Search Results: naxos orchestra symphony
Displaying items 481 to 500 of 1193
FRANZ BERWALD
Berwald: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra / Okko Kamu [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2003 ] "Sound, thoughtful performances, free from eccentricity and with no lack of character...Niklas Sivelöv proves an accomplished and intelligent soloist whose account is thoroughly recommendable in its own right." Gramophone |
JEAN SIBELIUS / CHRISTIAN SINDING
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 / Sinding: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A major, Op. 45 Henning Kraggerud (violin) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Bjarte Engeset, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Oct/2004 ] The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius was born in 1865, the son of a doctor, in a small town in the south of Finland, the language and culture of his family being Swedish. It was at school that he was to learn Finnish and acquire his first interest in... |
JEAN SIBELIUS / CHRISTIAN SINDING
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 / Sinding: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A major, Op. 45 Henning Kraggerud (violin) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Bjarte Engeset, conductor [ Naxos SACD / SACD - released 26/Aug/2005 ] "Here's a well-balanced Finno-Norwegian disc that presents a major concerto leavened by a shorter work for violin and orchestra." MusicWeb |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms - Symphony No 1 (with works by Beethoven & Strauss) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, Herbert von Karajan [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 27/Oct/2008 ] Karajan's war-time recordings took him to Berlin, Dresden and Turin and, in 1943, to Amsterdam to work with the highly renowned Concertgebouw Orchestra, a great orchestra then as now. This exciting account of Brahms's First Symphony, with its... |
RICHARD DANIELPOUR
Darkness in the Ancient Valley, Lacrimae Beati & A Woman's Life Hila Plitmann (soprano) & Angela Brown (soprano) Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Jan/2014 ] Award-winning composer Richard Danielpour has been championed by musicians ranging from Leonard Bernstein to the Emerson String Quartet. Lacrimae Beati owes its origin to Mozart's Requiem and was conceived after a perilous flight in 2002. |
BRUCE BROUGHTON
Broughton: And on the Sixth Day / String Theory / Concerto for Horn and Orchestra Olivier Stankiewicz (oboe) William VerMeulen (horn) / London Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan Bloxham [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 21/Jun/2024 ] Although Bruce Broughton is best known for his many film and television scores, over the past five decades he has composed scores for a diverse array of projects from film and TV to concert music and even theme parks. His work has been recognized... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH / GUSTAV MAHLER
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 / Mahler: Symphony No. 10 (Concert version ed. Mengelberg/Dopper) Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2022 ] These two Tenth Symphonies represent powerful statements by composers undergoing the greatest of crises in their eventful lives. Gustav Mahler's last and incomplete symphony was kept a secret by his widow Alma for many years after his death. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 / Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70 Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 was premiered in 1937. It was composed in response to the Soviet denouncement in Pravda of the composer's most recent works. The symphony was an overwhelming success, returning the composer to favour with the... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV / FRANZ LISZT / etc
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 / Liszt: Paganini Etudes Vladimir Horowitz (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Albert Coates [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 31/Mar/2003 ] "There were so many unique facets to Horowitz's playing: the unmistakable sound, the…musical imagination, the extraordinary power and speed…surely one of the greatest of all piano recordings…" Gramophone |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Brahms/Tchaikovsky - Piano Concertos Vladimir Horowitz (piano) / NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Apr/2002 ] Penguin Guide - Rosette Winner |
|
PETITGIRARD
Guru (complete opera) Hubert Claessens / Sonia Petrovna / Philippe Do / Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Budapest / Laurent Petitgirard [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] |
LAURENT PETITGIRARD
Petitgirard: Little Prince Mari Lili-Laurila / Budapest Studio Choir, Honvéd Male Choir & Solistes du Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Budapest, Laurent Petitgirard [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] The prize-winning French composer Laurent Petitgirard has earned acclaim for the unusually personal power of his theatrical imagination. |
BRUCH
Symphony No.3 / Suite on Russian Themes Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra / Manfred Honeck [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Oct/2002 ] generally known only as the composer of works for the violin |
LAURENT PETITGIRARD
Petitgirard: Si Yeou Ki (The Journey to the West) Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Budapest, Laurent Petitgirard [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Apr/2023 ] The eclectic career of multi award-winning composer Laurent Petitgirard has seen him become one of France's leading musicians and conductors, as well as taking him into the worlds of opera and ballet. The Journey to the West is a ballet that tells... |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Symphony No.1 / Imperial March BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, George Hurst [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/1999 ] "Masterly with Elgarian rubato, he [George Hurst] refreshingly chooses speeds faster than have become the norm, closer to those of Elgar himself." The Guardian |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43 / The Tempest, Suite No. 1, Op. 109 Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Petri Sakari [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Mar/1999 ] "Maestro Petri Sakari and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra handle the first movement especially well, conveying a proper, shivery introduction leading up to a probing major subject." Classical Candor |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 Iceland Symphony Orchestra / Petri Sakari (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2003 ] The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius was born in 1865, the son of a doctor, in a small town in the south of Finland. The language and culture of his family, as with others of their class and background at the time, was Swedish |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Tone Poems: En Saga / Pohjola's Daughter / Oceanide / The Bard Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Petri Sakari (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Mar/2003 ] In Finland once more, Sibelius won almost immediate success in 1892 with a symphonic poem, Kullervo, based on an episode from the Finnish epic, the Kalevala. |
JEAN SIBELIUS
The Very Best of Sibelius Iceland Symphony Orchestra / Sinfonia Finlandia / Patrick Gallois (Conductor) and many more [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2006 ] Jean Sibelius is considered the greatest Finnish composer and from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, defined Finnish music, becoming the nationalist voice of his country. |
MICHAEL DAUGHERTY
Fire and Blood / MotorCity Triptych / Raise the Roof Ida Kafavian (violin) / Brian Jones / Detroit Symphony Orchestra / Neeme Jarvi [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "Michael Daugherty is a wonderful composer, and these three pieces make splendid listening. Fire and Blood is a violin concerto, and a damn fine one....Great sonics too." (10/10 ClassicsToday.com) |
