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Boris Giltburg 8.573666 Playing Time: Price Code: NXP 69:47 (1906–1975) Dmitry SHOSTAKOVICH 7 47313 36667 5 Piano Concertos Nos. 1* and 2 String Quartets Nos. 2† & 8† Arranged for piano by Boris Giltburg Boris Giltburg, Piano Rhys Owens, Trumpet* Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Supplementary Promotional Materials Vasily Petrenko • Key Release Kit • Artist Profile – Boris Giltburg †WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING • Facebook cover and post

Shostakovich’s two Piano Concertos span a period of almost thirty Boris Giltburg took first prize at the 2013 Queen Elisabeth years. The youthful First Piano Concerto is a masterful example Competition, having won second prize at the Rubinstein in 2011 and of eclecticism, its inscrutable humour and seriousness allied to top prize at Santander back in 2002, and subsequently appearing virtuoso writing enhanced by the rôle for solo trumpet. Written as a across the globe. Notable débuts have included a South American birthday present for his son Maxim, the Second Piano Concerto is tour in 2002 (and every season since), with the Israel Philharmonic light-spirited with a hauntingly beautiful slow movement. With the in 2005, the Indianapolis Symphony in 2007, a tour of China in 2007, permission of the composer’s family, Boris Giltburg has arranged and at the BBC Proms in London in 2010. He has appeared with Marin the exceptionally dark, deeply personal and powerful String Alsop, Martyn Brabbins, Edo de Waart, Christoph von Dohnányi, Quartet No. 8, thereby establishing a major Shostakovich solo Philippe Entremont, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Neeme Järvi, Kirill Karabits, piano composition. Emmanuel Krivine, Hannu Lintu, Vasily Petrenko, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Tugan Sokhiev and Yan Pascal Tortelier, among others. In Key Features 2014 he began a long-term recording plan with Naxos. • 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.” • 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. © Mark McNulty • Conductor Vasily Petrenko’s complete cycle of Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra the Shostakovich symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has won Companion Titles – Boris Giltburg, Piano 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 © Mark McNulty 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.” 8.573399 8.573400 8.573469 2 NEW ON NAXOS | JANUARY 2017

8.559790 Playing Time: Price Code: NXP 59:32 6 36943 97902 0 © Walter Scott © Walter

Marin Alsop and Leonard Bernstein

Leonard BERNSTEIN (1918–1990) Marin Alsop is an inspiring and powerful voice in the international Symphony No. 1 ‘Jeremiah’1 music scene. She made history with her appointment as the 12th 2 music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO). Symphony No. 2 ‘The Age of Anxiety’ Her success as the BSO’s music director has garnered national 1 Jennifer Johnson Cano, Mezzo-Soprano and international attention for her innovative programming and 2 Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Piano artistry. Alsop took up the post of principal conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in 2012, and became music Marin Alsop director in July 2013. In September 2013, she made history as the first female conductor of the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms Leonard Bernstein’s legendary 1943 Carnegie Hall conducting in London – an honor she repeated in 2015. 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). © Richard Anderson Baltimore Symphony Orchestra • Soloists on our recording are world-famous pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Caro who Companion Titles – has sung at the Met in New York and at Chicago Opera Theatre. Marin Alsop’s Previous Bernstein Recordings • Conductor Marin Alsop is a Bernstein protégé and accepted as one of his leading interpreters today.

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Hans Graf

Alban BERG (1885–1935) Wozzeck Libretto by Georg Büchner Roman Trekel, Wozzeck (Baritone) 8.660390-91 Playing Time: Anne Schwanewilms, Marie (Soprano) 2 CDs 1:37:52 Marc Molomot, Captain (Tenor) Price Code: NXP 7 30099 03907 9 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 Supplemental Promotional Materials Houston Symphony Orchestra • Key Release Kit Hans Graf • Facebook cover and post

