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Download, Widor (composer)
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The songs are chosen, for the most part, with Véronique Gens’s voice in mind – no longer the bright soprano of 20 years ago, but now a warm and expressive mezzo, ideal in the more soulful melodies... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th April 2020
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Diapason d’Or, May 2020, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Special offer. The French Piano School: French School Pianists Play French Concertos
Jeanne-Marie Darré, Alfred Cortot, Kazuko Kusama, Marcelle Herrenschmidt, Lucien Wurmser, Jean Doyen, Francis Poulenc, Marguerite Roesgen-Champion, Jean Françaix, Arnaud de Gontaut-Biron, Jacques Février, Émile Passani, Charles Münch, Jean Fournet, Paul Paray, Hisatada Otaka, Victor Gallois, Walther...
Here, recorded between 1930 and 1949, are 14 works for piano and orchestra played either by their composer or by someone well acquainted with them...Another invaluable set that puts pianophiles... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Special offer. Organ Fireworks XI
Christopher Herrick (organ). Lay Family Concert Organ (C B Fisk Organ Company Opus 100), Eugene, McDermott Concert Hall, Morton H Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas
Christopher Herrick, playing on the Lay Family Concert Organ in Dallas, Texas, gives his recital an American slant...Widor's robust piece provides a link with various Parisian organists, among... — More…
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Special offer. Organs of Edinburgh
Usher Hall – John Kitchen, St Cuthbert’s Parish Church – Thomas Laing-Reilly, Palmerston Place Church – Andrew Caskie, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral- Duncan Ferguson, Freemasons’ Hall – Timothy Byram-Wigfield, St Andrew’s & St George’s West Parish Church – Michael Harris, Broughton St Mary’s...
This is a magnificent package, fully befitting its subject...The entire collection is a veritable treasure-trove, a feast for lovers of organ music...Just 2,000 copies of this will ever be published... — More…
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Special offer. The Romantic Piano Concerto 55 - Widor
Markus Becker (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer
In between [the Concertos] comes the Fantasie for piano and orchestra (1889), a thematically taut score that finds Roscoe and Yates in imaginative dialogue. Highly recommended, this should secure... — More…
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Individually, this was an engaging series from Signum; the simplistic packaging here perhaps belies the treasures that are to be found within. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Widor: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 1 & La Nuit de Walpurgis
World premiere recordings
Sergey Levitin (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates
This valuable new release, the third volume in Martin Yates's Widor series, shows exactly why the Goethe-inspired score enjoyed success during the composer's lifetime…it is an orchestral tour... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, Orchestral Choice
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If, as the disc’s title seems to suggest, the organ is the star first and foremost here, it’s apt. The St Paul’s organ has got guts and fire in its belly – despite being scheduled for a major... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2007, Editor's Choice
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