NEW ON NAXOS | JULY 2019


WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS


Richard DANIELPOUR (b. 1956)


Talking to Aphrodite 1 Symphony for Strings • Kaddish 2 Sarah Shafer, Soprano 1


• Maxim Semyonov, French Horn 1 Russia String Orchestra • Misha Rachlevsky


These three recordings cement the bond between the award-winning composer Richard Danielpour and the conductor Misha Rachlevsky, one of the composer’s most dedicated and perceptive interpreters. It was Rachlevsky who gave the American premiere of Symphony for Strings, a transcription of the Sixth String Quartet – a work saturated in farewells, complete with a hymn and variations. Talking to Aphrodite is the result of a collaboration between Danielpour and the writer Erica Jong, while Kaddish addresses the eternal issues of life, death and eventual peace.


8.559857


WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS


CLICK PLAY BUTTON TO HEAR TRACK 04: Talking to Aphrodite: IV. Solemn, with simple flowing motion


Gregory HUTTER (b. 1971)


Secular Choral Music A Cradle Song • Three American Madrigals • Tears * Shannon Seay, Soprano * • Philovox Ensemble • Robert Schuneman Composers’ Choir • Daniel Shaw • The Singers—Minnesota Choral Artists • Matthew Culloton


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The exciting, genre-defying American composer Gregory Hutter wrote this sequence of choral music between 2009 and 2014 – his intention being economic, direct and tuneful music. The settings range from the English Renaissance to American poems of the early 20th century; from Shakespeare to Carl Sandburg and Sara Teasdale. Hutter approaches the texts with lyricism and fluidity, attentive to the poetry’s moments of melancholy, beauty or bucolic energy. In harmonically rich settings he draws on polyphony, chromaticism and lullaby alike to communicate and bring the listener closer to the core of the texts.


8.559868


CLICK PLAY BUTTON TO HEAR TRACK 03: A Farewell


Émile SAURET (1852–1920)


24 Études Caprices, Op. 64 Vol. 3 (Nos. 14–19) Nazrin Rashidova, Violin


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With a portfolio of over 250 works, including major concertos and technical studies, Émile Sauret – hugely admired by Brahms, Liszt and Tchaikovsky – was one of the most distinguished figures of his time, a violinist with a stupendous technique and a profoundly analytical mind. With its spellbinding effects and exceptional variation of form and dynamics, Volume 3 of his Études-Caprices, Op. 64 continues the exploration of this monumental work’s fusion of virtuosity and expression (Volume 1 is on 8.573704 and Volume 2 on 8.573843). Nazrin Rashidova plays on Sauret’s own 1685 Stradivari violin.


CLICK PLAY BUTTON TO HEAR TRACK 05: Étude-Caprice No. 18 in C sharp minor


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Rob KEELEY (b. 1960)


Chamber Music Distil 1


Victoria Samek, Clarinet 2 Chris Brannick, Vibraphone 1


• Sonata for Clarinet and Piano 2 • Rob Keeley, Piano 2 • Aquinas Trio 3


• Piano Trio No. 2 3


Rob Keeley considers chamber music to be the most direct and expressive medium for him as a composer. The spirits of Haydn and Chopin can be heard in the Second Piano Trio, and there is a wink towards Mozart in the wonderful blend and agility to be found in the Clarinet Quartet. All of these works are the result of musical friendships, the faith and commitment of the players an integral part of each performance, with the remarkable sonorities of Distil as its still centre.


CLICK PLAY BUTTON TO HEAR TRACK 13: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano: Allegro moderato


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