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My First Lullaby Album / Halasz - Slovak PO

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-03-27

Works: Johannes Brahms: Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op. 49; Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61; Song Without Words for piano no 36 in E major, Op. 67/6; Arnold Bax: Lullaby, for piano; Ig...
Performers: Biret, Idil; Gens, Veronique; Jando, Jeno; Linell, Dorothy; Nagy, Peter [Piano]; Rickards, Steven; Steen-Nokleberg, Einar; Thiollier, Francois-Joel [Piano]; Veselka, Stefan; Wass, Ashley
Conductors: Breiner, Peter; Bramall, Anthony; Rahbari, Alexander; Clark, Keith; Judd, James; Casadesus, Jean-Claude

For centuries, babies and children all over the world have been rocked to sleep with a song to calm them. Whether parents sing or play,...continue...

Arnold Bax: Winter Legends

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2011-04-26

Works: Arnold Bax: Winter Legends, sinfonia concertante for piano & orchestra; Morning Song (Maytime in Sussex), symphonic variations for piano & orchestra in E major; Saga Fragment, for trumpet, strings, p...
Performers: Wass, Ashley
Conductors: Judd, James

Arnold Bax was a major force in British composition between the two world wars. The three works on this disc were composed for renowned pianist...continue...
Recording information: Lighthouse, Poole Center for the Arts, England (06/21/2010-06/22/2010)....continue...

Bax, Bridge: Piano Quintets

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-11-16

Works: Arnold Bax: Quintet for piano & strings in G minor; Frank Bridge: Quintet for Piano and Strings in D minor, H 49a
Performers: Wass, Ashley

Recognised as rising stars of their generation, pianist Ashley Wass and the Tippett Quartet join forces to present two contrasting yet equally engaging British piano...continue...
Recording information: St Silas Church, Chalk Farm, London, England (12/17/2009-12/19/2009)....continue...

Liszt: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 32

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-09-28

Works: Franz Liszt: Impressions et Poésies (7), for piano (Album d'un voyageur, Book I), S. 156/I (LW A40a); Apparitions (3), for piano, S. 155 (LW A19)
Performers: Wass, Ashley

'Having visited in recent times many new countries, many diverse sites, many places hallowed by history and poetry, having felt that the various aspects of...continue...
Recording information: Champs Hill, West Sussex, UK (03/05/2009-03/07/2009)....continue...

Easy Listening Piano Classics: Elgar, Sibelius, Granados, Rachmaninov

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-02-23

Works: Edward Elgar: Sonatina for piano (2 versions); Dream Children, for small orchestra (or piano), Op. 43; May Song; Piece, Op. 4; Carissima; Rosemary; Jean Sibelius: Pieces (13) for piano, Op. 76; Impro...
Performers: Banowetz, Joseph; Biegel, Jeffrey; Gimse, Havard; Inui, Madoka; Lauriala, Risto; Nagy, Peter [Piano]; Riva, Douglas; Wass, Ashley

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Piano Concertos

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-11-17

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The wasps; Concerto for Piano in C major; English Folk Song Suite; The Running Set, fantasia on jig-rhythms for orchestra
Performers: Wass, Ashley
Conductors: Judd, James

The popular overture from Vaughan Williams's incidental music for Aristophanes's 'The Wasps' introduces a suite whose mischievously witty, noble and farcical movements underline the play's...continue...
Recording information: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, England (01/27/2009-01/28/2009)....continue...

Bax: Symphonic Variations, Concertante for Piano (Left Hand) / Judd, Wass, Bournemouth SO

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-04-28

Works: Arnold Bax: Symphonic Variations, for piano & orchestra in E major; Concertante, for piano, left hand & orchestra
Performers: Wass, Ashley
Conductors: Judd, James
Ensemble: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Bax completed five works for piano and orchestra, beginning in 1916 with the highly virtuosic 'Symphonic Variations' dedicated to the pianist Harriet Cohen. The work...continue...

Bridge: Piano Trios

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-02-24

Works: Frank Bridge: Phantasie Trio, for violin, cello & piano in C minor ("Piano Trio no 1"), H. 79; Trio for Piano and Strings no 2, H. 178; Miniatures, for violin, cello & piano, H. 87-89
Performers: Chaushian, Alexander; Liebeck, Jack; Wass, Ashley

Frank Bridge's reputation as the teacher of his most famous student, Benjamin Britten, has long hindered appreciation of his own impeccably crafted music. Between the...continue...

William Alwyn: Piano Music Vol 2 / Ashley Wass

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-09-30

Works: William Alwyn: Preludes (12) for piano; Hunter's Moon, for piano; Irish Pieces (2), for piano; Contes Barbares (Homage to Paul Gauguin), for piano; Cinderella; Water Lilies; Night Thoughts; Movements...
Performers: Wass, Ashley

Alwyn's approach to writing for the piano was essentially that of a romantic, born out of the tradition exemplified by Liszt and Rachmaninov, through to...continue...

Liszt: Complete Piano Music Vol 28 / Leon McCawley, Ashley Wass

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-04-29

Works: Franz Liszt: Symphony no 9 in D minor after Beethoven for 2 Pianos, S 657
Performers: McCawley, Leon; Wass, Ashley

The Naxos comprehensive Liszt Piano Edition continues this month with a remarkable performance of Beethoven's 'Symphony No. 9', transcribed for solo piano by Liszt. Nineteenth...continue...

