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CLASSICAL AUDIO
NMCD219 | 5023363021920
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NMC RECORDINGS
COMPOSER: Emily Howard
ARTIST: Elias String Quartet ˇ
Scapegoat ˇ Alexandra Dariescu
(piano) ˇ Lucy Goddard (memzzo-
soprano) ˇ Simon Whiteley (bass)
ˇ Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Orchestra ˇ Andrew Gourlay
(conductor)
EMILY HOWARD
MAGNETITE
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OEHMS CLASSICS
COMPOSER: Richard Strauss
ARTIST: Frankfurter Opern- &
Museumsorchester ˇ Sebastian
Weigle (conductor)
RICHARD STRAUSS
EINE ALPENSINFONIE
ˇ This album is titled after the first
piece for which composer Emily
Howard gained critical acclaim. The
work was commissioned in 2008
by the Liverpool European Capital
of Culture for the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra and Vasily
Petrenko. Later that year, she received
the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award.
ˇ
As an undergraduate at Oxford
University, Emily Howard studied
mathematics and computer science.
She went on to receive a Doctorate in
Composition from the University of
Manchester. She is currently a Senior
Lecturer in Composition at the Royal
Northern College of Music.
ˇ Richard Strauss's An Alpine
Symphony, Op. 64, while labeled as a
symphony by the composer, is a tone
poem which forgoes the traditional
form of the multi-movement
symphony and is made up of twenty-
two continuous portions of music.
ˇ
This is Strauss's largest scale
non-operatic work, calling for
125 performers in all. Strauss
was inspired to write this work
after he lost his way heading up a
mountain in a storm. The work in
its entirety was completed in 1915,
and dedicated to Count Nicolaus
Seebach, director of the Royal Opera
in Dresden.
OC1851 | 4260330918512
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OEHMS CLASSICS
COMPOSER: Astor Piazzolla
ARTIST: Fumito Nunoya ˇ Hiroya
Honda (marimba) ˇ Momoko
Shano (piano) ˇ Yuka Sato (violin)
FUMITO NUNOYA
PIAZZOLLA ON MARIMBA
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OEHMS CLASSICS
COMPOSER: Johann Sebastian Bach
ˇ Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
ˇ Frédéric Chopin ˇ Randall
Thompson ˇ Franz Waxman
ARTIST: Fumito Nunoya ˇ Hiroya
Honda (marimba) ˇ Momoko
Shano (piano)
FUMITO NUNOYA
CLASSICS ON MARIMBA
ˇ Marimbist Fumito Nunoya has
enjoyed international fame as one
of the most in demand marimba
players of our day.
ˇ A native of Odate Japan, he is
currently based out of Herford in
Germany, where he teaches at the
Academy of Music in Detmold. In
addition to performing across Europe,
he frequently gives concerts in the
United States and Japan.
ˇ For this release, he has chosen Astor
Piazzolla's Tango Suite I-III, Tangata
"Silfo y Ondina," and other well-
known works by the tango master.
ˇ Nunoya is joined for this recording
by pianist Momoko Shano, fellow
marimbist Hiroya Honda, and
violinist Yuka Sato.
ˇ Marimbist Fumito Nunoya has
enjoyed international fame as one
of the most in demand marimba
players of our day.
ˇ A native of Odate Japan, he is
currently based out of Herford in
Germany, where he teaches at the
Academy of Music in Detmold. In
addition to performing across Europe,
he frequently gives concerts in the
United States and Japan.
ˇ For this release, he has chosen
classic works, which he arranged
for his instrument, like Chopin's
Barcarolle in F-sharp major, Op. 60,
and selections from Bach's Partitas
and Sonatas.
ˇ Nunoya is joined on this recording by
pianist Momoko Shano and fellow
marimbist Hiroya Honda.