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Shura Cherkassky: The Complete 78rpm Recordings (1923-1950)
Shura Cherkassky (piano), Robert Lortat, Marcel Hubert, Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Rachmilovich
APR’s is the most comprehensive single collection and has, by a country mile, the best annotation, booklet (Jonathan Summers) and transfers (Seth B Winner)...evidence, if it were needed, of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Archive Issue of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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It tells us things about Brendel’s artistry that scarcely any other recording does. More importantly, it tells us things about Busoni that I seriously doubt can be accessed from any other source. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Archive Issue of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Myra Hess: Live at the University of Illinois
Myra Hess (piano)
University of Illinois Sinfonietta, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, John M Kuypers, Victor Kolar
This has been an outstandingly successful series of discs – the quality of the transfers, given some intractable problems, has been generously, often triumphantly high…the series has both expanded... —
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a musical personality of a beguiling charm, a quality rarely encountered in today's more severe musical climate...You are reminded, too, of a naturalness and insouciance far removed from so... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Re-issue of the Month
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This set, with beautiful restorations and a booklet containing insightful essays and complete documentation, makes clear that the world suffered the loss of an extraordinary talent who abundantly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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one of the indisputably great pianists in history, albeit captured when he was judged to be past his prime (he was 65 when he made his first disc recording) - though few living pianists at the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Historical
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Here is baroque playing to gladden the heart... Busch and Serkin illustrate time and again what interpretative integrity is possible when great artists are committed to each other. —
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Building a Library, January 2017, Also Recommended
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Backhaus's own transcriptions of the Serenade from Don Giovanni and the E flat Marche militaire of Schubert warrant pride of place…Technical display, as it were, is almost hidden, so that the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Reissue/Archive of the Month
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York Bowen - The complete 78rpm Recordings
Edwin York Bowen (piano)
Aeolian Orchestra, Stanley Chapple
Bowen's supple musicianship and commanding technique (you sense there's always more in reserve) could hold their own with anyone's in his era. His Beethoven and Debussy are special. Reasonable... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2008, Re-issue of the Month
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