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PENTATONE OXINGALE SERIES 
PRIMAVERA IV the heart<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE <\/strong>
October 2023, Baarn, The Netherlands <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allie Summers, Marketing & PR Manager <\/strong>
+31 6 21 39 12 21 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DIGITAL RELEASE DATE <\/strong>
24 November 2023 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Released in digital formats for streaming <\/em>and high-resolution downloads <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUDIO RESOLUTION FOR DIGITAL FILES <\/strong>
96\/24 PCM Stereo & 44.1\/16 PCM Stereo <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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PRIMAVERA IV the heart, PTC5187113.
Album cover – detail of Charline von Heyl’s Primavera 2020 <\/em>used with kind permission.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

PRIMAVERA IV the heart<\/strong> <\/em>is the fourth of six albums in a momentous series encompassing  81 world premieres for solo cello. This digital album presents 13 new commissions for  groundbreaking, multi-GRAMMY nominated cellist Matt Haimovitz as part of THE  PRIMAVERA PROJECT<\/strong>. A collaboration between Haimovitz, artist Charline von Heyl,  and director Jeffrianne Young, THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT is inviting 81 composers  to respond to two paintings, Sandro Botticelli\u2019s enigmatic painting, Primavera <\/em>(ca.  1480), and the prophetic large-scale triptych, Primavera 2020<\/em>, by world-renowned  contemporary artist Charline von Heyl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PRIMAVERA IV the heart<\/strong> <\/em>features compositions by Atar Arad<\/a>, Tyshawn Sorey<\/a>, Aaron Jay  Kernis<\/a>, Justine F. Chen<\/a>, Brian Current<\/a>, Nina C. Young,<\/a> Paul Moravec<\/a>, Rob Mazurek,<\/a>  Nkeiru Okoye<\/a>, Analia Llugdar<\/a>, Vincent Ho<\/a>, Carmen Braden<\/a> and Gordon Getty<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 <\/strong>PRIMAVERA 2020, <\/em>Charline von Heyl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Passing the halfway point of the commissioning cycle, this release presents an eclectic  mix of composers who gravitate to various themes in the paintings. Three approaches  to the Graces \u2013 by MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Tyshawn Sorey, Pulitzer Prize  winner Aaron Jay Kernis, and award-winning Justine F. Chen \u2013 offer three distinctive  interpretations of the Graces. Justine F. Chen\u2019s Iridescent Gest <\/em>highlights the \u2018moto  perpetuo\u2019 kinetic energy of the dancers; Tyshawn Sorey\u2019s Three Graces <\/em>offers a  dramatic, richly nuanced and complex arc through the interlocking gestures of the  graces; and Aaron Jay Kernis\u2019 Grace <\/em>reimagines the heart of each of J.S. Bach\u2019s Six  Suites for Cello Solo, the Sarabande<\/em>, in search of a timeless musical language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album begins with legendary violist and composer Atar Arad\u2019s Aviv<\/em>, a suite of  miniatures traversing a wide range of styles, from Jewish modes to Scottish bagpipe  music, playful to mournful (\u201cOnce Upon a Time \u2013 Highland \u2013 Song \u2013 Humoresque \u2013 Elegy  \u2013 Spring Dance\u201d). Canadian Brian Current\u2019s Chlorisflora <\/em>shatters our cello expectations  with a whole new sphere of timbres and extended techniques (including the use of a  paper clip), depicting the earthly flowers and vines that grow out of the nymphs. Nina  C. Young\u2019s pentimento <\/em>also expands the sound palette adding an electronic tableau to  haunting acoustic fragments that emerge from the layers of texture. Pulitzer-prize <\/p>\n\n\n\n

winning Paul Moravec\u2019s Your Own Shadow <\/em>contemplates the only words in Charline  von Heyl\u2019s Primavera 2020<\/em>, a three-note motive metamorphosing from a virtuosic  show piece to an ethereal melody in harmonics. Jazz trumpeter and composer Rob  Mazurek takes us on a Prokofiev-tinged theatrical voyage with Venus in Shadow World<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Argentinian-Canadian Analia Llugdar\u2019s Anima vento <\/em>evokes the East Wind, the  breath of Zephyrus, with a wide-ranging spectral imagination. Juno Award-winning  Canadian Vincent Ho\u2019s Blindfolded Cupid <\/em>taps into vernacular music, unfolding with a  series of progressively more wound-up riffs. From the Canadian sub-Arctic, Carmen  Braden explores a range of emotions and subtext of the Primavera paintings with Her  Arranged Marriage to Oranges<\/em>. Two returning composers, Nigerian-American Nkeiru  Okoye and Gordon Getty contribute new Primavera Project pieces: Okoye\u2019s Breaking  Bread <\/em>merges Spirituals with Bach mockpolyphony; and Gordon Getty\u2019s Winter  Song<\/em>, following his Spring Song <\/em>released on PRIMAVERA II the rabbits<\/em>, continues the  nonagenarian\u2019s traversal of the seasons with the promise and comfort of nature\u2019s  cycles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT MATT HAIMOVITZ <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renowned as a musical pioneer, multi-Grammy-nominated cellist Matt Haimovitz is praised  by The New York Times <\/em>as a \u201cferociously talented cellist who brings his megawatt sound and  uncommon expressive gifts to a vast variety of styles\u201d and by The New Yorker <\/em>as \u201cremarkable  virtuoso\u201d who \u201cnever turns in a predictable performance.\u201d He brings a fresh ear to familiar  repertoire, champions new music, and initiates groundbreaking collaborations, as well as  creating innovative recording projects. In addition to his touring schedule, Haimovitz mentors  an award-winning studio of young cellists at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University in  Montreal and is now the first-ever John Cage Fellow at The New School\u2019s Mannes School of Music  in New York City.