SERGEY TANEYEV Vol. II

ELDA NEBOLSIN Piano

BORIS BROVTSYN Violin

MOHAMED HIBER Violin

GARETH LUBBE Viola

ALEXY STADLER Cello

SERGEY TANEYEV Vol. I

ELDAR NEBOLSIN

Piano

BORIS BROVTSYN

Violin
GARETH LUBBE

Viola
ALEXEY STADLER

Cello

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"Hier ist alles Korngold, was glänzt."

 von Isabel Herzfeld

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Vol. I

  . String Sextet, Op. 10

  . Piano Trio, Op. 1

Boris Brovtsyn Violin

Clara-Jumi Kang Violin

Gareth Lubbe Viola

Yura Lee Viola

Jens Peter Maintz Cello

Torleif Thedéen Cello

Eldar Nebolsin Piano

8.574008

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Volume II:

  . Suite, Op. 23

  . Piano Quintet, Op. 15

Boris Brovtsyn Violin

Clara-Jumi Kang Violin

Gareth Lubbe Viola

Torleif Thedéen Cello

Eldar Nebolsin Piano

8.574019

Erwin Schulhoff

Chamber Music:

  . String Sextet, Op. 45

  . Violin Sonata, No. 2

  . Duo for Violin and Cello

  . Five Jazz Etudes

Boris Brovtsyn Violin

Valeriy Sokolov Violin

Philip Dukes Viola

Maxim Rysanov Viola

Jens Peter Maintz Cello

Torleif Thedéen Cello

Eldar Nebolsin Piano

8.573525 (2016)

Anton Arensky

Chamber Music:

  . Piano Quintet, Op. 51

  . String Quartet No. 2, Op. 35

  . Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 32

Boris Brovtsyn Violin

Alexander Sitkovetsky Violin

Maxim Rysanov Viola

Jens Peter Maintz Cello

Torleif Thedéen Cello

Eldar Nebolsin Piano

8.573317 (2015)

Ernst von Dohnányi

  . Serenade, Op. 

  . Sextet, Op. 

Janine Jansen Violin

Joel Waterman Viola

Frank Dodge Cello 

Christian Poltera Cello

Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer Clarinet

Ron Schaaper Horn

Daniel Blumenthal Piano

8.557153 (2003)

"All the playing is remarkable!"

AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

Awarded the Rosette by the

PENGUIN GUIDE

"These are among the the composer's most winning music, making a superb disc, brilliantly played and recorded...inspiring dedicated playing!" 

THE GUARDIAN

"Spectrum Concerts Berlin immaculate accounts of some of the most sublimely beautiful music of the era." 

THE STRAD

John Harbison

  . Variations

  . Four Songs of Solitude

  . Twilight Music

Janine Jansen Violin

Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer Clarinet

Bernhard Krug Horn

Daniel Blumenthal Piano

8.559173 (2003)

"Harbison's first appearance in Naxos's American Classics' series brings wonderful new recordings of three of his best chamber music pieces from the 1980s performed by members of a first-rate new-music group active in Germany, Spectrum Concerts Berlin...the music shimmers through your senses as elusively as quicksilver." 

BOSTON GLOBE

"The disc of John Harbison's chamber music is an absolute winner...Everyone who loves chamber music needs this disc!"

FANFARE  

"These are important contributions by one of our major compositional figures, given in well-rehearsed and immaculately played performances."

AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

Robert Helps

  . Piano Quartet

  . Postlude

  . Nocturne for String Quartet

  . Shall We Dance

Janine Jansen Violin 

Quinten de Roos Violin

Ronald Carbone Viola 

Hartmut Rohde Viola

Frank Dodge Cello

Ron Schaaper Horn

Robert Helps Piano

Daniel Blumenthal Piano

8.559199 (2004)

"It was like looking at a beautiful castle at night in the reflections of the face of a lake that is stirred by winds."

BENJAMIN WEINER

"It is an enchanting work, residing comfortably in an oasis which both feeds on and ignores the icons of contemporary music."

RUSSELL SHERMAN 

"On this CD Helps gives a highly evocative performance of his Shall We Dance (1994), and distils effects of exquisite beauty from John Ireland's Darkened Valley."

IRISH TIMES 

Ernst Toch

  - Tanz-Suite

  . Cello Concerto

Christian Poltera Solo Cello

Thomas Carroll Conductor 

Priya Mitchell Violin 

Julia-Maria Kretz Violin

Hartmut Rohde Viola

Frank Dodge Cello

Stacey Watton Bass

Marieke Schneemann Flute

Nigel Shore Oboe

Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer Clarinet                   

Catherine Maguire Bassoon

Bernhard Krug Horn

Daniel Tummes Percussion

                                                                            8.559282 (2006)

"This recording is excellently played!"

AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE

"Überhaupt zeichnen sich die Berliner Musikanten nicht nur durch ihre unbekümmert freche Gangart aus. Besonders im Cellokonzert, das mit seiner asketischen Ensemblebesetzung aus Streichquintett, Bläserquintett und Schlagzeug ein Pendant zu Schönbergs Kammersinfonie sein könnte, begegnet man neben Drive und polyphonen Proportionen (Finalsatz) einem sehnsüchtig suggestiven wie gleichzeitig zerbrechlichen Klangkolorit, in dem die ganze Aufbruchsstimmung des konservativen Wiens steckt."

RONDO 

"The two pieces here are terrific: An American founded Spectrum Concerts Berlin, a chamber ensemble with ace players from all over the world. They make delicious work of the suite and provide sensitive accompaniment in the concerto. Anyone with an interest in early modernism will eat up this stuff."

THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

Ernst Toch

  . Violin Sonata No. 2

  . Burlesken

  . Three Impromptus

  . Piano Quintet

Annette von Hehn Violin 

Julia-Maria Kretz Violin

Hartmut Rohde Viola

Frank Dodge Cello

Daniel Blumenthal Piano

8.559324 (2008)

"The violin sonata is a wizard piece, one that Stravinsky, Hindemith or Prokofiev might have been proud to call his own, played to the hilt by violinist Annette von Hehn and pianist Daniel Blumenthal. The three Burlesques share the same spirit, and Blumenthal delivers sparkling, virtuoso performances...Cellist Frank Dodge, playing a rich, deep instrument, elevates this solemn music (Impromtus) to near-masterpiece status."

FANFARE

"Anyone who cares about 20th Century chamber music should hear Toch's sonatas, trios, quartets, and the 1938 Piano Quintet. This splendidly-performed-and-recorded Naxos disc, with interesting and informative annotations by the composer's grandson Lawrence Weschler, is a perfect place to begin -or continue."

AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE 

"Spectrum Concerts Berlin provides committed and powerfully rendered performances, all captured in first-rate sound. Toch fans need not hesitate in acquiring this excellent disc."

CLASSICS TODAY

Ernst Toch

  . Violin Sonata No. 1

  . Cello Sonata

  . String Trio

  . Divertimento

  . Adagio elegiaco

Annette von Hehn Violin

Hartmut Rohde Viola

Jens Peter Maintz Cello

Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer Clarinet

Katya Apekisheva Piano 

Jascha Nemtsov Piano

8.559716 (2014)

"Spectrum Concerts Berlin gives us nearly an hour of very well-played Toch. There are two other releases in the series which I certainly want to hear, but in the meantime we get some masterful examples of a composer that well deserves recognition. Anyone with a penchant for early moderists will revel in this release. Highly recommended!" 

GAPPLEGATE CLASSICAL-MODERN MUSIC REVIEW

"There have been other recordings of some of these pieces, but I've not heard any that particularly impress me. This whole CD is interesting, and the violin sonata seals an enthusiastic recommendation."

FANFARE

Stanley Walden

  . Maquettes

  . Sh'mah

  . Five Similes

  . Horn Trio

Robert Levin Piano 

Ya-Fei Chuang Piano

Julia-Maria Kretz Violin

Jens Peter Maintz Cello

Bernhard Krug Horn

8.559355 (2008)

"We have some first class, sensitively authoritive performances here. Walden's music is never obvious and can be subtly withdrawn."

MUSIC WEB INTERNATIONAL

Paul Hindemith

  . Clarinet Quartet

  . Clarinet Sonata

  . Three Easy Pieces

  . Clarinet Quintet

Annette von Hehn Violin 

Elisabeth Glass Violin

Hartmut Rohde Viola

Frank Dodge Cello

Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer Clarinet

Ya-Fei Chuang Piano

8.572213 (2009)

"The quintet, an early work from Hindemith's 'enfant terrible' years, receives a fierce, all-in performance that suits the music exactly; Wouters is fabulously flamboyant here, with technique to burn. Enthusiastically recommended to Hindemithians, chamber music mavens, and clarinet fanciers."

FANFARE

"The Three Easy Pieces for cello and piano are totally unpretentious and much more than teaching pieces, or pieces specifically for students. They are rich and inventive morsels which can stand the big interpretation they receive here."

MUSIC WEB

"This splendid Naxos release includes excellent performances of music that is entirely worth getting to know." 

CLASSICAL SOURCE

Robert Helps

Robert Helps Piano

ATOS Trio:

Thomas Hoppe, Annette von Hehn, Stefan Heinemeyer

Naomi Niskala Piano

Ronald Carbone Viola

Frank Dodge Cello

Marieke Schneemann Flute

Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer Clarinet

Bernard Krug Horn

8.559696-97 (2011)

"Both of Robert Helps's formidable artistic gifts are represented on this revealing two-disc collection. There's the composer of piquant and poetic chamber music, and there's the pianist who gave supple life to his own works, as well as pieces by other composers. These complimentary aspects paint a portrait of a bold musician with the facility to transform and illuminate in myriad styles...Helps was no imitator...the music is always suffused with distinctive clarity, vehemence and pensive drama...meticulously detailed performances by the ATOS Trio and an array of splendid colleagues…"Helps was no imitator…the music is always suffused with distinctive clarity, vehemence and pensive drama …meticulously detailed performances by the ATOS Trio and an array of splendid colleagues." 

©GRAMOPHONE, April 2012

"This is now Spectrum Concerts Berlin`s seventh recording for Naxos under cellist/founder Frank Dodge, and they continue to impress. The German ATOS Trio, who some will recognize as BBC Radio 3 'New Generation Artists', make their debut, red-blooded and cohesive in the trios. So does Japanese-American pianist Naomi Niskala..."

Musicweb International, Byzantion

Ursula Mamlok

Chamber and Solo Music

Alexander Sitkovetsky Violin  

Hartmut Rohde Viola

Jens Peter Maintz Cello

Naomi Niskala Piano

Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer Clarinet

Armida Quartet

8.559771 (2014)

"By complementing and to some extent overlapping the four volumes of Mamlok's music already out on Bridge, Naxos has confirmed the importance of a delicate, highly tuned voice with a minimalist's flair for pace and flow." 

GRAMOPHONE

"So sinnlich kann Neue Musik sein! Kraftvolle Gesten, ein sicheres Gefühl für Farben, Nuancen, erfindungsreich durchdachte Struktur, Rhythmus und Artikulation prägen die Werke von Ursula Mamlok."

CONCERTI