The September New On Naxos celebrates the return of Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Jaap van Zweden, on a new album of Shostakovich's Symphonies Nos. 5 and 9. Other highlights include the Heitor Villa-Lobos album of Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, a world premiere recording of Antonio Sacchini's oratorio 'L'abbandono delle riccheze di S. Filippo Neri', and a new production of Der Schatzgräber with the Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Marc Albrecht and featuring soloists Elisabet Strid & Daniel Johansson. Enjoy!
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8.574549 Release Date: 8 Sep 2023 Dmitry SHOSTAKOVICH (1906–1975)
Jaap van Zweden © Eric Hong / HK Phil
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Symphonies Nos. 5 and 9 Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Jaap van Zweden
Click to listen to Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47: IV. Allegro non troppo
About Jaap van Zweden, Conductor Jaap van Zweden has conducted orchestras on three continents, appearing as a guest with the Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker and London Symphony Orchestra in Europe, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic in the United States. Among his numerous recordings is the world premiere of David Lang’s prisoner of the state , which followed Julia Wolfe’s GRAMMY-nominated Fire in my mouth , both recorded with the New York Philharmonic. His acclaimed performance of Parsifal earned him the prestigious Edison Award for Best Opera Recording in 2012.
Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 was premiered in 1937. It was composed in response to the Soviet denouncement in Pravda of the composer’s most recent works. The symphony was an overwhelming success, returning the composer to favour with the authorities, and remains one of the most performed symphonies of the 20th century. The jaunty, neo-Classical character of Symphony No. 9 was in stark contrast to the ‘victory symphony’ expected by Soviet officialdom. Shostakovich’s startlingly different original draft for the opening of the first movement can be heard on 8.572138. Key Features: • Jaap van Zweden has been music director of the New York Philharmonic since 2018 and music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) since 2012. In 2018 he completed a four-year project conducting Wagner’s Ring cycle with the HK Phil, which was released on Naxos 8.501403, and critically acclaimed worldwide for a ‘thrilling sense of drama’ ( The Sunday Times, London ). • Hong Kong Philharmonic ’s most recent recordings include the Tenth Symphonies of Mahler and Shostakovich (8.574372): ‘Under the Dutch conductor, this orchestra has flourished; strings are perfectly moulded… Van Zweden’s pace is forward- moving but not rushed, the sound and balances in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre superb’ ( BBC Music Magazine ), and ‘The Shostakovich is characterised by the same expansiveness… an interesting and thoughtful coupling’ ( Gramophone ). • The year after Van Zweden was appointed music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Naxos released his performance of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 as a soloist (8.573271): ‘Van Sweden’s virtuosity as a violinist…is here shown to be of the highest class’ ( Musical Opinion ).
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9.50302 * Release Date: 8 Sep 2023
Companion Titles – Jaap van Zweden and the Hong Kong Philharmonic
Companion Titles – Dmitry Shostakovich, Composer
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8.574531 Release Date: 22 Sep 2023
Isaac Karabtchevsky © Bruno Veiga
Heitor VILLA-LOBOS (1887–1959) Cello Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 Fantasia for Cello and Orchestra Antonio Meneses, Cello São Paulo Symphony Orchestra • Isaac Karabtchevsky The Cello Concerto No. 1 was Villa-Lobos’s first major orchestral work. Filled with youthful energy and displaying an eclectic style, it is the sound of the composer finding his voice. Three decades later and with his reputation at its height, the inspired melodies and flowing style of the Fantasia sees Villa-Lobos giving free rein to his vivid imagination. Composed for the Brazilian cellist Aldo Parisot, the no less inventive and lushly scored Cello Concerto No. 2 from 1953 suggests man’s solitude when facing the vastness of nature. About Isaac Karabtchevsky, Conductor Artistic director and conductor of the Orquestra Petrobras Sinfônica, Isaac Karabtchevsky is also artistic director of the Baccarelli Institute and the Heliópolis Symphony Orchestra. He was awarded the Prêmio da Música Brasileira four times (2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018) for his recordings of the complete symphonies of Villa- Lobos with the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (Osesp). Karabtchevsky has served as the musical director of the Teatro La Fenice, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire and the Tonkunstler Orchestra. He has taught at the Musica Riva Festival in Italy since 2000.
