Chamber, Stanford (composer)
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The Romantic Piano Concerto (1991 - 2007 Edition)
Featuring pianists including Stephen Hough, Seta Tanyel, Piers Lane, Nikolai Demidenko, Martin Roscoe, Howard Shelley, Peter Donohoe, Marc-André Hamelin and Steven Osborne
Is this handsomely produced box-set worth acquiring? As a work of art alone, yes! If you have not encountered these works before, do not hesitate. Dip in anywhere and you will be rewarded. Assuming... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Villiers Stanford: Piano Quintet & String Quintet No. 1
with Piers Lane (piano), with Garth Knox (viola)
RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet
There’s little doubt that Piers Lane and the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet, recorded here with superb immediacy, recognise its evident strengths, delivering a
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These beautifully crafted and attractive string quartets, clearly indebted to Brahms and Mendelssohn, receive highly committed performances. The Fantasy for Horn and String Quartet, one of Stanford’s... —
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The relative smallness of piano trio repertory is partly due to the medium's balance difficulties...Such is Stanford's skill in the Piano Trio No. 2 that the problem seems not to exist: its... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Brahms: Cello Sonatas - Stanford: Ballata
Steffan Morris (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano)
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Special offer. Stanford: Music for violin and piano
Paul Barritt (violin) & Catherine Edwards (piano)
Barritt and Edwards judge the idiom expertly, and it's hard to imagine this better done. —
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Forgive Stanford for steering uncannily close to Brahms and Schubert at times (think late-Romantic Trout), as his Piano Quintet is really rather lovely. Especially so in the responsive hands... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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The Complete Organ Works of Charles Villiers Stanford Vol. 5
Daniel Cook (organ of Westminster Abbey)
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Stanford: Piano Quartet No. 2
Gould Piano Trio: Lucy Gould (violin), Alice Neary (cello) & Benjamin Frith (piano), with David Adams (viola)
It's hard to draw a deeper connection between an apparently un-Teutonic composer who came up with this winsome Irish material, and the one who could absorb himself so fully, and to such a finished... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Editor's Choice
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