i GROVEN, E.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 (Kristiansand Symphony, Szilvay) (8.573871) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Many interwar Norwegian composers tried to create a new national music by combining elements of authentic folk music with new techniques. Eivind Groven was considered one of the most innovative composers in this quest, integrating the structure of folk dances from his rural upbringing into familiar formal principles. Both symphonies make use of techniques of so-called ‘progressive transformation’, which led fellow composer Arne Nordheim to declare: ‘While others made instrumentations of folk tunes, Groven created sounds, for example in his [two] symphonies which, in my opinion, are quite unique.’ Full Article
i FRANCK, C.: Psyché (version for choir and orchestra) / Le Chasseur maudit / Les Éolides (RCS Voices, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Tingaud) (8.573955) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT César Franck was a childhood prodigy who gained later renown as an organist and teacher. His compositions received scant attention until the success of Le Chasseur maudit, a symphonic morality tale that vividly portrays the ‘accursed huntsman’ from his defiance of the Sabbath to a dramatic chase and a horrific fate. Les Éolides is infused with Wagnerian colours and depicts the mythological Aeolids as they reawaken nature with their song. Franck’s lushly orchestrated final symphonic poem Psyché expresses the power of love in dreams and a passionate union. Full Article
i Flute Music - CASTALDI, P. / COSMI, G. / DAVISMOON, S. / FANTICINI, F. / MORRICONE, E. / PROCK, S. / TACCANI, G.C. (Flute XXI) (Fabbriciani) (TC980090) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i Flute and Piano Recital: Mazzoli, Filippo / Dang, Nathalie - LEFORT, A. / MASSON, L. / MORET, E. / SEITZ, A. (Chant dans la nuit) (CDS7862) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i DOPPLER, F. and K.: Flute Music (Complete), Vol. 10 (Arimany) (C5304) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i DAUGHERTY, M.: This Land Sings: Inspired by the Life and Times of Woody Guthrie (Socolofsky, J. Daugherty, Dogs of Desire, D.A. Miller) (8.559889) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT In This Land Sings, GRAMMY Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty has created an original musical tribute to the singer-songwriter and political activist Woody Guthrie (1912–1967). Traveling the backroads of America from coast to coast with a guitar and harmonica, Woody Guthrie performed folk songs of love, wandering and social justice during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Daugherty has composed his own original songs and instrumental interludes that give haunting expression, ironic wit and contemporary relevance to political, social and environmental themes from Guthrie’s era. Under the baton of GRAMMY Award-winning conductor David Alan Miller, the Albany Symphony’s new music ensemble Dogs of Desire, joined by soprano Annika Socolofsky and baritone John Daugherty, give a poignant and rousing performance. Full Article
i CHINA Folk Music of China, Vol. 6: Folk Songs of China's Tajik and Russian Minorities (NXW76093-2) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT This album features folk songs from the Tajik and Russian ethnic minority groups living in the western and northwestern areas of Xinjiang, China. These folk songs have an earthy beauty that is theirs alone. Many of the Tajik songs featured here are accompanied by the Rewap—an ancient stringed instrument made from mulberry trunks. The sound is similar to that of an acoustic guitar, but the tone is brighter and more elastic. Many of the Russian songs feature the Bayan (a type of accordion) and the Balalaika. Full Article
i CELTIC Brian Ó hEadhra / Fiona Mackenzie: TÌR - Highland Life and Lore (NXW76115-2) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i Cello Quartet Recital: Kolophonistinnen (Die) - BRAMBÖCK, F. / STRAUSS I, J. / STRAUSS II, J. / SHOSTAKOVICH, D. / TANSMAN, A. (Heldinnenleben) (Gramola99218) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i BURHANS, C.: Evensong [Bonus Tracks Version] (Burhans) (CA-21094A) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i BOULEZ, P.: Incises (revised version, 2001) (van Raat) (9.70294) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT This digital single complements Naxos 8.573894, an album of French piano rarities also performed by Ralph van Raat. Full Article
i BERSA, B.: Piano Works (Complete), Vol. 2 (Filipec) (GP832) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT As with the first volume in this series (GP767), Blagoje Bersa’s piano works are organised according to their character and tonality rather than chronologically. They include elements of transcription drawing on Mozart and Beethoven but also characterful barcarolles that evoke Italian music, a taut and witty Bizarre Serenade, a simple but affecting Mélancolie, and an invitation to a Viennese ballroom in the Valzer, Op. 3. Full Article
