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CHARLES IVES
Piano Sonata No.2 'Concord' / The Celestial Railroad Steven Mayer (Piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "The Mayer recording is also musically excellent and prefaces each of the four movements, which are named for Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and others, with readings that give a context for Ives' understanding of these historic figures and... |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Music for Wind Instruments Stéphane Lemelin (piano) / Canada's National Arts Centre Wind Quintet [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Mar/2011 ] "The unifying feature of this programme is the excellently judged piano playing of Stéphane Lemelin, who adds a discerning range of colour and spirit to the performances" Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - March 2011 |
HENRI TOMASI
TOMASI (complete violin works) Stéphanie Moraly (Violin) Romain David (Piano) / Orchestre de la Garde républicaine, Sebastien Billard [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2022 ] Henri Tomasi is one of the great figures of 20th-century French music. The catalogue of his works, which comprises over a hundred opuses, features many splendid stage and concert scores. |
ENESCU
Complete Works for Violin and Piano Volume 1 Axel Strauss (violin) & Ilya Poletaev (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Oct/2013 ] George Enescu's Second Violin Sonata marked his true emergence as a composer; violinist Carl Flesch referring to it as one of the most significant in the history of the genre. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trio Vol. 4 (Archduke Trio / Kakadu Variations / Allegretto, WoO 39) Stuttgart Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD ] "The sound is excellent, the playing nicely groomed, moderate, sensible, genial, and vital." American Record Guide |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Vol. 2 (Nos 3 & 8 / Variations, Op. 44) Stuttgart Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Feb/1994 ] Since its foundation in 1968 the Stuttgart Piano Trio has won a considerable reputation for itself. In 1969 the Trio won the Mendelssohn Competition in Berlin and the International Radio Competition in Munich. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Vol.3 (Nos 5 & 6) Stuttgart Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD ] "its springs spontaneously to life" Penguin Guide |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Trios D 929 and D 897 Stuttgart Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "The very best D. 897 I have heard." - Fanfare |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Trios Vol.1 (Nos 1 & 2) Stuttgart Piano Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2003 ] "Their evident enjoyment of this music generates performances with plenty of sparkle from the Stuttgart Piano Trio which, at their best, are powerfully dramatic and exciting" - Gramophone |
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CLEMENTI
Early Piano Sonatas Volume 2 Susan Alexander-Max (fortepiano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Jul/2007 ] "Thoroughly engaging performances, on a fine instrument, of some of Clementi’s excellent sonatas, as musically rewarding as they are historically important" (MusicWeb Aug 2007) |
CLEMENTI
Early Piano Sonatas Volume 1 Susan Alexander-Max (fortepiano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Apr/2010 ] Muzio Clementi was born in Rome in 1752, the son of a silversmith. By the age of thirteen he had become proficient enough as a musician to be employed as an organist at the Church of S. Lorenzo in Damaso and to attract the attention of an English... |
CLEMENTI
Early Piano Sonatas Volume 3 Susan Alexander-Max (fortepiano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] Muzio Clementi was famous throughout his lifetime as both a composer and a virtuoso performer, appearing at the court of France and competing with Mozart in Vienna. His early piano sonatas, which greatly impressed the young Beethoven, were of... |
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Piano Trios / Piano Quartet in G major / Cello Sonata Susan Alexander-Max (fortepiano) / Pal Banda (cello) / Micaela Comberti (violin) / Jane Rogers (viola) / Simon Standage (violin) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2005 ] "Played with a fine sense of period style, and admirably recorded but for a slightly recessive piano behind closer strings, this is a charming addition to Hummel on disc." Five Stars (Chamber choice of the Month) BBC Music Mag(Jan 2006) |
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C. P. E. BACH
Prussian Sonatas, Wq 48 Susan Alexander-Max (Hofmann grand piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] |
IVOR GURNEY
EnIvor Gurney Songs Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) Ian Burnside (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 19 / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] Comedy, desolation and lovelorn longing all touch the music of this 'lover and maker of beauty', whose songs find ideal interpreters in Susan Bickley and Iain Burnside... |
NICOLAS FLAGELLO
Piano Concerto No. 1 / Dante's Farewell / Concerto Sinfonico Susan Gonzalez (Soprano) / Tatjana Rankovich (Piano) / Kynan Johns (Conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 16/Jul/2006 ] Nicolas Flagello was one of the last American composers to pursue traditional romantic musical values, intensified by modernist innovations in harmony and rhythm, but without the irony or detachment of postmodernism. |
FERDINAND RIES
Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol 1 Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] "Kagan and Naxos are both to be commended for undertaking this project, and it is to be hoped that they will be repaid by a renewed interest in a composer whose music deserves to be heard." Fanfare |
FERDINAND RIES
Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol 3 Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] A virtuoso pianist, Ferdinand Ries began composing piano sonatas at a time when the genre was undergoing significant changes from the models of Haydn and Mozart to new developments by Clementi, Beethoven and Hummel. Ries also pre-figures Schubert's... |
