News from the Naxos Music Group

Christian Tetzlaff’s recording of Bartók’s Violin Concertos, with the Finnish Radio Symphony under Hannu Lintu, has been nominated in this year’s BBC Music Magazine Awards! Recently winning the Concerto Award in the 2019 International Classical Music Awards, the release also won a Gramophone Award in 2018, included in Fanfare’s Want List, and ranked No. 27 in ‘The 50 Best Albums of 2018’ list by NPR Music.

‘Violinist Christian Tetzlaff gleams in this impressive recording of Bartók’s pair of violin concertos; the expressive Second Concerto is recorded here with the orchestral ending originally envisaged by the composer. Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony deliver top-drawer playing, and Tetzlaff is lyrical and virtuosic.’ – BBC Music Magazine

‘Tetzlaff dispatches the fiery bits of Bartók’s music with crackle, wit and verve – traits perfectly mirrored by conductor Hannu Lintu and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. (Just listen to them trade snarls in the opening movement of the second concerto.)’ – NPR Music

Visit the BBC Music Magazine website to vote: www.classical-music.com/article/bbc-music-magazine-awards-2019 (Voting ends 19 February)

Falletta’s 2018 concert season highlights included the world premiere performance of Chen Yi’s Concerto for Flute and Pipa with soloists Linda Chatterton (flute) and Gao Hong (pipa) and the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra; the US premiere of Danny Elfman’s Violin Concerto with violinist Sandy Cameron and the Virginia Symphony; and a joyous celebration of JoAnn’s 20 years with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra with the great opera baritone Thomas Hampson. On the recording front, her fifth album of Kenneth Fuchs’ newest works with the London Symphony Orchestra has been nominated in the Best Classical Compendium category for the 61st GRAMMY® Awards (8.559824). The programme comprises Piano Concerto ‘Spiritualist’ (soloist, Jeffrey Biegel), Glacier for electric guitar and orchestra (soloist, D.J. Sparr), the alto saxophone concerto Rush (soloist, Timothy McAllister) and the song cycle Poems of Life (solo countertenor, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen).

Alsop has been one of the key figures in the Bernstein Centennial celebrations in 2018, with performances of the composer’s works in London, Edinburgh, Leipzig, Madrid, and at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, leading the Baltimore, Bournemouth, Chicago and London Symphony Orchestras and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, among others. Additionally, there was the release of the 8-disc box set of her complete Bernstein recordings for Naxos (8.508018). She also received several accolades, including the Kesselman Award for Arts Education from the New York Youth Symphony; she was featured in BBC Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour Power List’ (alongside Nicola Benedetti and Beyoncé); and she was one of the recipients of the World Economic Forum (2019) Crystal Award for championing diversity in music. Marin will take up the prestigious post of chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in September 2019.

This month features renowned Mexican guitarist Pablo Garibay, together with the Orquesta Juvenil Universitaria Eduardo Mata and conductor Gustavo Rivero Weber, in a collection of works by Mexican composers José Pablo Moncayo, Hebert Vázquez, Ricardo Castro, Silvestre Revueltas and Simone Iannarelli (El arbol de la vida – 8.573902). Watch the album trailer:

February sees the launch of Naxos' brand new ‘The Music of Brazil’ series, with a release of Alberto Nepomuceno’s orchestral works featuring the Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Fabio Mechetti (8.574067). The project was conceived in collaboration with the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and will feature 30 releases comprising some 100 orchestral works from the 19th and 20th centuries performed by the Minas Gerais Philharmonic, the Goiás Philharmonic and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra.

In March the final volume in the Agustin Barrios Guitar Music series will again feature guitarist Celil Refik Kaya (8.573898). Following his performance in Volume 4 (8.573897), American Record Guide wrote: ‘Kaya plays with a modern sensibility. He is deeply expressive, but without distortion and indulgence. This has always been a mark of his playing, and here he serves Barrios’s music with perfection.’ Watch Celil play the first track in the new album, Vals (Waltz), Op. 8, No. 3:

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