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NEW ON The World’s Leading ClassicalNAXOS Music Label SEPTEMBER 2016 © Kirill Bashkirov Eldar Nebolsin This Month’s Other Highlights © 2016 Naxos Rights US, Inc. • Contact Us: [email protected] www.naxos.com • www.classicsonlinehd.com • www.naxosmusiclibrary.com • blog.naxos.com NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2016 8.573462 Playing Time 57:45 7 47313 34627 1 © Nikolai Kuznetsov Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893) Key Features ● Tchaikovsky’s name needs no introduction, but both his Second Piano Concerto No. 2 Piano Concerto and the Concert Fantasy remain under- Concert Fantasia performed and relatively under-recorded, certainly in comparison Eldar Nebolsin, Piano to the massively popular First Piano Concerto. We have visited New Zealand Symphony Orchestra this repertoire before, most recently in 2007 as a completion Michael Stern of Konstantin Scherbakov’s acclaimed cycle of Tchaikovsky’s complete works for piano and orchestra (8.557824), but the Tchaikovsky has long maintained his position as among the most sizzling combination of Eldar Nebolsin and the New Zealand popular of all composers, his unequalled gift for melody and colourful Symphony Orchestra has proven irresistible. orchestration given added depth through a rich Russian soulfulness. ● Eldar Nebolsin’s recording of Liszt’s piano concertos (8.570517) The Second Piano Concerto has always lived under the shadow of was ranked “among the finest” by Gramophone, and acclaim for the famous First but, played here in the composer’s original version, his recordings of Chopin’s two piano concertos both on CD and is full of life-enhancing character and emotion. Both this and the Blu-ray has been widespread. Concert Fantasia also contain beautiful chamber-music sections allowing unique interaction between soloist and orchestra. ● Conductor Michael Stern is much in demand internationally, having also made acclaimed recordings for Naxos such as Jonathan Leshnoff’s First Symphony (8.559670) – “an hour of fully enjoyable listening” (Fanfare). The New Zealand © Todd Rosenberg Symphony Orchestra’s extensive catalogue of recordings for Naxos includes acclaimed releases from Copland “masterpieces in superbly idiomatic performances” (Gramophone on 8.559106); to Zemlinsky “another belter from the NZSO” (Sinfini Music on 8.570240). Supplementary Promotional Materials ● Key Release Kit ● Artist Profile – Eldar Nebolsin ● Facebook cover and post © Matt Grace New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Eldar Nebolsin enjoys a busy international career as a soloist, recitalist and chamber music player, appearing with conductors, Companion Titles – Eldar Nebolsin, Piano orchestras and colleagues of international distinction. During the 2009–2010 season he enjoyed the honour of being Artist in Residence for Musis Sacrum in Arnhem following his successful début with the Gelders Orkest and Nikolay Alexeev in 2008. In 2005 he was unanimously awarded the Sviatoslav Richter Prize in the First International Piano Competition in Moscow, where he was also honoured with the special award for The Best Classical Concerto Performance. 2.110284 8.572817 8.572303 8.570517 2 NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2016 Includes World Première Recordings 8.573265 Playing Time 50:11 7 47313 32657 0 © May Zircus Pablo González Supplementary Promotional Materials (1867–1916) Enrique GRANADOS ● Key Release Kit Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 ● Facebook cover and post Liliana – Lyric Poem† (arr. Casals) Suite oriental† • Elisenda* The conductor Pablo González studied at the Guildhall School Dani Espasa, Piano* of Music and Drama in London and went on to become winner of Barcelona Symphony Orchestra the Donatella Flick Competition and the Cadaqués International Pablo González Conducting Competition. He has held the positions of Associate Conductor with both the London Symphony Orchestra and † WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, as well as Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra of the City of Granada. From 2010 to In the last of this three volume series devoted to Granados’s orchestral 2015 he was Music Director of Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona music, two very different compositional strands are explored. i Nacional de Catalunya. His recording of Schumann’s works for The early Suite oriental reveals his sense of vivid orchestral violin and orchestra with Lena Neudauer and the Deutsche Radio colour and melodic imagination, couched in the exotic language Philharmonie won the International Classical Music Award. of the time. Written in a more pared-down style, the one-act ‘lyric poem’ Liliana, a collaboration with the writer Apel·les Mestres, is a four-movement suite in which Granados conjures up a vivid, mythical world. Elisenda is another impressionistic score, both emotive and ethereal, here performed in its arrangement