New on Naxos August 2014

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Myroslav Skoryk

At least 8 titles include world première recordings!

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Myroslav SKORYK (b. 1938)Carpathian ConcertoDiptych† • Violin Concerto No. 7†1 Cello Concerto†2 • Dytynstvo (Childhood) from the ‘Hutsul Triptych’ • Melody†

Caprice No. 19 from ’24 Paganini Caprices’†

Spanish Dance from ‘The Stone Host Suite’† Nazary Pilatyuk, Violin1 • Valery Kazakov, Cello2

Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra • Hobart Earle

†WORLD PREMIÈRE RECORDINGS

Myroslav Skoryk holds the title of People’s Artist of Ukraine and is one of his country’s outstanding composers. Both the Cello Concerto and the Seventh Violin Concerto combine bittersweet lyricism with explosive dynamic contrasts. With its swinging rhythms and folk-music pungency the Carpathian Concerto is one of Skoryk’s most engaging and popular works. The pensive Melody for strings propelled him to the forefront of Ukrainian music, while the slapstick in his transcription of Paganini’s Caprice No. 19 reveals the composer’s humorous side. These live recordings were made at Myroslav Skoryk’s 75th anniversary concerts in Odessa.

Sales Points • With only a very thin scattering of recordings available on general release the music of Myroslav Skoryk is a genuine rarity. This wholly undeserving neglect is redressed in this fine recording, which also showcases young violin soloist and rising star Nazary Pilatyuk. Anyone encountering the sheer color and verve in Skoryk’s remarkable Carpathian Concerto, the lonely majesty of his Melody or the profundity and grandeur of his moving and exciting Cello Concerto will be instantly hooked, and we are confident that this release will raise the status of Myroslav Skoryk from national hero to that of an internationally acclaimed musical voice for his country.

Born in Venezuela of American parents, Hobart Earle has developed a reputation on several continents as a dynamic and exciting conductor. As Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, Mr. Earle has elevated the orchestra to a position of international prominence, unprecedented in the history of the organization. In recognition of his work with the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, Hobart Earle was awarded the title “Distinguished Artist of Ukraine”, the first and only foreigner in the history of Ukraine so honored.

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Sir Peter MAXWELL DAVIES (b. 1934)RessurectionOpera in one act with prologueMusic and Libretto by the composerBBC Philharmonic Orchestra • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies began work on his parodic opera Resurrection whilst studying at Princeton in the early 1960s but it wasn’t until the 1980s that he resumed composition. It was finally staged in 1987. Its violent diversity – though any stylistic jolts are deliberate – takes aim at a series of targets (state, church, and media) and is expressed in a dazzling but masque-like succession of scenes, and through the blackly comic pastiche of hymn tunes, marching bands, saccharine waltzes, and banal TV advertisements.

Sales Points • This is an ex-Collins Classis release and is part of the long running sequence of reissues from that (and other) labels released by Naxos. Resurrection is a blackly comic, parodic opera full of a dazzling variety of pastiches of various musical genres, such as hymns and waltzes. The theme of the opera is the conformity of the individual when browbeaten by the forces ranged against him – state, church, and media. The plot is often hard to follow but the music anchors it to recognisable themes. This is its only recording. Universally acknowledged as one of the foremost composers of our time, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has made a significant contribution to musical history through his wide-ranging and prolific output. He has written across a broad range of styles, yet his music always communicates directly and powerfully, whether in his profoundly argued symphonic works, his music-theatre works or witty light orchestral works. Maxwell Davies’ major dramatic works include two full-length ballets, music-theatre works Eight Songs for a Mad King and Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot, and operas including Resurrection, The Lighthouse, The Doctor of Myddfai, Taverner and Kommilitonen! (Young Blood!). Maxwell Davies has held the position of composer/conductor with both the Royal Philharmonic and BBC Philharmonic Orchestras.

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Andrzej PANUFNIK (1914-1991)String Quartet No. 1String Quartet No. 2, ‘Messages’String Quartet No. 3, ‘Wycinanki’

Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI (1913-1994)String Quartet2014 is the centenary year of Andrzej Panufnik and, while his orchestral music has received attention, his innovative string quartets remain neglected. Bitter-sweet harmonies characterise the First Quartet. The Second Quartet, whose subtitle ‘Messages’ refers to the mysterious sounds of telegraph poles vibrating in the wind, is notable for its motivic coherence and emotional intensity. The Third Quartet, subtitled ‘Wycinanki’, a reference to paper cuts familiar in Polish rustic art, ends with one of Panufnik’s most moving statements. Lutosławski’s dramatic and experimental String Quartet was written when he was at the forefront of the European avant-garde. Sales Points • Andrzej Panufnik’s music has received attention from certain quarters, but his string quartets have remained neglected, with only the Chilingirian Quartet providing a complete set on a long deleted release from Conifer Classics and the Silesian Quartet only available on download. These three superb works are satisfyingly brought together with Lutoslawski’s dramatic String Quartet, making it an addition to our already exhaustive catalogue of the composer’s orchestral and vocal works. The Tippett Quartet has already shone in the quartets of their namesake Sir Michael Tippett: Vol. 1 (8.570496) described as “beautifully shaped and controlled”, and Vol. 2 (8.570497) “a pleasure throughout” by Gramophone.

