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GEIRR TVEITT
Tveitt: Piano Concerto No.4 / Variations on a Folksong from Hardanger for two pianos and orchestra Havard Gimse, Gunilla Sussmann (pianos) / Royal Scottish National Orchestra Bjarte Engeset, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Dec/2002 ] "The performances, as with those on the coupling of the First and Fifth Concertos, are again superb. Marvellous" (Gramophone) |
JENNY McLEOD
McLeod: The Emperor and the Nightingale / Rock Concerto / etc Helen Medlyn (narrator) & Eugene Albulescu (piano) / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Uwe Grodd [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2011 ] New Zealand-born composer Jenny McLeod's wide musical background is here distilled into three works of highly enjoyable directness. The Emperor and the Nightingale is a colourful score which accompanies the narration of a Hans Christian Andersen... |
MUZIO CLEMENTI
Clementi: Keyboard Sonatas (from Op. 1, 10 & 12) HyeJin Kim (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] A native of Rome, Muzio Clementi was 'discovered' by the wealthy Beckford family of Dorset in England, where the foundations for a distinguished international professional career as a composer and performer were laid. Clementi's legacy to pianists... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Vol 1 Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "An extraordinary number of pianists have recorded these Sonatas. Rather than comparing the present discs with them, I had rather simply welcome them as the work of a deeply serious musician of obvious technical mastery and understanding of the music |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 4 Idil Biret (piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, James Loughran [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "Saint-Saens' plano concertos require brilliance and panache and Idil Biret has those qualities ... Good support from the Philharmonia and James Loughran." - SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY - 23 Sept 90 |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Complete Piano Music Vol 12: Scherzi / Impromptus / Allegro de Concert Idil Biret, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Feb/2005 ] Fryderyk Chopin was born in 1810 at Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw. His father Nicolas Chopin was French by birth but had moved to Poland to work as an accounting clerk, later serving as tutor to the Laczynski family and thereafter to the family of Count... |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Complete Piano Music Vol 11 (Rondos, Mazurkas, Variations) Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2001 ] "With world-class playing it's remarkable. And at (bargain price) it's astonishing. Who's inspiring the superlatives - Ashkenazy, Pogorelich, Pollini? No: Idil Biret." Classic CD |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Schumann-Introduction and Concert-Allegro) Idil Biret, Jeno Jando (pianos) / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra / Antoni Wit (conductor) [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "Jeno Jando and his Polish colleagues strike me as getting the balance just about right" - Classic CD |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Chamber Music - Piano Quartet, Op. 16 / Minuets and Dances Indiana University Wind Ensemble, Janette Fishell (organ), Sofia Kim (violin), Susie Kroh (violin), Aleck Belcher (double bass), etc [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/May/2020 ] In his first decade in Vienna, Beethoven seems to have been preoccupied with music for wind instruments. The best-known example is his Quintet in E flat major, Op. 16, which he arranged at the same time for piano quartet. |
SERGEY IVANOVICH TANEYEV
Taneyev: Violin Sonata / Piano Music Ivan Peshkov (violin) Olga Solovieva (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] "Peshkov's playing is polished and refined but he doesn't stint the fire when it's called for. Peshkov to the list. His playing is polished and refined but he doesn't stint the fire when it's called for." (MusicWeb Feb 2010) |
EDWARD MacDOWELL
MacDowell: Piano Music Vol. 1 James Barbagallo (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 5/Mar/2009 ] "[John Barbagallo] obviously cares for this music and provides scintillating readings. The Marco Polo sound is near perfect." - Fanfare |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: The Rose - Songs 3 Jana Wallingerová (mezzo-soprano) Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] This recording focuses on three of Martinů's song-cycles, and a selection of individual songs from an early period in his life that sheds fascinating light on his enthusiasm for song composition. |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Sonatas (Vol 5) Nos. 48 - 52 Jeno Jando (piano) [ Naxos / CD ] "This latest volume in Jeno Jando's complete edition presents these pieces in a compelling, modern-instrument version" Gramophone |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Complete Piano Concertos Vol. 4 [Nos 23 & 24] Jeno Jando (piano) Concentus Hungaricus, Matyas Antal [ Naxos / CD ] "Finer than many full-price versions ... excellent digital sound ... astonishingly cheap." Gramophone |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Symphonies Nos 1 'Jeremiah' & 2 'The Age of Anxiety' Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano) Jean-Yves Thibaudet, (piano) / Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 17/Dec/2016 ] "It's great to see this music being played with such conviction. I don't think that Bernstein could have done better...the engineering is also rock solid and brilliant by turns. A marvelous release by any standard." ClassicsToday 10/10 Jan 2017 |
FRANZ LISZT
Piano Music Volume 8: Sonata In B Minor / Deux Legendes / Gretchen Jeno Jando (piano) [ NAXOS / CD - released 11/Nov/2007 ] "His account in the burgeoning Naxos Liszt cycle is deeply satisfying on all counts; passion, fantasy and keyboard wizardry are all there, and the effect is always profoundly musical." - BBC Music Magazine 5* |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart - Complete Piano Concertos Vol. 3 [Nos 9 "Jeunehomme" & 27] Jeno Jando (piano) / Concentus Hungaricus, Matyas Antal [ Naxos / CD ] "Finer than many full-price versions ... excellent digital sound ... astonishingly cheap" Gramophone |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Annees de Pelerinage Vol. 2 (Italy) Jeno Jando (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Feb/2002 ] "Particularly impressive are the dark hued more introspective pieces" - Classic CD |
BARTOK
Bartok-For Children Jeno Jando, piano [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jun/2005 ] The pieces are described as little pieces for beginners, without stretches of an octave. They are a direct reflection of Bartók's interest in the folk-music of Hungary, and here also of Slovakia. |
J.S. BACH
Goldberg Variatioions Jeno Jando (Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Sep/2007 ] "All in all, Jeno Jandó's Goldbergs add up to a solid, recommendable bargain alternative to the reference versions listed above." -- Jed Distler, ClassicsToday.com, 25 January 05 |
