WILLIAM WALLACE
Maritana (Complete Opera recorded in 1995) Majella Cullagh / Lunda Lee / Paul Charles Clarke / Rte Philharmonic Choir / Rte Concert Orchestra / Proinnsias O Duinn [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 20/Dec/2011 ] "[the cast] all sing with total dedication and conviction. It isn't at all difficult to understand Maritana's popularity, nor with the ensuing snobbery of the twentieth century, why it fell out of favour." (Gramophone) |
PARRY
Choral Masterpieces - Songs of Farewell / I Was Glad / Jerusalem Manchester Cathedral Choir / Christopher Stokes [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] "Christopher Stokes and his 25-voice Manchester Cathedral Choir (15 boy-and-girl trebles joined with 10 altos, tenors, and basses), along with organist Jeffrey Makinson and the Naxos production team, give lovers of this music the spacious cathedral... |
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 |
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN
Sullivan: Incidental Music to Macbeth, King Arthur & The Merry Wives of Windsor Margaret MacDonald (mezzo) / RTÉ Chamber Choir, RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Andrew Penny [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Arthur Sullivan is best remembered today for his Savoy Operas with W.S. Gilbert, but during his lifetime Sullivan was also famed for his church, concert hall and stage works. These three sets of incidental music show his versatility in the genre. |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Sigismondo (complete opera) Margarita Gritskova, Maria Aleida, Paula Sánchez-Valverde, César Arrieta / Camerata Bach Choir Poznań, Virtuosi Brunensis, Antonino Fogliani [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] "To modern ears, Sigismondo sounds fresh - as if it's a brand new offering by one of opera's all-time greats. An emphasis on madness and guilt and coloratura expressions of inner feeling results in a fascinating meeting of convention with experiment" |
ROSSINI
L'Italiana in Algeri [The Italian Girl in Algiers] (complete opera) Mariana Pizzolato / Lorenzo Regazzo / Lawrence Brownlee / Bruno de Simone / Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir / Virtuosi Brunensis / Alberto Zedda [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Using the critical edition by Azio Corghi, this recording of L'Italiana in Algeri was made at a jubilee performance of the XXth Rossini in Wildbad Festival in 2008. For his tenth opera, the already celebrated 21-year-old Rossini wanted 'a humorous... |
ROSSINI
La Donna Del Lago (complete opera recorded in 2006) Mariana Pizzolato / Sonia Ganassi / Maxim Mironov / Prague Chamber Choir / SWR Radio Orchestra / Alberto Zedda [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] "Maxim Mironov is memorable as the King and there are equally compelling performances by Sonia Ganassi, Marianna Pizzolato and Ferdinand von Bothmer." (Gramophone) |
J.S. BACH / HOFFMANN / TELEMANN
Alto and Tenor Cantatas, BWV 35, 55, 160, 189 Marianne Beate Kielland (Mezzo-soprano) / Markus Schafer (Tenor) / Cologne Bach Choir / Cologne Chamber Orchestra / Helmut Muller-Bruhl (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] "Throughout the programme the musical direction from Helmut Muller-Bruhl is sensitive to the nature of the music" (MusicWeb Sept 2006) |
JOHANN SIMON MAYR
Mayr: Saffo (complete opera) Markus Schäfer, Andrea Lauren Brown / Concerto de Bassus, Simon Mayr Choir, Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper, Franz Hauk [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] No one did more to combine in his operas the innovations of the Viennese classical composers, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, with the Italian ideal of bel canto than Johann Simon Mayr, the Bavarian composer who rose to fame in Italy. |
IGOR MARKEVITCH
Orchestral Works Vol. 1: Partita / Le paradis perdu Martijn van den Hoek (piano) Lucy Shelton (soprano) Sarah Walker (mezzo) / Netherlands Concert Choir / Arnhem Philharmonic / Christopher Lyndon-Gee [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] This first volume of the Naxos Igor Markevitch Complete Orchestral Works Edition, to be followed by the seven volumes previously released on Marco Polo, brings together two relatively early compositions of astonishing technical and æsthetic... |
