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NEW ON The World’s Leading ClassicalNAXOS Music Label FEBRUARY 2018 Leonard Bernstein by Paul de Hueck, The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc. Courtesy of 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 | FEBRUARY 2018 INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS © Grant Leighton Marin Alsop Leonard BERNSTEIN (1918–1990) 8.508018 [8 CDs + 1 Bonus DVD Boxed set] The Complete Naxos Recordings 7 47313 80183 1 Various Artists Marin Alsop Key Features: Leonard Bernstein was without question the greatest musician • 2018 will see a wealth of celebrations around Leonard Bernstein, America ever produced. As an inspirational teacher and renowned and this box set of 8 CDs and a bonus DVD documentary is conductor he was the nation’s musical ambassador to the world, our celebration of the centenary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth. and his work as a composer bridged gaps and broke down barriers, This includes all of Marin Alsop’s existing Bernstein recordings reaching audiences way beyond the normal boundaries of classical plus two new CDs from the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra music. This celebration of Bernstein’s centenary brings together all with previously unrecorded pieces, and a bonus DVD of Georg of the acclaimed Naxos recordings of his music conducted by his Wübbolt’s film Leonard Bernstein – Larger than Life, that has protégée Marin Alsop as well as new and world premiere recordings, interviews with Bernstein’s children as well as colleagues and and an insightful documentary DVD in which colleagues and family artistic collaborators such as Stephen Sondheim, Gustavo sum up this boundlessly brilliant and charismatic musical giant of the Dudamel, Marin Alsop and many others. 20th century. • Marin Alsop’s Naxos recordings of Bernstein’s music have been given great critical acclaim. Chichester Psalms/On the Marin Alsop is an inspiring and powerful voice in the international Waterfront/On the Town (8.559177) was admired by The New music scene, a music director of vision and distinction who York Times for its “technically adept, bracing performances.” The passionately believes that “music has the power to change lives”. Mass (8.559622-23) received huge press attention and was a Alsop made history with her appointment as the 12th music director Gramophone ‘Editor’s Choice’, considered by them as “a worthy of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO). Her success as successor to Bernstein’s own recording. “[Alsop creates] a the BSO’s music director has garnered national and international dramatic slipstream that is powered relentlessly onwards by the attention for her innovative programming and artistry. Alsop took awkward discontinuities and jagged narrative…go tell it on the up the post of principal conductor of the São Paulo Symphony mountain”, wrote Philip Clark in his review. “Power—emotional, Orchestra in 2012, and became music director in July 2013. Alsop musical—is the word.” BBC Music Magazine declared that our is often making history: in 2005 she was the first conductor to be Serenade/Facsimile/Divertimento (8.559245) “stands up to most awarded a MacArthur Genius award, and in September 2013 as the of their challenging competition on the disc... Altogether, then, first female conductor of the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms in London a REAL WINNER.” The Symphony No. 3/Missa Brevis/The – an honour that she repeated in 2015. Lark (8.559742) is “quite excellent—idiomatic and dramatic—all recorded in excellent vibrant sound” for MusicWeb International, Supplementary Marketing Materials: and the Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 (8.559790) was a BBC • Key Release Kit Radio 3 ‘Disc of the Week’ and described by ClassicsToday.com • Artist Profile – Marin Alsop as “sensational…A marvelous release by any standard.” • Facebook Cover and Post • Two new CDs from Marin Alsop with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra contain world premiere recordings of the striking CBS Music, the Birthday Bouquet which comprises eight variations on ‘New York, New York’ from On the Town, and orchestrations of eleven of the Anniversaries for piano. © Richard Andersson © Alessadra Fratus Baltimore Symphony Orchestra The São Paulo Symphony Orchestra 2 NEW ON NAXOS | FEBRUARY 2018 What's in the box set 8.559790 • CD1 NEW RECORDINGS IN THIS BOX SET: “Alsop really does outdo Bernstein himself; the Mambo from West Side Story playing of the Baltimore Slava! A Political Overture Symphony here is Suite for Orchestra from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue sensational” CBS Music † – ClassicsToday.com Times Square Ballet from On the Town A Bernstein Birthday Bouquet † DISC OF THE WEEK Ouverture to Candide WANT LIST Fancy Free Anniversaries for Orchestra † 8.559742 • CD2 Overture to Wonderful Town “An