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NEW ON The World’s Leading ClassicalNAXOS Music Label APRIL 2018 © Jean-Baptiste Millot Romain Descharmes This Month’s Other Highlights © 2018 Naxos Rights US, Inc. • Contact Us: [email protected] www.naxos.com • www.NaxosMusicGroup.com • www.naxosmusiclibrary.com • blog.naxos.com NEW ON NAXOS | APRIL 2018 NEW ON NAXOS | APRIL 2018 FINAL VOLUME © HNH International Ltd. 8.573478 Playing Time: Camille Saint-Saëns Price Code: NXP 55:21 7 47313 34787 2 Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835–1921) Supplementary Marketing Materials: ● Key Release Kit Piano Concerto No. 4 ● Video Trailer Piano Concerto No. 5, ‘Egyptian’ ● Facebook cover and post Romain Descharmes, Piano Malmö Symphony Orchestra • Marc Soustrot Key Features: Saint-Saëns’s mature creative genius shines throughout these last ● This is the last of a three-volume edition of Saint-Saëns’ complete two piano concertos, looking back over a glorious musical ancestry Piano Concertos and other works for piano and orchestra. The while at the same time opening the door to new worlds. The Fourth first of these was released in March 2017 (Naxos 8.573476), and Piano Concerto is prescient of both his great Organ Symphony and acclaimed by ClassicsToday.com as “A disc to savor”; “The First the concertos of Rachmaninov, revealing Saint-Saëns at his most Concerto… played with joyful directness and a complete lack inspired and innovative. The Fifth was composed in the Egyptian of affectation. …Descharmes treats the [Second Concerto] with temple town of Luxor, and displays a rich tapestry of exotic cultural almost epicurean relish, nowhere more so than in this sassy, witty influences from Javanese, Spanish and Middle Eastern music, as account of the central scherzo. There’s no lack of virtuosity, but well as portrayals of chirping Nile crickets and croaking frogs, and the also time to savor the music’s many harmonic delights. Through composer’s representation of ‘the joy of a sea crossing’. Volumes 1 it all, Soustrot accompanies with total confidence, and the sonics and 2 can be heard on 8.573476 and 77. are terrific.” Volume 2 (8.573477) was a MusicWeb International ‘Recording of the Month’, and plaudits from Gramophone About Romain Descharmes included “What is there not to like? The warmth and depth of Since his noteworthy debut with the Orchestre de Paris in May 2012 the orchestral contribution and Marc Soustrot’s eye for detail are and as winner of the Dublin Competition, Romain Descharmes has significant bonuses.” established himself as one of the foremost French pianists of his ● Interest in Saint-Saëns from Malmö has been boosted further generation. Highly regarded by fellow musicians and in constant with the recent release of the complete music for cello and demand for concerts with orchestras and also for recitals and orchestra with cellist Gabriel Schwabe (8.573737) which earned a chamber music, he has also “sensitively accompanied” (The Strad) Gramophone Choice award. Soustrot and the Malmö Symphony violinist Tianwa Yang for Naxos in Mendelssohn’s Sonata in F minor have also recorded works for violin and orchestra with soloist (8.572662). Tianwa Yang (8.573411), described as “totally spellbinding” by Pizzicato. ● Conductor Marc Soustrot is considered a specialist in French orchestral music, and his recordings of Saint-Saëns for Naxos with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, including the complete Symphonies, have been received © Christiaan Dirksen with wide critical acclaim. Of volume 2 of the complete symphonies (8.573139), Pizzicato wrote “With his conducting, Marc Soustrot creates a lot of electrifying energy, the excellent sound of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra having been perfectly captured by the sound crew. The second volume of the Saint-Saëns Edition from Malmö maintains what the first promised,” while ClassicsToday.com said that “This second © Christiaan Dirksen volume in Naxos’ ongoing Saint-Saëns symphony cycle is as good as the first.” Malmö Symphony Orchestra 2 NEW ON NAXOS | APRIL 2018 PREVIOUS RELEASES IN THE SAINT-SAËNS CONCERTOS SERIES © Jean-Baptiste Millot Romain Descharmes 8.573476 8.573477 “A thoroughly ‘French’ sensibility. Romain Descharmes “Romain Descharmes’s playing has a lot of clarity, savors the music’s charm and brilliance without indulging it is richly detailed and vivid. He can count on in excessive sentimentality.” – ClassicsToday.com Marc Soustrot’s competent conducting at the helm of the excellent Malmö Symphony.” RECORDING OF – Pizzicato THE MONTH RECORDING OF THE MONTH Also available with Also available with slipcase (8.551385) slipcase (8.551392) Slipcase cover Slipcase cover 8.573737 8.573411 “I was very taken by Gabriel Schwabe. [He] plays with a light “Stylish pacing and playing of Soustrot and his orchestra … heart and produces a light, airy tone to match, combined with a intelligent and sweet-toned performances of violinist Tianwa Yang.” nonchalance and poise that I found most attractive.” – Gramophone – The Guardian GRAMOPHONE RECORDINGGramophone OF THE MONTH Choice ALSO AVAILABLE SAINT-SAËNS SYMPHONIES cycle with the Malmö Symphony