New on Naxos | June 2015

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At least 9 titles include World Première Recordings!

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Leif Segerstam

Jean SIBELIUS (1865–1957) Supplementary Promotional Materials Kuolema • King Christian II • Key release kit Overture in A minor is a conductor, composer, violinist and pianist with Two Songs from Twelfth Night Leif Segerstam Pia Pajala, Soprano • Waltteri Torikka, Baritone a prominent international career. Since 2012 he has been Chief Turku Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor of Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. From autumn 1997 to Leif Segerstam spring 2013 Leif Segerstam was Professor of Orchestra Conducting at the Sibelius Academy. He was awarded the 1999 Nordic Council Music Prize for his work “as a tireless champion of Scandinavian Jean Sibelius was the most significant figure in the formation of music” and the Swedish Cultural Foundation’s Prize for Music in 2003. Finland’s musical identity. Beyond the famous symphonies and tone In 2004 Leif Segerstam was awarded the annual Finnish State Prize poems he was prolific in other genres, including music for the theatre. for Music and in 2005 the highly esteemed Sibelius Medal. He has King Christian II and Kuolema ensured Sibelius’s fame throughout gained wide acclaim for his many recordings with different orchestras. Europe, the latter including the haunting melody (track 2) which While pursuing his conducting career, Segerstam has also produced would later become the Valse triste. The Two Songs from Twelfth an extensive oeuvre as a composer. Night contrast the spectre of death with more comical moods, an effect also to be heard in one of Sibelius’s least performed orchestral Companion Titles works, the Overture in A minor.

Key Features • This is the first of a six volume set of orchestral works by Jean Sibelius which sets out to explore his prolific output beyond the core oeuvre of the symphonies and violin concerto. We are delighted to have conductor Leif Segerstam at the helm of this project. Acclaimed for his many recordings with numerous orchestras, Segerstam was awarded the annual Finnish State Prize for Music 8.552135-36 8.555773 8.553747 8.570069 in 2004, and in 2005 the highly esteemed Sibelius Medal. With the platinum record-making and award winning Turku Philharmonic as its superbly firm bedrock, this new recording of Sibelius also presents baritone Waltteri Torikka, one of the most promising new talents in the next generation of opera singers from Finland and named Young Musician of the Year 2014 by the Finnish Pro Musica Foundation. Soprano Pia Pajala is a versatile performer known for her wide vocal range, powerful expression and strong interpretations of Sibelius and Finnish classical music. © Seilo Ristimäki Turku Philharmonic Orchestra

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Sofia Gubaidulina

Sofia GUBAIDULINA (b. 1931)

Complete Guitar Works 8.572772 8.553557 Repentance1 • Serenade2 Toccata†3 • Sotto Voce4 David Tanenbaum, Guitar1-4 • Thomas Viloteau, Guitar II1 Paul Psarras, Guitar III1 • Peter Wyrick, Cello1 • Mark Wright, Bass1 Marc Teicholz, Guitar II4 • Jodi Levitz, Viola4 Scott Pingel, Bass4

†WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING 8.573439 8.573308 David Tanenbaum

Sofia Gubaidulina has found a soulfulness and freedom in the guitar Supplementary Promotional Material which speaks to her musical language of expressive mood and often • Key release kit mysterious but precise sonorities. In both Repentance and Sotto Voce she combines guitars with lower stringed instruments, creating a virtuosic, multi-dimensional and deeply poetic role for each voice. Although Sofia Gubaidulina’s education and background are Fascinating new sounds from the guitar are produced, from the most Russian, it is important to bear in mind the significance of her Tatar eloquent chorales to remarkable effects using a drinking glass. The origins. She is not, however, a Romantic nationalist. Her compositional earlier Serenade is ‘music for pleasure’, while this première recording mastery enables her to make use of contemporary techniques evolved by the European and American avant-garde, though in a of the Toccata reveals a work with a driving momentum that hardly stops. wholly individual manner. Furthermore, oriental philosophies have had an influence on certain aspects of her music.

Key Features • This release represents the first time that the complete guitar works of Sofia Gubaidulina have been available on a single David Tanenbaum has performed in over forty countries, and has CD, including a world première recording of her Toccata. Guitarist been soloist with prominent orchestras around the world, including David Tanenbaum has appeared on the ‘superb’ (Sarasota Herald the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Tribune) American Classics collection of contemporary guitar music Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta, with such eminent conductors Awakenings (8.559650), and having worked closely with Gubaidulina as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Kent Nagano and John Adams. Among the his performances are authoritative. Our previous releases of the music many works composed for him are Hans Werner Henzeʼs guitar of Sofia Gubaidulina have includedFachwerk (8.572772), considered concerto: An Eine Äolsharfe, which he performed throughout Europe by BBC Music Magazine to be “mesmerising… a marvellous disc”, and recorded with the composer conducting; four works by Pulitzer and Seven Words (8.553557), in which “The combined effect of Prize winner Aaron Jay Kernis as well as works by Terry Riley, Lou solo cello and bayan (the Russian push-button accordion) is utterly Harrison and Roberto Sierra. mesmeric” (Classic CD).

