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REVIEWS | COLERIDGE-TAYLOR PRAISED BY GRAMOPHONE & BBC MUSIC

“Three cheers for this most enjoyable collection … spruce and infectiously committed advocacy from the Maryland-based National Philharmonic at Strathmore under Michael Repper … Curtis Stewart is the stylish soloist … Boasting eminently truthful sound, this enterprising release is certainly worth seeking out.” - GRAMOPHONE

“excels in violinistic fantasy … Stewart’s violin playing throughout is passionately committed … a sterling effort” – ★★★★ BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE 

NEW RELEASE | NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC (DC): Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Toussaint L’Ouverture • Ballade Op. 4 • Suites from “24 Negro Melodies”

Excitement is building towards the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August).

SALES CAMPAIGN | AVIE Records Label of the Week at Europadisc (UK)

Europadisc are offering 25% discount on the entire AVIE catalogue over the next week, ending at midnight (BST) on Thursday 7 August.

SALES CAMPAIGN | AVIE Records Summer Sale at HBDirect (USA)

HBDirect began as a mail order company in 1988. By 1993, HBDirect became the first exclusively classical music store on the web. Aside from accepting orders through the HBDirect website and by mail, the company also manages a call center for telephone orders in Franklin, Tennessee.

NEW RELEASE | JOEL PUCKETT: Short Stories in London

The first single from the all-star album project has dropped with playlisting support from Spotify and Apple Music.
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These wonderful compositions are brought to life by the extraordinary talents of Nicholas Phan, Sean Jones and Joseph Young under the auspices of the London Symphony Orchestra.

NEW RELEASE | DANIEL-BEN PIENAAR: Gaspard Le Roux: Complete Suites

For his tenth Avie release, Daniel-Ben Pienaar flies the flag for the enigmatic French composer Gaspard Le Roux, by re-imagining his only published work – the exquisite “Pièces de clavessin” from 1705 – for its first ever recording on the modern piano.

REVIEWS | SUSAN NARUCKI: György Kurtág: Kafka Fragments

Susan Narucki is garnering considerable critical acclaim for her György Kurtág: Kafka Fragments programme.

Not least being interviewed for a Presto Music feature:

“Inspired performances … Susan Narucki and Curtis Macomber take the wild Kafka Fragments in their stride … sung with pleading sweetness … the beauty of a visual image unlocks an answering musical beauty from Macomber’s violin”. – ★★★★★ Vocal Choice, Michael Church, BBC Music Magazine

“Narucki is a Kurtág exponent to reckon with … Curtis Macomber, much more than an accompanist in the way that his violin shadows but also interacts with the voice such that it becomes the projection of the other… Kafka Fragments encourages varied interpretations … this newcomer, whose manifold subtleties and insights might yet make it the preferred option”. – Richard Whitehouse, Gramophone

NEW RELEASE | NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC (DC): Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Toussaint L’Ouverture • Ballade Op. 4 • Suites from “24 Negro Melodies”

“Coleridge-Taylor’s music is both richly lyrical and very sweet at the same time,” says Curtis Stewart. “It’s truly amazing. And when you know something about his life, when you’ve learned a bit about everything he experienced, I always think—whenever I’m playing his music—about the incredible grace and poise he must have had, to be a Black musician in England at the time that he grew up there. It could not have been easy for him, but he left this astonishing collection of works, many of which have been lost but are now being rediscovered.”

The process of finding, selecting, and preparing the compositions on the album has required more than two years of research and effort, Repper notes. But with the recording now completed—marking the first-ever recording by the National Philharmonic with Repper as conductor—the lengthy endeavor clearly has been well worth it.”