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Marin Alsop

Leonard BERNSTEIN (1918–1990) Companion Titles Symphony No. 3 ‘Kaddish’1 Missa Brevis2 • The Lark3 Claire Bloom, Narrator1,3 Kelley Nassief, Soprano1 Paulo Mestre, Countertenor2,3 The Maryland State Boychoir1 The Washington Chorus1 The São Paulo Symphony Choir2,3 Members of The São Paulo Symphony Orchestra2,3 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra1 8.559177 8.559622-23 Marin Alsop

Three examples of Leonard Bernstein’s vocal art can be heard in this recording. His Symphony No. 3 ‘Kaddish’ shuns traditional symphonic ideas in favor of an eclectic theatrical and oratorio-like form with a prominent rôle for speaker. For this recording Marin Alsop has returned to the work’s original narrative text, heard before the 1977 revision. The Lark – heard in a concert version with added narration – derives from Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of L’Alouette on the life of Joan of Arc, and it was this music that Bernstein reworked into his Missa Brevis many years later. 8.559245 8.572486

Key Features • Marin Alsop conducts the Baltimore Symphony in Marin Alsop is an inspiring and powerful voice in the international this recording. She is a Bernstein protégé, and has written fondly and music scene. She made history with her appointment as the 12th extensively about studying with him. He mentored her when he was music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO). With conductor of the New York Philharmonic and few conductors today her inaugural concerts in September 2007, she became the first understand his music better. Kaddish is a much misunderstood work woman to head a major American orchestra. Her success as the but an interesting point to push is that it’s heard (largely – some of the BSO’s music director has garnered national and international attention original score is not heard) in its original narrative form. The points to for her innovative programming and artistry. Alsop took up the post of push here are therefore Bernstein the vocal composer performed in principal conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra in 2012, largely original editions by one of his best contemporary interpreters. and became music director in July 2013. She also holds the title of Important also to note that the speaker in Kaddish is the great actress conductor emeritus at the Bournemouth Symphony in the United Claire Bloom. Kingdom, where she served as the principal conductor from 2002 to 2008. In September 2013, she made history as the first female conductor of the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms in London.

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Final Release

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Marc Soustrot

Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835–1921) Companion Titles Symphonies, Vol. 3 Symphony in F major ‘Urbs Roma’ La jeunesse d’Hercule • Danse macabre* Marika Fältskogh, Violin solo* Malmö Symphony Orchestra Marc Soustrot

Saint-Saëns’s Symphony in F major ‘Urbs Roma’ was his prize- winning entry to a competition organized by the Bordeaux Société Ste Cécile, but the work remained unpublished in the composer’s 8.573138 8.573139 lifetime. This early work is notable for a masterly final movement which, unusually, comprises a theme and variations. The symphonic poem La Jeunesse d’Hercule is a portrayal of the conflict between pleasure and duty, while the Danse macabre is amongst his most popular orchestral works. The first two volumes of this complete edition of Saint-Saëns’s symphonies can be heard on Naxos 8.573138 and 8.573139.

Key Features • This third volume rounds off our new edition of Saint- Saëns’s complete Symphonies, the first two volumes of which having received wide critical acclaim. Volume 2 (8.573139) with the famous 8.553039 8.572037 ‘Organ’ Symphony (No. 3) is equal to the toughest competition, with MusicWeb International “immensely impressed by Soustrot’s reading… played beautifully by the Malmö orchestra. Soustrot creates a sense of expectancy that keeps you on the edge of your seat… excellent orchestral playing throughout.” ClassicsToday.com felt that the “second volume in Naxos’ ongoing Saint-Saëns symphony cycle is as good as the first” (8.573138). With some of the best recordings available of Saint-Saëns’s less frequently performed and recorded symphonies and orchestral works, this is now an assured market leader in a very popular field.

Marc Soustrot is considered a specialist in French orchestral © Leif Johansson music. Formerly the principal conductor and artistic director of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra Orchestre Philharmonique des Pays de la Loire, the Beethoven Orchester, Bonn, and Het Brabants Orkest, Eindhoven, he is principal the Real Orquesta Sinfónica de Sevilla, the Filharmonie Antwerpen, conductor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and designated the Residentie Orkest Den Haag and the Philharmonic Orchestras principal conductor of the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra. Soustrot has of Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, Luxembourg, Barcelona conducted the Munich Philharmonic, the Bamberg Symphony, the and Tokyo. Marc Soustrot was honoured with the title Chevalier de la English Chamber Orchestra, the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Légion d’Honneur in 2008. 3 NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2015

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Leif Segerstam Jean SIBELIUS (1865–1957) Companion Titles Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 Jedermann Two Serious Melodies · In memoriam Pia Pajala, Soprano • Tuomas Katajala, Tenor Nicholas Söderland, Bass Cathedralis Aboensis Choir Mikaela Palmu, Violin Turku Philharmonic Orchestra Leif Segerstam 8.573299 8.573300

Rarely performed but recognized as a hidden masterpiece, Sibelius’s score for Jedermann is unusual in that the music closely follows the words and action of this morality play, intensifying Everyman’s hubris, penance, escape from the Devil’s clutches and ultimate salvation. The Two Serious Melodies reflect Sibelius’ dark mood during the difficult years of World War I, while In memoriam resonates with his preoccupation with death in 1909 following a life-saving throat operation, and was performed at his own funeral in 1957.

Key Features • This is the fourth of a six volume set that explores 8.573301 8.570763 Jean Sibelius’s orchestral works beyond the higher profile symphonies, violin concerto and tone poems. Finnish conductor Leif Segerstam is an acclaimed Sibelius interpreter, having been awarded the annual Finnish State Prize for Music in 2004; and in 2005 the highly esteemed Sibelius Medal. His recordings for Naxos include a “skillfully and sweepingly paced” Tristan und Isolde (Classic FM on 8.660152-54) and a “deeply moving” Wozzeck (Penguin Guide on 8.660076-77). In this fourth volume, platinum record-making and award winning orchestra the Turku Philharmonic accompanies a world class team of vocal soloists in Pia Pajala, Nicholas Söderlund and Tuomas Katajala, as well as the Cathedralis Aboensis Choir, which has a close association with the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. © Seilo Ristimäki Leif Segerstam is a conductor, composer, violinist and pianist with Turku Philharmonic Orchestra a prominent international career. Since 2012 he has been Chief Conductor of Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. From autumn 1997 to spring 2013 Leif Segerstam was Professor of Orchestra Conducting Prize for Music and in 2005 the highly esteemed Sibelius Medal. at the Sibelius Academy. He was awarded the 1999 Nordic Council He has gained wide acclaim for his many recordings with different Music Prize for his work “as a tireless champion of Scandinavian orchestras. While pursuing his conducting career, Segerstam has music” and the Swedish Cultural Foundation’s Prize for Music in also produced an extensive oeuvre as a composer. 2003. In 2004 Leif Segerstam was awarded the annual Finnish State 4 NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2015

