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Wed 26 Apr, 2017:
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Wed 26 Oct, 2016:
Schubert: Piano Trios – No 1 in B flat major, D 898 (Op 99); No 2 in E flat major, D 929 (Op 100)
The traditional view of Schubert’s two piano trios tends towards ebullience (Op 99) as opposed to austerity (Op 100). Fortepianist Andreas Staier...
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Mon 03 Aug, 2015:
Fine: Complete Orchestral Works – Toccata concertante (1947); Notturno for strings and harp (1951); Serious Song, a Lament for string orchestra (1955); Blue Towers (1959); Diversions for orchestra (1960); Symphony (1962)
In his too-brief career, the American composer Irving Fine (1914-1962), a star pupil of Nadia Boulanger and a founding professor at Brandeis...
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Wed 10 Jun, 2015:
Grieg: 27 Lyric Pieces
Stephen Hough has come up with yet another winner of a disc, a generous selection from Grieg's ten volumes of Lyric Pieces that irresistibly calls to...
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Tue 05 May, 2015:
Barber: Piano Concerto, Op 31; Nocturne (Homage to John Field), Op 33; Britten: Piano Concerto, Op 13; Night Piece (Notturno)
Elizabeth Joy Roe’s coupling of the Britten and Barber Piano Concertos has several claims for attention. The first appearance together on disc of...
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Thu 07 Aug, 2014:
Stenhammar: Serenade in F major, Op 31; Excelsior!, Op 13; Sången (The Song), Op 44 – Interlude
Listened to back-to-back, Sweden’s two Romantic masters Franz Berwald (1796-1868) and Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927) have at least one thing in...
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