|
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Violin Sonatas Vol.2 Takako Nishizaki (violin) Jeno Jando (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] "The performances are good enough, never less than technically proficient, respectful of the dynamic and structural limits of the music, and professionally polished." Fanfare |
|
FRANZ ANTON HOFFMEISTER
Double Bass Quartets Nos. 2, 3 & 4 Norbert Duka (double bass) / Erno Sebestyen (violin) / Helmut Nikolai (viola) / Martin Osertag (cello) / Phillip Moll (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Mar/2011 ] "Throughout the Hoffmeister his intonation is a cut above our expectations, his unnamed instrument producing a most appealing tone. The challenges of the Schubert is probably one step too far, but that equally applies to many cello recordings. He is... |
|
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Trios Vol. 7 - Nos. 16, 19, 35, 37 & 41 Oberlin Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Jun/2022 ] Much of Joseph Haydn's musical life was spent in service at the palace of Eszterháza on the Hungarian plains, a complex of buildings to rival Versailles in magnificence. Haydn's reputation abroad was, however, already considerable by 1790, and he was... |
|
AKIO YASHIRO
Yashiro: Piano Concerto / Symphony Hiromi Okada (piano) / Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos Japanes Classics / CD - released 4/Nov/2002 ] |
|
FREDERICK CHOPIN
Chopin: Complete Songs Olga Pasichnyk (soprano) / Natalya Pasichnyk (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] "each song is individually characterised by Olga's expressive and agile soprano...sensitive to the dominant characters of nostalgia, lovelorn youth and folkloric innocence..[Natalya] follows her sister's every twist and turn with remarkable empathy." |
|
ALEXANDER GOEHR
Goehr: Marching to Carcassonne Oliver Knussen / BBC Symphony Orchestra / Peter Serkin (piano), London Sinfonietta [ NAXOS / CD - released 13/Feb/2013 ] Alexander Goehr is a central fi gure of the post-war Manchester School of composers with Birtwistle and Maxwell Davies. His work is recognized today for its assimilation of intellectual rigour with transparent expressiveness and richly haunting... |
|
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
An Evening Hymn: Music For Solo Treble Oliver Lepage-Dean (Treble) / The Choir Of St John'S College Cambridge / Christopher Whitton (Organ) / Christopher Robinson (Director & Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "His [Oliver Lepage-Dean] voice is well recorded: firm and even, true in pitch, pure in quality. In two items he sings, as soloist, with the choir: Stanford's G Major Magnificat (the treble's violin concerto) and Mendelssohn's Geistliches Lied... |
|
CASELLA
Notte di maggio / Cello Concerto / Scarlattiana Olivia Andreini (mezzo-soprano) / Andrea Noferini (cello) / Sun Hee You (piano) / Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "A beautiful disc, and one that collectors should snap up without delay." (9/9 ClassicsToday.com) |
|
FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Piano Music, Vol. 3 Olivier Cazal (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Jan/2000 ] Francis Poulenc was born on 7th January 1899 in Paris into a well-to-do family of pharmaceutical manufacturers. His childhood passion, as he once wrote, was playing the piano, encouraged by the present of a child's piano when he was two. His mother... |
|
REINECKE
Music For Clarinet Olivier Dartevelle (Clarinet) / Jean Schils (Piano) / Pierre Henri Xuereb (Viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] Listening to Reinecke's compositions, one is immediately reminded of Schumann, with whom he was friendly, and of Brahms, who exercised a strong influence on him. |
|
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Violin Sonata / Piano Trio / New Transcriptions Opus Two (violin piano duo) with Charles Bernard (cello) & Marin Mazzie (soprano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Jan/2011 ] "A worthy purchase for all fans of Bernstein and of mid-20th century American chamber music." (MusicWeb Feb 2011) |
|
Orchestre Colonne/Dervaux
El-Khoury: Piano Concerto [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2007 ] |
|
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 "Egyptian" Romain Descharmes (piano) / Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Marc Soustrot [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] Saint-Saëns's mature creative genius shines throughout these last two piano concertos, looking back over a glorious musical ancestry while at the same time opening the door to new worlds. The Fourth Piano Concerto is prescient of both his great Organ... |
|
KENNETH FUCHS
Fuchs: String Quartet No. 5, 'American', Falling Canons & Falling Trio Delray String Quartet / Christopher O'Riley (piano) / Trio21 [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] Kenneth Fuchs is one of America's leading composers and his music is performed worldwide. String Quartet No. 5 is an exciting, large-scale work that explores the contrapuntal possibilities of a single 'American' theme. |
|
BRUNO MADERNA
Maderna: Piano Concertos & Quadrivium Aldo Orvieto (piano) & Fausto Bongelli (piano II) / Gruppo 40.6 & Ochestra della Fondazione 'Arena di Verona', Carlo Miotto [ Naxos / CD - released 21/Nov/2011 ] "Quadrivium, for four percussionists and orchestra from 1969, is one of Maderna's best pieces, and it dominates this disc...But it's the vivid performance of Quadrivium conducted by Caerlo Miotto, that provides the reason for hearing this disc" Guard |
|
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
Zemlinsky: Chamber Works (Incls cello sonata) Othmar Muller (cello) Ernst Ottensamer (clarinet) Christopher Hinterhuber (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] "This new recording of a selection of early chamber works by Zemlinsky is marked out by the stunning quality of the playing. This is remarkably accomplished. The recording is excellent, and altogether the quality of sound is first rate." (MusicWeb... |
|
FRANZ LISZT
Schubert/Liszt - Song Transcriptions, Vol. 1 Oxana Qablonskaya (piano) [ Naxos Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 5 / CD - released 28/Sep/2007 ] "A selection of 14 popular transcriptions of Schubert's Lieder in Vol 5 sees leisurely readings by Russian Oxana Yablonskaya. The familiar Serenade runs over seven minutes as does The Miller and The Brook and Die Schone Mullerin. She whips up a... |
|
KHACHATURIAN
Piano Concerto / Concert Rhapsody Oxana Yablonskaya (Piano) / Moscow Symphony Orchestra Dmitry Yablonsky, Conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] "Oxana Yablonskaya on Naxos is a remarkable virtuoso" |
|
LEONARDO BALADA
Piano Music Pablo Amorós (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] Preludis Obstinants, commissioned and premièred by the great pianist Alicia de Larrocha, was described as 'a bold five-part piece of thunder... each section suggesting how much the instrument can shape creative imagination.' (The Philadelphia Inquirer) |