NEW ON NAXOS - January 2017 by Jayson Mangalino

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Boris Giltburg

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Dmitry SHOSTAKOVICH (1906–1975)

Piano Concertos Nos. 1* and 2

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String Quartets Nos. 2† & 8†

Arranged for piano by Boris Giltburg Boris Giltburg, Piano Rhys Owens, Trumpet* Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Vasily Petrenko †

Supplementary Promotional Materials • Key Release Kit • Artist Profile – Boris Giltburg • Facebook cover and post

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Boris Giltburg took first prize at the 2013 Queen Elisabeth Competition, having won second prize at the Rubinstein in 2011 and top prize at Santander back in 2002, and subsequently appearing across the globe. Notable débuts have included a South American tour in 2002 (and every season since), with the Israel Philharmonic in 2005, the Indianapolis Symphony in 2007, a tour of China in 2007, and at the BBC Proms in London in 2010. He has appeared with Marin Alsop, Martyn Brabbins, Edo de Waart, Christoph von Dohnányi, Philippe Entremont, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Neeme Järvi, Kirill Karabits, Emmanuel Krivine, Hannu Lintu, Vasily Petrenko, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Tugan Sokhiev and Yan Pascal Tortelier, among others. In 2014 he began a long-term recording plan with Naxos.

Shostakovich’s two Piano Concertos span a period of almost thirty years. The youthful First Piano Concerto is a masterful example of eclecticism, its inscrutable humour and seriousness allied to virtuoso writing enhanced by the rôle for solo trumpet. Written as a birthday present for his son Maxim, the Second Piano Concerto is light-spirited with a hauntingly beautiful slow movement. With the permission of the composer’s family, Boris Giltburg has arranged the exceptionally dark, deeply personal and powerful String Quartet No. 8, thereby establishing a major Shostakovich solo piano composition. Key Features

• Boris Giltburg is one of today’s most exciting young pianists, lauded for his ‘massive and engulfing technique, supporting interpretations that glow with warmth and poetic commitment.’ (Gramophone) • His Rachmaninov piano disc for Naxos was a Gramophone Recording of the Month, and a BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Choice. The American Record Guide wrote of his playing that he “plays these pieces better than I can ever remember having heard them. I have never heard a more glorious combination of power and sensitivity.”

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra © Mark McNulty

• Conductor Vasily Petrenko’s complete cycle of the Shostakovich symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has won magnificent accolades. Of Volume 14 (8.573132) Gramophone wrote; with bold sound and detailed booklet-notes this would be a thrilling investment at any price.” It was also a MusicWeb International Recording of the Year, and Sunday Times Album of the Week, and ClassicsToday.com wrote of it “This is a sensational performance, the first that truly vies with the classic Rostropovich/Vishnevskaya/Reshetin for supremacy.”

• This disc includes the first recording of pianist Boris Giltburg’s transcriptions for solo piano of the Eighth String Quartet and the Waltz from the Second Quartet. Giltburg has received permission from the Shostakovich family to present these transcriptions.

Companion Titles – Boris Giltburg, Piano

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Marin Alsop and Leonard Bernstein

Leonard BERNSTEIN (1918–1990)

Marin Alsop is an inspiring and powerful voice in the international music scene. She made history with her appointment as the 12th music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO). Her success as the BSO’s music director has garnered national and international attention for her innovative programming and artistry. Alsop took up the post of principal conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in 2012, and became music director in July 2013. In September 2013, she made history as the first female conductor of the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms in London – an honor she repeated in 2015.

Symphony No. 1 ‘Jeremiah’

Symphony No. 2 ‘The Age of Anxiety’2 Jennifer Johnson Cano, Mezzo-Soprano1 Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Piano2 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop

Leonard Bernstein’s legendary 1943 Carnegie Hall conducting début brought his name to national attention, and the event was followed a few months later by the triumphant reception of his Symphony No. 1 ‘Jeremiah.’ This major symphonic statement explores a crisis in faith and employs Jewish liturgical sources, its final movement, Lamentation, being an anguished cry at the destruction of Jerusalem. Sharing the theme of loss of faith, Symphony No. 2 ‘The Age of Anxiety’ takes W.H. Auden’s poem of the same name and follows its four characters in their spiritual journey to hard-won triumph. Bernstein’s Symphony No. 3 ‘Kaddish’ can be heard on Naxos 8.559742. Key Features:

• Leonard Bernstein’s own recording of the symphonies (as well as other works), with the New York Philharmonic, are available in a seven-disc collection released by Sony Classical in 2012 (886978808622).

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

• Soloists on our recording are world-famous pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Caro who has sung at the Met in New York and at Chicago Opera Theatre.

