Naxos of America to Distribute Arthaus Musik Classical Dvds
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*LEADING IN NUMBER OF NEW RELEASES • *LEADING IN AVAILABLE, UNDUPLICATED REPERTOIRE • CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED PERFORMANCES • STATE • CRITICALLY REPERTOIRE UNDUPLICATED *LEADING IN NUMBER OF NEW RELEASES • IN AVAILABLE, DISTRIBUTION NEW RELEASE GUIDE • JULY 2000 EXCLUSIVE INDUSTRY BUYER’S GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS .............. page 2 AMERICAN CLASSICS Naxos of America to Distribute ............. page 3 Arthaus Musik Classical DVDs .. ..........Featured Titles page 4 FRANKLIN, TN – Naxos of America, along with parent company HNH subsidiaries and affiliates world-wide, will distribute the Arthaus Christmas & .......... page 5 Musik DVD catalogue of leading German home-video company, Kinowelt Home Entertainment. The catalogue offers opera and ballet Thanksgiving Titles performances, concerts and documentaries featuring some of the world’s leading artists (Abbado, Barenboim, Carreras, Alagna, Kasarova, and Terfel), orchestras (Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra), opera houses (Berlin State Opera) and ballet companies. ..... pages 5-6 These titles will be distributed exclusively by Naxos of America starting this month to be sold in book and music retail stores throughout the country. From July, there will be about 5 releases world-wide. The suggested retail price of these items will be $24.99 for concerts and $29.99- $34.99 for ballets and operas. .. ..... page 7 cpo The Arthaus Musik DVD’s will offer the following special features: • Sub-titles (opera libretti) in a variety of languages . .. ..... page 8 • Option for wide-screen viewing • Background information on the work being performed dacapo ............ page 9 • Multi-angle camera positions and/or underscoring (score displayed on-screen with pictures) -OF-THE-ART SOUND • CONSUMER-FRIENDLY PRICE • VOTED “BEST CLASSICAL LABEL” AT 1997 CANNES CLASSICAL AWARDS. PRICE • VOTED “BEST CLASSICAL LABEL” AT SOUND • CONSUMER-FRIENDLY -OF-THE-ART • 6-Channel Dolby Surround sound on selected titles ........... page 10 • Interviews and musicians’ portraits Commenting on the distribution deal with HNH, Dr. Jerry Payne of Kinowelt said: "We’re delighted to be teaming up with Klaus Heymann ...... page 11 and his international team of distributors. The success they have had with Naxos speaks for itself, and underlines the importance of a network of dedicated distribution companies with specialized classical marketing and PR know-how. These will be crucial for our aim to establish the Arthaus Musik catalogue as the world’s foremost provider of quality music and arts programming on DVD." CRITIC’S PICKS! .......page 12 Klaus Heymann, Chairman of HNH International, summed up his company’s view of the future of the new medium: "DVD is the most excit- ing new format since the advent of CD and already has a penetration rate far greater than CD had at the same stage of its development. These Arthaus releases offer a compelling new experience for all classical music enthusiasts and those interested in quality programs not readily Order available on TV anymore. Our objective is to establish the format and the Arthaus label in the minds of retailers, reviewers and, of course, of The Naxos consumers as the premier source of classical-music and other quality programming." 2000 See Page 8 for this month’s Arthaus DVD releases. Catalog! Naxos AudioBooks’ The History of Opera Gramophone Honored with AFIM INDIE Award Naxos AudioBooks received top honors in the Spoken Word category for its audio-original, Order Today! The History of Opera by Richard Fawkes, at the AFIM (Association for Independent Music) INDIE Awards reception, recognizing artistic excellence among member labels and distributors. This award is just the latest accolade to be bestowed upon this critically acclaimed title. The History of Opera received a 1999 TALKIES award, sponsored by UK’s Spoken Word Publishers Association (SWPA), for Best Non-Fiction. The Audio Publishers Association (APA) also selected The History of Opera as a 2000 AUDIE Award finalist in both the Original Work and Non-Fiction categories. Winners will be announced on June 2nd in Chicago, Illinois. Narrated by Robert Powell, The History of Opera is the colorful story of sometimes-temperamental composers and even more tem- peramental singers working in an art form, which has produced some of man’s noblest artistic creations. Over 100 musical examples by Naxos artists, as well as some of the greatest singers of the 20th century, including Enrico Caruso, Fyodor Chaliapin, and a host of international stars, illustrates the absorbing history of opera and operetta. Not surprising, Naxos AudioBooks’ production of Fawkes’ first title, The History of Classical Music, won a TALKIES Award in 1997. The next title in the award-winning series, The History of Theatre, is shipping now! (SEE PAGE 11 FROM MORE INFORMATION) NEW RELEASES • JULY 2000 AMERICAN CLASSICS 8.559072 – SRP: $6.99 Howard Hanson (1883-1953) Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 6 36943 90722 1 Symphony No. 1, “Nordic” Merry Mount Suite Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Schermerhorn Playing Time: N/A Howard Hanson, the masterful conductor who championed American music, was also a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, an accomplished pianist and pedagogue who directed the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York for forty years. Today, Hanson is best known for his vividly orchestrated seven symphonies. Completed in 1922, during Hanson’s time in Rome, Symphony No. 1, with its powerfully evocative style, displays the influence of his teacher, Ottorino Respighi. 