GRIEG
Piano Music Vol 10 (Lyric Pieces, Books 8-10, Opp. 65, 68, and 71) Einar Steen-Nokleberg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Nov/2004 ] "Steen-Nøkleberg is entirely inside this music. He manages to make the familiar pieces sound fresh, and the less familiar... are most imaginatively played." - Gramophone |
GRIEG
Piano Music Vol 6 (Norwegian Melodies) Einar Steen-Nokleberg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Nov/2007 ] "Steen-Nøkleberg is entirely inside this music. He manages to make the familiar pieces sound fresh, and the less familiar... are most imaginatively played." - Gramophone - May 1996 |
HISATO OHZAWA
Piano Concerto No 3 'Kamikaze' / Symphony No 3 'The Founding of Japan' Ekaterina Saranceva (piano) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dimitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2008 ] Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky |
SCHUBERT
Piano Sonatas Nos. 4 & 13 / Fantasie in C major, D760 'Wanderer' Eldar Nebolsin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2011 ] "Schubert's creative process may be difficult for lesser mortals to comprehend, but Nebolsin's cogent interpretations and masterful execution fully convey Schubert's music with clarity of purpose and emotional power. Naxos provides excellent audio... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Preludes for Piano (Complete) Eldar Nebolsin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jun/2007 ] "The highest compliment that may be paid Nebolsin's technique is that, in its complete subordination to the music, one is simply never aware of it. His sound is always beautiful." Limelight |
Erno DOHNANYI
Dohnanyi: Variations on a Nursery Song / Symphonic Minutes Op.36 / etc Eldar Nebolsin (piano) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "If it's an introduction to Dohnanyi's music, or if cost is important to you, then this Naxos issue is very good and it will give much pleasure. At the price you cannot complain." (MusicWeb July 2010) |
FERNANDO LOPES-GRACA
Lopos-Graca: Divertimento / Sinfonieta Cinco Velhos / Romances Portugueses / Quatro Invenções Eldar Nebolsin (piano) / Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto - Casa da Música, Matthias Bamert [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jun/2022 ] Fernando Lopes-Graça was one of Portugal's greatest composers of the 20th century, whose artistic credo was the binding together of the folk music of his native country with modern techniques to create an alternative and original national identity. |
FERNANDO LOPES-GRACA
Lopos-Graca: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 Eldar Nebolsin (piano) / Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto - Casa da Música, Matthias Bamert [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Jul/2013 ] The Piano Concertos represent two of his most contrasting and absorbing works. The First is richly atmospheric, the post-War Second Concerto dark. Both embed Spanish Baroque music, but are in no way pastiche works. |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Totentanz Eldar Nebolsin (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "Nebolsin, winner of the first Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition in 2005, is a virtuoso of power and poetry. Try the scintillating final pages of the E flat Concerto in which Petrenko, always an alert partner, catches the ball and... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Fantasia in A major on Polish Airs / Krakowiak Concert Rondo in F AUDIO-ONLY Eldar Nebolsin (piano) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2011 ] Chopin's youthful Piano Concerto No. 1 is dominated by the brilliant piano part that the performer-composer wrote to showcase his extraordinary talent. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 / Fantasia on Polish Airs Eldar Nebolsin, piano /Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "[The Rondo is] the highlight of the disc, nonchalantly fleet-fingered, beautifully phrased and conveying a real joy of shared music-making." Gramophone |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 / Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise / Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano' in B flat major Eldar Nebolsin (piano) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "For me this is near the ideal in the performance of Chopin." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Dec 2010) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem la mano' / Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise AUDIO ONLY Eldar Nebolsin (piano) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2011 ] Using the new Polish National Chopin Edition, acclaimed pianist Eldar Nebolsin and Poland's national orchestra conducted by the renowned Polish conductor Antoni Wit, here present fresh interpretations of Chopin's great works for piano and orchestra. |
ALEXANDRE TANSMAN
24 Intermezzi / Petite Suite Eliane Reyes (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Mar/2011 ] "Brief, fluid and exotic, [the first two books] are alive with many unnerving twists of harmony and direction...[Reyes's] performances are memorably refined, dextrous and committed. She is excellently recorded and this is clearly a disc for... |
BACRI
Piano Works Eliane Reyes (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] |
AVNER DORMAN
Piano Sonatas 1-3 / Moments Musicaux / Azerbaijani Dance Eliran Avni (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Jun/2006 ] While studying together at Juilliard, Eliran Avni asked Dorman to write a set of short piano pieces for him. Dorman named the pieces Moments Musicaux (2003), both as a tribute to Schubert, and to encourage the performer to focus on the musical moment... |
SCHUBERT
Lieder (with works by Beethoven) [recorded 1952-1954] Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) with Edwin Fischer (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] Although best remembered in the operatic rôles of the Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier), Countess Madeleine (Capriccio), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf also enjoyed... |
BOLCOM
Music for Two Pianos Elizabeth Bergmann (piano) / Marcel Bergmann (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Jan/2006 ] BARGAIN OF THE MONTH "Naxos seems to conjure this sort of thing from their sleeve like a magician’s never-ending handkerchief – long may it remain so" (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
FRANCO ALFANO
Alfano: Violin Sonata / Piano Quintet Elmira Darvarova (violin) / Scott Dunn (piano) / Mary Ann Mumm (violin) / Craig Mumm (viola) / Samuel Magill (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] "this disc…should at least get things moving in the right direction for this underrated composer." MusicWeb |
LAURIDSEN
Choral Works (Incls 'Les Chansons des Roses' & 'Mid-Winter Songs') Elora Festival Singers / Noel Edison (Conductor) with Leslie De'Ath (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2009 ] "Although O nata lux (a movement from the larger work Lux aeterna) and O magnum mysterium have been recorded numerous times, they never have been done better--or more movingly--than here. Highly recommended." (10/10 ClassicsToday.com) |