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8.573299 • DISC 1 8.573300 • DISC 2 8.573301 • DISC 3 “Segerstam directs with his customary “The performance and sound on this disc “Clean, idiomatic performances big heart and acute sensitivity are outstanding, done in Turku’s that cover a side of the composer for texture and mood.” Concert Hall in January 2014.” substantially lighter than that shown – Gramophone – Audiophile Audition by his weighty symphonies.” – AllMusic.com 8.506032

[6 CDs] © Seilo Ristimäki 7 47313 60323 7 Leif Segerstam ALBUM OF THE WEEK ALLMUSIC EDITOR’S CHOICE RECORDING OF THE YEAR Jean SIBELIUS (1865–1957) Key Features: Incidental Music ● This collection of Jean Sibelius’s music for the theatre is part 1 2 Naxos’s celebration to the composer’s 150th birth anniversary Scaramouche • Pelléas et Mélisande in 2015 – conducted by the renowned Sibelius interpreter, 3 4 5 Belshazzar’s Feast • Kuolema • King Christian II Leif Segerstam. MusicWeb International wrote of the series: “The Jedermann 6 • Swanwhite playing of the Turku orchestra is immaculate throughout, and the Pia Pajala, Soprano 2,3,4,7 • Tuomas Katajala, Tenor 6 recorded acoustic is superb.” Waltteri Torikka, Baritone 2,3,4,5 • Nicholas Söderlund, Bass 6 Riho Eklundh, Narrator • Mikaela Palmu, Violin ● ClassicsToday.com gave a 10/10 score to Pelléas et Mélisande Bendik Goldstein, Viola 1 • Roi Ruottinen, Cello 1 (8.573301), and wrote “the performances are simply as Cathedralis Aboensis Choir 6 • Turku Philharmonic Orchestra fine as they can be.” It also received 5 stars from Pizzicato: Leif Segerstam “Leif Segerstam reveals the originality of Sibelius’s beautiful Pelléas and Mélisande and shows with much electrifying tension what a masterpiece it is.” Parallel to his great sequence of symphonic masterpieces and tone poems, Jean Sibelius wrote a significant body of music for the ● One of the main soloists is Finnish theatre. It was with King Christian II and Kuolema that he established soprano Pia Pajala, appearing in four of 8.573340 • DISC 4 8.573341 • DISC 5 8.573511 • DISC 6 his fame throughout Europe whilst some of his most hauntingly the volumes in the series. In 8.573300 beautiful writing for the stage can be found in Belshazzar’s Feast. Infodad.com wrote “Belshazzar’s Feast “The valuable Naxos series devoted to “Segerstam conducts with the measured, “The playing is responsive to these The tragic pantomime Scaramouche is Sibelius’s only continuous is mostly a work of instrumental music, Jean Sibelius’ lesser-known theater music grave pace and detail that characterises slowish tempi chosen by Leif Segerstam.” dramatic score and Pelléas et Mélisande is one of his most but it does incorporate an evocative Song © Eija Hartemaa-Kallinen and orchestral pieces reaches a the rest of this series, enhanced – Musical Opinion accomplished, whilst the rarely performed Jedermann is recognised of the Jewish Girl, well performed by Pia high-water mark with this by the Turku players.” as a hidden masterpiece. Gramophone wrote of these performances: Pajala, in which the singer expresses her fine performance.” – BBC Music Magazine ‘Leif Segerstam masterminds a characteristically unhurried, strong desire to find a way back to lost – Chicago Tribune atmospheric display. What an absorbing journey of discovery this Jerusalem.” (The Best Classical Recordings of 2015) series has proved to be; congratulations to everyone involved.’ ● The Turku Philharmonic Orchestra is the oldest orchestra in Finland. Leif Segerstam has been their Chief Conductor ALBUM OF THE WEEK About Leif Segerstam RECORDING OF since 2012. Among their Naxos recordings include works by THE YEAR Leif Segerstam is a conductor, composer, violinist and pianist with Swedish composer Einar Englund (8.553758), Finnish composer a prominent international career. Segerstam has held top conducting Uuno Klami (8.553757) and Sibelius’s symphonic poem positions to some of the best orchestras and opera houses in the Kullervo, Op. 7 (8.553756). world including the Finnish National Opera and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He is also the Chief Conductor Emeritus of Also Available the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Since 2012 he has been Chief Conductor of Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. He was winner of the Sibelius’s Complete Symphonies 1999 Nordic Council Music Prize for his work “as a tireless champion of Scandinavian music” and of the Swedish Cultural Foundation’s Prize for Music in 2003. In 2004 Leif Segerstam was awarded the annual Finnish State Prize for Music and in 2005 the highly esteemed Sibelius Medal. He has gained wide acclaim throughout his multiple recordings with different orchestras. © Seilo Ristimäki Turku Philharmonic Orchestra Supplementary Marketing Materials: ● e-Card 8.572305 8.572704 8.572227 8.572705 ● Video Trailer ● Facebook cover and post

2 3 NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2018 © Roxana Vlad 8.660448-50 Playing Time: José Miguel Pérez-Sierra Price Code: NXP 2:47:38 7 30099 04487 5 Gioachino ROSSINI (1792–1868) Key Features: Aureliano in Palmira ● Aureliano in Palmira is one of Rossini’s rarely heard operas and has only been recorded a very few times since its first modern Libretto by Felice Romani performance in 1980. The Rossini in Wildbad Festival had a hand Silvia Dalla Benetta, Soprano in its revival with a performance in 1996 conducted by Francesco Marina Viotti and Ana Victória Pitts, Mezzo-sopranos Corti. Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor Camerata Bach Choir, Poznań • Virtuosi Brunensis ● This Bad Wildbad recording was taken from José Miguel Pérez-Sierra three performances of an acclaimed 2017 production, with the Opera Gazet reviewer Aureliano in Palmira is unique in Rossini’s œuvre for its inclusion admiring its soloists: “Silvia Dalla Benetta… of the only role, Arsace, that Rossini wrote for the castrato voice. played the role of Zenobia and left no doubt Its tale of tragic defeat and the ultimate nobility and triumph of that she was not only the Queen of Palmira, love in seemingly impossible circumstances is a refined and highly but also the prima-donna of this evening! innovative example of his style. Set amidst turbulent times in the With her crisp, slender timbre and her Roman Empire, Aureliano in Palmira is packed with sublime arias, excellent height she sang tirelessly and with duets of haunting beauty (notably the three given to Arsace and brio. The Roman emperor Aureliano was sung Zenobia) and excellent choruses, Rossini himself considering this with authority by Juan Francisco Gatell, work as ‘divine music’. Even after initial success he re-used many of a tenor with a clear, compact voice and a its melodies in later operas, most famously in Il barbiere di Siviglia. beautiful legato… Between the extensive list of singers [at Wildbad] there is always a About José Miguel Pérez-Sierra disappointment, but not this year! ... Beautiful bel canto over the entire line!” José Miguel Pérez-Sierra began his conducting career as assistant to Gabriele Ferro. He studied with Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Accademia ● Further comment from PZ-news.de: Chigiana and with Colin Metter at the London Royal Academy, and “The role of Arsace, initially composed by from 2004 to 2009 was assistant to Alberto Zedda. After his debut Rossini for castrato, found an extraordinary with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia in 2005 he collaborated with interpreter in the young Swiss singer the Rossini Opera Festival, conducting Il viaggio a Reims in 2006 Marina Viotti. Her warm, nuanced mezzo and in 2011 La scala di seta. He enjoys an international career and voice was perfectly adapted to the complex for Bad Wildbad in 2013 he conducted Ricciardo e Zoraide, in 2015 requirements of the role, with lightness, © Lechat L’Italiana in Algeri, and in 2016 Maxim Mironov’s Omaggio a Rubini. virtuosity and expressive energy. Her great scene in the second act, sown with numerous vocal difficulties, provoked thunderous applause and made that moment the climax of the show as she performed it brilliantly!” ● We have had numerous successes from the Rossini in Wildbad Bel Canto Opera Festival, and with its genuine rarity value there is every reason to suppose Aureliano in Palmira will become one of their number. Among others these include the “exciting and energetic” (Fanfare) Mosè in Egitto (8.660220-21), and a Camerata Bach Choir, Poznań “particularly engaging” (Opera News) L’inganno felice (8.660233-34). Companion Titles – Previous recordings from Rossini in Bad Wildbad NEW

