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Debussy
Piano Works Vol.2 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY / MAURICE RAVEL / FLORENT SCHMITT
Debussy/Ravel/Schmitt: French Piano Trios Vol. 1 Joachim Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] "This finely played and recorded new disc from Naxos is worth every penny of its super-bargain price." (Gramophone) |
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SERGEY TANEYEV / ALEXANDER BORODIN
Taneyev / Borodin: Piano Trios Delta Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Mar/2017 ] Sergey Taneyev was a distinguished pianist and influential educator, succeeding Tchaikovsky as professor at the Moscow Conservatory and counting Scriabin and Rachmaninov among his students. The Piano Trio Op. 22 is a demonstration of Taneyev's... |
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Denes Varjon
Schumann:piano Works/Interm [ Naxos / CD ] |
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ANTONIO SOLER
Soler: Keyboard Sonatas Nos. 28-41 Denis Zhdanov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] Soler's exciting keyboard works are some of the most audacious and attractive in all Spanish music of the eighteenth century. They are played on a piano, and will appeal to those who love the music of Scarlatti, Seixas and their contemporaries. |
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W. A. MOZART
4 Horn Concertos / Piano and Wind Quintet (rec 1953, 1955) Dennis Brain (horn) / Walter Gieseking (piano) / Philharmonia Wind Ensemble / Philharmonia Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] "This disc is pure joy. At the price, it is almost a crime not to snap it up." Bargain of the Month MusicWeb May 2007 |
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BELLINI
Songs Dennis ONeill (tenor) / Ingrid Surgenor (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] There is nothing here of the German Lied. The poems are conventional; the accompaniments never exploit the possibilities of the keyboard in the manner of Schubert or Schumann. Sometimes they suggest an orchestral reduction, as though the composer had... |
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VERDI
Songs Dennis O'Neill (tenor) / Ingrid Surgenor (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2005 ] It may seem odd that Italy’s greatest opera composer should have first come before the Milanese public with a set of salon pieces, but in fact the ‘liriche da camera’ which punctuate his long career would often serve as a forging ground for his... |
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MAHLER
Symphony No 5 / Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit (Rec 1947) Desi Halban (soprano) Bruno Walter (piano) / New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra / Bruno Walter, conductor [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 16/Jun/2005 ] "Another fantastic addition to the Naxos Historical Great Conductors series, joining Walter's versions of Mahler 9 and Das Lied von der Erde." (MusicWeb March 2005) |
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CASELLA
Symphony No. 1 / Concerto for strings, piano, timpani & percussion Desiree Seuccuglia (piano) Antonio Ceravolo (percussion) / Rome Symphony Orchestra / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] This first of four recordings of Alfredo Casella's orchestral music couples his first and last purely orchestral works. Completed the day before his 23rd birthday, the Symphony No. 1, which here receives its world première recording, exudes a... |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Lied Edition, Vol 9 - Romances, Ballads and Melodramas Detlef Roth (baritone), Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Robert Schumanns literary background and cultivated taste is revealed in his choice of texts for musical setting. The emphasis in this collection is on songs with a narrative character, such as the tragic tale of Die feindlichen Brüder (Op. 49, No.... |
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IVOR GURNEY
Gurney: Five Preludes / Piano Sonatas Didier Castell-Jacomin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Oct/2023 ] Ivor Gurney's songs (Naxos 8.572151) have long earned him renown but his works for piano, composed over the period of a decade, are hardly known. The lyrically beautiful Five Preludes reflect influences as wide as Schumann and Scriabin but preserve... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Waltzes and Écossaises Didier Castell-Jacomin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Oct/2023 ] As a young composer immersed in the new bourgeois scene in Vienna, Schubert was perfectly positioned to write for the many salons that had opened in the city. The fashionable dances he wrote for them also gave him an avenue for their publication and... |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Kindertotenlier / Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (with Schumann - Liederkreis) (Rec 1952-1955) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwangler / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe / Gerald Moore (piano [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 20/Nov/2008 ] "Naxos are to be congratulated on this welcome series and the welcome opportunity provided to enjoy these performances again. However, the sound, although lightly and sensitively re-mastered, is still clearly that of a historic recording. …This... |
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CHOPIN / MOZART / SCHUBERT / BACH
The Last Recital [recorded 16th September 1950] Dinu Lipatti (piano) [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "Lipatti was like a comet lighting up the musical sky and one that comes around very infrequently but what glory there is when we are privileged to be witness to it! This is a disc to cherish and to relish at every playing." (MusicWeb April 2011) |
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Dj Mclyntock
Classical Loung:piano [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] |
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MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 / Cello Solo Sonatas Nos. 1 and 3 Dmitri Yablonsky (cello) / Hsin-Ni Liu (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] |
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CASSADO / GRANADOS / CASALS / CASABLANCAS
Catalan Cello Works Dmitry Yablonsky (cello) Laia Martín (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2023 ] The cello was a vital part of Catalan musical expression in the first half of the 20th century. Pablo Casals as composer and cello virtuoso was its revolutionary force, and his student Gaspar Cassadó joined him in writing superb transcriptions. |
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DEBUSSY / GINASTERA / LIGETI / PROKOFIEV
Dmytro Choni: Piano Recital Dmytro Choni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2020 ] The Ukrainian pianist Dmytro Choni, winner of the 2018 Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition, has selected a programme that spans the 20th century. |
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ISAAC ALBENIZ
Albeniz: 4-Hand Piano Music Dúo Van Duá (piano) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] Albéniz's distinctive musical vocabulary, with its sensual harmonies, rich melodic lines and characteristic rhythmic figures, has ensured lasting popularity, not least in his music for the piano. |