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Franz Halász - Hans Werner Henze: Guitar Music, Vol. 2 (2010)

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Franz Halász - Hans Werner Henze: Guitar Music, Vol. 2 (2010)

Franz Halász - Hans Werner Henze: Guitar Music, Vol. 2 (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 70:24 | 294 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.557345

Henze recordings don’t come my way very often, but when they do I’m reminded of just how versatile a composer he is. There are also fine DVDs of his best stage works; L’Upupa und der Triumph des Sohnesliebe (Euroarts) is a treat for the eye and ear, and there’s an unmissable Ondine from Covent Garden, with Miyako Yoshida in the name part.

Michael Bundy, Helen Crayford – Tournemire: Sagesse, Poème, Dialogue sacré, 3 Lieder (2010)

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Michael Bundy, Helen Crayford – Tournemire: Sagesse, Poème, Dialogue sacré, 3 Lieder (2010)

Michael Bundy, Helen Crayford – Tournemire: Sagesse, Poème, Dialogue sacré, 3 Lieder (2010)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 71:24 | 242 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.572347

The name of Charles Tournemire is a minor one, even in the history of French music, and you won’t find much about him in the standard reference books. Nor are you likely to get a great deal of opportunity to hear his music: only two of the works on this disc have been published in printed form, and Sagesse is the only one to have been recorded before. The disc would thus be valuable for that reason alone.

Sergio Monteiro - Vierne: Complete Piano Works Vol.2 (2023)

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Sergio Monteiro - Vierne: Complete Piano Works Vol.2 (2023)

Sergio Monteiro - Vierne: Complete Piano Works Vol.2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:17:11 | 185 / 174 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Louis Vierne will always be best remembered as one France’s most outstanding organ composers, but his piano works are part of a significant wider oeuvre and notable for their colourful and inspired inventiveness. Each of the Douze Préludes carries an evocative title in music filled with the pain and tumult of war and loss, while the epitaphs in Solitude were composed shortly after the deaths of Vierne’s brother and eldest son. Including recently published manuscripts, this is the second of two albums covering repertoire that deserves a place in the pantheon of French piano music.

Celil Refik Kaya - Domeniconi: Sinbad, a Fairy Tale for Solo Guitar (2023)

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Celil Refik Kaya - Domeniconi: Sinbad, a Fairy Tale for Solo Guitar (2023)

Celil Refik Kaya - Domeniconi: Sinbad, a Fairy Tale for Solo Guitar (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:20:00 | 184 / 248 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Renowned both as a guitarist and a composer, Carlo Domeniconi has written over 150 compositions, combining Eastern and Western elements in striking and individual ways. Sinbad, a Fairy Tale for Solo Guitar is a perfect example of his imaginative style and is one of the most remarkable works in the entire solo guitar repertoire, evoking the panoramic journey of the sailor and adventurer known from The Arabian Nights. The piece draws on diverse sources including Oriental-Persian scales, Arabic oud ornaments and extended techniques to chart, in three cycles, the Middle Eastern atmosphere through which Sinbad travels.

Archos Quartet, Wawrzyniec Szymański - Sinigaglia: Complete Works for String Quartet, Vol. 2 (2023)

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Archos Quartet, Wawrzyniec Szymański - Sinigaglia: Complete Works for String Quartet, Vol. 2 (2023)

Archos Quartet, Wawrzyniec Szymański - Sinigaglia: Complete Works for String Quartet, Vol. 2 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:27:24 | 440 / 200 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

The second volume of Leone Sinigaglia’s music for string quartet (Volume 1 is on 8.574183) explores a series of generally shorter pieces for the medium. These deeply expressive works, such as the yearning Romanza for string quartet and horn, combine compositional rigour with a flowing Italianate lyricism nurtured in the years 1888–89. Also included are the String Trio in A major, which evokes the world of the Baroque through its Bachian counterpoint, and the Trio-Serenata, fusing elysian beauty with joyful elegance. All but one of these pieces are world premiere recordings, many of which are played from the composer’s original manuscripts.

