Instrumental, Piano Solos, Piano Sonatas, Bax (composer)
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A set not just for devoted Baxians. Loveridge brings out all the surging imagination of the First and Second Piano Sonatas. Her touch with the many shorter pieces is unerringly sure. —
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Not only does this gifted young pianist possess a rock-solid technique and striking keyboard finesse, his penetrating accounts of both these large-scale, single-movement sonatas make you sit... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2004, Editor's Choice
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[Bebbington] plays with tremendous authority, supported by a vivid recording with a appropriately wide dynamic range…Whatever his passions, private or public, Bax does what all worthwhile composers... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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Wass plays all this music straight and honestly, with a sure instinct for its idioms, without surrendering to the more self-indulgent aspects of Bax's chromaticism. Wass has plenty of power... —
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Rarities of Piano Music at the Husum Festival 2009
Nina Tichman (piano), Hubert Rutowski (piano), Artur Pizarro (piano), Denis Pascal (piano), Jonathan Plowright (piano), Janice Weber (piano), Eliane Rodrigues (piano), Jonathan Powel (piano)
Live and unedited, the performances are gloriously liberated, as if all the pianists, finding themselves in a warmly sympathetic rather than intimidating environment, felt free to relax and... —
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Puckish Mozart, dreaming Debussy, heartfelt Korngold, elegant Bach, sultry Falla: Heifetz the magician is on full display in these 1940s recordings. —
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A marvellous collection of relatively unfamiliar works by diverse composers, most of whom wrote little music for piano. McCabe is an outstanding advocate, effortlessly capturing the spirit... —
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Some collectors may, in fact, prefer Michael Endres's altogether more thrusting, structure-conscious view of the four numbered Bax sonatas. It's an approach that yields particularly handsome... —
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