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Fri 15 Sep, 2017:
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Tue 15 Nov, 2016:
Clementi: Piano Concerto in C major; Franz Xaver Mozart: Piano Concertos – No 1 in C major, Op 14; No 2 in E flat major, Op 25
Franz Xaver Mozart – born four months before his father’s death – led an itinerant life as 'Wolfgang, Jr.', piano virtuoso and composer of...
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Tue 15 Mar, 2016:
Steibelt: Piano Concertos – No 3 in E major, Op 33 (L'orage); No 5 in E flat major, Op 64 (À la chasse); No 7 in E minor (Grand concerto militaire)
Beethoven trounced Daniel Steibelt (1765-1825) in a pianistic duel that delighted frequenters of a Viennese salon in 1800, but his compositions...
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Wed 14 Oct, 2015:
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16; Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 22
These are persuasive, personable performances of two much-loved piano concertos. Vadym Kholodenko (2013 Cliburn Gold Medalist) conjures a likeable...
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Thu 06 Nov, 2014:
Escape to Paradise: The Hollywood Album
Although Nicola Benedetti may have stolen his thunder, Daniel Hope makes a decent fist of the Korngold Concerto, the main event on another selection...
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Thu 26 Jun, 2014:
Williamson: Piano Concertos – No 1 in A major; No 2 in F sharp minor; No 3 in E flat major; No 4 in D major; Concerto for two pianos and string orchestra; Sinfonia concertante in F sharp major
Born in Sydney, Malcolm Williamson (1931-2003) was a prolific and (at least initially) highly regarded figure in British music after his permanent...
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Mon 17 Jun, 2013:
Beethoven: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra
It's some measure of Howard Shelley's achievement that he more than holds his own in such a hotly competitive field with this profoundly rewarding...
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