GALUPPI
Keyboard Sonatas Volume 2 Matteo Napoli (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Venetian composer Baldassare Galuppi's reputation rests principally on his pioneering series of comic operas. But, trained by Antonio Lotti, Galuppi was also a keyboard player of distinction who served at the court of Catherine the Great in St... |
WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Piano Quartet, Violin Sonata, Toccata Matthew Jones, Sarah-Jane Bradley, Tim Lowe, Annabel Thwaite [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] These four works represent all of Sir William Walton's chamber music involving both violin and piano, as well as being a microcosm of his compositional output between 1918 and 1950. They offer a fascinating glimpse of Walton's stylistic journey, from... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
English Music for Viola Matthew Jones (viola) / Michael Hampton (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] "With Michael Hampton the sensitive accompanist, Matthew Jones give consistently fine performances, beautifully recorded." (Gramophone) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet - Suite No. 1, Op. 64a (arr. for viola and piano) Matthew Jones (viola) / Michael Hampton (piano) / Rivka Golani (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] |
HERBERT HOWELLS
Howells: Piano Music, Vol. 2 [Incls Sonatina & Minuet for Ursula] Matthew Schellhorn (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] In the first volume of this series (Naxos 8.571382), Matthew Schellhorn surveyed six decades of Herbert Howells' compositions for the piano. This second volume reprises the journey, tracing the composer's stylistic development. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Four-Hand Piano Music, Vol. 13 (String Sextets) Christian Koehn (piano) Silke-Thora Matthies (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Jan/2005 ] "The playing of Silke-Thora Matthies and Christian Kohn demands admiration. This is another collectable volume from Naxos in their impressive series of Brahms's four hand piano music." MusicWeb |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Four-Hand Piano Music, Vol. 12 (String Sextets) Christian Kohn (piano) Silke-Thora Matthies (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Aug/2004 ] "the German duo of Matthies and Köhn are to be commended for their diligence and musicality in these performances (and the entire Brahms cycle thus far)…The duo plays it with much panache and relish…" The Flying Inkpot |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Four-Hand Piano Music, Vol. 6 - Symphony No. 1 / Triumphlied Christian Kohn (piano) Silke-Thora Matthies (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/2000 ] Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg in 1833, the son of a double-bass player and his much older wife, a seamstress His childhood was spent in relative poverty, and his early studies in music, as a pianist rather than as a string-player, developed his... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Four-Hand Piano Music, Vol. 4 - Serenades Christian Kohn (piano) Silke-Thora Matthies (piano) [ Naxos / CD ] In 1851 Brahms met the émigré Hungarian violinist Reményi, who introduced him to Hungarian dance music that had a later influence on his work. Two years later he set out in his company on his first concert tour, their journey taking them, on the... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Four-Hand Piano Music, Vol. 8 - Symphony No. 4 / Tragic Overture Christian Kohn (piano) Silke-Thora Matthies (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Mar/2003 ] "this reviewer is delighted that the series has been issued in recordings so lovingly played and well-recorded." Scott Morrison |
MAUD POWELL
The Complete Recordings Vol. 3 (1904-1917) Maud Powell (Violin) George Falkenstein (Piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "..showcases this fine player's talents in a variety of smaller compositions, most unexpectedly in a previously-unissued La boheme potpourri - an extremely lifelike recording, expecially given its pre-electric provenance." - Gramophone |
Maud Powell (violin) / George Falkenstein (piano)
The Complete Recordings 1904-17 Vol.2 [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 3/Mar/2002 ] |
Max Barros
Guarnieri: Piano Works Vol 1 [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 2/Jan/2013 ] |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R,): Piano Trios & Works for Piano Quartet Max Mandel (viola) / Amelia Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] These youthful chamber works by Richard Strauss, not widely represented on disc, are filled with sparkling inventiveness and lyricism. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Cello Sonata / Violin Sonata Maxim Fedotov (Violin) / Dmitry Yablonsky (Cello) / Galina Petrova (piano) / Ekaterina Saranceva (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Nov/2006 ] "..the accompanied sonata - those for cello, violin and viola counting among his most significant instrumental creations." |
SCHUBERT
Schubert - Schiller Lieder, Vols. 3 and 4 Maya Boog, soprano / Ulrich Eisenlohr, piano [ Naxos Schubert Leider Edition Vol 18 / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2005 ] 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. Joseph Spaun, whom Schubert had known since his school days, tried his (and Schubert's) luck in a letter to the... |
SCHUBERT
European Poets, Vol. 2 (Includes An Silvia, D 891) Maya Boog (soprano) Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) with Wolf Matthias Friedrich (bass-baritone) [ Naxos Schubert Lieder Edition Vol 14 / 2 CD - released 24/Feb/2004 ] Schubert as a composer of Italian arias? As a setter of gloomy, bloodthirsty Scottish ballads? He was both |
MENDELSSOHN
Complete Works For Violin And Piano Nomos Duo [ Naxos / CD - released 30/May/2009 ] "I cannot imagine how these performances could be bettered." - Joseph Magil, American Record Guide, January/February 2002 |
MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concertos Marat Bisengaliev (violin), Benjamin Frith (piano) / Northern Sinfonia, Andrew Penny [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] "the solo parts so nimbly and sympathetically shared here by Marat Bisengaliev and Naxos's own Mendelssohn devotee, Benjamin Frith. The Northern Sinfonia under Andrew Penny likewise play with all the freshness of a new discovery" (Gramophone) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos 1 and 2 / Capriccio Brillant / Rondo Brillant Benjamin Frith (piano) / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice / Robert Stankovsky [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "Frith is clearly a most capable artist, with a fearsomely accurate set of fingers and a poetic instinct of no mean order" - CD Review |