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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Works for Violin and Orchestra Tianwa Yang (violin), Gabriel Schwabe (cello) / Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Marc Soustrot [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Oct/2017 ] "Delightful in every respect." MusicWeb Jan 2018 |
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LOU HARRISON / WILLIAM ALVES / CLAUDE DEBUSSY / COLIN McPHEE / MAURICE RAVEL
DVOŘÁK'S PROPHECY - Film 6: Lou Harrison and Cultural Fusion Tim Fain, Emanuele Arciuli, Michael Boriskin, Benjamin Pasternack, Wan-Chi Su, François-Joël Thiollier, PostClassical Ensemble, Leipzig MDR Symphony O [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] DVOŘÁK'S PROPHECY A New Narrative for American Classical Music A PostClassical Ensemble 'More than Music' film series. Written and produced by Joseph Horowitz Visual presentation by Peter Bogdanoff |
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KENNETH FUCHS
Fuchs-An American Place / Eventide / Out of the Dark Timothy Jones, horn / London Symphony Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta, conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 19/Sep/2005 ] Kenneth Fuchs has written for orchestra, band, chorus, jazz ensemble, and various chamber ensembles. |
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LOUIS WAYNE BALLARD
Ballard: The Four Moons / Devil's Promenade / etc Fort Smith Symphony, John Jeter [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] Louis Wayne Ballard - also known as "Honganozhe", which means "Stands with Eagles" in the Quapaw language - was the first indigenous North American composer of art music, and his extensive knowledge of the music, dance and mythology of this culture... |
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Tinter/New Zealand So
Bruckner: Symphony No.6 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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Tinter/Rsno
Bruckner:symphony No. 3 [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Nov/1999 ] |
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MICHAEL TIPPETT
A Child of Our Time Faye Robinson, Sarah Walker, Jon Garrison & John Cheek / City of Birmingham Chorus & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Michael Tippett [ Naxos / CD ] "..the composer's own lovingly crafted reading has a special place in the discography of this still-modern masterpiece." Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 |
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HANS CHRISTIAN LUMBYE
The Best of Lumbye (incls Copenhagen Steam Railway Galop & Champagne Galop) Tivoli Symphony Orchestra / Giordano Bellincampi (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Nov/2010 ] Hans Christian Lumbye is today the internationally best known and most popular Danish composer of dances of the 19th Century. In 1843 when the now world-famous amusement park Tivoli opened its gates in Copenhagen, Lumbye acquired a permanent setting... |
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TOBIAS PICKER
Picker: Opera Without Words / The Encantadas Tobias Picker (narrator) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra / Giancarlo Guerrero [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Tobias Picker, hailed as "a genuine creator" by The New Yorker, has written extensively for the stage and for symphonic forces, and these two approaches are represented in this album. The Encantadas (an older name for the Galápagos Islands) derives... |
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Tokoyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. Ryusuke Numajiri, conductor
Japanese Orchestral Favourites: music by Toyama, Kononye, Ifukube, Akutagawa, etc [ Naxos Japanese Classics / CD - released 17/Jul/2003 ] "The orchestra is an excellent one, with much characterful solo playing, and the recording does it full justice." - Michael Oliver, Gramophone |
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Tokyo Metopolitan So/Numajiri
Hashimoto:symphony No 1 In D [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jul/2003 ] |
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MARIO PILATI
Pilati: Concerto for Orchestra / Suite for Strings and Piano Tomas Nemee (piano), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Marco Polo / CD - released 1/Oct/2001 ] Recorded: May 2000 Recording Venue: Concert Hall of the Slovak Radio at Bratislava |
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BARTOK / DUKAS / FALLA / GOOSSENS / MALIPIERO / RAVEL etc
Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy Tomer Lev (piano), Buchan-Mehta Symphony Orchestra, Zeev Dorman [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] In December 1920, two years after Claude Debussy's untimely death, the editors of the renowned Parisian musical magazine La Revue musicale published a special issue dedicated to the composer's memory. At its heart was a joint memorial composition by... |
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LEOPOLD MOZART
Toy Symphony & other symphonies Toronto Chamber Orchestra / Kevin Mallon [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] Leopold Mozart's reputation has suffered more than that of most of his professional contemporaries, due in no small measure to the fame of his peerless son and to much spiteful and ill-informed criticism over the past 200 years. |
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KOSCEK YAMADA
Nagauta Symphony / Meiji Symphony / Maria Magdalena Toru Ajimi (shamisen) / Testuo Miyata (voice) / Yumiko Mizoiri (hichiriki) / Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra / Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos Japanese Classics / CD - released 13/Sep/2007 ] Kósçak Yamada was the first great composer to emerge from Japan after it had begun to accept western classical music. |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: A German Requiem Viviane Della Chiesa (soprano), Herbert Janssen (baritone) NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 28/Aug/2000 ] Recorded January 1943 |
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RICHARD WAGNER / JOHANNES BRAHMS
Wagner: Orchestral Music / Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a 'St Anthony Variations' New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Arturo Toscanini [ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD - released 5/Nov/2001 ] Recorded: 10th April 1936 Recording Venue: Carnegie Hall, New York City |
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ROBERTO SIERRA
Sierra: Cantares / Loíza / Triple Concierto Trío Arbós, Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club, Xalapa Symphony, Marcelletti [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/May/2020 ] Roberto Sierra's refined compositional voice is subtly combined with contemporary musical techniques and his Puerto Rican heritage in the three works recorded here. |
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EIVIND GROVEN
Groven: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, Peter Szilvay [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2020 ] Many interwar Norwegian composers tried to create a new national music by combining elements of authentic folk music with new techniques. Eivind Groven was considered one of the most innovative composers in this quest. |
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GUBAIDULINA
Fachwerk / Silenzio Trondheim Symphony Orchestra / Oyvind Gymse [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] Sofia Gubaidulina's distinguished career and her 80th anniversary are celebrated with this world première recording of Fachwerk. Recorded here by its acclaimed dedicatee Geir Draugsvoll and in the presence of the composer, this dramatic but also... |