Dalbert
Piano Concertos Nos.1 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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... |
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) |
SAMUEL BARBER
Barber: Piano Sonata Op.26 and other solo piano music Daniel Pollack (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2001 ] Though one of the most highly regarded American composers of this century, a number of works still await publication, including nine for piano. The present disc contains all of the published works, and amount to just seven scores. The earliest are... |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Songs, Vol. 3 Daniel Trevor Bircher (baritone) Patrick Carfizzi (bass) Ian Howell (counter tenor) Sumi Kittelberger (soprano) Douglas Dickson (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] When, in 1922, Charles Ives published a volume entitled 114 Songs, he was indirectly drawing attention to the fact that the genre had played a central part within his output. |
CÁRDENAS / DURÁN / FREIRE / GUEVARA / ZYMAN
Flauta Andina - 20th Century Andean Music for Flute and Piano Daniel Velasco (Flute) Ellen R. Sommer (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Aug/2022 ] The rich variety of colours and rhythms in South American culture and music are an essential feature of this programme, which focuses largely on music by composers from the Ecuadorian Andes. |
SCHUBERT
Lied Edition 23 - Austrian Contemporaries, Vol. 3 Daniela Sindram (mezzo) / Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Apr/2007 ] This disc is the third and final part of the Austrian Contemporaries series. Volumes One and Two are available on 8.554796 and 8.557172. |
Daniel/Fielding/Thompson
Dubugnon: Piano Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2002 ] |
LAWRENCE DILLON
Violin Music Danielle Belén (violin) / Juan-Miguel Hernandez (viola) / Stan Muncy (marimba) / David Fung (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] A love for lyricism, a dash of wit, and what he has called "an irresistible urge" to connect with the Classical music heritage have always been easily identifiable hallmarks of Lawrence Dillon's music. The nine works on this recording, spanning... |
LUCIANO BERIO
Berio: Sequenzas I-XIV (Complete) Darrett Adkins (Cello) / Tony Arnold (Soprano) / Boris Berman (Piano) / Steven Dann (Viola) / Guy Few (Trumpet) / Erica Goodman (Harp) [ Naxos / 3 CD - released 13/Jun/2006 ] In 1994, Berio invited the author Edoardo Sanguineti to pen epigraphs for each of the (then twelve) Sequenzas. These verses, which can be recited by the musician or read by the listener prior to performance, are not intended either as an explanation... |
ANTONIO SOLER
Soler: Keyboard Sonatas Nos. 96 - 98 Daumants Liepinš (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] Like many Catalan musicians of his time, Antonio Soler received initial training as a chorister before his excellence as an organist ensured high appointment at the Escorial, Spain's royal palace. |