automobile PRADO, J.A.R. de A: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Aurora / Concerto Fribourgeois (Rubinsky, Minas Gerais Philharmonic, Mechetti) (8.574225) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT At the time of his death in 2010, Almeida Prado was one of Brazil’s most internationally admired composers, one who created music of unique sonority and colour, rooted in his native country. In Aurora (‘Dawn’) he employs his newly developed ‘transtonality’ to radiant effect, while the Concerto Fribourgeois features a collage technique. In his Piano Concerto No. 1 Almeida Prado explores a cogent structure in which the soloist opens up, rips apart or transforms the theme and variations, in a work that is both grandiose and luminous. Full Article
automobile Piano Recital: Choni, Dmytro - DEBUSSY, C. / GINASTERA, A. / LIGETI, G. / PROKOFIEV, S. (8.574136) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT The Ukrainian pianist Dmytro Choni, winner of the 2018 Paloma O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition, has selected a programme that spans the 20th century. The first book of Debussy’s Images offers poetic evocation and virtuoso caprice, whereas Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 6, completed in 1940, is the first of his ‘War Sonatas’, characteristically contrasting rhythmic vitality with rich lyricism. Ginastera, too, supplies vivid intensity in his Piano Sonata No. 1 suggesting the sound of the guitar, while Ligeti’s Étude is a Debussyian evocation of a rainbow. Full Article
automobile Piano Music (French) - BOULEZ, P. / DEBUSSY, C. / MESSIAEN, O. / RAVEL, M. (Rare French Piano Music) (van Raat) (8.573894) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT This album of French piano rarities features seldom-heard and recently discovered works by composers who had an influence on Pierre Boulez, as well as the premiere recording of Boulez’s Prélude, Toccata et Scherzo. This large-scale early work looks back on virtuosic Romantic music, while at the same time exploring the new compositional styles that Boulez would subsequently embrace. Among the rarities is a posthumously discovered piano study by Debussy, a reconstructed birdsong work by Messiaen, and a tiny masterpiece by Ravel found in a notebook. Full Article
automobile PETTIFORD, Oscar: Baden-Baden Karlsruhe (1958-1959) (JAH-419) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile Opéra-Comique Overtures - BOIELDIEU, F.-A. / DELIBES, L. / GOUNOD, C.-F. / HALÉVY, F. / HÉROLD, F. / LECOCQ, C. (Vienna Radio Symphony, M. Halász) (8.574122) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Opéra-comique emerged in the 19th century as an intermediary between grand opera and burlesque operetta. This album charts its progression as a distinct genre, tracing the origins from Boieldieu and Méhul early in the century via the classic vitality of masters such as Hérold and Maillart into the operetta style of Offenbach and Lecocq. With innovative features, colourful orchestration, drama, wit and atmospheric writing, the operas proved very popular and these overtures encapsulate their immense vivacity and charm. Full Article
automobile MAYR, J.S.: Due duchesse (Le) [Opera] (M. Schäfer, T.M. Herbert, Bavarian State Opera Chorus, Simon Mayr Choir, Concerto de Bassus, Hauk) (8.660422-23) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT As one of the leading operatic composers of his generation, Johann Simon Mayr nurtured a fascination with the chivalric stories of medieval England. Le due duchesse, an opera semiseria with buffa elements, is set during the reign of the 10th-century King Edgar. Huntsmen’s and Knights’ choruses and troubadour-like songs give great vivacity to a score that is both lyrical and dramatic. Mayr’s compound of Viennese Classicism and Italianate melodic beauty, allied to his ambitious writing and a skilful libretto, produced an important and influential opera couched in his own unmistakable idiom. Full Article
automobile LISZT, F.: Wanderer Fantasy / SCHUBERT, F.: Piano Sonata No. 13 / BRAHMS, J.: Handel Variations (C. Park, Eschenbach) (C5412) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile LINDBERG, M.: Accused / Two Episodes (A. Komsi, Finnish Radio Symphony, Lintu) (ODE1345-2) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile KENYA Fadhilee Itulya: Kwetu (NXW76125-2) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Kenyan musician Fadhilee Itulya began his professional music career in 2008. He draws inspiration from a style of guitar music called Omutibo from the Luhya people of Western Kenya, which is driving, syncopated, and gets people to dance like nothing else. His music has elements of acoustic folk, pop/dance and world music—making for a melange of good time music that is grounded in culture, community and care for the environment. His debut album Kwetu (meaning ’home’ in Swahili) features ten vibrant songs and also includes four traditional chants with Isukuti percussion, showcasing the roots percussion style of Western Kenya. Full Article