For over a decade and a half, the celebrated Tippett Quartet has delighted critics and audiences alike with its animated and virtuosic performances, and its inspired and attractive programming. They have performed at the BBC Proms and numerous festivals in the United Kingdom and abroad, including tours of Europe, Canada, Mexico and beyond. Their impressive and diverse catalogue of releases has not only topped the classical charts but has also entered the pop charts. The quartet has given premières of works by composers including John Adams, Howard Goodall and Stephen Dodgson and has collaborated with artists such as Kathryn Stott, Stephanie Gonley and Lawrence Power.

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Felix MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)Organ Sonata in C minor Op. 65, No. 2

Anton BRUCKNER (1824-1896)Four MotetsTwo Aequali WAB 114 & 149

Johannes BRAHMS (1833-1897)Geistliches Lied, Op. 30Five Choral Preludes (from Op. 122)

Robert SCHUMANN (1810-1856)Vier Doppelchörige Gesänge, Op. 141

What if four celebrated nineteenth-century composers – Mendelssohn, Schumann, Bruckner and Brahms – had written original works for brass septet? This disc explores that fascinating counterfactual twist, re-imagining choral and organ works by those composers. The arrangements call on the full dynamic and tonal range of the instruments – often extended with a multitude of mutes – to imitate the expressivity of the choir, the power of the organ, and the versatile sonorities of its different registrations and manuals. In dazzling and varied combinations the arrangers and performers together persuade us that this could indeed be original brass chamber music.

Sales points: With arrangements by Simon Cox and Matthew Knight, a brass septet assumes a new colour for these largely organ and church music refashionings. None of these arrangements have been recorded before, and they make for a new, rich kind of listening experience. This is the first of a series of 10 discs for Naxos, to be released over the next 5 years.

Septura is a brass septet specialising in the performance of music by the major classical composers. Septura’s members are the leading players of the new generation of British brass musicians, holding principal positions in the London Symphony, Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Scottish Opera and Aurora orchestras. They are united by their belief in the potential of the brass septet to be a uniquely powerful vessel for chamber music. The group’s activities are fuelled by a desire to enhance the status of brass ensembles amongst the wider musical community, with a particular focus on developing new repertoire in the form of both transcriptions and original works.

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Muzio CLEMENTI (1752-1832)Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 33, No. 3Symphony in B flat major, Op. 18, No. 1 Symphony in D major, Op. 18, No. 2Minuetto pastorale in D major, WO36Bruno Canino, Piano • Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma • Francesco La Vecchia

These four works are among the few surviving examples of Muzio Clementi’s early orchestral music. The two Symphonies, Op. 18 follow Classical models but are full of the surprise modulations and dynamic contrasts to be found in his piano sonatas. The Piano Concerto has a dazzling solo part and some delightful orchestral touches. Clementi’s Symphonies Nos. 1-4 can be heard on Naxos 8.573071 and 8.573112.

Sales Points • This release joins two other Clementi titles from the Rome Symphony Orchestra conducted by Francesco La Vecchia. The first two Symphonies WoO 32 and 33 (8.573071) were described by ConcertoNet.com as “a treasure”, and these have been complimented nicely by the reconstructed Symphonies 3 & 4 (8.573112). With his piano sonatas taking the lion’s share of Clementi’s available recordings we have done well with these new

Rome recordings, and collectors will certainly want these rare early works, as well as to unite the orphaned Minuetto pastorale with its presumed original home in the Symphony WoO 33.

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Ernest BLOCH (1880–1959)Orchestral Works, Vol. 4

Israel Symphony*Lent et solennel • Allegro agitato • Moderato (andante grazioso)‡

Suite for Viola and Orchestra†

Lento – Allegro – Moderato • Allegro ironico • Lento • Molto vivo

Adriana Kohutková, Soprano‡ • Katarína Kramolišová, SopranoTerezia Bajaková, Mezzo-soprano • Denisa Hamarová, ContraltoMichael Mačuha, BaritoneYuri Gandelsman, Viola†

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra* • Atlas Camerata Orchestra†

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Bloch’s so-called Jewish Cycle – the Israel Symphony, Schelomo, Trois Poèmes Juifs and the String Quartet – earned the composer the kind of esteem in America that had been lacking in Europe. The Israel Symphony, premièred in Carnegie Hall in 1917, is the cycle’s centrepiece and originally intended as a gigantic three-part work, but later reduced in size. Powerful and evocative, it also fuses pastoral and sensuous elements in a rich tapestry. The award-winning Suite for Viola and orchestra or piano is a rhapsodic but

cyclical tour de force, a ‘vision of the Far East’, in Bloch’s own words.Dalia Atlas

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Kenneth FUCHS (b. 1956)Falling ManMovie House • Songs of Innocence and of Experience Roderick Williams, BaritoneLondon Symphony Orchestra • JoAnn Falletta

Kenneth Fuchs, one of America’s leading composers, deepens his bond with conductor JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra with this superb recording of vocal music featuring baritone Roderick Williams. The new works include Falling Man, a dramatic scena based on the powerful post-9/11 novel by Don DeLillo; Movie House, a cycle featuring settings of seven poems by John Updike; and Songs of Innocence and of Experience, four settings from William Blake’s iconic two-part illustrated collection of poems. Fuchs’s music continues to find its visual counterpart in the work of Abstract Expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler, whose art adorns the cover of this disc.

