NEW ON NAXOS | JULY 2024
Marco Enrico BOSSI (1861–1925) Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 Emmanuele Baldini, Violin • Luca Delle Donne, Piano
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Marco Enrico Bossi gained fame as one of the most influential Italian organ virtuosos of his day, and as a composer who helped lay the foundations for a new tradition of instrumental music in a country dominated by opera. Bossi’s First Violin Sonata has cyclical forms and a density of ideas that put it in line with César Franck’s famous sonata, with melodies as expressive as those of Rachmaninov. The Second Violin Sonata recalls a Classical style that refers more to Beethoven and Brahms while displaying the eloquence of Bossi’s personal idiom. Both of these works reveal a composer whose chamber music stands equal to the most renowned works produced in the late 19th century. Key Features: • Marco Enrico Bossi is best known as a composer for the organ, and his works in this genre are fairly well represented on recordings including a Naxos release (8.572177) with the Konzertstück in C minor and other works, regarded as ‘a good introduction to Bossi’s style’ in the American Record Guide . • Violinist and conductor Emmanuele Baldini has garnered prizes from countless international competitions, and has performed as a soloist or recitalist across the globe, performing in all of the major European and Latin American concert halls. Pianist Luca Delle Donne has performed throughout Europe and America, and has undertaken several tours across China and Japan. He has given solo recitals, worked with chamber ensembles alongside renowned musicians, and with orchestras. Click to listen to Violin Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 82: I. Allegro con energia LISTEN
8.574515 Release Date: 12 Jul 2024 Companion Titles – 19th century Italian Classics 8.557848 | 8.572890 | 8.573438 | 8.574297
Idil Biret Archive Edition, Vol. 21 Waltzes and Dances STRAUSS/GODOWSKY • BARTÓK • BERLIOZ CHOPIN • DEBUSSY • RACHMANINOV/KREISLER LISZT • RAVEL • STRAVINSKY Idil Biret, Piano
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Idil Biret wanted to record the many waltz transcriptions of Godowsky and others. Chief among these was the transcription of the Johann Strauss’ waltz Künstlerleben by Godowsky which she had performed at many concerts in the 1970s and the Blue Danube Waltz. However, there was another project scheduled before that; four Haydn Sonatas, some of the most beautiful among the many he composed. When Idil suddenly fell ill in 2021 both projects were abandoned. Then, miraculously a stupendous recording of her performance of Künstlerleben in New York in December 1975 surfaced on the internet which led to reembarking on the project in a somewhat different way. The result is this album, a compilation of Biret’s past performances of Waltzes and Dances from many composers including Bartók, Berlioz, Chopin, Debussy, Liszt, Ravel, Stravinsky and, of course, Leopold Godowsky – his piano transcription of the Strauss waltz Künstlerleben “Metamorphosis on Themes from Artist’s Life”. ‘After the brilliant Liszt interpreter Lazar Berman, now another maestro of the piano with special affinity to Liszt, Idil Biret, made debut in the German Democratic Republic…The jubilant public found itself rewarded with an encore which in itself was even more complex: a Tarantella by Liszt, performed with extreme purity and enormously dynamic staging.’ – Berliner Zeitung (GDR 1979)
8.571428 Release Date: 26 Jul 2024
Companion Titles – Previous releases in the Idil Biret Archive Edition 8.571413 | 8.571404 | 8.571320 | 8.571295
GREAT COMPOSERS IN WORDS AND MUSIC
final volume
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George Frideric HANDEL (1685–1759) Written by Davinia Caddy • Narrated by Nicholas Boulton
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Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music , two of his greatest orchestral achievements, have become synonymous with mid-18th-century England and with the pomp, ceremony and tradition of British royalty. But is this music necessarily synonymous with Handel? Where did his eclecticism and experimentalism come from? How and why did he conquer the emerging genre of the English oratorio and what were the circumstances that allowed him to become one of opera’s greatest composers? This revealing audio biography is accompanied by musical examples drawn from his orchestral and instrumental music, his cantatas, oratorios, operas and those two famous royal commissions.
Companion Titles – Previous releases in the series 8.578361 | 8.578362 | 8.578363 | 8.578364 | 8.578365 | 8.578366 | 8.578367 8.578368 | 8.578369 | 8.578373 | 8.578374 | 8.578375 | 8.578377
8.578376 Release Date: 26 Jul 2024
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