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Tue 27 Sep, 2016:
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Thu 18 Jun, 2015:
Bruckner: Symphony No 4 in E flat major (Romantic)
Manfred Honeck distils a truly awesome hush and mystery at the outset of this bracingly alive and exceedingly stimulating account of Bruckner's Fourth...
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Wed 29 Oct, 2014:
Dvořák: Symphony No 8 in G major, Op 88; Janáček: Jenůfa (Symphonic Suite)
Further proof that Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony are one of the classiest and most sheerly imaginative partnerships around at present. In...
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Thu 28 Aug, 2014:
Perle: Eight Pieces (1938-1997)
George Perle, who died five years ago at age 93, is honored by these excellent performances, which include the majority of his works for piano,...
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Thu 24 Apr, 2014:
Kodály: String Quartets – No 1, Op 2; No 2, Op 10; Intermezzo; Gavotte
Kodály's ambitiously large-scale First Quartet is a curate’s egg. Despite a slow movement of real expressive breadth (the emotional heart of the...
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Tue 09 Jul, 2013:
Gál: Symphony No 2 in F major, Op 53; Schumann: Symphony No 4 in D minor, Op 120
Now here's quite a find. Austrian-born Hans Gál (1890-1987) took flight from Nazi Germany in 1938, eventually settling in Edinburgh (where he became...
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