Gabriel Schwabe on Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, and more cello masterworks restored Naxos Music 2026-09-25 | Gabriel Schwabe on Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, and more cello masterworks restored
Astor Piazzolla: Las cuatro estaciones porteñas: Primavera Porteña (Music Video) Naxos Music 2024-06-14 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #piazzolla100 Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) reimagined in concerto style for solo violin and string orchestra by Leonid Desyatnikov. The seven other companion pieces, arranged by Ken Selden, use printed sources for structure but incorporate improvisations transcribed from original recordings made by Piazzolla and his band. On this, his third Piazzolla album for Naxos, internationally recognised violinist Tomás Cotik pays homage to his birth city of Buenos Aires.Release date: April 2024BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8574308ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Marin Alsop & ORF Vienna: A Rhapsodic Journey with Margaret Brouwer Naxos Music 2024-06-13 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #brouwer #alsopMargaret Brouwer is a composer renowned for her music’s lyricism, imagery and emotional power. The five premiere recordings on this album span 24 years. Brouwer grew up in a Dutch/American community and her Symphony No. 1 “Lake Voices” encodes both a recurring Dutch hymn-like melody and the rhapsodic, sparkling sonorities of a lake vista. Rhapsody, Concerto for Orchestra provides dazzling sounds and virtuosic challenges, while Pluto, written during a period of loss, offers destructive but also restorative moments. Elsewhere, Brouwer evokes the beauties of nature and sailing at dawn.Release date: June 2024***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Nielsens Symphonies: A Celebration with Bernstein, Rattle, and More #teaser Naxos Music 2024-06-13 | The Royal Danish Orchestra’s performing history stretches back to 1448, making it the oldest orchestra in the world, with Carl Nielsen counted amongst its distinguished former members. His 16 years of experience as one of the orchestra’s second violinists helped shape him as a composer, and it was this ensemble that introduced his symphonies to the world. From the ‘imminent storm of genius’ of the First Symphony to the disarming outlandishness of the Sixth, Nielsen’s symphonies are recognised as among the greatest in their genre, heard here in recordings made with a league of conductors whose bond with Denmark and Nielsen’s music is second to none. BUY/STREAM: https://Naxos.lnk.to/857465053ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Celebrating 575 Years of the Royal Danish Orchestra - the Complete Nielsen Symphonies Naxos Music 2024-06-13 | The Royal Danish Orchestra’s performing history stretches back to 1448, making it the oldest orchestra in the world, with Carl Nielsen counted amongst its distinguished former members. His 16 years of experience as one of the orchestra’s second violinists helped shape him as a composer, and it was this ensemble that introduced his symphonies to the world. From the ‘imminent storm of genius’ of the First Symphony to the disarming outlandishness of the Sixth, Nielsen’s symphonies are recognised as among the greatest in their genre, heard here in recordings made with a league of conductors whose bond with Denmark and Nielsen’s music is second to none. Disc 1Symphony No. 1Thomas SøndergårdSymphony No. 2 The Four TemperamentsAlexander VedernikovDisc 2Symphony No. 3 Sinfonia EspansivaRuth Guldbæk, Soprano · Niels Møller, TenorLeonard BernsteinSymphony No. 4 The InextinguishableSir Simon RattleDisc 3Symphony No. 5Michael BoderSymphony No. 6 Sinfonia semplicePaavo BerglundBonus CDConcerto for Clarinet and OrchestraJohn Kruse, Clarinet, Alexander VedernikovOverture to MaskaradeMichael SchønwandtBUY/STREAM: https://Naxos.lnk.to/857465053ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Franz Clements virtuoso violin gems – 12 Caprices • Variations (Haoli Lin) Naxos Music 2024-06-13 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer Franz Clement was the first soloist to perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto – ‘nature and art vie with each other in making [Clement] a great artist’, wrote Beethoven. Clement was a Viennese-born virtuoso who composed his own influential violin concerto and a sequence of challenging works for solo violin. The Twelve Caprices were composed on the cusp of the Classical and Romantic eras and offer a lexicon of technical demands but also suave lyricism and imaginative writing. Clement brings his own wit and flair to the themes and variations on popular stage works of the time, which are interspersed throughout the programme.STREAM/BUY: naxos.lnk.to/8574497IDRelease date: June 2024***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Hila Plitmann captivates in Danielpours Songs of Love and Loss, No. 1. Exuberant Naxos Music 2024-06-11 | Richard Danielpour has collaborated frequently with soprano Hila Plitmann, and this album features three recent works, two of which were written specifically for her. The song cycles heard here are sung in three languages central to the composer’s life. Songs of Love and Loss is in Farsi and sets the poetry of Rumi; Canti Della Natura, in Italian, takes sonnets attributed to Vivaldi in The Four Seasons; while Songs of My Father is set to the English poems of Danielpour’s father. Each cycle features differing instrumentation and reflects Danielpour’s long-admired compositional subtlety and refinement.