ILDEBRANDO PIZZETTI
Concerto dell'estate / La Festa delle Panatenee Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra / Myron Michailidis [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] |
PAUL FETLER
Violin Concerto No. 2 / Capriccio / 3 Poems by Walt Whitman Thomas H. Blaske (narrator) Aaron Berofsky (violin) / Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra / Arie Lipsky, conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] "The performers seem to be enjoying themselves immensely, and it's all quite agreeable, as is Naxos's sound." Classical Candor, December 2009 |
JANACEK
Piano Music Vol 1 (In the Mist / Variations for Zdenka / Piano Concerto ) Thomas Hlawatsch, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Jan/2004 ] "Decent recorded sound..." - Classic CD - December 1996 |
GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Gran Duo Concertante / Gran Concerto in F sharp minor / etc Thomas Martin (double bass) Jose-Luis Garcia (violin) Emma Johnson (clarinet) / English Chamber Orchestra / Andrew Litton [ Naxos Bottesini Collection Vol 1 / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "At the heart of most of the music by Bottesini which I have heard, there is an essential simplicity, a kind of directness of feeling, a sense of social conversation, which while it may not make for music of great profundity certainly led Bottesini... |
BIBER / FASCH / HANDEL / REINHART / SCHICKHARDT / STÖLZEL / TELEMANN
German Baroque Trumpet Concertos Thomas Reiner (trumpet) / Interpreti Veneziani [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Baroque works for oboe have long been fertile ground for transcription to the trumpet and there are several examples here of this refashioning. The sequence of concertos and sonatas include examples from Handel's Italian years. |
W. A MOZART
Mozart: Works For Horn & Orchestra Michael Thompson (horn/director) / Bournemouth Sinfonietta [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/1999 ] "Thompson has established himself at once among my favorite exponents of these irresistible compositions." - Fanfare |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Tianwa Yang (violin) Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä, Patrick Gallois, with Romain Descharmes (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jan/2013 ] "in Tianwa Yang...we find an artist of exceptional technique and musicianship. Above all, her tone, particularly at the extremes, on the G and E strings, is heart-meltingly beautiful" BBC Music Five Stars |
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Concerto Italiano & Violin Concerto No. 2 Tianwa Yang (violin) / SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden Baden und Freiburg, Pieter-Jelle de Boer [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2015 ] Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco considered the 1924 Concerto Italiano to be his first truly symphonic venture. This tuneful, fresh and transparently scored concerto here receives its world première recording. |
ARTHUR BLISS
Cello Concerto / Music for Strings Tim Hugh (cello) / English Northern Philharmonia / David Lloyd-Jones, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2003 ] "Tim Hugh's adroitly managed and deeply personal reading...Tim Hugh has unquestionably set the benchmark in the Arthur Bliss Cello Concerto" - Fanfare |
LEOPOLD HOFMANN
Hofmann: Concertos Tim Hugh (cello) Lorraine McAslan (violin) / Northern Chamber Orchestra. Nicholas Ward, conductor [ Naxos 18th Century Concerto / CD - released 1/May/2004 ] Leopold Hofmann was regarded by his contemporaries as one of the most gifted and influential composers of his generation. Although a church musician by profession, Hofmann was also an important and prolific composer of instrumental music . |
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) |
Tim Hugh & English Northern Po
Bliss:cello Concerto/Music [ Naxos / CD ] |
DAVID GOMPPER
Gompper: Cello Concerto, Double Bass Concerto, Moonburst Timothy Gill (cello) Volkan Orhon (double bass) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Emmanuel Siffert [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] David Gompper is an award-winning composer and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. His luminously orchestrated and expressive works have attracted admiration throughout the US, Europe and beyond. |
COPLAND / CRESTON / KAY / PISTON
Copland: The Tender Land Suite / Creston: Saxophone Concerto / etc Timothy McAllister (Alto Saxophone) / National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] This recording brings together four extraordinary mid-20th-century composers who helped shape America's musical destiny. Aaron Copland's The Tender Land is a moving tribute to the American rancher and farmer. It forms a profound celebration of those... |
MARIO PILATI
Pilati: Concerto for Orchestra / Suite for Strings and Piano Tomas Nemee (piano), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Marco Polo / CD - released 1/Oct/2001 ] Recorded: May 2000 Recording Venue: Concert Hall of the Slovak Radio at Bratislava |
Tomter/Eng.Nothern Po/Daniel
Walton:sym.2/Viola Concerto [ Naxos / CD ] |
C. P. E. BACH
Complete Flute Concertos Patrick Gallois (flute) / Toronto Camerata Kevin Mallon (conductor) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2002 ] Patrick Gallois belongs to the generation of French musicians leading highly successful international careers as both soloist and conductor. From the age of seventeen he studied the flute with Jean-Pierre Rampal at the Paris Conservatoire and at the... |
GLASS ./ FAIROUZ
Glass: Concerto Fantasy for 2 Timpanists and Orchestra & Fairouz: Symphony No. 4 University of Kansas Wind Ensemble, Paul W. Popiel [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Feb/2014 ] Philip Glass' Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, composed in 2000 and transcribed for wind ensemble by Mark Lortz in 2004, is a significant addition to the repertoire of large-scale works for timpani. The work is rhythmically... |
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Penderecki: Fonogrammi / Horn Concerto / Partita / etc Urszula Janik (flute) Jennifer Montone (horn) Elzbieta Stefanska (harpsichord) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "..if you really care about classical music, get this stunningly played and recorded disc, as well as the others in this important and worthy series." (ClassicsToday 10/10) |
LEOPOLD HOFMANN
Leopold Hofmann: Flute Concertos, Vol. 3 Uwe Grodd (flute) Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Michael Halász [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Leopold Hofmann was among the most prominent Viennese composers of his generation, his music performed all over Europe. Hofmanns radiant flute concertos follow the conventions of the day with superlative elegance and a deceptive facility. The solo... |