shostakovich’s profound and deeply personal Eighth String Quartet. Volumes 1 and 2 are available on Naxos 8.573314 and 8.573386.

Key Features

• This release follows on from two critically acclaimed previous volumes. Volume 1 (8.573314) with its program of 19th century German music was admired as a “superbly played and warmly engineered debut disc of imaginatively conceived arrangements”

by BBC Music Magazine, and for its “noble performances” by Gramophone. Volume 2 (8.573386) with music from 18th century England was released in May 2015, with WQXR (New York) making it an ‘Album of the Week’ with the comment, “the performances are what one expects from U.K. brass players— bright, clear, full and rounded in tone, with the right blend of heft and lyricism when called for.”

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Each of Septura’s members is a leading player from 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.

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Septura brings together Londonʼs leading players to redefine brass chamber music through the uniquely expressive sound of the brass septet. Currently Ensemble in Residence at the Royal Academy of Music in London, the group is recording a series of discs for Naxos Records, each focused on a particular period, genre and set of composers, creating a ʻcounter-factual historyʼ of brass chamber music. Weaving this ever-increasing repertoire into captivating live events, Septura is gaining a reputation for engaging audiences with innovative and imaginative programming, built around strong concepts and themes.

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Michael Halász

Domenico CIMAROSA (1749–1801) Overtures, Vol. 4

Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice Michael Halász The most famous Italian opera composer of his day, Domenico Cimarosa saw his fame spread all over Europe. Written towards the end of the ‘Neapolitan School’ era, his operas endured in popularity long after his death thanks to their melodic invention, colourful orchestration and sheer vitality. The overtures in this programme include I tre amanti (The Three Lovers), the hit opera that made Cimarosa’s name outside Naples, Il pittor parigino (The Parisian Painter), and the tragedy Giunio Bruto that were admired by Haydn and conducted by him at the Esterházy court. The first three volumes are available on Naxos 8.570508, 8.570279 and 8.572734.

Michael Halász is an acclaimed conductor of opera, and was resident conductor at the Vienna State Opera for twenty years, beginning in 1991. Michael Halász’s recordings for Naxos include ballets by Tchaikovsky, operatic excerpts of Wagner, symphonies by Beethoven, Schubert and Mahler, Rossini overtures, three volumes of Liszt’s symphonic poems (described by the Penguin Guide as ‘one of the most successful collections of Liszt’s symphonic poems to have emerged in recent years’), Beethoven’s Fidelio (8.660070-71), Mozart’s Don Giovanni (8.660080-82), Le nozze di Figaro (8.66010204) and Die Zauberflöte (8.660030-31). He has also recorded Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Orfeo, and Richard Strauss’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and, for Marco Polo, Rubinstein’s ballet music and Don Quixote, Schmidt’s Symphony No. 1 and a pioneering recording of Schreker’s opera Der ferne Klang (8.660074-75).

Key Features

• The previous three volumes of this series of overtures by Domenico Cimarosa have received wide critical acclaim. Volume 1 (8.570508) was summed up by MusicWeb International as “a golden opportunity to make the acquaintance of some of the most spirited music of the late 18th century”. Volume 2 (8.570279) “never fails when it comes to capturing and holding the attention of the listener” (Fanfare), and more recently volume 3 (8.572734) was a WXQR ‘Album of the Week’ and had ClassicsToday.com stating that this is “the best to date. The Sinfonia Finlandia plays with consistent alertness and transparency. The engineering is excellent.”

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Sergey Ivanovich TANEYEV (1856–1915) Complete String Quartets, Vol. 4 String Quartet No. 9 in A major String Quartet No. 6 in B flat major

Carpe Diem String Quartet

Carpe Diem String Quartet Charles Wetherbee, Violin I Amy Galluzzo, Violin II Korine Fujiwara, Viola Carol Ou, Cello

Founded in 2005, Carpe Diem String Quartet has become nationally recognized for its innovative and electrifying performances. They are four-time recipients of the prestigious PNC Foundation’s ArtsAlive Award, the only quartet in America to attain such recognition. Carpe Diem has released eight CDs, and is nearing the completion of an ambitious project to record the complete Taneyev quartets, with performances earning praise from Classical CD Review, Fanfare, American Record Guide, and The Strad, among others. A history of diverse programmatic partnerships with artists such as singer/songwriter Willy Porter, bandoneón player Peter Soave, klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer, cellist Yo Yo Ma, Chinese pipa player Yihan Chen, and world master of the Persian santoor Dariush Saghafi, testifies to the expanse of their vision.

