NEW ON The World’s Leading ClassicalNAXOS Music Label NOVEMBER 2014 A MONTH OF RICHES This Month's Highlights © 2014 Naxos Rights US, Inc. • Contact Us: [email protected] www.naxos.com • www.classicsonline.com • www.naxosmusiclibrary.com • blog.naxos.com NEW ON NAXOS | NOVEMBER 2014 2.110353 Playing Time 1:41:00 7 47313 53535 4 Fritz KREISLER (1875–1962) © Robert Romik Kraggerud Plays Kreisler Henning Kraggerud Henning Kraggerud plays works by Fritz Kreisler Works arr. by Nils Thore Røsth Henning Kraggerud, Violin Oslo Camerata Playing on Fritz Kreisler’s own ‘Bergonzi’ violin (from c. 1740), the Norwegian Henning Kraggerud, who began playing the violin at the brilliant young violinist Henning Kraggerud presents a programme age of seven, later studied with Camilla Wicks and Emanuel Hurwitz, of Kreisler’s compositions for violin. Filmed in the intimate thus tapping into American and mid-European traditions of playing. surroundings of Oslo’s historic ‘Old Lodge’, this is a world premiere He has, however, always maintained strong connections with his recording of many of these arrangements for violin and orchestra. native land. A recipient of the prestigious Grieg Prize, he appears Kraggerud introduces the works himself, and leads the Oslo frequently at Norway’s major festivals playing both violin and viola. Camerata in a sparkling, thrilling concert. Kraggerud, who is greatly inspired by Ysaÿe’s compositions, hailing him as possibly the greatest violinist-composer, is also active as a composer himself (producing several cadenzas as well as original Supplementary Promotional Materials works) and is a keen exponent of new music. Directing and conducting • Video trailer activities have seen him work with the Zürich Chamber Orchestra and • Key release kit at the City of London Festival with the Britten Sinfonia. He is currently • Artist profile professor at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo. Companion Titles © Valenciana-kirken, Guanajuato, Mexico © Valenciana-kirken, 2.110283 2.110284 8.573137 8.572827 Oslo Camerata 2 NEW ON NAXOS | NOVEMBER 2014 8.573243 Playing Time 60:47 7 47313 32437 8 Heitor VILLA-LOBOS (1887–1959) Symphony No. 10 ‘Ameríndia’ Leonardo Neiva, Baritone • Saulo Javan, Bass São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Choir Naomi Munakata, Chorus-master Isaac Karabtchevsky Heitor Villa-Lobos was instrumental in developing a national Brazilian musical culture, writing in a wide variety of forms. Composed in 1954 for the 400th anniversary of the founding of São Paulo, Ameríndia is the composer’s largest symphony. Effectively a hybrid symphony and oratorio for soloists, chorus and orchestra, it is memorable for its stylistic variety and breadth, drawing on many different sources of Brazilian music. This recording is based on a newly revised edition © Bruno Veiga made by Editora Criadores do Brasil (the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra’s publishing house) in collaboration with the Academia Isaac Karabtchevsky Brasileira de Música. Born in Brazil in 1934, Isaac Karabtchevsky studied conducting Sales Points • Villa-Lobos’ symphonies are not his best known and composition in Germany under Wolfgang Fortner, Pierre Boulez, orchestral music - Bachainas brasileiras is far better known for and Carl Ueter. Between 1969 and 1994 he directed the Brazilian instance. And yet the cycle contains some of his most arresting Symphony Orchestra (OSB). In 2011 he became director of the and individual writing. This massive Tenth Symphony has a vast Heliopolis Symphony, an orchestra composed of young musicians, percussion section and is sculpted on a grand scale – it’s a hybrid most of them from disadvantaged communities in São Paulo, with symphony-oratorio. There is a competing cycle from CPO featuring whom he has developed educational and social projects. Between the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra but it the Naxos cycle 1995 and 2001 he was music director of La Fenice in Venice, where has won all the critical plaudits; ‘‘Terrific 10/10’ – Fanfare and he directed major opera productions, including Bartók’s Bluebeard’s ‘Karabtchevsky leads the way’ - Gramophone on Symphonies 3 and Castle, The Flying Dutchman, and Don Giovanni. From 1988 to 1994 4 [8.573151] he was artistic director for the Tonkünstler in Vienna, from 2003 to 2010 of the Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra, and from 2004 to 2009 of the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, in France. Since Supplementary Promotional Materials 2004 he has been artistic director of the Petrobras Symphony of Rio • Video trailer de Janeiro. • Key release kit Companion Titles © Alessandra Fratus 8.573151 8.573043 8.555241 8.557460-62 Säo Paolo Symphony Orchestra 3 NEW ON NAXOS | NOVEMBER 2014 8.572874-75 Playing Time 2 CDs 1:37:56 7 47313 28747 5 Companion Titles