The December New On Naxos celebrates the second volume of Howells' piano works, performed by Matthew Schellhorn, plus the first volume of Marschner's Overtures and Stage Music recorded by Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice and Dario Salvi. This issue also welcomes a special film-project by Andre Heller; Camilla Nylund sings masterpieces from the Great American Songbook in this unique collaboration with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop.
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Matthew Schellhorn © Laura Pannack
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Key Features: • A prominent performer of new music, Matthew Schellhorn has given over 140 premieres and has commissioned many solo and chamber works. He has recorded numerous critically acclaimed albums, including his previous release on Naxos, Howells: Piano Music, Vol. 1 (8.571382). • ‘Schellhorn is an excellent and intelligent pianist. These performances will serve as an excellent reference but also as creative stimulus to other pianists who want to explore this repertoire’ ( American Record Guide ). ‘Immaculately stylish, raptly concentrated and memorably tender advocacy’ ( Gramophone ). ‘In Matthew Schellhorn, Howells has found an ideal musical champion and interpreter’ ( MusicWeb International ). In the first volume of this series (Naxos 8.571382), Matthew Schellhorn surveyed six decades of Herbert Howells’ compositions for the piano. This second volume reprises the journey, tracing the composer’s stylistic development from the charming poetic miniatures of his youth through to the resonant modal quirkiness of his later dances. The survey includes a centrally important work, the Sonatina of 1971, performed here in Schellhorn’s own edition compiled from the manuscript sources, which includes variants not heard for half a century. Herbert HOWELLS (1892–1983) Piano Music, Vol. 2 Country Pageant • A Little Book of Dances Comme le cerf soupire… • Et nunc, et semper Sonatina Matthew Schellhorn, Piano
8.571383 Release Date: 2 Dec 2022
Click to listen to Sonatina: III. Agile, destro, sempre veloce LISTEN Companion Titles – Other piano music recordings from the British Music Society
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Dario Salvi © V. Balevska
Click to listen to Schön Ella (‘Beautiful Ella’): Act IV – Entr’acte LISTEN
8.574449 Release Date: 2 Dec 2022
About Dario Salvi, Conductor Dario Salvi is a Scottish-Italian conductor, researcher and musicologist. He is widely regarded as a fast- rising name in opera and operetta, and is known for his expressive gestures and precision of style. A specialist in the restoration, recording and performance of rare Viennese works, comic opera, ballet and orchestral music – particularly the works of the Strauss family and their contemporaries such as Czibulka, Ziehrer, Suppè, Millöcker, Genèe, Kàlmàn and Mont – he is a busy recording artist with Naxos, and has completed projects documenting forgotten works by J. Strauss II, Auber, Meyerbeer, Humperdinck and more. He has been awarded a Lifetime Honorary Member of the Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain for his extensive contribution to Viennese music. Heinrich Marschner, the leading German composer of Romantic opera between Weber and Wagner, was a progressive innovator, bringing to his music a new dimension – the supernatural anti-hero enmeshed in horror, such as the protagonist of Der Vampyr (1828). Before his psychological operas, however, Marschner composed a series of overtures and stage works exploring more conventional material. These have long been overlooked. In this first volume Schön Ella represents Marschner’s mastery of form, skilful orchestration and melodic gifts, while the excerpts from Ali Baba reveal his flair for theatrical concision and mood setting. Heinrich August MARSCHNER (1795–1861) Overtures and Stage Music, Vol. 1 Ali Baba † • Schön Ella † • Der Kyffhäuser Berg † Der Holzdieb • Die Wiener in Berlin † Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice Dario Salvi † WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
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Dario Salvi is currently collaborating with Naxos on recordings of Romantic ballets and a series on Auber’s overtures and orchestral music. Vol. 5 has been released though with a different orchestra from this current disc, the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra. ‘The melodic invention – Italianate with a French accent – is winning, the orchestration is vivid and the Janáček Philharmonic play with considerable polish for Dario Salvi… these are attractive accounts of music that deserves better than its current obscurity’ ( Gramophone ). • He also recorded Humperdinck’s music for the stage on 8.574177: ‘The performances are uniformly skilled and spirited. The singing from both the soloists and the chorus is excellent – lively in expression and accurate in pitch and phrasing. The orchestra plays with rich tone, constantly producing sweet, mellow sounds. Salvi conducts with a flexibility most effective for theatre music’ ( American Record Guide ). • The Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice is valued for its stylistic interpretations and the extraordinary quality of its orchestral sound, and it is rightly ranked amongst the world’s leading representatives of Czech musical culture. Their recording of Meyerbeer’s overtures and stage music, also together with Salvi, is set to be released this October.
Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice
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8.572686 Release Date: 2 Dec 2022
Giovanni SGAMBATI (1841–1914) Symphony No. 2 Sinfonia epitalamio (‘Nuptial Symphony’) † Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma Francesco La Vecchia † WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING Giovanni Sgambati, a composer admired by Wagner, was the man Busoni predicted would take Italian music ‘towards a bright new future’. Sgambati’s Symphony No. 2 is a compendium of Austro-Germanic devices whose mix of chromaticism and melodic invention is invigorating. Lost for decades, it was reconstructed by Rosalind Trübger whose performing edition is recorded here. Sinfonia epitalamio was commissioned to celebrate a royal wedding. Loosely programmatic, this beautiful work embraces the pastoral and celebratory framed in the form of a symphonic poem. About Francesco La Vecchia, Conductor In 2002 Francesco La Vecchia took up the position of artistic director and resident conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma. Under his leadership the orchestra rapidly achieved success in highly successful visits to St Petersburg, Madrid, Belgrade, Brussels, Rio de Janeiro, London, Athens, Berlin, Beijing and Vienna. La Vecchia has also conducted at many prestigious venues, including the Kennedy Center, Washington and Carnegie Hall among many others. The ‘Maestro’ series of recordings, named after him, was first released in 1999. Since then he and the Rome Symphony Orchestra have recorded for Naxos (an important and wide- ranging series of works by 19th- and 20th-century Italian composers, including many world premiere recordings), Brilliant Classics (Respighi) and Sony (Beethoven).
Francesco La Vecchia
Click to listen to Symphony No. 2 in E flat major: IV. Allegro LISTEN
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Francesco La Vecchia and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma are Naxos’ specialists in late 19th/20th century Italian orchestral music and their recording of Sgambati’s Symphony No. 1 on 8.573007 received splendid reviews: ‘these performances by Francesco La Vecchia and the Symphony Orchestra of Rome are nothing short of magnificent and are guaranteed to stimulate the appetite of anyone who acquires this CD for more Sgambati. It’s urgently recommended to all’ ( Fanfare ). • ‘La Vecchia, his Roman orchestra, and the Naxos producers deserve credit for continuing to mine the undiscovered world of Italian orchestral music… For those who are just getting started on Italian orchestral music from the 1800s, the top picks in this series remain Sgambati’s marvellous Symphony No. 1 ’ (MusicWeb International).
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Camilla Nylund © Suzy Stöckl
2.110747 Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Sound format: PCM stereo Language: English Subtitles: English, German, Japanese, Korean Region code: 0 (worldwide) No. of disc/s: 1 (DVD 5) + 1 CD Release Date: 2 Dec 2022 Camilla Nylund sings masterpieces from The Great American Songbook A project by André Heller Camilla Nylund, Soprano ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop
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Finnish opera star Camilla Nylund sings masterpieces from the Great American Songbook in this unique collaboration with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under their music director Marin Alsop. The classic songs in this film were specially arranged to suit Nylund’s performance style, vocals and personality, as if they had been written for her. This special edition includes a DVD of the concert film-project by André Heller in black and white, plus an audio CD of the recordings.
