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MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete String Quartets Quartetto Adorno [ Naxos Guitar / CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco began to focus on chamber music composition during the late 1920s. From this period comes the String Quartet No. 1 in G major, which offers a countryside panorama with rustic serenades and processional themes reminiscent of... |
FLORENCE PRICE / LEO SOWERBY
Price/Sowerby: Music for String Quartet Avalon String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Florence Price and Leo Sowerby were both prominent members of the Chicago music community in the 1930s and 1940s, and they are known to have respected each other's work. Most of Florence Price's compositions remained unpublished at her death, and her... |
ANTONIN DVOARK
Dvořák: Bagatelles / String Quartet No. 2 / Rondo Fine Arts Quartet, Ryoko Morooka (harmonium), Stepan Simonian (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Antonín Dvořák is revered as one of the greatest composers of late 19th-century Romanticism. He is celebrated for the kind of poignant melodies redolent of Czech folk music found in the utterly charming Bagatelles and Rondo - the haunting tunes and... |
GABRIEL FAURE / GEORGE ENESCU
Faure/Enescu: Piano Quartets Suyeon Kang (violin), Karolina Errera (viola), Andrei Ioniță (cello), Catalin Serban (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Gabriel Fauré's Piano Quartet in C minor was one of the first of its genre in France, composed as part of the 'Ars Gallica' idea of strengthening French music against German cultural domination. |
FRANZ LISZT / DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor / Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor Angel Stanislav Wang (piano), with the Breton String Quartet [ Naxos Piano Laureate series / CD - released 1/Dec/2023 ] Angel Stanislav Wang, winner of the 63rd Jaén Prize International Piano Competition in 2022, presents his Naxos debut recital with a selection of works he performed during the competition. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 19 and 25 [transcription by Ignaz Lachner] Alon Goldstein (piano) / Fine Arts Quartet, with Lizzie Burns [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2023 ] Ignaz Lachner's ingenious transcriptions show a complete grasp of Mozart's idiom, incorporating much instrumental detail and reinventing the music's underlying dramatic scheme within a chamber context. |
ANTHONY BURGESS
Burgess: Complete Guitar Quartets Complete Guitar Quartets [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Composer and novelist, Anthony Burgess, was a unique creative artist whose dual mastery of music and literature resulted in a career strewn with an output of remarkable diversity. Burgess came into contact with the Aïghetta Guitar Quartet while... |
GEORGE ENESCU
Enescu: Piano Quintet in D major / Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, Op. 11 (arr. piano & string quintet) Fine Arts Quartet, Alexander Bickard (double bass), Gisele Witkowski & Fabio Witkowski (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Aug/2023 ] It was in Paris just before the end of the 19th century that George Enescu began to compose prolifically, but it is only in recent years that a number of these scores have emerged. The Piano Quintet in D major is one such work, lost for decades, but... |
ZYGMUNT NOSKOWSKI / STANISLAW MONIUSZKO / KARO KAZIMIERZ KURPIŃSKI
Noskowski / Moniuszko / Kurpinski Lutosławski Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] Providing an overview of almost a century, this album reflects the aspirations of Polish nationalis through the works of three pivotal figures. |
LEONE SINIGAGLIA
Sinigaglia: Complete Works for String Quartet Wawrzyniec Szymański (horn) / Archos Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] The second volume of Leone Sinigaglia's music for string quartet (Volume 1 is on 8.574183) explores a series of generally shorter pieces for the medium. These deeply expressive works, such as the yearning Romanza for string quartet and horn,... |
ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD
Korngold: String Quartets Nos 1 - 3 Tippett Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote a significant body of chamber music (the Piano Trio and String Sextet are on Naxos 8.574008). His three String Quartets reflect differing periods of composition. The First marries impetuousness with enticing harmonies... |
CARRAPATOSO / MARQUES / AZEVEDO / LAPA
RAÍZES - Portuguese Chamber Music Matosinhos String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Raízes (Portuguese for 'roots') features new works commissioned by the Matosinhos String Quartet, in which composers were invited to write works inspired by melodies, dances and stories from Portuguese traditional folklore. Returning to their... |
SHOSTAKOVICH / GRANADOS / SCRIABIN / PROKOFIEV / MALININ
Valentin Malinin Piano Laureate Recital - 2021 Winner Jaén Prize International Piano Competition Valentin Malinin (piano) / Bretón String Quartet [ Naxos Piano Laureate series / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Russian pianist Valentin Malinin, winner of the 62nd Jaén International Piano Competition, has chosen a programme that offers moments of reflection alongside dazzling virtuosity. |
ETHEL SMYTH / FREDERICK DELIUS
Smyth/Delius: String Quartets Villiers Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] The String Quartet in E minor by Ethel Smyth, one of the most innovative and original figures in English music, has a masterful coherence and consistency. With eloquent writing for the viola in particular, it is both playful and reverential, and ends... |
DEREK BERMEL
Bermel: Intonations - music for clarinet and strings Derek Bermel (Clarinet) Christopher Otto (Violin) Wiek Hijmans (Electric guitar) / JACK Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] Twice GRAMMY-nominated composer and performer Derek Bermel studied with Henri Dutilleux, Dutch avant-gardist Louis Andriessen, and ragtime revivalist William Bolcom. |
SERGEY IVANOVICH TANEYEV
Taneyev: String Trio, Op. 31 / Piano Quartet, Op. 20 Spectrum Concerts Berlin [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Jun/2022 ] With this album, Naxos and Spectrum Concerts wish to champion a composer who was universally respected and admired during his life, but whose work has for the most part languished unheard since his death over a century ago. |
JOSEPH BOULOGNE SAINT-GEORGES
Saint-Georges: 6 Concertante Quartets Arabella String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] A brilliant swordsman, athlete, violin virtuoso and composer, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges might well lay claim to being the most talented figure in an age of remarkable individuals. |
EDWARD GREGSON
Gregson: Chamber Music - String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / etc Navarra Quartet, Benjamin Marquise Gilmore, Alison Teale, Rob Buckland [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Edward Gregson is a composer of international standing whose music has been performed, broadcast, and commercially recorded worldwide. Gregson is renowned for his concertos and music for band, but his chamber music reveals a more enquiring voice. |
GEORGE ENESCU
Enescu: Piano Quartet No. 1 / Piano Trio Stephan Tarara (violin), Molly Carr (viola), Eun-Sun Hong (cello), Josu De Solaun (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Chamber music was a crucial element in Enescu's output and these two works, separated by seven years, represent very different phases of his compositional development. The large-scale Piano Quartet No. 1 marks the climax of his early maturity. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 5, "Emperor" (arr. for piano and string quintet) Hanna Shybayeva (piano) / Animato String Quartet, with Bas Vliegenthart (double bass) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Dec/2021 ] Ignaz Lachner's superb arrangements of Mozart's piano concertos are well known, but his brother Vinzenz Lachner's arrangements of Beethoven's concertos are a rarity, though equally as valuable. |