and Marc Soustrot 8.573138 8.573139 8.573140 “Marc Soustrot’s Saint-Saëns performances “Soustrot draws a splendid performance “Honest performances that show off are perfectly shaped” – Pizzicato from the orchestra” – Classical Net Saint-Saens’s mastery of the orchestra” – BBC Music Magazine 2 3 NEW ON NAXOS | APRIL 2018 WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING © Ondřej Klíma 8.573787 Playing Time: Marek Štilec Price Code: NXP 70:45 7 47313 37877 7 (1747–1818) Marek Štilec began his musical studies on the violin at the Prague Leopold KOŽELUCH Conservatory and studied conducting with Leoš Svárovský at the Cantata for the Coronation of Leopold II, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Štilec is an alumnus of the International Järvi Academy, Jac van Steen’s Emerging Conductors ‘Hail to the Monarch’ Series, and has participated in the masterclasses of Michael Kristýna Vylíčilová, Soprano Tilson Thomas and Jorma Panula, among others. He conducts Tomáš Kořínek • Josef Moravec, Tenors a wide range of leading orchestras, including the New World Filip Dvořák, Harpsichord • Martinů Voices Symphony, the Ulster Orchestra, the London Classical Soloists, Prague Symphony Orchestra • Marek Štilec Das Kurpfalzische Kammerorchester Mannheim, the Orchestra of the Swan, the Berlin Camerata and the Kammerphilharmonie The coronation of Leopold II in Prague in 1791 came at a difficult Graz, as well as the top orchestras in the Czech Republic including time for European monarchs, although Leopold himself enjoyed the Prague Symphony Orchestra. a reputation as an enlightened ruler. Two musical works were commissioned for the occasion: Mozart’s opera La clemenza di Supplementary Marketing Materials: Tito and Koželuch’s cantata Heil dem Monarchen. The cantata, by turns celebratory, serene and darkly dramatic, was well received and ● Key Release Kit enhanced Koželuch’s reputation in royal circles. It almost certainly ● Video Trailer played a part in his appointment in 1792 to the court of Leopold’s son ● Facebook cover and post and successor, the last Holy Roman Emperor Franz II. Key Features: ● 1791 was a time of revolutionary turmoil in Europe, but Leopold Koželuch’s Coronation Cantata stands out as a beacon of optimism for the accession of the new Habsburg monarch, the enlightened and progressive Leopold II. Performed for the coronation on 6th September 1791, the work has lain archived and unheard until the concert on 31st January 2017, the very special live atmosphere of which is captured in this world premiere recording. ● Long overshadowed by his contemporary Mozart, Leopold Koželuch’s profile has been heightened in recent years through a complete edition of his keyboard sonatas on the Grand Piano label played by Kemp English. ● Soloists at this performance include the soprano Kristýna Vylíčilová, laureate of Martinů Voices numerous competitions and regular performer on Czech and Slovak opera stages, and star opera tenors Tomáš Kořínek and Josef Companion Titles – Marek Štilec, Conductor Moravec. ● Conductor Marek Štilec is one of the most notable members of the young generation of Czech conductors. His acclaimed performances and recordings of his national repertoire include the Naxos release of Zdenĕk Fibich’s First Symphony (8.572985), made a MusicWeb International ‘Recording of the Year’ in 2013, and summed up as “definitely worth following” 8.573627 8.572985 8.573157 8.573248 by ClassicsToday.com. 4 NEW ON NAXOS | APRIL 2018 WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS 8.573603 Playing Time: Price Code: NXP 64:25 7 47313 36037 6 Leo BROUWER (b. 1939) The Book of Signs (b. 1950) Paulo BELLINATI © Gal Oppido Concerto Caboclo Brasil Guitar Duo Brasil Guitar Duo Delaware Symphony Orchestra • David Amado These two concertos show the increasing importance of the guitar The Brasil Guitar Duo is equally at home in classical and world duo on the world’s concert stages. Leo Brouwer, one of the foremost music. In October 2014 they joined cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Carlos Latin American composers, has written many admired guitar Prieto for the world premiere of El arco y la lira, a work for two cellos concertos but The Book of Signs is his first for two guitars, a double and two guitars by Leo Brouwer. On the same programme, the Duo concerto of great virtuosity, with a majestic, songful theme in its gave the Cuban premiere of Brouwer’s Sonata de Los Viajeros, central movement. A crucial figure in the global promotion of Brazilian which they had presented in its US premiere the previous month and rhythms for the guitar, Paulo Bellinati deploys luxurious harmonies recorded for Naxos which was nominated for a Latin GRAMMY® and brilliantly effective techniques to pay tribute to the country music Award for Best New Composition. The Duo premiered the Concerto of São Paulo State in Concerto Caboclo. for Two Guitars and Orchestra by Brazilian composer Paulo Bellinati with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in June 2012, under the Key Features: direction of Giancarlo Guerrero, and gave the work its US premiere ● Naxos has a bounty of discs dedicated to Leo Brouwer’s guitar in April 2013.