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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Best Of Mendelssohn (Incls 'The Hebrides' Overture & Violin Concerto in E minor: II. Andante) Benjamin Frith (piano) Peter Nagy (piano) Takako Nishizaki (violin) / Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Oct/2007 ] Felix Mendelssohn, grandson of the distinguished Jewish thinker Moses Mendelssohn, the additional surname Bartholdy adopted on his conversion to Christianity, was born in Hamburg, the son of a banker. The family moved to Berlin, where Mendelssohn was... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words Peter Nagy (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "He is a gifted player who shows considerable artistry" - Penguin Guide |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
1950s American Recordings, Vol. 1 (Segovia, Vol. 3) Andres Segovia (guitar) [ Naxos Historical Great Guitarists / CD - released 19/Sep/2007 ] Focusing on performances of his transcriptions of the works of J. S. Bach and Handel, [this CD] includes a number of war-horses such as the brilliant Courante from the Cello Suite No. 3 and the Gavotte en Rondeau from the Suite in E major, both of... |
ANDRES SEGOVIA
1950s American Recordings, Vol. 3 (Segovia, Vol. 5) Andres Segovia (guitar) [ Naxos Historical Great Guitarists / CD - released 18/Jan/2008 ] Volume 3 of Segovia's 1950s American recordings focuses on music by Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909), the great nineteenth-century pioneer of the guitar, as well as a noted composer and arranger, and Manuel Ponce (1882-1948), founding father of... |
GRANADOS / ALBENIZ / PAGANINI / SCARLATTI / PONCE
SEGOVIA: 1944 American Recordings Andres Segovia (Guitar) [ Naxos Historical Great Guitarists / CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] In the world of the guitar no name is more illustrious than that of Andrés Segovia, who did so much to establish the guitar as a concert instrument in the twentieth century. He was born in the Spanish town of Linares, in the Andalusian province of... |
ANDRES SEGOVIA
The 1946 New York and the 1949 London Recordings Andres Segovia (guitar) / New London Orchestra / Alec Sherman (conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Guitarists / CD - released 19/Jun/2006 ] "Segovia at the height of his powers during this period. A worthy addition to any respectable collection of guitar music" (MusicWeb July 2006) |