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Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2
Romain Descharmes (piano)
Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Marc Soustrot
Money well spend: a young(ish) French pianist (b1980) with a polished technique and an innate affinity with his countryman’s idiom, well recorded, with first-class accompaniment from the genial... — More…
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Copland - Piano Concerto
Benjamin Pasternack (piano)
Elgin Symphony Orchestra, St Charles Singers, Robert Hanson
Copland's concise Piano Concerto… shows how Copland exploited the jazz age to brilliant effect. A thoroughly efficient performance with Pasternack but the orchestral sound with Ohlsson under... — More…
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With some typically informative Naxos documentation, this disc of music by a little known but immensely gifted composer can be recommended with much enthusiasm — More…
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Hovhaness - Guitar Concerto No. 2
World Première Recordings
Javier Calderón (guitar)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stewart Robertson
Alan Hovhaness's Second Concerto was commissioned by the great Narciso Yepes in 1985 but wasn't premiered until 1990, shortly before Yepes's death. It's classic Hovhaness, with numerous hymn-like... — More…
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Leroy Anderson - Orchestral Works Volume 2
Alistair Young (piano) & David McCallum (trumpet)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
The performances can compete with the best. Slatkin's tempi are consistently well chosen and generally close to Anderson's own. This second instalment is one no lover of Anderson's music will... — More…
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Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata, Dumka, Chinese Puzzle & other chamber works
Philip Dukes (viola), Sophia Rahman (piano), Daniel Hope (violin) & Robert Plane (clarinet)
…Dukes and his colleagues… present an attractive, rounded (and clearly recorded) portrait of a composer whose music is well worth getting to know. — More…
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Margaret Brouwer: Shattered Glass, Lonely Lake & Clarinet Quintet
Daniel Silver (clarinet) & Sandra Simon (soprano)
Blue Streak Ensemble, Maia String Quartet, Panoramicos
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Entertaining, colourful, attractive and in a familiar idiom. — More…
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Ginastera: Panambí & Estancia
Luis Gaeta (Narrator/Bass-baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, Gisèle Ben-Dor
Alberto Ginastera comes over as an Argentinian Stravinsky in these two early ballets, which is by no means to denigrate their distinctively Latin American idiom. Glittering orchestration, and... — More…
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