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Click to listen to Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 50: I. Allegro con brio – Tempo de Gavotte: Moderato –
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Developed in collaboration with the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ‘Music of Brazil’ series presents around 100 orchestral, chamber, choral and vocal works from the 19th and 20th centuries recorded by the country’s top orchestras, ensembles and artists, and selected according to their historical importance for Brazilian music. • Villa-Lobos is of course an unmissable part of this series, and this release joins the Complete Violin Sonatas (8.574310), considered ‘an attractive proposition’ in Gramophone , Choral Transcriptions (8.574286), and the Guitar and Harmonica Concertos (8.574018) in ‘universally first-rate performances’ ( ClassicsToday.com ). • The São Paulo Symphony Orchestra has made an acclaimed recording of Villa-Lobos’s complete symphonies (8.506039), with Gramophone stating: ‘Isaac Karabtchevsky directs secure and consistently colourful performances and the sound is excellent, as is necessary given the composer’s wide-ranging orchestrations’. This team makes a significant contribution to the series and has already recorded Choros, Vol. 1 by Carmago Guarneri (8.574197). • Brazilian cellist Antonio Meneses won the First Prize and Gold Medal in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow at the age of 25 in 1982, and his subsequent international career has seen him appearing as soloist with many of the world’s finest orchestras and working with eminent conductors such as Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Mariss Jansons and Mstislav Rostropovich.
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9.50305 * Release Date: 25 Aug 2023
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Daniel Johansson as Elis and Elisabet Strid as Els © Monika Rittershaus
Key Features: • Director Christof Loy and conductor Marc Albrecht have teamed up again to revive this neglected opera from the early 20th century. This opera was a triumph at its world premiere in 1920 2.110761 Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Sound format: Dolby Digital 2.0 and Surround 5.1 Language: German Subtitles: German, English, French, Japanese, Korean Region code: 0 (worldwide) No. of disc/s: 1 (DVD 9) Release Date: 8 Sep 2023
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Franz SCHREKER (1878–1934) Der Schatzgräber Opera in a prologue, four acts and an epilogue (1918) Elisabet Strid, Soprano Daniel Johansson, Michael Laurenz, Tenors Thomas Johannes Mayer, Baritone Tuomas Pursio, Bass-baritone • Doke Pauwels, Actor Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus and Orchestra Marc Albrecht, Conductor • Christof Loy, Stage director Franz Schreker’s career was cut short by the events of 1933 in Germany but he achieved real fame with his operas, and the huge success of Der Schatzgräber (‘The Treasure Hunter’) in the 1920s was the high point of his career. In a complex and ultimately tragic tale of destructive greed, desire and toxic social hierarchy, the innkeeper’s daughter Els is forced to confront the consequences of her murderous intent in what conductor Marc Albrecht considers ‘a work of exceptional quality, concentration and significance’. Following the huge success of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane (Naxos DVD 2.110584-85 / Blu-ray NBD0083V), director Christof Loy continues his exploration of strong female characters and neglected 20th-century masterpieces with this highly acclaimed Deutsche Oper Berlin production.
and in subsequent years, but a National Socialist ban on performances sealed its demise. With its narrative blend of fantasy and realism and the powerful expressiveness and dramatic intensity of its music, this is an opera that has plenty of relevance today in both its themes and its stylistic richness. • This 2022 Deutsche Oper Berlin production received wide critical acclaim: ‘With the Swedish heroic tenor Daniel Johansson and the Swedish soprano Elisabet Strid , the ideal cast was indeed found. Johansson’s powerful tenor also masters the lyrical passages effortlessly and uses his beautiful timbre very individually. Strid is convincing in the big dramatic outbursts, but she can also withdraw her technically brilliant soprano at any time for the lyrical sections’ ( Klassik begeistert ). • Christof Loy is one of the most sought- after directors in international opera and theatre today. His production of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane with Marc Albrecht was critically acclaimed, becoming a critic’s choice for the American Record Guide and was given the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (‘German Record Critics’ Award’) in November 2019. Albrecht also triumphed with Berg’s Wozzeck (2.110582 / NBD0081V), with Gramophone considering it ‘among the most beautifully played and sung accounts on record and film’.