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François-André Danican PHILIDOR (1726–1795) Les Femmes Vengées An opéra-comique in one act (1775) Companion Titles Claire Debono • Pascale Beaudin, Sopranos Blandine Staskiewicz, Mezzo-soprano Jeffrey Thompson • Antonio Figueroa, Tenors Alex Dobson, Baritone Opera Lafayette • Ryan Brown

The first performances of Les Femmes Vengées (The Avenged Women) in 1775 restored the fortunes of Francois-André Danican Philidor, which had been wavering since the great success of Tom Jones a decade earlier. His opéra-comique, which foreshadows the plot of Mozart’s Così fan tutte (Mozart had been in Paris during the 8.660274 8.660209-10 first performances of Philidor’s work), offers delicious opportunities for mock-indignation and repartee in its arias and ensembles. This recording presents the complete music. Opera Lafayette and Ryan Brown’s recording of Philidor’s Sancho Pança [8.660274] was hailed as a ‘witty, authentic interpretation’ by the American Record Guide.

Key Features • Is this the French Così fan tutte? No one knows for sure whether or not Mozart was present at the early performances of Philidor’s Les Femmes vengées but it’s a known fact that he was staying in Paris at the time and there are distinct mirror-reflections in his later work of this earlier comic work. All the music is here; 8.660224 8.660263-64 though there are cuts in the spoken dialogue (the complete text with spoken dialogue is available on Naxos’ website). This is high- class opéra-comique, essentially light-hearted, in the last quarter of the eighteenth-century. Important to note that Ryan Brown and his ensemble are world-leaders in the performance of Philidor’s music.

Ryan Brown is the founder, conductor, and artistic director of Opera Lafayette, an American period-instrument ensemble that specializes in French repertoire, rediscovers masterpieces, and creates a recorded legacy of its work. Through his work with Opera Lafayette, he has gained an international reputation for his interpretations of French opera and for his rôle in the revival of significant works from the 18th and 19th centuries. He was most recently and widely lauded for the modern première and recording of Félicien David’s 1862 Lalla Roukh, a seminal work of musical orientalism. His teachers included Dorothy DeLay and Gustav Meier. Ryan Brown is a recipient of La Médaille d’Or du Rayonnement Culturel from La Renaissance © Louis Forget Française. Opera Lafayette

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Tianwa Yang

The Best of Tianwa Yang: SARASATE • MENDELSSOHN • YSAŹE • PIAZZOLLA Tianwa Yang, violin

Tianwa Yang, called “an unquestioned master of the violin” (American Record Guide), is an international renowned performer and recording artist. The Best of Tianwa Yang features a nice programmed selection of her most popular and well-loved recordings.

Winner of the prestigious ECHO Klassik Best Up-and-Coming Artist Award 2014 and the Annual Prize of the German Record Critics 2014 for her Naxos recordings of the Mendelssohn Violin Concertos and Complete Music for Violin by Sarasate, Tianwa Yang has quickly established herself as a leading international performer and recording artist. The young violinist, a resident of Germany and heralded by the Detroit News as “the most important violinist to come on the scene in many a year,” has debuted with such major orchestras as the Detroit, Seattle, Baltimore, Nashville, Kansas City, SWR-Baden Baden-Freiburg, and New Zealand Symphonies, in addition to the MDR-Sinfonieorchester-Leipzig, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Orchestre National d’Île de France, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and the Buffalo, BBC, Warsaw and Royal Liverpool Philharmonics. Ms. Yang has performed under the baton of renowned conductors Marc Albrecht, Andreas Delfs, JoAnn Falletta, Giancarlo Guerrero, Günther Herbig, Yoel Levi, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Gerard Schwarz, Vassily Sinaisky amongst others.

Ms. Yang continues to build her growing reputation in concert halls across Europe, Australasia and North America. She has won several awards during her career including the Volkswagen Foundation prize “Star of Tomorrow” by Seiji Ozawa and the 2006 “Prix Montblanc.” She is Professor of Violin at the Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland and is grateful to Lin Yaoji, Jörg-Wolfgang Jahn and Anner Bylsma for the musical insight and support they have offered throughout her career. She performs on a Guarneri del Gesu (1730) on kind loan from Mr. Kei Mei Rin in Singapore.

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World Première Recordings Christopher ROUSE (b. 1949) Seeing* Kabir Padavali** Talise Trevigne, Soprano** Orion Weiss, Piano* Albany Symphony David Alan Miller

Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a GRAMMY® Award, Christopher Rouse is one of America’s most prominent composers of orchestral music, creating a body of work perhaps unequalled in its emotional intensity. Conceived from the start as differing from a traditional piano concerto, Seeing brings together seemingly disparate elements to explore the notion of ‘sanity’ through the music of Robert Schumann and Skip Spence, swinging between extremes of consonance and dissonance, stability and instability, to create a disorientating and hallucinatory work seen through the lens of mental illness. Kabir Padavali or ‘Kabir Songbook’ presents a range of the great Indian poet’s religious concerns, from extraordinarily beautiful ecstasy to impishly humorous allegories.

Key Features • Christopher Rouse is one of America’s most prominent and highly regarded composers of orchestral music, winning him a Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy Award, and leading to his election to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters. Rouse is not new to Naxos, his Wolf Rounds (8.572439) described by MusicWeb © Gardy D Gold International as “a virtuosic thrill-ride… gripping, convincing, and a David Alan Miller significant addition to the ever-growing literature for wind bands.” 8.559799 Playing Time: With a scintillating recording from this top team of musicians, this release is 63:36 guaranteed to be one of contemporary music’s leading titles in 2015. The Albany Symphony has received more ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming 6 36943 97992 1 than any other orchestra in America. Grammy Award winning conductor David Alan Miller is a champion of contemporary music, as is acclaimed vocal soloist Talise Trevigne. Pianist Orion Weiss is familiar to collectors of Naxos recordings with highly successful titles from Scarlatti (8.573222) to Webern (8.557516), and some “truly jazzy” Gershwin (ClassicsToday.com on 8.559790).

