Nimbus
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Mendelssohn: Scottish & Italian Symphonies
Christopher Kite (fortepiano), Benjamin Hudson (violin)
The Hanover Band, Roy Goodman
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The main work by Franz Schreker on these discs is The Birthday of the Infanta (1908), a dance score inspired by an Oscar Wilde novel which later provided the subject for Zemlinsky's engrossing... —
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This is a treasure trove of music, performed on an instrument which Boyvin must have played. David Ponsford elegantly dances his way through minuet and bourrée, and the crystal-clear sound of... —
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Schumann's Album for the Young was composed for his young daughters, and, scaling down his volatile, complex and Romantic nature, the composer produced music of a beguiling simplicity...[Feltsman]... —
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Cherkassky's playing is alert with detail. —
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It has always surprised me that no one had recorded a disc of the six symphony symphonies of J. C. Bach's Op. 18, to my mind the finest collection of classical symphonies outside the works of... —
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Trumpet Music from the Italian Baroque
John Wallace (trumpet)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green