**Lyrics**Songs of Love and Loss Texts: Rumi (Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī) (1207–1273) [1] No. 1. Exuberant Rubiyat Dani ke che mi-gooyad een bang-e rabab Andar pey-eman biya-orah ra daryab Zira be khata rah bari sooye savab Zira be sal rah bari sooye javabListen while the music plays Can you hear what it has to say? Always searching you will go, Until the answer is yours to know. The road is clear for you to see The answer found that sets you free.Release date: June 2024BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8559946ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Paul Huang plays Toshio Hosokawa’s Violin Concerto Genesis (Residentie Orkest The Hague) Naxos Music 2024-06-11 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #hosokawaToshio Hosokawa is Japan’s leading living composer. This fourth volume in the series of his orchestral works, during which he was present for all recording sessions, contains two concertos and two works for orchestra. The Trumpet Concerto ‘Im Nebel’, which draws its inspiration from Herman Hesse’s poem, conjures up a vision of man and nature, in which the trumpet slowly and magically melts into the orchestral mist. Inspired by a birth, Violin Concerto ‘Genesis’ again places the soloist as the human protagonist in a universal drama of finding harmony through conflict. Sakura is one of Japan’s best-loved songs, arranged by Hosokawa for orchestra, and Uzu displays unique orchestral sonorities.Release date: June 2024***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
VOX Classics – NEW RELEASES – Jerzy Semkow conducts Wagners Presludes and Overtures (July 2024) Naxos Music 2024-06-11 | This sequence of Wagner’s preludes and overtures ranges across his compositional output, from Rienzi, his first distinctive opera, through the stirring Prelude to Act I of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre, to his last work, Parsifal from which we hear the Good Friday Music. They are performed by the St. Louis Symphony under the Polish conductor Jerzy Semkow who was the orchestra’s music director from 1975 to 1979.The Elite Recordings for Vox by legendary producers Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to be amongst the finest sounding examples of orchestral recordings. ***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Unveiling Mozarts Salzburg Masterpieces: A Sneak Peek with Christoph Poppen #teaser Naxos Music 2024-06-09 | The third volume of Mozart’s Masses focuses on works written in Salzburg when the composer was in his late teens and early twenties. The Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis, a bright celebratory work, is the only Mass setting without soloists that Mozart composed. The Missa Brevis in D major is a compact, economic setting conforming to the Archbishop’s dictates for shorter works. Its companion, the Missa Brevis in B flat major, though keenly responsive and beautiful, upset church musicians because it utilised a Parisian gavotte in the ‘Dona nobis pacem’ and ended Mozart’s employment on a provocative note. Volume 1 in the series is on 8.574270, Volume 2 is on 8.574417.BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8574514IDRelease date: June 2024***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
World Premiere Recording: Fabrice Bollons The Folly Brings Erasmuss Legacy to Life #teaser Naxos Music 2024-06-08 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #operaDrawing on historical texts, Fabrice Bollon’s opera The Folly focuses on Erasmus of Rotterdam, the influential Renaissance reformer, cosmopolitan humanist and intellectual, who, in old age, reflects on the events of his life. Past and present converge as fictional figures from his books or real-life antagonists appear in much the same way as Bollon merges periods through his creative use of several 16th-century compositions. Set in an age of polarised extremism that reflects our own times, Erasmus’s humanism requires vigilance, defence and reinvention.Release date: June 2024STREAM/BUY: naxos.lnk.to/866054546ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Astor Piazzolla: Las cuatro estaciones porteñas: Invierno Porteño (Music Video) Naxos Music 2024-06-07 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #piazzolla100 Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) reimagined in concerto style for solo violin and string orchestra by Leonid Desyatnikov. The seven other companion pieces, arranged by Ken Selden, use printed sources for structure but incorporate improvisations transcribed from original recordings made by Piazzolla and his band. On this, his third Piazzolla album for Naxos, internationally recognised violinist Tomás Cotik pays homage to his birth city of Buenos Aires.Release date: April 2024BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8574308ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Poetic performance of Carlo Albanesis Six Romances Without Words #musicvideo Naxos Music 2024-06-07 | The Italian composer, Carlo Albanesi, moved to London in 1882 where he successfully balanced a career as a piano soloist with that of professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music. The majority of Albanesi’s compositional output was for solo piano and his pedagogical publications are still in use by students today. His narrative and lyrical style is apparent in both the Six Romances without Words and the improvisatory Album Leaves, while the antique dances in the Piano Suite show the influence of Grieg. The sonatas are considered the quintessence of Albanesi’s oeuvre, and his last, the Sixth Sonata, contains an entire world of