8.660440-43 8.660419-21 8.660417-18 8.660407-09 Virtuosi Brunensis 4 NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2018

8.573746 Playing Time: Price Code: NXP 61:27 7 47313 37467 0 © ONL

Jean-Claude Casadesus Henri DUTILLEUX (1916–2013) Symphony No. 1 About Jean-Claude Casadesus Métaboles • Les Citations* After over 40 years at the head of the Orchestre National de Lille Cyril Ciabaud, Oboe * • Kasia Tomczak-Feltrin, Harpsichord * (ONL), of which he was the founder, Jean-Claude Casadesus Mathieu Petit, Double Bass * • Romain Robine, Percussion * enjoys an international career that has brought seasons in Germany, Orchestre National de Lille • Jean-Claude Casadesus Russia, Japan, Latvia and in Lille. His 30 albums with the orchestra have won critical and public acclaim and as a guest conductor he A fiercely independent composer, Henri Dutilleux wrote music that has appeared in Moscow, Singapore, Montreal, Baltimore, Seoul, is refined, colourful and scrupulously crafted. Symphony No. 1, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Philadelphia, Monte Carlo, St Petersburg his first purely orchestral score, established his international and Berlin. He is an enthusiastic champion of contemporary music reputation. Structurally unconventional – it opens, unusually, and set up residences for composers with the Lille orchestra. with a passacaglia – it illustrates his principle of ‘progressive growth’ through its sustained lyricism and towering, chorale-like statements. Métaboles was inspired by the virtuosity of the woodwind section of George Szell’s Cleveland Orchestra. Distinctive instrumentation for each movement allows for deep expression, jazzy rhythms and moments of irony. The enigmatic diptych Les Citations quotes from fellow composers Benjamin Britten and Jehan Alain.

Key Features: ● Dutilleux’s Symphony No. 2 is on 8.573596, recorded by the same orchestra with conductor Darrell Ang. It was a MusicWeb

International ‘Recording of the Year’ and an American Record © Ugo Ponte - ONL Guide Critics’ Choice. Gramophone also wrote: “[Darrell Ang] Orchestre National de Lille secures excellent results, never less than nimble and secure.” Supplementary Marketing Materials: ● Also available is Dutilleux’s complete solo piano music on ● Key Release Kit 8.557823, performed by John Chen. The Penguin Guide ● Video trailer commented that “he has sensibly chosen as his CD début to ● Facebook cover and post record more offbeat repertoire, the complete piano music of Dutilleux, and it is difficult to imagine it being served more Companion Titles brilliantly or idiomatically.” Henri Dutilleux, Jean-Claude Casadesus ● Casadesus and the Orchestre National de Lille had produced Composer and the ONL critically acclaimed recordings for Naxos – one of which is Milhaud’s Le Création du monde (8.557287). It received a 10/10 score from ClassicsToday.com: “excellent, gutsy performance with aptly raucous contributions from solo clarinet, trumpet, and percussion.” ● The most recent recordings by the Lille orchestra includes symphonic poems by Saint-Saëns (8.573745) and overtures by 8.573596 8.557823 8.573563 8.557287 Offenbach (8.573694). 5 NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2018

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8.573879 Playing Time: Price Code: NXP 53:04 7 7 47313 38797 Vladimir Lande

Mieczysław WEINBERG (1919–1996) About Vladimir Lande Music Director and Conductor of the Siberian State Symphony Symphony No. 13 Orchestra (Krasnoyarsk), Vladimir Lande has, since 2008, served Serenade for Orchestra as Principal Guest Conductor of the St Petersburg State Symphony Siberian State Symphony Orchestra Orchestra, Music Director and Conductor of the Washington Soloists Vladimir Lande Chamber Orchestra, Guest Conductor of the National Gallery of Art Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director of the COSMIC Symphony Weinberg’s Symphony No. 13, dedicated to the memory of his Orchestra. In 2015 he became Artistic Director of the Asian Pacific mother, is cast in a single movement that unfolds in a symmetrical Festival (APF), for countries of the Asian-Pacific region. He has arc. A large orchestra is used sparingly in chamber-like textures with worked with distinguished orchestras and soloists and has enjoyed motivic ideas that evolve over the course of the work. The result is an extraordinarily active recording career. music of gripping and unsettling power, both emotionally intense and architecturally complex. Some years earlier Weinberg wrote the light-hearted Serenade, Op. 47, No. 4 which offers a study in contrasts: by turn capricious, rumbustious and wistful.

Key Features: ● The composer’s birth centennial falls in 2019, and the ongoing series of Weinberg’s complete symphonies with conductor Vladimir Lande is a great opportunity for promotions. Siberian State Symphony Orchestra ● The previous release of Symphony No. 17 (8.573565) is a Quarterly Critics’ Choice by the German Record Critics’ Award Supplementary Marketing Materials: and an Editor’s Choice by AllMusic.com. Audiophile Audition ● Key Release Kit wrote: “The performances are spectacular and the music speaks ● Facebook cover and post for itself.” (4 stars) ● Weinberg’s Twelfth Symphony was written in response to the Companion Titles – Previous releases from the death of Shostakovich – his great friend and supporter. Of the Weinberg Symphonies series release in 2014 (8.573086), BBC Music Magazine wrote “Vladimir Lande and the St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra negotiate the considerable technical demands of this complex score with impressive assurance. Supported by a wonderfully focused recording they deliver a performance that is incisive and powerfully committed.” ● The Siberian State Symphony Orchestra has a reputation as 8.573565 8.573190 8.572752 one of the best orchestras in the former Soviet Union. In 2015 Vladimir Lande became the orchestra’s new Artistic Director and Chief Conductor. Since then, the orchestra has embarked on a recording programme with international labels such as Naxos, and televised concerts have become available for online streaming. 8.573085 8.572779

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Patricia Bardon and Danielle De Niese

2.110579-80 George Frideric HANDEL (1685–1759) Playing time: 179 minutes Agrippina Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Sound format: PCM Stereo and DTS 5.1 7 47313 55795 0 Libretto by Vincenzo Grimani Language: Italian Danielle de Niese, Soprano • Patricia Bardon, Mezzo-soprano Subtitles: Italian, English, French, Jake Arditti and Filippo Mineccia, Countertenors German, Japanese, Korean Balthasar Neumann Ensemble Region code: 0 (worldwide) No. of disc/s: 2 (DVD9) Watch Video Trailer Thomas Hengelbrock, Conductor Price Code: OL Robert Carsen, Stage director Key Features: During his years in Italy, Handel absorbed the music of his contemporaries and mastered new stylistic trends. Though the ● The stage director, Canadian-born Robert Carsen, has a staging of La resurrezione was a memorable event in the Roman worldwide reputation and directs for all the major international musical world, it was the production of Agrippina that marked opera houses. Handel’s definitive investiture as an operatic composer. It met with ● The title role is played by mezzo-soprano enormous success and an unprecedented number of performances Patricia Bardon. Neue Zurcher Zeitung praised followed. Its melodic power is overwhelming and in his creation of her performance: “Patricia Bardon forms both credible and vivid characters, the alternation of recitative and arias, theatrically and vocally the energetic centre of and sheer theatrical power, Handel established the template that was the entanglements: with an expansive stage to last for the remainder of his operatic career. presence… and with sparkling vocal energy.” ALSO AVAILABLE ON ● Also included in the cast is the internationally- BLU-RAY VIDEO: acclaimed soprano Danielle De Niese in the role NBD0078V of Poppea. She is one of the soloists at the 2015 Playing time: 179 minutes Picture format: HD 16:9 Last of the Proms, conducted by Marin Alsop. Sound format: PCM 2.0 and 5.1 DTS-HD Language: Italian Subtitles: Italian, English, French, ● Thomas Hengelbrock is widely regarded as one German, Japanese, Korean of the outstanding conductors of our time and has Region code: A, B, C left a lasting mark on the world of music with the No. of disc/s: 1 (BD50) intelligence of his interpretations. His repertory Price Code: OL extends from the 17th century to contemporary © Michael Zapf works and includes every musical genre. In 2016 Hengelbrock received the Herbert von Karajan Music Award in recognition of his commitment to music communication. 7 30099 00786 3