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Amar Quartet

Paul HINDEMITH (1895–1963) String Quartets, Vol. 3 String Quartets Nos. 1 & 4 Amar Quartet

Hindemith’s seven string quartets were produced in different phases of his compositional development, all reflecting the experience of being a distinguished and experienced string player. Influenced both by Brahmsian late-Romanticism and by the catastrophic events of the First World War, the imaginative String Quartet No. 1 reflects his concern to extend but honour traditional forms. Cast in the form of a suite, the by turns tempestuous and beautiful String Quartet No. 4 remains Hindemith’s most popular and performed quartet. This is the third and final volume of a highly acclaimed cycle. ‘As with the previous release in this series, the performances are all outstanding.’ (ClassicsToday.com / 8.572164, Volume 2)

Key Features • The Danish Quartet has recorded all the quartets on CPO 999287, a 3-CD set released in 1997. The Sonare Quartet Frankfurt [CPO 999001] coupled the first Quartet – performed on this Naxos disc – with the Fifth, which is on an earlier Naxos volume. If they keep up this standard, there is little doubt that this will become the reference edition in this music ClassicsToday of volume 1 [8572163]. No 4 is the best known of the cycle and has received a 8.572165 Playing Time number of important recordings from historically important ones by 67:23 the Hollywood Quartet to those by the Kocian (2CD, all-Hindemith on Praga) and Zehetmair (but coupled with Bartok not all-Hindemith on 7 47313 21657 4 ECM), Pacifica (on Cedille but coupled less attractively with Janacek and Crawford Seeger), Brandis (plus Weill and Schulhoff on Nimbus) and others. Companion Titles Named after its principal violinist Licco Amar, Paul Hindemith founded a quartet in 1922. On the occasion of his 100th birthday in 1995, the Hindemith Institute awarded the Zürich-based ensemble the historic name of the Amar Quartet, the members of which are Anna Brunner and Igor Keller (violins), Hannes Bärtschi (viola), and Péter Somodari (cello). During its studies with the Alban Berg Quartet, the Amar 8.572163 8.572164 8.573172 8.553851 Quartett won numerous international awards, followed by successful débuts at famous concert-halls, as well as invitations to teach in master-classes. The ensemble has shown passionate engagement with the work of Paul Hindemith, and is increasingly making a name for itself in Switzerland, with events such as Homage to Hindemith and Tonwort, combining music and literature, with readings by poets and other writers.

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(b. 1953) Nicola Guerini studied piano, organ and organ composition, Boris PIGOVAT conducting and composition at the Cesare Pollini Conservatory Holocaust Requiem in Padua and at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan. In 2010 he was awarded a Master of Arts in Music Conducting at the Poem of Dawn† Musikhochschule in Lugano (Switzerland) with Giorgio Bernasconi Anna Serova, Viola and Arturo Tamayo. At the age of 24 he made his début as both Croatian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra composer and conductor with the opera Zàabok, commissioned by Nicola Guerini the Fondazione Arena di Verona. He has been an assistant to Ralf Weikart, Giorgio Bernasconi and Donato Renzetti in Italy and for †WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING international productions at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, the Teatro dell’Opera, Rome and the Lyric Opera, Chicago. Of Ukrainian origin, Boris Pigovat is now based in Israel where he has won several distinguished national awards. His Holocaust Requiem received the ACUM prize in 1995, and was premièred at a concert Companion Titles dedicated to the massacre of Jews at Babi Yar. Each movement is named after the Latin Mass text, the emotional symbols of sorrow, suffering and hope expressed purely instrumentally but led by the ‘human’ voice of the viola. The deliberately Russian Romantic style of Poem of Dawn was especially chosen by the composer for the work’s dedicatee, acclaimed violist Anna Serova.

8.559219 8.559641 8.559685 8.572256 Key Features • These two significant works for viola and orchestra contrast between a dramatic and eloquently expressive monument marking the holocaust, and a romantic reflection on the myths and legends of Greece. The Holocaust Requiem was aptly described in Ukrainian newspaper The Day as “very sophisticated, but it isn’t flowery or pretentious. It is simple but not primitive, it is frank and heartfelt, an outstanding work.” The Holocaust Requiem has appeared before on CD but this release appears in time to mark the 70th anniversary of International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2015. Acclaimed violist Anna Serova has several works dedicated to her, and this is her world première recording of Pigovat’s Poem of Dawn. © Dinko Bazulic Croatian Radio & Television Symphony Orchestra

