BACH, J.S.: Well-Tempered Clavier (The) (Selection)

Mozart: Violin Sonatas, Vol. 2

ROMANCE

Schubert: Piano Works for Four Hands, Vol. 2

Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nos. 20 and 30-32

Beethoven: Bagatelles and Dances, Vol. 2

Beethoven: Bagatelles and Dances, Vol. 1

This Naxos recording has put together a beautiful presentation by two accomplished musicians who complement each other so perfectly. Nishizaki Takako delivers a spirited, lively, and peppy performance which pairs very well with Jando, who also delivers the right light and spritely touch for these early (pre-sturm and drang), Beethoven pieces. Nishizaki's renditions are an excellent and enjoyable way to round out your Beethoven repertoire, Here the piano provides the niches for Nishizaki's winning, sweet violin sound that delightfully reaches us with it's charm and beauty.

Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos. 5 and 9

MOZART: Violin Sonatas, Vol. 4

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Balakirev: Islamey

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 and 18

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 and 24

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3

Bach, J.S.: Well-Tempered Clavier (The), Book 2

Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4 (Piano Sonatas Nos. 3, 7, 11 a

Mozart: Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major / Beethoven: Piano Qui

Bartok: Rhapsodies Nos. 1 and 2 / Piano Quintet

Beethoven: 'Eroica' Variations / 32 Variations, Woo 80

Naxos best of Schumann features the fantastic Piano Quintet in E flat. The Scherzo-Trio is included here on this CD. Also on this CD is the Manfred Overture, selections from two of his Symphonies, solo piano music, and of course part of his famous Piano Concerto in A minor.

Classical Music

Schumann, R.: Kinderszenen / Papillons / Carnaval

Schubert: Piano Works for Four Hands, Vol. 1

Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 16 and 25 / Rondo, K. 386

LISZT: Piano Sonata in B Minor / Vallee d'Obermann / La camp

The 12 Transcendental Etudes are the ultimate test of quasi-orchestral virtuosity and of the capacity to achieve nobility and true eloquence. Jand� perhaps lacks diabolic frisson in the more ferocious numbers but his performances, overall, aren't disfigured by willful, sensational attributes or hysteria. No-1 is an impressive, dramatically pointed, curtain-raiser, and he can hell-raise with assurance in 'Mazeppa'. His 'Feux follets' hardly sparks with the brilliance of, say, some of the full-blooded accounts of certain Russian artists, but even when it hardly modulates from study to tone-poem it's still more than capable (higher praise than you might think where such intricacy is concerned). He flashes an impressive rapier at the start of 'Eroica' and there's plenty of swagger and facility in the so-called 'Appassionata' �tude. 'Chasse-neige', too, proceeds with a fine sense of it's menacing start to a howling, elemental uproar before returning to distant thunder. Jand� is less assured in introspection, yet it has to be said that all-encompassing versions of the Transcendental Etudes are hard to come by. Jand� is impressively recorded.

Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 12: Hungarian Rhapsodies, V

Liszt Complete Piano Music, Vol. 10: Scherzo and March, 3 Li

Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nos. 48-52

Haydn: Piano Sonatas Nos. 53-56 and 58 / Un Piccolo Divertim