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... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms/Schumann: Violin Sonatas (Menuhin) (1934-1940) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Hephzibah Menuhin (piano) [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 3/Mar/2002 ] |
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.... |
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. |
BARTOK
Violin Concerto No. 2 / Violin Sonata No. 1 (recorded 1947 & 1953) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Wilhelm Furtwangler, with Adolph Baller, piano [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 20/Jun/2009 ] Yehudi Menuhin commissioned and gave the first performance of Bartók's Sonata for Solo Violin and was an influential advocate of his music. This 1947 recording of the First Violin Sonata finds Menuhin in particularly intense and vivid form, his... |
MOZART / BEETHOVEN
Violin Sonatas (Rec 1929-47) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) with Hephzibah Menuhin (piano) [ Naxos Historic Great Violinists / CD - released 24/Oct/2004 ] This release covers almost two decades of Yehudi Menuhin's career as a chamber musician. It also charts the progress, over some fourteen years, of his duo with his younger sister Hephzibah, from their earliest recording together, made in Paris more... |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Variations Yevgeny Yontov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Mar/2017 ] Franz Schubert's life was centered around a variety of close friendships. The theme for the Variations, D576 comes from a string quartet by Anselm Hüttenbrenner, the colleague and friend to whom Schubert sent his Unfinished Symphony and among whose... |
THE YELLOW RIVER CONCERTO
The Yellow River Concerto / etc Yin Chengzong (Piano) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adrian Leaper [ Naxos Romantic Piano Concertos / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "...an excellent, unusual bargain....Most of the fillers-miniature solo piano pieces, some arranged, some by named composers-are charming, deft, dramatic, but the Three Variations on an Ancient Chinese Melody by Wang Jienzhong tell of a composer of... |
TAKASHI YOSHIMATSU
Yoshimatsu: Piano Works for the Left Hand Yumiko Oshima-Ryan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Takashi Yoshimatsu's wide-ranging musical influences often combine jazz and rock elements with classical, folk and world music. This album focuses on a unique series of three solo piano works for the left hand, inspired by his great friend Izumi... |
Yung Wook Yoo
Liszt:piano Music V16-Beethove [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Nov/2000 ] |
Yun-Yi Qin
Yun-Yi Qin:piano Recital [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Jun/2009 ] |
AHMET ADNAN SAYGUN
Piano Music (Incls Sonatina Op 15) Zeynep Ucbasaran (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] A colleague of Béla Bartók in the collection of Turkish folk-music, Adnan Saygun was among the most distinguished Turkish composers of the twentieth century, writing music that combined Western techniques with essential elements of his country's own... |
CECIL BURLEIGH
Burleigh: Music For Violin And Piano Zina Schiff (violin) Mary Barranger (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jul/2003 ] History has precious little to say about Cecil Burleigh. He was a composer and violinist, American born, but studied abroad at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin. |
EUGENE ZÁDOR
Zador: Celebration Music Bálint Képíró, Imre Kováts, Zoltán Szőke (horns), Katalin Sarkady (piano) / Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁv, Mariusz Smolij [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] Eugene Zádor was an established composer by the time he moved from Europe to the United States in 1939 where he worked as a film composer. Many of the works on this album exhibit Zádor's finest traits, blending neo-Classicism and neo-Romanticism with... |