Herbert Blomstedt
Herbert Blomstedt
Herbert Blomstedt is a musician of sensitivity and refinement who ignores the media attention frequently focused upon major contemporary conductors, maintaining his attention upon the work in hand. His interpretations are notable for their clear sense of musical architecture. He is not afraid to impart the sense of drama inherent in the work of many composers such as Beethoven, and in this respect leans towards the values of conductors from earlier eras. Read more here.
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Oliver Dohnányi
Oliver Dohnányi
Oliver Dohnányi has toured with the Slovak Philharmonic, Slovak Sinfonietta, Zagreb Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestras and appeared with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Prague, the Slovak Republic, Switzerland, Japan and the United Kingdom. He has made many recordings with Naxos and Marco Polo. Read more here.
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Béla Drahos
Béla Drahos
Béla Drahos is well known both as an outstanding flautist and as a conductor. For Naxos, he has produced several discs of the complete cycle of Haydn symphonies, to great critical acclaim. The complete Beethoven symphonies Drahos conducted with the Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia were described as ‘the Beethoven cycle to have’ by BBC Music Magazine. Read more here.
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Stephen
Gunzenhauser
Stephen Gunzenhauser
Stephen Gunzenhauser is a prolific recording artist and has sold over two million discs. For Naxos he has recorded some of the label’s most successful and best-selling titles including works by Mozart, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Brahms, Bruch, Orff, Borodin, Dvořák, Rachmaninov, Copland, Goldmark, Paganini and Prokofiev. For Marco Polo he has been hardly less prolific with recordings of music by Liadov, Gliere, Dvořák, Rubinstein, Lachner, Taneyev and the Chinese composer Chen Gang. Read more here.
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Michael Halász
Michael Halász
Michael Halász’s recordings for Naxos include ballets by Tchaikovsky, operatic excerpts of Wagner, symphonies by Beethoven, Schubert and Mahler, Rossini’s overtures, three volumes of Liszt’s symphonic poems (the latter critically acclaimed by the Penguin Guide), Beethoven’s Fidelio, Mozart’s operas and a pioneering recording of Schreker’s opera Der ferne Klang. He has also recorded Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Orfeo, Richard Strauss’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, and Rubinstein’s Don Quixote. Read more here.
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Kenneth Jean
Kenneth Jean
In 1984 Kenneth Jean won the prestigious Leopold Stokowski Conducting Award. Jean recorded a number of works by Chinese composers, and among them, the album Colourful Clouds achieved bestseller status when it was first released in 1982. With Japanese violinist Takako Nishizaki he recorded the violin concertos of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky. Jean also recorded works by Da Falla, Ravel, Brahms, Massenet and Berlioz. Read more here.
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James Judd
James Judd
Conductor James Judd has amassed an extensive collection of recordings on the Naxos label, including an unprecedented number in partnership with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, where he is Music Director Emeritus. His acclaimed recordings of works by Copland, Bernstein, Vaughan Williams, Gershwin and many others, and he brought the orchestra to a new level of visibility and international renown. Read more here.
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