Based on real events and playwright Georg Büchner’s starkly Appointed Music Director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra vehement text, Alban Berg’s tragic opera Wozzeck is an epoch- in 2001, Hans Graf concluded his tenure in May 2013 and is the making work, in stark contrast to the previous high romantic ideals longest serving Music Director in the orchestra’s history. His of the genre, that led Schoenberg to exclaim “now that’s what I call extensive discography includes the complete symphonies of Mozart an opera!” Immensely powerful and heartbreakingly moving as a and Schubert, the première recording of Zemlinsky’s opera Es war drama, Wozzeck explores the victimisation, despair and madness of einmal and the complete orchestral works of Dutilleux. He has been a central character who has no place in society, its deeply humane awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur by the message and sublimely innovative score firmly establishing it as a French government for championing French music around the world 20th-century masterpiece. as well as the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria. 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 male- voice movements: he has the presence and range to belong in the company of the starriest-baritones, from Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau 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 © Javier del Real Mercury News) and ClassicsToday.com considering that this Roman Trekel Anne Schwanewilms recording “stands with the best on disc.” • The cast for this production of Wozzeck is notable for its Companion Titles – Hans Graf Companion Titles – strength and depth. Soprano Anne Schwanewilms (Marie) was and the Houston Symphony Opera Classics Series 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, 8.572498 8.572048 8.660158-59 8.660272-73 roaming the seas, but also a depth of poise and gravity that made even his quietest utterances compelling.”

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8.573545 Playing Time: Price Code: NXP 65:43

Leonard Slatkin

(1875–1937) Leonard Slatkin is Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Maurice RAVEL Orchestra (DSO) and the Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL). He Daphnis et Chloé* also maintains a rigorous schedule of guest conducting throughout Une barque sur l’océan the world and is active as a composer, author, and educator. Spirito* Slatkin’s more than a hundred recordings have received seven ® Orchestre National de Lyon GRAMMY awards and 64 nominations. His Naxos recordings Leonard Slatkin include works by Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and Berlioz (with the ONL) and music by Copland, Rachmaninov, Borzova, McTee, and John Composed for Sergey Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Ravel’s Williams (with the DSO). ‘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, © David Duchon-Doris lyricism and gaiety, Slatkin shaping the music with a potent mix Orchestre National de Lyon of the sensuous, sinuous, sinister and spirited. If this disc heralds a comprehensive Ravel series, it augurs well.” BBC Music Companion Titles – Leonard Slatkin and ONL’s Ravel Series Magazine wrote that “Leonard Slatkin draws a vivid sound from the Lyon players, with a wide range of dynamics and colours.” • 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.” 8.572887 NBD0030 8.572888 NBD0034 Supplementary Promotional Materials • Key Release Kit • Artist Profile – Leonard Slatkin • Facebook cover and post

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8.504048 Playing Time: 4 CD boxed set 3:49:38 Price Code: 7 47313 40483 4 Special box set © Flavio Frascarelli Christian Benda Also available: Giachino ROSSINI (1792–1868) 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 7 8 7 8 American Record Guide (Volume 3). 30099 00286 30099 00356 NBD0028 NBD0035 Key Features Rossini, Vol. 1 Rossini, Vol. 2 • This is a 4-CD boxed of previously released single volumes. Disc format: Blu-ray Audio Disc format: Blu-ray Audio Volume 1 [8.570933] was described by MusicWeb International Sound format: PCM Stereo, Sound format: PCM Stereo, as “an admirable start to what looks like being a very desirable DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 series.” Volume 2 [8.570934] was hailed as “an unalloyed winner” by ClassicsToday.com. Volume 3 [8.570935] was praised by the Supplementary Promotional Materials American Record Guide: “the playing is stunning… Nothing is too • Sales Sheet fast or too bombastic. The sound is excellent.” ClassicsToday. • Facebook cover and post com wrote of volume 4 [8.572735] that it was “crisp, fleet, and shapely…with character and sparkle.” Christian Benda is chief conductor and artistic director of the • The only near competitor in the current marketplace is Sir Neville Prague Sinfonia Orchestra of the Velvet Revolution with which Marriner and the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields with 26 he has recorded numerous standard classical works, as well as the overtures in a 3-CD box released in 2003 on Philips 000088002. complete overtures of Schubert and Rossini. Singers such as Renée However, Marriner doesn’t include some of the rarities Naxos Fleming, Barbara Hendricks, Cheryl Studer and Simon Estes have does and is therefore significantly less extensive in its coverage appeared under his baton. As a composer, his micro-operas have of the overtures. 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.

Companion Titles – Christian Benda and the Prague Sinfonia © Flavio Frascarelli Prague Sinfonia Orchestra NBD0019 8.570328 8.570329 8.573066

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THE GUERRA MANUSCRIPT, Vol. 4 17th Century Secular Spanish Vocal Music © Eduardo Hernández Pérez Mercedes Hernández • Yetzabel Arias Fernández, Sopranos Manuel Vilas Francisco Fernández-Rueda, Tenor Ars Atlántica Manuel Vilas, Harp and Director

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.

