Since you are interested in Serenade For Strings / Souvenir de Florence, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Complete Songs (Vol 1): Zemphira's song; Midnight; Lullaby; etc Ljuba Kazarnovskaya (soprano) Ljuba Orefenova (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Jul/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "Kazarnovskaya is a rapidly rising star, with appearances at Salzburg, la Scala, the Met and Vienna. She brings a rich soprano voice and considerable feeling to 17 of the... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Maggie Teyte - A Vocal Portrait (recorded 1932-48) Maggie Teyte (soprano) [ Naxos Historical Great Singers / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] Songs by Purcell, Martini. Grétry, Pergolesi, Berlioz, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Fauré, Elgar, Quilter, Debussy, et al. |
ROMANTIC MUSIC FOR FLUTE & HARP
Romantic Music For Flute And Harp (Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Gluck, Massenet, Ravel, Debussy, etc) Janos Balint (Flute) Nora Mercz (Harp) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Jul/2008 ] The combination of flute and harp is one that is peculiarly satisfying, the one instrument a foil to the other. The eleven transcriptions recorded start with the Intermezzo from Bizet's Spanish opera Carmen, a realistic drama of love, jealousy and... |
TCHAIKOVSKY / CONUS / SARASATE / KORNGOLD
Violin Concertos [rec 1950-1953] Jascha Heifetz (Violin) / Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfred Wallenstein / RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Reissue Producer and Audio Restoration Engineer: Mark Obert-Thorn |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Life and Works Narrated biography with extensive musical examples Jeremy Siepmann (narrator) with John Shrapnel as Bach [ Naxos Educational / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Who was the man behind some of the most intensely emotional music ever written? Who were the influential figures in his life? In this 4-CD set packed full of biographical detail and poignant musical extracts we are led through the course of... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 3 Konstantin Scherbakov, Russian Philharmonic Orchestra. Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor [ Naxos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Jan/2005 ] "This Tchaikovsky First is grand and big, filled with power and majesty, all captured in brilliant sonics by Naxos." (MusicWeb) - Hybrid SACD in 5.1 Surround Sound. |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Complete Songs (Vol 2): Children's Songs Op.54; Six Romances Op.73 Ljuba Kazarnovskaya (soprano) Ljuba Orefenova (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Jul/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "well worth adding to your collection" (Sunday Tribune, Dublin) |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Complete Songs (Volume 3) Ljuba Kazarnovskaya (soprano) Ljuba Orfenova (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Oct/2003 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "...At [Ljuba Kazarnovskaya's] best, her sensitivity to words and her gift for phrasing respond well to the subtle melodic lines, and she is beautifully supported by her... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Songs (Complete), Vol. 4 Ljuba Kazarnovskaya (soprano) Ljuba Orfenova (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Jan/2008 ] Tchaikovsky's songs represent a little-known but highly characteristic facet of his musical personality. In all he composed over 100 songs, most of which are set to poetic texts about the problems of emotional entanglement. Tchaikovsky takes these... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Songs (Complete), Vol. 5 Ljuba Kazarnovskaya (soprano) Ljuba Orfenova (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Apr/2008 ] "Kazarnovskaya possesses a soprano rich in timbre and powerful in projection... Tchaikovsky's ever-ingenious melodic gift combined with Kazarnovskaya's ever-probing and emotive singing make for a continually engaging program, one that you will no... |
TCHAIKOVSKY / STAMITZ / HAYDN / RACHMANINOV / RUBINSTEIN / GLAZUNOV / SAINT-SAENS / etc
Andante Cantabile: Romantic music for cello and orchestra Ludovit Kanta, Maria Kliegel, Alexander Rudin, Christian Benda, Vytautas Sondeckis (cellos) with various orchestras [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Sep/2006 ] "A COMPILATION of favourite tunes for the cello is almost guaranteed to be moody and relaxing. And sure enough, its woody tones - in the hands of Christian Benda, Ludovic Kanta, Vytautus Sondeckis, Maria Kliegel and Alexander Rubin - draw a... |
ALLA PAVLOVA
Symphony No. 6 / Thumbelina Suite Mikhail Shestakov (violin) / Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra / Patrick Baton [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] The highly romantic music of Alla Pavlova, a Russian composer now resident in the USA, has been praised for its 'surreal serenity…woven with unflinching sadness, without concessions to short attention spans and all within the long émigré tradition of... |
ALLA PAVLOVA
Elegy / Symphony No. 5 Moscow Radio Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra / Vladimir Ziva [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] "The recording is bright and forward in the usual Naxos style. The orchestral playing of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio is accomplished enough. It's good to hear that the former Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra in its new guise and... |
BORIS TCHAIKOVSKY
Andersen Fairy Tales Suites / 4 Preludes for Chamber Orchestra Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra / Kirill Erschov [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] Boris Tchaikovsky, a pupil of Shostakovich, enjoyed a long and illustrious career. Rostropovich once remarked: 'I consider him to be a genius…one day people will come to know that two great Russian composers bore the same name'. Four Preludes for... |
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Violin Concerto / Encores (recorded 1949-53) Nathan Milstein (violin) / Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch [ Naxos Historical Great Violinists / CD - released 31/Aug/2007 ] "The three violin and piano works with Artur Balsam are played with Milstein's usual finesse and bravura, and the disc concludes with two tracks in which Milstein duets with the Italian bass Ezio Pinza in Calm as the night and None but the lonely... |
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Suites For Orchestra: No. 3 Op.55 & No.4 Op. 61 Mozartiana National Symphony Orchestra Of Ireland / Stefan Sanderling [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Sep/2007 ] "The orchestral playing is of the highest quality in terms of sensitivity and polish" - Penguin Guide |