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VARIOUS
Pablo Casals - Encores and Transcriptions, Vol. 4 (1916-1920) Pablo Casals, cello / Charles Albert Baker, piano / Walter Golde, piano [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 29/May/2005 ] |
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VARIOUS
Encores and Transcriptions, Vol. 2 (Rec 1927-1930) Pablo Casals (cello) with Nicolai Mednikoff, piano, Blas Net, piano, Otto Schulhoff, piano. London Symphony Orchestra / Pablo Casals, conductor [ Naxos Great Cellists / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "As before his novel and revolutionary vibrato usage comes under close scrutiny and that vocalized legato which he occasionally spun out with such daring elasticity demonstrate why he was the premier cellist of his generation...Collectors need not... |
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Paley/Lithuanian State S.O
Silver: Piano Concerto [ Naxos / CD - released 5/May/2003 ] |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Liszt Imagination - Mephisto Waltzes / Bagatelle ohne Tonart (arr. A. Parfenov for violin and piano) Parfenov Duo [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] André Parfenov presents the Mephistopheles cycle as an overall picture of human life-from birth to death. This does not result in transcriptions, but real, artistic, compositional works. |
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DAVID LAMPEL
Lampel: Chamber Music - String Quartet / String Sextet / Piano Sonata / Violin Sonata / Prelude and Chaconne "Hommage a Bach" Parisii Quartet / Uppsala Chamber Soloists [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2009 ] Each of the works on this disc embodies Swedish composer David Lampel's paradoxical idea that 'music can be heard before it starts, and continues after the last note'. All are performed by the musicians for whom they were composed or to whom they... |
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DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol 25 Pascal Pascaleff (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2020 ] Scarlatti's single-movement sonatas or exercises are his greatest musical legacy. Largely designed for the Infanta, who became Queen of Spain in 1746, the music exists in a number of 18th-century manuscripts, some possibly bequeathed to the great... |
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POULENC / MESSIAEN / BOULEZ / SANCAN / DUTILLEUX
Flute Sonata / Le Merle Noir / Sonatine Patrick Gallois (flute) / Lydia Wong (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2005 ] "Much to enjoy here and very nearly an unqualified recommendation. This disc is not only for flautists, but should provide much enjoyment and stimulation for all. Just don't turn the disc off after the Dutilleux!" -- Colin Clarke, MusicWeb, 29... |
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W. A. MOZART
Violin Sonatas (arranged for flute and piano) Patrick Gallois (flute) & Maria Prinz (piano) [ NAXOS / CD - released 13/Feb/2013 ] The sonatas performed on this disc were written much later for violin but, using that earlier precedent, have been transcribed for fl ute by one of the world's greatest exponents of the instrument, Patrick Gallois. |
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TABAKOV
Concerto for Two Pianos / Piano Concerto Patrick Gallois (flute) / Philippe Bernold (flute) / Jean-Philippe Collard (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Feb/2007 ] "Performances by top-rank soloists nicely supported by a very responsive composer-conducted orchestra … all very fine, and well recorded" (MusicWeb May 2007) |
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CHEN YI / N, CURRIER / S. CURRIER / GEORGE TSONTAKIS
Digital Mist: Works for Violin and Piano Patrick Yim (violin) Kiu Tung Poon (piano) Sebastian Currier (pre-recorded sound samples) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2022 ] This album offers a survey of American music composed for violin and piano from 1980 to 2010 through the lens of masterpieces by four American composers who have been distinguished by the highest honors of their profession. |
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WILLIAM McCLELLAND
McClelland: Where the Shadows Glides - Songs, Solo Piano and Choral Works Krista River (mezzo) Thomas Meglioranza (baritone) Donald Berman,Blair McMillen (piano) David Enlow (organ) / The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harols Ro [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] Internationally acclaimed composer William McClelland has written a wide variety of music in many styles and forms, but the works in this program have all been inspired by poetry. The choral works evoke the atmosphere of time and place in settings of... |
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SCHUMANN
Kreisleriana / Waldszenen / Blumenstuck Paul Gulda (Piano) [ NAXOS / CD ] |
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ALEXANDER ARUTIUNIAN / MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG / DMITRY SHOSTAKOVICH
Arutiunian/Weinberg/Shostakovich: Trumpet Concertos Paul Merkelo (trumpet) / Russian National Orchestra, Hans Graf, with Jae-Hyuck Cho (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] The trumpet has had many concertos written for it by composers from the Soviet era and beyond. Appealing in its unabashed melodies and colourfully nostalgic feel, Arutiunian's Trumpet Concerto became popular in the West... |
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THOMAS 'FATS' WALLER
Sixteen Great Piano Solos (1929-1941) Paul Posnak (pianist and transcriber) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jan/2008 ] Paul Posnak's international career as pianist, recording artist, transcriber and sought-after teacher began with a full scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music. |
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CHARLES WAKEFIELD CADMAN
Cadman: Piano Trio in D major / Quintet for Piano & Strings / etc Paul Posnak (piano) Peter Zazofsky (violin) / Bergonzi String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Apr/2002 ] "Naxos's apparently indefatigable 'American Classics' project has turned up yet another minor but not uninteresting figure. The American performers, led by the excellent pianist Paul Posnak, do their best with Cadman's thick textures and sprawling... |
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JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER
Carpenter - Chamber Music Paul Posnak, piano / Vega String Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 12/Jan/2003 ] "The Naxos recording is forthright, resonant and startlingly well up to the impressively big movement of the 1912 Sonata. Carpenter, who on the basis of this movement alone should be a great name, proves capable of building a beautifully judged... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Folk Songs Paula Sophie Bohnet (soprano) Daniel Johannsen (tenor) Georg Klimbacher (baritone) Bernadette Bartos (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jul/2020 ] "I have a feeling that these folk song arrangements are fairly little known, but they are definitely worth investigating. All in all a wholly delightful programme, excellently performed." MusicWeb Recommended July 2020 |
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BLASCO DE NEBRA
Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 2 Pedro Casals (piano) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] Pedro Casals, an expert on Manuel Blasco de Nebra, continues his fascinating survey of the Spanish composer's keyboard sonatas. This, the second in a three-disc series, comprises the final seven sonatas preserved in manuscript in the Montserrat... |
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BLASCO DE NEBRA
Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 3 Pedro Casals (piano) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] Acclaimed as 'a most nimble and clean fingered soloist', Pedro Casals is an ideal interpreter of Manuel Blasco de Nebra's delightful keyboard music. On this third and final volume, he performs four two-movement sonatas using the first published... |
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MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestrations compiled by L. Slatkin) [with Liszt-Piano Concerto no 1] Peng Peng (piano) / Nashville Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] An increasing number of recordings now feature orchestrations of Mussorgsky's Pictures other than Ravel's popular warhorse. Leonard Slatkin's eclectic selection, some more outlandish than others, invites us to bask in the high spirits and ingenuity... |