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GAVIN BRYARS
Piano Concerto (The Solway Canal) / After Handel’s Vesper / Ramble on Cortona Ralph van Raat (piano) / Cappella Amsterdam / Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic / Otto Tausk [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Apr/2011 ] "It's in the nature of Bryars's solo piano music that it flows along in gently timeless way...it also severally challenges a performer's ability to keep the listener's attention suitably gripped. In After Handel's Vesper's and Ramble on Cortona,... |
OLIVIER MESSIAEN / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Ralph van Raat & Håkon Austbø play Messiaen & Debussy Ralph van Raat (piano I) & Håkon Austbø (piano II) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "Their approach, characterised by fierce dynamic contrasts, jagged phrasing and explosive fortissimos, suits Messiaen's highly coloured extremes of rapture and religious awe..." |
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Rankovich/Ukraine/Williams
Flagello: Piano Concerto No 1 [ Naxos / CD - released 29/May/2006 ] |
ARNOLD COOKE
Three String Sonatas Raphael Terroni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jul/2014 ] When Arnold Cooke died in 2005 at the age of ninety-eight, he was the last survivor of a great generation of British composers that included Michael Tippett, Alan Rawsthorne and Constant Lambert. A distinguished student of Paul Hindemith in Berlin,... |
LENNOX BERKELEY
Music for Solo Piano and Piano Duet Raphael Terroni (piano) & Norman Beedie (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] The piano was Lennox Berkeley's own instrument and his piano works represent a microcosm of his very best compositional talents. Influenced harmonically by French models, his music is suffused with lyricism and subtle harmonies. The Sonata, Op. 20... |
BUSCH / COOKE / LEIGHTON / WORDSWORTH
British Music for Cello and Piano Raphael Wallfisch (cello) & Raphael Terroni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jun/2014 ] "this disc is self-recommending, and indeed required listening for anyone who wishes to explore the byways of more 'traditional' British composition in the second half of the twentieth century. We are not likely to get further recordings of the music |
BUSCH / HOLBROOKE / WORDSWORTH
British Music for Cello and Piano Raphael Wallfisch (cello) & Raphael Terroni (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Jan/2015 ] This survey of British cello music focuses on three composers whose critical fortunes have never quite matched their undoubted musical gifts. William Wordsworth always displayed independence of mind and considerable melodic invention, and his... |
ANTONIO SOLER
Soler: Keyboard Sonatas Nos. 67-74 Regina Chernychko (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] Antonio Soler's training as a chorister, organist and composer equipped the young Catalan for the prestigious position of maestro di capilla at the Escorial palace. Here he was strongly influenced by Domenico Scarlatti in his writing of keyboard... |
Regina Jakobi, mezzo-soprano / Ulrich Eisenlohr, piano
Schubert-Schiller, Vol. 2 (Includes Das Madchen aus der Fremde, D.252) [ Naxos Schubert Edition Vol 8 / CD - released 14/Feb/2002 ] In 1816 Franz Schubert, together with his circle of friends, decided to publish a collection of all the songs which he had so far written. Joseph Spaun, whom Schubert had known since his school days, tried his (and Schubert's) luck in a letter to the... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
The Best of Gershwin Richard Hayman and His Symphony Orchestra, Kathryn Selby (piano), Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, and more [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2008 ] The best of Gershwin drawn from the vast Naxos catalogue |
SCHUBERT
Piano Works for Four Hands, Vol. 4 (Includes Fantasie in F minor, D. 940 ) Rico Gulda, piano / Christopher Hinterhuber, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Jun/2004 ] "Rico Gulda and Christopher Hinterhuber endow these four handed works with emergent Romantic characteristics. A stimulating disc." - Classical Sound and Vision, February 2003 |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Piano Trios Volume 5 rion Trio: Nina Tichman (piano), Ida Bieler (violin) & Maria Kliegel (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Mar/2013 ] The Xyrion Trio's cycle of Beethoven's Piano Trios and other chamber works has already established a firm following and wide critical acclaim. This volume forms a climax for the whole series, including as it does Beethoven's masterpiece of the genre,... |
JOSEF SUK
6 Piano Pieces / De Mamam / Moods Risto Lauriala (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Feb/2002 ] Piano music of Josef Suk |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Piano Music (Incls 'Finlandia', 'three Lyric Pieces' & 'six Impromptus' Risto Lauriala (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "Risto Lauriala is the pianist entrusted with the job and he is excellent. Overall, an interesting by-way, worth exploring." - Classic CD - September 1996 |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos. 12, 13 & 14 (versions for Piano and String Quartet) Robert Blocker (piano) / Biava Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] The youthful Biava Quartet are the winners of the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and top prizes at the Premio Borciani and London International Competitions. |
CHARLES IVES
Songs, Vol. 4 Robert Gardner (baritone) Patrick Carfizzi (bass) Ian Howell (counter tenor) Sumi Kittelberger (soprano) Leah Wool (mezzo) Douglas Dickson (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] When, in 1922, Charles Ives published a volume entitled 114 Songs, he was indirectly drawing attention to the fact that the genre had played a central part in his output. 85 years on and, for all that his wider reputation rests on his orchestral,... |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Songs, Vol. 5 Robert Gardner (baritone) Patrick Carfizzi (bass) Ian Howell (counter tenor) Sumi Kittelberger (soprano) Leah Wool (mezzo) Douglas Dickson (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "These songs, with all their quirks and flights of fantasy, [are] among the most important of the 20th century in any language." The Guardian |
CHARLES IVES
Ives: Songs, Vol. 6 Robert Gardner (baritone) Patrick Carfizzi (bass) Ian Howell (counter tenor) Sumi Kittelberger (soprano) Leah Wool (mezzo) Douglas Dickson (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "The final volume of Naxos's complete songs of Charles Ives offers the same virtues as its predecessors: assured performances from gifted young singers and pianists accompanied by pithy, informative notes from Richard Whitehouse." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
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EUGENE GOOSSENS
Complete music for violin and piano Robert Gibbs (violin) Gusztav Fenyo (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] |
HELPS / GODOWSKY / IRELAND / MENDELSSOHN / POULENC
Robert Helps in Berlin: Chamber Music with Piano Robert Helps (piano) / Spectrum Concerts Berlin / Atos Trio [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] This recording is an exploration of Robert Helps's 'subtle sound world' (ClassicsToday.com on Naxos 8559199), and his shared history with Spectrum Concerts Berlin. |
