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This Month's Other Highlights The World’s Leading Classical Music Label MAY 2020 This Month’s Other Highlights Nine titles include World Premiere Recordings! © 2020 Naxos Rights US, Inc. • Contact Us: [email protected] www.naxos.com • www.NaxosMusicGroup.com • www.naxosmusiclibrary.com • blog.naxos.com NEW ON NAXOS | MAY 2020 Zubin Mehta © Wilfried Hösl Jonas Kaufmann Anja Harteros © Gregor Hohenberg © Marco Borggreve The State Opera (A film by Toni Schmid) With 2.110660 Anja Harteros, Soprano Playing Time: 88 minutes Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Jonas Kaufmann, Tenor Sound format: PCM stereo and DTS 5.1 7 1 Kirill Petrenko, Zubin Mehta and Ivor Bolton, Conductors Language: German 47313 56605 Nikolaus Bachler and Sir Peter Jonas, Directors Subtitles: German, English, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese The State Opera is the first film ever made about the Bavarian State Region code: 0 (Worldwide) No. of disc/s: 1 (DVD 9) Opera, one of the world’s oldest, most prestigious and internationally Price Code: TBA esteemed companies. It charts the course of three operas – Die Release Date: 22 May 2020 Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Les Indes galantes and Un ballo in maschera – as they come to life on the stage. We meet some of Key Features: the great singers, such as Jonas Kaufmann and Anja Harteros, in ● The Bavarian State Opera (Bayerisches Staatsoper) in Munich performance and behind the scenes, as well as artistic directors past is regarded as one of the top companies in the world, and has and present, and two of the music directors in Kirill Petrenko and his been showered with many international awards throughout its predecessor Zubin Mehta. As both a celebration and an exploration, history. The company’s roster of conductors has included some this entertaining film is a declaration of love for the operatic form. of the world’s best, such as Hans von Bülow, Richard Strauss, Bruno Walter, Hans Knappertsbusch, Georg Solti, Wolfgang Also available on Blu-ray Video: Sawallisch, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano and Kirill Petrenko, NBD0110V Playing Time: 88 minutes among others. Picture format: HD 16:9 ● Many stars have also appeared in Bavarian State Opera Sound format: PCM stereo and DTS-MA 5.1 productions, with the likes of Krassimira Stoyanova, Diana Damrau, Language: German Subtitles: German, English, French, Nina Stemme, Juan Diego Flórez, Vittorio Grigolo, Piotr Beczala, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Thomas Hampson and others performing to great acclaim. Region code: A, B, C No. of disc/s: 1 (BD 50) ● This documentary by Toni Schmid is a declaration of love for Price Code: TBA an art form that is so often unjustly characterised as elitist and for Release Date: 22 May 2020 the people who so passionately practice that art. The audience witnesses how three opera productions come to life: Wagner’s Die Meistersingers von Nurnberg, Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes and Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, as well as the Bavarian State 7 30099 01106 8 Ballet’s production of La Bayadère. ● The film also features interviews with tenor Jonas Kaufmann, soprano Anja Harteros, conductors Kirill Petrenko, Zubin Companion Titles – Mehta and Ivor Bolton, as well as opera directors Nikolaus Documentaries on DVD and Blu-ray Bachler and Sir Peter Jonas. Supplementary Marketing Materials: ● Sales Sheet ● Video Trailer ● Facebook cover and post 2.110639 2.110583 2.110389-91 (NBD0101V) (NBD0082V) (NBD0063-64V) 2 NEW ON NAXOS | MAY 2020 © Monika Rittershaus Mick Morris Mehnert as Der Zwerg (actor), Alexander von ZEMLINSKY (1871–1942) David Butt Philip as Der Zwerg (singer) and Der Zwerg Elena Tsallagova (Donna Clara) (‘The Dwarf’) 2.110657 Libretto by Georg C. Klaren Playing Time: 95 minutes after the fairy tale The Birthday of the Infanta by Oscar Wilde Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Sound format: PCM stereo and DTS 5.1 7 47313 56575 7 Language: German Subtitles: German, English, French, Arnold SCHOENBERG (1874–1951) Japanese, Korean Region code: 0 (Worldwide) Begleitungsmusik zu einer No. of disc/s: 1 (DVD 9) Lichtspielscene, Op. 34 Price Code: TBA Watch Video Trailer (‘Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene’) Release Date: 22 May 2020 Elena Tsallagova and Emily Magee, Sopranos Key Features: David Butt Philip, Tenor • Mick Morris Mehnert, Actor ● Alexander Zemlinsky’s powerful opera Der Zwerg (‘The Dwarf’) Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin has few enough recordings on disc. This Deutsche Oper Berlin Donald Runnicles, Conductor • Tobias Kratzer, Stage Director production dramatises Schoenberg’s Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene to create a prologue in which Zemlinsky Based on Oscar Wilde’s story The Birthday of the Infanta, and Alma Schindler (soon to become Alma Mahler) appear as Zemlinsky’s single-act opera Der Zwerg is the tragic tale of a dwarf pianists to create a parallel and a background to the following who is presented at court, falls in love with the beautiful Donna drama. Clara, but is ultimately