ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Schnittke: Fuga for solo violin / Klingende Buchstaben for solo cello / Piano Quintet / String Trio 1999 AFCM Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Jan/2002 ] "The force behind this brilliant collection is violinist Mark Lubotsky, the original soloist of Schnittke's first two violin concertos and the dedicatee of the second. Lubotsky's connection with the man and the music is obvious from the first note of... |
WALTER PISTON
Piston: Chamber Music including the Quintet for Flute & Sting Quartet 1999 Australian Festival of Chamber Music [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Jan/2002 ] "The Naxos American Classics series is throwing up both intriguing repertoire and some appealing performances" The Strad |
AARON JAY KERNIS / JORGE LIDERMAN / STEVEN MACKEY
New American Chamber Music with Guitar Aaron Jay Kernis (piano) / Hila Plitmann (soprano) / Axel Strauss (violin) / David Tanenbaum (guitar & conductor) / San Francisco Conservatory Guitar [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] Each of these new pieces was written for the artists who perform them here. |
ANTON ARENSKY
Arensky: Piano Music (Incls 6 Pieces, Op. 53 & 12 Etudes, Op. 74) Adam Neiman (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "Recommended for those, then, who particularly like Russian music, or who want to delve deeper into their understanding of the roots of 20th-century Russian music." Fanfare |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Violin Recital: Adele Anthony Adele Anthony (violin), Jonathan Feldman (piano) [ Naxos Laureate Series Violin / CD ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos 3, 5 Spring & 9 Kreutzer Adolf Busch (violin) Rudolf Serkin (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] The Naxos Violinist series continues |
PETER WARLOCK
The Curlew / Lillygay / Peterisms Sets 1 & 2 / Saudades Adrian Thompson (Tenor) Christopher Maltman (Baritone) John Constable (Piano) / The Duke Quartet [ Naxos English Song Series / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] "The performance competes with the best, with sensitive playing from the Duke and finely shaded singing from Adrian Thompson." --Robert Cockroft, Yorkshire Post |
DEBUSSY
Early Works for Piano Duet Adrienne Soós and Ivo Haag (piano duo) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] An innovative genius, Claude Debussy is famous for his mature 'Impressionist' music, though he rather disliked the term. He frequently performed four-hand piano pieces in concert, most of the works on this disc either being composed or adapted by him... |
AMY BEACH
Beach: Piano Concerto / Gaelic Symphony Alan Feinberg (piano) Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Schermerhorn (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/May/2003 ] "Prepare to be thrilled by the melodic invention and charming rhythmic energy of this music. Well worth exploring." - Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (June 2003) |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Emerson Concerto / Symphony No. 1 Alan Feinberg (Piano) / National Symphony Orchestra Of Ireland / James Sinclair [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "Alan Feinberg is an ideal exponent of Ives's truculent and tender realism. The National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland partners him well... a very strong recommendation" International Record Review |
MOZART
Mozart Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 17 (arr. Lachner) Alan Goldstein, Fine Arts Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] Mozart himself had arranged four of his earlier concertos for the ensemble of piano, string quartet and bass, to enable his works to be performed domestically. Numerous subsequent transcriptions followed during the course of the 19th century,... |
ISAAC ALBENIZ
Albeniz: Piano Music Vol 1 [Incls Iberia, books 1-4 (complete)] Guillermo Gonzalez (piano) Helen Gonzalez (piano) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] "I was sufficiently impressed with González'[s] interpretation of Iberia that even those who have heard it performed by other pianists will not want to pass by his recording." Examiner.com |
J. C. BACH
Bach, (J.C.): 6 Keyboard Sonatas, Op. 17 Alberto Nose (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Mar/2008 ] The youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Christian moved to Italy and then, finally, to London, where, like Handel before him, he won early success in the opera house. Although he had been a skilled keyboard player, he wrote relatively... |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Works for 2 Pianos Aldo Ciccolini, Aldo Orvieto, Marco Rapetti (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2020 ] Ferruccio Busoni composed a significant number of works for two pianos throughout his life. |
CAMILLO TOGNI
Togni: Complete Piano Music Volume 1 Aldo Orvieto (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] Volume 1 (of 4) of the complete piano music of the influential Italian composer, teacher and pianist Camillo Togni features both original works and transcriptions of Mahler and Bach. Togni's fascination with the Second Viennese and Darmstadt Schools... |
CAMILLO TOGNI
Togni: Piano Music, Vol. 5 Aldo Orvieto (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] Camillo Togni loved the piano and fully understood the instrument's great potential for colour and virtuosity. This final volume in the series explores Togni's very first piano works. |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Complete Piano Music Volume 5 Alessandro Marangoni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] Rossini's Péchés de vieillesse or 'Sins of Old Age' is a series of thirteen volumes of piano works which were the main musical occupation of his last decade. The 24 pieces of volume twelve are of breathtaking variety, including flavours from Bach and... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Complete Piano Music Volume 6 Alessandro Marangoni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Apr/2014 ] Rossini's operas have remained amongst the most popular in the repertoire but over the last decade of his life he turned largely to piano music. The Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age) occupy thirteen volumes, and the deliciously informal and... |
CLEMENTI
Gradus ad Parnassum, Vol. 3 Alessandro Marangoni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] Muzio Clementi was revered as 'the father of the pianoforte'. He was a virtuoso, composer and teacher whose publishing and piano manufacturing made him hugely wealthy. Gradus ad Parnassum consists of 100 incredibly demanding exercises designed to... |
CLEMENTI
Gradus ad Parnassum, Volume 1 Alessandro Marangoni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Alessandro Marangoni has won great praise for his recordings of Rossini's piano music for Naxos. This is the first in a series of four Naxos albums. |