MARC .XML Records Updated to Include Q3 2016

MARC .XML records covering titles added to NML and NML-Jazz over the third quarter of 2016 are now available! You can download only the latest set of records, or you can obtain the complete set combined by the month or year. As always, they are in .XML format, allowing you the freedom to process them to fit your system best.  

If you updated your records last quarter, then all you need are this quarter's additions and removals. If not, then you'll want to update the full set to ensure completeness.

Here are the links:

Naxos Music Library - Individual Records

 NML-Jazz - Individual Records

Naxos Music Library - Full Set By Month  

 NML-Jazz - Full Set By Month

Naxos Music Library - Full Set By Year

 NML-Jazz - Full Set By Year

Naxos Music Library - Q3 Removals  

 NML-Jazz - Q3 Removals

If you have any questions about these records, don't hesitate to contact us.

Label in the Spotlight: Cedille Records

Cedille Records: "Cedille Chicago is dedicated to producing classical recordings of the highest quality featuring outstanding musicians from Chicago. Our purpose is to enhance the world's catalog of recorded music by sharing these artists’ explorations of new and under-represented compositions and documenting their important interpretations of standard repertoire. The extensive dissemination of our recordings is designed to bring our artists to a worldwide audience — thus enhancing their reputations and careers — and to benefit as great a listening public as possible."

To hear the Cedille Records sampler, access NML, go to the Playlists section, and select the Label in the Spotlight folder under the Themed Playlists tab. You can also access it via the rotating banners. If you are on your institution's premises, you may also be able to access it if you CLICK HERE.

 

Opening Notes: October 2016 - New Release Playlist

We've sifted through all the new releases for this month, and we're highlighting our favorites. Some of these are obscure works that may be unknown to you, while others are fresh takes on standard repertoire. If you're like us and are constantly craving something new to enjoy, take a spin through these tracks to get a taste of what is now available to you in NML. And if you hear something you love, click on the cover art in the player window to be taken directly to the full album!

To hear the playlist, access NML as usual, go to the Playlists section, and select the Opening Notes folder under the Themed Playlists tab. If you are on your institution's premises, you may also be able to access it if you CLICK HERE.

Alexandra Vrebalov

The Sea Ranch Songs: Elements II
Kronos Quartet
Cantaloupe - CA-21122

Michael Daugherty
American Gothic: III. Pitchfork

Nashville Symphony; Giancarlo Guerrero

Naxos - 8.559798

Hans Rott

Symphony No. 1 in E Major: III. Frisch und lebhaft

Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra; Constantin Trinks

Profil - PH15051

Felix Mendelssohn 

Symphony No. 4, "Italian": I. Allegro vivaceLondon Symphony Orchestra; John Eliot Gardiner
LSO - LSO0769

P. I. Tchaikovsky

Violin Concerto in D: III. Allegro vivacissimo

Jennifer Koh; Odense Symphony

Cedille - CDR90000-166

Antonin Dvořák
String Quartet No. 12, "American": IV. Vivace

Jupiter String Quartet

Azica - Azica71311

Aaron Copland
Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: The Chorus Girls' First Dance
Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Slatkin
Naxos - 8.559806

Bruno Bavota
Warm Embrace

J. Freivogel; Michael Nicolas; Bruno Bavota

Dorian Sono Luminus - DSL-92206

Silvestrov Valentin
4 Postludes for Piano & Strings: No. 1. Larghetto - Andante
Elisaveta Blumina; Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Grand Piano - GP678

Ange Flégier
La Poésie

Jared Schwartz; Thomas Demer; Mary Dibbern

Toccata Classics - TOCC0306

 

Ralph Vaughan Williams
3 Nocturnes: No. 1. Smile O Voluptuous Cool-Breath'd Earth

Roderick Williams; Jennifer Johnston; BBC Sym.

Albion Records - ALBCD028

Jules Massenet

Thaïs, Act II: Méditation

Arabella Steinbacher; Monte-Carlo Philharmonic

PentaTone - PTC5186536

P.I. Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 2: III. Allegro con fuoco
Eldar Nebolsin; New Zealand Symphony
Naxos - 8.573462

Felix Mendelssohn

String Quartet No. 5: IV. Molto allegro

Parker Quartet

Nimbus - NI6327

Antonin Dvořák
Rusalka, Act I: Lieblicher Mond
Emalie Savoy; Frankfurt Brandenburg State Orch.
Genuin - GEN16436

Gaetano Donizetti

L'elisir d'amore, Act II: Una furtiva lagrima

Lawrence Brownlee; Kaunas State Choir & Sym.

