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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Concertos for Two Lire Organizzate Daniel Rothert, Philipp Spatling (recorders) Benoit Fromanger, Ingo Nelken (flutes) / Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Helmut Muller-Bruhl [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Feb/2009 ] "Just about all of Haydn's music is unfailingly tuneful; this is mature music from the mid 1780s, roughly contemporaneous with the Paris symphonies..An attractive recording, then, which one could hardly dislike." (MusicWeb Jan 2009) |
JOHANN SIMON MAYR
MAYR: Mass in E flat major Dorota Szczepaska, Johanna Krödel, Markus Schäfer, Daniel Ochoa; Concerto de Bassus, Simon Mayr Chorus, Franz Hauk [ Naxos / CD - released 21/Feb/2020 ] Mayr's great Mass in E flat major is a late work, largely composed in 1843. It conforms to the prevailing Italian messa concertata tradition with its clear divisions into distinct vocal numbers, as opposed to the symphonic Mass which held sway north... |
EDWARD ELGAR / ANTONIN DVOARK
Elgar/Dvorak: Cello Concertos Maria Kliegel (cello) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Michael Halasz [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "Her playing has great virtuosity, but it is her phrasing especially in the Elgar, which suggests a great musical intelligence" - Classic CD |
J. S. BACH
Piano Concertos Vol 2 Hae-won Chang (piano) Camerata Cassovia / Robert Stankpvsky [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jan/2004 ] "It is difficult to imagine a more satisfying pair of discs of this repertoire." Daily Telegraph |
EDVARD GRIEG
Grieg: Piano Concerto / Symphonic Dances / etc Havard Gimse (piano) / Royal Scottish National orchestra, Bjarte Engeset [ Naxos Greig Edition Vol. 1 / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "To paint Norwegian nature, Norwegian folk-life, Norwegian history and Norwegian folk-poetry in music is just that for me, something in which I believe I can succeed" E. Grieg |
JULIAN ORBON
Orbon: Symphonic Dances / Concerto Grosso / Three Symphonic Versions Hector Corpus Aguilar (violin) Vladimir Atapin (cello) Oleg Lev (viola) Alexandre Vassiliev (violin) / Asturias Symphony Orchestra / Maximiano Valdes [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 27/Jan/2004 ] Julián Orbón was born in Avilés in the northern Spanish region of Asturias, on 7th August 1925, and he spent most of his childhood in that region, with the exception of a year's visit to Cuba. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Schumann-Introduction and Concert-Allegro) Idil Biret, Jeno Jando (pianos) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Antoni Wit (conductor) [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "Jeno Jando and his Polish colleagues strike me as getting the balance just about right" - Classic CD |
ANTONIN DVOARK / ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
Dvorak/Glazunov: Violin Concertos Ilya Kaler (violin) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Camilla Kolchinsky [ Naxos / CD ] "Kaler's playing of these Romantic sweetly-tuned works is excellent" BBC Music Magazine "Ilya Kaler has great romantic warmth and natural Slavonic feeling....In short this is first class in every way" Penguin Guide |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor / Introduction and Allegro, Op. 92 and Op. 134 Jeno Jando (piano) with Various Orchestras [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Apr/2005 ] |
WILLIAM ALWYN
Alwyn: Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Strings / Elizabethan Dances / The Innumerable Dance Jonathan Small (oboe) / Eleanor Hudson (harp) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jan/2007 ] "Recording is natural without being distanced and performances evince commitment and sympathy. The unique experience of hearing more than sixteen minutes of previously unrecorded Alwyn" (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Dec 2006) |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Concertos Jurgen Schuster (trumpet) Dmitri Babanov (horn) Harald Hoeren (harpsichord) Ariadne Daskalakis (violin) / Cologne Chamber Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] Haydn's popular Trumpet Concerto is best known for its thrilling first movement cadenza and brilliant and inventive Rondo finale.The Horn Concerto No. 1 is also notable for the technical demands made on the soloist, not least the large octave leaps... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN / JOAN TOWER / WALTER PISTON / JOHN HARBISON
Gershwin: Concerto in F (with works by Tower, Piston & Harbison) Kevin Cole (piano) / National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, David Alan Miller [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] "From the very opening [Gershwin] with its timpani motto, the piece goes like the wind, not sounding rushed so much as bracingly correct. Miller and pianist Kevin Cole set perfect tempos for the cakewalk passage in the first movement" Fanfare |
NIKOLAY KARLOVICH MEDTNER
Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Piano Quintet Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) Zuzana Bourova (viola) Ewald Danel (violin) Jozef Podhoransky (cello) Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) / Moscow Symphony Or [ Naxos Romantic Piano Concertos / CD - released 29/Oct/2005 ] "virtuosic and brilliant playing from Konstantin Scherbakov" (Penguin Guide) |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Recorder Concertos Laszlo Kecskemeti (recorder) with Borbala Dobozy (harpsichord) Attila Falvay (violin) Laszlo Hadady (oboe) Gyorgy Kertesz (cello) Gyorgy Olajos (basso [ Naxos Vivaldi Collection / CD - released 15/Jan/2006 ] "Very enjoyable performances of music which is more various and subtle than one might expect" (MusicWeb Jan 2006) |
ROSS HARRIS
Harris: Symphony No. 4, "To the memory of Mahinārangi Tocker" / Cello Concerto Li-wei Qin (cello) / Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Brett Dean, Garry Walker [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2014 ] "There is no question that the Auckland Philharmonic are superbly in control as is Brett Dean, himself a violist and composer and just forging an extra career as a conductor. The recording is vivid and allows the music space although the quiet passag |
WILLIAM ALWYN
Violin Concerto / Miss Julie Suite / etc Lorraine McAslan (violin) / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jun/2011 ] "Lloyd-Jones and McAslan give admirable shape to the long, rhapsodic first movement...[the] technically demanding finale is performed with agile warmth by McAslan whose attractive tone and expressive style seem entirely in tune with this distinctive... |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto & Harmonica Concerto Manuel Barrueco (guitar), José Staneck (harmonica) São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, OSESP Ensemble, Giancarlo Guerrera [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Nov/2019 ] "The uniformly first rate performances by members of the São Paulo Symphony are excellently engineered, making the whole disc a joy from start to finish-a true voyage of discovery and delight." 10/10 ClassicsToday |
ILDEBRANDO PIZZETTI
Pizzetti: Symphony in A / Harp Concerto Margherita Bassani (harp) / Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Damian Iorio [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2017 ] Composed in 1940, Pizzetti's Symphony in A was one of the works, which included Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem, commissioned to celebrate the 2600th anniversary of the accession of the legendary first Emperor of Japan. This powerful and... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 107 / Cello Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 126 Maria Kliegel (cello) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra; Antoni Wit, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jan/2004 ] "Kliegel manages to convey a feeling of spontaneous improvisation and her command of the instrument is impressive. Naxos's recording is nicely ambient." - Gramophone - Oct.1996 |
BEETHOVEN / ELGAR / BRAHMS / SAINT-SAENS / FAURE / POPPER / etc
Maria Kliegel - Anniversary Edition Maria Kliegel (cello) / with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Camerata Transsylvanica, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 11/Nov/2022 ] "Her playing has great virtuosity, but it is her phrasing especially in the Elgar, which suggests a great musical intelligence" - Classic CD |
