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N E W R E L E A S E S • J U N E 2 0 0 0 CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY • AMERICAN CLASSICS 8.559008 – SRP: $6.99 John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) Vol. 1: “On Stage” The Bride Elect • El Capitan • Our Flirtations Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra Playing Time: 60:42 8.559024– SRP: $6.99 Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 The School for Scandal Overture, Op.5 – Symphony No. 1, Op.9 – First Essay for Orchestra, Op.12 – Symphony No.2, Op.19 Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Marin Alsop • Playing Time: 69:47 “Everything is presented with affection and gusto by an ensemble who clearly demonstrate that you don’t have to be a Yank to play this music with spirit and good humor.” –American Record Guide 8.559003 – SRP: $6.99 Walter Piston (1894-1976) Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra (1939) Fantasia for Violin and Orchestra (1970) Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra (1960) James Buswell, Violin/National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Theodore Kuchar • Playing Time: 60:49 8.559015 – SRP: $6.99 Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Solo Piano Music Daniel Pollack, Piano • Playing Time: 72:16 "The recording is first-class and very well balanced. There are excellent notes… This would be an essential purchase even at premium price, but on Naxos it is a gift! –Gramophone “Pollack makes it all sound important, embracing the sonata wholeheartedly, using deep resources and myriad details. The lighter material he imbues with elegance.” –Los Angeles Times 8.559016 – SRP: $6.99 Zez Confrey (1895-1971) Piano Music Kitten on the Keys (1921) / Dizzy Fingers (1923) / Meandering (1936) / African Suite (1924) / Jay Walk (1927) / Sparkling Waters (1928) / Wise Cracker Suite (1936) Amazonia (1945) / Blue Tornado (1935) / Three Little Oddities (1923) / Coaxing the Piano (1922) Stumbling (Paraphrase) (1922) / Moods of a New Yorker (1932) Rhythm Venture (1935) / Fourth Dimension (1959) Eteri Andjaparidze, Piano • Playing Time: 62:29 “A lot of fun…Anjaparidze is a phenomenal pianist.” –Boston Globe 8.559034 – SRP: $6.99 Paul Creston (1906-1985) Symphonies Nos. 1-3 Symphony No. 1, Op. 20 (1940) / Symphony No. 2, Op. 35 (1944) / Symphony No. 3, Op. 48 (“Three Mysteries”) (1950) National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine • Theodore Kuchar • Playing Time: 72:39 “The performances are excellent…This is really good stuff, nicely recorded too.” –ClassicsToday.com 4 TOLL FREE FAX: 888-771-9520 • TELEPHONE: 615-771-9393 6 36943 90242 4 Born in Pennsylvania in 1910, Samuel Barber is among the most famous of American composers. Success was to prove elusive after Barber’s auspicious debut in 1933 with the vivacious and bubbling overture, The School for Scandal. It was a meeting with Arturo Toscanini that encouraged the great Italian conductor to premiere the Essay for Orchestra No. 1 and Adagio for Strings with his NBC Symphony Orchestra in New York, and this provided Barber with the international recognition he required to launch a major career. His modest catalogue of works includes three operas, two ballets, two symphonies and three concertos. Though he did experiment with 20th century compositional techniques, his style remains firmly anchored in a romantic vein. THE CRITIC’S AGREE: NAXOS AMERICAN CLASSICS GETS 5 STARS! (and Stripes) Gramophone Critic’s Choice 6 36943 90082 6 6 36943 90032 1 6 36943 90152 6 6 36943 90162 5 6 36943 90342 1
N E W R E L E A S E S • J U N E 2 0 0 0 HISTORICAL SERIES N E W R E L E A S E S • J U N E 2 0 0 0 CLASSICAL 8.553782 – SRP: $6.99 Bohuslav Martin˚u (1890-1959) String Quartets Vol.1 Sting Quartet No. 1 (1918) – String Quartet No. 2 (1925) – Tˇri jezdci (Three Horsemen) Martin˚u Quartet • Playing Time: 71:41 8.110904– SRP: $6.99 Frederick Delius (1862-1934) Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 Two Pieces for Orchestra – Eventyr (‘Once Upon a Time’) – Koanga: Closing Scene Hassan: Incidental Music – Paris (‘Ein Nachtstück’) (The Song of a Great City) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / London Select Choir / London Philharmonic Orchestra Sir Thomas Beecham Playing Time: 61:11 Living in a church tower, 193 steps