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NAXOS 8.572258 | 747313225873 MOZART Divertimento in E flat major , violin • Lars Anders Tomter, • Christoph Richter,

At the peak of his powers, but beset by cash-flow problems brought on by living beyond his means, Mozart composed his famous String Trio, K. 563 for his friend, fellow-mason and creditor Johann Puchberg. While labelled ‘Divertimento’, this masterful six-movement work is one of Mozart’s most substantial pieces for string trio and one of his greatest works. The Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud, who has made a number of highly-praised Naxos recordings, joins prize-winning compatriot Lars Anders Tomter (who has recorded the Walton Viola Concerto for Naxos) and acclaimed German cellist Christoph Richter.

Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud studied with Camilla Wicks and Emanuel Hurwitz and is a recipient of Norway’s prestigious Grieg Prize, the Ole Bull Prize and the Sibelius Prize. He is a professor at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo, and appears as a soloist with many of the world’s leading . A committed chamber musician, Henning Kraggerud also performs both on violin and on viola at major international festivals.

Also available: GRIEG Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3 8.553904 Norwegian Violin Favourites 8.554497 Henning SIBELIUS Violin Concerto / SINDING Violin Concerto No 1 8.557266 Kraggerud SINDING Violin and Music, Vol 1 8.572254 SINDING Violin and Piano Music, Vol 2 8.572255 SPOHR Concertantes Nos 1 & 2, Duet in G major Op 3 No 3 8.570840 YSAYE String Trio ‘Le Chimay’, Sonata for 2 Violins, Cello Sonata 8.570977

NAXOS 20TH CENTURY ITALIAN CLASSICS 8.572332 | 747313233274 RESPIGHI Violin Concerto in A major (revised and completed by Di Vittorio) Aria for strings • Suite for strings Laura Marzadori, violin Chamber of New York ‘’ • , conductor

Includes World Première Recordings

Respighi’s unfinished First Violin Concerto in A major (1903) was revised and completed by /conductor Salvatore Di Vittorio, who directed its première in 2010. Harking back to the masterful writing of Vivaldi and Mendelssohn, the Concerto also foreshadows the orchestral technicolour of the great Italian composer’s ‘Roman Trilogy’ (Naxos 8.550589). The lyrical Aria and graceful Suite, newly transcribed by Di Vittorio, embody Respighi’s abiding love of Baroque music, while is a delightful reworking of Rossini’s piano music, Les riens (Trifles), much enhanced by Respighi’s contribution of new melodies and innovative orchestration.

Born in , , Salvatore Di Vittorio studied composition with Ludmila Ulehla, conducting with Giampaolo Bracali at the Manhattan School of Music, and aesthetics and ancient philosophy at Columbia University in New York. He then continued conducting in with Francesco Carotenuto, in with , and in with John Farrer. He has attracted considerable attention as Music Director of the Chamber Orchestra of New York ‘Ottorino Respighi’.

Also available: RESPIGHI Piano Concerto in A Minor, Toccata, Fantasia Slava 8.553207 Salvatore RESPIGHI Concerto in modo misolidio, Concerto a cinque 8.553366 Di Vittorio RESPIGHI Church Windows Brazilian Impressions, Rossiniana 8.557711 RESPIGHI La , Quattro Liriche, La pentola magica 8.570741

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NAXOS 20TH CENTURY ITALIAN CLASSICS 8.572415 | 747313241576 CASELLA No 3, Elegia eroica Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma • Francesco La Vecchia, conductor

The revelatory Naxos Casella series continues with two powerful works that grew from the tragedy of two World Wars. Searingly dissonant and ‘profoundly human’, the Elegia eroica (‘Heroic Elegy’) is Casella’s memorial to Italian soldiers killed in . His Third Symphony, a commission for the fiftieth birthday of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, assimilates the influences and experiences of a lifetime into an exhilaratingly melodic, emotionally wide-ranging and truly organic whole. This third disc in the series completes the world première recording of all three Casella . Francesco La Vecchia and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma ‘have Casella in their bloodstream’ (MusicWeb International).

Francesco La Vecchia founded the Orchestra Sinfonica del Lazio, the New World Young Orchestra, three festivals in Italy, one in and one in Mexico and has served as Artistic Director, Principal Guest Conductor and Musical Director with orchestras, theatres and festivals in Hungary, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal and Italy. In 2002 he was appointed Artistic Director and Resident Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma.

