FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Piano Music, Vol. 3 Olivier Cazal (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Jan/2000 ] Francis Poulenc was born on 7th January 1899 in Paris into a well-to-do family of pharmaceutical manufacturers. His childhood passion, as he once wrote, was playing the piano, encouraged by the present of a child's piano when he was two. His mother... |
REINECKE
Music For Clarinet Olivier Dartevelle (Clarinet) / Jean Schils (Piano) / Pierre Henri Xuereb (Viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] Listening to Reinecke's compositions, one is immediately reminded of Schumann, with whom he was friendly, and of Brahms, who exercised a strong influence on him. |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Violin Sonata / Piano Trio / New Transcriptions Opus Two (violin piano duo) with Charles Bernard (cello) & Marin Mazzie (soprano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Jan/2011 ] "A worthy purchase for all fans of Bernstein and of mid-20th century American chamber music." (MusicWeb Feb 2011) |
Orchestre Colonne/Dervaux
El-Khoury: Piano Concerto [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2007 ] |
KENNETH FUCHS
Fuchs: String Quartet No. 5, 'American', Falling Canons & Falling Trio Delray String Quartet / Christopher O'Riley (piano) / Trio21 [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] Kenneth Fuchs is one of America's leading composers and his music is performed worldwide. String Quartet No. 5 is an exciting, large-scale work that explores the contrapuntal possibilities of a single 'American' theme. |
BRUNO MADERNA
Maderna: Piano Concertos & Quadrivium Aldo Orvieto (piano) & Fausto Bongelli (piano II) / Gruppo 40.6 & Ochestra della Fondazione 'Arena di Verona', Carlo Miotto [ Naxos / CD - released 21/Nov/2011 ] "Quadrivium, for four percussionists and orchestra from 1969, is one of Maderna's best pieces, and it dominates this disc...But it's the vivid performance of Quadrivium conducted by Caerlo Miotto, that provides the reason for hearing this disc" Guard |
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
Zemlinsky: Chamber Works (Incls cello sonata) Othmar Muller (cello) Ernst Ottensamer (clarinet) Christopher Hinterhuber (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] "This new recording of a selection of early chamber works by Zemlinsky is marked out by the stunning quality of the playing. This is remarkably accomplished. The recording is excellent, and altogether the quality of sound is first rate." (MusicWeb... |
FRANZ LISZT
Schubert/Liszt - Song Transcriptions, Vol. 1 Oxana Qablonskaya (piano) [ Naxos Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 5 / CD - released 28/Sep/2007 ] "A selection of 14 popular transcriptions of Schubert's Lieder in Vol 5 sees leisurely readings by Russian Oxana Yablonskaya. The familiar Serenade runs over seven minutes as does The Miller and The Brook and Die Schone Mullerin. She whips up a... |
KHACHATURIAN
Piano Concerto / Concert Rhapsody Oxana Yablonskaya (Piano) / Moscow Symphony Orchestra Dmitry Yablonsky, Conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] "Oxana Yablonskaya on Naxos is a remarkable virtuoso" |
LEONARDO BALADA
Piano Music Pablo Amorós (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] Preludis Obstinants, commissioned and premièred by the great pianist Alicia de Larrocha, was described as 'a bold five-part piece of thunder... each section suggesting how much the instrument can shape creative imagination.' (The Philadelphia Inquirer) |
VARIOUS
Pablo Casals - Encores and Transcriptions, Vol. 4 (1916-1920) Pablo Casals, cello / Charles Albert Baker, piano / Walter Golde, piano [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 29/May/2005 ] |
VARIOUS
Encores and Transcriptions, Vol. 2 (Rec 1927-1930) Pablo Casals (cello) with Nicolai Mednikoff, piano, Blas Net, piano, Otto Schulhoff, piano. London Symphony Orchestra / Pablo Casals, conductor [ Naxos Great Cellists / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "As before his novel and revolutionary vibrato usage comes under close scrutiny and that vocalized legato which he occasionally spun out with such daring elasticity demonstrate why he was the premier cellist of his generation...Collectors need not... |
Paley/Lithuanian State S.O
Silver: Piano Concerto [ Naxos / CD - released 5/May/2003 ] |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Liszt Imagination - Mephisto Waltzes / Bagatelle ohne Tonart (arr. A. Parfenov for violin and piano) Parfenov Duo [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] André Parfenov presents the Mephistopheles cycle as an overall picture of human life-from birth to death. This does not result in transcriptions, but real, artistic, compositional works. |
DAVID LAMPEL
Lampel: Chamber Music - String Quartet / String Sextet / Piano Sonata / Violin Sonata / Prelude and Chaconne "Hommage a Bach" Parisii Quartet / Uppsala Chamber Soloists [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2009 ] Each of the works on this disc embodies Swedish composer David Lampel's paradoxical idea that 'music can be heard before it starts, and continues after the last note'. All are performed by the musicians for whom they were composed or to whom they... |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol 25 Pascal Pascaleff (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2020 ] Scarlatti's single-movement sonatas or exercises are his greatest musical legacy. Largely designed for the Infanta, who became Queen of Spain in 1746, the music exists in a number of 18th-century manuscripts, some possibly bequeathed to the great... |
POULENC / MESSIAEN / BOULEZ / SANCAN / DUTILLEUX
Flute Sonata / Le Merle Noir / Sonatine Patrick Gallois (flute) / Lydia Wong (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2005 ] "Much to enjoy here and very nearly an unqualified recommendation. This disc is not only for flautists, but should provide much enjoyment and stimulation for all. Just don't turn the disc off after the Dutilleux!" -- Colin Clarke, MusicWeb, 29... |
W. A. MOZART
Violin Sonatas (arranged for flute and piano) Patrick Gallois (flute) & Maria Prinz (piano) [ NAXOS / CD - released 13/Feb/2013 ] The sonatas performed on this disc were written much later for violin but, using that earlier precedent, have been transcribed for fl ute by one of the world's greatest exponents of the instrument, Patrick Gallois. |
TABAKOV
Concerto for Two Pianos / Piano Concerto Patrick Gallois (flute) / Philippe Bernold (flute) / Jean-Philippe Collard (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] "Performances by top-rank soloists nicely supported by a very responsive composer-conducted orchestra … all very fine, and well recorded" (MusicWeb May 2007) |
CHEN YI / N, CURRIER / S. CURRIER / GEORGE TSONTAKIS
Digital Mist: Works for Violin and Piano Patrick Yim (violin) Kiu Tung Poon (piano) Sebastian Currier (pre-recorded sound samples) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2022 ] This album offers a survey of American music composed for violin and piano from 1980 to 2010 through the lens of masterpieces by four American composers who have been distinguished by the highest honors of their profession. |