NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2023
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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INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
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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