CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
Stanford: Clarinet Sonata / Piano Trio No. 3 / 2 Fantasies David Adams (viola) / Mia Cooper (violin) / Lucy Gould (violin) / Alice Neary (cello) / Robert Plane (clarinet) / Benjamin Frith (piano) / Gould Piano [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Sep/2007 ] "Altogether, this useful grouping of Stanford's three chamber works involving clarinet seems to be the most convenient way of getting them" (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
Music for Brass Septet, Vol. 3 David Adams (viola) / Mia Cooper (violin) / Lucy Gould (violin) / Alice Neary (cello) / Robert Plane (clarinet) / Benjamin Frith (piano) / Gould Piano [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2015 ] Stretching back from the stark Soviet soundscape of Shostakovich, through the early modernism of Prokofiev to the pre-revolutionary opulence of Scriabin and Rachmaninov, Septura charts a turbulent seventy years of Russian history. |
ALBERT ROUSSEL
Roussel: Violin Sonatas Nos 1 and 2 / String Trio David Bowlin (violin), Tony Cho (piano), with Kirsten Docter (viola), Dmitry Kouzov (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/May/2024 ] Although he is best remembered for his highly regarded stage and orchestral works, Roussel also composed a significant body of masterful yet relatively unknown chamber music. The Romantic early First Violin Sonata is an epic journey of soaring... |
LENNOX BERKELEY / JOHANNES BRAHMS / JONATHAN LESHNOFF
Berkeley / Brahms / Leshnoff: Horn Trios David Cooper (horn) Alexander Kerr (violin) Orion Weiss (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] Lennox Berkeley's Trio is lively and characterful with a sequence of ingenious and playful variations. GRAMMY-nominated Jonathan Leshnoff is one of America's leading contemporary composers and his 2016 Trio moves from darkness to light. |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Violin Concerto No. 3 / String Trio / Sonata for Violin & Cello Davide Alogna (violin), Fiorenzo Pascalucci (piano), Federico Stassi (viola) & Roberto Trainini (cello), Roberto Trainini (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] The three previously unpublished and unrecorded chamber works in this programme were all written after Castelnuovo-Tedesco's enforced move to the United States from his native Italy. Evoking the emotional day on which the composer sailed into New... |
HERMANN GOETZ
Goetz: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 & Spring Overture Davide Cabassi (piano) Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Kimbo Ishii [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2015 ] "Given the price, I think this Naxos disc is now the front runner for this music" MusicWeb |
FRANCO ALFANO
Alfano: Suite Romantica Davide Vendramin (accordion) Vittorio Rabagliati (piano) / Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Giuseppe Grazioli [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Franco Alfano is remembered today for his completion of Turandot after Puccini's death. His catalogue of works, including operas, orchestral and chamber music, reveals him to be a sophisticated and original composer. Alfano possessed an innate... |
HANS WERNER HENZE
Hanze: Guitar Music (Vol. 2) Debora Halasz (Piano), Anna Torge (mandolin) & Cristina Bianchi (harp) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Few living composers besides Hans Werner Henze have enjoyed such remarkable success across such a wide range of musical genres, from large-scale concert and stage works to chamber and instrumental pieces. |
FERDINANDO CARULLI
Guitar and Piano Music Vol. 2 Debora Halasz (piano) / Franz Halasz (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] Franz and Débora Halász continue their revelatory exploration of Ferdinando and Gustavo Carulli's neglected yet highly appealing music... |
HENZE
Guitar Music (Vol. 1) Debora Halasz (Piano), Franz Halasz (Guitar), Sebastian Hess (Cello), Sophia Reuter (Viola), Gottfried Schneider (Violin) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/May/2006 ] "With good recorded sound from Bavarian Radio, a fine essay on the music by David Truslove and great playing from all involved this is a varied and fascinating birthday homage to Henze. It can be confidently recommended." (MusicWeb July 2006) |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
The Best of Debussy (Incls Clair de Lune, Arabesque No 1 & The girl with the Flaxen Hair) Peter Nagy (piano) Klara Kormendi (piano) / Kodaly Quartet / Slovak Radio Philharmonic Orchestra / etc [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] Claude Debussy exercised widespread influence over later generations of composers, both in his native France and elsewhere. He was trained at the Paris Conservatoire, and decided there on a career as a composer rather than as a pianist, his original... |
Debussy
Piano Works Vol.2 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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) |
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... |
Denes Varjon
Schumann:piano Works/Interm [ Naxos / CD ] |
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. |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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) |