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. |
EDWARD GRIEG
Grieg: Lyric Pieces / Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 Balazs Szokolay (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] |
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) |
Groves/Pulley/Vignoles
Duparc:songs For Tenor & Piano [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Aug/2004 ] |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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) |
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... |
IBERT
Piano Music (Incls 'Histoires') Hae Won Chang (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Nov/2002 ] "Tiny Pictures, Stories, Encounters, and sundry musical images." |
HUMMEL
Piano Concertos No. 2, Op. 85 & No. 3, Op. 89 Hae-Won Chang / Budapest Chamber Orchestra / Tama Pal [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Sep/2012 ] "I think it's just great that some of those Marco Polos are being recycled as Naxoses! What a buy this one is!" (American Record Guide) |
HUMMEL
Piano Concertos No.2 Op. 85 / No. 3 Op. 89 Hae-Won Chang (piano) / Budapest Chamber Orchestra / Tamas Pal [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jan/2008 ] "I think it's just great that some of those Marco Polos are being recycled as Naxoses! What a buy this one is!" - American Record Guide - Sept/Oct. 1996 |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Concertos, Nos 4, 7, 9, & 11 Hae Won Chang (piano) / Camerata Cassovia, Robert Stankovsky [ Naxos / CD ] "Her touch is just right for these very pleasant pieces." Classic CD |
Hakon Austbo
Messiaen: Piano Music [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Sep/2002 ] |
MESSIAEN
Piano Music Vol 3 (Incls Preludes) Hakon Austbo (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Mar/2008 ] "Messiaen has been very fortunate in his keyboard interpreters. Austbo is among the best of them, and to have such playing available at such a low price is a cause for grateful rejoicing." - Gramophone (Michael Oliver), Feb 2000 |
MESSIAEN
Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jesus Hakon Austbo (piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 22/Nov/2005 ] Austbo is a pupil of Yvonne Loriod, the widow of Olivier Messiaen and provides for the Naxos label a stunning and profound account of this colossus of the mid-20th century piano repertoire. |
EBERHARD
Piano Concerto 'Shadow Of The Swan' Halida Dinova (Piano) / St Petersburg Cappella Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Tchernoushenko [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] St. Petersburg Cappella Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Tchernoushenko |
THOMAS ADES
Ades: Piano Solo Works Han Chen (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Composer, conductor and pianist Thomas Adès has been described by The New York Times as 'among the most accomplished all-round musicians of his generation'. |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Transcriptions from Operas Han Chen (piano) [ Naxos Complete Liszt Piano Music Vol 41 / CD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] "Liszt's operatic transcriptions and paraphrases are musical succulence itself, and here…are another seven, all romantic, and stylishly dispatched by Han Chen" (Sunday Times, January 2016) |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Transcriptions Hanna Shybayeva (piano), Animato Quartet, Bas Vliegenthart (double bass) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] The first volume (8.551400) with Vinzenz Lachner's arrangements of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concertos for piano and string quintet already showed that this would be quite a special complete recording of Beethoven's piano concertos-and not just... |