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World Première Recordings

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Gottfried Rabl

(b. 1961) Born in Vienna, Gottfried Rabl studied piano and holds degrees XU Shuya in French horn, conducting and vocal coaching from the Vienna Nirvana University of Music. He was awarded a conducting fellowship in Insolation • Cristal au Soleil Couchant Helsinki and led his own highly successful ensemble for avant-garde Echos du Vieux Champ • Yun* music, Theatre of Silence, for several years, appearing as conductor, Shu-ying Li, Soprano* • Qilian Chen, Soprano* pianist and composer. He later started a close collaboration with ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Leonard Bernstein in Vienna, Milan and the United States, serving Gottfried Rabl as musical assistant and editor of Bernstein’s last opera A Quiet Place. In Vienna Gottfried Rabl is a frequent conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and works regularly with the renowned With worldwide acclaim and numerous awards, Xu Shuya is one of contemporary music ensemble die reihe. the leading composers to emerge from the Chinese ‘New Wave’. His fascination with his Chinese heritage is eloquently expressed in pieces such as Insolation, inspired by the heroic myth of Kaufu Chasing the Sun, and Yun, which unites the famous ‘Purple Bamboo Companion Titles Melody’ with symphonic textures and gestures. Cristal au Soleil Couchant expresses the intensity of light and colours at sundown, while Echos du Vieux Champ conjures nostalgic memories of the composer’s homeland. Shaped by spiritual concepts and the Tibetan landscape, Nirvana evokes the ‘bittersweet pleasure’ of ‘faint distant melodies, like tunes from heaven’.

8.570611 8.570608 8.570610 8.573131 Key Features • Shuya Xu is a leading member of that notable ‘third generation’ of Chinese composers which includes names such as Tan Dun, Bright Sheng and Chen Yi. Xu’s work has brought him wide recognition and numerous awards, including first prize at the 5th Besançon International Orchestra Competition for Cristal au Soleil, which is included on this album. All of the works here represent distinguished commissions, and with its seamless unifying of Western and Eastern sonorities and aesthetics, Xu’s music is both profound in concept and wide in its appeal to audiences from all corners of the globe. Performed by the renowned ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and soloists such as the Emmy award-winning soprano Shu-ying Li, this is a release which can hold its own against any competitor. © Thomas Ramstorfer © ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

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8.559781 Playing Time 66:00 6 36943 97812 2 © Steve Blumenthal Quincy PORTER (1897–1966) Ives Quartet String Quartets Nos. 5-8 Ives Quartet

The generation of composers which proved so influential in mid- Companion Titles twentieth century America included Roger Sessions, Howard Hanson, Roy Harris and Quincy Porter. Porter’s much-admired orchestral music is marked by originality in its absorption of neo-classicism, but his series of nine string quartets also represents an important contribution to the genre. Quartets Nos. 5 to 8 are the works of a composer who had been a professional string player in the 1920s and are marked by rhythmic sophistication and melodic tension. ‘A very enjoyable disc which whets one’s appetite for the remaining five quartets.’ – Penguin Guide on Volume 1 (8.559305).

Key Features • This is the second volume in the cycle of string 8.559305 8.559630 quartets by leading American composer Quincy Porter, who enjoyed “A very enjoyable “…beautifully played some well-received acclaim in the mid twentieth-century. The earlier disc which whets and engineered volume, which was on 8.559305, was critically welcomed by the 2009 one’s appetite for performances…” Penguin Guide which called it ‘A very enjoyable disc which whets the remaining five – ClassicsToday one’s appetite for the remaining five quartets’. quartets.” – Penguin Guide Inspired by the unique temperament of the composer Charles Ives, the Ives Quartet is acclaimed for revelling in the unfamiliar and championing an eclectic repertoire, mixing established masterworks with neglected compositions of early-twentieth-century America, and commissioned new pieces. Each of its members – Bettina Mussumeli, violin; Susan Freier, violin; Jodi Levitz, viola; and Stephen Harrison, cello – is an acclaimed performer, earning distinction with renowned ensembles, including the Chester and Stanford Quartets, I Solisti Veneti, the Chicago String Trio, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. They have commissioned works from distinguished composers including William Bolcom and received grants to support recordings of American string quartets. 8.559178 8.559014

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Raphael Wallfisch

Raphael Terroni was Head of Piano at the (1928–1988) Kenneth LEIGHTON London College of Music and Media for Complete Chamber Works for Cello 15 years, and examined and adjudicated Elegy* • Partita* • Sonata at music festivals in Britain and abroad. Alleluia Pascha Nostrum* A founder member of the British Music Raphael Wallfisch, Cello • Raphael Terroni, Piano* Society, he served two terms as the Society’s Chairman, and made several critically acclaimed recordings of music Kenneth Leighton’s distinctive gifts as a composer were apparent as by British composers, Lennox Berkeley, early as the première of his Cello Concerto, when he was barely 26. Robin Milford, Howard Ferguson, Josef It was an instrument for which he wrote with particular subtlety and Holbrooke, Eric Coates and Arthur often from an inner compulsion. The Elegy, Op. 5 is full of brilliance, Butterworth among them. lyricism and mystery whilst by the time he wrote the rhapsodic and © John Terroni expressive Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 52, his position as one of Britain’s leading composers had long been cemented. The beautiful Companion Titles Alleluia Pascha Nostrum, Op. 85 was first performed by the soloist on this disc, Raphael Wallfisch. “excellent performances Key Features • This is an ex-BMS439 (2011) disc, issued by the and very good British Music Society. The Partita Op.35 has already been reissued sound…” in a Naxos disc 571352 released in 2014 with works by Wordsworth, – American Record Busch and Cooke devoted to twentieth-century British cello music all Guide played by the two musicians here, Raphael Wallfisch and Raphael Terroni, two great specialists in British music. Leighton was a much admired composer and teacher who had a particular affiliation for 8.571351 8.571352 cello writing.

