RUED LANGGAARD
Langgaard: Antikrist (complete opera recorded in 2023) BLU-RAY Deutsche Oper Berlin / Thomas Lehman, Jonas Grundner-Culemann, Irene Roberts, Valeriia Savinskaia / Stephan Zilias (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Rued 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,... |
FRANCISCO MIGNONE
Mignone: Concertos Emmanuele Baldini (violin) Fabio Zanon (guitar) Ovanir Buosi (clarinet) Alexandre Silvério (bassoon) / São Paulo Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Sentimental, dynamic, exuberant, multi-talented and extremely eclectic, Francisco Mignone, whose Italian background brought a sense of universality to his musical nationalism, was a leading figure in the Brazilian music scene during the 20th century.... |
MARCO ENRICO BOSSI
Bossi: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 Emmanuele Baldini (violin), Luca Delle Donne (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Marco Enrico Bossi gained fame as one of the most influential Italian organ virtuosos of his day, and as a composer who helped lay the foundations for a new tradition of instrumental music in a country dominated by opera. Bossi's First Violin Sonata... |
ZOLTAN KODALY / ERNO DOHNANYI / BEDRICH WIEDERMANN / etc
Kodály: Organ Works Iain Quinn (Chancel Organ, Peachtree Road United Methodist Church, Atlanta) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] "The Dohnányi is a first recording, and as he spent his last years at Florida State University where I now work, this piece has a special relevance as his only organ work. It's a window into his compositional style at a young age, and there's no... |
GRANADOS / MOMPOU / CASSADO / MONTSALVATGE / CERVELLO
Catalan Violin Works Janna Gandelman (violin) Laia Martín (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] The versatility of Catalan songs has seen them much in use in arrangements for violin and piano, with Fritz Kreisler and Joseph Szigeti enthusiastic champions of their virtuoso potential and melodic charm. In addition to arrangements, this programme... |
VYTAUTAS BACEVIČIUS
Bacevicius: Orchestral Works Vol 2 Gabrielius Alekna (piano) / Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Vytautas Bacevičius's life was defined by exile and migration during the turbulent first half of the 20th century, but his impressive catalogue represents a remarkable creative spirit undimmed by adversity. Composed while studying in Paris, the... |
GRACE WILLIAMS
Grace Williams: Songs Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) Wendy Hiscocks (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Grace Williams' lifelong interest in vocal writing no doubt owed something to her upbringing in Wales. The original works heard here in their premiere recordings span the entirety of her career, ranging from her earliest surviving composition in any... |
ALBERT DIETRICH
Dietrich: Violin Concerto, Op. 30 / Symphony in D minor, Op. 20 Klaidi Sahatçi (violin) / Solistes Européens, Luxembourg, Christoph König [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Albert Hermann Dietrich is best known through his association with the Schumanns and his friendship with Brahms, but as this recording shows, his contribution to this circle's artistic activities went further than promoting their works as music... |
JOHN CORIGLIANO / VINCENT HO
Corigliano: Mr. Tamourine Man / Ho: Gryphon Realms Laura Hynes (amplified soprano) Mary Sullivan (flutes) Cédric Blary (clarinets) Kyle Eustace (percussion) / Land's End Ensemble, Karl Hirzer [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] John Corigliano is one of America's most distinguished composers whose music, as Leonard Slatkin writes, 'belongs to the world'. Corigliano originally conceived his setting of Bob Dylan songs Mr. Tambourine Man for voice and piano, then orchestrated... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Preludes and Overtures St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow [ Vox Classics / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] 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,... |