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PETERIS VASKS
Flute Concerto, etc Michael Faust (flute) / Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä, Patrick Gallois / Sheila Arnold (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2013 ] Renowned for its luminosity and searing expressiveness, the music of Lithuanian composer PÄ“teris Vasks frequently explores the relationship between nature and humanity, not least in the Flute Concerto (written for Michael Faust), which is among the... |
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MARCEL TYBERG
Tyberg: Symphony No. 3 / Piano Trio in F major Michael Ludwig (violin) / Ya Fei Chuang (piano) / Roman Mekinulov (cello) / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra / JoAnn Falletta [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Oct/2010 ] "...one of the finest conductors of her generation" The New York Times on Falletta |
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FRANZ DANZI
Danzi: Wind Quintets & Horn Sonata Michael Thompson (horn), Philip Fowke (piano) Michael Thompson Wind Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jul/2001 ] "The players have an uncommon sense of balance, of give and take, and a unity of purpose and commitment that is rare indeed. The result spells pleasure from beginning to end." - Michael Carter, American Record Guide |
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FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Melodies (Songs) Michel Piquemal (baritone) Christine Lajarrige (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Feb/2001 ] "Highly sensitive performances of a collection of Poulenc songs." Gramophone |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Deutsches Requiem [German Requiem] (1871 London version) (Sung in English) Michelle Areyzaga (soprano) Russell Hugh (baritone) Madeline Slettedahl (piano) Terry Craig (piano) / Bella Voce, Andrew Lewis [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] "The recording, made in St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Evanston, IL, is superb, with an acoustic that combines marvelous definition, rich and beautiful reproduction of both voices and pianos" Fanfare |
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EMILE SAURET
Music for Violin and Piano Michi Wiancko (violin) / Dina Vainshtein (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2011 ] Michi Wiancko's "heightened expressive and violinistic gifts" (Gramophone) unite with acclaimed pianist Dina Vainshtein in a duo with a combined multi-award-winning pedigree. |
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VARIOUS
Violin Recital Michiko Kamiya / Ian Brown (Piano) [ NAXOS LAUREATE SERIES / 2 CD ] |
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ISAAC ALBENIZ
Albeniz: Piano Music Volume 9 Miguel Ángel R. Laiz (piano) Santiago L. Sacristán (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Aug/2023 ] Twenty-five years ago, Guillermo González, a great exponent of Spanish music, inaugurated an ambitious project to record all of Isaac Albéniz's piano music. |
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ALLA PAVLOVA
Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 Mikhail Adamovich (piano) / Valery Brill (cello) / Leonid Lebedev (flute) / Russian Philharmonia Orchestra / Alexander Vedernikov [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jan/2004 ] "Pavlova paints delicately with the unconventional ensemble, creating a sound-world simultaneously precise but also somehow suspended in dream." (BBC Music) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Russian Songs Mikhail Svetlov (bass) / Pavlina Dokovska (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] Russian bass Mikhail Svetlov is a winner of the Viotti International Competition and has been principal soloist of the legendary Bolshoy Theatre of Moscow for more than a decade. |
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Milana Chernyavska, piano / Nicolas Koeckert, violin
Russian and Slavonic Miniatures [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Sep/2005 ] |
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Miquel Villalba
Blancafort: Piano Mus Vol.1 [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jun/2003 ] |
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Miquel Villalba
Blancafort: Piano Music 2 [ Naxos / CD - released 3/May/2004 ] |
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Miquel Villalba
Blancafort: Piano Music 3 [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2005 ] |
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BLANCAFORT
Blancafort - Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3 Miquel Villalba, piano [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 19/Sep/2005 ] |
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ERNEST BLOCH
Bloch: Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2 / Suite Hebraique Miriam Kraemer (violin), Simon Over (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Apr/2010 ] "Happily, the playing of Miriam Kramer quickly reveals itself to be the result of a careful assimilation of the structure of each piece, judging with skill its relative proportions of action and reflection. Naxos's recording is detailed and... |
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KAROL SZYMANOWSKI
Szymanowski: Violin Sonata / Mythes / Notturne and Tarantella Miriam Kramer (violin) / Nicholas Durcan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Apr/2007 ] Composed in 1904, the emotionally turbulent Violin Sonata is one of several large-scale instrumental works that emerged during Szymanowski's first phase, in which the influences of Chopin and Scriabin are combined with those of the German late-Romantics. |
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ELLINGTON / EMERSON / GERSHWIN / SEDAKA
Manhattan Intermezzo Jeffrey Biegel (piano) / Brown University Orchestra, Paul Phillips [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] This programme brings together four works for piano and orchestra by composers best known from the fields of jazz, popular song and progressive rock |
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ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
Glazunov: Orchestral Works Vol 14: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 ; Variations on a Russian Theme Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor [ Naxos Orchestral Works 14 / CD - released 1/May/2004 ] "The recorded sound is very fine, as re the notes. Naxos's bargain price is just an added incentive to buy this well-filled disc." - Fanfare (John Bauman) January/February 2001 |
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BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana - String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 Tatjana Franova (piano) & Takako Nishizaki (violin) Moyzes Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/1999 ] "The playing here is vigorous, idiomatic and committed." Northern Echo |