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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... |
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) |
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) |
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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... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (complete opera recorded in 2017) Teatro alla Scala / Nina Stemme, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Maria Agresta, Alexander Tsymbaluk / Riccardo Chailly(cond) [ Decca Music Group DVD / DVD - released 10/Sep/2017 ] "Stemme is in the great tradition of Birgit Nilsson's Turandot, though there is a touching uncertainty around her Princess too...Agresta's Liù is one of the most appealing on record." BBC Opera Choice June 2017 |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Teatro alla Scala / Nina Stemme, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Maria Agresta, Alexander Tsymbaluk / Riccardo Chailly(cond) [ Decca Music Group Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2017 ] "A firm recommendation for this eminently watchable offering from the theatre of the opera's premiere." Gramophone Blu-ray of the Month April 2017 |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Coronation Ode, Op.44 / The Spirit of England, Op.80 Teresa Cahill (sop) Anne Collins (alto) Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Sep/1992 ] "Gibson's performances combine fire and panache, and the recorded sound has an ideal Elgarian expansiveness, the choral tone rich and well focused, the orchestral brass given plenty of weight." Penguin Guide |
NORGARD / SORENSEN / HELLSTENIUS / SAARIAHO
Nordsending: Nordic String Trios Trio Aristos: Szymon Krzeszowiec (violin) Alexander Øllgard (viola) Jakob Kullberg (cello) [ BIS / CD - released 10/Feb/2017 ] Nordsendingwas the name given by southern Norwegian people of the late Medieval and Early Modern period to magical attacks from the sorcerous sub-Arctic and Arctic. It was the 'broadcast from the north'. Other peoples had other names for it, but they... |
NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY
Myaskovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 13 Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Rudin [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] With 27 symphonies to his name, Nikolay Myaskovsky is known as the 'father of the Soviet symphony', his legacy placing him in the same line as other great Russian symphonists such as Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Myaskovsky's richly Romantic Symphony... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
100 Piano Masterpieces Frank Braley, Paul Lewis, Alexander Melnikov, Olga Kern, Javier Perianes, Alain Planes, Beatrice Rana, Joyce Yang, etc [ Harmonia Mundi / 6 CD Box Set - released 30/Aug/2019 ] "It's an appealing package of six discs, each with a brightly-coloured sleeve. Equally colourful is the music selection, which features a veritable royal family of keyboard stars." BBC Music |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Best Of Weber CSR Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Paley (piano), etc [ Naxos / CD ] Soloists include Kalman Berkes (clarinet), Alexander Paley (piano), Benjamin Frith (piano), Ernst Ottensamer (clarinet) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Generation Harmonia Mundi 2: The Family Spirit 1988 - 2018 Various Artists including Andreas Scholl, Isabelle Faust, RIAS Kammerchor, Alexander Melnikov, Werner Gura, etc [ Harmonia Mundi / 18 CD Box Set - released 11/May/2018 ] Over the past sixty years, several families of musicians have written the history of harmonia mundi. 1988-2018: after the success of Atys and the St Matthew Passion, the Arles years saw those families branching out and opening up to new generations... |
