Toccata Classics
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The… Sonata-fantasia and the Skazka memorialize Goldenweiser's long-time friends Goedicke and Medtner respectively; they're both thoughtful, elegiac works distinguished by sovereign pianism.... —
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Stephen Gosling is a strong executant of all these works. It’s a harrowing assignment given the stringent technical demands. He plays the quite pieces with majestic serenity and wallops the... —
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Nigel Clarke: Music for Thirteen Solo Strings
Peter Sheppard Skӕrved, Sébastien Rousseau (flugel horn), Malene Sheppard Skӕrved (speaker)
Longbow
Nigel Clarke’s music is distilled, blade-keen melodic; poignant and searching —
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Maurice Emmanuel: Chamber Music and Songs
Frédéric Angleraux (violin), Hélène Hébrard (mezzo soprano), François Killian (piano)
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Transcriptions by the Liszt disciple Stradal provide meaty fare for Vizcarra. He produces an often monumental tone and pedalling effects are impressively worked. Recorded sound is a little clangy. —
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Songs to Texts by Pierre de Ronsard and other Renaissance poets
MeeAe Nam (soprano), John Elwes (tenor) & Joel Schoenhals (piano)
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a remarkable experiment in music theatre. Inspired by a 16th-century painting series in a Tallinn church, Rose sets a medley of Latin and medieval German texts, interleaving choral and solo... —