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Charles CAMILLERI (1931-2009) Mediterranean Piano Concerto No. 1 'Mediterranean'1 Accordion Concerto2 • Malta Suite Charlene Farrugia, Piano1 • Franko Božac, Accordion2 Malta Philharmonic Orchestra Miran Vaupotić

The three works on this recording come from the first phase in the musical development of Malta’s prolific composer Charles Camilleri, and are some of his most rewarding and enduring works. The Piano Concerto No. 1 ‘Mediterranean’ owes much to the Romantic concerto tradition but is suffused with the distinctive flavours of music from southern Europe and North Africa. A virtuoso of the accordion, Camilleri wrote a Concerto for the instrument that journeys humorously from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The Malta Suite, a set of colourful dances, is widely considered the island’s musical emblem.

Key Features • Because of his teaching appointments Camilleri is still remembered in the UK, USA and especially Canada. His memory is still vivid in his native island and the Waltz from the Malta Suite recorded in this disc is played every day in one of Valletta’s

© Nikolai Ivanovich Semenov main squares (Valletta is the Maltese capital). These three works Miran Vaupotić date from his early Nationalist phase where he fused Maltese and Mediterranean folk tunes to ‘art music’ traditions, similar to works by de Falla, 8.573373 Playing Time: Bartók and Vaughan Williams. The music is brilliant and approachable; the Piano Concerto would make a good Prom piece. 60:21 7 47313 33737 8 Companion Titles

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Includes World Première Recordings

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Philip GLASS (b. 1937) Companion Titles String Quartet No. 5 Suite from Dracula† · String Sextet* Cian O’Dúill, Viola* Gemma Rosefield, Cello* Carducci String Quartet

†WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDING

Philip Glass’ Fifth String Quartet is the most substantial of his five 8.559636 8.559056 quartets and the most traditional, using formal structures and expressive contrasts which go far beyond minimalism. While maintaining Glass’ unmistakeable personal style, this is a quartet which delivers both driving energy and an unforgettable, threnody- like tenderness. Glass chose a string quartet for his score to the film Dracula to ‘evoke the feeling of the world of the 19th century’, the music underpinning the film’s visual drama while avoiding obvious ‘horror’ effects. The String Sextet is an arrangement of Glass’s Third Symphony (Naxos 8.559202), combining symphonic scale with the intimacy synonymous with the chamber music genre. The Carducci Quartet’s critically acclaimed recording of Philip Glass’s String 8.559325 8.573205 Quartets Nos. 1-4 can be heard on Naxos 8.559636.

Key Features • Released in 2010, the Carducci Quartet’s recording of Philip Glass’s String Quartets 1-4 (8.559636) became an instant critical hit, this review from The Strad being typical: “Bringing these works to life requires a multitude of nuances and spotless intonation, and the young British-based Carducci Quartet flawlessly meets the challenge. The intricate web of sound throughout is rhythmically precise and crystal clear, with minute changes of dynamics unfailingly achieved.” This recording has remained a favorite ever since, with ClassicsToday.com acknowledging that “the Carducci Quartet more than holds its own in this repertoire alongside the Kronos and Smith © Marco Borggreve Quartets.” With this recording of the Fifth Quartet the Carducci Cian O’Dúill Gemma Rosefield Quartet completes the cycle, and with the film score to Dracula and the String Sextet this is a substantial program which none of Glass’s Hall, Copenhagen, Carnegie Hall, New York and the Library of legions of fans will be able to resist. Congress and John F Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. Celebrated for their interpretation of contemporary repertoire, the Carducci Quartet has given premieres of numerous works composed for them Winners of international competitions, including the Concert by British composers including Huw Watkins, Michael Berkeley, John Artists Guild International Competition 2007 and Finland’s Kuhmo McCabe and Adrian Williams, an oboe quintet by German composer International Chamber Music Competition, the Carducci Quartet Sven-Ingo Koch and Monks Music by Russian composer Alexander has appeared at prestigious venues across the globe including the Raskatov, based on Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ. Wigmore Hall, London, National Concert Hall, Dublin, Tivoli Concert 8 NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2015

Grażyna BACEWICZ (1909-1969) Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2 String Quartets Nos. 2, 4 and 5 Lutosławski Quartet

Grażyna Bacewicz is now emerging from the shadow of her Polish contemporaries, such as Panufnik and Lutosławski, on the international stage. She constantly sought ways to develop her style and it is this continuous line of development that is perfectly exemplified in her series of string quartets. String Quartet No. 2 was premiered in 1943 in challenging circumstances but attests to her positive spirit. The prize-winning String Quartet No. 4 is one of her most performed works, perfectly balancing formal complexity, approachable themes and harmonic sophistication. The powerful and intense String Quartet No. 5 is a compositional tour de force. Volume 1 can be heard on Naxos 8.572806.

Key Features • Bacewicz had many talents: she was a fine pianist, a professional violinist – in which capacity she recorded a number of LPs – and a composer increasingly recognised. She wrote 7 quartets and each reflect elements of expressionism, neoclassicism, and serialism. Points to press are her emergence after many years of neglect since her death in 1969 – she was overshadowed by Polish contemporaries who lived longer, such as Lutosławski – and inevitably as a female composer often © Marek Szczepański working against the odds. She wrote in a variety of forms but 8.572807 Playing Time: Lutosławski Quartet her quartets offer a perfect summation of her musical credo. 78:14 7 47313 28077 3 Companion Titles

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Ludwig van BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Variations on Folk Songs Opp. 105 and 107 (Performing version by Patrick Gallois) Patrick Gallois, Flute Maria Prinz, Piano

Beethoven’s letters show an extensive and prolonged correspondence with George Thomson, a keen amateur musician who had made it his task to collect and publish settings of folk songs, commissioning the likes of Pleyel, Koželuch and Haydn. The Opp. 105 and 107 collections, written for piano with optional parts for flute or violin, are filled with delightfully decorative but virtuoso writing. This recording offers versions with improvisation and ornamentation by Patrick Gallois based on the performance practice of the early eighteenth century.