Camilla Nylund is an admired classical artist who has sung on many albums on labels such as Ondine, Orfeo, OehmsClassics and BR Klassik. She is also one of the most in-demand dramatic sopranos around the world and has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera, and Bayerische Staatsoper, among others. Bachtrack.com described her as a ‘radiant Marschallin’ in her performance in Simon Rattle’s Der Rosenkavalier . • Nylund is accompanied here by the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra and their chief conductor, Marin Alsop – one of Naxos’ star performers. Alsop’s discography includes acclaimed Naxos recordings of symphonies by Brahms with the London Philharmonic, Dvořak with the Baltimore Symphony, and Prokofiev with the São Paulo Symphony. • Artistic director André Heller is an internationally successful multimedia artist with works ranging from garden artworks, cabinets of curiosities, literary bestsellers, large flying and floating sculptures, to the avant-garde amusement park Luna Luna. In addition to directing innovative shows, plays, circuses, films and opera productions, and an award-winning career as a singer and songwriter, he has also created fire spectacles, labyrinths and museum buildings.
Also available on Blu-ray Video: NBD0162V Picture format: HD 16:9 Sound format: PCM stereo Language: English Subtitles: English, German, Japanese, Korean Region code: A, B, C No. of disc/s: 1 (BD 25) + 1 CD Release Date: 2 Dec 2022
Companion Titles – Other film & documentary releases from Naxos
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Archibald JOYCE (1873–1963) British Light Music, Vol. 13 Caravan Suite
Toto • Dreams of You • A Thousand Kisses • Acushla Dreaming • Songe d’automne • Brighton Hike • Bohemia RTÉ Concert Orchestra • Andrew Penny
Archibald Joyce was known as ‘The English Waltz King’. The composer of delectable vignettes directed his own dance band which, depending on the size of the venue, sometimes numbered a hundred. Convinced that the Viennese waltz was not to British tastes he wrote smoother examples that included Dreaming , his most famous work, which sold over a million copies, and is a perfect example of the ‘hesitation’ waltz. His evocative music also included theatrical numbers, dramatic suites and the ‘concert valse’, designed for the silver screen. Key Features: • On its first appearance on Marco Polo, Gramophone wrote that ‘There is an irresistible innocence, grace and charm to the music that clearly captivated Andrew Penny and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra , and which they in turn succeed in capturing quite magically for the listener.’ • 8.555192 contains Vol. 12, the music of Trevor Duncan: ‘They [Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra] sound relaxed, playing with dapper phrasing and timing under the direction of Andrew Penny. The production by Murray Khouri and Hubert Geschwandtner is satisfyingly full and deep... This collection of Duncan’s music is too good to pass up’ ( MusicWeb International) . Click to listen to Dreaming LISTEN Ermanno WOLF-FERRARI (1876–1948) Das Himmelskleid (‘The Garment of Heaven’) Angelina Ruzzafante, Soprano • Anna-Maria Dur, Mezzo-soprano Sibrand Basa, Reinhard Leisenheimer, Peer-Martin Sturm, Michael Kurz, Tenors Sergio Gómez, Bass • Stefan Adam, Baritone Hagen Opera Chorus • Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra • Gerhard Markson Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari is best known for his comic operas. With this reputation established, the appearance of Das Himmelskleid in 1927, with its ‘symbolical twilight world… that rises musically to religious greatness and a world of dreams’ was a surprise for critics of the day. The narrative is a parable of a young princess who is born with the ‘Garment of Heaven’, but she forgets this true gift in her greedy pursuit of wealth and power. Das Himmelskleid is perhaps the most profoundly mature of Wolf-Ferrari’s operas, with an amazing sensitivity and feeling for sound and colour that were never bettered. Key Feature: This 3-disc set from the mid-1990s is a re-release from our Marco Polo label (8.223261-63). This is a recording that has lost none of its sparkle over the years, and it remains the only commercially available recording of this significant work. With its striking combination of Wagnerian heft and Italianate lightness this work is overdue for a return to the mainstream. ‘The strength of the Hagen ensemble is revealed right down to the choruses of Air Spirits, Moon-Maidens and Children of the Sun, and Gerhard Markson conducts with a feeling for the idiom.’ ( BBC Music Magazine )
8.555218 Release Date: 2 Dec 2022
Companion Titles – Previous releases in the British Light Music series
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8.660518-20 [3 Discs] Release Date: 2 Dec 2022
Companion Titles – Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Composer
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Click to listen to Ah! – Ha! Welche Schmach!
