
José Serebrier is obviously a very talented composer, and it’s good that Naxos is giving him the opportunity to record his music under optimal conditions.
At the age of nine, Takako Nishizaki became the first student to complete the (then new) Suzuki method, which her father Shinji Nishizaki helped to
Paul Schoenfield’s music blends accessible modernism with sophisticated wit built on a solid foundation of popular, jazz, and Jewish sources, all of which are in
These three symphonies for wind orchestra treat some recurring themes in Alan Hovhaness’ work: mountains (Symphonies Nos. 7 and 14) and his Armenian heritage (Symphony
The past three decades have seen a slow but steady discovery of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s extensive solo piano output. Listen to this remarkable music without knowing
Recordings of Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G minor don’t come along that often–but with this new one, Naxos has two first-rate performances in its catalog,
Here’s a live performance of the Second Symphony that really lives up to the expectations of a live event: exciting, spontaneous, and impulsive, but also
This second installment completes the cycle of all six Guarnieri piano concertos, and remarkable works they are. Nos. 4 and 5 are thorny, often atonal
Given that composer and conductor Lukas Foss also is a remarkable pianist (Glenn Gould adored his Bach playing) it’s curious that he’s written so few
In reviewing Naxos’ former, relatively uninteresting recording of La Coronela (with the Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra led by Enrique Barrios), I wrote “And as for Gisèle