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NIELSEN
Symphonies Vol. 3 - No. 4 "The Inextinguishable" & No. 5 Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Michael Schonwandt [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jul/2009 ] "The performances are outstanding ... 10/10" - Classics Today on 'Nielsen Orchestral Works Vol. 1' Naxos 8.570737 |
ALAN HOVHANESS
Hovhaness: Khrimian Hairig / Guitar Concerto / Symphony No. 60 David Leisner (guitar) / Lars Ranch (trumpet) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Jan/2007 ] Described by the composer's wife as his 'true masterpiece', Khrimian Hairig, with its trumpet solo, recalls the heroic Armenian priest of the title. Hovhaness' virtuoso and romantic Guitar Concerto was written for the Bolivian guitarist Juan Calderon. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Acis and Galatea Dawn Kotoski, David GordoN, Glenn Siebert, Jan Opalach / Seattle Symphony Chorale & Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] Acis and Galatea, variously described as a pastoral, a 'little opera' and a masque, is one of Handel's most popular works. It is a delectable succession of pastoral airs, love-lorn lyrics, and sprightly or mourning choruses. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
The Best of Britten (Incls 'Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27' & 'Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10') Della Jones (Mezzo) Northern Sinfonia / English Chamber Orchestra / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / etc [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] The outstanding English composer working in the mid-20th century, Benjamin Britten won a significant international reputation, whilst remaining thoroughly English in inspiration. Britten's compositions appeal to all ages, from the delightful Simple... |
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Desi Halban & Bruno Walter
Mahler: Symphony No 5 [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 31/Jan/2005 ] |
MAHLER
Symphony No 5 / Lieder und Gesange aus der Jugendzeit (Rec 1947) Desi Halban (soprano) Bruno Walter (piano) / New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra / Bruno Walter, conductor [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 16/Jun/2005 ] "Another fantastic addition to the Naxos Historical Great Conductors series, joining Walter's versions of Mahler 9 and Das Lied von der Erde." (MusicWeb March 2005) |
CASELLA
Symphony No. 1 / Concerto for strings, piano, timpani & percussion Desiree Seuccuglia (piano) Antonio Ceravolo (percussion) / Rome Symphony Orchestra / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] This first of four recordings of Alfredo Casella's orchestral music couples his first and last purely orchestral works. Completed the day before his 23rd birthday, the Symphony No. 1, which here receives its world première recording, exudes a... |
ALLA BORZOVA
Alla Borzova: Songs For Lada & To The New World Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] Born in Minsk, Belarus, Alla Borzova has received numerous prestigious awards for her highly imaginative music since moving to the United States in 1993. |
AARON COPLAND
Copland: Appalachian Spring / Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] "A worthy companion to Andrew Litton's Colorado Copland; augurs well for the rest of this series." MusicWeek |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Complete Symphonies / Vocalise / Isle of the Dead / Symphonic Dances Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] "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 on Symphony No. 3) |
AARON COPLAND
Rodeo / Dance Panels / El Salón México / Danzón Cubano BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Apr/2015 ] "Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony...a great team, and this disc demonstrates just how far the orchestra have progressed under his tutelage. They sound supremely confident and at ease with themselves, and Rodeo shows them at their exuberant best. Ense |
AARON COPLAND
Copland: Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes / Dance Panels / El Salón México / Danzón Cubano Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Jul/2013 ] "While performances do not disappoint - Slatkin and his players make a finely-tuned team - the choice of works on the disc is canny." (William Dart NZ Herald) |
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... |
