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Händelfestspielorchester Halle
George Frideric HANDEL (1685–1759) Brockes Passion The Story of Jesus, Suffering and Dying for the Sins of the World Oratorio in two parts, HWV 48 (1719) Libretto by Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680–1747) Sung in German Romelia Lichtenstein, Vanessa Waldhart, Sopranos Yulia Sokolik, Mezzo-soprano Robert Sellier, Tenor • Michael Zehe, Bass Oper Halle Chorus • Händelfestspielorchester Halle Michael Hofstetter Barthold Heinrich Brockes was an influential German poet who added reflective and descriptive poetry into the texture of his Passion. Among several musical settings, the most famous is the one by Handel. This acclaimed staged version transports Handel’s Brockes Passion into the opera house, widening the work’s historical narrative to embrace the creation of the world, bringing a message of human greed and destruction into direct contact with the present day. The Händelfestspielorchester Halle, on period instruments, is conducted by Michael Hofstetter. Key features: • This release follows on from our audiovisual recording of Walter Sutcliffe’s acclaimed stage production of this work (2.110755/ NBD0167) released in November 2024. As an oratorio this is a work that is typically at home in the concert hall, but this version has the added excitement of live performance, and of having been turned into a form of character-driven stage opera. •
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This production was much admired in the critical press: ‘Musically, the performance is carried out by an excellent Handel Festival Orchestra , playing precisely and with a wide range of timbres, partly on historical instruments under Michael Hofstetter ’ ( Die Deutsche Bühne ). ‘Great cheers from the audience after three
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hours of exciting musical theatre and not a single boo despite an ambitious production in both the religious and political areas. This hasn’t happened at the Halle Opera for a long time… Highly recommended not only for early music lovers!’ ( Klassik Begeistert ).
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Jean-Luc Tingaud
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Gabriel FAURÉ (1845–1924) Masques et bergamasques * Thème et variations Caligula ** • Les Djinns *** Ruth Rosique, Soprano * • Tara Erraught, Mezzo-soprano * Julien Dran, Tenor * • Benjamin Russell, Baritone * Chamber Choir Ireland ** French music specialist, Jean-Luc Tingaud, conducts a selection of Fauré’s secular choral and theatrical music – works that remain relatively little known. Setting a text by Victor Hugo, Les Djinns is heard in Fauré’s version for choir and orchestra, while his first venture into incidental music, Caligula , focuses largely on the lives of the women in the Roman court rather than the Emperor. Featuring both instrumental and vocal movements, Masques et bergamasques evokes the Arcadian allure of the French fête galante style – antique, luminous and nostalgic. Also included is the premiere recording of Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht’s inventive and sympathetic arrangement of Fauré’s largest piano work, the Thème et variations . National Symphony Chorus of Ireland *** National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland Jean-Luc Tingaud Conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud is a French music specialist and has recorded for Naxos works by Dukas (8.573296), Bizet (8.573344), D’Indy (8.573522), Poulenc (8.573739), Franck (8.573955), Massenet (8.574178) and the Franck and Chausson symphonies (8.574536). With the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland Tingaud has also recorded Fauré’s Violin Concerto and other orchestral works on 8.574587. • The National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland , previously the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, has been at the centre of Ireland’s cultural life since 1948 when the Raidió Éireann Symphony Orchestra, as it was originally called, was founded. In 2022 the orchestra transferred to the remit of the National Concert Hall, Ireland’s National Cultural Institution for music. The orchestra plays a central role in classical music in Ireland through year-long programmes of live performances, schools and educational projects, broadcasts, recordings and new commissions. Key features: •
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About Jean-Luc Tingaud, Conductor Jean-Luc Tingaud (b. 1969) studied with the French conductor Manuel Rosenthal. Notable opera engagements have included Pénélope and Le Roi malgré lui (Wexford Festival Opera), Roméo et Juliette (Arena di Verona), Faust (Macerata), The Turn of the Screw (Lille), Dialogues des Carmélites , La Bohème and Madama Butterfly (Pittsburgh), La Fille du régiment (Madrid), Pelléas et Mélisande (Prague National Theatre), Les Pêcheurs de perles (English National Opera), Spontini’s Fernand Cortez (Florence), L’Ange de Nisida (Donizetti Opera festival, Bergamo), Carmen (Tokyo) and Lakmé (Beijing).
