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JACK GALLAGHER
Diversions Overture / Berceuse / Sinfonietta / Symphony in One Movement - Threnody London Symphony Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Jack Gallagher's Symphony in One Movement: Threnody has been acclaimed by In Tune magazine as 'enormously inventing' and by Österreichische Musikzeitschrift as 'a one-movement symphony of great colourfulness'. The warm, lyrical Berceuse was... |
KENNETH FUCHS
Kenneth Fuchs: Atlantic Riband & American Rhapsody London Symphony Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2012 ] "Fuchs is not an original figure: he's affably conventional and undemanding...nothing is over-extended and the performances are hand-in-glove with the composer." |
JACK GALLAGHER
Symphony No. 2 'Ascendant' & Quiet Reflections London Symphony Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta (Conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Feb/2014 ] Jack Gallagher continues his association with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta with Symphony No. 2 'Ascendant,' a robust, colourful work of dramatic contrasts and expansive architecture that seeks to express the aspirations... |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: The Miraculous Mandarin Suite (Brahms - Symphony No. 1) London Symphony Orchestra / Jonathon Pasternack [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Feb/2011 ] Béla Bartók's pantomime The Miraculous Mandarin was banned after its first performance in 1926, but the composer's orchestral suite quickly became a popular concert work, appreciated for its energetic rhythms and daring harmonies. |
EL-KHOURY
New York, Tears and Hope / The Rivers Engulfed London Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins (Conductor) / Daniel Harding (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Oct/2006 ] "I know that the composer was grateful for and proud, pleased, and excited by the meticulous performances his music received here. He was present at the recordings and you can be sure that what you hear is what he intended and that the performers... |
PETER BOYER
Boyer: Balance of Power - Orchestral Works London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Boyer [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] This album presents eight of the most recent works by Peter Boyer, one of the leading American orchestral composers of his generation. Balance of Power was commissioned for the 95th birthday of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. |
GREGORY FRITZE
Fritze: Overtures and Symphonies London Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Sanz-Espert [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Feb/2026 ] Prize-winning composer Gregory Fritze has written over a hundred compositions for a variety of forces, and is also a greatly admired teacher. The four works on this album share programmatic perspectives. The city of London is evoked in a celebratory... |
STRAVINSKY
Apollo / Agon / Orpheus (Complete ballets) London Symphony Orchestra / Robert Craft, conductor [ Naxos Stravinsky Edition Vol 4 / CD - released 1/Jul/2005 ] "It's probably Craft's generally fast tempos that mean all three ballets can be accommodated generously on this single disc. Things never get out of hand, but if you are used to more relaxed readings, be prepared." -- MusicWeb International, June 2005 |
ALEXEY SHOR
Shor: Images from the Great Siege Verdiana (London Symphony Orchestra, Sergey Smbatyan) London Symphony Orchestra, Sergey Smbatyan [ Naxos 21st Century Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2020 ] One of the pivotal and bloodiest battles of 16th-century Europe, the four-month siege of Malta by an Ottoman armada of some 200 ships, from which the local population led by the Knights of Malta emerged victorious, was an extraordinary episode of... |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 (Beecham) (1928, 1938) London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Great Conductors / CD - released 13/Jan/2002 ] In the early months of 1938 Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic Orchestra set about making the records for the third and final volume to be issued by Columbia Records under the auspices of The Delius Society. |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10 / The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 / etc London Symphony Orchestra / Steuart Bedford, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Jul/2005 ] "A great jumping off point for listeners new to Britten's music. For us seasoned veterans, it is a fine revisit to some old favorites" (MusicWeb Aug 2005) |
PERSICHETTI
Divertimento / Masquerade / Parable IX London Symphony Orchestra Wind and Percussion Ensemble / David Amos (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/May/2006 ] In the face of partisan antagonism, Persichetti advocated, through his music, the notion of a broad working vocabulary based on a fluent assimilation of all the materials and techniques which had appeared during the 20th century. |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast Suite, Op. 51 / Karelia Suite, Op. 11 (excerpts) / Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43 London Symphony Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Kajanus [ Naxos Historical Kajanus conducts Sibelius Vol 2 / CD - released 2/Jan/2013 ] "The programme is artfully sequenced. First we get the fey and fragile exotica, glistening fantasy and wan orientalism of Belshazzar's Feast. Then come the exuberant outer movements of the Karelia Suite...Phrasing is nicely sculpted throughout." MW |
DEREK BERMEL
Bermel.: Migration Series / Mar de Setembro / A Shout, A Whisper, and A Trace Luciana Souza, Ted Nash, Julliard Jazz Orchestra, Albany Symphony, D. A. Miller [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2019 ] Migrations provides a generous view of Derek Bermel's superb craftsmanship and eclectic style, in which classical forms, world music, jazz, blues and American folk music create a mix that reaches directly into the body and the heart. Commissioned by... |
GEORGE FREDERICK McKAY
Violin Concerto / Sinfonietta No. 4 / Song Over the Great Plains Ludmilla Kovaleva, piano / Brian Reagin, violin / Ukraine National Radio Symphony Orchestra / John McLaughlin Williams, conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 23/Feb/2005 ] "Naxos's third McKay disc ... a worthy revival of music that could otherwise have been lost to posterity" - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
GINASTERA
Panambi / Estancia (Complete Ballets) Luis Gaeta / London Symphony Orchestra / Gisele Ben-Dor (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] Much admired by Aaron Copland, the Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983) is widely regarded as one of the most important and original South American composers of the 20th century. |
GUISEPPE MARTUCCI
Orchestral Music, Vol. 2: Symphony No. 2 / Theme and Variations / Tarantella / Gavotta Lya de Barberiis (piano) / Rome Symphony Orchestra / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] This is a not-to-be-missed series." (AudAud Five Stars Nov 2009) |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: War Requiem Lynda Russell, Thomas Randle, Michael Volle / Scottish Festival Chorus / BBC Scottish Symphony / Martyn Brabbins [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 9/Nov/2005 ] |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.4 Lynda Russell (soprano) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD ] "Well there are a lot of fine Fourths, some of them name-brands. But this is as good as any of them - really - and costs a fraction of what they cost" American Record Guide |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection': arrangement for piano four hands by Bruno Walter Maasa Nakazawa (piano) & Suhrud Athavale (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] World-renowned conductor Bruno Walter was particularly well acquainted with Gustav Mahler's work, and was employed as his assistant at the Hamburg Opera at the time Mahler's Second Symphony was given its première in Berlin. |
