GIOVANNI GABRIELI
Music for Brass Vol. 3 London Symphony Orchestra Brass [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] |
PHILIP GLASS
Of Beauty & Light: The Music of Philip Glass (3 CD set) Adele Anthony (violin) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop / Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2008 ] This is Glass in full flight, with an aural illusion of the work speeding up yet retaining a constant pulse throughout the work's lively changes of texture and melodic figuration." --New Zealand Listener |
GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG
Strong: Orchestral Music Vol.2 Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Adriano [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2001 ] |
GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG
Strong: Orchestral Works Vol.3 Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Adriano [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/Nov/2002 ] George Templeton Strong was born in New York on 26th May 1856. His father, a lawyer and a friend of Abraham Lincoln, was President of the New York Philharmonic Society. |
SILVESTRE REVUELTAS
Revueltas: Orchestral Music Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Barrios [ Naxos Latin American Classics / CD - released 2/Sep/2002 ] "With some typically informative Naxos documentation, this disc of music by a little known but immensely gifted composer can be recommended with much enthusiasm" - Music Web |
ANTHONY LEWIS SCARMOLIN
Scarmolin: Orchestral Works Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Joel Eric Suben [ Naxos American Classics / CD ] Anthony Louis Scarmolin was born in 1890 in the northern Italian textile-producing town of Schio, near Padua, where his father worked in the local industry. His father moved to America in 1900, taking his family with him and settling in New Jersey.... |
LEONARD SLATKIN
Slatkin Conducts Slatkin - The Raven / Endgames / Kinah / In Fields Alec Baldwin (narrator) / Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Symphnoy Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Leonard Slatkin celebrated his 75th birthday in September 2019. Many of the selections in this program come from a concert given in his honour and are also a tribute to his remarkable musical family, both past and present. |
KOMEI ABE
Abe: Symphony No. 1 / Divertimento / Sinfonietta Aleksey Volkov (alto saxophone) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dimitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2008 ] Komei Abe was one of the finest pupils trained at the Tokyo Music School ( now the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music) in the 1930s. His musical language is characterized by crisp melodies, structural clarity and, in the composer's own words,... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Orchestral Excerpts Vol 3 (Incls Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod) Alessandra Marc (soprano) / Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] "Marc is an excellent singer, thankfully free of the gusty tone production which afflicts too many Wagnerian sopranos today. She sings with expressiveness, delicacy and a real feeling for the text" |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 Alexander Anissimov, National Symphony Orchestra Of Ireland [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2001 ] "Alexander Anissimov's Naxos account lingers nostalgically over lyrical episodes in a recording that's firmer at the bottom end than you'd expect from Dublin's airy National Concert Hall. Anissimov's Naxos account is an exceptional bargain" BBC Music |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Music For Cello And Orchestra Alexander Rudin (Cello) / National Symphony Orchestra Of Ukraine / Theodore Kuchar [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Sep/2007 ] "Alexander Rudin is, both technically and interpretively, one of the most authoritative cellists of his generation...all in all the most successful recording of this score in years....Highly Recommended" - Fanfare |
DMITRY KABALEVSKY
Kabalevsky: Cello Concertos. Nos 1&2 Alexander Rudin (cello) / Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Igor Golovschin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2016 ] "these performances convey the flow and character of the music admirably" (BBC Music) |
JOAO DOMINGOS BOMTEMPO
Bomtempo: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 Algarve Orchestra, Alvaro Cassuto (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Dec/2004 ] "The music is given a compelling treatment by the recently founded but highly proficient Algarve Orchestra. At budget price this issue should help give it [Bomtempo's music] the wider currency it clearly deserves." Gramophone |
MANUEL DE FALLA
El Amor Brujo / El Sombrero de Tres Picos Alicia Nafe (mezzo-soprano) / Maria Jose Martos (mezzo-soprano) / Asturias Symphony Orchestra / Maximiano Valdes (conductor) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 18/Jun/2005 ] Manuel de Falla is generally acknowledged as the leading figure in Spanish music of the twentieth century. |
CHARLES-VALENTIN ALKAN
Concerto for Solo Piano Op. 39 Dmitry Feofanov (piano) / Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra, Robert Stankovsky [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "Feofanov does a heroic job... Good recording makes this well worth anybody's money" (Penguin Guide) |
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (complete opera) Rah Graciela Alperyn, Giorgio Lamberti, Doina Palade, Alan Titus / Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Alexander Ra [ Naxos Opera Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2000 ] |
BALAKIREV
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 / Grande Fantaisie on Russian Folksongs Anastasia Seifetdinova (piano) / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] "..this is a fascinating release well worthy of investigation." MusicWeb May 2009 |
FRANZ SCHMIDT
Symphony No. 2 / Fuga Solemnis Anders Johnsson (organ) / Malmo Symphony Orchestra / Vassily Sinaisky [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Following their recording of Franz Schmidt's Symphony No. 1 and excerpts from his opera Notre Dame (8570828), the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and Vassily Sinaisky here present Schmidt's astonishing Second Symphony. |
FRANZ SCHMIDT
Symphony No. 4 in C major / Variations on a Hussar's Song Anders Johnsson (organ) / Malmo Symphony Orchestra / Vassily Sinaisky [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "Neither piece could hope for a more persuasive performance, the Malmö Symphony and their Russian-born Principal Conductor, Vassily Sinaisky, bring such a telling gravitas to the symphony, the sound of every department placing it among the elite of... |
MYROSLAV SKORYK
Skoryk: Violin Concertos 1-4 Andrej Bielow (violin) National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Volodymyr Sirenko [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Myroslav Skoryk, a postgraduate student of Dmitry Kabalevsky, is one of Ukraine's leading composers and teachers. His works range from opera and ballet, a symphonic transcription of Paganini's 24 Caprices, and his cycle of nine Violin Concertos... |