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NEW ON The World’s Leading ClassicalNAXOS Music Label MARCH 2018 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 | MARCH 2018 INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS © Carlos Simon 8.559807 Playing Time: Price Code: NXP 78:20 David Alan Miller and Michael Daugherty 6 36943 98072 9 (b. 1954) About David Alan Miller Michael DAUGHERTY GRAMMY® Award-winning conductor David Alan Miller has Dreamachine 1† established a reputation as one of the leading American conductors Trail of Tears 2† • Reflections on the Mississippi3 of his generation. Music director of the Albany Symphony since Evelyn Glennie, Percussion 1 1992, Miller has proven himself a creative and compelling orchestra Amy Porter, Flute 2 • Carol Jantsch, Tuba 3 builder and masterful interpreter of American contemporary music. Albany Symphony • David Alan Miller In 2001, Miller won the ASCAP Morton Gould Award for Innovative Programming, and in 1999, ASCAP’s first-ever Leonard Bernstein † WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING Award for Outstanding Educational Programming. GRAMMY® Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty explores Key Features: the relationships between machines, humanity and nature in three • Naxos has a very successful series of Michael Daugherty unique concertos. Dreamachine for solo percussion and orchestra recordings, which had won numerous recognitions including is a colorful tribute to the imagination of inventors who dreamed six GRAMMY® Award wins, particularly Best Classical of new machines, both real and surreal. The flute concerto Trail of Contemporary Composition in 2011 for his piano concerto Deus Tears dramatizes the tragic governmental forced relocation of Native ex Machina (8.559635) and in 2017 for the cello concerto Tales Americans in 1838 and meditates on how the human spirit discovers of Hemingway. ways to deal with adversity. Reflections on the Mississippifor tuba and orchestra is a musical voyage down the legendary Mississippi River Supplementary Marketing Materials: from Iowa to Louisiana. The Albany Symphony, conducted by David • Alan Miller, delivers mesmerizing performances by three outstanding Key Release Kit • women soloists: GRAMMY® Award-winning percussionist Dame Video Trailer • Evelyn Glennie, flutist extraordinaire Amy Porter, and Carol Jantsch, Facebook cover and post the remarkable principal tuba of The Philadelphia Orchestra. About the Soloists Evelyn Glennie Amy Porter Carol Jantsch • Percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie has previously recorded Michael Daugherty Daugherty’s UFO with the Colorado Symphony and Marin Alsop © (8.559165). Glennie also recorded Corigliano’s percussion Music director David Alan Miller conducts the Albany Symphony, with percussion concerto Conjurer (8.559757) with the Albany Symphony and soloist Dame Evelyn Glennie, during the recording session of Michael Daugherty’s Dreamachine at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, New York, on 18 April 2016. David Alan Miller, which won a GRAMMY® Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. She recently released a disc of purely improved music as part of The Core-tet Project (8.573804). Companion Titles – Michael Daugherty, Composer • The versatile and distinguished American flutist Amy Porter has become one of the most skillful and creative muses for composers of our time. She first received international attention winning the Third Kobe International Flute Competition in Japan, which led to invitations to perform throughout the world. • Carol Jantsch has been principal tuba of The Philadelphia Orchestra since 2006 and is the first female tuba player in a 8.559798 8.559635 8.559165 8.559749 major symphony orchestra. 2 NEW ON NAXOS | MARCH 2018 8.573534-35 Playing Time: © Adriane White 2 CDs 2:24:14 Price Code: NXP 7 47313 35347 7 Marin Alsop Sergey PROKOFIEV (1891–1953) Key Features: • Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet is his best loved and most Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 commercially successful stage work by a long way, having been (Complete Ballet) recorded widely both as here in its complete form, as well as in Baltimore Symphony Orchestra the two suites prepared by the composer when it seemed a full Marin Alsop production seemed unlikely. The last Naxos recording of the full score was back in 1995 (8.553184-85), and subsequent to Marin Based on Shakespeare’s most famous romantic play, Prokofiev’s Alsop’s triumphant completion of her Prokofiev symphonic cycle realisation of Romeo and Juliet as a full-length narrative ballet this is a perfect time for a new release. was audacious in its day. It was