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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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JOHANNES BRAHMS / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody; 4 ernste Gesänge, Op. 121 / Schumann: Frauenliebe und -leben (Rec 1947-1950) Kathleen Ferrier (contralto) with Phyllis Spurr (piano) Phyllis Spurr (piano) John Newark (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra [ Naxos Historic Great Singers / CD - released 24/Oct/2004 ] Kathleen Ferrier was the most significant British singer to emerge following the end of the Second World War in 1945. Although her professional singing career spanned only a single decade (1942-1953) she achieved international recognition in a... |
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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
Piano Concerto / Worldes Blis Kathryn Stott (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Maxwell Davies [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jan/2013 ] Dedicated to Kathryn Stott, Peter Maxwell Davies's Piano Concerto is "one of the most attractive and immediately likeable piano concertos to appear for some time. Miss Stott's performance must be regarded as definitive in its comprehensive grasp of... |
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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 ] |
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CARL CZERNY
Czerny: Music for Flute and Piano Kazunori Seo (flute) & Makoto Ueno (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] Virtuoso pianist Carl Czerny was a pupil and friend of Beethoven in Vienna. His prodigious output as a composer included numerous sets of variations on operatic themes, both with orchestra [Naxos 8573254] and, as with the Trois Rondeaux, Op.374 on... |
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IGNAZ MOSCHELES
Music for Flute & Piano Kazunori Seo (flute), Makoto Ueno (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Dec/2014 ] Pianist, composer and conductor Ignaz Moscheles was one of the most respected musicians of his time, and throughout his long life was at the social and musical heart of Europe. Studies with Beethoven's old teachers, Albrechtsberger and Salieri,... |
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Kenneth Boulton
Mason : Piano Music [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jul/2003 ] |
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ELIE SIEGMEISTER
Piano Music Volume 1 Kenneth Boulton [ NAXOS / CD ] |
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Kenneth Boulton, piano
Siegmeister, Elie-Piano Music Vol 2 (Incls Piano Sonata No 2) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 15/Feb/2001 ] Another new entry in the Naxos American composer series |
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JOSEPH HOLBROOKE
Holbrooke:Violin Concerto 'The Grasshopper' (Violin Sonata No. 2), Op. 59 / Violin Sonata No. 1 ('Sonatina'), Op. 6a / Horn Trio in D (original versio Kerenza Peacock (violin) / Mark Smith (horn) / Robert Stevenson (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2011 ] "All the performances are of a high standard, often brilliant and imaginative, and I was particularly impressed with Kerenza Peacock's lithe, elegant violin-playing and her easy conquest of the virtuoso demands of The Grasshopper" (Gramophone) |
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HOROWITZ / DVORAK / FARWELL / FISHER
Dvořák & America Kevin Deas (narrator), Zhou Qian (violin) Edmund Battersby (piano) Benjamin Pasternack (piano) Kevin Deas (bass-baritone) / PostClassical Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jul/2014 ] "Few of us bother to read Longfellow's poem anymore, but hearing it wedded to Dvorák's music really does create a powerful and, somehow, nostalgic atmosphere of perhaps a more innocent age. I found it quite moving, and the rest of the performances ve |
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ALEXANDRE TASMAN
Music for Violin and Piano Klaidi Sahatçi (violin) & Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] Although Alexandre Tansman was considered a genius in his lifetime, these recordings demonstrate that much of his chamber music remains to be rediscovered after years of neglect. Tansman's early successes included the prize-winning Romance and... |
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ERIK SATIE
Satie: Piano Works (Selection incls Gymnopedies) Klara Kormendi (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] The oddest man he had ever known, said Stravinsky, and certainly Erik Satie was a man apart, a genuine Paris bohemian in his youth who spent the last 27 years of his life in a spartan room to which his friends were never invited. His music is... |
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Klara Kormendi
Satie:piano Works Vol.1 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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Klara Kormendi
Satie:piano Works Vol.2 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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Klara Kormendi
Satie:piano Works Vol.3 [ Naxos / CD ] |