|
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Emerson Concerto / Symphony No. 1 Alan Feinberg (Piano) / National Symphony Orchestra Of Ireland / James Sinclair [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "Alan Feinberg is an ideal exponent of Ives's truculent and tender realism. The National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland partners him well... a very strong recommendation" International Record Review |
|
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Rondo, WoO 6 Boris Giltburg (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "Here's a very promising start to what I assume will be a new Beethoven piano concerto cycle...Fine playing, fine conducting, fine engineering-in short, a really fine release generally." ClassicsToday |
|
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4 Boris Giltburg (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] For 19th-century audiences Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 was the most loved of all his piano concertos, a work in which the balancing of high drama, tenderness, lyricism and humour is most pronounced and in which a coda resolves inner tensions... |
|
ROSS HARRIS
Harris: Violin Concerto / Symphony No 5 Ilya Gringolts (violin), Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo-soprano) / Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Eckehard Stier & Garry Walker [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jul/2016 ] "orchestral tone and clarity is smooth and clean" (MusicWeb) |
|
NIKOLAY KARLOVICH MEDTNER
Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Piano Quintet Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) Zuzana Bourova (viola) Ewald Danel (violin) Jozef Podhoransky (cello) Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) / Moscow Symphony Or [ Naxos Romantic Piano Concertos / CD - released 29/Oct/2005 ] "virtuosic and brilliant playing from Konstantin Scherbakov" (Penguin Guide) |
|
DANIEL-FRANCOIS AUBER
Auber: Overtures, Vol. 2 [Incls 'Violin Concerto in D Major, S. 165'] Markéta Čepická (violin) / Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice, Dario Salvi [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] The second volume in this series (Volume 1 is on 8.574005) continues to explore little-known examples of Auber's elegant and refined operatic music. Julie was his first stage work, its fantasia-like beauty foreshadowing the operas, opéras-comiques... |
|
MORITZ MOSZKOWSKI
Moszkowski: Piano Concerto, Op. 59 / From Foreign Lands Op.23 Markus Pawlik (piano) / National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra A. Wit, conductor [ Naxos Romantic Piano Concertos / CD - released 13/Oct/2002 ] Moritz Moszkowski was born in Breslau on 23rd August, 1854, and began his music studies in Dresden, eventually moving to Berlin to continue his education with Kullak and Wüerst. |
|
ADDINSELL / BEAVER / ROSZA / ROTA / RODNEY BENNETT / BATH /HERRMANN / etc
Warsaw Concerto and Other Piano Concertos from the Movies Philip Fowke (piano) / RTE Concert Orchestra. Proinnsias O Duinn, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 30/May/2009 ] "Philip Fowke plays all the pieces with affection and panache" - Gramophone |
|
ALAN RAWSTHORNE
Rawsthorne: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Fantasy Overture: Corteges Rebecca Hirsch (violin) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Lionel Friend [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Dec/2000 ] "The performances bring out the best in this intense and very engaging music" Fanfare |
|
JACOB WEINBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Weinberg: Piano Concerto 2 / String Quartet Op. 55 / etc Jorge Federico Osorio (piano), Patrick Mason (baritone) / Bingham String Quartet, Barcelona Symphony, National Orchestra of Catalonia [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 3/Apr/2006 ] This compact disc features world premiere recordings of three works by JACOB WEINBERG (1879-1956), who was born in the Ukraine to a cultured, assimilated family and studied first at the Moscow conservatory and then in Vienna. |
|
CARL CZERNY
Czerny: Second Grand Concerto in E Flat major / Concertino, Rondino Rosemary Tuck (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Dec/2019 ] Carl Czerny penned an astonishing amount of music, including the numerous potpourris, fantasies, teaching pieces and studies for which he became known. This recording features the delightfully entertaining Concertino in C major, Op. 210/213, as well... |
|
EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA
Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus / Piano Concerto / Symphony No. 3 Laura Mikkola (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Hannu Lintu [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Oct/2002 ] "performances are fully as fine as any available.. unobtrusively excellent." - David Hurwitz, Classicstoday.com |
|
JOSEPH HAYDN
The Best of Haydn Capella Istropolitana, Kodaly Quartet, Camerata Cassovia, Jeno Jando (piano), and many more [ Naxos Best Of / CD - released 18/Feb/2008 ] The very best of Haydn drawn from the vast Naxos catalogue. |
|
PETER SCULTHORPE
Sculthorpe: Earth Cry / Piano Concerto / Kakadu / etc William Barton (didgeridoo) / Maria Anna Cislovska (piano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / James Judd, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2004 ] "Tasmanian composer Sculthorpe's psychedelic images of primeval times, nature and infinity are well worth your trouble. A superb and breathtakingly inexpensive disc. Miraculously good value at every level." - MusicWeb Nov 2004 |
|
SALVATORE MESSINA / NINO ROTA / PAOLO PESSINA
Pessini: Concertango / Rota: Concerto for Strings / Messina: La beffa a Don Chisciotte Suite (arr. for string orchestra) Adriatic Symphony Orchestra / Paolo Pessina [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Nov/2006 ] Salvatore Messina composed the opera La beffa a Don Chisciotte, with a libretto by Ettore Romagnoli, between 1926 and 1930. The composer's untimely death did not allow him to complete the orchestration of the score. |
|
AMY BEACH
Beach: Piano Concerto / Gaelic Symphony Alan Feinberg (piano) Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Schermerhorn (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/May/2003 ] "Prepare to be thrilled by the melodic invention and charming rhythmic energy of this music. Well worth exploring." - Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (June 2003) |
|
CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
Alkan: Concerto for Solo Piano Op. 39 Dmitry Feofanov (piano) / Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra, Robert Stankovsky [ Naxos Romantic Piano Concertos / CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "Feofanov does a heroic job... Good recording makes this well worth anybody's money" (Penguin Guide) |
|
C.P.E. BACH / JOSEPH HAYDN
Times of Transition - Cello concertos by C.P.E. Bach and Haydn Andreas Brantelid (cello) / Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] The three cello concertos on this disc illustrate that fertile period in the second half of the 18th century when features of the Baroque were gradually replaced by the so-called galant style. Foremost amongst the composers inaugurating this change... |
|
J. S. BACH
BACH: Complete Piano Concertos Vol 1 Hae Won Chang (piano) / Camerata Cassovia, Robert Stankovsky [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2015 ] "A couple of delightful CDs... you will certainly enjoy these vigorous, enticing and thoroughly musical performances." CDReview |
|
JOHN FIELD
Field: Piano Concertos No 7 / Irish Concerto Benjamin Frith (piano) Northern Sinfonia, David Haslam (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Sep/2016 ] Dublin-born prodigy John Field enjoyed a wide reputation and great popularity. He was renowned as a soloist for his delicacy of nuance and as a composer for his cultivation of that most poetic of forms, the nocturne. His Piano Concertos were eagerly... |