NEW ON NAXOS | MARCH 2023
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
Frederic RZEWSKI (1938–2021) Dreams • War Songs Winter Nights
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Saints and Sinners Bobby Mitchell, Piano
Frederic Rzewski was one of the most important American composer-pianists of his time. The themes explored in his late piano works are typical of his entire body of work in their uncompromising and universal nature. The intensely contrapuntal Ruins and virtuoso Wake Up are the last pieces in his vast piano cycle Dreams , while the War Songs weave together six war and anti-war songs from the last seven centuries. Winter Nights was written for Bobby Mitchell. Rzewski said of the three movements that they were intended to help with insomnia in a similar way to Bach’s Goldberg Variations , though they are inevitably very different in the darkness of their moods.
Click to listen to Dreams: Part II – No. 7. Ruins
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8.559928 Release Date: 10 Mar 2023 Companion Titles – Frederic Rzewski, Composer 8.559759 | 8.559760 | 8.559360
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9.70345 Release Date: 10 Mar 2023
Eugene ZÁDOR (1894–1977) Celebration Music Chamber Concerto * Suite for Horn, Strings and Percussion ** Bálint Képíró * , Imre Kováts * , Zoltán Szőke ** , Horns • Katalin Sarkady, Piano * Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV • Mariusz Smolij
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Eugene Zádor was an established composer by the time he moved from Europe to the United States in 1939 where he worked as a film composer. Many of the works on this album exhibit Zádor’s finest traits, blending neo-Classicism and neo-Romanticism with expert orchestration and rhythmic verve, and a dedication to tonality liberally peppered with gentle dissonance. The Chamber Concerto was composed while he was still in Vienna, and the Suite for Horn, Strings and Percussion only received its premiere after Zádor’s death. The programme concludes with spectacular off-stage effects and a joyous affirmation of life in Celebration Music. Key Feature: Consisting entirely of world premiere recordings, this release joins a now substantial collection as the seventh volume of Eugene Zádor’s music on the Naxos label.
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS
8.574262 Release Date: 10 Mar 2023
Companion Titles – Eugene Zádor, Composer 8.574108 | 8.573800 | 8.573529 8.573274 | 8.572548 | 8.572549
Click to listen to Suite for Horn, Strings and Percussion: III. March
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Johannes BRAHMS (1833–1897) Hungarian Dances and the Hungarian Tradition Adrienn Miksch, Soprano • János Bándi, Tenor Ferenc Szecsődi, Violin • Szilvia Elek, István Kassai, Fortepiano and Piano
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Brahms had long been immersed in the folk traditions and spirit of Hungary’s musical repertoire, not least through the famous violinist Ede Reményi, for whom he played as piano accompanist. Brahms employed melodies that he had heard, as well as those based on sheet music, and in this album his Hungarian Dances are presented alongside their source material and variants, as well as some elements that Brahms omitted from his settings. Contextualised in this way, the heroic strength and dynamism, as well as the melancholy of the Dances can be heard as never before.
Click to listen to BRAHMS, J.: Hungarian Dance No. 1 in G minor
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Companion Titles – Johannes Brahms, Composer 8.501803 | 8.574465-67 8.574345 | 8.574291 8.574424-25 [2 Discs] Release Date: 10 Mar 2023
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Hungarian Dances – Traditional dance-music transcriptions and folk-style compositions that inspired Brahms
Click to listen to NITTINGER, A.: Rózsabokor csárdás (‘Rose Bush Csárdás’)
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9.70344 Release Date: 14 Apr 2023
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