“Another Raphael Wallfisch won the Gaspar Cassadó International Cello invaluable Naxos Competition in Florence at the age of 24. Since then he has enjoyed a world-wide career and has recorded a wide range of British cello release…” music, including works by MacMillan, Finzi, Delius, Bax, Bliss, Britten, – BBC Music Moeran and Kenneth Leighton. In 2014, he succeeded John McCabe Magazine as President of the British Music Society. 8.571361 8.571362

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Includes World Première Recordings The Song of the Stars British Music for Upper Voice Choir Eleanor Turner, Harp • Elliot Launn, Piano Wells Cathedral School Choralia Christopher Finch CHILCOTT • MEALOR • HOLST • MACMILLAN • O’REGAN • MCDOWALL • TAVENER • WHITBOURN

Beauty, purity, and expressivity mark out music for upper voice choirs. On this recording, performed by one of the UK’s leading vocal ensembles, the repertoire embraces classics of the genre such as Gustav Holst’s sublime Ave Maria and his third group of Hymns from the Rig Veda, as well as contemporary music. James MacMillan and Sir John Tavener are represented by works that explore their unique musical language, whilst Bob Chilcott’s technically demanding The Song of the Stars offers richly approachable pleasures.

Key Features • Wells Cathedral Choralia has recently given a critically acclaimed series of major venue concerts. It’s acknowledged as one of the best upper-voice ensembles in the UK. The program takes in classic early twentieth-century pieces such as Holst’s Ave Maria, a beautiful setting, which is available currently in about 10 different performances, as well as the same composer’s third group of Hymns from the Rig Veda. Some very popular composers are also represented, James MacMillan 8.573427 Playing Time: and Bob Chilcott are internationally admired and the late John 75:46 Tavener is represented by his beautiful Ikon of Saint Hilda.

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Includes World Première (1890-1959) Recordings Bohuslav MARTINŮ Songs, Vol. 3 Jana Hrochová Wallingerová, Mezzo-soprano Giorgio Koukl, Piano

This recording focuses on three of Martinů’s song-cycles, and a selection of individual songs from an early period in his life that sheds fascinating light on his enthusiasm for song composition. Songs On One Page and Songs On Two Pages were written during his American exile, both utilising traditional and folk texts in compact but expressive ways. Set to Japanese lyric poetry, Niponari is one of his most important early compositions, revealing a transition from late- Romanticism to impressionism. Of Volume 2 in this series (8.572310) BBC Music Magazine wrote: ‘Some excellent songs here, in radiant performances’.

Key Features • This is the third volume in the series. Volume 1 was on 8.572588 admired as ‘beautifully and often © Chiara Solari movingly sung…a most rewarding disc’. (Gramophone) © Marek Olbrzymek and volume 2 on 8.572310. Of the second volume BBC Music Magazine wrote; ‘Some excellent songs here, in

Jana Hrochová Giorgio Koukl radiant performances.’ Works on One Page has recorded Wallingerová by Magdalena Kozena on DG in 2000 on an all-Czech song recital including songs by Dvořák and Janáček, so our focus on all-Martinů is more of an inducement to collectors of the composer’s music.Young Czech mezzo- soprano Jana Wallingerová has been widely praised in this series and Giorgio Koukl’s pioneering and critically-lauded complete Martinů piano music series for 8.573387 Playing Time: Naxos has won numerous plaudits. 65:14 Companion Titles 7 47313 33877 1

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World Première Recordings Robert SCHUMANN (1810-1856) Arrangements for Piano Duet, Vol. 3 Manfred • Symphony No. 3 ‘Rhenish’ Hermann und Dorothea – Overture • Scenes from Goethe’s Faust Eckerle Piano Duo

As keyboards became more powerful during the nineteenth century, so demand for piano duet arrangements increased dramatically. Robert Schumann, already a keen duet player, wrote for the burgeoning market, though largely for the salon and not the concert stage. He almost always supervised the arrangements of his music but the Overture to Hermann and Dorothea is rare in that he arranged it himself. Symphony No. 3 ‘Rhenish’ was arranged by his esteemed colleague and disciple Carl Reinecke, while the Overture to Scenes from Goethe’s Faust was the work of his brother-in-law Woldemar Bargiel.

Key Features • This is the third volume in a 7-CD series devoted © Cai to all the orchestral works which were arranged for piano duet by Schumann himself or made under his supervision, as well as a representative choice of other orchestral works and important chamber music pieces. They were written to satisfy the enormous demand for piano duets in the nineteenth century. There is a major Eckerle Piano Duo symphony here, No.3, which will be of interest to collectors. So too will the overture to Hermann and Dorothea, op. 136 because it is a very rare example of Schumann arranging a piece himself. Normally he left the job to trusted colleagues or to his brother-in-law.

