OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Concerto Allantica Davide Alogna (violin), Chamber Orchestra Of New York [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] Ottorino Respighi was in the vanguard of the 20th-century rebirth of Italian symphonic music. Famed for his Roman Trilogy, Respighi was also prominent in the synthesis of pre-Classical melodic styles and late-Romantic harmonies and textures. These... |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Violin Concerto No. 3 / String Trio / Sonata for Violin & Cello Davide Alogna (violin), Fiorenzo Pascalucci (piano), Federico Stassi (viola) & Roberto Trainini (cello), Roberto Trainini (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] The three previously unpublished and unrecorded chamber works in this programme were all written after Castelnuovo-Tedesco's enforced move to the United States from his native Italy. Evoking the emotional day on which the composer sailed into New... |
MONTEVERDI
Madrigals, Book 7 Concerto (Il Settimo Libro de Madrigali 1619) Delitiae Musicae / Marco Longhini, conductor [ Naxos / 3 CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] The 'Concerto' (as Claudio Monteverdi entitled his Seventh Book of Madrigals) was published five years after the Sixth Book had appeared. It represents a clear break with Monteverdi's earlier publications: here the madrigal is transformed or,... |
CASELLA
Symphony No. 1 / Concerto for strings, piano, timpani & percussion Desiree Seuccuglia (piano) Antonio Ceravolo (percussion) / Rome Symphony Orchestra / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] This first of four recordings of Alfredo Casella's orchestral music couples his first and last purely orchestral works. Completed the day before his 23rd birthday, the Symphony No. 1, which here receives its world première recording, exudes a... |
KHATCHATURIAN
Cello Concerto / Concerto-Rhapsody Dmitry Yablonsky (cello) / Moscow City Symphony Orchestra / Maxim Fedotov [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] The Naxos series devoted to the orchestral music of Aram Khachaturian continues with his two works for cello and orchestra. The Cello Concerto, whose brooding emotional unease did not endear it to the authorities at a difficult time for Soviet... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Triple Concerto Dong-Suk Kang (violin) / Maria Kliegel (cello) / Jeno Jando (piano) / Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia / Bela Drahos [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1998 ] |
ELGAR
Violin Concerto in B minor Op 61 / Cockaigne Overture Dong-Suk Kang (violin) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adrian Leaper (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jan/2008 ] "Dung-Suk Kang plays the work with insight and understanding, as if he had been brought up on the slopes of the Malvern Hills" - Gramophone |
JEAN SIBELIUS / EDWARD ELGAR
Sibelius/Elgar: Violin Concertos Dong-Suk Kang (violin) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adrian Leaper (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Oct/2005 ] "even if it were at full price it would feature quite high in the current lists" - Penguin Guide |
HANDEL
Ode for St. Cecilia's Day Dorothee Mield (soprano) Mark Wilde (tenor) / Alsfelder Vocal Ensemble / Concerto Polacco / Wolfgang Helbich, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jun/2004 ] Georg Friedrich Händel, later more generally known under the English forms of name that he assumed in London, George Frideric Handel, was born in Halle in 1685, the son of a successful barber-surgeon and his much younger, second wife. His father... |
HANDEL
Handel - Dettingen Te Deum / Te Deum in A major Dorothee Mields (soprano) Ulrike Anderson (alto) / Concerto Polacco [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Oct/2001 ] "...Helbich gives us the Dettingen work in a thoroughly enjoyable performance... his choir and solo quartet, with period orchestra, give a rousing rendition, with no serious problems of English diction." (American Record Guide) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / CARL REINECKE
Beethoven (arr. Reinecke): Triple Concerto / Reinecke: Piano Trio No. 1 Duccio Ceccanti (violin) Vittorio Ceccanti (cello) Matteo Fossi (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/May/2021 ] Prolific in every aspect of music throughout his long and distinguished career, Carl Reinecke represented the complete musician with the belief that 'art should bring happiness to mankind'. |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Arrangements for Piano Duet, Vol. 6 - Overture, Scherzo and Finale / Piano Concerto / The Bride of Messina: Overture Eckerle Piano Duo [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2021 ] In the days before sound recording, orchestral music was often arranged in versions for piano duet as a way for the public to hear, play and enjoy music by the great composers of the day. |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5 / Symphony No. 4 (recorded 1950-51) Edwin Fischer (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Wilhelm Furtwangler [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "Here are two great Beethovenians, at the height of their powers, at work, offering masterful interpretations of music heard perhaps too often in routine or less than inspiring performances." (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb Sept 2010) |
HISATO OHZAWA
Piano Concerto No 3 'Kamikaze' / Symphony No 3 'The Founding of Japan' Ekaterina Saranceva (piano) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dimitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2008 ] Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Fantasia in A major on Polish Airs / Krakowiak Concert Rondo in F AUDIO-ONLY Eldar Nebolsin (piano) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2011 ] Chopin's youthful Piano Concerto No. 1 is dominated by the brilliant piano part that the performer-composer wrote to showcase his extraordinary talent. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 / Fantasia on Polish Airs Eldar Nebolsin, piano /Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "[The Rondo is] the highlight of the disc, nonchalantly fleet-fingered, beautifully phrased and conveying a real joy of shared music-making." Gramophone |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 / Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise / Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano' in B flat major Eldar Nebolsin (piano) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "For me this is near the ideal in the performance of Chopin." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Dec 2010) |