Mati/Moravian Teachers Choir
Jan?Cek: Male Voice Choruses [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2001 ] |
HOWELLS / HUBERT PARRY / EDISON / GOSS
Psalms For The Spirit Matthew Larkin (Organ) / St John's Choir Elora / Noel Edison (Director) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] Psalms have always played a central part in Christian, as in Jewish worship. With the shift of emphasis in worship in England after the Protestant Reformation, Psalms, in one form or another, metrical or unmetrical, assumed even greater importance. |
ATKINS, I / COOPER, G / CROTCH / CUTLER, E / ECCARD / HALLEY / HANFORTH / HARVEY, J / MACMILLAN / PAULUS / POULENC / ROSE, B / STAINER / STANFORD
Psalms and Motets for Reflection Michael Bloss (organ), Choir of St John’s, Elora, Noel Edison [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Mar/2013 ] This release, builds not only on centuries of ecclesiastical tradition: superb recordings under the directorship of Noel Edison have also become something of a fixture and highlight of our choral catalogue. This beautifully balanced new programme... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Requiem Mass (Grande Messe des Morts, Op.5 ) Michael Schade, tenor ; Elora Festival Orchestra ; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir / Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir ; Noel Edison, conductor [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 4/Feb/2003 ] "I'm drawn to Maestro Edison and crew because theirs is, first and foremost, a choral performance." - American Record Guide (Philip Greenfield), July-August, 2000 |
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Penderecki: Symphony No 8 Michaela Kaune (sop) Agnieszka Rehlis (mezzo) Wojtek Drabowicz (bar) / Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir & Orchetsra / Antoni Wit, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2008 ] "…The recording quality on this disc is first class…Tenor Minkiewicz easily negotiates his tricky lines in the Dies irae, and hits the right level of hysteria. All the soloists are excellent, and the Warsaw National Philharmonic under Wit provides... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Matilde di Shabran (Original version of the opera) Sara Blanch, Michele Angelini, Gianluca Ascheri, Lamia Beuque, Emmanuel Franco / Górecki Chamber Choir, Passionart Orchestra, José Miguel Pérez-Sierra [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 4/Dec/2020 ] This 2019 Rossini in Wildbad production is unique in being the world premiere recording of the score's original 1821 Rome version. |
MIKHAIL ALEXEEVICH KUZMIN
Sacred Songs Mila Shkirtil (mezzo) / Karelia State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Petrozavodsk State University Male Choir, Yuri Serov [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] The great twentieth-century Russian poet, Mikhail Alexeevich Kuzmin, was for much of his early life also passionately devoted to composition. Masterpieces of the vocal miniature, his Sacred Songs for voice and orchestra are settings of his own words... |
BEHZAD ABDI
Abdi: Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle (Complete opera) Mohammad Motamedi, Hossein Alishapour, Babak Sabouri, Eshaq Anvar / Credo Chamber Choir, Ukraine National Symphony, Vladimir Sirenko [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 13/Aug/2021 ] The music of Iranian composer Behzad Abdi fuses dastgāh (the Iranian modal system) with Western classical forms. He wrote Iran's first national opera, Rumi, and Hafez also exemplifies his approach to the medium. |
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (Complete Opera recorded in June 2009) Opéra Comique, Paris / Anna Caterina Antonacci, Andrew Richards, Nicolas Cavallier, Monteverdi Choir / John Eliot Gardiner (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 14/May/2021 ] On 3 June 1975, the day after the 33rd performance of Carmen - indicating limited success as the receipts were meagre - he died from a heart attack, at the age of 36, like Mozart. |
JANACEK
Choruses for Male Voices Moravian Teachers Choir / Lubomir Mati [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2001 ] Choral music based on Czech and Moravian folksongs |