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Leonid Desyatnikov: The Leaden Echo
Roman Mints, William Purefoy, Maxim Rysanov, Kristine Blaumane, Boris Andrianov, Alexei Goribol, Dmitri Bulgakov, Jacob Katsnelson, Anton Dressler, Anna Panina, Fedor Lednev, Pavel Stepin, Serj Poltavski, Evgeny Rumyantsev & Petr Kodrashin
In this first all-Desyatnikov album released in the UK, we are transported to an eerie, sometimes dream-like and often disturbing soundworld...But it's the title track...which most suggests... —
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A Tribute to Bartók from Wales - Partsongs, Duos, Trios
Jeanette Massocchi (piano)
Ensemble of soloists from the Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cecilia Vajda
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Tong’s interpretations are on the swiftish side, in the Allegro first movement of the first Sonatina, I find his choice of tempo here, and indeed throughout- the most natural. The Sonatinas... —
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Oshima and Stroissnig certainly seem to have a clear and disturbing picture of the sonata’s emotional implications, which are incorporated into an interpretation of impressive dynamic thrust,... —
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She has a prodigious technique, so the bravura demands of Brahms’s Paganini Variations and Liszt’s Tarantella hold no terrors for her, and she makes Liszt’s intricate filigree writing a thing... —
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Fierce Tears
Contemporary oboe music
James Turnbull (oboe), Huw Watkins (piano) & Claire Jones (harp)
Maxwell Davies's piece is among his deftest and most affecting miniatures, while James Macmillan's 11-minute solo is an eloquent memorial to the dead of 9/11 that takes the oboe to its limits... —
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Mélodies Passagères: Songs of Samuel Barber
Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (soprano) & Stephen De Pledge (piano)
Jeffers catches each mood with poise and grace; solid accompaniments from de Pledge. —
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His are deeply probing, exploratory, at times unsettling performances, yet they undoubtedly carry an underlying authority and conviction that is persuasive even - perhaps especially - when they... —
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