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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Yung Wook Yoo
Liszt:piano Music V16-Beethove [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Nov/2000 ] |
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Yun-Yi Qin
Yun-Yi Qin:piano Recital [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Jun/2009 ] |
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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... |
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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. |
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ALAN HOVHANESS
Hovhaness: Concerto No. 2 / Works for Violin and Piano ( Zina Schiff (violin) Valerie Star (piano) / Salzburg Chamber Soloists, Avlana Eisenberg) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 25/Jul/2025 ] The music of Alan Hovhaness, one of America's most prolific composers, enchants with his signature synthesis of East and West. Influenced by his Armenian heritage and a fascination with nature and spirituality Hovhaness sought to create music 'for... |
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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... |