automobile INDIA Sabri Family (The) (EUCD2904) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile HAYDN, J.: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (N. Clein, Recreation - Graz Grosses Orchester, Hofstetter) (OC1895) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile HAYDN, J.: 6 Original Canzonettas, Books 1 and 2 / Lieder (Britain's Glory) (Horak, R. Fuller) (Gramola99212) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile HAUG, H.: Guitar Concertino / Wind Quintet / Guitar Quintet (Minder, Basel Philharmonic Quintet, Il Piccola Orchestra, Zemtsov) (8.551426) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile HARSÁNYI, T.: Piano Works (Complete), Vol. 2 (Koukl) (GP807) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT The Hungarian-born composer Tibor Harsányi is now recognised as an important personality in ‘L’École de Paris’. He had a lifelong interest in modern dance, represented here by the Petite suite and Trois Pièces de danse, and he also embraced jazz, which was part of the Parisian atmosphere of the inter-war period, and other influences, while keeping the Central European rhythms and tonalities of his Hungarian origins. The Trois Pièces lyriques is a rare example of Harsányi expressing torment during the turbulent years of the Second World War. Full Article
automobile HANDEL, G.F. / GLUCK, C.W.: Opera Arias for Soprano (Care Pupille) (Mariño, Halle Handel Festival Orchestra, Hofstetter) (C998201) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile GYPSY Zingaros: Tango (EUCD2905) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile GROVEN, E.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 (Kristiansand Symphony, Szilvay) (8.573871) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Many interwar Norwegian composers tried to create a new national music by combining elements of authentic folk music with new techniques. Eivind Groven was considered one of the most innovative composers in this quest, integrating the structure of folk dances from his rural upbringing into familiar formal principles. Both symphonies make use of techniques of so-called ‘progressive transformation’, which led fellow composer Arne Nordheim to declare: ‘While others made instrumentations of folk tunes, Groven created sounds, for example in his [two] symphonies which, in my opinion, are quite unique.’ Full Article
automobile FRANCK, C.: Psyché (version for choir and orchestra) / Le Chasseur maudit / Les Éolides (RCS Voices, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Tingaud) (8.573955) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT César Franck was a childhood prodigy who gained later renown as an organist and teacher. His compositions received scant attention until the success of Le Chasseur maudit, a symphonic morality tale that vividly portrays the ‘accursed huntsman’ from his defiance of the Sabbath to a dramatic chase and a horrific fate. Les Éolides is infused with Wagnerian colours and depicts the mythological Aeolids as they reawaken nature with their song. Franck’s lushly orchestrated final symphonic poem Psyché expresses the power of love in dreams and a passionate union. Full Article
automobile Flute Music - CASTALDI, P. / COSMI, G. / DAVISMOON, S. / FANTICINI, F. / MORRICONE, E. / PROCK, S. / TACCANI, G.C. (Flute XXI) (Fabbriciani) (TC980090) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile Flute and Piano Recital: Mazzoli, Filippo / Dang, Nathalie - LEFORT, A. / MASSON, L. / MORET, E. / SEITZ, A. (Chant dans la nuit) (CDS7862) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile DOPPLER, F. and K.: Flute Music (Complete), Vol. 10 (Arimany) (C5304) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile DAUGHERTY, M.: This Land Sings: Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie (Socolofsky, J. Daugherty, Dogs of Desire, D.A. Miller) (8.559889) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT In This Land Sings, GRAMMY Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty