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BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana: Romantic Piano, Vol. 11 Bogang Hwang (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 14/Aug/2026 ] Regarded as the father of Czech music Bedřich Smetana was a pioneer in developing a national style that culminated in his popular symphonic cycle Má vlast. Composed after he had become deaf the Czech Dances are Smetana's last major piano works.... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 70 Marches Christopher Williams (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 28/Aug/2026 ] Franz Liszt's lifelong engagement with the March is the focus of this volume. The March form offered a medium laden with public meaning allied to the possibility of reinvention and harmonic adventurousness. The symphonic depth of the... |
JOSEPH GABRIEL RHEINBERGER
Rheinberger: Romantic Piano, Vol. 10 Dmytro Semykras (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 10/Jul/2026 ] Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger's musical legacy can be found in his reputation as a renowned organist and professor as well as in his extraordinary facility and productivity as a composer in all forms, including a considerable amount of solo piano music.... |
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CIPRIANI POTTER
Potter: Piano Works Luke Jones (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 25/Sep/2026 ] |
CHEN YI
Chen Yi: Works for Violin, Viola and Piano Patrick Yim (violin, viola), Kiu Tung Poon (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 24/Jul/2026 ] The four works on this album by the esteemed Chinese-American composer Chen Yi are all premiere recordings, two of which - The Soulful and the Perpetual and Three Bagatelles - she has adapted specifically for violinist/violist Patrick Yim and pianist... |
JOSEPH MARX
Marx: Chamber Music, Vol. 1 Vida Vujić (cello), Minna Pensola (violin), Simone Sgarbanti (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 14/Aug/2026 ] This first volume of Joseph Marx's chamber music charts a period of 30 years from the cello works of 1913-14 to the Violin Sonata No. 2, written in 1944, shortly before he ceased all composition. The Pastorale is characteristically subtle with... |
FELIX DRAESEKE
Draeseke: Piano Works Vladimir Aćimović (piano) [ Naxos / CD - due 26/Jun/2026 ] Felix Draeseke's early affiliation with the music of Liszt and Wagner permeated his own compositions of the period, not least his Sonata quasi fantasia in C sharp minor, a work of sumptuous Wagnerian candour as well as balletic lightness. It also... |
WALTER PISTON
Piston: Chamber Music including the Quintet for Flute & Sting Quartet 1999 Australian Festival of Chamber Music [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Jan/2002 ] "The Naxos American Classics series is throwing up both intriguing repertoire and some appealing performances" The Strad |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Emerson Concerto / Symphony No. 1 Alan Feinberg (Piano) / National Symphony Orchestra Of Ireland / James Sinclair [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "Alan Feinberg is an ideal exponent of Ives's truculent and tender realism. The National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland partners him well... a very strong recommendation" International Record Review |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Etudes (Complete) Alexander Paley (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Dec/2002 ] His mother was a pianist, his father a diplomat, and he, Alexander Nikolayvich Scriabin was Russia's most unusual composer. During his short life-span of 43 years, Scriabin wrote three symphonies, two symphonic poems, variations for a string quartet,... |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHUBERT / HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Italian Songs Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) Andreas Schiff (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] "Haydn's dramatic scena, Arianna a Naxos, lively with Bartoli's quick response to every fleeting emotion, makes a formidable finale to this finely conceived and enthusiastically realised recital." ClassicalMusic |
SERGEY RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Morceaux de Fantaisie Boris Giltburg (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Composed at the age of 19, Rachmaninov's earliest published cycle of piano pieces, the Morceaux de Fantaisie, contains the Prélude in C sharp minor, destined to become his signature work, and the Mélodie in E major, much loved by Tchaikovsky. The... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Rondo, WoO 6 Boris Giltburg (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] "Here's a very promising start to what I assume will be a new Beethoven piano concerto cycle...Fine playing, fine conducting, fine engineering-in short, a really fine release generally." ClassicsToday |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4 Boris Giltburg (piano) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] For 19th-century audiences Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 was the most loved of all his piano concertos, a work in which the balancing of high drama, tenderness, lyricism and humour is most pronounced and in which a coda resolves inner tensions... |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Piano Concertos Vol 1: No 6 Op 123 & No 8 Op 151 Christopher Hinterhuber (piano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Uwe Grodd (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2005 ] "If its successors are as good as this, the series will introduce us to a lot of very attractive music." (MusicWeb Jan 2006) |
ALFRED HILL
Alfred Hill - String Quartets, Vol. 4 (Nos. 10, 11 & 'Life' Quintet) Dominion String Quartet with Richard Mapp (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] Alfred Hill was the doyen of Australasian composers, and his exploration of the string quartet demonstrates the range of his imagination. Both the Tenth and Eleventh quartets were written in 1935, but they offer richly differing affiliations. No. 10... |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Sonatas for Violin and Piano Vol 2 Eric Grossman (violin) / Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/2015 ] "Ries's chamber music seems to respond to Grossman's and Kagan's intimate and friendly playing....Kagan's knowledgeable booklet note adds to one's enjoyment. As before, this is unreservedly recommended." Fanfare |
