NAXOS

Brahms, Academic Festival Overture. Schumann, Symphony No.3 ['Rhenish']. Danielpour, Movement 3 from the Piano Concerto No.4 ['A Heroes Journey'. With Xiayin Wang, piano]. Samuel Jones, Cello Concerto [with Julian Schwarz, cello]. Joseph Schwantner, The Poet's Hour - Soliloquy for Violin [with Yevgeny Kutik, violin]. ('The All-Star Orchestra gives you a front row seat to the worlds greatest music, performed by top players chosen from over 30 great American orchestras, and conducted by Gerard Schwarz. The programs feature complete performances of popular masterpieces and world premieres of new works by leading American composers. Filmed in High-Definition with multiple cameras in and around the orchestra, the All-Star Orchestra celebrates the symphonic experience in the 21st century. This program explores the creation of new concertos and the artistic process. Outstanding young soloists and leading American composers are featured in performance and in interviews'. Running time approx. 114')

BRO Code:

173259

Units:

1

Record Label:

NAXOS

Record Number:

2.110350

UPC:

747313535057

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Digital

Elgar, Enigma Variations. Britten, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra. Hovhaness, Symphony No.2 ['Mysterious Mountain']. Eugene Goosens, Jubilee Variations {An unpublished 1944 work, with contributions from Aaron Copland, Deems Taylor, Howard Hanson, Walter Piston, William Schuman, Roy Harris, Anis Fuleihan, Bernard Rogers, Ernest Bloch and Paul Creston}. ('The All-Star Orchestra gives you a front row seat to the worlds greatest music, performed by top players chosen from over 30 great American orchestras, and conducted by Gerard Schwarz. The programs feature complete performances of popular masterpieces and world premieres of new works by leading American composers. Filmed in High-Definition with multiple cameras in and around the orchestra, the All-Star Orchestra celebrates the symphonic experience in the 21st century'. Running time approx. 114')

BRO Code:

173258

Units:

1

Record Label:

NAXOS

Record Number:

2.110562

UPC:

747313556250

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Digital

'This Naxos China Travelogue tour of Shanxi starts with the ancient walled city of Pingyao, once a thriving commercial center. The former wealth of the province is witnessed by the Courtyard Houses of the Qu and Wang families, extensive compounds dating principally from the 18th century. Shuanglin Temple, part of the Pingyao world heritage site, is seen, with its collection of 2,000 painted statues from the Song and Yuan dynasties. There are views of Mount Wutai, the first of the Four Sacred Mountains for Chinese Buddhism, with some of its many monasteries and temples, and other Buddhist monuments at the Chongsan Monastery and Jinci Temple. The most remarkable of all is the Hanging Monastery at the foot of Mount Heng, one of the Five Sacred Mountains of Taoism, apparently hanging on a sheer cliff-face. The Yingxian Wooden Pagoda of Fogong Temple, dating from the 11th century, is the oldest and highest in China. Still earlier are the carvings of the Yungang Grottoes, some 51,000 statues of the Buddha in 252 caverns, dating originally from the 5th and 6th centuries. The tour ends with the sight of the remarkable Hukuo Waterfall, with its 50-metre descent in a gorge on the Yellow River. The journey is accompanied by traditional Chinese instruments and music'. (Running time approx. 67'07')

BRO Code:

173257

Units:

1

Record Label:

NAXOS

Record Number:

2.110556

UPC:

747313555659

Country:

GERMANY

D/A Code:

Digital

'This Naxos China Travelogues tour of Xinjiang [Sinkiang] starts in the old town of Kashgar, with its Uighur shops and alleys. Travelling to Tianchi [Heavenly Lake] in the Tianshan Mountain range, we see Kazakh yurts and flocks of sheep, and something of the varied flora and fauna of the area. In Kashgar again, the tomb of Abakh Khoja, a famous local ruler in the early Qing dynasty, makes a contrast with the busy city life of the capital, Urumqi. Some 30 kilometres take us to the geographical centre of the continent of Asia, while back at the heart of Kashgar itself is the 15th century yellow-tiled Id Kah Mosque. There are views of strange rock formations in the countryside and the colorful Lake Sayram, with the alpine scenery of Kanas Lake and the fertile vineyards of Grape Valley. The tour of this varied region, with its Uighur, Mongolian, Kazakh, Tatar, Uzbek, Han and other ethnic groups, ends with the snow-capped Tianshan Mountain, with its great glaciers. The tour is accompanied by traditional music and instruments'. (Running time approx. 59'49')

BRO Code:

173256

Units:

1

Record Label:

NAXOS

Record Number:

2.110557

UPC:

747313555758

Country:

GERMANY

D/A Code:

Digital

'This Naxos China Travelogue tour of Sichuan [Szechwan] takes us to a land of lakes and snow-capped mountains, with a fertile central plain. The tour starts in Chengdu in a park, where there is a replica of the thatched cottage in which the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu [Tu Fu] took refuge for years. Temples in the province include the elaborate Wuhou Memorial Temple, the temples on Qingcheng Mountain and the legendary Fulong Temple. Most impressive of all, however, must be the natural scenery the rivers, lakes and waterfalls, and the mountains that protected the province from invasion for so many centuries. The tour is accompanied by music played on traditional instruments.'.(Running time approx. 63'39')

BRO Code:

173255

Units:

1

Record Label:

NAXOS

Record Number:

2.110558

UPC:

747313555857

Country:

GERMANY

D/A Code:

