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It says much for Charles Owen and his understanding of this composer that a young British pianist should present this music with such a distinctive voice. As is evident from the first of the... — More…
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Osostowicz and Tong’s interpretative style – patient, affectionate, warmly conversational, sensitive to harmonic detail – reminds me of Schneiderhan and Kempff’s classic mid-50’s set…They may... — More…
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Beethoven Plus Volume II
plus companion pieces by K. Schwertsik, M. Taylor, P. Ashworth, D. Matthews
Krysia Osostowicz (violin), Daniel Tong (piano)
Some of the new works play their part better than others…The Beethoven recordings sound very much ‘as live’, with the odd passing blemish left as it is – but I’d certainly put up with that for... — More…
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Elgar: The Hills Of Dreamland
Orchestral Songs and Complete Incidental Music to Grania and Diarmid
Kathryn Rudge (mezzo), Henk Neven (baritone)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth
Rudge is in refulgent voice for the darkly passionate Op. 60 diptych of 1910…[Neven] gives a splendidly lusty account of ‘The Pipes of Pan’. Elsewhere, Neven and Wordsworth make out an unexpectedly... — More…
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Cummings doesn't miss a detail: every trill and ornament is realised with the utmost clarity and his expertly balanced playing manages the rare feat of making the melody lines truly cantabile.... — More…
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This is not exciting or showy playing, but solidly musical and utterly stylish. — More…
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[Sacheverell-Coke's] 24 Preludes' style and manner is soaked in the Romantic piano tradition (Rachmaninov uppermost), yet harmonic twists and an obsessive repetitions of melody and rhythmic... — More…
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Most impressive throughout the disc is McCawley’s command of subtle nuance and rubato without ever sounding self-conscious or mannered. The impression, so artfully mediated, is that the music... — More…
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The women, too, wrote music of exceptional skill and beauty…Their works inhabit distinctive, highly Romantic soundworlds full of invention and drama, the interweaving of violin, cello and piano... — More…
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A Peter Warlock Christmas
Margaret Cable (mezzo-soprano), Matthew Morley (organ), Rosemary Barnes (piano)
Allegri Singers, Rosamunde String Quartet, Louis Halsey
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