OehmsClassics was founded in 2002, when identifying promising young artists and helping them develop their careers was at the core of the label’s philosophy. The label quickly gained recognition from renowned institutions, opera houses, orchestras, conductors and soloists, who were impressed by the label’s performances and operations.
Today, OehmsClassics is one of the world’s most renowned classical record labels that has produced around 650 albums featuring numerous debutant performers, together with rarities and important work cycles by great composers. It has received many citations from international awards bodies, including the ECHO/Opus Klassik Awards, Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and International Classical Music Awards (ICMA).
This is OehmsClassics’ second album featuring Judith Ingolfsson (violin, viola) and Vladimir Stoupel (piano). The performances on this album take the listener on a journey through the eloquence and profundity of Rebecca Clarke’s creative world.
‘The duo Ingolfsson and Stoupel can regularly be heard with unusual programmes. …Here they make it clear that their view of this music is direct and rich in contours and not characterised by an affable, indeterminate approach.’
– Pizzicato ★★★★★
![DONIZETTI, G.: Dalinda [Opera]](https://www.naxos.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/OC989.jpg "DONIZETTI, G.: Dalinda [Opera]")
This album is the world premiere recording, made on 14 May 2023, of Donizetti’s opera Dalinda, a work that had a brush with the censors, similar to that experienced by his opera Lucrezia Borgia, and disappeared unperformed until it was rediscovered a few years ago by the musicologist Eleonora Di Cintio, in whose critical RICORDI edition it’s heard here.
– Pizzicato
Hansjörg Albrecht is one of the few artists who are internationally active both as a conductor, concert organist and harpsichordist. As a conductor, he is internationally regarded above all as a passionate specialist in the music of J.S. Bach and other 18th-century composers. As an all-round musician, however, he covers a wide range of repertoire, from the music of Olivier Messiaen, to numerous world premieres, and works by neglected composers such as Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Hans Rott, Walter Braunfels and Mieczysław Weinberg.
With his organ transcriptions, he has established himself as a specialist among the virtuosos of his instrument.
In 2024, Anton Bruckner will be the focus of Albrecht’s concert activities as he pursues various projects to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. He has released over 30 albums as a conductor and organist on the OehmsClassics label and has been nominated for a GRAMMY Award. During 2024, he will realise the first complete recording of all Bruckner’s symphonies in organ transcriptions, performed in various European venues.
This 10th album was made on the organ at Fraumünster in Zürich using Erwin Horn’s transcription of Bruckner’s 9th Symphony and incorporating Gerd Schaller’s completion of the finale, which Bruckner left unfinished.
– American Record Guide
– Choir & Organ ★★★★★
Visit the dedicated page HERE for more details about this project.
Antoni Wit is one of Poland’s most highly regarded conductors with a bold commitment to the music of Polish composers, ranging from Lutosławski, Szymanowski, Karłowicz and Penderecki to Górecki and Kilar. His distinguished conducting career has featured artistic leadership of the key orchestras in Poland, as well as extensive guest-conducting in Europe, America and Asia.
In celebration of Antoni Wit’s 80th birthday, the Polish music community has paid tribute to him with special jubilee concerts held in the cities of Kraków, Poznań, Warsaw, and Łódź.
Nominated seven times for a GRAMMY Award, Antoni Wit has made over two hundred recordings for EMI, Sony and Naxos. He has sold over five million Naxos albums, including an acclaimed release of Prokofiev’s piano concertos with Kun Woo Paik, and was awarded the Diapason d’Or and Grand Prix de la Nouvelle Académie du Disque. In 2012 Antoni Wit’s world premiere recording of Gorecki’s Concerto-Cantata with the Warsaw Philharmonic on Naxos received a Classica Choc Award. His recording of Penderecki’s Fonogrammi, Horn Concerto, Partita, The Awakening of Jacob and Anaklasis on Naxos received a GRAMMY Award in 2013.
– American Record Guide
– Gramophone
Jun Märkl has been appointed music director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (ISO) beginning in the 2024–25 season. He has served as the ISO’s artistic advisor since 2021 and becomes the music director designate until September. This new appointment celebrates the culmination of his nearly 25-year collaboration with the ISO.
