This is one of very few Baroque violin performances of the complete sonatas. They are part of the curriculum of many young violinists, two are even included in the Suzuki Violin School. The soloist, Ariadne Daskalakis previously recorded works by Tartini and Lutosławski for Naxos. Excellent performances of some of the most popular works for violin and keyboard of the Baroque era.

Another volume in our critically acclaimed project to record the complete Shostakovich symphonies with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Russian star conductor Vasily Petrenko. These are two of the less performed symphonies and deserve to be heard alongside the rest of the cycle.

Naxos house conductor, Dmitry Yablonsky, has struck gold in Azerbaijan and recorded these colourful concertos with two Azerbaijani pianists and the Royal Philharmonic. Exotic sounds, colourful orchestration and musical storytelling – think of Khachaturian’s best works. Idiomatic performances and terrific sound.

Soloist, John Lenehan, previously recorded three volumes of Ireland’s solo piano music to great critical acclaim. This is part of our ongoing project to record as many British piano concertos as possible.

French Baroque opera from Opera Lafayette, our Washington-based specialized opera company. The Washington Post praised the production of this comedy revue as a ‘sparkle of shining surfaces’. Enjoyable singing and playing.

This recording forms part of our ongoing project to record works by Italian composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Busoni Concerto is the longest piano concerto in the repertoire and features not only quite a big orchestra but also a male chorus. The soloist here, appropriately, is a winner of the Busoni Piano Competition. And, of course, the performances by the Rome Symphony Orchestra conducted by house conductor Francesco La Vecchia are as good as the others in our series.

Bjarte Engeset recorded these works with 60 string players instead of the usual chamber forces. Bjarte’s other recordings of Grieg’s orchestral works have received great critical acclaim, and we are now down to only one more volume left in the project.