ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13 Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17 Bernd Glemser (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Dec/2004 ] Schumann wrote his Symphonic Studies during the years from 1834 and 1837, revising the work in 1852, when he dedicated it to his friend William Sterndale Bennett. It was later to appear after his death in variously extended forms. The original... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos 1 & 3 Bernd Glemser (piano) / Polish National Radio Symphony, Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2011 ] Tolstoy says: "Tchaikovsky is dead," - and two huge tears (for everything is larger than life with him...), rolled down his great cheeks" (Marie Scheikevitch). To the writer Vasily Yastrebtsev (1899), Tchaikovsky was a man of his time: "When... |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Violin Concerto / Piano Concerto / Eventyr / A Song Before Sunrise Betty Beecham (Piano) / Jean Pougnet (Violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] Sir Thomas Beecham's almost single-handed promotion of the music of Delius to international acceptance through his own personal standing and his conducting genius, besides being among the singular feats of the twentieth century, remains unrivalled in... |
VIVALDI / HANDEL / BACH / CORELLI / TARTINI / VITALI
Baroque Violin Favourites Bin Huang (violin) Hyun-Sun Kim (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Dec/2002 ] "Tone is beautiful and soulful...a pleasure to hear...Sound is excellent !V rich, full, and intimate, with no harshness. This is a great program for listening to with a glass of wine, good friends, and good conversation!" - Ardella Crawford,... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Favourites, Vol. 1 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 5/May/1999 ] Fryderyk Chopin was born in 1810 at Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw. His father Nicolas Chopin was French by birth but had moved to Poland to work as an accounting clerk, later serving as tutor to the Laczynski family and thereafter to the family of Count... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Transcriptions - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] "offers greater temperament and excitement than many of the orchestral versions. A pianistic tour de force" ClassicCD |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Schumann: Introduction and Concerto Allegro Idil Biret (piano) / Polish National Radio Symphony, Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Oct/2000 ] "A release well worth hearing." ClassicsToday |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Schumann: Introduction and Allegro appassionato Idil Biret (piano) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice); Antoni Wit, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Jun/2000 ] "The two Schumann works are fine bonuses, both rendered with the same commitment and insight from soloist and orchestra. In the end, one must assess all these performances as quite extraordinary and fully competitive with the best." ClassicalNet |
EGON KORNAUTH / VALLY WEIGL / FRANZ MITTLER / FELIX PETYREK / TIBOR HARSÁNYI
The Bird of Life - Late Romantic Flute Music Birgit Ramsl (flute) with Karl-Heinz Schütz (flute), Gottlieb Wallisch (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Jan/2022 ] During the last decade of the 19th century a generation of Central European composers emerged that was to exert a powerful influence on the current of contemporary music. Yet, for the most part, their works for flute remain little known and a number... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Dichterliebe & Liederkreis Op. 39 Sebastian Bluth (baritone), Anita Keller (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/1999 ] "Sebastian Bluth has a soft, pleasing baritone" - Penguin Classics |
LUIGI BOCCHERINI
Boccherini: Cello Sonatas Christian Benda (cello) Sebastian Benda (Piano) [ Naxos / CD ] "The F minor Sonata was discovered as recently as 1987 and has a lovely Cantabile siciliano for its slow movement which is quite haunting in the hands of these players. In short this is a first-class disc, very naturally recorded." Penguin Guide |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Volume 27 - Romantic Poets Volume 4 Florian Boesch (baritone) & Burkhard Kehring (piano) [ Naxos Schubert Song Edition / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] Schubert set the poetry of over 115 writers to music. He selected poems from classical Greece, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from eighteenth-century German authors, early Romantics, Biedermeier poets, and Heine. The Deutsche... |
BORIS LYATOSHINSKY / VALENTIN SILVESTROV / VICTORIA VITA POLEVA
Ukrainian Piano Quintets Bogdana Pivnenko, Taras Yaropud, Kateryna Suprun, Yurii Pogoretskyi, Iryna Starodub [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Boris Lyatoshynsky was a leading member of a new generation of Ukrainian composers that emerged in the 1920s. His expansively conceived Ukrainian Quintet finds him at his most emotionally overt, with a heartfelt Lento e tranquillo second movement.... |
John CAGE
Music for Prepared Piano Boris Berman (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Feb/2001 ] Engaging John Cage as performed by Berman |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Shostakovich/Schnittke: Piano Quintets Boris Berman (piano) / Vermeer Quartet. [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Jan/2003 ] "Boris Berman and the Vermeer Quartet prove to be extremely sensitive to the emotional demands of each work, giving highly accomplished and committed performances in adequate, if somewhat studio-bound sound." - Erik Levi, BBC Music Magazine,... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 - 3 (Beethoven 32 Vol. 1) Boris Giltburg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2020 ] Boris Giltburg has set out to study and film all 32 piano sonatas by Beethoven by the end of 2020. The project started as a personal exploration, driven by curiosity and his strong love of the Beethoven sonatas. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 4 - 7 (Beethoven 32 Vol. 2) Boris Giltburg (piano) [ Naxos Beethoven Sonatas Vol 2 / CD - released 1/Aug/2020 ] Boris Giltburg has set out to study and film all 32 piano sonatas by Beethoven by the end of 2020. The project started as a personal exploration, driven by curiosity and his strong love of the Beethoven sonatas. |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8-11 (Beethoven 32, Vol. 3) Boris Giltburg (piano) [ Naxos / CD ] Boris Giltburg has set out to study and film all of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas by the end of 2020. The project started as a personal exploration, driven by curiosity and his strong love of the Beethoven sonatas. These performances display... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Davidsbündlertänze / Papillons / Carnaval Boris Giltburg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2015 ] "[Schumann] was the undisputed master of miniature. But miniature is a misleading word, as these vivid, subtle performances by this Israeli pianist remind us." Sunday Times, 8th February 2015 |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: 12 Études d'exécution transcendante / La Leggierezza / Rigoletto: Paraphrase de concert Boris Giltburg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Apr/2019 ] "Giltburg needs no introduction. His series of warmly received recordings… has secured him a deservedly prominent place on the map" Gramophone |