Märkl holds the positions of music director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan and principal guest conductor of the Oregon Symphony, and was recently named chief conductor of the Residentie Orkest in The Hague beginning in the 2025-26 season. He has long been a highly respected interpreter of the core Germanic repertoire from both the symphonic and operatic traditions, and more recently for his refined and idiomatic performances of works by Debussy, Ravel and Messiaen.
Jun Märkl has an extensive discography of more than 50 albums that include the complete Schumann symphonies with the NHK Symphony, works by Mendelssohn and Wagner with the MDR, and the music of Ravel, Messiaen and Debussy, the latter in a 9-disc compendium of recordings with the Lyon National Orchestra which led to the award by the French Ministry of Culture of the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2012. Recently, he has recorded 3 albums of works by Toshio Hosokawa and 4 albums of rare works by Saint-Saëns.
– Pizzicato ★★★★★
[9-Disc Boxed Set]
– International Record Review
– MusicWeb International
– BBC Music Magazine ★★★★
– AllMusic.com ★★★★
– American Record Guide
For Jun Märkl’s full discography, visit naxos.com.
Renowned American conductor Marin Alsop has been awarded honorary membership of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW). The honour was given not only for her outstanding artistic achievements, but also for her commitment to social issues and longstanding service to music education.
Currently chief conductor of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alsop is also artistic director and chief conductor of the Polish National Radio Symphony and principal guest conductor of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. She also holds positions as chief conductor and curator of Chicago’s Ravinia Festival where she conducts the Chicago Symphony’s summer residencies. She is music director laureate of the Baltimore Symphony, where she founded the orchestra’s OrchKids education programme, and conductor of honour of Brazil’s São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. In 2020 she was appointed music director of the National Orchestral Institute + Festival at the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. She has been appointed principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra beginning in the 2024–25 season.
Marin Alsop conducts the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra in a recording of Britten’s Violin Concerto and Double Concerto for Violin and Viola, featuring star violinist Baiba Skride and violist Ivan Vukčević.
Marin Alsop’s upcoming recording on Naxos features works by John Adams, including the capricious Spider Dance that was written expressly for her.
View the full list of Marin Alsop’s extensive Naxos discography here.
Although the Concertos for Piano (left hand) by Korngold, Prokofiev, Ravel and others may be better known, it was Josef Labor who marked the beginning of the genre in 1915 with his first Konzertstück for Piano (left hand) and Orchestra. It was commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in Russia during the First World War, but was determined that his career should progress nonetheless. Labor was part of Johannes Brahms’ close circle of friends who, at the age of three, had lost his sight due to smallpox. Composition was a luxury for him, in that he had to rely on the help of an amanuensis to commit his works to paper. Labor’s music is skillfully composed, always sensuous and, above all, melodious.
These world premiere recordings feature Oliver Triendl as soloist, accompanied by the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz under the baton of Eugene Tzigane.
– WTJU
– Classical Music Daily
– Pizzicato ★★★★★
– American Record Guide
Czech music specialist Marek Štilec and the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice rediscover more music by Eduard Strauss I in the third instalment of our Eduard Strauss Centenary Celebration series. The programme includes fashionable pieces such as his Electric Lights waltz and the ingenious equine polka, Leaps of Pegasus.
– Fanfare
– American Record Guide
The Strad is a recent podcast featuring cellist Gabriel Schwabe, who offers methods of pinpointing simple ways to solve problems and unlock one’s playing potential by ‘scanning’ one’s playing. Click here to listen to the episode.
– The Strad
– MusicWeb International
For Gabriel Schwabe’s complete Naxos discography, visit naxos.com.
Finnish conductor John Storgårds has been appointed the new chief conductor of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra. He will take up the position in the autumn of 2024 and the four-year term will extend until the end of the spring season in 2028. Storgårds will be the 14th chief conductor of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra.
Chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and principal guest conductor of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa, John Storgårds has a dual career as a conductor and violin virtuoso. He’s widely recognised for his creative flair in programming, as well as his rousing yet refined performances. As artistic director of the Lapland Chamber Orchestra, a title he has held for over 25 years, Storgårds has earned global critical acclaim for the ensemble’s adventurous performances and award-winning recordings.
– Fanfare
– AllMusic.com
– ClassicsToday.com
– AllMusic.com
– Pizzicato ★★★★★
– Classical Music
Click here to view John Storgårds’ extensive discography.