Digital

'A region of mountains and lakes, the province of Yunnan lies to the south of Sichuan. This Naxos China Travelogue tour starts with the Old Town of Lijiang, with its narrow cobbled streets and closely packed traditional buildings. Later the tour moves to Shuhe, otherwise known as Longquan Village, which is a few kilometers north of Lijiang but boasts comparable traditional buildings as a place where the minority Naxi People have long lived. Mountains in Yunnan include Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, its name that of a legendary defender of the region, transformed with his brother into thirteen peaks. The tour visits the historic capital of Yunnan, Kunming, now home to some five million inhabitants. Scenes of Yunnan are matched with traditional music.'.(Running time approx. 61'08')

BRO Code:

173254

Units:

1

Record Label:

NAXOS

Record Number:

2.110560

UPC:

747313556052

Country:

GERMANY

D/A Code:

Digital

'In the peace treaty of 1919 the Tyrol was divided into three regions, Southern Tyrol being ceded to Italy. The Eastern Tyrol, Austrian territory, is bounded to the south by the Lienz Dolomites, with the town of Lienz the regional capital. The region is popular with summer visitors, its climate relatively mild, in spite of its height above sea level. There is also a glimpse of the Earth Pyramids at Ritten (Renon) in the Italian Southern Tyrol. Music for the tour is by Franz Schubert, the son of a schoolmaster who had settled in Vienna. Although his life was chiefly spent in Vienna, he was, nevertheless, able to enjoy the Austrian countryside, during country holidays spent with friends. The beauty of the landscape is reflected in his music and, in particular, in his songs. The tour of the Lienz Dolomites is accompanied by music by Schubert for piano trio, written towards the end of his short life.'.(Running time approx. 58'50')

BRO Code:

173253

Units:

1

Record Label:

NAXOS

Record Number:

2.110540

UPC:

747313554058

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Digital

'The tour visits the Tin Soldier Museum at Kulmbach, the National Army Museum, the Wellington Memorial and St Paul’s Cathedral in London, and the Bavarian Army Museum at Ingolstadt, with its relics of the Thirty Years War and of conflicts with the Ottoman Empire. Musically, the tour brings Beethoven’s musical celebration of Wellington’s victorious campaign in Spain, Liszt’s Battle of the Huns and a Georgian war march by Ippolitov-Ivanov. The tour ends with two military works by Rimsky-Korsakov, 'King Dodon on the Battlefield', from his last opera, The Golden Cockerel, and the 'Massacre at Kerzhenets' from The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh'.(Running time approx. 53'55')

BRO Code:

173252

Units:

1

Record Label:

NAXOS

Record Number:

2.110547

UPC:

747313554751

Country:

AMERICA

D/A Code:

Digital

'Starting from the great Cathedral of Chartres, our tour takes us to Brittany and Normandy in Northern France, and to Franche Comté and Burgundy. Many of the scenes chosen match closely the music of Fauré and in particular that of his Requiem, with a wide range of corresponding images, from the calvaries of Brittany to the startling architecture of Le Corbusier in his church of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, and from The Last Judgement by Roger van der Weyden in Beaune to the tapestries of Jean Lurçat at Angers. The music chosen for this tour of France is by Gabriel Fauré. It includes his Requiem, the evocative Pavane, his Sicilienne, probably originally intended as part of incidental music for Moliere's Le bourgeois gentilhomme, and the Berceuse'. (Running time approx. 56'06')

BRO Code:

173251

Units:

1

Record Label:

NAXOS

Record Number:

2.110249

UPC:

747313524952

Country:

CANADA

D/A Code:

Digital

Tchaikovsky, Violin Concerto in D. Brahms, Violin Concerto in D {with St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra/ Vladimir Lande}. Ysaye, Violin Sonata No. 3 ['Ballade']. Bach, Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin, BWV 1004. (All with Tianwa Yang, violin. Recorded 2011. Total playing time approx. 119')

BRO Code:

173115

Units:

1

Record Label:

NAXOS

Record Number:

2.110283

UPC:

747313528356

Country:

AUSTRIA

D/A Code:

Digital

Liebesleid; Military March; Polichinelle; Aucassin and Nicolette [Canzonetta medievale]; Chanson Louis XIII and Pavane in the Style of Couperin; La Precieuse in the style of Couperin; Aubade Provencale in the style of Couperin; Tempo di Menuetto in the Style of Pugnani; Praeludium and Allegro in the style of Pugnani; Shepherd’s Madrigal; Toy Soldier’s March; Episode; Syncopation;
Sicilienne et musette; Sicilienne and Rigaudon in the style of Francœur; Andantino in the Style of Martini; Preghiera in the style of Martini; Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven; Schoen Rosmarin;
Scherzo in the Style of Dittersdorf. (Henning Kraggerud, violin with Oslo Camerata. Recorded Oslo, 11/1/2011. Total running time approx. 101')

BRO Code:

173114

Units:

1

Record Label:

NAXOS

Record Number:

2.110353

UPC:

747313535354

Country:

AUSTRIA

D/A Code:

Digital

Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano. Rodrick Dixon, tenor. Homayun Sakhi, Afghan rubab. Paula Holloway, vocalist. Reverend Doctor Alyn E. Waller, readings. The Celebration Choir, The Music Liberation Orchestra and The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia/ Dirk Brosse. (Recorded 9/21/2012. Total running time: 71'31')

BRO Code:

173113

Units:

1

Record Label:

NAXOS

Record Number:

2.110357

UPC:

747313535750

Country:

GERMANY

D/A Code:

Digital