incisive and brilliant account of the Third Symphony in its † WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING original version.” – Pizzicato New AMERICAN CLASSICS BERNSTEINBERNSTEIN Suite forChichester Orchestra from 1600 PsalmsPennsylvania Avenue DISC 7 OnSlava! the AW Politicalaterfr Overtureont • On • CBS the MusicTown Times Square Ballet from On the Town • Mambo from West Side Story Bournemouth SymphonyA Bernstein Chorus Birthday and BouquetOrchestra • Marin Alsop São Paulo Symphony Orchestra • Marin Alsop 8.559245 • CD3 “Marin Alsop produces brilliantly fresh and alive playing from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s strings.” – The Strad AMERICAN CLASSICS BERNSTEIN 8.559813 BERNSTEIN DISC 8 CD7 Chichester Psalms AnniversariesOn the Waterf for Orchestraront • On the • Fancy Town Free BournemouthOverture to Symphony Candide Chorus• Overture and O torchestra Wonderful • Marin Town Alsop São Paulo Symphony Orchestra • Marin Alsop 8.559622-23 • CD4 and CD5 “Alsop is at the root of everything, of course, and her Baltimore players surge ever forward” – Gramophone GRAMOPHONE AWARD GRAMOPHONE GRAMOPHONE AWARD EDITOR’SNOMINATION CHOICE RECORDING OF THE MONTH 8.559814 • CD8 PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, GRAMOPHONE CLASSICAL HOLIDAY CRITICS’CHOICE DISC of the Month BONUS DVD 2.110570 This fascinating BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE RECORDING OF INTERNATIONAL EDITOR’SCD CHOICEOF CHORAL & SONG CHOICE THE YEAR RECORD REVIEW documentary shows why OUTSTANDING THE WEEK Bernstein was one of the most influential classical 8.559177 • CD6 musicians of the last “Sensitive, exciting, century. The film includes and impressively lucid interviews with Leonard performances of three Bernstein’s children as Bernstein works.” – The New York Times well as colleagues and artistic collaborators such as Gustavo Dudamel, Stephen Sondheim, Kent Nagano, Marin Alsop, and many others. 2 3 NEW ON NAXOS | FEBRUARY 2018 © Alberto Venzago Also available on Valery Gergiev Blu-ray Video 2.110572 NBD0073V Playing Time: 111 minutes Playing Time: 111 minutes Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Picture format: High Definition 16:9 Sound format: Sound format: PCM Stereo and DTS 5.1 PCM Stereo and DTS 5.1 Language: English and Russian Language: English and Russian Region code: A, B, C Region code: 0 (worldwide) No. of disc/s: 1 (BD 25) No. of disc/s: 1 (DVD 9) 7 47313 55725 7 7 30099 00736 8 Valery Gergiev is artistic and general director of the Mariinsky Live from the 2016 BBC Proms Theatre, principal conductor of the Münchner Philharmoniker and at the Royal Albert Hall: the World Orchestra for Peace, chair of the organizational committee of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, honorary president Münchner Philharmoniker of the Edinburgh International Festival and dean of the faculty of Behzod Abduraimov arts at the St Petersburg State University. He has led numerous composer cycles in New York, London, Paris and other international Alexei Petrenko • Valery Gergiev cities and he has introduced audiences around the world to several BERLIOZ • RACHMANINOV • RAVEL rarely performed Russian operas. Valery Gergiev staged the first R. STRAUSS • USTVOLSKAYA Russian production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen in Alexei Petrenko, Reciter • Behzod Abduraimov, Piano St Petersburg, Moscow, Seoul, Tokyo, New York and London. Münchner Philharmoniker • Valery Gergiev Gergiev also champions many contemporary Russian composers. Valery Gergiev, fresh from his appointment as chief conductor of Supplementary Marketing Materials: the Münchner Philharmoniker in 2015, takes his new ensemble • Key Release Kit to the BBC Proms for a concert of the utmost in drama and vivid • Video Trailer musicianship. The brilliant young Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov • Facebook cover and post performs Rachmaninov’s thrillingly virtuosic Piano Concerto No. 3, while the Russian stage and film actor Alexei Petrenko recites the text in Galina Ustvolskaya’s resonant and profound Symphony No. 3 ‘Jesus Messiah, Save Us!’. The programme also features a hypnotic Ravel Boléro, an alternately tender, florid and witty Rosenkavalier Suite, and the rousing Hungarian March by Berlioz. Key Features: • Important features – a first DVD outing to commemorate Valery © wildundleise Gergiev’s new relationship with the Munich Philharmonic; Münchner Philharmoniker international publicity for brilliantly talented young pianist Behzod Abduraimov; and a platform for an important contemporary Companion Titles – Naxos Audio Visual Collection symphony by the late Galina Ustvolskaya. • This is a DVD from the fourth concert of the 2016 London Proms series. • Young Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov won the 2009 London International Piano Competition. • Gergiev first performed Galina Ustvolskaya’s Third Symphony back in 1995. 2.110271