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New on Naxos TheNEW World’s LeadingON Classical NAXOS Music Label JUNE 2011 1 When you view this PDF on your computer you can click on the hyperlinks to visit the Album Pages, Biographies & Discographies and other web pages. The June 2011 new releases will be live on naxos.com closer to the release month. NEW RELEASES NAXOS CHAMBER MUSIC 8.572258 | 747313225873 MOZART Divertimento in E flat major Henning Kraggerud, violin • Lars Anders Tomter, viola • Christoph Richter, cello 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 Michael 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 orchestras. 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 Piano 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 Orchestra of New York ‘Ottorino Respighi’ • Salvatore Di Vittorio, conductor Includes World Première Recordings Respighi’s unfinished First Violin Concerto in A major (1903) was revised and completed by composer/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 Rossiniana 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 Palermo, Italy, 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 Rome with Francesco Carotenuto, in Florence with Piero Bellugi, and in London 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 Primavera, Quattro Liriche, La pentola magica 8.570741 For related titles please see the Order Form TheNEW World’s LeadingON Classical NAXOS Music Label JUNE 2011 2 NEW RELEASES NAXOS 20TH CENTURY ITALIAN CLASSICS 8.572415 | 747313241576 CASELLA Symphony 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 World War I. 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 symphonies. 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 Brazil 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 Overture to opera 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 Romanticism, 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, Russia, Poland, Canada, China and Japan, 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 Juilliard School. Also available: BOCCHERINI arr PIATTI Six Sonatas for Cello and Piano 8.572368 Soo Bae For related titles please see the Order Form TheNEW World’s LeadingON Classical NAXOS Music Label JUNE 2011 3 NEW RELEASES 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, baritone • 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 Munich. 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 Robert Schumann 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
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