New on Naxos | General Issue: November 2023

The November New On Naxos celebrates the National Brass Band Champions of 2023, the Black Dyke Band, who return with a new album of works by the legendary Peter Graham. Other highlights include Carols and Anthems by Elizabeth Poston, the audio version of Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve, and a new production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, conducted by Fiore and featuring the Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus and Orchestra. Enjoy!

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Black Dyke Band © John Stirzaker

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Peter GRAHAM (b. 1958) Force of Nature * Triquetra * • Master of Suspense * Hymn for Bram * • Hyperlink * The Triumph of Time David Childs, Euphonium • Rex Richardson, Trumpet, Flugelhorn Black Dyke Band • Nicholas Childs * WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING Winner of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association’s Ostwald Award for composition, Peter Graham is one of the leading brass band composers of his generation. Graham’s previous Naxos album with the Black Dyke Band, Metropolis 1927 (8.573968), received widespread acclaim from the brass band press. The five world premiere recordings heard on this album represent his long association with Black Dyke. The trumpet concerto Master of Suspense references Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic movies, the virtuoso euphonium concerto Force of Nature was inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s extraordinary life, and The Triumph of Time is a dazzling example of compositional craft and brass band virtuosity.

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Peter Graham ’s Brillante for euphonium and orchestra on Naxos 8.570538 is summed up as ‘a special treat’ by the American Record Guide . This new recording follows on from Graham’s Metropolis 1927 album (Naxos 8.573968), in which ‘the music sings, swoons, dances, pulsates, parties, and just has a good time overall. Graham’s brass writing is masterly… Warmly recommended – you won’t regret it’ ( Fanfare ). The Black Dyke Band is legendary in brass band circles, and for Naxos has already recorded the music of Philip Wilby (8.572166), considered ‘dazzling’ by the American Record Guide . We also had great success with their Symphonic Brass album (8.570726), also conducted by Nicholas Childs, which remained in the Classical Top 20 for 18 weeks and was a MusicWeb International ‘Recording of the Month’.

8.574563 Release Date: 10 Nov 2023

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Peter Graham

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Nicholas Childs

Companion Titles – Nicholas Childs and the Black Dyke Band

David Childs

Conductor Nicholas Childs’ award-winning recordings with the Black Dyke Band have been heralded as the very best in the brass band world. Euphonium soloist David Childs is regarded as one of the finest brass musicians of his generation, having appeared with leading orchestras all over the world, while trumpet and flugelhorn soloist Rex Richardson is renowned worldwide both as a jazz improviser and a champion of new music for his instrument. Rex Richardson

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Tom Winpenny © Graham Lacdao

Elizabeth POSTON (1905–1987) Carols and Anthems Alexandra McPhee, Soprano • Nina Vinther, Mezzo-soprano Izzi Blain, Alto • Oliver Martin-Smith, Tenor • Ciaran Yeo, Bass Oliver Morrell, Organ • St Albans Cathedral Girls Choir Lay Clerks of St Albans Cathedral • Tom Winpenny Elizabeth Poston’s long and distinguished career included significant work for the BBC during the Second World War, where she performed as a respected pianist and later composed scores for numerous radio and television productions. Describing herself as ‘a littlemonger’ who never wanted to write big pieces, Poston’s supreme talent for composing vocal and choral miniatures is fully represented in this recording, the first to be dedicated entirely to her work. Poston’s music reveals timeless melodic charm, a great sensitivity of word setting and her profound appreciation of ancient folk-song traditions.

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Tom Winpenny and the St Albans Cathedral Choir have ably demonstrated their abilities in recordings such as Michael Haydn’s Missa Sancti Nicolai Tolentini (8.574163): ‘Tom Winpenny certainly deserves praise for the skill and sensitivity with which he has evidently prepared and directed this music’. Winpenny has also directed St Albans Cathedral Girls Choir in the ‘utterly delightful’ recordings of music by Mendelssohn which can be heard on 8.572836. ( BBC Music Magazine ) • Formed in 1996, the St Albans Abbey Girls Choir has broadcast Choral Evensong on BBC Radio 3, and has made several recordings for Naxos including music by Felix Mendelssohn (8.572836) and, jointly with St Albans Cathedral Choir, two recordings of music by John Rutter (8.572653 and 8.573394).