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Guido Sant’Anna © Clara Evens
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Click to listen to TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35: I. Allegro moderato LISTEN Guido Sant’Anna , described by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as having ‘charisma, stage presence, and an astonishing maturity and depth in his playing’ after opening the Rheingau Music Festival in 2023, is a highly accomplished violinist with numerous prestigious accolades. • Key features: • Sant’Anna is the first South American violinist to win the renowned Fritz Kreisler International Competition and the first Brazilian violinist invited to the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition in Geneva, where he won the Audience and Chamber Music Awards in 2018. In addition to his musical achievements, Sant’Anna was recognised on Forbes Brasil ’s ‘30 under 30’ list for 2022, further solidifying his place among the most promising young talents in the industry.
Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809–1847) Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, MWV O14 Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893) Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 Guido Sant’Anna, Violin São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Thierry Fischer Mendelssohn conceived the Violin Concerto in E minor for his childhood friend, Ferdinand David, concertmaster of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, though it took the composer years to perfect it. The concerto remains one of the most significant works in the genre – serene, lyrical and luminous. Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major is another of the 19th century’s greatest concertos, written for his favourite student, Iosif Kotek, and a work of great beauty bristling with virtuoso challenges. On this album they are performed by the brilliant Guido Sant’Anna, the first South American violinist to win the prestigious Fritz Kreisler International Competition. About Thierry Fischer, Conductor
Thierry Fischer has been music director and principal conductor of Osesp since 2020, and of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León since 2022. From 2009 to June 2023 he served as artistic director of the Utah Symphony, of which he is now artistic director emeritus. He was principal guest conductor of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra from 2017 to 2020, principal conductor (now honorary guest) of
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the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra from 2008 to 2011, and principal conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales from 2006 to 2012.
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Sally Matthews as Tatyana © Karl Forster
2.110777 Filming date: 7 and 9 February 2023 Filming venue: De Munt / La Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Sound format: Dolby Digital 2.0 and DTS Surround 5.1 Language: Russian Subtitles: English, German, French, Japanese, Korean Region code: 0 (worldwide) No. of disc/s: 1 (DVD 9) Release date: 14 Mar 2025
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Pyotr Il’yich TCHAIKOVSKY (1840–1893) Eugene Onegin Lyrical scenes in three acts
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French baritone Stéphane Degout ’s voice has been hailed as ‘breathtaking in dramatic intensity’ ( Forum Opéra ), with ‘quicksilver agility and virile heft’ ( Chicago Classical Review ). Degout was also chosen as the 2018 Musical Personality of the Year by the Association Professionnelle de la Critique de Théâtre, Musique et Danse, and awarded Male Singer of the Year’ at the 2022 International Opera Awards.
and seven tableaux, Op. 24 (1878) Libretto by Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Shilovsky after Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse Sally Matthews, Soprano
Bernadetta Grabias, Cristina Melis, Lilly Jørstad, Mezzo-sopranos Bogdan Volkov, Tenor • Stéphane Degout, Baritone • Nicolas Courjal, Bass La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Alain Altinoglu, Conductor • Laurent Pelly, Stage director Tchaikovsky’s lyric opera Eugene Onegin is based on Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse – a masterpiece of Russian literature. The narrative tells the story of Onegin’s remorse in rejecting the young Tatyana and his instigation of a fatal duel in which his friend Lensky dies. The opera is constructed in what Tchaikovsky termed ‘lyrical scenes’, with music that articulates the feelings of the characters with great sensitivity and subtlety. With a minimalist set design, director Laurent Pelly’s staging underlines the lightness and sadness of the subject while fully expressing the characters’ fantasies and inner torments. After his forays into the Russian repertoire, Alain Altinoglu conducts La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with a cast of outstanding singers.
• He also sings on Lakmé for Naxos (2.110765 / NBD0177V) and Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet on 2.110640 / NBD0103V: ‘[Degout] gives one of his greatest performances here, marvellously sung and acted, with every gesture, vocal and physical, affording us insight into Hamlet’s disturbed psyche: it’s an extraordinary achievement’, wrote Gramophone. • Sally Matthews is recognised as one of the foremost lyric sopranos of her generation, and in the 2024/25 Season, will make her debut at the Staatsoper Hamburg as Tatjana in Eugene Onegin . ‘The soprano Sally Matthews brings a radiant voice and natural allure’, wrote the New York Times . • ‘Supple, lyrical and heroic, a romantic lead buoyant onstage’, wrote the LA Times of conductor Alain Altinoglu .
