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NEW ON The World’s Leading ClassicalNAXOS Music Label DECEMBER 2014 This Month’s Other Highlights © 2014 Naxos Rights US, Inc. • Contact Us: [email protected] www.naxos.com • www.classicsonline.com • www.naxosmusiclibrary.com • blog.naxos.com NEW ON NAXOS | DECEMBER 2014 Includes World Première Recordings 8.573315 Playing Time 53:57 7 47313 33157 4 Sensations © Róbert Bublik Music for Bandoneon Miran Vaupotić Cesare Chiachiaretta, Bandoneon • Krunoslav Marić, Solo Violin* Croatian Philharmonic Orchestra • Miran Vaupotić Roberto DI MARINO (b. 1956) Concerto for Bandoneon and String Orchestra† Ástor PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992) Oblivion / Five Tango Sensations* † WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING Companion Titles The bandoneon is a type of concertina which has been an essential part of traditional tango ensembles for the past century. Award-winning Italian composer Roberto Di Marino explores the breathtakingly virtuoso and sensual qualities of this distinctive instrument in his Concerto, with its driving syncopated rhythms and melodies which tug at the heartstrings. Ástor Piazzolla singlehandedly created the ‘nuevo tango’ genre, and his haunting Oblivion is one of his most haunting creations in this style. He described the Five Tango Sensations as “a musical farewell to life”. 8.572611 8.570523 Sales Points • Tango music and the bandoneon are hugely popular, and Roberto Di Marino rewards our expectations with his brand new Concerto for Bandoneon and String Orchestra. This impressive work builds on the romantic idiom of Ástor Piazzolla, spectacularly extending the virtuoso boundaries of the solo instrument over exciting rhythms and heartwarming harmonies. Coupling this with some of Piazzolla’s most evocative music is a natural choice which will add to the attraction of this release, while acclaimed soloist Cesare Chiacchiaretta is universally admired amongst fellow musicians and audiences as a widely travelled ambassador for his instrument. 8.572271 8.554760 Cesare Chiacchiaretta devoted himself to the study of the accordion at a very young age, later taking up the bandoneon. He has been awarded many prizes at important national and international competitions, such as the first prize at the 1993 Città di Castelfi dardo international competition. He is currently an accordion teacher at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory in Parma. Miran Vaupotić is quickly establishing himself as a sought after young artist. Currently, he is Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian Symphony Orchestra Prokofiev in Moscow, Russia, and Artistic Director of newly founded Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra in Philadelphia, USA. He was declared Artist of the Year 2008 by the International Art Society & © Mario Majcan Academy. Croatian Philharmonic Orchestra 2 NEW ON NAXOS | DECEMBER 2014 NBD0046 Playing Time 1:37:48 7 30099 00466 4 Audio Format • Blu-ray Audio Sound • 24-bit, 96 kHz PCM Companion Titles NEW RELEASE ©Krzysztof Niesporek Antoni Wit Antonín DVOŘÁK (1841–1904) Requiem Christiane Libor, Soprano • Ewa Wolak, Alto 8.572874-75 8.572031 8.573061 8.572639 Daniel Kirch, Tenor • Janusz Monarcha, Bass Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir Antoni Wit, one of the most highly regarded Polish conductors, Antoni Wit studied conducting with Henryk Czyz at the Academy of Music in Kraków. He then continued his musical studies with Nadia Boulanger Antonín Dvořák’s huge popularity in England was built largely on the in Paris. After winning second prize in the International Herbert von success of his Stabat Mater, which he had conducted there in 1884 Karajan Conducting Competition in Berlin (1971), he became an and 1885. It was well suited to the country’s choral traditions and led assistant conductor to the patron of that competition. From 2002 eventually to a commission for a Requiem, which was premièred in to 2013 Antoni Wit was the managing and artistic director of the Birmingham in 1891. Written in ten months during tours to Russia, Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir. He has made over England and Germany, its success was immediate. Sitting closer to 200 records, including an acclaimed release for Naxos of the piano the tradition of Cherubini than Verdi, its tone is compassionate and concertos of Prokofiev, awarded the Diapason d’Or and Grand Prix reflective, devoid of unnecessary drama, and movingly crafted with du Disque de la Nouvelle Académie du Disque. In 2012 he received a great sophistication. GRAMMY® Award for Penderecki’s Fonogrammi, Horn Concerto and Partita (8.572482). Antoni Wit is professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Sales Points • Dvořák's Requiem is a work of humanity and compassion and has attracted a large number of recordings. There is the classic Ančerl-directed one, and others conducted by Neumann, Sawallisch and Kertesz have long dominated the catalog since the 1960s and 70s onwards. Conductor Antoni Wit is a Naxos regular and a renowned interpreter of Slavic music - in the past he has also recorded