Sunday, 27 November 2016

Praga Digital’s new release Shostakovich plays Shostakovich is an absolute gold mine of Shostakovich performances, remarkably well re-mastered and quite irresistible

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Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) was first taught piano by his mother before entering the Leningrad Conservatory at the age of just 13. He s...
Thursday, 24 November 2016

An exceptionally fine disc in every way from Ensemble Gilles Binchois, setting Heinrich Isaac’s Missa Virgo Prudentissima within an imagined Florentine celebration on a new release from Evidence Classics

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Next year marks the 500 th anniversary of the death of the composer, Heinrich Isaac (c.1450-1517) . Though born in Flanders he travelled s...
Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Benjamin Schmid with the Oulu Symphony Orchestra under Johannes Gustavsson provide first rate performances of two very fine violin concertos by Finnish composers, Einar Englund and Uuno Klami on a new release from Ondine

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A new release from Ondine www.ondine.net  brings together the violin concertos of two important Finnish composers, Einar Englund and Uuno ...
Monday, 21 November 2016

Carol Leone uses three Donison-Steinbuhler Standard keyboards for her recital on MSR Classics entitled Change of Keys – One Piano, Three Keyboards creating a disc that is fascinating and a particularly fine recital in its own right

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It has been suggested that the size of Sergei Rachmaninov’s (1873-1943) slender hands and their huge span were due to a genetic disorder kn...
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Sunday, 20 November 2016

Another winner from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles with a new release of works by Ligeti on Les Siècles Live - Musicales Actes Sud

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Formed in the summer of 2003 by François-Xavier Roth www.francoisxavierroth.com , Les Siècles http://lessiecles.com comprises outstandi...
Tuesday, 15 November 2016

Italian pianist Alfonso Soldano makes a valuable addition to Divine Art’s fine Russian Piano Music Series with a new release of piano works by Sergei Bortkiewicz

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Only five years younger than Sergei Rachmaninov composer and pianist, Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) https://sergeibortkiewicz.com was bo...
Friday, 11 November 2016

Another fine release from Stephen Darlington and the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford in Avie’s valuable series of Music from the Eton Choirbook that includes two world premiere recordings

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So far in their survey of Music from the Eton Choirbook www.diamm.ac.uk/the-eton-choirbook   Stephen Darlington www.chchchoir.org/about/...