Search Results: naxos piano
Displaying items 1541 to 1560 of 1939
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Quaife/Vorster/Field/Dickinson
Falla;Songs And Piano Music [ Naxos / CD ] |
PAUL CHIHARA
Chihara: Concerto-Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra Quynh Nguyen (piano) Rieko Aizawa (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Barlow [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Recipient of numerous notable awards and commissions, Paul Chihara is renowned for his film and television scores as well as for an extensive catalogue of orchestral, choral and chamber works. Composed for and in close collaboration with... |
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Rachel Heard
Haydn, Fj:piano Sons43/44/47 [ Naxos / CD ] |
HAYDN
Piano Sonatas Nos. 43, 44 and 47 / Un piccolo divertimento Rachel Heard (Fortepiano) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Jun/2006 ] Haydn's keyboard music was at first written for the harpsichord, with later works clearly intended for the pianoforte. His career coincided with changes in the standard keyboard instrument, as the fortepiano and then the pianoforte. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Chill With Rachmaninov Vytautas Sondeckis (cello) Bernd Glemser (piano) / Ireland National Symphony Orchestra / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] Sergey Vasilyevich Rachmaninov was born at Semyonovo, Russia in 1873, the son of aristocratic parents. However, his father's extravagant lifestyle depleted the family's fortunes to the extent that they were forced to sell off most of their estate and... |
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Ralph Van Raat
Lindberg: Complete Piano Music [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] |
JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Complete Piano Music Ralph van Raat (piano) with Maarten van Veen (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] The works on this disc span his entire career to date, and illustrate his many different styles of writing for the piano. Phrygian Gates and China Gates - "gate" here referring to a type of electronic switch - could be regarded as his first "minimal"... |
HANS OTTE
Das Buch der Klänge, 12 pieces for piano Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] "Ralph van Raat's sensitive and technically refined performance has been captured very nicely on this CD, and while Hans Otte's own recording may ultimately be preferable I can't imagine anyone having any complaints about this disc at budget price.... |
CHARLES KOECHLIN
Les Heures Pesanes Op. 65 Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] A pupil of Massenet and Fauré, the prolific French composer and teacher Charles Koechlin expanded traditional harmonies and compositional techniques and was much admired by his contemporaries. Les heures persanes was inspired by Vers Ispahan, Pierre... |
JOHN TAVENER
Piano Works (Incls 'Ypakoe' & 'Pratirupa') Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] John Tavener's piano works are less well known than his large orchestral, vocal and choral works, yet at times seem to mark his stylistic and spiritual development on a more personal level. |
BOULEZ / DEBUSSY / MESSIAEN / RAVEL
Rare French Piano Music Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/May/2020 ] This album of French piano rarities features seldom-heard and recently discovered works by composers who had an influence on Pierre Boulez, as well as the premiere recording of Boulez's Prélude, Toccata et Scherzo. |
TAN DUN
Tan Dun: Eight Memories in watercolor / C-A-G-E-(In Memory of John Cage) / Film Music Sonata / etc Ralph van Raat (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jun/2022 ] |
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... |
