Search Results: naxos piano
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Klara Kormendi
Satie:piano Works Vol.4 [ Naxos / CD ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Pa-Mun: Ripples on Water (Korean Piano Music) Klara Min (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2011 ] Award-winning pianist Klara Kim has been recognized for her "excellent technique, exuberance and vitality" (New York Concert review). Here she brings the unique synthesis of traditional sources and contemporary compositional techniques of five... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Orchestral and Chamber Works Arranged for Piano 4 Hands, Vol. 5 Klavierduo Eckerle [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2019 ] In a time without recordings, the number of four-hand arrangements exceeded that of the original compositions by fourfold. Occasionally the arrangements were made by the composer himself. Robert Schumann, who liked to play four hands. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Le Grand Tango Maria Kliegel (cello) / Bernd Glemser (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1993 ] "On the evidence of this recital Maria Kliegel... is a very impressive artist indeed" Gramophone |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Piano Sonata No. 2 / The Limpid Stream (piano transcription) Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Nov/2006 ] "The recorded sound is fine, producing a bright piano sound which does not hurt these pieces at all. Richard Whitehouse is the author of the helpful liner notes. Recommended to fans of Shostakovich and lovers of light piano fare." (MusicWeb April 2007) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No. 2 / Variations on a Theme of Chopin / Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3 Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jul/2003 ] "Scherbakov's must rank as a front runner among modern recordings." BBC Music |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 Konstantin Scherbakov (Piano) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 11/May/2006 ] "On Naxos, the younger Russian ex-patriot Konstantin Scherbakov represents a fabulous bargain - at a fraction of the cost of any other. He displays wonderfully nimble, energetic finger work and scores over Ashkenzy in the meditative, slow fugues." |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: 24 Preludes / Sonata No. 1 / Three Fantastic Dances and others Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Oct/2003 ] The composer was a prize-winner in the 1927 Chopin Competition in Warsaw and appeared frequently, if often reluctantly, as an exponent of his own piano music and that of others. |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 (Transcriptions) Konstantin Scherbakov (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Sep/2006 ] "As great works in their own right which shed new light on well known classics, these transcriptions are well worth hearing." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Sept 2006) |
BEETHOVEN
Diabelli Variations / Variations on Rule Britannia / Variations on God Save the King Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2003 ] Born in Bonn in 1770, Ludwig van Beethoven was the eldest son of a singer in the musical establishment of the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne and, more important, grandson of the Archbishop's former Kapellmeister, whose name he took. The household was... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Complete Piano Music Volume 18 - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (Piano Transcriptions) Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] "In the end, this disc must be counted among the most convincing of its kind. The sound is excellent and Keith Anderson's notes, as usual, are informative. Highly recommended!" MusicWeb |
OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Piano Music (Including Antiche Danze ed Arie (Ancient Airs and Dances) Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Feb/2003 ] "Sherbakov rises magnificently to the considerable technical and expressive demands of Respighi's piano writing" - Fanfare |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / FRANZ LISZT
Beethoven/Liszt: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (Transcriptions) S464/R128 Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) [ Naxos Liszt Complete Piano Music Vol 21 / 5 CD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] "... one of the most capable, daring and interesting musicians of these days." (Peter Cossé) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
The Very Best of Shostakovich Konstantin Scherbakov (Piano) Michael Houstoun (Piano) New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Christopher Lyndon-Gee (Conductor) Ilya Kaler (Violin) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 9/May/2006 ] "As an introduction to the composer's work, it gives a wide-ranging and typical selection, which is in itself some achievement." (MusicWeb August 2006) |
ANTON ARENSKY
Arensky: Piano Concerto / Ryabinin Fantasia / To the Memory of Suvorov / Symphonic Scherzo Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "Not surprisingly, these performances are very Russian in feeling, and after a bold opening both orchestra and the excellent soloist make the very most of the concerto's memorable secondary theme...A most enjoyable collection." Penguin Guide |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov - Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 Konstantin Scherbakov, piano / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor [ Naxos SACD / SACD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - "the best Third Concerto I've ever heard; stupefying brilliant sound in 8 different flavours" (MusicWeb) |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3 Konstantin Scherbakov, Russian Philharmonic Orchestra. Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor [ Naxos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Jan/2005 ] "This Tchaikovsky First is grand and big, filled with power and majesty, all captured in brilliant sonics by Naxos." (MusicWeb) - Hybrid SACD in 5.1 Surround Sound. |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Morceaux (18), Op. 72 Konstantin Shamray (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] Tchaikovsky completed his last set of piano pieces about six months before his death. Each bears a dedication to a friend or colleague... The 18 pieces are no mere salon effusions; rather they are richly characterised, sometimes virtuosic, and... |
TORU TAKEMITSU
Takemitsu: Piano Music Kotaro Fukuma (piano) [ Naxos Japanese Classics / CD - released 9/Oct/2007 ] This selection of his piano music, extending over 43 years, offers an inclusive overview of his stylistic development from Romance (1949), the nineteen-year-old composer's earliest surviving piano work, to the hypnotic Rain Tree Sketch II (1992),... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Trio, K. 498 / Violin Sonata No. 26 (arr. for clarinet and string trio) Jozsef Balogh (clarinet) / Danubius Quartet [ Naxos / CD ] "finely performed, with lovely melodic touches from clarinettist Jozsef Balogh" Classic CD |
