25years NEW ON NAXOS The World’s Leading Classical Music Label MARCH 2012 Also Available on Blu-ray Audio This Month’s Other Highlights © 2012 Naxos Rights International Limited · Contact Us: [email protected] www.naxos.com · www.classicsonline.com · www.naxosmusiclibrary.com NEW ON NAXOS | MARCH 2012 © Doug Houghton 8.572348 Playing Time: 68:03 7 47313 23487 5 Peter MAXWELL DAVIES (b 1934) Symphony No 1 • Mavis in Las Vegas BBC Philharmonic • Peter Maxwell Davies Peter Maxwell Davies’s visionary music has gained him a knighthood, the prestigious position of Master of the Queen’s Music and a leading position among the foremost composers of our time. The two works on this disc, authoritatively conducted by the composer, show two sides of his remarkable musical imagination. The First Symphony is permeated by the presence of the sea and the haunting landscape of his home in the Orkney Islands, while the vibrant theme and variations Mavis in Las Vegas is an exuberant ‘tribute’ to the glitzy gambling capital of the world, in all its hyper-reality. Universally acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of our time, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has made a significant contribution to musical history through his wide-ranging and prolific output. He lives in the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland, where he writes most of his music. His substantial chamber and instrumental catalogue includes the landmark cycle of ten string quartets, the Naxos Quartets, described in the Financial Times as ‘one of the most impressive musical statements of our time’. Companion Titles 8.557396 8.557397 8.557398 8.557399 8.557400 RECORDING OF GRAMOPHONE THE MONTH EDITOR’S CHOICE 8 10 © John Batten 2 NEW ON NAXOS | MARCH 2012 570893bk SarasateVP3:570034bk Hasse 21/12/11 9:05 PM Page 4 to Los pájaros owes a great debt to Saint-Saëns, while the Les Adieux, Op. 9, is a tender duet. It was written for violin writing, with its myriad of bird-like harmonic Sarasate’s first true love, Marie Lefébure-Wély and is effects, is brilliantly evocative. Compare the inspiration obviously autobiographical in music and in feeling; a sad SARASATE of Sarasate’s Los pájaros to other works of the same genre conclusion to young love, but a fitting ending to this and the listener comes away with admiration of Sarasate collection. the composer. Joseph Gold Boléro • Sérénade andalouse Tianwa Yang Introduction et fandango 8.570893 Playing Time: 78:55 In concert and recital Tianwa Yang is winning unprecedented international reviews as she takes the stage as one of the most impressive young violinists of Prière et berceuse • Airs écossais 7 47313 08937 6 today. She studied the violin from the age of four and at ten was accepted by Lin Pablo SARASATE (1844-1908) Yaoji at the Central Conservatory of Music in Bejing. Hong Kong media Music for Violin and Piano, Vol 3 Tianwa Yang, Violin Tianwa Yang, violin • Markus Hadulla, piano subsequently described her as “A Pride Of China”. She was awarded the Volkswagen Foundation prize Star of Tomorrow by Seiji Ozawa and the Prix Repertoire • Boléro, Op 30 • Zortzico d’Iparraguirre, Op 39 • Sérénade andalouse, Op 10 • Adiós montañas mias – Danse espagnole, Op 37 • Montblanc 2006. Her mentors are Jörg-Wolfgang Jahn and Anner Bylsma. Markus Hadulla, Piano Le Sommeil, Op 11 • Rêverie, Op 4 • Introduction et fandango, Op 40 • Fantaisie-Caprice • Prière et berceuse, Op 17 • Confidences – Romance Photo: Friedrun Reinhold International symphonic débuts have taken her to the United States, Europe, sans paroles, Op 7 • Caprice sur Mireille de Gounod, Op 6 • Airs écossais, Singapore, Taiwan and China. In recital she has performed at the Berlin Op 34 • Los pájaros de Chile • Les Adieux, Op 9 Philharmonic Hall, and the Wigmore Hall, London. At the age of thirteen she Tianwa Yang’s admired and revelatory Sarasate series continues with recorded the 24 Caprices of Paganini, making her the youngest interpreter of this a volume of captivatingly melodic compositions. Given Sarasate’s © Friedrun Reinhold prodigious status in the violin pantheon, technical demands on the demanding work and in 2004 she began her collaboration with Naxos, recording performer are often – but not universally – constant. But so too is his unfailing gift for lyricism, whether in the elegant Boléro, the balletic the first two volumes of eight of the complete works of Sarasate. Sérénade andalouse or the aria-like Rêverie. The dazzling bowing difficulties in the Fantaisie-Caprice are thrilling, and so are the bird call harmonics of Los pájaros de Chile, written during a South American tour Markus Hadulla and only very recently published. Born in Cologne, the pianist Markus Hadulla began his studies in the Lieder class In concert and recital Tianwa Yang is winning unprecedented international of Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll in Karlsruhe, continuing at the Paris reviews as she takes the stage as one of the most impressive young violinists of today. International symphonic débuts have taken her to the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique and subsequently at Yale with the United States, Europe, Singapore, Taiwan and China. In recital she has performed at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, and the Wigmore Hall, London. Hungarian pianist Peter Frankl. He won the prize for best Lieder accompanist at the Seventh International Hugo Wolf Competition in Stuttgart in 1994 and was Companion Titles invited by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau to join his Lieder class in Berlin. Other Photo: Myriam Mersy influences on his musical development were Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Ralf Gothóni. He has collaborated with a number of well-known singers, vocal ensembles, writers and actors, as well as with instrumentalists and chamber 8.557767 8.570192 8.572216 8.572275 ensembles, and has appeared at venues and major halls throughout the world. After teaching several years at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin, he C now holds a teaching post for Lieder at the Karlsruhe Staatliche Hochschule für © Myriam Mersy Musik. He gives regular master-classes for Lieder and chamber music, and M Markus Hadulla serves as Artistic Director of the wort+ton concert series in Winnenden, Germany, which features an innovative combination of literature and music. Markus Hadulla has a large number of recordings, broadcasts and television Y appearances to his credit. 3 K 8.570893 4 572747 bk Alwyn EU_572747 bk Alwyn EU 23/12/2011 11:17 Page 1 NEW ON NAXOS | MARCH 2012 RNCM Wind Orchestra Clark Rundell WIND BAND CLASSICS The RNCM Wind Orchestra is one of Photo: Paul Cliff Clark Rundell is currently Director of Contemporary Music at the Royal several large scale ensembles that make Northern College of Music in Manchester. He studied at Northwestern up the wide diversity of music making at University, Chicago, studying conducting with John Paynter and trombone the Royal Northern College of Music in with Frank Crisafulli of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He regularly Manchester, one of the world’s leading conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the contemporary WILLIAM ALWYN music conservatoires. Bands, ensembles group, Ensemble 10:10. and orchestras from the college have been active for many years in giving concerts, both within the college, at venues in Great Film Music Britain and on international tours. 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He regularly All arrangements by Martin Ellerby Manchester, one of the world’s leading conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the contemporary William Alwyn was a consummate film composer, as capable of creating WILLIAM ALWYN music conservatoires. Bands, ensembles group, Ensemble 10:10. and orchestras from the college have been powerful marches as he was atmospheric waltzes. In these exciting arrangements by Martin Ellerby for wind band, the full variety of Alwyn’s active for many years in giving concerts, inspiration can be appreciated. There is the romantic allure of the both within the college, at venues in Great overture to The Crimson Pirate, the compact, brilliant characterisation of Film Music Mark Heron The History of Mr Polly and the suite from Geordie, with its seductive use Britain and on international tours. These of familiar Scottish melodies. 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