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Zador: Celebration Music; Chamber Concerto

Eugene Zádor was an established composer by the time he moved from Europe to the United States in 1939 where he worked as a film composer. Many of the works on this album exhibit Zádor’s finest traits, blending neo-Classicism and neo-Romanticism with expert orchestration and rhythmic verve, and a dedication to tonality liberally peppered with gentle dissonance. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574262 $13.99

Brahms: Hungarian Dances & The Hungarian Tradition [2 CDs]

Brahms had long been immersed in the folk traditions and spirit of Hungary’s musical repertoire. This album presents his Hungarian Dances alongside their source material and variants, as well as some elements that Brahms omitted from his settings.The heroic strength and dynamism, as well as the melancholy of the Dances can be heard as never before. (Naxos)

2CD# 8574424-25 $24.99

Korngold: String Quartets, Nos. 1–3

Erich Wolfgang Korngold wrote a significant body of chamber music. His three String Quartets reflect differing periods of composition. The First marries impetuousness with enticing harmonies and rapt eloquence. The Second dates from 1933 and has great clarity and rhythmic impetus, with a full complement of Korngold’s lyricism. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574428 $13.99

Puts: The City – Marimba Concerto – Moonlight

“This collection of recordings is especially meaningful for me because it charts my growth as an orchestral composer from my years as a student – when the Marimba Concerto was composed – to more mature work such as ‘Moonlight.’ It also reflects the wonderful relationship I have enjoyed over the years with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop.” – Kevin Puts (Naxos)

1CD# 8559926 $13.99

Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy – Symphony No. 2

Scriabin composed most of his single-movement fourth symphony

The Poem of Ecstasy between 1905 and 1908 in Italy and France. He originally intended it to be called Poème orgiaque (‘Orgiastic Poem’) with its unprecedented raw sensuality and overpowering aesthetic, taking chromaticism beyond even Wagnerian voluptuousness. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574139 $13.99

Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 / Petrenko; Giltburg

For 19th-century audiences

Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 was the most loved of all his piano concertos, a work in which the balancing of high drama, tenderness, lyricism and humour is most pronounced and in which a coda resolves inner tensions with brilliance and triumphant grandeur. Piano Concerto No. 4 is the most introspective and poetic of the concertos. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574152 $13.99

German: Symphony No. 2, ‘Norwich’ / National SO of Ireland

Sir Arthur Sullivan called Edward German ‘the one man to follow me who has genius’. Notwithstanding German’s success in operetta, especially with Tom Jones and Merrie England, orchestral music was always central to his life. Stylistic affiliations with French and Russian music – not that common in British music of the time – are often evident. (Naxos)

1CD# 8555228 $13.99

Justin Holland: Guitar Works & Arrangements

Justin Holland was an important African American figure in the national US anti-slavery movement as well as being a significant figure in guitar composition and methodology. As a composer he synthesised European models and embraced popular, church and parlour songs generating a rich variety of works. (Naxos)

1CD# 8559924 $13.99

Brahms: Complete Songs, Vol. 3 / Alina Wunderlin; Kieran Carrel

For Brahms, folk songs were sources of musical inspiration, not subjects for academic study. The songs from Books 6 and 7 of the Deutsche Volkslieder exemplify how Brahms’ distinctive and expressive accompaniments brought unique qualities to these songs, how he intensified certain verses to draw out their power, or allowed the piano its own revealing melodic phrases.

1CD# 8574346 $13.99

Unicum – New Songs from the Leuven Chansonnier

The discovery in 2015 of a 15th-century parchment chansonnier still in its original binding was made still more startling because it contained twelve previously unknown, anonymous chansons. Most are rondeaus, and they range from the uncomplicated to the refined and elaborate; many bear musical indications that they are the work of the greatest composers of the period. (Naxos)

1CD# 8574395 $13.99