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CARL CZERNY
Czerny: Second Grand Concerto in E Flat major / Concertino, Rondino Rosemary Tuck (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Dec/2019 ] Carl Czerny penned an astonishing amount of music, including the numerous potpourris, fantasies, teaching pieces and studies for which he became known. This recording features the delightfully entertaining Concertino in C major, Op. 210/213, as well... |
EINOJUHANI RAUTAVAARA
Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus / Piano Concerto / Symphony No. 3 Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Hannu Lintu [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Oct/2002 ] "performances are fully as fine as any available.. unobtrusively excellent." - David Hurwitz, Classicstoday.com |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Songs (Complete) Ruth Ziesak (soprano) Lothar Odinius (tenor) Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Mozart loved the human voice, which he used as an instrument of musical expression throughout his compositional career from the age of six or seven. His Lieder, written largely in response to requests and commissions from acquaintances, friends and... |
DANNY ELFMAN / ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK
Elfman: Violin Concerto "Eleven Eleven" / Hailstork: Piano Concerto No. 1 Saandy Cameron (violin) Stewart Goodyear (piano) / Buffalo Philharmonic orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] This recording presents brand new concertos from two vibrant and contrasting American composers. Adolphus Hailstork's First Piano Concerto draws on his African American heritage to create a work brimming with energy and high spirits. |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
The Best Of Saint-Saëns Marat Bisengaliev (violin), Marian Lapsansky (piano), Peter Toperczer (piano), Idil Biret (piano), Dong-Suk Kang (violin), Imrich Szabo (organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Dec/1997 ] Artists Marat Bisengaliev (violin), Marian Lapsansky (piano), Peter Toperczer (piano), Idil Biret (piano), Dong-Suk Kang (violin), Imrich Szabo (organ) Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony... |
ISAAC ALBENIZ
Albeniz: Piano Music Volume 6 Santiago L. Sacristán (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Nov/2014 ] Volume 6 of this complete edition focusses in the main on Albéniz's richly varied, early salon style. It includes the dazzling Chopin influenced Vals Champagne, the Estudio de concierto which rivals Liszt for virtuosity, and the famous Tango from... |
ERIK SATIE
Best Of Satie (Incls 3 Gymnopedies & Six Gnossiennes) Klara Kormendi (piano) / Nancy Symphony Orchestra / Jerome Kaltenbach [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] Erik Satie, born in France in 1866, was a lazy pupil at the Paris Conservatoire, and only came to public attention after Debussy made orchestrations of two of his piano pieces, Gymnopédies. Satie became a 'character' in the Latin Quarter of Paris,... |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Piano Concerto / Prometheus Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) / Russian State TV and Radio Choir / Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Igor Golovschin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "This budget-priced production from the composer's compatriots certainly holds its own against all comers. Konstantin Scherbakov plays the concerto with steel and sensitivity in equal measure, and he's particularly successful in knitting together the... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 Idil Biret (piano) Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice); Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD ] "In sum, this beautifully engineered disc tells much about these oft-recorded works we think we know better than we actually do." ClassicsToday |
LOUIS VIERNE
Vierne: Piano Works (Complete), Vol. 1 Sergio Monteiro (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2021 ] Louis Vierne is renowned as one of the most brilliant of all French organ composers. His piano works are little known despite their colourful, imaginative and inspiring treatment of the instrument. |
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
Zemlinsky: Rustic Dances, Op. 1 / Four Fantasies, Op. 9 / A Ray of Light Silke Avenhaus, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2005 ] "Silke Avenhaus never does too much with these pieces, never tries to over-inflate the rhetoric, instead allowing them to find their own level. She seems to have enjoyed the more roguish elements of Ein Lichtstrahl but her playing of the Fantasien is... |
ANTONIO SOLER
Soler: Keyboard Sonatas Nos. Nos. 75 - 86 Soo-Jung Ann (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2018 ] For the last 25 years of his life Antonio Soler occupied the distinguished positions of maestro di capilla and organist at the Escorial palace. He wrote around 150 keyboard sonatas, which remain his best known achievement, a body of music that... |
MUZIO CLEMENTI
Clementi: Keyboard Sonatas Op. 1 & 13 Soyeon Kate Lee (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Dec/2019 ] Muzio Clementi was born four years before Mozart and outlived Beethoven by the same span. His legacy to pianists as a composer and teacher was a significant one, introducing new virtuosity and exploring the expressive possibilities of the piano, a... |
LOUIS MOREAU GOTTSCHALK
A Night in the Tropics: Solo piano music Steven Mayer (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 3/Sep/2015 ] Louis Moreau Gottschalk was the first important American composer to fuse European classical piano music with American cultural influences, including folk music, the music of slaves, and Latin American dances. Although still revered for his... |
ALFREDO CASELLA
Casella: Symphony No. 2 / A notte alta Sun Hee You (piano) / Rome Symphony Orchestra / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "One of Casella's subtlest creations, it receives a fine performance from the Rome Symphony Orchestra and Francesco La Vecchia" Gramophone |
CARL CZERNY
Czerny: Piano Trios Sun-Young Shin (violin), Benjamin Hayek (cello) & Samuel Gingher (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2018 ] "It's always good to have more from Czerny, and virtually everything on the CD is light and entertainingly undemanding to listen to, while offering some further insight into the development of the piano trio itself." MusicWeb |
FERDINAND RIES
Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol 2 Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2008 ] Ferdinand Ries, Beethoven's friend and pupil, was an exceptionally gifted composer whose prophetic piano sonatas foreshadow Schubert's poignant harmonic language, Mendelssohn's expressively sweet melodies and Chopin's brilliant figuration. |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol 5 Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "Kagan's performance is simply marvellous throughout - she plays with sophistication, expression and humour that Ries himself would certainly have applauded." (MusicWeb July 2011) |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Complete Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Susan Kagan and Vassily Primakov (pianos) [ Naxos / 6 CD Box Set - released 28/Oct/2022 ] "Well recorded with an excellent booklet by the pianist." Gramophone 'Ries could not have asked for a better pianist and proponent than he has found in Susan Kagan' (Fanfare) |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Violin Sonatas Vol. 5 Takako Nishizaki (violin) / Benjamin Loeb (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg in 1756, the son of a court musician who, in the year of his youngest child's birth, published an influential book on violin-playing. |
