Since you are interested in Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 (recorded 1946 & 1953), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Maiden's Prayer: Leaves from Grandmother's piano album Peter Nagy, Balazs Szokolay (pianos) [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Feb/2006 ] The nineteenth century was the age of the piano. The newly developed instrument, decorated in the domestic taste of the time and strengthened by the use of an iron frame, making maintenance much easier, proved an admirable centre of home entertainment. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Mazurkas (Rec 1938-39) Artur Rubinstein (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "Rubinstein's Mazurkas are equally the stuff of legends. Chopin's most subtle and confessional diary, they transcend their humble origins and become in Rubinstein's hands an ever-audacious series of miniatures" (Gramophone 2001) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Nocturnes and Scherzi (Rec 1936-1937) Artur Rubinstein (piano) [ Naxos Historic Great Pianists / 2 CD - released 19/Feb/2006 ] "Critics' Choice.' How remarkable to to have the greatest of Rubinstein's Chopin, his 1932-39 recoridngs, available on Naxos. A bargain of bargains, no more extrovert or subtly ebusive Chopin exists." - Bryce Morrison, Gramophone, January 2002 |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Polonaises [selection] (Rec 1934-35) Artur Rubinstein (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "When Rubinstein launches into these works, it's soul music!" - Classics Today (Jed Distler), December, 2000 |
TCHAIKOVSKY / STAMITZ / HAYDN / RACHMANINOV / RUBINSTEIN / GLAZUNOV / SAINT-SAENS / etc
Andante Cantabile: Romantic music for cello and orchestra Ludovit Kanta, Maria Kliegel, Alexander Rudin, Christian Benda, Vytautas Sondeckis (cellos) with various orchestras [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2006 ] "A COMPILATION of favourite tunes for the cello is almost guaranteed to be moody and relaxing. And sure enough, its woody tones - in the hands of Christian Benda, Ludovic Kanta, Vytautus Sondeckis, Maria Kliegel and Alexander Rubin - draw a... |
RUSSIAN FAVOURITES
Russian Favourites (music by Borodin, Gliere, Glinka, Ippolitov-Ivanov, Kabalevsky, etc) Slovak Phil Orch, Slovak Radio SymphOrch, conductors: Bramall, Gunzenhauser, Halasz, Hayman, Jean [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] The second half of the nineteenth century brought with it a burgeoning of Russian culture, itself, whatever nationalist critics might have said, a result of that cross-fertilisation of ideas that has its origin in the reforms of Peter the Great. |
ANTON RUBINSTEIN
Symphony No.2 'Ocean' Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Stephen Gunzenhauser [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] "It is the best recording of the Ocean Symphony - one of Anton Rubinstein's greatest works - and the only one available. The Slovak Philharmonic is very well recorded." (American Record Guide) |
ANTON RUBINSTEIN
Symphony No.4 Dramatic Slovak State PO (Kosice) / Robert Stankovsky [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Sep/2002 ] Anton Rubinstein was born at Vikhvatinets in the Podolsk district of the Russian Empire, on the borders of Moldavia, in 1829. A few years later his family moved to Moscow, and after early instruction on the piano from his mother he took lessons from... |
Takako Nishizaki, violin / Slovak PO & Michael Halasz / Hong Kong PO Schermerhor
Rubinstein - Violin Concerto in G / Cui - Suite Concertante for Violin and Orch [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2001 ] rare or previously un-recorded repertoire at bargain price |