ISAAC ALBENIZ
Albeniz: Piano Music, Vol. 3 - 6 Danzas espanolas / 6 Pequenos valses / 6 Mazurkas de salon Guillermo Gonzalez (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "This is a great CD that explores some impressive music that is technically superb in both the sound quality and the performance. González succeeds in making these pieces both moving and attractive." (MusicWeb May 2009) |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Songs of Love and Death Hedwig Fassbender (mezzo-soprano) Hilko Dumno (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Dec/2007 ] "Fassbender is an understanding, sympathetic and, above all, straightforward guide to this music. The recording… deserves hearing for both its interesting juxtaposition of repertoire and the unaffected sincerity of the performances…" (Gramophone) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / FRANZ LISZT
Liszt / Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Transcription) Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Dec/2004 ] "This is a magnificent disc and listening to it is a truly uplifting experience." MusicWeb, October 2004 |
ERNO DOHNANYI
Dohnanyi: Complete Piano Works Vol 1 (Incls 6 Concert Etudes Op.28) Markus Pawlik (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] Rosette (Highest Award) Penguin Stereo Guide |
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
Szymanowski: Piano Works Vol 3 (Mazurkas, Op. 50 ; Etudes, Op. 33; etc ) Martin Roscoe (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] "In the louder moments, he is never too hard, which given Szymanowski's propensity for dense textures, is a major plus point. ... Highly recommended." - International Record Review |
PAUL MORAVEC / YI CHEN / TANIA LEON / EVE BEGLARIAN / NED ROREM / etc
Eight Visions: A New Anthology for Flute and Piano Marya Martin (flute) Colette Valentine (piano) Eve Beglarian (electronics) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] Born in New Zealand and now living in United States, Marya Martin plays eight commissioned works to add to the sizeable repertoire of 20th century scores for flute and piano. |
GABRIEL FAURE
Fauré: Preludes And Impromptus Pierre-Alain Volondat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1997 ] "Volondat makes the most of the built-in contrasts in the Preludes" BBC Music |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Schumann-Introduction and Concert-Allegro) Idil Biret, Jeno Jando (pianos) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Antoni Wit (conductor) [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "Jeno Jando and his Polish colleagues strike me as getting the balance just about right" - Classic CD |
W. A. MOZART / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Mozart: Piano Quintet, K. 452 / Beethoven: Piano Quintet, Op. 16 Jeno Jando (piano) Jeno Kevehazi (horn) Jozsef Kiss (oboe) Bela Kovacs (clarinet) Jozsef Vajda (bassoon) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Feb/2006 ] "Excellently recorded" - Penguin Guide |
JACOB WEINBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Weinberg: Piano Concerto 2 / String Quartet Op. 55 / etc Jorge Federico Osorio (piano), Patrick Mason (baritone) / Bingham String Quartet, Barcelona Symphony, National Orchestra of Catalonia [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 3/Apr/2006 ] This compact disc features world premiere recordings of three works by JACOB WEINBERG (1879-1956), who was born in the Ukraine to a cultured, assimilated family and studied first at the Moscow conservatory and then in Vienna. |
MARIO PILATI
Pilati: Concerto for Orchestra / Suite for Strings and Piano Tomas Nemee (piano), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Marco Polo / CD - released 1/Oct/2001 ] Recorded: May 2000 Recording Venue: Concert Hall of the Slovak Radio at Bratislava |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Deutsches Requiem [German Requiem] (1871 London version) (Sung in English) Michelle Areyzaga (soprano) Russell Hugh (baritone) Madeline Slettedahl (piano) Terry Craig (piano) / Bella Voce, Andrew Lewis [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] "The recording, made in St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Evanston, IL, is superb, with an acoustic that combines marvelous definition, rich and beautiful reproduction of both voices and pianos" Fanfare |
GEORGE WALKER
Walker: Complete Piano Works Vol 1 Alexandre Dossin (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] George Walker's unique collection of piano music ranges across his long career. The three sonatas heard here, in this the first of two volumes of Walker's complete piano works, offer compelling contrasts. Sonata No. 1 is his longest and utilizes folk... |
ANTON RUBINSTEIN
Rubinstein: Piano Music - Three Caprices, Op. 21; Six Pieces, Op. 51 Sergio Gallo (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Anton Rubinstein occupied an uneasy place in the history of Russian music, largely because of his Jewish origins and the perception of him as a 'German in Russia'. |
FRANZ LISZT / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor / Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor Angel Stanislav Wang (piano), with the Breton String Quartet [ Naxos Piano Laureate series / CD - released 1/Dec/2023 ] Angel Stanislav Wang, winner of the 63rd Jaén Prize International Piano Competition in 2022, presents his Naxos debut recital with a selection of works he performed during the competition. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Complete Songs Volume 5 Alina Wunderlin (soprano) Kieran Carrel (tenor) Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] In grouping his Lieder into sets with opus numbers, Brahms was concerned with thematic unity and poetic contrasts. The theme of Op. 71 is love, whether ardent, ironic or courtly, and contains one of his best-loved songs, Minnelied. |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 19 and 25 [transcription by Ignaz Lachner] Alon Goldstein (piano) / Fine Arts Quartet, with Lizzie Burns [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2023 ] Ignaz Lachner's ingenious transcriptions show a complete grasp of Mozart's idiom, incorporating much instrumental detail and reinventing the music's underlying dramatic scheme within a chamber context. |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Trios Volume 8 Aquinas Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] As one of the most celebrated composers of the late 18th century, Joseph Haydn can lay claim to being 'father of the piano trio' alongside that of other genres established in his lifetime such as the symphony and the string quartet. |
FREDERIC RZEWSKI
Rzewski: Late Piano Works Bobby Mitchell (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] Frederic Rzewski was one of the most important American composer-pianists of his time. The themes explored in his late piano works are typical of his entire body of work in their uncompromising and universal nature. The intensely contrapuntal Ruins... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Boris Giltburg (piano) / Brussels Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto was composed while he was a student at the Moscow Conservatoire, then fully reworked before he left Russia in 1917 and again in 1919. It is hard to explain why it never achieved a higher level of popularity. |