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Principal competition for these performances comes from RCA’s complete Heifetz Edition. The Brahms appears in Volume 4, the Beethoven in Volume 5. Both of these
During the past few years Naxos has carved out a considerable piece of the historic reissue market simply by providing shellac-era favorites in newly minted
It’s surprising that Arnold Bax’s Symphonic Variations isn’t played more often, for it’s hard to imagine a more attractive Romantic work for piano and orchestra.
John Corigliano’s Third Symphony, for large wind orchestra, represents a major contribution to the band repertoire, and its fascinating exploitation of timbre and texture should
The notes to this recording make much of George Rochberg’s braveness in the early 1960s in turning his back on strict academic serialism and atonality.
George Rochberg composed his Violin Concerto for Issac Stern, who premiered it 1975. The work was a hit, with Stern playing it some 47 times
George Rochberg’s angry Second Symphony, written in one highly contrasted movement divided into five sections, is a 12-tone piece that sounds very much of its
The booklet notes that Xiayin Wang provides for her Naxos Scriabin recital are as intelligent and insightful as her interpretations. The pianist’s urbane, witty treatment
Naxos’ Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty recordings are from early in the label’s history (1989 and 1991, respectively) when it often employed Eastern European orchestras–in this
This is good. Very good. Not only does this disc offer an imaginative array of first-class wind music, the performances are well nigh ideal. Dvorák’s
