NEW ON NAXOS | FEBRUARY 2023
Unicum New Songs from the Leuven Chansonnier Ensemble Leones • Marc Lewon
The discovery in 2015 of a 15th-century parchment chansonnier still in its original binding was made still more startling because it contained twelve previously unknown, anonymous chansons. Most are rondeaus, and they range from the uncomplicated to the refined and elaborate; many bear musical indications that they are the work of the greatest composers of the period. In this recording they have been contextualised with other known songs but in the variant versions found in Leuven. As on their recording of the Chansonnier Cordiforme (on 8.573325), Ensemble Leones employs a range of performance possibilities, from a cappella ensemble to a mixture of instruments and voices. Key Feature:
8.574395 Release Date: 24 Feb 2023
One of Ensemble Leones ’ trademarks is the discovery of hitherto unknown works from the Middle Ages and Renaissance and the reintroduction of rarely heard instruments into the performance practice of Early Music. Through this pioneering work and reinterpretation of familiar
Companion Titles – Other Early Music recordings featuring Marc Lewon 8.573854 | 8.573325 | 8.573346 8.572576 | 8.572449
works in concert and on record, Ensemble Leones has set a new aesthetic standard. The ensemble’s critically acclaimed discography includes Argentum et Aurum (8.573346), which won the Early Music category of the 2016 International Classical Music Awards.
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Justin HOLLAND (1819–1887) Guitar Works and Arrangements Carnival of Venice • Sweet Memories of Thee • Home Sweet Home • Pearls of Dew Christopher Mallett, Guitar Justin Holland was an African American, born free in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the most influential and important American guitarist of the 19th century and wrote the first published and best-selling guitar method in the country. He was also a leading voice in the anti-slavery and civil rights movements. As a composer he synthesized European models and embraced popular, church and parlor songs generating a rich variety of works. A master of virtuosic variations, his arrangements are witty, elegant, and colorful, and culminate in Carnival of Venice , which shows the full range of his gifts, sweeping in breadth and dazzling in effect. Key Feature: Guitarist Christopher Mallett has been featured in Classical Guitar magazine, the American Suzuki Journal , Acoustic Guitar magazine, and on the cover of Soundboard magazine.
8.559924 Release Date: 10 Feb 2023
Companion Titles – American Classics series 8.574298 | 8.559686 | 8.559650 | 8.559336
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Raízes Portuguese Chamber Music AZEVEDO • CARRAPATOSO • LAPA • MARQUES Matosinhos String Quartet
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
Raízes (Portuguese for ‘roots’) features new works commissioned by the Matosinhos String Quartet, in which composers were invited to write works inspired by melodies, dances and stories from Portuguese traditional folklore. Returning to their heritage in North Portugal, Eurico Carrapatoso and Fernando C. Lapa both draw inspiration from Mirandese landscapes, dances and melodies. Telmo Marques’s Ilhas Afortunadas alludes to the mythologies surrounding the islands of the Azores and Madeira, and Sérgio Azevedo pays homage to Fernando Lopes-Graça and Béla Bartók’s pioneering work recording folk music in the field with his Popularuskia I .
8.579114 Release Date: 24 Feb 2023
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Companion Titles – Other Naxos recordings of Portuguese music 8.573402 | 8.574014 | 8.574373 | 8.579105
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