Delos - DE3515

Henry Purcell

Dido and Aeneas: Thy Hand, Belinda

Anna Prohaska; Il Giardino Armonico

Alpha - ALPHA250

Georg Philipp Telemann

12 Fantaisies, No. 9 in B Minor: II. Vivace

Fabio Biondi

Glossa - GCD923406

Philip Glass

Etudes, Book 1: Etude No. 9

Bruce Levingston

Dorian Sono Luminus - DSL-92205

Michael Nyman

The Man Who Mistook His Wife...: Scene 5

Nashville Opera; Dean Williamson

Naxos - 8.660398

Enrique Granados

Suite oriental, "Suite árabe": IV. Dos danzas

Barcelona Symphony & Catalonia National Orch.

Naxos - 8.573265

Aaron Copland

Symphony for Organ & Orchestra: II. Scherzo

Jonathan Scott; BBC Philharmonic; John Wilson

Chandos - CHSA5171

Jean Sibelius

Symphony No. 3: III. Moderato - Allegro (ma non tanto)

Minnesota Orchestra; Osmo Vänskä

BIS - BIS-2006

Gabriel Fauré

Nocturne No. 4 in E-Flat Major

Louis Lortie

Chandos - CHAN10915

Each month, Naxos Music Library presents a new release playlist for our subscribers to enjoy. We know that a database of over 1.8 million tracks can be a bit daunting, so we'd like to highlight some of the amazing music that has become available to you just this month. Let it kickstart discovery!

October 2016 - Featured Playlist: Monster Mayhem

Everyone likes a good scare every now and then. Okay, not everyone, but most of us. Maybe we live for the rush of adrenaline, or perhaps we’re simply down for any opportunity to snuggle a little closer to a loved one. Or it could be that a terrifically frightful story can help us more confidently face the all-too-real monsters in our own lives.

Goblins and ghosts and ghoulish characters of all sorts have been otherworldly sources of inspiration for many a composer. With Halloween descending swiftly upon us, it’s the perfect time to creep into the darkened, cobwebby corners of the repertoire and enjoy some musical Monster Mayhem!

To hear the playlist, access NML as usual, go to the Playlists section, and select the Playlist of the Month folder under the Themed Playlists tab. If you are on your institution's premises, you may also be able to access it if you CLICK HERE.

1. Florence Beatrice Price – Goblin and the Mosquito – Price became the first African-American woman to be acknowledged as a symphonic composer, and to have music performed by a major orchestra. She composed piano music as well, including this delightful little depiction of a goblin (and a mosquito that buzzes impudently about its head).

2. Niels Marthinsen – Monster Symphony: I. Monsters’ Mating Call – You probably don’t want to be standing in the way when these monsters go a-courtin’. Danish composer Niels Marthinsen’s colorful first symphony is a riotous affair that showcases the skills nurtured during eight years at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, under the tutelage of Per Nørgård.

3. Sergey Prokofiev – Scythian Suite: II. The Enemy God and Dance of the Spirits of Darkness – Prokofiev’s Scythian Suite was taken from his unfinished ballet Ala and Lolly. An important performance of it had to be canceled, as World War I made it impossible for enough qualified players to be found, but that didn’t prevent a damaging review from an influential critic. The piece thus had to find its audience overseas.

4. Dmitri Shostakovich – Hamlet Suite: The Ghost – Prominent Shakespeare experts Sir John Gielgud and Kenneth Branagh have declared the definitive film version of Hamlet to be a Russian production from 1964 that featured a score by Shostakovich, who had to find much of his musical expression in film work, an outlet that suffered from slightly less censorship under the Zhdanov Doctrine.

5. Anthony DiLorenzo – Dracula, Act 1: Waltz of the Dead – Dracula seems like a good subject for a ballet, right? Pointy toes, pointy teeth… Anthony DiLorenzo composed this work for his brass ensemble, Proteus 7, which for this work is augmented by a percussionist, a pair of woodwinds, theremin, daxophone (not a typo), and waterphone.

6. Jean-Philippe Rameau – Dardanus, Act IV Scene 4: Dread monster, fearsome monster – Rameau’s opera tells a story about Greek mythological hero Dardanus, who, in Rameau’s tale, is at war with King Teucer, though he is in love with Teucer’s daughter Iphise. When a great monster ravages Teucer’s kingdom, Dardanus defeats it, earning peace with Teucer and marriage with Iphise.

7. Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1, “Ghost”: II. Largo assai ed espressivo – One of his best-known piano trios, Beethoven’s D Major Trio earned its “Ghost” moniker thanks to the surprisingly eerie second movement. The tone makes some sense if one considers it may have been drawn from sketches of a Macbeth opera he was considering at the time.