Sales Points • Ken Fuchs is one of America’s leading contemporary composers whose works have often been championed by the London Symphony Orchestra and conductor JoAnn Falletta. This disc concentrates on works for singer and orchestra and the soloist is the admired baritone

Roderick Williams. Fuchs’ music is featured on other Naxos discs – 8.559723 has the Atlantic Riband and American Rhapsody, 8.559733 has chamber music for string quartet and 8.559335 has Canticle to the Sun.

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Frederic RZEWSKI (b. 1938) Four PiecesHard Cuts* • The Housewife’s LamentRalph van Raat, Piano • Lunapark* • Arnold Marinissen*

Frederic Rzewski is most celebrated for his virtuosic variations for piano, The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (8.559360). The Four Pieces began as a sequel to that breath-taking work, but whilst sharing certain similarities – Andean dance rhythms and tremendous drama – it occupies its own very distinct sound world, offering a compound of intense lyricism, shattering darkness, and hints of revolutionary fervour. The Housewife’s Lament is a set of variations on a 19th-century tune by an anonymous composer with strong influences of Beethoven. The punning title Hard Cuts refers to cuts both budgetary and musical, and Rzewski’s signature elements appear throughout: folk rhythms, pointillist clarity, minimalism, and unique craftsmanship.

Sales Points • Frederic Rzewski is best known for his Variations for piano on the revolutionary song ‘The People United Will Never Be Defeated!’ which is available on Naxos 8.559360. Other of his works contain elements of protest, as do the Four Pieces for piano here, but Rzewski is above all a communicative artist, not a sloganeer. The Fourth of the Four Pieces, which is often extracted from the set for performance, has been recorded on a big 4-CD set devoted to modern American music on Mode CD – containing music by Copland, Griffes, Gershwin, Ornstein etc which is a wide-ranging set that contains little else by Rzewski and is not competitive with our disc.

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Bechara EL-KHOURY (b. 1957)Violin Concerto No. 1, ‘On the Borders of Nowhere’*

Horn Concerto, ‘The Dark Mountain’†

Clarinet Concerto, ‘Autumn Pictures’‡

Sarah Nemtanu, Violin* • David Guerrier, Horn†

Patrick Messina, Clarinet‡

Orchestre National de France*† • Orchestre de Chambre de Paris‡

Kurt Masur* • Jean-Claude Casadesus† • Olari Elts‡

This fifth Naxos release of the music of the Franco-Lebanese composer Bechara El-Khoury features three concertos two of which, for wind instruments, are inspired by specific associations with the natural world of the composer’s native Lebanon. The First Violin Concerto contains allusions to Alban Berg, its outer movements divided by a virtuoso cadenza for the soloist. The composer describes his powerful Horn Concerto as ‘mountains at night… reaching up into the sky and melting into mist and space’, and the Clarinet Concerto as ‘impressions and recollections in which poetic colours link together and disappear, like an autumnal cloud’. Sales Points • As with previous releases, this new recording of three concertos by Bechara El-Khoury is a collection of world première recordings. We now have a number of releases representing his remarkably fine and often startlingly profound work, of which New York, Tears and Hope (8.570134) has been described by the Penguin Guide as “the finest… [with] performances [which] are very persuasive indeed and excellently recorded.” The Penguin Guide also praised the preceding Orchestral Works release (8.557691): “El-Khoury’s orchestral sound-world is very much his own: he uses a remarkable range of orchestral effects.” We are fortunate to have soloists such as violinist Sarah Nemtanu, who won the French classical music industry’s Instrumental Soloist Revelation award in 2007, and acclaimed conductors Kurt Masur and Jean-Claude Casadesus, the latter of which has numerous acclaimed Naxos titles to his name.

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Jonathan DOVE (b. 1959)All You Who Sleep Tonight: Song CyclesOut of Winter 1 • Cut My Shadow†2 • Ariel3

All You Who Sleep Tonight†4

Claire Booth, Soprano3 • Patricia Bardon, Mezzo-soprano2,4

Nicky Spence, Tenor1 • Andrew Matthews-Owen, Piano1,2,4


Jonathan Dove is one of Britain’s most resourceful and versatile contemporary composers, whose affinity for vocal setting is especially striking. From the operatic canvas of his acclaimed Flight to his song cycles, his acutely perceptive approach to texts is unmistakeable. Out of Winter, written in collaboration with Dove, is the late Sir Robert Tear’s poetic response to Thomas Hardy’s Winter Words. Cut My Shadow is a powerful and harrowing setting of three Lorca texts notable for a sense of constant unease and longing for a homeland. All You Who Sleep Tonight, to poems by Vikram Seth, is elegant, moving, and witty whilst Ariel explores Shakespeare’s elusive character from The Tempest in a rôle for unaccompanied soprano.