Key Features

• This is the first complete recording of the Guerra manuscript, Angel Fernandez © Miguel Angel Fernandez © Miguel which is now on its fourth volume. • Of Vol 3 (8.573312) American Record Guide wrote; “I continue to Eligio Luis Quinteiro Santi Mirón be pleasantly surprised at how each new release in this series is better than the others.” • Harpist Manuel Vilas, an expert in this field, plays on a modern Companion Titles – The Guerra Manuscripts Series 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 8.570135 8.572876 8.573312 Marco Contarini (1632–1689) for the Palazzo Contarini in Piazzola sul Brenta, Padua.

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includes World Première Recordings Alfredo CASELLA Divertimento per Fulvia (1883–1947) Franco DONATONI Music for Chamber Orchestra† (1927–2000) Giorgio Federico GHEDINI Concerto grosso† (1892–1965) Gian Francesco MALIPIERO Imaginary Orient† (1882–1973) Orchestra della Svizzera italiana (OSI) Damian Iorio

†WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING 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. Key Features: 8.573748 Playing Time: • Four great Italian composers with much in common – all Price Code: 63:41 came from the country’s northern regions, all were relatively NXP late developers; Casella and Malipiero were great friends; 7 47313 37487 8 Donatoni’s favourite teacher was Casella’s former protégé Goffredo Petrassi. Companion Titles – 20th Century Italian Classics Series • 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 © Annalise © Photography to promote the still underestimated Malipiero – 8.572766, Damian Iorio 8.572409, 8.572766. 8.573180 8.572414 8.573006 8.572409

includes World Première Richard DUBUGNON (b. 1968) Recordings Arcanes Symphoniques1 Triptyque2† • Le Songe Salinas3† Nora Gubisch, Mezzo-Soprano3 • Thomas Dolié, Baritone2 • Orchestre National de France • Laurent Petitgirard1 • Debora Waldman2 • Fabien Gabel3

†WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING 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. Key Features: • 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 Playing Time: Jordan and the Opéra de Paris and performances by 8.573687 Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia, Paavo Järvi Price Code: 62:32 and the Orchestre de Paris, Jonathan Nott and the

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and many more. © Ruslan Makushkin NXP 7 47313 36877 8 • We last released a recording of Dubugnon’s work way back in 2002 with his Companion Titles – Companion Titles – Piano Quartet and other chamber works (Naxos 8.555778) which was given a 21st Century Classics Laurent Petitgirard, Conductor/Composer 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 8.555778 8.572772 8.570138 8.557602 of Triptyque and Le Songe Salinas.

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includes World Première Recordings 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.

8.559746 Playing Time: • Performers are the Marine Band of the Price Code: 51:27 Royal Netherlands Navy which celebrated NXP its 70th anniversary in November 2015. 6 36943 97462 9 There are also solos from some of the outstanding principals of the band. Companion Titles – Sousa Music for Wind Band Series © Maurits van Hout • 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. 8.559745 8.559730 8.559729 8.559691

World Première Recordings 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.

Key Features: • This recording brings together two contemporary Catalan composers inspired by medieval stories, and a substantial classic that combines Neo- Wagnerian 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) 8.573547 Playing Time: since 2008, and his own Sixth Symphony Price Code: 60:54 (8.573361) performed by the Barcelona NXP Symphonic Band was admired by Fanfare 7 47313 35477 1 for its “disciplined, colorful performances Companion Titles – Companion Titles – from… the Banda Municipal de Barcelona, © May/Zircus Salvador Brotons, Conductor/Composer Wind Band Classics Series 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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includes World Première Recordings 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: • 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 8.579010 Playing Time: was commissioned by Musica Reservata of Belgium and Price Code: 57:31 is dedicated to Vannosthuyse. He won a ‘Golden Label’ for his 2014 recording of American Clarinet Concertos NXP 7 47313 90107 4 (Corigliano and Carter) and the prestigious Fuga Prize from the Union of Belgian Composers in 2015. Companion Titles – Clarinet Concertos • 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. 8.550345 8.553566 8.559667 8.559201 He is hailed today as one of Venezuela’s best conductors.

includes World Première Sir Peter MAXWELL DAVIES (1934–2016) Recordings 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. Key Features: • 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 8.573599 Playing Time: together some of his most significant Price Code: 63:10 later works. Miyaki © Akiko NXP 7 47313 35997 4 • Cellist Vittorio Ceccanti has appeared on two significant Maxwell Davies releases from Naxos, with Versalii Icons (8.572712) in which “the Italian Companion Titles – Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer 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.