A pupil of Tchaikovsky, who called him the ‘Russian Bach’, Sergey Taneyev is best known today for his four symphonies, although he also composed a sizeable body of chamber music, including nine complete String Quartets. Quartet No. 9 is a memorably melodic work, while the beautifully crafted Quartet No. 6, his last completed quartet, is rather more austere, though marked by a playful Jig, and even more masterful in construction.

Key Features

• This series of the complete string quartets is the only modern recordings of the Taneyev quartets.

• A critically acclaimed series, the world’s leading string journal, The Strad, wrote of Vol 3: “The Carpe Diem players perform this music with the same devoted intensity as if they were discovering a lost work by Tchaikovsky.ˮ

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• Carpe Diem Quartet is noted for its innovative cross-genre programming: “One of the best quartets out thereˮ (The Washington Post).

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Leo BROUWER (b. 1939)

Music for Bandurria and Guitar

Pedro Chamorro © Angel Valencia Rubi Pedro Mateo González © Albert Simón

Pedro Chamorro, Bandurria Pedro Mateo González, Guitar

A native of Cuba, Leo Brouwer is universally acknowledged as one of the most challenging and innovative of contemporary composers.

This programme brings the guitar into consort with the bandurria, a small lute dating from the 16th century and perennially popular in South America, the combination perfect for expressing the rustic rhythms of Cuban folk style in Música Incidental Campesina. This recording covers a kaleidoscopic range of techniques and emotions, from political martyrdom in Chile to the immense vistas of Brazil.

The Sonata para Bandurria was composed for one of the virtuoso performers on this recording, Pedro Chamorro.

Performer, composer, professor of plucked instruments at the Conservatory Arturo Soria, and Doctor in Arts (Music) cum laude at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música Arturo Soria, Madrid, Pedro Chamorro studied bandurria with Manuel Grandío in Spain and mandolin with Juan Carlos Muñoz in Luxembourg. An awardwinning performer, he is the dedicatee of Leo Brouwer’s Sonata para Bandurria of 2011 and the Concierto de La Mancha for bandurria and symphony orchestra of 2015.

Pedro Mateo González studied in Germany and Spain with teachers including José Luis Rodrigo, Roberto Aussel, Hugo Geller and Thomas Müller-Pering. He is currently a professor at the conservatories of Mallorca and Zaragoza. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the Orquesta Sinfónica de RTVE, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León and the Orquestra Simfònica de les Illes Balears, conducted by Alejandro Posadas, Adrián Leaper and Leo Brouwer.

Key Features

• Our recorded catalog of the music of Leo Brouwer is already substantial, and this release joins four acclaimed volumes of guitar music (Naxos 8.553630, 8.554195, 8.554553 and 8.570251) and most recently in September 2015 the works for guitar duo (8.573336).

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The bandurria remains very popular as a folk instrument in many countries in South America but has been overlooked by serious composers. Having Brouwer’s first Sonata for the instrument played by its dedicatee Pedro Chamorro is something of a coup, and this aspect of the program alone will be of wide interest to contemporary music collectors and players alike.

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Guitarist Pedro Mateo Gonzáles has won several awards and performs widely through Europe, Asia and America. He has also recently made premiere recordings of music for guitar and violin

by Ferdinand Rebay released on the Eudora label. Both he and Pedro Chamorro have worked closely with Leo Brouwer.

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Gérard Korsten

Joachim Nikolas EGGERT (1779–1813)

Born in South Africa, Gérard Korsten began his career as a violinist, after studying with Ivan Galamian at the Curtis Institute and with Sándor Végh in Salzburg. In 2005 he was appointed Principal Conductor of the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg, Bregenz. His past engagements include concerts with the Budapest Festival, Leipzig Gewandhaus, BBC Scottish Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony, and Gävle Symphony Orchestra, and he has appeared at many notable opera houses, including La Scala Milan, Royal Swedish Opera and English National Opera. Featured among Gérard Korstenʼs many recordings are Tchaikovskyʼs Serenade and Souvenir de Florence with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe on Deutsche Grammophon and a DVD of Le nozze di Figaro at La Scala Milan, which was awarded a Diapason dʼOr and was Criticʼs Choice in Opera News.

Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 Gävle Symphony Orchestra Gérard Korsten

One of the more forward-looking Swedish composers and conductors of his age, Eggert died before achieving wider European recognition and has remained neglected ever since. The Second Symphony evokes moods both stormy and lyrical, revealing a technical brilliance that foreshadows Schubert. The Fourth Symphony reflects the military backdrop to the political unrest of the times, its alternative slow movement being one of Eggert’s most powerful and progressive works. Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 can be heard on Naxos 8.572457.

