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JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Piano Music (Incls 'Finlandia', 'three Lyric Pieces' & 'six Impromptus' Risto Lauriala (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "Risto Lauriala is the pianist entrusted with the job and he is excellent. Overall, an interesting by-way, worth exploring." - Classic CD - September 1996 |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos. 12, 13 & 14 (versions for Piano and String Quartet) Robert Blocker (piano) / Biava Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] The youthful Biava Quartet are the winners of the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and top prizes at the Premio Borciani and London International Competitions. |
CHARLES IVES
Songs, Vol. 4 Robert Gardner (baritone) Patrick Carfizzi (bass) Ian Howell (counter tenor) Sumi Kittelberger (soprano) Leah Wool (mezzo) Douglas Dickson (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] When, in 1922, Charles Ives published a volume entitled 114 Songs, he was indirectly drawing attention to the fact that the genre had played a central part in his output. 85 years on and, for all that his wider reputation rests on his orchestral,... |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Songs, Vol. 5 Robert Gardner (baritone) Patrick Carfizzi (bass) Ian Howell (counter tenor) Sumi Kittelberger (soprano) Leah Wool (mezzo) Douglas Dickson (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "These songs, with all their quirks and flights of fantasy, [are] among the most important of the 20th century in any language." The Guardian |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Songs, Vol. 6 Robert Gardner (baritone) Patrick Carfizzi (bass) Ian Howell (counter tenor) Sumi Kittelberger (soprano) Leah Wool (mezzo) Douglas Dickson (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "The final volume of Naxos's complete songs of Charles Ives offers the same virtues as its predecessors: assured performances from gifted young singers and pianists accompanied by pithy, informative notes from Richard Whitehouse." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
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EUGENE GOOSSENS
Complete music for violin and piano Robert Gibbs (violin) Gusztav Fenyo (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] |
HELPS / GODOWSKY / IRELAND / MENDELSSOHN / POULENC
Robert Helps in Berlin: Chamber Music with Piano Robert Helps (piano) / Spectrum Concerts Berlin / Atos Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] This recording is an exploration of Robert Helps's 'subtle sound world' (ClassicsToday.com on Naxos 8559199), and his shared history with Spectrum Concerts Berlin. |
MARTINU
La Revue de Cuisine (complete ballet) / Harpsichord Concerto / etc Robert Hill (harpsichord) / Holst-Sinfonietta, Klaus Simon (piano, conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2012 ] Ranging from 1927 to 1959, the year of Martinů's death, these four works reveal his unceasing versatility in chamber repertoire. La revue de cuisine, heard here in a recent reconstruction of the original complete score, is a supreme example of... |
GERALD FINZI
A Finzi Anthology Robert Plane (clarinet), Tim Hugh (cello), Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano), James Gilchrist (tenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor) [ Naxos / 8 CD - released 9/Sep/2016 ] More than any other composer, Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) has come to embody the lyrical pastoralism so associated with English twentieth-century music. This anthology includes eight critically acclaimed recordings of Finzi's works. The themes of... |
CARL CZERNY
Czerny: Nocturnes Roberte Mamou (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Czerny is remembered as Beethoven's favoured interpreter of his own piano works and is well known as Liszt's teacher, but it is for his pedagogic works, still in use to this day, that he continues to enjoy renown. The Nocturnes offer a less familiar... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 39 Roberto Cappello (piano) / Coro Luca Marenzio, Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Busoni's monumental Piano Concerto was completed in 1904 and remains the longest piano concerto to have been heard in public. He thought of the work as his 'Italian Symphony' but this Concerto for piano, orchestra and male chorus is an unclassifiable... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Sonatas for Viola and Piano Roberto Diaz (viola) / Jeremy Denk (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/May/2010 ] "A fabulous recording, even if you already have a favorite." American Record Guide |
Roberto Diaz, viola / Robert Koenig, piano
Vieuxtemps-Music for Viola and Piano (Includes Sonata in B Flat Op 36; Elegie for Viola and Piano Op 30) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2002 ] "These are excellent performances, and attractive works." MusicWeb Sept 2002 |
BEETHOVEN / WAGNER / BORODIN / PAGANINI
Viola Transcriptions Roberto Diaz (Viola) / Robert Koenig (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jul/2006 ] Primrose made transcriptions for his own use to fill some vacancies (charmeurs he called them) in the viola repertoire of his day, and to display his prodigious technique. Unlike string colleagues he greatly admired, Fritz Kreisler and Jascha... |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: I Said to Love / Let Us Garlands Bring / Before and After Summer Roderick Williams (baritone) Iain Burnside (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 12 / CD - released 14/Jun/2005 ] "A lovely rich, velvety tone, gorgeous in the lower register, great sensitivity to both text and music, enunciation excellent, and good pacing. Strongly recommended ... " (MusicWeb July 2005) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, Op. 74 / Tit for Tat / Folk Songs Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 22 / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] "Williams finds an ideal emotional stance - involved, totally word-conscious but never melodramatic...as a recorded recital, Williams - and Burnside, who is similarly colourful, have created an outstanding achievement." (Gramophone Award Nomination... |
GEORGE BUTTERWORTH
Butterworth: Songs from A Shropshire Lad / Folk Songs from Sussex (English Song, Vol. 20) Roderick Williams (baritone) / Iain Burnside (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "Williams's engagingly fresh delivery, secure technique, eloquent turn of phrase and variety of tone are a joy throughout, as is his crystal-clear diction. Burnside, too, is at his customarily unmannered, attentive best, the crispness and poise of... |
JOHN IRELAND
Songs (Incls 'Five Poems by Thomas Hardy') Roderick Williams (Baritone) / Iain Burnside (Piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 18 / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] "Roderick Williams is such a good singer he can make the voice part sound vocal and natural in a way not many have succeeded in doing. …the pianist, Iain Burnside, plays with a sureness of touch to match the highly skilled naturalness of Williams's... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel / The House of Life / etc Roderick Williams (Baritone) / Iain Burnside (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Apr/2006 ] The early songs of Vaughan Williams reflect the contemporary interest in a form to which Parry and Stanford had given much encouragement. |
MUZIO CLEMENTI
Clementi: Piano Jewels - Capriccios / Toccata / La chasse Rodolfo Leone (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Jan/2022 ] Clementi's influence on pianists has proved enduring, whether through his compositions, books of instruction, or the introduction of new levels of virtuosity on the pianoforte. This album explores a selection of works that have never been recorded. |
