EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Cello Concerto / Introduction and Allegro / Serenade for Strings Maria Kliegel (cello) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Michael Halasz, conductor. Capella Istropolitana. Adrian Leaper, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2004 ] Sir Edward Elgar enjoys a curious reputation in his own country. To many he is, above all, the composer of the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, the celebrator of Edwardian Imperialism, the man who preferred the races to a rehearsal of his Violin... |
CLAUDIO SANTORO
Santoro: Cello Concerto / Symphony No. 8 / Três Abstrações Marina Martins (cello) Denise de Freitas (mezzo-soprano) / Goias Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] The 1960s proved to be a significant decade in Claudio Santoro's ever-eventful life. The charged atmosphere of the Cello Concerto can be attributed to his experiences in East Berlin at the moment construction started on the Berlin Wall. Despite its... |
AARON JAY KERNIS
Kernis: Flute Concerto / Air / Second Symphony Marina Piccinini (flute) / Peabody Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] "Piccinini's performance of Air will take your breath away. I was also left breathless at the brilliance and precision of the Peabody Orchestra." Fanfare |
ELLIOT CARTER
Carter: Symphony 1 / Piano Concerto Mark Wait (piano) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Schermerhorn [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/2004 ] "Early and middle-period Carter at his most accessible and challenging." (BBC Music) |
DANIEL-FRANCOIS AUBER
Auber: Overtures, Vol. 2 [Incls 'Violin Concerto in D Major, S. 165'] Markéta Čepická (violin) / Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, Pardubice, Dario Salvi [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] The second volume in this series (Volume 1 is on 8.574005) continues to explore little-known examples of Auber's elegant and refined operatic music. Julie was his first stage work, its fantasia-like beauty foreshadowing the operas, opéras-comiques... |
JOHANN SIMON MAYR
Mayr: Saffo (complete opera) Markus Schäfer, Andrea Lauren Brown / Concerto de Bassus, Simon Mayr Choir, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Franz Hauk [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] No one did more to combine in his operas the innovations of the Viennese classical composers, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, with the Italian ideal of bel canto than Johann Simon Mayr, the Bavarian composer who rose to fame in Italy. |
GIOVANNI SGAMBATI
Sgambati: Sinfonia festiva / Piano Concerto in G minor Massimiliano Damerini (piano) / Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Dec/2023 ] Giovanni Sgambati led the revival of Italian orchestral music during the late 19th century. He was a favourite student of Liszt, admired by Wagner, and a pivotal figure in the emancipation of his country's music from the dominance of bel canto opera.... |
LYAPUNOV
Violin Concerto in D minor / Symphony No. 1 Maxim Fedotov (violin) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Mar/2011 ] Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov belonged to the second generation of Russian nationalist composers who were professionally trained and strongly influenced by Balakirev and his associates. |
MAX BRUCH
Bruch: Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 Maxim Fedotov (violin) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2009 ] "It is…good to welcome these new accounts to the market…the advantages of state-of-the-art recording techniques are immediately apparent in the immense gains in clarity and orchestral translucence." MusicWeb |
MAX BRUCH
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Konzertstuck / Romance, Op. 42 Maxim Fedotov (Violin) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Jun/2006 ] "Fedotov's playing takes no hostages; it is full-blooded in sound and passionately committed, at the same time clinically judged in clean intonation and phrasing, nevertheless the famous Adagio in the G minor concerto should bring a tear to the eye.... |
Mckinley/Columbus Indiana Ph
Dupre:organ Concerto [ Naxos / CD ] |
RAVEL
Symphonies Concertantes / Violin Concerto in D Major MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig / Lyon National Orchestra / Jun Markl [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "This is totally recommendable - especially at the price" (MusicWeb June 2009) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos 1 and 2 / Capriccio Brillant / Rondo Brillant Benjamin Frith (piano) / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice / Robert Stankovsky [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "Frith is clearly a most capable artist, with a fearsomely accurate set of fingers and a poetic instinct of no mean order" - CD Review |
MICHAEL EASTON
Easton: Concerto on Australian Themes / An Australian in Paris / Beasts of the Bush Margaret Haggart (soprano) Len Vorster (piano) Bernadette Conlon (Piano Accordian) / State Orchestra Of Victoria, Brett Kelly [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/1998 ] Michael Easton was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, in 1954. He received his musical training at the Royal Academy of Music where the help and encouragement of Sir Lennox Berkeley confirmed his ambition to be a composer. |
PETERIS VASKS
Flute Concerto, etc Michael Faust (flute) / Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä, Patrick Gallois / Sheila Arnold (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2013 ] Renowned for its luminosity and searing expressiveness, the music of Lithuanian composer Pēteris Vasks frequently explores the relationship between nature and humanity, not least in the Flute Concerto (written for Michael Faust), which is among the... |
CORIGLIANO
Violin Concerto, "The Red Violin" / Phantasmagoria Michael Ludwig (violin) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] With this new recording, JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic continue their revelatory exploration of Corigliano's highly engaging and imaginative symphonic music. Phantasmagoria draws material from his immense opera The Ghosts of Versailles,... |
LEO BROUWER / JOAQUIN RODRIGO
Guitar Concertos Miguel Trápaga (guitar) / Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Óliver Díaz [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2016 ] "[Trápaga] is highly attuned to the different sound worlds of the Brouwer and the Rodrigo and, together with the Real Filharmonía de Galicia under Óliver Díaz, creates another kind of musical conversation that is vibrant, exciting and revealing in eq |
KHACHATURIAN
Violin Concerto / Concerto-Rhapsody Mihaela Martin (Violin) / National Symphony Orchestra Of Ukraine / Theodore Kuchar [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Nov/2007 ] "Well-trained musicians from the Ukraine's National Symphony and heartfelt playing from the Romanian-born violinist Mihaela Martin." -- Music Week, January 24, 2004 |
KAI NIEMINEN
Palomar / Clarinet Concerto (Through Shadows I Can Hear Ancient Voices) / Vicoli in ombra Mikko Raasakka (clarinet) / Sinfonia Finlandia / Patrick Gallois (flute and conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "I feel like I am a painter in music, who having seen or experienced something attempts to give that something a shape in music." - Kai Nieminen |
JOHANN SIMON MAYR
Mayr: Elena (complete opera) Mira Graczyk, Niklas Mallmann, Andreas Mattersberger, Daniel Ochoa; Markus Schäfer / Simon Mayr Chorus, Concerto de Bassus, Franz Hauk [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] During the 1813-14 carnival season in Naples, Simon Mayr wrote a much-admired opera semiseria called Elena. The post-revolutionary Napoleonic era saw great enthusiasm for the rescue opera genre and Elena is a perfect example. |