NEW ON NAXOS | AUGUST 2025
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Goffredo PETRASSI (1904–2003) Concertos for Orchestra Nos. 7 & 8 Sonata da camera * Mario Stefano Tonda, Harpsichord * Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma Francesco La Vecchia
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In the early 1960s Goffredo Petrassi’s idiom was almost indistinguishable from that of the Italian avant- garde. Completed in 1964, the Seventh Concerto evolves with mounting tension and a sense of underlying menace. The Eighth Concerto from 1972 was commissioned and premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. It is a substantial piece of outright virtuosity, with dissonance, trenchant dialogues and a fraught atmosphere. The much earlier Sonata da camera for harpsichord and ten instruments finds Petrassi poised between neo-Classicism and a more modernist direction. This is the third and final volume of Petrassi’s complete Concertos for Orchestra on Naxos (Nos. 1–3 are on 8.573702; Nos. 4–6 are on 8.573703). Key features: • Francesco La Vecchia was the permanent conductor and artistic director of the Rome Symphony Orchestra , born from his own project, for 14 years. He was principal guest conductor of the Berliner Symphoniker for 5 years. He is also an Honorary Academician of the Beijing Conservatory, Emeritus Professor of the University of Seoul and Ambassador of the UN and FAO for Culture in the World. •
8.573718 Release date: 8 Aug 2025 Companion titles – Francesco La Vecchia, Conductor
‘Full of superior invention, and always displaying a refined harmonic sensibility and felicitous understanding of the orchestra… First-rate contributions from both soloists and energetic playing from Francesco La Vecchia’s Rome band’ ( Gramophone on Vol. 2, 8.573073).
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Click to listen to Ottavo Concerto per orchestra: II. Secondo movimento
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Anton RUBINSTEIN (1829–1894) Fantasia in E minor Five Pieces • Trot de cavalerie Regina Chernychko, Piano
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Anton Rubinstein always regretted that his status as an elite pianist eclipsed his reputation as a composer. Recent recordings have shown that his music is melodically distinguished and attractive, as these two major works from the mid-1860s show. Cast on a wide canvas, the Fantasia in E minor conforms to Romantic grandeur in its gestures, which also include Beethovenian echoes in the finale. The Five Pieces are condensed character studies, evoking Chopin and Schumann, and ending with a brilliant Toccata . The Trot de cavalerie , a march for mounted troops, was a popular genre in the 19th century. Key feature: Regina Chernychko was born into a family of musicians in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She won the 60th Maria Canals International Piano Competition as well as numerous other competitions such as ‘Ricard Viñes’ International Piano Competition, Lleida (Spain). She is also a laureate of the ‘Chopin Prize in Rome (Italy), the ‘Delia Steinberg’ Competition, Madrid, (Spain), ‘Young Musicians’ in Enschede (Netherlands), among others.
8.574697 Release date: 22 Aug 2025 Companion titles – Anton Rubinstein, Composer
Click to listen to Five Pieces, Op. 69: No. 5. Toccata
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