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2.110563 2.110388 2.110571 2.110395-96 (NBD0079V) (NBD0062V) (NBD0072V) (NBD0067V) 7 NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2018 Photo courtesy of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 8.573798-99 Playing Time: Edward Polochick Price Code: NXP 2:14:59 7 47313 37987 3 George Frideric HANDEL (1685–1759) Messiah Key Features: (Watkins Shaw Edition) ● In April 2017, Naxos has released an audiovisual release of Jennifer O’Loughlin, Soprano • Diana Moore, Alto Handel’s Messiah (2.110387/NBD0061) from the 2016 Easter Nicholas Phan, Tenor • Sidney Outlaw, Bass concert in the baroque Basilica of Klosterneuburg, Austria. Concert Artists of Baltimore Symphony Chorale Classical Net wrote: “The Salzburger Bachchor sings with both Baltimore Symphony Orchestra energy and commitment throughout the performance and the Edward Polochick Bach Consort Wien matches their effort with precise, spirited playing under the knowing hand of conductor Rubén Dubrovsky.” Of all English oratorios Handel’s Messiah has always been the most ● Bass Sidney Outlaw is one of the featured overwhelmingly popular. It is the least theatrical of his oratorios and soloists in the GRAMMY®-nominated the most purely sacred in its choice of subject matter. The vivid choral recording of Milhaud’s L’Orestie d’Eschyle writing – there are more choruses in Messiah than in any other Handel (8.660349-51). It was named one of the ‘Best oratorio – coupled with the expressive density of the solo arias, have New Classical Albums of 2014’ by Culture ensured its status as one of the greatest choral masterpieces in the Catch: “Milhaud’s polytonal mastery and his Western canon. colorful orchestration make for many striking © Nathaniel Earl Thompson © Nathaniel Earl About Edward Polochick moments, [Lori] Phillips and Outlaw deliver fine performances, and the much-featured choirs handle the Since winning the Leopold Stokowski Conducting Award and harmonically demanding music with aplomb.” conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, Edward Polochick has attracted international attention as an orchestral, operatic, ● Internationally acclaimed American soprano, and choral conductor. He is the founding Artistic Director of Jennifer O’Loughlin, has performed at many Concert Artists of Baltimore since 1987. He is also in his 20th renowned theatres and opera houses across season as Music Director of Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra in Europe and in Japan. She has collaborated Nebraska. From 1979–1999 he was the Director of the Baltimore with some of the most acclaimed opera Symphony Chorus, and since 1979 he has been at the Peabody conductors including Zubin Mehta, James Conservatory as Associate Conductor of the Orchestra, Director of Conlon and Daniel Harding. She has won © Robert Brembeck Choral Ensembles, and Opera Conductor. several prizes including the Maria Callas Prize in 2013. ● The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, under its music director Marin Alsop, has produced the best recordings on Naxos. Their most recent release if Prokofiev’s popular ballet Romeo and Juliet (8.573534-35). It is an AllMusic.com Editor’s Choice, and also received a 5-star rating from Primephonic: “Baltimore Symphony Orchestra playing at the top of its game with richly detailed textures and pristine tone.”

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Concert Artists of Baltimore Symphonic Chorale

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2.110387 8.572745-46 8.554752 8.557764 (NBD0061) 8 NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2018 © D. Todd Moore, University of Indianapolis Todd © D.

Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra

THE LULLY EFFECT LULLY, J.B. • TELEMANN, G.P. • RAMEAU, J.P. Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra • Barthold Kuijken

This recording realises Barthold Kuijken’s long-held desire to restore to Jean-Baptiste Lully, and to French Baroque orchestral works in general, the power and intensity that once held the musical world in thrall. To the grandeur, finesse and diversity of the genre he has brought original source material to inform specific bowing techniques and the use of ornamentation. The result, as with Telemann’s Suite in E minor, which stands firmly in the Lully tradition, and Rameau’s magnificent Suite from Dardanus, evokes the spectacle and splendour of Versailles.

Key Features: ● Exceptional editorial and musicological work has been spent on this disc, with historically informed playing at its heart. ● Barthold Kuijken is an eminent leader in the field of early music. A virtuoso traverso soloist, teacher and conductor, he has shaped the fields of historical flutes and historically informed performance over the last 40 years. Kuijken has widely performed and recorded the repertoire for the Baroque © Gooik Dany Neirynck flute and has collaborated with other early music specialists including his brothers, Sigiswald Kuijken and Wieland Kuijken, Frans Brüggen, Gustav Leonhardt and Paul 8.573867 Playing Time: Dombrecht. Price Code: NXP 62:47 7 47313 38677 2 ● The Naxos catalogue has an enormous Early Music segment. In 2014 the label release a 10-disc set entitled ‘Saints and Sinners’ (8.501067), a collection of works from the Medieval and About Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra Renaissance eras. Named one of the top 25 ensembles in celebration of ● Ensemble Leones’ 2015 recording Argentum et Aurum Early Music America’s 25th anniversary in 2011, the (8.573346) won the Early Music category from the International Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra is dedicated to excellent and Classical Music Awards (ICMA), with American Record Guide exuberant performance of 17th- and 18th-century music on period commenting “The program is so imaginative, so astutely played instruments. It is led by artistic director, Barthold Kuijken. Critically and sung, that one is loathe to raise even one complaint.” admired for its performances of French Baroque repertoire, members of the orchestra are some of the finest Baroque specialists in North America, and frequently collaborate with other premier ensembles Companion Titles – Early Music Collection throughout the country. Notable guest appearances by, among others, Julianne Baird, Stanley Ritchie and John Holloway, have become highlights in the orchestra’s concert schedule in Indianapolis and around the United States. This is the first of a series of recordings for Naxos.

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About Goran Filipec Born in Rijeka in 1981, Goran Filipec studied at the Ino Mirkovich Academy in Croatia, at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse NEW RELEASES FEATURING de Paris, and during his early career was a top prizewinner of several international piano competitons (Premio Mario Zanfi ‘Franz Liszt’, the Concurso de Parnassos, the José Iturbi International Music Competition and theGabala GORAN FILIPEC International Piano Competition). He performs in Europe, the United States, South America and Japan as recitalist and soloist with leading orchestras. Equally known for interpretations of standard piano repertoire and for discoveries Goran Filipec is the featured artist in two of this month’s of forgotten musical gems, this sovereign pianist of fiery energy cultivates a particular leaning towards Classical and highlights. The first release featuring the critically- Romantic repertoire and works of pronounced virtuosity. acclaimed artist is the world premiere recording of Braga Santos’s Piano Concerto, with the Royal Liverpool About Álvaro Cassuto Philharmonic conducted by Álvaro Cassuto, who was a close friend and colleague to the composer for decades Álvaro Cassuto is Portugal’s foremost conductor. He has been a frequent guest of many leading and is thus perhaps the best interpreter of Braga Santos' orchestras, including the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic, works. The second is the latest instalment in our complete the Philadelphia Orchestra, and dozens of others across the world. He has a discography survey of Liszt's complete piano music, consisting of works encompassing over 50 recordings with a variety of orchestras and for different labels, among which inspired by poems of Alphonse de Lamartine, Victor Hugo a highly successful ongoing series for Marco Polo and Naxos, initiated in 1997 and dedicated to and Nikolaus Lenau. This is the third album in this series Portugal’s most important composers, which has met with enthusiastic and unanimous praise featuring Goran Filipec, the first of which won a Grand © Anita Ayash from the international press. Prix du Disque F. Liszt from the Ferenc Liszt Society of Budapest in 2016.

