Pianist Alon Goldstein and the Fine Arts Quartet, with bassist Avery Cardoza, have just recorded rare 19th-century chamber versions of Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 18 & 22, their fifth album in the series following Naxos’s releases of Nos. 20/21, 23/24, 9/17, & 19/25.
(Read more)In this podcast, Raymond Bisha talks with American composer Margaret Brouwer about the inspiration and compositional approach behind the orchestral pieces on the programme of her new album.
(Read more)Five years into the celebrated Naxos Music of Brazil series, we reach Vol. 21 and the music of Oscar Lorenzo Fernández (1897–1948), who was a key figure in the cultural life of Rio de Janeiro.
(Read more)Smetana’s Má vlast is an unprecedented cycle of six related symphonic poems that evoke Czech legends and celebrate the beauty of the country’s landscapes.
(Read more)Pianist Quynh Nguyen discusses her recording of the complete piano works of Paul Chihara, the distinguished American composer whose output includes the scores for over 100 motion pictures and television series.
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