Also available: CASELLA Symphony No 2, A notte alta 8.572414 CASELLA Notte di maggio, Cello Concerto, Scarlattiana 8.572416 Francesco La Vecchia

NAXOS CONCERTO 8.572637 | 747313263776 SCHARWENKA Piano Concerto No 4, Polish National Dances to Mataswintha • Andante religioso Op 46a François Xavier Poizat, piano • Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra • Łukasz Borowicz, conductor

Polish pianist and composer Franz Xaver Scharwenka was raised in the spirit of European , championing the music of Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Liszt, and gaining enormous popularity for his own compositions, which Liszt greatly admired. Scharwenka’s fourth and final Piano Concerto (which the composer performed under the direction of Mahler and Stokowski) is a work of genius which stands at the apex of his achievement. The shorter pieces on this album have recently enjoyed renewed popularity, proving the value of Scharwenka’s legacy for modern listeners though much of his music remains to be rediscovered.

François-Xavier Poizat gave his first recital in 2001 at the age of eleven. Since then he has performed in Switzerland, France, Germany, , Poland, , and , for famous festivals including the Pacific Music Festival, Progetto Martha Argerich and La Roque d’Anthéron. Łukasz Borowicz has been Principal Guest Conductor of the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra since 2006, where he conducts concerts, collaborating with distinguished singers such as Piotr Beczala, Sergei Leiferkus and Samuel Ramey.

Also available: François Xavier Łukasz Borowicz Jeajoon RYU Sinfonia da Requiem, Violin Concerto No 1 8.570599 Poizat

NAXOS ARTIST LAUREATE 8.570782 | 747313078271 PIATTI 12 Caprices for Cello, Caprice on a theme from Pacini’s Niobe Soo Bae, cello

Playing the rich-toned and highly responsive Stradivarius ‘Bonjour’ cello of 1696, on loan to her from the Canada Council of the Arts, the Canadian cellist Soo Bae interprets Alfredo Piatti’s technically demanding and emotionally rewarding Capriccio on a theme from Pacini’s opera Niobe and his virtuosic Twelve Caprices with seeming effortlessness. Winner of the 2005 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and selected by Musical America as ‘New Artist of the Month’ (March 2009), Soo Bae enjoys a busy international career.

Born in Seoul, Korea, Soo Bae began her cello studies at the age of six and moved to Toronto two years later, where she enrolled at the Royal Conservatory of Music. She received her Bachelor of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music and her Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma from The .

Also available: BOCCHERINI arr PIATTI Six Sonatas for Cello and Piano 8.572368

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NAXOS VOCAL 8.557079 | 747313207923 SCHUMANN Lieder Edition, Vol 6 Myrthen, Op25 • Sechs Gedichte und Requiem, Op 90 Andrea Lauren Brown, soprano • Thomas E. Bauer, • Uta Hielscher, piano

Robert Schumann’s literary interests influenced his choice of the poems he used for his songs, many of which were composed in a burst of activity during the ‘Year of Song’ 1840. This sixth disc in the Naxos series of the complete Schumann Lieder features the 26 songs of Myrthen (Myrtles), which date from February of that year. Dedicated to his beloved Clara (myrtles were used for bridal wreaths), this album of exquisite songs explores themes of devotion, longing, loneliness, matrimony and maternity. His Six Poems and Requiem of August 1850 set mournful texts by Lenau, concluding with an anonymous Medieval poem ‘Héloïse’s lament for Abelard’.

Soprano Andrea Lauren Brown was a prize-winner at the International Summer Academy of the University-Mozarteum in Salzburg in 2002. She won second place at the International Competition of the ARD 2003 in . Baritone Thomas E. Bauer has established himself as a singer of particular versatility. He has appeared in concert with conductors Bernard Haitink, Ivan Fischer, Riccardo Chailly and René Jacobs, among others.

