Concertos, MacDowell (composer)
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Gerhardt has a honeyed, liquid tone all his own. He has created a well-contrasted programme that clearly took a long time to research and hone...This is cello playing of exquisite sophistication... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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The Romantic Piano Concerto (1991 - 2007 Edition)
Featuring pianists including Stephen Hough, Seta Tanyel, Piers Lane, Nikolai Demidenko, Martin Roscoe, Howard Shelley, Peter Donohoe, Marc-André Hamelin and Steven Osborne
Is this handsomely produced box-set worth acquiring? As a work of art alone, yes! If you have not encountered these works before, do not hesitate. Dip in anywhere and you will be rewarded. Assuming... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. MacDowell: Orchestral Works Vol. 1
Xiayin Wang (piano), BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson
MacDowell is perhaps best known for his brief but lovely ‘To a Wild Rose’. That’s included in this stunningly performed and recorded selection of his orchestral works, including his First Piano... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2024, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. MacDowell: Orchestral Works Vol. 2
Xiayin Wang (piano), Peter Dixon (cello)
BBC Philharmonic, John Wilson
Placed alongside the suite's brilliant parade (sparklingly delivered by Wilson's BBC forces), the concerto's virtuosic rhetoric suggests the ponderous throat clearing of some lumbering giant,... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 25 - MacDowell
Seta Tanyel (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
[Tanyel] can totally identify with this kind of post-Lisztian lyric bravura style —
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Jesús María Sanromá -The Complete Boston ‘Pops’ Recordings
Jesús María Sanromá (piano), The Boston 'Pops' Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler
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Olga Samaroff & Frank La Forge: the Complete Solo Recordings
Olga Samaroff, Frank La Forge, Victor Orchestra
You can still appreciate what a rich and varied piano tone [Samaroff] produced in performances of grace and musicality. When it comes to bravura works, I think you will be astonished. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Imagination
Raphaela Gromes (cello), Daniel Dodds (violin), Julian Riem (piano), Arcis Saxophon Quartett, Anais Gaudemard (harp), Angela Chang (cello)
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Excellent versions of these virtuoso ear-ticklers make a welcome return. —
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The maverick Australian's choice of recorded repertory is as idiosyncractic as expected, emphasising a small-ish number of individual works...His playing impresses all the more for never needing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st January 2015
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