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VERDI
Rigoletto (Complete opera) Jozef Abel (tenor) Alida Ferrarini (soprano) Alzbeta Michalkova (contralto) / Slovak Philharmonic Chorus / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Rahbari [ Naxos Opera Classics / CD - released 8/Mar/2004 ] "Eduard Turmagian gives...a lucidly thought-through performance, dramatically sensitive...This recording of Rigoletto is astonishing value" - Gramophone |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Mass Jubilant Sykes (baritone) / Morgan State University Choir / Peabody Children's Chorus / Baltimore Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Aug/2009 ] "It's all fabulously recorded with a glittering impact that never turns unduly aggressive. The multi-textural layering in the climactic Dona Nobis Pacem comes across as both musically and physically overwhelming." (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
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MANOLIS KALOMIRIS
Complete Songs Julia Souglakou (soprano) / Eva Kotamanidou (narrator) / Russian State Symphonic Capella / Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra / Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos Greek Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] Manolis Kalomiris is honoured as the father of Greek national music. The inspired orchestration of Kalomiris's Piano Rhapsody No. 1 by Gabriel Pierné moved Byron Fidetzis to orchestrate the second of these, sub-titled Song of the Night. The versatile... |
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KAMRAN INCE
Symphony No. 2 ‘Fall of Constantinople’ / Concerto for Orchestra, Turkish Instruments and Voices / Piano Concerto / Infrared Only Kamran Ince (piano) / Bilkent Youth Chorus / Bilkent Symphony Orchestra / Kamran Ince / Isin Metin [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2011 ] The result is music of intoxication and intimacy, violence and tenderness. |
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JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Violin Concerto (with works by Halvorsen, Sinding & Svendsen) Dong-Suk Kang (violin) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Leaper [ Naxos / CD ] "Even if it were at full price it would feature quite high in the current lists." Penguin Guide |
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BO LINDE
Violin Concerto / Cello Concerto Karen Gomyo (violin) / Maria Kliegel (cello) / Gavle Symphony Orchestra / Petter Sundkvist (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] Rosette [highest rating] - Penguin Stereo Guide - "Two romantic-dramatic concertos full of explosive action and searing sunny lyricism. I don't buy the suggestion that Linde is a neo-classicist. Not to be misse" (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb Feb 2006) |
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KALMAN
Csardasfurstin (Die) (The Gypsy Princess) (Complete operetta) Karl-Michael Ebner (tenor) Mojca Erdmann (soprano) Heinz Holecek (bass) Yvonne Kenny (soprano) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Richard Bonynge [ Naxos Opera Classics SACD / 2 SACD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] Kálmán's great contribution to the musical language of Viennese operetta was to bring to it the brilliant colours, the heady rhythms and the dynamic energy of his native Hungary - not just as an imitator, like so many other composers, but as one who... |
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DANIEL-FRANCOIS AUBER
Auber: Overtures, Vol. 6 [Incls 'L'Ambassadrice' & 'Le Dieu et la Bayadère' ] Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra, Dario Salvi [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Auber's overtures were once as popular as those by Rossini and Suppé, with no less a figure than Tchaikovsky commenting on the 'elegant clarity of his harmonisation, his delightful and striking melodies … and beautiful instrumentation.' Full evidence... |
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KEVIN PUTTS
Putts: The City / Marimba Concerto / Moonlight Katherine Needleman (oboe) Ji Su Jung (marimba) / Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 24/Feb/2023 ] 'This collection of recordings is especially meaningful for me because it charts my growth as an orchestral composer from my years as a student - when the Marimba Concerto was composed - to more mature work such as Moonlight.' |
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MAHLER
Kindertotenlier / Symphony No 4 (Rec 1945-49) Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) / Vienna Symphony Orchestra / Bruno Walter [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] The English contralto Kathleen Ferrier (1912-1953) had a brief but glorious decade of music-making before being cruelly struck down in her prime with cancer. |
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GERSHWIN
Rhapsody in Blue / Piano Concerto / An American in Paris Kathryn Selby (piano) / Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hayman (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2005 ] "Kathryn Selby makes a strong showing in the Gershwin Concerto" - Fanfare |
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ROBERT ALDRIDGE
Elmer Gantry (complete opera) Keith Phares / Patricia Riseley / Vale Rideout / Florentine Opera Company / Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra / William Boggs [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] |
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REINHOLD GLIERE
Gliere: Symphony No. 2 / The Zaporozhy Cossacks Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Keith Clark [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1988 ] "This is still by far the best rendition of this symphony, even as of late 2002. This masterfully orchestrated symphony couldn't be more Russian, romantic sounding, as is the accompanying symphonic poem honoring the heroism of the Cossacks." |
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ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK
An American Port of Call Kevin Deas (baritone) / Virginia Symphony Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] |
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MARCIN BLAZEWICZ / BRONISLAW KAZIMIERZ PRZYBYLSKI / MIKOLAJ MAJKUSIAK
Polish Accordian Concertos Klaudiusz Baran (accordion) / Polish Radio Symphony orchestra, MichaĆ Klauza [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Since the 1960s the Polish accordion concerto has enjoyed increasing popularity and in recent years no one has inspired more composers to write for the instrument than Klaudiusz Baran. The three most important Polish concertos are showcased in this... |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
The Very Best of Shostakovich Konstantin Scherbakov (Piano) Michael Houstoun (Piano) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Lyndon-Gee (Conductor) Ilya Kaler (Violin) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 9/May/2006 ] "As an introduction to the composer's work, it gives a wide-ranging and typical selection, which is in itself some achievement." (MusicWeb August 2006) |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov - Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 Konstantin Scherbakov, piano / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor [ Naxos SACD / SACD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - "the best Third Concerto I've ever heard; stupefying brilliant sound in 8 different flavours" (MusicWeb) |
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OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Concerto in modo misolidio / Concerto a cinque Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Capella Istropolitana / Howard Griffiths & Ewald Danel [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Ottorino Respighi was born in Bologna in 1879 and studied the violin and viola at the Liceo Musicale there from 1891 with Federico Sarti. |
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KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4 (Violin Concerto No. 1 Violin Concerto No. 2) Konstanty Kulka (violin) Chee-Yun (violin) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice) / Antoni Wit, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2003 ] Krzystof Penderecki's orchestral recordings continues on Naxos |