i BELEVI, K.: Guitar Duos - Cyprian Rhapsodies Nos. 1-4 / Suite Chypre / Turkish Suite (Duo Tandem) (8.574081) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Kemal Belevi’s music is steeped in the colours and atmosphere of the eastern Mediterranean, and his aim is ‘to create beautiful music’ based on melodies and rhythms that have been absorbed from the folk music of Greece, Turkey and the Middle East. Belevi’s own arrangements of works such as the evocative Suite Chypre and the richly varied Cyprian Rhapsodies have significantly extended the repertoire for two guitars. The Duo Tandem are drawn towards this composer’s skilful modernity and his celebration of traditional heritage reimagined within the sound world of the classical guitar. Full Article
i BEETHOVEN, L. van: Symphonies / Concertos / Overtures (Cologne Radio Symphony, South West German Radio Symphony, Baden-Baden, Rosbaud) (SWR19089CD) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i BEETHOVEN, L. van: Piano Concertos (Complete) (Mustonen, Tapiola Sinfonietta) (ODE1359-2T) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i BEETHOVEN, L. van: Folk Songs (Bohnet, D. Johannsen, Klimbacher, Herzer, Christelbauer, B. Bartos) (8.574174) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT George Thomson of Edinburgh, a notable promoter of Scottish music, encouraged settings of his nation’s folk songs. In particular, he found a rich source of arrangements in Vienna, where he commissioned first Haydn and then Beethoven to set a large sequence of poems, including those of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. Thomson envisaged simple works, agreeable to amateurs, but Beethoven found it impossible to compose within such limitations and his settings, which include Irish and Welsh songs, with the accompaniment of strings and piano, have proved perennially popular. Full Article
i BEETHOVEN, L. van: Celebrate Beethoven – Keyboard Music (9.30211) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i BEETHOVEN, L. van: Best of Beethoven (Biret) (8.504055) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT “Love of Beethoven’s works threads through Idil Biret’s life like a red ribbon. Her studio recordings and live concerts show this in an unequivocal language… Next to all the Piano Concertos and the Choral Fantasy she has also performed on stage and recorded (on 19 CDs) all the Piano Sonatas and Symphony Transcriptions becoming perhaps the only artist to reach this level of completeness… This knowledge of Beethoven one hears in every nuance in Idil Biret’s playing.” – Carsten Dürer (editor) Piano News (Germany) 2021 “Idil Biret not only recorded all nine of the Beethoven symphonies in less than a year but, in a superhuman feat which astounded all those who know about music she also publicly performed all of them in four recitals at the Montpellier Festival in France. To learn and also memorise scores of such length and difficulty in such a short time is a mind-boggling achievement.” – Peter Cossé Fono Forum (Germany) 1986 “Idil Biret, who arriving in Paris at the age of seven astonished Alfred Cortot, Wilhelm Kempff and Marc Pincherle, remains a remarkable pianist who combines brilliant technical skill with the subdued touch, the interior voices, or her mentor Cortot… At her Paris recital, Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 106 Hammerklavier brought us the fighter, armed from top to toe, like a valiant Clorinde, combining the most beautiful of styles with a fabulous virtuosity.” – Le Monde (France) 1981 Full Article
i AFRICA Pure Africa (EUCD2903) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i ABEL, M.: Intuition's Dance / 4 Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva / The Elastic Hours / Clarinet Trio (The Cave of Wondrous Voice) (Shifrin, Sherry, Plitmann) (DE3570) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i DEBUSSY, C.: Pelléas et Mélisande [Opera] (Zürich Opera, 2016) (NTSC) (BAC157) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i DEBUSSY, C.: Pelléas et Mélisande [Opera] (Zürich Opera, 2016) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC457) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i ART OF OHAD NAHARIN (THE), Vol. 2 - Sadeh21 [Ballet] (Batsheva Dance Company, 2018) (NTSC) (BAC172) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i ART OF OHAD NAHARIN (THE), Vol. 2 - Sadeh21 [Ballet] (Batsheva Dance Company, 2018) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC472) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i WEILL, K.: Street Scene [Opera] (Teatro Real, 2018) (NTSC) (BAC162) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i WEILL, K.: Street Scene [Opera] (Teatro Real, 2018) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC562) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i