I think the Piston recordings (marketed as 'Naxos American Classics') were originally on the Denon label. I recently bought an excellent recital (not a reissue as far as I know) of Butterworth and Sussex folk songs by Roderick Williams with Iain Burnside.
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I collected the complete Gigli recordings on Naxos Historical. The company is most thorough in this research to ensure that it finds everything from every source.
It is well known that I have reservations about their methods...
One underestimated Naxos recording is David Hill's recording of The Dream of Gerontius.Comment
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What an absorbing and enjoyable thread this is! Of my Naxos CDs, sticking to the thread title (ie 'Favourites') a few of mine are the Elgar Violin Concerto, Shostakovich String Quartets - also the Mozart SQs, (although I know this set has its detractors) Then we have the symphonies and chamber works, Arnold, Bax, Britten, Martinu, Piston, the list could go on....
Naxos are amazing in that they have introduced me to so much music that I would never have experienced, had it not been for the fact that you could spend £5 on a speculative purchase. I have never been disappointed.Comment
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Some of the Piston recordings were former Delos releases as are a number in the American Classics series. The Violin Concertos were however not Delos recordings.Originally posted by Norfolk Born View PostComment
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I happily stand (well, to be precise, sit) corrected!Originally posted by Suffolkcoastal View Post
Has anybody mentioned Naxos Jazz and Dance-Band Era CDs? In the great majority of cases, the recordings, the performances and the liner notes are all exemplary.Comment
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Del boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”Comment
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I discovered Lilburn in 1984. I wrote to him then asking about scores for his symphonies, and they arrived in the mail a few weeks later. After that he used to send me cd´s and scores of his music as well as letters. He was a very kind man. I wrote an article about him and reviewed the cd´s and he appreciated my humble efforts very much.Originally posted by cloughie View PostComment
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Seconded. A very worthwhile disk.Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
Benjamin Luxon (Decca) is perhaps the absolute tops for the Butterworth/Housman songs. Thomas Allen (Wigmore Live) - currently on offer from the Wigmore site is also very good.
Re the "Jazz" issues - I did buy a couple. They are well recorded. I'm happy not to go further though.
Some of the historical discs are excellent - such as the Weingartner Beethoven symphonies. I also have several recordings of violin concertos, such as Beethoven's/Tchaikovsky etc. by artists such as Kreisler, Szigeti, Heifetz. Well worth sampling.Comment
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McMillan Percussion Conceto
Don't think anyone has mentioned the above as yet - performed by Colin Currie - I've got lots of other great stuff including many listed earlier and a Sculthorpe CDComment
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This comment is insular and lacks any seasonal goodwill!Originally posted by Parry1912 View Post
No ... and some of us were hoping they wouldn't be!
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Originally posted by Thomas Roth View Post
I would love to see the scores of the Lilburn symphonie Thomas. When I last tried to acquire them, the publishing agent was present and he laughed it off saying not to bother trying to purchase them, implying by the tone of his voice that he didn't think highly of them at all and basically wouldn't help!Comment
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They are published by Price Milburn Music/Faber Music and my copies arrived from the New Zealand Music Centre. This was in 1994. They are now OOP and I don´t know if some other company have published them. Strange reaction from the publishing agent indeed. This is great music.Comment
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Two of my favourite operatic recitals are from Naxos:
Ewa Podles - Rossini Arias (a thrill ride through Rossini's coloratura arias from the brilliant Polish contralto who is very under-recorded and was also in a very fine Tancredi with Sumi Jo for Naxos)
Luba Orgonasova - Favourite Soprano Arias with Will Humburg (recorded before J.E. Gardiner started recording her in Mozart operas)Comment
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Lighten up, dude ...Originally posted by Parry1912 View Post
No ... and some of us were hoping they wouldn't be!
The title of this thread is 'Naxos Favourites'.
One of my favourite non-Naxos CDs is of works by Parry, conducted by Boult, one of said works (is it the 5th Symphony?) having been published/premiered in 1912. On the front of the CD, there's a lovely photograph, taken I believe at Cromshall Station, of a steam train being hauled by .... engine no. 1912.
I like Hubert Parry and Charlie Parker. (And Benjamin Britten and Dave Brubeck...)
(Does anybody know whether Naxos will get round to issuing recordings of all the Parry symphonies, by the way? At the moment, I have a mix of Bamert, Boult and Penny (sounds like a firm of solicitors).Comment
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Sorry for my lack of specifics, Mahlerei, I meant the Fagen versions of the Martinu symphonies which various ClassicsToday reviewers, as well as Amazon purchasers, appear to have enjoyed.
Almost forgot! Andrew penny's complete Malcolm Arnold Symphonies with the NSO Ireland; and let's give an honourable mention to Tintner's Bruckner; the first 3 symphonies are outstandingly well done, or at least No.3 is if you can cope with the heavenly length!Originally posted by Mahlerei View PostComment
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