AMERICAN TAPESTRY
American Tapestry (Incls 'Suite of Old American Dances' & 'Rhapsody in Blue') Lone Star Wind Orchestra / Eugene Migliaro Corporon (with Richard Shuster, piano) [ Naxos Wind Band Classics / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] John Williams' arrangement of the Star-Spangled Banner sets the stage for this collection of American works for wind band spanning 100 years. Featuring traditional compositions from the likes of George Gershwin, Howard Hanson, Robert Russell Bennett... |
DMITRIS DRAGATAKIS
Piano Works (Complete) Lorenda Ramou (piano) [ Naxos Greek Classics / CD - released 6/Apr/2008 ] Dimitris Dragatakis's compositions combine elements of the musical traditions of Epirus in the north-west of Greece with the contemporary music of his age. This first recording of Dragatakis's complete solo piano music eloquently reveals the varied... |
SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN / MOZART / WOLF
Lotte Lehmann: Lieder Recordings (Vol. 1) Lotte Lehmann (Soprano) Erno Balogh (Piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] "Undoubtedly one of the greatest singers of the last century and this and its companion discs give a good picture of her excellence as a Lieder singer" (MusicWeb June 2007) |
SCHUBERT / RICHARD STRAUSS
Lieder Recordings, Vol. 5 (recorded 1941-42) Lotte Lehmann (soprano) / Paul Ulanowsky (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 19/Sep/2007 ] In Die schöne Müllerin Lehmann's judicious use of portamento and her wonderful feeling for the text make her performance one to treasure. |
BALAKIREV
Piano Sonata (with Liszt-Apres une lecture du Dante) Louis Kentner (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 2/Oct/2007 ] "Louis Kentner plays the work superbly, with all the requisite virtuosity yet without any lack of delicate poetic insight" (The Gramophone, August 1951). |
CASELLA
9 Pieces, Op. 24 / 6 Studies, Op. 70 / Children's Pieces, Op. 35 Luca Ballerini (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2005 ] |
IRELAND
Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 / Cello Sonata Lucy Gould (violin) / Alice Neary (cello) / Benjamin Frith (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Oct/2010 ] "The Ireland sonatas are sweet, uncomplicated and...unmistakably English. The performances are fine" Financial Times, 7th August 2010 ** |
GEORGE FREDERICK McKAY
Violin Concerto / Sinfonietta No. 4 / Song Over the Great Plains Ludmilla Kovaleva, piano / Brian Reagin, violin / Ukraine National Radio Symphony Orchestra / John McLaughlin Williams, conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 23/Feb/2005 ] "Naxos's third McKay disc ... a worthy revival of music that could otherwise have been lost to posterity" - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
IGNACIO CERVANTESI
Danzas Cubanas Álvaro Cendoya (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Feb/2012 ] Ignacio Cervantes is a key figure of Latin American piano music. As the cultural and national identity of his native Cuba gained strength through the 19th century, the genres of danza and contradanza became a fixture of the island's dance and concert... |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection': arrangement for piano four hands by Bruno Walter Maasa Nakazawa (piano) & Suhrud Athavale (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] World-renowned conductor Bruno Walter was particularly well acquainted with Gustav Mahler's work, and was employed as his assistant at the Hamburg Opera at the time Mahler's Second Symphony was given its première in Berlin. |
HOWARD BLAKE
Violin Sonata / Piano Quartet / etc Madeleine Mitchell (violin) Jack Rothstein (violin) Kenneth Essex (viola), Peter Willison (cello) Howard Blake (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "Howard Blake is a versatile composer who may be better known for his marvellous film scores The Snowman and Granpa in which his gifts for colourful orchestration and memorable tunes are clearly evident." |
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel At the Opera Madoka Inui (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] The reputation of Johann Nepomuk Hummel - child prodigy, student of Mozart, successor of Haydn and Beethoven's rival, widely-travelled piano virtuoso, composer, conductor, influential teacher and ingenious businessman - is once more on the rise. His... |
VARIOUS
The Art of the Flute Madoka Inui (piano) / Matthias Schulz (flute) / Wolfgang Schulz (flute) / Peter Schmidl (clarinet) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Apr/2007 ] Wolfgang Schulz, principal flautist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra since 1970, is one of the best known and most active flautists in the world |
ISAAC ALBENIZ
Albéniz: Complete Works for Voice and Piano Magdalena Llamas (mezzo), Guillermo González (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] Isaac Albeniz is best known for his influential piano works and a style that draws on Spanish folk music idioms. But his remarkable catalogue of songs successfully combines tradition and modernity, adapting a myriad of compositional techniques to... |
ARTHUR BLISS
Bliss: Oboe Quintet / Piano Quartet / Viola Sonata Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Oct/2006 ] "Excellent sound, detailed liner notes, and Naxos's competitive prices. What's not to like, here?" Fanfare, January/February 2004 |
WALTON
Piano Quartet in A minor / String Quartet in A minor Maggini Quartet / Peter Donohoe (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Sep/2000 ] Colourful chamber works from this internationally famous English composer |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Piano Quartet In D Minor Maggini Quartet / Peter Donohoe (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2010 ] |
ELGAR
String Quartet In E Minor / Piano Quintet In A Minor Maggini String Quartet / Peter Donohoe (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "the Maggini Quartet impress with the luminous refinement and beguiling tonal beauty of their music-making" - Gramophone |
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / etc Alessandro Marangoni (piano) / Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Mogrelia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] "Tuneful, lushly scored, unpretentious and superbly crafted, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's two piano concertos (1927, 1936) deserve their stylish resuscitation by the young Italian pianist Alessandro Marangoni, who had to dig in dusty libraries to find... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Douze Morceaux & Souvenir De Hapsal Mami Shikimori (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Mar/2017 ] Tchaikovsky wrote music for the piano throughout his life, many of these pieces being dedicated to family members or close friends and musical associates. Rich in variety, the Douze morceaux range from playful dances to a substantial Marche funebre,... |