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BINGE / COATES / CURZON / DUNCAN / ELGAR / FARNON / GERMAN / ETC
A British Festival (Incls 'Elizabethan Serenade' & 'In a Monastrey Garden') Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adrian Leaper, Andrew Penny [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "unforgettable tunes that everyone knows but few can put names to....this is a well-chosen selection taken from the Marco Polo and Naxos back catalogue." --Review by Jeremy Nicholas, ClassicFM |
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COATES / KETELBEY / BINGE / MAYERL / TOMLINSON / etc
Elizabethan Serenade: The Best of British Light Music Slovak Philharmonic Male Chorus / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Ernest Tomlinson (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Oct/2006 ] "Excellent value" - Penguin Guide |
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MENDELSSOHN
Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Ireland National Symphony Orch bestra / Bramall (conductor), Seifried (conductor) [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "The Naxos performance is an attractive, alert one, well recorded." - Penguin Guide |
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MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No. 3 / A Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpts) Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Ireland National Symphony Orchestra / Bramall (conductor), Seifried (conductor) [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "A performance that gains in tautness as it progresses." - Guardian (UK) |
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JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Leaper [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1992 ] "a serious, thoughtful and well prepared performance" - Gramophone "The Slovak orchestra play splendidly throughout" - Penguin Guide "a glorious performance" - CD Review |
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ALEXANDER BORODIN
Borodin: Symphony No 2 (with Dvorak - Symphony No 9) Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Csr Symphony Orchestra / Stephen Gunzenhauser [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Borodin's Symphony No.2 was started in 1869 and completed seven years later, the period of its composition coinciding very largely with Borodin's intermittent attention to work on Prince Igor. |
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DVORAK
Symphony No.2 / Legends Op.59 Nos. 6-10 Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / (Bratislava) / Stephen Gunzenhauser [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "Gunzenhauser gives a taut, beautifully textured account, very well played and recorded" - Penguin Guide |
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WILLIAM PERRY
The Innocents Abroad & other Mark Twain films Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Rome Philharmonic / Vienna Symphony Orchestra / William Perry [ Naxos Film Music Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] "This is a nice CD to add to your collection given the exceptional value that Naxos is in the marketplace. Highly recommended." --Review by sdtom.wordpress.com |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Symphony No. 9 / Legends Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Stephen Gunzenhauser (conductor) [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "The orchestra is the Slovak Philharmonic, who really have this music in their blood, conducted in lively and idiomatic fashion by Stephen Gunzenhauser who has a most engaging way with Dvorák's music." - The Guardian - Aug 1990 |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Symphonies No. 3 Op 10 & No. 6 Op. 60 Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser [ Naxos / CD ] "In quality of sound as well as performance, all these discs rival full-price issues." - GRAMOPHONE |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 8 Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Jan/2003 ] "In quality of sound as well as performance, all these discs rival full-price issues." - PENGUIN GUIDE |
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ANTON RUBINSTEIN
Symphony No.2 'Ocean' Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Stephen Gunzenhauser [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] "It is the best recording of the Ocean Symphony - one of Anton Rubinstein's greatest works - and the only one available. The Slovak Philharmonic is very well recorded." (American Record Guide) |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 & Symphonic Variations Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1991 ] "The orchestra is the Slovak Philharmonic, who really have this music in their blood, conducted in lively and idiomatic fashion by Stephen Gunzenhauser who has a most engaging way with Dvorák's music." - The Guardian |
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ERIC COATES
Coates: London Suite / The Merrymakers / London Again Suite / Cinderella / The Dambusters March Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Leaper [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] With orchestral works at the core of his output, the supreme melodic gift that distinguishes the music of Eric Coates earned him a reputation as the 'uncrowned king of light music'. |
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ALBERT KETELBEY
Ketelbey: Bells Across the Meadows / In a Monastery Garden / In a Persian Market / etc Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Leaper [ Naxos British Light Music Vol 14 / CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] Albert Ketelbey was an excellent pianist, touring Britain and honing his craft as an expert tunesmith as musical director of London's Vaudeville Theatre. The delightful miniature In a Monastery Garden placed Ketelbey at the forefront of British Light... |
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ARTHUR BLISS
Christopher Columbus Suite / Seven Waves Away / Men of 2 Worlds Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adriano [ Naxos Film Classics / CD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] After Things to Come, his most famous film score, Arthur Bliss composed the soundtrack scores of CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS and MEN OF TWO WORLDS, two dramatic pictures which are largely forgotten today. |
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BERNARD HERRMANN
Jane Eyre [complete film score] Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Adriano [ Naxos Film Music Classics / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] Bernard Herrmann's score for Jane Eyre was completed in 1943. It was his fourth film score and, like The Magnificent Ambersons before it, saw collaboration with Orson Welles. Not only is Jane Eyre Hermann's longest film score, it is one of his most... |
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RESPIGHI
Suite in E major & other orchestral works Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adriano [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] Listening to the early orchestral works of Respighi all recorded here for the first time, one would never suppose the composer to have been Italian. They belong to the earlier period of Respighi's career, before the water-shed of his development,... |
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ADAM
Adam: Giselle (excerpts) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Mogrelia [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jul/2012 ] Speedily written amidst a hotbed of Parisian infatuations and given a timeless parochial setting, this archetypal romantic ballet has everything from unrequited love to deceit, drama, tragedy, and conciliatory resolution. |
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JOSEF SUK
A Summer's Tale / A Winter's Tale Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Mogrelia, [ Naxos / CD - released 25/May/2000 ] "A fine disc." - David Hurwitz, Classicstoday.com |