This CD documents a ten-year productive friendship between a composer and a performer. Many of Matthews' quartets were written for the Kreutzer Quartet, and they've recorded two previous CDs of his... more

The fifth volume in Metier's Beethoven Explored series brings superlative performances of the Opus 12 Violin Sonatas and the relatively unknown B flat sonata by Beethoven's contemporary Andreas... more

Written fifty years apart, the two beautifully conceived and executed Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 3 bear the hallmarks of the same, powerful artistic personality.

The second in the Life & Times series which sets Beethoven's violin sonatas in their social and musical context. On this disc the context is provided by child prodigy Josef Mayseder - according to... more

Major works for solo violin by leading modern composers, a tour de force of skilful and virtuosic musicianship.

The composer Paul Pellay describes this immense and absorbing work as 'a compositional diary of the two years it took to write' and says that a number of his preoccupations became part of it's fabric... more

An immense and magnificent set of variations by American composer George Rochberg, not just, as the title may suggest, on Paganini's famous 24th Caprice, but incorporating styles and forms "borrowed"... more

The first in the Life & Times series which sets Beethoven's violin sonatas in their social and musical context. On this disc the context is provided by Beethoven's pupil, patron and confidant... more

In the last years of his life, the great composer and violinist Tartini (1692-1770) labored at a cycle of sonatas for solo violin. The resulting manuscript offers the most important composition for... more

The fourth in our acclaimed series which presents Beethoven's Violin Sonatas in their musical and social context, alongside works by Beethoven's contemporaries and pupils. Here we present the op. 23... more

Following my studies at the Tirana Conservatoire in 1982, I worked for three years as Music Director in a remote town in Southern Albania near the border with Greece.

The third in our series which presents Beethoven's Violin Sonatas in their musical and social context, alongside works by Beethoven's contemporaries and pupils. Here the op. 30 sonatas are joined by... more

Sadie Harrison's music is instantly recognizable from that of any other composer of her generation. She has a potent sense of instrumental color and a distinctive rhythmic vigor permeates all of her... more

"Antoni Wit's ongoing cycle of Penderecki orchestral works is yet another of those truly outstanding Naxos projects that's unlikely to get the attention it deserves. The music isn't easy, or popular,... more

David Gorton is a very highly respected British composer whose music is firmly modernist - very difficult to play, but which is also very approachable and accessible. Here Neil Heyde provides a... more

The Munich-based American composer Gloria Coates is best known as a symphonist, though she has also composed nine string quartets as well as vocal and chamber music.

John Cage s father once advised him: If someone says can t, that shows you what to do. It s a safe bet that the 16 iconoclastic composers on this aptly named Naxos of America compilation would agree... more

24 Bit Digitally Remastered, rare photos, vintage memorabilia, detailed liner notes.