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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... |
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Slovak Rso/Amos
Flagello : Symphony No.1 [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jul/2003 ] |
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Slovak Rso/Trevor
Locklair: Symphony Of Seasons [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jul/2007 ] |
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),... |
JOACHIM RAFF
RAFF: Symphony No. 5 'Lenore' / Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott - Overture Slovak State Philharmonic, Urs Schneide [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] The imposing nature and sweeping expressive range of Joachim Raff's Fifth Symphony has seen it become one of his most popular works in the genre. Its subtitle 'Lenore' refers to a lurid and macabre poem by Gottfried August Bürger in which the forlorn... |
ANTON RUBINSTEIN
Symphony No.4 Dramatic Slovak State PO (Kosice) / Robert Stankovsky [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Sep/2002 ] Anton Rubinstein was born at Vikhvatinets in the Podolsk district of the Russian Empire, on the borders of Moldavia, in 1829. A few years later his family moved to Moscow, and after early instruction on the piano from his mother he took lessons from... |
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Slovak State Po/Stankovsky
Rubinstein: Symphony No.4 [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2002 ] |
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 / 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) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 / The Year 1941 BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Apr/2015 ] "This exceptional account of Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony is partnered by a revelatory performance of The Year 1941, while the recording bursts out of the speakers on blu-ray." BBC Music Magazine, January 2013 ***** |
CAMARGO GUARNIERI
Guarnier: Chôros, Vol. 2 São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Roberto Tibiriçá, with Ovanir Buosi (clarinet) & Olga Kopylova (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] In his Choros, Guarnieri wrote music that conjures up the landscape and essence of Brazil. These very personal concertos reveal the composer's refined instrumental combinations and elegant contrapuntal writing. |