Previous releases from the Lieder Edition: SCHUMANN Lieder Edition, Vol 1 8.557074 Andrea Lauren Thomas Bauer SCHUMANN Lieder Edition, Vol 2 8.557075 Brown SCHUMANN Lieder Edition, Vol 3 8.557076 SCHUMANN Lieder Edition, Vol 4 8.557077 SCHUMANN Lieder Edition, Vol 5 8.557078

NAXOS OPERA CLASSICS 8.660302 | 730099030274 ROSSINI La cambiale di matrimonio Vito Priante (Tobia Mill) • Julija Samsonova (Fanny) • Daniele Zanfardino (Edoardo Milfort) • Giulio Mastrotaro (Slook, negoziante americano) • Tomasz Wija (Norton) • Francesca Russo Ermolli (Clarina) Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra • Christopher Franklin, conductor

The plot of La cambiale di matrimonio (The Bill of Marriage), which Rossini composed when he was just eighteen years old, revolves around the farcical attempts of Tobia Mill, a rich English merchant, to combine business with pleasure by forcing his daughter, the lovely Fanny (‘merchandise’) to marry Slook, his rich colonial correspondent from America, by means of a bill of exchange. Eventually, it is the gallant Slook himself who persuades Mill to allow Fanny to marry her true love, Edoardo Milfort.

American conductor Christopher Franklin has, from his base in Italy, established an international reputation and career, conducting notably at a number of major Italian opera houses and festivals. His career has taken him to opera-houses and concert-halls throughout Europe, Australia, the and South America, with a wide repertoire.

Also available: MAYR L’amor coniugale 8.660198-99 ROSSINI La Gazzetta 8.660277-78

Christopher Franklin

NAXOS ORCHESTRAL 8.572650 | 747313265077 Magnus ROSÉN Past Future From Heavy Metal to Symphony Orchestra Magnus Rosén • Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Hvila Quartet • David Björkman, conductor

Past Future – for the first time a record featuring the electric as solo instrument with symphony orchestra! Magnus Rosén is a former member of multi-platinum and award winning heavy-metal act Hammerfall, but has in later years pursued a career as an electric-bass soloist. On this his first album with a symphony orchestra, both Magnus’ own compositions as well as music written and arranged especially for this unusual combination are performed.

After more than ten successful years with HammerFall, living the rock star dream, Swedish bassist Magnus Rosén decided to start a new musical career. This time he wanted to broaden his musical views and therefore started working with musicians within the classical genre, however still pursuing projects in the rock field.

Magnus Rosén

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NAXOS CHAMBER MUSIC 8.570978 | 747313097876 SCHNITTKE Complete Violin Sonatas Carolyn Huebl, violin • Mark Wait, piano

The violin sonatas by Alfred Schnittke extend over his whole career. The First Sonata is among his earliest major pieces while the Second Sonata typifies the confrontational manner of the works that followed. The much laterThird Sonata possesses the spareness and simplicity found in the music from the composer’s last decade, paradoxically shared with the two movements of a violin sonata that Schnittke wrote as a student in 1954 and 1955, and that was only discovered after his death.

Violinist Carolyn Huebl is in demand as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral leader, and has performed throughout the United States, as well as in and Canada, winning critical acclaim. Pianist Mark Wait is Dean and Professor at the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. His recording of Elliott Carter’s Piano Concerto (Naxos 8.559151) was nominated for a 2004 GRAMMY® award for Best Classical Album and Best Instrumental Solo Performance with Orchestra.

Also available: Carolyn Huebl and Mark Wait • Works by Alfred Schnittke SCHNITTKE Cello Concerto, Stille Musik, Cello Sonata 8.554465 SCHNITTKE , String Trio 8.554728 SHOSTAKOVICH / SCHNITTKE Piano Quintets 8.554830 • Recordings with Mark Wait CARTER Symphony No 1, Piano Concerto 8.559151 STRAVINSKY Later 8.557506

NAXOS 19TH CENTURY VIOLINIST 8.572604 | 747313260478 RODE 12 Etudes for Violin Solo, Duos for 2 Violins Nicolas Koeckert and Rudolf Koeckert, violins

Pierre Rode’s music represents the full flowering of the French violin school founded by his mentor Giovanni Battista Viotti. Naxos’s recordings of his 24 Caprices (8.570958) and Violin Concertos Nos. 7, 10 and 13 (8.570469) have received critical accolades, with Nos. 3, 4 and 6 to be released on 8.570767. The virtuosic 12 Etudes heard here run the gamut from graceful to vigorously dramatic, testing the artistry and technique of the solo violinist to the utmost. The three Duos present fewer technical demands, concentrating instead on lyricism, elfin sprightliness and dynamic contrasts.Award-winning Nicolas Koeckert, who performs regularly as a soloist with leading orchestras from around the world, is joined on this recording by his father, the internationally-renowned chamber musician Rudolf Koeckert.

