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Teatro Lirico - 17th century music from Italy and Slovakia
includes compositions by Corelli, Caccini, Cazzati, Farina and a suite from an important 17th century Slovak manuscript
Milos Valent (violin & viola), Maxine Eilander (Spanish and Italian harps), Erin Headley (viola da gamba, lirone) & Stephen Stubbs (baroque guitar, chitarrone)
…some soothing music-making - the improvised pieces are gentle and undemanding on the listener - broken up occasionally by the more forcefully active and virtuoso music of the sonatas, which... —
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The crowning glory in this fifth volume of András Schiff's resonantly recorded, chronological survey of the Beethoven sonatas is his urgently propelled Waldstein Sonata. Schiff clearly views... —
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This arresting disc presents works by contemporary Danish composers, and showcases the exceptional talent of Norwegian accordionist, Frode Haltli. The pairing of strings and accordion proves... —
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Scelsi: Natura renovatur
Frances-Marie Uitti (violoncello)
Munich Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen
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Barber & Bartók: Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett (piano)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken & New Japan Philharmonic, Kazuyoshi Akiyama & Dennis Russell Davies
Jarrett's passagework [in the Barber] has a glittering edge, and he gives the music an exhilaratingly improvisatory feel. —
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Carolin Widmann and Simon Lepper respond superbly to the individual challenges of each piece, achieving the highest standards in such different music. Lepper copes admirably with Xenakis's... —
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Márquez is always a thoughtful, imaginative player, as supple as he is subtle, across a wide range of genres and periods from Renaissance to contemporary. Here, however, he is on home turf,... —
