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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Brahms: Piano Quintet Glenn Gould (piano) / Montreal String Quartet / Columbia Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Glenn Gould played Beethoven's piano concertos from the beginning of his short concert career, this recording being made when he was 24, the same age as the composer when he wrote his Piano Concerto No. 2. |
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PAUL CRESTON
Creston: Symphony No 5 / Toccata / etc Scott Goff (flute), Ilkka Talvi (violin) / Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/2004 ] |
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CLAUDIO SANTORO
Santoro: Symphonies,, Vol. 1 - Nos. 5 and 7 Goias Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Claudio Santoro was one of Brazil's most eminent and influential composers. Over a 50-year period, he wrote a cycle of 14 symphonies that is widely acclaimed as the most significant cycle of its kind ever written in Brazil. |
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CESAR GUERRA-PEIXE
Guerra-Peixe: Symphonies Nos.1 & 2 / Nonet Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 9/May/2025 ] César Guerra-Peixe's compact First Symphony and the colourful Nonet date from his years as part of the Música Viva group - a collective of young composers influenced by Hans-Joachim Koellreutter, the German composer and teacher who brought serial... |
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CLAUDIO SANTORO
Santoro: Symphonies Nos. 11 & 12 / Concerto Grosso / Três Fragmentos sobre BACH Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Thomson [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Claudio Santoro's prolific output includes a cycle of 14 symphonies that is widely recognised as the most significant of its kind from Brazil. All of the works in this programme come from Santoro's remarkable final decade, in which he allied more... |
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 in E major, Op. 26 / etc. Mikhail Agafonov (tenor), Lyudmila Ivanova (mezzo-soprano) Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Capella, Igor Golovschin [ Naxos / CD ] "With the Kondrasgin-trained Igor Golvschin in charge, this fine new recording - the first of what I hope will be a complete cycle - provides a serious challenge both to older Soviet-era accounts and more modern Western competition from Muti and... |
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SALVADOR BROTONS
Symphony No. 5 'Mundus Noster' / Oboe Concerto / etc Orquestra Simfonica de les Illes Balears 'Ciutat de Palma', Salvador Brotons [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] Internationally renowned and award-winning composer Salvador Brotons brings classical music into the here and now, depicting our contemporary world in his Fifth Symphony. Its first three movements are musical representations of the more negative... |
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JOSE SEREBRIER
Serebrier: Symphony No. 2, Partita / Fantasia / Violin Sonata / Winterreise Gonzalo Acosta (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Jose Serebrier [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 19/Apr/2007 ] "José Serebrier's conducting has been so triumphant that we tend to forget he is an equally distinguished composer" (The Times). Symphony No. 2, 'Partita', written at the age of 19 and premièred by the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington with... |
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ULRICH LEYENDECKER
Leyendecker: Violin Concerto / Symphony No 3 Roland Greutter (violin) / /North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Kalitzke [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Mar/2005 ] Ulrich Leyendecker (29 January 1946 - 29 November 2018) was a German composer of classical music. His output consisted mainly of symphonies, concertos, chamber and instrumental music. |
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EDVARD GREIG
The Best Of Grieg Jenö Jandó (piano) Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Cappella Istropolitana, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/1997 ] The best bits of Grieg across the vast Naxos catalogue. |
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EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Orchestral Music Vol 1 (Incls 'Peer Gynt Suites No. 1 & No. 2) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Bournemouth Sinfonietta / Jerzy Maksymiuk, Richard Studt [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] Edvard Grieg, the greatest of Norwegian composers, was descended on his mother's side from a Norwegian provincial governor who had adopted the name of Hagerup from his adoptive father, the Bishop of Trondheim. |
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JEFFREY RYAN
Symphony No. 1 "Fugitive Colours" / The Linearity of Light / Equilateral Gryphon Trio / Vancouver Symphony Orchestra / Bramwell Tovey [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] Jeffrey Ryan is one of Canada's most outstanding composers. He evokes bright, vivid colours in his works which brim with imaginative sound worlds. |
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BARTOK
Bluebeard's Castle (complete opera) Gustav Belacek (bass) Andrea Melath (mezzo-soprano) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop [ Naxos Opera / CD - released 1/Dec/2007 ] "Alsop and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra prove worthy interpreters of Bartók's psyco-drama. Alsop bathes the score in an impressionist glow, dark and glistening. She gives her excellent soloists… ample room to define the drama, while tightening |
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Guzenhauser/Slovak Po
Tchaikovsky:symphony No.5 [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/1999 ] |
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JOACHIM NIKOLAS EGGERT
Eggert: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Gérard Korsten [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] "Kraggerud revels in [the Halvorsen's] exuberance and easy melody. His advocacy for the Nielsen is justly famed, Svendsen's Romance an exquisite encore." Sunday Times |
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JOACHIM NIKOLAS EGGERT
Eggert: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Gérard Korsten [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] Welcomed overwhelmingly on its première, Eggert's largescale First Symphony hints at Mozart and Haydn but foreshadows Mendelssohn in its wind textures and rich harmonies. |
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RODRIGO
Complete Orchestra works, Vol. 9 Gwyneth Wentink (Harp) / Asturias Symphony Orchestra / Maximiano Valdes (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Nov/2006 ] Joaquín Rodrigo was attracted to writing for the harp because of the instrument's 'joyful sonorities and affinity for diatonic music, that is to say for music of clarity and simplicity'. |
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HUGO ALFVEN
Alfven: Symphony No. 3 / Swedish Rhapsody No. 3 Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Niklas Willen [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2015 ] "The sensitive, well-prepared performances under Niklas Willén also serve these symphonies well." Penguin Guide |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 for Soprano, Bass and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 135 Magdaléna Hajossyova, Peter Mikolas / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ladislav Slovák [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Apr/1993 ] "Slovák's account of No.14 is one of the finest, strongly characterized in each of the 11 contrasted movements with the help of two superb soloist." Penguin Guide |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss: Le Bougeois Gentilhomme Halasz / Melbourne Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1997 ] |