Romantic Piano Favourites, Vol. 4
On this CD:
1. Rustle of Spring, Op 32/3 No.3
Composed by Christian Sinding
Performed by Peter Nagy
2. Edelweiss Idyll, Op.31
Composed by Gustav Lange
Performed by Peter Nagy
3. A Maiden's Prayer (Molitwa dziewicy) for piano, Op. 3 (or Op. 4)
Composed by Tekla Badarzewska
Performed by Peter Nagy
4. La Lisonjera, The Flatterer, for piano, Op 50
Composed by Cecile Chaminade
Performed by Peter Nagy
5. Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major, K. 332 (K. 300k) Adagio
Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by Peter Nagy
6. Serenade, for piano, Op 15
Composed by Moritz Moszkowski
Performed by Peter Nagy
7. None but the lonely heart, song for voice & piano, Op. 6/6 No.6, None but the Lonely Heart, transcribed for piano by Peter Nagy
Composed by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Performed by Peter Nagy
8. Transcription for piano of "Vocalise" from Songs Op. 34/14 No.14, Transcribed by Zoltán Kocsis
Composed by Sergey Rachmaninov
Performed by Peter Nagy
9. Waltz for piano in C sharp minor, Op. 64/2, CT 213
Composed by Fryderyk Chopin
Performed by Peter Nagy
10. Greensleeves, English folk song
Composed by English Traditional
Performed by Peter Nagy
11. Miscellanea for piano, Op 16/s 1-7, complete No 2, Mélodie in G flat major
Composed by Ignace Jan Paderewski
Performed by Peter Nagy
12. Suite bergamasque, for piano, L. 75 Clair de Lune
Composed by Claude Debussy
Performed by Peter Nagy
13. Lieder (7), transcription for piano (after Mendelssohn, Opp. 19a, 34, 47), S. 547 (LW A72) No 1, Auf Flügeln des Gesanges
Composed by Franz Liszt
Performed by Peter Nagy
14. Slavonic Dance No. 2 for piano, 4 hands in E minor, B. 78/2 (Op. 46/2)
Composed by Antonin Dvorak
Performed by Peter Nagy, Balazs Szokolay
Romantic Piano Favourites, Vol. 4, Music, Tekla Badarzewska, Cecile Chaminade, Fryderyk Chopin, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, Gustav Lange, Franz Liszt, Moritz Moszkowski, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Sergey Rachmaninov, Christian Sinding, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, English Traditional, Balazs Szokolay, Peter Nagy, Character/Single-Movement/Miscellaneous Work for Keyboard, Classical, Classical Collections-Artist Desc., Classical Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard, Keyboard, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Music for Four Hands at One Keyboard, Music for Keyboard, Renaissance Polyphonic Song, Romantic Music for Voice and Keyboard, Serenade for Keyboard, Transcription for Keyboard, Vocal, Waltz for Keyboard
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- Miniatures, transcriptions, excerpts from four centuries
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ASIN: B0000013K7
Release Date: 1994-02-15 |
Tracks:
- Air With Variations 'Harmonious Blacksmith'
- Andante In F
- Slavonic Dance No.1
- Waltz In A Flat
- No.19 Little Romance/No.10 Merry Peasant
- March Of The Trolls
- Song Without Words In F
- Sparks
- The Miller & The Stream
- Menuet
- Flight Of The Bumble Bee
- The Swan
- Spring Song
- To Spring
- La Plus Que Lente
- Caprice Viennois
- Polka Italienne
- Souvenir In D
- Concert Etude In F Minor 'Capriccio'
Customer Reviews:
Miniatures, transcriptions, excerpts from four centuries.......2004-09-21
In the liner notes, the title of this CD is given as 'Favourite Piano Pieces', which seems to fit much better than anything to do with 'Romantic', for here there are gathered miniatures, transcriptions and excerpts by famous and less-famous composers from four different centuries (from the 17th to the 20th)! In fact, the only thing that seems to unite these most diverse tracks is their ability to show off the piano and the pianist to best advantage. The most difficult pieces here appear to be Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Flight of the Bumble Bee' in a transcription by Rachmaninov, and Dohnanyi's incredibly hard 'Concert Etude in F Minor', a fitting close to the whole recital, in which Balász Szokolay is able to distinguish himself as a very able player. The rest of the programme is generally also well-played, with the faster pieces in particular being delivered with skill and gusto, while the slower ones (Debussy, Kreisler) tend to lack something of this enthusiasm; it is perhaps fortunate that the majority of numbers are faster pieces. My personal favourite is Grieg's 'March of the Trolls', closely followed by Handel's 'Harmonious Blacksmith' (which should, of course, really be played on a harpsichord, but still sounds very good on a concert piano) and Paderewski's 'Menuet'. All in all, an entertaining hour of piano playing and excellently recorded, provided you don't mind taking a guided tour through the last 400 years of composition in such a short time.
