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ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
Zemlinsky: Rustic Dances, Op. 1 / Four Fantasies, Op. 9 / A Ray of Light Silke Avenhaus, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2005 ] "Silke Avenhaus never does too much with these pieces, never tries to over-inflate the rhetoric, instead allowing them to find their own level. She seems to have enjoyed the more roguish elements of Ein Lichtstrahl but her playing of the Fantasien is... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Four Hand Piano Music Vol 1: 16 - Waltzes op 39; Variations in E flat on a theme by Schumann; etc Silke-Thora Matthies, Christian Kohn (pianos) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2004 ] "Matthies and Kohn successfully achieve a rich variety of colour and expression...pedalling and articulation are almost ideal" - Gramophone. |
CARTER PANN
Pann: Piano Concerto / Dance Partita / Two Portraits of Barcelona / etc Barry Snyder (piano) / Czech State,Philharmonic, Brno, Jose Serebrier [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 28/Jul/2003 ] "The recorded sound is excellent, and, in sum, this is a recording of contemporary music that can be enjoyed by any listener." ClassicsToday 9/9 |
FLORENT SCHMITT
Piano Quintet / A tour d’anches Solisten-Ensemble Berlin [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Compared by contemporaries to Ravel and Debussy, French composer Florent Schmitt is being rediscovered today. Following his death, one critic mourned that "French music has just lost a smile and a master". The whimsical and sparkling À tour d'anches... |
ANTONIO SOLER
Soler: Keyboard Sonatas Nos. Nos. 75 - 86 Soo-Jung Ann (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2018 ] For the last 25 years of his life Antonio Soler occupied the distinguished positions of maestro di capilla and organist at the Escorial palace. He wrote around 150 keyboard sonatas, which remain his best known achievement, a body of music that... |
LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: Piano Trios Nos. 2 & 4 Hartley Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] |
LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK
A Night in the Tropics: Solo piano music Steven Mayer (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 3/Sep/2015 ] Louis Moreau Gottschalk was the first important American composer to fuse European classical piano music with American cultural influences, including folk music, the music of slaves, and Latin American dances. Although still revered for his... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Vol. 2 (Nos 3 & 8) Stuttgart Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jul/1994 ] The second volume of the Struttgart Piano Trio performing Beethoven's piano trios and other chamber works. |
CARL CZERNY
Czerny: Piano Trios Sun-Young Shin (violin), Benjamin Hayek (cello) & Samuel Gingher (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] "It's always good to have more from Czerny, and virtually everything on the CD is light and entertainingly undemanding to listen to, while offering some further insight into the development of the piano trio itself." MusicWeb |
FERDINAND RIES
Pies: Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol 2 Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2008 ] Ferdinand Ries, Beethoven's friend and pupil, was an exceptionally gifted composer whose prophetic piano sonatas foreshadow Schubert's poignant harmonic language, Mendelssohn's expressively sweet melodies and Chopin's brilliant figuration. |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol 3 Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] A virtuoso pianist, Ferdinand Ries began composing piano sonatas at a time when the genre was undergoing significant changes from the models of Haydn and Mozart to new developments by Clementi, Beethoven and Hummel. Ries also pre-figures Schubert's... |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol 5 Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "Kagan's performance is simply marvellous throughout - she plays with sophistication, expression and humour that Ries himself would certainly have applauded." (MusicWeb July 2011) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Violin Sonatas Vol. 5 Takako Nishizaki (violin) / Benjamin Loeb (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756, the son of a court musician who, in the year of his youngest child's birth, published an influential book on violin-playing. |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Violin Sonatas, Vol. 6 Takako Nishizaki (Violin) Benjamin Loeb (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] "Excellent performances packed with quality music of extraordinary interest" (MusicWeb Oct 2006) |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 [Nos 3 & 4 "Dumky"] Tempest Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] ."The all-star Tempest Trio make their recording debut with two Romantic masterworks that fully capture the music's emotional changeability and power." BBC Music |
LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: Piano Trio Op. 119 / Piano Quintet Op. 130 Thelma Handy, viola / Martin Outram, viola / Hartley Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Mar/2004 ] Louis Spohr won an enormous reputation during the nineteenth century as a composer, violin virtuoso, conductor and teacher as well as being renowned for his upright, noble character, a man of convinced liberal and democratic beliefs who was not... |
HOWARD HANSON
Hanson: Piano Music Thomas Labe (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/May/2000 ] Though perhaps best known for his choral and orchestral works, the piano played a central role in the development of Howard Hanson as a composer. |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: Cello Concerto / Grand Fantasia and Toccata / Eclogue for Piano & Strings Tim Hugh (cello) / Peter Donohoe (piano) / Northern Sinfonia / Howard Griffiths [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] "Tim Hugh and the Northern Sinfonia communicate with depth and feeling. Hugh is recorded more as first among equals than prominent soloist, which works well" (BBC Music) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D795 Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano), Christian Elsner (tenor) [ Naxos Schubert Lieder Edition Vol 5 / CD - released 25/Apr/2010 ] Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano), Christian Elsner (tenor) |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Flute Trios [Nos 15 - 17] Uwe Grodd (flute), Martin Rummel (cello) & Christopher Hinterhuber (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] "…Uwe Grodd, Martin Rummel and Christopher Hinterhuber…bring a sense of appropriate social occasion to this unfailingly sunny and no-nonsense music." NZ Herald |