expressive nuance. Acclaimed pianist Julia Severus continues her survey of works by an unjustly forgotten composer pianist who was held in the highest esteem by colleagues, students and audiences alike.BUY/STREAM: https://GrandPiano.lnk.to/GP925IDRelease Date: June 2024***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Minas Gerais Philharmonic presents Lorenzo Fernandezs symphonic works (Fabio Mechetti) #teaser Naxos Music 2024-06-03 | Restless and dynamic by nature, Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez was a key figure in the cultural life of Rio de Janeiro, founding numerous influential musical institutions both journalistic and educational. He gained international fame for the primordial power of Batuque, the final dance movement of his Afro-Brazilian influenced Reisado do Pastoreio suite. Without ever abandoning his Brazilian roots, in his later career Lorenzo Fernandez moved away from explicit nationalism towards a more universalist idiom as can be heard in the vigorously themed and atmospheric First Symphony of 1945 and the programmatic Second Symphony, inspired by the life and death of the heroic 17th-century explorer Fernão Dias Paes Leme. #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer ***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
[CC] Fabrice Bollon revives Erasmus of Rotterdams Legacy in The Folly opera [premiere recording] Naxos Music 2024-06-03 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #operaDrawing on historical texts, Fabrice Bollon’s opera The Folly focuses on Erasmus of Rotterdam, the influential Renaissance reformer, cosmopolitan humanist and intellectual, who, in old age, reflects on the events of his life. Past and present converge as fictional figures from his books or real-life antagonists appear in much the same way as Bollon merges periods through his creative use of several 16th-century compositions. Set in an age of polarised extremism that reflects our own times, Erasmus’s humanism requires vigilance, defence and reinvention.Release date: June 2024STREAM/BUY: naxos.lnk.to/866054546ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
New Releases on Naxos: June 2024 Highlights Naxos Music 2024-06-02 | The June NEW ON NAXOS features Margaret Brouwer’s orchestral works with Marin Alsop directing the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Renowned for her lyricism, this programme features Brouwer’s Symphony No. 1 “Lake Voices”, the dazzling sounds and virtuosic challenges of the Rhapsody, Concerto for Orchestra and Pluto, a piece written during a period of loss, with its destructive but also restorative moments. ‘Brouwer’s musical language – tonal with deft sprinklings of harmonic spice – draws the instruments into ardent and wistful conversations’ (Gramophone on 8.559904).Some of our other highlights from a treasure trove of new titles include the world premiere recording of Fabrice Bollon’s opera The Folly; the 12th and penultimate volume of Ferrucio Busoni’s Piano Music series; the third instalment in our series of Mozart Complete Masses ; the first of the three-volume series of Carl Teike’s Marches; and more.***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Astor Piazzolla: Las cuatro estaciones porteñas: Otoño Porteño (Music Video) Naxos Music 2024-05-31 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #piazzolla100 Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) reimagined in concerto style for solo violin and string orchestra by Leonid Desyatnikov. The seven other companion pieces, arranged by Ken Selden, use printed sources for structure but incorporate improvisations transcribed from original recordings made by Piazzolla and his band. On this, his third Piazzolla album for Naxos, internationally recognised violinist Tomás Cotik pays homage to his birth city of Buenos Aires.Release date: April 2024BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8574308ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
[CC] Christoph Poppen explores Mozarts Salzburg Masses [Mozart Complete Masses Vol. 3] Naxos Music 2024-05-28 | The third volume of Mozart’s Masses focuses on works written in Salzburg when the composer was in his late teens and early twenties. The Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis, a bright celebratory work, is the only Mass setting without soloists that Mozart composed. The Missa Brevis in D major is a compact, economic setting conforming to the Archbishop’s dictates for shorter works. Its companion, the Missa Brevis in B flat major, though keenly responsive and beautiful, upset church musicians because it utilised a Parisian gavotte in the ‘Dona nobis pacem’ and ended Mozart’s employment on a provocative note. Volume 1 in the series is on 8.574270, Volume 2 is on 8.574417.BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8574514IDRelease date: June 2024***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
JoAnn Falletta conduts works by Lukas Foss Naxos Music 2024-05-27 | Berlin-born Lukas Foss studied music in Paris before settling in Philadelphia in 1937. Though he freely explored diverse compositional styles, three of the works in this recording fall into his early neoClassical period and exemplify his dictum that “to have a big foot in the future, you’ve got to have a big foot in the past.” Symphony No. 1 in G major is lyrical, bucolic and subtly jazz influenced, while the Three American Pieces show Aaron Copland’s “open air” influence. Foss’s Ode expresses his feelings about the loss of American lives during the Second World War, and Renaissance Concerto is a “handshake across the centuries” ingeniously spiced with unexpected harmonic twists.BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8559938IDRelease date: May 2024***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
