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ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Piano Music Vol 1 (Includes Sonatas for Piano Nos 1 & 2) Ashley Wass, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2004 ] "Ashley Wass's Bax series for Naxos launches in auspicious fashion" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Oct 2004 |
FRANCK
Piano Recital (Includes Prelude, Choral et Fugue) Ashley Wass (piano) [ Naxos Laureate Series / CD - released 1/Mar/2003 ] "Ashley Wass, winner of the World Piano Competition in London two years ago, is a thoroughly persuasive advocate of this music...[his] command of the music's intellectual and expressive thrust makes for compelling listening." - Geoffrey Norris, The... |
ARNOLD BAX
Piano Works Vol. 3 Ashley Wass (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] Arnold Bax wrote nearly thirty short piano pieces during and immediately after the First World War. It was through the keyboard that Arnold Bax came to music. |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Symphonic Variations / Concertante for Piano Left Hand Ashley Wass (piano) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / James Judd [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "The young pianist Ashley Wass play[s] impeccably - not only stylishly, but also with subtle, expressive shading and lovely liquid tone quality." The Independent |
ARNOLD BAX
Bax: Winter Legends / Morning Song (Maytime in Sussex) / Saga Fragment Ashley Wass (piano) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / James Judd [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] "Naxos' recording captures the full range of the music (it's pretty wide), yet maintains clarity even in the tutti passages. Bax fans will find much to enjoy in this release." (10/10 ClassicsToday July 2011) |
FRANK BRIDGE
Bridge: Piano Trios Nos. 1 and 2 / etc Ashley Wass (piano) Jack Liebeck (violin) Alexander Chaushian (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Frank Bridge's reputation as the teacher of his most famous student, Benjamin Britten, has long hindered appreciation of his own impeccably crafted music. Between the early Phantasie Trio (1907) and Miniatures (1908) and the masterful Piano Trio No.... |
ARNOLD BAX / FRANK BRIDGE
Bax/Bridge: Piano Quintets Ashley Wass (piano) The Tippett Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "Exceptional performances of two outstanding British chamber works. The Bax work is epic in scope, tumultuous and wild; lyrical and nostalgic. Bridge's early lyrical yet occasionally turbulent Quintet includes some gorgeous melodies." MusicWeb |
Jesús VILLA-ROJO
Villa-Rojo: Music for Cello: Sonata 2 / Lamento / Oracion serena / Expresiones Asier Polo (cello), Amaia Zipitria (piano), Rafael Romero 'el Gallina' (vocals), Gerardo Lopez Laguna (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Jesús Villa-Rojo is one of Spain's most impressive contemporary composers, and writes masterfully for the cello...Cellist Asier Polo is closely identified with this music and is "as authoritative as could be". |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites, Transcribed for Piano Four Hands Aurora Duo (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] It is astonishing to recall that five years after the première of Swan Lake, one of the greatest of all Russian ballets, and of Tchaikovsky's three full-length ballets the one with the greatest number of memorable tunes, the composer wrote to his... |
AVNER DORMAN
Dorman: Concertos for Mandolin, Piccolo, Piano and Concerto Grosso Avi Avital (mandolin) Mindy Kaufman (piccolo) Eliran Avni (piano) / Metropolis Ensemble / Andrew Cyr [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] "The Metropolis Ensemble under Andrew Cyr sounds absolutely terrific no matter what Dorman asks them to do. This is really good stuff, a genuine discovery, beautifully played and excellently engineered." (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte (Songs Without Words) (arr. F. Hermann for violin and piano) Axel Strauss (violin) / Cord Garben (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] In arranging [the Songs without Words] for violin and piano the Leipzig violinist Friedrich Hermann was able to create a useful addition to the repertoire of his instrument without making any significant changes to the texture and form of the... |
J. S. BACH
The Well-Tempered Clavier Book Book II Jeno Jando (piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Jeno Jando (piano) |
J. S. BACH
Complete Piano Concertos Vol 1 Hae Won Chang (piano) / Camerata Cassovia, Robert Stankovsky [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2015 ] "A couple of delightful CDs... you will certainly enjoy these vigorous, enticing and thoroughly musical performances." CDReview |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Solo Piano Works (1932-1936) Wilhelm Backhaus (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 29/May/2006 ] "...Backhaus caresses the phrases tenderly and with a beautiful tone quality throughout. The expert audio restorations are by Mark Obert-Thorn." International Record Review |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114 / Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 Jozsef Balogh (clarinet), Jeno Jando (piano), Csaba Onczay (cello) / Danubius Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Mar/2014 ] "This Brahms Quintet projects all the virtuosity and Weltschmerz one could want." (Los Angeles Times) |
SAMUEL BARBER
Barber: Piano Concerto / Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance / etc Stephen Prutsman (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] "The American Classics series has been one of the most innovative and exciting recording projects in recent years. The exploration of Barber's works has persistently provided the brightest jewels in the Naxos crown." (The Observer) |
BARTOK / LISZT / RAVEL / SARASATE
Violin Recital Barnabas Kelemen (violin) / Peter Nagy (piano) [ Naxos Laureate Series / CD - released 8/Aug/2006 ] A violin recital featuring violin works by Ravel, Sarasate, Bartok, and transcriptions of Liszt. |
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Piano Concerto ‘Resurrection’ & Flute Concerto Barry Douglas (piano) / Lukasz Dlugosz (flute) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Mar/2013 ] Scored for a large orchestra, including triple wind and a raft of percussion, Penderecki's Piano Concerto, heard here in its 2007 revision first performed by Barry Douglas, renews the composer's direct involvement with the 'grand' concerto tradition... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No. 2 & 3 Bartholdy Piano Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "performances are well prepared, fluent" - Fanfare |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet, Op. 110 / Piano Quartet No. 1 Bartholdy Piano Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2008 ] "The string players are always fluent and show a light-hearted vivacity in Mendelssohn's scherzo's" - Penguin Guide |
