VERNON DUKE
Piano Concerto / Cello Concerto / etc Scott Dunn (piano) Sam Magill (Cello) / Russian Philharmonic / Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 11/Jan/2008 ] "Duke's music is tuneful and accessible. Both concertos are lovingly performed, as well as the Homage to Boston Suite." --Review by Giv Cornfield, November 2007 |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Piano Concerto / Prometheus Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) / Russian State TV and Radio Choir / Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Igor Golovschin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "This budget-priced production from the composer's compatriots certainly holds its own against all comers. Konstantin Scherbakov plays the concerto with steel and sensitivity in equal measure, and he's particularly successful in knitting together the... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Concertos, Hob.XVIII:3,4,9,11 Sebastian Knauer (piano) / Cologne Chamber Orchestra / Helmut Muller-Bruhl [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2008 ] "The young German pianist Sebastian Knauer gives sprightly and sensitive accounts of all four concertos, dancing nimbly through Haydn's long stretches of toccata-style passage work and spinning a pure, eloquent line in the slow movements." Gramophone |
JOHN HARBISON
Harbison: Piano Works Se-Hee Jin (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2023 ] Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, John Harbison, is recognized as one of the dominant figures of his generation, with commissions from most of America's leading musical institutions as part of a catalog of more than 300 works. |
Selby/Slovak Po/Czech Rso/Haym
Gershwin:piano Conc.In F [ Naxos / CD ] |
JENNIFER HIGDON
Higdon: Early Chamber Works Serafin String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] Pulitzer and GRAMMY® Award winner Jennifer Higdon is one of the most performed living American composers, and this program provides a unique opportunity to hear première recordings of her earlier chamber music. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Transcriptions and Arrangements Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD ] "It's a world in which Idil Biret is completely at home" BBC Music |
CHOPIN / LISZT / SCHUMANN
Piano Solo Recordings, Vol. 1 - Victor Recordings (recorded 1925-1942) Sergei Rachmaninov (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Rachmaninov's formidable piano technique was notable for its precision, rhythmic drive, refined legato, crystalline clarity and sensitivity to melodic line. While avoiding sentimentality, he sought and expressed music's emotional essence. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 4 / Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (recorded 1934-1941) Sergei Rachmaninov (piano) / Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy, Leopold Stokowski [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 10/Aug/2009 ] Building a Library Historic Choice - January 2003 |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Solo Piano Record Sergey Rachmaninov [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 29/Oct/2012 ] |
RACHMANINOV / CHOPIN / LISZT / TAUSIG
Rachmaninov: The Edison Recordings, April 1919 Sergey Rachmaninov (piano) [ Naxos Historial Great Pianists / CD - released 14/Jul/2017 ] "What treasures - and what a service Naxos has performed in making them available in this form." Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2017 |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Solo Piano Recordings Volume 2 (recorded 1925-1942) Sergey Rachmaninov (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] His perfect technique, utter clarity and discipline, and supreme musicianship shine undiminished through even his earliest recordings. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 (1929, 1940) Sergey Rachmaninov (piano) / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski / Eugene Ormandy [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 7/Jan/2006 ] "One could hardly do better than begin [this series] with such essential performances as Sergei Rachmaninov's own recordings of his works for piano and orchestra. The importance of these classic RCA performances as vital historical documents need not... |
PROKOFIEV
Piano Concertos No 3 / Visions fugitives Op.22 / Suggestion diabolique / etc Sergi Prokofiev (piano) / LSO / Piero Coppola [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] Sketches for the Third Piano Concerto go back to 1917, but it was during the summer of 1921 in Brittany that Prokofiev completed the work. |
LONGO / BUSONI / SCONTRINO / FRUGATTA
Italian Clarinet Suites Sergio Bosi (clarinet) / Ricardo Bartoli (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Until the early 20th Century, Italian instrumental music remained overshadowed by opera. However, a number of composers born around the middle of the 19th century wrote excellent suites for clarinet and piano which brokered a 'compromise between... |
LABATE / GAGLIANO / BUSONI / GABUCCI / etc
Italian Clarinet Treasures Sergio Bosi (clarinet) / Ricardo Bartoli (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2018 ] Circumstances including an overwhelming preoccupation with opera at the expense of instrumental music, two world wars and the rise of a Fascist dictatorship, resulted in a generation of Italian chamber music composers born between the 1880s and early... |
AURELIO MAGNANI
Divertimento Nos. 1 and 2 / etc Sergio Bosi (clarinet) & Riccardo Bartoli (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] Considered one of the foremost soloists of his day, Aurelio Magnani was the father of the modern Italian clarinet school. |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Pieces & Fragments Sergio Gallo (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Including premiere recordings, this programme provides us with a privileged opportunity to engage with 36 of Ludwig van Beethoven's rarely heard sketches, variations and briefest of compositions, even the earliest of which have much to teach us about... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Complete Piano Music Volume 43 - Transcriptions of Symphonic Poems Sergio Monteiro (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] Liszt turned to the composition of large-scale orchestral works after his success as a touring virtuoso and wrote a sequence of ground-breaking symphonic poems that in their narrative-driven structures directly influenced such composers as Richard... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Early Piano Music Sergio Monteiro (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2019 ] In addition to his prodigious youthful genius as a composer, Mendelssohn was an exceptionally able pianist. Demonstrating an astonishing level of maturity beyond the composer's teenage years, this group of rare works is notable for a sequence of... |