New on Naxos | December 2014

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Includes World Première Recordings

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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*

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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

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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

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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

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“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

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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.

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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. Moscheles also wrote a delightful corpus of works for flute and piano, seldom heard today, yet full of vivacious tunes, contrapuntal interest, and some technically demanding passages which reflect his own status as a virtuoso pianist.

Sales Points • Moscheles is remembered as a pianist and composer, almost exclusively for his own instrument. His big concertos were performed by many of the leading virtuosi of the past century. Interest in his piano works has revived of late, but this disc is devoted to his much rarer, seldom heard works for flute and piano. Naxos has already released a Concertante in F major for flute and orchestra 8.573175 Playing Time by him in a disc called The Romantic Flute [8.555977]. The works 77:42 in this current disc are lively, full of delightful tunes and occasionally demanding. They have many lighter features too, and should surprise 7 47313 31757 8 those who know only Moscheles’ piano works.

The flautist Kazunori Seo studied flute in Paris with Raymond Guiot, Companion Titles Kurt Redel, Patrick Gallois, Benoît Fromanger and Alain Marion at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, where he was awarded the Premier Prix in flute in 1998. Pianist Makoto Ueno was a prize-winner at various international competitions. In June 2005 he won Second Prize at the First Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition in Moscow. Since 1996, he has been teaching as a piano faculty member at Kyoto University of Arts. 8.554747 8.554748 8.570378 8.572038

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World Première Recordings

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Johann Simon MAYR (1763–1845) Il sogno di Partenope (Cantata Opera) Andrea Lauren Brown, Sara Hershkowitz and Caroline Adler, Sopranos Florence Lousseau, Mezzo-Soprano Cornel Frey and Robert Sellier, Tenors © Katrin Eberhardt Andreas Burkhart, Bass Franz Hauk Members of the Bavarian State Opera Chorus Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble Theona Gubba-Chkheidze, Concert-master Companion Titles Franz Hauk

Franz Hauk and the Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble have spearheaded the revival of the music of Johann Simon Mayr who was born in Bavaria but lived in Italy. In the latest instalment of their critically acclaimed recordings they turn to Il sogno di Partenope, an allegorical staged cantata composed to mark the rebuilding of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples following a fire in February 1816. Mayr’s significance as an intermediary between the opera seria of the late eighteenth-century and the melodrama of the early-nineteenth is 8.572719-20 8.572721-22 reflected in this important work, a unique kind of ‘cantata opera’ of which only the second act survives.

Sales Points • Naxos’ discs of the music of Johann Simon Mayr have pretty much single-handedly restored his music to public awareness. Franz Hauk, with the Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble, has spearheaded this revival, and they remain the composer’s leading champions. Il sogno di Partenope is a staged cantata that has strong operatic elements. Its appeal is not simply as a choral work as it prefigures much that Rossini was later to write, and will appeal to admirers of German and Italian music of the early nineteenth-century. 8.573065 8.573360 Only the second act survives, and is played in this performance. This is its first-ever recording.

Born in Neuburg an der Donau in 1955, Franz Hauk studied church and school music, with piano and organ, at the Munich Musikhochschule and in Salzburg. He established the Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble in 2003. The repertoire of the choir includes works from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. A special emphasis is laid on authentic historical performance and on the promotion of music by Simon Mayr at the highest cultural level. Members of the choir are vocal students from the Munich Hochschule für Music und Theatre and singers selected from Ingolstadt and the region. The orchestra is formed by leading professional players. Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble 7 NEW ON NAXOS | DECEMBER 2014

Sir Peter MAXWELL DAVIES (b. 1934) The Beltane Fire The Turn of the Tide* • Sunday Morning Threnody on a Plainsong for Michael Vyner Sir Charles his Pavan The Manchester Cathedral Girls’ Choir* The Boys of the Manchester Cathedral Choir* The Boys of the Manchester Cathedral Voluntary Choir* The Choir of Manchester Grammar School* BBC Philharmonic Orchestra • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

The works on this recording embrace a varied miscellany of Peter Maxwell Davies’ orchestral output from the early 1990s. The ‘choreographic poem’ The Beltane Fire pits the sternness of the Reformation clergy against the pagan traditions of the Orkney Islands. Concerned with environmental pollution, The Turn of the Tide ultimately reaches “a triumphant dance of all creation”, while the Threnody and Pavan are poignant memorial tributes for significant figures in the composer’s life.