written during a period of artistic • Marin Alsop’s recently completed cycle of Prokofiev’s turmoil under a Soviet regime in which arguments raged over such Symphonies has been widely acclaimed. Of her recording fundamental aspects as the choice between a happy or a tragic of the Fourth Symphony and The Prodigal Son (8.573186), ending. Famous movements such as the Dance of the Knights International Record Review wrote: “Conductor and orchestra have helped maintain Romeo and Juliet as Prokofiev’s best- both shine with the excitement of a special relationship in the loved stage work. Marin Alsop’s acclaimed cycle of Prokofiev’s ascendant”, and Gramophone wrote that the First Symphony Symphonies has been described as ‘an outstanding achievement’ (8.573353) “has many delightful touches—the finale has just the by BBC Music Magazine. right kind of fizz and sparkle.” About Marin Alsop • Marin Alsop’s association with the GRAMMY® Award-winning Marin Alsop is an inspiring and powerful voice in the international Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has also brought us numerous music scene, a music director of vision and distinction who successes, including Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra and Music passionately believes that “music has the power to change lives”. for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (8.572486) considered by Alsop made history with her appointment as the 12th music director ClassicsToday.com to be “a splendid performance of this oft- of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO). Her success as the recorded work… a memorable and wholly successful effort, BSO’s music director has garnered national and international attention excellently engineered to boot. …this is very, very good, for her innovative programming and artistry. Alsop is often making and wholly recommendable as a pairing of these two iconic history: in 2005 she was works.” This partnership will have been given a further boost the first conductor to be with our celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s centenary, a box awarded a MacArthur set (8.508018) that includes all of Marin Alsop’s recordings of Genius award, and in Bernstein’s orchestral music on Naxos, released in February September 2013 as the 2018. first female conductor of the BBC’s Last Night Supplementary Marketing Materials: of the Proms in London • Key Release Kit – an honour that she • Artist Profile – Marin Alsop repeated in 2015. © Ed Steven Parke • Facebook Cover and Post Companion Titles – Prokofiev Symphonies Series NBD0044 • 8.573353 NBD0047 • 8.573452 NBD0038 • 8.573186 NBD0031 • 8.573029 8.573518 8.573620 3 NEW ON NAXOS | MARCH 2018 8.573722 Playing Time: Price Code: NXP 54:43 7 47313 37227 0 Dmitry Yablonsky (1918–1982) Dmitry Yablonksy, a GRAMMY® Award-nominated cellist and Kara KARAYEV conductor, was born in Moscow into a musical family. His career Symphony No. 1 has taken him to some of the most celebrated stages in the world, Violin Concerto * such as Carnegie Hall, La Scala, Moscow Great Hall, St Petersburg Janna Gandelman, Violin * Philharmonic Hall, Taiwan National Hall, Teatre Mogador, Cité de la Kiev Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra Musique and the Louvre, amongst others. He has collaborated with Dmitry Yablonsky many major orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Novoya Rossiya, Kiev Virtuosi Kara Karayev was one of the most prominent figures in the music Symphony Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Belgian of 20th-century Azerbaijan, and an inspiration to subsequent National Orchestra, Antwerpen Orchestra, Russian State Orchestra, generations of Azerbaijani composers. His eloquently expressive Orchestre National d’Ile de France, Taiwan National Orchestra, and tautly dramatic First Symphony is a significant work in Karayev’s Catania Opera Orchestra, Holland Symphonia, Bologna Chamber output, reflecting both the harmonies and melodic characteristics Orchestra, and the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM (OFUNAM), of the South Caucasus region and, in its orchestral brilliance, the Mexico. influence of his mentor Shostakovich. The Violin Concerto shows a notable shift in style, exploring the serial techniques that add astringency and inventive depth to Karayev’s already richly coloured and vividly diverse palette. Key Features: • These two significant works by Kara Karayev have yet to break through into wider recognition. • The Naxos recording of Karayev’s Third Symphony (8.570720), also conducted by Dmitry Yablonsky, was considered “an important release” by ClassicsToday.com, and given “a prime recommendation” by Fanfare. 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