NEW ON NAXOS | OCTOBER 2024
Ottorino RESPIGHI (1879–1936) Tre Liriche * Berceuse • Lamento d’Arianna Il tramonto • Aretusa Alessandra Visentin, Contralto • Chamber Orchestra of New York • Salvatore Di Vittorio * WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING OF COMPLETED ORCHESTRATION
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This album presents a selection of works for voice and orchestra by Respighi. The composer first gained recognition for his orchestration of Lamento d’Arianna , the only extant music from Monteverdi’s lost second opera, L’Arianna , which garnered Respighi ecstatic reviews. The Berceuse is a touching, short lullaby for strings composed in 1902, while the Wagnerian Il tramonto and Aretusa , a precursor to the Fountains of Rome , are both based on the poetry of Shelley. Tre Liriche are three art songs originally set as separate works for mezzo-soprano and piano. On the personal invitation of Respighi’s great nieces, Salvatore Di Vittorio has restored and edited the Berceuse and Lamento and completed the orchestration of the Tre Liriche . Key feature: Composer and conductor Salvatore Di Vittorio is heir to the Italian neo-Classical orchestral tradition ‘following in the footsteps of Ottorino Respighi’ writes Luigi Verdi of the Bologna Philharmonic Academy.
8.574160 Release date: 11 Oct 2024
Companion titles – Salvatore Di Vittorio, Composer/Conductor 8.572333 | 8.573168 | 8.573901 | 8.579033
Click to listen to Tre Liriche, P. 99a: No. 1. Notte
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Gabriel FAURÉ (1845–1924) Ballade, Op. 19 Fantaisie, Op. 111 Francis POULENC (1899–1963) Piano Concerto Aubade Romain Descharmes, Piano • Malmö Opera Orchestra • Michael Halász
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There are fruitful contrasts in the works for piano and orchestra of these two French composers. Gabriel Fauré’s Ballade in F sharp major is graceful and serene but ends with a Lisztian flourish, whereas his neglected Fantaisie , though modestly orchestrated, is distinctive and characterful. Francis Poulenc, himself a gifted pianist, wrote his Piano Concerto for the Boston Symphony during his second American tour in 1949, full of alluring melodies and seductive orchestral colour. The ballet Aubade was composed for piano and 18 instruments with a scenario by Poulenc himself. It foreshadows the concerto while also revealing a Stravinskian influence. Key feature: Romain Descharmes has established himself as one of the foremost French pianists of his generation. Winner of the Dublin Competition (2006), he has appeared in concerts in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy, France, Japan, China, among other countries.
8.574570 Release date: 11 Oct 2024
Companion titles – Romain Descharmes, Piano 8.573476 | 8.573478 | 8.573477 | 8.572662
Click to listen to POULENC, F.: Piano Concerto, FP 146: I. Allegretto
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INCLUDES WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
Ivor GURNEY (1890–1937) The English Song Series, Vol. 24 Songs, Vol. 2 Sleep • Severn Meadows • Snow Marcus Farnsworth, Baritone • Eric McElroy, Piano
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Ivor Gurney was a poet as well as a composer and was accomplished in a number of musical genres including song. With his intuitive approach to poetry he selected texts widely, from contemporaries to ballads, Elizabethan and Jacobean poets, and even set his own lyrics. This wide-ranging selection includes his masterpieces – among them Sleep and Severn Meadows – with several songs heard in their first recording. Marcus Farnsworth, First Prize winner in the 2009 Wigmore Hall International Song Competition, has been praised for his ‘superbly controlled baritone voice’ ( Fanfare ). Key feature: Marcus Farnsworth , First Prize winner in the 2009 Wigmore Hall International Song Competition, sang the folk songs of E.J. Moeran on 8.571359. Fanfare wrote that ‘Marcus Farnsworth, with his manly, superbly controlled baritone voice, does everything possible to mine the last ounce of colour and drama’.
8.574599 Release date: 11 Oct 2024
Companion titles – Previous releases in The English Song Series 8.572151 | 8.572426 | 8.572514 8.572600 | 8.573080
Click to listen to Down by the salley gardens
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