GORAN FILIPEC’S PREVIOUS RECORDINGS ON NAXOS AND GRAND PIANO WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS Joly BRAGA SANTOS (1924–1988) Piano Concerto* 7 47313 39037 3 Symphonic Overtures Nos. 1 and 2 Goran Filipec, Piano * Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Álvaro Cassuto

Joly Braga Santos was Portugal’s greatest orchestral composer, and this recording presents eight world premiere recordings including his very first work for orchestra, the Symphonic Overture No. 1. This and the Symphonic Overture No. 2 share a unified structure and lyrical themes, contrasting with 8.573458 8.573705 8.573590 the sombre Prelude, originally written for an intensely tragic opera. Braga Santos’s characterful four ‘miniatures’ (tracks 4–7) are brought together to “With a technique that makes you “The pianist, with enthralling and “Goran Filipec, in the 21 sonatas of form an attractive suite, while his only Piano Concerto is a virtuoso spectacle forget just how exacting these pieces incisive emotion – attentive as always the 19th volume, convinces with his are to play, Filipec not only generates to the rigour of the form structure – frank, robust and sharp approach.” with a large part for percussion and a gloriously anarchic approach to timbre the thrill of a live performance but gives life to the precipitating drama, – ConcertoNet.com and tonality. does so with a disarming swagger the hallucinated inner storms, the 8.573903 Playing Time: and playfulness.” many upheavals of these pages.” Price Code: NXP 62:12 – Gramophone – La Voce del Popolo

GRAND PRIX RECORDING OF DU DISQUE F. LISZT THE MONTH Franz LISZT (1811–1886) Complete Piano Music, Vol. 51 7 47313 37947 7 Poems Prolégomènes à la Divina Commedia Erster Mephisto-Walzer • Consolations Goran Filipec, Piano

All of the pieces in this programme have a literary or artistic connection as the background to their creation. Heard here in their first version, the Consolations owe their title to a poem by Alphonse de Lamartine and include a melody that later became the first Hungarian Rhapsody. The meditative GP767 GP769 GP681 Sposalizio was inspired by a painting by Raphael, and the Ballade by “This pianist commands a “Goran Filipec is a powerhouse “With the help of a superb Gottfried Bürger’s haunting ‘Lenore’. Victor Hugo’s Après une lecture de transcendental technique and pianist, and it’s just as well because instrument [Goran Filipec] exhibits Dante is used powerfully by Liszt to express damnation and hope, and possesses an unflappable sonority that no less would do for the an expansive imagination, a wide the first Mephisto Waltz derived from Lenau’s ‘Faust’ depicts a dance both refuses to splinter, notwithstanding repertoire on his latest recording spectrum of tone, and an opulent Bersa’s thickest onslaughts.” Paganini at the Piano.” temperament.” sinister and amorous. – Gramophone – The WholeNote – Fanfare 8.573794 Playing Time: Price Code: NXP 70:02

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10 11 NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2018 © Matīss Markovskis Latvian Radio Choir Includes WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS

Toivo TULEV (b. 1958) Magnificat† 1 Summer rain 2 • Legatissimo † 3 • Tanto gentile 4 Flow, my tears † 5 • I said, Who are You? – He said, You 6 Ieva Ezeriete and Inga Martinsone, Sopranos 1 Ka Bo Chan, Countertenor 6 • Virgo Veldi, Alto Saxophone 6 Age Juurikas, Positive Organ 6 • Vambola Krigul 1 and Heigo Rosin 1,3, Percussion • Latvian Radio Choir 1,2,4,5 Tallinn Chamber Orchestra 1,6 • Kaspars Putnin˛ š 1,2,4,5,6

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The Estonian composer Toivo Tulev has forged a unique sound world. His music, with its almost obsessive focus on religious mysticism, can be sensual and emotional but also cerebral and technically demanding. Tulev often takes inspiration from his extensive travels, in particular from the city of Istanbul which, like his vocal music, bridges East and West. His meditation on the words of Sufi mystic Mansur Al-Hallaj, I said, Who are You? – He said, You, conjures up a transcendent atmosphere, while his Magnificat departs from the text’s traditionally solemn setting with its stratospherically high string writing and wild percussion solos. 8.573735 Playing Time: Key Features: Price Code: NXP 61:18 ● Unlike many of his contemporaries, Toivo Tulev’s 7 47313 37357 4 music can be experienced on a purely emotional, almost sensual level, in addition to The Latvian Radio Choir (LRC) ranks among the top professional the intellectual. It is also instantly characteristic chamber choirs in Europe. Working under the leadership of Sigvards of Tulev as a composer and as a man. Although Kļava and conductor Kaspars Putnin˛ š, the choir is renowned for its tonal he was born in 1958, Tulev’s success has come finesse and range of expression. The repertoire of the LRC ranges from in the last two decades, largely defined by a kind the Renaissance to the most sophisticated modern scores. The LRC has of maximalist aesthetic, an almost obsessive participated in the top musical forums in Salzburg and Montpellier, the focus on religious mysticism, and the expansion of boundaries in the Baltic Sea Festival, Klangspuren Festival, La Musica, the Venice Biennale; realms of technique and expression, particularly in vocal music. and performed in renowned concert halls such as the Concertgebouw ● The Tallinn Chamber Orchestra (TCO) was founded in 1993 in Amsterdam, the Cité de la musique in Paris, and the Lincoln by conductor Tõnu Kaljuste. In two decades it has become one of Center in New York. The choir has been widely recorded and has an Estonia’s signature orchestras and a welcome guest performer extensive discography. on numerous stages in Europe and all over the world. The TCO participated in Arvo Pärt’s album Adam’s Lament, which won conductor Tõnu Kaljuste a GRAMMY® Award in 2014. ● Ieva Ezeriete has been a member and soloist of the Latvian Radio Choir since 1985 and the Latvian Radio Chamber Singers. She has received praise for her serene voice in performances of both classical and contemporary music, as well as her outstanding contribution to the leading roles in Rihm’s opera Jakob Lenz and in the multimedia Tallinn Chamber Orchestra collaboration opera War Sum Up. Companion Titles – Contemporary Choral Music ● Inga Martinsone has been a singer and soloist with the Latvian Radio Choir since 1993. Martinsone has participated in many independent musical and theatrical shows highlighting her talents as a true crossover artist. © Jānis Deinats

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World Premiere Recordings Miguel KERTSMAN (b. 1965) Three Concertos Chamber Symphony No. 2 ‘New York of 50 Doors’ Marina Piccinini, Flute • Orsolya Korcsolán, Violin Martin Kuuskmann, Bassoon • Gergely Sugar, French horn and Shofars London Philharmonic Orchestra • Dennis Russell Davies

Brazilian-American composer, Miguel Kertsman, writes in numerous genres embracing classical music, jazz, progressive rock, electronica and film, bridging these diverse elements to craft a unique sound world. Concerto Brasileiro explores lyricism and modernity through solemn chorale-like writing and seductive dances laced with Brazilian folk rhythms. Uncommon sonorities, haunting themes and ethereal landscapes mark out the Concerto for Violin, Horn, Shofar and Orchestra, while traditionalism and experimentation define the Journey for Bassoon and Orchestra. Chamber Symphony No. 2 explores and celebrates New York’s rich cultural diversity.

