Newsletter 169  
December 2009  

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Album of the Month


8.572469 MANNING The Manchester Carols
The Manchester Carollers • Northern Chamber Orchestra
Richard Tanner, conductor

This new sequence of Christmas carols was written in 2007 by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy and composer Sasha Johnson Manning, and premiered in the same year. The Manchester Carols re-tell the Christmas Story for the 21st Century, celebrating a child’s birth and all that child was to become: a man who lived by a humble, selfless creed, championing the marginalised in a society which was, as it is now, fraught with political tensions. These carols are for everybody, the believer and the non-believer, people of other faiths and everyone wishing to join in the Christmas celebrations.

See all Naxos new releases for December 2009

Preview Naxos new releases for January 2010


Naxos Digital Releases


Alongside our unparalleled range of monthly new CD and DVD releases, Naxos also releases a marvellous selection of digital albums. For more information about this month’s digital titles and to purchase them from ClassicsOnline, please click on the album covers or titles below.
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8.572376 BARTOK Piano Music Vol 6 - The First Term at the Piano, 4 Piano Pieces, Petits morceaux, 2 Elegies
Jeno Jando

8.572377 BEETHOVEN Complete String Trios Vol 2
Attila Falvay, violin • Janos Fejervari, viola • Gyorgy Eder, cello

8.572368 BOCCHERINI 6 Cello Sonatas
Fedor Amosov, cello • Jen-Ru Sun, piano

8.579002 CASABLANCAS The Dark Backward of Time,
Postludi, Poema da amor, 3 Epigrames

Ofelia Sala, soprano • Barcelona Symphony Orchestra
Salvador Mas-Conde, conductor

8.559650 Awakenings Chamber Music with Guitar
by KERNIS, LIDERMAN, MACKEY

David Tanenbaum, guitar • Hila Plitmann, soprano • Axel Strauss, violin
Aaron Jay Kernis, piano • Cuarteto Latinoamericano
San Francisco Conservatory Guitar Ensemble

8.572120 ENESCU Piano Sonata No 1, Suite No 2
Matei Varga

8.570135 GUERRA MANUSCRIPT Vol 1
Isabel Monar, soprano • Manuel Vilas, Spanish baroque harp

8.572192 HONEGGER Complete Violin Sonatas
Laurence Kayaleh, violin • Paul Stewart, piano

8.559385 HOVHANESS Symphonies Nos 7, 14 & 23
Trinity College of Music Wind Orchestra • Keith Brion, conductor

8.559626 LENTINI Orchestra Hall Suite, El Signo del Angel,
5 Pieces, Scenes from Sedona , Montage

Geoffrey Applegate, violin • James VanValkenburg, viola
Marcy Chanteaux, viola • Paul Ganson, bassoon •
Jacklyn Davis
Velvet Brown • Harvey Thurmer

8.572210 MARGARITIS Youth, Piano Sonatina, Verses, 2 Greek Pastorals / PETYREK 6 Greek Rhapsodies
Apostolos Palios

8.572331 PIAZZOLLA Best Tangos
Aquiles Delle-Vigne, piano

8.559661 POST String Quartets Nos 2, 3 & 4,
Fantasia on a Virtual Choral

Hawthorne String Quartet

8.570964 SAINT-SAENS Clarinet Sonata, Oboe Sonata,
Bassoon Sonata, Caprice sur des airs danois et russes

National Arts Centre Wind Quintet • Stephane Lemelin, piano

8.572107 SCARLATTI Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol 13
Chu-Fang Huang, piano

8.572347 TOURNEMIRE The Songs of Sainte Clotilde
Michael Bundy, baritone • Helen Crayford, piano

8.559659 WALKER Chamber Music - String Quartet No 2,
Poem, Modus, Songs

Son Sonora String Quartet • George Walker, piano

8.572280 WEINBERG Complete Solo Cello Music Vol 1
- 24 Preludes, Cello Solo Sonata No 1

Josef Feigelson

8.572281 WEINBERG Complete Solo Cello Music Vol 2
- Cello Solo Sonatas Nos 2-4

Josef Feigelson


Most Streamed Tracks November 2009 & Recommended Listening

1.

MOZART Piano Concerto No 12 in A major – Allegro
from the album MOZART Piano Concertos Nos 12, 13 & 14
(version for piano and string quartet)
Blocker, Biava Quartet
8.557881

 

  You may also enjoy:
A Musical Journey - NORTHERN ITALY AND SICILY
with Mozart Symphonies Nos 25 & 41
Capella Istropolitana, Wordsworth
Naxos DVD 2.110251

2.

BRIDGE Miniatures for piano trio Set 3 No 8 - Hornpipe
From the album BRIDGE Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2,
Miniatures for piano trio
Liebeck, Chaushian, Wass
8.570792

 

  You may also enjoy:
GADE Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3
Borup, Conner
8.570524

3.

HAYDN String Quartet Op 76 No 4 ‘Sunrise’
- Allegro con spirit

from the album HAYDN String Quartets Op 76 Nos 4- 6
Kodaly Quartet
8.550315

 

  You may also enjoy:
BEETHOVEN Complete String Trios Vol 2 - Op 9
Falvay, Fejervari, Eder
8.572377

4.

SCHUBERT Erlkonig
from the album SCHUBERT Lieder
Jansson, Persson
8.554208

 

  You may also enjoy:
FANNY MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL Lieder Vol 1
- Opp 1, 7 & 10

Craxton, Dorn
8.570981

5.

MACHAUT La Messe de Nostre Dame – Gloria
from the album MACHAUT La Messe de Nostre Dame,
Le Voir Dit
8.553833

 

  You may also enjoy:
SEIZED BY SWEET DESIRE – Singing Nuns and Ladies, From the Cathedral to the Bed Chamber
Musica Ficta, Holten
8.572265



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