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CHARLES IVES
Songs, Vol. 2 Sara Jakubiak (soprano) David Pittsinger (bass) Matthew Plenk (tenor) Tamara Mumford, Leah Wool (mezzo) Laura Garritson (piano) Biava Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] "It is taking a long time for singers and the public to appreciate the full extent and importance of Ives' output of songs. Not as large as Schubert maybe, but still a major achievement...All of this is immensely praiseworthy… for the many novelties... |
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WILLIAM MATHIAS
Violin sonatas Sara Trickey (violin) & Iwan Llewelyn-Jones (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Jun/2011 ] William Mathias's eloquent and accessible style comes to the fore in these première recordings of his music for violin and piano. |
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MARGARET BROUWER
Brouwer: Reactions - Rhapsodic Sonata / Declaration / The Lake / I Cry - Summer 2020 Sarah Beaty (mezzo), Brian Skoog (tenor), Shuai Wang (piano), Marie Sato (narrator/violin), Eliesha Nelson (viola) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] Margaret Brouwer's music has for decades been admired for "inhabiting its own peculiarly bewitching harmonic world" (The New York Times). These recently composed pieces reflect her musical representations of particular events: Rhapsodic Sonata charts... |
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PEDRO FARIA GOMES
Gomes: Chamber Works Sarah Thurlow (clarinet), Saul Picado (piano), Carla Santos (violin), Nancy Johnson (viola), Miguel Fernandes (cello) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2020 ] This selection of chamber music by leading Portuguese composer Pedro Faria Gomes was written between 2007 and 2018. The works encompass themes of memory, change and waiting, with the concept of time being a central preoccupation. |
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VARIOUS
Music for Viola and Piano Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola) / Anthony Hewitt (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] The viola works on this recording fuse lyricism with virtuosity, and sometimes invoke folkloric moments as well as more rhapsodic flights. |
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ALWYN
Alwyn: Chamber Music Sarah-Jane Bradley (viola) / Lucy Gould (violin) / Robert Plane (clarinet) / Sophia Rahman (piano) / Sarah Francis (oboe) / Lucy Wakeford (harp) [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Oct/2010 ] "Throughout the disc some of the UK's best known chamber musicians play with that innate feel for the music. Add a first class recording, and this is readily my Naxos disc of the month." (David's Review Corner) |
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ERIK SATIE
Best Of Satie (Incls 3 Gymnopedies & Six Gnossiennes) Klara Kormendi (piano) / Nancy Symphony Orchestra / Jerome Kaltenbach [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] Erik Satie, born in France in 1866, was a lazy pupil at the Paris Conservatoire, and only came to public attention after Debussy made orchestrations of two of his piano pieces, Gymnopédies. Satie became a 'character' in the Latin Quarter of Paris,... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Cello Recital: Sébastien Hurtaud Sébastien Hurtaud (cello) & Pamela Hurtado (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Feb/2014 ] Hindemith's music for cello closely follows his evolution as a composer. With elements which look back to Schumann, Three Pieces, Op. 8 is among his earliest published works, while the solo Sonata, Op. 25 is indebted to Bach's Cello Suites and is one... |
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PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Conc 1 & 3 Konstantin Scherbakov, Russian Philharmonic Orchestra. Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Mar/2004 ] |
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OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Respighi: Piano Concerto / Fantasia Slava / Toccata Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Capella Istropolitana / Howard Griffiths & Ewald Danel [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] "The Russian pianist, Konstantin Scherbakov, is a persuasive and at times dazzlingly brilliant soloist and he is accompanied persuasively by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava) under Howard Griffiths." Penguin Guide |
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RICHARD STRAUSS / EDVARD GRIEG / FREDERIC CHOPIN / CARL MARIA von WEBER
Welte-Mignon Piano Rolls, Vol. 3 (1905-1926) Artur Schnabel, Ferruccio Busoni, Xaver Scharwenka, Josef Hofmann, and others at the player piano [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 3/May/2004 ] As must be expected of a story that begins in Germany before one war and ends after another, this is a tale of triumph and tragedy, of glory and despair. The contraption known as the Welte-Mignon Reproducing Piano was a product of man's better nature... |
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SCHOENBERG / BERG / WEBERN
Piano Music Peter Hill (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Aug/2009 ] "The piano music heard in the previous disc released on Naxos "can so easily come across as exercises in compositional technique, but lucidly unfolded like this, they emerge as entirely pianistic, and often tensely dramatic." The Guardian |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Piano Quintet 'Trout' / Adagio & Rondo Concertante Jeno Jando (piano) / Kodaly Quartet / Istvan Toth (double bass) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Nov/2007 ] "The string playing is clean and alert, and the pianist is brilliant" - Classics |
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Scott Dunn
Foss: Piano Music [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Jan/2005 ] |
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VERNON DUKE
Piano Concerto / Cello Concerto / etc Scott Dunn (piano) Sam Magill (Cello) / Russian Philharmonic / Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 11/Jan/2008 ] "Duke's music is tuneful and accessible. Both concertos are lovingly performed, as well as the Homage to Boston Suite." --Review by Giv Cornfield, November 2007 |
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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Piano Concerto / Prometheus Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) / Russian State TV and Radio Choir / Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Igor Golovschin [ Naxos / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "This budget-priced production from the composer's compatriots certainly holds its own against all comers. Konstantin Scherbakov plays the concerto with steel and sensitivity in equal measure, and he's particularly successful in knitting together the... |
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JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Piano Concertos, Hob.XVIII:3,4,9,11 Sebastian Knauer (piano) / Cologne Chamber Orchestra / Helmut Muller-Bruhl [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2008 ] "The young German pianist Sebastian Knauer gives sprightly and sensitive accounts of all four concertos, dancing nimbly through Haydn's long stretches of toccata-style passage work and spinning a pure, eloquent line in the slow movements." Gramophone |
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JOHN HARBISON
Harbison: Piano Works Se-Hee Jin (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 22/Sep/2023 ] Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, John Harbison, is recognized as one of the dominant figures of his generation, with commissions from most of America's leading musical institutions as part of a catalog of more than 300 works. |
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Selby/Slovak Po/Czech Rso/Haym
Gershwin:piano Conc.In F [ Naxos / CD ] |
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JENNIFER HIGDON
Higdon: Early Chamber Works Serafin String Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] Pulitzer and GRAMMY® Award winner Jennifer Higdon is one of the most performed living American composers, and this program provides a unique opportunity to hear première recordings of her earlier chamber music. |