Naxos
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Special offer. Leonardo Balada: Hangman! Hangman! & The Town of Greed
Robert Fire (bass-baritone), Patrick Jacobs (baritone), Natalya Kraevsky (soprano), James Longmire (tenor), Anthony McKay (narrator), Stephen Neely (tenor), Craig Raymaley (tenor), Elizabeth Sederburg (mezzo-soprano)
Carnegie Mellon Contemporary Ensemble, Colman Pearce
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Mozart: Adagio
Jenö Jandó (piano), Takako Nishizaki (violin), Jiri Valek (flute), Hana Mullerova (harp), Jean Claude Gerard (flute), Ernst Ottensamer (clarinet), Concentus Hungaricus, Cappella Istropolitana, Eder Quartet, German Wind Soloists, Villa Musica Ensemble, Vienna Mozart Academy, Andras Ligeti, Harald...
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Naxos offers an exceptionally clear recording of these [works by Szymanowski]...Having a Polish conductor and orchestra…adds to the idiomatic feel of each, with the magical orchestral sounds... —
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[The Razumovsky SO]'s sound is superbly rounded, with exactly the right balance. Individually, the instrumentalists play with character and admirable security...Few orchestras worldwide would... —
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Szymanowski - Stabat Mater
Jadwiga Gadulanka (soprano), Andrzej Hiolski (baritone), Krystyna Szostek-Radkowa (contralto), Barbara Zogorzanka (soprano), Anna Malewicz Madej (alto), Roma Owsinska (soprano)
Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Katowice, Polish State Philharmonic Chorus (Katowice), Karol Stryja
their Stabat Mater blazes ecstatically —
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Volondat displays poetry and sensitivity, adding introversion or passion as appropriate. With more Faure and works by Franck and Dukas to come, Volondat promises to be a valuable addition to... —
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Listening to this disc was a riveting and spititually sobering experience. —
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The Lark Ascending
Violin Showpieces
Takako Nishizaki (violin)
Capella Istropolitana, Stephen Gunzenhauser
Vividly realised performance......colourful sound confirm this to be among Naxos's finest-ever discs. —
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Strauss: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme & Four Symphonic Interludes from Intermezzo
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz
Halasz leads a bright and vigorous account of the Overture, with the clarion trumpet cutting through the fog about 2 minutes in and some soulful playing from the oboe farther on. Both the Minuets... —
