Toccata Classics
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Tartini: 30 Sonate Piccole for Solo Violin Volume Four
Sonatas Nos. 19-24
Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin)
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Robert Fürstenthal: Songs and Ballads of Love and Passing
Rafael Fingerlos (baritone), Sascha El Moissi (piano)
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David Hackbridge Johnson: Orchestral Music Volume 1
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Mann
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra audibly believe in the music in three terrific performances. Conductor Paul Mann’s unequivocal acclaim for the works is manifest in every bar —
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Fago: Cantatas for Solo Voice and Continuo Vol. 2
Riccardo Angelo Strano (countertenor), Sabino Manzo (harpsichord), Claudio Mastrangelo (baroque cello), Giuseppe Petrella (theorbo), Davide Milano (violine), Santa Teresa dei Maschi
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Affecting poetry and blood-stirring fire in confluence with folk voices and an over-arching simplicity. —
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Encapsulates a profound belief in the primacy of melodic beauty. —
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Fritz Hart: Complete Music for violin and piano, Volume One
Susan Collins (violin), Stephanie McCallum (piano)
Hart never studied composition formally, but his music shows the influences to be expected on a British composer of the time. His sense of form and structure is worthy of note, his propensity... —
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Richard Stöhr: Chamber Music, Volume Four
Conor Nelson (flute), Velda Kelly (violin), Mary Siciliano (piano), Stefan Koch (cello), Priscilla Johnson (violin), Judith Teasdle (violin), Susan Schreiber (viola)
The music on this release all comes from 1942–43, shortly after Stöhr had settled in the United States after fleeing Nazi Germany. You would not know that by listening to this lovely, untroubled... —
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A welcome introduction to the Finnish composer whose organ music echoes Petr Eben’s angular tonalism. The organ’s clean, immediate sound adds brilliant clarity. The sonata deserves wide currency. —
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This collection of his chamber music for winds, spanning the years 1958 to 2004, displays an arresting sense for unusual timbral blending, as well an elegant and precise Neolassical construction... —
