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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 ’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 of the Proms in – an honour that she repeated in 2015. © Ed Steven Parke

Companion Titles – Prokofiev Symphonies Series

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Richard WAGNER (1813–1883) Orchestral Music from Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra • JoAnn Falletta

The essential meaning of Wagner’s magnum opus Der Ring des Nibelungen is wrapped up in the composer’s own lifetime pursuit of transcendent romance, with the redemption of eternal love one of the primary tenets of this and his other music dramas. Wagner’s gift for orchestral colour and scenic characterisation make his operas highly suited to the genre of the tone poem, and these seven tableaux evoke major scenarios in the saga, as well as providing a sense of the course and spirit of the greatest operatic drama ever written.

Key Features: • Recordings of highlights and orchestral excerpts from Wagner’s operas have had an enduring popularity, but themed releases with orchestral music from The Ring are relatively rare. • The Naxos label is riding high with Wagner’s music at the moment – the highly acclaimed new Ring cycle conducted by Jaap van Zweden and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra will be completed towards the end of 2018. • Conductor JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra have shone in romantic repertoire such as Glière’s 8.573839 Third Symphony (8.573161), BBC Music Magazine stating that “Falletta and her excellent orchestra give a visceral account of 7 47313 38397 9 the score projecting its wide range of moods, from mystery and Guerin Blask

enchantment to violence and tragic intensity, with far greater © immediacy than the refined if comparatively staid interpretation from Companion Titles – and the BBC Philharmonic on Chandos.” The sheer versatility of JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic the Buffalo Philharmonic is reflected in numerous acclaimed contemporary music NEW releases that include the GRAMMY® Award winning recording of John Corigliano’s Mr Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (8.559331).

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INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS Michael DAUGHERTY (b. 1954) Dreamachine 1† Trail of Tears 2† • Reflections on the Mississippi 3 Evelyn Glennie, Percussion 1 • Amy Porter, Flute 2 • Carol Jantsch, Tuba 3 Albany Symphony • David Alan Miller † WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING

GRAMMY® Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty explores the relationships between machines, humanity and nature in three unique concertos. Dreamachine for solo percussion and orchestra is a colorful tribute to the imagination of inventors who dreamed of new machines, both real and surreal. The flute concerto Trail of Tears dramatizes the tragic governmental forced relocation of Native Americans in 1838 and meditates on how the human spirit discovers ways to deal with adversity. Reflections on the Mississippi for tuba and orchestra is a musical voyage down the legendary Mississippi River from Iowa to Louisiana. The Albany Symphony, conducted by David Alan Miller, delivers mesmerizing performances by three outstanding women soloists: GRAMMY® Award- winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, flutist extraordinaire Amy Porter, and Carol Jantsch, the remarkable principal tuba of The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Key Features: • Naxos has a very successful series of Michael Daugherty recordings, 8.559807 which had won numerous recognitions including six GRAMMY® Award wins, particularly Best Classical Contemporary Composition in 2011 for his Deus ex Machina (8.559635) and in 2017 6 36943 98072 9 for the cello concerto Tales of Hemingway. © Carlos Simon Companion Titles – Michael Daugherty, Composer • Percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie has previously recorded Daugherty’s UFO with the Colorado Symphony and Marin Alsop (8.559165). Glennie also recorded Corigliano’s percussion concerto Conjurer (8.559757) with the Albany Symphony and 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). 8.559798 8.559635 8.559165 8.559749

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Kara KARAYEV (1918–1982) Symphony No. 1 Violin Concerto * Janna Gandelman, Violin * Kiev Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra Dmitry Yablonsky

Kara Karayev was one of the most prominent figures in the music of 20th-century Azerbaijan, and an inspiration to subsequent generations of Azerbaijani composers. His eloquently expressive and tautly dramatic First Symphony is a significant work in Karayev’s output, reflecting both the harmonies and melodic characteristics of the South Caucasus region and, in its orchestral brilliance, the 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 8.573722 important release” by ClassicsToday.com, and given “a prime recommendation” by Fanfare. In 2013 Naxos also released a recording of ballet suites The Seven Beauties and The Path of 7 47313 37227 0 Thunder (8.573122), works both considered “very special” by Yablonsky, and acclaimed as “red-blooded performances” by BBC Companion Titles – Dmitry Yablonsky, Conductor Music Magazine. MusicWeb International adds that “this disc is a prime example of the splendid work that Naxos has done over the past twenty-plus years in giving listeners the opportunity to hear little known music, excellently played.” • One of Israel’s ‘best kept secrets’, violinist Janna Gandelman is concertmaster of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and others, and has performed widely as both soloist and chamber musician alongside the likes of Gidon Kremer, Isaac Stern and 8.570720 8.573122 8.573598 8.573601 Sol Gabetta.