forced to see himself as others see him and to die of a broken heart. Preceded by Schoenberg’s Accompaniment ● Recorded in 2019 in Berlin, director Tobias to a Cinematographic Scene, Op. 34, Zemlinsky’s Romantic score Kratzer’s striking production was much admired is full of psychological intrigue. Is Der Zwerg a critique of society’s by Hugo Shirley in Bachtrack.com: ‘the prologue’s superficiality? Is it the composer’s self-portrait in his doomed affair fin-de-siècle salon [is] replaced by a kind of with Alma Schindler? Director Tobias Kratzer’s stunning, transparent white-box concert hall. Around this central double production creates a space in which each character is thrown into performance, the Deutsche Oper has assembled a © Falk Wenzel sharp relief in this ‘fine, noble and melancholy work’ (Bachtrack.com). very fine cast.Elena Tsallagova [is] chillingly spot Tobias Kratzer on as the heartless Infanta… As Ghita, the only compassionate member of court, Emily Magee sings movingly. Philipp Jekal is Also available on Blu-ray Video: NBD0108V a sturdy presence as Don Estoban, serving as MC for the whole Playing Time: 95 minutes episode. The other members of the cast, as well as the women of Picture format: HD 16:9 the Deutsche Oper Chorus, fill out the drama brilliantly.’ Sound format: PCM stereo and DTS 5.1 Language: German ● Bachtrack.com added: ‘In the pit, Donald Subtitles: German, English, French, Runnicles shows himself to be a clear convert Japanese, Korean to the Zemlinskian cause. There is excellent Region code: A, B, C • No. of disc/s: 1 (BD 50) work from the stage orchestra, too, fully involved Price Code: TBA in Kratzer’s conception of the drama, where the Release Date: 22 May 2020 Dwarf not only sings, but, in clear reference to Zemlinsky himself, is a composer-conductor.’ Companion Titles – 7 30099 01086 3 Other outstanding opera releases from Naxos Audiovisual NEW NEW Supplementary Marketing Materials: ● Sales Sheet ● Video Trailer ● Facebook cover and post 2.110658 2.110655 2.110656 2.110584-85 (NBD0109V) (NBD0106V) (NBD0107V) (NBD0083V) 3 NEW ON NAXOS | MAY 2020 WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS 8.574225 Playing Time: 72:02 Price Code: NXP Release Date: 7 47313 42257 9 08 May 2020 Sonia Rubinsky Fabio Mechetti © Isabela Senatore © Rafael Motta Click button to listen to an extract from Piano Concerto No. 1: Apelo I – LISTEN José Antônio Resende de Key Features: ● One of the most prolific composers to emerge from Brazil, ALMEIDA PRADO (1943–2010) José Antônio Resende de Almeida Prado began as a cultivator Piano Concerto No. 1 of nationalism. Aurora ● This new release is the latest in our ‘Music of Brazil’ series, Concerto Fribourgeois co-produced with the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order Sonia Rubinsky, Piano to promote music by Brazilian composers dating back to the 18th Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra • Fabio Mechetti century. The initial release in the series, Alberto Nepomuceno’s Symphony in G minor, Série brasileira and Prelude to O At the time of his death in 2010, Almeida Prado was one of Brazil’s Garatuja (8.574067) recorded by the Minas Gerais Philharmonic most internationally admired composers, one who created music of Orchestra and Fabio Mechetti, was a Gramophone Choice: ‘The unique sonority and colour, rooted in his native country. In Aurora entire programme is played with panache… we have a lot to look (‘Dawn’) he employs his newly developed ‘transtonality’ to radiant forward to. Urgently recommended.’ effect, while the Concerto Fribourgeois features a collage technique. In his Piano Concerto No. 1 Almeida Prado explores a cogent ● The Nepomuceno disc was also selected as one of ‘The Best structure in which the soloist opens up, rips apart or transforms the Classical Recordings of 2019’ by WQXR: ‘[Nepomuceno’s] theme and variations, in a work that is both grandiose and luminous. energetic melodies are met with matching exuberance by conductor Fabio Mechetti and the Minas Gerais Philharmonic About Fabio Mechetti Orchestra.’ Brazilian conductor, Fabio ● Succeeding instalments include sonatas for violin and piano by Mechetti, was appointed Leopoldo Miguez and Glauco Velásquez (8.574118), performed music director and principal by Emmanuele Baldini and Karin Fernandes; and Heitor Villa- conductor of the Minas Lobos’ concertos for guitar and harmonica, as well as a couple Gerais Philharmonic of chamber works (8.574018), featuring world-renowned guitarist Orchestra in 2008. He Manuel Barrueco and harmonica player José Staneck, with the was the first Brazilian to São Paulo Symphony Orchestra under Giancarlo Guerrero. become director of an © Rafael Motta Asian orchestra when he Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra ● Brazilian pianist Sonia Rubinsky was awarded Best Recording was appointed principal conductor of the Malaysian Philharmonic of the Year in the Classical Category of the 2009 Latin GRAMMY Orchestra. Mechetti also led the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra for Awards for the eighth volume of the complete piano works of ten seasons and was subsequently named music director laureate.
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