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JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Flute Sonatas (Complete) Lise Daoust (flute), Elizabeth Dolin (cello), Carmen Picard (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2010 ] "The performers, all Canadians, are technically top drawer and altogether committed to playing the music for all it is worth." (Fanfare) |
ROBERT FUCHS
Fuchs: Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3 Hyejin Chung (violin), Warren Lee (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Not only was Robert Fuchs an admired friend of Brahms but he nurtured a prodigious number of pupils, among whom were Enescu, Korngold, Mahler, Wolf, and Sibelius who called Fuchs a clever orchestrator, professional to his fingertips, and very happy... |
MUZIO CLEMENTI
Clementi: Keyboard Sonatas (from Op. 1, 10 & 12) HyeJin Kim (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] A native of Rome, Muzio Clementi was 'discovered' by the wealthy Beckford family of Dorset in England, where the foundations for a distinguished international professional career as a composer and performer were laid. Clementi's legacy to pianists... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 1 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "An extraordinary number of pianists have recorded these Sonatas. Rather than comparing the present discs with them, I had rather simply welcome them as the work of a deeply serious musician of obvious technical mastery and understanding of the music |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 4 Idil Biret (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, James Loughran [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "Saint-Saens' plano concertos require brilliance and panache and Idil Biret has those qualities ... Good support from the Philharmonia and James Loughran." - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY - 23 Sept 90 |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1998 ] In 1891 Rachmaninov completed his piano studies at the Conservatory and the composition of his first piano concerto. The following year he graduated from the composition class and composed the notorious Prelude in C sharp minor, a piece that was to... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Schumann-Introduction and Concert-Allegro) Idil Biret, Jeno Jando (pianos) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Antoni Wit (conductor) [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "Jeno Jando and his Polish colleagues strike me as getting the balance just about right" - Classic CD |
SERGEI RACHMANIMOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 4 / Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini Idil Biret (piano) / Polish National Radio Symphony, Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2012 ] "...for Biret's incisive, sharply accented pianism is an absolute delight. Naxos' price makes this disc well worth investigating." ClassicsToday |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Igor Levit (piano), Xiaohan Wang (piano) / Kolner Kammerorchester, Helmut Muller-Bruhl [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Feb/2021 ] Igor Levit made his recording debut with a performance of Beethoven's First Piano Concerto when he was 20 years old, long before he became a superstar of the classical music world and a major interpreter of Beethoven's music. The occasion was part of... |
VALENTIN SILVESTROV
Silvestrov: Ode to a Nightingale / Piano Concertino / Symphony No. 7 Inna Galatenko, Oleg Bezborodko, Marija Grikevičiūtė / Lithuanian National Symphony, Christopher Lyndon-Gee [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Aug/2020 ] Valentin Silvestrov's elusive post-modern style is rich in nostalgia for the lost music of a barely remembered past filled with beauty and spiritual aspiration. |
SERGEY IVANOVICH TANEYEV
Taneyev: Violin Sonata / Piano Music Ivan Peshkov (violin) Olga Solovieva (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] "Peshkov's playing is polished and refined but he doesn't stint the fire when it's called for. Peshkov to the list. His playing is polished and refined but he doesn't stint the fire when it's called for." (MusicWeb Feb 2010) |
EDWARD MacDOWELL
MacDowell: Piano Music Vol. 1 James Barbagallo (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 5/Mar/2009 ] "[John Barbagallo] obviously cares for this music and provides scintillating readings. The Marco Polo sound is near perfect." - Fanfare |
ARTHUR FOOTE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Foote: Piano Quintet / String Quartets James Barbagallo (piano) Da Vinci Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 28/Jun/2020 ] Foote received his first music lessons at the age of fourteen, eventually studying harmony with Stephen A. Emery at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: The Rose - Songs 3 Jana Wallingerová (mezzo-soprano) Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] This recording focuses on three of Martinů's song-cycles, and a selection of individual songs from an early period in his life that sheds fascinating light on his enthusiasm for song composition. |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Sonatas (Vol 5) Nos. 48 - 52 Jeno Jando (piano) [ Naxos / CD ] "This latest volume in Jeno Jando's complete edition presents these pieces in a compelling, modern-instrument version" Gramophone |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Perfect Piano: Best loved classical piano music Jenö Jandó, Idil Biret, Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, François-Joël Thiollier, Benjamin Frith, Boris Giltburg [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] For those who are new to an instrument, the first question is often: where to start? The 'Best Loved' series offers an easy answer to that question and a perfect introduction to the wonderful, varied world of classical music. Spotlighting individual... |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Symphonies Nos 1 'Jeremiah' & 2 'The Age of Anxiety' Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano) Jean-Yves Thibaudet, (piano) / Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 17/Dec/2016 ] "It's great to see this music being played with such conviction. I don't think that Bernstein could have done better...the engineering is also rock solid and brilliant by turns. A marvelous release by any standard." ClassicsToday 10/10 Jan 2017 |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Jennifer Pike (violin), Sina Kloke (piano) / Chamber Orchestra of New York, Salvatore Di Vittorio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] Vaughan Williams withdrew or destroyed many works from his earliest period, but he considered The Solent, with its haunting opening and luminous polyphonic textures, as among his 'most important works'. The Fantasia is his earliest known piece for... |
