N A XO S NAXOS THE CHANSONNIER CORDIFORME NAXOS ERWIN SCHULHOFF STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART CHAMBER MUSIC 8573325 | 747313332571 1 CD | SRP US $12.99 CA $12.99 COMPOSER: VARIOUS • The Chansonnier Cordiforme is a songbook, probably copied in 1475 for a roguish but musically cultivated priest named Jean de Montchenu - a contemporary chronicler called him “dissolute and full of all the vices”. • The beautiful marnuscript containing 43 songs is, uniquely, heart-shaped and covered in velvet. This recording presents both a representative crosssection of the manuscript’s repertoire, the majority of which is set to French texts and is among the best known and beautiful of the age, and a portfolio of differing performance options including instruments. • In addition to works by such luminaries as Gilles Binchois and Johannes Ockeghem - music of elegant melody, textural refinement, and sometimes startling harmonic turns - there are ingenious and anonymous parodies of popular songs. • The music of the Prague-born prodigy Erwin Schulhoff has become increasingly popular in recent decades. He moved through successive creative phases and, on this recording, Spectrum Concerts Berlin focuses on music written between 1924 and 1927. • The Cinq Études de jazz explore the “rhythmic intoxication” he described in a letter to Alban Berg, while the Duo for violin and cello and the Violin Sonata No. 2 offer striking parallels to similar works by Bartók, Kodály, and Debussy. The String Sextet contains violent contrasts and almost Cubist montage and was a key work in Schulhoff’s artistic development. 8573525 | 747313352579 1 CD | SRP US $12.99 CA $12.99 COMPOSER: Erwin Schulhoff ARTIST: Ensemble Leones • Marc Lewon (conductor) ARTIST: Boris Brovtsyn • Valeriy Sokolov (violin) • Philip Dukes • Maxim Rysanov (viola) • Jens Peter Maintz • Torleif Thedeen • (cello) Eldar Nebolsin (piano) • Frank S. Dodge (director) NAXOS JOSEPH HAYDN NAXOS JOAQUIN TURINA STRING QUARTETS RECUERDOS DE MI RINCÓN 8573701 | 747313370177 1 CD | SRP US $12.99 CA $12.99 COMPOSER: Joseph Haydn • Joseph Haydn claimed to have discovered the string quartet form by accident. His Op. 1, No. 1 has the cheerful five-movement form of a Divertimento, while the glorious and harmonically daring Op. 77, No. 1 was among the last he completed in the genre. • Falling between the two, Op. 33, No. 5 is full of rhythmic surprises and a theme that gives it the nickname ‘How do you do?’ The award-winning Goldmund Quartet is considered one of today’s most exciting young European string quartets. • This penultimate volume of Joaquín Turina’s complete piano works features his “programmatic” pieces: music inspired by local scenes or texts by the late-Romantic poet and author Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–70). • The “tragicomedy” Recuerdos de mi rincón is a lighthearted divertissement with twelve mini-scenes that portray local characters from Turina’s Madrid neighbourhood, while La Venta de los Gatos brims with truly inspired and beautiful moments. El Cristo de la Calavera further reveals Turina’s deft touch for dramatic and picturesque style while faithfully adapting Bécquer’s story to include every detail. Originally composed for a stage drama, Navidad is filled with Christmas carols and traditional melodies. 8573539 | 747313353972 1 CD | SRP US $12.99 CA $12.99 COMPOSER: Joaquin Turina ARTIST: Goldmund Quartet (Florian Schotz • Pinchas Adt, violin • Christoph Vandory, viola • Raphael Paratore, cello) ARTIST: Jordi Masó (piano) 10 NAXOS OF AMERICA | NAXOS OF CANADA | NEW RELEASE GUIDE