Chamber Music & Recitals

This disc of chamber music by Ned Rorem (b. 1923) is an outstanding addition to the series. Rorem is both a composer and a writer, best known for his art songs. (A collection of Rorem's songs is available on another Naxos disc in this series.) The...

This disc is part of a series of Faur?'s complete piano music and contains two works better known in orchestral form with some less well known originals. The four pieces from Pell?as et M?lisande in their original version are some of the most subtle of...

This Disc is devoted completely to the music of Vancouver composer Owen Underhill comprised of 4 major works composed between 1998 and 2011 featuring Montreal's Quator Bozzini. Underhill is winner of the 2007 Most Outstanding Composer in Western Canadian...

This disc features works by three composers - Vincent d'Indy, Ernst Krenek, and Erwin Schulhoff - who in the mid to late 1920s adopted neoclassicism and wrote works in the neo-baroque concerto grosso style. Sir Neville Marriner conducts the Academy of St...

This disc contains all of Panufnik's post-war reconstructions of early Polish music originally written between the 14th and 18th centuries. Of these works the composer himself wrote: "My compulsion to restore some of the early Polish music was engendered...

This disc completes the set of CPE Bach's Fortsetzung Sonatas, Wq51 that began in Volume 26 in this series. Although the sonatas were not published together with the composer's own variants on them, such alternative versions exist in manuscript, and...

This disc combines some of Henry Purcell's most powerful masterpieces. Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind, an exuberant tribute to the young Queen Mary, and some of his most eloquent compositions, written for her funeral. Love's Goddess Sure was Blind,...

This disc collects three of Leonard Bernstein' very few examples of chamber music.1. I. Grazioso - Un Poco Piu Mosso 2. II. Andantino - Vivace E Leggiero 3. I. Moderato Assai 4. II. Variations on Movement I 5. I. Adagio Non Troppo - Allegro Vivace 6. II...

This disc brings together all Schumann's music featuring the viola as solo instrument. These relatively late works are on an intimate scale and present idyllic musical landscapes, the world of legends and fairytales, and are beautifully performed by the...

This delightful and lighthearted album features virtuoso clarinetist David Shifrin performing Carl Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto in a newly arranged accompaniment for chamber orchestra. The dramatic work unfolds unpredictably in short, contrasting episodes...

This delightful album reminds us of the vital role played by the folk tradition in Armenian classical music, as well as the unrivalled success of both Khachaturians in assimilating that tradition within the Western-European classical idiom. Jascha...

This delightful album contains an interesting Spanish and Latin-American piano program with Swiss pianist Marian Rosenfeld. Unknown and highly appealing works by Turina, Villa-Lobos and others are highlighted. Marian Rosenfeld immediately captivates the...