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FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Piano Music Vol 1 (Incls '8 Nocturnes') Olivier Cazal (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] Francis Poulenc wrote music that is witty, satirical, whimsical, and sometimes, even, impudent. His musical structures are light and graceful, his textures are fragile, and his technical assurance is rock-solid. In everything he ever wrote, Poulenc... |
YORITSUNE MATSUDAIRA
Matsudaira: Bugaku Dance Suite / Theme and Variations for Piano and Orchestra Osaka Century Orchestra, Ken Takaseki [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2006 ] Yoritsune Matsudaira is descended from the Shogun family who ruled over Japan from 1603 to 1867, based in Edo, later changed to Tokyo. |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Music Vol. 1 Oxana Yablonskaya (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Apr/1995 ] Piano works composed over a period of twenty-six years (1867-1893) comprise a by no means insignificant part of Tchaikovsky's chamber music. |
CARL CZERNY
Czerny: Romantic Piano Fantasies on Sir Walter Scott's Novels Pei-I Wang, Samuel Gingher (piano duet) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Carl Czerny's instructional exercises may be his lasting legacy but there remain numerous largely forgotten pieces that reveal important elements of his compositional range. |
FERGUSON / GERHARD / ROWLEY / DARNTON
British Piano Concertos Peter Donohoe (piano & conductor) / Northern Sinfonia [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Apr/2005 ] Gramophone Magazine Award Finalist 2005 - Concerto "Four contrasting concertos for piano with string orchestra. They are all played with surging elan and no little poetry. Enthusiastically recommended." (MusicWeb) |
ARTHUR BLISS
Bliss: Piano Concerto / Piano Sonata / Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra Peter Donohoe (piano) Martin Roscoe (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones, conductor [ Naxos British Piano Concertos / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] "Eager and polished performances that do Bliss absolutely proud." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (February 2004) Grammy Award Nomination 2005 - Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (with Orchestra) |
ALAN RAWSTHORNE
Rawsthorne: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 Peter Donohoe (piano) / Ulster Orchestra / Takuo Yuasa (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "Peter Donohoe's heroic series of forgotten British piano concertos brings back to life a Festival of Britain score brimming with vital ideas and effervescent writing with a 'proper-tune' finale." Gramophone |
HANS WERNER HENZE
Hanze: Volin & Viola Works Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin/viola), Roderick Chadwick (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2018 ] "Hard to imagine a finer advocate for these alluring pieces by Henze than the remarkable Sheppard Skaerved." Sunday Times |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN / LENNOX BERKELEY
Auden Songs Philip Langridge (tenor) / Della Jones (mezzo-soprano) / Steuart Bedford (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2005 ] "...Langridge and Jones sing them with admirable ardour, colour and clarity." - Jeremy Nicholas, Classic FM Magazine |
MUZIO CLEMENTI
Clementi: Piano Sonatas Op.40 Pietro De Maria [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/1999 ] Clementi's contribution to the piano sonata cannot be overestimated. The Op. 40 piano sonatas continue Clementi's innovative use of the three-movement form demonstrated in his earlier sonatas, while retaining a distinctive melodic charm. They are... |
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WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski: Orchestral Works Vol. 2 [(ncls Symphony No. 2] The Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, with Piotr Paleczny (piano) [ Naxos / CD ] "An excellent disc at bargain price.": BBC Music |
WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI
Lutoslawski - Orchestral Works Vol 3: Symphony No. 3 / Paganini Variations Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra; Antoni Wit, conductor, with Bernd Glemser, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] "a series that is setting high standards in budget-price contemporary music....Wit conjures a fantastic range of tone colour from his well-drilled Polish orchestra ...the third symphony has never sounded more convincing" - Classic CD |
FRANZ LISZT / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Liszt/Brahms: Piano Variations Michael Ponti (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/1990 ] The name of Bach was to provide a theme for a number of subsequent composers, following the example of Johann Sebastian Bach himself, who had used his own name as a fugal subject in The Art of Fugue. |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Music for violin and piano Vol 1 (Incls Violin Sonata in F major) Qian Zhou (violin) / Edmund Battersby (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] "A disc that has more than passing interest to recommend it, and promises similar pleasures from its successors in this series." - MusicWebUK, November 12, 2001 |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Piano Transcriptions, Vol. 1 (1925-1947) Walter Gieseking, Byron Janis, Alexander Kelberine, Wilheim Backhaus, Sergey Rachmaninov, Rae Robertson, Arthur Rubinstein, Olga Samaroff, etc [ Naxos Historial Great Pianists / CD - released 29/Jan/2001 ] "Naxos has produced here a most enjoyable record which can be fully recommended not only to piano specialists but also to the general music lover and to people who are only just beginning to enjoy Bach's music." MusicWeb |
FREDERIC RZEWSKI
Rzewski: The People United will never be Defeated Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 6/Apr/2008 ] "This is another excellent Naxos release, and should be snapped up by anyone with even the mildest interest in 20th century piano music, or just piano music in general." (MusicWeb April 2008) |
ARVO PART
Piano Works (Incls 'Für Alina') Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] "This is a well-conceived crash-course in significant moments in the development of Pärt's music...With its visceral Romantic gestures convincingly realised by JoAnn Falletta, Lamentate, a reaction to Kapoor's work, is imbued with a sense of... |
KENNETH LEIGHTON
Complete Chamber Works For Cello Raphael Wallfisch (cello), with Raphael Terroni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] "Wallfisch gives eloquent performances of wors characterised by anguished restraint and reflection. Leighton's early Elegy affords a lyrical oasis in this programme of otherwise spare and sometimes jagged music." BBC Music |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: Clarinet Music Robert Oberaigner (clarinet), Michael Schöch (piano), Dresden Chamber Soloists, Michail Jurowski [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Mieczysaw Weinberg was familiar with the clarinet from his youth, given its prominent place in klezmer bands and theatre ensembles, and he wrote three works specifically for the instrument. In the Clarinet Concerto he draws a wide range of textures... |
BENJAMIN / ENESCU / JONGEN / KODALY / KREISLER / PAGANINI / SHORE / VIEUXTEMPS
The Virtuoso Viola Roger Chase (viola) / Michiko Otaki (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] Lovers of the viola will rejoice at this deliciously varied musical feast: Zoltán Kodály's magnificent transcription of Bach's Chromatic Fantasia, Paganini's Sonata (actually a theme and variations), two elegiac pieces by Vieuxtemps, Kreisler's... |