Simone Young is set to make history as she becomes the first female conductor to direct Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle at the renowned Bayreuth opera festival. This milestone achievement also marks her as the first Australian conductor to grace Germany’s esteemed annual celebration of the composer, which spans a remarkable 147 years.
Simone Young is well known as a Wagner and Strauss specialist, a reputation she developed early in her career when she conducted multiple complete cycles of Wagner’s Ring at the Vienna State Opera and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, as well as his Die Walküre and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg along with Strauss’ Elektra, Salome, Die Frau Ohne Schatten and Ariadne auf Naxos, and together with a new production of Hans Pfitzner’s Palestrina at the Bavarian State Opera. She has been chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra since 2022.
![WAGNER, R.: Rheingold (Das) [Opera]](https://www.naxos.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/OC925.jpg "WAGNER, R.: Rheingold (Das) [Opera]")
– BBC Music Magazine ★★★★
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– Gramophone
![WAGNER, R.: Siegfried [Opera]](https://www.naxos.com/sharedfiles/images/cds/hires/OC927.jpg "WAGNER, R.: Siegfried [Opera]")
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Click here to view Simone Young’s complete discography.
Despite the triumphant reception Donizetti received for his first opera, Enrico di Borgogna (1818), he was still young and inexperienced when, four years later, he was commissioned by La Scala to write Chiara e Serafina. Composed in haste, it met with disapproval at its premiere and subsequently disappeared without a trace. Thanks to this revival at the Bergamo Donizetti Festival, Chiara e Serafina has returned to the stage after exactly 200 years with a fine production that brings to life an entertaining tale of pirates, lovers, disguises, deceit and peril in 17th-century Majorca.
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‘All in all, the Donizetti Opera Festival put together an intellectually honest, valuable cultural operation, in reviving this lost opera.’
– Bachtrack
| Don Meschino | Pietro Spagnoli, Baritone |
and with the soloists of the Academy of Lyric Opera of the Teatro alla Scala
| Don Alvaro / Don Fernando | Matías Moncada, Bass |
| Serafina | Fan Zhou, Soprano |
| Chiara | Greta Doveri, Soprano |
| Don Ramiro | Hyun-Seo Davide Park, Tenor |
| Picaro | Sung-Hwan Damien Park, Baritone |
| Lisetta | Valentina Pluzhnikova, Mezzo-soprano |
| Agnese | Mara Gaudenzi, Soprano |
| Spalatro | Andrea Tanzillo, Tenor |
| Gennaro | Giuseppe De Luca, Baritone |
| Conductor | Sesto Quatrini |
| Chorus Master | Salvo Sgrò |
| Director, Set and Costume Design | Gianluca Falaschi |
| Lighting Design | Emanuele Agliati |
| Choreography | Andrea Pizzalis |
| Playwright | Mattia Palma |
| Video Director | Matteo Ricchetti |
Filmed in December 2022 at the Teatro Sociale, Bergamo, Italy
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Podcast: Bach-Rheinberger • The Goldberg Variations
23 February 2024
Raymond Bisha’s latest podcast introduces the world premiere recording of Joseph Rheinberger’s arrangement for two pianos of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Composed by Bach in 1741, the work fell into oblivion before re-emerging as part of a movement of discovery generations later. In order to breathe new life into them, such masterpieces might undergo arrangements, transcriptions and other manipulations. In this case, Rheinberger’s 1883 version adds new parts to Bach’s original score.
Podcast: Peter Boyer’s Rhapsody in Red, White and Blue.
19 February 2024
George Gershwin’s ever popular Rhapsody in Blue was first performed in February 1924. To mark the centenary of that celebrated event, pianist Jeffrey Biegel commissioned composer Peter Boyer to write a work for piano and orchestra that would be a 21st-century partner to Gershwin’s original. Raymond Bisha talks to both composer and soloist about the gestation of this celebratory new work that captures a similar propulsive energy, while interweaving allusions to blues influences and lyrical evocations of American vistas.
Podcast: Abbey Simon plays Chopin
9 February 2024
Raymond Bisha introduces a programme of works for piano and orchestra by Chopin, performed by legendary pianist Abbey Simon. Once hailed by renowned critic Harold C. Schonberg of The New York Times as a ‘supervirtuoso’, Simon was a great American pianist in the great Romantic tradition, who imbued his effortless virtuoso technique with a uniformly clear sound. Having passed away in 2019 at the age of ninety-nine, most of his recorded output was for the VOX label.
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