Kreutzer Quartet - Gloria Coates: String Quartets Nos. 1, 5 & 6 (2002)

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Kreutzer Quartet - Gloria Coates: String Quartets Nos. 1, 5 & 6 (2002)

Kreutzer Quartet - Gloria Coates: String Quartets Nos. 1, 5 & 6 (2002)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 59:02 | 244 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.559091

A first listen to the music of Gloria Coates is a breath of fresh air. Here is a genuinely contemporary sound, one that emerges naturally from our time and culture. Here are sounds to express our sense of time, space, movement and activity. There is no sense of is referentiallism. What a relief! There is no rehashing of someone else's style , whether from 10 or 500 years ago. There is no wilful difficulty to this music or the collaging of disparate influences.

Zoltan Szoke, Budapest Symphony Orchestra - Zador: Celebration Music - Chamber Concerto - Suite for Horn, Strings (2023)

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Zoltan Szoke, Budapest Symphony Orchestra - Zador: Celebration Music - Chamber Concerto - Suite for Horn, Strings (2023)

Zoltan Szoke, Budapest Symphony Orchestra - Zador: Celebration Music - Chamber Concerto - Suite for Horn, Strings (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:11:27 | 310 / 163 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Eugene Zádor was an established composer by the time he moved from Europe to the United States in 1939 where he worked as a film composer. Many of the works on this album exhibit Zádor’s finest traits, blending neo-Classicism and neo-Romanticism with expert orchestration and rhythmic verve, and a dedication to tonality liberally peppered with gentle dissonance. The Chamber Concerto was composed while he was still in Vienna, and the Suite for Horn, Strings and Percussion only received its premiere after Zádor’s death. The programme concludes with spectacular off-stage effects and a joyous affirmation of life in Celebration Music.

The Peabody Conservatory Wind Ensemble, Harlan D. Parker - Johan de Meij: The Symphonies (2013)

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The Peabody Conservatory Wind Ensemble, Harlan D. Parker - Johan de Meij: The Symphonies (2013)

The Peabody Conservatory Wind Ensemble, Harlan D. Parker - Johan de Meij: The Symphonies (2013)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:04:28 | 581 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.573143-44

Award-winning conductor and composer Johan de Meij's First Symphony 'The Lord of the Rings' is a spectacular evocation in five portraits and scenes based on Tolkien's tale of a grand quest and the struggle of good against evil. The Second Symphony is an ode to the symmetry of New York's streets and its massive architecture, as well as a tribute to the American styles of Copland and Bernstein, while the cinematic effects of the Third Symphony form an epic paean to the entire earth in all its miraculous beauty.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin - Rachmaninov: Complete Symphonies (2023)

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Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin - Rachmaninov: Complete Symphonies (2023)

Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin - Rachmaninov: Complete Symphonies (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 3:20:45 | 844 / 456 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Rachmaninov’s symphonic career had a rocky start with the premiere of his First Symphony, now recognised as one of the great Russian symphonic works of the late 19th century. Both the powerful First Symphony and the gloriously melodic Second, with its lushly harmonic Adagio second movement, are haunted by the Dies irae chant melody. Rachmaninov considered his Third Symphony to be one of his finest works, alongside the exquisitely orchestrated and virtuosic Symphonic Dances. The enduring attraction of these symphonies is enhanced by the ‘impressive, highly desirable interpretations’ (Gramophone) in this acclaimed edition conducted by Leonard Slatkin.

Maggini Quartet – Berkeley: String Quartets Nos. 1-3 (2007)

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Maggini Quartet – Berkeley: String Quartets Nos. 1-3 (2007)

Maggini Quartet – Berkeley: String Quartets Nos. 1-3 (2007)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:02:58 | 306 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.570415

This disc, another in the Maggini Quartet's series of recordings of string quartets by twentieth century English composers for Naxos, brings together the three quartets of Lennox Berkeley. And as in the group's previous recordings of quartets by Bridge, Arnold, and Rawsthorne, the music proves as excellent as it is unexpected. Berkeley's quartets date from 1935, 1941, and 1970, and each sounds like a work of its time yet still characteristic of the composer.

