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CINDY MCTEE
Symphony No. 1, Circuits, Einstein's Dream & Double Play Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Feb/2014 ] Cindy McTee's compositions embody the musical and cultural energy of modern-day America. Circuits, 'a boisterously jazzy sprint' (Detroit Free Press), is followed by Symphony No. 1 |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 / Vocalise (arr. for orchestra) Detroit Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] In the wake of his First Symphony's catastrophic première, Rachmaninov took a decade before commencing his Second, painstakingly revising it before conducting the triumphant première in 1908. Although haunted, like his First, by the Dies irae chant... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 & Symphonic Dances Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Apr/2013 ] "Slatkin is with Rachmaninov, all the way. He revels in the first movement's restless shifts, pitting the brute power of full ensemble against woodwind detail and soaring cellos." (William Dart NZ Herald) |
RACHMANINOV / RIMSKY KORSAKOV / TCHAIKOVSKY
Russian Songs and Arias Dinara Alieva (soprano) / New Russia State Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Feb/2013 ] Montserrat Caballé has described soprano Dinara Alieva's rare talent as 'the gift of Heaven'. |
MAX STEINER
Treasure of the Sierra Madre (The) Dino Soldo (harmonica) / Moscow Symphony Chorus / Moscow Symphony Orchestra / William Stromberg [ Naxos Film Music Classics / CD - released 9/Oct/2007 ] Max Steiner's music for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is one of the composer's best remembered scores and gathered recognition by winning the Venice World Award in 1948. |
LEO WEINER
Weiner: Orchestral Works (Complete), Vol. 3 Ditta Rohmann (Cello) Melinda Felletár (Harp) / Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, Valéria Csányi [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] Leó Weiner, a contemporary of Bartók and Kodály, was a profoundly important teacher in Budapest whose own music developed from a more traditional Romantic model to an absorption of his native Hungarian folk music during the 1930s. |
DITTERSDORF
Sinfonias Budapest Failoni Chamber Orchestra, Uwe Grodd [ Naxos 18th Century Symphony / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "The prolific but largely neglected Dittersdorf has long been deserving of greater attention as these scintillating performances of bright and ebullient sinfonias delightfully demonstrate. The slick quicksilver inventiveness and unabashed wit... |
ANTONIO SALIERI
Salieri: Overtures Czech-Slovak Radio Symphony orchestra, Michael Dittrich [ Naxos / CD ] "Poor old Salieri, ever to be remembered-thanks to the film Amadeus - as the murderer of Mozart, rather than one of imperial Vienna's foremost composers and the teacher of Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt and even Mozart's youngest son. Good then to have... |
KHATCHATURIAN
Cello Concerto / Concerto-Rhapsody Dmitry Yablonsky (cello) / Moscow City Symphony Orchestra / Maxim Fedotov [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] The Naxos series devoted to the orchestral music of Aram Khachaturian continues with his two works for cello and orchestra. The Cello Concerto, whose brooding emotional unease did not endear it to the authorities at a difficult time for Soviet... |
ELGAR
Violin Concerto in B minor Op 61 / Cockaigne Overture Dong-Suk Kang (violin) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adrian Leaper (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jan/2008 ] "Dung-Suk Kang plays the work with insight and understanding, as if he had been brought up on the slopes of the Malvern Hills" - Gramophone |
JEAN SIBELIUS / EDWARD ELGAR
Sibelius/Elgar: Violin Concertos Dong-Suk Kang (violin) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adrian Leaper (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Oct/2005 ] "even if it were at full price it would feature quite high in the current lists" - Penguin Guide |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Violin Concertos No. 3 / Introduction And Rondo Capriccioso / etc Dong-Suk Kang (violin) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Sep/2007 ] "more than just convincingly shaped; it is downright poetic... Why pay more and get less when this excellent Naxos offering is available at low cost?" - American Record Guide |
ALBERTO GINASTERA
Ginastera: Piano Concertos Nos.1 and 2 Dora De Marinis (piano) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Julio Malaval [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Feb/2001 ] "Slightly fuller and deeper sound…The performers are equal to the occasion in every piece." James Miller Fanfare September/October 2001 |
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ANTONIN DVOARK
Dvorak: Symphonic Poems [Incls 'The Golden Spinning Wheel'] Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser [ Naxos / CD ] "Gunzenhauser gives warm, vivid performances." Penguin Guide |
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: Chamber Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 East-West Chamber Orchestra, Rostislav Krimer [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Symphonic thinking dominated Mieczysław Weinberg's final decade, and these chamber symphonies are part of an interrelated sequence that reworks and cites earlier pieces. |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No. 5 / Symphony No. 4 (recorded 1950-51) Edwin Fischer (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Wilhelm Furtwangler [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] "Here are two great Beethovenians, at the height of their powers, at work, offering masterful interpretations of music heard perhaps too often in routine or less than inspiring performances." (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb Sept 2010) |
HISATO OHZAWA
Piano Concerto No 3 'Kamikaze' / Symphony No 3 'The Founding of Japan' Ekaterina Saranceva (piano) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dimitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2008 ] Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky |
JOAQUIM SERRA
Orchestral Works El Valles Symphony Orchestra, Salvador Brotons, conductor [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 3/Sep/2002 ] Although the composer Joaquim Serra is extremely famous within Catalonia, he is unfortunately far less well-known to audiences beyond his homeland. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (with Sibelius-Symphony No 2) Eleanor Roosevelt (narrator) / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Koussevitzky / NBC Symphony Orchestra / Toscanini [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] This disc restores to the catalogue, after an absence of more than 50 years,Koussevitzky's second recording of Peter and the Wolf, with Eleanor Roosevelt as narrator.Taped during his last recording sessions on 29th November, 1950, Koussevitzky's... |
ERNEST BLOCH
America / Suite Hebraique Elena Matusova, choirmaster / Hagai Shaham, violin / Lucnica Chorus / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Atlas Camerata Orchestra / Dalia Atlas [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jul/2005 ] "This will be a surefire winner for Bloch specialists and also for those intrigued by patriotic immigrant Americana. These are both good performances and I greatly liked Shaham's sturdy singing tone." -- Rob Barnett, MusicWeb International, June 2005 |
