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JOHN IRELAND
Ireland: Sextet / Clarinet Trio / Fantasy-Sonata / The Holy Boy Sophia Rahman (piano) / Alice Neary (Cello) / Robert Plane (Clarinet) / Maggini Quartet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] A composition pupil of Stanford and recognised as an outstanding talent by Parry, John Ireland was inspired as a student by the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Elgar, and later by Debussy, Ravel and the early Stravinsky. This recording features the... |
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MUZIO CLEMENTI
Clementi: Keyboard Sonatas Op. 1 & 13 Soyeon Kate Lee (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Dec/2019 ] Muzio Clementi was born four years before Mozart and outlived Beethoven by the same span. His legacy to pianists as a composer and teacher was a significant one, introducing new virtuosity and exploring the expressive possibilities of the piano, a... |
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SCRIABIN
Piano Music Soyeon Kate Lee (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2016 ] Rivalling Rachmaninov as a virtuoso musician, the colourful young pianist/composer Scriabin found inspiration in his hero Chopin, while adding Russian darkness to his Impromptus and sensuous passion to the technically demanding Sonate-fantaisie. |
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SCARLATTI
Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 8 Soyeon Lee (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] "The recording is worth a special mention – well up to the high standard Norbert Kraft has previously set on various discs for this label. The documentation is also decent and the only thing that feels cheap about this disc is the price" (MusicWeb... |
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SERGEY IVANOVICH TANEYEV
Taneyev: String Trio, Op. 31 / Piano Quartet, Op. 20 Spectrum Concerts Berlin [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Jun/2022 ] With this album, Naxos and Spectrum Concerts wish to champion a composer who was universally respected and admired during his life, but whose work has for the most part languished unheard since his death over a century ago. |
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ERNST TOCH
Toch: Piano Quintet / Violin Sonata No. 2 / Burlesken / 3 Impromptus Spectrum Concerts Berlin [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 31/Mar/2008 ] "The performers all do well. Daniel Blumenthal…is the driving engine of most of the works here. Highly recommended" Classical Net |
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Steen-Nokleberg/Schioll/Etc
Grieg:piano Music Vol.11 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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Steen-Nokleberg/Schioll/Etc
Grieg:piano Music Vol.12 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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Steen-Nokleberg/Schioll/Etc
Grieg:piano Music Vol.13 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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Steen-Nokleberg/Schioll/Etc
Grieg:piano Music Vol.14 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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JOHN TAVENER
The Essential John Tavener on Naxos [5 CD set] Stefan Berkieta (bar) Maria Kliegel (cello), Eileen Hulse (sop) Ralph van Raat (piano) / Clare College Choir, Cambridge / St. John's College Choir [ Naxos / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2014 ] "Strongly recommended - but you may need to persevere. It's well removed from the cosy Christmas of renaissance art or of chestnuts roasting by the fire, though there's a place for those, too." (MusicWeb on the Clare College Recording) |
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MARCEL DUPRE
Works For Organ Vol. 6 (Incls '8 Short Preludes on Gregorian Themes for Organ, Op. 45') Stefan Engels (Organ) / Alessio Bax (Piano) [ Naxos Organ Encyclopedia / CD - released 15/Nov/2007 ] Marcel Dupré was born into a musical family in Rouen in 1886. His father was an organist who had been a pupil of Guilmant and taught his son from the time the boy was eleven. Dupré was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire at sixteen, and among his... |
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Stefan Veselka
Dvorak: Cpte Solo Piano Music [ Naxos / 5 CD - released 2/Aug/2004 ] |
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DVORAK
Humoresques, Op. 101 / Silhouettes, Op. 8 Stefan Veselka (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] Antonín Dvorák was born in 1841, the son of a butcher and innkeeper in the village of Nelahozeves, near the Bohemian town of Kralupy, some forty miles north of Prague. |
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R. STRAUSS
Piano Sonata / 5 Piano Pieces / Stimmungsbilder Stefan Veselka (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jan/2006 ] Composed during his final years at school, and at university, the piano works included on this recording are written mainly in a conservative harmonic style, reflecting the obvious influences of Mendelssohn, Brahms and Schumann. |
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DVORAK
Theme with Variations, Op. 36 / Waltzes, Op. 54 Stefan Veselka (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2007 ] Stefan Veselka was born in 1968 in the Norwegian town of Stavanger, the son of Czech parents. From 1986 he studied piano at the Salzburg Mozarteum, moving in 1988 to the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, where he successfully completed his studies. |
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BEETHOVEN
Piano Concertos 1 & 5 Stefan Vladar (piano) / Capella Istropolitana / Barry Wordsworth (conductor) [ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "The performances are dramatic and fresh... the digital sound is very good." - PENGUIN GUIDE 1990 |
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RICHARD DANIELPOUR
Danielpour: Twelve Études for Piano Stefano Greco (piano) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 9/Sep/2022 ] Richard Danielpour is one of the most decorated, frequently performed and recorded composers of his generation. His commissions include works for some of the most celebrated artists of our day. |
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TOSTI
Italian Songs and Ballads (with tracks by Donaudy & Mascagni) Stefano Secco (tenor) / David Abramovitz (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Mar/2011 ] The late 19th Century was the heyday of the drawing-room ballad, when families and friends entertained each other with a wide range of songs. Sir Paolo Tosti was one of the most successful composers of such music, alongside his contemporaries Pietro... |
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WILHELM STENHAMMAR
Stenhammar: Piano Works Niklas Sivelov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Apr/1998 ] "Niklas Sivelöv proves a thoroughly idiomatic interpreter and is as much at home in the quasi-impressionistic third movement of the Late Summer Nights and the delicate Poco allegretto as he is in the virtuosic, big-boned, penultimate movement. He is... |