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Fabrice BOLLON (b. 1965) Die ungebornen Enkel * (‘The Unborn Grandchildren’) The Secret Garden of the Cordania
Irina Jae-Eun Park, Soprano * • Nutthaporn Thammathi, Tenor * • Johannes Moser, Electric cello This setting of Austrian Expressionist writer Georg Trakl’s poems by composer and conductor Fabrice Bollon is the first ever composition for classical singers and solo electric cello. As a result the work’s striking sonorities open unexpected and fascinating new directions for contemporary music. Evocative imagery and colourful writing for electric cello can also be heard in The Secret Garden of the Cordania – a work dedicated to Bollon’s cellist wife. Key Features: • This is our second release of music by Fabrice Bollon , the first of which (8.574015) included Four Lessons of Darkness which is the first ever concerto for electric cello, also composed together with Johannes Moser. American Record Guide described the recording as ‘high-octane eclecticism with excellent, committed performances all around’. • Bollon has achieved international acclaim as a conductor, his Naxos recordings including a remarkable interpretation of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane in 2018 (8.660410-12), and as a composer his opera Oscar und die Dame in Rosa was highly praised by both critics and audiences. • German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser has performed with the world’s leading orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, and BBC Philharmonic at the BBC Proms, alongside eminent conductors. He has a multi-award-winning discography, with releases on the Pentatone and Hänssler Classic labels among others. A dedicated chamber musician, he is a regular at international festivals.
8.574456 Release Date: 2 Dec 2022 Companion Titles – Fabrice Bollon, Composer
8.574015 Companion Titles – Fabrice Bollon, Conductor
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Click to listen to Die ungebornen Enkel (‘The Unborn Grandchildren’): Heiterer Frühling (‘Glad Spring’)
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Hommage à Victor Babin BABIN • BORODIN • RACHMANINOV • RIMSKY-KORSAKOV • TCHAIKOVSKY Two4Piano – Katerina Moskaleva and Alexey Pudinov, Pianos The year 1972 saw the death of Victor Babin, one half of the legendary Vronsky & Babin, arguably the most brilliant piano duo of the 20th century and a worldwide sensation for over three decades. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Babin’s death Katerina Moskaleva and Alexey Pudinov, themselves two musical forces of nature, come together as TWO4PIANO, a duo perfectly suited for breathing new life into Victor Babin’s appealing and colourful repertoire. Including newly rediscovered scores, this special programme takes us from Rachmaninov’s unmistakably Romantic style via Borodin’s rousing folkloric rhythms and Tchaikovsky’s balletic waltzes to Babin’s own remarkable evocations of a bygone era. Key Features: • Katerina Moskaleva and Alexey Pudinov, together known as the acclaimed duo TWO4PIANO , won First Prize at the North West International Piano Ensemble Competition 2018 in Vancouver, Canada, performing widely in Germany and beyond, and also winning the Art Champion Competition in St Petersburg 2020. Their vibrant performances have been recorded on an album, Evocation of Dance , but this is their Naxos debut. • Katerina Moskaleva has won numerous awards, including prizes at the Steinway piano competition, the international competition Verfemte Musik (ostracised music), and the international piano competition Hans von Bülow. Alexey Pudinov has performed widely and in distinguished company as a chamber musician, appearing at prominent festivals such as the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Pianofest in the Hamptons US, the Toronto Summer Music Festival, and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. He won the Gershwin Best Performance Prize 2015 in New York, the Steinway Prize 2014, and the First LMN Menuhin Prize 2016 in Frankfurt.