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) Works for Flute, Vol. 1 Duos for Flute and Bassoon 1 Duo for Two Flutes 2 • Serenade 3 Kazunori Seo, Flute • Patrick Gallois 2, Flute • Mitsuo Kodama, Bassoon 1 Asuka Sezaki, Violin 3 • Koichi Komine, Viola 3

Ludwig van Beethoven stands as a giant in music history for his great symphonies, piano sonatas and string quartets, and the challenges of deafness later in life. This programme shows the younger Beethoven’s facility as a creator of light and entertaining chamber works as enjoyable to perform as they are to hear. Taking their cues from Mozart, the Duos build on sonata form and dance movements, the slightly later Serenade taking the shape of a genial 18th-century divertimento.

Key Features: • Despite his troubled family background, Beethoven’s less frequently recorded earlier is great fun and remains highly entertaining more than two centuries later. These pieces have appeared rarely on recordings, and there are no current releases that have all three of the Duos, WoO 27. • Of the musicians in this recording, flutist and conductorPatrick Gallois hardly needs any introduction, with numerous acclaimed recordings 8.573569 to his credit, including titles for Naxos such as the complete Flute Concertos of C.P.E. Bach (8.557515-16) and Mozart (8.557011), and 7 47313 35697 3 Haydn’s Symphonies Nos. 1–5 (8.557571) and Nos. 9–12 (8.557771) among many others. Companion Titles – Kazunori Seo, Flute • Of Kazunori Seo’s Czerny recording (8.573335), American Record Guide stated that “the flute playing is marvelous.” Both Seo and Gallois were praised by MusicWeb International for their recording of Franz Doppler’s Concerto for Two Flutes (8.570378): “an inspirational performance throughout but especially in the extended cadenza; their

ensemble playing is truly spectacular.” Aoki © Koji 8.573335 8.573175 8.570378 8.554747

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KEY RELEASES FROM NAXOS AUDIOVISUAL

Aaron COPLAND (1900–1990) Copland Conducts Copland Benny Goodman, Clarinet Orchestra • Aaron Copland

This concert film made in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles in 1976 captures a memorable performance conducted by the doyen of American composers, Aaron Copland. It includes some of his greatest and most attractive music, from the patriotic flourish of Fanfare for the Common Man and the spirited orchestral fantasy El Salón México, to the colloquial warmth of his suite from the opera The Tender Land. Of particular importance is the collaboration with the great Benny Goodman in the masterwork he commissioned and premiered, the Clarinet Concerto.

ALSO AVAILABLE Key Features: NBD0068V Picture format: HD 4:3 • This recording includes a performance of COPLAND Sound format: the Clarinet Concerto by Benny Goodman conducts PCM Stereo that will have cross-over appeal given his Language: English status as the so-called ‘King of Swing’ and COPLAND its inclusion of jazz references. The concerto Region code: A, B, C is now one of the most attractive and often No. of disc/s: 1 1 played of the twentieth century.

2.110397 7 30099 00686 6 [DVD] 7 47313 53975 8 Companion Titles – Aaron Copland, Composer Picture format: NTSC 4:3 Sound format: PCM Stereo Language: English Region code: 0 (worldwide) No. of disc/s: 1 8.559844 8.559806 8.559758 2.110231 (NBD0037)

Bel Canto – The Tenors of the 78 Era Jan Schmidt-Garre, Director

The introduction of sound to cinema in the 1930s turned great tenors such as Beniamino Gigli, Richard Tauber and into movie stars. Countless “singer movies” were made, but great vocal performances were also captured in numerous documentaries and privately-made movies. Using a wealth of rare and restored material the award-winning Belcanto presents the great tenors from Enrico Caruso to Jussi Björling, and includes interviews with their contemporaries and descendants. Updated and freshly remastered to 16/9 HD format, this acclaimed collection offers comprehensive insights into the art of bel canto that were regarded as “black-and-white jewels from the golden era of singing – fascinating!” by El Pais.

