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Lasso, Vicentino, Rore, Lusitano, Marenzio, Luzzaschi: Chrom
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What I Saw in the Water - 21st Century Works for Guitar Duo / ChromaDuo
Tartini: "Diavolo" - 6 Violin Sonatas / Chandler, La Serenissima
The latest instalment from baroque ensemble La Serenissima. Often compared to Vivaldi, Giuseppe Tartini was a famous virtuoso violinist and highly respected teacher, and is best known for the sonata “Il Trillo del Diavolo” (The Devi’s Trill) which is legendary for both its story and for its fiendish level of technical wizardry.
Roussel: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2; String Trio / Bowlin, Docter, Kouzov, Tony Cho
Albert Roussel’s chamber works are relatively unknown, yet he composed a significant body of masterful works. The majestic Violin Sonata No. 1 and the dynamic neo-Classical Violin Sonata No. 2 are coupled with the String Trio, Roussel’s last completed work. Violinist David Bowlin and pianist Tony Cho are both highly regarded soloists and faculty members of Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, where the album was recorded.
REVIEW:
All three chamber music works are characterized by skillful craftsmanship. The First Sonata is the most extensive of all Roussel's chamber music works and is markedly serious. The Second Violin Sonata is only about half as long, but just as determined. The String Trio, his last completed work, is a striking example of his late style.
The musicians offer the works with an extremely positive commitment that immediately engages the listener. Each of the three pieces has its own character that makes it unmistakable and the performers bring this out skillfully. They form lively narratives in tones that breathe life into the largely unknown in a delightful way. In terms of design, they explore the music in all directions and know how to integrate the details into the overall picture, creating a cohesive form from the first to the last note. We can be grateful that they have taken on the works in such a convincing way.
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Mignone: Concertos & Concertinos / Thomson, Guerrero, São Paulo Symphony
From Rome to Vilnius
Music for Piano & Piano Quintet / Angel Stanislav Wang
Angel Stanislav Wang (b. 2003, California), winner of the 2022 Jaén Prize International Piano Competition, presents his debut recital featuring Liszt’s monumental Sonata in B minor, and Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor accompanied by the Bretón String Quartet, plus excerpts from Granados's Goyescas and the competition imposed work Poema a un amor eterno by Laura Vega.
Spanienreise
Between Two Worlds - Ben-Haim, Engel & Prokofiev / Guy Yehuda
Saariaho: Maan Varjot etc. / Latry, Martinez-Izquierdo, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Kaija Saariaho (1952-2023), featured in 2017 at Radio France's Festival Presences of contemporary music, was a central figure in a generation of internationally renowned Finnish composers and performers.
Kaija Saariaho developed computer-assisted composition techniques and mastered working with tape and live electronics, but she also encountered French composers of so-called spectral music, whose techniques are based on computer analysis of the sound spectrum of individual notes on different instruments.
In the profusion of works that Saariaho has produced in recent years, two features have marked her entire career. One is the close collaboration with other artists –writers, directors, musicians, etc.– in the creation of new works. The other is the concern to make her music, not the treatment of an abstract process, but an urgent sharing of ideas, images and emotions from the composer to the listener.
This collection is the recording echo of the Festival Presences (created in 1991) and its commissioning and creation activities, supported by Radio France's musical ensembles.
Unlocked - Brescianello, Vol. 2 / Chandler, La Serenissima
This album features the second half of Brescianello’s Opus 1; works 1 – 6 were released as Behind Closed Doors in 2022. La Serenissima passionately believe that Brescianello is a composer who deserves greater recognition with the result that many of his works have been included in releases dating from 2019, our first release on Signum. Solo concertos for violin alternate with Sinphonias for strings and continuo; both forms illustrate Brescianello’s talent for fusing virtuosity with the sweetest of melodies. Also included on the album is an orchestral suite in A major that finishes with a rousing Giga.
Rio
Thomas Shippers - A Retrospective
Hosokawa: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 - Sakura; Trumpet Concert
Armenian Brilliance / Madoyan, Grigoryan
A selection of delightful miniatures for violin and piano in original versions and arrangements by some of Armenia's most admired composers. This album marks the Naxos debut of acclaimed violinist Nikolay Madoyan. A selection of Armenian piano music can be heard on Naxos 8.573467. Works by Arutiunian, Bagdasarian, Barkhudarian, and Komitas can also be heard via albums on the Grand Piano label.