Also available on Blu-ray Video: NBD0173V Picture format: HD 16:9 Sound format: PCM stereo and DTS-MA 5.1 Language: German Subtitles: German, English, Dutch, Japanese, Korean Region: A, B, C No. of disc/s: 1 (BD 50) Release Date: 8 Sep 2023
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Antonio SACCHINI (1730–1786) L’abbandono delle ricchezze di S. Filippo Neri (‘Saint Philip Neri’s Renunciation of All Worldly Wealth’) Yeree Suh, Ketevan Chuntishvili, Sopranos Markus Schäfer, Tenor • Daniel Ochoa, Bass Giovanni Michelini, Harpsichord and Organ Concerto de Bassus • Franz Hauk
Franz Hauk © Anna Götz
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Click to listen to Aria: Vanne sospir tremante figlio del cor fedele
Antonio Sacchini’s renowned melodic gifts and facility as a composer were developed amid the flourishing Neapolitan school of opera but, outgrowing the Italian tradition, he later found inspiration working in London and Paris. The oratorio L’abbandono delle ricchezze di S. Filippo Neri narrates the spiritual trials of St Philip Neri as he is hounded by the personifications of Splendour and Deception on his journey, assisted and defended by Poverty, towards God and virtue. First performed in 1765, L’abbandono is heard here in its world premiere recording. Antonio Sacchini is notably under-represented in recordings, with just one or two of his numerous operas and some chamber music more or less currently available on disc. Our 2006 release of his opera Oedipe à Colone (8.660196-97) remains a standard-bearer as ‘one of those relatively rare instances where an “unearthed gem” reveals an opera that once rightfully belonged to the main course, rather than just an interesting side dish’ ( AllMusic.com ). • Key Features: • This performance is directed by Franz Hauk, who is well known for his revivals of the music of Johann Simon Mayr in numerous Naxos recordings that include the oratorio David in spelunca Engaddi (8.570366-67), a recording summed up as ‘richly rewarding’ in MusicWeb International .
About Franz Hauk, Conductor Born in Neuburg an der Donau in 1955, Franz Hauk studied church and school music, with piano and organ, at the Munich Musikhochschule and in Salzburg. In 1988 he took his doctorate with a thesis on church music in Munich at the beginning of the 19th century. From 1982 to 2021 he served as organist at Ingolstadt Minster, and since 1995 also as choirmaster. He has given concerts in Europe and the United States and made a number of recordings including several premieres of works by Johann Simon Mayr.
Concerto de Bassus
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Paul CHIHARA (b. 1938) Concerto-Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra * Bagatelles • Reveries • Ami ** Quynh Nguyen, Rieko Aizawa ** , Piano London Symphony Orchestra * • Stephen Barlow *
Recipient of numerous notable awards and commissions, Paul Chihara is renowned for his film and television scores as well as for an extensive catalogue of orchestral, choral and chamber works. Composed for and in close collaboration with award-winning pianist Quynh Nguyen, recognized for her sensitive and poetic playing, the lyrical Concerto- Fantasy is inspired by traditional Vietnamese music, expressing a sense of longing for a peaceful past and projecting jazz-tinged possibilities for the future. From the haiku-like Bagatelles and the haunting intimacy of Ami , to the characters and inspired adaptations that emerge through the Four Reveries on Beethoven , Chihara’s delightfully approachable piano music is full of surprises and discoveries.
8.559894 Release Date: 8 Sep 2023 Companion Titles – American Piano Concertos 8.559930 | 8.559925 | 8.559902 | 8.559875
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Joachim RAFF (1822–1882) Symphony No. 5 ‘Lenore’ Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott – Overture Slovak State Philharmonic • Urs Schneider
The imposing nature and sweeping expressive range of Joachim Raff’s Fifth Symphony has seen it become one of his most popular works in the genre. Its subtitle ‘Lenore’ refers to a lurid and macabre poem by Gottfried August Bürger in which the forlorn heroine forsakes God to join her dead lover on a wild ride through an ultimately horrific night. With its delicately scored and touching love music, celebrated march and brutal finale, this is a spirited and memorable symphony. The overture Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott uses Martin Luther’s famous melody to commemorate the drama of the Thirty Years’ War. Key Feature: This recording previously appeared in 1993 on the Marco Polo label (8.223455). The Fifth is generally regarded as Raff’s best symphony, still appearing in concert halls today, and collectors of these reissued recordings will not want to be without this release.