Key Features:

• This opulent documentary series on the ‘The Tenors of the 78 Era’ was originally broadcast in 1996, and has since received much acclaim. The crew visited the singers’ descendants in Ireland, Russia, Argentina, the United States and many other countries, where they discovered previously-unknown material and interviewed contemporaries who have since passed away. The historical films were digitized and adjusted to the correct running time and pitch. Since they were first produced, these treasures have never been seen in this form. The original version of Belcanto was broadcast in twenty-five countries and gained numerous awards, being honored at the Columbus International Film Festival and by Classique en Images in Cannes.

Also Available on Blu-ray Video: 2.110389-91 Companion Titles – NBD0063-64V Naxos Audio Visual Collection [DVD] Picture format: 7 47313 53895 9 1080i NTSC 16:9 • NTSC 4:3 2.110572 (NBD0073V) NEW Sound format: PCM Stereo 2.110394 (NBD0066V) Picture format: Region code: Subtitles: EN, FR, GR, IT, ES, 2.110386 (NBD0060) NTSC 16:9 • NTSC 4:3 0 (worldwide) JP, KR 2.110387 (NBD0061) Sound format: No. of disc/s: 2 DVD9, Region code: A, B, C; 0 (worldwide) PCM Stereo • Dolby AC3 1 DVD5, 2 CDs No. of disc/s: 2 BD50, 1 DVD5, Stereo 2 CDs Subtitles: EN, FR, GR, IT, 7 30099 00636 1 ES, JP, KR 5 NEW ON NAXOS | MARCH 2018

Includes World Premiere Recordings Bohuslav MARTINŮ (1890–1959) Songs, Vol. 5 Saltimbanques 7 47313 38237 8 Jana Hrochová, Mezzo-soprano Giorgio Koukl, Piano

Bohuslav Martinů honed his songwriting craft in between composing larger orchestral works, his yearning for home reflected in the Four Songs to Czech Folk Texts written during desperate times in the Second World War. Sourced from previously unpublished manuscripts, this unique programme presents world premiere recordings of earlier songs written during summer holidays in Polička, as well as the Three Songs after Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, long thought to be lost but miraculously unearthed just weeks before this recording. Pianist Giorgio Koukl regards these songs as similar to pearls, ‘born out of hardship, pain and discomfort and, after a while, becoming precious and admired’.

Companion Titles – Previous releases in the Martinů Songs cycle

Final Volume

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World Premiere Recordings Émile SAURET (1852–1920) 24 Études-Caprices, Op. 64 Vol. 2 (Nos. 8–13) 7 47313 38437 2 Nazrin Rashidova, Violin

Earning the admiration of the most eminent composers of his time, from Brahms and Tchaikovsky to Liszt and Sarasate, Émile Sauret occupies a significant place in the history of the violin. His lively genre pieces (available on 8.572366) were augmented by an extensive cycle of Études-Caprices (Volume 1 is on 8.573704) that remain a testament to his finesse and command. Written to span all twenty-four keys, they encompass subtle expressive qualities as well as drama and technical virtuosity.

Companion Titles – Nazrin Rashidova, Violin

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Includes World Premiere (1913–2004) Recordings Bruno BETTINELLI Chamber Music Trio 1 • Improvvisazione 2 • Due movimenti 2† 7 47313 38367 2 Manuela Custer, Mezzo-soprano • Paola Dusio, Flute Diego Milanese • Davide Ficco, Guitars • Duo Perugini–Pianezzola 2 • Trio Bettinelli 1

† WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING As one of the leading Italian composers of the 20th century, Bruno Bettinelli occupies a significant place in his country’s musical lineage. An inheritor of the traditions of Respighi, Casella and their contemporaries, he employed contemporary techniques to fashion music of structural clarity, inventiveness and considerable communicative power. The Improvvisazione and Due movimenti are two of his greatest smaller-scaled works, and the Trio a masterful embodiment of his musical principles. Bettinelli’s complete works for solo guitar, performed by Davide Ficco, can be heard on Naxos 9.70026.

Companion Titles – 20th-Century Italian Music

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includes WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS Statements LANG, D. • HEARNE, T. • LASH, H. Eric Brenner, Countertenor • Lydia Consilvio, Cor anglais 6 36943 98292 1 Hannah Lash, Harp • Yale Philharmonia • Yale Choral Artists • Jeffrey Douma

Yale Choral Artists has rapidly established itself as one of the most innovative professional choirs in the world, and its recordings of works by three Yale composers showcase the breadth of contemporary American choral music. They include the powerful statement to the court by David Lang, whose the little match girl passion won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Ted Hearne’s Consent uses four disparate texts in a complex personal exploration of the role of language in his life, while Hannah Lash’s Requiem is an expression of sorrow framed through a retranslation of the Latin text.

