LISZT
Donizetti Operatic Reminiscences and Transcriptions William Wolfram (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jan/2008 ] "New York City-based pianist William Wolfram is on splendid form throughout these technically difficult, emotionally demanding and physically taxing works." (MusicWeb April 2008) |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 63: Weihnachtsbaum Wojciech Waleczek (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Sep/2024 ] The piano pieces Franz Liszt composed in his final decade are both secular and sacred with a startling originality that is far removed from the virtuoso character of his earlier works. |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni.: Piano Music, Vol. 11 - Piano Sonatina No. 5 / Edizione minore della Fantasia contrappuntistica / Bach - 10 Chorale Preludes Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] Transcriptions occupied Ferruccio Busoni from early in his career, but his famously Romantic version of the Chaconne in D minor (Naxos 8.555699) contrasts with the later and more austere Sonatina brevis based on Bach's Fantasy and Fugue in D minor,... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 2 Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jan/2006 ] "This disc maintains the high standards set by Harden in his first volume of Busoni piano music. It begins with an unusually eloquent and beautifully shaped rendition of one of the most famous of all the 'Bach-Busoni' transcriptions... The original... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 4 Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jan/2006 ] "In this ongoing conspectus of Busoni's piano music Wolf Harden demonstrates yet again that he has an affinity for the composer and the prestidigitatory prowess to realize it…Sound is close-onstage-and detailed in spacious openness. Informed... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI / J.S. BACH
Piano Music Vol. 5 - Studies / 6 Pieces / 10 Variations on Chopin's C minor Prelude Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "I enjoyed this recital, not least because it juxtaposes old and newer works. The performances are given by someone who obviously cares for the music. The sound is clear and precise and the notes pretty good. This disk is a bargain which is too good... |
BUSONI
Piano Music Vol.1 Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2001 ] "Gravely charming...The sound strikes an almost ideal balance between detail and mass in a spacious aural frame." Fanfare, January 2009 |
BUSONI
Piano Music Volume 3 Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] "Congratulations to Naxos for foregrounding the music of Busoni, a composer often thought of as 'difficult' and hard to approach. A fascinating disc, with a value-for-money playing time." (MusicWeb March 2007) |
BUSONI
Piano Music Volume 6 Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jul/2009 ] Dante Michelangeli Benvenuto Ferruccio Busoni was born at Empoli, near Florence, in 1866, only child of a clarinettist father and a pianist mother. |
BUSONI
Piano Music Volume 7 Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos Busoni Piano Music / CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] The essence of Ferruccio Busoni's music lies in its synthesis of his Italian and German ancestry, emotion and intellect, imagination and rigour. This seventh volume in Naxos's highly-praised series brings together several virtuosic operatic... |
SCHUBERT
Poets of Sensibility, Volume 3 Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) / Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] "Highly recommended for Holzmair’s lyrical, naturalistic style – the best disc in this series by far, good enough for experienced collectors to seek out" BARGAIN OF THE MONTH (MusicWeb Jan 2006) |
J. S. BACH
English Suites Nos 1 - 3 Wolfgang Rubsam (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] |
J.S. BACH
Partitas: No. 3 Bwv 827 / No. 4 Bwv 828 Wolfgang Rubsam (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "produces touch and phrasing highly suitable for these works." - Classic CD |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS
The Art of the Vienna Horn Wolfgang Tomboeck (vienna horn) Madoka Inui (piano) with Genia Kuhmeier (soprano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "A triumph; a real disc to be savoured. And most emphatically not limited in its appeal to horn players!" -- Colin Clarke, MusicWeb, January 2005 |
COPLAND / LARSEN / LIEUWEN / SCHICKELE
Gulfstream Wonkak Kim (Clarinet) M. Brent Williams (Violin) Jayoung Kim (Cello) Eun-Hee Park (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Feb/2012 ] |
LISZT
Liszt - Complete Piano Music - Vol. 16 (Piano transcriptions of Beethoven's Songs) Wook Yoo Yung, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2003 ] "Throughout this disc Yung Wook Yoo displays a deft interpretive sense and brilliant technique. The sound on this discs is clear and this recording is eminently recommendable." - Robert Cummings, classical.net |
Written by Genevieve Helsby
My First Piano Book [ Naxos / 2 CD/Book - released 27/May/2018 ] Following the success of "My First Classical Music Book," author Genevieve Helsby and illustrator Jason Chapman return with "My First Piano Book." Bursting with life and humor, this is a uniquely comprehensive introduction to the piano, designed... |
RICHARD DANIELPOUR
The Enchanted Garden: Preludes Books I & II Xiayin Wang (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "The first book of The Enchanted Garden was composed in 1992; the five preludes in that cycle were musical responses to dreams that I had and had eventually written about. The second book, written nearly seventeen years later in 2009, includes seven... |
SCHUMANN
Piano Quintet, Piano Quartet & Märchenerzählungen Xiayin Wang (piano) / Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] Between 1841 and 1843 Schumann wrote some of his greatest chamber works, among them the Piano Quartet and the Piano Quintet, both in E flat major. Written in an astonishing five-day period, the Quintet displays both the heroic and the lyric impulses... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Vol. 3: Piano Trio No. 3 / Symphony No. 2 (arr. piano trio) Xyrion Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2009 ] Haydn's misgivings about Beethoven's third piano trio were not entirely unfounded: symphonic in conception, it was a breakthrough work-Beethoven's first masterpiece and eventually one of his most popular chamber pieces-and retains its power to amaze... |