FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Soirees Italiennes / Paganini Etudes / Rossini and Spontini Impromptu / Rossini Variations Gianluca Luisi (piano) [ Naxos Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 30 / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "Splendidly performed and recorded in Vienna this volume in the continuing series shows no sign of flagging. Luisi is an excellent choice in these undemanding early Romantic piano arrangements so radiant with Italian sunshine." (MusicWeb Jan 2010) |
LUDWIG THUILLE
Sextet / Piano Quintet Gianluca Luisi (piano) / Gigli Quartet / Chantily Quintet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] One of the leading members of the Munich School, most famously represented by Richard Strauss, Ludwig Thuille was a prolific composer whose Sextet today remains the best known of his many chamber works. |
Gieseking
Beethoven: Piano Concertos 4/5 [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 28/Aug/2006 ] |
MARTINU
Complete Piano Music Vol. 1 Giogio Koukl (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] "Another worthy projected series is up-and-running from Naxos - they should certainly be giving this one high priority. This is attractive music with considerable merits and experience of Firkušný's marvellous record suggests that there are even... |
MARTINU
Complete Piano Music Vol. 4 (Incls 7 Czech Dances) Giorgio Kouki (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Dec/2007 ] Although they number approximately eighty out of a total of over four hundred works, Martinů's compositions for solo piano have long been overshadowed by his orchestral and chamber music. This fourth and final release in the Naxos complete Martinů... |
MARTINU
Complete Piano Music Vol. 5 (Incls 6 Polkas, H. 101) Giorgio Kouki (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Giorgio Koukl's survey of Martinů's complete piano music has been praised as "a delight" (Gramophone) and "estimable and important" (MusicWeb International). Since the release of Volume 4 (Naxos 8.570215), which was originally intended to be the... |
TCHEREPNIN
Complete Piano Works 1 Giorgio Koukl [ Grand Piano / Naxos / CD - released 7/Sep/2012 ] |
MARTINU
Complete Piano Music Vol. 2 Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] "A fascinating selection of Martinu early piano works, plus two late rifles" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine May 2007 |
MARTINU
Piano Music (complete) Vol. 6 Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Giorgio Koukl's survey of Martinů's complete piano music has been praised as "a delight" (Gramophone) and "estimable and important" (MusicWeb International). |
MARTINU
Piano Music (complete) Vol. 7 - A Fairy-Tale of Goldilocks / From Anderson's Fairy-Tales Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "Koukl, very well recorded here, remains a dependable interpreter capturing the widely varied accents of this collection with considerable precision in nearly all cases." BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 *** on the fourth volume in the Martinu... |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: Piano Music (Complete), Volume 3 Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Sep/2007 ] This third release in the Naxos complete Martinů solo piano music series represents the most mature style of his work. |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Piano Concertos Vol 2: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4 Giorgio Koukl (piano) / Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra / Arthur Fagen [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] The music of Bohuslav Martinů , whose complete solo piano works have also been recorded by Giorgio Koukl for Naxos, can ring like bells, shimmer like a mirage or pulse with sheer rhythmic vitality as is the case with these three piano concertos,... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Mephisto Waltzes / 2 Elegies / Grosses Konzertsolo Giuseppe Andaloro (piano) [ Naxos Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 24 / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] If Liszt's Faust-Symphony was inspired by Goethe, his Mephisto Waltzes had their literary source in the work of Nikolaus Lenau. Nicolaus Franz Niembsch, Edler von Strehlenau, known always under his pseudonym, was the son of an Austrian cavalry... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 Bernd Glemser (piano) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Aug/1998 ] In 1891 Rachmaninov completed his piano studies at the Conservatory and the composition of his first piano concerto. The following year he graduated from the composition class with his opera Aleko. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4 / Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini Bernd Glemser (piano) / Polish National Radio Symphony, Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/1999 ] "Glemser has a bold impetuous way with Rachmaninov...he generates plenty of excitement and expressive fervour in all three works" Penguin Guide |
Glemser/Polish Nrso/Wit
Tchaikovsky:piano Conc.No.2 [ Naxos / CD ] |
J.S. BACH
Goldberg Variations / Partita No. 5 (rec 1954-55) Glenn Gould (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 19/Apr/2007 ] Glenn Gould's 1955 recording of the work is one of the most important and influential piano discs of the second half of the twentieth century, leading not only to a wider appreciation of Bach's keyboard works by the general public but to a... |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas Nos 30-32 (1956) Glenn Gould (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] Not long after his February 1934 London Queen's Hall concert comprising three Mozart concertos, Schnabel made his first recording of a Mozart piano concerto, No. 27 in B flat major, K.595, at the recently opened and well equipped Abbey Road Studios.... |
J.S. BACH
Keyboard Concerto No. 1 / Partitas Nos. 5 and 6 Glenn Gould (piano) / Columbia Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] Canadian pianist Glenn Gould's first Columbia recording, his classic 1955 Goldberg Variations, and second, Beethoven's last three piano sonatas, were followed by this 1957 rendition of Bach's D minor Concerto, praised by The New York Times critic... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Brahms: Piano Quintet Glenn Gould (piano) / Montreal String Quartet / Columbia Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Bernstein [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Glenn Gould played Beethoven's piano concertos from the beginning of his short concert career, this recording being made when he was 24, the same age as the composer when he wrote his Piano Concerto No. 2. |