Thibaudet/Lyon National Orch/M
Debussy: Fantaisie For Piano & [ Naxos / CD - released 21/Nov/2011 ] |
Sigfrid KARG-ELERT
Complete Works for Flute Thies Roorda (flute) & Nata Tsvereli (piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 28/Apr/2014 ] Karg-Elert occupies a remarkable niche in the history of German music. He is best known for his compositions for organ and harmonium but this first recording of his complete works for flute, reveals a completely individual voice. The ground-breaking... |
Thiollier/Polish Nrso/Wit
Ravel/Falla:piano Concs.Etc [ Naxos / CD ] |
SCHUBERT
Lied Edition 32 - Part Songs Vol. 1 Thomas Bauer (baritone) Ingeborg Danz (contralto) Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) Markus Flaig (voice) Regina Jakobi (mezzo-soprano) Sybilla Rubens (soprano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jul/2009 ] Ulrich Eisenlohr, praised as the 'splendid accompanist' on many of Naxos's Schubert Lieder discs, and on Mozart's Complete Songs (8.557900-01) joins nine outstanding singers on this first volume of Schubert's delectable part-songs. |
Thomas Hlawatsch
Janacek:piano Music Vol.2 [ Naxos / CD ] |
JANACEK
Piano Music Vol 1 (Along an Overgrown Path / Piano Sonata, 'From the Street' ) Thomas Hlawatsch, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Jan/2004 ] "These performances show Hlawatsch to be a solid technician" - Fanfare |
JANACEK
Piano Music Vol 1 (In the Mist / Variations for Zdenka / Piano Concerto ) Thomas Hlawatsch, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Jan/2004 ] "Decent recorded sound..." - Classic CD - December 1996 |
GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Fantasia on Bellini's La sonnambula / Melodia, Romanza patetica / etc Thomas Martin (double bass) Anthony Halstead (piano) with Jacquelyn Fugelle, soprano [ Naxos Bottesini Collection Vol 4 / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Giovanni Bottesini, an accomplished and respected conductor, also enjoyed a globe-trotting career as "the Paganini of the double bass". For this recording manuscript sources have been used for his Fantasia on Bellini's La sonnambula, Variations on... |
GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Fantasia on Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor / Bolero / etc Thomas Martin (double bass) Anthony Halstead (piano) with Jacquelyn Fugelle, soprano [ Naxos Bottesini Collection Vol 3 / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] Giovanni Bottesini enjoyed a globe-trotting career as "the Paganini of the double bass" but was also an accomplished and respected conductor in Europe. When conducting operas Bottesini would often perform fantasies on the evening's entertainment... |
GIOANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Fantasia on Rossini's Canzonette / Passione amorose / etc Thomas Martin (double bass) Timothy Cobb (double bass) Christopher Oldfather (piano) [ Naxos Bottesini Collection Vol 5 / CD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] These works for two double basses by Giovanni Bottesini date from his student days at the Milan Conservatory. The delightful Fantasia on themes of Rossini features an opening Tarantella, a lyrical middle section and a stormy finale. Passioni amorose,... |
PABLO SARASATE
Sarasate: Music for violin and piano Vol 2 (Incls Homenaje a Rossini) Tianwa Yang (violin) Markus Hadulla (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Dec/2007 ] "Sarasate's Concert Fantasies on operas by Rossini, Hérold , Verdi and Flotow may not be quite as imaginative as Liszt's, but they still offer many entertaining moments in these sparkling accounts." (BBC Music) |
SARASATE
Sarasate: Music for violin and piano Vol 3 (Incls 'Sérénade andalouse, Op. 28') Tianwa Yang (violin) Markus Hadulla (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "Yang throws off merciless chains of double stops and finger-crippling arabesques with scintillating aplomb. She produces astonishingly clean harmonics - whether natural or forced - and high-wire acrobatics." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
SARASATE
Music for Violin and Piano Volume 4 (Transcriptions and arrangements) Tianwa Yang (violin) Markus Hadulla (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2014 ] "We encounter Sarasate's spontaneity and coalescence of tenacity and timidity in these distinctly Spanish-sounding transcriptions and arrangements...Yang conveys Chopin's silky Nocturne No. 2 with an open humility and richness of sensitivity, rather |
EUGENE YSAYE
Six Sonatas for solo violin Op. 27 Tianwa Yang (violin) Markus Hadulla (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Apr/2014 ] "a display of remarkable playing. As is absolutely necessary with these pieces, the tuning is perfect, and it is a mature, assertive and compelling performance that honours these sonatas as much more than the study pieces they are often labelled." ( |
WOLFGANG RIHM
Complete Works for Violin and Piano Tianwa Yang (violin) Nicholas Rimmer (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] Wolfgang Rihm is one of the world's most eminent and prolific composers. His works for violin and piano encompass almost his entire compositional career, from Hekton in 1972 to the solo violin Über die Linie VII in 2006. Each draws on a wide range of... |
GEORGE ANTHEIL
Antheil: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 - 4 Tianwa Yang (violin) Nicholas Rimmer (Piano, drums) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] New Jersey-born George Antheil traveled to Europe in 1922 determined to become "noted and notorious" as a pianist-composer, soon gaining a reputation as the "bad boy of music" with works such as the infamous Ballet mécanique. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos / Violin Sonata BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY Tianwa Yang (violin) / Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä, Patrick Gallois / Romain Descharmes (piano) [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Apr/2015 ] Filled with Mendelssohn's signature freshness and lightness of touch, the Violin Concerto in D minor and the Sonata, Op. 4 are youthful products but written with an assurance which is startling in its maturity. The substantial earlier concerto gives... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Tianwa Yang (violin) Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä, Patrick Gallois, with Romain Descharmes (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jan/2013 ] "in Tianwa Yang...we find an artist of exceptional technique and musicianship. Above all, her tone, particularly at the extremes, on the G and E strings, is heart-meltingly beautiful" BBC Music Five Stars |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
River of Light: American Short Works for Violin and Piano Tim Fain (violin) / Pei-Yao Wang (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] |
ANDY SCOTT
Scott: Saxophone and Piano Works Timothy McAllister (Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone) Liz Ames (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] Andy Scott is a British Composer Award winner and a founder member of the Apollo Saxophone Quartet. As a saxophonist for over 40 years, Scott's virtuosic yet harmonically subtle music is open to a wide variety of influences. |