Companion Titles – Joachim Raff, Composer 8.555411 | 8.555491 | 8.555499 8.555541 Release Date: 8 Sep 2023
Click to listen to Symphony No. 5 in E major, Op. 177 ‘Lenore’: Part I. Liebesglück (‘Love’s Happiness’): Allegro
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Liebestod Works for Violin and Piano BRAHMS • DIETRICH • SCHUMANN • WAGNER Friedemann Eichhorn, Violin • Fazıl Say, Piano
Turkish pianist and composer Fazıl Say is joined by his long-standing friend, the violinist Friedemann Eichhorn, in an album of mid-19th-century German repertoire. Influenced by Liszt, Say’s ingenious transcriptions of the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde are heard here in world premiere recordings. The composite F–A–E Sonata of Dietrich, Schumann and Brahms is seldom encountered as a whole, while Schumann’s Violin Sonata No. 1 , though written at a time of unhappiness, contains moments of glorious beauty and intimacy. Key Feature:
8.574434 Release Date: 8 Sep 2023
Friedemann Eichhorn and Fazıl Say recorded Say’s violin music together on Naxos 8.574085. It was an ICMA nominated disc: ‘Say as an extraordinary pianist and Friedemann Eichhorn as a versatile violinist perform these works with unquestionable skill and, certainly sharpened by the composer’s participation, great musical expression and colours. The whole range of emotions is served from the slightest breath to the most vivacious outburst’ ( Pizzicato ).
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Fazıl Say and Friedemann Eichhorn
Click to listen to SCHUMANN, R.: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105: I. Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck
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Eduardo GRAU (1919–2006) Concertos for Soloists and String Orchestra Jana Jarkovská, Flute • Simon Reitmaier, Clarinet Ana María Valderrama, Violin • David Fons, Viola Miklós Szitha, Timpani • Fabio Banegas, Piano Anima Musicæ Chamber Orchestra • Francisco Varela
The music of Spanish-Argentine composer Eduardo Grau is imbued with Hispanic elements. His Concerto of ‘Yuste’ for Violin, Piano and Timpani was inspired by the Spanish monastery of its title and is notable for its rhythmic drive, lyricism and mystical atmosphere. The Concertino for Viola and Piano is deeply expressive and intimate, while folkloric dances from Argentina are used in the Concerto for Clarinet including the vivacious chacarera . The verses of Spanish Golden Age poet Garcilaso de la Vega provided the inspiration for Grau’s To the Flower of Gnido for Flute and Piano .
8.579107 Release Date: 22 Sep 2023
Click to listen to Concerto of ‘Yuste’ for Violin, Piano, Timpani and String Orchestra, Op. 88: I. Cántico (‘Canticle’): Allegro giusto
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Companion Titles – Argentinian Composers 8.574128 | 8.572372 | 8.572271 | 8.574298
Domenico SCARLATTI (1685–1757) Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 28 Sang Woo Kang, Piano
A complete performance of Domenico Scarlatti’s 555 keyboard sonatas would take over two days of continuous playing, and the majority are still little-known today. This 28th volume features a wide selection of these original, imaginative and colourful works. It includes spritely dances (K.7) , an energetic triple-time romp (K.55) and a Spanish influenced evocation of flamenco (K.142) – among many other examples of Scarlatti’s seemingly limitless musical invention. Key Feature: Domenico Scarlatti’s Keyboard Sonatas have appeared in complete editions on harpsichord from performers such as Scott Ross and Richard Lester, but while these sonatas are popular with today’s audiences and players alike our ongoing and highly collectable Complete Keyboard Sonatas edition performed by a veritable panoply of leading pianists will be one of only a very few recorded on modern instruments.