Adrienn Miksch, Janos Bandi, Ferenc Szecsodi - Brahms: Hungarian Dances & the Hungarian Tradition (2023)

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Adrienn Miksch, Janos Bandi, Ferenc Szecsodi - Brahms: Hungarian Dances & the Hungarian Tradition (2023)

Adrienn Miksch, Janos Bandi, Ferenc Szecsodi - Brahms: Hungarian Dances & the Hungarian Tradition (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 2:29:57 | 574 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Brahms had long been immersed in the folk traditions and spirit of Hungary’s musical repertoire, not least through the famous violinist Ede Reményi, for whom he played as piano accompanist. Brahms employed melodies that he had heard, as well as those based on sheet music, and in this album his Hungarian Dances are presented alongside their source material and variants, as well as some elements that Brahms omitted from his settings. Contextualised in this way, the heroic strength and dynamism, as well as the melancholy of the Dances can be heard as never before.

Dorothea Craxton - Handel: Nine German Arias, Gloria (2011)

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Dorothea Craxton - Handel: Nine German Arias, Gloria (2011)

Dorothea Craxton - Handel: Nine German Arias, Gloria (2011)
EAC FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 65:52 | 338 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 8.572587

This album of Handel vocal selections should delight the listener with its clear, bell-like soprano and its period orchestra, its Handelian melismas and reverential songs to God. Soprano Dorothea Craxton sings with such a beautiful, creamy sound and smooth technique that one does not hear her breaths. However, this album disappoints for the sole reason that the recording quality is off-balance, often relegating Craxton to sound like a member of the ensemble as opposed to soloist (or being overpowered by one of the ensemble).

Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Marek Stilec - Wranitzky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5 (2023)

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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Marek Stilec - Wranitzky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5 (2023)

Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Marek Stilec - Wranitzky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5 (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:18:15 | 324 / 179 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

As an influential figure in Viennese circles that included Mozart and Haydn, Paul Wranitzky was often called upon to take on commissions from the Imperial Court and the Empress Marie Therese in particular. Das listige Bauernmädchen, a ballet from her collection, reflects its rustic setting and story of romantic intrigues with folk-dance energy and delightful pantomime. The dramatic ballet divertissement Vorstellungen was part of Emperor Franz II’s birthday celebrations in 1803, as was an extensive Quodlibet from which we have selected the colourful Final Contradance.

Marc Lewon, Ensemble Leones - Unicum: New Songs from the Leuven chansonnier (2023)

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Marc Lewon, Ensemble Leones - Unicum: New Songs from the Leuven chansonnier (2023)

Marc Lewon, Ensemble Leones - Unicum: New Songs from the Leuven chansonnier (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless/ MP3 320 kbps | 1:14:32 | 360 / 171 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

The discovery in 2015 of a 15th-century parchment chansonnier still in its original binding was made still more startling because it contained twelve previously unknown, anonymous chansons. Most are rondeaus, and they range from the uncomplicated to the refined and elaborate; many bear musical indications that they are the work of the greatest composers of the period. In this recording they have been contextualised with other known songs but in the variant versions found in Leuven. As on their recording of the Chansonnier Cordiforme (on 8.573325), Ensemble Leones employs a range of performance possibilities, from a cappella ensemble to a mixture of instruments and voices.

Christopher Mallett - Justin Holland: Guitar Works & Arrangements (2023)

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Christopher Mallett - Justin Holland: Guitar Works & Arrangements (2023)

Christopher Mallett - Justin Holland: Guitar Works & Arrangements (2023)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless / MP3 320 kbps | 1:01:42 | 271 / 140 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Justin Holland was an important African American figure in the national US anti-slavery movement as well as being a significant figure in guitar composition and methodology. As a composer he synthesised European models and embraced popular, church and parlour songs generating a rich variety of works. A master of virtuosic variations, his arrangements are witty, elegant, and colourful, culminating in Carnival of Venice, which shows the full range of his gifts, sweeping in breadth and dazzling in effect.