Since you are interested in Goldberg Variatioions, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
J. S. BACH
Piano Concertos Vol 2 Hae-won Chang (piano) Camerata Cassovia / Robert Stankpvsky [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jan/2004 ] "It is difficult to imagine a more satisfying pair of discs of this repertoire." Daily Telegraph |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Volume 2: Rare Historical Recordings 1925-1950 Various great pianists [ Naxos Great Pianists / CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] In this second volume in the continuing Naxos series devoted to historic recordings of piano transcriptions of Bach's music, fifteen works are expertly transformed for the modern piano. |
J.S. BACH
Goldberg Variations / Partita No. 5 (rec 1954-55) Glenn Gould (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 19/Apr/2007 ] Glenn Gould's 1955 recording of the work is one of the most important and influential piano discs of the second half of the twentieth century, leading not only to a wider appreciation of Bach's keyboard works by the general public but to a... |
J.S. BACH
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue / Aria variata / French Overture Jeno Jando (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] The programme on this disc ranges widely from the masterful German contrapuntal writing of the Fantasias and Fugues, and the melodically inventive Variations in the Italian style, to the Ouvertüre nach französischer Art, BWV 831, an extended sequence... |
SCHUMANN / LISZT / WEBER / SCRIABIN / BACH / BARTOK
Women at the piano-An anthology of piano performances, Vol. 2 Lili Kraus / Kathleen Long / Raie de Costa / Madeleine de Ellen Ballon / Marie-Aimee Warrot / Galina Werschenska / etc [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 15/Aug/2006 ] In this second volume, Naxos continues its comprehensive anthology of historic performances by the pioneering women pianists who recorded during the first half of the twentieth century. |
VARIOUS
Encores and Transcriptions, Vol. 2 (Rec 1927-1930) Pablo Casals (cello) with Nicolai Mednikoff, piano, Blas Net, piano, Otto Schulhoff, piano. London Symphony Orchestra / Pablo Casals, conductor [ Naxos Great Cellists / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "As before his novel and revolutionary vibrato usage comes under close scrutiny and that vocalized legato which he occasionally spun out with such daring elasticity demonstrate why he was the premier cellist of his generation...Collectors need not... |
J. S. Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II (Rec 1949-1951) Wanda Landowska (piano) [ Naxos Historical / 3 CD - released 2/Jan/2007 ] "With a work so intense, so diverse, so varied in mood, no single interpreter is likely ever to produce a perfect version for everybody. You must resign yourself to having multiple sets, and this Landowska set will be the centerpiece of your... |
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.... |