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FRANCK
String Quartet in D major / Piano Quintet in F minor Cristina Ortiz (piano) / Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Dec/2009 ] "The Fine Arts Quartet… are at their very best in both slow movements, with Christina Ortiz matching their ebb and flow perfectly in the Quintet." BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2009 **** |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Quartet & Piano Quintet Cristina Ortiz (piano) / Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Mar/2013 ] "The performances could hardly be more finely attuned to the technical challenges, while the composer's own booklet-notes set the scene succinctly...As a 'feast for the senses', Whalley's music demonstrably has much to recommend it." Gramophone |
GABRIEL FAURE
Piano Quintets Cristina Ortiz (piano) / Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2009 ] "Two magical, enchanting chamber works in alluring performances by the Fine Arts Quartet and Cristina Ortiz...magical." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Sept 2009) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Cello Sonatas Op.5 / Variations Jeno Jando (piano) / Csaba Onczay (cello) [ Naxos / CD ] "the Naxos duo weave an enchanting spell that reveals a more relaxed and smiling Beethoven" BBC Music |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JOHANN GEORG ALBRECHTSBERGER / JOSEPH HAYDN
Beethoven and his teachers: Music for piano, four hands Cullan Bryant & Dmitry Rachmanov (piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 10/May/2011 ] "Whether you are an expert in the field of period instruments or just curious about their sound, you owe it to yourself to make this recording a part of your collection." American Record Guide Critic's Choice |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-4 Curt Thompson (violin) Rodney Waters (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 28/Jun/2004 ] "Ives's four extraordinary Violin Sonatas were written between 1902 and 1906, and are quite a find. Their erratically stimulating originality is in no doubt, but they are also among his most immediately appealing works." Penguin Guide |
WUORINEN
Scherzo / First String Quartet / Viola Variations / Second Piano Quintet Curtis Macomber (violin) / Jesse Mills (violin) / Lois Martin (viola) / Fred Sherry (cello) / Peter Serkin (piano) / Brentano String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "In contrast to the city's minimalists, Wuorinen is a New York maximalist, a consummate wielder of rich, relentless polyphony, complex and speedily rhythmic textures, able to show each time that high modernism is not only alive and kicking, but a... |
HECTOR VILLA-LOBOS
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas brasileiras (Complete) Cynthia Estill, bassoon / Jose Feghali, piano / Erik Gratton, flute / Rosana Lamosa, soprano / Nashville Symphony Orchestra Cellos / Nashville Symphon [ Naxos / 3 CD - released 20/Jan/2006 ] "The market was just crying out for this release ... highly recommended, a considerable bargain and a fine memorial to Kenneth Schermerhorn" (MusicWeb) |
STEVEN GERBER
Gerber: Chamber Music - Piano Trio / Duo / Elegy / Notturno / Gershwiniana Cyrus Beroukhim / Sara Davis Buechner / Cho-Liang Lin / Kurt Nikkanen / Brinton Averil Smith [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 7/Jul/2009 ] "This CD is an invaluable supplement for the Gerber fan and a highly attractive proposition for anyone attracted to the chamber instrument combinations Gerber employs. The performances are first rate." InsideCatholic.com |
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JOAN TOWER
Tower: Strike Zones / Still/Rapids / Ivory and Ebony / Small Dame Evelyn Glennie (percussion), Blair McMillen (piano) / Albany Symphony, David Allan Miller [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Jul/2021 ] Joan Tower is widely regarded as one of today's most important American composers. The works heard here in their world premiere recordings are part of a growing legacy that one pundit has described as "The Power of Tower." Strike Zones is tailor-made... |
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Danae Kara
Hadjidakis: Piano Works [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] |
ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Granados: Liliana / Suite Oriental / Elisenda Dani Espasa (piano) / Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Pablo González [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] "Pablo González and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra respond, as they have throughout this series, with warmth and an attractively natural sense of how to turn a phrase…the woodwinds are the real stars, though: supple oboes with just a hint of nasal |
ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Granados: Orchestral Works Dani Espasa (piano) / Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Pablo González [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2017 ] "Pablo González and the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra respond with warmth and an attractively natural sense of how to turn a phrase…the woodwinds are the real stars, though: supple oboes with just a hint of nasal buzz" Gramophone |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: Chamber Music (Incls Piano Quartet No. 1) Daniel Adni (piano) Young-Chang Cho, Alexander Ivashkin (cellos) Joel Marangella (oboe) Rainer Moog (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jan/2003 ] "The Piano Quartet...fares well in the Naxos performance...This alone is worth the price of the disc, but there is much else of value besides...the oboe Quartet and Viola Sonata should not be lightly dismissed." - BBC Music Mag. - Nov. 1996 |
ERICH J. WOLFF
Wolff: Complete Songs Vol 1 Daniel Johannsen (tenor), Samantha Gaul (soprano), Klaus Simon (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Erich J. Wolff's name will be unfamiliar to many but in the 1920s an authoritative reference book on popular art song ranked his compositions fourth, behind Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler. The first volume in this series of Wolff's... |
SCHUBERT
Schubert: Ländler, Minuets, Écossaises Daniel Lebhardt (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] Social and musical life in Biedermeier Vienna during the first decade of the 19th century created a great demand for dances which took place in the residences of wealthy citizens. With their echoes of the Austrian countryside Schuberts folk-type... |
FALLA
Complete Piano Works, Volume 1 Daniel Ligorio Ferrandiz (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] This is volume 1 of the first recording of Falla's complete piano music, including juvenilia and all his piano transcriptions of his own orchestral works, as well as pieces written expressly for the instrument. The early compositions included here,... |
FALLA
Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 Daniel Ligorio (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Apr/2007 ] This is Volume 2 of the first recording of Falla’s complete piano music, including juvenilia and all his piano transcriptions of his own orchestral works, as well as pieces written expressly for the instrument. |
MANUEL DE FALLA
Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 Daniel Ligorio (Piano) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "Although virtually unknown in the UK, Ligorio is regarded as one of the leading young soloists in his native Spain and with good reason." (Classic FM) |