Sales Points • Jonathan Dove is known primarily for his settings for voice – opera (he is well-known for his ‘community operas’ such as Tobias and the angel) and also song cycles. The cycles here set words by the late tenor Robert Tear, Vikram Seth, Lorca and Shakespeare. The music is direct, richly evocative and very approachable, as in some ways Dove is an inheritor of Benjamin Britten’s sensitivity in word setting. Despite this very few of his song cycles are to be found

in the catalog. Of the four in this disc Ariel is probably the best known, set for unaccompanied soprano, and this has been recorded by Patricia Green on Blue Griffin [279] released last year – it is however a very mixed contemporary disc with music by Hilary Tann and R Murray Schafer.

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York BOWEN (1884-1961)String Quartets Nos. 2 and 3Phantasy-Quintet* Timothy Lines, Bass Clarinet* • Archaeus Quartet

Described by Saint-Saëns as ‘the most remarkable of the young British composers’, York Bowen was widely known as a pianist and as a composer, his fame reaching its zenith in the years immediately preceding the First World War. The writer and composer Thomas Dunhill described Bowen’s chamber music as ‘an essentially healthy and breezy phase in modern art’. This is especially true of the 1922 Carnegie Trust Award-winning Second Quartet, and while both quartets are based on clear-cut classical models the Third is more elusive and intimate in feeling, revealing the composer’s rarely displayed private side. The atmospheric Phantasy-Quintet provides a rare opportunity to hear the beauty of the bass clarinet in a truly eloquent and expressive soloist capacity.

Sales Points • Joining our growing series of new and re-released recordings from the British Music Society, the original appearance of this recording was described as “compellingly desirable” by MusicWeb International, and the Archaeus Quartet as “sterling advocates of all this rewarding material… a stimulating and enjoyable release” by Gramophone. The performances and recording of this rarely heard

repertoire are of a very high standard, and as ever we are confident that wider availability will generate another watershed moment in the acceptance of such fine music into the popular mainstream.

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Arnold COOKE (1906 - 2005)Three String SonatasSonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano1

Sonata for Viola and Piano2

Sonata No. 2 for Cello and Piano3

Susanne Stanzeleit, Violin1 • Morgan Goff, Viola2

Raphael Wallfisch, Cello3 • Raphael Terroni, Piano1-3

When Arnold Cooke died in 2005 at the age of ninety-eight, he was the last survivor of a great generation of British composers that included Michael Tippett, Alan Rawsthorne and Constant Lambert. A distinguished student of Paul Hindemith in Berlin, he slowly established a national reputation in the 1930s, writing a series of significant Symphonies and other orchestral works. His chamber music, however, is no less important, and the three string sonatas on this recording reveal his approachable, idiomatic, and technically eloquent writing for all three instruments.

Sales Points • Arnold Cooke was a long-lived British composer, and a contemporary of Tippett and Constant Lambert. The three string sonatas in this disc were first released (in their première recordings) in 2010 on the British Music Society [BMS] label, so our disc is a reissue of that. The sonatas span the years 1936-80 and reveal Cooke’s wholly approachable idiom, toughly lyrical and not dissimilar to the music of another of his contemporaries, Alan Rawsthorne. The individual performers include some of Britain’s

leading chamber players, including eminent cellist Raphael Wallfisch.

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Isaac ALBÉNIZ (1860-1909)Piano Music, Vol. 5Siete estudios • Les Saisons Rapsodia cubana • Suite antigua No. 1Juan José Mudarra Gámiz, Piano

In the latest volume of this critically admired series, a number of rarely heard pieces from Albéniz’s first compositional phase can be savoured. They were composed between 1881 and 1892 and reveal the variety and flair of which he was capable, even in the smallest of musical forms, such as the delicious mazurkas. The Siete estudios (Seven Studies) are no mere exercises – rather they fuse the colour of Iberian music with the rigour of Central European traditions. Les Saisons is an evocative portrait of the seasons and can be seen as a forerunner of the impressionistic writing that would soon appear in French music.

Sales Points • This is another volume in the complete Albéniz piano work series, an undertaking carried out by several different pianists. Albéniz remains an important and influential composer – precursor to aspects of impressionism but also full of evocative scene setting and agile virtuosic vitality. The disc focuses on the composer’s first stage of compositional development. The works are very rarely heard on disc or even performed. Not even Martin Jones includes them in his 6-CD box set of the composer’s music on Nimbus. This Naxos series is building to be probably the most

complete edition of the composer’s music yet to be recorded.

