NEW ON The World’s Leading ClassicalNAXOS Music Label JULY 2016 This Month’s Other Highlights © 2016 Naxos Rights US, Inc. • Contact Us: [email protected] www.naxos.com • www.classicsonlinehd.com • www.naxosmusiclibrary.com • blog.naxos.com NEW ON NAXOS | JULY 2016 World Première Recordings 8.573531 Playing Time 71:20 7 47313 35317 0 Antonino Fogliani Gioachino ROSSINI (1792–1868) Supplementary Promotional Materials • eCard (1831/32 Original Version)1 Stabat mater • Facebook cover and post With sections by Giovanni Tadolini Orchestration by Antonino Fogliani Antonino Fogliani made his celebrated début at the Pesaro Giovanna d’Arco2 Rossini Opera Festival in 2001 with Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, Orchestration by Marco Taralli followed by various engagements in Pesaro and in leading opera houses, including La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro dell’Opera, Majella Cullagh, Soprano1 2 Rome, the San Carlo in Naples and the Opéra Comique in Paris, Marianna Pizzolato, Mezzo-soprano as well as the Bergamo Donizetti Festival. He made his début José Luis Sola, Tenor1 1 at Rossini in Wildbad in 2004, leading to a series of further Mirco Palazzi, Bass performances and recordings. He was appointed musical director Camerata Bach Choir, Poznań • Tomasz Potkowski, Chorus-master of Rossini in Wildbad in 2011. Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra Antonino Fogliani Rossini’s Stabat Mater is one of the staples of the sacred music repertoire but had a complicated history. He wrote it for performance in Madrid but, running short of time, enlisted the help of his friend Giovanni Tadolini. Rossini completed six pieces, Tadolini seven. Tadolini’s pieces now only exist as piano reductions but conductor Antonino Fogliani has orchestrated them to allow listeners to hear the original work for the first time since 1833. Marco Taralli’s 2009 orchestration of Giovanna d’Arco (Joan of Arc), a cantata for solo voice, is also heard on this first recording. Key Features Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra • Part of the acclaimed Rossini in Wildbad series of discs on Naxos which have garnered much acclaim. • Two unique orchestrations of Rossini works, made by Companion Titles – Gioachino Rossini, Composer contemporary Italian musicians. Fogliani, who orchestrated the NEW Stabat Mater, also conducts the performance. • This is only the second performance of the Stabat Mater in its original form. The première was in Madrid in 1833. Subsequent performances have all been of the revised – very different – version in 10 parts. The original had 13 parts. • This earlier version is a rare example of a collaborative Rossini work. 8.660382-84 8.660363-66 8.660314-15 8.660340-42 2 NEW ON NAXOS | JULY 2016 8.559782 Playing Time 73:58 6 36943 97822 1 David Alan Miller © Gary Gold (b. 1938) David Alan Miller has held the position of music director of the John CORIGLIANO Albany Symphony since 1992. Through exploration of unusual Symphony No. 1 repertoire, educational programming, community outreach and recording initiatives, he has reaffirmed the Albany Symphony’s Michael TORKE (b. 1961) reputation as the nation’s leading champion of American Bright Blue Music symphonic music and one of its most innovative orchestras. Accolades include Columbia University’s Ditson Conductor’s Award, the 2001 ASCAP Morton Gould Award for Innovative Aaron COPLAND (1900–1990) Programming, and, in 1999, ASCAP’s first-ever Leonard Bernstein Appalachian Spring Suite Award for Outstanding Educational Programming. Miller is highly regarded as a champion and interpreter of American music, new National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic and old. His extensive discography includes a GRAMMY® Award- David Alan Miller winning recording of works by John Corigliano, as well as recent recordings of music by John Harbison, Kamran Ince, Aaron J. This is the first recording for Naxos by the National Orchestral Kernis, George Tsontakis and Michael Torke. Institute Philharmonic, which is composed of elite conservatory students from across the United States and abroad. The chosen works reflect the richness and variety of the American repertoire. A work of immense poignancy and power, John Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1 is a commemoration of friends of the composer who died during the 1980s and ’90s. Michael Torke’s Bright Blue Music evokes rich lyricism couched in the composer’s favorite key of D major. The suite from Copland’s Appalachian Spring is one of the great, quintessential American works. Key Features • Torke’s Bright Blue Music is part of his Color series and the sole recording is by the high profile David Zinman on Decca which includes the whole Colors pieces (it was first on Ecstatic Records). Sheil © Geoff National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic • Appalachian Spring is heard in the full orchestral version here. Companion Titles – David Alan Miller, Conductor Supplementary Promotional Materials • Key Release Kit • Facebook cover and post 8.559757 8.559711 8.559799 8.572981 3 NEW ON NAXOS | JULY 2016 8.573496 Playing Time 56:01 7 47313 34967 8 Piotr Plawner © J. Wrzesinski Polish Violin Concertos Supplementary Promotional Materials BACEWICZ: Violin Concerto No. 1 • Key Release Kit TANSMAN: Cinq pièces pour violon et petit orchestre • Facebook cover and post SPISAK: Andante and Allegro for Violin and String Orchestra PANUFNIK: Violin Concerto Piotr Plawner began studying the violin at the age of six. Just three Piotr Plawner, Violin years later, he made his stage début as a soloist with orchestra. He has Kammersymphonie Berlin won first prize in no fewer than five international violin competitions. Jürgen Bruns The most important of these were the International Festival of Young Talents in Bayreuth (1991), the International Wieniawski Competition The works on this recording were written by four roughly contemporary in Poznań (1991) and, in 1995, the prestigious International Music Polish composers who settled and pursued their careers in different Competition of the ARD in Munich. Plawner has performed as a parts of the world. Grażyna Bacewicz’s First Violin Concerto displays soloist all over Europe, in the Middle East and the United States, her own glittering virtuosity as a performer, while Alexandre Tansman playing at many famous venues, including Copenhagen (Tivoli), wrote his Baroque-infused Five Pieces for the great Josef Szigeti. Paris (Châtelet), Berlin (Schauspielhaus), Munich (Herkules Saal), Michał Spisak considered his neo-classical Andante and Allegro to be Stuttgart (Liederhalle), Barcelona (Palau de la Musica Catalana), ‘a little story for violin and orchestra’, while Andrzej Panufnik’s wide- Madrid (Teatro Monumental) and Amsterdam (Concertgebouw). He ranging Violin Concerto became a ‘pilgrimage into my past’ and is has made many recordings for radio and television, for Bayerische richly suffused with Polish atmosphere. Rundfunk, WDR SDR, SWR, ORF, DRS, TVE and Dutch television, among others. Key Features • This release brings together and gives focus to some fascinating aspects of Polish musical culture in often little-known but Companion Titles – Polish Music significant and outstanding examples of 20th century concerto- form works. • This recording is not only a showcase for fine Polish music, but also for violinist Piotr Plawner, a native of Lodz, Poland. He has won no fewer than five international violin competitions and was described by Sir Yehudi Menuhin as a performer with “phenomenal ability.” “This young man is truly a phenomenon, a 8.572211 8.573229 genius on the violin. His playing, into its last nuance, is fascinating. The interpretation of every phrase has been deliberated. Everything must be described in superlatives”, acclaimed the Stuttgarter Zeitung, and The Times wrote that “Plawner is clearly an outstanding prospect.” • Plawner’s track record as a recording artist is also highly distinguished, with a “CD of the year” for his 1999 program of © Oliver Potratz Szymanowski chamber works, the 2005 Frédéric-Preis for Kammersymphonie Berlin 8.572402 8.570032 recordings of works by Chausson, and the 2007 “Strad Award” for his recording of violin concertos by Karlowicz and Szymanowski. 4 NEW ON NAXOS | JULY 2016 The Carice Singers © Tom Herring 8.573584 Playing Time 77:48 7 47313 35847 2 John IRELAND (1879–1962) Key Features • These Ireland and Moeran partsongs have very rarely been Ernest John MOERAN (1892–1950) recorded and are conspicuous in their absence from the current Choral Music CD catalogues. • A Cradle Song • Sea Fever • Songs of Springtime This release joins our long-term commitment to the music of John David Owen Norris, Piano Ireland. Our recordings of his vocal music have included songs The Carice Singers (8.570467) in which “every word is tasted, pungently flavoured, George Parris and given vigorous new life” (BBC Music Magazine), and church music (8.573014) with “excellent performances… impeccable Renowned for his outstanding piano miniatures and solo songs, John blend and ensemble… A very enjoyable and rewarding disc, Ireland is little known these days as a composer of partsongs. His showcasing the fine quality of British cathedral music-making” deep understanding of choral forces brings a unique polish and artistry (Gramophone). April 2016 saw our release of music for string to the genre, his early style reflecting a deference to his masters orchestra by John Ireland (8.571372), and as part of our re- Parry and Stanford, and deeply moving post-war masterpieces such releases of recordings from the British Music Society label we as Twilight Night exploiting