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Special offer. Glass - Another Look At Harmony Part IV
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ)
Choir of the 21st Century, Howard Williams
Glass's gradually expanding and contracting sequences eventually generate musical peaks and troughs of quite monumental proportions. Groups of two are persistently set against threes and sixes,... —
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Karg-Elert produced a virtuoso recasting that needs a Listz to play it. Mark Bebbington gives it his best shot with revealing and often thrilling results. The enterprising coupling is the... —
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Plummy, bass-heavy, recorded sound doesn’t do justice to the lovely tone of this most engaging of pianists. Her fingerwork is superlative (try Daquin's Le coucou), and Tippett's First Sonata... —
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No praise could be high enough for such an adventurous and challenging programme, particularly with offered in such vivid and affectionate performances. —
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The playing is not merely extremely beautiful, it has something much more elusive about it; a sense of illuminating the music from the inside, such that the dividing line between the composer... —
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Rozario is in her element, finely phrased and delicately nuanced, and Ogden responds with unforced vitality. —
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…what makes this Somm disc especially valuable is the spellbinding account of the Rhapsody Trio for two violins and viola, perhaps the most elusive and fantastic of Bridge's late chamber scores,... —