8. Antonio Bazzini – Le Ronde des Lutins (Round of the Goblins) – Antonio Bazzini was an incredibly accomplished violinist who followed in the footsteps of Paganini. His tremendously difficult Round of the Goblins is considered a major achievement for the top level of violinists even today, with its proliferation of speedy double stops, left-hand pizzicato, and double-stopped artificial harmonics.

9. Tan Dun – Ghost Opera: V. Song of Paper – Tan Dun’s Ghost Opera was composed for the Kronos Quartet and pipa virtuoso Wu Man, but its eerie score calls for the musicians to double on everything from bowed gongs to Tibetan bells to one-stringed lutes, along with incorporating vocalizations of all sorts. The work also utilizes water, metal, stone, and paper for percussive effects.

10. Henry Cowell – The Banshee – Henry Cowell was an early proponent of extended techniques for the piano, including unconventional use of the strings and massive tone clusters that sometimes required the forearms to play. The son of a sickly single mother, he left school after the third grade to work, but his prodigious musical and intellectual gifts got him into Stanford and UC Berkeley at 17, despite barely being able to read.

11. Jerry Goldsmith – Poltergeist: Night of the Beast – Jerry Goldsmith was a highly accomplished film composer, his credits including classics like Logan’s Run, Planet of the Apes, Air Force One, Alien, Poltergeist, The Secret of NIMH, Hoosiers, and multiple Rambo and Star Trek films. Despite being nominated for numerous awards, including 18 Academy Awards nominations, he won only one, an Oscar for The Omen in 1976.

12. Benjamin Frankel – Curse of the Werewolf: XII. Finale – British composer Benjamin Frankel built up a notable oeuvre that included string quartets, symphonies, and concertos. He also paid the bills by composing the scores to over a hundred films. His score for Curse of the Werewolf includes the first serial music to feature in a British film, and later in life he developed his own 12-tone system of composition that remained relatively tonal.

13. Roy Webb – I Walked With A Zombie: End Title – Roy Webb enjoyed a prolific career as a Hollywood composer, with much of his reputation resting in his contributions to suspense and horror films such as Cat People and The Body Snatchers. He composed hundreds of scores, and his work was remarkable enough to earn seven Academy Awards nominations.

14. Hans J. Salter – The Ghost of Frankenstein: Freeing the Monster – Like Roy Webb, Hans J. Salter was a celebrated and Oscar-nominated Hollywood composer of the mid-twentieth century who specialized in work for horror and suspense films, including The Wolf Man and Creature from the Black Lagoon. He also composed a lot of stock music for Universal Studios, so much of what he did was uncredited.

15. Takayuki Hattori – Godzilla Versus Space Godzilla: Main Title – Takayuki Hattori is a third-generation composer with a long list of credits in Japan. His musical focus is film, anime, and video games, and he has been nominated for a number of awards, winning three times the Japan Academy Prize for music (Japan’s equivalent to the Oscars).

16. Moritz Eggert – The Son of the Daughter of Dracula Versus the Incredible Frankenstein – Moritz Eggert is a German composer who has a prominent place in his country’s art music scene. He has composed in many classical genres, including opera, ballet, vocal and chamber music, and solo piano.

17. Jon Brion – ParaNorman: Zombies Attack – Jon Brion began his career as a member of various rock bands, but he has found a place as a composer for film. His credits include Boogie Nights, ParaNorman, Magnolia, I <3 Huckabees, Punch-Drunk Love, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He has also produced albums for artists like Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple, Of Montreal, and Punch Brothers.

18. Jan Erik Mikalsen – Ghouls and Moons: III. --- – Jan Erik Mikalsen is a composer from Norway who has been commissioned by major orchestras across his native country. He also enjoys incorporating in his compositions uncommon instruments such as the musical saw (a Norwegian folk instrument he plays himself), the ondes Martenot, and analog synthesizers.

19. Thea Musgrave – Turbulent Landscapes: I. Sunrise with Sea Monsters – Born in 1928 in Scotland, composer Thea Musgrave now calls the United States home. Her teachers have included Nadia Boulanger and Aaron Copland. Her oeuvre includes several historical operas, with subjects including Mary Queen of Scots, Simón Bolívar, and Harriet Tubman. Turbulent Landscapes is based upon paintings by J.M.W. Turner.

20. Jerome Kern – De Goblin’s Glide – For a lighthearted conclusion to our playlist, we’ve selected this fun tune by Jerome Kern, one of the most important American theater composers of the early 20th century. His hits include “Ol’ Man River”, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”, and “All the Things You Are”, along with the musical Show Boat.





Each month, Naxos Music Library presents a themed playlist for our subscribers to enjoy. We know that a database of over 1.8 million tracks can be a bit daunting, so we'd like to highlight some of the amazing music that is available to you. Let it kickstart discovery!