William Alwyn: Piano Music, Vol 1 / Ashley Wass

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2007-12-11

Works: William Alwyn: Sonata alla toccata, for piano; Green Hills, for piano; Cricketty Mill, for piano; Prelude and Fugue formed on an Indian Scale, for piano; Haze of Noon, for piano; Harvest Home, for pi...
Performers: Wass, Ashley

Piano music featured prominently for the most part of Alwyn’s career. The composer himself was no mean pianist, as evidenced in the varying technical demands...continue...

Bax: Violin Sonatas, Vol 2 / Jackson, Wass

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2007-11-20

Works: Arnold Bax: Sonata for violin & piano no 2; Ballad, for violin & piano; Legend, for violin & piano; Sonata for violin & piano in G minor; Sonata for violin & piano in F major
Performers: Jackson, Laurence; Wass, Ashley

A far cry from the heart-on-sleeve romanticism of his 'First Violin Sonata', Bax’s 'Second Violin Sonata' reflects the composer’s concerns regarding the First World War....continue...

Bax: Piano Works, Vol 4 - Music for 2 Pianos / Ashley Wass and Martin Roscoe

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2007-09-25

Works: Arnold Bax: Festival Overture; Poisoned Fountain; Moy Mell "The pleasant plain"; Sonata for 2 pianos; Devil that Tempted St Anthony; Red Autumn; Hardanger, for 2 pianos
Performers: Roscoe, Martin [Piano]; Wass, Ashley

The two-piano music heard on this recording was written mostly in the late 1920s for the husband and wife piano duet team of Ethel Bartlett...continue...

Bridge: Piano Sonata, Pensées fugitives, etc / Ashley Wass

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2007-05-29

Works: Frank Bridge: Piano Sonata, H. 160; Lament, for piano, H. 117b; Improvisations (3) for piano, left hand, H. 134; Sketches (3) for piano, H. 68; Moderato, for piano in E minor, H. 29; Pensée Fugi...
Performers: Wass, Ashley

Perhaps no other British composer of the first half of the twentieth century reveals a stylistic journey as varied as that of Frank Bridge, whose...continue...

Bax: Violin Sonatas no 1 & 3 / Jackson, Wass

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-10-31

Works: Arnold Bax: Sonata for violin & piano no 1; Sonata for violin & piano no 3
Performers: Jackson, Laurence; Wass, Ashley

"A glance at Graham Parlett's invaluable catalogue of Bax's music (OUP: 1999) reveals that the first of the composer's three numbered violin sonatas (a passionate...continue...

Elgar: Piano Music / Ashley Wass

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-09-26

Works: Edward Elgar: Sonatina for piano (2 versions); Dream Children, for small orchestra (or piano), Op. 43; Une idylle, Op. 4 no 1; Carissima; May Song; Rosemary; Echo's Dance, for piano; Characteristic P...
Performers: Wass, Ashley

"Most obviously pianistic are the fast, brilliant variations, which come across splendidly, sparklingly played by Wass - the rumbustious "Troyte", the amusing "BGN", and Dan...continue...

Bridge: Piano Music / Ashley Wass

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-04-18

Works: Frank Bridge: Fairy Tale, suite for piano, H. 128; Hour Glass, suite for piano, H. 148; Miniature Pastorals, for piano, Set 1, H. 127; Lyrics (3) for piano, H. 161; Pieces (3) for piano, H. 108; In A...
Performers: Wass, Ashley

Perhaps no other British composer of the first half of the 20th century reveals a stylistic journey as varied as that of Frank Bridge. Bridge's...continue...

Bax: Piano Works / Ashley Wass

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-02-21

Works: Arnold Bax: What the Minstrel told us, ballad for piano; A Mountain Mood; The Maiden with the Daffodil, for piano; Paean; A Hill Tune, for piano; Mediterranean, for piano; The Princess's Rose Garden;...
Performers: Wass, Ashley

"Having admirably survived Bax's discursive piano sonatas, Ashley Wass devotes all of his third volume of this composer's piano works to relatively smaller-scaled fare. Actually,...continue...

Bax: Piano Sonatas no 3 & 4, etc / Ashley Wass

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-05-17

Works: Arnold Bax: Sonata for Piano no 3 in G sharp minor; Sonata for Piano no 4 in G major; Water Music, for piano; Winter Waters, for piano; Country-Tune; O Dame Get Up and Bake Your Pies, variations for ...
Performers: Wass, Ashley

"As on the previous volume in his survey of Bax piano music for Naxos (NXS 8.557439), Ashley Wass has strong ideas about this repertoire. The...continue...

Bax: Piano Sonatas no 1&2, Burlesque, etc / Ashley Wass

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2004-09-21

Works: Arnold Bax: Sonata for Piano no 1 in F sharp minor; Sonata for Piano no 2 in G major; Dream in Exile, intermezzo for piano; Burlesque, for piano; Nereid, for piano; In a Vodka Shop, for piano
Performers: Wass, Ashley

"Wass is recorded as if heard from the first few rows, giving us a more visceral experience and greater detail. [The sonatas] are really quite...continue...

Laureate Series, Piano - Ashley Wass

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2000-01-01

Works: César Franck: Églogue, for piano, Op. 3, M. 11; Grand Caprice no 1, for piano, Op. 5, M. 13; Les Plaintes d'une poupée, for piano, M. 20; Prelude, Chorale and Fugue for Piano, M 21; Da...
Performers: Wass, Ashley