NEW ON NAXOS | NOVEMBER 2025
Reginald SMITH BRINDLE (1917–2003) Complete Works for Solo Guitar, Vol. 3 Preludes, Fantasies and Variations Duilio Meucci, Guitar
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Reginald Smith Brindle served with the Royal Engineers in Africa and Italy during the Second World War, and later returned to Italy in 1949 to further his compositional studies with Pizzetti and Dallapiccola. The influence of Italian landscapes and culture can be found in many of Smith Brindle’s works, including an extended combination of nostalgia and melancholy in November Memories dedicated to the poet Margherita Guidacci, and an evocation of the spirit of Gesualdo in The Prince of Venosa . The sheer variety of his guitar music is further represented in the expressive Preludes and Fantasias , the technical demands of the Île-de- France Variations , and the pedagogical but intriguingly atonal Ten Simple Preludes . Key features: • This release follows on from a first volume (Naxos 8.574476) that represented a Naxos debut both for composer Reginald Smith Brindle and guitarist Duilio Meucci , and was considered ‘a fine sampler of the music of one of the most important guitar composers of the 20th Century, dramatically played by a consummate artist who is deeply dedicated to his work’ in the American Record Guide . Vol. 2 (8.574634) will be released in September 2025. • Further acclaim for the first volume in this edition includes comments in MusicWeb International : ‘Duilio Meucci’s playing is excellent throughout, and the album has the clear, resonant recorded sound that one expects from Naxos… we can also hope that the album will help encourage other instrumentalists to take up Smith Brindle’s music’. Click to listen to Preludes and Fantasias: Prelude No. 5 LISTEN
8.574635 Release date: 28 Nov 2025
Companion titles – Previous releases in the series
8.574476 8.574634 Other works for solo guitar
8.574321 8.579103 8.574442 8.559948
Leoš JANÁČEK (1854–1928) On an Overgrown Path Gustav Piekut, Piano
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The Czech composer Leoš Janáček is primarily known for his operas and orchestral works, but at the piano he discovered a highly idiosyncratic and expressive language, strongly influenced by his studies of contemporaneous Slavonic folk music. The cycle On an Overgrown Path is a microcosm of this style. Composed between 1900 and 1911, these small pieces evoke the composer’s rustic boyhood in the village of Hukvaldy, conveying intimate nostalgia and poignancy in an autobiographical diary of impressions and dreams tinged with joy, introspection and loss. This recording includes the two surviving pieces from the work’s second series as well as the Paralipomena sequence of three miniatures from the 1942 publication. Key features: • Young Danish pianist Gustav Piekut is a laureate of international piano competitions such the Aarhus International Piano Competition and the Kissinger KlavierOlymp. In Denmark, Piekut has also received several awards, including the Artist Prize of the Danish Music Critics’ Association, the Danish Radio P2 Talent Prize, the Wilhelm Hansen Foundation Honorary Stipend, the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Prize, the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize, and the Gladsaxe Music Award. • He has recorded piano works by Scriabin and Langgaard on 8.574312: Fanfare wrote that ‘Gustav Piekut was barely 25 when he recorded this album. He is already demonstrating mature artistry and a knack for thoughtful programming.’
9.70378 * Release date: 14 Nov 2025
Companion titles – Leoš Janáček, Composer
8.660526-27
8.574209
8.572695
8.572639
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