ISAAC ALBENIZ
Albeniz: Piano Music Volume 9 Miguel Ángel R. Laiz (piano) Santiago L. Sacristán (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Twenty-five years ago, Guillermo González, a great exponent of Spanish music, inaugurated an ambitious project to record all of Isaac Albéniz's piano music. |
ALLA PAVLOVA
Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 Mikhail Adamovich (piano) / Valery Brill (cello) / Leonid Lebedev (flute) / Russian Philharmonia Orchestra / Alexander Vedernikov [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] "Pavlova paints delicately with the unconventional ensemble, creating a sound-world simultaneously precise but also somehow suspended in dream." (BBC Music) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Russian Songs Mikhail Svetlov (bass) / Pavlina Dokovska (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] Russian bass Mikhail Svetlov is a winner of the Viotti International Competition and has been principal soloist of the legendary Bolshoy Theatre of Moscow for more than a decade. |
Milana Chernyavska, piano / Nicolas Koeckert, violin
Russian and Slavonic Miniatures [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Sep/2005 ] |
Miquel Villalba
Blancafort: Piano Mus Vol.1 [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jun/2003 ] |
Miquel Villalba
Blancafort: Piano Music 2 [ Naxos / CD - released 3/May/2004 ] |
Miquel Villalba
Blancafort: Piano Music 3 [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2005 ] |
BLANCAFORT
Blancafort - Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3 Miquel Villalba, piano [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 19/Sep/2005 ] |
BLOCH
Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 / Suite Hebraique Miriam Kraemer (violin), Simon Over (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Apr/2010 ] "Happily, the playing of Miriam Kramer quickly reveals itself to be the result of a careful assimilation of the structure of each piece, judging with skill its relative proportions of action and reflection. Naxos's recording is detailed and... |
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
Szymanowski: Violin Sonata / Mythes / Notturne and Tarantella Miriam Kramer (violin) / Nicholas Durcan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Apr/2007 ] Composed in 1904, the emotionally turbulent Violin Sonata is one of several large-scale instrumental works that emerged during Szymanowski's first phase, in which the influences of Chopin and Scriabin are combined with those of the German late-Romantics. |
ELLINGTON / EMERSON / GERSHWIN / SEDAKA
Manhattan Intermezzo Jeffrey Biegel (piano) / Brown University Orchestra, Paul Phillips [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] This programme brings together four works for piano and orchestra by composers best known from the fields of jazz, popular song and progressive rock |
BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana - String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 Tatjana Franova (piano) & Takako Nishizaki (violin) Moyzes Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/1999 ] "The playing here is vigorous, idiomatic and committed." Northern Echo |
BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana: String Quartets Nos.1 and 2 Moyzes Quartet, with Tatjana Franova (piano) Takako Nishizaki (violin) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2005 ] "The playing here is vigorous, idiomatic and committed" - Northern Echo (UK) |
EDWARD GREGSON
Gregson: Piano Solo Music (complete) Murray McLachlan, with Edward Gregson & Rose McLachlan [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Murray McLachlan says of Edward Gregson's piano music that 'he knows the importance of restraint and control; nothing is overly stated, repeated or extended. Concentration and craftsmanship permeate every bar that the composer has penned.' |
CIURLIONIS
Piano Music Volume 1 Muza Rubackytò (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2011 ] Muza Rubackytò's recordings of Ciurlionis have been described as 'flawless' (American Record Guide). |
CIURLIONIS
Piano music vol. 2: Preludes / 3 Autumn Pieces on a Theme Muza Rubackyte (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis' earlier works inhabit a romantic idiom, with the colorful influences of folk-music and the beauty of the countryside intermingled with pieces showing his development while at the Conservatoires of Warsaw and Leipzig. |
LEOPOLD GODOWSKY
Godowsky: Music for Violin and Piano Nazrin Rashidova (violin) & Roderick Chadwick (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Jul/2013 ] "Godowsky's music is light and enjoyable...Azerbaijani violinist Nazrin Rashidova and Roderick Chadwick capture the moods of these pieces perfectly and are technically very adroit." American Record Guide |
ROREM / HOVHANESS / QUATE / CRESTON
American Saxophone Music Neil Hornsby (Guitar) / Jeremy Limb (Piano) / Alex Mitchell (Saxophones) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 14/Sep/2006 ] Although it was the brainchild of a Belgian inventor, Adolphe Sax, the saxophone is commonly thought of as the quintessential American instrument, not least for the pivotal rôle it has played in jazz during key stages of the music's evolution. |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Piano Quintet / Six Studies in English Folksong / etc London Soloists Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Apr/2014 ] "They are lovely - romantic, melodious, wistful, beautifully crafted - even though they sound more like Elgar or Brahms than VW, with scarcely a modal harmony in an hour of music. Gently beguiling performances from top-notch players." The Times |
Nellie Melba, soprano, with Harold Craxton, piano & Landon Ronald, piano
Nellie Melba: London and Middlesex Recordings (1921-1926) [ Naxos Great Singers / CD - released 2/Jul/2004 ] The Complete Gramophone Company Recordings, Vol. 4 |