Since you are interested in Maxwell Davies: Naxos Quartets Nos. 1 and 2, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
WILLIAM ALWYN
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Sonata alla toccata Peter Donohoe (piano) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / James Judd, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "Peter Donohoe, born-again champion of the British piano concerto, gives tremendous performances of two works he can rarely if ever have played live. This is music well worth discovering: and nestling between the two concerti is the splendid Derby... |
FANNY MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn, Fanny: Lieder, Vol. 1 Dorothea Craxton (soprano) Babette Dorn (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] "I am not going to get carried away with praise, but these are songs just as worthy of our attention as many from Schubert, and it is good to note that this is the first volume of a cycle." David's Review Corner, December 2009 |
FINZI
Dies natalis / Farewell to Arms / 2 Sonnets James Gilchrist (tenor) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / David Hill [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "James Gilchrist's singing is guided by a refined (yet passionate) sensibility, just right for Finzi, and his voice has substantial reserves of resonance and power." (Gramophone) |
Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Piano Concerto / Worldes Blis Kathryn Stott (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Maxwell Davies [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jan/2013 ] Dedicated to Kathryn Stott, Peter Maxwell Davies's Piano Concerto is "one of the most attractive and immediately likeable piano concertos to appear for some time. Miss Stott's performance must be regarded as definitive in its comprehensive grasp of... |
EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA
Rautavaara: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 / Isle of Bliss Laura Mikkola (Piano) / Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra / Eri Klas (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Oct/2006 ] "Laura Mikkola sounds perfectly attuned to the character of both works and exhibits a wide-ranging, impressive technique..." |
Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Naxos Quartets Nos. 7 and 8 Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] "Little did we know, when Max was commissioned by budget label Naxos to write 10 string quartets, what a late flowering odyssey it would be, all his mature skills coalescing within the intense discipline of Haydn-esque form. The Seventh Quartet is an... |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
String Quartets Vol.2 (Incls 'Simple Symphony, Op. 4') Maggini String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] "[The Maggini Quartet's] account of the trickily allusive Third Quartet is, and will surely remain, hard to beat." --Review by Arnold Whittall, Gramophone Critics' choice, 1999 |
Sir Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Maxwell Davies: Symphony No. 3 / Cross Lane Fair Rob Lea (bodhran) & Mark Jordan (northumbrian pipes) / BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Maxwell Davies [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] "For a listener who is, as Susan Sontag called herself, "a zealot of seriousness", the rewards are deep and stirring." (Sunday Times) |