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haimovitz made his debut in 1984, at the age of 13, as soloist with Zubin Mehta and the Israel  Philharmonic. He has gone on to perform on the world\u2019s most esteemed stages, with such  orchestras and conductors as the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic with Zubin  Mehta, the English Chamber Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim, the Boston Symphony Orchestra  with Leonard Slatkin, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montr\u00e9al with Kent Nagano. His  latest endeavor, THE PRIMAVERA PROJECT, encompasses 81 new commissions from a diverse  intersection of North American communities and has been featured in the most recent 59th  Venice Biennale Arte.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making his first recording at 17 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Haimovitz\u2019s recording  career encompasses more than 30 years of award-winning work on Deutsche Grammophon  (Universal), Oxingale Records, and the PENTATONE Oxingale Series. His honors include the  Trailblazer Award from the American Music Center, the Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Grand  Prix du Disque, and the Premio Internazionale \u201cAccademia Musicale Chigiana.\u201d He studied with  Leonard Rose at The Juilliard School and graduated magna cum laude with highest honors from  Harvard University. Haimovitz plays a Venetian cello, made in 1710 by Matteo Gofriller. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT CHARLINE VON HEYL <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charline von Heyl (German, b. 1960) studied at the Hochschule f\u00fcr bildende K\u00fcnste Hamburg  and the Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf, and participated in the Cologne art scene in the 1980s  before moving to New York in 1995. She is a painter whose practice encompasses drawing,  printmaking, and collage. Von Heyl\u2019s work takes inspiration from a vast and surprising array of  sources \u2013 including literature, pop culture, metaphysics and personal history.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She has been the subject of several survey museum exhibitions, most recently held at the Hirshhorn  Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Museum Dhont Dhaenens, Deurle; and the Deichtorhallen,  Hamburg. Past survey exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston; the Tate  Liverpool; Kunsthalle N\u00fcrnberg; Bonner Kunstverein; and the Institute of Contemporary Art  Philadelphia.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work can be found in collections around the world, including the Museum of Contemporary  Art, Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San  Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Kunstmuseum Bonn;  and the Tate Modern, London. Charline von Heyl lives and works in New York and Marfa, Texas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ABOUT PENTATONE <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the leading classical music labels in the world, Pentatone presents a diverse range of  world-class artists, and is dedicated to premium quality productions captured in exceptional  sound. The label works together with today and tomorrow\u2019s leading artists to provide timeless  recordings of core, fringe, and lesser-known repertoire, with Pentatone\u2019s uncompromising  attention to the best possible quality in artistry, design and recording technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The label was founded in the Netherlands in 2001 by three former Philips Classics executives,  with the ambition to offer classical music in the highest quality including surround sound. In its  first years, Pentatone engaged Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton and Sophia Loren in a GRAMMY winning recording of Prokofiev\u2019s Peter & the Wolf <\/em>(released in Spanish with Antonio Banderas),  with Kent Nagano conducting the Russian National Orchestra. Another early success was a  recording of the official music performed during the wedding ceremony of the then Dutch crown  prince (now king) Willem-Alexander to M\u00e1xima Zorreguieta. The Music from the Royal Wedding <\/em>sold more than 75,000 copies, thereby attaining the unique \u201ctriple platinum\u201d status in the  Netherlands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During its first decade, the label released several award-winning recordings with violinist Julia  Fischer and several complete cycles: Beethoven\u2019s symphonies conducted by Philippe Herreweghe,  Beethoven\u2019s piano sonatas performed by Mari Kodama, and Bruckner\u2019s symphonies under  the baton of Marek Janowski. Violinist Arabella Steinbacher left her mark on these years and  continues with several acclaimed recordings. Later, Pentatone recorded Wagner\u2019s ten mature  operas, the only such label to take on this task in the 21st century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 2013, with a new management team, the label focused on embracing the digital era and  expanding its repertoire. New artists and ensembles defined the label\u2019s second decade, including  conductors Vladimir Jurowski, Ren\u00e9 Jacobs and Esa-Pekka Salonen, singers Piotr Beczala, Lisette  Oropesa, Javier Camarena, Ian Bostridge and Magdalena Ko\u017een\u00e1, pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard  and Francesco Piemontesi, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, as well as the Akademie f\u00fcr Alte Musik Berlin,  the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the Czech Philharmonic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, Pentatone has won multiple awards. In 2017, John Corigliano\u2019s The Ghosts of  Versailles <\/em>won Best Opera Recording and Best Engineered Album at the 59th GRAMMY Awards.  Two years later, the premiere recording of the Mason Bates opera, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs<\/em>,  won a GRAMMY for Best Opera Recording. Pentatone was awarded Label of the Year in 2019 by  Gramophone Magazine and in 2020 by the International Classical Music Awards. Pentatone\u2019s  third decade promises to be even more exciting and innovative as we expand our growing and  diverse roster of artists, producing the most thrilling recordings in the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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