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ARTHUR SOMERVELL
The Shropshire Lad / James Lee's Wife / Songs of Innocence Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mezzo-soprano) Christopher Maltmann (Baritone) Graham Johnson (Piano) [ Naxos English Song Series / CD - released 30/Apr/2006 ] For his songs Somervell chose a wide variety of texts, with settings of poems from Shakespeare to Browning and Housman. |
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MICHAEL MEYNAUD
Meynaud: Chamber Music Cecile Dennaud (Piano) / Joseph Grau (Flute) / Jean-Jacques Jubin (Violin) / Oliver de Mones (Cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] "My music is like a diary." Many of Michel Meynaud's works have personal references. A few titles refer explicitly to particular biographical episodes in his life - to his residences in Canada or Southern France (Malaucène) or his friends and family... |
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LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK
Gottschalk: Piano Music (Includes The Union, Tournament Galop & The Dying Poet) Cecile Licad, piano [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 21/May/2003 ] "I heartily recommend Cecile Licad's Gottschalk recording. From a purely musical perspective, none of his works are essential listening, but anyone wanting to gain insight into the national psychology of the United States in its first hundred years... |
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Paul Moravec
Paul Moravec: Useful Knowledge Cecilia Brauer (glass harmonica), Randall Scarlata, Amy Burton, Simon Mulligan (piano), La Fenice & Trio Solisti [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] Moravec's tribute to Benjamin Franklin, Useful Knowledge, is a soliloquy-come-fantasy that celebrates Franklin's pioneering rationality with music of dextrous imagination. |
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Chamber Music & Rarities, Vol. 4: Peches de vieillesse, Vols. 11 [Sins of my old age] Cecilia Molinari (mezzo-soprano), Alessandro Marangoni (piano), Bruno Taddia (baritone), Laura Giordano (soprano), Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano) [ Naxos Peches de vieillesse Vol 11 / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] Volume 11 completes Alessandro Marangoni's monumental project to record all 200 or so individual works comprising the Péchés de vieillesse or 'Sins of Old Age' (including some preliminary sketches). Highlights include all four duets from the... |
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ALVIN LUCIER
Lucier: Music for Piano with Slow Sleep Pure Wave Oscillatiors XL Nicolas Horvath (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2021 ] An homage to the facets of life: heartache, betrayal, seduction, impermanence, excitement, fun and laughter. Cembaless plays boldly, joyfully and passionately a hymn to life, expressing emotions ranging between the extreme polarities that human life... |
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Chang/Camerata Cassovia/Stanko
Bach:piano Concs.Bwv1052/4 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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DUKAS
Complete piano music Chantal Stigliani (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Chantal Stigliani (piano) |
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MILTON BABBITT
Babbitt: Soli e Duettini Charles Abramovi (Piano), Curtis Macomber (Violin), Marshall Taylor (Alto saxophone) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] One prepossessing characteristic of Milton Babbitt's music is that its lines jump around a lot. However intrinsically appealing, this gains something from the fact that they also do not. The jumps sample streams of slower activity, communicate... |
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JONATHAN LESHNOFF
Leshnoff: Das Buch der Klänge, 12 pieces for piano Charles Wetherbee (violin) / Roberto Díaz (viola) / IRIS Orchestra / Michael Stern [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] |
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CHEN GANG / XIAN XING-HI
The Yellow River Piano Concerto / The Butterfly Lovers Piano Concerto Chen Jie (piano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Carolyn Kuan [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] The Yellow River Concerto is one of the most popular of all Chinese works, a richly melodic exploration of scenic variety, and a forceful expression of patriotic pride. Written in 1958 by Chen Gang and He Zhanhao, The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto... |
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BORIS TISHCHENKO
Tishchenko: Symphony No. 8 / Concerto for violin, piano & string orchestra / etc Chingiz Osmanov (violin) & Nikolai Mazhara (piano) Mila Shkirtil (mezzo-soprano) / St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Serov [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] Boris Tishchenko was one of the most recognisable and important Russian composers of his time. His studies with Shostakovich - whose mantle as Russia's leading symphonist he assumed after his teacher's death in 1975 - proved decisive. Symphony No. 8,... |
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ANTONIO BAZZINI
Bazzini: Virtuoso Works for Violin and Piano Chloe Hanslip (violin) Caspar Frantz (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] "Hanslip has a clear tone, very accurate intonation, nimble fingers, and a tight, fast vibrato that she can employ on short notes. She knows how to shape a phrase by varying dynamics and adding accents." American Record Guide |
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JOHN ADAMS / JOHN CORIGLIANO
Adams: Violin Concerto / Corigliano: The Red Violin: Chaconne Chloe Hanslip (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin, with Charles Owen (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2006 ] "(Chloe's) debut with Naxos is a formidable addition to the label's encyclopaedic series of American classics...Throughout this major 20th-century concerto, the clarity of the Naxos recording is immaculate, making the balance between soloist and... |
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GEORG TINTNER
Tintner: Violin Sonata / Variations on a Theme of Chopin / Piano Sonata / Trauermusik Cho-Liang Lin (violin) / Helen Huang (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] The Austrian-born Georg Tintner achieved fame as a conductor but considered himself a 'composer who conducts', with an ambition 'to write beautiful music'. His early works are tonal and Romantically influenced, while later music - notably the Violin... |
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PAUL SCHOENFELD / STEVEN STUCKY / JOHN HARBISON
Schoenfeld/Stucky/Harbison: Three American Violin Sonatas Cho-Liang Lin (violin), Jon Kimura Parker (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] The three sonatas on this recording were written at the behest of violinist Cho-Liang Lin, who worked closely with each composer at their premiere performance. |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Favourites Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Sep/1997 ] 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... |
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FREDERICK CHOPIN
Chopin: Complete Piano Music Vol. 14 - Piano Concertos 1 & 2 Idil Biret (piano) / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Košice [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor was actually the second of the two to be composed and was written, like its companion, in Warsaw, before Chopin left Poland. The concerto was tried out in private and then given its first public performance in 1830 |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Mazurkas, Vol. 1 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] Fryderyk Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw, in 1810. His father, Nicolas Chopin, was French by birth, but had been taken to Poland in 1787, at the age of sixteen, working first as a clerk in a tobacco factory, before taking part in the... |
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CARSON COOMAN
Cooman: Nantucket Dreaming: Orchestral and Chamber Works Chris Gekker (flugelhorn & trumpet) / Roman Mesina (bassoon) / Jeffrey Grossman (piano) / Emmanuel Feldman (cello) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 19/Oct/2010 ] Fanfare proclaimed that "Cooman has something to say, an engaging voice to do so, and real musical chops". |