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PROKOFIEV Works for Piano: 1908-1938 Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Roger Woodward, piano CELESTIAL HARMONIES 13292-2 (75:48) Prokofiev was twenty-one when he wrote the Sarcasmes, op. 17, and already contemptuous of anyone who expected him to behave. That contempt — gleeful, almost theatrical — is what Roger Woodward seems to relish most about this collection of piano […]
26.05.29
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MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY Songs Without Words (Ronald Brautigam) Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) Ronald Brautigam, fortepiano BIS BIS-SACD-1982 (69:19) There is a peculiar trap waiting for anyone who ventures into Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words — forty-eight pieces across eight published books, plus a handful that never saw print in his lifetime, all of them brief, all of them ostensibly […]
26.05.27
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Ivan KARABITS (1945-2002) Concerto for Orchestra No.1 Musikalnoe prinosheniye Kievu (Musical Gift to Kiev) (1980-81)* [12:36] Concerto for Orchestra No.2 (1986)*[17:05] Concerto for Orchestra No.3 Holosinnya (Lamentations) (1989)* [16:19] Valentin SILVESTROV (b.1937) Elegie (2002) [6:20] Abschiedsserenade (2003) [7:06] Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Kirill Karabits rec. The Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset, UK, 14-15 June 2010. *World Première Recordings NAXOS […]
26.05.25
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HANDEL Giulio Cesare (1724) George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Karina Gauvin, Romina Basso, Emöke Baráth, Filippo Mineccia, Johannes Weisser, Milena Sorti, Gianluca Buratto, Il Complesso Barocco/Alan Curtis NAÏVE OP30536 (221:00) There is a moment in the second act of Giulio Cesare — Handel wrote it in 1724, at the absolute height of his London […]
26.05.23
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Jean FRANÇAIX (1912-1997) 100th anniversary set Jean Françaix (1912-1997) see contents and artists list at end of review WERGO WER 6956 2 (73:28 + 79:32 + 74:43) Jean Françaix lived to be 85, and the astonishing thing is that he never once lost his nerve. Other composers of his generation either grew severe with age […]
26.05.21
