Monday, 5 August 2013

BBC Proms - Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet play Borodin, Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky with a World Première of a work by Edward Cowie

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Tonight’s (5 th August 2013) BBC Prom featured the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/philharmonic   with their Conduc...
Sunday, 4 August 2013

Much to enjoy in violin sonatas by Leclair, finely played by Adrian Butterfield (Baroque Violin), Jonathan Manson (Viola da Gamba) and Laurence Cummings (Harpsichord) on a new release from Naxos

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Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764) is an interesting figure from 18 th century French music.   He was born in Lyon, France and started out a...
Tuesday, 23 July 2013

The Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch bring a special magic to the music of Ravel, Debussy and Fauré on a new release from Nimbus

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Nimbus Records www.wyastone.co.uk/all-labels/nimbus/nimbus-alliance.html has just released a recording of Piano Trios by Ravel and Fauré...
Saturday, 20 July 2013

Terrific performances of Bach’s sonatas for flute and harpsichord from Verena Fischer and Léon Berben on a new release from Oehms Classics

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Whilst we may frown upon such practices now, it was quite normal for composers of the Baroque era to re-use their own material to rework a...
Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Proms 2013. A David Matthews premiere, Rachmaninov from Nobuyuki Tsujii and Nielsen’s Inextinguishable with Juanjo Mena and the BBC Philharmonic

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Tonight’s Prom (16 th July 2013) with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/philharmonic   conducted by their Chief Cond...
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CPO brings us excellent performances of Wilhelm Georg Berger’s Viola Concerto and Fourth Symphony from violist Nils Mönkemeyer and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Horia Andreescu

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Wilhelm Georg Berger (1929-1993) was born in Rupea, a town in Braşov County in Transylvania, Romania. He studied the violin and viola under ...
Sunday, 14 July 2013

A glorious disc of 20th century works for flute and piano from Anne-Catherine Heinzmann and Thomas Hoppe on Audite

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Audite   www.audite.de   have just released a recording by Anne-Catherine Heinzmann (flute) and Thomas Hoppe (piano) of works for flute an...