JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Trio No.3 / Piano Trio in A major, Op. posth. Vienna Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD ] "The Vienna Trio...adds another substantial entry to the.. chamber-music Catalog... Recommended." Fanfare |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 / Trio in A Major Vienna Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2004 ] "The Vienna Trio...adds another substantial entry to the.. chamber-music Catalog... Recommended" - Fanfare |
Villalba
Blancafort: Piano Music 5 [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] |
HENRY VIEUXTEMPS
Vieuxtemps: Innermost Voices Vilmos Csikos (violin) Olivier Lechardeur (piano) Manon Lamaison (soprano) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Famed for his profoundly Romantic violin concertos, Henry Vieuxtemps revolutionised violin playing in the 19th century. His loyal student Eugène Ysaÿe pointed out that his teacher's work was 'a treasure to be protected at all costs' and 'ought to be... |
SCHMITT
Ombres / Mirages / La Tragedie de Salome Vincent Larderet (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2011 ] Vincent Lardaret is a prize-winner in several international piano competitions and performs in major concert halls and at renowned international festivals. |
Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Strathclyde Concerto No. 2 / Cello Sonata 'Sequentia Serpentigena' / etc Vittorio Ceccanti (cello) Bruno Canino (piano) / Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Peter Maxwell Davies [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Apr/2013 ] This is the second disc of works focussing on Peter Maxwell Davies' continuing artistic relationship with the Ceccanti family. |
Vlach Quartet Prague/Klansky
Dvorak: Piano Quintets 5 & 81 [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2003 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Rondo for piano & orchestra Stefan Vladar (piano) Capella Istropolitana, Barry Wordsworth [ Naxos / CD ] "Striking freshness and spontaneity." - Penguin Guide |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 Stefan Vladar (piano), Jenö Jandó (piano) / Capella Istropolitana, Barry Wordsworth [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/1999 ] |
Vladar/Cap Istropolitana/Words
Beethoven;Piano Concs.1-5 [ Naxos / 3 CD ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 Stefan Vladar (piano) / Capella Istropolitana, Barry Wordsworth [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Gramophone, October 1990 "...the performances are dramatic and fresh." Penguin Guide, January 1990 "The performances are dramatic and fresh... the digital sound is very good." MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, October 1989 "There is a joy in the outer... |
Vladar/Cap Istropolitana/Words
Beethoven:piano Concs.3&4 [ Naxos / CD ] |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
The very best of Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from orchestral, vocal, keyboard and chamber works Vladimir Grishko (tenor) Maria Kliegel (cello) Pavlo Mezhulin (bass) Takako Nishizaki (violin) Viktor Ovdiy (tenor) Ilona Prunyi (piano) & many more [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] Presented in a stylish slipcase with a modern take on John Minnion's composer cartoons, with detailed track listings and accessible texts on the composer's life and an overview of their most famous works. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Piano Recital (1932-1935) Vladimir Horowitz (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 18/Nov/2007 ] "This remains some of the most astounding piano playing ever committed to disc and you should not be without it in one form or another." - Christopher Howell, musicweb.uk.net, June 2003 |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 / Ballade No. 4 / Polonaise-fantaisie (rec 1947-1957) Vladimir Horowitz (piano) [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 10/Apr/2008 ] "Horowitz leads us a merry dance over the course of seventy-six and a half incendiary minutes of pianism...The transfers of all these items are really first class." (MusicWeb June 2008) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Symphony No. 1 Vladimir Horowitz (piano) / NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1992 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 / Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 Vladimir Horowitz (piano) / RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra / Fritz Reiner, conductor [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 11/Sep/2005 ] "Superb liner notes from Jonathan Summers and Mark Obert-Thorn has done a fine job with the sound." (MusicWeb Oct 2005) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Schwanegesang Michael Volle (baritone), Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano), Sjon Scott (horn) [ Naxos / CD ] "Naxos may be a budget label, but this is a full-price performance. Volle can produce smooth steady tones-the kind you want to drink in for hours. The voice is sonorous yet warm, full yet flexible, controlled yet impassioned. Naxos should line him up... |
GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: Music For Two Pianos, The Planets Len Vorster / Robert Chamberlain (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/1998 ] "Warmly Recommended" Fanfare |
FILTSCH / MIKULI / TELLEFSEN
Pupils of Chopin: Violin and Piano Works Voytek Proniewicz (violin) / Alexander Jakobidze-Gitman (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Following the release of delightful piano music by Chopin's pupils, Naxos reveals more rarely heard Romantic gems by these heirs of the 'poet of the piano'. Each movement of Karol Mikuli's Grand Duo is ingeniously based on two prevailing themes... |