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Shoji isn't merely a superb technician, she's a deeply engaging performer who punches above her weight. The richly resonant, spirited sound that the diminutive young violinist produces with... —
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their performances are finely reactive, sensitive to that troubled strain in Schubert that so often undercuts the Biedermeier Gemütlichkeit of the music. Even the Variations, so often presented... —
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from the first bar Avdeeva makes you sit up and take note. Here is an artist who can truly make the piano sing - and to no greater effect than in the A flat minor Trio of No. 2. —
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The latest instalment of the French pianist’s Fauré series is enjoyable. If Pennetier’s playing is sometimes too matter-of-fact for this beautiful music, that straightforward approach can also... —
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 24
Jean-Claude Pennetier (piano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Christoph Poppen
Two Mozart concertos in performances that on the whole rise to these incomparable works. Aged 75, Pennetier is a lively soloist, and his cadenzas are exceptional...the Paris orchestra, under... —
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From the outset, what impresses is her physical command of the music – her D major Toccata sparkles with purpose and has a strong sense of cohesion through its contrasting sections. Avdeeva... —
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Her rendition of Ravel is flexible and individual, in ways that may surprise some listeners, but it is charming and convincing in its own terms, as is her account of the Toccata, which showcases... —
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A Beethoven recital is a bold undertaking for any pianist, but Geniet’s youth (he is 24) and clean sound match well with the fresh sonorities and teeming inventiveness of sonatas Op 2, No 2,... —
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