Sales Points • Our catalog of works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has for some time had sufficient critical mass to make each new release an automatic purchase for connoisseurs of the best in contemporary music. This new collection was preceded by our June release of The Lighthouse (8.660354), acclaimed by BBC Music Magazine as a work to “grip the imagination from start to finish… © John Batten incisively superb.” This new release is a collection with a great deal of variety, reviving a Collins Classics recording of The Beltane Fire which Gramophone considered “excellent performances… from the Maxwell Davies/ 8.572362 Playing Time: BBC Philharmonic partnership; the recordings are clean and vivid”. The BBC 72:50 Music Magazine also admired “the combined forces of four children’s choirs from Manchester [who] acquit themselves magnificently in the final hymn to unsullied nature” in The Turn of the Tide, a work which holds as much resonance today as 7 47313 23627 5 it did in the 1990s for those concerned about our environment.

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World Première Recordings John McCABE (b. 1939) Composer, Pianist, Conductor Symphony No. 1 ‘Elegy’1 Fantasy on a Theme of Liszt2 Capriccio3 • Sostenuto4 • Tuning5 London Philharmonic Orchestra1 • John Snashall1 National Youth Orchestra of Scotland5 John McCabe, Piano 2,3,4; Conductor5

This collection brings together several significant recordings of the music of John McCabe, none of which has appeared before on CD. The First Symphony, heard here in its only recording to date, is a work of striking emotional directness and explosive energy. The Fantasy on a Theme of Liszt was described by Harold Truscott as ‘wonderfully organic… a concert piece which should interest any pianist worth his salt’. Scored for very large orchestra, Tuning develops layers of texture and sonority of overwhelming richness. This is the only recording of John McCabe as conductor.

Sales Points • This collection brings together several significant recordings of the music of John McCabe, none of which has appeared before on CD. It joins our recent release of McCabe’s choral music, Visions (8.573053) was described by BBC Music Magazine as “raptly atmospheric and consummately crafted”, and provides insights into the wide variety of character McCabe’s music has communicated over the years, embracing the importance of his solo piano music and contrasting the focused intensity of the First Symphony against the improvisatory fields of sound which emerge from Tuning. This performance of Tuning was regarded by critic Kenneth Walton as “quite remarkable… [and 8.571370 Playing Time: played with] all-out commitment, consummate skill (especially the wind section 62:21 of which the bassoons must be the envy of many a professional orchestra), and not a little enjoyment. 7 47313 13707 7 Companion Titles

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Includes World Première Leonardo BALADA (b. 1933) Recordings Symphony No. 6 ‘Symphony of Sorrows’1† Concerto for Three Cellos and Orchestra ‘A German Concerto’2† Steel Symphony3 Hans-Jakob Eschenburg, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt Michael Sanderling, Cellos2 • Galicia Symphony Orchestra1 Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra2 • Eivind Gullberg Jensen2 Barcelona Symphony Orchestra3 • Jesús López-Cobos1,3

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The ‘romantic avant-gardism’ of Barcelona-born Leonardo Balada pairs complex techniques with a very direct emotional impact. These characteristics have often been employed in exploring the impact of historical events, none more so than the wars of the 20th century. Symphony No. 6 ‘Symphony of Sorrows’ (Dedicated to the Innocent Victims of the Spanish Civil War) embeds traditional melodic ideas in a coruscating single-movement exploration of the tragedies of war. The Steel Symphony reflects the sonorities – in an abstract, non-programmatic way – of Pittsburgh’s steel foundries, while the Concerto for Three Cellos, inspired by Germany’s recovery after two catastrophic world wars, combines complex techniques in a vivid work of almost surrealistic transformations.

Sales Points • Balada marries advanced techniques with traditional melodies, which creates a powerful sense of immediacy and emotional intensity in his music. He often touches on historical themes, such as the Spanish Civil War, which he does in the Symphony No.6, which links it to his orchestral work Guernica, also on the same subject. He is represented on several Naxos releases: Guernica is 8.573298 Playing Time: coupled with Zapata and Symphony No.4 on 8.557342 and there are concertos 59:54 and orchestral works in the catalog as well – the Concerto No.3 for instance is included in an all-Balada release in the 21st Century Classics series, issued over 7 47313 32987 8 a decade ago.

