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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. |
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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... |
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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) |
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J. S. BACH
English Suites Nos 1 - 3 Wolfgang Rubsam (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] |
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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 |
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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 ] |
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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 |
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Written by Genevieve Helsby
My First Piano Book [ Naxos / 2 CD/Book - released 27/May/2018 ] Following the success of "My First Classical Music Book," author Genevieve Helsby and illustrator Jason Chapman return with "My First Piano Book." Bursting with life and humor, this is a uniquely comprehensive introduction to the piano, designed... |
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RICHARD DANIELPOUR
The Enchanted Garden: Preludes Books I & II Xiayin Wang (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "The first book of The Enchanted Garden was composed in 1992; the five preludes in that cycle were musical responses to dreams that I had and had eventually written about. The second book, written nearly seventeen years later in 2009, includes seven... |
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SCHUMANN
Piano Quintet, Piano Quartet & Märchenerzählungen Xiayin Wang (piano) / Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] Between 1841 and 1843 Schumann wrote some of his greatest chamber works, among them the Piano Quartet and the Piano Quintet, both in E flat major. Written in an astonishing five-day period, the Quintet displays both the heroic and the lyric impulses... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Vol 1: Nos. 5 and 6 / Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 44 Xyrion Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Oct/2005 ] MARBECKS STAFF RECORDING OF THE YEAR 2006 - "A wonderful disc, well recorded and containing some magnificent playing. Do hear this." (MusicWeb Oct 2005) |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Vol. 3: Piano Trio No. 3 / Symphony No. 2 (arr. piano trio) Xyrion Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2009 ] Haydn's misgivings about Beethoven's third piano trio were not entirely unfounded: symphonic in conception, it was a breakthrough work-Beethoven's first masterpiece and eventually one of his most popular chamber pieces-and retains its power to amaze... |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: German Dances, Ländlers and Écossaises Yang Liu (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] Schubert was known in his time primarily as a composer of songs, but he was also a master of the dance form and wrote prolifically for a middle-class society eager for domestic entertainment. |
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PABLO de SARASATE
Sarasate: Music for Violin and Piano, Vol. 1 Yang Tianwa (Violin) Markus Hadulla (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Sep/2006 ] "Across these demands Tianwa Yang proves an appropriately exciting advocate. In 2004, the year of this recording, she was awarded the prize as the 'Best Young Violinist in China' by a panel chaired by Seiji Ozawa; and she now announces herself on the... |
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ARIBERT REIMANN
Zyklus / Kumi Ori / etc Yaron Windmuller (baritone) Axel Bauni (piano) Saaebrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra / Gunther Herbig [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] "Reimann's output for solo piano has been small, but the four works documented on the first disc show a composer with awesome understanding of the DNA of the piano, especially the unerring "rightness" of his chord voicings and ability to exploit the... |
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BEETHOVEN / FRANCK / LEKEU
Beethoven / Franck / Lekeu - Violin Sonatas Yehudi Menuhin, violin / Hephzibah Menuhin, piano [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 27/Jul/2005 ] Collectors always have a soft spot for gramophone premières. Yehudi and Hephzibah Menuhin were the first to record the large-scale Sonata in G major by the tragic Belgian composer Guillaume Lekeu (1870-94), who died a day after his 24th birthday, and... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms/Schumann: Violin Sonatas (Menuhin) (1934-1940) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Hephzibah Menuhin (piano) [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 3/Mar/2002 ] |
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BACH / ENESCU / PIZZETTI
Violin Sonatas Yehudi Menuhin (Violin) Hephzibah Menuhin (Piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] Throughout his career the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin sought out new music to perform, often commissioning works from composers, and among those who wrote for him were Béla Bartók, Lennox Berkeley, Ernest Bloch, Frank Martin and William Walton.... |
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BEETHOVEN
Violin Sonatas (with Schubert-Rondo) (Rec 1934-1938) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Hephzibah Menuhin (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 7/Jul/2004 ] Good duo playing depends on an intuitive understanding between the partners, which comes only after intensive study together. Of course it helps if the two musicians live in the same house and can work whenever they feel like it. |