The stage director for this production is Laurent Pelly – one of the most sought-after directors of his generation.
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Also available on Blu-ray video: NBD0185V Filming date: 7 and 9 February 2023 Filming venue: De Munt / La Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium Picture format: HD 16:9 Sound format: PCM stereo 2.0 and DTS-MA Surround 5.1 Language: Russian Subtitles: English, German, French, Japanese, Korean Region: A, B, C (worldwide) No. of disc/s: 1 (BD 50) Release date: 14 Mar 2025
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Ronaldo MIRANDA (b. 1948) Piano Concerto * Concertino * • Horizontes • Variações Temporais Eduardo Monteiro, Piano * Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra Fabio Mechetti
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Ronaldo Miranda is a multi-award-winning Brazilian composer with works commissioned by leading artists and institutions. His music is regularly performed in prestigious venues in Brazil and around the world. Miranda’s Piano Concerto is an exciting virtuoso blend of atonality alongside hints of Bartók, contrasting with the flowing scales and delicate patterns found in the Concertino . The prize-winning Horizontes is a symphonic poem that tells the story of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the New World, while Variações Temporais (Beethoven Revisitado) is an inventive set of variations on some of Beethoven’s most famous motifs and themes. Key features: • Developed in collaboration with the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, our The Music of Brazil series is part of the Brasil em Concerto project, presenting around 100 orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal works from the 19th and 20th centuries recorded by the country’s top orchestras, ensembles and artists, and selected according to their historical importance for Brazilian music. • Considered one of the great pianists on the Brazilian scene, Eduardo Monteiro gained international recognition after winning First Prize and the special jury award for Best Performance of Beethoven at the 1989 Cologne International Piano Competition in Germany. He was also a prize winner at the Dublin International Piano Competition in 1991 and at the Santander International Piano Competition in 1992. Monteiro takes a special interest in Brazilian music and his interpretations of it are today considered benchmarks of excellence by many music critics. Click to listen to Concertino for Piano and Strings: I. Allegro (enérgico) LISTEN
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Gaetano DONIZETTI (1797–1848) Alfredo il Grande Dramma per musica in two acts (1823) Libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola (d. 1831) Critical edition by Edoardo Cavalli
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© Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo, 2021 Gilda Fiume, Soprano • Antonino Siragusa, Tenor Lodovico Filippo Ravizza, Baritone • Adolfo Corrado, Bass Hungarian Radio Choir • Orchestra Donizetti Opera • Corrado Rovaris
The Donizetti Opera Festival in Bergamo continues to present early works by Donizetti that have been unjustly neglected for decades. Alfredo il Grande , a love story that explores the defeat of the invading Danish army by the victorious Britons, was first performed in 1823 and was revived in this production two centuries later. Skilfully orchestrated, it features memorable arias for the hero Alfredo, and includes a superb concluding rondo for the heroine Amalia, as well as a radiant quintet. The opera is heard here in Edoardo Cavalli’s 2021 critical edition. Gramophone called it ‘a vocally accomplished performance’ and ‘a fine revival’.
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Franz LISZT (1811–1886) Complete Piano Music, Vol. 65 Piano Works on Hungarian Themes Christopher Williams, Piano
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For almost five decades, Franz Liszt wrote music that incorporated Hungarian elements and celebrated his country’s musical idioms. One of the most famous of these pieces was the Rákóczi March , two different versions of which can be heard in this album, the first in full sonata form, and the second in a more concise version. Liszt often utilised the verbunkos tradition as he does in Magyar dallok along with infectious dulcimer evocations, folk scales, drama and melancholy. Two contrasting versions of the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 – Magyar tempo and Célèbre mélodie hongroise – round out this evocative Hungarian selection. Key features: • Christopher Williams ’ recording of Mendelssohn Piano Rarities album was released on 8.574509 in November 2023: ‘[Williams] certainly makes the most of this otherwise ignored repertoire. He is well suited to handling the music’s difficulties, of which there are many, and most of all seems to have fun doing so’ ( Fanfare ). • His recording of Brahms transcriptions for the Grand Piano label (GP749) was featured as album of the week on NDR Kultur . ‘These arrangements are engaging and virtuosic, and I imagine that you would have had to be a more than competent pianist to do the music justice… Christopher Williams gives an excellent performance of both works’ ( MusicWeb International ).
