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JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms/Schumann: Piano Quintets Jeno Jando (piano) / Kodaly Quartet [ Naxos / CD ] "This is robust music-making, romantic in spirit, and its spontaneity is well projected by a vivid recording, made in an attractively resonant acoustic. An excellent bargain." Penguin Guide |
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VYTAUTAS BACEVIČIUS
Bacevicius: Orchestral Works Vol 2 Gabrielius Alekna (piano) / Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Vytautas Bacevičius's life was defined by exile and migration during the turbulent first half of the 20th century, but his impressive catalogue represents a remarkable creative spirit undimmed by adversity. Composed while studying in Paris, the... |
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GRACE WILLIAMS
Grace Williams: Songs Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) Wendy Hiscocks (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Grace Williams' lifelong interest in vocal writing no doubt owed something to her upbringing in Wales. The original works heard here in their premiere recordings span the entirety of her career, ranging from her earliest surviving composition in any... |
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JOAQUIN RODRIGO
Rodrigo: Guitar Works, Vol. 1 (Incls 3 piezas espanolas & Sonata giocosa) Jeremy Jouve (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Apr/2008 ] "The young French guitarist Jérémy Jouve plays it brilliantly, although he is not a show-off artist, preferring musical values, which he displays in the sensitive account of the Andante moderato slow movement of the Sonata giocosa." Penguin Guide |
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IAN KROUSE
Krouse: Nocturnes / Invocation Jessica Rivera (soprano) Vladimir Chernov (baritone) Maryanne Kim (Piano), etc [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] Ian Krouse has been acclaimed by Gramophone as "one of the most communicative and intriguing" of today's composers, his style drawing on historical and traditional influences as well as being innovative and modern. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Chinese Piano Favourites Jie Chen (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2008 ] While the piano is a western invention, it has come to occupy a special position in Chinese musical life. The earliest Chinese piano pieces date from the first half of the twentieth century; many remain popular in the concert hall today. This latest... |
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ANTONIO DVORAK
Dvorak: Piano Trios Vol.2 Joachim Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jul/2000 ] "Fresh, vital playing from this excellent Naxos group. Very good recording too…this is eminently recommendable and worth the money." Penguin Guide |
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SMETANA / SUK / NOVAK
Piano Trios Joachim Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jul/2008 ] "a strikingly idiomatic performance of Novak's splendid Trio" - BBC Music Magazine |
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ANTONIO DVORAK
Dvorak: Piano Trios, Vol. 1 Joachim Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Jan/2003 ] Dvořák's chamber music includes fourteen string quartets, three string quintets, a string sextet, two piano quintets, two piano quartets and six piano trios, the first two of which are lost or were destroyed by the composer. |
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MIKALOJUS KONSTANTINAS CIURLIONIS
Čiurlionis: Harp Arrangements of Piano Works - Preludes / Nocturnes / I Sowed the Rue Joana Daunytė (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Jan/2022 ] Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis was Lithuania's leading composer at the turn of the 20th century as well as an internationally admired artist. The piano scores from which these pieces are transcribed are Romantic in expression, influenced by the... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Piano Concerto / Johnson Over Jordan Suite Joanna MacGregor, piano / English Chamber Orchestra / London Symphony Orchestra / Steuart Bedford, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 29/May/2005 ] "This is probably the finest version of the Britten Piano Concerto available, notwithstanding Britten's own justly revered rendition with Sviatoslav Richter on Decca" |
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ANTON GARCIA ABRIL
Madre Asturias - A Collection of Asturian Songs Joaquin Pixan (tenor); Rosa Torres-Pardo (piano) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "Full marks to the performers. Señor Pixan, possesses a very attractive lyric tenor, with few worn edges and plenty of warmth throughout the register. Rosa Torres-Pardo meanwhile is an admirable partner. It sounds ... marvellous!" (Recording of the... |
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HANS SOMMER
Sommer: Lied Edition, Vol 1 Jochen Kupfer (bass-baritone), Marcelo Amaral (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Hans Sommer was a respected composer in his day and achieved widespread popularity with his songs, especially the melodic and catchy pieces in Op. 4 and Op. 5. One biographer described him as 'a direct predecessor of Hugo Wolf... the lines that start... |
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HANS SOMMER
Sommer: Lied Edition, Vol. 2 Jochen Kupfer (bass-baritone) Marcelo Amaral (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Jan/2022 ] Hans Sommer's career initially involved science and mathematics, but his affinity for music was apparent from an early age. He became associated with Wagner and Liszt, achieving respect as a theatre composer and gaining widespread popularity with his... |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Transcriptions of vocal works Joel Hastings (piano) [ Naxos Liszt Edition Vol 44 / CD - released 17/Dec/2012 ] Amongst his portfolio of works for piano, Liszt wrote transcriptions and arrangements, some derived from his own scores and some based on the work of others. His own songs, of which he wrote over 80, reveal his particular gifts as a lyric composer,... |
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GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Music for Double Bass and Piano, Vol. 1 Joel Quarrington (double bass) Andrew Burashko (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Mar/2008 ] "Bass players and fans of the instrument will surely be pleased with Toronto Symphony principal bassist Joel Quarrington's intensely lyrical work, and this CD includes several items not listed in other current compilations." (Fanfare) |
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GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Music for Double Bass and Piano, Vol. 2 Joel Quarrington, Harold Hall Robinson (double bass) Andrew Burashko (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Mar/2008 ] Giovanni Bottesini enjoyed a globe-trotting career as "the Paganini of the double bass". He was also a successful conductor and a composer, although only the music he wrote for his own instrument has outlived him. Many of the works on this recording... |
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Johannes Kalpers, tenor / Burkhard Kehring, piano
Schubert - Goethe Lieder, Vol. 3 (Includes Erlkonig, D. 328) [ Naxos Schubert Lieder Edition Vol 16 / CD - released 24/Feb/2004 ] In 1816 Franz Schubert, together with his circle of friends, decided to publish a collection of all the songs which he had so far written. |
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MICHAEL HURD
Pop Cantatas John Addison (narrator) / Alexander Wells (piano) / Members of the New London Orchestra / New London Children’s Choir / Ronald Corp [ Naxos / CD - released 4/May/2011 ] "The works on this Naxos disc are lightly jazzy and must have turned generations of children on to concert music. They make confident and fearless communion with West End show-time, dance-band drum-kit and light Radio 2 style middle-of-the-road... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The English Clarinet (Incls Finzi - 5 Bagatelles, Op. 23) John Bradbury (clarinet) James Cryer (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] The clarinet is the most versatile of all wind instruments, able to express warmth, brilliance, passion and elegy. All facets of the clarinet are represented here, unified by the English school. Lloyd Webber and Edward German give us enchanting... |