Key Features • Patrick Gallois is one of our star performers both as a conductor and flautist, and releases associated with his name always do well even in the most competitive areas of the catalog. © Theresia Linke His duo with pianist Maria Prinz has been acclaimed for their recording of arrangements of Mozart Violin Sonatas (8.573033), with the American Record Guide hearing their performances as "ever beguiling! Balm for whatever in life has brought you down," and the New York Concert Review remarking that “many flutists and fans of flute music will find great pleasure in this 8.573337 Playing Time: new addition to the repertoire.” These Beethoven Variations on Folksongs do not 72:02 have a high profile when it comes to recordings, and the appearance of these at times astonishingly virtuoso collections on a single disc will be widely welcomed. 7 47313 33377 6 Companion Titles

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A-Z of Singers* By David Patmore

The A–Z of Singers surveys the recordings and careers of over 300 singers; the greatest vocalists who have made recordings are included, from Theo Adam to Teresa Zylis-Gara. The text covers artists using the earliest recording processes up to those using contemporary, cutting-edge technology. In this clear and concise publication, the artists are listed alphabetically, with a summary of their career, notable recordings, biography and a critical appraisal of their recorded legacy. In addition, four CDs present the author’s selection of recordings by 69 artists. This package will appeal to singing enthusiasts and scholars alike as a well-informed, interesting and precise work of reference.

Other Releases in the A-Z Series STRING PLAYERS STRING PLAYERS STRING PLAYERS by David Milsom

OVER 300 BIOGRAPHIES & SELECTED RECORDINGS

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FRITZ KREISLER DAVID OISTRAKH JASCHA HEIFETZ PABLO CASALS WILLIAM PRIMROSE 4 CDs JACQUELINE DU PRÉ

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“As historical anthologies go, this has to be among the best-planned and the best-annotated. No piano buff worth the label can possibly afford to be without it.” – Gramophone on the A-Z of Pianists

“A-Z of Classical Music is a rich source of inspiration for anyone either just embarking on a lifetime of musical enjoyment or for whom classical music has long been a way of life…the discs offer a good introduction to some of the most famous and melodic music ever composed, while the book will be very useful to newcomers to the potentially confusing world of classical music.” – Kraft Music on The A-Z of Classical Music

*NOT AVAILABLE IN THE UNITED STATES DUE TO POSSIBLE COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS

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Divine Redeemer J.S. BACH • GOUNOD • FRANCK • N. BOULANGER L. BOULANGER • PUCCINI • WOLF • REGER • HANDEL Christine Brewer, Soprano Paul Jacobs, Organ

Two of America’s most celebrated musicians, both GRAMMY® Award-winners, join for a programme that ranges across the sacred vocal and organ repertoire. Some of the most beloved of all pieces, such as Franck’s Panis angelicus (taken from his Messe à 3 voix) are complemented by rarer items. Nadia Boulanger’s three organ pieces are heard alongside her sister Lili’s beautiful Pie Jesu while Max Reger’s sensitive organ arrangements of three Hugo Wolf songs are followed by the rousing Toccata and Fugue, Op. 59.

Key Features • Paul Jacobs has been called America’s finest organist (Economist). He is also the first organist to win a Grammy – in 2011 (Messiaen: Livre Du Saint- Sacrement). Christine Brewer is one America’s most © Frank Kaufman © Christian Steiner celebrated sopranos and won a Grammy for her Christine Brewer Paul Jacobs album of songs by Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and of Experience. This program is being toured by the two artists later in 2015 in America. It has a large sacred music theme and the idea of a virtuoso soprano- plus-organ duo should be promoted.

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Olivier MESSIAEN (1908-1992) Poèmes pour Mi Vocalise-Étude Chants de Terre et de Ciel Bruun Hyldig Duo

The song cycles that Messiaen wrote between 1936 and 1945 perfectly convey the expressive and aesthetic evolution in his life and art over these years. They occupy a strikingly important place in his musical biography, and together form a composing workshop in which his latest innovations could be developed, while also exploring the full range and variety of writing for the voice. Poèmes pour Mi is laid out on the largest scale – a richly composed cycle, intense and at times heroic. Chants de Terre et de Ciel, lighter in tone but still deeply expressive, celebrates the joy and energy of married love and family life. The Bruun Hyldig Duo’s acclaimed recording of Messiaen’s Harawi and Trois Mélodies can be heard on Naxos 8.572189.

Key Features • Messiaen’s writing for piano, organ or large orchestral forces, and his very idiomatic writing for voice tends to be a very overlooked element of his compositions. It is worth noting that almost all the texts are by Messiaen himself. He also once said that anyone wishing to understand his musical language should study these two early song cycles because 8.573247 Playing Time: ‘they are true in sentiment and typical of my manner.’ In 56:02 © Jan Windszus some ways they hold the key to his early style. Bruun Hyldig Duo 7 47313 32477 4 Companion Titles

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World Première Recordings

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Danijel Cerović and Goran Krivokapić

Johann Sebastian BACH (1685–1750) English Suites Nos. 1-3 Arranged for Two Guitars Montenegrin Guitar Duo

Bach’s keyboard works known as the English Suites offer a series of dance movements which, despite their name, owe more to earlier French and German models. This is the first of two recordings of the completeEnglish Suites arranged for two guitars by the distinguished Montenegrin Guitar Duo. Transcriptions of Bach for solo guitar have been popular since the nineteenth century and the emergence of the guitar duo extends still further the potential for exciting and revelatory performances.

Key Features • Goran Krivokapic has won first-prizes at no fewer than 18 international competitions and his duo partner Danijel Cerović is a very experienced performer and teacher. Together their duo, the Montenegrin Guitar Duo, is performing a wide range of music – both historical and contemporary. Important to stress the unique nature of this premiere recording for guitar duo of the Bach English Suites. It’s much more usual to hear a solo transcription but in recent years duo transcriptions have begun to appear – there are already duo transcriptions of Bach’s Goldberg Variations - and this new disc takes transcription forward another gear.

The Montenegrin Guitar Duo is frequently invited to prestigious international events for recitals and concerts with orchestras, as well as for master-classes, lectures on transcribing Bachʼs music and adjudicating competitions. Their performances have been highly acclaimed by both audiences and critics for their historically informed performances of J. S. Bachʼs English Suites in a new, fresh approach on two guitars. Their repertoire includes the transcriptions of renaissance and baroque music and original compositions dating from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a special emphasis on contemporary music originally written for two guitars, as well as improvisation. This first of two recordings of Bachʼs English Suites is a world première.

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Leo BROUWER (b. 1939) Music for Two Guitars Tríptico • Micro piezas Música Incidental Campesina Per suonare a due Sonata de Los Viajeros Brasil Guitar Duo

With a prolific output ranging from solo guitar pieces to symphonic works, including concertos, chamber music, and many film scores, Leo Brouwer is recognised as one of the world’s most innovative and internationally performed contemporary composers. In this recording his progressive and imaginative contribution to extending the horizons of the guitar duo is fully demonstrated. Subtle allusions to dance styles, virtuosity, and rhythms referencing Cuban folk music are some of the features of these exciting pieces which range from the special sonorities of Per suonare a due to the Sonata de Los Viajeros, an international voyage in four movements.

