ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Granados: Piano Trio & Piano Quintet Manuel Porta Gallego (violin) / Joaquín Riquelme García (viola) / LOM Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] "Very welcome additions to my collection of Romantic trios and quintets." (MusicWeb) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin.: Scherzos Nos. 1-4 / Impromptus Nos. 1-3 / Fantasy-Impromptu / Allegro de concert Mao Fujita (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Chopin turned the Scherzo into a new form of piano composition: an independent virtuoso work which he laced with drama, Polish folk song, tranquillity and nuance. With their rhythmic lilt and filigree ornamentation the Impromptus are infused with... |
ELGAR
The Violin Music (includes Violin Concerto and much more) Marat Bisengaliev (violin) / Benjamin Frith (piano) / Camilla Bisengalieva (oboe) / West Kazakhstan Philharmonic Orchestra / Bundit Ungrangsee [ Naxos / 3 CD - released 29/Jul/2011 ] A comprehensive collection of Elgar's Violin Music on 3 CDs, featuring Marat Bisengaliev as soloist. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Hungarian Dances For Violin And Piano (with works by Joachim) Marat Bisengaliev (Violin) John Lenehan (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 21/Oct/2007 ] "These are enlivening, not to say intoxicating performances of familiar music in a new and yet brilliantly effective guise." - Hi Fi News - October 1996 |
Marc Peloquin
Tredici: Complete Piano Works [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jul/2012 ] |
LUDWIG THUILLE
Complete Music for Violin and Piano Marco Rogliano (violin) & Gianluca Luisi (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Feb/2013 ] The Violin Sonata No. 1 in D, which Strauss admitted was more advanced than his own works of the time and here receives its first recording, is the latest addition to the ongoing revival of his chamber music. |
IVOR BERTIE GURNEY
Gurney: Songs, Vol. 2 Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Eric McElroy (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Oct/2024 ] Ivor Gurney was a poet as well as a composer and was accomplished in a number of musical genres including song. With his intuitive approach to poetry he selected texts widely, from contemporaries to ballads, Elizabethan and Jacobean poets, and even... |
Marcus Pawlik
Reger:piano Music [ Naxos / CD ] |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: A Faust Symphony (Version for Two Pianos, S647/R369) (Complete Piano Music Vol. 34) Marcus Ullmann (tenor) / Franz Liszt Piano Duo / Liszt School of Music Chamber Choir, Weimar [ Naxos Liszt Complete Piano Music Edition / CD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] A recording of the Faust Symphony arranged for two pianos |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Songs and Romances Margarita Gritskova (mezzo-soprano), Maria Prinz (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Sergey Prokofiev is acknowledged as one of the 20th century's greatest composers, and his enduring popularity today rests on a rich legacy of orchestral and chamber works. Less well-known are his songs. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Songs and Romances Margarita Gritskova (mezzo-soprano), Maria Prinz (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] The songs of Dmitry Shostakovich reflect the process of allusion and concealment that permeated his larger-scale music, and this selection traces his musical career from lighthearted early experiments to his late work. Settings of the composer's most... |
CAMILLO SCHUMANN
Schumann, Camillo - Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 Maria Kliegel (cello) / Francesco Piemontesi (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/May/2011 ] "Recording quality is good, especially where the cello is concerned. In sum, a disc of worthwhile, if not earth-shaking music, especially for the seeker of little-known 20th century music." (MusicWeb Sept 2011) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Cello Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 / Variations concertantes Maria Kliegel (cello) Kristin Merscher (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Kliegel and Merscher deserve prime recommendation." BBC Music Magazine |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Cello Sonatas Opp. 38, 78 and 99 Maria Kliegel (cello) / Kristin Merscher (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2004 ] "Maria Kliegel's tone seems absolutely right for Brahms... a particularly excellent and moving interpretation of the E minor Sonata" - Classic CD |
SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN
Cello Works Maria Kliegel (cello), Kristin Merscher (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jan/2012 ] "An outstanding performance." Classic CD |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 Maria Kliegel (cello) Kristin Merscher (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1994 ] "Kliegel and Merscher deserve prime recommendation." BBC Music Magazine |
LALO
Cello Concerto / Cello Sonata / Chants russes for cello and piano Maria Kliegel (Cello) Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia / Michael Halasz (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Jun/2001 ] Lalo's cello music all together on one disc |
GEORGE ONSLOW
Cello Sonatas Maria Kliegel (cello) & Nina Tichman (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Feb/2013 ] He was famed for his chamber music, and the three Cello Sonatas, Op. 16, completed in 1820, were compared with those of Beethoven |
GABRIEL FAURE
Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 & other works Maria Kliegel (cello) Nina Tichman (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] Fauré's two cello sonatas are compact, beautifully written works whose musical language, with its many subtle changes of tonality and gift for melody, has been described as conveying 'the power of tranquil thought'. Written in the summer of 1917,... |
BEETHOVEN
Complete Works for Cello and Piano Vol. 2: Sonata in E flat major, Op. 64 AEC Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69 and others Maria Kliegel (cello) / Nina Tichman (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2003 ] "Overall, this new Naxos offering holds up very well to the comparison recordings... Kliegel and Tichman do have the advantage of exceptional modern sound, and their disc is highly recommended. Once they have fully traversed Beethoven's music for... |