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NEW ON NAXOS
The World’s Leading Classical Music Label
September 2012 |
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8.572886
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Hector BERLIOZ (1803-69)
Le corsaire – Overture, Op. 21
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
(including an alternative version of Un bal with cornet obbligato)
Orchestre National de Lyon Leonard Slatkin
Immensely influential, the remarkable Symphonie fantastique was composed while Hector Berlioz was suffering an intense and unreciprocated passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. Its autobiographical tale describes a young musician’s opium-poisoned nightmares of jealous despair and fatal justice following the murder of his beloved. Berlioz wrote a second movement cornet solo into a subsequent revision of the score, here included as an optional extra. He wed his sweetheart actress but, recuperating in Nice, wrote Le corsaire after the final breakup of their marriage.
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8.572207
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Gustav MAHLER (1860-1911)
Symphony No. 1
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra • Marin Alsop
This remarkably original work, with its recurring quotations from the composer’s own songs, notably Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) and Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn), is the perfect expression of one of Mahler’s most quoted sayings, “The symphony is a world; it must contain everything”. The opening movement, filled with sounds that Mahler remembered from his childhood, depicts “Nature’s awakening from the long sleep of winter”, and is followed by an exuberant scherzo and trio based on a Ländler. The disturbing slow movement funeral march, based on the children’s song Frère Jacques, is unlike anything that had been heard before, and the symphony concludes with music of thrilling dramatic intensity.
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8.573043
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Heitor VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959)
Symphony No. 6 ‘On the Outline of the
Mountains of Brazil’ • Symphony No. 7
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra Isaac Karabtchevsky
Heitor Villa-Lobos is generally acknowledged as Latin America’s foremost nationalist composer and his best known works, such as the Bachianas Brasileiras (Naxos 8.557460-62), have tended to overshadow the rest of his work. Symphony No. 6, which launched his mature symphonic style, derives some of its themes from the contours of Brazilian hills and mountains, in a process devised by the composer to obtain a melody from an image by means of a graphic chart. The Symphony No. 7 is scored for a huge orchestra and is one of the composer’s most ambitious and significant statements. Both works represent the composer’s powerful desire to invent a specifically Brazilian idiom. This is the first volume of a complete cycle of the Villa-Lobos Symphonies.
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8.572584
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Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
Préludes (orch. Peter Breiner)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra Jun Märkl
Debussy completed his two books of Préludes in 1910 and 1913 respectively, and they contain some of his most visionary and poetic writing for piano. There are evocations of calm seascapes, delicate wind tracery, and snow-covered landscapes. Some moments are steeped in antiquity, such as La cathédrale engloutie, others in expressive portraiture, as in La fille aux cheveux de lin. There is even a cake-walk. The Préludes are performed here in the subtle and colouristic orchestrations of muchadmired Slovak-born composer Peter Breiner.
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8.572481
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Krzysztof PENDERECKI (b. 1933)
Hymne an den heiligen Adalbert
Song of the Cherubim
Canticum Canticorum Salomonis
Kosmogonia • Strophen
Olga Pasichnyk, soprano Rafał Bartmiński, tenor
Tomasz Konieczny, bass Jerzy Artysz, narrator
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra • Antoni Wit
The range of Penderecki’s music is exemplified by this disc, which presents five works written over a period of nearly 40 years. Hymne an den heiligen Adalbert was composed in 1997 and evokes the martyred eighth-century Bishop of Prague through spare but fervent gestures. More austere, but intense in its focus, is Song of the Cherubim, whilst Canticum Canticorum Salomis is a richly sensuous exploration of the Song of Songs. Kosmogonia explores a complex sound tapestry. Strophen (1959) was a breakthrough work – spare, intricate and marvellously tensile.
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8.573004
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8.572351
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8.572932
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8.572661
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8.572063
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8.572710-11
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8.572836
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8.572776
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8.572672
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Naxos Historical is in the privileged position of being able to transform the legendary recordings of the past into remarkable digtial sound, using today’s most advanced audio engineering technology. |
*Not Available in the United States due to possible copyright restrictions
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The Naxos Seattle Symphony Collection is a newly created series to showcase the Seattle players and conductor Gerard Schwarz in a wide selection of repertoire. |
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8.572769
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8.572770
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8.571215
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2.110292
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2.110299
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2.110310
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9781843796640
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9781843796497
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9781843796466
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9781843795339
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9781843796657
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9781843795346
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9781843792840
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9781843792772
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In addition to its own wide-reaching monthly new releases, Naxos also distributes several leading labels in many countries around the world. Check out our monthly Distributed Label Highlights feature for a choice selection of recent releases from some of these distributed labels. |
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Artek AR-0058-2
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Capriccio C5117
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Dacapo 6.220623
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Arthaus Musik ACC-10212
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C Major 720504
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Opus Arte OABD7111D
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