Naxos
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[Andrew Penny] draws not just a concentrated, consistently committed performance from the Irish players, but a warmly resonant one. —
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"These discs, devoted to Mozart's four-hand piano music, cover his creative output from child prodigy to mature master. The early C-major Sonato, K 19d, was written by the prodigious eight-year-old... —
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Philip Thompson, a young Canadian, of immense talent. —
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Beautifully played and recorded. —
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Tchaikovsky: The Seasons & excerpts from 12 Morceaux
Takako Nishizaki (violin)
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Peter Breiner
If they are to be transcribed for violin and orchestra, Takako Nishizaki is surely their ideal exponent, for she plays with delicacy yet fully displays the nostalgic charm of 'January' (subtitled... —
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Mendelssohn: Concertos for Two Pianos
Benjamin Frith (piano) & Hugh Tinney (piano)
RTE Sinfonietta, Proinnsias O Duinn
Mendelssohn was 14 when he completed his first two-piano Concerto in E major, and still only 15 when he followed it with a considerably longer (rather too long) and more ambitious second in... —
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While everything on this disc is attractive, the most captivating music resides in the five pieces from 1907, composed as pictures of his wife Otilie, who tragically had died two years before,... —
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