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Louis Wayne BALLARD (1931–2007) The Four Moons Devil’s Promenade • Fantasy Aborigine No. 3 “Kokopelli” Scenes from Indian Life Fort Smith Symphony • John Jeter

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Louis Wayne Ballard – also known as “Honganozhe”, which means “Stands with Eagles” in the Quapaw language – was the first indigenous North American composer of art music, and his extensive knowledge of the music, dance and mythology of this culture informed his compositions. Ballard’s style was eclectic, embracing tonal and twelve-tone elements, and the selected pieces presented here reflect the unique variety of his achievement. This album of world premiere recordings features his third ballet, The Four Moons , which embodies a rich cache of classic dances, and the Fantasy Aborigine No. 3 “Kokopelli” with its battery of unique percussive instruments. Key Features: • Conductor John Jeter and the Fort Smith Symphony have recorded important American works together including Florence Price’s symphonies on 8.559827, a Fanfare ‘Want List’ and MusicWeb International ‘Recommended’ release: ‘John Jeter and his Fort Smith Symphony give these two works splendid readings...’ ( Fanfare ). •

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Companion Titles – John Jeter and Fort Smith Symphony

They have also recorded the five symphonies of William Grant Still. Fanfare commented on No. 1 (8.559174) that ‘these performances from the Fort Smith Symphony are excellent, committed, and excellently prepared under John Jeter’s direction...’ Still’s Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 can be heard on 8.559676, which is a GRAMMY Nominee disc.

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Aaron COPLAND (1900–1990) Ulysses KAY (1917–1995) The Tender Land Suite Pietà * 2 Paul CRESTON (1906–1985) Walter PISTON (1894–1976) Saxophone Concerto * 1 The Incredible Flutist Suite * WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS Anna Mattix, English Horn 2 • Timothy McAllister, Alto Saxophone 1 National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic • JoAnn Falletta

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This recording brings together four extraordinary mid-20th-century composers who helped shape America’s musical destiny. Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land is a moving tribute to the American rancher and farmer. It forms a profound celebration of those unsung heroes of that country’s landscape, and is perhaps his greatest expression of the preciousness of life. Walter Piston is represented by his colorful and beguiling The Incredible Flutist , which depicts a traveling circus led by a magical musician who is able to heal the sorrows of those who hear his music. The two premiere recordings here are the original orchestral version of Paul Creston’s thrilling Saxophone Concerto , and Ulysses Kay’s Pietà – a beautiful elegy inspired by Michelangelo’s masterpiece. Key Features: • This is the sixth recording in a multi-year partnership between the National Orchestral Institute

8.559911 Release Date: 24 Nov 2023

Companion Titles – Other recordings with the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic

Philharmonic and Naxos to release one album of American music each year. The National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic consists of the highest-level conservatory students from across the US and abroad. • Previous releases in this series have included Gershwin’s Piano Concerto and other American orchestral works conducted by David Alan Miller (Naxos 8.559875),

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welcomed by Fanfare as ‘a satisfying release combining the old and the new, showing the diversity of style in American orchestral music’ and regarded as ‘a treasurable addition to the Naxos American Classics series’ in MusicWeb International .

