Toccata Classics
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Olga Solovieva plays with fiery conviction throughout, and the recording quality and documentation testify to admirable team-effort. —
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Buxton Orr: Chamber Music for Strings
Andrew Roberts (violin), Maya Homburger (Baroque violin) & Barry Guy (double-bass)
Beethoven String Trio of London
The beautifully crafted music of Buxton Orr [1924-97] has been shockingly neglected...The tonal idiom is not likely to disconcert anyone who enjoys the Bartok quartets...Altogether an attractive... —
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Algernon Ashton: Complete Music for Cello and Piano, Vol. 1
Evva Mizerska (cello) & Emma Abbate (piano)
[Mizerska and Abbate] are an established duo and play with great technical address and skill – indeed I cannot imagine a more convincing case being made for this music. The recording is rather... —
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Gutman's playing is sensitive, lightly articulated and cautious in its expressive range. At times he errs on the side of understatement. It is, though, engaging for its ornamental delicacy... —
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Grimwood [achieves] a really rhythmically driven set of performances...The final of the Fourth Sonata ranks as one of Grimwood's most memorable accounts for its controlled outpouring of intensity —
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[Kalnits and Csanyi-Wills] prove uber-sensitive to Weinberg's harmonic push-pull, and Kalnit's performance of the Sonata No. 1 for Violin Solo (1964) rolls with the technical punches like a... —
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Boris Tchaikovsky: Song Cycles & Chamber Music
Olga Filonova (soprano), Svetlana Nikolayeva (mezzo-soprano), Olga Solovieva (piano), Lev Serov (viola), Alexey Khutoriansky (violin), Kirill Ershov (balalaika) & Marina Archakova (cello)
Olga Filinova, lyric soprano of true intonation with a natural instinct for word-pointing...and her pianist, Olga Solovieva, serve Tchaikovsky's classical candour with pleasing directness. —
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Sergei Vasilenko: Complete Music for Viola and Piano
Elena Artamonova (viola) & Nicholas Walker (piano)
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every imaginable technical device [in the Rossini paraphrases] is mercilessly exploited, and this performance meets every challenge head-on...[Lupu's] ability to vary the speed and intensity... —