for piano and chamber orchestra. Key Features ● This is the third and final volume of the series. Volume 2 is on 8.573264, volume 1 on 8.573263. Of volume 1 Gramophone wrote: “Under Pablo González, the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra play with style and evident affection… The recording sounds natural, with a wide dynamic range.” © May Zircus Barcelona Symphony Orchestra ● Liliana was lost for decades, eventually turning up in 1989 in a Paris archive; there is however no complete orchestral manuscript Companion Titles – Enrique Granados, Composer – so what is performed on this disc is the four-movement suite that Pablo Casals arranged and conducted in 1921. ● Elisenda was written for soprano voice and small instrumental ensemble but has been arranged for a number of different ensembles. ● The companion multi-volume Granados solo piano music series on Naxos, performed by Douglas Riva, could be promoted alongside this orchestral series. 8.573263 8.573264 8.555956 8.557142 3 NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2016 8.573522 Playing Time 80:03 7 47313 35227 2 Vincent d’INDY (1851–1931) Symphony No. 2 Souvenirs • Istar • Fervaal Royal Scottish National Orchestra Jean-Luc Tingaud Jean-Luc Tingaud Vincent d’Indy is one of the most important yet neglected figures in Jean-Luc Tingaud was born in 1969 and studied with Manuel French musical history. Though he was celebrated as a teacher, his Rosenthal, himself a pupil of Maurice Ravel. His concert engagements eclectic yet inventive orchestral music has taken longer to secure include the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber him fame. The Symphony No. 2 in B flat major has a powerful Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North, Orchestra architectural design within which tensions between tradition and Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, Orchestra of the Teatro Carlo Felice, innovation are played out, and through which the composer draws Genoa, Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo, Palermo, the Warsaw and on folk motifs and his religious faith alike. The powerful, grief-laden Kraków Philharmonic Orchestras, Orchestre National des Pays de symphonic poem Souvenirs was dedicated to the memory of his la Loire, Orchestre National de Lyon, and the Orchestre National de late wife whilst Istar is a majestic series of variations. The Prelude Lorraine. His recordings include Sapho (Wexford), Werther (Martina to Fervaal, his first opera, reveals atmospheric Wagnerian writing. Franca), La voix humaine (Compiègne), and Le siège de Corinthe (Bad Wildbad), and most recently for Naxos music by Paul Dukas Key Features and Georges Bizet. ● Of 8.573296 BBC Music Magazine wrote: “It is clearly a labour of love for conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud. He has not only polished the playing of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra to a beguiling level of Gallic sparkle, but also consulted manuscript sources for all three works. The result, especially in the ballet La Péri, is a performance of sumptuous beauty allied to fine control.” ● Of 8.573344 Gramophone wrote: “Vividly realistic sound is the icing on the cake of another irresistible bargain from this stylish partnership. More please, Naxos!” ● Vincent d’Indy is famous as the teacher of Satie, Roussel, Milhaud and even Cole Porter. Fellow French composer Gabriel Fauré called him the “Samson of Music”, one of the great unheralded © Tom Finnie © Tom figures in French music as it made its transition into the twentieth Royal Scottish National Orchestra century. ● Conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud is a specialist in French music; he Companion Titles – French Orchestral Music has already conducted an all-Dukas disc for Naxos (8.573296), an all-Bizet one (8.573344). Supplementary Promotional Materials ● Key Release Kit ● Video trailer ● Facebook cover and post 8.573296 8.573344 8.570245 8.557287 4 NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2016 8.660398 Playing Time 58:08 7 30099 03987 1 © Fernando Aceves Michael Nyman (b. 1944) Dean Williamson has a versatile career in standard and contemporary Michael NYMAN repertoire, and is earning worldwide acclaim for his perceptive and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat commanding conducting. He currently serves as Music Director of Libretto by Oliver Sacks, Christopher Rawlence Nashville Opera where select conducting credits include Hydrogen and Michael Morris Jukebox, Florencia en el Amazonas, The Difficulty of Crossing a Matthew Treviño, Dr. P (Bass) Field, and Michael Nyman’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Rebecca Sjöwall, Mrs. P (Soprano) Hat. The production of Le Comte Ory he conducted at Des Moines Ryan MacPherson, Neurologist (Tenor) Metro Opera was nominated for an Emmy Award. Nashville Opera John Hoomes, Stage Director Dean Williamson, Music Director Michael Nyman’s one-act chamber opera The Man