VOX Classics – NEW RELEASES – Works by Rimsky-Korsakov and Smetana (June 2024) Naxos Music 2024-05-25 | The GRAMMY-winning St. Louis Symphony Orchestra performs Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's popular Scheherazade, with Jerzy Semkow conducting and violinist Max Rabinovitsj as the soloist. The recording also includes overture and dances from Bedřich Smetana's The Bartered Bride, conducted by Walter Susskind.***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Naxos 24/7 Classical Radio Naxos Music 2024-05-24 | ***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
moods Radio 24/7 Naxos Music 2024-05-24 | Naxos Moods is an ecosystem of playlists curated by experts and musicologists to complement the wide range of feelings and activities people experience every day, with an emphasis on stress alleviation, relaxation, and inspiration. Naxos' breadth of musical knowledge and programming expertise, combined with its extensive catalog of classical, world & jazz music, creates top-notch listening experiences for users via a wide array of mood-themed playlists.Discover Naxos Moods today!moods.naxos.com***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Astor Piazzolla: Soledad (Tomás Cotik • Martingale Ensemble • Ken Selden) (music video) Naxos Music 2024-05-24 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #piazzolla100 Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) reimagined in concerto style for solo violin and string orchestra by Leonid Desyatnikov. The seven other companion pieces, arranged by Ken Selden, use printed sources for structure but incorporate improvisations transcribed from original recordings made by Piazzolla and his band. On this, his third Piazzolla album for Naxos, internationally recognised violinist Tomás Cotik pays homage to his birth city of Buenos Aires.Release date: April 2024BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8574308ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Marin Alsop conducts Margaret Brouwers Rhapsodies (ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra) Naxos Music 2024-05-22 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #brouwer #alsopMargaret Brouwer is a composer renowned for her music’s lyricism, imagery and emotional power. The five premiere recordings on this album span 24 years. Brouwer grew up in a Dutch/American community and her Symphony No. 1 “Lake Voices” encodes both a recurring Dutch hymn-like melody and the rhapsodic, sparkling sonorities of a lake vista. Rhapsody, Concerto for Orchestra provides dazzling sounds and virtuosic challenges, while Pluto, written during a period of loss, offers destructive but also restorative moments. Elsewhere, Brouwer evokes the beauties of nature and sailing at dawn.Release date: June 2024***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung #teaser Naxos Music 2024-05-20 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #naxosaudiovisual #wagner DER RING DES NIBELUNGENThird DayGÖTTERDÄMMERUNGLibretto by Richard Wagner“Götterdämmerung” (‘Twilight of the Gods’) is the final opera of Wagner’s epic tetralogy “Der Ring des Nibelungen” (‘The Ring of the Nibelung’) in which his visionary masterpiece reaches its cataclysmic conclusion. Betrayal and death, murder and remorse, lie at the opera’s heart, in a work that draws together every plot element in writing of blazing intensity. As the Ring is restored to the Rhinemaidens, the age of the gods ends, with the opera offering the certainty of destruction but the consolation of renewal. Sir Donald Runnicles conducts an internationally acclaimed cast in this innovative new production by Norwegian director Stefan Herheim.Siegfried – Clay Hilley, tenorGunther – Thomas Lehman, baritoneAlberich – Jordan Shanahan, baritoneHagen – Albert Pesendorfer, bassBrünnhilde – Nina Stemme, sopranoGutrune – Aile Asszonyi, sopranoWaltraute – Okka von der Damerau, mezzo-sopranoOrchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper BerlinConductor – Sir Donald RunniclesStage Director – Stefan HerheimSet Designers – Silke Bauer, Stefan HerheimCostume Designer – Uta HeisekeLighting Designer – Ulrich NiepelVideo Projection – Torge MøllerDramaturgy – Alexander Meier-Dörzenbach, Jörg KönigsdorfEXTRA FEATURESA ‘Making Of’ documentary including interviews with Stefan Herheim, Sir Donald Runnicles and behind the scenes footage, and interviews with members of Funding Wagner – The Ring Circle of the Deutsche Oper BerlinFilm Director – Götz FileniusFilmed on 14 and 21 November 2021 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, GermanyA production by Naxos and Deutsche Oper Berlin, in cooperation with RBB, in association with NRK and Marquee TVDVD 2.110745-46 / Blu-ray NBD0160V***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