Average customer rating:
- Rather soporific (but much better when played on high-end equipment)
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Romantic Piano Favourites, Vol. 4
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ASIN: B0000013KV
Release Date: 1994-02-15 |
Tracks:
- Rustle Of Spring
- Edelweiss
- The Maiden's Prayer
- The Flatterer
- Piano Sonata K. 332: Adagio
- Serenata Op. 15
- Wilhelm Meister: None But The Lonely Heart
- Vocalise
- Waltz In C Sharp Minor
- Greensleeves
- Mdie In G Flat
- Clair de Lune
- On Wings Of Song
- Slavonic Dance, No. 2 In E Minor
Customer Reviews:
Rather soporific (but much better when played on high-end equipment).......2004-10-22
I'm afraid I have always found this CD to be rather soporific, although that is a purely subjective reaction. The main reason for this, I assume, is the programme, which is not specifically romantic and combines such diverse composers as Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Mendelssohn with a somewhat sentimental arrangement of 'Greensleeves' and some excruciatingly twee pieces by second and third rate piano bards with exotic names like Badarzewska-Baranowska, Chaminade and Lange. Hungarian pianist Péter Nagy masters all the works in this compilation in the sense that he plays them efficiently, but nowhere does one get the feeling that a piece really has a message or any kind of emotional depth. Moreover, Nagy occasional overdoes the force of his left hand, making for rather one-dimensional listening, all the pieces sounding in the end like Péter Nagy rather than like the composers who dreamed them up. In particular, I found the Rachmaninov 'Vocalise', the longest piece on the CD, did nothing for me at all. The quality of the recording is of a fair standard for 1987.
Note added on 26 November 2005: I have just had the opportunity of listening to this disc on some first-class "high end" equipment and I must admit that, like many other Naxos discs, this one sounded a whole lot better at this level of reproduction, with Péter Nagy's playing profiting no end from the clarity and clean-cut purity of sound produced from the piano (in this case by a 24bit D/A converter). The improved sound made the music much more interesting, decidedly less soporific than it had ever seemed before. So am I to praise Nagy and Naxos - or the manufacturers of excellent hifi equipment?
Average customer rating:
- Excellent sound, uneven program
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Romantic Piano Favourites Vol.1
Bela Bartok , Fryderyk Chopin , Antonin Dvorak , Zdenek Fibich , George Gershwin , Edvard Grieg , Franz Liszt , Felix Mendelssohn , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Anton Rubinstein , Franz Schubert , Robert Schumann , Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky , Richard Wagner , Carl Maria von Weber , and Balazs Szokolay
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ASIN: B0000013J9
Release Date: 1993-02-05 |
Tracks:
- Rondo
- Impromptu In G Flat Major
- Invitation To The Dance
- Little Bird
- Humoresque
- Bird As Prophet
- Hunting Song
- Dream Of Love No. 3
- Fant-Impromptu
- Barcarolle
- Butterfly
- Poem
- 3 Preludes
- Melodie In F
- Romanian Folkdances
Customer Reviews:
Excellent sound, uneven program.......2004-08-22
Recorded 1987 at the famous Italian Institute in Budapest, this CD certainly has the advantage of good sound: Balàzs Szokolay's concert piano is very realistic, and occasionally I thought I could even hear him breathing! As for the skill of the pianist: unless you happen to live in a great metropolis, you are unlikely to be able to hear piano playing like this live. Szokolay is especially good on the fast pieces: Weber's "Invitation to the Dance", Mendelssohn's "Hunting Song", Chopin's "Fantasie-Impromptu" all sound tremendous, and the close of the CD (Gershwin's 1938 preludes, Bartók's "Romanian Folkdances") show Szokolay at his best. The slower pieces are also well-played, but here I detected a lack of real emotion: Tchaikovsky's "Barcarolle", for example, can be really moving when played by someone like Mikhail Pletnev, but here it is just a pleasant piece of entertainment. The same could be said of some of the other slower pieces, including Liszt's "Liebestraum [Dream of Love] Nr. 3".