Dvořák - the Piano Concerto on 8.550896 and the Czech Suite coupled with Hero's Song on 8.553005. © Dominik Skurzak Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra 3 NEW ON NAXOS | DECEMBER 2014 © Martin Malý Czech National Symphony Orchestra Includes World Première Zdeněk FIBICH (1850–1900) Recordings Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 Czech National Symphony Orchestra • Marek Štilec This fourth volume in the first complete recording of the orchestral works of Zdeněk Fibich features shorter orchestral works and occasional pieces for theatre projects. They include the evocative overture A Night at Karlštejn Castle, the Mendelssohnian overture to the incidental music for The Jew of Prague, as well as the witty and elegant ballet music from the opera Hedy. Specially prepared from original sources for this recording by Marek Štilec, the four Tableaux vivants (‘staged pictures’) reflect a 19th-century Central European fashion for staged pieces, including fanfares, majestic ceremony and regal splendour, not intended to outlive their immediate purpose. Sales Points • This fourth volume in our première edition of the complete orchestral works of Zdeněk Fibich has rich pickings in terms of rarely heard works and first recordings of pieces in special new editions prepared by conductor Marek Štilec. Acclaim for previous releases in this collection saw volume 1 (8.572985) made a MusicWeb International ‘Recording of the Year’, the same source considering volume 2 (8.573157) “excellent enough to withstand the most exalted competition. The recording is rich and full, giving full justice to the luscious scoring. The use of scholarly versions of the 8.573310 Playing Time music… gives this new CD a real edge over its rivals”. Volume 3 is 66:00 available on 8.573197. 7 47313 33107 9 Previous Releases “If you’re just starting “Here…is a composer “…appealing and out with Fibich, this from the heart of attractive music is a good choice; I’m 19th-century Bohemia winningly performed.” hoping there will be …whose voice is – MusicWeb more to come.” one of a distinct International – American Record musical vocabulary Guide and style uniquely his own. Definitely 8.572985 8.573157 recommended.” 8.573197 – Fanfare 4 NEW ON NAXOS | DECEMBER 2014 8.573249 Playing Time 66:57 7 47313 32497 2 © Ondřej Klíma Marek Štilec Franz Ignaz BECK (1734–1809) Symphonies Op. 4, Nos. 4-6 • Op. 3, No. 5 Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice • Marek Štilec The court at Mannheim, one of Europe’s great eighteenth-century Marek Štilec was born in Prague in 1985 and began his studies musical centres, provided myriad opportunities for creative at the Prague Conservatoire in the violin class of Dana Vlachová. development. Having absorbed the ideas of his teacher, Johann He studied conducting with Leoš Svárovský, graduating from Stamitz, and of other luminaries, Beck wrote a series of symphonies the Prague Academy of Performing Arts. He works regularly with notable for their dramatic contrasts, breadth and sweep, the a number of orchestras, including the Czech Radio Symphony progressive inclusion of woodwinds and a willingness to explore Orchestra, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the expressive intensity. Further Beck Symphonies may be heard on Swan, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Naxos 8.553790, 8.554071, 8.570799 and 8.573248. Prague Philharmonia, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Kammerphilharmonie Graz and the Berlin Camerata. Sales Points • Franz Ignaz Beck composed symphonies from the He founded the Chamber Orchestra Quattro with which he has 1750s, when the genre was in its infancy, and they have long been given dozens of concerts and has made a number of internationally regarded as some of the most important early symphonic statements. successful recordings. He works with Czech Television and Czech Couched in the Mannheim school they can rank with the symphonies Radio and his recordings have also been broadcast by the BBC. of Stamitz in the structural clearness and melodic ingenuity. This is the second in the Beck series – the first was on 8.573848. The rival to this disc is on CPO where Michael Schneider conducts La Stagione Companion Titles in Op.3 No.5; All the symphonies have since been collected in a CPO 3-CD box, released at the beginning of 2014 on 777880, but La Stagione is an original instrument band and both Naxos releases are with modern instrument ensembles. 8.573248 8.553790 © František Renza Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice 8.554071 8.570799 5 NEW ON NAXOS | DECEMBER 2014 Makoto Ueno and Kazunori Seo Ignaz MOSCHELES (1794–1870) Works for Flute and Piano Sonate concertante in G major Grande Sonate • Divertimento Kazunori Seo, Flute • Makoto Ueno, Piano Pianist, composer and conductor Ignaz Moscheles was one of the most respected musicians of his time, and throughout his long life was at the social and musical heart of Europe. Studies with Beethoven’s old teachers, Albrechtsberger and Salieri, equipped him with a first-class compositional technique used to notable effect in a series of works for his own instrument, the piano.