Dear Friends,

We are very pleased to share with you the April 2015 issue of NEW ON NAXOS, presenting a broad selection of exciting new releases that includes world première recordings from around the world! Our monthly spotlight release is the second volume of the rare complete symphonies of Camille Saint-Saëns, with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, directed by the acknowledged French music expert Marc Soustrot.

Other highlights include: the fourth album in our ongoing cycle of Heitor Villa-Lobos’ complete orchestral works, with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Choir and Children’s Choir under the baton of Isaac Karabtchevsky. The previous releases in this cycle have been critically received by leading international classical music reviewers. François Couperin’s extraordinary set of chamber music, "Les Nations" – a vast project which exhibits his very earliest efforts at Italian sonata-form with the French classical dance tradition, performed by the highly-acclaimed specialist performers of the Juilliard Baroque, led by violinist Monica Huggett, the legendary early music pioneer and artistic director of the Juilliard School’s Historical Performance programme; Popular overtures to comic operas, such as "Zampa", "The Merry Wives of Windsor", and "Fra Diavolo", performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Lance Friedel; three concertos for guitar and orchestra by Joaquín Rodrigo – "Concierto de Aranjuez", "Concierto Andaluz", and "Concierto Madrigal" – brilliantly presented by Dale Kavanagh, the Amadeus Guitar Duo and the Eden-Stell Duo, with the Internationale Philharmonie, directed by Horst-Hans Bäcker; and world première recordings of music by Aaron Jay Kernis, one of the youngest composers ever to be award the Pulitzer Prize. This album features renowned pianist Andrew Russo and violinist James Ehnes, with the Albany Symphony Orchestra and conductor David Alan Miller.

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