NEW ON NAXOS | JULY 2022
Sigismond THALBERG (1812–1871) Les Soirées de Pausilippe Hommage à Rossini: 24 Pensées musicales Francesco Nicolosi, Piano
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Sigismond Thalberg was a virtuoso pianist whose training included studies with Mozart’s pupil Johann Hummel, and whose rivalry with Franz Liszt became the talk of Paris in the 1830s. Thalberg excelled in the fashionable solo piano genre of operatic paraphrase but, while drawing on themes by the ever-popular Rossini, Les Soirées de Pausilippe avoids ostentatious excess. Instead Thalberg preferred an elegant simplicity in which the piano is allowed to sing in emulation of the operatic originals. With rhythmic dances, expressive arias and more, this is a collection that embraces moods that range from Mendelssohnian charm to Chopinesque pianism. Key Feature: This is a re-release of a recording that originally appeared on the Marco Polo label in 1997 (8.223807). We have been raising the profile of Sigismond Thalberg in recent years with re-releases such as our Naxos 6 Disc box set (8.506042) which includes Francesco Nicolosi ’s recording of Les Soirées de Pausilippe , and whose performance were regarded by Gramophone as ‘elegant and often brilliant’. This title also follows the re-release of Thalberg’s Fantasies on Operas by Donizetti in May 2022 (8.555502).
8.555668 • Release Date: 08 Jul 2022
Companion Titles – Sigismond Thalberg, Composer 8.555503 NEW | 8.555502 NEW 8.555501 | 8.555498
Lorenzo PEROSI (1872–1956) Piano Quintets Nos. 1 and 2 String Trio No. 2 Matteo Bevilacqua, Piano • Roma Tre Orchestra Ensemble –
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Leonardo Spinedi and Hinako Kawasaki, Violins • Lorenzo Rundo, Viola • Angelo Maria Santisi, Cello Puccini once said, ‘there is more music in Perosi’s head than in mine and Mascagni’s put together’. Priest-composer Lorenzo Perosi achieved international celebrity by the late 1890s for his sacred music, and he also composed a fine selection of chamber works that are little known today. Perosi’s Piano Quintets have a fresh and spontaneous feel, even though they were written while he grieved the loss of his brother. Combining bold rhythms and solemn spiritual depth, these works along with the Second String Trio are all respectful of tradition while representing an exploration of new paths unique in Italian music of the time. Key Feature:
We are fortunate to have the works in this new release being performed by leading members of the Roma Tre Orchestra Ensemble , an orchestra founded in 2005 and dedicated to excellence and the spreading of great music among younger generations in particular. Leonardo Spinedi, Hinako Kawasaki, Lorenzo Rundo and Angelo Maria Santisi regularly perform as first desk in the orchestra. Click to listen to Piano Quintet No. 1 in F major: I. Mosso LISTEN
8.574375 • Release Date: 08 Jul 2022 Companion Titles – 20th Century Italian Classics 8.570875 | 8.572628 | 8.572753 | 8.574049
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
William McCLELLAND (b. 1950) Where the Shadow Glides Songs, Solo Piano and Choral Works Cædmon’s Hymn • Five for Piano • These Last Gifts Various Artists
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Internationally acclaimed composer William McClelland has written a wide variety of music in many styles and forms, but the works in this program have all been inspired by poetry. The choral works evoke the atmosphere of time and place in settings of very early texts, including Catullus’ movingly elegiac lament for his lost brother, These Last Gifts , an experience shared by the composer. The short pieces in Five for Piano all evoke specific poems and, composed over several decades, McClelland’s songs are primarily settings of poetry by American writers that express a mystical, symbolic or visionary view on nature. Key Features: • Composer and pianist William McClelland has been acclaimed for his ‘vivid music’, ‘appealingly direct manner of expression’ and ‘fertile contrapuntal imagination’ ( Gramophone ). This American Classics release represents his Naxos debut. • He has been the recipient of grants and awards from Meet the Composer, ASCAP, the Aaron Copland Fund, Massachusetts Council on the Arts, Dance Theater Workshop, the Four Freedoms Awards, Vassar College, Western Reserve Academy and others.
Companion Titles – American Classics series 8.559819 | 8.559815 | 8.559658 8.669030 | 8.669042-43 8.559906 • Release Date: 22 Jul 2022
Click to listen to Cædmon’s Hymn
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