Key Features • The Brasil Guitar Duo were 2006 winners of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and hailed by Classical Guitar magazine for its "maturity of musicianship and technical virtuosity," They share with Brouwer a desire to widen the guitar duo format and are a very popular and charismatic duo. In October last year they joined forces with world-famous cellists Yo Yo Ma and Carlos Prieto to première Brouwer’s El arco y la lira, a work for two cellos and two guitars. Note the recent Brouwer disc 8.573363 where the USP was the use of 8.573336 Playing Time: guitar-and- bandurria, a lute-like instrument. 69:06 Companion Titles 7 47313 33367 7

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Guitar Laureate Recital: Eren SÜALP Winner 2014 Michele Pittaluga Guitar Competition, Alessandria

ERDENER • BROUWER • OCHOA SÜALP • BAYRAKTAR • DODGSON Eren Süalp

The young, prize-winning, international recitalist Eren Süalp has constructed a programme that shows the cosmopolitan nature of contemporary guitar writing, exploring music from his own country, Turkey, as well as from Venezuela, Cuba, and England. It ranges from the witty twists and turns of Turgay Erdener’s Five Grotesques through Bayraktar’s Six Anatolian Pieces – evocative arrangements that occasionally summon up the sound of Turkish plucked instruments – to Leo Brouwer’s powerful Sonata of 1990. Stephen Dodgson’s Partita No. 1 is startlingly original and brings a unique sound-world to the guitar.

Key Features • The young soloist Eren Süalp has won numerous prizes including the distinguished second prize at the 2011 Segovia International Competition in Lamares, Spain and in September 2014 won first prize at the Michele Pittaluga competition in Alessandria, Italy. He performs internationally. The recital reflects his Turkish background but also the transcending of national boundaries in contemporary guitar composition. He has brought varied cultures together and also includes a composition of his own, an impressionistic piece called Raindrops. 8.573487 Playing Time: 66:45 Companion Titles 7 47313 34877 0

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Joaquín TURINA (1882–1949)

Piano Music, Vol. 11 © Jordi Ribó Verbena madrileña • En la zapatería Jordi Masó Linterna mágica • El circo • Radio Madrid Jordi Masó, Piano Companion Titles

Joaquín Turina loved to paint musical pictures of his immediate surroundings, and this 11th volume in Jordi Masó’s complete edition of Turina’s piano works features music inspired by various aspects of everyday life. Verbena madrileña is a brightly coloured portrait of a feast-day in Madrid, while En la zapatería describes the shoemaker’s tasks in vignettes ranging from Wagnerian drama to balletic pirouettes. Also included are the cinema-inspired Linterna mágica and the Radio Madrid suite with its ‘broadcasts’ from different places in Spain, each miniature a brief flash of inspiration from deep 8.557150 8.557438 8.557684 within Turina’s fertile, creative spirit.

Key Features • Our edition of Joaquín Turina’s piano music played by Jordi Masó has received wide acclaim over its previous volumes, with volume 10 (8.573183) seeing the Gramophone magazine admiring how “…Masó, admirably recorded, takes everything in his stride, responding effortlessly to every virtuoso and entrenched national challenge.” ClassicsToday.com summed up the values of this collection in their review of volume 6 (8.572141): “Jordi Masó has done excellent work in this ongoing series, and he’s in excellent form 8.570026 8.570370 8.572141 here. He makes everything sound natural, rhythmically pointed, and builds the climaxes without banging. Turina was, notoriously, a gentle soul who liked his music played with elegance, and Masó does just that, but without forgetting the muscle lying beneath the surface. Excellent sonics complete this wholly winning package.”

Jordi Masó studied at the Granollers Conservatory with Josep M. Roger, at the Barcelona School of Music with the pianist Albert Attenelle, and at the Royal Academy of Music of London with Christopher Elton and Nelly Akopian. He has won first prizes in many 8.572455 8.572682 8.572915 National and International competitions in Spain and has performed extensively in most European countries in piano recitals and in chamber music concerts. Jordi Masó´s wide repertoire, covering all periods and styles, with special emphasis on music of the twentieth century, has brought first performances of many piano works written for him by the foremost Spanish composers. He has recorded over forty discs, acclaimed by the most important publications. He is piano For Jordi Masó's complete discography, professor at the Granollers Conservatory and at the Esmuc (High visit his Naxos artist page http://www.naxos.com/person/Jordi_Maso_492/492.htm Music School of Catalonia), and a 2008 ARAM (Associate of the Royal Academy of Music) award recipient. 8.573183 14 NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2015

World Première Recordings Raw Earth New Music for Wind Band The Hartt School Wind Ensemble Glen Adsit

Stephen Michael GRYC (b. 1949) Concerto for Winds and Percussion Susan BOTTI (b. 1962) Terra Cruda Jess Langston TURNER (b. 1983) Rumpelstilzchen

The contemporary wind ensemble has expanded and redefined its identity, now offering composers as broad a canvas as that of a virtuoso symphony orchestra. Each work heard on this recording reflects this new image of the wind ensemble, none more so than Stephen Michael Gryc’s Concerto for Winds and Percussion, which demonstrates The Hartt School Wind Ensemble’s brilliant technique and wide range of expression. Susan Botti’s Terra Cruda explores the innate behavior and repercussions of aggression, while Jess Turner’s Rumpelstilzchen depicts different parts of the famous fairy story, from the sorrow of the maiden to the creepy little gnome’s fury after his plot has been foiled.

Key Features • The Hartt Wind Ensemble conducted by Glen Adsit already has a fine track record as part of our ‘Wind Band Classics’ series. Their fine performance of Chen Yi’sDragon Rhyme (8.572889) was described as “an outstanding recording” by the American Record Guide, and they have already recorded the music of Stephen 8.573342 Playing Time: Michael Gryc with his remarkable trombone 51:35 concerto Passaggi (8.572109). The Hartt Wind Ensemble represents the state 7 47313 33427 8 of the art when it comes to boundary-stretching symphonic ambition and with the ever-energetic wind ensemble world always hungry for new music these releases are always eagerly snapped up by musicians and fans worldwide.

