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Special offer. The Music of Stefan Wolpe - Vol. 7
Movses Pogossian, Susan Grace (violin) & Varty Manouelian (piano)
This invigorating disc of chamber works for violin is framed by music of the mid-1960s, when Wolpe had achieved his most liberated atonal style...The first such sonata (1949) is a rigorous four-movement... —
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Beck’s performances do them proud, bringing together all five pieces in one recording for the first time. Spanning much of the composer’s creative life, from 1953 to 2003, the sonatas offer... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
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Special offer. Dan Visconti: Lonesome Roads
Scharoun Ensemble Berlin (members of the Berlin Philharmonic) & Horszowski Trio, Michael Hasel
[Lonesome Roads] packs a strong rhythmic charge, and there are bottleneck guitar evocations, interesting rock-influenced elements - especially rhythmic ones - and little wispy whistles and minimalist... —
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Voice and guitar may be a natural combination for the passions and colours of Spanish song, but rarely have they sounded as vivaciously, seductively idiomatic on disc…Isbin’s range of colour…masterfully... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2017
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Special offer. American Orchestral Song
Patrick Mason (baritone)
Odense Symphony Orchestra, Paul Mann
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Building a Library, March 2020, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Shawn: The Music Teacher
Sarah Wolfson, Jason Forbach, Jeffrey Picon, Parker Posey, Wallace Shawn, Rebecca Robbins, Halley Wegryn Gross & Elizabeth Berkley
Chamber Ensemble, Timothy G. Long
Shawn's wistful, tonally centred music successfully conveys the atmosphere of loneliness and regretful melancholy. —
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As a pupil and disciple of Claudio Arrau. Ohlsson cultivates a richness of tone which some listeners might find too Brahmsian. But besides the depth, Ohlsson plays crisply, and is never in... —
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Grammy Awards, 50th Awards (2007), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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