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JUL-AUG 2012 NEW RELEASE GUIDE THIS MONTH’S HIGHLIGHTS: CDDCA728 TAH2011 8573031 Laureate Series Ludwig van BEETHOVEN BRAHMS & SCHUMANN PR/DSD350058 BIS-CD-1899 HMC905269 Italian Virtuosi of the Thierry PÉCOU Edvard GRIEG & Antonin Chitarrone Tremendum DVOŘÁK (DVD) 101581 / (Blu-ray) 108069 (DVD) 2059088 / (Blu-ray) 2059084 (DVD) 711508 / (Blu-ray) 711604 (DVD) 711508 Anton BRUCKNER Leonard BERNSTEIN Nobuyuki TSUJII Symphony No. 8 Live at Carnegie Hall Naxos International (Far East) Limited 5B, Blue Box Factory Building, 25 Hing Wo Street, Tin Wan, Aberdeen, Hong Kong Tel: 2951 9557 Email: [email protected] Ermanno WOLF-FERRARI Music from (1876-1948) THE ETON CHOIRBOOK Idillio-concertino in A major, TONUS PEREGRINUS Op. 15 • Concertino in A Antony Pitts (director) flat major, Op. 34 • Suite- The Eton Choirbook is a giant 500 concertino in F major, Op. 16 year-old manuscript from Eton Andrea Tenaglia (oboe) College Chapel, and one of the William Moriconi (cor anglais) greatest surviving glories of pre- Giuseppe Ciabocchi (bassoon) Reformation England. This recording Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma • features the earliest polyphonic Francesco La Vecchia Passion by a named composer, two heartrending motets for five and six voices, two thrilling settings Although Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari is known mainly for his operatic of the Magnificat, and an extraordinary canon in 13 parts, Jesus compositions (La vedova scaltra is available on Naxos CD 8.660225-26 autem transiens. The ensemble TONUS PEREGRINUS has been and DVD 2.110234-35), he wrote a number of sublimely expressive widely acclaimed, not least for its “richly sung and very well recorded” and lyrical orchestral works, devoting the majority of his time in later programme of Orlando Gibbons, L’Estrange, and Pitts. (The Penguin life to composing instrumental music. The three delightfully melodic, Guide on 8.557681) rhythmically buoyant and, at times elegiac works featured on this CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL recording represent his complete wind concerto output. TONUS PEREGRINUS was founded by the composer Antony Pitts in 1990, and today is an established ensemble in Britain and abroad In 2002 Francesco La Vecchia was appointed Artistic Director and Resident with a significant discography. At the core of TONUS PEREGRINUS Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma. Under his leadership the are a dozen singers who combine their diverse expertise to interpret a orchestra has rapidly achieved success in Europe and in highly successful tours repertoire ranging from the end of the Dark Ages to scores where the to St Petersburg, Madrid, Belgrade, Brussels, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, London, ink is still wet. Athens, Berlin, Beijing and Shanghai. 8.572921 8.572840 THE GUERRA MANUSCRIPT, Gioachino ROSSINI Volume 2 (1792-1868) 17th Century Secular L’occasione fa il ladro Spanish Vocal Music Elizaveta Martirosyan (soprano) • Juan Sancho (tenor) • Ars Atlántica Fanie Antonelou (mezzo-soprano) Gianpiero Ruggeri (baritone) • Mauro Named after an eminent scribe at the Utzeri (baritone) • Garðar Thór court in Madrid, the Guerra Manuscript Cortes (tenor) • Joan Ribalta (tenor) contains over one hundred secular Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra songs from the second half of the • Antonino Fogliani seventeenth century. The anthology is a valuable repository of music Composed by the young Gioachino from anonymous sources but also from Spain’s very finest Baroque Rossini in eleven days to comply with a contractual commitment, L’occasione composers, such as Juan Hidalgo and José Marín. These expressive fa il ladro (Opportunity Makes A Thief) is a comedy of multiple confusions. songs, largely on poetic and mythological themes, are performed by Count Alberto, travelling to be wed to a fiancée he has yet to meet, leaves some of the world’s leading interpreters of the genre, whose first volume an inn with the wrong suitcase. Don Parmenione audaciously adopts the in this series [8.570135] received great acclaim. Count’s identity, determined to take the bride for himself. This single-act burletta is a swift and deftly plotted moral drama, Rossini’s exuberant The tenor Juan Sancho has collaborated with conductors including inspiration poured into interactions both tender and hilariously bewildering. William Christie, Gustav Leonhardt, Jordi Savall, Andrea Marcon, Fabio Biondi, Allan Curtis, Richard Egarr and Diego Fasolis. Founded Antonino Fogliani’s many conducting engagements have taken him and directed by the Galician harpist Manuel Vilas, the Ars Atlántica to leading international opera houses and concert halls. For Rossini ensemble is focused on Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin in Wildbad he has directed Ciro in Babilonia, L’occasione fa il ladro, American music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Mosè in Egitto, La scala di seta, Il signor Bruschino and Otello, as well 8.572876 as Vaccaj’s La sposa di Messina. 