In 1979 Rudolf Koeckert won the Bavarian State Violin Award. With the internationally known Koeckert Quartet, he toured worldwide and made recordings for major record companies. His son Nicolas Koeckert won first prize at the International Violin Competition in Novosibirsk (Russia) in 2001, and was the first German to become a laureate at the world-famous International Tchaikovsky Violin Competition in Moscow in 2002.

Also available: RODE 24 Caprices for Solo Violin 8.570958 Nicolas Koeckert Rudolf Koeckert RODE Violin Concertos Nos 7, 10 & 13 8.570469

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NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS OPERA 8.669030 | 730099903073 Louis KARCHIN Romulus A Comic Opera in One Act Soloists • The Washington Square Ensemble • Louis Karchin, conductor

Alexandre Dumas père’s light-hearted tale of dubious paternity and political intrigue set in the Austrian Tyrol forms the basis for American composer Louis Karchin’s comic opera Romulus. Full of surprises and delights, well-rounded characters and a lively sense of theatricality, Romulus boasts memorable music. ‘While studying opera, I was intrigued by how effortlessly Strauss and Wagner could attain a seamless flow,’ notes Karchin, ‘and I tried to emulate this.’ The Washington Square Ensemble, praised for its ‘polished, lively performance’ (The New York Times) is joined by a cast of first-class singers conducted by the composer.

Described as a composer of “fearless eloquence” (Andrew Porter, The New Yorker), Louis Karchin has been honored with two awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The British journal, Contemporary Music Review, singled out Karchin as one of the twenty-five most exciting American composers born in the decade of the 1950’s.

Louis Karchin

NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS ORCHESTRAL 8.559679 | 636943967928 ECHOES: Classic Works Transformed Seattle Symphony • Gerard Schwarz, conductor

“The concept of Echoes was to select well-known short works – five to ten minutes in length – and to transform them for our present time. I picked six of my closest composer-friends, and asked them to arrange, orchestrate, or simply be inspired by an older work they loved, and to create something original for this recording. Each new work presented here is thus an ‘echo’ of an earlier piece. ” – Gerard Schwarz

Renowned American conductor Gerard Schwarz is internationally recognized for his deeply moving performances, innovative programming, and extensive recording history. He celebrates his 26th and final season as Seattle Symphony Music Director in the 2010-2011 season, and will assume the title of Conductor Laureate in the 2011-2012 season.

Other American Classics with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony: DIAMOND Symphony No 1, Violin Concerto No 2, The Enormous Room 8.559157 H HANSON Merry Mount 8.669012-13 W PISTON Symphony No 4, Three New England Sketches 8.559162 Gerard Schwarz W SCHUMAN Symphonies (5-CD box-set) 8.505228

NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS CHAMBER MUSIC 8.559639 | 636943963920 Chester BISCARDI In Time’s Unfolding Chamber and Instrumental Music Da Capo Chamber Players • James Goldsworthy, piano • Mark Helias, contrabass • Greg Hesselink, cello Curtis Macomber, violin • Blair McMillen, piano • Paul Neubauer, viola • Daniel Panner, viola Marc Peloquin, piano • Yonah Zur, violin

“In one way or another all of the works on this disc – spanning thirty-three years from 1972 through 2005 – reveal an ongoing aspect of my creative process that looks back in order to move forward. It’s about being in the present by unraveling memories and feelings – both joyful and full of loss – from the past,” writes American composer Chester Biscardi, a recipient of numerous prizes and fellowships including the Rome Prize and an Academy Award in Music.

Chester Biscardi is Director of the Music Program at Sarah Lawrence College, where he was the first recipient of the William Schuman Chair in Music. A recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among others, Biscardi’s music has been performed throughout Asia, Europe, and North and South America.

Chester Biscardi

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NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS WIND BAND 8.559396 | 636943939628 SOUSA Music for Wind Band, Vol 9 The Royal Norwegian Navy Band • Keith Brion, conductor

John Philip Sousa personified the comparative innocence and brash energy of America around the turn of the 20th Century. The Charlatan was second only to El Capitan in popularity, while the U.S. Field Artillery March is the official march of the United States Army. A number of the other marches on this album were drawn from Sousa’s musicals, quote from other popular musicals or include various national anthems. ‘Keith Brion, one of the foremost authorities on the music of Sousa, has been building an extensive library of Sousa’s music for Naxos since 1998… Sousa-lovers will want the whole series.’ (Fanfare)

Keith Brion leads his own New Sousa Band and is a frequent conductor of light music orchestral concerts throughout America and internationally. He is a specialist in Sousa’s period style and has published numerous performing editions of his music.

