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PETER SCULTHORPE
Sculthorpe: Earth Cry / Piano Concerto / Kakadu / etc William Barton (didgeridoo) / Maria Anna Cislovska (piano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / James Judd, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2004 ] "Tasmanian composer Sculthorpe's psychedelic images of primeval times, nature and infinity are well worth your trouble. A superb and breathtakingly inexpensive disc. Miraculously good value at every level." - MusicWeb Nov 2004 |
GIOVANNI GABRIELI
Music for Brass Vol. 3 London Symphony Orchestra Brass [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] |
PHILIP GLASS
Of Beauty & Light: The Music of Philip Glass (3 CD set) Adele Anthony (violin) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop / Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2008 ] This is Glass in full flight, with an aural illusion of the work speeding up yet retaining a constant pulse throughout the work's lively changes of texture and melodic figuration." --New Zealand Listener |
GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG
Strong: Orchestral Music Vol.2 Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Adriano [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2001 ] |
GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG
Strong: Orchestral Works Vol.3 Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Adriano [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/Nov/2002 ] George Templeton Strong was born in New York on 26th May 1856. His father, a lawyer and a friend of Abraham Lincoln, was President of the New York Philharmonic Society. |
SALVATORE MESSINA / NINO ROTA / PAOLO PESSINA
Pessini: Concertango / Rota: Concerto for Strings / Messina: La beffa a Don Chisciotte Suite (arr. for string orchestra) Adriatic Symphony Orchestra / Paolo Pessina [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Nov/2006 ] Salvatore Messina composed the opera La beffa a Don Chisciotte, with a libretto by Ettore Romagnoli, between 1926 and 1930. The composer's untimely death did not allow him to complete the orchestration of the score. |
SILVESTRE REVUELTAS
Revueltas: Orchestral Music Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Barrios [ Naxos Latin American Classics / CD - released 2/Sep/2002 ] "With some typically informative Naxos documentation, this disc of music by a little known but immensely gifted composer can be recommended with much enthusiasm" - Music Web |
ANTHONY LEWIS SCARMOLIN
Scarmolin: Orchestral Works Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Joel Eric Suben [ Naxos American Classics / CD ] Anthony Louis Scarmolin was born in 1890 in the northern Italian textile-producing town of Schio, near Padua, where his father worked in the local industry. His father moved to America in 1900, taking his family with him and settling in New Jersey.... |
AMY BEACH
Beach: Piano Concerto / Gaelic Symphony Alan Feinberg (piano) Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Kenneth Schermerhorn (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/May/2003 ] "Prepare to be thrilled by the melodic invention and charming rhythmic energy of this music. Well worth exploring." - Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (June 2003) |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Emerson Concerto / Symphony No. 1 Alan Feinberg (Piano) / National Symphony Orchestra Of Ireland / James Sinclair [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "Alan Feinberg is an ideal exponent of Ives's truculent and tender realism. The National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland partners him well... a very strong recommendation" International Record Review |
LEONARD SLATKIN
Slatkin Conducts Slatkin - The Raven / Endgames / Kinah / In Fields Alec Baldwin (narrator) / Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Symphnoy Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Leonard Slatkin celebrated his 75th birthday in September 2019. Many of the selections in this program come from a concert given in his honour and are also a tribute to his remarkable musical family, both past and present. |
KOMEI ABE
Abe: Symphony No. 1 / Divertimento / Sinfonietta Aleksey Volkov (alto saxophone) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dimitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2008 ] Komei Abe was one of the finest pupils trained at the Tokyo Music School ( now the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music) in the 1930s. His musical language is characterized by crisp melodies, structural clarity and, in the composer's own words,... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Orchestral Excerpts Vol 3 (Incls Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod) Alessandra Marc (soprano) / Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] "Marc is an excellent singer, thankfully free of the gusty tone production which afflicts too many Wagnerian sopranos today. She sings with expressiveness, delicacy and a real feeling for the text" |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 Alexander Anissimov, National Symphony Orchestra Of Ireland [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2001 ] "Alexander Anissimov's Naxos account lingers nostalgically over lyrical episodes in a recording that's firmer at the bottom end than you'd expect from Dublin's airy National Concert Hall. Anissimov's Naxos account is an exceptional bargain" BBC Music |
ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
Glazunov: Works for Cello and Orchestra Alexander Rudin (cello) / Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Igor Golovschin [ Naxos / CD ] "I would draw your attention to the Concerto Ballata. Sweet, very Russian, and just the right amounts of melancholy and drama. Recorded only three times." Penguin Guide |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Music For Cello And Orchestra Alexander Rudin (Cello) / National Symphony Orchestra Of Ukraine / Theodore Kuchar [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Sep/2007 ] "Alexander Rudin is, both technically and interpretively, one of the most authoritative cellists of his generation...all in all the most successful recording of this score in years....Highly Recommended" - Fanfare |
DMITRY KABALEVSKY
Kabalevsky: Cello Concertos. Nos 1&2 Alexander Rudin (cello) / Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Igor Golovschin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2016 ] "these performances convey the flow and character of the music admirably" (BBC Music) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies, Vol 11 - Symphony No. 13, "Babi Yar" Alexander Vinogradov (bass), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2014 ] "Vasily Petrenko's generally sensational Shostakovich cycle concludes with this powerful and gripping performance of the Thirteenth Symphony. Naxos' sonics are also excellent, with particularly well-judged balances between the choir and the orchestra |
JOAO DOMINGOS BOMTEMPO
Bomtempo: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 Algarve Orchestra, Alvaro Cassuto (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Dec/2004 ] "The music is given a compelling treatment by the recently founded but highly proficient Algarve Orchestra. At budget price this issue should help give it [Bomtempo's music] the wider currency it clearly deserves." Gramophone |
MANUEL DE FALLA
El Amor Brujo / El Sombrero de Tres Picos Alicia Nafe (mezzo-soprano) / Maria Jose Martos (mezzo-soprano) / Asturias Symphony Orchestra / Maximiano Valdes (conductor) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 18/Jun/2005 ] Manuel de Falla is generally acknowledged as the leading figure in Spanish music of the twentieth century. |