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Includes World Première Recordings Armenian Piano Music Mikael Ayrapetyan, Piano

KOMITAS • SPENDIARIAN • BABADJANIAN • ABRAMIAN AMIRKHANIAN

Music in Armenia has a long and rich history, stretching back to the Middle Ages and beyond, with its origins in popular folk-songs. Towards the end of the nineteenth century these played a major rôle in the development of a national music identity and in the twentieth century Armenian composers began to establish an international reputation. The hypnotic simplicity of line and texture in the Six Dances by Komitas lay the foundations of a clearly defined national sound alongside the Tatar melodies which appear in Spendiarian’s Crimean Sketches. Russian lyrical romanticism as well as Western influences colour the next generation’s music, as do elements of impressionism and soulful jazz in the recent works of Robert Amirkhanian.

Key Features • We have had considerable success with Armenian piano music in our single-composer releases on the Grand Piano label, and with this new recording from Armenian pianist Mikael Ayrapetyan we now have an opportunity to gain an overview of the evolution of this country’s rarely heard composers on a single CD. These works range from the remarkable exploratory work of Komitas, through the Rachmaninoff-influenced virtuosity of the mid- 20th century to the eclectic jazz-tinted sounds of the present day. Mikael Ayrapetyan is a star of the Moscow-based Russian piano school, and as founder and executive producer of the musical project ‘Secrets of Armenia’ is an expert in Armenian piano 8.573467 Playing Time: music and an incomparable guide in this richly varied program. 75:51 Companion Titles 7 47313 34677 6

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Kaikhosru Shapurji SORABJI (1892-1988) Piano Music Early Works • Nocturnes • Assertive Works Michael Habermann, Piano

Kaikhosro Shapurji Sorabji is known as a composer whose pursuit of extremes resulted in vast works such as his Opus Clavicembalisticum which, for many years, was acknowledged as the world’s longest non-repetitive piano work. More important is his music’s unique and satisfying beauty. From the mystical impressionism of earlier ‘nocturnal’ pieces to the awe-inspiring energy and massive climaxes of his later work, Sorabji’s legacy is one which is increasingly appreciated as a unique contribution to 20th century music. Michael Habermann’s now legendary recordings gained Sorabji’s exclusive approval, breaking through the notorious ban he had placed on performances of his own work.

Key Features • Kaikhosru Sorabji is perhaps as equally notorious for his extended ban on performances of his own work as for the obstinately extreme demands of his huge compositions, which encompass the entire arsenal of the piano and the pianist. Michael Habermann’s intense devotion to this ‘unplayable’ music extracted the exclusive approval of Michael Habermann the composer, who made him his favorite interpreter. Here re-released from an edition by the British Music Society, these legendary recordings reveal not only Habermann’s heroic rise to meet and triumph over almost unsurmountable technical challenges, but also show the surprisingly rich atmosphere and luminous radiance in Sorabji’s fascinating music, a quality 8.571363-65 Playing Time: which led a critic for The Baltimore Sun to conclude that, “in Habermann’s hands, 3 CDs 3:17:54 Sorabji sounds beautiful.” 7 47313 13637 7 Companion Titles

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Laureate Series Ekachai Jearakul Guitar Recital 2014 Winner, Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) Competition Ekachai Jearakul, Guitar

Silvius Leopold WEISS (1686-1750) Suite No. 13 in D for Lute (arr. E. Jearakul) Johann Kaspar MERTZ (1806-1856) Concertino Lennox BERKELEY (1903-1989) Sonatina, Op. 52, No. 1 Luigi LEGNANI (1790-1877) Fantasie, Op. 19 Leo BROUWER (b. 1939) Rito de los Orishas H.M. King BHUMIBOL (b. 1927) Three Selected Songs by King Bhumibol

In 2014 Ekachai Jearakul became the first Asian guitarist to win the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition (GFA). Winner of numerous awards and an international artist, he has selected a recital that takes the listener on a journey from the baroque beauties of Weiss through nineteenth-century classics by Mertz and Legnani, concluding with three modern compositions influenced by jazz.

Key Features • In 2014 Ekachai Jearakul became the first Asian guitarist to win the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition (GFA). He is the winner of numerous awards and an international artist. Lennox Berkeley’s Sonatine is one of his most famous pieces and much loved by guitarists. It was long associated with Julian Bream, and Craig Ogden now often performs it. It features on the Naxos album ‘British Guitar Music’ 8557040 and Kyuhee Park’s Guitar Laureate disc [8573225], issued in 2013. Weiss has been recorded by Naxos in a major edition. In his release Jearakul 8.573481 Playing Time: takes the listener from the baroque through the nineteenth-century (classics by 62:00 Mertz and Legnani) to twentieth-century music influenced by jazz. 7 6 47313 34817 Companion Titles

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World Première Recordings The Berlin Gamba Book Chorale Variations Dietmar Berger, Viola da Gamba

This recording presents the chorale variations for solo viola da gamba by an anonymous 17th-century master, collected in the so-called Berlin Gamba Book. Only the initials of the arranger – ‘J.R.’ – are known, but this was clearly someone of passion and discernment who transformed hymns into instrumental music which preserves the solemnity and gravitas of the originals. Dietmar Berger’s recording of the Manchester Gamba Book (8.572863-64) was acclaimed as ‘a considerable achievement by any standard’ (Gramophone).