Companion Titles – American Choral Music 8.559819 | 8.559803 | 8.559789 | 8.559742 8.559829

includes WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS Alan HOVHANESS (1911–2000) Suite for Band 1 • October Mountain 2 • The Ruins of Ani Central Washington University Wind Ensemble 6 36943 98372 0 Larry Gookin 1 • Keith Brion • Mark Goodenberger 2

This program brings together a wide variety of Alan Hovhaness’ works including numerous world premiere recordings. These range from the earliest of his band compositions, the processional Tapor No. 1, to more recent chamber pieces such as the gentle barcarole of Vision on a Starry Night. The Ruins of Ani returns us to the tragic location also explored in Hovhaness’ Symphony No. 23 ‘Ani’ (available on Naxos 8.559385), while the Three Improvisations on Folk Tunes evoke dances from the Indian subcontinent. Newly discovered works with percussion include the Japanese-influenced to Hovhaness’ opera The Burning House alongside October Mountain, now a classic in its genre.

Companion Titles – Alan Hovhaness, Composer 8.559207 | 8.559385 | 8.559158 | 8.559755 8.559837

Ferruccio BUSONI (1866–1924) Piano Music, Vol. 10 Wolf Harden, Piano 7 47313 38067 1

Busoni embodied an essentially recreative approach to the music of the past. His Bach transcriptions reveal an absolute command of intricate polyphony and a limpid clarity. Mozart stood as an aesthetic and technical exemplar while Cramer’s little-known Etudes are adapted for modern piano technique. Busoni preserved the Lutheran austerity of Brahms’s Chorale Preludes for Organ, Op. 122 whereas in the Mephisto Waltz No. 1 he augments Liszt’s heady writing with a super-virtuosity of his own.

Companion Titles – Busoni Piano Music Series 8.573751 | 8.572845 | 8.572422 | 8.572077 8.573806

Guitar Music of Mexico OLIVA • RITTER • TAMEZ • LUNAGÓMEZ TAMAYO • CÓRDOVA • HELGUERA 7 47313 36747 4 Cecilio Perera, Guitar

The contemporary guitar music scene of Mexico is a vibrant and active community of composers, many of them concert guitarists themselves. The new generations of composers are creating a fascinating new repertoire which, while rooted in the historical elements of the Mexican musical heritage with its traditional melodies and indigenous folkloric vitality, embraces the sophistication of European compositional techniques. Evocations of period and place can be heard in Oliva’s Images of Yucatán and Gerardo Tamez’s Aires de Son, reminiscent of the music of southern Mexico. There are also personal homages such as award-winning guitarist Perera’s romantic Marina and Helguera’s poignant Un retrato (A Portrait).

Companion Titles – Guitar Classic Series

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NEW RELEASES FROM NAXOS AUDIOBOOKS

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The Eustace Diamonds The Story of My Life, Volume 1 By Anthony Trollope By Giacomo Casanova Unabridged Unabridged Read by David Shaw-Parker Read by Peter Wickham

Before Sir Florian Eustace dies, he gives his beloved wife The Story of My Life is the explosive and exhilarating Lizzie a beautiful and expensive diamond necklace valued autobiography by the infamous libertine Giacomo over £10,000. Dispute soon rages between the Eustace Casanova. Intense and scandalous, Casanova’s family and the manipulative and conniving Lizzie: it’s extraordinary adventures take the listener on an incredible claimed that the diamonds are a precious family heirloom, voyage across 18th-century Europe – from France to but Lizzie argues they were a gift. Is she lying? As the Russia, Poland to Spain and Turkey to Germany, with family’s lawyer determines to reunite them with the jewels, Venice at their heart. He falls madly in love, has wild flings Lizzie resorts to increasingly desperate measures, until and delirious orgies, and encounters some of the most one day the jewels are stolen. Who is responsible? The brilliant figures of his time, including Catherine the Great, third novel in Trollope’s Palliser series, The Eustace Louis XV and Benjamin Franklin. He holds a verbal dual Diamonds is a wonderfully absorbing blend of dark with Voltaire, a pistol duel with a Polish noble, and finds cynicism and humour. himself hauled before the court multiple times, including in London, where the judge in question turns out to be none other than Henry Fielding. His appetite for life is voracious; for him, a life lived close to the precipice is the only life worth living. The book is divided into six sections. Volume 1 contains the first two sections: ‘1: Venetian Years’ and ‘2: To Paris and Prison’.

Companion Titles – Anthony Trollope, Author Companion Titles – Peter Wickham, Reader NEW

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