JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Concertos, Hob.XVIII:3,4,9,11 Sebastian Knauer (piano) / Cologne Chamber Orchestra / Helmut Muller-Bruhl [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2008 ] "The young German pianist Sebastian Knauer gives sprightly and sensitive accounts of all four concertos, dancing nimbly through Haydn's long stretches of toccata-style passage work and spinning a pure, eloquent line in the slow movements." Gramophone |
JOHN HARBISON
Harbison: Piano Works Se-Hee Jin (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2023 ] Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, John Harbison, is recognized as one of the dominant figures of his generation, with commissions from most of America's leading musical institutions as part of a catalog of more than 300 works. |
Selby/Slovak Po/Czech Rso/Haym
Gershwin:piano Conc.In F [ Naxos / CD ] |
JENNIFER HIGDON
Higdon: Early Chamber Works Serafin String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] Pulitzer and GRAMMY® Award winner Jennifer Higdon is one of the most performed living American composers, and this program provides a unique opportunity to hear première recordings of her earlier chamber music. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Transcriptions and Arrangements Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD ] "It's a world in which Idil Biret is completely at home" BBC Music |
CHOPIN / LISZT / SCHUMANN
Piano Solo Recordings, Vol. 1 - Victor Recordings (recorded 1925-1942) Sergei Rachmaninov (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Rachmaninov's formidable piano technique was notable for its precision, rhythmic drive, refined legato, crystalline clarity and sensitivity to melodic line. While avoiding sentimentality, he sought and expressed music's emotional essence. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 4 / Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (recorded 1934-1941) Sergei Rachmaninov (piano) / Philadelphia Orchestra / Eugene Ormandy, Leopold Stokowski [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 10/Aug/2009 ] Building a Library Historic Choice - January 2003 |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Solo Piano Record Sergey Rachmaninov [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 29/Oct/2012 ] |
RACHMANINOV / CHOPIN / LISZT / TAUSIG
Rachmaninov: The Edison Recordings, April 1919 Sergey Rachmaninov (piano) [ Naxos Historial Great Pianists / CD - released 14/Jul/2017 ] "What treasures - and what a service Naxos has performed in making them available in this form." Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2017 |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Solo Piano Recordings Volume 2 (recorded 1925-1942) Sergey Rachmaninov (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] His perfect technique, utter clarity and discipline, and supreme musicianship shine undiminished through even his earliest recordings. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 (1929, 1940) Sergey Rachmaninov (piano) / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski / Eugene Ormandy [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 7/Jan/2006 ] "One could hardly do better than begin [this series] with such essential performances as Sergei Rachmaninov's own recordings of his works for piano and orchestra. The importance of these classic RCA performances as vital historical documents need not... |
PROKOFIEV
Piano Concertos No 3 / Visions fugitives Op.22 / Suggestion diabolique / etc Sergi Prokofiev (piano) / LSO / Piero Coppola [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] Sketches for the Third Piano Concerto go back to 1917, but it was during the summer of 1921 in Brittany that Prokofiev completed the work. |
LONGO / BUSONI / SCONTRINO / FRUGATTA
Italian Clarinet Suites Sergio Bosi (clarinet) / Ricardo Bartoli (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Until the early 20th Century, Italian instrumental music remained overshadowed by opera. However, a number of composers born around the middle of the 19th century wrote excellent suites for clarinet and piano which brokered a 'compromise between... |
LABATE / GAGLIANO / BUSONI / GABUCCI / etc
Italian Clarinet Treasures Sergio Bosi (clarinet) / Ricardo Bartoli (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2018 ] Circumstances including an overwhelming preoccupation with opera at the expense of instrumental music, two world wars and the rise of a Fascist dictatorship, resulted in a generation of Italian chamber music composers born between the 1880s and early... |
AURELIO MAGNANI
Divertimento Nos. 1 and 2 / etc Sergio Bosi (clarinet) & Riccardo Bartoli (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] Considered one of the foremost soloists of his day, Aurelio Magnani was the father of the modern Italian clarinet school. |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Pieces & Fragments Sergio Gallo (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Including premiere recordings, this programme provides us with a privileged opportunity to engage with 36 of Ludwig van Beethoven's rarely heard sketches, variations and briefest of compositions, even the earliest of which have much to teach us about... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Complete Piano Music Volume 43 - Transcriptions of Symphonic Poems Sergio Monteiro (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] Liszt turned to the composition of large-scale orchestral works after his success as a touring virtuoso and wrote a sequence of ground-breaking symphonic poems that in their narrative-driven structures directly influenced such composers as Richard... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Early Piano Music Sergio Monteiro (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2019 ] In addition to his prodigious youthful genius as a composer, Mendelssohn was an exceptionally able pianist. Demonstrating an astonishing level of maturity beyond the composer's teenage years, this group of rare works is notable for a sequence of... |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 23 Sergio Monteiro (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Domenico Scarlatti's distinguished career included a royal post in Rome where he competed against Handel, the latter being declared the better organist and Scarlatti the better harpsichordist. Written for his pupil the Infanta Maria Bárbara,... |
LOUIS VIERNE
Vierne: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 Sergio Monteiro (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Louis Vierne will always be best remembered as one France's most outstanding organ composers, but his piano works are part of a significant wider oeuvre and notable for their colourful and inspired inventiveness. |