8.573938 Release Date: 8 Sep 2023
Companion Titles – Previous recordings in Scarlatti’s Complete Keyboard Sonatas series 8.574374 | 8.574221 | 8.574146 | 8.574196 8.574075 | 8.573713 | 8.573795 | 8.573604 8.573590 | 8.573611 | 8.573708 | 8.573288 8.573222 | 8.572586 | 8.572107 | 8.570745
Click to listen to Sonata in A minor, K.7/L.379/P.63
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James P. JOHNSON (1894–1955) De Organizer The Dreamy Kid (excerpts) * Libretto by Langston Hughes Libretto by Eugene O’Neill * WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
Rabihah Davis Dunn, Olivia Duval, Lori Celeste Hicks, Sopranos • Elizabeth Gray, Mezzo-soprano Monique Spells, Contralto • Emery Stephens, Lonel Woods, Tenors • Darnell Ishmel, Baritone Branden C.S. Hood, Kenneth Kellogg, Basses University of Michigan Opera Theatre and Symphony Orchestra • Kenneth Kiesler Renowned as an influential jazz pianist, James P. Johnson also flourished as a composer of opera and of show tunes in the 1920s and 1930s. His two short operas The Dreamy Kid and De Organizer offer contrasting stories of African American life at that time, revealing both its incredible hopefulness and precariousness in the inter-war years. The Dreamy Kid is a tragedy, marked by police violence in a racially unjust atmosphere, and De Organizer is a hopeful story of solidarity and resistance meant to break the twin oppressions of poverty and racism. Johnson sets these stories to an eclectic and powerful mixture of jazz, swing, blues and ragtime that capture the essence of African American music-making in the early 20th century.
Companion Titles – American Opera Classics 8.669003-04 | 8.669140-41 8.669050-51 | 8.669012-13 8.669041 Release Date: 8 Sep 2023
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John HARBISON (b. 1938) Piano Works Nocturne * • Gatsby Etudes Four More Occasional Pieces * • Leonard Stein Anagrams * Piano Sonata No. 1, “In Memoriam Roger Sessions” Se-Hee Jin, Piano * WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, John Harbison, is recognized as one of the dominant figures of his generation, with commissions from most of America’s leading musical institutions as part of a catalog of more than 300 works. Pianist Se-Hee Jin has been exploring Harbison’s oeuvre with fearless and insightful interpretations ever since their first meeting at Tanglewood many years ago. From the rhapsodic and virtuoso First Piano Sonata to the fleeting images of the Leonard Stein Anagrams and the playful Gatsby Etudes , this program represents works from the 1980s to the present, including several world premiere recordings.
8.559918 Release Date: 22 Sep 2023
Companion Titles – John Harbison, Composer 8.559841 | 8.559188 | 8.559173 | 8.559243
Click to listen to Gatsby Etudes: No. 2. Parties
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Anthony BURGESS (1917–1993) Complete Guitar Quartets Mēla Guitar Quartet
Composer and novelist, Anthony Burgess, was a unique creative artist whose dual mastery of music and literature resulted in a career strewn with an output of remarkable diversity. Burgess came into contact with the Aïghetta Guitar Quartet while living in Monte Carlo in 1986, and the sublime arrangements and original works in this recording were all composed for this ensemble. The three guitar quartets range from the well-crafted First Quartet intended as a homage to Ravel, while the Second and Third Quartets explore virtuoso technique alongside adventurous and at times haunting harmonies and polytonality. Key Feature: The wider public knows Anthony Burgess as the author of novels such as A Clockwork Orange , but few are aware of him as a composer of some distinction. With only a very small number of recordings of his music available, we have been working on raising his profile with orchestral works released on Naxos 8.573472 which was well received by The International Anthony Burgess Foundation : ‘the recording is beautifully executed. The choice of pieces provides a larger picture of Burgess the composer’. His cycle of 24 Preludes and Fugues, The Bad-Tempered Electronic Keyboard , is also available on Grand Piano GP773.
8.574423 Release Date: 22 Sep 2023
Companion Titles – Guitar Classics series 8.573762 | 8.574339 | 8.579060 | 8.573575
Click to listen to Guitar Quartet No. 1 ‘Quatuor en hommage à Maurice Ravel: I. Très vif
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GREAT COMPOSERS IN WORDS AND MUSIC Modest MUSSORGSKY (1839–1881)
The Great Gate of Kiev resounds to the tumultuous bell rings that end Pictures at an Exhibition , one of the most magnificent and virtuosic of all piano pieces. However, to some of his contemporaries, Modest Mussorgsky was ‘insane’ and ‘a perfect idiot’. Born into a wealthy land-owning family, what drove this tormented man and why did he suffer with psychological breakdowns and alcoholism? How did he achieve a command of the realist idiom in his stage works? Illustrated with some of Mussorgsky’s finest works, the biographical narrative includes excerpts from Songs and Dances of Death , Boris Godunov , Night on Bald Mountain and, of course, Pictures at an Exhibition .
Companion Titles – Previous releases in the series 8.578365 Release Date: 22 Sep 2023
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