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SCRIABIN
Piano Recital Alexander Ghindin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Scriabin's cycle of Piano Sonatas is one of the most visionary and dramatic in the canon...The Poèmes and Morceaux represent, in even more concentrated form, the harmonic allure of Scriabin's writing. |
FRANCK / LISZT / DEBUSSY / SASTRE
Piano Laureate Recital Alexander Koryakin (piano) / Bretón String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 28/May/2021 ] Alexander Koryakin, winner of the 2019 Jaén Prize International Piano Competition, has selected two perfectly paired masterpieces for his first Naxos recording. |
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CARL MARIA von WEBER
Piano Works Vol.3 Alexander Paley (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber - Piano Works Vol.4 Alexander Paley (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Sonata in A minor, D.821 'Arpeggione' / Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 100, D. 929 Alexander Rudin (arpeggione/cello), Erich Hobarth (violin), Appo Hakkinen (fortepiano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jan/2021 ] Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata has today become part of the cello repertoire but it was originally written for the arpeggione, a form of bowed guitar invented by the Viennese maker Johann Georg Staufer in 1823. With a unique ethereal sound, this... |
JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Concerto for Piano and Violin, Op. 17 / Violin Concerto Alexander Trostianski (violin) / Polina Osetinskaya (piano) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Gregory Rose (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Sep/2005 ] "Naxos is to be commended for bringing these two works to our attention, especially since the performances are very polished...the recording is beautifully natural." (American Record Guide) |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Complete Piano Music Vol. 57 Alexandre Dossin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Mar/2021 ] It was natural for virtuoso performer Franz Liszt to expand his repertoire by transcribing his songs for solo piano. The human voice is the purest of musical instruments, and composers have always been inspired by its warmth, expression and emotional... |
DMITRY KABALEVSKY
Kabalevsky: Piano Sonatas and Sonatinas (complete) Alexandre Dossin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "Anyone interested in the Soviet piano repertoire of the twentieth century need not hesitate. The recording quality is perfectly acceptable." (MusicWeb May 2009) |
KABALEVSKY
Preludes (Complete) / 6 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 61 Alexandre Dossin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2009 ] Drawing on the Chopin model of alternating major and minor keys, as well as on Russian folk melodies, Kabalevsky's 24 Preludes (1943-4) find the composer's writing at its most distinctive. They are coupled with the early 4 Preludes (1927), in which... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Childhood Manuscripts - Old Grandmother's Tales & Six Pieces Op. 52 Alexandre Dossin (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2017 ] Sergey Prokofiev was so musically precocious that no less a figure than Reinhold Glière was employed as his live-in tutor. Glière's lessons proved to be both rigorous and inspiring and the young Prokofiev wrote a delightful sequence of works for the... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Russian Transcriptions Alexandre Dossin (piano) [ Naxos Liszt Edition Vol 35 / CD - released 10/Aug/2012 ] Liszt first visited Russia in April 1842 when he travelled to St. Petersburg and was so rapturously received that he returned the following year. His last tour came in 1847, the year of his retirement as a concert artist. During these visits he wrote... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Verdi Concert Paraphrases and Transcriptions Alexandre Dossin (piano) [ Naxos Complete Liszt Edition Vol 25 / CD - released 10/Jul/2007 ] "Splendidly recorded at the Country Day School, King City in Ontario the sound is truthful and well balanced. To add to the excellent presentation Keith Anderson's booklet notes are written to his usual high standard...Naxos enter the winner's... |
GEORGE WALKER
Walker: Complete Piano Works Vol 1 Alexandre Dossin (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] George Walker's unique collection of piano music ranges across his long career. The three sonatas heard here, in this the first of two volumes of Walker's complete piano works, offer compelling contrasts. Sonata No. 1 is his longest and utilizes folk... |
GEORGE WALKER
Walker: Complete Piano Works 2 Alexandre Dossin (piano), University of Oregon Philharmonia, David M. Jacobs (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 28/Jun/2024 ] George Walker's international reputation as a composer and pianist was recognized with numerous commissions and awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1996. |
FREDERIC CHOPIN / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 / Schumann: Kinderszenen / Carnaval (1953) Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] Alfred Cortot was renowned above all as a pianist whose interpretations, especially of the works of Schumann, Debussy and Chopin, were often on a spiritual level. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
1929-1937 Recordings Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "Everything here is delectable but the very disc itself would object if I did not single out the pianist's arrangement of the Largo from Bach's F minor Concerto, something for everyone's desert island and enough to bring tears to the eyes of even the... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: 24 Preludes, Op. 28 / 3 Impromptus / Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57 Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] "Cortot's ability to make Chopin solid and tangible, to communicate his art both on an earthily human as well as an elevated poetic level - simultaneously" (MusicWeb Feb 2006) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Ballades Nos. 1-4 / Nocturnes (Cortot, 78 rpm Recordings, Vol. 5) (1929-1951) Alfred Cortot (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] "A triumphant end for the Cortot-Chopin series then. Good restoration work allows us to hear these performances in all their disputatious but teeming glory." (MusicWeb May 2007) |
