NEW ON NAXOS | MAY 2025
Parole in Musica Music for Guitar Trio BERNSTEIN • GRIEG • HADJIDAKIS • ISOLANI • RAVEL The Volterra Project Trio – Antigoni Goni, Luca Isolani, Maarten Vandenbemden, Guitars
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This diverse programme of works for guitar trio is bound by the common thread of music inspired by stories from literature, stage or screen. With its rhythmic exuberance and tragic beauty, Bernstein’s West Side Story has never lost its freshness and relevance. Ensemble member Luca Isolani’s Note fuori campo is a homage to the versatile Italian composer Nino Rota, who, like Manos Hadjidakis, first shot to international fame with an Oscar-winning film score. Ravel’s Ma Mère l’Oye evokes the poetry of childhood with a refined expressiveness that makes it as popular and unforgettable as Grieg’s music for Peer Gynt . Key features: • This is a Naxos debut for The Volterra Project Trio , which is a classical guitar trio that reimagines its repertoire by drawing inspiration from European impressionism, Mediterranean folk melodies and cinematic scores. •
8.579172 Release date: 23 May 2025 Companion titles – Recent guitar music releases
A previous album Medio Siglo by the trio was praised by Soundboard Magazine for its ‘deep use of colours and the dazzling arrangements’, and this new recording Parole in Musica presents famous and popular music in superb arrangements that allow us to fall in love with such renowned works all over again. A world premiere in the form of trio member Luca Isolani’s Note fuori campo is the icing on a cake already rich in striking timbres and textures. •
Maarten Vandenbemden , Antigoni Goni and Luca Isolani
With Parole in Musica these three musicians bring their full range of colour and expression to a programme of music inspired by stories from stage, screen and literature, beginning with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet retold as a tragedy on the streets of New York’s West Side through Leonard Bernstein’s brilliant score, and ending with Grieg’s incidental music to scenes from the exotic travels of Ibsen’s anti-hero, Peer Gynt.
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Click to listen to BERNSTEIN, L.: Scenes from West Side Story: I. Prologue
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Jia DAQUN (b. 1955) Impressions of Liyuan (Chinese Opera) Symphonic Concerto Cycle 贾达群：交响协奏套曲《梨园》 Zhang Jiajing, Chinese Percussion • Wang Junkan, Dizi Lu Yiwen, Erhu • Liu Wenwen, Suona Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra • Lin Daye
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Jia Daqun, one of China’s most prolific and respected composers, has written in many forms, including symphonies, concertos, chamber music and song cycles. The symphonic four-concerto cycle, Impressions of Liyuan , is one of his major pieces. It is written for Chinese percussion, bamboo flute, the erhu and suona, with a large symphony orchestra. It offers an evocative aural landscape fusing Western styles with the traditional characteristics of Chinese opera, framed in a contemporary context. Key features: • Jia Daqun celebrates his 70th birthday in 2025. This release marks the world premiere recording of his symphonic concerto cycle. His composition The Wave of Surging Thoughts can be found on 8.579157, while Vol. 1 in the Daqun chamber series was released on 9.70241, and Volume 2 on 8.579011. • Daqun is widely recognised for composing The Prospect of Coloured Desert in 2000 for the world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, a piece that earned him international acclaim. His music is frequently performed across China, Japan, Europe, and the United States. Additionally, his composition Flavor of Bashu was named a ‘Chinese Classic Musical Composition of the Twentieth Century’ by the Chinese government.
8.579176 Release date: 23 May 2025
Companion titles – Jia Daqun, Composer
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Click to listen to III. Impromptu: Poem of Strings inspired by Beijing Opera
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