Today is the release of the single 'Lumen' from the upcoming album LUMEN from Danilo Perez & Bohuslän Big Band on Prophone Records. Listen here! https://lnk.fuga.com/daniloprezandbohuslnbigband_lumen
Danilo Perez: As a solo artist and as a collaborator with jazz giants from Dizzy Gillespie to Wayne Shorter, for over three decades Grammy-Award Winning Panamanian Pianist-Composer Danilo Perez has been lauded as one of the most creative forces in contemporary music. With Jazz as the anchoring foundation, Perez’s Global Jazz music is a blend of Panamanian roots, Latin American folk music, West African rhythms, European impressionism – promoting music as a borderless and multidimensional bridge between all people. In 2001, Pérez joined Wayne Shorter's quartet with John Patitucci and Brian Blade to form one of the most innovative and influential bands of the 21st century. He is a UNESCO Artist for Peace and Panama’s Cultural Ambassador, receiving many awards for his Latin America social work, including his outreach as Founder and Artistic Director of the Panama Jazz Festival. Pérez is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Berklee College of Music Global Jazz Institute.
Bohuslän Big Band: Is one of Northern Europe’s foremost big bands and an essential part of the Scandinavian jazz scene. The big band collaborates with national and international artists and composers contributing to an active and vibrant music life both domestically and internationally. The history of Bohuslän Big Band goes back to the early 1800s when they were one of many military orchestras in Sweden under the name of Bohus Battalion. From the mid-1950s, the band developed into one of Sweden’s only two fully professional big bands and consisting of sixteen full-time musicians. Since 1992, Bohuslän Big Band has has recorded over 40 albums with a wide range of Swedish and international artists including Lew Soloff, Nils Landgren, Lars Jansson, Ale Möller, Steve Swallow, Anders Jormin
Tomás Cotik
Don't miss the first single from Tomas Cotik's new album where he performs an arrangement for violin and strings of Piazzolla's Soledad. A preview of the full album here: https://spoti.fi/49lsZVE Naxos
Almeida Prado
José Antônio de Almeida Prado was one of the most prolific and creative Brazilian composers of the second half of the 20th century, finding inspiration in everything from the birdsong and forests of his native country to a contemplation of the galaxies. The evocative Le Livre magique de Xangô is considered a foundational work in Almeida Prado’s final, eclectic postmodern phase, during which folk music also re-emerged in works such as Das Cirandas. The lively Solo Violin Sonata and lyrical Capriccio both explore the violin’s full expressive potential, while The Four Seasons tests the skill of younger players.
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Naxos Spoken Word Library
Discover beautiful stories narrated by extraordinary storytellers in the Naxos Spoken Word Library, your go-to destination for audiobooks and more.
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Noskowski & Zelenski: Violin Sonatas
Stellar violinist Laurence Kayaleh Violinist returns with her latest album of unjustly neglected repertoire – the violin sonatas of Polish composers Zygmunt Noskowski and Wladyslaw Zelenski. Both composers were leading exponents of Polish nationalism in the period from the last quarter of the 19th century. Kayaleh is accompanied by pianist Bernadene Blaha. You can order on Archambault https://bit.ly/3MWcfvH
Zoltán Kodály’s orchestral output is relatively small but brimming with Hungarian spirit. JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic (BPO) present one of the composer’s most popular works, the Háry János Suite, alongside Summer Evening and the Symphony in C major. Falletta and the BPO’s acclaimed previous Kodály album is on 8.573838. Available at L'Atelier Grigorian https://bit.ly/48FTnup
Santoro: Symphony No. 8 & Cello Concerto
This recording focuses on Claudio Santoro’s output from the 1960s – a significant decade in the composer’s ever-eventful life. It features world premiere recordings of his charged Cello Concerto, fuelled by his experiences in East Berlin, the dramatic Eighth Symphony and the encore piece One Minute Play, alongside Três Abstrações and Interações Assintóticas, Santoro’s only work to use quarter-tone tuning.
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Nigel Clarke
This world premiere recording of British composer Nigel Clarke’s symphony for violin and orchestra The Prophecies of Merlin is inspired by the 12th-century text De gestis Britonum by Geoffrey of Monmouth, and it casts the soloist as the maddened Merlin, in a score brimming with rhythmic drive and bravura orchestration. Clarke's music can aso be heard on 8.570429 (Samurai • Black Fire • The Miraculous Violin) and 8.574097 (Mysteries of the Horizon). Available this Friday here: naxos.lnk.to/970349So
Lutoslawski Quartet
Providing an overview of almost a century, this album reflects the aspirations of Polish nationalism through the works of three pivotal figures: Karol Kurpinski, whose Fantasy for String Quartet is both serious and ingenious in design, Zygmunt Noskowski, whose witty piece on a theme of Viotti includes the use of a polacca, and Stanislaw Moniuszko, whose quartets balance the hymnal with the rustic.
