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WILHELM van WASSENAER
Wassenaer: Concerti Armonici I Musici [ Newton Classics / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] '…vigorous playing, often very quick, and forceful in attack. There is a proper sense of fun to the finales of the second of the G major Concertos (Nos. 2 and 4) and the one in B flat, and I enjoyed the fancy and the tenderness of the solo violin." |
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DEBUSSY
Preludes Jorge Bolet (piano) [ Newton Classics / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] 'Bolet's performances, with their inimitable beauty of line and shimmering sonority (very much the product of an unobtrusive but subtle virtuoso pedal technique), their poetic freedom within a basic pulse, were like some serene and final distillation... |
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CHOPIN
Piano Concertos / Ballades / Barcarolle / Fantaisie [recorded 1982 & 1986] Jorge Bolet (piano) / Montreal Symphony Orchestra / Charles Dutoit [ Newton Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] "Bolet's Chopin playing has some stunning moments of eloquence" BBC Music Magazine, October 2010 *** |
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GERSHWIN
Rhapsody in Blue / Piano Concerto in F major Katia Labeque / Marielle Labeque [ Newton Classics / CD - released 9/Sep/2010 ] 'There are some musical performances where the work and the performers seem made for each other. This is certainly the case here, where the Labèque sisters concentrate their unique art and technique to as absorbing and right-sounding an... |
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NICCOLO PAGANINI
Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 (with works by Tchaikovsky) [recorded 1987] Midori (violin) / London Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin [ Newton Classics / CD - released 16/Dec/2010 ] 'A splendid new version of Paganini's Violin Concerto in D, the most famous, because of the enticing lyrical theme of the first movement. Midori, an astonishingly accomplished 13-year-old, is fully equal to the work's formidable technical demands and... |