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 |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Songs of Love and Death Hedwig Fassbender (mezzo-soprano) Hilko Dumno (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Dec/2007 ] "Fassbender is an understanding, sympathetic and, above all, straightforward guide to this music. The recording… deserves hearing for both its interesting juxtaposition of repertoire and the unaffected sincerity of the performances…" (Gramophone) |
GERALD FINZI
Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain / To a Poet / By Footpath and Stile Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano) / Sacconi Quartet [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 15 / CD - released 3/Aug/2006 ] "Roderick Williams is a national treasure. Not only is he an intensely musical singer, acutely responsive to the sound and meaning of words, but also his approach to the English Romantic song repertoire is revelatory." Five Stars BBC Music |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Hungarian Dances / Waltzes Op 39 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2013 ] "The Turkish-born pianist Idil Biret…is a wonderful Brahmsian in this literature. She has a big, firm technique that conveys authority; she is at home in all styles, whether in the strictly rhythmic and articulated Baroque-style dance pieces, or the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Coffee & Classical Idil Biret (piano), Jenö Jandó (piano), Maria Lambros (viola), Soyeon Kate Lee (piano), Alon Goldstein (piano), Rachel Calin (double bass), Benjamin F [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Nov/2019 ] Enjoy this full-flavoured selection of music whilst sipping on a coffee from your favourite cup. Let our blended brew of aural aromas bring you down to earth from the days highs, and experience how our choice of works gives grounds for escape from... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Igor Levit (piano), Xiaohan Wang (piano) / Kolner Kammerorchester, Helmut Muller-Bruhl [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Feb/2021 ] Igor Levit made his recording debut with a performance of Beethoven's First Piano Concerto when he was 20 years old, long before he became a superstar of the classical music world and a major interpreter of Beethoven's music. The occasion was part of... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3 - Op. 2, Nos. 1 - 3 Jeno Jando (piano) [ Naxos / CD ] "Jenő Jandó's first CD (actually Volume 3) establishes Jandó's credentials as a strong, unidiosyncratic Beethovenian. The piano sound is full and bold." Penguin Guide |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Sonatas (Vol 3) Nos. 53 - 56, 58 / Un Piccolo Divertimento Jeno Jando (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1995 ] "He is a true Haydn player, and this is in every way recommendable, particularly as the recording is so vivid and clean: just right for the repertoire." Penguin Guide |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Sonatas Volume 2: Nos. 42-47 Jeno Jando (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] "Jeno Jando is gradually approaching completeness in his own Haydn series, characterized by a no-nonsense, down-to-earth vivacity." BBC Music Magazine October 2001 |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Jenö Jandó (piano) / Budapest Symphony Orchestra, György Lehel [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1985 ] "Jandó shows his versality in refreshing, clean-fingered account of the Rachmaninov Second Piano Concerto, coupled with a dazzling, totally unsentimental reading of the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini." Gramophone |
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.... |
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) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / FRANZ LISZT
Liszt / Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Transcription) Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Dec/2004 ] "This is a magnificent disc and listening to it is a truly uplifting experience." MusicWeb, October 2004 |
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) |
BRITTEN / HINDEMITH / BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN / HANDEL
Viola (The Art of the) Madoka Inui, piano / Milan Karanovic, cello / Alexandra Koll, violin / Heinrich Koll, viola / Peter Schmidl, clarinet [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Nov/2004 ] "These three experienced plays have an excellent rapport. Balances are finely judged; dynamics are excellent. The ethos is mellifluous and affectionate. Inui plays a full part, ensuring rhythmic snap when required, and strong chording elsewhere. This |
MORITZ MOSZKOWSKI
Moszkowski: Piano Concerto, Op. 59 / From Foreign Lands Op.23 Markus Pawlik (piano) / National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra A. Wit, conductor [ Naxos Romantic Piano Concertos / CD - released 13/Oct/2002 ] Moritz Moszkowski was born in Breslau on 23rd August, 1854, and began his music studies in Dresden, eventually moving to Berlin to continue his education with Kullak and Wüerst. |
KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
Szymanowski: Piano Works Vol 3 (Mazurkas, Op. 50 ; Etudes, Op. 33; etc ) Martin Roscoe (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] "In the louder moments, he is never too hard, which given Szymanowski's propensity for dense textures, is a major plus point. ... Highly recommended." - International Record Review |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Complete Works for Cello Vol.2 Martin Rummel (cello), Eric Lamb (flute), Stefan Stroissnig (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] Ferdinand Ries is remembered as Beethoven's one-time pupil, secretary and copyist, but the discovery of his many compositions showed him to be a forward-looking composer in his own right. The 1799 Cello Sonata in C minor is among the first of its... |
FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Cello Sonatas Vol 1 Martin Rummel (cello) & Stefan Stroissnig (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2018 ] Ferdinand Ries's life and work are inextricably intertwined with those of his friend and teacher Beethoven, and both Cello Sonatas, Op. 20 and 21 were dedicated to cellist Bernhard Romberg, who performed regularly with Beethoven. Ries exploits... |
PAUL MORAVEC / YI CHEN / TANIA LEON / EVE BEGLARIAN / NED ROREM / etc
Eight Visions: A New Anthology for Flute and Piano Marya Martin (flute) Colette Valentine (piano) Eve Beglarian (electronics) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] Born in New Zealand and now living in United States, Marya Martin plays eight commissioned works to add to the sizeable repertoire of 20th century scores for flute and piano. |
