All naxos Items

CD Feature/ Krzysztof Penderecki: "Symphony No. 8" A chance within the dilemma: Penderecki has arrived at a style of transcendental story telling.

CD Feature/ Chloe Hanslip: "Benjamin Godard - Violin Concertos" Nurturing symphonic ambitions: As much geared towards repertoire as to Hanslip's personality.

CD Feature/ Morton Feldman: "String Quartet" Endless variations and challenging musical questionmarks: An affirmation of music’s power to bring us back to ourselves.

CD Feature/ Koscak Yamada: "Nagauta Symphony/InnoMeiji/Maria Magdalena" Follows a reverse chronology: A thematic conflict between Eastern and Western motives.

CD Feature/ Chloe Hanslip: "John Adams - Violin Concerto" An “English girl in New York”: Hanslip virtually becomes a member of the ensemble again.

CD Feature/ Peter Maxwell Davies: "Naxos Quartets Nos. 7 and 8" Stone-made allegories and a musical humanism: Emulates the impact of architecture with music.

15 Questions to the Corigliano Quartet "John Corigliano: Music for String Quartet" (out on Naxos) is the simple name of a disc that has been hard ...

CD Feature/ Alla Pavlova: "Symphony No. 5" A circle dance of modulations and melodies: Pavlova surprises with a music long pronounced dead.

CD Feature/ J. Corigliano/J. Friedman: "String Quartet/String Quartet No.2" A handshake between generations: The String Quartet as a metaphor for modern times.

CD Feature/ The Fibonacci Sequence: "Ned Rorem: Chamber Music" Strong enough to stand on its own feet: Rorem realises a rich sound with many different means.

CD Feature/ Richard Wagner: "Das Rheingold" The revelations just keep coming.

CD Feature/ Douglas Lilburn: "A song of Islands" A second hint at what the rest of the world has been missing.

CD Feature/ Arvo Pärt: "Music for Unaccompanied Choir" The old terminologies have finally lost their meaning.

Wagner 2006 Cristopher Cook and Naxos have brought back the excitment to Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde".

CD Feature/ Gao Ping: "Chamber Music" Wants to be heard with the ears of a child, full of wonder and amazement.