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Piano Recital: Schuch, Herbert - SCHUMANN, R. / HOLLIGER, H. / SCRIABIN, A. / RAVEL, M. / MOZART, W.A. (Nachtstucke)


Herbert Schuch's provocatively programmed recital built around "Night Pieces" matches and perhaps even surpasses the extraordinary standards set by the young pianist's earlier Oehms Classics solo release. Read more…
   
CDR90000-109
Choral Concert: William Ferris Chorale – HOVHANESS, A. / COHEN, E. / NICHOLSON, P. / FRENCH, P. / BLACKWOOD, E. / KREUTZ, R. / FERRIS, W. / WHITE, W.C


Choral music fans will be grateful for Cedille's devotion of its production resources to programming these previously unrecorded works--invariably interesting, often captivating settings of sacred texts written during the last 40-50 years (several between 2004 and 2007). Read more…
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SHOSTAKOVICH, D.: Girl Friends / Rule, Britannia / Salute to Spain (Polish Radio Symphony, Fitz-Gerald)


This disc may be aimed more at the Shostakovich completist, but it's no less wonderful for that. Read more…
   
8.557599
BAX: Symphonic Poems


Drawn from David Lloyd-Jones' excellent set of Bax symphony recordings, this collection competes in four out of five works with Bryden Thomson and the Ulster Orchestra on Chandos.
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HMC902013.14
TELEMANN, G.P.: Brockes Passion (Jacobs)


If there never had been a J.S. Bach no doubt the name and oeuvre of Georg Philipp Telemann would be held in far greater esteem today--which is to say that some very fine works have been unfairly overlooked and perhaps underrated, standing as they inescapably do in the huge shadow of the great master. Read more…
   
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SZYMANOWSKI, K.: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 4 / Concert Overture / Study in B flat minor (Warsaw Philharmonic, Wit)


As previous issues in this series have shown, when Antoni Wit and his forces are in top form in the music of Szymanowski, they're pretty much unbeatable. Read more…
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SCHUBERT, F.: Piano Quintet, "The Trout" / Introduction and Variations on Trockne Blumen / Notturno (Tetzlaff, Tamestit, Baerten, Helmchen)


Yes, it sounds crazy to make yet another recording of Schubert's Trout Quintet a "reference recording", particularly given the number of really good ones already in circulation. Read more…
   
HMC902017.18
SATIE, E.: Solos and Duos (Avant-dernieres pensees) (Tharaud)


There's far too much music here to discuss the performances in detail--more than 30 works in all, many containing multiple pieces--so I'm going to have to ask that you take on faith the fact that there are no finer Satie performances in the catalog. Read more…
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ROUSSEL: Symphony No. 2 / Pour une fete de printemps / Suite in F major (Deneve)


Has anyone ever noticed that William Walton lifted the climaxes of the first movement of his Partita for Orchestra bodily from the Prélude of Roussel's Suite in F? Read more…
   
BIS-SACD-1431
BACH, J.S.: 4 Orchestral Suites, BWV 1066-1069


These performances are magnificent, and offering two SACDs for the price of one makes them a good deal too. Read more…

 



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