Piano music from 1780 (Mozart) to 1938 (Gershwin), 15 pieces by 14 composers, and apparently no uniting theme: the original title of this CD had nothing to do with "romantic", and I suppose the CD is really meant just to show what the piano (and the pianist) can achieve, but I found the programme very uneven.
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Romantic Piano Favourites, Vol. 9
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ASIN: B0000013MO
Release Date: 1994-02-15 |
Tracks:
- Son No.1 in d, K.1 L.366
- 12 Vars on the Theme Ah, vous dirai, je, maman' in C, K.265
- First Loss (Album for the Young Op.68 No.16)
- Small Study (Album for the Young Op.68 Op.14)
- Venetian Boat Song in g, (Song Without Words Op.19 No.6)
- Andante espressivo in g, (Song Without Words Op.62 No.1)
- Humoresque
- Lullaby
- Cradle Song
- Impromptu in e, Op.90 No.2
- Etude in e, Op.10 No.3
- Son 104 del Petrarca
- Caprice espagnol
- Tango
- Monastery Bells
- For Children (Excerpts from Nos.31-37 & 40)
- Arabesque No.1
- Danse Pour pno
Customer Reviews:
Lack of Emotional Depth.......2005-01-23
This is the last of the five discs that Balázs Szokolay recorded in the Naxos “Romantic Piano Favourites” series (Italian Institute, Budapest; December 1988 and January 1989). As with the other discs before it, Szokolay makes a good impression with those composers and pieces with which he appears to have an affinity (Bartók; all the faster, more ‘showy’ pieces: here, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Liszt, Moszkowski), but some of the more meditative pieces seem to lack emotional depth or are spoiled by a rather too hurried approach which seems to emphasize virtuoso acrobatics at the expense of poignancy and slight variations of tempo. The opening Scarlatti sounds good, but Szokolay is not really able to rival the old EMI recording of Scarlatti’s sonatas by Christian Zacharias. The Schumann, the Mendelssohn, the Grieg, the Albéniz and the Debussy are, in my opinion, in the “also-ran” category. Perhaps the rarest piece on this record is Lefébure-Wély’s “Monastery Bells”, a number which was very popular in its day but which is hardly likely to raise an eyebrow today.
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Night Music, Vol. 9: Classical Favourites for Relaxing and Dreaming
Manufacturer: Naxos
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ASIN: B000001424
Release Date: 1994-02-15 |
Tracks:
- Clair De Lune - Keith Clark
- Andante - Jeno Jando
- O Haupt Voll Blut Und Wunden - Capella Istropolitana
- Andante - Capella Istropolitana
- Larghetto - Nishizaki
- Ziemlich Langsam - Stefan Vladar
- The Swan Of Tuonela, Op.22, No.3 - Schermerhorn
- Largo - Nishizaki
- Adagio - Moyzes Quartet
- Adagio - Jando
- Loure - Capella Istropolitana
- Andante Grazioso - Kiss
- Gymnopedie I - Lenard
- March - Ilona Prunyi
- Aria - Dvorak
Average customer rating:
- Excellent collection of peaceful music.
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Night Music, Vol.1: Classical Favourites for Relaxing and Dreaming
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ASIN: B0000013ID
Release Date: 1994-02-15 |
Tracks:
- Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: Romance - Capella Istropolitana/Sobotka
- Moonlight Son: Adagio Sostenuto - Jeno Jando
- Brandenburg Con No.1: Adagio - Capella Istropolitana/Warchal
- Sym No.40: Andante - Capella Istropolitana/Wordsworth
- Melodie - Honda/CSR SO/Clark
- To Spring - Balazs Sokolay
- Berceuse - CSR SO/Lenard
- Canon - Capella Istropolitana/Edlinger
- Str Qt Op.76, No.2: Andante - Kodaly Qt
- Clair De Lune - Peter Nagy
- Tpt Con: 2nd Movt - Capella Istropolitana/Edlinger
- Pno Con No.2: Larghetto - Szekely/Budapest SO/Nemeth
- Sicilienne - CSR SO/Lenard
Tracks:
- Swan Lake: Andante - Slovak Phil/Halasz
- Pno Son K.322: Adagio - Peter Nagy
- Four Seasons: Spring/Largo - Nischizaki/Capella Istropolitana/Gunzenhauser
- Sym No.96: Andante - Capella Istropolitana/Wordsworth
- Pno Con No.4: Andante - Vladar/Capella Istropolitana/Wordsworth
- Vocalise - Peter Nagy
- Peer Gynt Ste: Solveig's Song - CSSR State PO (Kosice)/Guzenhauser
- Water Music: Adagio - Capella Istropolitana/Warchal
- Str Qt Op.10: Andantino - Kodaly Qt
- Fl And Hp Con: Andantino - Capella Istropolitana/Edlinger
- Con Grosso Op.6, No.4: Largo - Capella Istropolitana/Kopelman
- Moment Musical - Peter Nagy