Supplementary Promotional Material • Podcast (Available December)

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Franz LISZT (1811-1886) Works for Violin and Piano Duo Sonata on Polish Themes The Three Gypsies • 2 Elegies Grand duo concertant on Lafont’s ‘Le marin’ Voytek Proniewicz, Violin • Wojciech Waleczek, Piano

Franz Liszt wrote relatively little chamber music in his long and illustrious career. The Duo Sonata is a tribute to Chopin, drawing on one of his famous Mazurkas as well as other Polish themes. The gracefully charming Epithalamium was Liszt’s wedding present to the great violinist Eduard Reményi, for whom the gipsy style of Die drei Zigeuner was also intended. The two lyrical Elegies commemorate the passing of members of Liszt’s circle, while the demandingly virtuoso variations of the Grand Duo concertant make no concessions to either player.

Sales Points • Best known for his remarkable piano, vocal and orchestral works, Liszt’s chamber music © Damian Porter © Przemek Paśnik is relatively unfamiliar but is highly entertaining, tending to avoid the heavier romanticism of his more extensive solo pieces. This sparkling new recording brings together two star performers. Award- winning violinist Voytek Proniewicz has already Voytek Proniewicz Wojciech Waleczek appeared on one of our Pupils of Chopin albums (8.572460), and winner of the 1997 Ferenc Liszt National Piano Competition in Wrocław. Wojciech Waleczek, is recognized internationally as a pianist with uncompromisingly high standards in performance. 8.573145 Playing Time: 70:01 Companion Titles

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World Première Recordings Chris Paul HARMAN (b. 1970) After JSB-RS Works for Keyboards and Percussion After Schumann I1 3712 • Concertino3 • Der Tag mit seinem Licht4 After Schumann II5 MeiYi Foo, Piano1,5 • Toca Loca2 Yoori Choi and Jin Hyung Lim, Keyboards3 McGill Percussion Ensemble3 • Soloists4 Aiyun Huang, Conductor3,4 Drawing inspiration from Bach’s Chorales and Two Part Inventions and two of Schumann’s piano cycles, the works on this recording create fresh and unique sound worlds from a variety of percussion and keyboard instruments such as tubular bells, crotales, prepared piano, celesta and toy piano. “The five solo and chamber works collected here span a period of seven years, from 2006 to 2013, and illustrate the significance of keyboard and percussion instruments in my music throughout this period. The enigmatic reference to ‘JSB’ (Johann Sebastian Bach) and ‘RS’ (Robert Schumann) underlines the importance of pre- existent music or ‘source material’ in most of my works since the mid-1990s.” – Chris Paul Harman

Sales Points • Winner of the CBC Radio National Competition for Young Composers in 1990 and the Jules Léger Prize in both 2001 and 2007, Chris Paul Harman’s music is performed worldwide and has generated considerable international interest. The few recordings of his works have tended to remain with less widely available Canadian labels, and this new release of some remarkable 8.573303 Playing Time: recent output represents a deserved breakthrough for one of Canada’s brightest 55:54 musical minds. Amongst the performers is pianist Mei Yi Foo, who was BBC Music Magazine Newcomer if the Year in 2013 and hailed as a “rising star” by 7 47313 33037 9 International Piano. Companion Titles

8.572812 8.573395 8.573091 8.572765 World Première POINT BLANK Music for Wind Band Recordings Ben Stiers, Percussion* Illinois State University Wind Symphony Daniel A. Belongia

Paul DOOLEY (b. 1983) Point Blank Steve DANYEW (b. 1983) Lauda Roy David MAGNUSON (b. 1983) Innsmouth, Massachusetts – 1927 Scott McALLISTER (b. 1969) Gone Jennifer HIGDON (b. 1962) Percussion Concerto*

Each of these five contemporary American pieces for wind band, performed by one of the country’s leading ensembles, explores its own very personal soundscape. Paul Dooley delves into the world of Drum & Bass with electronically inspired orchestrations, whilst for Steve Danyew the exploration of counterpoint is paramount. In composer Roy David Magnuson’s own words, Innsmouth, Massachusetts – 1927 is ‘pulpy horror music’ which depicts a night in H.P. Lovecraft’s terrifying The Shadow Over Innsmouth. In contrast, Scott McAllister’s Gone is meditative and prayerful. Pulitzer and GRAMMY® Prize-winner Jennifer Higdon’s Percussion Concerto is heard here in its arrangement for wind ensemble.

