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MUZIO CLEMENTI
Clementi: Early Piano Sonatas Volume 1 Susan Alexander-Max (fortepiano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Apr/2010 ] Muzio Clementi was born in Rome in 1752, the son of a silversmith. By the age of thirteen he had become proficient enough as a musician to be employed as an organist at the Church of S. Lorenzo in Damaso and to attract the attention of an English... |
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CLEMENTI
Early Piano Sonatas Volume 3 Susan Alexander-Max (fortepiano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] Muzio Clementi was famous throughout his lifetime as both a composer and a virtuoso performer, appearing at the court of France and competing with Mozart in Vienna. His early piano sonatas, which greatly impressed the young Beethoven, were of... |
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JOHANN NEPOMUK HUMMEL
Hummel: Piano Trios / Piano Quartet in G major / Cello Sonata Susan Alexander-Max (fortepiano) / Pal Banda (cello) / Micaela Comberti (violin) / Jane Rogers (viola) / Simon Standage (violin) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2005 ] "Played with a fine sense of period style, and admirably recorded but for a slightly recessive piano behind closer strings, this is a charming addition to Hummel on disc." Five Stars (Chamber choice of the Month) BBC Music Mag(Jan 2006) |
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C. P. E. BACH
Prussian Sonatas, Wq 48 Susan Alexander-Max (Hofmann grand piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] |
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IVOR GURNEY
EnIvor Gurney Songs Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) Ian Burnside (piano) [ Naxos English Song Series Vol 19 / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] Comedy, desolation and lovelorn longing all touch the music of this 'lover and maker of beauty', whose songs find ideal interpreters in Susan Bickley and Iain Burnside... |
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NICOLAS FLAGELLO
Piano Concerto No. 1 / Dante's Farewell / Concerto Sinfonico Susan Gonzalez (Soprano) / Tatjana Rankovich (Piano) / Kynan Johns (Conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 16/Jul/2006 ] Nicolas Flagello was one of the last American composers to pursue traditional romantic musical values, intensified by modernist innovations in harmony and rhythm, but without the irony or detachment of postmodernism. |
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FERDINAND RIES
Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol 1 Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] "Kagan and Naxos are both to be commended for undertaking this project, and it is to be hoped that they will be repaid by a renewed interest in a composer whose music deserves to be heard." Fanfare |
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FERDINAND RIES
Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Vol 4 Susan Kagan (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] Susan Kagan is an eloquent advocate and sympathetic interpreter of Ferdinand Ries's piano sonatas and sonatinas, on which she is an acknowledged authority. While clearly indebted to his teacher Beethoven, Ries was nonetheless praised by Schumann for... |
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FERDINAND RIES
Ries: Complete Piano Sonatas & Sonatinas Susan Kagan and Vassily Primakov (pianos) [ Naxos / 6 CD Box Set - released 28/Oct/2022 ] "Well recorded with an excellent booklet by the pianist." Gramophone 'Ries could not have asked for a better pianist and proponent than he has found in Susan Kagan' (Fanfare) |
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FERNANDO LOPES-GRACA
Lopes-Graca: Songs and Folk Songs, Vol. 2 Susana Gaspar (soprano) Ricardo Panela (baritone) Nuno Vieira de Almeida (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] Fernando Lopes-Graça was one of the greatest Portuguese composers of the 20th century. He composed songs in many genres, including folk-song arrangements, modernist settings of Portuguese poetry, and songs. |
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LENNOX BERKELEY
Horn Trio / Flute Sonatina / Viola Sonata / Quintet for Wind and Piano Susanne Stanzeleit (violin) / Stephen Stirling (horn) / Patrick Williams (flute) / Morgan Goff (viola) / Members of the New London Chamber Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] Lennox Berkeley amassed over 100 works and contributed to almost every genre. Since he had the opportunity to write for some of the leading performers of the time-the Horn Trio was written for Dennis Brain-chamber music featuring wind and strings... |
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GABRIEL FAURE / GEORGE ENESCU
Faure/Enescu: Piano Quartets Suyeon Kang (violin), Karolina Errera (viola), Andrei Ioniță (cello), Catalin Serban (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Gabriel Fauré's Piano Quartet in C minor was one of the first of its genre in France, composed as part of the 'Ars Gallica' idea of strengthening French music against German cultural domination. |
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WEBERN
Complete Songs with Piano Svetlana Savenko (soprano) / Yuri Polubelov (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Apr/2007 ] Through his songs, it is possible to follow Webern's development as a composer, from early traditional writing to the more experimental work of his later years, from the tonal to the atonal, and to the sparer textures for which his work became well... |
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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY / SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Tchaikovsky/Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas (recorded 1956-1958) Sviatoslav Richter (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] By the time he made these recordings, all three of the sonatas had been in Sviatoslav Richter's repertory for years. He had first performed Tchaikovsky's Sonata in G major in 1942, recording it in Moscow in 1956. His recordings of the music of... |
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SCHUBERT / CHOPIN / SCHUMANN
Richter: Early Recordings, Vol. 1 (recorded 1948-1956) Sviatoslav Richter (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 10/May/2009 ] Indisputably one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, Sviatoslav Richter mesmerized audiences with his stunning pianism, charismatic stage presence and powerful interpretations of music ranging from Bach to Shostakovich. |
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W.A. MOZART
Best of Mozart Volume 1 Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Capella Istropolitana, Jeno Jando (piano), Gewandhaus Chamber Choir, Leipzig Chamber Orchestra, Takako Nishizaki (violin) [ Naxos Best Of / CD - released 18/Feb/2008 ] Classic Mozart highlights drawn from the vast Naxos catalogue. |
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Szekely/Budapest So/Nemeth
Chopin;Piano Concertos 1&2 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Violin Miniatures (Incls 'Humoresque' & 'salut d'amore') Takako Nishizaki (violin) Jeno Jando (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Sep/2007 ] "Guaranteed to bring back many happy memories of the past for those of us who still enjoy the Romantic Age of music" - Sunday Star (Malaysia) |
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CESAR FRANCK / EDVARD GRIEG
Franck/Grieg: Violin Sonatas Takako Nishizaki (violin) Jeno Jando (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Great Classical Masterpieces - Bestselling Naxos Recordings 1987-2012 Takako Nishizaki (violin), Jeno Jando (piano), Norbert Kraft (guitar), Klara Kormendi (piano), Colm Carey (organ), Kathryn Selby (piano) Slovak Radio [ Naxos / CD - released 12/May/2012 ] Artists Takako Nishizaki (violin), Jeno Jando (piano), Norbert Kraft (guitar), Klara Kormendi (piano), Colm Carey (organ), Kathryn Selby (piano) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oxford Camerata, Capella Istropolitana, Slovak Philharmonic Chorus,... |