Ravel was very happy with his second Violin Sonata, written between 1923 and 1927, whose second movement adopts the Afro-American blues. This wonderful sonata is characterized throughout by the... more

This second of Naxos' two-disc survey of Giorgio Federico Ghedini' complete piano music includes his largest-scale work for solo piano, the 1922 Sonata, an intimate and harmonically complex piece... more

It was not until his fifties that the fiercely independent Giorgio Federico Ghedini came to be acknowledged as one of the finest Italian composers of the 20th century. This first of Naxos' two-disc... more

Bruno Walter is probably still known today, well over 50 years after his death, to all music lovers as a great conductor. He came to public attention as a composer mainly in his early Viennese years... more

This, the first of two volumes of Respighi's complete works for violin and piano, features some of his earliest compositions. They are notable for their openness to influences as diverse as German... more

Although Giorgio Federico Ghedini's proud independence and lack of adherence to any particular school brought him into conflict with the avant-garde, he is now increasingly recognized as one of the... more