Companion Titles – Marin Alsop’s Previous Bernstein Recordings

• Conductor Marin Alsop is a Bernstein protégé and accepted as one of his leading interpreters today. Supplementary Promotional Materials • Key Release Kit • Artist Profile – Marin Alsop • Facebook cover and post

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Hans Graf

Alban BERG (1885–1935) Wozzeck

Libretto by Georg Büchner Roman Trekel, Wozzeck (Baritone) Anne Schwanewilms, Marie (Soprano) Marc Molomot, Captain (Tenor) Nathan Berg, Doctor (Bass-Baritone) Members of Houston Grand Opera Children’s Chorus Karen Reeves, Chorusmaster Chorus of Students and Alumni, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University Houston Symphony Orchestra Hans Graf

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Appointed Music Director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra in 2001, Hans Graf concluded his tenure in May 2013 and is the longest serving Music Director in the orchestra’s history. His extensive discography includes the complete symphonies of Mozart and Schubert, the première recording of Zemlinsky’s opera Es war einmal and the complete orchestral works of Dutilleux. He has been awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur by the French government for championing French music around the world as well as the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria.

Based on real events and playwright Georg Büchner’s starkly vehement text, Alban Berg’s tragic opera Wozzeck is an epochmaking work, in stark contrast to the previous high romantic ideals of the genre, that led Schoenberg to exclaim “now that’s what I call an opera!” Immensely powerful and heartbreakingly moving as a drama, Wozzeck explores the victimisation, despair and madness of a central character who has no place in society, its deeply humane message and sublimely innovative score firmly establishing it as a 20th-century masterpiece. Key Features:

• This significant release follows on from successful recordings with the Houston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Graf – making their Naxos debut in 2009 with Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony and Berg’s Three Pieces (8.572048). Our Wozzeck soloist for this earlier release was admired by Gramophone: “Roman Trekel’s experience in big operatic roles, not least Wagner, makes him an excellent choice for the four malevoice movements: he has the presence and range to belong in the company of the starriest-baritones, from Dietrich FischerDieskau to Bryn Terfel.”

• Baritone Roman Trekel has won several international singing competitions. His contributions to the Naxos Schubert Lied Edition have been much admired, with a Winterreise (Vol. 1, 8.554471) that is “moving and beautifully sung” (San Jose Mercury News) and ClassicsToday.com considering that this recording “stands with the best on disc.”

• The cast for this production of Wozzeck is notable for its strength and depth. Soprano Anne Schwanewilms (Marie) was proclaimed by London’s Time Out as “one of the world’s finest interpreters of late romantic opera and song.” Internationally acclaimed tenor Marc Molomot (Captain) is highly regarded as “an excellent actor-singer” (Le Monde), and star bass-baritone Nathan Berg (Doctor) received acclaim for his role as the sea captain in Der Fliegende Holländer from The Salt Lake Tribune: “Berg’s vocally secure performance suggested not only the world-weariness that would come from decades, if not centuries, roaming the seas, but also a depth of poise and gravity that made even his quietest utterances compelling.”

Roman Trekel

Anne Schwanewilms

Companion Titles – Hans Graf and the Houston Symphony

Companion Titles – Opera Classics Series

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Leonard Slatkin

Maurice RAVEL (1875–1937)

Leonard Slatkin is Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) and the Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL). He also maintains a rigorous schedule of guest conducting throughout the world and is active as a composer, author, and educator. Slatkin’s more than a hundred recordings have received seven GRAMMY® awards and 64 nominations. His Naxos recordings include works by Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and Berlioz (with the ONL) and music by Copland, Rachmaninov, Borzova, McTee, and John Williams (with the DSO).

Daphnis et Chloé*

Une barque sur l’océan Spirito* Orchestre National de Lyon Leonard Slatkin

Composed for Sergey Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Ravel’s ‘symphonie chorégraphique’ Daphnis et Chloé is based on a classical Greco-Roman love story set on the island of Lesbos. He described the work as ‘a vast musical fresco’, and with its extraordinarily passionate music, lush harmonies and orchestration, is considered both his masterpiece and the epitome of Impressionism in music. Orchestrated from the third of his Miroirs for piano, Ravel’s Une barque sur l’océan is an evocative portrayal of the ever-changing moods of the sea. Key Features

• Volume 1 of this series (8.5728870) was greeted positively by Gramophone: “The atmosphere is established not merely with confidence but with freshness as well. The Shéhérazade overture finds a delicate balance between Ravel’s exoticism, lyricism and gaiety, Slatkin shaping the music with a potent mix of the sensuous, sinuous, sinister and spirited. If this disc heralds a comprehensive Ravel series, it augurs well.” BBC Music Magazine wrote that “Leonard Slatkin draws a vivid sound from the Lyon players, with a wide range of dynamics and colours.”

Orchestre National de Lyon

Companion Titles – Leonard Slatkin and ONL’s Ravel Series

• Volume 2 (8.572888) was again welcomed by Gramophone: “As before the American [Slatkin] shows real empathy with this magical repertoire, and he draws playing of uncommon composure and contagious application from his scrupulously prepared Lyons band… Producer/engineer Tim Handley has struck a most judicious balance and his sound is commendably truthful and wide-ranging. Wonderful value at Naxos’s price. Bring on the next instalment.”

