Naxos
Weiner: Complete Works for Orchestra Volume 4 (Naxos)
An attractive and well planned programme of music by an amiable composer [NB]
Donizetti: Songs (Naxos)
A lively and rewarding collection of 19th century song [MP]
Strauss: Intermezzo (Naxos)
A strikingly effective, imaginative production of Strauss’s rarely seen bourgeois comedy opera [EJW]
English Cello Works: Elgar, Ireland, Bridge (Naxos)
A discerning programme, excellently performed [JQ]
Fritze: Overtures and Symphonies (Naxos)
Classy brilliance … tuneful but not a soft touch [RB]
Daugherty: Route 66 (Naxos)
Great fun [NB]
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Shakespeare Overtures Vol. 2 (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) The music is unfailingly attractive, is colourfully orchestrated and sympathetically played [GH]
Oswald: Orchestral Music (Naxos)
So much enjoyment to be gained from these three contrasting works [DJB]
Brian: Symphonies 17 & 32 (Naxos)
What an important figure Brian was in English music – performances, recording and notes are all that you could want [BBr]
JCF Bach: Symphonies (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Attractive and graceful [Byz]
Strauss: Intermezzo (Naxos)
Richard Strauss’s domestic drama powerfully reimagined by Tobias Kratzer [DHa]
Corlis: Immortality – Choral Works (Naxos)
Easily accessible choral music from Canada [WH]
Warnaar, Corea & Higdon: Brass Concertos (Naxos)
A wonderfully engaging disc of new concertos for brass instruments [PRJ]
Brusa: Symphony no. 1 (Naxos)
A strong vivid illustrative aspect; persistently romantic and indomitable [RB]
Mendelssohn & Bach: Magnificats (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) A very interesting combination of Bach’s Magnificat and a little-known setting by Mendelssohn [JV]
Hungarian Music for Cello and Piano (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) A winning recital [JW]
Puccini: Messa di Gloria (Naxos)
An attractive collection of Puccini’s non-operatic juvenilia, performed in spirited fashion [RMo]
Shor: Cello Concerto and other works (Naxos)
You would be hard-pressed to identify this as contemporary; it is kind to the ear [RB]
Shostakovich: Incidental and Film Music (Naxos)
A stream of vivid musical tesellae [RB]
Finnish Works for Violin & Orchestra (Naxos)
Naxos has again pushed the repertoire boundaries [RB]
Foerster: Symphony No. 2 (Naxos)
A fine performance of two orchestral works by a neglected friend of Mahler, firmly in the Central-European tradition [EJW]
Chapí: Fantasía Morisca, Symphony in D minor (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Two very worthwhile pieces which clearly ought to be better known [JS]
Onslow: String Quintets (Naxos/Challenge Classics)
Very different takes on these attractive works, neither entirely successful [DJB]
Bach: Stokowski Transcriptions Vol. 2 (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) They don’t make them like Stokowski any more! [BBr]
