News from the Naxos Music Group

The International Tchaikovsky Competition is one of the major events in the international music community and it is held once every four years. This year the competition was held in Moscow and St. Petersburg from June 17 to June 29. Two young and talented artists, who are prize-winners in this year's competition, have previously released recordings on Naxos.

Star cellist Daniel Müller-Schott has already built up a sizeable discography in a career spanning sixteen years under the ORFEO record label. In his latest recording, he presents a programme of works by Richard Strauss, featuring Sir Andrew Davis and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

During his long and exceptionally fruitful creative life, Richard Strauss composed but a handful of works for the cello, only three of which survived. Small as that number may seem, they proved critical to the composer’s development. Daniel Müller-Schott sees the early Sonata for Cello and Piano Op. 6 and the late tone poem Don Quixote Op. 35 as marking the path that was to lead Strauss within the space of a few years from late Romanticism to the modern era in music.

The cellist underscores this watershed in Strauss’ artistic development with his own transcriptions, expressly made for this album, of the Lieder Zueignung Op. 10/1 and Ich trage meine Minne Op. 32/1.

For the July issue of Gramophone, the magazine celebrates the mid-20th-century American symphonists who deserve to be better known with a cover story by guest writer and renowned conductor Gerard Schwarz. The article features the rarely-heard, mid-20th-century American composers, including symphonies by Paul Creston, William Schuman, Alan Hovhannes, David Diamond, Howard Hanson, Peter Mennin, and Walter Piston. We hope this journey in Gramophone might then interest many of you to investigate their output further. Visit Gramophone’s website to explore the July 2019 issue.

Our acclaimed American Classics series boasts a unique catalogue of both well-known and rarely recorded masterpieces. The landmark series features the greatest American composers, with award-winning contemporary works often presented in world premiere recordings.

Our most recent releases exemplify these hallmarks of the collection and comprise four programmes of first recordings, either in whole (Jon Deak, Richard Danielpour, Gregory Hutter) or in part (John Philip Sousa).

Browse the hundreds of entries in our Naxos American Classics segment catalogue.

Violinist Tianwa Yang is featured on the cover of the latest Fono Forum magazine (August 2019 issue). In the interview about her new Brahms and Rihm recordings, the magazine wrote: '[Tianwa Yang's] representation of the solo part is superb. Her accuracy, precision and clarity of articulation are phenomenal, but even more importantly here is the musical design, the coherent structure of the phrases, the view of the structural whole and the animation of each tone...' Her recording of Brahms‘ Violin Concerto and Double Concerto with cellist Gabriel Schwabe, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Antoni Wit, received 5-stars from the magazine.

Learn from the best of the best! You may now find out Tianwa Yang’s own bowings and fingerings of the Brahms Violin Concerto from The Henle Library App, which gives users access to Urtext editions, and other exciting features including fingerings on popular works by other top-notch artists, including Henryk Szeryng, Christian Tetzlaff, Henning Kraggerud, Lars Vogt, William Youn and more! Watch the following video to view Tianwa Yang’s demonstration of the unique features of the app:

The Verbier Festival is one of classical music’s greatest events. In celebration of the festival’s 25th anniversary, this unique concert brings together 36 classical stars in an unprecedented evening of ingenious programming and captivating performances. The line-up includes many of the world’s greatest violinists, violists, cellists and pianists (Violin: Renaud Capuçon, Vilde Frang, Vadim Repin; Viola: Gérard Caussé, Nobuko Imai, Tabea Zimmermann; Cello: Andrei Ioniță, Mischa Maisky, Edgar Moreau; Piano: Evgeny Kissin, András Schiff, Daniil Trifonov, Yuja Wang, to name a few) as well as other leading performers conducted by Valery Gergiev and Gábor Takács-Nagy.

‘Elena Zilio is a well-centred and engaging Mamma Lucia, with a magnetic stage presence and an incredible expressive talent… Marina Ogii is a Lola imbued with charm and sensuality, with a warm and skilfully projected voice… Lorenzo Fratini directs the chorus which provides excellent and powerful contributions to the performance.’ – connessiallopera.it

New Staging of Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
In co-production with Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova