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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2 Gould Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] "Sweeping energy and well-shaped long melodic lines make both these performances gripping and rewarding" BBC Music Magazine |
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JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 (nos 1, 4, 5) Gould Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/2015 ] "If your musical tastes err towards the sunny, optimistic and playful rather than the heavyweight, gloomy and probing, let me direct you to the (seven) piano trios of Hummel...I guarantee you won't be disappointed." Gramophone Magazine, July 2015 |
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JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 (nos 2, 3, 6, 7) Gould Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2014 ] "This disc contains an hour of melodic music, well executed and should appeal to anyone interested in nineteenth century chamber music. I will be looking forward to the next volume." (MusicWeb Jan 2015) |
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KURT ROGER
Roger: Clarinet Quintet / Piano Trio / Piano Sonata / Variations on an Irish Air Gould Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Nov/2009 ] "All four works are rendered with an obvious sense of commitment and receive the highest standards of performance. Pianist Benjamin Frith calls for special mention for his gripping interpretation of the sonata." Fanfare |
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MARTIN PLUDDEMANN
Pluddemann: Ballads, Songs and Legends Ulf Bästlein (baritone) Hedayet Jonas Djeddikar (piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Martin Plüddemann was a pivotal figure in the revival and modernisation of the art of ballad composition. |
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FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music Graf Mourja (violin), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet), Francoise Groben (cello) [ Naxos / 5 CD Box Set - released 25/Mar/2022 ] " Acclaim for these recordings can be summed up by the comment 'you simply can't go wrong with any of the discs in this series.' (ClassicsToday.com on their original release) |
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IAN VENABLES
Complete Works for Solo Piano Graham J. Lloyd (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Jul/2013 ] "I would commend this CD to all British music enthusiasts. It is the perfect complement to the increasing number of CDs that showcase Ian Venables' undoubted mastery of English song and chamber music." (MusicWeb International) |
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ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Granados: 12 Spanish Dances Rosa Torres-Pardo (piano) [ Naxos Spanish Music Collection / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] "Very personal and exciting versions of these works, where the Madrid pianist, who has just recorded Goyescas, succeeds in properly combining the folkloric features and the intellectualism contained in them." Swing |
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EDVARD GREIG
The Best Of Grieg Jenö Jandó (piano) Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Cappella Istropolitana, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/1997 ] The best bits of Grieg across the vast Naxos catalogue. |
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EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: Lyric Pieces / Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 Balazs Szokolay (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] |
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MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: Complete Sonatas For Violin And Piano Grigory Kalinovsky (violin), Tatiana Gonchalova (piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] Mieczyslaw Weinberg is now recognized as one of the outstanding Russian composers of the second half of the twentieth century. Fêted for his symphonies and string quartets, he also wrote a sequence of Violin Sonatas crucial to the development of his... |
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CHARLES WUORINEN
Wuorinen: String Sextet / String Quartet No. 2 / Piano Quintet / Divertimento Group for Contemporary Music / Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society / Tashi [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] "If you are up for a challenge then you will certainly find plenty to spar with on this disc" (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
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Groves/Pulley/Vignoles
Duparc:songs For Tenor & Piano [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Aug/2004 ] |
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ISAAC ALBENIZ
Albeniz: Piano Music, Vol. 2-Recuerdos de viaje / Espagne / Azulejos / La Vega / Navarra Guillermo Gonzalez (piano) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 3/Oct/2007 ] This second volume of his piano music combines the early, romantic Recuerdos de viaje, with works composed during the composer's Parisian period, which ran up to his death in 1909. |
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ISAAC ALBENIZ
Albeniz: Piano Music, Vol. 3 - 6 Danzas espanolas / 6 Pequenos valses / 6 Mazurkas de salon Guillermo Gonzalez (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "This is a great CD that explores some impressive music that is technically superb in both the sound quality and the performance. González succeeds in making these pieces both moving and attractive." (MusicWeb May 2009) |
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ERNESTO HALFFTER
Piano Music Guillermo Gonzalez (piano) / Helen Gonzalez (piano) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / 2 CD - released 5/Sep/2006 ] Halffter's piano works, which he began writing when only thirteen, span his entire career and reflect not only the influence of Scarlatti, but that of the Spanish Renaissance, Stravinsky, Ravel, with whom he studied extensively, and the French... |
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN / RUED LANGGAARD
Scriabin/Langgaard: Towards the Flame - Eccentric Piano Works Gustav Piekut (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] Both Scriabin and Langgaard believed that through their music they could pave the way for a spiritual revolution. The piano offered a perfect and very intimate medium for their highly personal harmonic and expressive vocabularies. |
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FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Violin Sonatas (complete) Gusztav Fenyo (violin) / Susanne Stanzeleit (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2009 ] "..the subtlety of their rubato and the sheer responsive plasticity of Stanzeleit's phrasing of the long melodic lines, which can so often seem to meander but here are a moment-to-moment index of feeling, are exemplary." (BBC Music) |
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BELA BARTOK
Rhapsodies Nos. 1 and 2 / Piano Quintet Gyorgy Pauk (violin) / Jeno jando (piano) / Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2003 ] The two Rhapsodies, originally for violin and piano, were both written in 1928, the year of Bartók's Fourth Quartet. Both Rhapsodies appeared in versions for solo violin and orchestra, possibly the composer's final intention, and in versions for... |
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IBERT
Piano Music (Incls 'Histoires') Hae Won Chang (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Nov/2002 ] "Tiny Pictures, Stories, Encounters, and sundry musical images." |