C L ASSIC AL A UDI O PHYSICAL ONLY RAVELLO BUT NOW THE NIGHT RONDEAU NEW A CAPPELLA MUSIC ARS NOSTRA ULTIMUM RR7945 | 636160195463 1 CD | SRP US $14.99 CA $17.99 COMPOSER: Gerald Chenoweth • Lewis Nielson • Eun-Hye Park • Daniel Perlongo • Paul Reller ARTIST: Sang-Hie Lee • Martha Thomas (piano) • Kyoung Cho (soprano) ROP6113 | 4037408061131 1 CD | SRP US $18.99 CA $22.99 COMPOSER: Theo Brandmüller • Pawel Lukaszewski • Wolfgang Rihm • In “heavenly beautiful tones” the Kammerchor Saarbrucken, under the direction of Georg Grun offers a performance of rarely heard a cappella Passion music. • Like a modern stained glass window in a gothic church, Rihm’s Sieben Passionstexte - rarities of the a cappella repertoire - skillfully spans a musical bridge from the present day to classical vocal polyphony. • Lukaszewski embraces the Holy Week in his work while Brandmuller’s Le Paradis allows the listener to appreciate the masterful sounds of the choir. • Music for two pianos as a genre has gained reputation and momentum among composers and performers in the academic piano world. Piano Duo is a relatively new phenomenon that began in the late Romantic period. • The Piano Duo project began in 2008 with composers Paul Reller, Eun-Hye Park, Gerald Chenoweth and pianist Min Kwon. ARTIST: Kammerchor Saarbrücken • Elena Walter • Yvonne Zimmer (soprano) • Constanze Pitz (alto) • Georg Grün (conductor) RAVELLO AIDAN ANDREW DUN RONDEAU MAX REGER HONEYLAND WORKS FOR ORGAN RR7946 | 636160195487 1 CD | SRP US $14.99 CA $17.99 COMPOSER: Aidan Andrew Dun • Poet and musician Aidan Andrew Dun offers extremely unique works of spoken word poetry recitation, with keyboard accompaniment, in his Ravello Records release Honeyland. The album’s offerings can be seen to have roots in a number of Western musical and literary practices. • Dun’s geographyically specific epic poetry recalls the writings of James Joyce and his interest in reciting poems to music suggests the influece of English poet and painter William Blake. • The works on this release are the result of Mex Reger’s great personal crisis that he was only able to overcome through music in the 19th century. • Reger became famous through his Twelve Organ Pieces, Op. 59, whose sensitively developed melodies echo Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words. ROP6131 | 889276061317 1 CD | SRP US $18.99 CA $22.99 COMPOSER: Max Reger ARTIST: Aidan Andrew Dun (spoken poetry) • Lucie Rejchrtová (piano) ARTIST: Ulfert Smidt (organ) 95 NAXOS OF AMERICA | NAXOS OF CANADA | NEW RELEASE GUIDE