8.551462 Release Date: 2 Dec 2022
Companion Titles – Music for piano duo, duet and piano-four hands
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Johannes BRAHMS (1833–1897) Complete Songs, Vol. 2 Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33: Books 1–5 Alina Wunderlin, Soprano • Esther Valentin-Fieguth, Mezzo-soprano Kieran Carrel, Tenor • Konstantin Ingenpaß, Baritone • Ulrich Eisenlohr, Fortepiano
Brahms was opposed to the Lied cultivated by the ‘New German’ circle of composers around Franz Liszt who developed it into a highly artificial art form. In the books of the 49 Deutsche Volkslieder Brahms discovered a repository of dialogue songs, narrative ballads, laments, and songs of disputation and love, some tragic, others comic, that appealed to his need for authenticity. The book from which he sourced the songs had a printed text and melody, so Brahms’ artistic contribution lay in his richly varied piano accompaniments which subtly comment, heighten, inflect or expand on the texts. The first volume in this series is on Naxos 8.574268. Key Feature: Vol. 1 (8.574268) received huge acclaim. ‘The artists field a terrifically compelling start with two of Brahms’s best-known and most moving songs, ‘Von ewiger Liebe’ and ‘Die Mainacht’. This sixty-five-minutes of music makes an auspicious start to Ulrich Eisenlohr ’s latest endeavour’ ( Opera News ). It also won Opera News ’ Critic’s Choice accolade.
8.574345 Release Date: 2 Dec 2022 Companion Titles – Ulrich Eisenlohr, Pianist 8.574268 | 8.574261 8.557900-01 | 8.554471
Click to listen to Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO 33 – Book 1: No. 1. Sagt mir, o schönste Schäf’rin mein
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Anton RUBINSTEIN (1829–1894) Piano Music Three Caprices, Op. 21 • Six Pieces, Op. 51 Sergio Gallo, Piano
Anton Rubinstein occupied an uneasy place in the history of Russian music, largely because of his Jewish origins and the perception of him as a ‘German in Russia’. In recent years his solo piano music has begun to be re-evaluated. This album focuses on the series of works written in the mid-1850s and reveals music of charm and flair. The Three Pieces, Op. 16 are conventional in form but attractive, and the Two Pieces, Op. 28 contain a strongly contrasted Nocturne and Caprice . More ambitious, and intended to be performed in his concert repertoire as one of the greatest virtuosos of the age, are the Six Pieces, Op. 51 . Key Feature:
8.574300 Release Date: 2 Dec 2022 Companion Titles – Anton Rubinstein, Composer 8.570941 | 8.570942 | 8.573989 | 8.574216
Naxos has a large catalogue of Rubinstein’s music, including two volumes of piano music on 8.570941 and 8.570942 played by Joseph Banowetz. MusicWeb International wrote: ‘The notes are excellent. The first reviewed disc has greater variety but the second is the more ambitious.’ Click to listen to Three Pieces, Op. 1: No. 1. Impromptu LISTEN
Sergio Gallo
Valentin Malinin Piano Laureate Recital Winner, 2021 Jaén Prize International Piano Competition SHOSTAKOVICH * • BIZET/MALININ • GRANADOS • PROKOFIEV • SCRIABIN Valentin Malinin, Piano • Bretón String Quartet * Russian pianist Valentin Malinin, winner of the 62nd Jaén International Piano Competition, has chosen a programme that offers moments of reflection alongside dazzling virtuosity. The album opens with Shostakovich’s imposing Piano Quintet , one of the composer’s most popular chamber works. Granados evokes a ‘Ghost’s Serenade’ with guitar-like effects in the exuberant finale to his Goyescas , while Prokofiev’s Four Études are among the most complex and technically challenging works of their kind. Malinin’s own inspired fantasy The Pearl Fishers , based on Nadir’s Romance from Les Pêcheurs de perles , serves as a fine encore, reimagining Bizet’s original in daring, compelling style. Click to listen to SHOSTAKOVICH, D.: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57: I. Prelude: Lento LISTEN
8.574468 Release Date: 2 Dec 2022
Companion Titles – Piano Laureate series 8.573846 | 8.573945 | 8.574232 | 8.574280
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