Clara - Robert - Johannes
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Special offer. Clara - Robert - Johannes: Darlings of the Muses
Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, Gabriela Montero (piano), Alexander Shelley
[Montero’s] playing is free-spirited, fire-centred and uninhibitedly expressive, with a sense of rhetoric and flexibility that suggests the Romantic era itself: you can almost see the young... —
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Special offer. Clara, Robert, Johannes: Atmosphere and Mastery
Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano), Liz Upchurch, Stewart Goodyear (piano), Gabriela Montero (piano), Yosuke Kawasaki, Rachel Mercer
Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Alexander Shelley
Shelley and the orchestra respond to this emotional world with suitably impassioned accounts, using tempos that are energetic yet spacious enough to steep us in, for instance, the full effect... —
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Special offer. Clara - Robert - Johannes: Lyrical Echoes
Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra, Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano), Liz Upchurch (piano), Alexander Shelley
Although Shelley has the strings create a perfectly smooth surface in the slow introduction to Schumann’s Second...the dotted rhythms of the un poco più vivace (at 1'54") instantly shatter that... —
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Special offer. Clara, Robert, Johannes: Romance and Counterpoint
Angela Hewitt, Stewart Goodyear, Yosuke Kawasaki, Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Alexander Shelley
If there are plenty of recordings of both symphonies to choose from, these performances are a worthwhile listen. Shelley fires up playing of vigorous energy and spirit which, if not always ideally... —
