NEW ON NAXOS | OCTOBER 2022
Anthony HEDGES (1931–2019) British Light Music, Vol. 12 Kingston Sketches • Four Breton Sketches • Cantilena Heigham Sound • Scenes from the Humber • Four Miniature Dances RTÉ Sinfonietta • Anthony Hedges Anthony Hedges was a popular and versatile composer with some 300 broadcasts to his name in Britain and abroad. He wrote prolifically in a variety of genres, often in response to commissions, from music for massed children’s choirs and youth orchestras to operas and chamber music. His scenic imagination and atmospheric tone pictures are full of warmth and colour, such as can be found in the Four Breton Sketches and Scenes from the Humber , which captures the spirit of the city of Hull, where he spent many years teaching. The delightful Heigham Sound shows his vivacity and compositional élan. Key Feature: This was first released on Marco Polo 8.223886. Gramophone wrote that the disc will ‘prove a welcome addition to the collections of more adventurous light music enthusiasts looking for something slightly different’. Click to listen to Four Breton Sketches, Op. 79: I. Waltz: St Lunaire LISTEN
8.574324 Release Date: 28 Oct 2022
Companion Titles – British Light Music series 8.555192 | 8.555194 | 8.574322 | 8.574323
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Giacomo MEYERBEER (1791–1864) Overtures and Stage Music Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen • Der Admiral • Wirt und Gast Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice • Dario Salvi
Meyerbeer was a precocious composer and this album traces some of his very earliest works. Der Fischer und das Milchmädchen was his first stage work, a charming rural vignette that contains all the essential features of a ballet-divertissement couched in writing that enchantingly evokes the 18th century. Collaborating with his teacher, the Abbé Georg Vogler, Meyerbeer composed Der Admiral in 1811. The following year saw Wirt und Gast with the vivid Oriental exoticism of its Janissary music, while Romilda e Constanza , his first italian opera, shows his complete assimilation of Rossinian models. Key Feature: These are mostly previously unrecorded works. The score used in Wirt und Gast is the original conducting score which contains small pencil corrections made by Meyerbeer’s fellow pupil, Weber, who conducted the work.
8.574316 Release Date: 28 Oct 2022
Companion Titles – Dario Salvi, Conductor 8.573907 | 8.574177 8.574383 | 8.574396 NEW
Click to listen to MEYERBEER, G. / VOGLER, G.J.: Der Admiral, oder Der verlorene Prozess (‘The Admiral, or The Lost Trial’) – Overture
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Josef Bohuslav FOERSTER (1859–1951) Symphony No. 1 Festive Overture • From Shakespeare Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra • Marek Štilec
Josef Bohuslav Foerster was the successor to Dvoák as organist in Prague, a lifelong friend of Mahler, and a pivotal figure in Czech music, whose almost 200 compositions take in all the major genres. The three selected works here offer an overview of his orchestral music. Recalling several equally majestic pieces by Smetana, the arresting Festive Overture combines Czech flair with Viennese elegance, while From Shakespeare explores characterisation with warmth and resourceful orchestration. The early Symphony No. 1 in D minor offers a darkness-to-light trajectory suffused with rich mid-Romantic colours. Key Feature: Marek Štilec is a specialist Czech conductor for Naxos and has recently begun a Vítězslav Novák series with the Moravian Philharmonic – South Bohemian Suite / Toman and the Wood Nymph are on 8.574226, a multiple award-winning disc: ‘It’s juicy stuff, succulently performed here by Marek Štilec and the Moravian Philharmonic’ ( ClassicsToday.com ).
8.574336 Release Date: 14 Oct 2022
Companion Titles – Marek Štilec, Conductor 8.574120 | 8.573310 | 8.574226 | 8.574290
Marek Štilec
Josef Bohuslav Foerster’s orchestral works, feat. the Janáček Philharmonic and Marek Štilec
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