MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: Die Passagierin [The Passenger] (complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY Oper Graz / Dshamilja Kaiser, Nadja Stefanoff, Will Hartmann, Markus Butter / Roland Kluttig(cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Mieczysław Weinberg's powerful Holocaust drama Die Passagierin channels his and his family's ordeals of wartime and Soviet persecution, applying them musically to Zofia Posmysz's autobiographical novel. |
ANTONIO SOLER
Soler: Keyboard Sonatas Nos. 96 - 98 Daumants Liepinš (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] Like many Catalan musicians of his time, Antonio Soler received initial training as a chorister before his excellence as an organist ensured high appointment at the Escorial, Spain's royal palace. |
SIGISMOND THALBERG
Thalberg: Les Soirées de Pausilippe, Op. 75 - Hommage à Rossini: 24 Pensées musicales Francesco Nicolosi (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] A major genre in the solo piano repertoire was the operatic paraphrase or fantasy and in this Thalberg excelled. In works of this kind performers could exhibit a high degree of virtuosity based on more or less familiar material in which an audience... |
BLOHN / BRANMULLER / ESCAICH / JORDAN / PART
Evocations - Contemporary Organ Music Christian vo Blohn (organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] This album of contemporary organ repertoire features fascinating works that display a wide array of influences. Barry Jordan's Praise Song, heard here its 2018 revision, draws on modern worship songs and African drumming rhythms, an element that also... |
CESAR GUERRA-PEIXE
Guerra-Peixe: Symphonic Suites Nos. 1 & 2 Goias Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] César Guerra-Peixe was one of the most versatile Brazilian musicians of the 20th century, gaining a particular mastery of orchestration and creating his own inimitable sound through extensive work in radio, television and cinema. The toe-tapping... |
PETER BOYER
Boyer: Balance of Power - Orchestral Works London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Boyer [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] This album presents eight of the most recent works by Peter Boyer, one of the leading American orchestral composers of his generation. Balance of Power was commissioned for the 95th birthday of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. |
WILLIAM McCLELLAND
McClelland: Where the Shadows Glides - Songs, Solo Piano and Choral Works Krista River (mezzo) Thomas Meglioranza (baritone) Donald Berman,Blair McMillen (piano) David Enlow (organ) / The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harols Ro [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] Internationally acclaimed composer William McClelland has written a wide variety of music in many styles and forms, but the works in this program have all been inspired by poetry. The choral works evoke the atmosphere of time and place in settings of... |
BERNHARD HEINRUCH ROMBERG / ANTON KRAFT / NIKOLAUS KRAFT
Works for two cellos Alexander Rudin, Emin Martirosian (cello) / Musica Viva Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Rudin [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] The emergence of the cello as a solo instrument at the beginning of the 19th century encouraged composers to explore its melodic and sonorous potential, with compositions for two or more cellos becoming increasingly popular. Bernhard Romberg and... |
KEMAL BELEVI
Cypriana - works for violin and guitar Silvia Grasso (Violin) Livio Grasso (Guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] Kemal Belevi's works for the guitar, either solo or in combination, as heard on this album, exude the colour and allure of the eastern Mediterranean. Without alluding to any specific tunes, he evokes Cypriot folk music in Cypriana, while the linked... |
ROBERT FARNON
Farnon: The Westminster Waltz / Colditz March / State Occasion / Jumping Bean Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Leaper [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Frank Sinatra dubbed Robert Farnon 'The Guv'nor' in 1962 when the two men first came together in London to work on an album. This summed up Farnon's reputation as being synonymous with the highest standards of craftsmanship across the widest spectrum... |
LORENZO PEROSI
Perosi: Piano Quintets Nos. 1 and 2 / String Trio No. 2 Matteo Bevilacqua (piano) / Roma Tre Orchestra Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Puccini once said, 'there is more music in Perosi's head than in mine and Mascagni's put together'. Priest-composer Lorenzo Perosi achieved international celebrity by the late 1890s for his sacred music, and he also composed a fine selection of... |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: Die Passagierin [The Passenger] (complete opera recorded in 2021) Oper Graz / Dshamilja Kaiser, Nadja Stefanoff, Will Hartmann, Markus Butter / Roland Kluttig(cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Mieczysław Weinberg's powerful Holocaust drama Die Passagierin channels his and his family's ordeals of wartime and Soviet persecution, applying them musically to Zofia Posmysz's autobiographical novel. |