WEILL, K.: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny [Opera] (Sung in English) (Teatro Real, 2010) (NTSC) (BAC067) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i WEILL, K.: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny [Opera] (Sung in English) (Teatro Real, 2010) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC467) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Eugene Onegin [Opera] (Bolshoi Opera, 2008) (NTSC) (BAC246) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Eugene Onegin [Opera] (Bolshoi Opera, 2008) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC446) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Swan Lake [Ballet] (Kiev National Ballet, 2019) (NTSC) (BAC174) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i TCHAIKOVSKY, P.I.: Swan Lake [Ballet] (Kiev National Ballet, 2019) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC574) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i LAZAR, B. / CHEMLA, J. / HUBERT, F.: Traviata [Opera] (after A. Dumas (fils) and G. Verdi) (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, 2017) (NTSC) (BAC156) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i LAZAR, B. / CHEMLA, J. / HUBERT, F.: Traviata [Opera] (after A. Dumas (fils) and G. Verdi) (Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, 2017) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC456) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i GALERIE DORÉE - The 300th Anniversary Concert (Devos, Le Concert de la Loge, Chauvin) (NTSC) (BAC171) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i GALERIE DORÉE - The 300th Anniversary Concert (Devos, Le Concert de la Loge, Chauvin) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC571) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i JANÁČEK, L.: From the House of the Dead [Opera] (Bavarian State Opera, 2018) (NTSC) (BAC173) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i JANÁČEK, L.: From the House of the Dead [Opera] (Bavarian State Opera, 2018) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC573) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i VERDI, G.: Falstaff [Opera] (Teatro Real, 2019) (NTSC) (BAC177) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i VERDI, G.: Falstaff [Opera] (Teatro Real, 2019) (Blu-ray, Full-HD) (BAC477) By www.naxos.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT Full Article
i Proud Creature - Opening Creature EP By www.music-news.com Published On :: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 22:50:00 Z A great score for a good dive inward or just a cerebrally distracting soundtrack to these isolation days. Full Article
i Moaning - Uneasy Laughter By www.music-news.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:40:00 Z Moaning let it all out Full Article
i Chris Ianuzzi - Olga In a Black Hole By www.music-news.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 06:49:00 Z Olga in a Black Hole is a portal to an audacious, perilous, and glorious future world. Chris Ianuzzi's lifetime of building sonic landscapes is harnessed to create a spellbinding glimpse into one of our possible futures. One of wonder and cosmic discovery. Full Article
i Young Knives - Sheep Tick By www.music-news.com Published On :: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:39:00 Z Further wails of the unexpected Full Article
i Brian Davidson's Every Which Way - Brian Davidson's Every Which Way By www.music-news.com Published On :: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:43:00 Z ...by using musicians first and egos second Davidson really did produce something special. Full Article
i Soul Asylum - Hurry Up And Wait By www.music-news.com Published On :: Sat, 28 Mar 2020 18:10:00 Z Full Article
i Eric Burdon & The Animals - When I Was Young By www.music-news.com Published On :: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 16:17:00 +0100 Overall, this is a fantastic re-issue. The remastering is brilliant, there is a superb booklet Full Article
i Catholic Action - Celebrated by Strangers By www.music-news.com Published On :: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:36:00 +0100 And on the 9th day, God created Catholic Action. Full Article
i Sean Miller - Everywhere I Roam By www.music-news.com Published On :: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 04:31:00 +0100 The singer's resort-town home of Petoskey, MI figures largely in the album, influencing with its lakeside vibe. The seven-song EP features Miller's breezy summer tunes with a loose country bounce. Full Article
i Zilla With Her Eyes Shut - Zilla With Her Eyes Shut By www.music-news.com Published On :: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 22:19:00 +0100 Zilla With Her Eyes Shut is the latest far-out wunderkind to emerge from the same eccentric pop incubator that brought us FKA Twigs, Grimes, and MIA. Full Article
