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YORITSUNE MATSUDAIRA
Matsudaira: Bugaku Dance Suite / Theme and Variations for Piano and Orchestra Osaka Century Orchestra, Ken Takaseki [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2006 ] Yoritsune Matsudaira is descended from the Shogun family who ruled over Japan from 1603 to 1867, based in Edo, later changed to Tokyo. |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Music Vol. 1 Oxana Yablonskaya (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Apr/1995 ] Piano works composed over a period of twenty-six years (1867-1893) comprise a by no means insignificant part of Tchaikovsky's chamber music. |
CARL CZERNY
Czerny: Romantic Piano Fantasies on Sir Walter Scott's Novels Pei-I Wang, Samuel Gingher (piano duet) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Carl Czerny's instructional exercises may be his lasting legacy but there remain numerous largely forgotten pieces that reveal important elements of his compositional range. |
ALAN RAWSTHORNE
Rawsthorne: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 Peter Donohoe (piano) / Ulster Orchestra / Takuo Yuasa (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "Peter Donohoe's heroic series of forgotten British piano concertos brings back to life a Festival of Britain score brimming with vital ideas and effervescent writing with a 'proper-tune' finale." Gramophone |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Maiden's Prayer: Leaves from Grandmother's piano album Peter Nagy, Balazs Szokolay (pianos) [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Feb/2006 ] The nineteenth century was the age of the piano. The newly developed instrument, decorated in the domestic taste of the time and strengthened by the use of an iron frame, making maintenance much easier, proved an admirable centre of home entertainment. |
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 |
HANS WERNER HENZE
Hanze: Volin & Viola Works Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin/viola), Roderick Chadwick (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2018 ] "Hard to imagine a finer advocate for these alluring pieces by Henze than the remarkable Sheppard Skaerved." Sunday Times |
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Chamber Music Vol. 4 (Incls 'Le Bal masque') Pierre Laniau (Guitar) Alexandre Tharaud (Piano) Franck Leguerinel (Baritone) / Jean Delescluse [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2001 ] The continuing series of Poulenc's chamber music |
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WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works Vol. 2 [(ncls Symphony No. 2] The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, with Piotr Paleczny (piano) [ Naxos / CD ] "An excellent disc at bargain price.": BBC Music |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski - Orchestral Works Vol 3: Symphony No. 3 / Paganini Variations Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra; Antoni Wit, conductor, with Bernd Glemser, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] "a series that is setting high standards in budget-price contemporary music....Wit conjures a fantastic range of tone colour from his well-drilled Polish orchestra ...the third symphony has never sounded more convincing" - Classic CD |
FRANZ LISZT / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Liszt/Brahms: Piano Variations Michael Ponti (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/1990 ] The name of Bach was to provide a theme for a number of subsequent composers, following the example of Johann Sebastian Bach himself, who had used his own name as a fugal subject in The Art of Fugue. |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Music for violin and piano Vol 1 (Incls Violin Sonata in F major) Qian Zhou (violin) / Edmund Battersby (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] "A disc that has more than passing interest to recommend it, and promises similar pleasures from its successors in this series." - MusicWebUK, November 12, 2001 |
JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Complete Piano Music Ralph van Raat (piano) with Maarten van Veen (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] The works on this disc span his entire career to date, and illustrate his many different styles of writing for the piano. Phrygian Gates and China Gates - "gate" here referring to a type of electronic switch - could be regarded as his first "minimal"... |
FREDERIC RZEWSKI
Rzewski: The People United will never be Defeated Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 6/Apr/2008 ] "This is another excellent Naxos release, and should be snapped up by anyone with even the mildest interest in 20th century piano music, or just piano music in general." (MusicWeb April 2008) |
KENNETH LEIGHTON
Complete Chamber Works For Cello Raphael Wallfisch (cello), with Raphael Terroni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] "Wallfisch gives eloquent performances of wors characterised by anguished restraint and reflection. Leighton's early Elegy affords a lyrical oasis in this programme of otherwise spare and sometimes jagged music." BBC Music |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
The Best of Gershwin Richard Hayman and His Symphony Orchestra, Kathryn Selby (piano), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, and more [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2008 ] The best of Gershwin drawn from the vast Naxos catalogue |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: Clarinet Music Robert Oberaigner (clarinet), Michael Schöch (piano), Dresden Chamber Soloists, Michail Jurowski [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Mieczysaw Weinberg was familiar with the clarinet from his youth, given its prominent place in klezmer bands and theatre ensembles, and he wrote three works specifically for the instrument. In the Clarinet Concerto he draws a wide range of textures... |
BENJAMIN / ENESCU / JONGEN / KODALY / KREISLER / PAGANINI / SHORE / VIEUXTEMPS
The Virtuoso Viola Roger Chase (viola) / Michiko Otaki (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] Lovers of the viola will rejoice at this deliciously varied musical feast: Zoltán Kodály's magnificent transcription of Bach's Chromatic Fantasia, Paganini's Sonata (actually a theme and variations), two elegiac pieces by Vieuxtemps, Kreisler's... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Allegro appassionato for piano & orchestra Op. 70 Romain Descharmes (piano) / Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Marc Soustrot [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2017 ] "Descharmes has a special way with this music that's really quite liberating" MusicWeb |
CARL CZERNY
Czerny: Piano Concerto in D Minor (1812) / Introduction, Variations and Rondo, Op. 60 Rosemary Tuck (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Feb/2018 ] "Tuck demonstrates the beauty and delicacy of the filigree melodies in the first movement, and the cadenza, written by Tuck and Alan Jones, glints and glitters…There is thoughtful balance between soloist and ensemble." BBC Music |
