New Releases

[PerfectWagnerite]

Indeed, but if something of interest comes along, then I'm buying it.

But you aren't all that choosy either right?

[Brian]

In other news, we have a surprising lack of Naxos April news so far on this thread. We've usually got it by now.

APRIL PART I



Schubert Octet + Berwald Septet








Beethoven/Liszt: Adelaide
Schubert: Sonata D. 568
Haydn: Un piccolo divertimento
Fazil Say: Black Earth
Bartok: Out of Doors
Fuyuhiko Sasaki: Sacrifice
84:56



"Throughout history men have feared madwomen, burning them as witches, confining them in asylums and subjecting them to psychoanalysis – yet, they have also been fascinated, unable to resist fantasizing about them. For their new release, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton have created a programme that explores the responses of a variety of composers to women whose stories have left them vulnerable and exposed. As a motto they have chosen an aphorism by Nietzsche: 'There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.' Brahms' Ophelia Songs, composed for a stage production of Hamlet, appear next to those by Richard Strauss and Chausson, while Ophelia's death is described by both Schumann (in Herzeleid) and Saint-Saëns. Goethe's mysterious and traumatized Mignon appears in settings by Hugo Wolf as well as Duparc, while his ill-used Gretchen grieves by her spinning-wheel in Schubert's matchless setting. Sadness and madness tip into witchery and unbridled eroticism with Pierre Louÿs's poems about Bilitis, set by Kœchlin and Debussy. Sampson and Middleton end their recital as it began, with a suicide by drowning: in Poulenc's monologue La Dame de Monte-Carlo, the elderly female protagonist has been unlucky at the gambling tables and decides to throw herself into the sea."

[Brian]

APRIL PART II



Toldi - at 65 minutes - is part of a Naxos project to record Weiner's complete works. The composer's truncated suites from the piece are available for download only.







"Victoria Bond (b. 1945) is a distinguished force in contemporary music. She is known for her melodic and dramatic flair, and her orchestral works, chamber pieces and operas have been lauded by The New York Times as "powerful, stylistically varied and technically demanding." This collection of world premiere recordings by Grammy Award-winning ensemble Chicago Pro Musica provides an essential overview of Bond's multi-faceted inventiveness- from a musical interpretation of tarot cards in Instruments of Revelation, to descriptive and dramatic images of the tragic city of Pompeii in Frescoes and Ash. Leopold Bloom's Homecoming expresses in music what is left to our imagination in James Joyce's Ulysses, and the mathematics of Binary turn the digits 0 and 1 into variations on a Brazilian samba."



Arabeske
Concerto without Orchestra
Blumenstück
Faschingsschwank aus Wien

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PLUS
(no artwork yet for these)

- Handel's Messiah with Collegium 1704 and Václav Luks (Accent)
- Schumann songs including Dichterliebe - Pregardien, Sandrine Piau, Eric Le Sage (Alpha)
- Belcea Quartet plays Janacek and Ligeti (Alpha)
- Reger piano concerto with Markus Becker, NDR, and "Wilerstein" (I think that's Joshua Weilerstein) (Avi)
- Kevin Kenner plays Paderewski (Chopin Institute)
- Haydn concertos with Mischa Maisky and Martha Argerich (Chopin Institute)
- Brahms Clarinet Sonatas and Trio with Pascal Moragues, Frank Braley, Christian Poltera (Indesens)
- someone named Guy Braunstein doing Tchaikovsky violin & orchestra with BBC Symphony and Kirill Karabits (PentaTone)
- Bennewitz Quartet plays Ullmann, Schulhoff, Krasa, Pavel Haas (Supraphon)

[prémont]

APRIL PART II

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Well, this is certainly interesting news.

[Mirror Image]

Interesting. I already own this set as I received the other day from Amazon France. Amazon Germany shows a release date of March 8th. It's already released on Amazon UK. Out of curiosity, where did you get April from?

[mc ukrneal]

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This one has potential...

[Brian]

Interesting. I already own this set as I received the other day from Amazon France. Amazon Germany shows a release date of March 8th. It's already released on Amazon UK. Out of curiosity, where did you get April from?

Naxos distribution to US and Canada

[JCBuckley]

Imminent:

[Mandryka]

Imminent:

I think his Jupiterian manner could work in Italian music, I don't think he's recorded any before.

[Mandryka]

Interesting. I already own this set as I received the other day from Amazon France. Amazon Germany shows a release date of March 8th. It's already released on Amazon UK. Out of curiosity, where did you get April from?

I found it quite challenging, but slowly I'm getting used to it I think. I found myself enjoying a certain depth of sound in 3 today,

[Mandryka]

Well, this is certainly interesting news.

End of March I think.

[Gurn Blanston]

APRIL PART I

Nice, I'll have that! 

[Rinaldo]

Looking forward to Caroline Shaw's first disc:



Releases April 19th.

[Brahmsian]

Looking forward to Caroline Shaw's first disc:



Releases April 19th.

Very interesting.  Got a chance to hear Caroline Shaw's "Music in Common Time" about a month ago for the annual Winnipeg New Music Festival.  She was there for the pre-concert chat.  An interesting work, that I did enjoy.

[SurprisedByBeauty]

Out of curiosity, where did you get April from?

Presumably the American release date? They can differ quite a bit, depending on the label.

APRIL PART II

Wohoo. With my liner notes [#humblebrag]

[Mandryka]

APRIL PART II

 

Interesting. I already own this set as I received the other day from Amazon France. Amazon Germany shows a release date of March 8th. It's already released on Amazon UK. Out of curiosity, where did you get April from?

I found it quite challenging, but slowly I'm getting used to it I think. I found myself enjoying a certain depth of sound in 3 today,

I've decided, after listening more closely to 3, I don't think it's for me -- it seems a bit too in your face, no delicacy, and to be too much about maximising contrasts. And I've started to enjoy a leaner more transparent sound. Anyway, I'm open to be showing the error of my ways.

[Mirror Image]

I've decided, after listening more closely to 3, I don't think it's for me -- it seems a bit too in your face, no delicacy, and to be too much about maximising contrasts. And I've started to enjoy a leaner more transparent sound. Anyway, I'm open to be showing the error of my ways.

What's your preferred cycle for Bartók's SQs?

[Mandryka]

What's your preferred cycle for Bartók's SQs?

Zehetmair, Juilliard, New Music Quartet. I only really know 3-5, maybe 6 a bit.

[Todd]

[prémont]

For me Sheppard's Gould'ian approach made his AoF a very disappointing experience.