Toccata Classics
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Teodorescu-Ciocanea: Piano Music
Tamara Smolyar (piano solo, piano primo), Livia Teodorescu-Ciocănea (piano secondo)
This composer’s music for piano is like a swiftly alternating rippling between stampede through a china shop and a breathlessly delicate examination of the finest Meissen and Satsuma. It flickers... —
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Ernst: Complete Works, Volume Six
Sherban Lupu (violin), Yvonne Redman (soprano), Ian Hobson (piano)
For those who esteem Ernst as Paganini squared, the performances of the violin music by Sherban Lupu, neither heavy handed nor agglutinated, should be irresistible. And for those to whom an... —
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Hans Gál: Music For Viola, Vol. 2
Hanna Pakkala (viola), Reijo Tunkkari (violin), Lauri Pulakka (cello), Niamh McKenna (flute), Päivi Severeide (harp), Irina Zahharenkova (piano)
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Mozart by Arrangement, Volume Three: Transcriptions for Organ
Zeno Bianchini (organ), Christian Lambour (organ)
the joy, wit and charm of Mozart translated to the organ in the hands of Bianchini and Lambour is a delight. —
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Shostakovich: Complete Music for Piano Duo and Duet, Vol. 2
Min Kyung Kim (piano), Hyung Jin Moon (piano)
The two Korean-born pianists on this recording are powerful advocates of the music and clearly had a ball while playing the two-piano version of the concerto…this series is a valuable addition... —
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Charles O’Brien: Complete Chamber Music, Volume One
Yuri Kalnits (violin), Alexander Volpov (cello), Oleg Poliansky (piano)
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Borys Lyatoshynsky: Ozymandias
and Other Romances for low voice and piano
Vassily Savenko (bass) & Alexander Blok (piano)
Spare, stony and chillingly haunting. —
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Heinrich Sutermeister: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
Juliane Banse (soprano), Benjamin Bruns (tenor), Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Rainer Held
