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NEW ON NAXOS
The World’s Leading Classical Music Label
September 2013 |
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Get tuned in to the latest instalment of new releases from Naxos, your boundless source of classical discoveries.
Click here to watch our monthly New on Naxos video to sample some of the highlight releases of the month.
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8.572996
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Johannes BRAHMS (1833–1897)
Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), Op. 45
Anna Lucia Richter, soprano Stephan Genz, baritone
MDR Leipzig Radio Choir
Symphony Orchestra • Marin Alsop
Brahms’s A German Requiem, almost certainly triggered by the death of his mother in 1865, is one of his greatest and most popular works, quite unlike any previous Requiem. With texts taken from Luther’s translation of the Bible and an emphasis on comforting the living for their loss and on hope of the Resurrection, the work is deeply rooted in the tradition of Bach and Schütz, but is vastly different in character from the Latin Requiem of Catholic tradition with its evocation of the Day of Judgement and prayers for mercy on the souls of the dead.
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8.573234
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Sergey RACHMANINOV (1873–1943)
Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13
The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin
After the disastrous failure of its première in 1897, Rachmaninov’s youthfully exuberant Symphony No. 1 had to wait until after his death before it was reconstructed from the surviving orchestral parts and performed again, in Moscow in 1945. Since then it has taken its rightful place as one of the great Russian symphonic works of the late nineteenth century. The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 is a vivid and powerful symphonic poem based on a well-known nineteenth-century painting by the Swiss symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin.
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8.559757
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John CORIGLIANO (b. 1938)
Conjurer* • Vocalise†
Evelyn Glennie, percussion*
Hila Plitmann, soprano†
Electronics produced and performed by Mark Baechle†
Albany Symphony • David Alan Miller
Leading American composer John Corigliano had reservations about writing a percussion concerto, but the challenge fascinated him. The result is Conjurer, a concerto for percussion like no other, in which ‘wood, metal and skin’ are utilised in such a way that the soloist, Dame Evelyn Glennie – the world’s greatest percussion virtuoso – ‘conjures’ the musical material from these three choirs, and the orchestra then shares and develops the themes. Vocalise employs electronics in a way that serves to heighten the expressive beauty of the writing, gradually leading the listener from a purely acoustic experience to one that becomes suffused by amplification and electronics.
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8.573241
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Ernest BLOCH (1880–1959)
Symphony in C sharp minor
Poems of the Sea
London Symphony Orchestra • Dalia Atlas
Composed while Ernest Bloch was studying in Germany and before he moved to America, the richly scored Symphony in C sharp minor fits within the romantic tradition of Richard Strauss, Mahler and Bruckner. It expresses Bloch’s innermost struggles and emotions, revealing his complex talents through rhapsodic forms, exceptional polyphony and modal tonalities. Inspired by Walt Whitman, the Poems of the Sea depict the oceans with striking clarity, including flavours of Irish folk music. Dalia Atlas is a leading expert on Bloch, her acclaimed recordings including America (8.557151) and Four Episodes (8.570259), “a disc not to be missed” (Penguin Guide).
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8.573146
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Philip GLASS (b. 1937)
John RUTTER (b. 1945)
Jean FRANÇAIX (1912–1997)
Harpsichord Concertos
Christopher D. Lewis, harpsichord John McMurtery, flute
West Side Chamber Orchestra Kevin Mallon
Attracted by a delightful fusion of early music sonorities with modern expressiveness, the three composers in this amazingly rich and varied programme build on the magnificent harpsichord concerto legacy of J. S. Bach. John Rutter’s beautiful Suite Antique is full of rich and haunting themes, with a significant solo flute part and a jazzy Waltz which is as much Brubeck as Bach. Philip Glass delivers an exciting experience of virtuoso instrumental blending and solo expressiveness, and with typical wit and elegance. Jean Françaix’s Concerto is terrific fun throughout.
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8.572751
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Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835–1921)
Music for Violin and Piano, Volume 2
Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä Patrick Gallois
Saint-Saëns’s early unfinished Violin Sonata is testimony to his remarkable precocity as a child. His music’s universal appeal is demonstrated in adaptations of his Bach influenced Suite, Op. 16, the gracious Romance, Op. 48 and one of his most famous pieces Le cygne (The Swan). The Second Violin Sonata follows classical forms, while the Méditation is notable for an affecting melody that builds beautifully to an intimate conclusion. Volume 1 can be heard on Naxos 8.572750. Acclaim for Fanny Clamagirand’s playing includes her “brilliant advocacy” of Saint-Saëns’s three Violin Concertos. (Strings Magazine on 8.572037)
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Dark Horizons
6 September, 2013
1913 saw the births of a number of composers, whose anniversaries are being celebrated in articles and concerts this year, among them Benjamin Britten and Witold Lutosławski.
That same year, however, found the world on the cusp of a world war that was about to throttle the development of the arts in an unprecedented way. Testing the musical pulse of the time, however, none would have guessed that dark clouds were gathering by listening to a piece such as George Butterworth’s The Banks of Green Willow(Naxos Classical Archives 9.80222), steeped in British folksong and pastorally becalming; maybe the proverbial calm before the storm.
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Also check out the latest edition of the New On Naxos presenter, featuring details of every new release of the month
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Naxos September 2013 Sampler
9.00183
was USD 9.99
Discounted Price USD 2.99
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