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MALCOLM ARNOLD
Arnold: Symphonies (Complete) / Dances Ireland National Symphony Orchestra; Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Penny [ Naxos / 6 CD Box Set - released 29/Oct/2021 ] "These performances have the composer's imprimatur (he was present at the recording sessions) and can be cordially recommended." Penguin Guide |
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GIOVANNI SGAMBATI
Sgambati: Symphony No. 2 / Sinfonia Epitalamio ('Nuptial Symphony') Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della RAI, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Giovanni Sgambati, a composer admired by Wagner, was the man Busoni predicted would take Italian music 'towards a bright new future'. Sgambati's Symphony No. 2 is a compendium of Austro-Germanic devices whose mix of chromaticism and melodic invention... |
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GIOVANNI SGAMBATI
Sgambati: Symphony No. 1 Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2013 ] His overture Cola di Rienzo exemplifies his richness of characterisation while the First Symphony is a major statement of breadth and intensity, admired by Grieg and Saint-Saëns, and often conducted by Toscanini. |
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CASELLA
Sinfonia (Symphony No. 3), Op. 63 / Elegia eroica (‘Heroic Elegy’), Op. 29 Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Jul/2011 ] "the symphony, superbly played here, has a resolute individual voice and drive. The Elegia eroica, mourning victims of the First World War, blends poignancy and bitter anger." (The Daily Telegraph) |
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Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma, MiNensemblet, Francesco La Vecchia
Franchetti: Symphony & Nella Foresta Nera - Wolf-Ferrari: Sinfonia da camera [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jun/2024 ] Alberto Franchetti and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari shared a similar dual heritage. |
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HENRI DUTILLEUX
Dutilleux: Symphony No. 2 'Le Double' Orchestre National de Lille, Darrell Ang [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2017 ] "The result is impressive in its fluidity and engagement." Five Stars Diapason |
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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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FLORENCE BEATRICE PRICE
Price: Symphony No. 3 / The Mississippi River / Ethiopia's Shadow in America ORF Vienna Radio Symphony, John Jeter [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 26/Nov/2021 ] Florence Price was one of the most versatile and accomplished american musicians of her generation whose unstoppable creativity and earliest successes were set against the backdrop of 1930s economic depression |
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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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RUPERTO CHAPI
Symphony in D Minor / Fantasía morisca Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid / Jose Ramon Encinar [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 27/Sep/2010 ] "A bargain for admirers of Chapí's colourful and tuneful music. …Encinar and his Madrid forces are completely assured…" (Gramophpne) |
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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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Otto Klemperer
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] |
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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 |