Key Features

• This is the second of a two volume première recorded edition of Eggert’s symphonies. Volume one was released in October 2015 and can be found on Naxos 8.572457.

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Eggert died before being able to enter into competition with his German and Austrian contemporaries, and while his symphonies demonstrate remarkable forward-thinking skill he has remained sidelined, his music virtually unknown in the record catalogues.

He represents an all too brief flourishing of progressive musical evolution in Sweden between Joseph Martin Kraus in the 18th century and Franz Berwald in the 19th.

• The Gävle Symphony Orchestra has recorded many times for Naxos in the past, including Berwald’s Tone Poems (8.555370) considered “eminently lively and musical” performances by the Penguin Guide, and “a full-bodied sound, with refinement of tone” (American Record Guide) in Stenhammar’s Serenade in F (8.572186).

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Richard STRAUSS (1864–1949) Ein Heldenleben*

Albéric MAGNARD (1865–1914)

Founded In 1976 by Jean-Claude Casadesus, the Orchestre National de Lille has become an integral part of cultural activities at the heart of the Région Nord-Pas-de Calais. Additionally, the orchestra has played in over thirty countries on four continents, and returned to China for the third time in 2014. Jean-Claude Casadesus’ more than thirty recordings have been hailed by both critics and the public, as have his two books, Le plus court chemin d’un coeur à un autre (Stock, 1997) and La partition d’une vie (Editions Écriture, 2012). He is President of the Musique Nouvelle en Liberté association and and is also director of the Lille Piano Festival.

Chant funèbre

Fernand Iaciu, Violin solo* Orchestre National de Lille Jean-Claude Casadesus The tone poems of Richard Strauss’s early career represent a remarkable extension of the ideas of Liszt and Wagner, and the autobiographical Ein Heldenleben exceeds its predecessors in terms of its demands on the orchestra. Its intricately interwoven sections create a single symphonic movement depicting heroism, love, and ultimately peace. Albéric Magnard became a French national hero when he died defending his home at the outbreak of World War I. The Chant funèbre was written in memory of his father. This recording celebrates both the 40th anniversary of the Orchestre National de Lille and the 50th year of its founder Jean-Claude Casadesus’s career.

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Ein Heldenleben is considered by many to be the pinnacle of Richard Strauss’s series of tone poems, and given the heroic and tragic story of Albéric Magnard its unique coupling with the much less frequently heard Chant funèbre is movingly appropriate.

• Now established as one of France’s leading orchestras, the Orchestra National de Lille was founded by conductor Jean Claude Casadesus in 1976, and in recent years this team has given us some of our most successful releases. These include Bizet’s Clovis et Clotilde (8.572270) considered a “delightful discovery” by Gramophone, Milhaud’s La Création du monde (8.557287) “in warmly idiomatic performances which , Penguin combine refinement with rhythmic bite” ( Guide), and a “highly recommended” (Classic FM) Berlioz Damnation of Faust (8.660116-17).

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Eugene ZÁDOR (1894–1977) Dance Symphony†

Variations on a Hungarian Folksong†† Festival Overture Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV Mariusz Smolij †

WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING OF COMPLETE VERSION

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Hungarian composer Eugene Zádor, a friend of Béla Bartók, won renown in Vienna before having to leave for America in 1939 where he eventually became Miklós Rózsa’s exclusive orchestrator in Hollywood. His music is often redolent of his native soil as depicted in the Variations on a Hungarian Folksong which, at times, approaches an almost Straussian opulence. Written in Vienna in 1936, the Dance Mariusz Smolij Symphony is a sunny homage to the composer’s adopted home.

The Festival Overture is a much later work of almost cinematic brilliance. This is Volume 3 of the ongoing Naxos series of Zádor’s orchestral works.

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Key Features Volume 2 (8.572549) received a 10/10 ClassicsToday rating, being called ‘quality music that’s evidently a lot of fun to play’ and was on the prestigious Fanfare journal ‘Want List’. Volume 1 is on 8.572548.

First ever recording of the Dance Symphony.

First complete recording of the Variations on a Hungarian Folksong.

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8.572548 World Première Recordings

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Monuments

Music for Wind Symphony

Allyss Haecker, Soprano Illinois State University Wind Symphony Martin H. Seggelke

MAGNUSON, R.D. • HODKINSON, S. • OGREN, J.J. • GALLEGO, F.J.M. This much lauded series continues with a sequence of four premiere recordings played by the elite Illinois State University Wind Symphony. Roy Magnuson’s House Plants in Terracotta Pots is described by the composer ‘as a simple statement of something simply thought.’ Sydney Hodkinson’s expressive Duae Cantatae Breves explores the slow and meditative potential of the wind band.

