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CD, Antheil (composer)
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Special offer. Antheil: Songs
Alice Lackner (performer), Philip Mayers (performer), Colin Griffiths-Brown (performer)
The performances are good, though the sound quality is limited and the sung texts are not included in the booklet; yet mezzo Alice Lackner has a good feel for the music and her pianist Philip... —
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Hamelin's amazing technique and clarity of sound means that the music sounds as spontaneous as it can, though there's still a lingering doubt that it's all just a bit too knowing and clever. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Editor's Choice
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Fuelled by a trip to Tunis, the two inner movements are imbued with ‘all the strangeness of Africa’ according to Antheil, and Kopatchinskaja is in thrall to their mercurial fantasy. She’s also... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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George Antheil: Orchestral Works Vol. 3
Symphony No. 1 'Zingareska', Suite from 'Capital of the World', McKonkey's Ferry, Nocturne in Skyrockets & The Golden Bird
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
As with the previous instalments in this ongoing retrospective, the performances are superb and vividly recorded. Again, Storgårds is generally more incisive and emotionally generous than Hugh... —
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Ecoles de Paris – Paris Pour Ecole
Adele Bitter (cello), Holger Groschopp (piano), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Johannes Zurl
the star of the album, Stravinsky apart, is undoubtedly the Pole Szymon Laks, who ended the war conducting the prisoners’ orchestra in Auschwitz...The playing in all these pieces, and in Ibert... —
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Special offer. George Antheil 1900-1959
Frank Dupree (piano), Adrian Brendel (piano), Uram Kim (piano)
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Karl-Heinz Steffens
Dupree is an able and idiomatic soloist, and the orchestra supports him with flair, if not always with complete rhythmic precision. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner Concert Recording - (20th/21st-century music)
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Music like this, often rampagingly orchestrated, needs performances of matching gusto. The symphonies’ pioneer German recordings, now almost 20 years old, had plenty of spirit, but the superior... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Some of this is hilarious 1920s music. George Antheil, the self-styled 'bad boy of music'… is in fine kleptomaniac form at a time when he idolised Stravinsky and plagiarised compulsively.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Editor's Choice
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Storgårds treats this music with painstaking care, restoring deliberate ‘wrong notes’ expunged by earlier conductors in the Fourth, respecting all Antheil’s nuances of tempo variations, and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2017, Editor's Choice
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