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Niklas Jahn Organ Laureate Recital First Prize, 9th International Organ Competition Musashino-Tokyo 2023
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J.S. BACH • BRAHMS • HOSOKAWA MESSIAEN • SZATHMÁRY • VIERNE Niklas Jahn, Organ
Niklas Jahn, winner of the 9th International Organ Competition Musashino-Tokyo in 2023, was appointed organist at the Frauenkirche in Dresden in December 2024, the site of an acclaimed concert by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1736. This album features two works by Bach, including the monumental Toccata and Fugue in F major , as well as Toshio Hosokawa’s celestial Cloudscape , and the ultra-virtuosic Feuertaufe by Zsigmond Szathmáry. French repertoire by Messiaen and Vierne can also be heard alongside Brahms whose Chorale Preludes are among the last pieces he composed. Key feature: Niklas Jahn was born in Fulda (Germany) in 1996, studied church music, organ improvisation and choir conducting in Mainz and Freiburg and is one of the most exciting young organists before the public.
8.574649 Release date: 22 Aug 2025 Companion titles – Organ Laureate Recitals 8.573912 | 8.573155 | 8.572246
Click to listen to MESSIAEN, O.: L’Ascension: III. Transports de joie d’une âme devant la gloire du Christ qui est la sienne
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Alexey SHOR (b. 1970) Composer’s Notebook, Vol. 5 Violin Concertos No. 1 ‘Seascapes’ 1 No. 2 ‘Phantasms’ † 2 and No. 5 † 3 Valeriy Sokolov 1 , Nurie Chung 2 , Marc Bouchkov 3 , Violins Kyiv Virtuosi Dmitry Yablonsky 1 • Sergey Smbatyan 2 • John Warner 3 † WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
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Alexey Shor’s music is regularly performed at some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls. His popularity comes from a signature style that includes neo-Classical clarity with a strong emphasis on lyricism and traditional harmonies, as can be heard in his First Violin Concerto . The Second and Fifth Violin Concertos are works that explore a spectrum of emotions, from profound sadness and loss, to exhilarating and uplifting passions, both of which require high levels of virtuosity from both soloist and orchestra. Key feature: This recording is performed by acclaimed soloists including Belgian violinist Marc Bouchkov in the Fifth Violin Concerto who is celebrated for his profound expression and musical depth. Valeriy Sokolov ( First Violin Concerto ) has appeared in our acclaimed Spectrum Concerts Berlin series with the music of Erwin Schulhoff (Naxos 8.573525), and Nurie Chung ( Second Violin Concerto ) is a rising star who has already won many international and national competitions. In 2019, he won First Prize in the concerto competition at Morningside Music Bridge in Boston. He won First Prize of Il Piccolo Violin Magico in Italy in 2016, and won the Grand Prize across all categories of the 2016 EuroAsia Young Violin competition in Japan.
8.579143 Release date: 22 Aug 2025
Companion titles – Previous releases in the series 8.579139 | 8.579140 | 8.579141 | 8.579142
Click to listen to Violin Concerto No. 1 ‘Seascapes’: I. Abandoned Lighthouse
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The Munich Guitar Society Manuscripts DARR • KAMBERGER • KÜHNEL SCHMOELZL • SCHULZ Daniel Marx, Guitar
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In 2009, a large collection of guitar music from the Gitarristische Vereinigung München (‘Munich Guitar Society’) was rediscovered in an attic in Munich. The collection included numerous significant works for guitar that had been long inaccessible with many by neglected composers who are deserving of exploration and revival. Wilhelm Schmoelzl’s Introduction und Variationen exists on the threshold between Classicism and Romanticism, while Adam Darr’s perfectly realised Sonata is notable for its striking use of Alpine folk music. The programme concludes with Carl Kamberger’s witty and surprising Grand Fantasy , with its multitude of quoted themes and unconventional techniques. Key feature: This programme for solo guitar is packed with rare and undiscovered repertoire from the Gitarristische Vereinigung München (‘Munich Guitar Society’) archive now housed at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, all as yet still extant only in manuscript form and therefore unknown to the wider guitar community and the world of music in general.
8.551472 Release date: 8 Aug 2025
Companion titles – Other music for solo guitar 8.579103 | 8.574630 | 8.574442 | 8.559948
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