above street level, was a good enough reason for the young Bohuslav Martin˚u,to spend his evenings practicing the violin. It was later to bring him a temporary living as a member of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, though his objective in life was to become a composer. An enormously prolific composer, he developed an intensely personal style, which often made use of Czech thematic material. The quite remarkable Tˇri jezdci, written by the 12-year-old Martin˚u, was to herald one of the outstanding string quartet composers of the 20th century. The First Quartet was composed while Martin˚u was strongly influenced by the music of Ravel and Debussy, and had yet to develop the unique tonal colors we find in the Second Quartet. 8.554399 – SRP: $6.99 Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) Grand Motets, Vol. 3 This famous recording, conducted by Delius’ greatest champion, Sir Thomas Beecham, is amazingly restored by engineer David Lennick. This was the first recording session at which Beecham worked with legendary music producer Walter Legge. Volume 2 by the same artists is eagerly awaited. Exaudiat te Dominus (Psalm 19) – O dulcissime Domine – Notus in Judaea Deus (Psalm 75) – Laudate pueri Dominum (Psalm 112) – Benedictus TOLL FREE FAX: 888-771-9520 • TELEPHONE: 615-771-9393 6 36943 19042 5 7 30099 47822 9 6 36943 43992 0 Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet • Playing Time: 57:35 By the age of twenty-one Jean-Baptiste Lully had become Composer of the King’s Instrumental Music and for the next thirty years he almost completely dominated music life at the court and in French theatre, winning in 1672 the exclusive right to produce opera. His output ranged from Church music to ballets de cour and notable collaborations with Molière in the form of comédies-ballets such as Le bourgeois gentilhomme. In these works, written for the Chapel Royal, Lully is inspired to paint a whole sweep of emotions, at once melancholy, sweet, tragic, noble and victorious. Observe his mastery of color. Listen to how choral and orchestral textures, now in five, now in ten parts, change with the rhythm of the text. Note how subtle touches of orchestral color highlight the meaning of a word or the sweetness of a modulation. 8.554286 – SRP: $6.99 Franz Berwald (1796-1868) Complete Duos Duo in D minor for violin and piano (1858) – Fantasy on two Swedish folk-melodies (1850) – Concertino in A minor for violin and piano (1859) Duo Concertant in A minor for two violins (1816) – Duo in B flat major for cello and piano (1857) 6 36943 42862 7 Tobias Ringborg, Violin / David Bergström, Violin / Mats Rondin, Cello / Bengt-Ake Lundin, Piano • Playing Time: 70:20 For much of the nineteenth century in Sweden, music making was confined to small-scale chamber music at home and ambitious composers had to move abroad to seek acceptance of their work. While Berwald enjoyed some success in continental Europe, only a handful of his orchestral works were performed in Sweden during his lifetime. This caused him in later years to concentrate on chamber music, completing two piano quintets, two string quartets, three piano trios as well as duos for violin and piano and cello and piano. Berwald received much encouragement from his friend Liszt who praised Berwald’s invention, skill and elegant style while adding, somewhat prophetically: ‘you truly possess originality but you will not enjoy success during your lifetime. Nevertheless you must persevere.’ 8.554704 – SRP: $6.99 Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) L’elisir d’amore (Highlights) Nemorino – Vincenzo LaScola, Tenor / Adina – Alessandra Ruffini, Soprano / Dulcamara – Simone Alaimo, Bass Belcore-Roberto Frontali, Baritone / Giannetta – Mariangela Spotorno, Soprano Hungarian State Opera Choir & Orchestra / Pier Giorgio Morandi Playing Time: 77:09 6 36943 47042 8 This highlights disc of L’Elisir d’Amore includes over half of the music from the Naxos full-length version of the Bel Canto Master Donizetti’s most popular comic opera. American Record Guide praised the recording saying, "The chorus is strong, the orchestra alert and the sound is fine." Of the hallmark aria of this disc, "Una Furtiva Lagrima" the magazine raves that it "is poured out with full tenorial intensity." 5
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