VOX Classics – NEW RELEASES – Grant Johannesen plays Grieg (June 2024) Naxos Music 2024-05-18 | Legendary conductor Maurice Abravanel led the Utah Symphony Orchestra in a performance of works by Edvard Grieg, including Two Lyric Pieces, Old Norwegian Melody with Variations and In Autumn. The album also features the Piano Concerto in A minor, performed by distinguished pianist Grant Johannesen. These recordings have been widely admired since their first appearance, appealing both to the nostalgic and the inquisitive amongst discerning collectors.***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Astor Piazzolla: Mumuki (Tomás Cotik • Martingale Ensemble • Ken Selden) (music video) Naxos Music 2024-05-17 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #piazzolla100 Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) reimagined in concerto style for solo violin and string orchestra by Leonid Desyatnikov. The seven other companion pieces, arranged by Ken Selden, use printed sources for structure but incorporate improvisations transcribed from original recordings made by Piazzolla and his band. On this, his third Piazzolla album for Naxos, internationally recognised violinist Tomás Cotik pays homage to his birth city of Buenos Aires.Release date: April 2024BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8574308ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Quartetto Adorno presents Castelnuovo-Tedescos Complete String Quartets Naxos Music 2024-05-17 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #castelnuovotedescoMario Castelnuovo-Tedesco began to focus on chamber music composition during the late 1920s. From this period comes the String Quartet No. 1 in G major, which offers a countryside panorama with rustic serenades and processional themes reminiscent of a village festival. Returning to a much-changed Italy after the Second World War inevitably generated mixed feelings in the composer – the String Quartet No. 2 in F minor reflects these through dissonance and restlessness, though dancing rhythms sound notes of optimism. His final quartet, No. 3 in F major ‘Casa al Dono’, is an effortless fantasia, animated and in part ecclesiastical, which was inspired by memories of his homeland and the friendships he had enjoyed.Release date: June 2024***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Songs by Richard Danielpour (Hila Plitmann, The Iranshahr Orchestra, Shahab Paranj) Naxos Music 2024-05-17 | Richard Danielpour has collaborated frequently with soprano Hila Plitmann, and this album features three recent works, two of which were written specifically for her. The song cycles heard here are sung in three languages central to the composer’s life. Songs of Love and Loss is in Farsi and sets the poetry of Rumi; Canti Della Natura, in Italian, takes sonnets attributed to Vivaldi in The Four Seasons; while Songs of My Father is set to the English poems of Danielpour’s father. Each cycle features differing instrumentation and reflects Danielpour’s long-admired compositional subtlety and refinement.Release date: June 2024***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Fabio Banegas plays José Antonio Bottirolis Allegro II in F Major, B88 Naxos Music 2024-05-16 | The third volume in the series of JOSÉ ANTONIO BOTTIROLI’s complete solo piano music reflects once again his immersion in late Romanticism allied to the resources of impressionism. Although these world premiere recordings focus on Bottiroli’s elegiacal works – laments in tribute to the memory of his loved ones – they also include pieces with the free musical structure of a ‘fantasy’ and those with the more rigorous demarcation of theme and variation. In the Mircrofilms he even offers us imaginary cinematic pieces. Fabio Banegas is not only Bottiroli’s protégé but has also catalogued the composer’s complete works.***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Hyejin Chung and Warren Lee perform Violin Sonatas by Robert Fuchs Naxos Music 2024-05-13 | Not only was Robert Fuchs an admired friend of Brahms but he nurtured a prodigious number of pupils, among whom were Enescu, Korngold, Mahler, Wolf, and Sibelius who called Fuchs ‘a clever orchestrator, professional to his fingertips, and very happy as a composer’. The three Violin Sonatas, composed over a 24-year period between 1877 and 1901, exemplify Fuchs’ superbly crafted and melodious grace, with soaring Romanticism spiced with occasional Hungarian colour, folkloric themes and vivacious finales.Buy / Stream: naxos.lnk.to/8574213IDViolin Sonatas Nos. 4-6Watch: youtu.be/fqqZGu9RDh4BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8574547IDWatch more interviews and trailers: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSlaa29EQHJ-phacaN8lWVL_AtOXV_zna***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Jun Märkl conducts Toshio Hosokawa (Residentie Orkest The Hague, Paul Huang, Jeroen Berwaerts) Naxos Music 2024-05-13 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #hosokawaToshio Hosokawa is Japan’s leading living composer. This fourth volume in the series of his orchestral works, during which he was present for all recording sessions, contains two concertos and two works for orchestra. The Trumpet Concerto ‘Im Nebel’, which draws its inspiration from Herman Hesse’s poem, conjures up a vision of man and nature, in which the trumpet slowly and magically melts into the orchestral mist. Inspired by a birth, Violin Concerto ‘Genesis’ again places the soloist as the human protagonist in a universal drama of finding harmony through conflict. Sakura is one of Japan’s best-loved songs, arranged by Hosokawa for orchestra, and Uzu displays unique orchestral sonorities.Release date: June 2024***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Duo YUMENO presents Heike Quinto by Daron Hagen #teaser #shorts Naxos Music 2024-05-11 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #hagen Daron Hagen is a multi-award-winning creative polymath whose work is internationally acclaimed for its impeccable craftsmanship, social conscience and emotional accessibility. Embracing the Japanese medieval text The Tale of the Heike, Hagen has brought his musical vision as an opera composer to create in Heike Quinto a work that is as grand and emotionally complex as the original on