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... |
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,... |
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. |
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 |
JOSEF SUK
Summer's Tale / Winter's Tale Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Mogrelia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] |
BAYER
Fairy Doll (The) (Complete Ballet) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Mogrelia, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2004 ] "Ashley Wass's Bax series for Naxos launches in auspicious fashion" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine Oct 2004 |
ERIC COATES
Coates: Springtime Suite / Four Ways Suite / Saxo-Rhapsody Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Penny, with Kenneth Edge (Saxophone) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Jan/2022 ] Eric Coates was a master of refined and beautiful melodies, making him a household name during the golden years of British light music in the first half of the 20th century. The Four Ways Suite takes us to all four points of the compass, including... |
DELIBES
Coppelia (complete ballet) / La Source (suites) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava / Andrew Mogrelia [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 21/Jul/2005 ] "...from the opening Prelude and Mazurka right through to the final Galop, you know you are going to enjoy this performance...Naxos has a winner here and the secret lies with Mogrelia..Don't wait, buy it!" - Dance Express - Sept. 1996 |
ADOLPHE ADAM
Giselle (complete ballet) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava / Andrew Mogrelia [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] The son of a distinguished piano-teacher at the Paris Conservatoire, Adolphe Adam was born in Paris in 1803. His contemporary popular success depended on a series of compositions for the stage, with much of his later work rendered necessary by the... |
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava); Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Andrew Mogrelia, conductor; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
French Ballet Favourites (Coppelia, Giselle, Faust, Sylvia) [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Jul/2003 ] France has a long tradition of ballet, whether as a separate entertainment or as an indispensable part of French opera |
BALLET FAVOURITES
Ultimate Ballet (excerpts from Coppelia, Swan Lake, Sylvia, Giselle, Nutcracker, etc) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / CSR Symphony Orchestra / St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos Double / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] The word 'ballet' is French; it was adopted by the English sometime in the seventeenth century. It was during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that the genre really started to develop into the art form that we recognise on the stage today. |
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Ernest Tomlinson, conductor ; BBC Concert Orchestra ; BBC Concert Orchestra
Best of British Light Music Vol. 3 (Including Goodbye Mr Chips ; Jamaican Rhumba & Bells Across the Meadow) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Feb/2003 ] Bright Light Music Classics |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1 / The Tempest / etc Joseph Banowetz (piano) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Ondrej Lenard (conductor) [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "Banowitz is an excellent pianist." - American Record Guide |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
French Festival (Incls 'Clair de lune' & 'Danse macabre') Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Keith Clark, Ondrej Lenard (conductors) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] "Riotous fun at a ridiculous price." Classical Review |
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... |