- A Midsummer Night's Dream: Notturno - Slovak PO/Bramall
Tracks:
- Pavane - CSR Sym Orch/Clark
- Chanson Triste - Peter Nagy
- Oboe Con: Adagio - Capella Instropolitana/Edlinger
- Sym No.1: Andante Cantabile - Zagreb Phil/Edlinger
- Vc Con: Adagio - Kanta/Capella Instropolitana/Breiner
- On Wings Of Song - Peter Nagy
- L'Arlesienne: Adagietto - Slovak Phil/Bramall
- Adagio - Capella Instropolitana/Edlinger
- Str Qt Op. 76, No.4: Adagio - Kodaly Qt
- Pno Con K.467: Andante - Lang/Capella Instropolitana/Ebertle
- Christmas Con: Pastorale - Capella Instropolitana/Edlinger
- Les Adieux: Andante Expressivo - Jeno Jando
- Salzburg Sym K.138: Andante - Capella Instropolitana/Edlinger
Tracks:
- Karelia Ste: Ballade - CSR SO/Schermerhorn
- Song Without Words in F - Balazs Szokolay
- Brandenburg Con No.4: Andante - Capella Istropolitana/Warchal
- New World Sym: Largo - CSR SO/Lenard
- Pno Con No.1: Quasi Adagio - Banowetz/CSR SO
- Andante Sostenuto - Peter Nagy
- Italian Ste: Notturno - CSSR State PO/Edlinger
- Recorder Ste: Siciliano - Capella Istropolitana/Edlinger
- Melody - Nishizak/Harden
- Cello Con No.2: Adagio - Capella Istropolitana/Breiner
- Recorder Ste: Air A L'Italienne - Capella Istropolitana/Edlinger
- Dream Of Love No.3 - Balazs Szokolay
- Faust (Ballet Music): Adagio - CSR Sym/Lenard
Tracks:
- Barcarolle - CSR SO/Lenard
- Pathetique Son: Adagio Cantabile - Jeno Jando
- Four Seasons: Autumn: Adagio Molto - Nishizaki/Capella Istropolitana/Gunzenhauser
- Jupiter Sym: Andante Cantabile - Capella Istropolitana/Wordsworth
- Vn Con: Adagio - Honda/Slovak PO/Clark
- Melodie - Peter Nagy
- Slavonic Dance No.12 - Slovak PO/Kosler
- Fireworks Music: La Paix - Capella Istropolitana/Warchal
- Cantabile - Nishizaki/Suzuki
- Hn Con No.4: Romance - Stevove/Capella Istropolitana/Kopelman
- Ste No.1: Forlane - Capella Istropolitana/Dvorak
- Traumerei - Jeno Jando
- Carmen Ste: Nocturne - Slovak PO/Bramall
Customer Reviews:
Excellent collection of peaceful music........1999-08-17
If you are looking for music that can soothe the soul, buy this collection. Each cd has a collection of excerpts from classical artists which are peaceful in style. Works from big-time composers such as Beethoven and Bach are included, but many outstanding pieces are drawn from lesser known artists such as Godard and Paganini. I use these cds as background music at work, where the wide swings in volume found in most of classical music would be inappropriate. As always with Naxos, the recordings are of excellent quality.
Average customer rating:
- Disappointing potpourri with abysmal Moonlight Sonata
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Romantic Piano Favourites, Vol. 2
Manufacturer: Naxos
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ASIN: B0000013JA
Release Date: 1994-02-15 |
Tracks:
- Moonlight Sonata - Adagio sostenuto
- Song Without words, Op.102, No.5
- L' Arlesienne, Suite No.1 - Adagietto
- Leise flehen meine Lieder (from Schwanengesang' D.957)
- October
- Barcarolle
- Prelude Op.28, No.15
- Londonderry air
- Moment Musical
- Sonata KV 310 - Andante cantabile
- Heimweh
- Mephisto Waltz
Customer Reviews:
Disappointing potpourri with abysmal Moonlight Sonata.......2004-08-25
Hungarian pianist Péter Nagy has made quite a few recordings for a number of labels, but I found this 1987 Naxos potpourri rather disappointing. The end of the CD is the best part: Nagy gives a rousing version of Liszt's "Mephisto Waltz" which shows off his ability as a pianist to good advantage. But a lot of the other material on this CD is, in my opinion, not well done. The Adagio sostenuto from Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" sounds anything but romantic; this is not the moon shining on a Swiss lake, as the poet Rellstab thought, it is more like the nextdoor neighbours hammering away to get their woodframe house finished. A comparison of Nagy's version with Rudolf Buchbinder on Warner Classics was like being in two different worlds: Buchbinder sounds like he really believes in Beethoven's music, Nagy sounds like he is playing it because he has to. The same is more or less true of all the slower pieces on this disc, which come over accurately but without real emotion. It's only with the faster, more showy pieces that Nagy begins to get more convincing, but that is not enough to make this CD a winner. The recording quality is good, but not as good as on Volume 1 of the same series.
