BERNARD HERRMANN / ALFRED NEWMAN
The Egyptian (complete film score) Moscow Symphony orchestra & Choir / William Stromberg [ Naxos Film Music Classics / CD - released 11/Jan/2008 ] "This beautifully recorded performance, conducted by Willam Stromberg, features 71 minutes of the mysterious, brooding and evocative joint score." --Review by Andy Cooper, The Leader-Post, |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Symphony No. 18 'War - there is no word more cruel' St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Lande, Andrew Balio (trumpet), St Petersburg Chamber Choir [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Apr/2014 ] Mieczysław Weinberg's Eighteenth Symphony is the centrepiece of his symphonic trilogy On the Threshold of War. |
New London Children's Choir
Jewish Voices In The New World [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2004 ] |
RONALD CORP
The Ice Mountain New London Children’s Choir / Members of the New London Orchestra / Ronald Corp [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2011 ] "Corp's transparent, evocative scoring for an ensemble of seven players is one of the opera's greatest strengths. Naxos' sound is clear, well-defined, and nicely balanced, with an immediate presence." (Allmusic.com) |
Noel Edison, choirmaster / Paul Halley, organ / St. John's Choir, Elora
Faire is the Heaven: Hymns and Anthems [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Sep/2004 ] "Given the beautiful singing and the crystal-clear Naxos recording, this is an immensely rewarding disc." -- Marc Rochester, Gramophone, September 2004 |
Novopassky Monastery Choir/Mit
Russian Chant For Vespers [ Naxos / CD ] |
TRADITIONAL
Russian Chant - Divine Liturgy (Sung in Church Slavonic) Novospassky Monastery Choir, Igumen Mitrofan [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2001 ] a number of the most popular Russian religious-composers are represented |
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Penderecki: A Sea of Dreams Did Breathe on Me Olga Pasichnyk, Ewa Marciniec, Jarosław Brek / Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2015 ] Composed for the final concert of the Chopin bicentenary celebrations in Warsaw in 2010, Powiało na mnie morze snów… (A sea of dreams did breathe on me…) is an extended song cycle comparable in scale to the Eighth Symphony. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
An Evening Hymn: Music For Solo Treble Oliver Lepage-Dean (Treble) / The Choir Of St John'S College Cambridge / Christopher Whitton (Organ) / Christopher Robinson (Director & Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "His [Oliver Lepage-Dean] voice is well recorded: firm and even, true in pitch, pure in quality. In two items he sings, as soloist, with the choir: Stanford's G Major Magnificat (the treble's violin concerto) and Mendelssohn's Geistliches Lied... |
REYNALDO HAHN
Hahn: Ciboulette (Complete Operetta recorded in 2013) Opéra Comique, Paris / Julie Fuchs, Jean-François Lapointe, Julien Behr, Eva Ganizate / Accentus Chamber Choir / Laurence Equilbey (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 10/Oct/2021 ] Even if Ciboulette, with its fresh and spruce title, depicts the dawning of sentiments between two young people - the urban aristocrat and the little farm girl - it was written by an experienced and scrupulous composer of almost 50 years of age. |
REYNALDO HAHN
Hahn: Ciboulette (Complete Operetta recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Opéra Comique, Paris / Julie Fuchs, Jean-François Lapointe, Julien Behr, Eva Ganizate / Accentus Chamber Choir / Laurence Equilbey (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 10/Oct/2021 ] Even if Ciboulette, with its fresh and spruce title, depicts the dawning of sentiments between two young people - the urban aristocrat and the little farm girl - it was written by an experienced and scrupulous composer of almost 50 years of age. |
TALLIS / PERGOLESI / MOZART / FRANCK / BACH
Favourite Sacred Masterpieces Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly / Camerata Budapest / Kosice Teachers' Choir [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] |
SANCTUS
Sanctus: Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation Oxford Camerata / Rose Consort of Viols / Slovak Philharmonic Choir / Scholars Baroque Ensemble / etc [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2008 ] Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Kullervo, Op. 7 Johanna Rusanen (soprano), Esa Ruuttunen (baritone) / Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Laulun Ystavat Male Choir, Jorma Panula [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2015 ] "a fine male chorus, and two outstanding vocalists in the most colourful and dramatic Kullervo yet, captured in sound that has plenty of range, depth and clarity" (Fanfare) |
Patriarch Choir/Rybakova
Russian Folk Songs [ Naxos / CD ] |
CLAUDIO SANTORO
Santoro: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 Pedro Bittencourt, Emmanuele Baldini Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra, Goiânia Symphony Choir, Neil Thomson [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Sep/2024 ] The fourth volume in this series explores a pivotal decade in Claudio Santoro's compositions. |
JOHN TAVENER
Lament for Jerusalem Peter Crawford (Counter-tenor) Angharad Gruffydd Jones (Soprano) / Choir of London, Choir of London Orchestra / Jeremy Summerly (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Apr/2006 ] Sir John Tavener describes the Lament for Jerusalem as a mystical love song. The Lament brings together Christian, Judaic, and Islamic texts and is sung in Greek and English. The musical structure is that of a lattice whose proportions are carefully... |
WILLIAM MATHIAS
Mathias: Choral Music Peter Foggitt (piano), Michael Papadopoulos (organ & Piano) & Tom Winpenny (organ) / St Albans Abbey Girls Choir, The Lay Clerks of St Albans [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Sep/2016 ] "This is a fine introduction to Sergei Bortkiewicz's piano music. The playing is impressive, technically assured and quite simply beautiful." MusicWeb |
J.S. BACH
St. Matthew Passion (Highlights) Peter Koves (bass) / Jozsef Mukk (tenor) / Hungarian Festival Choir / Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra / Geza Oberfrank (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2005 ] "Just in time for this year's Carmel Bach Festival comes this 1994 recording, live from Sweden, conducted very much in the Bruno Weil manner by the world's greatest living choral director, Eric Ericson..." |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: St. Nicolas / Christ's Nativity / Psalm 150 Philip Langridge (tenor) BBC Singers / Tallis Chamber Choir / English Chamber Orchestra / Steuart Bedford [ Naxos English Choral Music / CD - released 1/Jul/2004 ] "Intensely committed performances. Naxos's couplings offer a student setting for unaccompanied choirs of Christmas texts and a sixties setting of Psalm 150 in a delightfully exuberant performance." -- Mathew Rye, BBC Music Magazine |