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Klaus Florian Vogt as Walther von Stolzing and Johan Reuter as Hans Sachs © Thomas Aurin / Deutsche Oper Berlin

Richard WAGNER (1813–1883) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Opera in three acts (1868) Libretto by the composer Heidi Stober, Soprano • Klaus Florian Vogt, Ya-Chung Huang, Tenors Philipp Jekal, Baritone • Johan Reuter, Bass-baritone Albert Pesendorfer, Bass Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus and Orchestra John Fiore, Conductor Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito, Anna Viebrock, Stage directors Triumphantly premiered in 1868, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg evokes the singing guilds of mid-16th-century Nuremburg, a focal point of the Northern European Renaissance. Wagner’s only mature comic opera concerns the young knight Walther von Stolzing’s love for Eva whom the town clerk Beckmesser also covets. Against the background of a singing contest, cobbler-singer Hans Sachs’ nobility ensures the reconciliation of youth and age, and tradition and innovation. Deutsche Oper Berlin’s provocative new staging was considered ‘entertaining throughout’ and ‘thought-provoking’ by BR Klassik .

2.110766-67 Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Sound format: Dolby Digital 2.0 and Surround 5.1 Language: German Subtitles: German, English, French, Japanese, Korean Region code: 0 (worldwide) No. of disc/s: 2 (DVD 9) Release Date: 10 Nov 2023

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Conductor John Fiore continues to be a regular guest at many of the world’s leading opera houses. In Europe, he has appeared at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, National Theatre in Prague, Zurich Opera and conducts widely in his native USA – he has given over 100 performances at The Metropolitan Opera, New York. Danish bass-baritone Johan Reuter recorded Tristan und Isolde under Marek Janowski for Pentatone: ‘Johan Reuter is an outstanding Kurwenal, virile, exciting and lyrical in the first Act, sympathetic and admirable in the third’ ( Musicweb International ). Albert Pesendorfer sings in Naxos’s Ring cycle on 2.107001 / NBD0156VX: ‘Hagen is the vocally and physically imposing Albert Pesendorfer, wonderfully baleful in his night watch’ ( Musicweb International ). Ya-Chung Huang also sings in this production. Of his Siegfried , Financial Times (London) wrote; ‘It is Ya-Chung Huang’s first Mime, too, and he brings redeeming depth and subtlety to the role’. Philipp Jekal sings on Naxos’ recording of Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg (2.110657 / NBD0108V): ‘[Jekal]... throws himself admirably into the part [of Don Estoban]’ ( Opera News ). Klaus Florian Vogt is dubbed as ‘one of the premiere Wagnerians of the moment’ by Opera Wire . ‘After more than 15 years of singing Walther, Klaus Florian Vogt’s clarion tenor has lost none of its beauty and brilliance’ wrote Bachtrack.

John Fiore

Also available on Blu-ray Video: NBD0178-79V Picture format: HD 16:9 Sound format: PCM stereo and DTS-MA 5.1 Language: German Subtitles: German, English, French, Japanese, Korean Region: A, B, C No. of disc/s: 2 (BD 50) Release Date: 10 Nov 2023

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Venite, gaudete! Choral Music for Christmas David Dunnett, Organ IKON • David Hill

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This glorious programme represents both the unique magic of Christmas carols, and the deeply rooted tradition of re-inventing their words and music for the times in which they are performed. From David Hill’s unashamedly lush, close-part harmonies enhancing Silent Night , to Eric Whitacre’s hallmark luminous vocal textures in Lux aurumque , this recording is a superb celebration of the moving atmosphere and festive nature of the Christmas season. Key Features: • This programme is drawn from an exciting collection of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany music for mixed voice choirs, edited by David Hill. This fine recording presents a varied selection of beautiful carols that capture the essence of the collection in stunning performances by the choir IKON . • Renowned for his fine musicianship, David Hill is widely respected as both a choral and orchestral conductor. He was chief conductor of the BBC Singers from September 2007 to September 2017 and is a former music director of Southern Sinfonia. As well as achieving prestigious GRAMMY and Gramophone Awards, many of his albums have been recommended as Critic’s Choices, with his ongoing series of English choral music for Naxos receiving particular acclaim.

