MESSIAEN
Piano Music Vol 3 (Incls Preludes) Hakon Austbo (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Mar/2008 ] "Messiaen has been very fortunate in his keyboard interpreters. Austbo is among the best of them, and to have such playing available at such a low price is a cause for grateful rejoicing." - Gramophone (Michael Oliver), Feb 2000 |
MESSIAEN
Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jesus Hakon Austbo (piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 22/Nov/2005 ] Austbo is a pupil of Yvonne Loriod, the widow of Olivier Messiaen and provides for the Naxos label a stunning and profound account of this colossus of the mid-20th century piano repertoire. |
EBERHARD
Piano Concerto 'Shadow Of The Swan' Halida Dinova (Piano) / St Petersburg Cappella Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Tchernoushenko [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] St. Petersburg Cappella Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Tchernoushenko |
THOMAS ADES
Ades: Piano Solo Works Han Chen (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] Composer, conductor and pianist Thomas Adès has been described by The New York Times as 'among the most accomplished all-round musicians of his generation'. |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Transcriptions from Operas Han Chen (piano) [ Naxos Complete Liszt Piano Music Vol 41 / CD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] "Liszt's operatic transcriptions and paraphrases are musical succulence itself, and here…are another seven, all romantic, and stylishly dispatched by Han Chen" (Sunday Times, January 2016) |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Transcriptions Hanna Shybayeva (piano), Animato Quartet, Bas Vliegenthart (double bass) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] The first volume (8.551400) with Vinzenz Lachner's arrangements of Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concertos for piano and string quintet already showed that this would be quite a special complete recording of Beethoven's piano concertos-and not just... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Songs, Vol. 1 Hannu Jurmu (tenor) / Jouni Somero (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] The best of the songs are essentially nature pieces, dark-hued, vividly characterized, intensely melancholic and vocally demanding. Sibelius considered them to represent his "innermost self". |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Songs, Vol. 2 Hannu Jurmu (tenor) / Jouni Somero (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jun/2007 ] Although Sibelius wrote around a hundred songs over a period of more than thirty years - mainly settings of Swedish texts, with eight in German and only a handful in Finnish - they have suffered comparative neglect alongside his larger-scale... |
SCHUMANN
Zwolf Gedichte von Justinus Kerner Op. 35 Hans JArg Mammel (tenor) & Uta Hielscher (piano) [ Naxos Schumann Lieder Edition / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] This fourth disc in the Naxos series of the complete Schumann Lieder focuses on settings of poems by Justinus Kerner, whose almost folk-song-like lyrics first captured Schumann's imagination as early as 1828 in the five Jugend-Lieder. Schumann... |
CLARA SCHUMANN / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Clara & Robert Schumann: Music for Violin and Piano Haoli Lin (violin), Jianan Liu (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] Between 1849 and 1853 Robert and Clara Schumann wrote a series of striking and imaginative works for violin and piano. |
CARL NIELSEN
Nielsen: Complete Works for Violin Solo and Violin and Piano Hasse Borup (violin), Andrew Staupe (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] The music of Carl Nielsen holds a very special place for Danes, defining the nation's musical voice for over a century and reflecting the soul of Denmark. Nielsen was a violinist from childhood, his early Sonata in G major having 'a scent of... |
NIELS GADE
Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 Hasse Borup (violin) Heather Conner (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jan/2010 ] The acclaimed Danish violinist Hasse Borup and American pianist Heather Conner here make their Naxos début. |
Havard Gimse
Egge: Piano Concerto No 2 [ Naxos / CD ] |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Piano Works Vol.4 Havard Gimse (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 5/May/2003 ] "(Havard Gimse) is a highly imaginative and sensitive player and is given excellent sound by the Naxos team." Penguin Guide Key recording |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Piano Music Vol. 2 Havard Gimse (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Aug/2000 ] "Gimse brings finesse and distinction to this repertoire. This and the companion disc are first recommendations." Penguin Guide |
GEIRR TVEITT
Tveitt: Piano Concerto No.4 / Variations on a Folksong from Hardanger for two pianos and orchestra Havard Gimse, Gunilla Sussmann (pianos) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra Bjarte Engeset, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Dec/2002 ] "The performances, as with those on the coupling of the First and Fifth Concertos, are again superb. Marvellous" (Gramophone) |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Piano Music Vol 3 (Includes Ten Piano Pieces Op.58) Havard Gimse (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Nov/2001 ] "Norwegian performers shine on discs devoted to piano music by Sibelius with Havard Gimse? Gimse, perhaps Norway's most gifted emerging pianist, keeps the music very much alive." - Turok's Choice, December 2001 |
GEIRR TVEITT
Piano Concerto Nos 1 & 5 Havard Gimse (piano) / Royal Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Bjarte Engeset [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2002 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone (Guy Rickards) June 2001 |
KLAUS EGGE
Piano Concerto No. 2 & other Norwegian piano music Havard Gimse (piano) / Trondheim Soloists / Oyvind Gimse [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jun/2007 ] "This disc shows what many already suspected: that Norwegian music is much more than Grieg. It also shows that Gimse is one of the best pianists at present before the public." (MusicWeb July 2007) |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Sonatas (Vol 6) Nos. 20, 30-32 Jeno Jando (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "This is, like the others in the series, deserves the warmest possible recommendation." Gramophone Magazine |