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8.572109 8.572889 8.573361 8.573334

Blown Away: Music for Wind Ensemble Segment Catalogue

Wind band, concert band, wind ensemble, symphonic band – whatever the nomenclature, the glorious sound of massed woodwind, brass and percussion instruments today lies at the heart of educational and military music departments. The wind band concept took root more than three centuries ago and has been evolving ever since: following the French Revolution in 1789, the establishment of the Paris National Guard band gave considerable impetus to the development of the ensemble into its modern form; a century later, John Philip Sousa's renowned American band toured the US and Europe, spreading the ensemble's popularity; the first half of the 20th century saw established English classical composers such as Vaughan Williams and Holst championing its cause; and contemporary composers worldwide continue to provide the genre's catalogue with a modernistic edge. The sheer variety and vitality that's on offer in the Naxos Wind Band Classics and American Classics series that fill this catalogue are sure to delight listeners of all ages!

Recent Segment Catalogues

Brass Bonanza RUSSIAN & catalogue UKRAINIAN

The Feminine Touch WORKS BY FEMALE COMPOSERS

Brass Harp Female Composers Russian & Ukrainian Symphonies

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DU Ming-xin (b. 1928) Ten Xinjiang Dances For Violin and Orchestra Takako Nishizaki, Violin Singapore Symphony Orchestra Choo Hoey

Takako Nishizaki is one of the most frequently recorded and among the best-selling violinists of all time. She has become the best-known and best-selling performer of Chinese violin music. In addition to the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto (which she recorded seven times with Japanese and Chinese orchestras as well as with the New Zealand Symphony and Singapore Chinese Folk Orchestra), she has performed and recorded concertos dedicated to her by Du Ming-Xin and Chen Gang. Takako Nishizaki is one of only 20 classical artists to have sold more than 1 million copies of a recording, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Her recordings of the Butterfly Lovers Concerto by He and Chen sold more than three million copies in the People’s Republic of China and throughout South-East Asia.

Companion Titles

8.225814 Playing Time: 46:36 6 36943 58142 1 8.225810 8.572494 8.223979 8.223996-97

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791) Idil Biret Concerto Edition, Vol. 6 Piano Concertos Nos. 13 and 17 Idil Biret London Mozart Players Patrick Gallois

“The music critics of the Parisian press dedicated glowing articles last week to the 11 years’ old Turkish pianist Idil Biret. Mlle Idil Biret scored a triumphant success in performing Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos in E flat, K. 365 with the great master of the piano Wilhelm Kempff, conducted by Joseph Keilberth.” LA REPUBLIQUE – France, 18 February 1953

“Miss Biret was soloist in an entrancing performance of Mozart’s E flat Concerto No. 22, K. 482 with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Mlle Nadia Boulanger. The variety of her playing, its finely-shaded gradations and brilliant but never mechanical figurations, revealed her as already a remarkable artist. Not for many years has a Hallé (Manchester) audience heard such perfectly balanced Mozart playing… No words can describe the wondrous finale, with its mixture of gaiety and anguish. This was a performance in which every note counted for its full value.” DAILY TELEGRAPH – UK 1963

“The soloist, at the SSO concert in the Sydney Opera House performing the K. 466 Mozart piano concerto, was Idil Biret, the Turkish pianist making her first Australian tour, and her playing was eminently musical, stylishly phrased, 8.571306 Playing Time: totally free of mannerisms or effects imposed from outside, firm yet emotionally 67:05 attuned to a work with a deep vein of sadness.” Fred Blanks, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD – Australia 1980 7 47313 13067 2 Companion Titles

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Digital Exclusives

Arturo CARDELÚS (b. 1981) Con Aire de Tango 100 Miles Suite • Two pieces for piano trio Two pieces for violin and piano • Two piano pieces Arturo Cardelús, Piano Berlin Philharmonic Soloists Laurentius Dinca • Maureen Choi • Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Violins Michael Kaufman • Sami Myerson • Timothy Loo, Cellos John Torcello, Accordion • Steve Dress, Double Bass

The music of award-winning composer and pianist Arturo Cardelús is widely acclaimed and performed all over the world. He is cementing a strong reputation as a film music composer, and the 100 Miles Suite evokes a passion for train travel shared by the characters in Tamas Tatai’s film of the same name. His chamber oeuvre expresses deeply personal responses to love and loss with music that is at turns tender, melancholic and lyrical, while the impressive Con Aire de Tango unites the flair of Piazzolla with the technical ingenuity of Vivaldi.

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Turkish Music for Cello and Piano SAYGUN • MANAV • UÇARSU • USMANBAŞ CelloPianoDuo

This disc explores the ways in which Turkish composers have sought to reconcile their own traditions with Western musical heritage. Saygun’s Cello Sonata is representative of his first creative period, blending Anatolian and Western idioms, while İlhan Usmanbaş’ ceaseless aspiration for newer expression via freedom of form has won him international renown. More recently, Özkan Manav has explored folk music using techniques derived from the bağlama, a long-necked lute, and Hasan Uçarsu’s arrangement of an Anatolian folk song uses innovative compositional techniques to represent the sounds, geography and culture of his homeland.

Key Features • Focusing on Turkish music for cello and piano, this disc ranges over

© Meltem Işık the generations of Turkish composers in the twentieth-century and beyond. Saygun comes from the first generation – and he taught all three of the other composers here – whilst Usmanbaş comes from the second generation. The other two composers were born between 1965-67 and therefore come from a later tradition. The line here is the accommodation of folkloric/Anatolian 9.70236 Playing Time: source material to Western traditions and 63:00 structures. In Saygun’s case you can cite Bartók as a general influence – as he and Saygun carried out research on Turkish folk 7 30099 72361 9 music. Authenticity is a big issue for Uçarsu who asks his performers to sing the line of a song in his piece.

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Naxos Audiobooks

In a Glass Darkly By Sheridan Le Fanu Unabridged 9 781843 799191 Read by Nicholas Boulton, David Horovitch and cast

Demons, vengeful spirits, insanity, premature burials and lesbian vampires, In a Glass Darkly contains five diabolical tales of horror and mystery that will get the heart racing. Each story, including the famous Green Tea and Carmilla, is presented as a case from the posthumous papers of Dr Martin Hesselius, a metaphysical physician who has no doubt as to the existence of supernatural phenomena − unlike our anxious protagonists... These traditional, yet unfamiliar tales were revered upon release, with Bram Stoker writing his own vampire story some twenty years later, and Henry James once suggesting that this is 'the ideal reading... for the hours after midnight'.

Companion Titles

NA0213 Playing Time: NA428312 NA0026 NA0190 10 CD set; MP3 / M4B download 13 Hrs

The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Whisperer in Darkness By H.P. Lovecraft 9 781843 798774 Unabridged Read by William Roberts

The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Whisperer in Darkness are counted amongst H.P. Lovecraft's most popular stories. In the first we are transported to the decrepit coastal town of Innsmouth, whose amphibian-like citizens betray a dark and sinister secret. The second takes us to Vermont, where a university professor becomes embroiled in a mind-bending, celestial mystery after strange things are seen floating in the rivers. Dark, brooding and suspenseful, this is Lovecraft at his very best.

