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The Romantic Piano Concerto No.82 – Howard Shelley records Stéphan Elmas [Hyperion]

Howard Shelley’s attention to neglected nineteenth-century Piano Concertos continues with this fine recording of the first two by Stéphan Elmas (1862-1937). Composed in 1882 and 1887 respectively they are very much in the style of the ‘Romantic’ period. Elmas was not an innovative composer and the structure is very similar to that of Chopin’s Concertos of over …

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Bach - Goldberg Variations [BWV988] [Pavel Kolesnikov] [Hyperion Records - CDA68338]

Pavel Kolesnikov records Bach’s Goldberg Variations for Hyperion

As the young Siberian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov writes in the booklet, he came to the mighty Goldberg Variations in the autumn of 2018 through a meeting with the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, who commissioned him to play the work for a new solo dance piece, which previewed last summer in Belgium and Austria …

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