Challenge Classics
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Doubtless most readers have their own favourite interpreters of these quartets, but for their ability to make strong declamatory statements alongside more lyrical pronouncements these performances... —
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There is a lot of thought-provoking music and a lot of thought-provoking musicology on this album. Supporting the whole project is some really beautiful instrumental playing: listen especially... —
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No one undertakes a recording of Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues lightly, and Dutch pianist Hannes Minnaar engages an authoritative objectivity in running the ever-surprising gamut of... —
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Sara Ruiz readily discovers the poetry in these Fantasias and her rhetorical approach makes for considerable appeal. Contrapuntal lines are clearly sustained, and dance-orientated measures are... —
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Richard Rijnvos: Uptown, Downtown
John Snijders (piano)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic & Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Celso Antunes
the music is wonderfully direct and genuinely engaging, whether referencing other composers – Ives, Gershwin, Thelonious Monk and Bernard Herrmann – in the concerto, or generating huge waves... —
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