Naxos

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JC Bach & JCF Bach: Keyboard Concertos (Naxos)

(Déjà Review) A delightful disc (TP]

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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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Fauré:  Piano Quintets (Naxos)

Magical, enchanting works in alluring performances [IL]

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Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Music for Two Guitars Volume 2 (Naxos)

(Déjà Review) Refinement and beauty … technical sophistication and musical taste [NB]

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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]

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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]

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Niklas Jahn: Organ Recital (Naxos)

A thrilling recital [DHa]

Price: Concertos (Naxos)

A convenient gathering of all Price’s concertos [SB]

Marschner: Overtures and Stage Music, Vol 3 (Naxos)

A few appealing selections, amid a lot of filler [SV]

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Abril: Madre Asturias (Naxos)

Sheerly enjoyable … marvellous! [IB]

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Boito: Nerone (Naxos)

An intriguing rarity, mostly adequately sung but musically very patchy and dramatically incoherent [RMo]

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Dohnányi: Violin Concertos (Naxos)

(Déjà Review) Outstanding music … hits all the required emotional stops [WK]