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Keith Brion

NAXOS SPANISH CLASSICS ORCHESTRAL 8.572571 | 747313257171 Xavier BENGUEREL Concertante Music for Percussion and Strings • Concert de tardor • Porta Ferrada Double Concerto Jaume Torrent, • Philippe Spiesser, percussion • Manon Philippe, violin • Mélodie Giot, cello Orchestre Perpignan Méditerranée • Daniel Tosi, conductor

Born in Spain and raised in Chile, Xavier Benguerel plays an important part in his native country’s musical life, his compositions influenced by the work of Bartók, Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School. The concerto form has long fascinated the composer, whose innovative and ever-changing approach draws the listener into the individual sound-worlds of each work. Recorded live during the Aujourd’hui Musique Festival in Perpignan and featuring a number of musicians closely associated with Benguerel’s work, this album is an excellent introduction to his atmospheric and fascinating music.

Daniel Tosi was awarded six prizes at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, continuing his studies at the Sorbonne. With various degrees, he began teaching with triple activity as a composer, researcher and conductor. In 1983 he won the Prix de Rome which took him, until 1985, to the in Rome.

Daniel Tosi

NAXOS SPANISH CLASSICS VOCAL 8.570707 | 747313070770 TURINA Songs Tríptico • Homenaje a Lope de Vega • Vocalizaciones • Poema en forma de canciones Carolina Ullrich, soprano • Débora Halász, piano

Joaquín Turina’s songs are little-known today, but not only was he part of an important and influential group of early twentieth- century Spanish composers such as Albéniz, Falla and Granados, he possessed a beautiful and individual compositional style. This can be heard clearly in these songs, which range from the ethereal Ave María, with its exquisite piano accompaniment and transcendent vocal line, to the joyfully exuberant Las locas por amor (Women passionate for love) and the playfully humorous ¡Vade retro! (Get thee behind me!). Chilean-born soprano Carolina Ullrich won First Prize in the 2008-09 Young Concert Artists International Auditions as well as the Princeton University Concerts Prize, and has also received other prestigious awards.

Chilean soprano Carolina Ullrich holds a scholarship from the Association of the Friends of Young Music of Berlin, and won the Young Concert Artists Competition of New York in 2009. The Brazilian Débora Halász is among the leading South American pianists of her generation. With her husband she established in 1993 the Duo Halász, guitar and piano/harpsichord, arousing further critical acclaim.

Also available: TURINA Complete Piano Trios 8.555870 TURINA Music for Violin and Piano 8.570402 Carolina Ullrich Débora Halász TURINA Sinfonía sevillana • Danzas fantásticas • La procesión del Rocío 8.555955

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NAXOS KEYBOARD 8.572560 | 747313256075 LISZT Complete Piano Music, Vol 34 A Faust Symphony (version for two ) Piano Duo (Vittorio Bresciani and Francesco Nicolosi) Marcus Ullmann, • Liszt School of Music Chamber Choir,

The subject of Faust, the scholar who sold his soul to the Devil in return for youth and power, had a particular attraction to artists in the nineteenth century, when Faust might appear as a human hero, an opponent of ancient tyrannies, political and religious, and the Devil himself might seem to have similar attractions. Liszt based his A Faust Symphony on the literary work of his great predecessor in Weimar, Goethe, whose monumental and influential poetic treatment of the subject ended in the final redemption of Faust through the power of love and of the woman he had wronged, Gretchen.

Vittorio Bresciani and Francesco Nicolosi formed the Franz Liszt Piano Duo in 1998 with the aim of promoting Liszt’s symphonic work through the composer’s own transcriptions for two pianos. The project began with the Goethe-inspired Faust-Symphonie and continued with the Dante-Symphonie after Dante’s Divine Comedy.

