JEAN SIBELIUS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Sibelius: Symphonies No. 2 & 5 Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 1/Nov/1991 ] "Alexander Gibson's 1980s Sibelius cycle on Chandos, one of the first digital sets, was praised for its clean lines, propulsive phrasing, and bracing impact." MusicWeb |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Overtures Scottish National Orchestra / Sir Alexander Gibson [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 20/Sep/2002 ] "energetically played, vividly recorded " (Fanfare) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Classics Explained: Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2 - An exploration of Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 Jeremy Siepmann (reader) / Jeno Jando (piano) / BRT Philharmonic, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos Classics Explained / 2 CD ] There is perhaps no great piano concerto grander than the Brahms B flat. With the spaciousness of a symphony, the drama of an opera, the intimacy of a lullaby and the intertwining raptures of the greatest love songs.. |
BERNHARD HEINRUCH ROMBERG / ANTON KRAFT / NIKOLAUS KRAFT
Works for two cellos Alexander Rudin, Emin Martirosian (cello) / Musica Viva Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Rudin [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] The emergence of the cello as a solo instrument at the beginning of the 19th century encouraged composers to explore its melodic and sonorous potential, with compositions for two or more cellos becoming increasingly popular. Bernhard Romberg and... |
HUMMEL/SCHUBERT
Piano Quintets Simon Standage (violin), Peter Collyer (viola), Poppy Walshaw (cello), Elizabeth Bradley (double-bass), Susan Alexander-Marx (fortepiano, director) [ Chandos / CD - released 28/Jan/2014 ] This release on the Chaconne label is presented by the leading fortepianist and clavichordist Susan Alexander Max and her ensemble The Music Colllection. World-renowned specialists in the period performance of late eighteenth- / early... |
GAVRILL NIKOLAEVICH POPOV
Popov: Symphony 1 / Chamber Symphony St Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Titov [ Northern Flowers St Petersburg Musical Archive / CD - released 1/Oct/2016 ] |
PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: 1941-1945: Wartime Music, Vol. 18 St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Titov [ Northern Flowers / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (Highlights from the complete opera) Stanislav Benacka (bass), Silvano Carroli, (baritone), Jan Durco (baritone), Mirosla Dvorsky (tenor) / Slovak Radio Symphony, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Alexander Rahbari |
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
Piano Concerto / Five Studies for Piano / Capriccio for Piano Duet / Commedia IV Stephen Kovacevich, Richard Rodney Bennett, Thea Musgrave (pianos) / London Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Gibson / with Philip Jones Brass Ensemble [ Lyrita / CD - released 11/Nov/2007 ] "Magnificently played and recorded". (MusicWeb Oct 2007) |
Jake HEGGY / Gene SCHEER
Here / After - Songs of Lost Voices Steven Costello, Joyce DiDonato, Nathan Gunn, Talise Trevigne, Carol Wincenc (flute), The Alexander String Quartet [ Pentatone SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 21/Oct/2013 ] "Though Heggie's thematic ideas might seem a bit commonplace on first hearing, listeners are advised to stay alert to each song's last note. Invariably, one is ambushed by the music's cumulative effect...Performances by longtime Heggie collaborators |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Don Quixote / Romance for cello & orchestra in F major Alexander Rudin (cello) / Ireland National Symphony Orchestra, Gerhard Markson [ naxos / CD - released 25/Apr/2010 ] "The Naxos sound, too, is commendable for its smooth reliability...comfortable listening...now that I think about it, that's quite a bargain itself!" - John Puccio Sensible Sound August/September 2001 |
J. C. BACH
Keyboard Sonatas, Op. 5 Susan Alexander-Max (clavichord) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] Johann Christian Bach's galant Sonatas Op. 5 of 1766 were composed for the newly developed fortepiano but are equally suited to the more intimate yet equally expressive clavichord, on which The Juilliard School graduate and internationally-renowned... |
MUZIO CLEMENTI
Clementi: Early Piano Sonatas Volume 2 Susan Alexander-Max (fortepiano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jul/2007 ] "Thoroughly engaging performances, on a fine instrument, of some of Clementi's excellent sonatas, as musically rewarding as they are historically important" (MusicWeb Aug 2007) |
MUZIO CLEMENTI
Clementi: Early Piano Sonatas Volume 1 Susan Alexander-Max (fortepiano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Apr/2010 ] Muzio Clementi was born in Rome in 1752, the son of a silversmith. By the age of thirteen he had become proficient enough as a musician to be employed as an organist at the Church of S. Lorenzo in Damaso and to attract the attention of an English... |
CLEMENTI
Early Piano Sonatas Volume 3 Susan Alexander-Max (fortepiano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] Muzio Clementi was famous throughout his lifetime as both a composer and a virtuoso performer, appearing at the court of France and competing with Mozart in Vienna. His early piano sonatas, which greatly impressed the young Beethoven, were of... |
HUMMEL
Fortepiano Sonatas Susan Alexander-Max (fortepiano) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] 'Alexander-Max has an appreciation for Hummel's writing that comes through clearly in her confident and skilful playing, and, although she easily could, she is careful not to grab the spotlight all for herself.' All Music Guide. |
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Piano Trios / Piano Quartet in G major / Cello Sonata Susan Alexander-Max (fortepiano) / Pal Banda (cello) / Micaela Comberti (violin) / Jane Rogers (viola) / Simon Standage (violin) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2005 ] "Played with a fine sense of period style, and admirably recorded but for a slightly recessive piano behind closer strings, this is a charming addition to Hummel on disc." Five Stars (Chamber choice of the Month) BBC Music Mag(Jan 2006) |
C. P. E. BACH
Prussian Sonatas, Wq 48 Susan Alexander-Max (Hofmann grand piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] |
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Symphony No. 6 / Concerto grosso No. 2 Tatiana Grindenko (violin) Alexander Ivashkin (cello) / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Valeri Polyansky, conductor [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 14/Apr/2004 ] Throughout this disc, the echt-Russian timbres of Valeri Polyansky's band have a compulsion of their own, empowering what rhetoric there is with what seems like the appropriate clout.' - International Record Review |
LUDWIG MINKUS
Minkus: Don Quixote (complete ballet recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Teatro alla Scala / Natalia Osipova, Leonid Sarafanov, Riccardo Massimi, Matthew Endicot / Alexander Titov (cond) [ C Major BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 15/May/2016 ] Choreography: Rudolf Nureyev Staged By: Raffaele Del Savio In this production from Teatro alla Scala the ballet Don Quixote is shown in the legendary choreography of Rudolf Nureyev. Nureyev´s intention by fusing together the worlds of Commedia... |