Sales Points • This quintet of contemporary American works is full of contrast, dynamism and surprise. It’s part of the Naxos Wind Band Classics series and will be of particular interest to

© Pete Guither adherents of the wind band – not least Illinois State University Wind Symphony because the popular Pulitzer and Grammy prize winner Jennifer Higdon is represented by her Percussion Concerto in its arrangement for wind ensemble. The music fizzes from the Drum & Bass electronic inspirations of Paul Dooley to Scott McAllister’s reflective Gone, 8.573334 Playing Time: a transcription of a movement from his Epic Concerto for clarinet. A particular 60:19 please is the self-confessed ‘pulpy horror music’ conjured up by Roy Magnuson. Higdon’s concerto is the only piece to be represented in the Arkivmusic catalog 7 47313 33347 9 – played by conventional orchestra on the LPO label and by wind ensemble on the GIA label.

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Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791) Piano Music Fugues, Rondos and Fantasias Sang Woo Kang, Piano

Mozart married Constanze Weber in 1782, and it is thanks to her diligent curation of ‘these marvellous relics’ that we have these rarely heard fragments including fugues which reveal the influence of Bach and demonstrate Mozart’s agility with sophisticated contrapuntal techniques. The more substantial Rondos have gained popularity with their memorable themes and musical depth, while forays into Baroque style can be heard in the unfinished Suite. These, the improvisational Fantasias and a mocking parody of a Funeral March all highlight neglected facets of Mozart’s œuvre.

Sales Points • This recording of Mozart’s fugues, rondos, and other smaller piano works joins our various editions and collections of Mozart’s complete works with piano. With its rich variety of rarely recorded or performed fragments as well as more substantial completed repertoire, this is a valuable resource for pianists, scholars, and general listeners alike.

© Jessica Ho Pianist Sang Woo Kang is well known internationally as a recitalist and educator, and is director of the Piano Institute and Seminar at the Atlantic Music Festival and Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at Providence College. 8.573114 Playing Time: 71:03 Companion Titles

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Olivier MESSIAEN (1908-1992) La Nativité du Seigneur (The Birth of the Saviour) Tom Winpenny, Organ

Before he was thirty, Olivier Messiaen had written the work that established his worldwide reputation as a visionary composer for the organ, La Nativité du Seigneur (The Birth of the Saviour). A synthesis of his innovatory compositional style, it is rich in colourful harmonies and precisely noted but flexible rhythms, many derived from Hindu tâlas and from the metre of Gregorian chant. This musical commentary on the Christmas story is divided into nine movements evoking timeless grace, beauty, radiance, exhilaration, and majesty. Tom Winpenny is Assistant Master of the Music at St Albans Cathedral, the oldest site of continuous Christian worship in Britain.

Sales Points • La Nativité du Seigneur has been recorded by many eminent organists; the composer’s own 1956 recording, very famous, is in a 14-CD box Warner tribute, released in 2008; Marie-Claire Alain’s performance is housed in a bigger 18-CD Warner box devoted to the composer’s music; Simon Preston’s 1965 recording is in a 2-CD set on Decca; Jennifer Bate (Unicorn-

© Simon Tottman Kanchana) and Oliver Latry (on DG) recorded the complete organ music back in the 1980s – Bate’s has resurfaced on single discs on Priory CDs. And there are other single disc accounts, such as Wilhelm Hafner’s on Motette. 8.573332 Playing Time: Tom Winpenny is an admired choral director and organist whose Naxos discs 61:07 (Rutter, Mozart, Mendelssohn etc) have received critical acclaim.

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Laureate Series Junhong Kuang Guitar Recital Mario CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO (1895-1968) Capriccio diabolico, ‘Omaggio a Paganini’, Op. 85 Agustín BARRIOS MANGORÉ (1885-1944) Un sueño en la floresta / Chôro da Saudade Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Ciaconna from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 Enrique GRANADOS (1867-1916) Danza española, Op. 37, No. 4 ‘Villanesca’ Isaac ALBÉNIZ (1860-1909) Suite española No. 1, Op. 47, No. 3 ‘Sevilla’ Luigi LEGNANI (1790-1877) Selection from 36 Caprices, Op. 20 Johann Kaspar MERTZ (1806-1856) Trois morceaux, Op. 65 ‘Fantaisie hongroise’

The exceptional Chinese guitarist Junhong Kuang, who won first prize in the Thailand International Guitar Competition in November 2011, has made a remarkable impact on the international stage, receiving standing ovations at venues in New York (Carnegie Hall), Shanghai and Beijing for his flawless technique and youthful optimism. Aged just 14 at the time of this recording, he has since given the opening concert at the 23rd International Guitar Symposium in Iserlohn, Germany.

