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FANNY MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL
Mendelssohn, Fanny: Piano sonatas in C and G minor Heather Schmidt (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] It is only relatively recently that Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel has stepped out of the shadow of her more famous sibling Felix. Nearly all of her five hundred or so compositions remained unpublished during her lifetime, despite their undeniable beauty,... |
MOZART / DEBUSSY / KORNGOLD / SARASATE / SCHUBERT / MENDELSSOHN / etc
Jascha Heifetz Encores, Vol. 2 (1946-1947) Jascha Heifetz (violin) Emmanuel Bay (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 29/Oct/2012 ] "this anthology of recordings…has both good sound and an interesting program to recommend it. Heifetz, ever the adventurer, takes on a number of modernist works, demonstrating his capacity to reduce the most strident dissonance to elegant sleekness." |
DEBUSSY / TCHAIKOVSKY / DOHNANYI / PROKOFIEV / SHOSTAKOVICH / etc
Jascha Heifetz: Miniatures, Vol. 2 (1944-1948) Jascha Heifetz (violin) / Emmanuel Bay (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 21/Nov/2011 ] This second of two volumes completes the repertoire recorded by Jascha Heifetz during his short wartime period with American Decca. The inclusion of four rare V-Disc recordings concludes a remarkable legacy of uniquely vibrant performances. |
HERBERT / BENNETT / FOSTER / AGUIRRE / WEILL / TRADITIONAL / etc
Jascha Heifetz: Miniatures, Vol. 1 (1944-1946) Jascha Heifetz (violin) with Emanuel Bay (piano) & Bing Crosby [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] During 1943-44 Jascha Heifetz toured widely, entertaining US troops with popular repertoire as well as that of the great classical composers. This is the first of two newly re-mastered discs which preserve a unique and timelessly magical moment. |
DVORAK
Piano Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 Helena Sucharova-Weiser (piano) / Vlach Quartet, Prague [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] Dvorák's two piano quartets stand beside those of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Schumann as important contributions to the chamber music repertoire. |
MACHE / OHANA
Music for Two Pianos Helene Bellanger (Piano) / Christine Chareyron (Piano) / Leonor Lopez Cossani (Piano) / Clotilde Ovigne, piano / Martine Vialatte (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Jun/2006 ] François-Bernard Mâche has been the recipient of many awards for his compositions, more than eighty in number, ranging from the Paris Prix de la Biennale in 1963 to the Sacem Grand Prix for symphonic music in 2002. |
EDWARD GRIEG
Violin Sonatas Helge Kjekshus (piano), Henning Kraggerud (violin) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2015 ] "Kraggerud's account of the 'big tune' in the last movement of Op 45, respecting all Grieg's marks of expression and phrasing, has real nobility. Highly recommendable." (Gramophone) |
SINDING
Violin and Piano Music Vol 1: Suite in altem Stile, Op. 10 / Waltzes, Op. 59 Henning Kraggerud (violin) / Christian Ihle Hadland (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Remembered today for his piano favourite The Rustle of Spring, Christian Sinding ranked second only to Grieg in his homeland and was honoured abroad, composing a wealth of immediately appealing and well-crafted Romantic music including the works for... |
SINDING
Violin and Piano Music Vol 2: Sonata im altem Stile, Op. 99 / Romances / Waltzes Henning Kraggerud (violin) / Christian Ihle Hadland (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] Norwegian violinist Henning Kraggerud is one of Scandinavia's most sought after artists; Christian Ihle Hadland one of Norway's most exciting young pianists. Together they comprise a formidable partnership, as their release of Sinding's Violin and... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Transcriptions from Christus and The Legend of St. Elisabeth Henry Kramer (piano) [ Naxos Liszt Complete Piano Music Volume 47 / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Reflecting the life of Christ from the nativity to the Passion and Resurrection, Liszt's oratorio Christus was premiered in 1873 and enjoyed considerable success. The movements he transcribed for piano are dynamic and virtuosic but also pastoral and... |
ISAAC ALBENIZ
Piano Music Volume 7 Hernán Milla (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/2015 ] The seventh volume in this acclaimed series is devoted to two works of Albéniz's early maturity. The 12 Piezas características is a cycle of exquisite miniatures encompassing a wide variety of styles, including the assimilation of Andalusian folk... |
MESSIAEN
Harawi / 3 Melodies Hetna Regitze Bruun (soprano) Kristoffer Nyholm Hyldig (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] Messiaen's song cycles Trois Mélodies (1930) and Harawi (1945) were both inspired by the loss of a loved one: the Mélodies are a memorial to his mother who had died three years previously and Harawi was written shortly after his wife Claire Delbos... |
HAYASAKA
Piano Concerto / Ancient Dances on the Left and on the Right Hiromi Okada (piano) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Oct/2006 ] "A disc that I expect to return to often. A great late-Romantic-sounding piano concerto, and a couple of very good orchestral pieces on the side" (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
ROCHBERG
Piano Music Vol. 1: Circles of Fire Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] 'There is a fire in the brain, in the mind, which comes from the universal fire that makes solar systems and galaxies, asteroid belts and comets, huge orbiting spirals, circles, loops that bend back on themselves in giant symmetries and stream out... |
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Hlawatsch/Benedek
Janacek:piano Music Vol.3 [ Naxos / CD ] |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV / FRANZ LISZT / etc
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 / Liszt: Paganini Etudes Vladimir Horowitz (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Albert Coates [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 31/Mar/2003 ] "There were so many unique facets to Horowitz's playing: the unmistakable sound, the…musical imagination, the extraordinary power and speed…surely one of the greatest of all piano recordings…" Gramophone |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Brahms/Tchaikovsky - Piano Concertos Vladimir Horowitz (piano) / NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] Penguin Guide - Rosette Winner |
SI CONG MA
Music for Violin and Piano, Vol. 1 Hsiao-Mei Ku (violin) / Ning Lu (piano) [ Naxos Chinese Classics / CD - released 15/Aug/2007 ] Ma Sicong is remembered today as a leading violinist, composer and teacher who devoted his life to creating a new national identity for Chinese music. |
SICONG MA
Music for Violin and Piano, Vol. 2 Hsiao-Mei Lu (violin) / Ning Ku (piano) [ Naxos Chinese Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] The Chinese composer and violinist Ma Sicong was born in Haifeng in Guangdong (Canton) province in 1912, and was among the relatively few Chinese musicians of his generation to study abroad. He settled in America in 1967. The music on this disc... |
KABALEVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 3 in D major, Op. 50 (with Rimsky-Korsakov-Piano Concerto) Hsin-ni Liu (piano) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Kabalevsky's most lasting achievement was in the field of music education, notably his development in later years of a programme for music in schools. His Third Piano Concerto, 'Dedicated to Soviet Youth', completes the trilogy of instrumental... |