8.574575 Release Date: 10 Nov 2023

Companion Titles – Other Christmas choral titles

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Nikolay RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844–1908) Christmas Eve Opera in four acts (1894–95) Libretto by the composer based on the short story The Night Before Christmas by Nikolay Gogol (1809–1852) Sung in Russian Julia Muzychenko, Soprano • Enkelejda Shkoza, Mezzo-soprano Andrei Popov, Tenor • Georgy Vasiliev, Tenor • Alexey Tikhomirov, Bass Chor der Oper Frankfurt • Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester • Sebastian Weigle

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Rimsky-Korsakov’s Christmas Eve , based on a short story by Gogol, centres on the love of the blacksmith Vakula for the rich farmer’s daughter Oksana, who mockingly requires him to obtain for her the Tsarina’s shoes in order to win her hand in marriage. However, evil spirits are on the rampage imperilling their love – a witch on her broomstick gathers the stars and the devil steals the moon. Rimsky-Korsakov blends Christian and pagan elements, Ukrainian folk songs and carols, and atmospheric orchestral interludes in this vivacious and fantastical village romance. Key Features: • Released in perfect time for the Christmas season, this opera is considered by musical director Sebastian Weigle to be a ‘great gift’ in every regard. •

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Companion Titles – Recommended Christmas titles

This is the disc version of the audiovisual release on 2.110738 and NBD0154V: ‘ Sebastian Weigle leads the excellent Frankfurt orchestra and chorus in a spellbinding account of Rimsky-Korsakov’s score’, wrote MusicWeb International . It also won the German Record Critics Award for Quarterly Critics Choice and was a Musicweb International ‘Recommended’ release.

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Click to listen to Act 1: Scene 2: At Chub’s house: Why do people say I’m pretty?

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WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS

Sir William WALTON (1902–1983) Cello Concerto (arranged for viola)

Roberto MOLINELLI Viola Concerto ‘Lady Walton’s Garden’ (b. 1963)

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Anna Serova, Viola Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento Roberto Molinelli

With his distinctive blend of incisive drama and lyrical expressiveness, Sir William Walton was one of the greatest English composers of the 20th century. He and his wife Susana made their home on the Italian island of Ischia where he composed the Cello Concerto – a work he considered to be the best of his three concertos for string instruments – heard here for the first time in a stunning transcription for viola by Anna Serova. The Italian composer Roberto Molinelli pays homage to Susana’s Argentine roots and the beautiful garden she created, La Mortella, with his concerto Lady Walton’s Garden , displaying a colourful use of South American and Neapolitan instruments. William’s Rock and The Missing E are also dedicated to La Mortella. Key Features: • This fascinating project marks the 40th anniversary of Sir William Walton’s death, and it presents four world premiere recordings, all composed on and celebrating the island of Ischia and the Walton’s famous Giardini La Mortella, still regarded today as one of the most captivating gardens in the world. • Violist Anna Serova has several compositions dedicated to her in recent years by some of the most important contemporary composers. Her Naxos recording of Boris Pigovat’s Holocaust Requiem (8.572729) received wide critical acclaim, including from Classical Lost and Found : ‘Violist Anna Serova is spectacular, delivering exceptionally confident, technically brilliant, sensitive renditions of Pigovat’s heartfelt scores’. •

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Companion Titles – Viola concertos

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The Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento has participated in numerous international festivals, has toured in the United States, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Hungary, and has appeared with many great conductors, among them Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Muti.

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Edino KRIEGER (1928–2022) Canticum Naturale *

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Ludus Symphonicus • Variações Elementares Flavia Fernandes, Soprano * • São Paulo Symphony Choir Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra • Neil Thomson

Edino Krieger was a leading figure in Brazilian music as both composer and arts director who influenced a generation of his compatriots during his long life. Krieger’s works can be divided into three phases: serial, neo-Classical, and a fascinating synthesis of traditionalism and the avant-garde. From the second category comes the transitional Variações Elementares whereas his final creative phase, his peak of artistic maturity, is represented by the remainder of the programme. Included is one of his most emblematic pieces, Canticum Naturale , an expansive Amazonian painting in sound, and the virtuosic and expressive Ludus Symphonicus . Key Features: •

Neil Thomson has been principal conductor and artistic director of the Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra since 2014, leading the orchestra to national prominence with its championing of Brazilian and contemporary repertoire. They have recently recorded the music of Claudio Santoro on 8.574410, which was hailed as ‘An utterly fascinating and unique disc’ by The Art Music Lounge . • Vol. 2 of Santoro’s complete symphonies on 8.574406 is admired by Gramophone : ‘These impressive and rarely heard works are all played with absolute conviction and panache by the Goiás Philharmonic under Neil Thomson, and the recordings are crystal-clear’.