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8.504048 4 CD boxed set Price Code: Special box set

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Christian Benda

Giachino ROSSINI (1792–1868)

Also available:

Complete Overtures Prague Sinfonia Orchestra Christian Benda

Rossini’s musical wit and zest for comic characterisation have enriched the operatic repertoire immeasurably, and his overtures distil these qualities into works of colourful orchestration, bravura and charm. From his most popular, such as La scala di seta (The Silken Ladder) and La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie), to the rarity Matilde of Shabran, the full force of Rossini’s dramatic power is revealed in these masterpieces of invention. Each of the four discs in this set has received outstanding international acclaim, with Volume 2 described as “an unalloyed winner” by ClassicsToday, and the Prague Sinfonia Orchestra’s playing described as “stunning” by American Record Guide (Volume 3).

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• This is a 4-CD boxed of previously released single volumes. Volume 1 [8.570933] was described by MusicWeb International as “an admirable start to what looks like being a very desirable series.” Volume 2 [8.570934] was hailed as “an unalloyed winner” by ClassicsToday.com. Volume 3 [8.570935] was praised by the American Record Guide: “the playing is stunning… Nothing is too fast or too bombastic. The sound is excellent.” ClassicsToday. com wrote of volume 4 [8.572735] that it was “crisp, fleet, and shapely…with character and sparkle.”

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Supplementary Promotional Materials • Sales Sheet • Facebook cover and post

Christian Benda is chief conductor and artistic director of the Prague Sinfonia Orchestra of the Velvet Revolution with which he has recorded numerous standard classical works, as well as the complete overtures of Schubert and Rossini. Singers such as Renée Fleming, Barbara Hendricks, Cheryl Studer and Simon Estes have appeared under his baton. As a composer, his micro-operas have been created at the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Prague Smetana Hall. In collaboration with the Vienna State Opera he has devised a new introduction to opera for the general public and young people, High-Lights and Micro-Opera, based on Goethe’s colour theory, with the participation of narrator and dancers.

• The only near competitor in the current marketplace is Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields with 26 overtures in a 3-CD box released in 2003 on Philips 000088002. However, Marriner doesn’t include some of the rarities Naxos does and is therefore significantly less extensive in its coverage of the overtures.

Companion Titles – Christian Benda and the Prague Sinfonia

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THE GUERRA MANUSCRIPT, Vol. 4 17th Century Secular Spanish Vocal Music

Manuel Vilas

Key Features

• This is the first complete recording of the Guerra manuscript, which is now on its fourth volume.

The Guerra Manuscript, named after its copyist José Miguel de Guerra y Villegas, is a repository of one hundred of the greatest secular songs (tonos humanos) circulating in the Madrid court of seventeenth-century Spain. The songs were composed by the leading figures of the Spanish Baroque and include many by the most prestigious of all, José Marín and Juan Hidalgo. Ideally accompanied by one of the principal Spanish baroque instruments, the arpa de dos órdenes (double harp), they explore ideas of love, praise, and beauty. This volume includes perhaps the best-known song of all, Corazón que en prisión.

Mercedes Hernández • Yetzabel Arias Fernández, Sopranos Francisco Fernández-Rueda, Tenor Ars Atlántica Manuel Vilas, Harp and Director

Eligio Luis Quinteiro

• Of Vol 3 (8.573312) American Record Guide wrote; “I continue to be pleasantly surprised at how each new release in this series is better than the others.”

Santi Mirón

Companion Titles – The Guerra Manuscripts Series

• Harpist Manuel Vilas, an expert in this field, plays on a modern copy of a Spanish baroque harp after a 1704 model. Founded and directed by the Galician harpist Manuel Vilas, Ars Atlántica specialises in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On its début at the III Via Stellae Santiago de Compostela music festival, the ensemble gave the première of cantatas for alto and continuo written by anonymous 17th-century Venetian composers and compiled by Marco Contarini (1632–1689) for the Palazzo Contarini in Piazzola sul Brenta, Padua.

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Alfredo CASELLA

Divertimento per Fulvia

Franco DONATONI

Music for Chamber Orchestra†

Giorgio Federico GHEDINI

Concerto grosso†

(1883–1947) (1927–2000) (1892–1965)

Gian Francesco MALIPIERO Imaginary Orient† (1882–1973)

Orchestra della Svizzera italiana (OSI) Damian Iorio †

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This programme of four colourful, contrasting but complementary works for small orchestra celebrates the lighter side of four twentieth-century Italian composers, centring on Alfredo Casella’s Divertimento for Fulvia, composed for his young daughter. Casella’s friend Gian Francesco Malipiero wrote Oriente immaginario (Imaginary Orient) for a Futurist play by Achille Ricciardi (1884-1923). Franco Donatoni once called his simply-titled Musica (Music) ‘kind of Schoenberg gone a bit neoclassical’ – but also with a great sense of humour – while Giorgio Federico Ghedini’s Concerto grosso is a twentieth-century tribute to both Bach and Beethoven.