Key Features: ● Miguel Kertsman’s works have been commissioned, performed, or recorded by artists such as mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager, guitarist John Williams, conductor Dennis Russell Davies, and 8.573987 Playing Time: orchestras including the Vienna Symphony, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the London Philharmonic 65:44 Price Code: Orchestra. NXP 7 47313 39877 5 ● There is some crossover potential in this recording – Chamber Symphony No. 2 in particular exudes jazz elements, so may well Trimmel © Gerald appeal to Third Stream audiences who enjoy a full orchestral sound. Companion Titles – 21st-Century Classics ● When Dennis Russell Davies assumed his new position as chief NEW NEW conductor and artistic director of the Filharmonie Brno in September 2018, he marked his 48th season leading major orchestras, opera companies and festivals throughout Europe and the United States. His vast discography has brought him many honours and awards, and

includes the complete symphonies of Haydn, Bruckner, Honegger and Andreas Bitesnich © Philip Glass. 8.559824 8.579036 8.559769 8.557466

World Premiere Recordings Lost Saxophone Concertos CRAGUN • GUNAROPULOS • LINDORFF-LARSEN • PALS • TATE Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo (Saxophone) and his Orchestra

A large number of saxophone concertos have been written, but only a handful are regularly performed. With these premiere recordings Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo showcases five works that, had circumstances been different, might easily have established themselves as repertoire pieces. John Beach Cragun’s beautifully voiced work is the first saxophone concerto by an American and, like Yrjö Gunaropulos’ concerto – which enjoyed celebrity in the 1930s – was only rediscovered in 2016. The concertos by Eilert Lindorff-Larsen and Leopold van der Pals are compact, varied and exciting, while that by Phyllis Tate is considered her first major work.

Key Features: ● The almost-unknown John Beach Cragun is brought to exposure here as being in the vanguard of classical saxophone writing in America. ● Yrjö Gunaropulos’ Concerto was performed across Finland in the 1930s and was heard in Riga and Tallinn. Performances in London had to be cancelled because of the outbreak of the Second World War. ● Some of these works were associated with two of the greatest saxophonists of the time – Matti Rajula and the great Sigurd Raschèr. 8.579038 Playing Time: ● Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo has performed over 100 times as soloist with Price Code: 1:19:04 different symphony orchestras. He has encouraged a rising number of NXP 7 47313 90387 0 composers to create a whole new repertoire for him; almost 100 works have been written. Tuomisalo has so far released 15 solo albums, including 37 works for saxophone and orchestra. © Kuvatapio Companion Titles – Music for Saxophone

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Includes World Premiere Recordings Peter GRAHAM (b. 1958) Metropolis 1927 On the Shoulders of Giants • Radio City 1 • Meditation 2 Paramount Rhapsody † 3 • New York Movie † Dale Gerrard, Narrator 1 • Philip Cobb, Trumpet 2,3 • Peter Moore, Trombone 1,2 Black Dyke Band • Nicholas Childs

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Peter Graham is one of the leading brass band composers of his generation, and the first outside the US to win the American Bandmasters Association’s prestigious Ostwald Award for composition. Black Dyke Band celebrates his 60th birthday with this recording, the theme of which derives from Graham’s time in New York and from some of the ‘giants’ of American culture. On the Shoulders of Giants pays tribute to great brass virtuosi such as Miles Davis and John Philip Sousa; New York Movie is a ‘musical narrative’ on seven of Edward Hopper’s iconic, haunting paintings; and Metropolis 1927 takes its inspiration from the dystopian beauty of Fritz Lang’s classic science fiction film.

Key Features: ● Peter Graham’s superb works for brass band and orchestra have been 8.573968 Playing Time: widely recorded, including his Brillante for Euphonium and Orchestra Price Code: 64:01 on Naxos 8.570538 summed up as “a special treat” by the American Record Guide. This birthday tribute from the incomparable Black Dyke NXP 7 47313 39687 0 Band is however his first ‘solo’ Naxos debut as a composer, andwe could hardly be more delighted with the results. Graham’s use of popular musical themes and styles make his already highly approachable idiom

Companion Titles – Brass Band Classics into something accessible to everyone, and we are confident that this © Goldy Solutions release will become a popular hit. ● The Black Dyke Band is legendary in brass band circles, and for Naxos has already recorded the music of Philip Wilby (8.572166), considered “dazzling” by the American Record Guide. We also had great success with their Symphonic Brass 8.570726 8.572166 8.559123 8.572193 album (8.570726), also conducted by Nicholas Childs, which remained in the Classical Top 20

for 18 weeks and was a MusicWeb International © John Stirzaker ‘Recording of the Month’.

Includes World Premiere Giachino ROSSINI (1792–1868) Recordings Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age), Vol. 10 Chamber Music and Rarities, Vol. 3 Giuseppina Bridelli, Mezzo-soprano • Alessandro Marangoni, Piano Rossini considered the ‘mezzo’ voice to be his ideal, stating that ‘the contralto is the norm against which the other voices and instruments of the composition must be gauged.’ Containing numerous premiere recordings, this penultimate release in Alessandro Marangoni’s acclaimed traversal of Rossini’s complete piano music is vibrant with national colours from France, Italy and Spain, and rich in emotions of sadness and love, from the tragic Adieux à la vie! sung on a single note, to the sustained operatic embellishments of Questo palpito soave.

Key Features: ● This is the tenth and penultimate volume of our edition of Rossini’s complete piano works and the third to fall under the sub-category of ‘Chamber Music and Rarities’, with the final eleventh volume due for release in November. Vol. 9 (8.573864) was released in July 2018. Other performers have made recordings of parts of the Péchés de Vieillesse, but with its comprehensive approach and numerous premiere recordings this Naxos edition will be by far the most complete collection available, and the ultimate reference for many years to come. 8.573865 Playing Time: ● This series doesn’t present Rossini’s ‘hits’, but it has been gathering Price Code: 67:19 momentum over many years and is now an authoritative document NXP of one of music history’s most extraordinary collections. Acclaim 7 47313 38657 4 for Alessandro Marangoni’s playing has been universal, including comments such as “This music, all surfaces reflecting gilded salons, Companion Titles – requires a high level of artistry to pull off. Marangoni sparkles and Previous releases from the seduces over and over again.” (The Toronto Star on Vol. 2, 8.570766). © Daniele Cruciani Rossini Complete Piano Music series ● Vol. 8 from April 2018 (8.573822) was counted amongst ‘The Best New

NEW Classical Releases of April 2018’ by WQXR (New York): “Alessandro Marangoni and his collaborators present an eclectic cross-section of the Sins…” ● Mezzo-soprano Giuseppina Bridelli has appeared to great acclaim in major productions both in Italy and internationally, and at venues as widespread as Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Montreal

8.573864 8.573822 8.573292 8.573107 and Carnegie Hall in New York. © Francesco Squeglia

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World Premiere Recordings Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756–1791) Piano Concertos Nos. 23 and 24 Arranged by Ignaz Lachner Alon Goldstein, Piano Fine Arts Quartet • Alexander Bickard, Double Bass

Mozart himself saw the advantages of creating more accessible versions of his concertos in reduced instrumentation. Ignaz Lachner followed common 19th-century practice by leaving the piano parts of these concertos intact and making splendid transcriptions of the orchestra parts using only a string quartet with added bass. K. 488 and K. 491 are two of Mozart’s greatest and most popular piano concertos. These chamber versions throw an intense and intimate new light on familiar music.

