The Naxos label diverges from its usual plain graphic design with this attempt to create the idea of an "alternative classical" genre, an idea that has paid big dividends when applied to rock and country music. Most of the selections are drawn from existing Naxos releases, with a few taken from discs by Denmark's Da Capo and Germany's CPO labels. ...
Although not for every violin devotee, this disc of Hans Werner Henze's First and Third violin concertos plus his Fünf Nachtstücke for violin and piano will thrill those for whom the anguished Alban Berg and mournful Karl Amadeus Hartmann's concertos are the sin qua non of twentieth century works in the genre. The First Concerto of 1946 was the ...
Naxos' bargain-priced compilation of three of its previously released discs of music by Philip Glass is especially valuable because it consists entirely of works for orchestra, a genre in which he is not especially well represented on recordings. (Many of his film scores are written for orchestra, but his absolute music -- symphonies and concertos ...
Five of the discs on this six-CD set are previously released Naxos recordings of a broad variety of works by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The set offers a generous sampling of works spanning the composer's career, from his polystylistic Collage über BACH (1964) for orchestra to his 2001 Nunc dimittis for a cappella chorus. The bulk of the ...
The Beethoven Explored series on Britain's Metier label apparently seeks to situate Beethoven's music for violin and piano within its original surroundings. (They do not, however, use period instruments.) As such, the three early sonatas included on this disc receive their original designation as being "for piano and violin." The results are easy ...
Vol. 4 of the Beethoven Explored series again finds violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved and pianist Aaron Shorr delving into the piano/violin literature of Beethoven and some of his significant contemporaries. What exactly is explored? For starters, the liner notes provide an exemplary overview of the compositional and political lay of the land ...
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