NEW ON NAXOS | DECEMBER 2022
Fabrice BOLLON (b. 1965) Die ungebornen Enkel *
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(‘The Unborn Grandchildren’) The Secret Garden of the Cordania Irina Jae-Eun Park, Soprano * • Nutthaporn Thammathi, Tenor * • Johannes Moser, Electric cello This setting of Austrian Expressionist writer Georg Trakl’s poems by composer and conductor Fabrice Bollon is the first ever composition for classical singers and solo electric cello. As a result the work’s striking sonorities open unexpected and fascinating new directions for contemporary music. Evocative imagery and colourful writing for electric cello can also be heard in The Secret Garden of the Cordania – a work dedicated to Bollon’s cellist wife. Key Features: • This is our second release of music by Fabrice Bollon , the first of which (8.574015) included Four Lessons of Darkness which is the first ever concerto for electric cello, also composed together with Johannes Moser. American Record Guide described the recording as ‘high-octane eclecticism with excellent, committed performances all around’. • Bollon has achieved international acclaim as a conductor, his Naxos recordings including a remarkable interpretation of Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane in 2018 (8.660410-12), and as a composer his opera Oscar und die Dame in Rosa was highly praised by both critics and audiences. • German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser has performed with the world’s leading orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, New York Philharmonic, and BBC Philharmonic at the BBC Proms, alongside eminent conductors. He has a multi-award- winning discography, with releases on the Pentatone and Hänssler Classic labels among others. A dedicated chamber musician, he is a regular at international festivals. • Soprano Irina Jae-Eun Park joined the ensemble at Theater Freiburg in autumn 2018 after two seasons in the opera studio, collaborating with Fabrice Bollon (music director) in productions of Madama Butterfly (title role) as well as Falstaff (Alice Ford) among others. Passionate about art song, she was awarded Third Prize at the 2018 International Art Song Competition Stuttgart (Hugo-Wolf-Akademie) and the Art Song Prize at the 2017 Gwangju Vocal Music Competition. • Tenor Nutthaporn Thammathi has performed in opera houses across Europe since 2015, appearing in numerous leading roles such as Rodolfo ( La Bohème ), Tito ( La clemenza di Tito ), Alfredo ( La traviata ), Cavaradossi ( Tosca ) and the titular role in Faust . In 2019 Thammathi became a member of the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.
8.574456 Release Date: 2 Dec 2022 Companion Titles – Fabrice Bollon, Composer
8.574015 Companion Titles – Fabrice Bollon, Conductor
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Click to listen to Die ungebornen Enkel (‘The Unborn Grandchildren’): Heiterer Frühling (‘Glad Spring’)
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Hommage à Victor Babin BABIN • BORODIN • RACHMANINOV RIMSKY-KORSAKOV • TCHAIKOVSKY Two4Piano – Katerina Moskaleva and Alexey Pudinov, Pianos
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The year 1972 saw the death of Victor Babin, one half of the legendary Vronsky & Babin, arguably the most brilliant piano duo of the 20th century and a worldwide sensation for over three decades. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Babin’s death Katerina Moskaleva and Alexey Pudinov, themselves two musical forces of nature, come together as TWO4PIANO, a duo perfectly suited for breathing new life into Victor Babin’s appealing and colourful repertoire. Including newly rediscovered scores, this special programme takes us from Rachmaninov’s unmistakably Romantic style via Borodin’s rousing folkloric rhythms and Tchaikovsky’s balletic waltzes to Babin’s own remarkable evocations of a bygone era. Key Features: • Katerina Moskaleva and Alexey Pudinov, together known as the acclaimed duo TWO4PIANO , won First Prize at the North West International Piano Ensemble Competition 2018 in Vancouver, Canada, performing widely in Germany and beyond, and also winning the Art Champion Competition in St Petersburg 2020. Their vibrant performances have been recorded on an album, Evocation of Dance , but this is their Naxos debut. • Katerina Moskaleva has won numerous awards, including prizes at the Steinway piano competition, the international competition Verfemte Musik (ostracised music), and the international piano competition Hans von Bülow. Alexey Pudinov has performed widely and in distinguished company as a chamber musician, appearing at prominent festivals such as the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Pianofest in the Hamptons US, the Toronto Summer Music Festival, and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. He won the Gershwin Best Performance Prize 2015 in New York, the Steinway Prize 2014, and the First LMN Menuhin Prize 2016 in Frankfurt.
8.551462 Release Date: 9 Dec 2022
Companion Titles – Music for piano duo, duet and piano-four hands
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