Jayce John Ogren’s richly imagined and poetic Evening Music is followed by Francesco José Martínez Gallego’s exciting, monumental Sinfonía No. 1 ‘Kaprekar’.

Key Features

Four world premiere recordings.

First recording of the Illinois State University Wind Symphony with its recently appointed new conductor, Martin Seggelke.

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Of a previous release in this Wind Band Classics series, Point Blank (8.573334) Gramophone wrote; ‘America’s proud performance tradition of music played by wind band is enhanced on [this album], featuring the large Illinois State University Wind Symphony.’

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New wind ensemble repertoire.

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Moritz MOSZKOWSKI (1854–1925) Works for Violin and Piano

Five Spanish Dances • Four Pieces • Suite for Two Violins Nazrin Rashidova, Violin Daniel Grimwood, Piano

Moritz Moszkowski enjoyed a considerable international reputation as a composer and pianist and was fêted as the natural successor to Chopin. It is a mark of his music’s success that it was arranged for countless ensembles and solo instruments. French violinist Émile Sauret transformed the popular Spanish Dances into virtuoso showpieces filled with all manner of impressive elaborations, Jascha Heifetz similarly turning Etincelles or ‘Sparks’ into something brilliantly light and twinkling. The interaction of two violins makes the Suite highly dramatic, contrasting with the fine lyrical melody of Moszkowski’s Serenata.

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Key Features Moszkowski’s works with violin—original or in arrangement—tend to appear as part of ‘encore’ programs, the Suite with two violins being something of a chamber music rarity. This substantial program brings together some of his best-loved works in transcriptions by noted violinists, along with original compositions for the instrument.

Rising star and award-winning violinist Nazrin Rashidova had her Naxos debut in a recording of a program of works by Leopold Godowsky (8.573058) that was described as “outstanding” by Gramophone; The Strad stating that the playing “captures [the music’s] elusive, tantalising combination of insouciant cool and nostalgic intensity to perfection.”

Pianist Daniel Grimwood is a highly regarded soloist in his own right, reviewed as "Stimulating and revelatory in equal measure"

by The Telegraph. His Liszt album from the SFZ Music label made a Daily Telegraph “CD of the Week” and a Gramophone Magazine ‘Editor’s Choice’, and he was the first artist to record for the Edition Peters Sounds label with the complete Nocturnes by Fauré.

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Akihiro Sakiya Piano Laureate Recital

2014 Winner Jaén Prize International Piano Competition Akihiro Sakiya, Piano

BRAHMS, J. • DEBUSSY, C. • ROMÁN, A. • GRANADOS, E. • RUIZ, J.M. The young Japanese soloist Akihiro Sakiya, winner of the 56th Jaén International Piano competition in three categories—Solo, Audience and Spanish Music—has constructed a programme that includes Brahms’s Piano Sonata No. 3, one of the great sonatas of its time, Debussy’s evocative Estampes and a Spanish classic by Granados. Written as test pieces for the Jaén competition, the two contemporary Spanish works draw on rich folkloric traditions.

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Key Features In addition to winning the 56th Jaén International Piano competition, Akihiro Sakiya has also won several other important prizes including 1st Prize in the 3rd Lyon International Piano Competition in 2011.

He is already an established international performer and has performed with many orchestras such as the Osaka Sinfoniker, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Japan Symphony, Japan Century Orchestra, Haydn Orchestra, Granada City Orchestra etc., with conductors K. Kobayashi, C. Cruz, A. Fagen and P. Mann.

His performances have been broadcast on NHK TV and Radio in Japan, ABC Radio in Australia, and Italian National Television.

The two contemporary pieces written by Román and Ruiz were both composed for the Jaén International Piano competition.

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Frank BRIDGE (1879–1941) Piano Quintet in D minor Cyril SCOTT (1879–1970) Piano Quintet No. 1

Raphael Terroni, Piano Bingham String Quartet – Steve Bingham, Violin I • Mark Messenger, Violin II Brenda Stewart, Viola • Miriam Lowbury, Cello Frank Bridge is today recognised as one of the most gifted figures in British musical life before World War I. His Piano Quintet, a work of personal significance prompted by the absence of his fiancée, is notable for its passionate, lyrical and forceful language, the Rachmaninov-like technical demands of the piano part calling for a virtuoso pianist. Debussy described Cyril Scott’s exotic harmonic language as “an intoxication for the ear”, and the First Piano Quintet is a multifaceted work which mirrors Scott’s flamboyant public persona while maintaining a genuinely poetic inner beauty.

