BEETHOVEN
Cello Sonatas Op. 69 & 102, Nos. 1 - 2 Jeno Jando (piano) / Csaba Onczay (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Feb/2002 ] "These two Hungarians bring plenty of vigour and passion as well as tenderness to the performances." - Fanfare |
BARTÓK
Bartók: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 and Contrasts Jeno Jando (piano), Gyorgy Pauk (violin) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Oct/1994 ] "Readers who habitually fight shy of Bartók's provocatively astringent piano writing might at first find these endlessly fascinating works rather unpalatable, the First Sonata especially. But careful scrutiny reveals manifold beauties which, once... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 / Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini Jeno Jando (piano) / Budapest Symph Orchestra / Gyorgy Lehel [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "... a quite astonishing bargain and... one of the finest Rachmaninov discs in the CD catalog." - THE GUARDIAN |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Works for Four Hands Vol 6 Jeno Jando (piano), Ilona Prunyi (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] Franz Schubert's gift for songwriting transfers into the lyrical sensitivities in his instrumental music. Composed for himself and friends to play at musical evenings, the brilliant Rondo, D. 608 shares the musical burden equally between the parts.... |
SCHUBERT
Piano Works for Four Hands Vol 1 Jeno Jando (piano), Ilona Prunyi (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] "This is the kind of project that leaves a listener eagerly anticipating the coming volumes. What a pleasure this recital is! Buy it!" (MusicWeb) |
BEETHOVEN
Eternal Beethoven (Incls Moonlight & Allegretto from Symphony No 7) Jeno Jando (piano) Takako Nishizaki (violijn) Csaba Onczay (cello) / Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] Born in Bonn in 1770, the eldest son of a singer in the Kapelle of the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and grandson of the Archbishop's Kapellmeister, Beethoven moved in 1792 to Vienna, where he had some lessons from Haydn and others, quickly... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios 'Archduke' & 'Ghost' Jeno Jando (piano) / Takako Nishizaki (violin) / Csaba Onczay (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2003 ] The so-called Ghost Trio, Opus 70 No.1, in D major, was the first of a pair of such works written in 1808 and dedicated to Countess Marie von Erdödy, in whose house Beethoven had taken up residence in that year. |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / BRAHMS / HAYDN / MENDELSSOHN / etc
Great Chamber Music [10 CD set] Jeno Jando (piano), Takako Nishizaki (violin), Kodaly Quartet, Gould Piano Trio, Joachim Trio, etc [ Naxos / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2015 ] This collection of great chamber music brings together nine giants of music in works which reveal their most immediate and individual expressive worlds: proof if ever any was needed that less can be much, much more. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Jenö Jandó (piano) / Budapest Symphony Orchestra, György Lehel [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1985 ] "Jandó shows his versality in refreshing, clean-fingered account of the Rachmaninov Second Piano Concerto, coupled with a dazzling, totally unsentimental reading of the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini." Gramophone |
Jeno Jando/Ilona Prunyi
Schubert:piano 4 Hands Work [ Naxos / CD ] |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
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. |
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... |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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... |