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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
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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. Key Feature: John Harbison has been quite well represented on recordings, not least with releases on the Naxos label such as the ‘powerful vision’ ( Gramophone ) of his Requiem (8.559841), but this is the only disc we know of dedicated entirely to his piano works. The Gatsby Etudes previously appeared on 8.559243 in a ‘ravishing’ ( Fanfare ) release with chamber and other solo works.
8.559918 Release Date: 22 Sep 2023
Companion Titles – John Harbison, Composer 8.559841 | 8.559188 | 8.559173 | 8.559243
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Anthony BURGESS (1917–1993) Complete Guitar Quartets Mēla Guitar Quartet
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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.
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8.574423 Release Date: 22 Sep 2023
Companion Titles – Guitar Classics series 8.573762 | 8.574339 | 8.579060 | 8.573575
GREAT COMPOSERS IN WORDS AND MUSIC Modest MUSSORGSKY (1839–1881)
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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 .
8.578365 Release Date: 22 Sep 2023
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Companion Titles – Previous releases in the series
8.578361 | 8.578362 | 8.578363 | 8.578364 8.578366 | 8.578367 | 8.578369 | 8.578368
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