has created an original musical tribute to the singer-songwriter and political activist Woody Guthrie (1912–1967). Traveling the backroads of America from coast to coast with a guitar and harmonica, Woody Guthrie performed folk songs of love, wandering and social justice during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Daugherty has composed his own original songs and instrumental interludes that give haunting expression, ironic wit and contemporary relevance to political, social and environmental themes from Guthrie’s era. Under the baton of GRAMMY Award-winning conductor David Alan Miller, the Albany Symphony’s new music ensemble Dogs of Desire, joined by soprano Annika Socolofsky and baritone John Daugherty, give a poignant and rousing performance. Full Article
automobile CHINA Folk Music of China, Vol. 6: Folk Songs of China's Tajik and Russian Minorities (NXW76093-2) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT This album features folk songs from the Tajik and Russian ethnic minority groups living in the western and northwestern areas of Xinjiang, China. These folk songs have an earthy beauty that is theirs alone. Many of the Tajik songs featured here are accompanied by the Rewap—an ancient stringed instrument made from mulberry trunks. The sound is similar to that of an acoustic guitar, but the tone is brighter and more elastic. Many of the Russian songs feature the Bayan (a type of accordion) and the Balalaika. Full Article
automobile CELTIC Brian Ó hEadhra / Fiona Mackenzie: TÌR - Highland Life and Lore (NXW76115-2) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile Cello Quartet Recital: Kolophonistinnen (Die) - BRAMBÖCK, F. / STRAUSS I, J. / STRAUSS II, J. / SHOSTAKOVICH, D. / TANSMAN, A. (Heldinnenleben) (Gramola99218) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile BURHANS, C.: Evensong [Bonus Tracks Version] (Burhans) (CA-21094A) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile BOULEZ, P.: Incises (revised version, 2001) (van Raat) (9.70294) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT This digital single complements Naxos 8.573894, an album of French piano rarities also performed by Ralph van Raat. Full Article
automobile BERSA, B.: Piano Works (Complete), Vol. 2 (Filipec) (GP832) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT As with the first volume in this series (GP767), Blagoje Bersa’s piano works are organised according to their character and tonality rather than chronologically. They include elements of transcription drawing on Mozart and Beethoven but also characterful barcarolles that evoke Italian music, a taut and witty Bizarre Serenade, a simple but affecting Mélancolie, and an invitation to a Viennese ballroom in the Valzer, Op. 3. Full Article
automobile BELEVI, K.: Guitar Duos - Cyprian Rhapsodies Nos. 1-4 / Suite Chypre / Turkish Suite (Duo Tandem) (8.574081) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Kemal Belevi’s music is steeped in the colours and atmosphere of the eastern Mediterranean, and his aim is ‘to create beautiful music’ based on melodies and rhythms that have been absorbed from the folk music of Greece, Turkey and the Middle East. Belevi’s own arrangements of works such as the evocative Suite Chypre and the richly varied Cyprian Rhapsodies have significantly extended the repertoire for two guitars. The Duo Tandem are drawn towards this composer’s skilful modernity and his celebration of traditional heritage reimagined within the sound world of the classical guitar. Full Article
automobile BEETHOVEN, L. van: Symphonies / Concertos / Overtures (Cologne Radio Symphony, South West German Radio Symphony, Baden-Baden, Rosbaud) (SWR19089CD) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile BEETHOVEN, L. van: Piano Concertos (Complete) (Mustonen, Tapiola Sinfonietta) (ODE1359-2T) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile BEETHOVEN, L. van: Folk Songs (Bohnet, D. Johannsen, Klimbacher, Herzer, Christelbauer, B. Bartos) (8.574174) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT George Thomson of Edinburgh, a notable promoter of Scottish music, encouraged settings of his nation’s folk songs. In particular, he found a rich source of arrangements in Vienna, where he commissioned first Haydn and then Beethoven to set a large sequence of poems, including those of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. Thomson envisaged simple works, agreeable to amateurs, but Beethoven found it impossible to compose within such limitations and his settings, which include Irish and Welsh songs, with the accompaniment of strings and piano, have proved perennially popular. Full Article
