Naxos
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]
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]
Abril: Madre Asturias (Naxos)
Sheerly enjoyable … marvellous! [IB]
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]
Silvestrov: Violin Concerto, Symphony No.8 (Naxos)
These first recordings are to be welcomed [SB]
Falla: Piano Music – Vol 2 (Naxos)
Listen, stop the player, sip a glass of Rioja and move on to the next number! [JF]
Shor: Composer’s Notebook 4 (Naxos)
For the most part Alexey Shor’s music lacks individuality [GPu]
Cilea: Gloria (Naxos)
An unjustly neglected opera by the composer of Adriana Lecouvreur and L’Arlesiana [WK]
L Anderson: Orchestral Music Vol. 3 (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Leroy Anderson hits in uninhibited performances full of joie de vivre [IL]
Berg: String Quartet, Lyric Suite; Wolf: Italian Serenade (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Interpretative stature and technical prowess [CC]
Grieg: Orchestrated Piano Pieces (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Piano works by Grieg in orchestral garb by some important colleagues superbly played [GF]
Donizetti: Il diluvio universale (Naxos)
A pleasing, generally very well sung performance of what remains essentially second-rank Donizetti but one with some rewarding passages [RMo]
Alfvén: Synnöve Solbakken Suite (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) An exciting recording dealing with a lesser-known aspect of Alfvén’s career [WK]
Hildegard: Celestial Harmonie (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) The sheer beauty and simplicity of the music can stand alone [GH]