Key Features • Dietmar Berger’s recording of the Manchester Gamba Book (8.572863-64) has been widely admired, with a MusicWeb International reviewer in awe of the “timelessness about these characteristically sad, melancholic and reflective pieces that defies time itself”, and the qualities of the release summed up by Gramophone: “This recording is a considerable achievement by any standard. Berger plays cleanly, his warm tone resonantly captured here. His command of divisions and the ornamentation is impressive.” With this world-première recording of chorale arrangements and Chorale Variations from the Berlin Gamba Book, Berger opens a window into a previously unknown corner of Baroque musicianship, the magical atmosphere and expressiveness in his playing creating an attraction which 8.573392-93 Playing Time: spreads far beyond the attention of specialists and scholars. 2 CDs 1:54:50 Companion Titles 7 47313 33927 3

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Digital Exclusive

World Première Recordings António PINHO VARGAS (b. 1951) Verses and Nocturnes Rui Taveira, Tenor • Paulo Ferreira, Baritone Jaime Mota, Piano Royal Northern Sinfonia Baldur Brönnimann

António Pinho Vargas, whose musical journey has encompassed jazz, instrumental, and film music, is now firmly established as one of Portugal’s leading classical composers. These world première recordings draw on two great Portuguese poetry cycles and represent the “hugely liberating response” Pinho Vargas gains from text. António Pinho Vargas’ thought-provoking opera Os Dias Levantados is available for download on Naxos 9.70231-32.

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Naxos Audiobooks

Puck of Pook’s Hill By Rudyard Kipling Unabridged Read by Peter Kenny

Puck of Pook’s Hill is an innocent and charming book that takes the listener on a journey through English history with a series of short, fantastical works.

When two children happen across an ancient shrine, they unintentionally summon an impish sprite named Puck − also known as Robin Goodfellow. To their wonderment, the fairy conjures up the past, taking them on ten magical adventures: they visit Roman Britain and the legion guarding Hadrian’s Wall, the thirteenth-century court of King John and the Old England from the time of William the Conqueror. Here are stories of lost treasures, epic battles, mysterious cults and daring piracy.

Interspersed with Kipling’s lyrical poetry, Puck of Pook’s Hill is a masterful and magical collection that will stir the imagination.

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Rob Roy By Walter Scott Unabridged Read by Sean Barrett

Rob Roy is a captivating novel of chivalry and romance set in the Scottish highlands of the 18th century.

After rejecting the life his father has laid out for him, Frank Osbaldistone is sent to the North of England to live with his Uncle, where he is to repent his sins. However, when his father’s wealth and reputation are threatened, he is drawn to the Scottish Highlands where he must retrieve a set of stolen documents. It is here that he is pulled into a number of skirmishes relating to the Jacobite uprising of 1715, and where his path frequently crosses with the mysterious maverick outlaw known as Rob Roy…

Scott’s portrayal of Scotland is remarkable in its vivid and evocative panorama of the highlands, and his insightful exploration of social, economic and historic themes.

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Selected Highlights: Jan – May 2015

8.573331 8.573255 8.573399 8.573135 “The interplay between the orchestra “Even if you think you’ve heard it all “vivid, subtle performances” “Chinese violinist Tianwa Yang and the organ is a constant source when it comes to guitar music, – The Sunday Times confirms her growing reputation with of delight…Altogether this is a very you will want this disc and, playing of great prowess…” pleasing and worthwhile release…” I suspect, the whole series.” – The Guardian – ClassicsToday.com – ClassicsToday.com

8.559755 8.660363-66 • 4 CDs 8.559748 8.573250 “…Hovhaness specialist Gerard Schwarz “Historically this is a very important recording…” “…there’s a freshness to [Paine’s] “This is a beautiful album, with an intriguing does his usual fine job with all three works, – David’s Review Corner orchestrations and plenty of melodic ingenuity mix of the familiar and the unknown. galvanizing the players of the to recommend this music on its own terms.” All the signs are that the former cellist Eastern Music Festival Orchestra to – WQXR (New York) Julian Lloyd Webber could be turning a welcome degree of corporate into a very fine conductor indeed.” integrity. Beautiful.” – Classic FM – ClassicsToday.com

8.573344 8.573346 8.573347-48 • 2 CDs 8.573451 “The performances are supremely “…great fun, in excellent performances…” elegant…this is an important release, – Fanfare. and highly recommended.” – The Guardian

8.573418 8.559711 8.573452 8.572697

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Finnish Composers British Choral Music

8.552135-36 730099213523 The Very Best of Sibelius WHITBOURN, J.: Choral Works - Luminosity • Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis • 8.572103 747313210374 He carried me away in the spirit 8.555773 747313577323 Finnish Orchestral Favourites

8.553747 730099474726 SALLINEN, A.: Complete Works for String Orchestra 8.573053 747313305377 MCCABE, J.: Choral Music (Visions)

8.570069 747313006977 RAUTAVAARA, E.: Symphony No. 8, 'The Journey' • Manhattan Triology • Apotheosis 8.573070 747313307074 WHITBOURN, J.: Annelies (chamber version)

