GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti - Double Concerto / Flute Concertino / Clarinet Concertino Budapest Camerata / Laszlo Kovacs (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Dec/2004 ] Gaetano Donizetti, while generally known only as a composer of operas, was in fact responsible for the composition of a great many other works, totalling 611 in all. Instrumental works make up a relatively small proportion of these and are apparently... |
ZOLTAN KODALY
Kodály: Concerto for Orchestra / Dances of Galanta / etc Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Dec/2017 ] Zoltán Kodály, like his compatriot Béla Bartók, wrote major orchestral scores that were deeply enriched by his research into Hungarian folk music. The Dances of Galánta are full of swagger and vitality, and the Concerto for Orchestra, commissioned... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Oboe Concertos Nos.1-3 / Air & Rondo / etc Anthony Camden (oboe) / City of London Sinfonia, Nicholas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Oct/1996 ] "First-rate sound from All Saints, East Finchley." Penguin Guide |
GRAZYNA BACEWICZ
Symphony for String Orchestra / Concerto for String Orchestra / Piano Quintet No. 1 Capella Bydgostiensis, Mariusz Smolij [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Nov/2014 ] Grażyna Bacewicz played a leading role in bringing Polish music into the 20th-century mainstream and onto the international stage. Following in the footsteps of Szymanowski, her works convey a striking emotional directness by combining elements of... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Baroque Masterpieces (Incls Marcello 'Oboe Concerto' & Handel 'Largo') Capella Istropolitana / Budapest Ferenc Erkel Chamber Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] The first half of the eighteenth century brought the final flowering of music in a style that later became known as the Baroque, a term borrowed from art history and originally pejorative in its suggestion of roughness and irregularity. The music of... |
FRANCESCO ONOFRIO MANFREDINI
Manfredini: Concerto grossi Op 3 Nos 1-12 Capella Istropolitana / Jaroslav Krcek [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2001 ] Rosette (Highest Rating) - Penguin Stereo Guide |
ARCANGELO CORELLI
Corelli: Concerto Grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 1-6 Capella Istropolitana / Jaroslav Krechek [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "represents very good value indeed" - Penguin Guide "stylish and sympathetic performances from ... the Capella Istropolitana" - South Wales Echo |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Concerti grossi Op 3, No 3 & Op. 6 Nos. 4-6, 8, 10, 12 / etc Capella Istropolitana / Jozef Kopelman (conductor) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 7/Mar/2000 ] "their playing here is warm and polished" Penguin Guide |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Viola Concerto / Recorder Suite in A minor / Tafelmusik Capella Istropolitana / Richard Edlinger (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/2004 ] "...you will be hard pressed to match this quality and repertoire on a single disc - or the price. Don't pass this one up." - American Record Guide |
Carl Stamitz
Clarinet Concerto [ Naxos / CD ] |
JONATHAN LESHNOFF
Leshnoff: Violin Concerto / Distant Reflections / String Quartet No. 1 Charles Wetherbee (violin) / Carpe Diem String Quartet / Baltimore Chamber Orchestra / Markand Thakar [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Named by the Baltimore Sun as an 'Artist to Watch', New Jerseyborn Jonathan Leshnoff is swiftly gaining international recognition. This disc shows three facets of his musical personality: the Violin Concerto, praised as 'remarkably assured,... |
BORIS TISHCHENKO
Tishchenko: Symphony No. 8 / Concerto for violin, piano & string orchestra / etc Chingiz Osmanov (violin) & Nikolai Mazhara (piano) Mila Shkirtil (mezzo-soprano) / St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Serov [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] Boris Tishchenko was one of the most recognisable and important Russian composers of his time. His studies with Shostakovich - whose mantle as Russia's leading symphonist he assumed after his teacher's death in 1975 - proved decisive. Symphony No. 8,... |
JOHN ADAMS / JOHN CORIGLIANO
Adams: Violin Concerto / Corigliano: The Red Violin: Chaconne Chloe Hanslip (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin, with Charles Owen (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2006 ] "(Chloe's) debut with Naxos is a formidable addition to the label's encyclopaedic series of American classics...Throughout this major 20th-century concerto, the clarity of the Naxos recording is immaculate, making the balance between soloist and... |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Organ Concerto / Concert champêtre Philippe Lefebvre (organ) Elisabeth Chojnacka (harpsichord) / Lille National Orchestra, Jean-Claude Casadesus [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2016 ] "The wind and percussion of the Lille orchestra get a chance to demonstrate their quality in accomplished playing of the spry dances of the Suitefrançaise. This is an eminently recommendable disc." (Gramophone Classucal Music Guide) |
NAI-CHUNG KUAN
Kuan: Memory of Mountain / Hoffman, J: Nautilus Symmetry Violin Concerto No 2 'Snow in Spring' Cho-Liang Lin, Taipei Chinese Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2020 ] Nai-Chung Kuan's Memory of Mountain, originally a banhu concerto and here recast for the violin, is inspired by the magnificent scenery and culture of Taiwan's Alishan mountains, and explores three scenic topics employing native instruments to great... |
FREDERICK CHOPIN
Chopin: Complete Piano Music Vol. 14 - Piano Concertos 1 & 2 Idil Biret (piano) / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Košice [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor was actually the second of the two to be composed and was written, like its companion, in Warsaw, before Chopin left Poland. The concerto was tried out in private and then given its first public performance in 1830 |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Four Hand Piano Music, Vol. 9 (Includes Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15) Christian Kohn (piano) / Silke-Thora Matthies (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Nov/2003 ] Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg in 1833, the son of a double-bass player and his much older wife, a seamstress. His childhood was spent in relative poverty, and his early studies in music, as a pianist rather than as a string-player, developed... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Four-Hand Piano Music, Vol. 17 (Incs. Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor) Christian Kohn / Silke-Thora Matthies (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jan/2007 ] The concerto is massive in its symphonic conception, described by one contemporary as a symphony with piano obbligato, and clearly posed problems to its first audiences, lacking any trivial or superficial brilliance in its writing and calling for... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Golden Horizon Christoph Ess, Sonja Gornik, Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Christopher Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Sep/2024 ] Richard Strauss is considered to be both the last 'Classical' composer and a champion of modernity. His wide-ranging output stands as a monument to one of the most successful and influential composers of the 20th century. |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Piano and Orchestra Works (complete) Christopher Hinterhuber (piano) / Gavle Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Uwe Grodd [ Naxos / 5 CD Box Set - released 28/Jan/2022 ] Ferdinand Ries' works for piano and orchestra stand alongside those of Hummel as the finest and most important of their kind from the early decades of the 19th century. |