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ALEXANDER MOYZES
Moyzes: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ladislav Slovák [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2018 ] "These two early-20th-century symphonies from one of Slovakia's most important composers are lushly Romantic, big-boned works. Enjoyable stuff." BBC Music |
ALEXANDER MOYZES
Moyzes: Symphonies Nos. 11 and 12 Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ladislav Slovák [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2019 ] Alexander Moyzes, one of the leading Slovakian composers of his generation, created a nationally inspired style that also assimilated trends aligning his music with contemporaries such as Shostakovich. The Eleventh Symphony builds on the success of... |
ITALIAN FESTIVAL
Italian Festival (Incls Leoncavallo's Mattinata & Denza's Funiculi, funicula) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Ondrej Lenard [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] |
PROKOFIEV
Peter & The Wolf (with Saint-Saens-Carnival of the Animals / Britten-Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Ondrej Lenard [ naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] The Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev wrote his Peter and the Wolf in 1936 to introduce to children the instruments of the orchestra. He had taken his two sons to see performances at the Moscow Children's Music Theatre and this had suggested to him... |
THE BEST OF BRITISH LIGHT MUSIC
The Best of British Light Music (Incls 'Country Gardens', 'Coronation Scot', 'Puffin' Billy' & the Warsaw Concerto) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / RTE Concert Orchestra / BBC Concert Orchestra [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 17/Sep/2007 ] "The performances on these discs are never less than workmanlike, and in many cases they are much more than that. Those by the RTE Concert Orchestra conducted by Ernest Tomlinson are of especial merit and Philip Fowke does his best to make the ersatz... |
ARTHUR HONEGGER
Le Demon de l'Himalaya & other Mark Twain films Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Slovak Philharmonic Choir / Adriano [ Naxos Film Music Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] Arthur Honegger, one of the greatest twentieth century composers, made an unrivalled contribution to film music during the course of some thirty years, from his scores for Abel Gance's silent epics La Roue in 1922 and Napoléon in 1926 to his last... |
BALLET FAVOURITES
Ballet Favourites (excerpts from Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Sylvia, Romeo & Juliet, etc) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice / Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "Tough, tight playing... what an exhilarating performance by Mogrelia. Very fine recording and reproduction of what is a very difficult selection of music." - CLASSIC CD (on the Prokofiev) |
JAMES COHN
Symphonies Nos. 2 and 7 / Variations on The Wayfaring Stranger Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Vakhtang Jordania, Kirk Trevor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] Celebrating his 80th birthday year in 2008, American composer James Cohn studied with Roy Harris, Wayne Barlow and Bernard Wagenaar, graduating from the Julliard School in 1950. Cohn's first love is the symphony orchestra, and the works presented on... |
LOUIS SPOHR
Spohr: Symphony No. 3, Op.78 in E Minor / Symphony No. 6 in G Major, Op. 116 ('Historical') Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfred Walter [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Oct/2016 ] Louis Spohr (1784-1859) was seen in his day as a worthy successor to Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, and completed his Third Symphony whilst at the apex of his personal and professional life. This is reflected in a forward-looking, confident and... |
BANTOCK
A Hebridean Symphony / Old English Suite Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice, Adrian Leaper [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "From time to time, East European orchestras seem to play British music better than their UK rivals, but maybe that's to be expected when a conductor of Adrian Leaper's proven ability is in charge. He already has a fine roster of recordings of... |
JOACHIM RAFF
Raff: Symphonies Nos 8 & 9 'Im Sommer' Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra (Kosice) / Urs Schneider, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] Joachim Raff's symphonies present a synthesis of pure music and the programmatic elements of the neo-German school exemplified in the symphonic poems of Liszt. His eighth symphony from 1876, Frühlingsklänge, was followed in 1878 with his ninth. |
JOSEF STRAUSS
Josef Strauss meets Offenbach Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Razumovsky Symphony Orchestra, Various conductors [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2015 ] "The Quadrille is a dance for four couples, initially facing each other in a square. By the mid-nineteenth century in Vienna it had been formalised into a series of six figures - Le Pantalon (a pair of trousers), L'été (summer), La Poule (the hen),... |
JOSE ANTONIO de ALMEIDA PRADO
Almeida Prado: Pequenos funerais cantantes / Sinfonia dos Orixás São Paulo Symphony Choir / São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Neil Thomson, with Clarissa Cabral (mezzo) & Sabah Teixeira (bass-baritone) [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] José Antônio de Almeida Prado was one of the most admired Brazilian composers of his time. The two stylistically diverse works featured on this album exemplify different creative periods in the composer's life. The prize-winning Pequenos funerais... |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Isaac Karabtchevsky [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Mar/2013 ] This is the second volume of a complete set of Villa-Lobos's symphonies, and collectors have already latched onto this series as one to watch out for. Conductor Isaac Karabtchevsky has been described by The Guardian as one of Brazil's "living... |
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HECTOR VILLA-LOBOS
Villa-Lobos: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7 São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Isaac Karabtchevsky [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Nov/2012 ] |
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Villa-Lobos: Symphonies Nos. 8, 9 and 11 São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Isaac Karabtchevsky [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Jun/2017 ] By the 1940s Heitor Villa-Lobos was widely recognized as Latin America's greatest composer. Working in the United States gave him new perspectives, and his later symphonies move away from the folk influences and exotic effects of works written in the... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 / Dreams BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Apr/2015 ] "The Brazilian orchestra is in spectacular form on this Prokofiev dick, and they have been recorded with vivid sonic impact. We hear the sound of a large orchestra in a warm acoustic with clear definition and brilliant high frequencies. Ulrich Schnei |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 in C minor / Scythian Suite / Autumnal sketch BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Apr/2015 ] This fourth volume in Marin Alsop's acclaimed Prokofiev symphonic cycle features two of his most viscerally exciting works. Using material salvaged from his opera The Fiery Angel, the Third Symphony was hailed by Serge Koussevitzky at its 1929... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 / Scythian Suite / Autumn São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2015 ] "Alsop has the measure of the symphony's structure, dramatic pacing and emotional content, drawing a bright sound from the São Paulo players, goading them into firm rhythmic propulsion and drawing out rich strands of string sound seasoned with the ac |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 4 São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Sep/2013 ] "Alsop's players spin a convincing yarn, with long lines pushing far beyond the safety of the family home, and they bring the whole to an exhilarating reconciliation." (Independent on Sunday) |
