NEW ON NAXOS | NOVEMBER 2024
Erich J. WOLFF (1874–1913) Complete Songs, Vol. 3 Hans Christoph Begemann, Baritone Klaus Simon, Piano
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Regarded as a first-rate but tragically neglected composer of Lieder, Erich J. Wolff has, until recently, only been familiar to a small number of music enthusiasts. The beautiful 1909 song cycle Neun Gedichte , set to texts by the composer’s close friend Cäsar Flaischlen, is notable for its juxtaposition of rapture, joy and fear. Amongst the numerous profound, dignified and sublime settings on this album the Hafis Lieder represent a multi-faceted and oriental flavoured sequence, ranging from calm sadness and defiant heroism to a rapturous conclusion. Key features: • Acclaimed baritone Hans Christoph Begemann has a reputation particularly as a singer of Lieder. He has recorded three volumes in our complete Lieder of Peter Cornelius, of which Vol. 4 in the edition (8.572859) was regarded in MusicWeb International as ‘an unexpected major pleasure… fascinating and delightful music, well performed and well presented’. • 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 and Korngold. He has also recorded Schulhoff’s complete Lieder with singers Sunhae Im, Tanja Ariane Baumgartner and Hans Christoph Begemann, winning the German Record Critics’ Award in 2021, and the complete songs of Alfano, which was released in November 2023, for bastille musique.
8.574558 Release date: 22 Nov 2024
Companion titles – Klaus Simon, Piano 8.574451 | 8.574557 | 8.573081 | 8.573083
Click to listen to Neun Gedichte aus Jost Seyfried von Cäsar Flaischlen, Op. 19: No. 1. Sieh, wo du bist, ist Frühling
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Ferruccio BUSONI (1866–1924) Piano Music, Vol. 13 Prelude and Fugue in C minor Menuetto capriccioso in C major Klavierübung in fünf Teilen Wolf Harden, Piano
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FERRUCCIO BUSONI 100 YEARS
The final volume in this acclaimed series of Busoni’s piano music focuses on beginnings and endings. Early works and transcriptions are featured, plus a substantial body of music that Busoni wrote for his multi-volume Klavierübung (‘Piano Exercise’). The early miniatures are teasing and witty but also inventive examples of his mastery of Bachian procedure. The excerpts from Klavierübung , in which he uses his own music and that of others, embody the full breadth of his creative vision. They make a fitting end to this series performed by Wolf Harden, whose playing of Busoni has been described as ‘the clear current benchmark’ ( BBC Music Magazine on Volume 2, 8.555699). Key features: • American Record Guide wrote of Vol. 9: ‘Each is a gem, a delight to be savoured from a composer who was to develop into a master of more complex extended forms. The notes are good, the sound excellent, and the pianism is perhaps the best this pianist has given us so far’. • Of Vol. 8 [8.572845] ClassicsToday.com wrote, ‘ Wolf Harden ’s clean, refined, and fully committed pianism makes the best case for these early works on disc, along with Naxos’ fine engineering and Richard Whitehouse’s accurate, perceptive booklet annotations’.
8.574613 Release date: 22 Nov 2024
Companion titles – Previous releases in the Ferruccio Busoni Piano Music series
8.555034 | 8.555699 | 8.570249 8.570543 | 8.570891 | 8.572077 8.572422 | 8.572845 | 8.573751 8.573806 | 8.573982 | 8.574579
Click to listen to Prelude and Fugue in C minor, Op. 21, BV 85
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Erich ZEISL (1905–1959) Lieder, Vol. 2 Michelle DeYoung, Mezzo-soprano • Jeremy Reger, Piano
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Though he composed in a variety of genres – choral and orchestral works and an opera among them – Erich Zeisl was a consummate Lieder composer whose songs are richly melodic, inventive, and cast in a late Romantic idiom. In his settings he responded to a range of ideas – the subjects of the night and light were potent ones, and he mined a vein of irony and humour. Forced from Austria in 1938 he did not write any Lieder after settling in America but arranged some Spirituals, drawing on the music of a people similarly oppressed as his own. Key feature: Multi-GRAMMY winning mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung appears regularly with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, the Concertgebouworkest, and the Sydney Symphony. She has also performed at the prestigious festivals of Ravinia, Tanglewood, Saito Kinen, Edinburgh and Lucerne. Equally at home on the opera stage, DeYoung has appeared with The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Teatro alla Scala, Bayreuth Festival, Berliner Staatsoper and the Paris Opera. She sang the role of Fricka in the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Wagner Ring Cycle on the Naxos label (8.660374-35 and 8.660394-97).
8.551464 Release date: 22 Nov 2024 Companion titles –
Recommended vocal music releases 8.551459 | 8.573833 | 8.573536 | 8.557516
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