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WALTER PISTON
Piston: Chamber Music including the Quintet for Flute & Sting Quartet 1999 Australian Festival of Chamber Music [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Jan/2002 ] "The Naxos American Classics series is throwing up both intriguing repertoire and some appealing performances" The Strad |
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 |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Etudes (Complete) Alexander Paley (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Dec/2002 ] His mother was a pianist, his father a diplomat, and he, Alexander Nikolayvich Scriabin was Russia's most unusual composer. During his short life-span of 43 years, Scriabin wrote three symphonies, two symphonic poems, variations for a string quartet,... |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHUBERT / HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Italian Songs Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) Andreas Schiff (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] "Haydn's dramatic scena, Arianna a Naxos, lively with Bartoli's quick response to every fleeting emotion, makes a formidable finale to this finely conceived and enthusiastically realised recital." ClassicalMusic |
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... |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Piano Concertos Vol 1: No 6 Op 123 & No 8 Op 151 Christopher Hinterhuber (piano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Uwe Grodd (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2005 ] "If its successors are as good as this, the series will introduce us to a lot of very attractive music." (MusicWeb Jan 2006) |
ALFRED HILL
Alfred Hill - String Quartets, Vol. 4 (Nos. 10, 11 & 'Life' Quintet) Dominion String Quartet with Richard Mapp (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] Alfred Hill was the doyen of Australasian composers, and his exploration of the string quartet demonstrates the range of his imagination. Both the Tenth and Eleventh quartets were written in 1935, but they offer richly differing affiliations. No. 10... |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Vol 2 Eric Grossman (violin) / Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/2015 ] "Ries's chamber music seems to respond to Grossman's and Kagan's intimate and friendly playing....Kagan's knowledgeable booklet note adds to one's enjoyment. As before, this is unreservedly recommended." Fanfare |
FERDINANDO CARULLI
Guitar and Piano Music, Vol. 1 Franz Halasz (guitar) / Debora Halasz (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Born in Naples, Ferdinando Carulli wrote the first complete classical guitar method, which continues to be used today. From among his more than 400 guitar pieces come several transcriptions with operatic associations, including those of Beethoven's... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Piano Music Vol 1 (Includes Piano Sonata in F major, Op. 12 & 10 Pieces Op.24 ) Havard Gimse (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Nov/2001 ] "Distinguished playing and the best performances and recording I have heard of this repertoire." - Robert Layton, BBC Music Magazine, Feb 2000 |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Songs of Love and Death Hedwig Fassbender (mezzo-soprano) Hilko Dumno (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Dec/2007 ] "Fassbender is an understanding, sympathetic and, above all, straightforward guide to this music. The recording… deserves hearing for both its interesting juxtaposition of repertoire and the unaffected sincerity of the performances…" (Gramophone) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Hungarian Dances / Waltzes Op 39 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2013 ] "The Turkish-born pianist Idil Biret…is a wonderful Brahmsian in this literature. She has a big, firm technique that conveys authority; she is at home in all styles, whether in the strictly rhythmic and articulated Baroque-style dance pieces, or the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Coffee & Classical Idil Biret (piano), Jenö Jandó (piano), Maria Lambros (viola), Soyeon Kate Lee (piano), Alon Goldstein (piano), Rachel Calin (double bass), Benjamin F [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Nov/2019 ] Enjoy this full-flavoured selection of music whilst sipping on a coffee from your favourite cup. Let our blended brew of aural aromas bring you down to earth from the days highs, and experience how our choice of works gives grounds for escape from... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Igor Levit (piano), Xiaohan Wang (piano) / Kolner Kammerorchester, Helmut Muller-Bruhl [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Feb/2021 ] Igor Levit made his recording debut with a performance of Beethoven's First Piano Concerto when he was 20 years old, long before he became a superstar of the classical music world and a major interpreter of Beethoven's music. The occasion was part of... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Sonatas (Vol 3) Nos. 53 - 56, 58 / Un Piccolo Divertimento Jeno Jando (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] "He is a true Haydn player, and this is in every way recommendable, particularly as the recording is so vivid and clean: just right for the repertoire." Penguin Guide |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Sonatas Volume 2: Nos. 42-47 Jeno Jando (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] "Jeno Jando is gradually approaching completeness in his own Haydn series, characterized by a no-nonsense, down-to-earth vivacity." BBC Music Magazine October 2001 |
FREDERIC MOMPOU
Mompou: Piano music Vol 2 Jordi Maso (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2002 ] Among the most notable of Mompou's works written in the middle of the 1920s are the first six Préludes, the beginning of a set which grew irregularly in number over a period of more than thirty years, eventually to be completed with a further six.... |
ERICH KORNGOLD
Korngold: Violin Sonata and other chamber pieces Joseph Lin (violin) Benjamin Loeb (piano) [ Naxos Laureate Series / CD - released 26/May/2003 ] "Excellent virtuosic and expressive performances of some of Korngold's most enchanting music." Recording of the Month. (MusicWeb June 2004) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / FRANZ LISZT
Liszt / Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Transcription) Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Dec/2004 ] "This is a magnificent disc and listening to it is a truly uplifting experience." MusicWeb, October 2004 |
