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Richard Strauss: Concertante Works
Tasmin Little (violin), Michael McHale (piano), Michael Collins (clarinet), Julie Price (bassoon)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
It’s fascinating to hear the music of the developing composer brought to life in this dedicated performance [of the Romanze] by Collins…Little’s interpretation [of the Violin Concerto] is wonderfully... —
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Tchaikovsky Plus One Volume 1
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37 & Mussorgsky; Pictures at an Exhibition
Barry Douglas (piano)
Musorgsky’s magnum opus requires pianism of dazzling virtuoso panache, and here Douglas is really in his element. He may not quite evoke the wild irascibility and devil-may-care unorthodoxy... —
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Lisa Friend gives us an apt whiff of sensuality in the opening ‘Bordello, 1900’, while maintaining the requisite fin de siècle decorum…The remainder of the programme is a pleasantly varied mix... —
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Hommages
Margaret Fingerhut (piano), William Bennett (flute), Margaret Cable (mezzo-soprano), Kenneth Sillito (violin), Clifford Benson (piano)
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In a performance alternately as gutsy and subtle as this, [the Szymanowski is] completely riveting. The folk-inflected central movement brings some almost Rachmaninovian writing for the piano,... —
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Neeme Järvi and his Estonian players impart to these endlessly inventive scores an infectious sense of joie de vivre and conviviality that no doubt reflects the spirit in which they would have... —
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