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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto / The Wasps / English Folk Song Suite / The Running Set Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / James Judd (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] "The Piano Concerto of Vaughan Williams has been seriously undervalued...a performance as fine as this one from Ashley Wass will simply have one marvelling at the originality of the piece and its distinctive slant on the idea of a piano concerto."... |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Orchestral Music, Vol. 2 - Orchestrated Piano Pieces Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Bjarte Engeset [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Apr/2007 ] "This delightful collection, dazzlingly performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under the young Norwegian conductor Bjarte Engeset, brings together some of the composer's most attractive folk-based pieces." Three Stars Penguin Guide |
ROBERT DOCKER
Doucker: Three Contrasts / Scenes de ballet / Pastiche Variations RTE Concert Orchestra, Barry Knight, with William Davies (piano) & David Presley (oboe) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Robert Docker was one of the giants of light music - a composer and arranger whose works graced stage, screen, radio and television. Two of his best pieces were written for piano and orchestra: Legend, which can rank alongside Addinsell's Warsaw... |
ISAAC ALBENIZ
Piano Music Volume 4 Rubén Ramiro (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jun/2014 ] Just as Albéniz did in his concert programmes, this recording alternates pieces in Spanish style with some of the entertaining salon miniatures written for Spain's aristocracy during the last two decades of the 19th century. The Suite ancienne... |
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Russian Academy/Munbaev
B Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jan/2006 ] |
SCHUBERT
European Poets, Vol. 1 Ruth Ziesak, soprano / Roman Trekel, baritone / Ulrich Eisenlohr, piano [ Naxos Schubert Lieder Edition Vol 7 / CD - released 8/Mar/2002 ] The Naxos Deutsche "This attractive concert of Scottish pieces contrasts the settings of Ossian's epic poetry that Schubert made when he was 18 with the Walter Scott songs he wrote while on holiday in Upper Austria 10 years later." The Daily... |
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY Ryszard Minkiewicz (tenor) Jan Krzysztof Broja (piano) / Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Antoni Wit [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Apr/2015 ] Szymanowski's Symphony No. 3 'Song of the Night' creates a potent atmosphere of Persian mysticism in its rich blend of voices and exotic orchestration. His Symphony No. 4 is largely extrovert in character and has a prominent rôle for piano.... |
ROCHBERG
Piano Music, Vol. 3 - Partita-Variations / Nach Bach / Sonata-Fantasia Sally Pinkas (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] A dark and deeply anguished work, Sonata-Fantasia demands the performer's ultimate emotional, intellectual and technical powers. |
ROCHBERG
Piano Music, Vol. 4 Sally Pinkas (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] |
W. A. MOZART / EDWARD ELGAR
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante / Elgar: Violin Sonata Albert Sammons (violin) Lionel Tertis (viola) Gerald Moore (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 5/May/2003 ] "Made in 1935, this first recording of the Elgar Violin Sonata connects us with the composer's own era and gives us a fascinating insight into the Edwardian interpretative style that was inherited by Sammons." Gramophone |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Symphony No. 3 / Le Poeme de l'extase (Piano Transcriptions) Sandor Falvai / Ilona Prunyi (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Apr/2006 ] Two of Scriabin's most imaginative and mature works, The Divine Poem and the Poem of Ecstasy, transcribed for two pianos. |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol.28 Sang Woo Kang (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] A complete performance of Domenico Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas would take over two days of continuous playing, and the majority are still little-known today. This 28th volume features a wide selection of these original, imaginative and colourful... |
CHARLES IVES
Songs, Vol. 2 Sara Jakubiak (soprano) David Pittsinger (bass) Matthew Plenk (tenor) Tamara Mumford, Leah Wool (mezzo) Laura Garritson (piano) Biava Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] "It is taking a long time for singers and the public to appreciate the full extent and importance of Ives' output of songs. Not as large as Schubert maybe, but still a major achievement...All of this is immensely praiseworthy… for the many novelties... |
WILLIAM MATHIAS
Violin sonatas Sara Trickey (violin) & Iwan Llewelyn-Jones (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jun/2011 ] William Mathias's eloquent and accessible style comes to the fore in these première recordings of his music for violin and piano. |
MARGARET BROUWER
Brouwer: Reactions - Rhapsodic Sonata / Declaration / The Lake / I Cry - Summer 2020 Sarah Beaty (mezzo), Brian Skoog (tenor), Shuai Wang (piano), Marie Sato (narrator/violin), Eliesha Nelson (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] Margaret Brouwer's music has for decades been admired for "inhabiting its own peculiarly bewitching harmonic world" (The New York Times). These recently composed pieces reflect her musical representations of particular events: Rhapsodic Sonata charts... |
PEDRO FARIA GOMES
Gomes: Chamber Works Sarah Thurlow (clarinet), Saul Picado (piano), Carla Santos (violin), Nancy Johnson (viola), Miguel Fernandes (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2020 ] This selection of chamber music by leading Portuguese composer Pedro Faria Gomes was written between 2007 and 2018. The works encompass themes of memory, change and waiting, with the concept of time being a central preoccupation. |
VARIOUS
Music for Viola and Piano Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola) / Anthony Hewitt (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] The viola works on this recording fuse lyricism with virtuosity, and sometimes invoke folkloric moments as well as more rhapsodic flights. |
ALWYN
Chamber Music Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola) / Lucy Gould (violin) / Robert Plane (clarinet) / Sophia Rahman (piano) / Sarah Francis (oboe) / Lucy Wakeford (harp) [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Oct/2010 ] "Throughout the disc some of the UK's best known chamber musicians play with that innate feel for the music. Add a first class recording, and this is readily my Naxos disc of the month." (David's Review Corner) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Cello Recital: Sébastien Hurtaud Sébastien Hurtaud (cello) & Pamela Hurtado (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Feb/2014 ] Hindemith's music for cello closely follows his evolution as a composer. With elements which look back to Schumann, Three Pieces, Op. 8 is among his earliest published works, while the solo Sonata, Op. 25 is indebted to Bach's Cello Suites and is one... |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Piano Concerto / Fantasia Slava / Toccata Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Capella Istropolitana / Howard Griffiths & Ewald Danel [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] "The Russian pianist, Konstantin Scherbakov, is a persuasive and at times dazzlingly brilliant soloist and he is accompanied persuasively by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava) under Howard Griffiths." Penguin Guide |
