Recordings

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Dejan Lazić – The London Connection – Beethoven, Clementi, Cramer [Onyx]
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Beethoven himself made this piano arrangement of his Violin Concerto quite soon after the premiere of the original. It is not often performed today although it is all the composer’s...
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Thomas Tallis’s Votive Antiphons – The Cardinall’s Musick/Andrew Carwood [Hyperion]
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Just as you thought The Cardinall’s Musick Tallis series was complete, Hyperion has come up with a compilation of all the composer’s Votive Antiphon settings, taken from recordings produced between...
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Min-Jung Kym plays Beethoven & Mendelssohn – with Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay, the Philharmonia Orchestra and Clemens Schuldt [Signum Classics]
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The opening solo of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto gives food for thought. Min-Jung Kym phrases it exquisitely – might she treat every theme in this way and, if so, could...
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Marc-André Hamelin plays Schubert – Piano Sonata D960 & Impromptus D935 [Hyperion]
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There is a sense of Last Rites about Marc-André Hamelin’s account of Schubert’s ultimate Piano Sonata. An expansive tempo for the opening movement, and a few intended if slight hesitations,...
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Federico Colli plays Domenico Scarlatti – Sonatas, Volume 1 [Chandos]
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Whether Federico Colli is destined to record all 555 Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti for Chandos is unclear, but “Vol. 1” is encouraging of more to come. This is amazing music,...
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The Romantic Piano Concerto – 75: Piers Lane plays Ferdinand Ries [The Orchestra Now/Leon Botstein; Hyperion]
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Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838) has been described as Beethoven’s “right-hand man” – friend, pupil and secretary – and during his relatively short life (dead aged fifty-three) he was recognised as a...
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Munich Philharmonic – Sergiu Celibidache conducts Death and Transfiguration, Brigitte Fassbaender sings Kindertotenlieder [Münchner Philharmoniker Archive]
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One of the very greatest of conductors, Sergiu Celibidache (1912-96) led the Munich Philharmonic from 1979 until his death. His antipathy to the recording studio was legendary, but he was...
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Pavel Kolesnikov plays Louis Couperin [Hyperion]
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2018 may be the anniversary year of the most famous member of the Couperin dynasty, François (born 1668), but his uncle Louis (c.1626-1661) receives deserved attention on this revelatory release...
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Michael Collins plays Crusell’s Clarinet Concertos [Swedish Chamber Orchestra; Chandos]
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Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775-1838) was a notable clarinettist, best remembered by his compositions for that instrument although until relatively recently only the Concertante (for clarinet and bassoon) and his Grand...
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Yevgeny Sudbin plays Rachmaninov – Piano Concertos 2 & 3 – BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo [BIS]
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No shortage of recordings of these battle-scarred warhorses – spanning nine decades or so and including the composer’s own accounts (two of the C-minor Concerto) – but between them Yevgeny...
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