Key Features: • 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 © Ian Hashtings 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 8.573557 Playing Time: 2016 Liszt Ferenc International Grand Prix du Disque, citing that Filipec Price Code: 76:25 “faithfully follows each of Liszt’s instructions on tempo, dynamics and NXP characters, with a sensitive framing as well – the composer would have 7 47313 35577 8 been satisfied exactly with such a performance.”

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

8.501504 8.508016 8.501402 8.501901 8.501206 Playing Time: 12 CDs + DVD 15:32:54 7 30099 12064 7

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REISSUES OF MARCO POLO CHINESE CLASSICS

8.225825 8.225853 Liang Ning Ella Kiang Sings Opera Arias from Sings Operatic Arias Madama Butterfly • La Gioconda • Gianni Schicchi by Mozart and Gounod and Chinese Classics La Bohème • Mefistofele • Turandot Liang Ning, Mezzo-Soprano Ella Kiang, Soprano Orchestra of the Central Opera, Beijing Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra Zheng Xiaoying Tadashi Mori (digital release only)

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8.225852 Four Virtuosi Play Chinese Traditional Music Loo Kah Chi, Erhu Lam Fung, Pipa So Chun Bo, Zheng Wong Kuen, Xiao

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REISSUES OF MARCO POLO CHINESE CLASSICS

8.225850 8.225851 Seow Yitkin Plays Popular Chinese Piano Pieces Popular Chinese Piano Pieces Piano Music by Wang Jianzhong Seow Yitkin, Piano Ma Sheung Tsz, Piano

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8.225824 Four Virtuosi Play Popular Pipa Music Chinese Traditional Music Hurrying to the Flower Show Loo Kah Chi, Erhu Lam Fung, Pipa Lam Fung, Pipa (digital release only) So Chun Bo, Zheng Wong Kuen, Xiao

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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 – Companion Titles – Johnston McCulley’s Zorro Series Bill Homewood, Reader

NA0254 Playing Time: NA0252 NA0253 NA0241 NA0231 4 CDs 5 Hours 9 781781 980194

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

NA0085 NA0173 NA0168 NA0154 NA0258 Playing Time: 9 CDs 11 Hours 9 781781 980309

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Boris Giltburg, Piano Sousa Music for Wind Band Series

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

Marin Alsop’s Previous Bernstein Recordings 8.559745 636943974520 SOUSA, J.P.: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 15

8.559177 70636943917725 BERNSTEIN, L.: Chichester Psalms • On the Waterfront • On the Town Salvador Brotons, Conductor/Composer

8.559622-23 636943962220 BERNSTEIN, L.: Mass BROTONS, S.: Symphony No. 5 ‘Mundus Noster’ • Oboe Concerto 8.573163 747313316373 Four Pieces for String Orchestra 8.559245 636943924525 BERNSTEIN, L.: Serenade • Facsimile • Divertimento 8.573361 747313336173 BROTONS, S.: Symphony No. 6 ‘Concise’ • Rebroll • Obstinace • Glosa de l’Emigrant 8.559742 636943974223 BERNSTEIN, L.: Symphony No. 3 ‘Kaddish’ • Missa brevis • The Lark Wind Band Classics Series Hans Graf and the Houston Symphony Monuments – MAGNUSON, R.D. • HODKINSON, S. 8.572498 747313249879 MAHLER, G.: Das Lied von der Erde 8.573453 747313345373 OGREN, J. • MARTÍNEZ GALLEGO, F.J. 8.572048 747313204878 ZEMLINSKY, A.: Lyric Symphony • BERG, A.: Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite 8.573446 747313344673 Network – PUTS, K. • BRITTEN, B. • MAHLER, G. • BRYANT, S. Opera Classics Series Clarinet Concertos 8.660158-59 730099615822 SCHOENBERG, A.: Moses und Aron 8.559667 636943966723 COPLAND, A. • ALDRIDGE, R.: Clarinet Concertos 8.660272-73 730099027274 STRAVINSKY, I.: The Rake’s Progress FINZI, G.: Clarinet Concerto • Five Bagatelles • Three Soliloquies 8.553566 0730099456623 Leonard Slatkin and ONL’s Ravel Series Severn Rhapsody • Romance • Introit 8.660336 730099033671 RAVEL, M.: L’Enfant et les sortilèges • Ma mère l’oye 8.559201 0636943920121 HARTKE, S.: Clarinet Concerto • The Rose of the Winds • Pacific Rim • Gradus 8.660337 730099033770 RAVEL, M.: L’Heure espagnole • Don Quichotte à Dulcinée 8.550345 0636943920121 MOZART, W.A.: Bassoon Concerto • Oboe Concerto • Clarinet Concerto 8.572887 747313288779 RAVEL, M.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer NBD0030 730099003063 RAVEL, M.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 [Blu-ray Audio] 8.558191-92 636943819128 PETER MAXWELL DAVIES: A Portrait 8.572888 747313288878 RAVEL, M.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Linguae Ignis • Vesalii icones 8.572712 747313271276 NBD0034 730099003469 RAVEL, M.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 [Blu-ray Audio] Fantasia on a Ground and Two Pavans

