J. C. BACH
Bach, (J.C.): 6 Keyboard Sonatas, Op. 17 Alberto Nose (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Mar/2008 ] The youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Christian moved to Italy and then, finally, to London, where, like Handel before him, he won early success in the opera house. Although he had been a skilled keyboard player, he wrote relatively... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Works for 2 Pianos Aldo Ciccolini, Aldo Orvieto, Marco Rapetti (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2020 ] Ferruccio Busoni composed a significant number of works for two pianos throughout his life. |
CAMILLO TOGNI
Togni: Complete Piano Music Volume 1 Aldo Orvieto (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] Volume 1 (of 4) of the complete piano music of the influential Italian composer, teacher and pianist Camillo Togni features both original works and transcriptions of Mahler and Bach. Togni's fascination with the Second Viennese and Darmstadt Schools... |
CAMILLO TOGNI
Togni: Piano Music, Vol. 5 Aldo Orvieto (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] Camillo Togni loved the piano and fully understood the instrument's great potential for colour and virtuosity. This final volume in the series explores Togni's very first piano works. |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Complete Piano Music Volume 5 Alessandro Marangoni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] Rossini's Péchés de vieillesse or 'Sins of Old Age' is a series of thirteen volumes of piano works which were the main musical occupation of his last decade. The 24 pieces of volume twelve are of breathtaking variety, including flavours from Bach and... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Complete Piano Music Volume 6 Alessandro Marangoni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Apr/2014 ] Rossini's operas have remained amongst the most popular in the repertoire but over the last decade of his life he turned largely to piano music. The Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age) occupy thirteen volumes, and the deliciously informal and... |
CLEMENTI
Gradus ad Parnassum, Vol. 3 Alessandro Marangoni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] Muzio Clementi was revered as 'the father of the pianoforte'. He was a virtuoso, composer and teacher whose publishing and piano manufacturing made him hugely wealthy. Gradus ad Parnassum consists of 100 incredibly demanding exercises designed to... |
CLEMENTI
Gradus ad Parnassum, Volume 1 Alessandro Marangoni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Alessandro Marangoni has won great praise for his recordings of Rossini's piano music for Naxos. This is the first in a series of four Naxos albums. |
CLEMENTI
Gradus ad Parnassum Volume 2 Alessandro Marangoni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] "We are lucky to have Signor Marangoni as our guide on Clementi's Parnassus. Marangoni consistently finds the latent poetry and early romantic fire in these pieces (listen to No.36)." (Amazon.com) |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Piano Music, Vol. 3: Peches de vieillesse, Vols. 5 [Sins of my old age] Alessandro Marangoni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] "The pieces are stated in the title 'for adolescent children', but that is another of Rossini's jokes as they are often technically demanding, Marangoni playing them with unassuming ease. He is making the series an ongoing delight and his recording... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Piano Music, Vol. 4: Peches de vieillesse, Vols. 8 & 9 [Sins of my old age] Alessandro Marangoni (piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] During his last decade, Rossini wrote a series of 13 volumes he called Sins of Old Age, of which volume 8 is subtitled Album de château. It contains 12 pieces, each richly characterised. Many are fuelled by an operatic sense of vitality, and we also... |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Complete Piano Music Volume 7 Alessandro Marangoni (piano and organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/2015 ] Volume 7 of Rossini's complete piano music, Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age), ranges across six of the fourteen albums to include works for both solo piano and for piano and voices. Two of the pieces - Andantino mosso (track 3), recently... |
VITTORIO RIETI
Rieti: Piano Concertos Alessandro Marangoni (piano), Orazio Sciortino Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Giuseppe Grazioli [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] Dedicated to Francis Poulenc, Vittorio Rieti's First Piano Concerto formed part of his early success in Paris during the 1920s, the work's high spirits reflecting Rieti's recent marriage and the birth of his son Fabio. The Second Piano Concerto... |
CLAUDIO SANTORO
Santoro: Complete Piano Sonatas Alessandro Santoro [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2024 ] Written over a 46-year period, Claudio Santoro's six piano sonatas document the evolution of his creative and formal skills - together they present a survey of the composer's entire aesthetic development. Always radiating a forceful inner power and... |
RONN YEDIDIA
Ronn Yedidia: Impromptu, Nocturne and World Dance Alexander Fiterstein (clarinet) & Ronn Yedidia (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] Ronn Yedidia's music has been acclaimed for its vitality, variety and imagination, and his compositions for clarinet are especially touching and intimate... |
SCRIABIN
Piano Recital Alexander Ghindin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Scriabin's cycle of Piano Sonatas is one of the most visionary and dramatic in the canon...The Poèmes and Morceaux represent, in even more concentrated form, the harmonic allure of Scriabin's writing. |
FRANCK / LISZT / DEBUSSY / SASTRE
Piano Laureate Recital Alexander Koryakin (piano) / Bretón String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 28/May/2021 ] Alexander Koryakin, winner of the 2019 Jaén Prize International Piano Competition, has selected two perfectly paired masterpieces for his first Naxos recording. |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Piano Works Vol.3 Alexander Paley (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] |