Naxos
Mignone: Fantasia Brasileiras, No 1-4 (Naxos)
Exuberant and attractive scores very well played and recorded [NB]
Turina: Music for Violin and Piano (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Panache and passion – you won’t be disappointed [JW]
Anna Clyne: Abstractions (Naxos)
An essential album of Anna Clyne’s orchestral music [DHa]
Scriabin: Piano Music (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Stunning pianism and clever programming [GF]
Stanford: Symphony No 1, Clarinet Concerto (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) A fitting culmination to the Naxos cycle of Stanford symphonies [JQ]
Rubinstein: Piano music (Naxos)
Characteristically virtuosic and big boned rarities from this not-very-Russian-sounding Russian [RCh]
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (Naxos)
Vocally flawed and dramatically inert; you can do much better with either a vintage recording or the recent Decca issue [RMo]
Pizzetti: Concerto dell’estate (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) A really good introduction to this neglected composer [BBr]
Kabalevsky: Complete Piano Preludes (Naxos)
Minor masterworks all-too-rarely performed [BR]
Ginastera: Complete String Quartets (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Jaw-dropping prowess revealing masterpieces of the quartet literature [NB]
Fauré: Piano Quintets (Naxos)
Magical, enchanting works in alluring performances [IL]
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Music for Two Guitars Volume 2 (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Refinement and beauty … technical sophistication and musical taste [NB]
Offenbach: Overtures (Naxos)
A beautiful program, which also points up the hazards [SV]
Hovhaness: Violin Concerto No.2 & Strings, Works for Violin and Piano (Naxos)
An immaculately programmed, ear-opening disc of Hovhaness’s less well-known works [PRJ]
Bériot: Solo Violin Music, Vol 1 (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Exceptional violin playing reviving a major work of the solo violin repertoire [NB]
The Alchemy of the Piano (Naxos)
A revealing and well-structured exploration of the power, flexibility and communicativeness of the piano [MS]
Petrassi: Concerti for orchestra, Sonata da camera (Naxos)
The performances do not fully do justice to the concertos, but the sonata is more enjoyable [GPu]
Marschner: Overtures and Stage Music, Vol 3 (Naxos)
A few appealing selections, amid a lot of filler [SV]
Boito: Nerone (Naxos)
An intriguing rarity, mostly adequately sung but musically very patchy and dramatically incoherent [RMo]
Dohnányi: Violin Concertos (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Outstanding music … hits all the required emotional stops [WK]








































