New Releases on Naxos August 2015 Video Sample

We are very pleased to share with you the August 2015 issue of NEW ON NAXOS, presenting an exciting array of new releases, over seven of which include world première recordings! With this month’s spotlight release of the third album of our six-volume cycle of orchestral works by Jean Sibelius, we’ve reached the halfway point of this acclaimed series. The Turku Philharmonic Orchestra and internationally-acclaimed conductor Leif Segerstam perform more of Sibelius’ incidental music, including Pelléas et Mélisande and Musik zu einer Szene as well as Autrefois – Scène pastorale with soprano Pia Pajala and mezzo-soprano Sari Nordqvist.

Other highlights include Piano chamber works by Krzysztof Meyer, including the world première recording of his Piano Quartet, performed by the Silesian String Quartet, and pianist Piotr Sałajczyk; Carl Czerny’s music for flute and piano, featuring flutist Kazunori Seo and pianist Makoto Ueno; the reissue of British Music Society’s original 1997 release of some of John Joubert’s music for string orchestra – The Instant Moment, Temps Perdu and Sinonietta – with the English String Orchestra, under the direction of William Boughton; the world première recordings of Taiwanese composer Gordon Chin’s Symphony No. 3 and Cello Concerto No. 1, with cellist Wen-Sinn Yang and the Taiwan Philharmonic, directed by Shao-Chia Lü; Jacques Ibert’s first symphonic work The Ballad of Reading Gaol, based on a poem of the same title by Oscar Wilde, and several other orchestral works, with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Adriano; and Canadian composer Andrew Staniland’s world première recording of Talking Down the Tiger and other works for solo instruments and electronics. In this release, the composer joins other instrumental soloists, including Ryan Scott, Rob MacDonald, Camille Watts, Frances Marie Uitti and Wallace Halladay.