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Carter PANN (b. 1972)The Piano’s 12 Sides†

The Bills† • The Cheese Grater – A Mean Two-Step† • Your TouchJoel Hastings, Piano


Award-winning composer and pianist Carter Pann is a genuine “musician’s musician”, writing for and working with internationally acclaimed orchestras and ensembles. Composed especially for Joel Hastings, The Piano’s 12 Sides is a remarkable cycle which takes us through song-like introspection, fearless virtuosity, timeless impressions of cosmic realms and dances both ebullient and macabre. The Bills owes its ragtime influence to Scott Joplin while acknowledging two great exponents of the genre. The composer describes The Cheese Grater as “an adrenaline-driven, mean two-step”. Evocative of a smoky jazz club, Your Touch is the laid-back solo movement from Carter Pann’s GRAMMY®-nominated Piano Concerto (Naxos 8.559043).

Sales Points • Unashamedly eclectic in style and the creator of “contemporary music that can be enjoyed by any listener” (ClassicsToday.com), Carter Pann’s work has seen a dramatic rise in worldwide exposure and popularity in recent years. Much critical acclaim was given to our recording (8.559043) of his K. Serocki Competition prizewinning Piano Concerto and the Deux séjours, which “sound like newly discovered Gymnopédies by Satie… their melodies hovering like morning mist or evening shadow over gently swaying accompaniments”

(ClassicsToday.com). This world première recording of a major new cycle for piano solo along with the ever-attractive lightness of newly composed ragtime tracks will prove irresistible to a very wide audience.

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Laureate Series Emanuele Buono Guitar Recital2013 Michele Pittaluga Guitar Competition Winner

Francesco Canova DA MILANO Mon per si ma marie Fantasia 33 Ricercar 34 ‘La Compagne’Dionisi AGUADO No. 2. Andante – Rondo moderatoMario CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO Sonata, Op. 77, ‘Omaggio a Boccherini’Joaquín RODRIGO Invocación y Danza (Homenaje a Manuel de Falla)Antonio JOSÉ Sonata

Emanuele Buono has established himself as one of the most highly regarded and active guitarists of his generation. His numerous achievements include winning the prestigious Pittaluga competition in 2013. This fascinating programme brings together music from Renaissance Italy, the golden age of the guitar in early 19th century Europe, and modern classical sounds from 20th century Spain.

Sales Points • Our Guitar Laureate series has brought forth numerous startlingly talented musicians, but Emanuele Buono really does stand out. In recent years he has proven himself many times over as winner of the Fernando Sor prize (Italy 2010), the Agustín Barrios prize (Italy 2012) and the coveted Pittaluga prize (Italy 2013), and when you hear this recording you will immediately hear why. Buono’s beautiful legato touch and rich sonorities are truly striking and memorable. We would say he was a rising star, but even while still in his 20s we can consider him a valued and established artist, and one we are proud to have as part of our catalog.

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Paul HINDEMITH (1895-1963)Organ Sonatas Nos. 1-3 Eleven Interludes from Ludus TonalisTwo Organ PiecesKirsten Sturm

Although Hindemith was not an organ music specialist, his three Sonatas, with their mastery of counterpoint, clarity of form, bold harmonic language and deeply expressive treatment of melody, are recognized as among the great works of modern organ literature. The Two Organ Pieces are Hindemith’s earliest works for the instrument, and the Interludien from his piano cycle Ludus Tonalis, here arranged for organ, form a sequence of beautiful and colourful fantasia-like character pieces.

Sales Points • Hindemith’s three Organ Sonatas are widely popular amongst organists, though this is not entirely reflected in the number of recent recordings. They are performed here on the superb 1979 Sandtner Organ in Rottenburg Cathedral by organist Kirsten Sturm, whose contribution to our Max Reger edition (volume 12, Naxos 8.572821) was acclaimed by Choir & Organ as a place where “a large modern organ and skilled player combine

to give persuasive performances…with great clarity and dexterity… spacious and compelling.” The unique addition of organ arrangements of the Eleven Interludien from Ludus Tonalis also gives this release added attraction to specialists and collectors alike.

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Ina-Esther Joost Ben-Sasson, Cello • Allan Sternfield, Piano

Nikolay MYASKOVSKY (1881-1950)Cello Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 12Cello Sonata No. 2 in A minor, Op. 81

Dmitry Borisovich KABALEVSKY (1904-1987)Cello Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 71*Physical CDs for this release are available by request on a one-off basis.