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Barbirolli: Hallé Favourites, Vol. 2
Manufacturer: Dutton Laboratories
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Release Date: 1999-01-12 |
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Favourites, Vol. 1
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ASIN: B00004YYW7
Release Date: 2001-02-20 |
Tracks:
- The Kerry Dance
- The Rose Of Tralee
- A Pair Of Blue Eyes
- The Garden Where The Praties Grow
- I Hear You Calling Me
- Sonny Boy
- Wearing Of The Green
- Silver Threads Among The Gold
- Roses Of Picardy
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- Little Boy Blue
- All Alone
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- Jeannine, I Dream Of Lilac Time
- Kathleen Mavourneen
- Just For Today
- Ireland, Mother Ireland
Customer Reviews:
An interpreter's magic that is spell-binding........2001-04-13
Here is a welcome to a "Nostalgia" series by Naxos, and a welcome into the 21st Century to the great Irish tenor John McCormack. Younger shoppers may not be familiar with this remarkable singer who once rivalled Caruso in the recording popularity stakes. Blessed with the naturally beautiful voice and the secure breath control that any singer might envy, McCormack had the additional ability to communicate directly and memorably and vividly. He polished and perfected his inimitably Irish diction until he felt confident that every listener in the largest auditorium could hear and understand every word. Feeling he had no flair for foreign languages or for acting, he retired early from the operatic stage, but not before he had made recordings of several Mozart and Handel arias that have remained models ever since. Some of his recordings of lieder by Hugo Wolf, moreover, can still send shivers down the spine.
This CD of "Favourites" provides songs he recorded between 1912 and 1940. The sentiments may be passé (patriotism, nostalgia, piety, the praise of women and the sorrow of parting) but the sincerity and charm transcend fashion. There is also an interpreter's magic evident in the dramatic monologue "Kathleeen Mavourneen" and the jaunty recounting of what happened in "The Garden Where the Praties Grow" that is spell-binding.
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Romantic Piano Favourites, Vol. 6
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ASIN: B0000013ML
Release Date: 1994-02-15 |
Tracks:
- Fantasia (Capriccio) in C
- Erotik
- The Wild Horseman
- Impromptu in A flat
- Cavatine
- Spinning Song
- Liebesleid
- Prelude in c#
- Barcarolle
- For Children (Nos. 25-26-8-13-14-15-16-18-19-20-21)
- Sevilla
- Con Arabesque (motifs from The Blue Danube)
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Technically demanding.......2005-01-21
The sixth volume of “Romantic Piano Favourites” was recorded in spring and summer of 1988 and is able to escape the censure to which some of its predecessor volumes were subject. Perhaps it is because there are, with the exception of Grieg’s “Erotik” (also reasonably done), no really slow pieces on this disc that Balázs Szokolay is able to shine: he obviously has a penchant for the technically demanding fast pieces, and these come over here convincingly. Haydn, Schumann, Schubert, Raff, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Albéniz, Schulz-Evler … all make a good impression. Chopin’s “Barcarolle” is perhaps not quite up to the standard of the other interpretations, but this is more than compensated by the Bartók; Szokolay seems to have a particular affinity for his countryman. Schulz-Evler’s Concert Arabesque is a series of incredibly ornate variations on themes from the younger Johann Strauss’s “Blue Danube” and makes for eleven minutes of quite fascinating listening, although I suspect that this is something of a nineteenth-century crossover piece.
The disc was recorded, like the others in the series, at Budapest’s renowned Italian Institute, and the sound is warm without being over-intimate, altogether quite enjoyable.
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- Schumann: Fantasie Op. 17; Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 13 & 14
- Sibelius: Symphony No. 2, Tubin: Symphony No. 5 [Hybrid SACD] [Hybrid SACD]
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