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
Sonatas And Interludes For Prepared Piano Boris Berman (prepared piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "Listeners new to Cage's prepared piano oeuvre will be enchanted by the variety, humor, and beauty that typifies Berman's program. Solidly recommended." - ClassicsToday.com (10/10 Artistic & Sound) |
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,... |
SERGEY TANEYEV
Taneyev: Violin Sonata & Piano Quintet, Op. 30 Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Eldar Nebolsin (piano), Spectrum Concerts Berlin [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jun/2024 ] Gramophone Magazine, October 2024 Editor's Choice |
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 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 21 & 32 Boris Giltburg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] Beethoven's piano sonatas have been recorded innumerable times, but Giltburg's programme stands out for its careful selection themed by key to create a mini-cycle, summing up Beethoven's entire creative life on a single CD. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Etudes-Tableaux / Moments Musicaux Boris Giltburg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] "His originality stems from a convergence of heart and mind, served by immaculate technique and motivated by a deep and abiding love for one of the 20th century's greatest composer-pianists." Gramophone Disc of the Month June 2016 |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Boris Giltburg (piano) / Brussels Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto was composed while he was a student at the Moscow Conservatoire, then fully reworked before he left Russia in 1917 and again in 1919. It is hard to explain why it never achieved a higher level of popularity. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor' / Piano Concerto No. 0, WoO 4 Boris Giltburg (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] These works share the common key of E flat major but represent two very different stages in the composer's life. The Piano Concerto No. 0, WoO 4, written when Beethoven was 13 years old, is one of his earliest works. |