8559039 – SRP $6.99 Arthur Foote (1853 – 1937) Chamber Music, Vol. 3 6 36943 90392 6 Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 5 – Piano Trio No. 2 in B flat major – Melody for violin and piano, Op. 44 – Ballade for violin and piano, Op. 69 Arden Trio Playing Time: 66:01 Arthur Foote was the first important American composer of concert music wholly trained in the United States. From the early Piano Trio No. 1, Foote’s first large scale composition, to the Dvoˇrák inspired Ballade for Violin and Piano of 1910, Foote’s chamber works are distinguished by their exquisite writing for string instruments and imaginative piano textures. Though his music seldom departed from the models of Brahms and Wagner, he found his own confident voice, instilling in his works a reflective quality not to be found in the music of his European contemporaries. 8.559005 – SRP: $6.99 Morton Gould (1913-1996) American Ballads 6 36943 90052 9 American Ballads (1976) – Foster Gallery (1939) – American Salute (1947) National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine / Theodore Kuchar Playing Time: 73:48 Morton Gould was a phenomenally talented composer, pianist, conductor, arranger and orchestrator. A child prodigy, he eventually became one of the most influential and prolific American composers, writing in a wide variety of musical forms, from ballet to Broadway and from classical orchestral works to film and television scores. Gould’s music uses American musical or visual themes; American Salute, based on the melody When Johnny Comes Marching Home, brought him world-wide popularity. Even in his ‘serious’ vein, Gould’s music is full of accessible melody, his orchestral colors vivid and atmospheric. Released Fall ’99 NEW RELEASES • JULY 2000 HISTORICAL SERIES “A rousing welcome to Naxos’ new Historical label, which offers some of the greatest recordings ever made at bargain-basement prices.” –Jim Svejda, host of Public Radio’s nationally syndicated program “The Record Shelf” and author of THE INSIDER'S GUIDE TO CLASSICAL RECORDINGS. 8110905 – SRP $6.99 Frederick Delius Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 6 36943 19052 4 The Walk to the Paradise Garden – Sea Drift – Intermezzo from Fennimore and Gerda – In a Summer Garden – Over the Hills and Far Away John Brownlee, Baritone / London Select Choir / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham Playing Time: 62:42 Sir Thomas Beecham’s recordings of the works by Frederick Delius produced by Walter Legge are some of the most esteemed recordings in the entire classical catalogue. Naxos presents the second volume of Delius’ orchestral works by Beecham, the composer’s greatest champion. ClassicsToday.com calls the first volume of these recordings, also recorded from 1927-1936, “carefully and lovingly restored by engineer David Lennick...Delians and collectors of historical recordings will want this disc.” 8110910 – SRP $6.99 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) Symphonies Nos. 3 & 8 6 36943 19102 6 Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55, "Eroica" Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Hans Pfitzner Playing Time: 69:40 Hans Pfitzner is perhaps most well-known for his work as a composer in the 20th century, but Pfitzner was also a pianist, a teacher and a conductor in Mainz, Strasbourg and later, for the Berlin Philharmonic. Often using his conductorial positions to champion his own compositions, Pfitzner was also a great lover of the German Romantic repertoire. Here, Pfitzner conducts the grandiose Eroica Symphony and the shorter, classically- inspired Symphony #8, both by Beethoven, recorded from 1929-1933 and restored by David Lennick. 8.110936 – $6.99 Great Violinists Jascha Heifetz 6 36943 19362 4 Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61 Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77 Jascha Heifetz, Violin / NBC Symphony Orchestra / Arturo Toscanini Boston Symphony Orchestra / Serge Koussevitzky Playing Time: 76:39 Jascha Heifetz (1899-1987) stands out as one of the greatest performers in history. His near perfect technique and brilliant artistry were evident from a very young age in this violinist who began taking lessons from his father at age three and started performing at age five. It was Heifetz’s Carnegie Hall debut in 1917 that thrust the then 18 year old into a spotlight that would not dim for the remainder of his performing career in 1974. Heifetz performed virtually everything in the violin repertoire of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods and held the music in highest regard, as is evident here in these powerful performances of the Brahms and Beethoven Concertos recorded from 1927-1936 and restored by Engineer David Lennick.