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Originally recorded in 1989 and released on cassette, the title appeared for the first time on CD in 2013 as a memorial to pianist Raphael Terroni who died in 2012. MusicWeb International valued the “impressive and technically demanding contribution” made by Terroni, and also commenting that “The Bingham String Quartet plays with imagination and sympathy on both these works.” For Gramophone the results were “moving and powerful” in the Frank Bridge, and “warmly expressive and spontaneous-sounding” with the rarely heard Cyril Scott piece.

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Sir Lennox BERKELEY (1903–1989) Music for Solo Piano and Piano Duet Raphael Terroni, Piano Norman Beedie, Piano

The piano was Lennox Berkeley’s own instrument and his piano works represent a microcosm of his very best compositional talents. Influenced harmonically by French models, his music is suffused with lyricism and subtle harmonies. The Sonata, Op. 20 possesses a particularly haunting beauty in its slow movement, while simple but distinctive melodic and rhythmic ideas permeate the Six Preludes, Op. 23 and Five Short Pieces, Op. 4. The Theme and Variations, Op. 73, recorded here for the first time, offers a favourite Berkeley vehicle for conveying a highly individual and personal language.

Key Features

© John Terroni

Pianist Raphael Terroni was an acknowledged exponent of the British piano repertoire whose recordings have been widely admired. He is represented on other ex-BMS discs released by Naxos.

© D. Stuart

This is an ex-British Music Society CD—BMS416CD, originally released in 1993.

Raphael Terroni

Norman Beedie

Berkeley’s piano works are rare on disc and offer a focused repertoire.

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Percy GRAINGER (1882–1961) Music for Saxophones

Joyce Griggs, Saxophones J. Michael Holmes • Phil Pierick • Jesse Dochnahl Adam Hawthorne • Drew Whiting • Ben Kenis • Adrianne Honnold, Saxophones Casey Gene Dierlam, Piano Percy Grainger called the saxophone “the world’s finest wind-tone tool, the most voice-like,” and wrote for it a series of fascinating but hitherto little-explored works.

These arrangements are special in that, unusually, Grainger largely abandoned his idea of ‘elastic scoring’ and noted specific instrumental configurations. The selections include the music of J.S. Bach, British and Norwegian folksongs, old polyphonic instrumental and vocal music, as well as two original compositions, each indelibly stamped with Grainger’s experiences as pianist, folk-song collector, and proponent of early music.

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All the works have been edited by Joyce Griggs, who plays tenor saxophone on several of the selections. The scores are available through RBC Publishers Inc. Instrumentation varies between the now conventional saxophone quartet and more varied ensemble including the tour de force of Angelus ad Virginem, scored for soprano, two altos, two tenors, baritone and bass saxophones—a must-hear sonority.

The musicians are well-known in their field. Soprano saxophonist J. Michael Holmes, for instance, has concertized worldwide and given master-classes as well as commissioning and performing new works for the instrument.

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Digital Exclusive Includes World Première Recordings

WANG Lisan (1933–2013) Complete Piano Works Yiming Zhang, Piano

Wang Lisan, a leading Chinese composer, suffered under a repressive political system but continued to compose pieces deeply rooted in the various folk traditions of his country. He was the first Chinese composer to publish a twelve-tone piano piece—Two Fantasies after Li He’s Poems—whilst also writing piano studies, adaptations from well-known songs, pieces with typical instrumental ensemble sonority, free arrangements of Yangko drama, and suites of impressions. This recording, comprising several world premières, is the first time his complete piano works have appeared together.

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© Nicholas Kohut

The première recording of Lisan Wang’s complete piano music.

Whilst movements from the suites have been recorded this is the first time the whole suites have been recorded.

Significant Chinese composer who suffered internal exile during political purges.

Pianist Yiming Zhang is Wang’s foremost contemporary exponent and an expert in the performance of music by Chinese composers. He has also written scholarly articles on many subjects in leading journals.

Though Wang is a generation older, this disc should appeal to those who admire the music of a composer such as Ge Gan-ru.

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Playing Time: 3:25:55 7

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Air Force Blue - THURSTON, R. / PUCKETT, J. / WILBY, P. / WILLIAMS, J. / EWAZEN, E.

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MAYR, J.S.: Samuele [Oratorio]

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Point Blank - DOOLEY, P. / DANYEW, S. / MAGNUSON, R.D. / MCALLISTER, S. / HIGDON, J.

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Missa Conceptio Tua - Medieval and Renaissance Music for Advent

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