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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 Idil Biret (piano) Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice); Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD ] "In sum, this beautifully engineered disc tells much about these oft-recorded works we think we know better than we actually do." ClassicsToday |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Transcriptions and Arrangements Idil Biret (piano) [ Naxos / CD ] "It's a world in which Idil Biret is completely at home" BBC Music |
CHOPIN / LISZT / SCHUMANN
Piano Solo Recordings, Vol. 1 - Victor Recordings (recorded 1925-1942) Sergei Rachmaninov (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Rachmaninov's formidable piano technique was notable for its precision, rhythmic drive, refined legato, crystalline clarity and sensitivity to melodic line. While avoiding sentimentality, he sought and expressed music's emotional essence. |
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Solo Piano Record Sergey Rachmaninov [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 29/Oct/2012 ] |
RACHMANINOV / CHOPIN / LISZT / TAUSIG
Rachmaninov: The Edison Recordings, April 1919 Sergey Rachmaninov (piano) [ Naxos Historial Great Pianists / CD - released 14/Jul/2017 ] "What treasures - and what a service Naxos has performed in making them available in this form." Gramophone Editor's Choice July 2017 |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Solo Piano Recordings Volume 2 (recorded 1925-1942) Sergey Rachmaninov (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] His perfect technique, utter clarity and discipline, and supreme musicianship shine undiminished through even his earliest recordings. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 (1929, 1940) Sergey Rachmaninov (piano) / Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski / Eugene Ormandy [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 7/Jan/2006 ] "One could hardly do better than begin [this series] with such essential performances as Sergei Rachmaninov's own recordings of his works for piano and orchestra. The importance of these classic RCA performances as vital historical documents need not... |
PROKOFIEV
Piano Concertos No 3 / Visions fugitives Op.22 / Suggestion diabolique / etc Sergi Prokofiev (piano) / LSO / Piero Coppola [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 3/Sep/2001 ] Sketches for the Third Piano Concerto go back to 1917, but it was during the summer of 1921 in Brittany that Prokofiev completed the work. |
LONGO / BUSONI / SCONTRINO / FRUGATTA
Italian Clarinet Suites Sergio Bosi (clarinet) / Ricardo Bartoli (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] Until the early 20th Century, Italian instrumental music remained overshadowed by opera. However, a number of composers born around the middle of the 19th century wrote excellent suites for clarinet and piano which brokered a 'compromise between... |
LABATE / GAGLIANO / BUSONI / GABUCCI / etc
Italian Clarinet Treasures Sergio Bosi (clarinet) / Ricardo Bartoli (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2018 ] Circumstances including an overwhelming preoccupation with opera at the expense of instrumental music, two world wars and the rise of a Fascist dictatorship, resulted in a generation of Italian chamber music composers born between the 1880s and early... |
AURELIO MAGNANI
Divertimento Nos. 1 and 2 / etc Sergio Bosi (clarinet) & Riccardo Bartoli (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] Considered one of the foremost soloists of his day, Aurelio Magnani was the father of the modern Italian clarinet school. |
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Pieces & Fragments Sergio Gallo (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Including premiere recordings, this programme provides us with a privileged opportunity to engage with 36 of Ludwig van Beethoven's rarely heard sketches, variations and briefest of compositions, even the earliest of which have much to teach us about... |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 27 Sergio Gallo (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas are among the most original of the 18th century, especially in their use of often discordant and chromatic harmonies. From the virtuoso Essercizi (K.12 and 15) to the touching cantabile eloquence of the Sonata in... |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Complete Piano Music Volume 43 - Transcriptions of Symphonic Poems Sergio Monteiro (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] Liszt turned to the composition of large-scale orchestral works after his success as a touring virtuoso and wrote a sequence of ground-breaking symphonic poems that in their narrative-driven structures directly influenced such composers as Richard... |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Early Piano Music Sergio Monteiro (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Apr/2019 ] In addition to his prodigious youthful genius as a composer, Mendelssohn was an exceptionally able pianist. Demonstrating an astonishing level of maturity beyond the composer's teenage years, this group of rare works is notable for a sequence of... |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 23 Sergio Monteiro (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Mar/2020 ] Domenico Scarlatti's distinguished career included a royal post in Rome where he competed against Handel, the latter being declared the better organist and Scarlatti the better harpsichordist. Written for his pupil the Infanta Maria Bárbara,... |
LOUIS VIERNE
Vierne: Complete Piano Works, Vol. 2 Sergio Monteiro (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Mar/2023 ] Louis Vierne will always be best remembered as one France's most outstanding organ composers, but his piano works are part of a significant wider oeuvre and notable for their colourful and inspired inventiveness. |
LYAPUNOV
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Shorena Tsintsabadze (piano) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dmitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Feb/2011 ] "Hearty and robust performances of music that is at times most interesting and at others somewhat mechanical. The second concerto makes the whole effort worthwhile." (MusicWeb Feb 2011) |
SCHUMANN
Complete Songs Vol. 3 - Liederalbum fur die Jugend, Op. 79 / Lieder und Gesange I, Op. 27 Sibylla Ruberns (soprano) / Stefanie Iranyi (mezzo) / Thomas Bauer (baritone) / Uta Hielscher (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] "A mostly charming set of some Schumann songs that need to be better known" (MusicWeb May 2007) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Classics Explained: Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2 - An exploration of Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 Jeremy Siepmann (reader) / Jeno Jando (piano) / BRT Philharmonic, Alexander Rahbari [ Naxos Classics Explained / 2 CD ] There is perhaps no great piano concerto grander than the Brahms B flat. With the spaciousness of a symphony, the drama of an opera, the intimacy of a lullaby and the intertwining raptures of the greatest love songs.. |
