NEW ON NAXOS | AUGUST 2024
Organ Concertos OQUIN • PARKER • ROUSE Paul Jacobs, Organ Nashville Symphony • Giancarlo Guerrero
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The organ concerto tradition goes back to the 17th century and the Baroque era, but composers have constantly adapted this age-old genre to their own expressive ends – this recording provides ample evidence of its appeal today. The Organ Concerto by Horatio Parker, today remembered as Charles Ives’ teacher, emerged at a time when composers were seeking an authentically American voice and was hailed by one critic as “imposing and brilliant.” Dedicated to Paul Jacobs, Christopher Rouse’s Organ Concerto is notable for its contrasting dark and light sonorities both in instrumentation and harmonic color. Wayne Oquin’s Resilience reflects the human capacity for tenacity and perseverance; the composer describes it as “a 13-minute exploration of two seemingly limitless spheres.” The program ends with Ives’ Variations on “America” – a piece for solo organ composed for the Fourth of July celebrations in 1892. Key features: • Led by six-time GRAMMY Award-winning conductor and music director Giancarlo Guerrero , the Nashville Symphony performs more than 160 concerts annually, with a focus on contemporary American orchestral music through collaborations with composers. •
8.559936 Release date: 23 Aug 2024
Companion titles – Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony
The Nashville Symphony is one of the most active recording orchestras in the US, with more than 40 releases, the majority on Naxos. Together, these recordings have earned a total of 25 GRAMMY Award nominations and 13 GRAMMY Awards, including two for Best Orchestral Performance. •
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Organist Paul Jacobs has performed in all 50 United States and all over the world. The only organist ever to have won a GRAMMY Award (in 2011 for Messiaen’s Livre du Saint-Sacrement on Naxos 8.572436-37), he is a fierce advocate of new music and combines a probing intellect and extraordinary technical skills with a repertoire that spans the gamut of music written for his instrument, both old and new.
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Click to listen to PARKER, H.: Organ Concerto in E flat minor, Op. 55: III. Allegro moderato, molto risoluto
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Erich J. WOLFF (1874–1913) Complete Songs, Vol. 2 Ida Aldrian, Mezzo-soprano Klaus Simon, Piano
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Erich J. Wolff was a friend and contemporary of Schoenberg and Zemlinsky – his songs were highly successful and much admired before the First World War. Wolff’s tragic early death, however, contributed to his music being almost entirely forgotten today. Mostly dating from his final decade, the songs in this selection range from the charming children’s cycle Vier Kinderlieder von Richard Dehmel , to the incomparably profound cemetery scene of Friedhof . The recital concludes with the radiant Mein Meister , one of Wolff’s very last songs. Key features: • austrian mezzo-soprano Ida Aldrian is currently a member of the ensemble at the Staatsoper Hamburg, where she previously attended the International Opera Studio. From 2015 to 2018, Aldrian was a member of the ensemble at the Staatstheater Nürnberg. Guest engagements have taken her to the Zurich Opera House and the Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin. In concert, she has worked with renowned conductors such as Simone Young, Kent Nagano, Martin Haselböck, Thomas Hengelbrock and Fabio Luisi. • German pianist Klaus Simon has a particular focus on song, and at the heart of his work as a Lieder accompanist are the German late-Romantic and early-modern composers. For Naxos he has recorded the complete songs by Pfitzner ( Complete Lieder, Vols. 1–5 [8.572602, 8.572603, 8.573081, 8.573082 and 8.573785]) and Korngold ( Songs, Vols. 1 and 2 [8.572027, 8.573083]).
8.574557 Release date: 23 Aug 2024
Companion titles – Klaus Simon, Pianist and Conductor
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Click to listen to Vier Lieder, Op. 3 – No. 4. Sehnsucht (‘Longing’)
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