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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (1950-1951) William Kapell (piano) / Robin Hood Dell Orchestra of Philadelphia / William Steinberg / Fritz Reiner [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 1/Mar/2006 ] When William Kapell was killed in a plane crash at the age of 31 on 29th October 1953 the world was robbed of a great talent. |
SCOTT WHEELER
Wasting the Night (Songs) William Sharp (baritone) / Susanna Phillips (soprano) / Joseph Kaiser (tenor) / Krista River (mezzo-soprano) / Donald Berman (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] 'Songs are simply the most sensuous kind of fun one can have with the combination of words and music,' remarks Scott Wheeler. |
FRANZ LISZT
Bellini/Liszt: Operas (Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 31) William Wolfram (piano) [ Naxos Liszt Complete Piano Music / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] With this disc, William Wolfram transports us back to the heyday of the salon and the birth of the modern piano recital. |
LISZT
Donizetti Operatic Reminiscences and Transcriptions William Wolfram (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jan/2008 ] "New York City-based pianist William Wolfram is on splendid form throughout these technically difficult, emotionally demanding and physically taxing works." (MusicWeb April 2008) |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 63: Weihnachtsbaum Wojciech Waleczek (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Sep/2024 ] The piano pieces Franz Liszt composed in his final decade are both secular and sacred with a startling originality that is far removed from the virtuoso character of his earlier works. |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / FERRUCCIO BUSONIVEN
Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 13 Wolf Harden [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Nov/2024 ] The final volume in this acclaimed series of Busoni's piano music focuses on beginnings and endings. Early works and transcriptions are featured, plus a substantial body of music that Busoni wrote for his multivolume Klavierübung ('Piano Exercise').... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni.: Piano Music, Vol. 11 - Piano Sonatina No. 5 / Edizione minore della Fantasia contrappuntistica / Bach - 10 Chorale Preludes Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] Transcriptions occupied Ferruccio Busoni from early in his career, but his famously Romantic version of the Chaconne in D minor (Naxos 8.555699) contrasts with the later and more austere Sonatina brevis based on Bach's Fantasy and Fugue in D minor,... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 2 Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jan/2006 ] "This disc maintains the high standards set by Harden in his first volume of Busoni piano music. It begins with an unusually eloquent and beautifully shaped rendition of one of the most famous of all the 'Bach-Busoni' transcriptions... The original... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Piano Music, Vol. 4 Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jan/2006 ] "In this ongoing conspectus of Busoni's piano music Wolf Harden demonstrates yet again that he has an affinity for the composer and the prestidigitatory prowess to realize it…Sound is close-onstage-and detailed in spacious openness. Informed... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI / J.S. BACH
Piano Music Vol. 5 - Studies / 6 Pieces / 10 Variations on Chopin's C minor Prelude Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "I enjoyed this recital, not least because it juxtaposes old and newer works. The performances are given by someone who obviously cares for the music. The sound is clear and precise and the notes pretty good. This disk is a bargain which is too good... |
BUSONI
Piano Music Vol.1 Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2001 ] "Gravely charming...The sound strikes an almost ideal balance between detail and mass in a spacious aural frame." Fanfare, January 2009 |
BUSONI
Piano Music Volume 3 Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] "Congratulations to Naxos for foregrounding the music of Busoni, a composer often thought of as 'difficult' and hard to approach. A fascinating disc, with a value-for-money playing time." (MusicWeb March 2007) |
BUSONI
Piano Music Volume 6 Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jul/2009 ] Dante Michelangeli Benvenuto Ferruccio Busoni was born at Empoli, near Florence, in 1866, only child of a clarinettist father and a pianist mother. |
BUSONI
Piano Music Volume 7 Wolf Harden (piano) [ Naxos Busoni Piano Music / CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] The essence of Ferruccio Busoni's music lies in its synthesis of his Italian and German ancestry, emotion and intellect, imagination and rigour. This seventh volume in Naxos's highly-praised series brings together several virtuosic operatic... |
SCHUBERT
Poets of Sensibility, Volume 3 Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone) / Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] "Highly recommended for Holzmair’s lyrical, naturalistic style – the best disc in this series by far, good enough for experienced collectors to seek out" BARGAIN OF THE MONTH (MusicWeb Jan 2006) |
J. S. BACH
English Suites Nos 1 - 3 Wolfgang Rubsam (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] |
J.S. BACH
Partitas: No. 3 Bwv 827 / No. 4 Bwv 828 Wolfgang Rubsam (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "produces touch and phrasing highly suitable for these works." - Classic CD |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS
The Art of the Vienna Horn Wolfgang Tomboeck (vienna horn) Madoka Inui (piano) with Genia Kuhmeier (soprano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "A triumph; a real disc to be savoured. And most emphatically not limited in its appeal to horn players!" -- Colin Clarke, MusicWeb, January 2005 |
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COPLAND / LARSEN / LIEUWEN / SCHICKELE
Gulfstream Wonkak Kim (Clarinet) M. Brent Williams (Violin) Jayoung Kim (Cello) Eun-Hee Park (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Feb/2012 ] |
LISZT
Liszt - Complete Piano Music - Vol. 16 (Piano transcriptions of Beethoven's Songs) Wook Yoo Yung, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2003 ] "Throughout this disc Yung Wook Yoo displays a deft interpretive sense and brilliant technique. The sound on this discs is clear and this recording is eminently recommendable." - Robert Cummings, classical.net |