8.574408 Release Date: 10 Nov 2023

Companion Titles – Neil Thomson and the Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra

Neil Thomson

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Franz Joseph HAYDN (1732–1809) Baryton Trios, Vol. 2 Treasures from the Esterháza Palace Valencia Baryton Project – Matthew Baker, Baryton Estevan de Almeida Reis, Viola • Alex Friedhoff, Cello

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The city of Eisenstadt was the location of the Esterházy Court where Joseph Haydn was music director for 25 years. Prince Nikolaus commissioned Haydn to write trios for the baryton, an instrument on which the Prince had become proficient. The baryton is a bowed, stringed instrument similar to the viol but with extra plucked strings that can enable the performer to accompany themselves. For Nikolaus, Haydn wrote string trios of elegance, refinement and poise that encapsulate a rich variety of moods. Seldom performed or recorded, the baryton trios attest to Haydn’s limitless powers of invention in every medium. Key Feature:

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Volume 1 can be heard on 8.574188: ‘As a glimpse into a virtually unknown corner of Haydn’s vast output… this disc fulfils a valuable function’ ( BBC Music Magazine ). AllMusic.com also commented that this is a ‘superb recording by the Valencia Baryton Project of Haydn’s rarely heard baryton trios’.

Companion Titles – Franz Joseph Haydn, Composer 8.574188 | 8.557660 | 8.574391 | 8.574517

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Alex Friedhoff , Matthew Baker and Estevan de Almeida Reis

Johannes BRAHMS (1833–1897) Complete Organ Works Eleven Chorale Preludes • Preludes and Fugues Konstantin Volostnov, Organ

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In contrast to the grand scale and public profile of his orchestral and choral works, Johannes Brahms saw the organ as an instrument ‘for home use’, and one in which he confided his most intimate feelings. The earlier pieces were exercises in counterpoint inspired by Brahms’ friendship with Clara Schumann and, despite their academic titles, they are infused with distinctive musical ideas and lyrical expressiveness. The later Chorale Preludes with their themes of suffering and death can be seen as autobiographical, the elder Brahms seeking spiritual strength in the ‘pure style’ of the Protestant tradition. Key Feature: We are delighted to rediscover this music with the Naxos debut of virtuoso organist Konstantin Volostnov . This new recording is distinguished not only by superlative musicianship, but also by being one of, if not the first commercial recording to have been made at the three-manual organ of the Central Baptist Church in Moscow.

8.579147 Release Date: 10 Nov 2023

Companion Titles – Recommended organ works 8.550824 | 8.574432 | 8.574366 | 8.572906

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Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809–1847) Piano Rarities Early Sonatas • Songs Without Words Christopher Williams, Piano

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Recent scholarship has brought numerous compositions by the excessively self-critical Mendelssohn into print and has ensured more accurate compositional dates for them. Many of these rare and little-known examples are encountered on this album. The title Lieder ohne Worte (‘Songs without Words’) may have mystified some contemporaries but their refinement and beauty are obvious as is their wide emotional range. The two youthful sonatas are astonishingly mature, even in the allusions to Beethoven. Mendelssohn’s humour and quirkiness can also be heard in this vibrant selection of seldom encountered piano pieces. Key Feature: Born in Wales, Christopher Williams leads a busy and varied professional life as a pianist, composer, conductor, teacher and arranger. He is currently a staff pianist at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, piano tutor at Cardiff University, and pianist for both the BBC National Chorus of Wales and BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