Sofia Gubaidulina, composer 8.573158 747313315871 CHILCOTT, B.: Everyone Sang • A Little Jazz Mass • I Share Creation • Aesop's Fables

8.572772 747313277278 GUBAIDULINA, S.: Fachwerk • Silenzio Bohuslav Martinů, composer

8.553557 730099455725 GUBAIDULINA, S.: Seven Words • Silenzio • In Croce 8.572588 747313258871 MARTINŮ, B.: Songs, Vol. 1 - A Wreath of Carnations

Guitar Classics Collection 8.572310 747313231072 MARTINŮ, B.: Songs, Vol. 2 - The Months

8.572024 747313202478 MARTINŮ, B.: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 6 Guitar Duo Recital: Amadeus Guitar Duo - HANDEL, G.F. / MERTZ, J.K. / 8.573439 747313343973 GANGI, M. / BURKHART, F. / TELEMANN, G.P. 8.572206 747313220670 MARTINŮ, B.: Piano Concertos, Vol. 1 - Nos. 3 and 5 • Concertino

8.573308 747313330874 Guitar Recital: Kulikova, Irina - VASSILIEV, K. / RUDNEV, S. / KOZLOV, V. Robert Schumann, composer

Paul Hindemith, composer 8.572877 747313287772 SCHUMANN, R.: Arrangements for Piano Duet, Vol. 1 - String Quartet No. 3 • Piano Quintet

8.572163 747313216376 HINDEMITH, P.: String Quartets, Vol. 1 - Nos. 2 and 3 8.572878 747313287871 SCHUMANN, R.: Arrangements for Piano Duet, Vol. 2 - String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2

8.572164 747313216475 HINDEMITH, P.: String Quartets, Vol. 2 - Nos. 5, 6 and 7 8.572661 747313266173 SCHUMANN, R.: Piano Quintet • Piano Quartet • Marchenerzahlungen

8.573172 747313317271 Cello Recital: Hurtaud, Sebastien - HINDEMITH, P. 8.573399 747313339976 SCHUMANN, R.: Carnaval • Davidsbündlertänze • Papillons

8.553851 730099485128 20th Century Wind Quintets - HINDEMITH, P. / BARBER, S. / JANACEK, L. / LARSSON, L. Armenian Composers

Music in Remembrance of the Holocaust GP664 747313966424 BAGDASARIAN, E.: Piano and Violin Music - 24 Preludes • Rhapsody • Nocturne

8.559219 636943921920 PASATIERI, T.: Letter to Warsaw GP665 747313966523 ABRAMIAN, E.: 24 Preludes

8.559641 636943964125 SCHOENFIELD, P.: Camp Songs • Ghetto Songs / SCHWARZ, G.: Rudolf and Jeanette GP673 747313967322 KHACHATURIAN, A.: Original Piano Works and Transcriptions

8.559685 636943968529 LAITMAN, L.: Vedem • Fathers GP674 747313967421 BABADJANIAN, A.H.: Complete Piano Works for Piano Solo

Vocal Recital: Glanville, Mark (A Yiddish Winterreise - A Holocaust Survivor's Guitar Laureate Series 8.572256 747313225675 Inner Journey Told Through Yiddish Song) Guitar Recital: Moller, Johannes - BARRIOS MANGORE, A. / CRAEYVAGNER, K.A. / 8.572715 747313271573 REGONDI, G. / VILLA-LOBOS, H. / GOUGEON, D. / BROUWER, L. Chinese Classics

ZHOU, Long: The Rhyme of Taigu • The Englightened / ZHOU, Long & Guitar Recital: Gorbach, Vladimir - PIAZZOLLA, A. / SCARLATTI, D. / 8.570611 747313061174 8.573023 747313302376 CHEN, Yi: Symphony 'Humen 1839' GIULIANI, M. / ASENCIO, V.

8.570608 747313060870 TAN, Dun: Symphony Poem of 3 Notes • Orchestral Theatre • Concerto for Orchestra Guitar Recital: Mamedkuliev, Rovshan - ALBENIZ, I. / TURINA, J. / AMIROV, F. / 8.573179 747313317974 LLOBET SOLES, M. / CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, M. / TARREGA, F. 8.570610 747313061075 SHENG, Bright: The Blazing Mirage • The Song and Dance of Tears • Colors of Crimson

8.573131 747313313174 YE, Xiaogang: The Macau Bride Suite • 4 Poems of Lingnan Guitar Recital: Baranov, Anton - PUJOL, M.D. / BRAVO, J.E. / 8.573306 747313330676 ANGULO, E. / SANTÓRSOLA, G. American Classics - String Quartets

8.559305 636943930526 PORTER, Q.: String Quartets, Vol. 1 - Nos. 1-4 Music for Viola da Gamba

8.559014 636943901427 FOOTE, A.: Piano Quartet • String Quartet • Nocturne and Scherzo 8.572863-64 747313286379 The Manchester Gamba Book (c. 1660)

