Lyell Cresswell: Landscapes of the Soul / Piano Concerto / Concerto for Orchestra and...
"Landscapes of the Soul" is programmatic, it was composed for a project that involved the Italian painter Maurizio Bottarelli in which the aim was to find common ground between music and painting.
A sure point...
Aaron Jay Kernis: Three Flavors/2 movements (with bells)/Superstar Etudes no. 3
In this world premiere recording, Naxos releases Kernis' compositions that develop his chamber repertory; they reflect the current interest of the composer, passing to a form of "timeless" tonal-impressionistic composition, highlighting his most productive...
Maxwell Davies: Strathclyde Concerto no.2 e altre nuove composizioni
E' noto che il compositore britannico Peter Maxwell Davies abbia affrontato in maniera piuttosto completa la materia del concerto dividendola per singolo strumento e di come la Naxos abbia oramai ristampato buona parte del...
Bright Sheng: Blazing Mirage / The Song and Dance of Tears / Colors of...
".....Sheng features three orchestral compositions that move in the same perspective, namely to drag you into a stylistic and geographical whirlwind, without any physical and consequential movement. The romantic strings with Mahler's charismatic smell...
Roberto Sierra: Sinfonia n. 4/Fandangos/Carnaval
"...the skill of Sierra lies in the fact that his stylistic formula is a attractive condensation of music, not rhetorical, tending to the exaltation of some timbral colors (the usual good combinations of sounds...
John McCabe: Composer, Pianist, Conductor
"John McCabe: Composer, pianist, conductor" is Naxos' attempt to make a synthetic exploration of the music of one of the most respected composer of England, a kind of brief collection divided between his three...
Oscar su Naxos 2011
Il consueto riepilogo dei prodotti migliori che l'etichetta guida americana (la Naxos Records) ha pubblicato nel 2011, non può prescindere da una attenta selezione che dev'essere fatta tra le righe delle pubblicazioni, cercando di...
Margaret Brouwer: Shattered
"...the idea of Brouwer was to kill any discussion about the style; the importance attributed to the type of writing was overwhelmed by the concept of "development" of the compositional themes. In this aspect...
Jacques Hétu: Chamber works for strings (complete)
Naxos fills a gap by publishing the complete work of Hétu on chamber strings, where you can admire the "regularized strangeness" that characterized his style. In every hidden corner of the score, it reveals...
Carter Pann: The piano’s 12 sides/The bills/The cheese grater/Piano concerto n.1
"Pann, which received a Grammy nomination in 2000 for his first piano concerto, is a sensitive composer, in search of a musical impressionism built without compromise and rhetoric, with constant changes of style: the...
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MMI Free Impro Festival
Sin dalla sua prima edizione nel 2016 l'MMI Festival ha costituito una bella piattaforma d'incontro per gli improvvisatori liberi provenienti da differenti città europee....
