Since you are interested in Rare Piano Encores, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Six String Sonatas Elizabeth Wallfisch, Marshall Marcus (violins) Richard Tunnicliffe (cello) Chi-Chi Nwanoku (double bass) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 17/Sep/2005 ] 'These wonderful works are best heard in their original quartet version' (Gramophone) |
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Complete Piano Music: Arabesques Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 35 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "I constantly admired his near orchestral range of sonority - his strength in grandiloquence and his hypnotic sustaining power in intimacy. Everything is played with total conviction" (Gramophone) |
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Complete Piano Music: Christus, St Elisabeth & St Stanislaus Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 14 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Another pithy release in what is fast looming as one of the most imposing recording landmarks of the century' (Fanfare, USA) |
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Complete Piano Music: The Canticle of the Sun Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 25 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "As choice as anything he's yet given us and the same goes for the recording" (Gramophone) |
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Complete Piano Music: The Schubert Transcriptions 2 Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 32 / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "His idiomatic grasp and utter reliability remain as admirable as in earlier instalments. Excellent sonics and informative notes by the performer" (American Music Guide) |
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Soiraes musicales Miah Persson (soprano) Stella Doufexis (mezzo-soprano) Bruce Ford (tenor) Roger Vignoles (piano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] Rossini's Soirées musicales and Péchés de vieillesse were the musical fruits of salon evenings held weekly in his Parisian home. Elegant, charming and often delicately ironic, these songs for various voices are the perfect exemplar of 'salon music',... |