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KENNETH FUCHS
Fuchs-An American Place / Eventide / Out of the Dark Timothy Jones, horn / London Symphony Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta, conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 19/Sep/2005 ] Kenneth Fuchs has written for orchestra, band, chorus, jazz ensemble, and various chamber ensembles. |
SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
Tippett: A Child of Our Time Faye Robinson, Sarah Walker, Jon Garrison & John Cheek / City of Birmingham Chorus & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Michael Tippett [ Naxos / CD ] "..the composer's own lovingly crafted reading has a special place in the discography of this still-modern masterpiece." Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 |
HANS CHRISTIAN LUMBYE
The Best of Lumbye (incls Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop & Champagne Galop) Tivoli Symphony Orchestra / Giordano Bellincampi (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Nov/2010 ] Hans Christian Lumbye is today the internationally best known and most popular Danish composer of dances of the 19th Century. In 1843 when the now world-famous amusement park Tivoli opened its gates in Copenhagen, Lumbye acquired a permanent setting... |
TOBIAS PICKER
Picker: Opera Without Words / The Encantadas Tobias Picker (narrator) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Giancarlo Guerrero [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Tobias Picker, hailed as "a genuine creator" by The New Yorker, has written extensively for the stage and for symphonic forces, and these two approaches are represented in this album. The Encantadas (an older name for the Galápagos Islands) derives... |
Tokoyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Ryusuke Numajiri, conductor
Japanese Orchestral Favourites: music by Toyama, Kononye, Ifukube, Akutagawa, etc [ Naxos Japanese Classics / CD - released 17/Jul/2003 ] "The orchestra is an excellent one, with much characterful solo playing, and the recording does it full justice." - Michael Oliver, Gramophone |
MARIO PILATI
Pilati: Concerto for Orchestra / Suite for Strings and Piano Tomas Nemee (piano), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Marco Polo / CD - released 1/Oct/2001 ] Recorded: May 2000 Recording Venue: Concert Hall of the Slovak Radio at Bratislava |
BARTOK / DUKAS / FALLA / GOOSSENS / MALIPIERO / RAVEL etc
Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy Tomer Lev (piano), Buchan-Mehta Symphony Orchestra, Zeev Dorman [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] In December 1920, two years after Claude Debussy's untimely death, the editors of the renowned Parisian musical magazine La Revue musicale published a special issue dedicated to the composer's memory. At its heart was a joint memorial composition by... |
LEOPOLD MOZART
Toy Symphony & other symphonies Toronto Chamber Orchestra / Kevin Mallon [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] Leopold Mozart's reputation has suffered more than that of most of his professional contemporaries, due in no small measure to the fame of his peerless son and to much spiteful and ill-informed criticism over the past 200 years. |
KOSCEK YAMADA
Nagauta Symphony / Meiji Symphony / Maria Magdalena Toru Ajimi (shamisen) / Testuo Miyata (voice) / Yumiko Mizoiri (hichiriki) / Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra / Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos Japanese Classics / CD - released 13/Sep/2007 ] Kósçak Yamada was the first great composer to emerge from Japan after it had begun to accept western classical music. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: A German Requiem Viviane Della Chiesa (soprano), Herbert Janssen (baritone) NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 28/Aug/2000 ] Recorded January 1943 |
RICHARD WAGNER / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Wagner: Orchestral Music / Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a 'St Anthony Variations' New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Arturo Toscanini [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 5/Nov/2001 ] Recorded: 10th April 1936 Recording Venue: Carnegie Hall, New York City |
EIVIND GROVEN
Groven: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, Peter Szilvay [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2020 ] Many interwar Norwegian composers tried to create a new national music by combining elements of authentic folk music with new techniques. Eivind Groven was considered one of the most innovative composers in this quest. |
GUBAIDULINA
Fachwerk / Silenzio Trondheim Symphony Orchestra / Oyvind Gymse [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] Sofia Gubaidulina's distinguished career and her 80th anniversary are celebrated with this world première recording of Fachwerk. Recorded here by its acclaimed dedicatee Geir Draugsvoll and in the presence of the composer, this dramatic but also... |
KAMRAN INCE
Symphony No. 5 ‘Galatasaray’ / Hot, Red, Cold, Vibrant / Requiem Without Words / Before Infrared Turkish Ministry of Culture Choir / Bilkent Symphony Orchestra / Kamran Ince [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Written for soloists, chorus and large orchestra in 2005, the rousing Symphony No. 5 celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of Galatasaray, Turkey's most successful football club. Requiem Without Words mourns the Muslims, Christians... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Stravinsky: Symphony in C / Symphony in 3 Movements / Octet / Dumbarton Oaks Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Philharmonia Orchestra / St. Luke's Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Stravinsky Edition Vol 10 / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] "Some fine performances ..if you want these four pieces on a single disc - perhaps as a taster - this is an obvious and rewarding choice. Even the normally erudite Craft liner-notes are more relaxed than usual, making this issue even more attractive... |
SCHOENBERG
String Trio / 4 Pieces for Mixed Chorus / 3 Satires / Suite Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble / Simon Joly Chorale / London Sinfonietta / London Symphony Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] "The performance has the right idea in not attempting to gloss over the discontinuities [of the String Trio]...[these players] give a good sense of the way angry expression dissolves into wistful lyricism at the end...Schoenberg's voice...is heard to... |
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY / ALBAN BERG
Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony / Berg: 3 Pieces from the Lyric Suite Twyla Robinson, Roman Trekel / Houston Symphony Orchestra / Rabindranath Tragore [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] Alexander von Zemlinsky's best known work, the seductive Lyric Symphony, inspired Alban Berg, who quoted its third movement in his own Lyric Suite, three movements of which Berg himself arranged for string orchestra. |
MARTINU
Symphonies Nos. 1 and 6 'Fantaisies symphoniques' Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra / Arthur Fagen (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Nov/2004 ] "Arthur Fagen and his Ukrainian orchestra give convincing accounts of both symphonies, and with the help of a sympathetic recording, they achieve that wonderfully luminous, glowing sound which is a special feature of Martinu's orchestral music" - BBC... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Dances and Overtures Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra / Theodore Kuchar (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Apr/2006 ] Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky retains his position as the most popular of all Russian composers. His music offers obvious charms in its winning melodies and vivid orchestral colours. At the same time his achievement is deeper than this, however tempting... |
PROKOFIEV
Symphonies Nos 3 & 7 Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra. Theodore Kuchar, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "Two of Prokofiev's lesser symphonies get fine performances from this Kiev orchestra." Fanfare |
