Exceptional free cover disc with this issue of BBC Music magazine. J S Bach the Art of Fugue arranged by Mahan Esfahani.
Performers : Academy of Ancient Music directed from the harpsichord by Mahan Esfahani.
An arrangement of the piece for two violins, viola, cello, viola da gamba, violone, two flutes, recorder, three oboes, bassoon, cornetto and two harpsichords.
Monday, 31 October 2016
Sunday, 25 September 2016
Secular Franck
Cesar Franck piano music. Prelude, Chorale et Fugue and Prelude Aria and Final plus other pieces.
Performer : Stephen Hough, piano.
Hough is currently including prelude, chorale and fugue in recital programmes, including a recital I attended at the Barbican. Though this recording is in fact 20 years old, it stands up with his current interpretation and the rest of the disc is equally good.
Performer : Stephen Hough, piano.
Hough is currently including prelude, chorale and fugue in recital programmes, including a recital I attended at the Barbican. Though this recording is in fact 20 years old, it stands up with his current interpretation and the rest of the disc is equally good.
Exercises In Stasis
Piano music by Morton Feldman ( Intermission 5, Piano Piece 1952, Extensions 3 and Palais de Mari ) and George Crumb ( Processional and A Little Suite For Christmas )
Performer : Steven Osborne, piano.
How softly can you play a note ? Where silence and sound merge.
Performer : Steven Osborne, piano.
How softly can you play a note ? Where silence and sound merge.
Saturday, 24 September 2016
Virtuosity Serves the Music
Chopin piano concerto no 1 and Liszt piano concerto no 1
Performers : Martha Argerich piano, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado.
Filling in a repertoire gap with these two after hearing Argerich at the proms.
Performers : Martha Argerich piano, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado.
Filling in a repertoire gap with these two after hearing Argerich at the proms.
One Out Of 99's Not Bad ?
Liszt, The Early Beethoven Transcriptions.
Performer : Leslie Howard piano.
Leslie Howard achieved a monumental feat with his traversal of the entire output of Liszt for piano, amounting I think to 99 discs. This is volume 44, a three CD set comprising transcriptions of Beethoven's 5th, 6th and 7th symphonies and the funeral march from symphony no 3. There are other snippets such as Adelaide transcriptions and Berlioz's march to the scaffold.
Performer : Leslie Howard piano.
Leslie Howard achieved a monumental feat with his traversal of the entire output of Liszt for piano, amounting I think to 99 discs. This is volume 44, a three CD set comprising transcriptions of Beethoven's 5th, 6th and 7th symphonies and the funeral march from symphony no 3. There are other snippets such as Adelaide transcriptions and Berlioz's march to the scaffold.
Friday, 29 July 2016
Blisztering !
Liszt : Etudes D'execution Transendante.
Performer : Dinara Klinton.
I saw Dinara playing last summer at a piano school week and it is a pleasure to see this new release garnering such favourable reviews.
Performer : Dinara Klinton.
I saw Dinara playing last summer at a piano school week and it is a pleasure to see this new release garnering such favourable reviews.
Advocating Dvorak
Dvorak piano concerto, Schumann piano concerto.
Performers: Stephen Hough piano, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons.
Both composers linked to Brahms, both composers only piano concerto. One secure in the repertoire, the other less familiar. But with Hough's advocacy on this disc and in concert, the attractions of the Dvorak are becoming ever clearer.
Performers: Stephen Hough piano, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons.
Both composers linked to Brahms, both composers only piano concerto. One secure in the repertoire, the other less familiar. But with Hough's advocacy on this disc and in concert, the attractions of the Dvorak are becoming ever clearer.
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