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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
My First Tchaikovsky Album Maria Kliegel (cello) / Ireland National Symphony Orchestra; Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra; Queensland Symphony; Slovak Philharmonic Orches [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Feb/2012 ] Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: a great Russian name for a great Russian composer! Tchaikovsky was not always a happy man. He didn't laugh a lot. But he wrote music that is full of good melodies. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
The Best of Prokofiev Tedi Papavrami (violin), Kun-Woo Paik (piano) National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Czecho-Slovak State Ph [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Jan/2005 ] A new addition to the Naxos 'Best of' series features the outstanding series of Prokofiev recordings made with the Ukraine orchestra. |
ROSS HARRIS
Harris: Face / Symphony No. 6 'Last Letter' Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Giordano Bellincampi, Antony Hermus [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] In Symphony No. 6 'Last Letter', Ross Harris explores settings of four poems by Vincent O'Sullivan, interlinking them with three musical interludes. The darkness of the subject matter draws from the composer music of powerful and at times despairing... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: :Symphonies.26 "Lamentatione", 35, 49 "La Passione" Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicolas Ward [ Naxos / CD ] Gramophone "no one wanting to investigate these works will regret spending a fiver on this disc" BBC Music Magazine "crisp spirited readings..... A winner" Classic CD "very committed performances" |
KHACHATURIAN / PROKOFIEV / SHOSTAKOVICH
Prokofiev / Khachaturian / Shostakovich: Piano Concert & Recital (1944-1949) William Kapell (piano) / Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Anton Dorati, Boston Symphony [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 16/Sep/2001 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "During the past few years Naxos has carved out a considerable piece of the historic reissue market simply by providing shellac-era favorites in newly minted transfers at budget... |
MEREDITH WILLSON
Willson: Symphonies Nos.1 & 2 Moscow Symphony Orchestra, William T Stromberg [ Naxos / CD ] "My three-word description of these scores is tunes, tunes, tunes." Fanfare |
JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER
Carpenter: Adventures in A Perambulator / Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, John McLaughlin Williams, conductor [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 14/May/2001 ] You have to hand it to Naxos. Here--on one very-nicely-performed program (played with gusto, polish, and complete sympathy by those specialists in American repertoire, the Ukraine National Symphony!!) and recorded in clean, bright, engaging sound." |
WILLIAM PERRY
Jamestown Concerto for cello and orchestra (with works by Schuman & Thomson) Yehuda Hanani (cello) / RTE National Symphony Orchestra / William Eddins (conductor) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "William Perry's Jamestown Concerto was written in 2007 for the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, VA, in 1607. It is programmatic, very tuneful, and adroitly scored, sounding more than a little bit like movie music...the recorded sound... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies 3 & 8 Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra / Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Richard Edlinger (cond), Michael Halasz (cond) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2008 ] "there are few to match him [Edinger] for his immediacy of communication" - Penguin Guide |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 2 Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Edlinger [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1988 ] The Austrian conductor Richard Edlinger was born in Bregenz in 1958 and directed his first concerts at the age of seventeen. |
GIOVANNI GABRIELI
Music for Brass Vol. 3 London Symphony Orchestra Brass [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] |
PHILIP GLASS
Of Beauty & Light: The Music of Philip Glass (3 CD set) Adele Anthony (violin) / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop / Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2008 ] This is Glass in full flight, with an aural illusion of the work speeding up yet retaining a constant pulse throughout the work's lively changes of texture and melodic figuration." --New Zealand Listener |
GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG
Strong: Orchestral Music Vol.2 Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Adriano [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2001 ] |
GEORGE TEMPLETON STRONG
Strong: Orchestral Works Vol.3 Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Adriano [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 4/Nov/2002 ] George Templeton Strong was born in New York on 26th May 1856. His father, a lawyer and a friend of Abraham Lincoln, was President of the New York Philharmonic Society. |
SILVESTRE REVUELTAS
Revueltas: Orchestral Music Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Barrios [ Naxos Latin American Classics / CD - released 2/Sep/2002 ] "With some typically informative Naxos documentation, this disc of music by a little known but immensely gifted composer can be recommended with much enthusiasm" - Music Web |
ANTHONY LEWIS SCARMOLIN
Scarmolin: Orchestral Works Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Joel Eric Suben [ Naxos American Classics / CD ] Anthony Louis Scarmolin was born in 1890 in the northern Italian textile-producing town of Schio, near Padua, where his father worked in the local industry. His father moved to America in 1900, taking his family with him and settling in New Jersey.... |
LEONARD SLATKIN
Slatkin Conducts Slatkin - The Raven / Endgames / Kinah / In Fields Alec Baldwin (narrator) / Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan School of Music Symphnoy Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Feb/2022 ] Leonard Slatkin celebrated his 75th birthday in September 2019. Many of the selections in this program come from a concert given in his honour and are also a tribute to his remarkable musical family, both past and present. |
KOMEI ABE
Abe: Symphony No. 1 / Divertimento / Sinfonietta Aleksey Volkov (alto saxophone) / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / Dimitry Yablonsky [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Feb/2008 ] Komei Abe was one of the finest pupils trained at the Tokyo Music School ( now the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music) in the 1930s. His musical language is characterized by crisp melodies, structural clarity and, in the composer's own words,... |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 Alexander Anissimov, National Symphony Orchestra Of Ireland [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2001 ] "Alexander Anissimov's Naxos account lingers nostalgically over lyrical episodes in a recording that's firmer at the bottom end than you'd expect from Dublin's airy National Concert Hall. Anissimov's Naxos account is an exceptional bargain" BBC Music |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Music For Cello And Orchestra Alexander Rudin (Cello) / National Symphony Orchestra Of Ukraine / Theodore Kuchar [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Sep/2007 ] "Alexander Rudin is, both technically and interpretively, one of the most authoritative cellists of his generation...all in all the most successful recording of this score in years....Highly Recommended" - Fanfare |