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Franz Liszt Piano Duo

NAXOS KEYBOARD 8.572586 | 747313258673 D SCARLATTI Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol 14 Duanduan Hao, piano

The son of Alessandro Scarlatti, who created a new school of opera in , is particularly distinguished for his remarkable keyboard sonatas, of which some 555 are known. This significant addition to early 18th century keyboard repertoire was written for performance on the various keyboard instruments of the Spanish court, where he was employed for many years, and in all its variety has long provided a valuable repertoire for pianists. Chinese pianist Duanduan Hao won First Prize in the 2009 Shanghai International Piano Competition.

Born in China in 1990, pianist Duanduan Hao studied at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, going on to win many prizes in international piano competitions in Germany, France, Switzerland, China, Italy and elsewhere. Now resident in France, he is a player of some versatility, with an exceptional talent that has brought him wide critical approval.

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Duanduan Hao

NAXOS KEYBOARD 8.572736 | 747313273676 At the Opera Madoka Inui, piano

The reputation of Johann Nepomuk Hummel – child prodigy, student of Mozart, successor of Haydn and Beethoven’s rival, widely-travelled piano virtuoso, composer, conductor, influential teacher and ingenious businessman – is once more on the rise. His variations, fantasies and potpourris on , including his own, were influential on Liszt and showcase his extraordinary abilities as both performer and composer. Winner of the Città di Stresa International Piano Competition, Madoka Inui has collaborated in literary-musical events with several distinguished authors and made a number of recordings for Naxos as accompanist in its Viennese series devoted to the art of solo instruments.

Madoka Inui was born in Japan and had her first training as a pianist in Tokyo, followed by study at the Conservatory with Dianko Iliew, Roland Batik and graduated with distinction. She won the Citta di Stresa International Piano Competition, making her debut as a soloist in Austria, Japan and Spain. Since 1997 she has been very active in chamber music, particulary with members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Also available: The Art of the Clarinet 8.557232 The Art of the Vienna Horn 8.557471 Madoka Inui The Art of the Viola 8.557606 The Art of the Cello 8.557708 The Art of the Flute 8.570309

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NAXOS KEYBOARD 8.572142 | 747313214273 MOMPOU Piano Music, Vol 6 Impressions, Dances and Preludes Jordi Masó, piano

All World Première Recordings

The music on this sixth album of the piano music of Frederic Mompou presents works recently discovered by Jordi Masó in the Biblioteca de Catalunya’s Mompou Collection and at Mompou’s home. The recording complements Masó’s previous volumes released on Naxos (8.554332, 8.554448, 8.554570, 8.554727 and 8.570956). All were written between 1910–18 and show a highly gifted young composer whose musical idiom was already well formed. “Masó’s set is the modern choice, cleanly imaginative” (zarzuela.net). “Masó is a strong pianist completely at home in this idiom” (American Record Guide).

Spanish pianist Jordi Masó’s wide repertoire, covering all periods and styles, with special emphasis on music of the twentieth century, has brought first performances of many piano works written for him by the foremost Spanish composers. He has recorded over forty acclaimed discs.

Previous releases from the Mompou Piano Music series: MOMPOU Piano Music, Vol 1 8.554332 MOMPOU Piano Music, Vol 2 8.554448 MOMPOU Piano Music, Vol 3 8.554570 MOMPOU Piano Music, Vol 4 8.554727 Jordi Masó MOMPOU Piano Music, Vol 5 8.570956

NAXOS KEYBOARD 8.572654 | 747313265473 Peter DICKINSON Piano Music Rags • Blues • Parodies • Vitalitas Variations Peter Dickinson, piano

This eccentric and often amusing collection contains Peter Dickinson’s rags, blues and take-offs in first recordings of all but one of the works. It supplements two other Naxos releases by the British composer, writer and pianist: Complete Solo Organ Works (8.572169) and Apocalypse-Larkin-Forgeries (8.572287). The rags are in the notated tradition of classical ragtime. Christopher Palmer said about Dickinson’s music, ‘Conflicts, juxtapositions, attempted syntheses – his work is full of them, all shook-up, all mixed up, all jazzed-up… yet always keenly imagined and meticulously reasoned and realised’. Dickinson has been hailed by Gramophone as ‘a composer who has escaped the confines of the predictable without ever ceasing to communicate’.

Peter Dickinson has been commissioned to write works for some of the leading international performers, including Simon Preston (Organ Concerto); Howard Shelley (Piano Concerto); Ernst Kovacic (Violin Concerto, a BBC commission); Elisabeth Söderström (The Unicorns); The King’s Singers (Winter Afternoons); David Munrow (Translations and Recorder Music); The Verdehr Trio (American Trio and A Celebration Trio); and Jennifer Bate (Blue Rose Variations).

