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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 "Egyptian" Romain Descharmes (piano) / Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Marc Soustrot [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] Saint-Saëns's mature creative genius shines throughout these last two piano concertos, looking back over a glorious musical ancestry while at the same time opening the door to new worlds. The Fourth Piano Concerto is prescient of both his great Organ... |
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MARGARET BROUWER
Brouwer: The Art of Sailing at Dawn / Rhapsody, Concerto for Orchestra / Symphony No. 1 "Lake Voices" ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 21/Jun/2024 ] Margaret Brouwer is a composer renowned for her music's lyricism, imagery and emotional power. The five premiere recordings on this album span 24 years. |
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 [re-orchestrated by Gustav Mahler] ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] Robert Schumann's works lie at the centre of German Romanticism, with an essentially lyrical style that reflects his quintessential place among the great German composers. |
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JOHN ADAMS
Adams: City Noir / Fearful Symmetries / Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 5/Apr/2024 ] John Adams' music has long since captured the admiration of listeners for its inimitable American qualities. City Noir was inspired by the cultural and social history of Los Angeles, with Adams calling it 'an imaginary film score' in its evocation of... |
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BRITTEN
Britten - Sinfonia da Requiem / Gloriana Suite / Sea Interludes Osian Ellis, harp / Keiron Moore, oboe / Alexander Taylor, viola / London Symphony Orchestra / Steuart Bedford, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Jun/2005 ] Benjamin Britten occupies an unrivalled position in English music of the twentieth century and a place of the greatest importance in the wider musical world. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS / RICHARD WAGNER
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 / Wagner: Siegfried Idyll Berlin State Opera Orchestra, Otto Klemperer [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 28/Jan/2008 ] "From the very opening of the Brahms symphony, we are in for a surprise, for the timpanist's strokes - far from driving all before them in the usual relentless and dominating fashion - are, while remaining the music's key propulsive driver, far more |
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RODRIGO
Complete Orchestral Works Asie Polo (cello), Mikhail Ovrutsky (violin) / Castille and León Symphony Orchestra, Max Bragado-Darman [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 2/Dec/2002 ] |
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KHACHATURIAN
Piano Concerto / Concert Rhapsody Oxana Yablonskaya (Piano) / Moscow Symphony Orchestra Dmitry Yablonsky, Conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] "Oxana Yablonskaya on Naxos is a remarkable virtuoso" |
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VARIOUS
Encores and Transcriptions, Vol. 2 (Rec 1927-1930) Pablo Casals (cello) with Nicolai Mednikoff, piano, Blas Net, piano, Otto Schulhoff, piano. London Symphony Orchestra / Pablo Casals, conductor [ Naxos Great Cellists / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "As before his novel and revolutionary vibrato usage comes under close scrutiny and that vocalized legato which he occasionally spun out with such daring elasticity demonstrate why he was the premier cellist of his generation...Collectors need not... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 / Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn (recorded in 1927-29) Pablo Casals Orchestra of Barcelona / London Symphony Orchestra / Pablo Casals [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 13/Sep/2007 ] These recordings are notable for their unfussy and direct approach to Beethoven that reveal the music in honest, unvarnished and expressive terms. |
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MICHAEL DAUGHERTY
Mount Rushmore, Radio City & The Gospel According to Sister Aimee (World Premiere Recordings) Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Carl St. Clair [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Jul/2013 ] GRAMMY Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty explores three icons of "The Greatest Generation", a turbulent period of adversity and achievement in the United States of America spanning the Great Depression of the 1930s through the Second World War |
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NICOLAI PAGANINI
Paganini: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Ilya Kaler (violin) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Stephen Gunzenhauser [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2009 ] "There is no lack of dazzle in the fireworks, and no damp squibs here. With very good notes, this is an excellent example of a Naxos super-bargain at its best." Penguin Guide |
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FRANZ BERWALD
Berwald: Tone Poems (Incls 'Konzertstuck for Bassoon and Orchestra') Patrik Hakansson (bassoon) / Gavle Symphony Orchestra / Petri Sakari [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Dec/2008 ] The orchestral works included here provide considerable insights into a creativity which was to extend over fifty years. Born in Stockholm on 23rd July 1796, Berwald was playing in public as a violinist from his tenth year, and in October 1812... |
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CLAUDIO SANTORO
Santoro: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 Pedro Bittencourt, Emmanuele Baldini Goiás Philharmonic Orchestra, Goiânia Symphony Choir, Neil Thomson [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Sep/2024 ] The fourth volume in this series explores a pivotal decade in Claudio Santoro's compositions. |
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MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrations compiled by L. Slatkin) [with Liszt-Piano Concerto no 1] Peng Peng (piano) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] An increasing number of recordings now feature orchestrations of Mussorgsky's Pictures other than Ravel's popular warhorse. Leonard Slatkin's eclectic selection, some more outlandish than others, invites us to bask in the high spirits and ingenuity... |
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LEOS JANACEK
Operatic Orchestral Suites, Vol. 2 (arr. P. Breiner) - Kat'a Kabanova / The Makropulos Affair Peter Breiner (arranger) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Vesa-Matti Leppanen [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] This disc follows the stunning release by the same artists of Janácek's Operatic Orchestral Suites, Vol. 1 (Jenufa, The Excursions of Mr Broucek) on 8570555. Classics Today praised the conducting of Breiner on a previous recording in the following... |
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JOHN GARDNER
Piano Concerto No. 1 / Symphony No. 1 / Midsummer Ale Overture Peter Donohoe (piano) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / David Lloyd-Jones [ Naxos British Piano Concertos / CD - released 3/Oct/2007 ] This recording should help to re-establish [Gardner's] reputation with two relatively early works written in the post-war years, the Symphony No. 1, "a superbly crafted work... by a subtle and imaginative orchestrator" (Paul... |
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J.S. BACH
St. Matthew Passion (Highlights) Peter Koves (bass) / Jozsef Mukk (tenor) / Hungarian Festival Choir / Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra / Geza Oberfrank (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2005 ] "Just in time for this year's Carmel Bach Festival comes this 1994 recording, live from Sweden, conducted very much in the Bruno Weil manner by the world's greatest living choral director, Eric Ericson..." |
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GEORGE ROCHBERG
Violin Concerto (restored original version) Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin) / Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Lyndon-Gee (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] "The Rochberg concerto is a powerful work with music of grit and emotionally fluency sustained across five meaty movements. It stands alongside the superb William Schuman concerto (also recorded by Naxos) as one of the finest concerted works by an... |
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NIGEL CLARKE
Carke - The Prophecies of Merlin - Symphony for Violin and Orchestra Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin) / ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Neil Thomson, with Alexandru Cozma (bassoon) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] The Brussels-based British composer Nigel Clarke is renowned for his virtuosic style, and an uncompromising contemporary musical language that speaks with an authentic voice to today's audiences. |