NEW ON NAXOS | MAY 2023
John CORIGLIANO (b. 1938) Complete Solo Piano Music
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Piano Concerto * • Fantasia on an Ostinato Prelude for Paul • Étude Fantasy • Winging It Philip Edward Fisher, Piano Albany Symphony * • David Alan Miller *
John Corigliano’s music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by some of the most prominent orchestras, soloists, and chamber musicians in the world. He is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, five GRAMMY Awards, the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Oscar. The Piano Concerto ranges in expression between lyricism and atonality and is extremely virtuosic and theatrical, while the competition piece Fantasia on an Ostinato investigates the performer’s imagination and musicality through minimalist techniques. The devilish discipline of Étude Fantasy contrasts with the improvisatory origins of Winging It , while Prelude for Paul echoes the soul of Rachmaninov. Key Feature: Naxos releases of John Corigliano ’s works include the GRAMMY award-winning premiere recording of his percussion concerto The Conjurer (8.559757) which was considered ‘Fresh, vital, vigorous; contemporary music of quality, winningly played’ in MusicWeb International , and his violin concerto The Red Violin (8.559671) admired as ‘a total winner’ by ClassicsToday.com .
8.559930 Release Date: 12 May 2023
Companion Titles – Philip Edward Fisher, Piano 8.572197 | 8.573397
David Allan Miller conducting the Albany Symphony 8.559871 | 8.559757 | 8.559807 | 8.559902
Click to listen to Concerto for Piano and Orchestra: II. Scherzo (Vivace)
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WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
Carl CZERNY (1791–1857) Piano Concertinos, Opp. 78 and 650 Fantaisie et Variations brillantes Rosemary Tuck, Piano English Chamber Orchestra • Richard Bonynge
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Carl Czerny found fame and fortune in 19th-century Vienna by writing fashionable and popular works as well as developing techniques for the newly emerging piano with his numerous études. Much of Czerny’s concert music for piano was considered ‘wild and almost unplayable’ in his day, but these world premiere recordings reveal inspired melodic writing, great skill in orchestration and colourful virtuoso challenges in a programme that includes his final Concertino, Op. 650 . Key Features: • This is the final release in our edition of works for piano and orchestra by Carl Czerny and, in common with many of these albums, it consists entirely of world premiere recordings. • Previous releases in this edition have been welcomed and acclaimed in the critical press. Bel Canto Concertante (8.573254) was admired in Fanfare : ‘ Rosemary Tuck shapes the melodies firmly, and she and Richard Bonynge are completely in tune with each other. …there is much pleasure to be found here.
8.574458 Release Date: 12 May 2023
Companion Titles – Rosemary Tuck’s series of Czerny’s works for piano and orchestra 8.573254 | 8.573417 | 8.573688 | 8.573998
Click to listen to Piano Concertino, Op. 78: III. Rondo a la Polacca
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Franz Joseph HAYDN (1732–1809) Piano Trios, Vol. 8 Nos. 5, 6, 7 and 13 Divertimento, Hob.XIV:C1 Aquinas Piano Trio – Ruth Rogers, Violin • Katherine Jenkinson, Cello • Martin Cousin, Piano
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As one of the most celebrated composers of the late 18th century, Joseph Haydn can lay claim to being ‘father of the piano trio’ alongside that of other genres established in his lifetime such as the symphony and the string quartet. The delightful Divertimento in C major is a youthful work, but the later piano trios recorded here take on a heightened sophistication. Strings and keyboard are given a new independence of character in exquisitely crafted works such as the C minor Trio , with its ‘numerous and sometimes spectacular modulations’, and oscillating enharmonic key changes that foreshadow Schubert can be heard in the Trio in D major . Key Feature: Our edition of Haydn’s Keyboard Trios has already established itself as a market leader, with acclaim for the first three volumes with the Kungsbacka Trio indicating that they ‘need fear nothing in comparison’ ( Gramophone ) with any competitors, and were ‘the Haydn of choice’ for Fanfare .
8.574391 Release Date: 12 May 2023
Companion Titles – Previous volumes of Haydn’s Piano Trios series 8.574385 | 8.574362 | 8.574361 | 8.573128 8.572063 | 8.572062 | 8.572040
Click to listen to Piano Trio in F major, Hob.XV:6: I. Vivace
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