Nicolay Myaskovsky was one of the most prolific and influential composers in 20th-century Russian musical life. These two works come from the beginning and end of his distinguished career: the warmly expressive First Cello Sonata recalling the style of Rachmaninov, and the equally romantic Second Cello Sonata revealing the subtle influence of folk music typical of Myaskovsky’s later years. Dmitry Kabalevsky was a pupil of Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatoire. His Cello Sonata was premièred by Rostropovich and stands amongst his greatest post-war successes. The Joost Ben-Sasson/Sternfield duo’s recording of Fauré’s Cello Sonatas (8.570545) has been described as “masterful… very expressive, but direct and unaffected, without fuss or exaggeration.” (Strings Magazine)

Companion Titles

Crossings: Works for Cello and PianoMercer-Park Duo

Hunter COBLENTZ Ex-Animo for 2 celli (2010)

Kevin LAUStarsail (2008)

Mark NERENBERGI Thirst (2008)

Abigail RICHARDSON-SCHULTECrossings for cello and piano (2011)

William ROWSONSonata (2012)

This exciting programme consists of world-première recordings of new works by young Canadian composers. William Rowson’s Sonata is an expressive look at traditional forms, while Kevin Lau’s Starsail is a musical metaphor for a journey into the great unknown. Hunter Coblentz’s Ex Animo embraces the richness of tone offered by two cellos, Abigail Richardson-Schulte reshapes classical modes of musical interaction through all kinds of Crossings, and with a quote from The Seven Last Words, Mark Nerenberg’s “I Thirst” follows a journey through suffering, loss, perseverance and hope. This recording has been made in close collaboration with all these composers, and Rachel Mercer plays here on the 1696 Bonjour Stradivarius Cello.

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“an essential purchase for anyone who loves Bruckner”

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– Classical Net

“Wit conducts with considerableinsight and interpretative command and the recording quality is equally first-rate.”

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“Violinist Tianwa Yang has been in tremendous form throughout the series, and displays the same warmth, dazzling technique and interpretative skills that marked the earlier volumes.”

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COMPANION TITLES

Ukrainian Composers

8.572633 747313263370 KARABITS, I.: Concertos for Orchestra Nos. 1 - 3 / SILVESTROV, V. Elegy / Abschiedsserenade

8.572158 747313215874 MARKEVITCH, I.: Orchestral Works (Complete), Vol. 8

8.553069 730099406925 PROKOFIEV, S.: Symphony No. 6 / Waltz Suite

8.573161 747313316175 GLIÈRE, R.: Symphony No. 3, "Il'ya Muromets"

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, composer

8.660354 730099035477 MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Lighthouse (The)

8.572408 747313240876 MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: The Boyfriend Suite / The Devils Suite / Seven in Nomine / The Yellow Cake Revue

8.572355 747313235575 MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Strathclyde Concertos Nos. 7 and 8 / A Spell for Green Corn

8.572356 747313235674 MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Strathclyde Concertos Nos. 9 and 10 / Carolísima

Tippett Quartet

8.572474 747313247479 BAX, A.: Piano Quintet in G Minor / BRIDGE, F.: Piano Quintet in D Minor

8.572903 747313290376 ROZSA, M.: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / String Trio, Op. 1 (original unpublished version)

8.570496 747313049677 TIPPETT, M.: String Quartets, Vol. 1 - Nos. 1, 2 and 4

8.570497 747313049776 TIPPETT, M.: String Quartets, Vol. 2 - Nos. 3 and 5

Brass Ensemble Arrangements

8.572193 747313219377 PROKOFIEV, S.: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts) (arr. For brass)

8.559123 636943912324 BERLIN, I.: Berlin for Brass

8.570726 747313072675 Symphonic Brass

8.572244 747313224470 Brass Quintets (Arrangements) - BERNSTEIN, L. / BARBER, S. / WILLIAMS, J. / GOLDSMITH, J. / ARNOLD, D.

Dalia Atlas, conductor

8.573241 747313324170 BLOCH, E.: Symphony in C-sharp Minor / Poems of the Sea

8.573290 747313329076 BLOCH, E.: Symphony in E-flat Major / Macbeth: 2 Interludes / 3 Jewish Poems / In Memoriam

8.570259 747313025978 BLOCH, E.: 4 Episodes / 2 Poems / Concertino / Suite Modale

8.557151 747313215126 BLOCH, E.: America / Suite Hebraique

Francesco La Vecchia, conductor

8.573071 747313307173 CLEMENTI, M.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 / Overture in D Major

8.573112 747313311279 CLEMENTI, M.: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 / Overture in C Major

8.573006 747313300679 GHEDINI, G.F.: Architetture / Contrappunti / Marinaresca e baccanale

8.573073 747313307371 PETRASSI, G.: Piano Concerto / Flute Concerto / La follia di Orlando Suite

Ken Fuchs, composer

8.559224 636943922422 FUCHS, K.: American Place (An) / Eventide / Out of the Dark

8.559723 636943972328 FUCHS, K.: Atlantic Riband / American Rhapsody / Divinum Mysterium / Concerto Grosso

8.559335 636943933527 FUCHS, K.: Canticle to the Sun / United Artists

8.559733 636943973325 FUCHS, K.: String Quartet No. 5, "American" / Falling Canons / Falling Trio

Frederic Rzewski, composer

8.559360 636943936023 RZEWSKI, F.: People United will never be Defeated (The)

8.559760 636943976029 RZEWSKI, F.: Piano Music - Fantasia / Second Hand, or, Alone at Last / De Profundis

8.572087 74731320877 Class of '38: RZEWSKI, F.: 4 North American Balads: No. 4. Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues / HARBISON, J. / CORIGLIANO, J.

