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Wed 14 Jun, 2017:
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Fri 02 Jun, 2017:
Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works
Distilled from his score for choreographer Wayne McGregor’s ‘Woolf Works’, staged by the Royal Ballet in 2015, ‘Three Worlds’ finds Max...
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Wed 31 May, 2017:
Heimat
In his debut on Sony Classical, Benjamin Appl nails his colours to the mast as the pretender to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s Lieder crown. He’s...
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Tue 30 May, 2017:
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain; The Three-Cornered Hat; La vida breve (Interlude and Dance); El amor brujo (Ritual Fire Dance)
This latest addition to Kazuki Yamada's highly desirable series of recordings for Pentatone at the helm of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande serves...
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Mon 29 May, 2017:
Room 29
Former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker’s debut on the venerable Yellow Label serves up a song-cycle voyeuristically detailing the imagined...
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Fri 26 May, 2017:
Simon O’Connor: What is living and what is dead
You won’t hear anything of Dubliner Simon O’Connor’s punk-band past in this plaintive and brittle, playful and beautiful, ruminative and rich,...
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Wed 24 May, 2017:
Chausson: Concert in D major, Op 21; Franck: Violin Sonata in A major
Alexander Melnikov's choice of an Érard piano from the period lends a distinctively mellow, soft-grained demeanour to this highly accomplished and...
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Fri 19 May, 2017:
Ives: Symphony No 3 (The Camp Meeting); Symphony No 4; Orchestral Set No 2
Sir Andrew Davis and the Melbourne Symphony complete their cycle of Ives orchestral works in excellent form. The playing is committed, and the SACD...
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Fri 12 May, 2017:
Michael Gielen Edition, Volume 4 (1968-2014) – Orchestral works by Berlioz, Dvořák, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Schumann, Smetana, Johann Strauss II, Suk, Tchaikovsky, Wagner and Weber
There are riches galore in this fourth volume from SWR Music devoted to the recorded legacy of Michael Gielen (who turns 90 this September). The focus...
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Mon 08 May, 2017:
Beethoven: Piano Concertos – No 1 in C major, Op 15; No 2 in B flat major, Op 19
Yevgeny Sudbin and Osmo Vänskä complete their traversal of the Beethoven piano concertos with the Tapiola Sinfonietta, following previous...
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Fri 05 May, 2017:
Great American Sonatas – Bernstein: Piano Sonata; Copland: Piano Sonata; Harrison: Piano Sonata No 3, Largo Ostinato; Ives: Three-Page Sonata, The Celestial Railroad
If the sonata represents the piano repertoire’s proverbial Everest, Nathan Williamson’s intelligently vivid recital suggests there is more than...
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Thu 04 May, 2017:
Weinberg: The Complete Works for Violin and Piano
Here is music for those wishing to explore fresh fields without straying too far from familiar musical languages. On these two discs containing all...
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Wed 26 Apr, 2017:
Franck: Violin Sonata in A major; Fauré: Romance in B flat major, Op 28; Szymanowski: Violin Sonata in D minor, Op 9; Romance in D major, Op 23; Notturno e Tarantella, Op 28
César Franck's adorable Violin Sonata comes up as fresh as new paint in this urgently expressive and memorably flexible performance by Tasmin Little...
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Mon 24 Apr, 2017:
Brahms: Ballades, Op 10; Fantasies, Op 116; Theme and Variations, Op 18b
This Brahms anthology from the 30-year-old Russian virtuoso Denis Kozhukhin launches most propitiously with a memorably intuitive account of the Theme...
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