CHOPIN / SCHUMANN / RACHMANINOV / KURPIĆSK
Piano Music from the 2nd Chopin Festival Hamburg 2019 Tobias Koch, Janusz Olejniczak, Tomasz Ritter, Hélène Tysman (pianos) [ Naxos Laureate Series: Guitar / CD - released 10/Jun/2020 ] Following the success of the 1st Chopin Festival Hamburg 2018, the 2nd Chopin Festival Hamburg 2019 continues its unique approach of inviting pianists to perform on original historic instruments and, by way of comparison, on a modern grand piano. |
MARIO PILATI
Pilati: Concerto for Orchestra / Suite for Strings and Piano Tomas Nemee (piano), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Marco Polo / CD - released 1/Oct/2001 ] Recorded: May 2000 Recording Venue: Concert Hall of the Slovak Radio at Bratislava |
BARTOK / DUKAS / FALLA / GOOSSENS / MALIPIERO / RAVEL etc
Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy Tomer Lev (piano), Buchan-Mehta Symphony Orchestra, Zeev Dorman [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] In December 1920, two years after Claude Debussy's untimely death, the editors of the renowned Parisian musical magazine La Revue musicale published a special issue dedicated to the composer's memory. At its heart was a joint memorial composition by... |
CHARLES Valentin ALKAN
Alkan: Chamber Music Trio Alkan [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] "If you'd just like to become acquainted with these astounding pieces without mortgaging your home, this budget-priced, more accurately presented reissue will serve quite nicely. Recommended." Fanfare |
JOAQUIN TURINA
Turina: Complete Piano Trios Trio Arbos [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Nov/2001 ] " It is good that the very competent Trio Arbos present such well-argued and persuasive performances of his complete music for piano trio. A welcome insight into the composer." Classical Net |
GERHARD / CASSADO / MONTSALVATGE
Piano Trios Trio Arriaga [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] These three Catalan piano trios reveal illuminating facets of each composer. Roberto Gerhard's early trio exudes a distinctly French ethos, alongside that of de Falla, very different from his later asperity. Xavier Montsalvatge's much later work,... |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos. 3 & 4 / Allegretto in B-Flat Major (arr. for oboe, bassoon and piano) Trio Cremeloque [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Oct/2019 ] The year is 1791. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies. Late in the following year Ludwig van Beethoven departs from Bonn to Vienna. Upon his arrival the news comes that his father is no longer among the living. For a 22-year-old man, those two deaths must... |
ROBERTO SIERRA
Piano Trios Trío Arbós [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] Roberto Sierra was born in Puerto Rico and studied composition in Europe, notably with György Ligeti. 'The three piano trios in this recording span seventeen years of my creative life (1991-2008),' he says. Latin and jazz influences meet Romantic and... |
LUIZ COSTA / CLAUDIO CARNEYRO / SERGIO AZEVEDO
Portuguese Piano Trios, Vol. 1 Trío Pangea [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Aug/2017 ] Past centuries of Portuguese music have left a rich and varied legacy of repertoire inspired by various national and international aesthetic trends. Luiz Costa's teaching was influential on generations of Portuguese musicians, his Trio, Op. 15... |
ERICH ZEISL
Zeisl: Lieder - Weich küsst die Zweige der weiße Mond Ulf Bästlein (Baritone) Charles Spencer (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] 'Melody is the heart of music - and you can't construct melodies. They are the essence of a musical gift'. This was the firm belief of Erich Zeisl, who in the 1930s was considered one of the most promising musical talents... |
PLÜDDEMANN
Pluddemann: Balladen und Gesänge / Lieder und Gesänge (excerpts) [Ballads, Songs and Legends] Ulf Bästlein (baritone) Hedayet Djeddikar (piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 24/Jan/2022 ] Martin Plüddemann (born September 29, 1854 in Kolberg , died October 8, 1897 in Berlin ) was a German ballad and song composer and music teacher. |
SCHUBERT
Lied Edition Vol. 31 - Sturm und Drang Poets Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) Caroline Melzer (soprano) Konstantin Wolff (bass-baritone) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] The Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition presents all Schubert's Lieder, over 700 songs, grouped according to the poets who inspired him. |
SCHUBERT
North German Poets (Includes Alinde, D. 904) Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) Hanno Muller-Brachmann (bass-baritone) [ Naxos Schubert Lieder Edition Vol 11 / CD - released 24/Feb/2004 ] "this one is the most satisfying so far. It is heartily recommended" American Record Guide |
SCHUBERT
Lied Edition Vol 25 'Romantic Poets, Vol. 2 Ulrich Eisenlohr (tenor) Markus Schafer (piano) [ Naxos Schubert Lieder Edition / CD - released 8/Feb/2008 ] The Naxos Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition: Schubert set the poetry of over 115 writers to music. He selected poems from classical Greece, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, from eighteenthcentury German authors, early Romantics, Biedermeier poets,... |
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Mozart's Symphonies [35 'Haffner', 36 'Linz', 41 'Jupiter'] Uwe Grodd (flute), Friedemann Eichhorn (violin), Martin Rummel (cello) & Roland Krüger (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Oct/2015 ] Hummel, conductor, composer and pianist, whose death ended the great Viennese lineage of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, produced a series of inspired arrangements of Mozart's symphonies between 1823 and 1824. As a child of eight he had lodged and... |
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Mozart's Symphonies [38, 39, 40] Uwe Grodd (flute), Friedemann Eichhorn (violin), Martin Rummel (cello) & Roland Krüger (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] Hummel stands as the last in the great Viennese line which embraced Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. He lived and studied with Mozart in his youth and, despite a career which saw him triumph as a conductor, composer and virtuoso pianist, Hummel never... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen / Arpeggione Sonata / Songs Uwe Grodd (flute) / Matteo Napoli (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] "The music is allowed to sing and there is no surrender to self-indulgence." (MusicWeb March 2009) |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Works for Flute and Piano Uwe Grodd (flute) / Matteo Napoli (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Oct/2010 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Grand Symphonies Vol. 1 -Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 (arr. J.N. Hummel for flute and piano trio) Uwe Grodd (flute), Gould Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] Beethoven and Hummel's relationship was one of fractious beginnings, but ultimately true friendship. Between 1825 and 1835 Hummel arranged his contemporary's Symphonies Nos. 1-7 and Septet, Op. 20 for his favoured combination of pianoforte, flute,... |
HANS PFITZER
Pfitzer: Complete Lieder, Vol. 5 Uwe Schenker-Primus (baritone), Frauenstimmen des Freiburger Kammerchors, Lukas Grimm, with Klaus Simon (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Hans Pfitzner was able to deploy his extensive musical resources in setting a variety of texts from many different periods and on a wide range of subjects. |