8.559630 636943963029 PISTON, W.: String Quartets Nos. 1, 3 and 5 8.570740 747313074075 BACH, C.P.E.: Viola da Gamba Sonatas

8.559178 636943917824 IVES, C.: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 Baroque Music

British Music Society Series 8.573347-48 747313334773 COUPERIN, F.: Les Nations / Sonades et Suites de Simphonies en Trio

8.571351 747313135172 JACOBSON, M.: Theme and Variations • Music Room Suite • Mosaic • The Song of Songs 8.570888 747313088874 LECLAIR, J.-M.: Violin Sonatas, Op. 1, nos. 1-4

8.571352 747313135271 British Music for Cello and Piano - BUSCH, W. / LEIGHTON, K. / WORDSWORTH, W. / COOKE, A. Audiobooks - Rudyard Kipling, author

8.571361 747313136179 British Music for Cello and Piano - WORDWORTH, W. / HOLBROOKE, J. / BUSCH, W. NA303512 9789626340356 KIPLING, R.: The Jungle Books (Abridged)

8.571362 747313136278 COOKE, A.: Violin Sonata No. 2 • Viola Sonata • Cello Sonata No. 2 NA205212 9789626340523 KIPLING, R.: Tikki-Tikki-Tavi (Unabridged)

NA325012 9789626342503 KIPLING, R.: Just So Stories (Unabridged) The Malcolm Smith Memorial Album - HOLLOWAY, R. / HOWARD, L. / 8.571354 747313135479 MATTHEW-WALKER, R. / SEARLE, H. Audiobooks - Walter Scott, author & Contemporaries

8.571356 747313135677 STANDFORD, P.: Symphony No. 1 • Cello Concerto • Prelude to a Fantasy NA289412 9789626348949 SCOTT, W.: Ivanhoe (Abridged)

8.571360 747313136070 HODDINOTT, A.: Landscapes: Song Cycles and Folksongs NAX43112 9789626344316 DICKENS, C.: Bleak House (Unabridged)

NA498012 9789626349809 MCCARTHY, C.: No Country for Old Men

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This Month’s Highlights

SIBELIUS, J.: Kuolema • King Christian II • Overture in A minor • 2 Songs from Twelfth Night 8.573299 747313329977 (Pajala, Torikka, Turku PO, Leif Segerstam)

GUBAIDULINA, S.: Complete Guitar Works - Repentance • Serenade • Toccata • Sotto Voce 8.573379 747313337972 (Tanenbaum, Viloteau, Psarras, Wyrick, Wright, Teicholz, Levitz, Pingel)

8.572165 747313216574 HINDEMITH, P.: String Quartets, Vol. 3 - Nos. 1 & 4 (Amar Quartet)

8.572729 747313272976 PIGOVAT, B.: Holocaust Requiem • Poem of Dawn (Serova, Croatian Radio & Television SO, Nicola Guerini)

XU, Shuya: Nirvana • Insolation • Cristal au Soleil Couchant • Echos du Vieux Champ • Yun 8.570617 747313061778 (Shu-ying Li, Qilian Chen, ORF Vienna Radio SO, Gottfried Rabl)

8.559781 636943978122 PORTER, Q.: String Quartets Nos. 5-8 (Ives Quartet)

LEIGHTON, K.: Complete Chamber Works for Cello - Elegy • Partita • Sonata • Alleluia Pascha Nostrum 8.571358 747313135875 (Wallfisch, Terroni)

More Exciting New Releases The Song of the Stars: British Music for Upper Voice Choir - CHILCOTT, B. / MEALOR, P. / HOLST, G. / 8.573427 747313342778 MACMILLAN, J. / O'REGAN, T. / MCDOWALL, C. / TAVENER, J. / WHITBOURN, J. (Turner, Launn, Wells Cathedral School Choralia, Christopher Finch)

8.573387 747313338771 MARTINŮ, B.: Songs, Vol. 3 (Wallingerová, Koukl)

SCHUMANN, R.: Arrangements for Piano Duet, Vol. 3 - Manfred • Symphony No. 3 'Rhenish' • 8.572879 747313287970 Hermann und Dorothea - Overture • Scenes from Goethe's Faust (Eckerle Piano Duo) Armenian Piano Music - KOMITAS / SPENDIARIAN, A. / BABADJANIAN, A. / ABRAMIAN, E. / AMIRKHANIAN, R. 8.573467 747313346776 (Mikael Ayrapetyan)

8.571363-65 747313136377 SORABJI, K.S.: Piano Music - Early Works • Nocturnes • Assertive Works (Michael Habermann)

Laureate Series Ekachai Jearakul Guitar Recital - WEISS, S.L. / MERTZ, J.K. / 8.573481 747313348176 BERKELEY, L. / LEGNANI, L. / BROUWER, L. / H.M. King BHUMIBOL

8.573392-93 747313339273 The Berlin Gamba Book: Chorale Variations (Dietmar Berger)

Naxos Audiobooks New Releases

NA0202 9781843798989 KIPLING, R.: Puck of Pook's Hill (Unabridged)

NA0203 9781843799009 SCOTT, W.: Rob Roy (Unabridged)

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