Bechara El-Khoury, composer

8.557692 747313269228 EL-KHOURY, B.: Meditation poetique / Piano Concerto / Poems Nos. 1 and 2

8.570134 747313013470 EL-KHOURY, B.: New York, Tears and Hope / The Rivers Engulfed

8.557691 747313269129 EL-KHOURY, B.: Orchestral Works

8.557043 747313204328 EL-KHOURY, B.: The Ruins of Beirut / Hill of Strangeness

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English Song Series

8.572733 747313273379 DOVE, J.: Passing of the Year (The)

8.572600 747313260072 BRITTEN, B.: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake / Tit for Tat / Folk Song Arrangements (English Song, Vol. 22)

8.572426 747313242672 BUTTERWORTH, G.: Songs from A Shropshire Lad / Folk Songs from Sussex (English Song, Vol. 20)

8.572514 747313251476 VENABLES, I.: On the Wings of Love / Venetian Songs (English Song, Vol. 21)

British Music Society + string ensemble

8.571351 747313135172 JACOBSON, M.: Theme and Variations / Music Room Suite / Mosaic / The Song of Songs

8.571352 747313135271 Cello Music - BUSCH, W. / LEIGHTON, K. / WORDSWORTH, W. / COOKE, A.

8.571362 747313136278 COOKE, A.: Three String Sonatas

8.572580 747313258079 BOWEN, Y.: Viola Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 / Phantasy, Op. 54

8.570415 747313041572 BERKELEY, L.: String Quartets Nos. 1 - 3

British Music Society + Raphael Wallfisch, cello

8.571351 747313135172 JACOBSON, M.: Theme and Variations / Music Room Suite / Mosaic / The Song of Songs

8.571352 747313135271 Cello Music - BUSCH, W. / LEIGHTON, K. / WORDSWORTH, W. / COOKE, A.

8.571366 747313136674 BOWEN, Y.: String Quartets Nos. 2 and 3 / Phantasy-Quintet

8.572640 747313264070 ARNOLD, M.: Cello Concerto / Symphony for Strings / Fantasy

8.572595 747313259571 SWAYNE, G.: Stabbat mater / The silent land / Magnificat I / Ave verum corpus

Isaac Albéniz, composer

8.554311-12 636943431122 ALBÉNIZ, I.: Piano Music, Vol. 1 - Iberia / Suites Espanolas Nos. 1 and 2

8.570553 747313055371 ALBÉNIZ, I.: Piano Music, Vol. 2 - Recuerdos da viaje / Espagne / Azulejos / La Vega / Navarra

8.572196 747313219674 ALBÉNIZ, I.: Piano Music, Vol. 3 - 6 Danzas espanolas / 6 Pequenos valses / 6 Mazurkas de salon

8.573294 747313329472 ALBÉNIZ, I.: Piano Music, Vol. 4 - Suite ancienne No. 3 / Piano Sonata No. 5 / 3 Improvisations / Serenata Árabe

Carter Pann, composer + Wind ensemble

8.559043 636943904329 PANN, C.: Piano Concerto / Dance Partita / Deux sejours

8.570074 747313007479 MACKEY: Redline Tango / MOWER: Flute Concerto / PANN: Slalom

8.572762 747313276271 Wind Band Music - GRANTHAM, D. / JACOB, G. / BRYANT, S.

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8.573306 747313330676 Guitar Recital: Baranov, Anton - PUJOL, M.D. / BRAVO, J.E. / ANGULO, E. / SANTÓRSOLA, G.

8.573226 747313322671 Guitar Recital: Cherouana, Lazhar - RAMEAU, J.P. / REGONDI, G. / LEGNANI, L. / ASENCIO, V. / MANJON, A.J.

8.573225 747313322572 Guitar Recital: Park, Kyuhee - SCARLATTI, D. / DIABELLI, A. / BERKELEY, L. / MALATS, J. / BARRIOS MANGORÉ, A.

8.573179 747313317974 Guitar Recital: Mamedkuliev, Rovshan - ALBENIZ, I. / TURINA, J. / AMIROV, F. / LLOBET SOLES, M. / TARREGA, F.

Organ Encyclopaedia Series

8.572907 747313290772 REGER, M.: Organ Works, Vol. 14 - 5 Easy Preludes and Fugues / 52 Easy Chorale Preludes: Nos. 1-15

8.572908 747313290871 REGER, M.: Organ Works, Vol. 15 - 52 Easy Chorale Preludes: Nos. 16-35 / Monologe: Nos. 1-4 / Postludium in D minor

8.573119 747313311972 SCHEIDEMANN, H.: Organ Works, Vol. 7

8.572912 747313291274 WALCHA, H.: Chorale Preludes, Vol. 3

Russian Cello Sonatas

8.557722 747313272228 SHOSTAKOVICH, D.: Cello Sonata / Violin Sonata

8.570996 747313099672 ROSLAVETS, N.A.: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 / Meditation / Dances of the White Maidens / Viola Sonata No. 2 (arr. For cello)

8.553136 730099413626 PROKOFIEV, S.: String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / Cello Sonata

8.570333 747313033379 WEINBERG, M.: Cello Sonatas Nos. 2 and 2 / Cello Solo Sonatas Nos. 1 and 3

Canadian Classics Series

8.572812 747313281275 Choral Music (Canadian) - CORLIS, T. / ENNS, L. / TIEFENBACH, P. / WATSON HENDERSON, R.