automobile BEETHOVEN, L. van: Celebrate Beethoven – Keyboard Music (9.30211) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile BEETHOVEN, L. van: Best of Beethoven (Biret) (8.504055) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT “Love of Beethoven’s works threads through Idil Biret’s life like a red ribbon. Her studio recordings and live concerts show this in an unequivocal language… Next to all the Piano Concertos and the Choral Fantasy she has also performed on stage and recorded (on 19 CDs) all the Piano Sonatas and Symphony Transcriptions becoming perhaps the only artist to reach this level of completeness… This knowledge of Beethoven one hears in every nuance in Idil Biret’s playing.” – Carsten Dürer (editor) Piano News (Germany) 2021 “Idil Biret not only recorded all nine of the Beethoven symphonies in less than a year but, in a superhuman feat which astounded all those who know about music she also publicly performed all of them in four recitals at the Montpellier Festival in France. To learn and also memorise scores of such length and difficulty in such a short time is a mind-boggling achievement.” – Peter Cossé Fono Forum (Germany) 1986 “Idil Biret, who arriving in Paris at the age of seven astonished Alfred Cortot, Wilhelm Kempff and Marc Pincherle, remains a remarkable pianist who combines brilliant technical skill with the subdued touch, the interior voices, or her mentor Cortot… At her Paris recital, Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 106 Hammerklavier brought us the fighter, armed from top to toe, like a valiant Clorinde, combining the most beautiful of styles with a fabulous virtuosity.” – Le Monde (France) 1981 Full Article
automobile AFRICA Pure Africa (EUCD2903) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile ABEL, M.: Intuition's Dance / 4 Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva / The Elastic Hours / Clarinet Trio (The Cave of Wondrous Voice) (Shifrin, Sherry, Plitmann) (DE3570) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile DEBUSSY, C.: Pelléas et Mélisande [Opera] (Zürich Opera, 2016) (NTSC) (BAC157) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile DEBUSSY, C.: Pelléas et Mélisande [Opera] (Zürich Opera, 2016) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC457) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile ART OF OHAD NAHARIN (THE), Vol. 2 - Sadeh21 [Ballet] (Batsheva Dance Company, 2018) (NTSC) (BAC172) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile ART OF OHAD NAHARIN (THE), Vol. 2 - Sadeh21 [Ballet] (Batsheva Dance Company, 2018) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC472) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile WEILL, K.: Street Scene [Opera] (Teatro Real, 2018) (NTSC) (BAC162) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile WEILL, K.: Street Scene [Opera] (Teatro Real, 2018) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC562) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile WEILL, K.: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny [Opera] (Sung in English) (Teatro Real, 2010) (NTSC) (BAC067) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile WEILL, K.: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny [Opera] (Sung in English) (Teatro Real, 2010) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC467) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Eugene Onegin [Opera] (Bolshoi Opera, 2008) (NTSC) (BAC246) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Eugene Onegin [Opera] (Bolshoi Opera, 2008) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC446) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Swan Lake [Ballet] (Kiev National Ballet, 2019) (NTSC) (BAC174) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Swan Lake [Ballet] (Kiev National Ballet, 2019) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC574) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile LAZAR, B. / CHEMLA, J. / HUBERT, F.: Traviata [Opera] (after A. Dumas (fils) and G. Verdi) (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, 2017) (NTSC) (BAC156) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
automobile LAZAR, B. / CHEMLA, J. / HUBERT, F.: Traviata [Opera] (after A. Dumas (fils) and G. Verdi) (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, 2017) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC456) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