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Companion Titles – 20th Century Italian Classics Series

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Four great Italian composers with much in common – all came from the country’s northern regions, all were relatively late developers; Casella and Malipiero were great friends; Donatoni’s favourite teacher was Casella’s former protégé Goffredo Petrassi. Perfect opportunity to promote other discs in Naxos’ 20th Century Italian Classics series. For Casella this includes his small scale baroque-influenced works on 8.573005 (Partita) and 8.572416 (Scarlattiana). Ghedini has been well served before on 8.573006 and 8.111325. Great opportunity to promote the still underestimated Malipiero – 8.572766, 8.572409, 8.572766.

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Damian Iorio

Richard DUBUGNON (b. 1968) Arcanes Symphoniques1 Triptyque2† • Le Songe Salinas3†

Nora Gubisch, Mezzo-Soprano3 • Thomas Dolié, Baritone2 • Orchestre National de France • Laurent Petitgirard1 • Debora Waldman2 • Fabien Gabel3 †

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Described by The New York Times as ‘driven by a playful, modern sensibility’, the music of Swiss composer Richard Dubugnon blends elegant Gallic transparency with the rhythmical and structural complexity of German musical culture. The result is a very individual and immediately communicative idiom, notable for its colourful orchestration. Arcanes Symphoniques is a musical game, each performance of its brief allegorical movements taking on a different meaning derived from the symbols on Tarot cards. The unusually scored Triptyque and mini-opera Le Songe Salinas use texts by Stéphane Héaume in settings both tragic and sensually exotic.

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Winner of the Prix culturel vaudois Musique 2014 and the SACEM Grand Prix de la musique symphonique (carrière) 2015, Richard Dubugnon has a profile that would be the envy of any living composer. His work is in demand all over the world, with an impressive list of ongoing commissions including new works for Kathryn Stott and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philippe Jordan and the Opéra de Paris and performances by Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia, Paavo Järvi and the Orchestre de Paris, Jonathan Nott and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and many more.

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We last released a recording of Dubugnon’s work way back in 2002 with his Piano Quartet and other chamber works (Naxos 8.555778) which was given a 10/10 score and considered “an easy recommendation for new music fans” by ClassicsToday.com. Under the batons of conductor, pianist and composer Laurent Petitgirard, who has recorded around forty albums, some of which are under the Naxos label, “energetic and profound” young conductor Debora Waldman and “star of the new generation” Fabien Gabel, this release is quite an event to round off this year’s new music recordings, including as it does the world première recordings of Triptyque and Le Songe Salinas.

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John Philip SOUSA (1854–1932) Music for Wind Band, Vol. 16

Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy Keith Brion The personification of turn-of-the-century America, John Philip Sousa toured the world and won unprecedented fame. His marches are acknowledged as some of the best in the genre and The Triumph of Time embodies all the nobility of his great parade marches. Sousa the successful operetta composer is encountered in the dashing overture to The Irish Dragoon, in the spirited Circus Galop, and in selections from The Charlatan, one of his most lyrical and successful operettas. Showpieces and solos enhance a program that also features the iconic Sousa/Walter Damrosch arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner. Key Features: This is volume 16 in what was anticipated to be the last volume of the series. It will now probably be a 23 volume series. As before the conductor is Keith Brion, one of the world’s most knowledgeable and most-recorded Sousa conductors.

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Performers are the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy which celebrated its 70th anniversary in November 2015. There are also solos from some of the outstanding principals of the band.

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This disc includes the The Star Spangled Banner in the Sousa/Damrosch arrangement, premiered in 1919. Damrosch prepared the harmony, Sousa the orchestration. Homeward Bound is a hitherto lost/misplaced march. It was reconstructed by Loras Schissel, who manages the Sousa archives at the Library of Congress in Washington.

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Catalan Wind Music

OLTRA, M. • GARRETA, J. • MORALEDA, J.L. Barcelona Symphonic Band Salvador Brotons

The three colourful works on this world première recording are a representative sample of 20th century Catalan music, all of them including popular cobla band instruments such as the tible and the tenora with their bright, piercing reeds, and the flabiol flute with its high tones. Manuel Oltra’s music is deeply rooted in Catalan tradition, and L’Alimara is a symphonic poem with medieval echoes. Both Juli Garreta’s Suite empordanesa and Joan Lluís Moraleda’s epic Tirant lo Blanc are considered milestones in Catalonian symphonic music, the latter transporting us to the fights, feasts and chivalric romance of its eponymous hero.

This recording brings together two contemporary Catalan composers inspired by medieval stories, and a substantial classic that combines NeoWagnerian sensibilities with Catalonian musical heritage. With its unique blend of authentic national instruments and conventional orchestral wind sections, the Barcelona Symphonic Band numbers 56 musicians and, under the leadership of Salvador Brotons, showcases premières and performances of works by contemporary composers to the widest possible public. Conductor Salvador Brotons has been music director of the Barcelona Symphonic Band (Banda Municipal de Barcelona, BMB) since 2008, and his own Sixth Symphony (8.573361) performed by the Barcelona Symphonic Band was admired by Fanfare for its “disciplined, colorful performances from… the Banda Municipal de Barcelona, and the sound is pretty spectacular too.” All of the works in this program are recorded here for the first time, throwing new light onto some barely known but precious and rich music from Catalan culture.

