I’m about to head off to Argentina for two weeks on Friday. I know I’ve been very lax about posting regularly, but when I return on the 27th that is going to change.
There is a lot going on at Naxos. Many Sequenza readers certainly know by now that on January 29 Naxos is releasing Volume 1 of the Complete String Quartets of Elliott Carter featuring the Pacifica Quartet. And that the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will present the Pacifica Quartet performing the entire cycle at the Ethical Culture Society on Wednesday, January 30. No doubt, I’ll meet some of you there. Also on American Classics this month is Charles Wuorinen’s The Dante Trilogy (Chamber Version), which features world premiere recordings of The Great Procession and The River of Light (the disc also features The Mission of Virgil ); and a new disc of music by composer Kenneth Fuchs, also on American Classics.
Other notable releases this month include world premiere recordings of Penderecki’s Symphony No. 8 and Shostakovich’s Odna (Naxos Film Classics).
February also holds some extraordinary new releases as well, including many on our distributed labels. Just to give you the head’s up, here are a few DVD choices: The Reichorchester: The Berlin Philharmonic and the Third Reich, on the ArtHaus label; Notes Interdites: The Red Baton and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky: Conductor or Conjuror, on Idéale Audience; and Tristan und Isolde with Nina Stemme and Katerina Karnéus from Glyndebourne on Opus Arte.
Last a short news item: Naxos will begin distributing the prestigious UK-based Chandos label in April. Now, in addition to our own label, Naxos will have 24 distributed labels come April. We are all very excited about the addition of Chandos.
I’m off to the land of Osvaldo Golijov, Martha Argerich, Alberto Ginastera, Astor Piazzolla, Mario Davidovsky, Carlos Gardel, Julia Zenko and, my friend Frank Oteri tells me Lalo Schifrin (who knew). He also tells me I should look out of the music of Anna Maria Rodriguez and Monserrat Campmany.
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