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SAINT-SAENS / PIAZZOLLA / HOLST / DELIUS / ELGAR / IRELAND / VIVALDI / etc
Julian Lloyd Webber: A Span of Time Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) with Jiaxin Lloyd Webber (cello) John Lenehan (piano) Catrin Finch (harp) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2018 ] 'Julian Lloyd Webber, here as (primarily) conductor, offers an impressive disc of English music that demonstrates a richly rewarding affinity for the repertoire. (Editor's Choice Gramophone April 2015 on 'And the Bridge is Love') |
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SAINT-SAENS / PIAZZOLLA / HOLST / HAHN / RACHMANINOV / PURCELL / etc
A Tale of Two Cellos (arrangements by Julian Lloyd Webber) Julian Lloyd Webber, Jiaxin Lloyd Webber (cello) John Lenehan (piano) Catrin Finch (harp) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Sep/2013 ] "This is expressly a CD for those who enjoy a pair of cellos, beautifully played and lended together in slow lyrical tunes, with a stylish piano accompaniment." (Gramophone) |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Songs For Lena / Lieder aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn Julianne Baird (soprano) Ryan De Ryke (baritone) Eva Mengelkoch (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/May/2021 ] Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy was the grandson of Felix Mendelssohn. He was also a polymathic intellectual - a prestigious jurist, political scientist, and one of Germany's observers to the Treaty of Versailles negotiations in 1919. |
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BEETHOVEN / RIES
Ries: Clarinet Trios Jurgen Demmler (clarinet) / Peter Grabinger (piano) / Markus Tillier (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Feb/2006 ] Ferdinand Ries was born in Bonn in 1784, the son of Beethoven's teacher Franz Ries, a man who bad been able to offer help after the death of Beethoven's mother in 1787, Franz Ries, himself the son of a court musician, was a pupil of the... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS / BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / SIBELIUS / BRAHMS / WOLF / RACHMANINOV / GRIEG / TOSTI
Jussi Bjorling: Collection Vol. 5: Lieder and Songs (1939-1952) Jussi Bjorling, tenor, with Harry Ebert, piano / Frederick Schauwecker, piano [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / CD - released 14/Jun/2005 ] Ulrich Leyendecker was born in Wuppertal in 1946. From 1962 to 1965 he studied composition with Ingo Schmitt, then until 1970 with Rudolf Petzold at the Cologne Musikhochschule, where he also was a piano pupil of Günter Ludwig. |
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JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Original Works and Arrangements for Cello and Piano Jussi Makkonen (cello) Rait Karm (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Apr/2008 ] Sibelius wrote very little for the cello, although some of his violin pieces allow alternative instrumentation. Some of his songs and piano pieces, and the popular Finlandia, are here given in effective arrangements for cello and piano, in addition... |
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FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Piano Sonatas and Sonatinas Volume 6 Susan Kagan (piano) & Vassily Primakov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Oct/2013 ] Ries only wrote three sonatas for piano duet but they reflect, as do his solo sonatas, a perfect synthesis of classicism and incipient Romantic influence. |
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FRANZ BERWALD
Berwald: Piano Trios Vol.2 Kalman Draft (piano) / Jozsef Modrian (violin) / GyArgy KertACsz (cello [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Feb/2001 ] More chamber music from Berwald |
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Kamei/Ohlsson/Seattle S.O
Larazof: Tableaux For Piano [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2003 ] |
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KAMRAN INCE
Symphony No. 2 ‘Fall of Constantinople’ / Concerto for Orchestra, Turkish Instruments and Voices / Piano Concerto / Infrared Only Kamran Ince (piano) / Bilkent Youth Chorus / Bilkent Symphony Orchestra / Kamran Ince / Isin Metin [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2011 ] The result is music of intoxication and intimacy, violence and tenderness. |
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MARTINU
Piano Quintets Nos. 1 & 2 / Sonata for 2 Violins and Piano Karel Kosalek (piano) / Martinu Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] Chamber music occupies a significant place in the vast output of Bohuslav Martinu. His First Piano Quintet, written in 1933, a period during which Martinu renewed his interest in the folk-lore and traditional music of his native Bohemia, is a fine... |
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SCHUMANN
Music for Cello and Piano Karine Georgian (cello) / Jan Willem Nelleke (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "Georgian and Nelleke play both [the Fantasiestücke and the Adagio and Allegro] with such ardour and full-toned commitment that the music seems thoroughly idiomatic...Georgian's playing is so wonderfully generous in both its expressiveness and tonal... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas, Op. 120 (arr. for flute and piano) Karl-Heinz Schütz (flute), Maria Prinz (piano) [ Naxos / CD ] Brahms himself explored these pieces beyond the clarinet, and Karl-Heinz Schütz's arrangements are based on the composer's own alternative versions, seeking out the ideal of two equally matched instruments in constant dialogue. |
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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / RACHMANINOV / BABIN / BORODIN / TCHAIKOVSKY
Hommage à Victor Babin Katerina Moskaleva, Alexey Pudinov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Dec/2022 ] The year 1972 saw the death of Victor Babin, one half of the legendary Vronsky & Babin, arguably the most brilliant piano duo of the 20th century and a worldwide sensation for over three decades. |
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TRADITIONAL / QUILTER / STANFORD / PARRY / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / BRIDGE / WARLOCK
Kathleen Ferrier-Songs of the British Isles (1949-1952) Kathleen Ferrier, contralto / Phyllis Spurr, piano / John Newmark, piano / Frederick Stone, piano [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 29/May/2005 ] "A bit of a wake up call to Decca. Obert-Thorn has has managed to effect an improvement to these recordings - and that can only be a welcome piece of restoration" (MusicWeb June 2005) |
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GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / Piano Concerto / An American in Paris Kathryn Selby (piano) / Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hayman (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2005 ] "Kathryn Selby makes a strong showing in the Gershwin Concerto" - Fanfare |
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PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Maxwell Davies: Piano Concerto / Worldes Blis Kathryn Stott (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Maxwell Davies [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jan/2013 ] "Like Stott, the Royal Philharmonic give a tremendously impassioned account of both of these extraordinarily demanding works. Sound quality is very good too." MusicWeb |
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JOHN CAGE
Complete Works for Flute, Vol. 1 Katrin Zenz (flute), Maxim Mankovski (percussion), Ludovic Frochot (piano), Uwe Grodd (flute), Chara Iacovidou (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2015 ] This first volume of John Cage's complete works for flute spans a fifty year period, from the Three Pieces for Flute Duet of 1935 - deft studies in chromatic writing - to the 1984 Ryoanji, which involves the use of pre-recorded flutes and percussion |
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JOHN CAGE
Complete Works for Flute, Vol. 2 Katrin Zenz (flutes), Tobias Liebezeit (vibraphones), Maxim Mankovski (vibraphones), Chara Iacovidou (piano) & Ludovic Frochot (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2016 ] The beauty and purpose of Cage's music lies in an intimacy and spirituality that he said should "sober and quiet the mind thus rendering it susceptible to divine influences." |
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Kayaleh/Stewart
Medtner: Violin/Piano Works 1 [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jul/2007 ] |