NEW ON NAXOS | SEPTEMBER 2023
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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
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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 .
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8.579107 Release Date: 22 Sep 2023
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
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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 Features: • 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. • Pianist Sang Woo Kang is an active chamber musician, concerto soloist, and recitalist who gives masterclasses and performs in North America, Asia, Central and South America and Europe. Recent engagements include the Bari International Festival in Italy, the Moulin d’Ande Festival in France, Steinway Hall in New York City, and Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall.
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
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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
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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. Key Feature: De Organizer was first performed in modern times in 2002. Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times wrote: ‘The work proved so powerful in its melodic content and so poetic in its choral writing that it’s easy to imagine the piece might have attained broad popularity... Any one of these tunes surely held the potential to become hits... De Organizer is so beautifully crafted by Johnson and so adroitly restored by Dapogny that it may yet earn a place among key dramatic works in the jazz-blues repertory’.
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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