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This little-known music reveals a highly accomplished composer, with well-formed melodies, inventive part-writing, nicely contrasted textures and an easeful command of long-term continuities...I... —
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Although Pärt incorporates significantly more space within his works than Bach, repeated listening reveals layers of similarity between the two compositional styles…Both rely on taut melodies,... —
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Joubert - Chamber and Instrumental Music
Patricia Rozario, Anna Joubert, Mark Bebbington & John McCabe
Brodsky Quartet
Pride of place foes to Joubert's 1977 Second Quartet, an impressive piece played with great conviction by the Brodsky Quartet, in the best recording of the set. —
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Birdsong
Music by Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann & Sally Beamish
Roderick Williams (baritone), Andrew West (piano)
a delectable programme, eloquently sung. —
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Actor Christopher Kent offers ideal fine-tuning to Gamal Khamis’s playing in the climax of Enoch Arden...The short bonus is a significant coup – the first recording of music for Uhland’s The... —
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Beethoven: Symphonies, Arranged for Piano Duo, Vol. 3
Symphony Nos. 2 & 7
Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman (piano)
I was immediately struck by the orchestral quality of their sound, its depth, volume and colour. That’s a benefit of having four hands at one piano, rather than two, and surely testament to... —
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Lana Trotovšek and Maria Canyigueral are a perceptive duo, nowhere more so than with the powerful First Sonata. Their seriousness of purpose is evident from the opening Andante. —
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The Dante Quartet’s performances are superbly stylish and accurate; the First Quartet is led by second violinist Oscar Perks, who delivers every bit as impressively as leader Krysia Osostowicz... —
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Vale and his accomplished colleague Paul Plummer start with an unpublished song by Gurney, the spirited, stirring On Wenlock Edge with a grand tune…Immediately one is made aware of Vale’s clarity... —
