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GLAZUNOV
The Seasons / Violin Concerto Ilya Kaler (violin) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Camilla Kolchinsky (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Mar/2008 ] Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov has not fared well at the hands of later critics. He enjoyed a remarkably successful career in music, becoming Director of the St Petersburg Conservatory in 1905 in the aftermath of the political disturbances of... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Orchestral Highlights Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Wildner [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2014 ] Richard Wagner inspired in his contemporaries extremes of reaction. For some his music seemed as misguided and repulsive as his anti-Semitism, while others were overwhelmed by the size of his ambition and achievement. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS / JOSEPH JOACHIM
GERMANY - Bavarian Lakes and Schloss Herrenchiemsee - A Musical Tour BRT Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Rahbari, Meir Minsky [ NAXOS MUSICAL JOURNEYS / DVD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] Bavaria has a place of its own in Germany, both geographically and culturally. The tour stars with the Alpine lake known as Königssee and explores the surrounding landscape, including the Berchtesgaden National Park and the gardens of Ludwig II's... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: A Portrait: His works / His life (2 CDs of music plus a detailed essay and photographs) Various artists incls Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice, Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra, Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 22/Dec/2007 ] Among the most popular of twentieth-century composers, Sergey Prokofiev is seen as a great musical giant of the Soviet Union. But after the 1917 Revolution he took his talents to the United States and France. Only later was he lured by the power of... |
ELGAR / PARRY / ARNOLD / HOLST / COATES / WOOD / WALTON / ALWYN / etc
The Best of British Various artists including the English Northern Sinfonia, Royal Artillery Band, New Zealand Symphony, Queensland Symphony Orchestra. [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 15/Oct/2006 ] Favourites from The Last Night of the Proms and other uplifting works celebrating the British Empire and its Royal Family. |
ORCHESTRAL SPECTACULAR
Orchestral Spectacular (Incls 'Bolero', 1812 Overture & 'Polovtsian Dances') Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / various conductors [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra provide their own Spanish magic" - Essex Chronicle |
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 3 / Coriolan Overture (Furtwangler, Commercial Recordings 1940-50, Vol. 2) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwangler (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] The recordings presented on this disc of Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture and his Third Symphony, the ‘Eroica’, formed part of the extensive schedule of concerts and recordings which Furtwängler undertook with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra during... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 / Haydn Variations (Furtwangler, Commercial Recordings 1940-50, Vol. 5) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Wilhelm Furtwangler [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 17/Jul/2007 ] Listening to Furtwängler's performances from the postwar period is to participate in some of the most intense realisations of the repertoire he held most dear, including that of Brahms with whom he shared a consuming interest in the roots of their... |
MORTON GOULD
Gould: Symphonies 2, 3 & 4 / Spirituals for String Choir & Orchestra Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fagen [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] "The Symphonettes represent Gould's best crossover work - the Symphonette No. 4 deriving its character from Latin-American dance forms to make it one of his most popular compositions." CD Choice (UK) |
FRANZ WAXMAN
Rebecca (Film Score) Viktor Simcisko (violin) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Adriano [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Nov/2005 ] "At budget price interested parties could hardly refuse such a textually intelligent, well-played and con amore production." (MusicWeb Oct 2005) |
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / TCHAIKOVSKY / MUSSORGSKY / ARENSKY
Russian Arias - From the Queen of Spades, May night, Eugene Onegin, etc) Vladimir Grishko (tenor) Ukraine State Radio Symphony Orchestra Vladimir Sirenko [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Jun/2002 ] "Uwe Mund leads performances that pulse with intensity" - Courier Post |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 / Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 Vladimir Horowitz (piano) / RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra / Fritz Reiner, conductor [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 11/Sep/2005 ] "Superb liner notes from Jonathan Summers and Mark Obert-Thorn has done a fine job with the sound." (MusicWeb Oct 2005) |
JOHANN BAPTIST VANHAL
Vanhal: Symphonies, Vol. 5 (with Oboe Concertino) Vojtěch Podroužek (oboe), Pavla Honsová (viola) / Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Michael Halász [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Johann Baptist Vaňhal was one of Haydn's most important contemporaries. His symphonies in particular were widely admired throughout Europe. Vaňhal's symphonies were known in England before those of Haydn. |
BORIS TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 1 / The Murmuring Forest Suite / After the Ball Suite Volgograd Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Serov / Saratov Conservatory Symphony Orchestra / Kirill Ershov [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] Boris Tchaikovsky is now becoming widely recognised as one of the most important Russian composers of our time. His First Symphony, written in 1947, made a profound impression on Shostakovich, but owing to Stalin’s campaign against dissident Soviet... |
RICAHRD WAGNER
The Best Of Wagner Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra & Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz, Uwe Mund & Johannes Wildner [ Naxos / CD - released 6/May/1997 ] The perfect introduction to the orchestral music of Richard Wagner |
JOHANN STAMITZ
Stamitz: Symphonies, Vol. 2 - 1, 2, 4 & 6 Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicolas Ward [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1999 ] "The performances are highly accomplished, taut and as tidy as we have come to expect from this ensemble. Ward's choice of tempos is unexceptionable...particularly pleasing to find that he paces the "slow" movements at a speed where they don't drag" |
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
Penderecki: Seven Gates of Jerusalem, 'symphony No. 7' Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir / Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra / Antoni Wit (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Nov/2006 ] "A disturbingly moving and dramatic apocalypse for your front room" (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Shakespeare Overtures Volume 2 West Australian Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Penny [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] The art of Shakespeare was a recurring fascination for Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. In addition to two operas and numerous settings of songs and sonnets, he wrote 11 Shakespeare Overtures which here receive their first ever complete... |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 / Haydn Variations (1940 - 1950) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwangler [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 28/May/2007 ] "Ward Marston's transfers sound well. He's retained some surface hiss and those higher frequencies, thankfully, but whilst other restoration engineers might have reached for their graphs and "restored" that recessive percussion he's given us a natura |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV / FRANZ SCHUBERT
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Schubert: Waltzes and Dances / Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata (1946-1952) William Kapell (piano) / NBC Symphony Orchestra / Vladimir Golschmann (cond) with Edmund Kurtz (cello) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 27/Jun/2005 ] "this newcomer is worth investigating for the sake of the Rachmaninov Sonata." Penguin Guide |