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Paul HINDEMITH (1895–1963) Jan VAN DER ROOST (b. 1956) Clarinet Concertos Richard STRAUSS (1864–1949) Romanze in E flat for Clarinet and Orchestra Eddy Vanoosthuyse, Clarinet • Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra Sergio Rosales Hindemith’s post-war Clarinet Concerto was commissioned by Benny Goodman and showcases the composer’s distinctive harmonies and rhythmic bounce. Dedicated to Eddy Vanoosthuyse, Jan Van der Roost’s Clarinet Concerto, which here receives its première recording, reveals a work that balances the instrument’s serious and mysterious side against its acrobatic virtuosity. Richard Strauss composed his Romanze at the age of fifteen, his ambitious precocity creating music of great charm and elegance. Sergio Rosales, hailed as one of one of Venezuela’s foremost ‘El Sistema’ conductors, conducts the Central Aichi Symphony Orchestra. Key Features: •

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Clarinet soloist Eddy Vanoosthuyse performs throughout the world with prestigious orchestras and with world renowned conductors, appearing on numerous radio and television stations and having recorded critically acclaimed albums. Vanoosthuyse has also worked with influential composers including John Corigliano and Olivier Messiaen. Jan Van der Roost’s Clarinet Concerto was commissioned by Musica Reservata of Belgium and is dedicated to Vannosthuyse. He won a ‘Golden Label’ for his 2014 recording of American Clarinet Concertos (Corigliano and Carter) and the prestigious Fuga Prize from the Union of Belgian Composers in 2015. Conductor Sergio Rosales is one of the rising stars of the National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras and Choirs in his native Venezuela and a protégé of the El Sistema maestro José Antonio Abreu. In 2010 he was appointed music director of the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Simón Bolivar Music Conservatory, and following on from his successful appearance in the 2012 Bancaribe Youth Festival, Sergio Rosales was asked to conduct the Brussels Chamber Soloists at the Benelux Clarinet Competition, which led to many more invitations to guest conduct with international ensembles. He is hailed today as one of Venezuela’s best conductors.

Sir Peter MAXWELL DAVIES (1934–2016) Sonata for Violin Alone †

Dances from The Two Fiddlers2† †

Sonata for Violin and Piano3 • Piano Trio: A Voyage to Fair Isle1,2 Duccio Ceccanti, Violin • Vittorio Ceccanti, Cello1 Matteo Fossi2 • Bruno Canino3, Pianos WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING Chamber music formed the central part of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ output in his later years, and the marvellously poised and largely introspective Sonata for Violin Alone, dedicated to Duccio Ceccanti, is among his final works. Also cast in a single movement, the Sonata for Violin and Piano is a fantasia that traces an imaginary walk through Rome, while the Piano Trio takes us on the lyrical wings of plainsong to the remote and craggy beauty of Fair Isle near the composer’s home in Orkney. The acclaimed Ceccanti brothers worked closely with Maxwell Davies, performing many premières of his music. †

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Our catalogue of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s music is already extensive; the crowning celebration of his more recent chamber music coming about with the 10 Naxos String Quartets available on 5 CDs (set no. 8.505225). Davies also explored other chamber combinations during this period, and this recording brings together some of his most significant later works. Cellist Vittorio Ceccanti has appeared on two significant Maxwell Davies releases from Naxos, with Versalii Icons (8.572712) in which “the Italian ensemble and especially solo cellist Vittorio Ceccanti bring the music prancing off the page” (Classic FM) and the Second Strathclyde Concerto (8.573017): “The Cello Concerto… works its way inwards to a deeply expressive central Lento, beautifully played here by Vittorio Ceccanti” (BBC Music Magazine).

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Franz LISZT (1811–1886) Complete Piano Music, Vol. 44 Transcriptions of Vocal Works Joel Hastings, Piano

Amongst his portfolio of works for piano, Liszt wrote transcriptions and arrangements, some derived from his own scores and some based on the work of others. His own songs, of which he wrote over 80, reveal his particular gifts as a lyric composer, fully reflected in his piano transcriptions. The melancholic Il m’aimait tant! and the beautiful Ich liebe dich are Liszt’s own inspirations whilst patriotic Hungarian pieces such as Szózat and Ungarischer Hymnus (the then newly established Hungarian Anthem) demonstrate his status as a national hero.

