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JOHN ADAMS
Adams: City Noir / Fearful Symmetries / Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 5/Apr/2024 ] John Adams' music has long since captured the admiration of listeners for its inimitable American qualities. City Noir was inspired by the cultural and social history of Los Angeles, with Adams calling it 'an imaginary film score' in its evocation of... |
GEORGE WALKER
Walker: Complete Piano Works Vol 1 Alexandre Dossin (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] George Walker's unique collection of piano music ranges across his long career. The three sonatas heard here, in this the first of two volumes of Walker's complete piano works, offer compelling contrasts. Sonata No. 1 is his longest and utilizes folk... |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: La Favorite (complete opera recorded in 2022) Annalisa Stroppa (mezzo-soprano) Javier Camarena (tenor) Florian Sempey (baritone) Evgeny Stavinsky (bass) / Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Riccardo Frizz [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 19/Apr/2024 ] 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... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walkure (complete opera recorded in 2021) Berlin Opera / Nina Stemme, Iain Paterson, Ya-Chung Huang, Tobias Kehrer / Sir Donald Runnicles (cond) [ Naxos DVD / 2 DVD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Siegfried is the third of the four operas that comprise Wagner's epic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen ('The Ring of the Nibelung'). Siegfried, raised by the evil dwarf Mime, discovers that he is the son of Siegmund and Sieglinde. He must negotiate... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Die Walkure (complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY Berlin Opera / Clay Hilley, Nina Stemme, Iain Paterson, Ya-Chung Huang, Tobias Kehrer / Sir Donald Runnicles (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Siegfried is the third of the four operas that comprise Wagner's epic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen ('The Ring of the Nibelung'). Siegfried, raised by the evil dwarf Mime, discovers that he is the son of Siegmund and Sieglinde. He must negotiate... |
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Piazzolla: Buenos Aires - arrangements for Violin and String Orchestra Tomás Cotik (violin) / Martingale Ensemble, Ken Selden [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] 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. |
JOAQUIN TURINA
Turina: Works For Strings Concerto Málaga, Gil de Gálvez [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] To commemorate the 75th anniversary year of Turina's death, this album presents some of the composer's most admired works heard in arrangements for strings that honour the colour, richness and vivacity of the originals. Two of his best-known works -... |
ERICH J. WOLFF
Wolff: Complete Songs Vol 1 Daniel Johannsen (tenor), Samantha Gaul (soprano), Klaus Simon (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Erich J. Wolff's name will be unfamiliar to many but in the 1920s an authoritative reference book on popular art song ranked his compositions fourth, behind Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler. The first volume in this series of Wolff's... |
FRANCO ALFANO
Alfano: Suite Romantica Davide Vendramin (accordion) Vittorio Rabagliati (piano) / Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Giuseppe Grazioli [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Franco Alfano is remembered today for his completion of Turandot after Puccini's death. His catalogue of works, including operas, orchestral and chamber music, reveals him to be a sophisticated and original composer. Alfano possessed an innate... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Guitar Recital Georgi Dimitrov-Jojo (guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Laureate Series / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Georgi Dimitrov-Jojo, winner of the 2022 European Bach Guitar Award, presents a selection of works transcribed for guitar from the rich repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach. Arrangements made for different instruments were customary during the Baroque... |
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DANIEL-FRANCOIS AUBER
Auber: Overtures, Vol. 6 [Incls 'L'Ambassadrice' & 'Le Dieu et la Bayadère' ] Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, Dario Salvi [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Auber's overtures were once as popular as those by Rossini and Suppé, with no less a figure than Tchaikovsky commenting on the 'elegant clarity of his harmonisation, his delightful and striking melodies … and beautiful instrumentation.' Full evidence... |
ELISABETTA BRUSA
Brusa: Requiem Op.25 / Stabat Mater Op.24 Réka Kristóf (soprano) Dorottya Láng (alto) István Horváth (tenor) Marcell Bakonyi (bass) / Hungarian radio Symphony and Choir, Riccardo Frizza [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Most of Elisabetta Brusa's compositions have been written for orchestral forces, with four volumes currently available on Naxos. The two new choral pieces in this fifth volume offer a revealing look at the composer's response to spirituality and her... |
BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana: Má vlast St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind (Conductor) [ Vox Classics / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] This acclaimed recording has now been given a new lease of life in our Naxos edition by going back to the original Elite Recordings master tapes, which have been newly transferred to disc in 192 kHz/24-bit high definition sound. |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Symphonic Dances / Lyric Suite / Sigurd Jorsalfar / etc Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravane [ Vox Classics / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] 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 |
