Accentus Music
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Chopin: The Piano Concertos
Evgeny Kissin (piano), Nikolai Demidenko (piano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit
Anyone who (like me) has found themselves resistant to Kissin's toy-soldier showmanship...needs to hear his brilliant account of the Concerto in F minor...In pianism of bel canto beauty, Kissin... —
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The Philharmonics
Waltzes By Johann Strauss. Arranged by Schoenberg, Berg & Webern
The Philharmonics
the DVD itself is a colourful evocation of old Vienna that admirably demonstrates the power of DVD to add positively to what one merely hears on CD...The five Strauss waltzes are proficiently... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Rigoletto
Saimir Pirgu (Il Duca di Mantova), George Petean (Rigoletto), Aleksandra Kurzak (Gilda), Andrea Mastroni (Sparafucile), Judith Schmid (Maddalena) & Julia Riley (Giovanna)
Philharmonia Zürich & Chor der Oper Zürich, Fabio Luisi (conductor) & Tatjana Gürbaca (stage director)
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The Waldstein is…quite impressive, with its dazzling opening movement thrown off with apparent ease, the slow introduction to the finale admirably sustained, and the controversial blurred pedal... —
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Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart & Beethoven
Juliane Banse (soprano), Bruno Ganz (narrator), Christine Schäfer (soprano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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The piece that fits well with the New World is the concert overture, Othello…Nelsons conveys the work’s turbulent passions, with marvellous control over dynamics and articulation…the sense of... —
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3
Denis Matsuev (piano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
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Daniel Barenboim plays Liszt Piano Concertos
On the Occasion of Franz Liszt's 200th Birthday
Daniel Barenboim (piano)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Pierre Boulez
Barenboim's approach to both concertos deals in the monumental rather than in quicksilver Romantic scintillation. The Second Concerto's broader idiom duly comes off best, with moments of impressive... —
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 & Symphony No. 3
Denis Matsuev (piano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
