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WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Symphony No. 1 / Partita English Northern Philharmonia, Paul Daniel [ Naxos / CD ] "Irrespective of price, this is a version of the much-recorded symphony that competes with the finest ever, and outshines most" - Gramophone |
MANUEL DE FALLA
La Vida breve (complete opera) Enrique Baquerizo (tenor) / Manuel Cid (tenor) / Alfonso Echeverria (bass) / Alicia Nafe (mezzo-soprano) / Asturias Symphony / Maximiano Valdes [ Naxos Opera Classics / CD - released 2/Jun/2004 ] Manuel de Falla is universally acknowledged as the central personality of twentieth-century Spanish musical culture. Born in 1876 in Cádiz, Andalusia, he aspired as a young boy to be a writer but by the mid-1890s had decided to concentrate on music. |
GEORGE TSONTAKIS
Tsontakis: Anasa / True Colors / Unforgettable Eric Berlin, Luosha Fang, Eunice Kim, David Krakauer / Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 7/Aug/2017 ] "These recent concertos demonstrate Tsontakis's remarkable ability to absorb and transform sources as disparate as klezmer and popular song. Conductor Miller is one of the composer's most ardent champion" Gramophone |
ERIK SATIE
Satie: Parade / Trois Gymnopedies / Orchestral Works) Nancy Symphony Orchestra, Jerome Kaltenbach [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "The music is beguiling and bumptious by turns, its simplicity disguising revolutionary qualities. The Nancy orchestra plays this sad circus music as to the manner born, and the sound and presentation are solid. Another Naxos winner" (Gramophone... |
LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: Clarinet Concertos Nos. 1 and 3 / Potpourri, Op. 80 Ernst Ottensamer (clarinet) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice; Johannes Wildner, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Mar/2004 ] "Ottensamer's mellow, nicely turned performances" - Penguin Guide |
MICHAEL DAUGHERTY
Daugherty: Dreamachine / Trail of Tears / Reflections on the Mississipp Evelyn Glennie (percussion) Carol Jantsch (tuba) Amy Porter (flute) / Dallas Symphony, David Alan Miller [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] GRAMMY® Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty explores the relationships between machines, humanity and nature in three unique concertos. Dreamachine for solo percussion and orchestra is a colourful tribute to the imagination of inventors who... |
MICHAEL DAUGHERTY
Philadelphia Stories / UFO Evelyn Glennie (percussion); Colorado Symphony. Orchestra / Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Jan/2005 ] "No earth-shaking masterpieces here, but Daugherty obviously knows how to handle large orchestral forces. Marin Alsop and her Colorado orchestra respond with vivid and committed playing." - MusicWeb Jan 2005 |
MICHAEL DAUGHERTY
Route 66 / Sunset Strip / Ghost Range Evelyn Glennie (percussion); Colorado Symphony. Orchestra / Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "Daugherty obviously knows how to handle large orchestral forces. Marin Alsop and her Colorado orchestra respond with vivid and committed playing." Music Web International |
JOHN CORIGLIANO
Conjurer & Vocalise Evelyn Glennie (percussion), Hila Plitmann (soprano), Mark Baechle (electronics) Albany Symphony Orchestra, David Alan Miller [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jan/2014 ] "Fresh, vital, vigorous; contemporary music of quality, winningly played [DM] Two stimulating and interesting scores by John Corigliano in excellent performances" (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Feb 2014) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 / Symphony No. 10 (Adagio) Ewa Podles (alto) / Cracow Philharmonic Choir / Cracow Boys' Choir / Polish NAtional Readio Symphony Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ NAXOS / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "This is a very impressive recording indeed" (American Record Guide) |
CARL von DITTERSDORF
Dittersdorf: Sinfonias Vol 1 Failoni Chamber Orchestra, Budapest, Uwe Grodd, conductor [ Naxos The 18th Century Symphony / CD - released 13/Oct/2002 ] "sparkling performances of three Dittersdorf symphonies.." - American Record Guide |
DITTERSDORF
Sinfonias Vol 2 Failoni Chamber Orchestra, Budapest / Uwe Grodd, conductor [ Naxos The 18th Century Symphony / CD - released 30/Oct/2003 ] "The slick quicksilver inventiveness and unabashed wit recommends itself immensely when delivered, as here, with such relishable idiomatic brio." (Gramophone) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Symphonies nos. 3 and 6 Failoni Orchestra, Michael Halasz [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Jan/2008 ] nice solid readings, well played and admirably recorded. Halasz captures the many classical elements of these works, the lightness, the formal balance, and the transparent orchestral fabric..emphasizing Schubert's extraordinary lyrical gift (Fanfare) |
CARL von DITTERSDORF
Dittersdorf: Dittersdorf: Sinfonias On Ovid's Metamorphoses, Nos. 4 - 6 Failoni Orchestra, Budapest, Hanspeter Gmur [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] Six of the twelve Symphonies after the Metamorphoses of Ovid survive in their original form. These were written in 1783 and introduced to the public in Vienna three years later, when Dittersdorf had occasion to visit the city for the first... |
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Failoni Orchestra/Halasz
Schubert:symphony No.9 [ Naxos / CD ] |
CARL REINECKE
Octet / Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (From the Cradle to the Grave) / Sextet Fenwick Smith (flute) Hugh Hinton (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, members [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Chamber music purely for wind ensembles was largely overlooked by Romantic composers and as a result Carl Reinecke's genial Sextet and Octet for wind loom rather large in a sparse landscape. |
EDINO KRIEGER
Krieger: Ludus Symphonicus / Variações Elementare / Canticum Naturale / etc Flavia Fernandes (soprano), São Paulo Symphony Choir, Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra • Neil Thomson [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Edino Krieger was a leading figure in Brazilian music as both composer and arts director who influenced a generation of his compatriots during his long life. |
Erno DOHNANYI
Dohnanyi: Symphony No. 2 & Two Songs Florida State University Symphony Orchestera, Alexander Jiménez [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jun/2014 ] Dohnányi's powerful Symphony No. 2 was composed toward the end of the Second World War but its large canvas reflects not so much his wartime experience as his own artistic credo as a Romantic composer. Of the symphony and its philosophy he wrote:... |
WILLIAM GRANT STILL
William Grant Still: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3 & Wood Notes Fort Smith Symphony, John Jeter [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] Still rose from humble beginnings to work as an arranger while studying composition with Chadwick and Varèse. Still embraced the blues, spirituals, jazz, and other ethnic American musics within classical forms. |
WILLIAM GRANT STILL
Still: Symphony No 4 "Autochthonous" / Symphony No 5 "Western Hemisphere" Fort Smith Symphony, John Jeter, conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] "Revel in these fine and likeably accessible works." (MusicWeb Nov 2009) |