Key Features: ● Recordings of chamber arrangements of Mozart’s piano concertos have become increasingly popular in recent years, and Alon Goldstein’s previous release of arrangements by Ignaz Lachner of Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 21 (8.573398) was welcomed by the critics: “a fascinating listen, with the pared down arrangements packing a particular dramatic punch, and exposing Mozart’s melodies which are delivered with great precision and clarity here by Goldstein.” 8.573736 Playing Time: (Classic FM ‘CD of the Week’) Price Code: 58:28 ● Alon Goldstein is one of the most original and sensitive pianists NXP of his generation, admired for his musical intelligence and dynamic 7 47313 37367 3 personality. His career as a soloist has taken him all over the world, working with leading orchestras and conductors. © Christian Steiner ● The Fine Arts Quartet ranks among the Companion Titles – Fine Arts Quartet most distinguished ensembles in chamber music today, with an illustrious history of performing success and an extensive legacy of over 200 recorded works. Their Naxos

recordings include the Mendelssohn String © Hugues Argence Quartets (8.570488) which was a MusicWeb From left to right: Ralph Evans, Efim Boico, International ‘Recording of the Year’ in 2008, Robert Cohen and Juan-Miguel Hernandez 8.573398 8.570938 8.570151 8.572009 and considered “another winner” by International Record Review; and Saint-Saëns’ Piano Quartet and Quintet (8.572904) considered “gripping… a superlative disc from the Fine Arts Quartet and Cristina Ortiz” by BBC Music Magazine.

World Premiere Recordings Stephen DODGSON (1924–2013) Chamber Music with Harp and Guitar Septet Variations • Pastoral Sonata • Solway Suite Karolos

Although he was particularly renowned for his music for harpsichord and for guitar, British composer Stephen Dodgson was a versatile craftsman of chamber music. The examples here reveal his intricate but surprising turns of phrase, from the subtle exploration of sonorities in the Septet Variations to the sunlit beauty of the Pastoral Sonata. Dodgson’s mastery of colour and texture is evident in his Solway Suite, while the early Capriccio and Finale treats the listener to a kaleidoscope of whimsical and witty interludes.

Key Features: ● This is the second of Karolos’s recordings of chamber works by Stephen Dodgson. String Trios Nos. 1 and 2 were released in July 2018 (8.573856), which includes the Solo Violin Sonatina, Caprice after Puck for solo viola and Partita for Solo Cello. ● Exciting, innovative and passionate, Karolos comprises some of the UK’s most eminent soloists and chamber musicians, including Craig Ogden (guitar), Graham Walker (cello), Harriet Mackenzie (violin), Juliette Bausor (flute), Maximiliano Martin 8.573857 Playing Time: (clarinet), Philippa Mo (violin), Sarah-Jane Price Code: 81:57 Bradley (viola) and Tanya Houghton (harp). ● Tailoring their programmes to suit each NXP 7 5 47313 38577 individual audience, Karolos is proud to offer concerts which range from core classics of the Companion Titles – Companion Titles – 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, to premieres and performances of works by prominent Stephen Dodgson, Composer British Chamber Music

and emerging composers. The group’s Hadjicocolis © Tassos discography reflects their commitment to Clockwise from top left: Graham Walker, Juliette Bausor, Maximiliano Martin, Tanya Houghton, Harriet Mackenzie, rediscovering neglected masterpieces. Philippa Mo, Sarah-Jane Bradley

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Johann Sebastian BACH (1685–1750) Complete Works for Lute Yasunori Imamura, Baroque Lute

The considerable variety of Johann Sebastian Bach’s output for the lute stands witness to different periods of his life and career. This collection comprises Bach’s complete lute works, amply demonstrating his interest in its expressive qualities. These works include the technically demanding Partita BWV 1006a, Bach’s own transcription of his Cello Suite No. 5, three pieces from the St John Passion and the St Matthew Passion where the lute appears in an ensemble setting, and the Prelude, Fugue and Allegro, BWV 998, described by the renowned harpsichordist Wanda Landowska as ‘of incomparable beauty… unique amongst Bach’s works’.

Key Features: ● J.S. Bach’s lute works come from disparate sources, and he is not thought to have been a virtuoso on the instrument. ● Yasunori Imamura is recognized as one of the most prominent exponents of the lute both as a soloist as well as a continuo player, his more than 140 solo recordings receiving excellent reviews in various audio magazines, with the Diapason d’or and 8.573936-37 Playing Time: Joker de Crescendo awards for his recordings of Weiss’ Lute Price Code: 1:57:04 Sonatas. ● The addition of the lute-accompanied vocal pieces from the NXP 7 47313 39367 1 St. John and St. Matthew Passions adds attractive contrast and

another element of completeness not previously encountered in © Patrick Lüthy this sort of collection.

Companion Titles – Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer

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Marko Topchii Guitar Laureate Recital Winner, 2017 Michele Pittaluga Guitar Competition, Alessandria JOSÉ • CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO • MARTIN • KOSHKIN • DYENS Marko Topchii, winner of the 2017 Michele Pittaluga Guitar Competition, has selected a rich and varied repertoire ranging from neo-Romanticism to serialism, each work offering a unique vision of the instrument’s technical and expressive capabilities. Antonio José’s Sonata is remarkably inventive, bringing a new language to ancient dance forms, while Frank Martin’s Quatre Pièces brèves, written in the same year, offers the flourish and vigour of contemporary harmonic vocabulary. Roland Dyens’ Libra Sonatine is one of the most virtuosic and brilliant of late 20th-century guitar works.

Key Features: ● The Ukrainian-born guitarist, Marko Topchii, has been the winner of more than 40 international guitar competitions, among them the 56th Tokyo Guitar Competition (2013), the 6th JoAnn Falletta Concert Guitar Competition (2014), and the 50th Michele Pittaluga International Guitar Competition in Alessandria (2017). He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Salle Cortot (Paris), Yamaha Ginza Hall (Tokyo), and at the Tchaikovsky Hall (Moscow). He often performs with orchestras, having performed more than ten concertos for guitar and orchestra. He is sponsored by the D’Addario Strings Company and records with a guitar made by Jim Redgate (Australia). 8.573963 Playing Time: 58:39 Price Code: Companion Titles – Guitar Laureate Recitals NXP 7 47313 39637 5

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Joseph HAYDN (1732–1809) 10 kleine Klavierstücke • 24 Menuetti Jenő Jandó, Piano

In addition to some 47 keyboard sonatas, Haydn wrote a variety of other pieces including arrangements of earlier orchestral or chamber works, and dances intended for occasional use. The 10 kleine Klavierstücke (10 Little Piano Pieces) contain five symphonic movements – including the second movement from one of his most popular, No. 53 in D major, known as L’Impériale – a single movement from a string quartet and three extracts from his witty Eszterháza opera La vera costanza. The dance movements were popular in Vienna’s many ballrooms.

Key Features: ● This is the penultimate release in Jenő Jandó’s project of recording the complete solo piano music by Joseph Haydn. ● The piano version The Seven Last Words was released in 2014 (8.573313). Classical Candor wrote: “Jandó’s rendering of the work is illuminating – lighter and in some ways maybe more introspective than the bigger-scaled productions. It’s certainly worth a listen.” ● Of the complete piano sonatas boxed set (8.501042), Audiophile 8.573933 Playing Time: Audition commented: “Jandó is every inch the professional, his Price Code: 75:33 years of experience and his muscular playing fill these [works] with vivacious life.” NXC 7 47313 39337 4 ● Other Naxos recordings by Jandó include the complete piano sonatas and concertos by Mozart, Schubert’s sonatas and works for piano duo (with Iona Prunyi), and sonatas and Companion Titles – Jenő Jandó’s Haydn recordings bagatelles by Beethoven.

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Heitor VILLA-LOBOS (1887–1959) Works for Harmonica Robert Bonfiglio, Harmonica New York Chamber Symphony • Gerard Schwarz

Heitor Villa-Lobos was one of a number of eminent composers attracted to writing for the harmonica and his Concerto explores the instrument’s abilities perfectly. The first movement is highly melodic while the harmonica’s singing qualities are to be found in the plaintively haunting lyricism of the slow movement. The finale embodies festive romance and great virtuosity, capping one of the most exciting works in the repertoire. The sequence of arrangements and orchestrations of some of Villa-Lobos’s most beautiful, moving and famous melodies includes the masterpiece Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5.