Sales Points • This recital by the exceptional 14 year-old guitarist Junhong Kuang promises to create quite a stir on its release in the West. Renowned guitarist and recording producer for the album Gerald Garcia states that Kuang “really is something”, admiring the “youthful optimism about his playing” and adding, “needless to say, his technique is flawless.” Kuang has already appeared hundreds of times in concerts in China, Europe and the US, and by the time this release appears he will have given the opening concert at the Iserlohn Guitar Symposium in August 2014. Junhong Kuang is also the D’Addario Music Foundation’s featured artist, and a spokesperson for Altamira classical guitars.

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Alun HODDINOTT (1929-2008) Landscapes: Song Cycles and Folksongs Clair Booth, Soprano • Nicky Spence, Tenor Jeremy Huw Williams, Baritone Andrew Matthews-Owen, Piano (primo) • Michael Pollock, Piano (secondo)

Alun Hoddinott dominated musical life in his native Wales for over half a century. One of the most versatile and gifted composers of his generation he excelled in all genres, from operas and symphonies to piano sonatas. This recording brings together all of his songs for high voice and piano, revealing the vivid atmosphere he was able to evoke in each setting. It includes his Six Welsh Folksongs and his last vocal work, Towy Landscape, for soprano, baritone and piano duet, Hoddinott’s epilogue to a lifetime of writing for the voice.

Sales Points • This is another of the discs released by Naxos that were originally issued by the British Music Society on their own label [BMS437CD]. Alun Hoddinott is Wales’ greatest composer, versatile, prolific and international in outlook. Cardiff’s new major concert hall is named in his honor. Songs play an important role in his output, many for high voice – this was the first disc to bring together all his songs for high voice and piano, but also includes his arrangements of Welsh Folksongs and his last work, for soprano, baritone and piano called Towy Landscape. This will appeal strongly to lovers of British song on disc.

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Digital Exclusives Inlcudes World Première Recordings Anthony GIRARD (b. 1959) Behind the Light L’oiseau d’éternité • Deux Piéces d’après Marc Aurèle 7 30099 72221 6 Vers le ciel Geneviève Girard, Piano • Isabelle Flory, Violin Fabrice Bihan, Cello

The intensely personal music of French composer Anthony Girard embodies a wealth of expressive elements. Influences from oriental and medieval music are as pronounced as those of his great predecessors Debussy, Fauré, and Ravel. Luminous mysticism is frequently at the core of his writing, as in Vers le ciel whilst lyrical beauty radiates throughout Behind the Light. Dreamlike meditative states reflect Girard’s absorption in minimalism and in the second of the Deux Pièces d’après Marc Aurèle (Two Pieces after Marcus Aurelius) he explores music of timeless and rapt simplicity.

Sales Points • Anthony Girard is a unique voice in contemporary French music, heir to the tradition established by Fauré and Debussy, whilst he has also absorbed elements of Minimalism and oriental music. Poetry and mysticism are at the heart of his works. The works on this disc are for chamber forces – violin, cello, piano – and are very approachable. 9.70221 Playing Time: A previous Naxos release [8.572993] features work for clarinet and piano - Eloge de la folie 60:42 (In Praise of Folly) and the mythic Les Noces d’Orphée (The Marriage of Orpheus), and Le Cercle de la vie (The Circle of Life), a set of 24 piano preludes.

Lodovico GIUSTINI (1685-1743) Sonatas, Op. 10, Nos 2, 4, 7, 9 and 10 Enrico Maria Polimanti 7 30099 72301 5

Born into a family of musicians in the same year as Bach, Handel and Scarlatti, Ludovico Giustini worked as an organist and maestro di cappella but most of his church music has been lost. He is chiefly remembered for his Sonate da cimbalo di piano e forte detto volgarmente di martelletti, Op. 1, the first known work to have been specifically composed for the pianoforte. Newly invented, few such instruments existed at the time, but its expressive © G. Valdamini nuances ultimately saw it take over from the harpsichord. Giustini’s sonatas take the best of both worlds with their alternation of fast and slow movements from the sonata da chiesa, and dance forms from the sonata da camera.

