Grand Piano
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The six-movement ‘Ungdom’ (‘ Youth’) most fully evokes the folk music of Palmgren’s native Finland. Elsewhere, an Impressionistic haze floats over much of this beguiling music. —
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Joachim Raff: Works for Piano and Orchestra
Tra Nguyen (piano)
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kerry Stratton
Raff’s unfailingly tuneful synthesis of Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt is not always memorable, but one can understand his past high reputation given such roof-raising accounts. —
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