WILLIAM McCLELLAND
McClelland: Where the Shadows Glides - Songs, Solo Piano and Choral Works Krista River (mezzo) Thomas Meglioranza (baritone) Donald Berman,Blair McMillen (piano) David Enlow (organ) / The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harols Ro [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] Internationally acclaimed composer William McClelland has written a wide variety of music in many styles and forms, but the works in this program have all been inspired by poetry. The choral works evoke the atmosphere of time and place in settings of... |
SCHUMANN
Kreisleriana / Waldszenen / Blumenstuck Paul Gulda (Piano) [ NAXOS / CD ] |
ALEXANDER ARUTIUNIAN / MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG / DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH
Arutiunian/Weinberg/Shostakovich: Trumpet Concertos Paul Merkelo (trumpet) / Russian National Orchestra, Hans Graf, with Jae-Hyuck Cho (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] The trumpet has had many concertos written for it by composers from the Soviet era and beyond. Appealing in its unabashed melodies and colourfully nostalgic feel, Arutiunian's Trumpet Concerto became popular in the West... |
THOMAS 'FATS' WALLER
Sixteen Great Piano Solos (1929-1941) Paul Posnak (pianist and transcriber) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jan/2008 ] Paul Posnak's international career as pianist, recording artist, transcriber and sought-after teacher began with a full scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music. |
CHARLES WAKEFIELD CADMAN
Cadman: Piano Trio in D major / Quintet for Piano & Strings / etc Paul Posnak (piano) Peter Zazofsky (violin) / Bergonzi String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Apr/2002 ] "Naxos's apparently indefatigable 'American Classics' project has turned up yet another minor but not uninteresting figure. The American performers, led by the excellent pianist Paul Posnak, do their best with Cadman's thick textures and sprawling... |
JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER
Carpenter - Chamber Music Paul Posnak, piano / Vega String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 12/Jan/2003 ] "The Naxos recording is forthright, resonant and startlingly well up to the impressively big movement of the 1912 Sonata. Carpenter, who on the basis of this movement alone should be a great name, proves capable of building a beautifully judged... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Folk Songs Paula Sophie Bohnet (soprano) Daniel Johannsen (tenor) Georg Klimbacher (baritone) Bernadette Bartos (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jul/2020 ] "I have a feeling that these folk song arrangements are fairly little known, but they are definitely worth investigating. All in all a wholly delightful programme, excellently performed." MusicWeb Recommended July 2020 |
BLASCO DE NEBRA
Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 2 Pedro Casals (piano) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] Pedro Casals, an expert on Manuel Blasco de Nebra, continues his fascinating survey of the Spanish composer's keyboard sonatas. This, the second in a three-disc series, comprises the final seven sonatas preserved in manuscript in the Montserrat... |
BLASCO DE NEBRA
Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 3 Pedro Casals (piano) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] Acclaimed as 'a most nimble and clean fingered soloist', Pedro Casals is an ideal interpreter of Manuel Blasco de Nebra's delightful keyboard music. On this third and final volume, he performs four two-movement sonatas using the first published... |
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrations compiled by L. Slatkin) [with Liszt-Piano Concerto no 1] Peng Peng (piano) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] An increasing number of recordings now feature orchestrations of Mussorgsky's Pictures other than Ravel's popular warhorse. Leonard Slatkin's eclectic selection, some more outlandish than others, invites us to bask in the high spirits and ingenuity... |
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Stockhausen: Mantra (1970) Pestova/Meyer Piano Duo and Jan Panis (electronics) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] "In this, the first recording of the work for 13 years, the trio creates a mesmerising trip, in every sense of the word, for dual pianos with electronic modification." (William Dart NZ Herald) |
John CAGE
Works for Two Keyboards, Vol. 2 Pestova/Meyer Piano Duo: Xenia Pestova (piano) & Pascal Meyer (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 28/Apr/2014 ] John Cage's practicality transformed the piano into a full percussion orchestra and a workbench for sonic experiment. Three Dances is one of his most ambitious works for prepared piano, often involving spectacular virtuosity and exciting wildness of... |
John CAGE
Works for Two Keyboards, Vol. 1 Pestova/Meyer Piano Duo / Xenia Pestova (prepared piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2013 ] John Cage's remarkable magnum opus A Book of Music for two prepared pianos is brought together here with his complete works for toy piano. Intricately structured according to Cage's ideas about Mozart, A Book of Music is an eloquent and virtuoso... |
PETER BREINER
Breiner: Mornings, evenings and late nights - Calm Romantic Piano Music • 3 Peter Breiner (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] Peter Breiner is one of the world's most recorded musicians with over 200 releases and more than two million albums sold, of which his Beatles Go Baroque (8.555010) alone reached sales of a quarter of a million copies. |
PETER BREINER
Breiner: Caressing Your Soul - Calm Romantic Piano Music Peter Breiner (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2020 ] Peter Breiner is one of the world's most recorded musicians, with acclaimed releases such as Beatles Go Baroque (Naxos 8.555010), accounting for millions of albums sold. An exceptional composer/ arranger and an accomplished pianist, Breiner is... |
ANTONIN DVORK
Dvorak: Greatest Melodies Peter Breiner (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2022 ] Antonín DvoĆák's gift for melody was apparent as soon as he began writing music, and this naturally tuneful inspiration has long captured the imagination of arrangers. An expert in arranging for both orchestra and piano, Peter Breiner has selected 33... |
Peter Breiner (piano)
A Journey: Calm Romantic Piano Music, Vol. 2 [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2021 ] Slovak-born Peter Breiner is one of the world's most versatile musicians. He is an acclaimed pianist, arranger and conductor with compositions that are universally admired, and whose Beatles Go Baroque album (8.555010) has to date sold a quarter of a... |
PETER DICKINSON
Piano Music Peter Dickinson (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] Dickinson has been hailed by Gramophone as 'a composer who has escaped the confines of the predictable without ever ceasing to communicate'. |
PETER DICKINSON
Mass of the Apocalypse / Larkin's Jazz / Five Forgeries / Five Early Piano Pieces Peter Dickson (piano) / John Flinders (piano) / Nash Ensemble / Various Artists / Lionel Friend (conductor) / Ivor Bolton (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Dec/2009 ] Peter Dickinson weaves together musical styles popular and classical, past and present.... |
TIPPETT
Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 Peter Donohoe (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2005 ] "For those fans of Tippett who are unfamiliar with his sonatas, this disc fits in perfectly with Naxos’s wonderful record of presenting rarely heard works that are sensitively recorded and ably played. Donohoe’s performances have conviction and... |