which it is based. Themed around the Buddhist law of impermanence, the story is told through its female protagonists. The unique combination of cello and Japanese koto is layered with a wide variety of vocal textures and effects alongside pre-recorded material helping to create a compelling and expressive narrative.BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8559914IDRelease date: May 2024***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Astor Piazzolla: Resurrección del Ángel (Tomás Cotik • Martingale Ensemble • Ken Selden) Naxos Music 2024-05-10 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #piazzolla100 Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) reimagined in concerto style for solo violin and string orchestra by Leonid Desyatnikov. The seven other companion pieces, arranged by Ken Selden, use printed sources for structure but incorporate improvisations transcribed from original recordings made by Piazzolla and his band. On this, his third Piazzolla album for Naxos, internationally recognised violinist Tomás Cotik pays homage to his birth city of Buenos Aires.Release date: April 2024BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8574308ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Fabio Banegas plays José Antonio Bottirolis Allegro I in F Major, B88 Naxos Music 2024-05-09 | The third volume in the series of JOSÉ ANTONIO BOTTIROLI’s complete solo piano music reflects once again his immersion in late Romanticism allied to the resources of impressionism. Although these world premiere recordings focus on Bottiroli’s elegiacal works – laments in tribute to the memory of his loved ones – they also include pieces with the free musical structure of a ‘fantasy’ and those with the more rigorous demarcation of theme and variation. In the Mircrofilms he even offers us imaginary cinematic pieces. Fabio Banegas is not only Bottiroli’s protégé but has also catalogued the composer’s complete works.***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Rued Langgaard – Antikrist (Ersan Mondtag / Deutsche Oper Berlin) Naxos Music 2024-05-07 | Church opera in two acts and six scenes, BVN 192 (1921–23, rev. 1926–30)Libretto by the composerSung in GermanRued Langgaard’s remarkable opera Antikrist confronts the decline and fall of Western civilisation, critiquing modern lifestyles and ways of thinking, which resonates with our times more than ever before. Never performed in the composer’s lifetime, Antikrist blends Romantic and contemporary styles to create a score that is both seductive and opulent, while the lack of a conventional plot creates space for an ironic and sarcastic exposé of contemporary civilisation’s weaknesses. This spectacular Deutsche Oper Berlin production was acclaimed in The New York Times as a ‘riotously colourful, boldly stylised staging [in] a near-breathless swirl’.Lucifer – Thomas LehmanThe Voice of God – Jonas Grundner-CulemannThe Air of Mystery – Irene RobertsThe Echo of The Air of Mystery – Valeriia SavinskaiaThe Mouth Speaking Great Words – Clemens BieberDespondency – Maire Therese CarmackThe Great Whore – Flurina StuckiThe Scarlet Beast – Aj GlueckertThe Lie – Andrew DickinsonHate – Joel AllisonOpera Ballet of the Deutsche Oper BerlinChorus and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinChorus Master – Jeremy BinesConductor – Stephan ZiliasStage Director and Set Designer – Ersan MondtagCostume Designers – Ersan Mondtag and Annika LuLighting Designer – Rainer CasperChoreographer – Rob FordeynFilm Director – Götz FileniusFilmed on 10 and 12 February 2023 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, GermanyA Deutsche Oper Berlin production in association with NaxosDVD 2.110764 / Blu-ray NBD0176V***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Astor Piazzolla: Chin Chin (Tomás Cotik • Martingale Ensemble • Ken Selden) (music video) Naxos Music 2024-05-03 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #piazzolla100 Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) reimagined in concerto style for solo violin and string orchestra by Leonid Desyatnikov. The seven other companion pieces, arranged by Ken Selden, use printed sources for structure but incorporate improvisations transcribed from original recordings made by Piazzolla and his band. On this, his third Piazzolla album for Naxos, internationally recognised violinist Tomás Cotik pays homage to his birth city of Buenos Aires.Release date: April 2024BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8574308ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Billy Arcila: Just Passing By Naxos Music 2024-05-02 | Billy Arcila, raised in Medellín, Colombia, has lived in the United States for over 40 years, where he teaches and performs as one of California’s foremost guitarists. This album, the first to be made of Arcila’s music, contains works ranging across his entire compositional life, from his first published work to the most recent. Interspersed with the music of other admired composers which exploit nationalist elements, such as the bambuco and pasillo rhythms, Arcila’s autobiographical guitar music embraces the nostalgic, the verdant and the vibrant.naxos.com/CatalogueDetail/?id=8.574488***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Robert Fuchs Violin Sonatas: A Conversation with Hyejin Chung and Warren Lee Naxos Music 2024-05-02 | Eminent composer and revered teacher, Robert Fuchs, was an established part of Vienna’s musical landscape. His six violin sonatas fuse lyricism with conversational ease and chromatic harmonies with folk-derived melodies. This second volume of the complete set (Volume 1 is on 8.574213) charts a decade’s worth of composition, from 1905 to 1915. No. 4 in E major is hymn-like, while No. 5 in A major is playful and deeply lyrical. His final violin sonata No. 6 in G minor, is sombre with a nervous energy reflective of the time of its composition, though still, as always, exuding Brahmsian richness and beauty.Release date: May 2024Robert FUCHS (1847-1927) Violin SonatasNos. 4-6BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8574547IDNos. 1-3Video: youtu.be/IYlQnv-lt8gBUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8574213ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
