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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... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 / Schumann: Kinderszenen / Carnaval (1953) Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Alfred Cortot was renowned above all as a pianist whose interpretations, especially of the works of Schumann, Debussy and Chopin, were often on a spiritual level. |
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... |
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) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Ballades Nos. 1-4 / Nocturnes (Cortot, 78 rpm Recordings, Vol. 5) (1929-1951) Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] "A triumphant end for the Cortot-Chopin series then. Good restoration work allows us to hear these performances in all their disputatious but teeming glory." (MusicWeb May 2007) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Encores - 78 rpm Recordings (recorded 1925-26) Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 13/Sep/2007 ] 'He is one of those great musicians from whose readings of familiar works there is almost invariably something to learn and remember… it would be hard to surpass his sincerity, his feeling, his colouring, and declamation of the music. Nor are many as... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Etudes (Complete) (1933-1949) Alfred Cortot (Piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 14/Sep/2006 ] Volume 3 of Cortot 78RPM recordings. Cortot was a great musician whose interpretations were often on a spiritual level. He managed to convey a depth of meaning through his playing and became associated with the works of Schumann, Debussy and... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 - 3 / Polonaises (Cortot 78 rpm Recordings Vol. 4) Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] "A valuable repository of some of the most charismatic and resourceful Chopin playing on record" (MusicWeb May 2007) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Waltzes Nos. 1-14 (rec 1933-1949) Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 13/Mar/2006 ] The son of a French father and Swiss mother, Alfred Cortot was born in Nyon, Switzerland in 1877. During his childhood the family moved to Paris and young Alfred joined the Paris Conservatoire at the age of nine, studying the piano first with Emile... |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Piano Sonata No. 2 (with sonatas by Liszt & Schubert) (recorded 1931-1948) Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 15/Mar/2009 ] "Cortot's sweeping spontaneity is irresistible. The Weber is tremendous, and Liszt's Sonata (recorded in 1929, not 1939 as per the track-listing) has a hugely impressive albeit rather breathless drive." (BBC Music) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 / Schumann: Piano Concerto (Rec 1934/35) Alfred Cortot (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Landon Ronald, John Barbirolli (Conductors) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 2/Jul/2001 ] "At its bargain price this release should prove highly attractive to those with specialized interests." - Fanfare |
CESAR FRANCK
Alfred Cortot - Franck: Symphonic Variations (rec 1934) with concertos by Saint-Saens and Ravel Alfred Cortot (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Landon Ronald / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra / Charles Munch [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 2/Jul/2001 ] "One of his precious few concerto recordings, this disc shows Cortot at his most beguiling. Mark Obert-Thorn's transfers are exceptional and all lovers of past but ever-present greatness will want this second and final Naxos volume of Cortot's sadly... |
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. |
RAFFAELE CALACE
Mandolin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Rhapsodia Napoletana Alison Stephens (mandolin) / Steven Devine (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Oct/2007 ] If a single musical example could demonstrate the range, emotion and expressiveness of the mandolin, it is the slow movement of Concerto No. 1. |
CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
Concerto for Solo Piano Op. 39 Dmitry Feofanov (piano) / Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra, Robert Stankovsky [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "Feofanov does a heroic job... Good recording makes this well worth anybody's money" (Penguin Guide) |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Music for 2 Pianos Allan Schiller (piano) / John Humphreys (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] Ferruccio Busoni was universally regarded as one of the late-Romantic era's most remarkable piano virtuosi, and was undoubtedly one of its most fascinating composers, even if the searching intellectualism of much of his music only slowly won it an... |
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WEINBERG
Complete Piano Works 1 Allison Brewster Franzetti [ Grand Piano / Naxos / CD - released 7/Sep/2012 ] |
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' |
