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RONALD BINGE
Binge: Elizabethan Serenade / Scottish Rhapsody / Sailing By Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ernest Tomlinson [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] 'one way and another this must be one of the most successful of this excellent series, and it can only heighten the standing of a fine English light music composer' (Gramophone) |
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Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Ernest Tomlinson, conductor ; BBC Concert Orchestra ; BBC Concert Orchestra
Best of British Light Music Vol. 3 (Including Goodbye Mr Chips ; Jamaican Rhumba & Bells Across the Meadow) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Feb/2003 ] Bright Light Music Classics |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 / The Tempest / etc Joseph Banowetz (piano) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Ondrej Lenard (conductor) [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "Banowitz is an excellent pianist." - American Record Guide |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
French Festival (Incls 'Clair de lune' & 'Danse macabre') Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Keith Clark, Ondrej Lenard (conductors) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] "Riotous fun at a ridiculous price." Classical Review |
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ALEXANDER MOYZES
Moyzes: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ladislav Slovák [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2018 ] "These two early-20th-century symphonies from one of Slovakia's most important composers are lushly Romantic, big-boned works. Enjoyable stuff." BBC Music |
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ALEXANDER MOYZES
Moyzes: Symphonies Nos. 11 and 12 Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ladislav Slovák [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] Alexander Moyzes, one of the leading Slovakian composers of his generation, created a nationally inspired style that also assimilated trends aligning his music with contemporaries such as Shostakovich. The Eleventh Symphony builds on the success of... |
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ITALIAN FESTIVAL
Italian Festival (Incls Leoncavallo's Mattinata & Denza's Funiculi, funicula) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Ondrej Lenard [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] |
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PROKOFIEV
Peter & The Wolf (with Saint-Saens-Carnival of the Animals / Britten-Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Ondrej Lenard [ naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] The Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev wrote his Peter and the Wolf in 1936 to introduce to children the instruments of the orchestra. He had taken his two sons to see performances at the Moscow Children's Music Theatre and this had suggested to him... |
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THE BEST OF BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC
The Best of British Light Music (Incls 'Country Gardens', 'Coronation Scot', 'Puffin' Billy' & the Warsaw Concerto) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / RTE Concert Orchestra / BBC Concert Orchestra [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 17/Sep/2007 ] "The performances on these discs are never less than workmanlike, and in many cases they are much more than that. Those by the RTE Concert Orchestra conducted by Ernest Tomlinson are of especial merit and Philip Fowke does his best to make the ersatz... |
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ARTHUR HONEGGER
Le Demon de l'Himalaya & other Mark Twain films Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Slovak Philharmonic Choir / Adriano [ Naxos Film Music Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] Arthur Honegger, one of the greatest twentieth century composers, made an unrivalled contribution to film music during the course of some thirty years, from his scores for Abel Gance's silent epics La Roue in 1922 and Napoléon in 1926 to his last... |
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BALLET FAVOURITES
Ballet Favourites (excerpts from Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Sylvia, Romeo & Juliet, etc) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice / Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "Tough, tight playing... what an exhilarating performance by Mogrelia. Very fine recording and reproduction of what is a very difficult selection of music." - CLASSIC CD (on the Prokofiev) |
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JAMES COHN
Symphonies Nos. 2 and 7 / Variations on The Wayfaring Stranger Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Vakhtang Jordania, Kirk Trevor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] Celebrating his 80th birthday year in 2008, American composer James Cohn studied with Roy Harris, Wayne Barlow and Bernard Wagenaar, graduating from the Julliard School in 1950. Cohn's first love is the symphony orchestra, and the works presented on... |
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Slovak Rso/Amos
Flagello : Symphony No.1 [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jul/2003 ] |
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Slovak Rso/Trevor
Locklair: Symphony Of Seasons [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jul/2007 ] |
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LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: Symphony No. 3, Op.78 in E Minor / Symphony No. 6 in G Major, Op. 116 ('Historical') Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfred Walter [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Oct/2016 ] Louis Spohr (1784-1859) was seen in his day as a worthy successor to Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, and completed his Third Symphony whilst at the apex of his personal and professional life. This is reflected in a forward-looking, confident and... |
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BANTOCK
A Hebridean Symphony / Old English Suite Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice, Adrian Leaper [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "From time to time, East European orchestras seem to play British music better than their UK rivals, but maybe that's to be expected when a conductor of Adrian Leaper's proven ability is in charge. He already has a fine roster of recordings of... |
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JOACHIM RAFF
Raff: Symphonies Nos 8 & 9 'Im Sommer' Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra (Kosice) / Urs Schneider, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] Joachim Raff's symphonies present a synthesis of pure music and the programmatic elements of the neo-German school exemplified in the symphonic poems of Liszt. His eighth symphony from 1876, Frühlingsklänge, was followed in 1878 with his ninth. |
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JOSEF STRAUSS
Josef Strauss meets Offenbach Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra, Various conductors [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2015 ] "The Quadrille is a dance for four couples, initially facing each other in a square. By the mid-nineteenth century in Vienna it had been formalised into a series of six figures - Le Pantalon (a pair of trousers), L'été (summer), La Poule (the hen),... |
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JOACHIM RAFF
RAFF: Symphony No. 5 'Lenore' / Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott - Overture Slovak State Philharmonic, Urs Schneide [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] The imposing nature and sweeping expressive range of Joachim Raff's Fifth Symphony has seen it become one of his most popular works in the genre. Its subtitle 'Lenore' refers to a lurid and macabre poem by Gottfried August Bürger in which the forlorn... |
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ANTON RUBINSTEIN
Symphony No.4 Dramatic Slovak State PO (Kosice) / Robert Stankovsky [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Sep/2002 ] Anton Rubinstein was born at Vikhvatinets in the Podolsk district of the Russian Empire, on the borders of Moldavia, in 1829. A few years later his family moved to Moscow, and after early instruction on the piano from his mother he took lessons from... |