NEW ON NAXOS | FEBRUARY 2023
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
Kevin PUTS (b. 1972) The City Marimba Concerto * • Moonlight ** Katherine Needleman, Oboe ** • Ji Su Jung, Marimba * Baltimore Symphony Orchestra • Marin Alsop
‘This collection of recordings is especially meaningful for me because it charts my growth as an orchestral composer from my years as a student – when the Marimba Concerto was composed – to more mature work such as Moonlight . It also reflects the wonderful relationship I have enjoyed over the years with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop. The Marimba Concerto , which reflects my love of Mozart’s piano concertos, also represents my most direct and unguarded voice as a composer. The City was originally intended as a portrait of the city of Baltimore and more generally of the American city, but the death of Freddy Gray while in police custody and the subsequent unrest in Baltimore sent me in an unexpected direction with the piece.’ – Kevin Puts Key Features: •
Companion Titles – Kevin Puts, Composer 8.559926 Release Date: 24 Feb 2023
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts has established himself as one of America’s leading composers, gaining international acclaim for his ‘plush, propulsive’ music ( The New York Times ), and described by Opera News as ‘a master polystylist.’ His work has been commissioned and performed by leading organisations around the world, including The
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Metropolitan Opera, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Opera Philadelphia, Minnesota Opera, and many more, and he has collaborated with world-class artists such as Renée Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Marin Alsop, among others. • Marin Alsop is a prestigious Naxos recording artist and her discography includes acclaimed Naxos recordings of symphonies by Brahms with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Dvořák with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra , and Prokofiev with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestras. She previously recorded Puts’ Symphony No. 2 which can be heard on 8.559794: ‘Marin Alsop elicits an impressively polished performance from Peabody’s student orchestra…’ ( Gramophone )
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Click to listen to Marimba Concerto: III. With energy
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Alexander SCRIABIN (1872–1915) The Poem of Ecstasy Symphony No. 2 Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra JoAnn Falletta
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Scriabin composed most of his single-movement fourth symphony The Poem of Ecstasy between 1905 and 1908 in Italy and France. He originally intended it to be called Poème orgiaque (‘Orgiastic Poem’) with its unprecedented raw sensuality and overpowering aesthetic, taking chromaticism beyond even Wagnerian voluptuousness. His earlier Symphony No. 2 in C minor adopts César Franck’s cyclical ideas to which Scriabin layered sweeping climaxes, majestic intensity and rich orchestral colour that enliven its five movements with ceaseless invention. Key Features: • Conductor JoAnn Falletta was named Performance Today ’s Classical Woman of the Year 2019 and one of the 50 great conductors of all time by Gramophone magazine. Her GRAMMY-winning Naxos recordings include Richard Danielpour’s The Passion of Yeshua with the Buffalo Philharmonic (8.559885-86), Kenneth Fuchs’ Spiritualist with the London Symphony Orchestra (8.559824) and John Corigliano’s Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan , also with the Buffalo Philharmonic (8.559331). • Her recording of Florent Schmitt’s La Tragédie de Salomé which can be heard on 8.574138 received acclaim: ‘The soloists, choral and instrumental forces are magnificent under the impressive leadership of JoAnn Falletta. ’ (Crescendo)
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Click to listen to Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 29: II. Allegro
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