MEIJERING Concerto movements for Eagle recorder and strings

Originally conceived by the maker Adriana Breukink in 2008, the 'Eagle' recorder has rapidly developed into an instrument which comb...

MAXWELL DAVIES Naxos Quartets Nos. 9 and 10

“The Magginis sounds as if they've lived with the quartets all their lives, so assured and probing are the performances. They take the f...

CHILCOTT Everyone Sang

“Chilcott knows what works vocally. You can hear this particularly in A Little Jazz Mass, where he perfectly fits the words of the Latin tex...

FLAVOURS Music for cello and piano

For her debut recording for Brilliant Classics, young Dutch cellist Amber Docters van Leeuwen has chosen a wildly varying programme: startin...

FUNAMBULES

Born into a family of musicians in 1985, Vassilena Serafimova is the first Bulgarian percussionist to be awarded the Second Prize of the 56t...

ISLAND Songs

“Amy Dickson is the star of this disc…thrilling performance and vivid recording.” --BBC Music Magazine, February 2016 ***** “Amy Dickson...

DI VITTORIO Overtura Respighiana, Sinfonias Nos. 1 "Isolation" and 2, "Lost Innocence"

"…beautiful music is beautiful music, regardless of when it’s written, and Di Vittorio proves himself with this CD to be a composer of ...

CHIN Double Concerto, Formosa Seasons

"Over the last few years, Naxos has released a lot of music by lesser-known composers, and it is sometimes hard to know where to begin....

LINDBERG Violin Concerto, Jubilees & Souvenir

"In this recording by Pekka Kuusisto (both soloist and conductor) and the Tapiola Sinfonietta the work truly comes to life: Their caref...

FIVE PIECES

“really it's only in the Janacek that the performers are at all stretched in terms of their impressive technique, and perhaps they could...

RAUTAVAARA Works for Violin and Piano

“That [Dithyrambos] should have such an effect is partly a tribute to the spirited musicianship of Pekka Kuusisto and Paavali Jumppanen. If ...

MAXWELL DAVIES Naxos Quartets Nos. 7 and 8

“…the Maggini play with flawless discipline and generous spirit, and the ideally transparent sound and excellently judged balance uphold the...

FAGERLUND Violin Concerto "Darkness in Light", Ignite

"The Violin Concerto Darkness in Light was composed for and dedicated to Pekka Kuusisto, who gives a dazzlingly virtuoso account of it ...

MAXWELL DAVIES Naxos Quartets Nos. 5 and 6

“Both quartets are at their most persuasive in the lengthy slow movements which anchor their discursive, sometimes playful or tender, surrou...

Colori MITI

Rianne Jongsma (flute), Wilma Jongsma (oboe) and Arjan Jongsma (marimba) have studied/are studying at the Amsterdam School of the Arts and t...

Birds on FIRE

17th century Jewish Music for Viols “Birds on Fire… is by Orlando Gough (b1953), a British composer… The music is hauntingly coloured by ref...

MAXWELL DAVIES Naxos Quartets Nos. 3 and 4

“The best moments in the quartets were the slow passages, which showed Maxwell Davies has lost none of his gift for spinning a contrapuntal ...