Also available: P DICKINSON Complete Solo Organ Works 8.572169 P DICKINSON Apocalypse-Larkin-Forgeries 8.572287 Peter Dickinson

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NAXOS ORGAN ENCYCLOPEDIA 8.572466 | 747313246670 REGER Organ Works, Vol 11 Chorale Preludes, Op 79b • Twelve Pieces, Op 80 Nos 1-6 & 9-12 Hans-Jürgen Kaiser, organ

Max Reger’s Twelve Pieces, Op. 80, explore a wide-ranging selection of short musical forms suitable for performance as a complete suite in recital or as individual items within the celebration of the Christian liturgy. Numbers 7 and 8 are performed on Volume 8 (8.570455) in this Naxos series of Reger’s organ works. His Thirteen Chorale Preludes, Op. 79b, include settings of famous hymn tunes such as Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott, Mit Fried und Freud, Nun danket alle Gott and Auferstehn. Hans- Jürgen Kaiser plays the magnificent 72-stop, four-manual Rieger-Sauer Organ in Fulda Cathedral, which may also be heard on other volumes in this important series.

Hans-Jürgen Kaiser was appointed organist at the Cathedral in Fulda in 1989. He is also responsible for the organ in the diocese of Fulda and artistic director of organ concerts and recitals in the Cathedral. Since 1990 and from 1995 in his capacity as professor he has taught the organ and improvisation at the Mainz Johannes Gutenberg University.

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Hans-Jürgen Kaiser

NAXOS HISTORICAL 8.111369 | 747313336920 Great Pianists • Arthur RUBINSTEIN CHOPIN Sonata No 2 ‘Funeral March’, Preludes, 3 Nouvelles Etudes, Berceuse, Barcarolle 1946-1958 Recordings

This fourth instalment in the Naxos series of Rubinstein’s middle period Chopin recordings (after the two Piano Concertos on 8.111296, the Polonaises on 8.111346 and the Waltzes and Impromptus on 8.111365) presents recordings from the two extreme ends of the period. The Sonata and Preludes were recorded in 1946 and first issued on 78 rpm discs, while the remaining selections were recorded on tape in 1957 and 1958. When the recording of the Preludes, Rubinstein’s only commital of the work to disc, was issued in the UK in 1955, Gramophone declared: ‘As a whole, this masterly performance is the best we have had so far of Chopin’s great work’.

Arthur Rubinstein’s recording career lasted from 1927 to 1976. He recorded much of his repertoire, including the complete works of Chopin, and many other works more than once, including Beethoven’s piano concertos three times. In 1999 RCA/BMG issued his complete authorised recordings on ninety-four compact discs.

Also available: CHOPIN Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 (1946, 1953) 8.111296 CHOPIN Polonaises (1950-1951) 8.111346 CHOPIN Waltzes, Impromptus (1953-1957) 8.111365

NAXOS HISTORICAL KREISLER EDITION 8.112064 | 636943206478 Great Violinists • Fritz KREISLER The Complete Recordings, Vol 3 Recorded 1914-1916

Fritz Kreisler is often represented as an indolent charmer, yet it is clear that his vast acclaim was founded on a great deal of hard work in both the concert hall (at the start of the 1913-14 season the great violinist had 90 American concerts scheduled over five and a half months) and the studio, where long sessions were not uncommon. For the main work on this album of American recordings made at the time of the Great War, Bach’s Double Concerto in D minor (slightly abridged so as to fit on three 78rpm sides), Kreisler is joined by the Russian violinist Efrem Zimbalist. The Appendix features three tracks with soprano Geraldine Farrar and the only surviving recording of Kreisler-as-pianist, playing Dvořák’s Humoresque.

Of all the great violinists of the past, Fritz Kreisler is perhaps the easiest to listen to. The reason is not far to seek. Not only did Kreisler make a consistently beautiful sound—he had one of the loveliest, yet most individual tones— but he played with a relaxed ease that seemed to invite the listener into the music.

Previous releases of the Complete Fritz Kreisler Recordings series: Fritz KREISLER The Complete Recordings, Vol 1 (1904, 1910) 8.112053 Fritz KREISLER The Complete Recordings, Vol 2 (1911-1912) 8.112055

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