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COPLAND / BERNSTEIN
Clarinet Sonatas (with John Dankworth-Suite for Emma / Picture of Jeannie) Emma Johnson (clarinet) John Lenehan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Sir John Dankworth was inspired by Benny Goodman's playing to study clarinet at the Royal Academy: his delightful Suite for Emma was composed for Emma Johnson, former BBC Young Musician of the Year, who performs it on this disc. Jazz and popular... |
HECTOR VILLA-LOBOS
Villa-Lobos: Complete Violin Sonatas Emmanuele Baldini (violin) Pablo Rossi (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] "Baldini produces an alluring tone that taps into the natural resonances of his instrument, and phrases with a natural instinct for cantabile espressivo." BBC Music Magazine Chamber Choice October 2021 |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Violin and Piano Works, Vol. 2 (with works by Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli) Emy Bernecoli (violin), Massimo Giuseppe Bianchi (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Dec/2014 ] "A fine performance of the Respighi, sensitive to its brooding soundworld, is invaluably coupled with Pick-Mangiagalli's more tautly argued Sonata." BBC Music |
JOAQUIN TURINA
Turina Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 / El Poema de una Sanluquena Eva Leon (violin) Jordi Maso (piano) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] Complementing his highly praised Naxos series of Turina's piano music, Jordi Masó joins Eva León to present Turina's two violin sonatas... |
ALBERTO GINASTERA
Ginastera: Complete Piano and Organ Music Fernando Viani (piano and organ) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 15/May/2007 ] "To say that Fernando Viani's performances of the better-known piano works are not necessarily the very best available is not meant to damn them with faint praises. These performances are intelligent, perceptive and technically assured. What is... |
FAZIL SAY
Say: Complete Violin Works Friedemann Eichhorn (violin) Fazil Say (piano) / German Radio Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Aug/2020 ] Fazıl Say is one of the world's most prominent pianists but he is also a much-admired composer with a substantial catalogue of works. |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas Volume 12 Gerda Struhal (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Oct/2010 ] 'Gerda Struhal obtains more lilt and animation through her occasional staccato articulation of the bass line'. © 2018 Gramophone |
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DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 11 Gottlieb Wallisch (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] "I hadn't encountered Wallisch before hearing him on this CD, but this was a very promising introduction. My first complete run-through of the recording..was very favourable." (MusicWeb) |
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
Chamber Music: Piano Trio No 1 / Irish Fantasies / etc Gould Piano Trio Lucy Gould (violin) / Alice Neary (cello) / Benjamin Frith (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "I'm delighted to be able to report that the Gould Piano Trio are magnificently stylish and sympathetic champions...Benefiting from top-notch production values throughout, this generously filled disc should be snapped up without delay." Gramophone. |
ENRIQUE GRANADOS
Granados: 12 Spanish Dances Rosa Torres-Pardo (piano) [ Naxos Spanish Music Collection / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] "Very personal and exciting versions of these works, where the Madrid pianist, who has just recorded Goyescas, succeeds in properly combining the folkloric features and the intellectualism contained in them." Swing |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: Complete Sonatas For Violin And Piano Grigory Kalinovsky (violin), Tatiana Gonchalova (piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] Mieczyslaw Weinberg is now recognized as one of the outstanding Russian composers of the second half of the twentieth century. Fêted for his symphonies and string quartets, he also wrote a sequence of Violin Sonatas crucial to the development of his... |
J. S. BACH
Piano Concertos Vol 2 Hae-won Chang (piano) Camerata Cassovia / Robert Stankpvsky [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jan/2004 ] "It is difficult to imagine a more satisfying pair of discs of this repertoire." Daily Telegraph |
ANTON RUBINSTEIN
Rubinstein: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2; Three Serenades Han Chen (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Feb/2020 ] Anton Rubinstein was the equal of Liszt as a pianist and a technically gifted composer but, in his own words, he was perceived by his contemporaries as too German to be Russian and too Russian to be German, and his music was frequently disparaged.... |
LUKAS FOSS
Foss: Song Of Anguish / Elegy for Anne Frank / etc (with Beaser: The Heavenly Feast) James Maddalena (baritone), Kevin McCutcheon (piano), Mark Wilde (tenor), Constance Hauman (sop) / Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 31/Oct/2005 ] "..on the list was a real discovery for me, and a stunner it is, too, from the Milken Archive of American Jewish Music: Robert Beaser's one-act opera The Heavenly Feast, coupled with a differently themed but equally powerful Song of Anguish by Lukas... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Piano Music Vol 1 (Includes Piano Sonata in F major, Op. 12 & 10 Pieces Op.24 ) Havard Gimse (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Nov/2001 ] "Distinguished playing and the best performances and recording I have heard of this repertoire." - Robert Layton, BBC Music Magazine, Feb 2000 |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Piano Concerto / Symphonic Dances / etc Havard Gimse (piano) / Royal Scottish National orchestra, Bjarte Engeset [ Naxos Greig Edition Vol. 1 / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "To paint Norwegian nature, Norwegian folk-life, Norwegian history and Norwegian folk-poetry in music is just that for me, something in which I believe I can succeed" E. Grieg |
ROBERT FUCHS
Fuchs: Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3 Hyejin Chung (violin), Warren Lee (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Not only was Robert Fuchs an admired friend of Brahms but he nurtured a prodigious number of pupils, among whom were Enescu, Korngold, Mahler, Wolf, and Sibelius who called Fuchs a clever orchestrator, professional to his fingertips, and very happy... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 1 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "An extraordinary number of pianists have recorded these Sonatas. Rather than comparing the present discs with them, I had rather simply welcome them as the work of a deeply serious musician of obvious technical mastery and understanding of the music |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Schumann-Introduction and Concert-Allegro) Idil Biret, Jeno Jando (pianos) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Antoni Wit (conductor) [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "Jeno Jando and his Polish colleagues strike me as getting the balance just about right" - Classic CD |
