Various Artists
Life & Works Of Great Composer [ Naxos Educational / CD - released 31/Mar/2003 ] |
Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
A Portrait: His works / His life (2 CDs of music plus a detailed essay and photographs) Various orchestras, performers and conductors [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 10/May/2008 ] Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is one of the most exciting and provocative composers at work in the world today. His Eight Songs for a Mad King set the dizzying pace for Britain's 1960s avant-garde, and the recent Naxos Quartets bear witness to his... |
BELA BARTOK
Bartok: A Portrait: His works / His life (2 CDs of music plus a detailed essay and photographs) Various orchestras, performers and conductors [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 19/Jan/2008 ] Includes music from Out of Doors, Mikrokosmos, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, the string quartets, the Miraculous Mandarin, Concerto for Orchestra and more. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: A Portrait: His Works / His Life (2 CDs of music plus a detailed essay and photographs) Various orchestras, performers and conductors [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 19/Jan/2008 ] Includes music from nine symphonies, two string quartets, two ballet suites, Piano Concerto No. 2, The Gadfly and Hamlet, as well as Shostakovich himself playing the piano and making a radio address. |
Various Artists
Rembrandt: Music Of His Time [ Naxos Educational / CD - released 4/Oct/2004 ] |
Various Artists
Renoir - Music Of His Time [ Naxos Educational / CD - released 2/Jan/2006 ] |
Various Artists
Stravinsky - A Portrait [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 28/Jan/2008 ] |
Various Artists
Turner: Art And Music [ Naxos Educational / CD - released 6/Jan/2003 ] |
Various Artists
Vermeer - Music Of His Time [ Naxos Educational / CD - released 28/Feb/2005 ] |
DISCOVER THE SYMPHONY
Discover The Symphony: a combination of illustrative music and a richly filled book Various artists and performers [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] From modest beginnings in eighteenth-century Italy, the symphony soon developed into the highest form of western instrumental music at the hands of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. The symphony became a big, public form that used the community of the... |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: A Portrait: His works / His life (2 CDs of music plus a detailed essay and photographs) Various artists incls Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice, Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra, Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 22/Dec/2007 ] Among the most popular of twentieth-century composers, Sergey Prokofiev is seen as a great musical giant of the Soviet Union. But after the 1917 Revolution he took his talents to the United States and France. Only later was he lured by the power of... |
Various Artists/Griffith
Da Vinci - Music Of His Time [ Naxos Educational / CD ] |
Various Artists/Griffiths
Monet - Music Of His Time [ Naxos Educational / CD ] |
RODRIGO
A Portrait: His works / His life (2 CDs of music plus a detailed essay and photographs) Various orchestras, performers and conductors [ Naxos Educational / 2 CD - released 10/May/2008 ] "Rodrigo's place as one of the greatest Spanish composer of the past century should be solidified by this fine musical biography." AudAud.com Five Stars |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
A - Z of Pianists [300 biographies & selected recordings] Vladimir Horowitz, Ferruccio Busoni, Sergei Rachmaninov, Josef Lhevinne, Clara Haskill, etc [ Naxos Educational / 4 CD/Book - released 1/Feb/2010 ] The A-Z of Pianists surveys the lives, careers and recordings of 300 pianists. Illustrious names from past and present, forgotten titans of the keyboard, unsung geniuses. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Instruments of the Orchestra [7 CD set] Jeremy Siepmann (narrator) with various instrumental performers [ Naxos Educational / 7 CD Box Set - released 8/Dec/2002 ] This is a set of portraits in depth, featuring individual instruments in many contexts and in pieces from the Middle Ages to the present |