Key Features: ● This is a reissue of a 1989 RCA release, including arrangements and orchestrations (except for the Concerto) by soloist Robert Bonfiglio. Of the original release,Gramophone wrote: “Villa-Lobos seemed to have a bottomless well of simple, predominantly diatonic, yet affecting tunes, to which his harmonic eclecticism lent an exotic air; there is not one 9.70275 * Playing Time: on this recording which is not capable of staying in the memory. Bonfiglio is a most accomplished soloist in every respect…” Price Code: 1:03:33

NXC ● The Los Angeles Times called Robert Bonfiglio “the Paganini of the 0 78635 79862 3 harmonica”. He has made numerous appearances on American TV and radio – often on CBS, Larry King’s show, The Jim Bohannon Show and Garrison Keillor’s American Radio Show. Companion Titles – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer ● In October 2017 Naxos release the ‘Gerard Schwarz Collection’ 30-disc boxed set, a remarkable collection celebrating Gerard Schwarz’s career Houten © Ben Van as a conductor, trumpet player and composer. Gerard Schwarz

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NEW RELEASES FROM NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS

London Labour and the London Poor By Henry Mayhew Unabridged Read by David Timson 9 781781 981542

London Labour and the London Poor is a rare and fascinating insight into the lives and struggles of the 19th-century poor. Written by journalist and reformer Henry Mayhew, a founder and editor of the satirical magazine Punch, it collects hundreds of testimonials from the lower strata of Victorian society. We encounter street entertainers, ‘pure finders’, cabinetmakers, gingerbread sellers, ‘screeve-fakers’, swindlers and burglars. We hear accounts from toshers finding items in sewers, people attempting to train pigs to dance, and witness the sale of everything from gilt watches and chickweed to needles, dog collars and eel soup. It is a remarkable work, said to have inspired the socially conscious fiction of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, who described it as ‘a picture of human life so wonderful, so awful, so piteous and pathetic, so exciting and terrible, that readers of romances own they never read anything like to it’.

Companion Titles – David Timson, Reader

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Pensées By Blaise Pascal Unabridged Read by Peter Wickham 9 781781 981603

Intended to be a defence of the Christian religion, Pensées is a penetrating collection of thoughts on faith, reason and theology. Unfinished at the time of Pascal’s death, the book consists of philosophical fragments on the ‘wretchedness’ of man and the controversial schisms of the church at the time. It includes the philosopher’s infamous wager encouraging belief over agnosticism, as well as his thoughts on numerous other topics, including the great essayist Montaigne and the Stoic teacher Epictetus. Endlessly quotable, Pensées overflows with pearls of wisdom, with each elusive sentence pregnant with a universe of thought.

Companion Titles – Peter Wickham, Reader

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The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne Unabridged Read by Adam Sims 9 781781 981627

The Scarlet Letter is one of the great classics of American literature. Set in the harsh Puritan environment of 17th-century Boston, it describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent- minded woman who stands alone against society. Having given birth to a child after an illicit affair, she refuses to name the father and is forced to wear the letter ‘A’, for Adulteress, embroidered on her dress.

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Jean Sibelius’s Incidental Music Series Music for Saxophone 8.573300 747313330072 SIBELIUS, J.: Belshazzar’s Feast 8.557454 747313245420 Ballades for Saxophone and Orchestra 8.573340 747313334070 SIBELIUS, J.: Jedermann 8.573228 747313322879 GRAINGER, P.: Music for Saxophones 8.573299 747313329977 SIBELIUS, J.: Kuolema • King Christian II 8.573429 747313342976 ITURRALDE, P.: Complete Music for Saxophone and Piano 8.573301 747313330171 SIBELIUS, J.: Pelléas et Mélisande 8.554784 636943478424 Music for Saxophone and Orchestra

8.573511 747313351176 SIBELIUS, J.: Scaramouche Brass Band Classics 8.573341 747313334179 SIBELIUS, J.: Swanwhite 8.559123 636943912324 BERLIN, I.: Berlin for Brass

Jean Sibelius’s Complete Symphonies 8.572193 747313219377 PROKOFIEV, S.: Romeo and Juliet for Brass Band 8.572305 747313230570 SIBELIUS, J.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 8.570726 747313072675 Symphonic Brass 8.572704 747313270477 SIBELIUS, J.: Symphony No. 2 • Karelia Suite 8.572166 747313216673 WILBY, P.: A Breathless Alleluia

8.572227 747313222773 SIBELIUS, J.: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5 Previous releases from the Rossini Complete Piano Music series 8.572705 747313270576 SIBELIUS, J.: Symphonies Nos. 6 and 7 • Finlandia 8.573107 747313310777 ROSSINI, G.: Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age), Vol. 6

Previous recordings from Rossini in Bad Wildbad 8.573292 747313329274 ROSSINI, G.: Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age), Vol. 7 8.660417-18 730099041775 BELLINI, V.: Bianca e Gernando 8.573822 747313382279 ROSSINI, G.: Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age), Vol. 8 8.660440-43 730099044073 LINDPAINTNER, P.J. von: Il vespri siciliani 8.573864 747313386475 ROSSINI, G.: Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age), Vol. 9 8.660407-09 730099040778 ROSSINI, G.: Bianca e Falliero Fine Arts Quartet 8.660419-21 730099041973 ROSSINI, G.: Ricciardo e Zoraide 8.570938 747313093878 FAURÉ, G.: Piano Quintets

Henri Dutilleux, Composer 8.572009 747313200979 FRANCK, C.: String Quartet • Piano Quintet 8.557823 747313282326 DUTILLEUX, H.: Complete Solo Piano Music 8.573398 747313339877 MOZART, W.A. (arr. I. Lachner): Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 21 8.573596 747313359677 DUTILLEUX, H.: Symphony No. 2 ‘Le Double’ 8.570151 747313015177 SCHUMANN, R.: String Quartets Nos. 1-3

Jean-Claude Casadesus and the ONL Stephen Dodgson, Composer 8.557287 747313228720 MILHAUD, D.: La Création du monde 8.573762 747313376278 DODGSON, S.: Guitar Chamber Works 8.573563 747313356379 STRAUSS, R.: Ein Heldenleben • MAGNARD, A.: Chant funèbre 8.573856 747313385676 DODGSON, S.: String Trios

Previous releases from the Weinberg Symphonies series British Chamber Music 8.572779 747313277971 WEINBERG, M.: Symphony No. 6 8.571374 747313137473 FRICKER, P.R.: String Quartets 8.573085 747313308576 WEINBERG, M.: Symphony No. 12 ‘In memoriam D. Shostakovich’ 8.573599 747313359974 MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Sonata for Violin Alone 8.573565 747313356577 WEINBERG, M.: Symphony No. 17 ‘Memory’ Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer 8.573190 747313319077 WEINBERG, M.: Symphony No. 18 ‘War – there is no word more cruel’ 8.573676 747313367672 BACH, J.S.: English Suites Nos. 4-6 (arr. two guitars) 8.572752 747313275274 WEINBERG, M.: Symphony No. 19 ‘Bright May’ 8.573921 747313392179 BACH, J.S.: Goldberg Varations