8.573124 747313312474 RAVEL, M.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 8.505225 747313522538 MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: The Naxos Quartets [5-CD Box Set]

Rossiåni Complete Overtures in Blu-ray Audio 8.573017 747313301775 MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Strathclyde Concerto No. 2 • Cello Sonata

NBD0028 730099002868 ROSSINI, G.: Complete Overtures, Vol. 1 [Blu-ray Audio] Liszt Complete Piano Music Series

NBD0035 730099003568 ROSSINI, G.: Complete Overtures, Vol. 2 [Blu-ray Audio] 8.573235 747313323579 LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 40 – Transcriptions from Operas by Meyerbeer

Christian Benda and the Prague Sinfonia 8.573415 747313341573 LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 41 – Transcriptions from Operas

8.573066 747313306671 KNECHT, J.H.: Le Portrait musical de la nature • PHILIDOR, F.A.D.: Overtures 8.573458 747313345878 LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 42 – Paganini Studies

NBD0019 730099001960 SCHUBERT, F.: Complete Overtures [Blu-ray Audio] 8.573485 747313348572 LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 43 – Transcriptions of Symphonic Poems

8.570328 0747313032877 SCHUBERT, F.: Complete Overtures, Vol. 1 Idil Biret Archive Boxed Sets

8.570329 0747313032976 SCHUBERT, F.: Complete Overtures, Vol. 2 8.501504 730099150446 Idil Biret 20th Century Edition [15-CD Set]

The Guerra Manuscript Series 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 Naxos Audiobooks – Johnston McCulley’s Zorro Series

20th Century Italian Classics Series NA0253 9781781980170 McCULLEY, J.: The Further Adventures of Zorro (unabridged)

8.572414 747313241477 CASELLA, A.: Symphony No. 2 • A notte alta for Piano and Orchestra NA0252 9781781980156 McCULLEY, J.: The Mark of Zorro (unabridged)

8.573180 747313318070 CASELLA, A.: Triple Concerto • GHEDINI, G.F.: Concerto dell’albatro Naxos Audiobooks – Bill Homewood, Reader

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)

21st Century Classics Naxos Audiobooks – Thomas Hardy, Author

8.555778 0747313577828 DUBUGNON, R.: Piano Quartet • Incantatio • Frenglish Suite NA0154 9781843798453 HARDY, T.: Far from the Madding Crowd (unabridged)

8.572772 747313277278 GUBAIDULINA, S.: Fachwerk • Silenzio NA0168 9781843798132 HARDY, T.: The Return of the Native (unabridged) Laurent Petitgirard, Conductor/Composer

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

BERG, A.: Wozzeck [4 CDs] (Soloists, Chorus of Students and Alumni, 8.660390-91 730099039079 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)

SHOSTAKOVICH, D.: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 • String Quartet No. 8 (arr. for piano) 8.573666 747313366675 (Giltburg, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Vasily Petrenko)

More Exciting New Releases

CASELLA, A.: Divertimento for Fulvia • DONATONI, F. • GHEDINI, G.F. • MALIPIERO, G.F. 8.573748 747313374878 (Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana)

DUBUGNON, R.: Arcanes Symphoniques • Triptyque • Le Songe Salinas 8.573687 747313368778 (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)

MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Sonata for Violin Alone • Dances from The Two Fiddlers • Sonata for Violin and Piano 8.573599 747313359974 Piano Trio: A Voyage to Fair Isle (Duccio Ceccanti, Vittorio Ceccanti, Matteo Fossi, Bruno Canino)

Catalan Wind Band Music - OLTRA, M. • GARRETA, J. 8.573547 747313354771 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

Ella Kiang Sings Arias from Madama Butterfly, La Gioconda, Gianni Schicchi, La Bohème, Mefistofele 8.225853 636943585320 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)

Liang Ning Sings Operatic Arias by Mozart and Gounod and Chinese Classics 8.225825 636943582527 (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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