8.574614 Release date: 28 Mar 2025 Companion titles – Previous recordings in Liszt Complete Piano Music series
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Notker BALBULUS (c. 840–912) Liber ymnorum Schola Antiqua of Chicago Michael Alan Anderson
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Notker Balbulus, also known as Notker of St Gall or Notker the Stammerer, was a renowned Benedictine monk at the Abbey of St Gall in Switzerland who made substantial contributions to both the music and literature of his time. These include the Liber ymnorum , which forms an important collection of early musical sequences that celebrate special moments in the liturgical calendar. As the ‘very long melodies’ of the liturgical sequences were a formidable challenge to memorise, Notker created these texts as an aid to holding the melodies within the mind and memory. They are performed here by the acclaimed and insightful Schola Antiqua of Chicago. Key features: •
This recording featuring the poetry of Notker of St Gall reflects a lifelong project of Schola Antiqua of Chicago ’s founding artistic director, Calvin M. Bower. Bower has been studying Notker’s texts for some 50 years, and his edition of Notker’s Liber ymnorum was published by the Henry Bradshaw Society in 2016. This edition won the Claude V. Palisca Award of the American Musicological Society for the best scholarly edition in the field of musicology in 2016. •
8.579169 Release date: 28 Mar 2025 Companion titles – Recommended early music releases
This album follows on from Schola Antiqua of Chicago’s Missa Conceptio tua (Naxos 8.573260) with music for the Advent season. This was considered ‘an absolutely beautiful disc’ in Classical Net , and ‘not only as a wonderful introduction to Pierre de la Rue’s mass setting but also as the definitive recording of the work’ in the Choral Journal .
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Juan TRIGOS (b. 1965) Guitar Works, Vol. 1 Twelve Variations and Fugue on the Folía de España Ricercare de Cámara VII * • Partita Dieter Hennings, Guitar Paul Vaillancourt, Percussion * WORLD PREMIERE COMMERCIAL RECORDING
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The Mexican-American composer, Juan Trigos, has developed the concept of ‘abstract folklore’, a process by which he assimilates various literary and musical traditions in his method of composition. This first volume of his guitar works shows the process in all its breadth, not least in the large-scale Twelve Variations and Fugue on the Folía de España , where old-world dances meet syncopated new-world rhythms. The Partita , based on the principle of variation, also evokes and alludes to dance, while the virtuosic and expressive Ricercare de Cámara VII ingeniously explores the fusion of guitar and percussion. Key features: • Dieter Hennings has won First Prize in several prestigious competitions including the 2008 Aaron Brock International Guitar Competition (Toronto), 2005 Eastman Guitar Concerto Competition, the 2002 Villa de Petrer, Alicante (Spain) International Young Artists Competition, and the 2001 Portland International Guitar Competition, among others. • Percussionist Paul Vaillancourt has performed internationally with contemporary music ensembles including Bent Frequency, Sonic Generator, Furious Band and The Fountain City Ensemble. His latest project with guitarist, Dieter Hennings, has led to premieres and recording projects of works by Brian Cherney, Orlando Garcia, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and Juan Trigos.
8.574664 Release date: 14 Mar 2025
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Ferdinand RIES (1784–1838) Piano Trios Trio Egmont
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Ferdinand Ries occupies a remarkable place in the history of music. He was famously a friend and pupil of Beethoven and a virtuoso pianist. His extensive oeuvre opened up the musical aesthetics of Viennese Classicism to Romanticism. Completed in 1826, the Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 143 features two lively, fast movements surrounding a poetic Adagio , reminiscent of the era’s finest opera arias. Very different is the Grand Trio in F minor, WoO 86 . It features four thematically interwoven movements that traverse emotions from despair to passion and eventual peace. Key features: • Since its foundation in 2019, Trio Egmont has combined historical awareness with radical freedom and a delicate sense of sound. In summer 2021, the trio won First Prize and the Ries Special Prize at the first international competition Beethoven in seiner Zeit for chamber music on historical instruments in Siegburg. • Concert tours have taken the musicians to Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy and Great Britain. The ensemble has performed at the Beethoven Festival in Bonn, the Schumann Festival in Zwickau, La Nouvelle Athènes – Centre des pianos romantiques in Paris, the Erbdrostenhof in Münster and the Freunde Alter Musik in Basel.
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