Listen now here: naxos.lnk.to/8573978So Lutosławski Quartet
José Antônio de Almeida Prado
José Antônio de Almeida Prado was one of the most admired Brazilian composers of his time. The two stylistically diverse works featured on this album exemplify different creative periods in the composer’s life. The prize-winning Pequenos funerais cantantes, which was Almeida Prado’s breakthrough as a composer, is a lament full of unique soundworlds forged from different combinations of choral and orchestral writing. The superbly orchestrated Sinfonia dos Orixás takes as its subject the Orishas (deities in the Yoruba religion) – and is a personal tribute to the rich Afro-Brazilian religious traditions, a sumptuous melodic and rhythmic feast celebrating the forces of nature. Available this Friday here: naxos.lnk.to/8574411So
Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki’s works for (string) quartet neatly encapsulate the stylistic breadth and trace the development of Poland’s most important modern composer throughout his six-decade-long career. From the avantgarde rhythmical study that is Quartet No.1, via an ode to Webern, to the neo-romantic elder Penderecki’s Schubertian Clarinet Quartet, this collection covers all his chamber music for three and four strings, even the early neo-baroque outlier of his Three Pieces adapted from his film music for the steamy 1964 movie, The Saragossa Manuscript.
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Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges
You can listen now to the second movement of the Violin Concerto Op.7, No.1 by Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-George by Fumika Mohri 毛利文香 and the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra of Pardubice, available now here: https://naxos.lnk.to/930287NG. The full album will be released on June 9, 2023.
Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Between 1953 and 1967, the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco wrote a series of Greeting Cards. These 52 musical folios, 21 of which were written for the guitar – an instrument that had inspired him since he first heard Segovia perform – are pen portraits of admired colleagues. Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s imagination and technical mastery are reinforced by the use of rhythms associated with the dedicatees’ nationality or through evocations inspired by their names. The cycle offers a surprising, generous and rewarding body of musical cryptology that belies its small scale form. Available now here: naxos.lnk.to/8574246So
Goran Filipec
In this third volume of Liszt's Schubert song transcriptions, which includes some rare versions, the composer’s prodigious capacity for colouration, shifting textures and use of myriad pianistic devices brings refinement and beauty to each song. Follows Volume 1 (8.553062, Volume 5 in the Complete Liszt edition) and Volume 2 (8.554729, Volume 17 in the Complete Liszt edition) of the Schubert Song Transcriptions series. Goran Filipec also contributed to Volumes 42 (8.573458), 49 (8.573705) and 55 (8.573794) of the Liszt Complete Piano Music series.
Available this month here: naxos.lnk.to/8574095So
Goltermann: Cello Concerto No. 1
If you know the cellist-professor-composer Georg Goltermann (1824-1898) and his eight (!) cello concertos, you’re either a cellist or married to one. In his lifetime and for a while thereafter, the instrumental virtuoso-cum-composer was popular and well-liked enough to have the Cantilena of his Cello Concerto recorded by Pablo Casals – but not much since. That’s a shame because that lyrical-melancholic, never gratuitously virtuosic op.10 is a picture-perfect, delightful romantic cello concert. The symphony, then well received and Goltermann’s pride, too, goes down nicely in a post-Brahms vain rather à la Bruch or Gernsheim, especially the exquisite, lively hunting Scherzo with its sweeping Trio.
Available at L'Atelier Grigorian here http://bit.ly/3ZNjaew
Sinbad
Renowned both as a guitarist and a composer, Carlo Domeniconi has written over 150 compositions combining Eastern and Western elements in striking and innovative ways.
Discover guitarist Celil Refik Kaya’s recording of Domeniconi’s “Sinbad, a Fairy Tale for Solo Guitar” on his latest Naxos release.
Available now on Apple Music, Spotify, and more.
LISTEN NOW: https://Naxos.lnk.to/SinbadFA
Apple Music app
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Pre-order the app today to have it download automatically to your device the day it’s released.
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Filipec_Liszt
Listen now to this single from Goran Filipec's upcoming Naxos release of piano works by Liszt, "Du bist die Ruh" here 👉 https://naxos.lnk.to/940565NG
Holland
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. Available at L'Atelier Grigorian http://bit.ly/3HMrPXl
Qobuz
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