MAYR
L'Armonia / Cantata sopra la morte di Beethoven Simon Mayr Choir / Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Choir / Franz Hauk [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jan/2007 ] "Entertaining and attractive music by a forgotten master, well performed and with three excellent young singers showing their ability." (MusicWeb Jan 2007) |
JOHANN SIMON MAYR / W. A. MOZART
Mayr: Te Deum / Mozart: Missa solemnis Simon Mayr Choir / Ingolstadt Georgian Chamber Orchestra / Franz Hauk [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] Mayr's biographer Girolamo Calvi praised this effective work in the highest terms, declaring it a masterpiece. |
SIMON MAYR
Mayr: Cantatas Simon Mayr Choir, Franz Hauk [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Nov/2006 ] |
ARTHUR HONEGGER
Le Demon de l'Himalaya & other Mark Twain films Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Slovak Philharmonic Choir / Adriano [ Naxos Film Music Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] Arthur Honegger, one of the greatest twentieth century composers, made an unrivalled contribution to film music during the course of some thirty years, from his scores for Abel Gance's silent epics La Roue in 1922 and Napoléon in 1926 to his last... |
JOSE ANTONIO de ALMEIDA PRADO
Almeida Prado: Pequenos funerais cantantes / Sinfonia dos Orixás São Paulo Symphony Choir / São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Neil Thomson, with Clarissa Cabral (mezzo) & Sabah Teixeira (bass-baritone) [ Naxos The Music of Brazil / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] José Antônio de Almeida Prado was one of the most admired Brazilian composers of his time. The two stylistically diverse works featured on this album exemplify different creative periods in the composer's life. The prize-winning Pequenos funerais... |
J. S. BACH
Favourite Arias and Choruses Soloists / Dresden Chamber Choir / Cologne Chamber Orchestra / Helmu Muller-Bruhl [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] This disc, a representative selection of his sacred music, will appeal both to the experienced music lover and to those just beginning to discover Bach's immortal music. |
GRIEG
Olav Trygvason Soloists, Malmö Opera Chorus, Malmö Opera Orchestra, Malmö Chamber Choir, Lund Student Singers / Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Dec/2013 ] Edvard Grieg and his librettist Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson were both fascinated by a great period in Norway's past: the Viking Age, whose sagas, and fierce conflicts between Christianity and the old Norse religion, inspired all three of Grieg's works... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: Masses, Vol. 5 - Masses Nos. 4, 'Grosse Orgelmesse' and 10, 'Heiligmesse' Soloists / Trinity Choir / Rebel Baroque Orchestra / Owen Burdick [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "The playing [of REBEL Baroque Orchestra] is stylish, rhythmic and technically assured...and there is remarkable precision of ensemble." The Strad |
SCHUMANN
Scenen aus Goethes Faust (Scenes from Goethe's Faust) Soloists / Warsaw Boys Choir / Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 21/Mar/2011 ] "It may be that Schumann's Faust will never regain its 19th century popularity, but it contains some wonderful music, and this version will be hard to beat." (10/10 ClassicsToday Dec 2011) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Messiah (complete oratorio) Trinity Church Choir and Orchestra, Owen Burdick [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 30/Nov/2009 ] Owen Burdick is the organist/director of music at New York City's Trinity Church, where Messiah received its New World debut in 1770. This disc has previously been available in the United States. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Choral Music St Albans Abbey Girl's Choir, Lay Clerks of St Albams Cathedral Choir [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Nov/2012 ] "Best of all is the wonderful sonority of the eight-voice a cappella bookends, the Six Anthems and the setting of Psalm 43, Richte mich, Gott. And Winpenny's organ solo is of a comparable splendour." (Gramophone) |
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
Stanford: Anthems And Services Choir of St. John's College Cambridge, Christopher Robinson, with Christopher Whitton (organ) [ Naxos English Choral Music / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "Even in the best-stocked collection this would prove a welcome addition, and for those who have as yet nothing of the master, it should provide a lively introduction." (Gramophone Classical Music Guide) |
TANEYEV
Oresteia (Orestaya) Overture and Interlude / Overture in D minor / Overture on a Russian Theme Stanislav Yankovsky (clarinet) / Novosibirsk State Philharmonic Chamber Choir / Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra / Thomas Sanderling [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jul/2009 ] "Committed playing and full-blooded sound and you have one of the year's most entertaining releases so far." (MusicWeb Aug 2009) |
JOHN TAVENER
The Essential John Tavener on Naxos [5 CD set] Stefan Berkieta (bar) Maria Kliegel (cello), Eileen Hulse (sop) Ralph van Raat (piano) / Clare College Choir, Cambridge / St. John's College Choir [ Naxos / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2014 ] "Strongly recommended - but you may need to persevere. It's well removed from the cosy Christmas of renaissance art or of chestnuts roasting by the fire, though there's a place for those, too." (MusicWeb on the Clare College Recording) |
JOHN TAVENER
Ex Maria Virgine & other choral works Stefan Berkieta (baritone) / Clare College Choir, Cambridge / Timothy Brown (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Jun/2005 ] "As with all the Naxos CDs of English choral music that I have heard, the recording is wholly worthy of the performances. Strongly recommended" (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Dec 2008) |
SAMUEL BARBER
Eternal Barber (Incls 'Adagio for Strings') Stephen Prutsman, Daniel Pollack (pianos) / Ormond College Choir / Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ] Samuel Barber is widely known for his famous Adagio for Strings, the slow movement of a string quartet he wrote in 1936. Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1910, he was one of the first students at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, where he... |
MAYR
Tobia, o Tobiae Matrimonium (Marriage of Tobias) (oratorio) Susanne Bernhard, Margriet Buchberger, Cornelia Horak, Stefanie Iranyi, Judith Spiesser / Simon Mayr Choir / Franz Hauk [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 15/Jul/2009 ] "All in all this is the sort of issue which - if we had not been spoiled by so much of what Naxos has done in recent years - we would rush to proclaim an astonishing bargain. We still should." (MusicWeb Feb 2010) |
W.A. MOZART
Best of Mozart Volume 1 Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Capella Istropolitana, Jeno Jando (piano), Gewandhaus Chamber Choir, Leipzig Chamber Orchestra, Takako Nishizaki (violin) [ Naxos Best Of / CD - released 18/Feb/2008 ] Classic Mozart highlights drawn from the vast Naxos catalogue. |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Masses Volume 2 - Cacilienmesse Trinity Choir / REBEL Baroque Orchestra / J. Owen Burdick [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] "The REBEL Baroque Orchestra really plays well: trumpets and drums have the requisite panache and the strings offer excellent intonation and an appealingly sweet timbre that never turns scruffy or thin." (10/10 ClassicsToday May 2010) |
JOSEF HAYDN
Masses Volume 4 ['Paukenmesse' & 'Mariazellermesse'] Trinity Choir / Rebel Baroque Orchestra / J. Owen Burdick [ Naxos / CD - released 18/Oct/2010 ] "The playing [of REBEL Baroque Orchestra] is stylish, rhythmic and technically assured...and there is remarkable precision of ensemble." The Strad |