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FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Best Of Delius (Incls 2 Pieces for Small Orchestra & 2 Aquarelles) Royal Scottish National Orchestra / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / English Northern Philharmonia / various conductors [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Frederick Delius had a strong champion in the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, who praised the composer as "the last great apostle of romantic beauty in music". |
HUGO ALFVEN
Alfven: Festival Overture, Op. 25 / Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 7 / etc Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Niklas Willen [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1997 ] "Recorded in Henry Wood Hall, the sound is very truthful, capturing many details among the winds, giving due prominence to the combined brass sections and laying the heavy drums in its rightful place in the whole picture." Flying Inkpot |
Royal Scottish National Orchestra Petter Sundkvist, conductor
Stenhammer-Symphony No. 2 / Excelsior! [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Nov/2002 ] "persuasive and vibrant readings...plenty of fire and passion" |
ROUSSEL
Bacchus et Ariane (Bacchus and Ariadne) / Symphony No. 3 Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Stephane Deneve [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jun/2007 ] "Denève persuades his Scottish forces to play with real affection and, where appropriate, real force....this new Naxos carves a niche firmly for itself on any serious record collector's shelves. The recording (Tim Handley) is fabulous; there is... |
ROUSSEL
Symphony No. 1 "Poeme de la Foret" / Resurrection / La Marchand de Sable que Passe Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Stephane Deneve [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Dec/2009 ] "Really this is an essential acquisition for anyone who loves French music and the late Romantic school in general. Don't pass it up." (10/10 ClassicsToday.com) |
ALBERT ROUSSEL
Roussel: Symphony No. 2 / Pour une fete de printemps / Suite in F major Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stephane Deneve [ Naxos / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] "Naxos' engineering is the most natural of all in terms of balance and perspective. Crank it up and wallow in some of the most marvelous symphonic music yet composed in France." -- ClassicsToday, April 29, 2008 (10/10) |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No.5 Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Georg Tintner [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] "His Bruckner Fifth is revelatory. I found myself making comparison with Karajan, Jochum, Wand and Furtwaengler, finding that Tintner was bringing insights to the music worthy of any of those great names." Hi-fi News & Record Review |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphony No 1 / Pohjola's Daughter / Tapiola London Symphony Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Kajanus [ Naxos Historical Kajanus Conducts Sibelius Vol 1 / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] "Kajanus's understanding of Sibelius's novel structures is fully in evidence in that most mysterious of scores, Tapiola." Gramophone |
DUKAS
L'apprenti sorcier / La péri / Symphony in C Major RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Luc Tingaud [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Nov/2014 ] Paul Dukas is famed for his brilliant, meticulously scored symphonic scherzo The Sorcerer's Apprentice, first performed in 1897, which almost immediately entered the international repertoire. It was subsequently the focus of a ballet and later Walt... |
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Roma / Jeux d'enfants (Petite Suite) / etc RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Luc Tingaud [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2015 ] The success of Bizet's opera Carmen has overshadowed the rest of his output, but this fascinating orchestral programme, which includes a number of seldom performed works, reveals more of his talent for writing colourful, atmospheric and melodic... |
LUIS DE FREITAS BLANCO
Orchestral Works Volume 4 RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra / Álvaro Cassuto [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Mar/2011 ] This fourth volume in Naxos's critically acclaimed series of Portuguese composer Luís de Freitas Branco's orchestral music juxtaposes his magnificent Symphonic Poem in the form of variations on an Oriental Theme, Vathek, with Symphony No. 4. As his... |
HAVERGAL BRIAN
In Memoriam / Symphony No 17 / Symphony No 32 / etc RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra/Adrian Leaper [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "The sound quality is outstanding, the playing is convincing and the programme is ultimately satisfying. (MusicWeb January 2011) |
LUIS DE FREITAS BRANCO
Orchestral Works, Vol. 1 - Symphony No. 1 / Scherzo Fantastique / Suite Alentejana No. 1 RTE National Symphony Orchestra / Alvaro Cassuto [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2011 ] Luís de Freitas Branco was a pre-eminent figure in Portuguese music of the first half of the twentieth century. This first disc of a four-volume series of Freitas Branco's orchestral works features the First Symphony, in which the influence of César... |
LUIS DE FREITAS BRANCO
Branco: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 - Symphony No. 2 RTE National Symphony Orchestra / Alvaro Cassuto [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] "Cassuto, an expert in his native repertoire, conducts fine and nuanced readings of these works, while the Irish musicians are recorded cleanly…A top recommendation." (Fanfare) |
LUIS DE FREITAS BRANCO
Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 - Symphony No. 3 / The Death of Manfred / Suite alentejana No. 2 RTE National Symphony Orchestra / Alvaro Cassuto [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "As with all of the releases in this series so far, Álvaro Cassuto conducts as persuasively as we have any right to expect, and Naxos' sonics are excellent. A very attractive and welcome release." 9/9 ClassicsToday.com |
FELIKSAS BAJORAS
Symphony-Diptych / Violin Concerto / Exodus I Rusne Mataityte (violin) / Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra / Gintaras Rinkevicius [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] A leading representative of 'New Folklorism', the Lithuanian composer Feliksas Bajoras conveys his interest in Lithuanian folk-music in a strikingly individual and personal voice. The Symphony-Diptych, which draws on themes from the composer's opera... |
KARA KARAYEV
Symphony No. 3 / Leyla and Mejnun / Don Quixote Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitri Yablonsky (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2009 ] "This is fascinating. Karayev was a pupil of Shostakovich whose music is heavily indebted to the music of his native Azerbaijan. The symphonic poem Leyla and Mejnun won a Stalin prize in 1948. Inspired by the twelfth-century Azerbaijani poet Nizami,... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 'Leningrad' Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] Few symphonies since Beethoven's Fifth have attracted the degree of extra-musical speculation accorded Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony. Although ideas for a Seventh Symphony had begun coming to mind the previous year, the work that emerged has been... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No 7 'Leningrad' Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor) [ Naxos SACD / SACD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] Few symphonies since Beethoven's Fifth have attracted the degree of extra-musical speculation accorded Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony. Although ideas for a Seventh Symphony had begun coming to mind the previous year, the work that emerged has been... |
STEPHEN ALBERT
RiverRun / Symphony No. 2 Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Paul Polivnick [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 18/Apr/2007 ] Stephen Albert’s music is at once traditional and contemporary, lyrical yet powerful and dynamic. He drew inspiration from the rich orchestral palettes of composers such as Stravinsky and Bartók, but his musical language is very much his own. |
