Search Results: naxos piano
Displaying items 1861 to 1880 of 1939
Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Strathclyde Concerto No. 2 / Cello Sonata 'Sequentia Serpentigena' / etc Vittorio Ceccanti (cello) Bruno Canino (piano) / Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Peter Maxwell Davies [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Apr/2013 ] This is the second disc of works focussing on Peter Maxwell Davies' continuing artistic relationship with the Ceccanti family. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Rondo for piano & orchestra Stefan Vladar (piano) Capella Istropolitana, Barry Wordsworth [ Naxos / CD ] "Striking freshness and spontaneity." - Penguin Guide |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 Stefan Vladar (piano), Jenö Jandó (piano) / Capella Istropolitana, Barry Wordsworth [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/1999 ] |
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Vladar/Cap Istropolitana/Words
Beethoven;Piano Concs.1-5 [ Naxos / 3 CD ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 Stefan Vladar (piano) / Capella Istropolitana, Barry Wordsworth [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Gramophone, October 1990 "...the performances are dramatic and fresh." Penguin Guide, January 1990 "The performances are dramatic and fresh... the digital sound is very good." MUSIC AND MUSICIANS, October 1989 "There is a joy in the outer... |
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Vladar/Cap Istropolitana/Words
Beethoven:piano Concs.3&4 [ Naxos / CD ] |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
The very best of Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from orchestral, vocal, keyboard and chamber works Vladimir Grishko (tenor) Maria Kliegel (cello) Pavlo Mezhulin (bass) Takako Nishizaki (violin) Viktor Ovdiy (tenor) Ilona Prunyi (piano) & many more [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 8/Dec/2005 ] Presented in a stylish slipcase with a modern take on John Minnion's composer cartoons, with detailed track listings and accessible texts on the composer's life and an overview of their most famous works. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Piano Recital (1932-1935) Vladimir Horowitz (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 18/Nov/2007 ] "This remains some of the most astounding piano playing ever committed to disc and you should not be without it in one form or another." - Christopher Howell, musicweb.uk.net, June 2003 |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Sonata No. 2 / Ballade No. 4 / Polonaise-fantaisie (rec 1947-1957) Vladimir Horowitz (piano) [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 10/Apr/2008 ] "Horowitz leads us a merry dance over the course of seventy-six and a half incendiary minutes of pianism...The transfers of all these items are really first class." (MusicWeb June 2008) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN / SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 / Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 Vladimir Horowitz (piano) / RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra / Fritz Reiner, conductor [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 11/Sep/2005 ] "Superb liner notes from Jonathan Summers and Mark Obert-Thorn has done a fine job with the sound." (MusicWeb Oct 2005) |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: Schwanegesang Michael Volle (baritone), Ulrich Eisenlohr (piano), Sjon Scott (horn) [ Naxos / CD ] "Naxos may be a budget label, but this is a full-price performance. Volle can produce smooth steady tones-the kind you want to drink in for hours. The voice is sonorous yet warm, full yet flexible, controlled yet impassioned. Naxos should line him up... |
GUSTAV HOLST
Holst: Music For Two Pianos, The Planets Len Vorster / Robert Chamberlain (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/1998 ] "Warmly Recommended" Fanfare |
FILTSCH / MIKULI / TELLEFSEN
Pupils of Chopin: Violin and Piano Works Voytek Proniewicz (violin) / Alexander Jakobidze-Gitman (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] Following the release of delightful piano music by Chopin's pupils, Naxos reveals more rarely heard Romantic gems by these heirs of the 'poet of the piano'. Each movement of Karol Mikuli's Grand Duo is ingeniously based on two prevailing themes... |
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Walter Gieseking
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 20-21 [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 29/Aug/2011 ] |
EDVARD GRIEG / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Grieg / Schumann: Piano Concertos Walter Gieseking (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 30/Jan/2006 ] Gieseking's father was a distinguished German doctor with a keen interest in entomology who travelled in France and Italy. As a result, his son Walter was born in Lyons, France, and spent the first sixteen years of his life in southern France and... |
BACH / BEETHOVEN
Partitas Nos. 1, 5, 6 / Italian Concerto / Piano Sonata No. 17, "Tempest" (recorded 1934-1940) Walter Gieseking (piano) [ Naxos Historical Great Pianists / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Walter Gieseking's interpretations of Bach in the early years of his career gained him laurels for 'his control over shades of tone, especially over infinite gradations in the range between piano and pianissimo, the clear definition of his agile... |
MOZART / BEETHOVEN / LISZT
Piano Concertos Walter Gieseking (Piano) Berlin State Opera Orchestra / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Henry Wood (Conductor) Hans Rosbaud (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Recordings / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] 'Mr Gieseking's skill is great enough in some ways… and his pianissimo now and then becomes as nearly nothing as is possible to imagine…' |
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concertos Nos. 4 and 5 (Concerto Recordings Vol. 3) Walter Gieseking (Piano) / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Karl Bohm (Conductor) / Bruno Walter (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 4/Dec/2006 ] Recorded in a single day in January 1939, with the eight sides all issued from first or second takes, Gieseking’s account of the Piano Concerto No. 4 is one of moulded delicacy, the light-weight approach particularly apt for the outer movements. |
J. S. Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II (Rec 1949-1951) Wanda Landowska (piano) [ Naxos Historical / 3 CD - released 2/Jan/2007 ] "With a work so intense, so diverse, so varied in mood, no single interpreter is likely ever to produce a perfect version for everybody. You must resign yourself to having multiple sets, and this Landowska set will be the centerpiece of your... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus (version for piano) Warren Lee (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Aug/2019 ] Ludwig van Beethoven was commissioned by the dancer and choreographer Salvatore Viganò to write the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus-an allegorical story based on the myth of Prometheus-and the composer's piano version of the orchestral score was... |
