STEFAN WOLPE
Wolpe: The Man from Midian / Violin Sonata Cameron Grant (piano) / James Winn (piano) / Jorja Fleezanis (violin) / Garrick Ohlsson (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] His music of this period was the result ofan encounter between European cultural and historical ideas and Middle Eastern melodies and structures, as can be heard in his score for the ballet The Man from Midian. Wolpe described his Sonata for Violin... |
GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Symphony for String Orchestra / Concerto for String Orchestra / Piano Quintet No. 1 Capella Bydgostiensis, Mariusz Smolij [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Nov/2014 ] Grażyna Bacewicz played a leading role in bringing Polish music into the 20th-century mainstream and onto the international stage. Following in the footsteps of Szymanowski, her works convey a striking emotional directness by combining elements of... |
JOHN IRELAND / ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
Ireland & Moeran: Choral Music The Carice Singers, George Parris, with David Owen Norris (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Nov/2016 ] "A very fine disc of music that is richly rewarding for both listener and choir." MusicWeb |
FREITAS-BRANCO
Violin Sonatas 1 and 2 / Prelude for Violin and Piano Carlos Damas (violin) / Anna Tomasik (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] |
WILLIAM BOLCOM
Bolcom: Songs Carole Farley (soprano) / William Bolcom (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Aug/2005 ] |
JOAQUIN TURINA
Turina: Songs Carolina Ullrich (soprano) / Débora Halász (piano) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] Joaquín Turina's songs are little-known today, but not only was he part of an important and influential group of early twentieth-century Spanish composers such as Albéniz, Falla and Granados, he possessed a beautiful and individual compositional... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Lieder Edition, Vol. 10 Caroline Melzer (soprano), Anke Vondung (mezzo-soprano), Simon Bode (tenor), Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] Some of Schumann's early songs, such as Lied für xxx, show the influence of Schubert, but it was in 1840, his 'Year of Song', that Schumann fully turned his attention to vocal music. The Zweistimmige Lieder, Op. 43 were the first that he composed... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Lieder Edition, Vol. 11 - Lieder und Gesänge Soldatenlied • Jugendlieder Caroline Melzer (soprano), Simon Bode (tenor), Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] Few if any composers equalled Schumann in the breadth of his literary taste. His reading encompassed the major figures of European literature in German translation. |
NED ROREM
Rorem: Selected Songs Carole Farley (soprano), Ned Rorem (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2013 ] "..admirers of Rorem's unique talent will simply have to have this collection. His piano-playing is beautifully supportive." (Gramophone) |
NED ROREM
Rorem: Piano Album I / Six Friends Carolyn Enger (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2013 ] been hailed by Time magazine as "the world's best composer of art songs." Of his own work he has said, "I conceive all music vocally… it is always the singer within me crying to get out." This recording features his complete Piano Album I, a series... |
SCHNITTKE
Complete Violin Sonatas Carolyn Huebl (violin) / Mark Wait (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] The violin sonatas by Alfred Schnittke extend over his whole career. The First Sonata is among his earliest major pieces while the Second Sonata typifies the confrontational manner of the works that followed. The much later Third Sonata possesses the... |
STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Works for Violin and Piano Carolyn Huebl (violin) & Mark Wait (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] Stravinsky's music for violin and piano was written for his duo with violinist Samuel Dushkin. Both the Suite italienne and Divertimento are arrangements of ballet scores, each work in turn an alchemic transformation of Baroque and Romantic styles... |
JONATHAN LESHNOFF
Leshnoff: Chamber Music Carpe Diem String Quartet / Stephen Miahky (violin), Jerome Simas (clarinet) & Joshua Nemith (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] Jonathan Leshnoff is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary American music, and his lyricism is accompanied by vibrant expressive qualities. |
JOAQUIN RODRIGO
Rodrigo: Complete Orchestral Works Volume 4 (Including Concierto para piano y orquesta ) Castile and Leon Symphony Orchestra; Max Bragado Darman, conductor [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 3/Feb/2003 ] |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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... |