New Releases on Naxos: May 2024 Highlights Naxos Music 2024-05-02 | The May NEW ON NAXOS features Lukas Foss’ orchestral works presented by multiple GRAMMY-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. The programme includes the lyrical, bucolic and subtly jazz-influenced Symphony No. 1; the Three American Pieces, which was composed for Itzhak Perlman; Ode, composed around D-Day in memory of those who would not return from the war;, and the Renaissance Concerto described as a ‘handshake across the centuries.’Other highlights include Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera L’Africaine – Vasco da Gama featuring tenor Michael Spyres in the title role; Vol. 62 in Franz Liszt’s Complete Piano Music series presented by Martin Cousin; Duo YUMENO presenting Daron Aric Hagen’s Heike Quinto; and more.For more details, please visit: naxos.com/FeaturePages/Details/?id=New_on_Naxos_May_2024***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Billy Arcila: Daao Phræw (Glimmering Star) Naxos Music 2024-05-01 | Billy Arcila, raised in Medellín, Colombia, has lived in the United States for over 40 years, where he teaches and performs as one of California’s foremost guitarists. This album, the first to be made of Arcila’s music, contains works ranging across his entire compositional life, from his first published work to the most recent. Interspersed with the music of other admired composers which exploit nationalist elements, such as the bambuco and pasillo rhythms, Arcila’s autobiographical guitar music embraces the nostalgic, the verdant and the vibrant.***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
VOX Classics – NEW RELEASES – Leonard Slatkin conducts Rachmaninovs Orchestral works (May 2024) Naxos Music 2024-04-28 | RRachmaninov’s final work – and the only one composed fully in the United States – was the Symphonic Dances. It embraces jazz elements and ecstatic expressiveness and is both a valediction and a summation of his creativity. The Isle of the Dead is a lamentation utilizing a variant of the Dies irae – it is a stirring, transformative work that begins and ends in stillness. The early Caprice ohémien and Scherzo in D minor complete this programme of Leonard Slatkin’s admired achmaninov recordings on VOX, heard here newly remastered from the original tapes. The Elite Recordings for VOX by legendary producers Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to be amongst the finestsounding examples of orchestral recordings.BUY/STREAM: https://Naxos.lnk.to/VOXNX3042CDID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Astor Piazzolla: Las cuatro estaciones porteñas: Verano Porteño (Music Video) Naxos Music 2024-04-26 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #piazzolla100 Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) reimagined in concerto style for solo violin and string orchestra by Leonid Desyatnikov. The seven other companion pieces, arranged by Ken Selden, use printed sources for structure but incorporate improvisations transcribed from original recordings made by Piazzolla and his band. On this, his third Piazzolla album for Naxos, internationally recognised violinist Tomás Cotik pays homage to his birth city of Buenos Aires.Release date: April 2024BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8574308ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
VOX Classics – NEW RELEASES – Maurice Abravanel conducts Griegs Orchestral works (May 2024) Naxos Music 2024-04-26 | Edvard Grieg already had the renowned Piano Concerto and Sigurd Jorsalfar behind him when he was commissioned to write incidental music for astaged version of Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt. This resulted in some of Grieg’s most famous music, from the Norwegian trolls and hobgoblins ofIn the Hall of the Mountain King to the movingly simple Solveig’s Song. The suite From Holberg’s Time takes us back to Baroque style and traditionswith irresistible melodic charm. Wedding Day at Troldhaugen was a wedding anniversary present for Nina, Grieg’s wife, and the sprightly NorwegianDances are a precursor to the larger-scale Symphonic Dances (available on VOX-NX-3038CD). These classic VOX recordings by Maurice Abravanel andthe Utah Symphony Orchestra were originally issued in 1976 and have been newly remastered from the original tapes.The Elite Recordings for VOX by legendary producers Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to be amongst the finestsounding examples of orchestral recordings.BUY/STREAM: https://Naxos.lnk.to/VOXNX3039CDID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