8.660314-15 (2 CDs) Wilhelm Friedemann BACH Kenneth FUCHS (1904-49) (1710-1784) Atlantic Riband Keyboard Works, Vol. 3 – American Rhapsody Sonatas and Suite Divinum Mysterium • Concerto Julia Brown (harpsichord) Grosso • Discover the Wild Michael Ludwig (violin) Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was Paul Silverthorne (viola) renowned as a brilliant improviser London Symphony Orchestra and keyboard performer. His JoAnn Falletta keyboard sonatas, filled with quirky contrasts and a more adventurously World Première Recordings chromatic and exploratory style than that of his contemporaries, attest to his individualism and virtuoso Kenneth Fuchs is one of America’s leading composers and his latest technical skill. His only Suite reworks and expands his father, J.S. collaboration with award-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta and the Bach’s models, turning conventional dance movements into character London Symphony Orchestra – the first volume of which (8.559224) pieces. W.F. Bach’s enthralling and unexpected twists and turns was nominated for two GRAMMY® awards – reveals the breadth of his create an expressive and unique musical language, performed by the achievement. Atlantic Riband evokes the struggle and ultimate victory ‘wonderful’ Julia Brown. (Fanfare on 8.570530, W.F. Bach Keyboard of ocean-crossing immigrants to America in an orchestral showpiece of Works Vol. 2) power and splendor. American Rhapsody is a lyrical romance for violin and orchestra, and Divinum Mysterium a single-movement viola concerto rich Julia Brown is currently Director of Music and Organist at First United in expressive tapestry. Concerto Grosso shows Fuchs’s sheer energy, and Discover the Wild is an orchestral overture of lyricism and color. Methodist Church in Eugene, Oregon, while also maintaining a full schedule of teaching, performing and recording. She is also active as A champion of American music, JoAnn Falletta has presented nearly five a harpsichordist, exploring performance practice and early music in hundred works by American composers including over one hundred world chamber music settings. premières. Her Naxos recordings include the double Grammy Award winning disc of works by John Corigliano and Grammy nominated discs of 8.572814 works of Tyberg, Dohnányi, Fuchs, Schubert, and Respighi. 8.559723 2 JUL-AUG 2012 Sergey PROKOFIEV Xavier MONTSALVATGE (1891-1953) (1912-2002) Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 Piano Music, Vol. 3 – (Highlights) Music for Two Pianos National Symphony Orchestra of Jordi Masó (piano I) • Miquel Villalba Ukraine • Andrew Mogrelia (piano II & celeste) • Pia Freund (soprano) • Ferran Carceller and “Living people can dance, the dying Miquel Àngel Martínez (percussion) cannot”, Prokofiev wrote to explain Ensemble Barcelona 216 • Ernest the problems he faced when writing Martínez Izquierdo music for the ballet Romeo and Juliet. His original score was rejected Xavier Montsalvatge was a major as ‘undanceable’ by the Bolshoy Theatre and his initial scheme for a contributor to Catalonian culture in the 20th century. His works for happy ending for the lovers was, fortunately, vetoed. The revised score, two pianos collect most of his musical preoccupations into a single however, proved a masterpiece of expressive beauty and drama, with programme. The jazz-tinted Barcelona Blues reflects his “passion melting love music and huge bravura, and it remains one of the most for the ballet”, and the Tres divertimentos his fascination with ‘Les loved ballet scores of the twentieth century. Six’. Borrowing the sonorities of Bartók, Sum Vermis expresses the “tortured symbolism” of Jacint Verdaguer’s poetry. One of Andrew Mogrelia has had a varied career of concerts, recording and Montsalvatge’s own favourites, the rarely performed 5 Invocaciones CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL work with major dance companies. He has worked with the English al Crucificado evokes biblical dramatic intensity, and the self- National, Dutch National, Finnish National, Norwegian National ballets, paraphrasing Calidoscopio looks back over the composer’s own Netherlands Dance Theatre, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Australian Ballet, creative past. Jordi Masó’s complete recording of Montsalvatge’s solo West Australian Ballet and American Ballet Theater. 8.572928 piano music can be found on 8.570744 and 8.570756. 8.572636 Max REGER (1873-1916) Laureate Series: Organ Works, Volume 12 Srdjan Bulat Guitar Recital Suite No. 1 in E minor, Op. 16 First Prize • 2011 Tárrega Suite No. 2 in G minor, Op. 92 International Guitar Competition • Kirsten Sturm (organ) Benecasim In both volume and artistic distinction This selection ranges from the there is little doubt