Skalkottas
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Skalkottas: Orchestral Works
RecommendedGeorgios Demertzis (violin), Vassilis Varvaresos (piano), Eleftherios Venizelos, Athens Philharmonia Orchestra, Byron Fidetzis
Orchestrations that bring the works powerfully to life. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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An attractive sequence of folk-inflected works by Georgian, Armenian, Greek, Hungarian and British-born composers in imaginative arrangements for solo cello and string orchestra by Alessio Pianelli...strongly... —
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Ramou navigates her way through these sometimes knotty scores, which she clearly knows inside-out, with consummate musicianship. The piano tone is warm and full although the over-resonant acoustic... —
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Trio Gaspard has a chameleon-like ability to adapt to the widely varying styles of each composer: Mendelssohn’s stately poise, Juon’s passionate mysticism, and Skalkottas’s spikiness. If future... —
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These 20th-century works for violin and cello are beautifully programmed and transition seamlessly. The playing is intuitive and spirited, despite an overarching melancholic mood. —
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Skalkottas - Duos with Violin
Georgios Demertzis (violin), Chara Sira (viola), Maria Kitsopoulos (cello), Maria Asteriadou (piano)
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Impressions for Saxophone and Orchestra
Theodore Kerkezos (saxophones)
Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Myron Michailidis
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Skalkottas: Two Concertos
George Zacharias, Alexandros Koustas, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Skalkottas’s scoring – needing far more players than the 10 required in his Third Piano Concerto (BIS, 3/05; Paladino, 5/20) – is miraculously clear, but required Brabbins and the London Philharmonic’s... —
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President's Own United States Marine Band: American Games
The President's Own United States Marine Band, College of William and Mary Choir, Timothy W. Foley