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Naxos Audiobooks

Memoirs of My Life By Edward Gibbon Unabridged Read by David Timson 9 781843 798750 Edward Gibbon (1737−1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament known for his monumental series The Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire, which chronicled the dissipation of the Roman dynasties in a lofty, majestic style unique to its author. Memoirs of My Life, published posthumously in 1796, wholly unveils the character of the world’s greatest historian in full candour and openness. We follow him from birth, through to his education at Oxford, to his time in Switzerland where he met Voltaire and fell in love with a Swiss girl. We accompany him on his travels through France and Lausanne, leading on to his eventual arrival in Rome, where he conceived of his epic Decline and Fall. Gibbon’s Memoirs is a portrait of a rich and productive life and offers a compelling insight into a towering figure; it is essential listening for anyone interested in great literature.

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Arabella By Georgette Heyer Unabridged Read by Phyllida Nash 9 781843 798637 Perhaps the most deeply cherished novel among Heyer fans, Arabella is the story of a poor girl who captures the heart of a handsome and wealthy bachelor. When Arabella first arrives in London, she has only one mission: to snare a rich husband. With a mind to beat the competition, she pretends to be a rich heiress and soon finds herself the talk of the town, pursued by the most eligible bachelors in the city. But she has her sights on one man only: the much-hunted Mr Beaumaris. Our feisty heroine puts up a fight and deals the worldly-wise Beaumaris a deft hand in the game of love; at first grudgingly charmed, he soon becomes smitten. However, what will he think of her deceitful charade? Will it ruin her chance to be with the perfect man? Arabella contains some of Heyer’s most witty dialogue and romantic banter; with its delightful and laugh-out-loud passages it is no wonder it remains the fan favourite.

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The Man in the Iron Mask By Alexandre Dumas Unabridged Read by Bill Homewood 9 781843 798699 The Man in the Iron Mask continues the adventures of the dauntless heroes of The Three Musketeers − Aramis, Athos, Porthos and d’Artagnan. In old age their swashbuckling ought to have been replaced by a more gentle way of life, but the veteran warriors find themselves at the centre of a plot in which both hearts and heads are broken, and the very throne of France is at stake.

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NA0188 Playing Time: 16 CD set 21:00:00

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Franz Hauk, Conductor + Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble RIES, F.: Flute and Piano Works - 8.572038 747313203871 Flute Sonatas / Introduction and Polonaise / Variations on a Portuguese Hymn 8.573360 747313336074 DONIZETTI, G.: Aristea - Cantata

8.573065 747313306572 MAYR, J.S.: Arianna a Nasso - Cantata Canadian Classics Series

8.572719-20 747313271979 MAYR, J.S.: Sagrifizio di Jefte (Il) - Oratorio Choral Music (Canadian) - 8.572812 747313281275 CORLIS, T. / ENNS, L. / TIEFENBACH, P. / WATSON HENDERSON, R. (I Saw Eternity) 8.572721-22 747313272174 MAYR, J.S.: Samuele - Oratorio

Zdeněk Fibich, Composer 8.573091 747313309177 HATZIS, C.: Departures / Overscript

8.572985 747313298570 FIBICH, Z.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 - Symphony No. 1 / Impressions from the Countryside 8.573395 747313339570 HÉTU, J.: Complete Chamber Works for Strings (New Orford String Quartet)

8.573157 747313315772 FIBICH, Z.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - Symphony No. 2 / At Twilight / Idyll 8.572765 747313276578 RYAN, J.: Symphony No. 1, "Fugitive Colours" / The Linearity of Light / Equilateral

FIBICH, Z.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 - Symphonic Poems: Wind Band Classics 8.573197 747313319770 Othello / Záboj, Slavoj and Luděk / Toman and the Woodsprite GLASS, P.: Concerto Fantasy for 2 Timpanists and Orchestra 8.573205 747313320578 (arr. M. Lortz) / FAIROUZ, M.: Symphony No. 4 Antoni Wit, Conductor + Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra

8.573061 747313306176 BRAHMS, J.: Deutsches Requiem (Ein) 8.573206 747313320677 VAN DER ROOST, J.: Sinfonia Hungarica / From Ancient Times

8.572874-75 747313287475 DVOŘÁK, A.: Requiem (C. Libor, E. Wolak, D. Kirch, J. Monarcha, Warsaw PO and Chorus, Wit) 8.573184 747313318476 Wind Band Music - CLARKE, N. / TURNBULL, K. / SANTANDREU, J. (Earthrise)