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Volume 44 in this extensive series of the complete piano music. It’s played by Canadian pianist Joel Hastings who died in May 2016, at the tragically young age of 46. Hastings played Carter Pann’s piano music on 8.559751 of which MusicWeb International wrote: “Feisty, sense-sating music from a terrific talent; superbly played and recorded.” Of Vol 43 Gramophone wrote “[Sergio] Monteiro’s interpretation of Les préludes, heard here in a transcription by Karl Klauser, achieves some of the sweep and atmosphere of the original orchestral version.” Volume 42 (Paganini Studies), performed by Goran Filipec, has won the 2016 Liszt Ferenc International Grand Prix du Disque, citing that Filipec “faithfully follows each of Liszt’s instructions on tempo, dynamics and characters, with a sensitive framing as well – the composer would have been satisfied exactly with such a performance.”

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Companion Titles – Liszt Complete Piano Music Series

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IDIL BIRET ARCHIVE Idil Biret Bach and Mozart Edition Idil Biret, Piano London Mozart Players Patrick Gallois • John Gibbons

“How Idil Biret combines the strict discipline of the Bach score with the capacity to build sovereign forms is exemplary.” – DRESDNER NEUSTE NACHRICHTEN “Not for many years has a Manchester Hallé audience heard such perfectly balanced Mozart playing.” – DAILY TELEGRAPH

Companion Titles – Idil Biret Archive Boxed Sets

8.501206 12 CDs + DVD

30099 12064 7

Playing Time: 15:32:54

8.501504

8.508016

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8.501901

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REISSUES OF MARCO POLO CHINESE CLASSICS

8.225825

8.225853

Liang Ning

Ella Kiang Sings Opera Arias from

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Madama Butterfly • La Gioconda • Gianni Schicchi

by Mozart and Gounod and Chinese Classics Liang Ning, Mezzo-Soprano Orchestra of the Central Opera, Beijing Zheng Xiaoying

La Bohème • Mefistofele • Turandot Ella Kiang, Soprano Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra Tadashi Mori (digital release only)

36943 58252 7

8.225852

Four Virtuosi Play

Chinese Traditional Music Loo Kah Chi, Erhu Lam Fung, Pipa So Chun Bo, Zheng Wong Kuen, Xiao

36943 58522 1

36943 58532 0

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REISSUES OF MARCO POLO CHINESE CLASSICS

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Seow Yitkin Plays

Popular Chinese Piano Pieces

Seow Yitkin, Piano

Ma Sheung Tsz, Piano

Popular Chinese Piano Pieces

Piano Music by Wang Jianzhong

36943 58502 3

8.225824

Popular Pipa Music

Hurrying to the Flower Show Lam Fung, Pipa

(digital release only)

36943 58512 2

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NEW RELEASES FROM NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS Zorro Rides Again By Johnston McCulley Unabridged Read by Bill Homewood

Zorro Rides Again is the third novella featuring Zorro, the Robin Hood of Old California. Reina de los Angeles is being terrorised by a masked swordsman who marks the faces of his victims with Zorro’s trademark Z. But is this the real Zorro? The Governor of California offers a reward for the capture of Don Diego Vega (who is known to have previously been Zorro) dead or alive, while an army – led by the ruthless Captain Rocha – is in hot pursuit of the outlaw. Assisted by a coterie of allies and the native Cocopah tribe, Don Diego seeks to establish his innocence and unmask the evil imposter.

Companion Titles – Johnston McCulley’s Zorro Series

NA0254 4 CDs

9 781781 980194

Playing Time: 5 Hours

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Companion Titles – Bill Homewood, Reader

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The Trumpet-Major By Thomas Hardy Unabridged Read by Nicholas Rowe

War threatens the rich, green fields of Wessex in Hardy’s historical novel, The Trumpet-Major. The Napoleonic Wars are at their height, and upheaval and uncertainty plague British soil. In the midst of it all the impoverished beauty Anne Garland finds herself at the centre of a love quadrangle. She is torn between the persistent and annoying Festus Derryman, her womanising childhood sweetheart Bob Loveday, and the reliable and thoughtful John Loveday, the eponymous Trumpet-Major. Who will she choose? Hardy’s eighth published novel is a gentle and humorous tale about the confusion and conflict of life. Companion Titles – Thomas Hardy, Author

NA0258 9 CDs

9 781781 980309

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ORDER FORM - COMPANION TITLES Sousa Music for Wind Band Series

Boris Giltburg, Piano 8.573400

747313340071

BEETHOVEN, L. van: Piano Sonatas No. 8 ‘Pathétique’, No. 21 ‘Waldstein’, and No. 32

8.559691

636943969120

SOUSA, J.P.: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 12

8.573469

747313346974

RACHMANINOV, S.: Études-tableaux, Op. 39 • Moments Musicaux

8.559729

636943972922

SOUSA, J.P.: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 13

8.573399

747313346974

SCHUMANN, R.: Carnaval • Davidsbündlertänze • Papillons

8.559730

636943972922

SOUSA, J.P.: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 14

8.559745

636943974520

SOUSA, J.P.: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 15

Marin Alsop’s Previous Bernstein Recordings 8.559177

70636943917725

8.559622-23

636943962220

BERNSTEIN, L.: Mass

8.559245

636943924525

BERNSTEIN, L.: Serenade • Facsimile • Divertimento

8.559742

636943974223

BERNSTEIN, L.: Symphony No. 3 ‘Kaddish’ • Missa brevis • The Lark

Salvador Brotons, Conductor/Composer

BERNSTEIN, L.: Chichester Psalms • On the Waterfront • On the Town 8.573163

747313316373

BROTONS, S.: Symphony No. 5 ‘Mundus Noster’ • Oboe Concerto Four Pieces for String Orchestra

