Quartetto Adorno presents Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Complete String Quartets#naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #castelnuovotedesco Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco began to focus on chamber music composition during the late 1920s. From this period comes the String Quartet No. 1 in G major, which offers a countryside panorama with rustic serenades and processional themes reminiscent of a village festival. Returning to a much-changed Italy after the Second World War inevitably generated mixed feel...
Songs by Richard Danielpour (Hila Plitmann, The Iranshahr Orchestra, Shahab Paranj)Richard Danielpour has collaborated frequently with soprano Hila Plitmann, and this album features three recent works, two of which were written specifically for her. The song cycles heard here are sung in three languages central to the composer’s life. Songs of Love and Loss is in Farsi and sets the poetry of Rumi; Canti Della Natura, in Italian, takes sonnets attributed to Vivaldi in The Four Seasons; ...
Hyejin Chung and Warren Lee perform Violin Sonatas by Robert FuchsNot only was Robert Fuchs an admired friend of Brahms but he nurtured a prodigious number of pupils, among whom were Enescu, Korngold, Mahler, Wolf, and Sibelius who called Fuchs ‘a clever orchestrator, professional to his fingertips, and very happy as a composer’. The three Violin Sonatas, composed over a 24-year period between 1877 and 1901, exemplify Fuchs’ superbly crafted and melodious grace, with soaring Romant...
Jun Märkl conducts Toshio Hosokawa (Residentie Orkest The Hague, Paul Huang, Jeroen Berwaerts)#naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #hosokawa Toshio Hosokawa is Japan’s leading living composer. This fourth volume in the series of his orchestral works, during which he was present for all recording sessions, contains two concertos and two works for orchestra. The Trumpet Concerto ‘Im Nebel’, which draws its inspiration from Herman Hesse’s poem, conjures up a vision of man and natu...
Duo YUMENO presents Heike Quinto by Daron Hagen #teaser #shorts#naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #hagen Daron Hagen is a multi-award-winning creative polymath whose work is internationally acclaimed for its impeccable craftsmanship, social conscience and emotional accessibility. Embracing the Japanese medieval text The Tale of the Heike, Hagen has brought his musical vision as an opera composer to create in Heike Quinto a work that is as grand and emotionally complex as the original...
Astor Piazzolla: Resurrección del Ángel (Tomás Cotik • Martingale Ensemble • Ken Selden)#naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #piazzolla100 Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) reimag...
VOX Classics – NEW RELEASES – Works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Smetana (May 2024)The GRAMMY-winning St. Louis Symphony Orchestra performs Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's popular Scheherazade, with Jerzy Semkow conducting and violinist Max Rabinovitsj as the soloist. The recording also includes overture and dances from Bedřich Smetana's The Bartered Bride, conducted by Walter Susskind. *** Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficial Apple Music: https://ap...
VOX Classics – NEW RELEASES – Grant Johannesen plays Grieg (May 2024)Legendary conductor Maurice Abravanel led the Utah Symphony Orchestra in a performance of works by Edvard Grieg, including Two Lyric Pieces, Old Norwegian Melody with Variations and In Autumn. The album also features the Piano Concerto in A minor, performed by distinguished pianist Grant Johannesen. These recordings have been widely admired since their first appearance, appealing both to the nostalgic and the inquis...
Rued Langgaard – Antikrist (Ersan Mondtag / Deutsche Oper Berlin)Church opera in two acts and six scenes, BVN 192 (1921–23, rev. 1926–30) Libretto by the composer Sung in German Rued Langgaard’s remarkable opera Antikrist confronts the decline and fall of Western civilisation, critiquing modern lifestyles and ways of thinking, which resonates with our times more than ever before. Never performed in the composer’s lifetime, Antikrist blends Romantic and contemporary styles to c...
Astor Piazzolla: Chin Chin (Tomás Cotik • Martingale Ensemble • Ken Selden) (music video)#naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #piazzolla100 Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) reimagin...
Billy Arcila: Just Passing ByBilly Arcila, raised in Medellín, Colombia, has lived in the United States for over 40 years, where he teaches and performs as one of California’s foremost guitarists. This album, the first to be made of Arcila’s music, contains works ranging across his entire compositional life, from his first published work to the most recent. Interspersed with the music of other admired composers which exploit nationalist elements, such as the bambuco and pasillo rhyt...