A Documentary by violinist Tomás Cotik Piazzollas Immigrant Story, Style and Sound Effect Naxos Music 2024-04-26 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #piazzolla100 Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) reimagined in concerto style for solo violin and string orchestra by Leonid Desyatnikov. The seven other companion pieces, arranged by Ken Selden, use printed sources for structure but incorporate improvisations transcribed from original recordings made by Piazzolla and his band. On this, his third Piazzolla album for Naxos, internationally recognised violinist Tomás Cotik pays homage to his birth city of Buenos Aires.Release date: April 2024BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8574308ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Minas Gerais Philharmonic presents Lorenzo Fernandezs symphonic works (Fabio Mechetti) Naxos Music 2024-04-24 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer Release date: June 2024***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Astor Piazzolla: Suite Troileana – II. Zita (Tomás Cotik • Martingale Ensemble • Ken Selden) Naxos Music 2024-04-21 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #piazzolla100 Astor Piazzolla’s Nuevo tango transcends categories and represents an amalgam of international influences. All the arrangements in this album are of instrumental works that Piazzolla composed for his Quinteto Nuevo Tango. Most prominent is the Vivaldi-inspired Las cuatro estaciones porteñas (‘The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’) reimagined in concerto style for solo violin and string orchestra by Leonid Desyatnikov. The seven other companion pieces, arranged by Ken Selden, use printed sources for structure but incorporate improvisations transcribed from original recordings made by Piazzolla and his band. On this, his third Piazzolla album for Naxos, internationally recognised violinist Tomás Cotik pays homage to his birth city of Buenos Aires.Release date: April 2024BUY/STREAM: naxos.lnk.to/8574308ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
FUČÍK: Elbtalgruss, Marsch (Greetings to the Elbe Valley) [Czech Chamber PO Pardubice, Marek Štilec] Naxos Music 2024-04-16 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailerJulius Fučík studied composition under Dvořák at the Prague Conservatory but was soon to emerge as one of the great ‘march kings’ of his time. He gained worldwide fame for his immortal Entry of the Gladiators, but after the composer’s death in 1916 his music collection was acrimoniously broken up by his family, with many scores subsequently lost. Half the contents of this album come from handwritten manuscripts preserved in Prague that have no known printed parts. Painstaking editorial work has been carried out allowing us to hear the full range of Fučík’s works in these premiere recordings.Release date: April 2024BUY/STREAM: https://Naxos.lnk.to/8225381ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Duo YUMENO presents Heike Quinto by Daron Hagen Naxos Music 2024-04-16 | #naxosmusic #classicalmusic #trailer #hagen Daron Hagen is a multi-award-winning creative polymath whose work is internationally acclaimed for its impeccable craftsmanship, social conscience and emotional accessibility. Embracing the Japanese medieval text The Tale of the Heike, Hagen has brought his musical vision as an opera composer to create in Heike Quinto a work that is as grand and emotionally complex as the original on which it is based. Themed around the Buddhist law of impermanence, the story is told through its female protagonists. The unique combination of cello and Japanese koto is layered with a wide variety of vocal textures and effects alongside pre-recorded material helping to create a compelling and expressive narrative.Release date: May 2024***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
Donizetti: LA FAVORITE (Donizetti Opera, Frizza, Stroppa, Camarena, Sempey) #teaser Naxos Music 2024-04-15 | Written for the Opéra in Paris, Gaetano Donizetti’s La Favorite contains some of his most famously enthralling arias. While its much-reduced Italian version has continued in popularity, this superb production from the Donizetti Opera Festival in his birthplace of Bergamo returns the work to its rarely heard 1840 French grand opera origins. Set in 14th-century Spain, the tragic story is of a pious novice (Fernand) who falls in love with a noble lady and abandons the cloister, meeting her in secret. He becomes a war hero and asks the King for her hand, later finding out to his horror that she is Léonor de Guzman, the King’s beloved mistress.Release date: April 2024BUY/STREAM: https://Naxos.lnk.to/866054951ID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
VOX Classics – NEW RELEASES – Maurice Abravanel conducts Griegs Orchestral works (April 2024) Naxos Music 2024-04-13 | A native of Bergen, Edvard Grieg almost single-handedly brought the riches of Norwegian national style to worldwide attention during the 19th century with the use of folk music in his compositions. The ambitiously scaled Symphonic Dances features a compelling selection of regional melodies and jaunty rhythms to brilliant effect. Music from the eloquent drama of Sigurd Jorsalfar and the Two Elegiac Melodies are also included along with the Bridal Procession and the ever-popular Lyric Suite. These classic Voxrecordings by Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony Orchestra were originally issued in 1976 and have been newly remastered from the original tapes.The Elite Recordings for VOX by legendary producers Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz are considered by audiophiles to beamongst the finest sounding examples of orchestral recordings.BUY/STREAM: https://Naxos.lnk.to/VOXNX3038CDID***Listen to Naxos playlists: Spotify: open.spotify.com/user/naxosofficialApple Music: apple.co/2LPfG8G Follow us: Facebook: facebook.com/NaxosInstagram: instagram.com/naxosmusicTwitter: twitter.com/NaxosrecordsNaxos Blog: blog.naxos.comWebsite: naxos.com