Companion Titles

NA0090 NA0014 NA0214 NA0214 Playing Time: 5 CD set; MP3 / M4B download 6 Hrs

Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men By Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9 781843 799047 Unabridged Read by Neville Jason

Rousseau's Discourse sets out to explore the origin of inequality among people, a journey that sees him trace the evolution of humans from the savage man to the foundations of civil society. With verve and passion, the philosopher argues that the birth of private property was the 'beginning of evil'. Throughout the book we are led to consider the development of language, reason, self-preservation, benevolence, pity and law − all through the lens of perhaps the most original thinker of the eighteenth century.

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NA0205 Playing Time: NA487812 NA419512 NA485412 5 CD set; MP3 / M4B download 6 Hrs

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Jean Sibelius, composer Guitar Duets

8.572486 747313248674 BARTOK, B.: Concerto for Orchestra • Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta 8.573055 747313305575 MERTZ, J.K.: Guitar Duets

8.559177 636943917725 BERNSTEIN, L.: Chichester Psalms • On the Waterfront Through the Centuries: Amadeus Guitar Duo - 8.573439 747313343973 HANDEL, G.F. / MERTZ, J.K. / GANGI, M. / BURKHART, F. / TELEMANN, G.P. 8.559622-23 636943962220 BERNSTEIN, L.: Mass

8.559245 636943924525 BERNSTEIN, L.: Serenade • Facscimile • Divertimento Joaquín Turina Piano Music Cycle

Camille Saint-Saëns, composer TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 1 - 8.557150 747313215027 Fantastic Dances • Gypsy Dances • 3 Andalusian Dances 8.573039 730099403924 SAINT-SAËNS, C.: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 • Suite, Op. 16

8.573138 747313313877 SAINT-SAËNS, C.: Symphonies, Vol. 1 - Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 • Phaéton 8.557438 747313243822 TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 2 - Romantic Sonata • Fantasy Sonata • Magical Corner

8.557684 747313268429 TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 3 - Seville • Spanish Women • Women of Seville SAINT-SAËNS, C.: Symphonies, Vol. 2 - 8.573139 747313313976 Symphony No. 3 • Symphony in A major • Le rouet d'Omphale 8.570026 747313002672 TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 4 - Ninerias • Miniaturas • Jardins d'enfants

8.572037 747313203772 SAINT-SAËNS, C.: Violin Concertos Nos. 1-3 TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 5 - 8.570370 747313037070 Cuentos de Espana • Recuerdos de la antigua Espana • Siluetas Jean Sibelius, composer

8.570763 747313076376 SIBELIUS, J.: Night Ride and Sunrise • Belshzaar's Feast Suite • Kuolema TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 6 - 8.572141 747313214174 Ritmos • Fantasia italiana • Fantasia sobre 5 notas • Fantasia cinematografica SIBELIUS, J.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 - 8.573229 747313329977 Kuolema • King Christian II • Overture in A minor • 2 Songs from Twelfth Night TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 7 - 8.572455 747313245574 Album de viaje • Viaje maritimo • Evocaciones • Mallorca • Tarjetas postales SIBELIUS, J.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - 8.573300 747313330072 Belshazzar's Feast • Overture in E • Scène de Ballet • Wedding March TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 8 - 8.572682 747313268276 Jardines de Andalucia • El barrio de Santa Cruz • En el cortijo SIBELIUS, J.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 - 8.573301 747313330171 Pelléas and Mélisande • Musik zu einer Szene • Autrefois • Valse chevaleresque TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 9 - 8.572915 747313291571 Rincones sevillanos • Por las calles de Sevilla • Contemplacion Ryan Brown, conductor & Opera Lafayette

8.660209-10 730099020978 LULLY, J.: Armide TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 10 - El castillo de Almodóvar • 8.573183 747313318377 Rincones de Sanlúcar • Tocata y fuga • Partita • Preludios • Pieza romántica 8.660263-64 730099026376 MONSIGNY, P.-A.: Le Deserteur

8.660274 730099027472 PHILIDOR, F.-A. D.: Sancho Pança dans son isle Christopher Rouse, composer

8.660224 730099022477 REBEL, F. / FRANCOEUR, F.: Zelindor, Roi des Sylphes • Le Trophée Suite ROUSE, C.: Wolf Rounds / DAUGHERTY, M.: Ladder to the Moon / 8.572439 747313243976 MASLANKA, D.: Trombone Concerto Tianwa Yang, violin

8.573135 747313313570 CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO, M.: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 Orion Weiss, pianist

8.572730 747313273072 RIHM, W.: Complete Works for Violin and Piano 8.573222 747313322275 SCARLATTI, D.: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 15

8.557516 747313251629 WEBERN, A.: Vocal and Chamber Works Tianwa Yang: Live in Concert in St. Peteresburg - 2.110283 747313528356 TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I. / BRAHMS, J. / YSAŸE, E. / BACH, J.S. (NTSC) David Allan Miller, conductor + Albany Symphony

8.572995 747313299577 YSAŸE, E.: 6 Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27 8.559711 636943971123 KERNIS, A.J.: 3 Flavors 2 Movements (with Bells) Superstar Etude No. 3

Philip Glass, composer Miran Vaupotić, conductor

8.573315 747313331574 DI MARINO, R.: Bandoneon Concerto / PIAZZOLLA, Á.: Oblivion • 5 Tango Sensations GLASS, P.: Concerto Fantasy for 2 Timpanists and Orchestra 8.573205 747313320578 (+FAIROUZ, M.: Symphony No. 4) Contemporaries of Charles Camilleri, composer

8.559636 636943963623 GLASS, P.: String Quartets Nos. 1-4 8.572749 747313274970 KODÁLY, Z.: Hary Janos Suite • Dances of Galanta / DOHNÁNYI, E.: Konzertstuck

8.559325 636943932520 GLASS, P.: Symphony No. 4 'Heroes' • The Light 8.572398 747313239870 STOCKHAUSEN, K.: Mantra

8.559056 636943905623 GLASS, P.: Violin Concerto • Company • Prelude from Akhnaten 8.557532 747313253227 STRAVINSKY, I.: Duo concertant • Sonata for 2 Pianos • Requiem Canticles