8.572639 747313263974 JANÁ EK, L.: Glagolitic Mass / Sinfonietta Č Wind Band Music - CRESTON, P. / SCHWARZ, G. / GRAINGER, P. / COPLAND, A. 8.573121 747313312177 (Above and Beyond) 8.572031 747313203178 PENDERECKI, K.: Utrenja

Leonardo Balada, Composer Piano Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer

8.572176 747313217670 BALADA, L.: Caprichos Nos. 2-4 8.554769 636943476925 MOZART, W.A.: London Sketchbook

8.557049 747313204922 BALADA, L.: Cello Concerto No. 2 / Concerto for Four Guitars / Celebracio 8.550449 730099544924 MOZART, W.A.: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5 (Piano Sonatas Nos. 2, 13 and 14 / Fantasia, K. 475)

8.557342 747313234226 BALADA, L.: Guernica / Symphony No. 4 / Zapata 8.550611 730099561129 MOZART, W.A.: Piano Variations, Vol. 1

8.573047 747313304776 BALADA, L.: Sinfonia en negro / Double Concerto / Columbus 8.550612 730099561228 MOZART, W.A.: Piano Variations, Vol. 2

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer + BBC Philharmonic Organ Encyclopedia Series

8.572359 747313235971 MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Black Pentecost / Stone Litany 8.572687 747313268771 BINGHAM, J.: Organ Music - Jacob's Ladder / Into the Wilderness / Ancient Sunlight

8.660354 730099035477 MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Lighthouse (The) 8.572436-37 747313243679 MESSIAEN, O.: Livre du Saint Sacrement

8.660359-60 730099035972 MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Resurrection ROBIN, J.-B.: Organ Music - 8.570892 747313089277 Cercles Reflechissants / Regard vers l'Air / 3 Elements d'un Songe 8.572350 747313235070 MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Symphony No. 3 / Cross Lane Fair

British Music Society series 8.570310 747313031078 WIDOR, C.-M.: Organ Favourites

8.571366 747313136674 BOWEN, Y.: String Quartets Nos. 2 and 3 / Phantasy-Quintet Guitar Laureate Series

8.571362 747313136278 COOKE, A.: Violin Sonata No. 2 / Viola Sonata / Cello Sonata No. 2 8.573306 747313330676 Guitar Recital: Baranov, Anton - PUJOL, M.D. / BRAVO, J.E. / ANGULO, E. / SANTÓRSOLA, G.

8.571351 747313135172 JACOBSON, M.: Theme and Variations / Music Room Suite / Mosaic / The Song of Songs Guitar Recital: Buono, Emanuele - MILANO, F. da / AGUADO, D. / RODRIGO, J. / 8.573362 747313336272 CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, M. / JOSÉ, A. 8.573053 747313305377 McCABE, J.: Choral Music (Visions)

Piano Music - HOLLOWAY, R. / HOWARD, L. / MATTHEW-WALKER, R. / SEARLE, H. Guitar Recital: Cherouana, Lazhar - RAMEAU, J.P. / REGONDI, G. / LEGNANI, L. / 8.571354 747313135479 8.573226 747313322671 (Malcolm Smith Memorial Album) ASENCIO, V. / MANJON, A.J.

8.571353 747313135370 STILL, R.: String Quartets Nos. 1-4 Guitar Recital: Park, Kyuhee - SCARLATTI, D. / DIABELLI, A. / BERKELEY, L. / 8.573225 747313322572 MALATS, J. / BARRIOS MANGORÉ, A. Franz Ignaz Beck, Composer

8.553790 730099479028 BECK, F.I. / GOSSEC, F.-J.: Symphonies Audiobooks - Edward Gibbon, Author

8.554071 636943407127 BECK, F.I.: Six Symphonies, Op. 1 NA0127 9781843797173 EDWARD, G.: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (The), Vol. 3

8.570799 747313079971 BECK, F.I.: Symphonies, Op. 3, Nos. 1-4 NA0128 9781843797180 EDWARD, G.: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (The), Vol. 4

8.573248 747313324873 BECK, F.I.: Symphonies, Op. 4, Nos. 1-3 and Op. 3, No. 6 NA0129 9781843797197 EDWARD, G.: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (The), Vol. 5

Astor Piazzolla, Composer NA0130 9781843797203 EDWARD, G.: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (The), Vol. 6

8.554760 636943476024 PIAZZOLLA, A.: Flute and Guitar Music (complete) Audiobooks - Alexander Dumas, Author

