PETROS PETRIDIS
Petridis: Saint Paul Soloists / Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos / 2 CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] Petros Petridis was one of the leading composers of the Greek National School. In Saint Paul he sought to combine the polyphonic approach of Byzantine music with the form of the oratorio. The libretto follows the Acts of the Apostles with fourteen... |
BACH / BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / CHOPIN / LISZT / SCHUBERT / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Pianists of the 20th Century - Byron Janis I Byron Janis (piano) [ Philips / BMG / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] "This is a fine installment of this important collection of 20th-century pianists." Arkivmusic |
FRANZ LISZT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Encores Byron Janis (piano) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra & Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Mercury Living Presence / CD - released 11/Oct/1990 ] The original 35 mm Magnetic Film recording made on location in Moscow in 1961 & 1962 |
Nojo with Don Byron
You Are Here [ True North / CD ] |
Donald Byron Wheatley
Moondogs And Mad Dogs (LP) [ Maiden Voyage / LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] Donald Wheatley never intended to make an album and has never performed onstage. But he's been a showman all his life and comes from a family of showmen stretching back one hundred and fifty years. Moondogs And Mad Dogs is both a paean to that life... |
SPYRIDON SAMARAS
Samaras: Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle (Complete opera) Angelo Simos, Tassis Christoyannis, Pavlos Maropoulos, Pantelis Kontos / Kaval Choir of Sofia, Pazardzhik Symphony, Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 11/Jun/2021 ] Remembered today for the Olympic Anthem, Spyridon Samaras was the most distinguished Greek composer of his day and the first to gain international recognition. |
NIKOS SKALKOTTAS
Skalkottas: Sinfonietta, Concerto and Suite Georgios Demertzis (violin), Vassilis Varvaresos (piano), Eleftherios Venizelos, Athens Philharmonia Orchestra, Byron Fidetzis [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] A disc of previously unrecorded works by the great Greek modernist |
MANOLIS KALOMIRIS
Symphony No. 3 in D minor / Triptych / etc Nikitas Tsakiroglou (narrator) / Athens State Orchestra, Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos Greek Classics / CD - released 30/Apr/2007 ] |
Byron Janis
Liszt: Totentanz [ Sony Classical / CD - released 8/Apr/2013 ] |