8.573361

747313336173

BROTONS, S.: Symphony No. 6 ‘Concise’ • Rebroll • Obstinace • Glosa de l’Emigrant

8.573453

747313345373

Monuments – MAGNUSON, R.D. • HODKINSON, S. OGREN, J. • MARTÍNEZ GALLEGO, F.J.

8.573446

747313344673

Network – PUTS, K. • BRITTEN, B. • MAHLER, G. • BRYANT, S.

8.559667

636943966723

COPLAND, A. • ALDRIDGE, R.: Clarinet Concertos

8.553566

0730099456623

FINZI, G.: Clarinet Concerto • Five Bagatelles • Three Soliloquies Severn Rhapsody • Romance • Introit

8.559201

0636943920121

HARTKE, S.: Clarinet Concerto • The Rose of the Winds • Pacific Rim • Gradus

8.550345

0636943920121

Wind Band Classics Series

Hans Graf and the Houston Symphony 8.572498

747313249879

MAHLER, G.: Das Lied von der Erde

8.572048

747313204878

ZEMLINSKY, A.: Lyric Symphony • BERG, A.: Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite Opera Classics Series

8.660158-59

730099615822

SCHOENBERG, A.: Moses und Aron

8.660272-73

730099027274

STRAVINSKY, I.: The Rake’s Progress

Clarinet Concertos

Leonard Slatkin and ONL’s Ravel Series 8.660336

730099033671

RAVEL, M.: L’Enfant et les sortilèges • Ma mère l’oye

8.660337

730099033770

RAVEL, M.: L’Heure espagnole • Don Quichotte à Dulcinée

8.572887

747313288779

RAVEL, M.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1

NBD0030

730099003063

RAVEL, M.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 [Blu-ray Audio]

8.572888

747313288878

RAVEL, M.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2

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730099003469

RAVEL, M.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 [Blu-ray Audio]

8.573124

747313312474

RAVEL, M.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3

Rossiåni Complete Overtures in Blu-ray Audio NBD0028

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ROSSINI, G.: Complete Overtures, Vol. 1 [Blu-ray Audio]

NBD0035

730099003568

ROSSINI, G.: Complete Overtures, Vol. 2 [Blu-ray Audio]

MOZART, W.A.: Bassoon Concerto • Oboe Concerto • Clarinet Concerto Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer

8.558191-92

636943819128

PETER MAXWELL DAVIES: A Portrait

8.572712

747313271276

MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Linguae Ignis • Vesalii icones Fantasia on a Ground and Two Pavans

8.505225

747313522538

MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: The Naxos Quartets [5-CD Box Set]

8.573017

747313301775

MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Strathclyde Concerto No. 2 • Cello Sonata Liszt Complete Piano Music Series

Christian Benda and the Prague Sinfonia

8.573235

747313323579

LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 40 – Transcriptions from Operas by Meyerbeer

8.573415

747313341573

LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 41 – Transcriptions from Operas LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 42 – Paganini Studies

8.573066

747313306671

KNECHT, J.H.: Le Portrait musical de la nature • PHILIDOR, F.A.D.: Overtures

8.573458

747313345878

NBD0019

730099001960

SCHUBERT, F.: Complete Overtures [Blu-ray Audio]

8.573485

747313348572

8.570328

0747313032877

SCHUBERT, F.: Complete Overtures, Vol. 1

8.570329

0747313032976

LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 43 – Transcriptions of Symphonic Poems Idil Biret Archive Boxed Sets

SCHUBERT, F.: Complete Overtures, Vol. 2 The Guerra Manuscript Series

8.501504

730099150446

Idil Biret 20th Century Edition [15-CD Set]

8.501901

730099190145

Idil Biret Beethoven Edition [19-CD + DVD Set]

8.570135

747313013579

The Guerra Manuscript, Vol. 1

8.501402

730099140249

Idil Biret LP Originals Edition (1959–1986) [14-CD Set]

8.572876

747313287673

The Guerra Manuscript, Vol. 2

8.508016

747313801633

Idil Biret Schumann Edition [8-CD Set]

8.573312

747313331277

The Guerra Manuscript, Vol. 3

8.572414

747313241477

CASELLA, A.: Symphony No. 2 • A notte alta for Piano and Orchestra

8.573180

747313318070

CASELLA, A.: Triple Concerto • GHEDINI, G.F.: Concerto dell’albatro

8.573006

747313300679

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

NA0241

9781781980118

VERNE, J.: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (unabridged)