A-Z Series Grażyna Bacewicz, composer

8.558216-17 636943821626 The A-Z of Opera (2nd expanded edition) 8.572806 747313280674 BACEWICZ, G.: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1 - Nos. 1, 3, 6 and 7

8.558212-13 636943821220 The A-Z of Classical Music (3rd expanded edition) 8.573229 747313322978 BACEWICZ, G.: Symphony for Strings • Concerto for Strings

8.558081-84 636943808122 A-Z of String Players Polish Composers

8.558107-10 636943810729 A-Z of Pianists 8.572872 747313287277 GORECKI, H.: Concerto-Cantata • Little Requiem for a Certain Polka • 3 Dances

8.558087-90 636943808726 A-Z of Conductors 8.570371 747313037179 SZELIGOWSKI, T.: Concerto for Orchestra • Piano Concerto • 4 Polish Dances

Johann Sebastian Bach, composer Patrick Gallois, flute

8.573230 747313323074 DEVIENNE, F.: Flute Concertos, Vol. 1 - Nos. 1-4 BACH, J.S.: Guitar Transcriptions - 8.572427 747313242771 Partita No. 2, BWV 826 • Lute Partita, BWV 997 • Prelude, Fugue and Allegro, BWV 998 8.570378 747313037872 DOPPLER, F. / DOPPLER, K.: Music for Flutes and Orchestra

8.557011 747313201129 MOZART, W.A.: Flute Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 • Concerto for Flute and Harp BACH, J.S.: Guitar Transcriptions - 8.572740 747313274079 Cello Suite No. 4 • Violin Partita No. 2 • Chorale Preludes MOZART, W.A.: Violin Sonatas Nos. 24, 25 and 26 • Piano Sonata No. 17 8.573033 747313303373 (arr. for flute and piano)

Christine Brewer, soprano

8.559216-18 636943921623 BOLCOM, W.: Songs of Innocence and of Experience

8.555301-02 747313530120 DVOŘÁK, A.: Stabat Mater • Psalm 149

Paul Jacobs, organ

8.559749 636943974926 DAUGHERTY, M.: Mount Rushmore • Radio City • The Gospel According to Sister Aimee

8.572436-37 747313243679 MESSIAEN, O.: Livre du Saint Sacrement

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This Month’s Highlights

8.558097-100 9781843790723 A-Z of Singers by David Patmore (various) [4 CDs]

8.573473 747313347377 BACH, J.S.: English Suites Nos. 1-3, arranged for 2 guitars (Montenegrin Guitar Duo)

BERNSTEIN, L.: Symphony No. 3 'Kaddish' • Missa Brevis • The Lark 8.559742 636943974223 (Bloom, Nassief, Mestre, Maryland State Boychoir, Washington Chorus, Sao Paulo Symphony Choir, Baltimore SO, Sao Paulo SO, Marin Alsop)

8.578317 747313831777 Best of Tianwa Yang - SARASATE, P. de / MENDELSSOHN, F. / YSAŸE, E. / PIAZZOLLA, Á. (Tianwa Yang, various)

8.559766 636943976623 GLASS, P.: String Quartet No. 5 • Suite from Dracula • String Sextet (O'Dúill, Rosefield, Carducci String Quartet)

PHILIDOR, F.-A. D.: Les Femmes Vengées 8.660353 730099035378 (Debono, Beaudin, Staskiewicz, Thompson, Figueroa, Dobson, Opera Lafayette, Ryan Brown) SAINT-SAËNS, C.: Symphonies, Vol. 3 - Symphony in F major 'Urbs Roma' • La jeunesse d'Hercule • 8.573140 747313314072 Danse macabre (Fältskogh, Malmö SO, Marc Soustrot) SIBELIUS, J.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 - Jedermann • Two Serious Melodies • In memoriam 8.573340 747313334070 (Pajala, Katajala, Söderland, Cathedralis Aboensis, Palmu, Turku PO, Leif Segerstam) TURINA, J.: Piano Music, Vol. 11 - Verbena madrileña • En la zapateria • 8.573401 747313340170 Linterna mágica • El circo • Radio Madrid (Jordi Masó)

More Exciting New Releases

8.572807 747313280773 BACEWICZ, G.: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2 - String Quartets Nos. 2, 4 and 5 (Lutosławski Quartet)

8.573337 747313333776 BEETHOVEN, L. van: Variations on Folk Songs, Opp. 105 and 107 (Patrick Gallois, Maria Prinz)

BROUWER, L.: Music for Two Guitars - Triptico • Micro piezas • Música Incidental Campesina • 8.573336 747313333677 Per suonare a due • Sonata de Los Viajeros (Brasil Guitar Duo) CAMILLERI, C.: Piano Concerto No. 1 'Mediterranean' • Accordion Concerto • Malta Suite 8.573373 747313337378 (Farrugia, Božac, Malta PO, Miran Vaupotić) Divine Redeemer - BACH, J.S. / GOUNOD, C. / FRANCK, C. / BOULANGER, N. / BOULANGER, L. / 8.573524 747313352470 PUCCINI, G. / WOLF, H. / REGER, M. / HANDEL, G.F. (Christine Brewer, Paul Jacobs)

8.225814 636943581421 DU Ming-xin: Ten Xinjiang Dances for violin and orchestra (Takako Nishizaki, Singapore SO, Choo Hoey)

8.573487 747313348770 Guitar Laureate Recital: Eren Süalp - ERDENER / BROUWER / OCHOA / SÜALP / BAYRAKTAR / DODGSON (Eren Süalp)

8.573247 747313324774 MESSIAEN, O.: Poèmes pour Mi • Vocalise-Étude • Chants de Terre et de Ciel (Bruun Hyldig Duo)

MOZART, W.A.: Idil Biret Concerto Edition, Vol. 6 - Piano Concertos Nos. 13 and 17 8.571306 747313130672 (Idil Biret, London Mozart Players, Patrick Gallois) Raw Earth: New Music for Wind Band - GRYC, S. / BOTTI, S. / TURNER, J.L. 8.573342 747313334278 (The Hartt School Wind Ensemble, Glen Adsit)

8.559799 636943979921 ROUSE, C.: Seeing • Kabir Padavali (Trevigne, Weiss, Albany Symphony, David Alan Miller)

Naxos Audiobooks New Releases

NA0213 9781843799191 LE FANU, S.: In a Glass Darkly (Unabridged)

NA0214 9781843798774 LOVECRAFT, H.P.: The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Whisperer in Darkness (Unabridged)

NA0205 9781843799047 ROUSSEAU, J.-J.: Discourse on the Origina and Foundations of Inequality Among Men (Unabridged)

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