NEW ON NAXOS | OCTOBER 2024
INCLUDES A WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
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Release date: 25 Oct 2024
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JoAnn Falletta © Steve J. Sherman
Key features: • Known for exploring unusual repertoire, JoAnn Falletta is quite the household name when it comes to contemporary music but, together with the superb Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO), this team is also quite at home in earlier works such as Vitĕzslav Novak’s In the Tatra Mountains (8.573683): ‘Yet another fine release from the Buffalo Philharmonic under its dynamic and enterprising conductor, JoAnn Falletta’ ( ClassicsToday.com ). • Polish horn soloist Jacek Muzyk moved to the United States in 2002 where he played with the Houston Grand Opera and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra before being appointed Principal Horn with the Buffalo Philharmonic. His Naxos recording of Mozart’s complete Horn Concertos (8.570419) was admired in the American Record Guide , ‘[Muzyk] is an assured soloist with outstanding technical skills and a refinement that serves these wonderful pieces well. One of the best things a horn player can do with them is to make them sound easy, and Muzyk certainly does.’ • Daniel Kerdelewicz is Associate Principal Horn of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, a position he has held since 2009. Prior to his BPO appointment he held positions with the National Forum of Music, the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Representative Band of Polish Land Forces. The Golden Age of the Horn Concertos for Two Horns HOFFMEISTER • L. MOZART POKORNÝ • WITT Jacek Muzyk, Horn primo • Daniel Kerdelewicz, Horn secondo Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra JoAnn Falletta The 18th century established the horn as a solo instrument, with virtuoso players commissioning concertos throughout Europe. The technical demands required to play hand-stopped instruments meant that many such concertos have not surfaced until recently. An exact contemporary of Beethoven, Friedrich Witt makes athletic use of the horn’s range in his Concerto in F major , which is also a feature of the cat-and-mouse interplay in Hoffmeister’s Concerto No. 3 in E flat . Expressive lyricism is present in such works as Leopold Mozart’s elegant and refined Concerto for Two Horns in E flat major , while the graceful Larghetto in Pokorný’s Concerto for Two Horns in F major is framed by two exuberant outer movements.
Click to listen to WITT, F.: Concerto for Two Horns and Orchestra (No. 3) in F major: I. Allegro LISTEN About JoAnn Falletta, Conductor Multiple GRAMMY-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) and music director laureate of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. She has guest-conducted many of the most prominent orchestras in America, Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America. As music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta became the first woman to lead a major American orchestra. With a discography of over 125 titles, she is a leading recording artist for Naxos. Her GRAMMY-winning Naxos recordings include Richard Danielpour’s The Passion of Yeshua (8.559885-86) and John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan (8.559331), both with the BPO, and Kenneth Fuchs’ Spiritualist with the London Symphony Orchestra (8.559824).
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