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SACD, Satie (composer)
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In this utterly delightful disc [Ogawa] manages to convey not only Satie’s quirkiness, but his honesty…Ogawa does use the sustaining pedal, but sparingly. She also, as we know, has a fine technique... —
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st July 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Mystifying but wondrous, and Ogawa's clean, refined playing delights. Gorgeous recorded sound and good notes too. —
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Satie Vol. 4: relâche/Cinéma
Noriko Ogawa plays Erik Satie on an 1890 Erard Piano
Noriko Ogawa (piano)
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Ogawa delights in exploring the ambiguity of this score devoid of dynamic and articulation markings, varying touch and mood, from smoothly reflective to spiky or rambunctious. This is an absorbing... —
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These 12 arrangements (by the ensemble) are of stylistic and historical diversity...Muhly’s Look for Me invests a US folk song with dark jazz; Janacek’s Zdenka Variations is an appealing discovery. —
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Prières Sans Paroles
French Music for Trumpet & Organ
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), Simon Preston (organ of Aarhus Cathedral, Denmark)
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This is an intelligently planned, finely played album for trombone and string quartet, part recital of contemporary music, part hypothesis of what chamber music featuring trombone from the 19th... —
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