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The Florestan Trio has the ability to adapt its style to different kinds of music without any loss of conviction. After Brahms and Schumann comes this French disc showing it equally adept at... —
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Building a Library, December 2022, Recommended Recording
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 10 - Weber
Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
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Hough has a dream-ticket combination of virtues – astonishing agility, a faultless ear for texture, fine-tuned stylistic sensibility and an exceptional understanding of harmonic and structural... —
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Carl Vine: Child's Play, Piano Quintet & Other Chamber Music
Goldner String Quartet, Piers Lane (piano)
the works collected - all recorded with clarity, if slightly closely - provide a fascinating portrait of a composer who produces music of undoubted appeal and expressive focus. Well worth investigating. —
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Imitative textures suit Cupertinos well, as they record in a generous acoustic and favour gentle pacing and long, languishing phrases. Theirs is an Iberian polyphony in dreamy, soft hues, at... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 23 - Holbrooke and Wood
Hamish Milne (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Holbrooke's ambitious First Piano Concerto is by some margin the most impressive orchestral piece of his to appear on disc. Dubbed a symphonic poem by its creator, it follows the narra- tive... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 19 - Tovey & Mackenzie
Steven Osborne (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
From the horns' call to arms at the outset of the piece to the irrepressible merrymaking of the closing pages, Edinburgh-born Sir Alexander Mackenzie's Scottish Concerto (1897) spells firm enjoyment,... —
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…in vivacious movements… the sheer verve of the playing is irresistible. The dancelike sections of the Third Sonata's finale make a similar impression and its 'big' tune is wonderfully well... —
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Fauré - The Complete Songs - 4
Dans un parfum de roses
Jennifer Smith, Felicity Lott, Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
…the final volume and jewel in the crown of Hyperion's completely Fauré songs. …all the singers involved in this glorious project, while not always in their first radiance and purity of voice,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, Editor's Choice
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