FILTSCH / MIKULI / TELLEFSEN
Pupils of Chopin: Violin and Piano Works Voytek Proniewicz (violin) / Alexander Jakobidze-Gitman (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Following the release of delightful piano music by Chopin's pupils, Naxos reveals more rarely heard Romantic gems by these heirs of the 'poet of the piano'. Each movement of Karol Mikuli's Grand Duo is ingeniously based on two prevailing themes... |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Piano Music Vol. 5: Overtures Alexander Paley, Brian Zeger (piano, four hands) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] Weber's childhood was in a theatrical environment as the family was part of his father's touring theatre company. He had been born in 1786 in Germany and given the names Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber. His education was haphazard as the company... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: War and Peace (complete opera recorded in 1991) BLU-RAY Mariinsky Theatre / Yelena Prochina, Irina Bogachova, Alexander Gergalov / Valery Gergiev (cond) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances Blu-ray BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Jul/2015 ] "if you're looking for a single video recording of War and Peace and your preference is for the complete opera, Gergiev and Mariinsky are undoubtedly the recording of choice." ClassicalNet |
ABEL / BACH, J.S. / CASALS / HONEGGER / CASALS
Cello Recital; Hommage à Pablo Casals Yorick-Alexander Abel (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2019 ] With this program Yorick-Alexander Abel honors the unsurpassed cello legend Pau Casals who as a Catalan is mainly known under his Spanish name Pablo Casals. When 97 years old Casals died in Puerto Rico he had made the cello as a solo instrument more... |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / BRUCH / DVORAK / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
The Romantic Cello [5 CD set] Zara Nelsova, Julius Berger, Alexander Russakovsky, Timora Rosler, Herre‐Jan Stegenga, Vittorio Ceccanti, Luca Fiorentini, Wladislav Warenberg (cellos [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2015 ] The most beautiful cello music of Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Schumann Chopin, Saint‐Saëns, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff and many more |