8.573009 747313300976 FUNG, V.: Piano Concerto, "Dreamscapes" / Violin Concerto / Glimpses

8.573091 747313309177 HATZIS, C.: Flute Concertos - Departures / Overscript

8.572765 747313276578 RYAN, J.: Symphony No. 1, "Fugitive Colours" / The Linearity of Light / Equilateral

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This Month’s Highlights

8.660359-60 730099035972 MAXWELL DAVIES, P.: Ressurection (BBC Philharmonic, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies)

8.573314 747313331475 Music for Brass Septet: MENDELSSOHN, F. / BRUCKNER, A. / BRAHMS, J. / SCHUMANN, R. (Septura)

8.573164 747313316472 PANUFNIK, A.: String Quartets Nos. 1 - 3 / LUTOSŁAWSKI, W.: String Quartet (Tippett Quartet)

8.573333 747313333370 SKORYK, M.: Carpathian Concerto / Diptych / Melody / Dytynstvo / Spanish Dance (Odessa Philharmonic, Hobart Earle)

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8.573293 747313329373 ALBÉNIZ, I.: Piano Music, Vol. 5 - Siete estudios / Les Saisons / Rapsodia cubana / Suite antigua No. 1 (J. Gámiz)

8.573283 747313328376 BLOCH, E.: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4: Israel Symphony / Suite for Viola and Orchestra (Dalia Atlas)

8.571366 747313136674 BOWEN, Y.: String Quartets Nos. 2 and 3 / Phantasy-Quintet (T. Lines, Archaeus Quartet)

8.573273 747313327379 CLEMENTI, M.: Piano Concerto in C major / Symphony in B flat major (Canino, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, La Vecchia)

8.571362 747313136278 COOKE, A.: Three String Sonatas (S. Stanzeleit, M. Goff, R. Wallfisch, R. Terroni)

8.573080 747313308071 DOVE, J.: All You Who Sleep Tonight: Song Cycles (C. Booth, P. Bardon, N. Spence, A. Matthews-Owen)

8.572773 747313277377 EL-KHOURY, B.: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Horn Concerto / Clarinet Concerto (S. Nemtanu, D. Guerrier, P. Messina)

8.559753 636943975329 FUCHS, K.: Falling Man / Movie House / Songs of Innocence and of Experience (London SO, JoAnn Falletta)

8.573194 747313319473 HINDEMITH, P.: Organ Sonatas Nos. 1 - 3 / Eleven Interludes / Two Organ Pieces (Kirsten Sturm)

8.573362 747313336272 Laureate Series Emanuele Buono Guitar Recital

8.559751 636943975121 PANN, C.: The Piano's 12 Sides / The Bills / The Cheese Grater / Your Touch (Joel Hastings)

8.559759 636943975923 RZEWSKI, F.: Four Pieces / Hard Cuts / The Housewife's Lament (Ralph van Raat, Lunapark, Arnold Marinissen)

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NA0171 9781843798187 BRONTË, C.: Shirley (Unabridged)

NA0184 9781843798613 HEYER, G.: Faro's Daughter (Unabridged)

NA0158 9781843797890 TROLLOPE, A.: Dr Thorne (Unabridged)

NA0186 9781843798651 WALPOLE, H.: The Castle of Otranto (Unabridged)

Naxos Highlights, Spring 2014

8.573061 747313306176 BRAHMS, J.: Deutsches Requiem (Ein) (Libor, T.E. Bauer, Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Wit)

8.501205 730099120548 BRUCKNER, A.: Symphonies (Complete) (Tintner) (12-CD Boxed Set)

8.573161 747313316175 GLIÈRE, R.: Symphony No. 3, "Il'ya Muromets" (Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta)

8.573076 747313307678 MEYERBEER, G.: Ballet Music from the Operas (Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia NO, Nesterowicz)

8.573106 747313310678 MOERAN, E.J.: In the Mountain Country / Rhapsodies / Overture for a Masque (Frith, Ulster Orchestra, Falletta)

8.572709 747313270972 SARASATE, P. de: Violin and Piano Music, Vol. 4 - Transcriptions (Tianwa Yang, Hadulla)

8.573132 747313313273 SHOSTAKOVICH, D.: Symphonies, Vol. 10 - Symphony No. 14 (G. James, A. Vinogradov, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Petrenko)

8.573021 747313302178 TANSMAN, A.: Piano Music - Ballades Nos. 1-3 / Arabesques / Suite dans le style ancien / 5 Impressions / 8 Cantilenes (Reyes)

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