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This month Naxos is delighted to announce a fantastic range of new releases on CD and DVD. With 24 August titles, you’re sure to see something special for you, your family and friends to enjoy. There’s music from Bach to Busoni and beyond, including keyboard and chamber music, songs, opera and orchestral works.

Naxos’ highly popular ‘Musical Journey’ DVD series continues with marvellous tours through the Czech Republic, England, Scotland, Russia and Ukraine, all accompanied by splendid musical soundtracks.

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8.570452 KARLOWICZ Symphonic Poems, Vol. 1
Stanislaw i Anna Oswiecimowie / Rapsodia litewska / Epizod na maskaradzie
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra • Antoni Wit, conductor

Although he left the merest handful of compositions at his seemingly accidental death in an avalanche while skiing, Mieczysław Karłowicz ranks among the most important Polish composers of his generation.

8.570360 BERIOT Violin Concertos Nos. 2, 3 and 5
Philippe Quint, violin • Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra •Kirk Trevor, conductor

Charles Auguste de Bériot was the father of the Franco-Belgian school of violin playing. His ten violin concertos display the youthful élan and high spirits of early romanticism.

8.572064 Guitar Recital: Rafael Aguirre
Music by Sor, Ibert, Poulenc, Ohana, Rautavaara, Villa-lobos, Clerch & Tarrega.
Rafael Aguirre Miñarro, guitar

Rafael Aguirre Miñarro, First Prize Winner in the 2007 International Francisco Tárrega Guitar Competition, plays a cosmopolitan selection of music from the early nineteenth century up to the present day.

8.570474 J.C & J.C.F. BACH Keyboard Concertos
J.C. BACH Keyboard Concertos Op. 13, Nos. 2, 4 / J.C.F. BACH Keyboard Concertos, B. C29, C30 (attrib. J.C. Bach)
The Music Collection

The elegant, forward-looking concertos of Johann Christian Bach, youngest son of Johann Sebastian, contrast with the more straightforward yet entertaining concertos by his older brother Johann Christoph Friedrich.

8.557527 SCHOENBERG Pelleas und Melisande / Erwartung
Anja Silja, soprano • Philharmonia Orchestra •Robert Craft, conductor

Volume 9 of Naxos’ acclaimed series of Schoenberg’s music presents two masterpieces on the theme of ill-fated love - his gripping monodrama Erwartung, starring renowned soloist Anja Silja, and his lavishly scored tone poem Pelleas und Melisande.

8.570435 SCHWARZ-SCHILLING Sinfonia diatonica / Symphony in C major / Introduction and Fugue
Staatskapelle Weimar • José Serebrier, conductor

The eminent German composer Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling produced a rich, varied and highly personal body of work. Sinfonia diatonica here receives its world première recording.

8.570398 The Bottesini Collection, Vol. 2
Prelude to Ero e Leandro / Sinfonia to Il diavolo della Notte / Passioni amorose / Elégie / Duo Concertante
Thomas Martin, double bass • Moray Welsh, cello • London Symphony Orchestra •Franco Petracchi, double bass & conductor •Matthew Gibson, conductor

Dubbed the Paganini of the double bass, Giovanni Bottesini was both composer and virtuoso soloist. Ero e Leandro was his greatest operatic masterpiece, the Concertino in C minor his most popular composition among bassists today.

8.559355 WALDEN Maquettes / Sh'mah / 5 Similes
Spectrum Concerts Berlin

A native of Brooklyn, New York, the multitalented Stanley Walden has written orchestral, solo works, operas and musicals (including Oh! Calcutta!) and chamber music, such as the works on this fascinating disc.

8.559271 IVES Songs, Vol. 3
33 songs (Harpalus - Luck and Work)
Janna Baty, mezzo-soprano • Lielle Berman, soprano • Daniel Trevor Bircher, baritone • Patrick Carfizzi, baritone • Jennifer Casey Cabot, soprano • Michael Cavalieri, baritone • Robert Gardner, baritone • Ian Howell, countertenor • Sumi Kittelberger, soprano • Diego Matamoros, baritone • Tamara Mumford, mezzo-soprano • Matthew Plenk, tenor • Kenneth Tarver, tenor • Ayano Kabaoka, glockenspiel • Frederick Teardo, organ • Eric Trudel, piano • J.J. Penna, piano • Douglas Dickson, piano

Charles Ives' 183 songs are at the heart of his creative thinking and their variety of expression is vast. This disc, the third of six volumes, features students and alumni from Yale University music programs, some of whom enjoy careers at the Metropolitan and New York City Operas.

8.559344 JAMESTOWN CONCERTO
PERRY Jamestown Concerto / SCHUMAN A Song of Orpheus / THOMSON Cello Concerto
Yehuda Hanani, cello • RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland) • William Eddins, conductor

JAMESTOWN CONCERTO
PERRY Jamestown Concerto / SCHUMAN A Song of Orpheus / THOMSON Cello Concerto
Yehuda Hanani, cello • RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland) • William Eddins, conductor

The popular Musical Journey DVD series brings many of the greatest tourist destinations from around the world to you, accompanied by some of the most beautiful classical music by composers associated with each place of interest. This month, we present five great titles, three of which are featured below.

2.110530 A MUSICAL JOURNEY - RUSSIA and UKRAINE
St. Petersburg, Sebastopol, Odessa (NTSC)

This tour of Russia takes you to St Petersburg, Tchaikovsky’s house at Klin near Moscow, south to Ukraine with views of Sebastopol in the Crimea and of Odessa. The music accompanying our tour is Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto and Serenade for Strings.

2.110528 A MUSICAL JOURNEY – ENGLAND
London, Westminster, Greenwich (NTSC)

Visit the best known sights in the British capital, with views of the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace and down river to the Palace at Greenwich.
The music is taken from the last two of Joseph Haydn's twelve London Symphonies.

2.110531 A MUSICAL JOURNEY - CZECH REPUBLIC
A Musical Tour of the Country's Past and Present (NTSC)

The tour starts by following the River Vltava through the countryside on its journey to the capital, Prague, and visits some of the great buildings that lie on its course, with music by Smetana and his successor Dvořák.