Chamber, Sonatas, Smyth (composer)
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Tasmin Little plays Clara Schumann, Dame Ethel Smyth & Amy Beach
RecommendedTasmin Little (violin) & John Lenehan (piano)
This delightful, beautifully performed album makes an emphatic, seemingly effortless case for these composers’ music. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, Chamber Choice
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Building A Library, January 2022, Featured Recording
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First Ladies
Three Romantic Violin Sonatas by Elfrida Andrée, Mel Bonis and Ethel Smyth
Annette-Barbara Vogel (violin), Durval Cesetti (piano)
All three of these composers lived well into the 20th century, yet these sonatas exude a thoroughly Romantic glow. All three women had to overcome considerable difficulties in getting their... —
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This enterprising programme of British cello sonatas encompasses a mixed bag of styles from the tonal writing of Armstrong Gibbs, which hints at Fauré, to the ethereal, impressionistic style... —
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Building a Library, March 2017, Recommended
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Special offer. British Cello Works
Smyth - Lutyens - Maconchy - Clarke
Lionel Handy (cello), Jennifer Hughes (piano)
This is a fascinating quartet of cello-piano duos spanning a period of seismic shifts in music…[Smyth’s] debt to Mendelssohn and Brahms is palpable, but this is highly intuitive writing for... —
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They Persisted
Joanna Goldstein (piano), Steven Moeckel (violin), Nicholas Finch (cello), Bruce Heim (horn)
The performances of all three works on the disc are superb. The musicians are not only technically masterful, they play with an unbounded energy, joy, and intensity that is absolutely riveting.... —
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Smyth: Chamber Music & Songs, Vols. 1 & 2
Celine Dutilly (piano), Renate Eggebrecht (violin), Johanna Varner (cello), Friedemann Kupsa (cello)
Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet
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My Playlist For Baking
Klára Körmendi (piano), François-Joël Thiollier (piano), Sebastian Knauer (piano), Romain Descharmes (piano), Clare Howick (violin), Sophia Rahman (piano), Yoshiko Iwai (piano), Heather Schmidt (piano), Nicolas Horvath (piano), Takako Nishizaki (violin), Jenö Jandó (piano), Judy Loman (harp), Ashley...
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British Classical Masterpieces
Gerald Peregrine, Antony Ingham, Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano), Henry Purcell, Kym Amps, David van Asch, Maria Kliegel (cello), Nigel North (lute), Benjamin Frith (piano), Dale Kavanagh (guitar), Madeleine Mitchell (violin), Gordon MacKay, Joseph Spooner, Murray McLachlan (piano),...
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