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HANS WERNER HENZE
Hanze: Volin & Viola Works Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin/viola), Roderick Chadwick (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2018 ] "Hard to imagine a finer advocate for these alluring pieces by Henze than the remarkable Sheppard Skaerved." Sunday Times |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN / LENNOX BERKELEY
Auden Songs Philip Langridge (tenor) / Della Jones (mezzo-soprano) / Steuart Bedford (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2005 ] "...Langridge and Jones sing them with admirable ardour, colour and clarity." - Jeremy Nicholas, Classic FM Magazine |
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WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works Vol. 2 [(ncls Symphony No. 2] The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, with Piotr Paleczny (piano) [ Naxos / CD ] "An excellent disc at bargain price.": BBC Music |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski - Orchestral Works Vol 3: Symphony No. 3 / Paganini Variations Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra; Antoni Wit, conductor, with Bernd Glemser, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] "a series that is setting high standards in budget-price contemporary music....Wit conjures a fantastic range of tone colour from his well-drilled Polish orchestra ...the third symphony has never sounded more convincing" - Classic CD |
FRANZ LISZT / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Liszt/Brahms: Piano Variations Michael Ponti (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/1990 ] The name of Bach was to provide a theme for a number of subsequent composers, following the example of Johann Sebastian Bach himself, who had used his own name as a fugal subject in The Art of Fugue. |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Music for violin and piano Vol 1 (Incls Violin Sonata in F major) Qian Zhou (violin) / Edmund Battersby (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] "A disc that has more than passing interest to recommend it, and promises similar pleasures from its successors in this series." - MusicWebUK, November 12, 2001 |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 1 (1925-1947) Walter Gieseking, Byron Janis, Alexander Kelberine, Wilheim Backhaus, Sergey Rachmaninov, Rae Robertson, Arthur Rubinstein, Olga Samaroff, etc [ Naxos Historial Great Pianists / CD - released 29/Jan/2001 ] "Naxos has produced here a most enjoyable record which can be fully recommended not only to piano specialists but also to the general music lover and to people who are only just beginning to enjoy Bach's music." MusicWeb |
FREDERIC RZEWSKI
Rzewski: The People United will never be Defeated Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 6/Apr/2008 ] "This is another excellent Naxos release, and should be snapped up by anyone with even the mildest interest in 20th century piano music, or just piano music in general." (MusicWeb April 2008) |
KENNETH LEIGHTON
Complete Chamber Works For Cello Raphael Wallfisch (cello), with Raphael Terroni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] "Wallfisch gives eloquent performances of wors characterised by anguished restraint and reflection. Leighton's early Elegy affords a lyrical oasis in this programme of otherwise spare and sometimes jagged music." BBC Music |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: Clarinet Music Robert Oberaigner (clarinet), Michael Schöch (piano), Dresden Chamber Soloists, Michail Jurowski [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Mieczysaw Weinberg was familiar with the clarinet from his youth, given its prominent place in klezmer bands and theatre ensembles, and he wrote three works specifically for the instrument. In the Clarinet Concerto he draws a wide range of textures... |
BENJAMIN / ENESCU / JONGEN / KODALY / KREISLER / PAGANINI / SHORE / VIEUXTEMPS
The Virtuoso Viola Roger Chase (viola) / Michiko Otaki (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] Lovers of the viola will rejoice at this deliciously varied musical feast: Zoltán Kodály's magnificent transcription of Bach's Chromatic Fantasia, Paganini's Sonata (actually a theme and variations), two elegiac pieces by Vieuxtemps, Kreisler's... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Allegro appassionato for piano & orchestra Op. 70 Romain Descharmes (piano) / Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Marc Soustrot [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2017 ] "Descharmes has a special way with this music that's really quite liberating" MusicWeb |
CARL CZERNY
Czerny: Piano Concerto in D Minor (1812) / Introduction, Variations and Rondo, Op. 60 Rosemary Tuck (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Feb/2018 ] "Tuck demonstrates the beauty and delicacy of the filigree melodies in the first movement, and the cadenza, written by Tuck and Alan Jones, glints and glitters…There is thoughtful balance between soloist and ensemble." BBC Music |
ALBERT KETELBEY
Ketelbey: A Dream Picture - Piano Pieces Rosemary Tuck (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Jul/2021 ] Albert Ketèlbey reached such a pinnacle of eminence and popularity that in 1929 he was named as Britain's greatest living composer, based on the number of performances of his works. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Songs (Complete) Ruth Ziesak (soprano) Lothar Odinius (tenor) Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Mozart loved the human voice, which he used as an instrument of musical expression throughout his compositional career from the age of six or seven. His Lieder, written largely in response to requests and commissions from acquaintances, friends and... |
DANNY ELFMAN / ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK
Elfman: Violin Concerto "Eleven Eleven" / Hailstork: Piano Concerto No. 1 Saandy Cameron (violin) Stewart Goodyear (piano) / Buffalo Philharmonic orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] This recording presents brand new concertos from two vibrant and contrasting American composers. Adolphus Hailstork's First Piano Concerto draws on his African American heritage to create a work brimming with energy and high spirits. |
ISAAC ALBENIZ
Albeniz: Piano Music Volume 6 Santiago L. Sacristán (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Nov/2014 ] Volume 6 of this complete edition focusses in the main on Albéniz's richly varied, early salon style. It includes the dazzling Chopin influenced Vals Champagne, the Estudio de concierto which rivals Liszt for virtuosity, and the famous Tango from... |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Songs, Vol. 1 Sara Jakubiak (soprano) Patrick Carfizzi (bass) Mary Phillips (mezzo) Laura Garritson (piano) Biava Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] "All of this is immensely praiseworthy… for the many novelties which they include, and for the way in which they demonstrate the range and quality of Ives' songs." --Review by John Sheppard, MusicWeb International |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 4 / Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (recorded 1934-1941) Sergei Rachmaninov (piano) / Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy, Leopold Stokowski [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 10/Aug/2009 ] Building a Library Historic Choice - January 2003 |
LOUIS VIERNE
Vierne: Piano Works (Complete), Vol. 1 Sergio Monteiro (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2021 ] Louis Vierne is renowned as one of the most brilliant of all French organ composers. His piano works are little known despite their colourful, imaginative and inspiring treatment of the instrument. |
