This new artistic adventure which was to learn, perform and record the violin sonatas by Polish composers Zygmunt Noskowski and Wladyslaw Zelenski was, for pianist Bernadene Blaha and myself, most captivating.

The Fine Arts Quartet has just completed its 21st production for the Naxos label. The all-Dvořák programme has as its centrepiece one of his rarely performed, complex and wild early string quartets, No. 2 in B Flat major (B.17) from 1868–69.

When Naxos asked the Buffalo Philharmonic to record the orchestral works of Zoltán Kodály, I had no idea of how deeply the orchestra and I were going to love the brilliant Hungarian world of this extraordinary composer.

The Fine Arts Quartet, along with pianists Fabio and Gisele Witkowski and bassist Alexander Bickard, just recorded rare, early chamber music by the celebrated Romanian composer George Enescu.

Pianist Alon Goldstein, the Fine Arts Quartet and bassist Lizzie Burns recently recorded rare 19th-century chamber versions of Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 19 and 25.

After a recording hiatus of two years, the Buffalo Philharmonic was very happy to return to the studio to record again for Naxos.

In July of 2021, I finally met with an all-star cast at the Virginia Arts Festival to work on a pandemic delayed project—the first complete recording of the Walton Facade, including the appendix of four poems that had never been captured on recording.

Long before Madonna’s lucrative three-word ‘Like a Virgin’ spin-offs, Albert Ketèlbey had his own attention-grabbing four-word version: In a Chinese Temple Garden, In a Monastery Garden and my favourite of all, In a Persian Market.

José Serebrier’s second volume of Bach-Stokowski Transcriptions is as colourful and wide-ranging as the first.

Sessions for four world première Shostakovich recordings, produced by Beata Jankowska-Burzynska, took place in the Grzegorz Fitelberg Concert Hall, Katowice, Poland in August and September 2008.

Kevin Mallon conducts Toronto Chamber Orchestra in a sparkling new Naxos release with Haydn Symphonies 62, 107 & 108 (8.572130).

From June 23 to 24, Chloë Hanslip recorded three violin works by Jenő Hubay with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Mogrelia.

The Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Opera Colorado Chorus, conducted by Marin Alsop, recorded John Adams’ opera Nixon in China for Naxos.

The Staatskapelle Weimar, conducted by Michael Halász, recorded Max Bruch’s Symphony No. 1 in Eb, Op. 28 (1868) and Symphony No. 2 in f, Op. 36 (1870) for the Naxos label.

The Fine Arts Quartet recorded César Franck’s String Quartet in D Major and, together with pianist Cristina Ortiz, his Piano Quintet in F minor.

Opera Colorado and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra will collaborate to produce a live recording of their production of John Adams’ acclaimed opera Nixon in China (1987).

From March 2 to 6, the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Dmitry Yablonsky, recorded two works by Sergey Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1859–1923).

Joachim’s seldom performed violin concertos were recorded for Naxos by the Staatskapelle Weimar under the baton of Michael Halász.

Three Symphonies for Wind Ensemble by Alan Hovhaness, Nos. 7, 14 and 23, were recored by the Trinity College of Music Wind Orchestra, conducted by Keith Brion.

As part of an exciting new series of recordings of 19th-century virtuoso violin works, Axel Strauss recorded 24 Caprices by the French-born violinist/composer Pierre Rode.

The first recording in more than 40 years of Ildebrando Pizzetti’s masterpiece Concerto dell’estate (‘Summer Concerto’) took place between the 16th and 21st of January at the Aristotle University Hall, Thessaloniki, performed by the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Myron Michailidis.

From January 8 to 10, conductor James Sinclair and the Malmö Symphony Orchestra recorded a new Ives programme for Naxos.

Recording sessions were completed for eventual CD release as part of the continuing Naxos Deutsche-Lied Edition.

Staatskapelle Weimar, conducted by Antoni Wit, recorded Richard Strauss’ Sinfonia Domestica for Naxos.

On November 9, 10 and 11, the Buffalo Philharmonic under conductor JoAnn Falletta recorded two ‘new’ works by Franz Schubert for Naxos.

Aaron Copland’s score for the documentary film The City, made for the 1939 World’s Fair, was recorded on 15 October 2007 by the PostClassical Ensemble, under the direction of its conductor Angel Gil-Ordoñez.