8.572409

747313240975

MALIPIERO, G.F.: Impressioni dal vero • Pause del silenzio

NA0231

9781843799726

VERNE, J.: Around the World in Eighty Days (unabridged)

Naxos Audiobooks – Johnston McCulley’s Zorro Series

20th Century Italian Classics Series

NA0253

9781781980170

McCULLEY, J.: The Further Adventures of Zorro (unabridged)

NA0252

9781781980156

McCULLEY, J.: The Mark of Zorro (unabridged)

Naxos Audiobooks – Bill Homewood, Reader

21st Century Classics 8.555778

0747313577828

DUBUGNON, R.: Piano Quartet • Incantatio • Frenglish Suite

8.572772

747313277278

GUBAIDULINA, S.: Fachwerk • Silenzio

Naxos Audiobooks – Thomas Hardy, Author

Laurent Petitgirard, Conductor/Composer

NA0154

9781843798453

HARDY, T.: Far from the Madding Crowd (unabridged)

NA0168

9781843798132

HARDY, T.: The Return of the Native (unabridged)

8.557602

0747313260225

PETITGIRARD, L.: Concertos for String Instruments

NA0173

9781843798378

HARDY, T.: Under the Greenwood Tree (unabridged)

8.570138

747313013876

PETITGIRARD, L.: Les Douze Gardiens • Poème • Euphonia

NA0085

9781843795834

HARDY, T.: Wessex Tales (unabridged)

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This Month’s Highlights 8.660390-91

730099039079

BERG, A.: Wozzeck [4 CDs] (Soloists, Chorus of Students and Alumni, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston Symphony, Hans Graf)

8.559790

636943979020

BERNSTEIN, L.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 (Johnson Cano, Thibaudet, Baltimore Symphony, Marin Alsop)

8.573678

747313367870

The Guerra Manuscript, Vol. 4 (Hernández, Fernández-Rueda, Fernández, Ars Atlántica)

8.573545

747313354573

RAVEL, M.: Daphnis et Chloé • Une barque sur l’océan (Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin)

8.504048

747313404834

ROSSINI, G.: Complete Overtures (Prague Sinfonia, Christian Benda)

8.573666

747313366675

SHOSTAKOVICH, D.: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 • String Quartet No. 8 (arr. for piano) (Giltburg, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Vasily Petrenko) More Exciting New Releases

8.573748

747313374878

CASELLA, A.: Divertimento for Fulvia • DONATONI, F. • GHEDINI, G.F. • MALIPIERO, G.F. (Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana)

8.573687

747313368778

DUBUGNON, R.: Arcanes Symphoniques • Triptyque • Le Songe Salinas (Gubisch, Dolié, Orchestre National de France, Petitgirard, Waldman, Gabel)

8.579010

747313901074

HINDEMITH, P. • VAN der ROOST, J.: Clarinet Concertos (Vanoosthuyse, Central Aichi Symphony, Sergio Rosales)

8.573557

747313355778

LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 44 - Transcriptions of Vocal Works (Joel Hastings)

8.573599

747313359974

MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Sonata for Violin Alone • Dances from The Two Fiddlers • Sonata for Violin and Piano Piano Trio: A Voyage to Fair Isle (Duccio Ceccanti, Vittorio Ceccanti, Matteo Fossi, Bruno Canino)

8.573547

747313354771

Catalan Wind Band Music - OLTRA, M. • GARRETA, J. MORALEDA, J. L. (Barcelona Symphonic Band, Salvador Brotons)

8.559746

636943974629

SOUSA, J.P.: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 16 (Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy, Keith Brion) Marco Polo Chinese Classics

8.225853

636943585320

Ella Kiang Sings Arias from Madama Butterfly, La Gioconda, Gianni Schicchi, La Bohème, Mefistofele Turandot (Ella Kiang, Nagoya Philharmonic, Tadashi Mori)

8.225852

636943585221

Four Virtuosi Play Chinese Traditional Music (Loo Kah Chi, Lam Fung, So Chun Bo, Wong Kuen)

8.225825

636943582527

Liang Ning Sings Operatic Arias by Mozart and Gounod and Chinese Classics (Liang Ning, Orchestra of the Central Opera Beijing, Zheng Xiaoying)

8.225851

636943585122

Popular Chinese Piano Pieces • Piano Music by Wang Jianzhong (Ma Sheung Tsz)

8.225824

636943582428

Popular Pipa Music – Hurrying to the Flower Show (Lam Fung)

8.225850

636943585023

Seow Yitkin Plays Popular Chinese Piano Pieces (Seow Yitkin) Idil Biret Archive

8.501206

730099120647

Idil Biret Bach and Mozart Edition [12 CD + DVD] (Biret, London Mozart Players, Patrick Gallois, John Gibbons) Naxos Audiobooks

NA0258

9781781980309

HARDY, T.: The Trumpet-Major (unabridged) (Nicholas Rowe)

NA0254

9781781980194

McCULLEY, J.: Zorro Rides Again (unabridged) (Bill Homewood)

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