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ALKAN
12 Etudes Op.35 / Le festin d'Esope / Scherzo diabolico Bernard Ringeissen (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] one of the greatest composers for the piano |
ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Granados: 12 Spanish Dances Rosa Torres-Pardo (piano) [ Naxos Spanish Music Collection / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] "Very personal and exciting versions of these works, where the Madrid pianist, who has just recorded Goyescas, succeeds in properly combining the folkloric features and the intellectualism contained in them." Swing |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
1929-1937 Recordings Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "Everything here is delectable but the very disc itself would object if I did not single out the pianist's arrangement of the Largo from Bach's F minor Concerto, something for everyone's desert island and enough to bring tears to the eyes of even the... |
BERG / HINDEMITH / HARTMANN
20th Century Piano Sonatas Allison Brewster Franzetti (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Aug/2007 ] 2008 Grammy Award nomination for 'Best Instrumental Soloist Performance' |
ALEXANDRE TANSMAN
24 Intermezzi / Petite Suite Eliane Reyes (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Mar/2011 ] "Brief, fluid and exotic, [the first two books] are alive with many unnerving twists of harmony and direction...[Reyes's] performances are memorably refined, dextrous and committed. She is excellently recorded and this is clearly a disc for... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 Konstantin Scherbakov (Piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 11/May/2006 ] "On Naxos, the younger Russian ex-patriot Konstantin Scherbakov represents a fabulous bargain - at a fraction of the cost of any other. He displays wonderfully nimble, energetic finger work and scores over Ashkenzy in the meditative, slow fugues." |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28 / 3 Impromptus / Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57 Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] "Cortot's ability to make Chopin solid and tangible, to communicate his art both on an earthily human as well as an elevated poetic level - simultaneously" (MusicWeb Feb 2006) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes / Sonata No. 1 / Three Fantastic Dances and others Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Oct/2003 ] The composer was a prize-winner in the 1927 Chopin Competition in Warsaw and appeared frequently, if often reluctantly, as an exponent of his own piano music and that of others. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
3 Centuries of Bagatelles (bagatelles by Couperin, Beethoven, Liszt, Saint-Saens, Liadov, Bartok, Tcherepnin + Denisov) Julia Zilberquit (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Jun/2007 ] This innovative recording by the gifted Russian-born American pianist Julia Zilberquit traces the development of the bagatelle from Couperin through to Bartók and beyond, revealing the remarkable character and drama in the genre. |
W. A. MOZART
4 Horn Concertos / Piano and Wind Quintet (rec 1953, 1955) Dennis Brain (horn) / Walter Gieseking (piano) / Philharmonia Wind Ensemble / Philharmonia Orchestra / Herbert von Karajan [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] "This disc is pure joy. At the price, it is almost a crime not to snap it up." Bargain of the Month MusicWeb May 2007 |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: 5 Orchestral Pieces / Cello Concerto / Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 (orch. Schoenberg) Fred Sherry (Cello) / London Symphony Orchestra / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft (Conductor) [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 5 / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] In 1933, Schoenberg transcribed for cello a harpsichord concerto by the baroque composer Matthias Monn (1717-50). He dedicated his arrangement to Pablo Casals, whom he had met in Vienna, but Casals considered it too demanding. |
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... |
JOSEF SUK
6 Piano Pieces / De Mamam / Moods Risto Lauriala (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Feb/2002 ] Piano music of Josef Suk |
CHARLES WUORINEN
6 Trios Ronald Borror (Trombone), Alan Feinberg (Piano), Daniel Druckman (Marimba), Daniel Druckman (Vibraphone) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] The ways in which the composer approaches the four types of ensemble here illustrate his participation in that tradition of the ensemble genre that has been a lure for generations of Western composers. |
W.A. MOZART
6 Violin Sonatas, K 10-15 (For Flute and Piano) Gena Raps (Piano) / Carol Wincenc (Flute) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Nov/2006 ] In 1765 he dedicated to Queen Charlotte a set of six sonatas. These appeared on 18 January as Opus III, with the title: Six Sonates pour le Clavecin qui peuvent se jouer avec L'accompagnment de Violon ou Flaute Traversière |
CASELLA
9 Pieces, Op. 24 / 6 Studies, Op. 70 / Children's Pieces, Op. 35 Luca Ballerini (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2005 ] |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: A Faust Symphony (Version for Two Pianos, S647/R369) (Complete Piano Music Vol. 34) Marcus Ullmann (tenor) / Franz Liszt Piano Duo / Liszt School of Music Chamber Choir, Weimar [ Naxos Liszt Complete Piano Music Edition / CD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] A recording of the Faust Symphony arranged for two pianos |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A Yiddish Winterreisse - A Holocaust Survivor's Inner Journey Told Through Yiddish Song Mark Glanville (bass-baritone) / Alexander Knapp (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] A Yiddish Winterreise is a sequence of songs from the Yiddish repertoire devised by opera singer and cantor Mark Glanville, recreating the original, Schubertian journey in a Holocaust context. The singer reflects on the life and world he has just... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Adagio: The Ultimate Collection Ernst Ottensamer (clarinet), Norbert Kraft (guitar), Jenö Jandó (piano), Bela Banfalvi (violin), Emilia Csanky (oboe), Anthony Camden (oboe), Alison A [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] An ultimate collection of soothing classics to melt away the stresses of your day |
RICHARD ADDINSELL
Addinsell: Goodbye Mr. Chips / A Tale of Two Cities Philip Martin (piano), Roderick Ems (piano) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Kenneth Alwyn [ Naxos British Light Music / CD - released 25/Jun/2021 ] World-famous for the Warsaw Concerto from the film Dangerous Moonlight, Richard Addinsell was one of Britain's leading composers for stage and screen. This selection ranges widely over every area of his achievement. |
