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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor / Introduction and Allegro, Op. 92 and Op. 134 Jeno Jando (piano) with Various Orchestras [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Apr/2005 ] |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Piano Duets, Vol. 1 Jeno Jando (piano) / Zsuzsa Kollar (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] "House pianist Jeno Jando, one of the finest around, is no stranger to Mozart, having recorded most of the composer's piano concertos for the label. He is joined by compatriot Zsuzsa Kollar in lively and stylish readings. Excellent sound." -... |
CAMILLE SAINT SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Trios 1 & 2 Joachim Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] "No quarrels with the playing of the Joachim Trio. The pianist in particular has elegance and charm. This is delightful and inventive music, well recorded-and well worth the money." Penguin Guide |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: Young Man's Exhortation (A) / Till Earth Outwears / Oh Fair to See (English Song, Vol. 16) John Mark Ainsley (tenor) / Iain Burnside (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jul/2007 ] "For lovers of English song, this is an indispensable disc, especially with this thoughtfully compiled programme." (MusicWeb Feb 2008) |
JOHN McCABE
McCabe: Piano Music John McCabe (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "[John McCabe's] piano music is obviously of great significance in his output, and this is a good sampling." © 2016 American Record Guide |
NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN
Kapustin: Piano Sonata No. 15 / Preludes / Etudes / Bagatelles John Salmon (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Mar/2008 ] Kapustin's pianistic textures are rich, spanning the entire keyboard, with melodies in every register, sweeping arpeggios, tons of chords, and a fantastic array of runs. Such music is Kapustin's birthright: Ukranian born and Moscow trained, he has... |
FREDERIC MOMPOU
Mompou: Piano music Vol 2 Jordi Maso (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2002 ] Among the most notable of Mompou's works written in the middle of the 1920s are the first six Préludes, the beginning of a set which grew irregularly in number over a period of more than thirty years, eventually to be completed with a further six.... |
FREDERIC MOMPOU
Mompou: Piano music Vol 4 Jordi Maso (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2002 ] ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (Aug 2002) |
ERICH KORNGOLD
Korngold: Violin Sonata and other chamber pieces Joseph Lin (violin) Benjamin Loeb (piano) [ Naxos Laureate Series / CD - released 26/May/2003 ] "Excellent virtuosic and expressive performances of some of Korngold's most enchanting music." Recording of the Month. (MusicWeb June 2004) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Lied Edition 24 - Romantic Poets, Vol. 1 Julia Borchert (soprano) / Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano) [ Naxos Deutsche Schubert-Lied-Edition / CD - released 12/Sep/2007 ] This is the first of four discs of Schubert's settings of the 'romantic' poets. |
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Complete Piano Music Julia Severus (piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 10/May/2011 ] "Julia Severus just lets the music speak for itself with a minimum of interpretative fuss. Very fine." (The Guardian) |
SAINT-SAENS / PIAZZOLLA / HOLST / DELIUS / ELGAR / IRELAND / VIVALDI / etc
Julian Lloyd Webber: A Span of Time Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) with Jiaxin Lloyd Webber (cello) John Lenehan (piano) Catrin Finch (harp) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2018 ] 'Julian Lloyd Webber, here as (primarily) conductor, offers an impressive disc of English music that demonstrates a richly rewarding affinity for the repertoire. (Editor's Choice Gramophone April 2015 on 'And the Bridge is Love') |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody; 4 ernste Gesänge, Op. 121 / Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben (Rec 1947-1950) Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) with Phyllis Spurr (piano) Phyllis Spurr (piano) John Newark (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos Historic Great Singers / CD - released 24/Oct/2004 ] Kathleen Ferrier was the most significant British singer to emerge following the end of the Second World War in 1945. Although her professional singing career spanned only a single decade (1942-1953) she achieved international recognition in a... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN / JOAN TOWER / WALTER PISTON / JOHN HARBISON
Gershwin: Concerto in F (with works by Tower, Piston & Harbison) Kevin Cole (piano) / National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, David Alan Miller [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] "From the very opening [Gershwin] with its timpani motto, the piece goes like the wind, not sounding rushed so much as bracingly correct. Miller and pianist Kevin Cole set perfect tempos for the cakewalk passage in the first movement" Fanfare |
ERIK SATIE
Satie: Piano Works (Selection incls Gymnopedies) Klara Kormendi (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] The oddest man he had ever known, said Stravinsky, and certainly Erik Satie was a man apart, a genuine Paris bohemian in his youth who spent the last 27 years of his life in a spartan room to which his friends were never invited. His music is... |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Respighi: Piano Music (Including Antiche Danze ed Arie (Ancient Airs and Dances) Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Feb/2003 ] "Sherbakov rises magnificently to the considerable technical and expressive demands of Respighi's piano writing" - Fanfare |
NIKOLAY KARLOVICH MEDTNER
Medtner: Piano Concertos 1 and 3 Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) / Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Vladimir Ziva, conductor [ Naxos Romantic Piano Concertos / CD - released 15/Feb/2002 ] "He and his partners are entirely sympathetic to freely associating ideas that sprout wings of the spirit and evolve into endlessly changing hues and patterns contained within a disciplined if idiosyncratic sense of form." - Gramophone |
NIKOLAY KARLOVICH MEDTNER
Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Piano Quintet Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) Zuzana Bourova (viola) Ewald Danel (violin) Jozef Podhoransky (cello) Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) / Moscow Symphony Or [ Naxos Romantic Piano Concertos / CD - released 29/Oct/2005 ] "virtuosic and brilliant playing from Konstantin Scherbakov" (Penguin Guide) |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Complete Songs for Soprano and Piano Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Maria Prinz (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Mar/2017 ] "Stoynova sails through it in glorious voice and Maria Prinz's accompaniment is as equally accomplished. For lovers of good singing." Opera Now April 2017 |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Chamber Music and rarities Vol. 2 Laura Giordano (soprano), Alessandro Marangoni (piano), Alessandro Luciano (tenor), Bruno Taddia (baritone) [ Naxos Peches de vieillesse Vol 9 / CD - released 20/Jul/2018 ] Gioachino Rossini's ambitious younger years saw his composing entirely focused on well-defined projects. In later years he developed musical ideas with or without poetry to hand, and the 'Sins of Old Age' heard here bring together genre songs and... |
