naxos music recommendations

[facehugger]

i recently got a membership to naxos's online site, which gives me access to every recording they have. so, the question is, what is good on there? recommendations of the highest quality recordings they have would be greatly appreciated. i will make an effort to listen to everything recommended, and report back. and everyone can enjoy sharing their favorite recordings.

i'm on robert levin doing wtc at the moment, i like.

http://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/default.asp

[Don]

i recently got a membership to naxos's online site, which gives me access to every recording they have. so, the question is, what is good on there? recommendations of the highest quality recordings they have would be greatly appreciated. i will make an effort to listen to everything recommended, and report back. and everyone can enjoy sharing their favorite recordings.

i'm on robert levin doing wtc at the moment, i like.

Yup, Levin's set is a dandy with its instrumental variety.

[Don]

Check out the Naxos disc having the violin concertos of Weinberg and Myaskovsky.  It's my favorite Naxos disc of all.

[Brian]

The first things that come to mind...

On the Naxos label:
-The Tchaikovsky concerti, as performed by pianist Konstantin Scherbakov and violinist Ilya Kaler, are absolutely fantastic.
-In Czech music, Antoni Wit conducts one of the best "Ma Vlast" performances I've ever heard, plus a great "Hussite Overture" (Dvorak) and a pretty good Dvorak piano concerto.
-Jordi Maso is an excellent pianist, and in fact everything from the Spanish Classics series is very good, a highlight being the Rodrigo Piano Music disc.
-Einar Steen-Nokleberg's traversal of all Grieg's piano music
-Nearly anything involving the Kodaly Quartet
On BIS:
-Osmo Vanska's Beethoven symphonies
On Hungaroton:
-Hubay's Violin Concerti for some romantic Hungarian fun (my favorite portion is No. 3 - the scherzo mvt.)
-Antal Szalai and His Gypsy Band
On Naxos WORLD:
-Chen Jun: Erhu Classics. A revelation!

[facehugger]

oh this miaskovsky slow movement is lush!

[Drasko]

Ginastera - Panambi & Estancia conducted by Gisele ben Dor
Tchaikovsky - Serenade, Souvenir - Entremont/Vienna Chamber Orchestra
Stravinsky - Craft series
Roslavets - Violin sonatas
Janacek - String Quartets by Vlach Quartet Prague
Satie - Orchestral music conducted by Kaltenbach
Myaskovsky - Sinfonieta op.68/2 Melia/Dalgat String Ensemble
Bruckner - 2nd Symphony - Tintner
Weill - 2nd Symphony - Alsop/Bournemouth

and many many more............................Red Army Chorus perhaps

Historical series (can you listen to them in US?)

Talich conducting Dvorak 7 & 8
Josef Lhevinne
Anything with Heifetz (starting with Sibelius and Tchaikovsky)
Anything with Friedman (starting with Mazurkas on vol.3)
Anything with Moiseiwitsch (starting with Kinderszenen)
Rubinstein's early Chopin
Walter's Mahler 4,5 and 9
Casals' Bach cello suites
Busch/Serkin Beethoven Kreutzer sonata

[Bogey]

Historical series


Anything with Heifetz (starting with Sibelius and Tchaikovsky)

A flawless recommendation Drasko!

[Drasko]

A flawless recommendation Drasko!

Yes, but just now I realized that he might not be able to listen to that series because of copyright issues in the US.

[mahlertitan]

go to composers- schubert- on the very bottom, there is a biography on him, it's really good, you should definitely check it out.
composers/works to check out on naxosmusiclibrary:
Ding Shande "long march" symphony
Schoenberg's orchestral suite in G major by Robert Craft
Bizet's "Roma" symphony (not the symphony in C major, but another symphony in C major that is more well known in his time)
Mahler's 1st symphony, "Titan" symphonic poem, the earlier version, where blumine movement is included.
historical recordings of Bruno Walter conducting MAhler's symphony No. 5
Schubert's String quartets (all of them)
Schubert's songs (all of them)
complete works of Johann Strauss, jr, Josef Strauss, Lumbye, Komzak.

[facehugger]

Yes, but just now I realized that he might not be able to listen to that series because of copyright issues in the US.

fortunately i'm not in the us

[facehugger]

Check out the Naxos disc having the violin concertos of Weinberg and Myaskovsky.  It's my favorite Naxos disc of all.

check. i liked it, i didn't find it especially memorable though.

Janacek - String Quartets by Vlach Quartet Prague

love love love.

ESPECIALLY the violin sonata on the disc that i didn't know and was a revelation.

Tchaikovsky - Serenade, Souvenir - Entremont/Vienna Chamber Orchestra
Anything with Heifetz (starting with Sibelius and Tchaikovsky)
Anything with Moiseiwitsch (starting with Kinderszenen)
Rubinstein's early Chopin
Walter's Mahler 4,5 and 9
Casals' Bach cello suites
Busch/Serkin Beethoven Kreutzer sonata

i have all these on cd already 

[Lethevich]

Ones that I consider to be of high quality:

Schnittke - Chamber music
Schnittke/Shostakovich - Piano quintets
Penderecki - Orchestral music (several volumes)
Vaughan Williams - Songs (licenced from Conifer)
Hildegard von Bingen - Heavenly Revelations (cry @ that disc name)
Tallis - Spem in Alium
Szymanowski - Stabat Mater; etc (although I must add that I have not heard the Rattle recording, this is great though)

[facehugger]

i was listening to the penderecki third symphony and threnody earlier actually, it's really rather good

[mahlertitan]

okay, this took me a long time, but here is a list of urls that i made from Naxos's website, it's very convenient, in that all you have to do is to click on the file to listen to it, so you can listen music with windows media, or realplayer, instead of using their little window.

http://www.geocities.com/oabmarcus/Naxoslinks.zip

note: anyone can use these links, regardless of whether you have an naxos account or not.

[71 dB]

okay, this took me a long time, but here is a list of urls that i made from Naxos's website, it's very convenient, in that all you have to do is to click on the file to listen to it, so you can listen music with windows media, or realplayer, instead of using their little window.

http://www.geocities.com/oabmarcus/links.zip

note: anyone can use these links, regardless of whether you have an naxos account or not.

I am afraid the file is corrupted, I couldn't open it with WinZip.

[mahlertitan]

I am afraid the file is corrupted, I couldn't open it with WinZip.

i fixed it, use this:
http://www.geocities.com/oabmarcus/Naxoslinks.zip

[71 dB]

i fixed it, use this:
http://www.geocities.com/oabmarcus/Naxoslinks.zip

Thank you very much mahlertitan! Now it works!

How have you got these m3u files?

[mahlertitan]

Thank you very much mahlertitan! Now it works!

How have you got these m3u files?

well, that is my secret.
actually, the process of getting these m3u files are quite complicated, so don't worry about it, just enjoy the music.

[71 dB]

well, that is my secret.
actually, the process of getting these m3u files are quite complicated, so don't worry about it, just enjoy the music.

Well, now that I know this is possible I can try to find out the secret myself. 

I am listening to Bruch's first symphony...

[Danny]

Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony conducted by Yablonsky
Shostakovich and Schnittke's Piano Quintets