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Companion Titles – Felix Mendelssohn, Composer 8.550453 | 8.550939 | 8.553541 | 8.573946

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Lithuanian Music for Violin and Piano BANAITIS • GRUODIS • JUZELIŪNAS • VAINIŪNAS Simona Venslovaitė, Violin • Veronika Kopjova, Piano

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The 20th-century Lithuanian composer’s dialogue between modern forms of expression and folk motifs is well represented in the four works in this recording. There is a sense of playful lightness in the Romantic aesthetic of Gruodis’s work, while Banaitis incorporates national lyricism with personal grief in his Sonata . Composed under the restrictions imposed by Soviet occupation, Vainiūnas’s Sonata Op. 38 is suffused with tragedy and sorrow, while the distinctive style of Juzeliūnas had an enormous impact on the future of Lithuanian music. All of these pieces are symbolic of survival and represent being truthful to one’s creative identity while under the harshest of conditions.

Companion Titles – Lithuanian music

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A German Passion 17th Century Music for the Time of Lent and Easter Sietze de Vries, Organ • Margaretha Consort • Marit Broekroelofs

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The Hanseatic wealth of North Germany in the 17th century is reflected in its magnificent cathedrals, and the enormous grandeur of its church music was composed to fill the rich acoustics of these spaces. This programme presents a wide range of Easter music that displays the wealth of inventiveness in this period, enhancing the texts and finding different colours and surprising effects through improvisation and adaptation of the manuscripts. This early music is brought vividly to life by the acclaimed Margaretha Consort.

Companion Titles – Recommended recordings of 17th century music

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GREAT COMPOSERS IN WORDS AND MUSIC

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Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809–1847) By Davinia Caddy • Read by Leighton Pugh

Felix Mendelssohn was a child prodigy to rival Mozart and achieved great fame during his lifetime, fêted across Europe, and composing in the widest possible range of musical genres. However, his music has also been denigrated for its elegance, charm and symmetry. This insightful biography explores the breadth of his achievements, the complexities of his privileged upbringing, and the reasons for the fluctuating nature of his reputation. Musical excerpts include the Violin Concerto , String Octet and Elijah , as well as his choral works, symphonies, sonatas and songs.

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BREAKING NEW MOULDS. SHAPING NEW SOUNDS.

Falling Ladder Mr Mibbler

The 2021 album Leave Your Thoughts Here (NXN4005) was described as ‘clearly a major recording event of the year’ ( JazzViews, UK ) and ‘ten mouth-watering pieces of music’ ( UK Vibe ) and was embraced by listeners worldwide. As usual Mr Mibbler continues to surprise and delight and their follow up Falling Ladder contains two longer pieces of music. Though this is not in the traditional song format, you will recognize the sounds and ambience that characterise the releases from this exciting Norwegian three-piece music collective. TRACKLIST: 1 Runaway Bride 2 Inside A Can / Divider For Jar

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About Mr Mibbler They are three musketeers who know their trade. They used to carve their verses from the noblest of woods. Polish the refrains, again and again ‘till it shone like the purest gold. Now they are picking up broken pieces and fool’s gold. Catching fleeting ideas out of thin air. Building shaky constructions that hover on the brink of collapse, but that lean on each other to grow strong and sturdy. They got bored with the middle of the road, stumbled off the beaten path and entered the wasteland. They are Mr Mibbler .

NXN4008 Release Date: 3 Nov 2023

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Thom Hell , Guitar, programming, keyboard, vocals

Jørn Raknes , Guitar

Vidar I Ersfjord , Electronics

Companion Titles – Other recordings featuring Mr Mibbler

‘Smooth, bar⁠-⁠jazzy vocals, friendly house beats and gentle ambient electronica goes together very pleasantly.’ – Groove.de WATCH VIDEO TRAILER

‘Everything seems well⁠-⁠tempered, very relaxing and meditative – but also demanding with cross tones and rhythms.’ – FAZE magazine WATCH VIDEO TRAILER

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