ski ñ 8.572031 8.573061 8.572694 8.572639 © Juliusz Multarzy Antoni Wit Supplementary Promotional Materials Antonín DVOŘÁK (1841–1904) • Key release kit Requiem • Artist profile Christiane Libor, Soprano • Ewa Wolak, Alto Daniel Kirch, Tenor • Janusz Monarcha, Bass Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir Antoni Wit, one of the most highly regarded Polish conductors, Antoni Wit studied conducting with Henryk Czyz at the Academy of Music in Kraków. He then continued his musical studies with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. After winning second prize in the International Herbert von Antonín Dvořák’s huge popularity in England was built largely on the Karajan Conducting Competition in Berlin (1971), he became an success of his Stabat Mater, which he had conducted there in 1884 assistant conductor to the patron of that competition. From 2002 and 1885. It was well suited to the country’s choral traditions and led to 2013 Antoni Wit was the managing and artistic director of the eventually to a commission for a Requiem, which was premièred in Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir. He has made over Birmingham in 1891. Written in ten months during tours to Russia, 200 records, including an acclaimed release for Naxos of the piano England and Germany, its success was immediate. Sitting closer to concertos of Prokofiev, awarded the Diapason d’Or and Grand Prix the tradition of Cherubini than Verdi, its tone is compassionate and du Disque de la Nouvelle Académie du Disque. In 2012 he received a reflective, devoid of unnecessary drama, and movingly crafted with GRAMMY® Award for Penderecki’s Fonogrammi, Horn Concerto and great sophistication. Partita (8.572482). Antoni Wit is professor at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Sales Points • Dvořák's Requiem is a work of humanity and compassion and has attracted a large number of recordings. There is the classic Ančerl-directed one, and others conducted by Neumann, Sawallich and Kertesz have long dominated the catalog since the 1960s and 70s onwards. Conductor Antoni Wit is a Naxos regular and a renowned interpreter of Slavic music - in the past he has also recorded Dvořák - the Piano Concerto on 8.550896 and the Czech Suite coupled with Hero's Song on 8.553005 © Dominik Skurzak Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra 4 NEW ON NAXOS | NOVEMBER 2014 8.573230 Playing Time 66:42 7 47313 32307 4 François DEVIENNE (1759–1803) Flute Concertos, Vol. 1 Flute Concertos Nos. 1-4 © Tina Osara Tina © Patrick Gallois, Flute Swedish Chamber Orchestra Patrick Gallois François Devienne was among the most important composers of The Swedish Chamber Orchestra made its United States and wind music in the second half of the 18th century and one of the United Kingdom débuts with Thomas Dausgaard in 2004, performing founding teachers at the newly established Paris Conservatoire in at the London Proms and Lincoln Center, Mostly Mozart Festival. 1795. Devienne’s First Flute Concerto was a great success at the The New York Times wrote of that performance: “It has been a 1782 Concert Spirituel and helped his reputation abroad. The Fourth longstanding complaint in the classical music world that as recordings is one of the best of his entire concerto output. All of these works and jet travel have shrunk the globe, an international sound has combine sublime melodic elegance and graceful virtuosity, making been fostered that has filtered out regional differences in timbre and them among the most attractive concertos of their time. interpretation... And every now and then an orchestra comes along with a sound that is surprising and fresh. The Swedish Chamber Orchestra, led by its music director, Thomas Dausgaard, produced a Sales Points • Patrick Gallois has been hugely successful as distinctive and consistently vibrant sound.” both performer and conductor with numerous acclaimed Naxos recordings to his name. He has already combined both talents in flute concertos by Mercadante (8.572731), “conducting the orchestra while simultaneously negotiating hair-raising difficulties with seemingly nonchalant ease” (Gramophone). Devienne’s flute concertos have rarely been recorded in their entirety, and with only one hard-to-acquire East European set with soloist Claudi Arimany from the 1990s as competition, this new edition will provide a major boost to some core Classical repertoire and become an automatic first choice both for collectors and Patrick Gallois’s many fans. Supplementary Promotional Materials • Key release kit • Artist profile © Ulla-Carin Ekblom Patrick Gallois belongs to the generation of French musicians Swedish Chamber Orchestra leading highly successful international careers as both soloist and conductor. Both as a conductor and as a flautist he has a wide repertoire, with a strong taste for contemporary music,