Robert Fuchs' Violin Sonatas: A Conversation with Hyejin Chung and Warren LeeEminent composer and revered teacher, Robert Fuchs, was an established part of Vienna’s musical landscape. His six violin sonatas fuse lyricism with conversational ease and chromatic harmonies with folk-derived melodies. This second volume of the complete set (Volume 1 is on 8.574213) charts a decade’s worth of composition, from 1905 to 1915. No. 4 in E major is hymn-like, while No. 5 in A major is playful a...
New Releases on Naxos: May 2024 HighlightsThe May NEW ON NAXOS features Lukas Foss’ orchestral works presented by multiple GRAMMY-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. The programme includes the lyrical, bucolic and subtly jazz-influenced Symphony No. 1; the Three American Pieces, which was composed for Itzhak Perlman; Ode, composed around D-Day in memory of those who would not return from the war;, and the Renaissance Concerto described as a ‘hands...
Billy Arcila: Daao Phræw (Glimmering Star)Billy Arcila, raised in Medellín, Colombia, has lived in the United States for over 40 years, where he teaches and performs as one of California’s foremost guitarists. This album, the first to be made of Arcila’s music, contains works ranging across his entire compositional life, from his first published work to the most recent. Interspersed with the music of other admired composers which exploit nationalist elements, such as the bambuco an...
VOX Classics – NEW RELEASES – Leonard Slatkin conducts Rachmaninov's Orchestral works (May 2024)RRachmaninov’s final work – and the only one composed fully in the United States – was the Symphonic Dances. It embraces jazz elements and ecstatic expressiveness and is both a valediction and a summation of his creativity. The Isle of the Dead is a lamentation utilizing a variant of the Dies irae – it is a stirring, transformative work that begins and ends in stillness. The early ...
Astor Piazzolla: Las cuatro estaciones porteñas: Verano Porteño (Music Video)#naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #piazzolla100 Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) reimagined in concerto s...
VOX Classics – NEW RELEASES – Maurice Abravanel conducts Grieg's Orchestral works (May 2024)Edvard Grieg already had the renowned Piano Concerto and Sigurd Jorsalfar behind him when he was commissioned to write incidental music for a staged version of Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt. This resulted in some of Grieg’s most famous music, from the Norwegian trolls and hobgoblins of In the Hall of the Mountain King to the movingly simple Solveig’s Song. The suite From Holberg’s Time...
A Documentary by violinist Tomás Cotik Piazzolla's Immigrant Story, Style and Sound Effect#naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #piazzolla100 Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) reimagined ...
Fabio Banegas plays José Antonio Bottiroli's Allegro II in F Major, B88/2The third volume in the series of JOSÉ ANTONIO BOTTIROLI’s complete solo piano music reflects once again his immersion in late Romanticism allied to the resources of impressionism. Although these world premiere recordings focus on Bottiroli’s elegiacal works – laments in tribute to the memory of his loved ones – they also include pieces with the free musical structure of a ‘fantasy’ and those with the ...
Fabio Banegas plays José Antonio Bottiroli's Allegro I in F Major, B88/1The third volume in the series of JOSÉ ANTONIO BOTTIROLI’s complete solo piano music reflects once again his immersion in late Romanticism allied to the resources of impressionism. Although these world premiere recordings focus on Bottiroli’s elegiacal works – laments in tribute to the memory of his loved ones – they also include pieces with the free musical structure of a ‘fantasy’ and those with the m...
Minas Gerais Philharmonic presents Lorenzo Fernandez's symphonic works (Fabio Mechetti)#naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer Release date: June 2024 *** Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficial Apple Music: https://apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Naxos Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naxosmusic Twitter: https://twitter.com/Naxosrecords Naxos Blog: https://blog.naxos.com/ Website: https://www.naxos.com/
Astor Piazzolla: Suite Troileana – II. Zita (Tomás Cotik • Martingale Ensemble • Ken Selden)#naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #piazzolla100 Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) rei...