8.570523 747313052370 PIAZZOLLA, A.: Maria de Buenos Aires Suite / Verano Porteno / Milonga del Angel NA203912 9789626340394 DUMAS, A. (père): Count of Monte Cristo (The) (abridged)

8.572271 747313227174 PIAZZOLLA, A.: Sinfonia Buenos Aires / Aconcagua / 4 Seasons of Buenos Aires NA308912 9789626340899 DUMAS, A. (père): Three Musketeers (The) (abridged)

8.572611 747313261178 PIAZZOLLA, A.: Tangos for Violin, Brass Quintet and Percussion NA236912 9789626343692 DUMAS, A. (fils): Lady of the Camellias (The) (abridged)

Franz Liszt, Composer Audiobooks - Georgette Heyer, Author

8.573011 747313301171 LISZT, F.: Berlioz - Harold en Italie / Romance oubliee / ROGER, K.: Viola Sonata NA0181 9781843798552 HEYER, G.: Corinthian (The) (unabridged)

8.570516 747313051670 LISZT, F.: Dante Symphony / Dante Sonata (arr. For 2 pianos) (Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 26) NA0184 9781843798613 HEYER, G.: Faro's Daughter (unabridged)

8.509004 747313900435 LISZT, F.: Idil Biret Franz Liszt 200th Anniversary Edition NA0182 9781843798576 HEYER, G.: Cousin Kate (unabridged)

8.570562 747313056279 LISZT, F.: Wagner and Weber Transcriptions (Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 33) NA0183 9781843798590 HEYER, G.: Venetia (unabridged)

Flute Chamber & Orchestral Music

8.570378 747313037872 DOPPLER, F. / DOPPLER, K.: Music for Flutes and Orchestra

8.554747 636943474723 HOFMANN, L.: Flute Concertos, Vol. 1

8.554748 636943474822 HOFMANN, L.: Flute Concertos, Vol. 2

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This Month’s Highlights

Sensations: Music for Bandoneon - 8.573315 747313331574 DI MARINO, R.: Bandoneon Concerto / PIAZZOLLA, A.: Oblivion / Five Tango Sensations

NBD0046 730099004664 DVOŘÁK, A.: Requiem (C. Libor, E. Wolak, D. Kirch, J. Monarcha, Warsaw PO and Chorus, Wit) [Blu-ray Audio]

8.573310 747313331079 FIBICH, Z.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 (Czech NSO, Marek Stilec)

8.573249 747313324972 BECK, F.I.: Symphonies, Op. 4, Nos. 4-6 / Symphony, Op. 3, No. 5

8.573175 747313317578 MOSCHELES, I.: Works for flute and piano

8.573236 747313323678 MAYR, J.S.: Cantata il sogno di Partnope (Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble, Franz Hauk)

More Exciting New Releases

8.573298 747313329878 BALADA, L.: Symphony No. 6 / Steel Symphony / Concerto for 3 cellos and orchestra

Guitar Laureate Junhong Kuang Recital - CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, M. / BACH, J.S. / ALBÉNIZ, I. / LEGNANI, L. / 8.573432 747313343270 BARRIOS MANGORÉ, A. / GRANADOS, E. / MERTZ, J.K.

8.573303 747313330379 HARMAN, C.: After Schumann I / 371 / Concertino / Der Tag mit seinem Licht / After Schumann II

8.571360 747313136070 HODDINOTT, A.: Landscapes - Song Cycles and Folksongs

8.573145 747313314577 LISZT, F.: Works for violin and piano

8.572362 747313236275 MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: The Beltane Fire

8.571370 747313137077 McCABE, J.: Symphony No. 1 'Elegy' / Capriccio / Sostenuto / Fantasy on a Theme of Liszt / Tuning

8.573332 747313333271 MESSIAEN, O.: La Nativité du Seigneur (The Birth of the Saviour)

8.573114 747313311477 MOZART, W.A.: Piano Music - Fugues, Rondos and Fantasias

8.573334 747313333479 Point Break: Music for Wind Band - DOOLEY, P. / DANYEW, S. / MAGNUSON, R.D. / McALLISTER, S. / HIGDON, J.

Naxos Audiobooks New Releases

NA0188 9781843798699 DUMAS, A.: Man in the Iron Mask (The) (unabridged)

NA0191 9781843798750 GIBBON, E.: Memoirs of My Life (unabridged)

NA0185 9781843798637 HEYER, G.: Arabella (unabridged)

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