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' |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas (Complete), Vol. 24 Alon Goldstein (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jun/2020 ] Domenico Scarlatti is best remembered for the hundreds of single-movement keyboard sonatas he composed for his pupil the Infanta Maria Bárbara, who married the heir to the Spanish throne in 1728. |
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. |
TOMAS GARBIZU
Garbizu: Piano Music / Traditional Basque Songs and Dances Alvaro Cendoya [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Aug/2006 ] Tomás Garbizu was a constant presence in the musical life of the Spanish Basque Country throughout the twentieth century. He composed many works in a number of different genres, as well as being active as a performer and teacher. |
QUILTER
Folk-Song Arrangements / Part-Songs for Women's Voices (Complete) Amanda Pitt (soprano) Joanne Thomas (mezzo-soprano) Philip Langridge (tenor) David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone) David Owen Norris (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 11 / CD - released 29/May/2005 ] "A worthy addition to British song history. Quilter enhances traditional tunes with understated, self effacing arrangements" (MusicWeb June 2005) |
JOHN HARBISON
Harbison: Piano Trios / Gatsby Etudes / The Violist's Notebook / 10 Micro-Waltzes Amelia Piano Trio [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 26/Feb/2007 ] |
JOHN HARBISON
Harbison: Piano Trios / Gatsby Etudes / The Violist's Notebook / 10 Micro-Waltzes Amelia Piano Trio [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 18/Apr/2007 ] Harbison is one of America's most accomplished musicians, with four symphonies, three operas and a Pulitzer Prize-winning cantata to his credit. Of his Piano Trio No. 2, Harbison writes: '[It] makes little contact with the Mozart-to-Shostakovich... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Piano Recital Amir Tebenikhin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] "He is a strong, assured pianist with virtuoso fingers and resonant, unforced sound. His playing is very natural: no fancy tricks, no technical splurges. He just lets the music unfold in a free, natural manner...If he comes your way, catch him." -... |
JESUS RUEDA
Piano Music: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 / 24 Interludes / Invenciones (excerpts) / Mephisto Ananda Sukarlan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] With symphonies, string quartets, chamber concertos, an opera and a large amount of piano music to his name, Jesús Rueda is one of Spain's foremost living composers. Drawing on intensive studies of Chopin, Liszt, Ravel and Prokofiev, his piano... |
LEON de SAINT-LUBIN
Saint-Lubin: Violin Vituoso Works Vol. 1 - Grand Duo Concertant / 2 Salonstucke / Potpourri Anastasia Khitruk (violin) Elizaveta Kopelman (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] Several of Saint-Lubin's spectacular violin works are here revived by the talented young American-based Anastasia Khitruk, whose other Naxos recordings have been acclaimed: Khandoshkin Violin Sonatas (8.570028) "Outstanding!" (Classics Today) |
BALAKIREV
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Grande Fantaisie on Russian Folksongs Anastasia Seifetdinova (piano) / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] "..this is a fascinating release well worthy of investigation." MusicWeb May 2009 |
FRANZ BERWALD
Berwald: Piano Trios Vol.1 Andras Kiss (violin) / Csaba Onczay (cello) / Ilona Prunyi (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Feb/2002 ] "These three mature piano trios echo the symphonies in their sharp originality, full of surprising twists and turns...Excellent performances from three Hungarian players, very well recorded." Penguin Guide |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Complete Lieder Volume 6 - Myrthen / 6 Gedichte und Requiem Andrea Lauren Brown (soprano) / Thomas E. Bauer (baritone) / Uta Hielscher (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Aug/2011 ] "Bauer has a meaty, sizable voice and brings real engagement to the text." (BBC Music Magazine) |
MYASKOVSKY / GLAZUNOV
Russian Tales Andreas Bantelid (cello) Bengt Forsberg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Nikolay Myaskovsky was one of the most prolific and influential composers in 20th-Century Russian musical life. These two works come from the beginning and end of his distinguished career: the warmly expressive First Cello Sonata recalling the style... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier II András Schiff (piano) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Distinguished Bach specialist András Schiff returned to the BBC Proms in 2018 to present Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier. This performance in the Royal Albert Hall was described as a musical meditation for our troubled times by the Independent. |
IAN VENABLES
On the Wings of Love / Venetian Songs Andrew Kennedy (tenor) / Richard Hosford (clarinet) / Iain Burnside (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 21 / CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "[Venables] manages to create worthwhile new artefacts within his conservative idiom. Expertly crafted, the results offer something genuinely personal and at times profound." (BBC Music Choral & Song Choice - December 2010) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Violin Recital Andrey Bielov (violin) / Igor Tchetuev (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Dec/2002 ] Chamber music forms a modest but significant component in the output of Sergey Prokofiev. As well as two String Quartets, a Sonata and a Ballade for cello and piano, a Sonata for Two Violins and a Wind Quintet, there are the works for violin and... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol 55 - Transcriptions Andrey Ivanov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] This is the first in a series of six albums in a new venture between Naxos and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, presenting six debut albums for outstanding students at the Conservatoire. Andrey Ivanov features in a programme of Liszt... |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Recital: Andrey Yaroshinsky Andrey Yaroshinsky (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Apr/2013 ] Laureate of numerous awards, Andrey Yaroshinsky was also 1st prize winner at the 2011 Gabala International Competition. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier I András Schiff (piano) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 6/Mar/2020 ] "a winning combination of the BBC's high production values and Schiff on peak form at full capacity in music that he profoundly cares about." Gramophone |