Naxos Audiovisual Collection 8.572740 747313274079 BACH, J.S.: Guitar Transcriptions NBD0067V 730099006767 JOMMELLI, N.: Il Vologeso [Blu-ray] 8.570470-71 747313047079 BACH, J.S.: Music for Lute-Harpsichord 2.110395-96 747313539550 JOMMELLI, N.: Il Vologeso [DVD] Guitar Laureate Recitals NBD0079V 730099007962 MASSENET, J.: Cendrillon [Blu-ray] 8.573850 747313385072 50th Anniversary Michele Pittaluga Guitar Competition, Alessandria 2.110563 747313556359 MASSENET, J.: Cendrillon [DVD] 8.573362 747313336272 Emanuele Buono Guitar Laureate Recital NBD0072V 730099007269 RESPIGHI, O.: La campana sommersa [Blu-ray] 8.573487 747313348770 Eren Süalp Guitar Laureate Recital 2.110571 747313557158 RESPIGHI, O.: La campana sommersa [DVD] 8.573669 747313366972 Rovshan Mamedkuliev Guitar Laureate Recital NBD0062V 730099006262 ROSSINI, G.: Le Comte Ory [Blu-ray] Jenő Jandó’s Haydn recordings 2.110388 747313538850 ROSSINI, G.: Le Comte Ory [DVD] 8.501042 730099104241 HAYDN, J.: Complete Piano Sonatas [10 CDs]

George Frideric Handel, Composer 8.553265 730099426527 HAYDN, J.: Piano Concerto No. 11 8.572745-46 747313274574 HANDEL, G.F.: Acis and Galatea 8.553972 730099497220 HAYDN, J.: Piano Variations NBD0061 730099006163 HANDEL, G.F.: Messiah [Blu-ray] 8.573313 747313331376 HAYDN, J.: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross 2.110387 747313538751 HANDEL, G.F.: Messiah [DVD] Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer 8.554752 636943475225 HANDEL, G.F.: Ode for St Cecilia’s Day 8.503289 747313328932 VILLA-LOBOS, H.: Complete Guitar Manuscripts [3 CDs] 8.557764 747313276424 HANDEL, G.F.: Water Music • Music for the Royal Fireworks 8.508013 747313801336 VILLA-LOBOS, H.: Piano Music [8 CDs]

Early Music Collection 8.573829 747313382972 VILLA-LOBOS, H.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 8.573814 747313381470 Inner Chambers – Royal Court Music of Louis XIV 8.573777 747313377770 VILLA-LOBOS, H.: Symphonies Nos. 8, 9 and 11 8.660209-10 730099020978 LULLY, J.B.: The Tragedy of Armide Naxos Audiobooks – David Timson, Reader 8.557490 747313249022 RAMEAU, J.P.: Platée • Pigmalion • Dardanus NA0272 9781781980583 APULEIUS: The Golden Ass (unabridged) 8.501067 730099106740 Saints and Sinners [10 CDs] NA0294 9781781981023 BOSWELL, J.: The Life of Samuel Johnson (unabridged)

Goran Filipec’s previous recordings on Naxos and Grand Piano NA0225 9781843799481 HERODOTUS: Histories (unabridged) GP767 747313976720 BERSA, B.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 NA0259 9781781980323 WALTON, I. • COTTON, C.: The Compleat Angler (unabridged) 8.573458 747313345878 LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 42 Naxos Audiobooks – Peter Wickham, Reader 8.573705 747313370573 LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 49 NA0297 9781781981085 CASANOVA, G.: The Story of My Life, Vol. 1 (unabridged) GP681 747313968121 MAČEK, I.: Complete Piano Music NA0315 9781781981467 CASANOVA, G.: The Story of My Life, Vol. 2 (unabridged) GP769 747313976928 Paganini at the Piano NA0275 9781781980644 HOBBES, T.: Leviathan (unabridged) 8.573590 747313359073 SCARLATTI, D.: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 19 NA0301 9781781981160 MACHEN, A.: The Great God Pan and Other Weird Tales (unabridged)

Contemporary Choral Music Naxos Audiobooks – Adam Sims, Reader 8.573788 747313378876 ARNESEN, K.A.: Infinity – Choral Music NA0238 9781843799863 JAMES, H.: The Aspern Papers (unabridged) 8.579008 747313900879 EŠENVALDS, Ē.: The Doors of Heaven NA0296 9781781981061 JAMES, H.: The Europeans (unabridged) 8.572511 747313251179 Into the Night – Contemporary Choral Music NA0235 9781843799801 JAMES, H.: Washington Square (unabridged) 8.570239 747313023974 PÄRT, A.: Music for Unaccompanied Choir NA0313 9781781981429 PESSOA, F.: The Book of Disquiet (unabridged)

21st-Century Classics 8.579036 747313903672 BALADA, L.: Caprichos Nos. 6, 7 and 10 8.557466 747313246625 BANKS, T.: Seven – A Suite for Orchestra 8.559769 636943976920 BOYER, P.: Symphony No. 1 8.559824 636943982426 FUCHS, K.: Piano Concerto ‘Spiritualist’

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This Month’s Highlights

BRAGA SANTOS, J.: Piano Concerto • Symphonic Overtures Nos. 1 and 2 8.573903 747313390373 (Filipec, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Álvaro Cassuto)

8.573746 747313374670 DUTILLEUX, H.: Symphony No. 1 • Métaboles • Les Citations (Orchestre National de Lille, Jean-Claude Casadesus)

NBD0078V 730099007863 HANDEL, G.F.: Agrippina [Blu-ray] (Various Soloists, Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, Thomas Hengelbrock)

2.110579-80 747313557950 HANDEL, G.F.: Agrippina [DVD] (Various Soloists, Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, Thomas Hengelbrock)

HANDEL, G.F.: Messiah (Various Soloists, Concert Artists of Baltimore Symphonic Chorale, 8.573798-99 747313379873 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Edward Polochick)

8.573794 747313379477 LISZT, F.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 51 – Poems (Goran Filipec)

8.573867 747313386772 The Lully Effect – LULLY, J.B. • TELEMANN, G.P. • RAMEAU, J.P. (Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Barthold Kuijken)

ROSSINI, G.: Aureliano in Palmira (Various Soloists, Camerata Bach Choir Poznań, Virtuosi Brunensis, 8.660448-50 730099044875 José Miguel Pérez-Sierra)

8.506032 747313603237 SIBELIUS, J.: Incidental Music [6 CDs] (Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam)

8.573735 747313373574 TULEV, T.: Magnificat • Choral Music (Various Soloists, Latvian Radio Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Kaspars Putniņš)

8.573879 747313387977 WEINBERG, M.: Symphony No. 13 • Serenade for Orchestra (Siberian State Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Lande)

More Exciting New Releases

8.573936-37 747313393671 BACH, J.S.: Complete Works for Lute (Yasunori Imamura)

8.573857 747313385775 DODGSON, S.: Chamber Music with Harp and Guitar (Karolos)

8.573968 747313396870 GRAHAM, P.: Metropolis 1927 (Gerrard, Cobb, Moore, Black Dyke Band, Nicholas Childs)

8.573933 747313393374 HAYDN, J.: 10 kleine Klavierstücke • 24 Menuetti (Jenő Jandó)

KERTSMAN, M.: Three Concertos • Chamber Symphony No. 2 (Various Soloists, London Philharmonic Orchestra, 8.573987 747313398775 David Russell Davies)

Lost Saxophone Concertos – CRAGUN • GUNAROPULOS • LINDORFF-LARSEN • PALS • TATE 8.579038 747313903870 (Olli-Pekka Tuomisalo and his Orchestra)

8.573963 747313396375 Marko Topchii Guitar Laureate Recital

8.573736 747313373673 MOZART, W.A. (arr. I. Lachner): Piano Concertos Nos. 23 and 24 (Goldstein, Bickard, Fine Arts Quartet)

8.573865 747313386574 ROSSINI, G.: Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age), Vol. 10 (Bridelli, Marangoni)

Digital Exclusive

9.70275 078635798623 VILLA-LOBOS, H.: Works for Harmonica (Bonfiglio, New York Chamber Symphony, Gerard Schwarz)

Naxos Audiobooks

NA0323 9781781981627 HAWTHORNE, N.: The Scarlet Letter (unabridged) (Adam Sims)

NA0319 9781781981542 MAYHEW, H.: London Labour and the London Poor (unabridged) (David Timson)

NA0322 9781781981603 PASCAL, B.: Pensées (unabridged) (Peter Wickham)

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