Khachaturian: The Dancing Violin
Brauneiss, Say & Wagner: Wagneriana
Unter dem Titel Wagneriana präsentiert diese Aufnahme das Schaffen Richard Wagners in neuem klanglichen und musikalischem Gewand. Das Spektrum reicht von Bearbeitungen der Originale bis hin zur Neuvertonung eines verschollenen Liedes. Diese besondere Produktion ist nicht zuletzt eine Hommage an die Josef Matthias Hauer-Musikschule Wiener Neustadt anlässlich ihres 150-jährigen Bestehens. Der Titel Wagneriana deutet darauf hin, dass keine der auf der CD enthaltenen Kompositionen in der Originalfassung von Wagner erklingt. Der Grad der Bearbeitung und Überarbeitung von Wagners Vorlagen variiert jedoch. Die Bandbreite reicht von Arrangements, die das Original lediglich in anderem Klang präsentieren, über Ergänzungen im Stil Wagners, Paraphrasen bis hin zu Collagen und der gänzlichen Neuvertonung eines verschollenen Liedes unter Verwendung von Wagnerschen Motiven.
Lasso, Vicentino, Rore, Lusitano, Marenzio, Luzzaschi: Chrom
Bartok: From the Diary of a Fly
Henze: Reinventions of Mozart, C.P.E. Bach & Vitali / Padova-Veneto Orchestra
German composer Hans Werner Henze’s (1926–2012) admiration for the great masters of the Baroque and musical Classicism manifested in compositions born from a desire to transcribe, rework and transform 17th- and 18th-century masterpieces into new orchestral textures. The project Travestimenti (Disguises), managed by conductor Marco Angius and the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, from which this CD was created, makes reference to Henze’s ‘reinventions’ of masterpieces by Mozart, C.P.E. Bach and Vitali, clothed in new, modern fashion.
For the Drei Mozart’sche Orgelsonaten, Henze takes up three of Mozart’s one-movement Kirchensonaten (church sonatas or trio sonatas). Sonatas 17 and 15 are in an Allegro tempo, whereas the Sonata K.67 is marked Andantino, so Henze, in his transcription, places the latter between the two livelier tempos, thus reconstructing the tripartite structure of a classical three-movement sonata. Scored for an ensemble of 14 players that includes the less common, softer variants oboe d’amore and viola d’amore, it aims to underline the darker instrumental timbres, favouring the sombre sonorities of the alto flute in G, the bass flute in C, the bass clarinet and the bassoon. During the last year of his life, in 1787, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach composed a Fantasia libera per tastiera sola (Free Fantasia for keyboard alone) which he expanded into the Clavier-Fantasie mit Begleitung einer Violine (Fantasy for harpsichord with violin accompaniment), one of his most personal and expressive works.
Henze transcribed it for solo flute, harp and strings, aiming to project the extremely interesting and expressive harmonic material of the composition into a larger instrumental apparatus, thus making its future-oriented harmonic structures more manifest and moulded. He proposed two options for division of the: string quartet + string quintet or string quartet + tutti (the latter version is recorded here).
Although it was probably composed in the early 18th century, Vitali’s Ciaccona ‘Il Vitalino’ – whose musical form is inspired by dance and consists of variations on a ground bass – was only rediscovered in 1867, published by the German virtuoso violinist Ferdinand David. Henze’s Il Vitalino raddoppiato – called “raddoppiato” (“doubled”) because of his extension of the composition by means of interpolated variations of each original section in the style of 18th-century doubles – retains Vitali’s bass almost throughout the entire composition. It alternates Vitali’s variations on his chaconne theme with Henze’s variations of Vitali’s variations, in an ever-changing dialogue between the 18th-century past and Henze’s present.
Campra: Requiem & Miserere
Phoenix Rising
Lecuona: Piano Music
Borodin, Glazunov, Mussorgsky & Rimsky-Korsakov: Dances of Light / Masurenko, Yaruss Quartet
The familiar in a new guise – Tatjana Masurenko and the Yaruss Quartet are therefore in good company when they clothe the music of the Russian Romantics in novel acoustic garments. Using viola, soprano domra and alto domra, accordion and double bass, they play 19th century works in their own arrangements, using gut strings for all of their instruments, the domras sounding somewhat like Italian mandolins. In this guise, compositions by Rimsky-Korsakov, Musorgsky, Borodin and Glazunov seem lighter, more open and agile, their music expressing a fresh elegance with different colours, taking on a completely new character.
Say: Violin Concerto No. 2, "Spring Mornings in the Days of
Strauss: Don Quixote; Ibert: Le Chevalier Errant
Khachaturian: Piano Transcriptions / Ayrapetyan
Ginastera: String Quartets
Szymanowski: Piano Works, Vol. 3
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