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NEW ON NAXOS
The World’s Leading Classical Music Label
August 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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8.660322
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Pierre-Alexandre MONSIGNY (1729–1817)
Le Roi et le fermier (The King and the Farmer)
A comic opera in three acts
Thomas Michael Allen, tenor William Sharp, baritone
Dominique Labelle, soprano Thomas Dolié, baritone
Jeffrey Thompson, tenor Delores Ziegler, mezzo-soprano
Yulia Van Doren, soprano David Newman, baritone
Tony Boutté, tenor
Opera Lafayette Orchestra • Ryan Brown
Le Roi et le fermier made Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny famous in France and beyond. Set in an evocative and at times stormy Sherwood Forest it tells of a King’s encounter with a humble farmer, blending comedy with serious issues. Its numerous innovations foreshadow Romanticism, making it a milestone in operatic history, with librettist Michel-Jean Sedaine admiring Monsigny’s daring in taking “the risk of setting a new genre to music”. “This production should be noted and remembered in the annals of Versailles, for the intelligence of its staging, the beauty of its sets, and its high musical quality.” (Opéra Magazine)
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8.573113
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Laurent PETITGIRARD (b. 1950)
The Little Prince (Ballet)
Budapest Studio Choir and Honvéd Male Choir
Soloists of the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Budapest
Laurent Petitgirard
The prize-winning French composer Laurent Petitgirard has earned acclaim for his unusually powerful theatrical imagination. His strikingly creative ballet score for Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) was first performed at the Avignon Opera in May 2010. Petitgirard centres his score around a chorus, alternating instrumental sonorities to remarkable effect, and evoking the essence of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s text in its movement from dream to reality, and from mystery to innocence.
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8.572822
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Marcel TYBERG (1893–1944)
Symphony No. 2 in F minor
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra JoAnn Falletta
Piano Sonata No. 2 in F sharp minor
Fabio Bidini, piano
Marcel Tyberg was a victim of the World War II Holocaust, but his scores were preserved and have recently been revived through the support of JoAnn Falletta and the BPO. The Second Symphony is filled with romantic enchantment and pastoral narrative, reflecting Tyberg’s reverence for nineteenth-century styles. The Second Piano Sonata also develops earlier traditions, revealing the influence of Beethoven. Tyberg’s Third Symphony can be heard on Naxos 8.572236, the Washington Post stating that the Buffalo Philharmonic “has never sounded better… Tyberg’s music is wellcrafted and earnest, tuneful and filled with seriousness of purpose and harmonic mastery.”
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8.572734
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Domenico CIMAROSA (1749–1801)
Overtures, Volume 3
Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä Patrick Gallois
Le astuzie femminili No. 1 ; Le astuzie femminili No. 2
Artemisia, regina di Caria Il mercato di Malmantile
Cajo Mario I due baroni di Roccazzura Le stravaganze d’amore
I nemici generosi • L’eroe cinese
The most famous and popular Italian opera composer of the second half of the eighteenth century, Domenico Cimarosa composed more than 65 operas which were performed all over Europe, as well as a significant body of instrumental music and works for the church. Cimarosa’s overtures are remarkable for their melodic invention, assured handling of the orchestra and sheer vitality. This recording includes the overture to one of Cimarosa’s most popular operas, I due baroni di Roccazzura, and that of his personal favourite, Artemisia, regina di Caria. Volumes One and Two are available on Naxos 8.570508 and 8.570279.
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Favourite Poems for Children: Audiobook App
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Vox humana
2 August, 2013
Published in 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince is a story that occupies an alternative dimension, in which an adult comes to see things through the prism of a child. Laurent Petitgirard‘s suite of the same name is one of this month’s new releases from Naxos (Naxos8.573113).
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Naxos August 2013 Sampler
9.00182
was USD 9.99
Discounted Price USD 2.99
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