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Dvorak: Piano Trios
from: EMI Classics
: :This trio is being promoted as a sister act of glamour girls: the record credits the creators of their wardrobe, hairstyles, and makeup before the producer and engineer. This is too bad, not only because these musicians really play very well, with impressive brilliance, a good sound, and true sisterly rapport, but because it seems to encourage them to put their egos before the music. They play fast and loose with Dvorák's tempo indications, take enormous liberties, and exaggerate everything to underline contrast and effect. This gives their playing a lot ...
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Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres
from: Virgin Classics
: :This trio is being promoted as a sister act of glamour girls: the record credits the creators of their wardrobe, hairstyles, and makeup before the producer and engineer. This is too bad, not only because these musicians really play very well, with impressive brilliance, a good sound, and true sisterly rapport, but because it seems to encourage them to put their egos before the music. They play fast and loose with Dvorák's tempo indications, take enormous liberties, and exaggerate everything to underline contrast and effect. This gives their playing a lot ...
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Dvorák: Legends
: :Dvorák was a master of the miniature, as this attractive disc of some of his lesser-known pieces for chamber orchestra proves. He was also adept at recycling. Asked by his publisher to come up with something to top his enormously popular Slavonic Dances, written originally as a piano duet, Dvorák produced Legends, also for two pianos. More introspective than the dances (although no one knows which legends he based them on), the 10 movements proved just as attractive and Dvorák was asked to orchestrate five of them. Instead, he orchestrated the ...
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Pasión
from: EMI Classics
: :Dvorák was a master of the miniature, as this attractive disc of some of his lesser-known pieces for chamber orchestra proves. He was also adept at recycling. Asked by his publisher to come up with something to top his enormously popular Slavonic Dances, written originally as a piano duet, Dvorák produced Legends, also for two pianos. More introspective than the dances (although no one knows which legends he based them on), the 10 movements proved just as attractive and Dvorák was asked to orchestrate five of them. Instead, he orchestrated the ...
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Songs of Ned Rorem
from: Other Minds
:Album Description:'No living composer has produced a larger or more impressive body of songs.' - CHICAGO TRIBUNE This is the definitive album of the early songs of Ned Rorem and arguably the greatest collection of American art songs ever recorded. Recorded by Columbia Records with the composer at the piano. First time on CD, with completely refurbished sound. Rorem's first major album--one that catapulted him into the national classical music spotlight when it was originally released in January 1964! Electrifying performances by the greatest soloists of the day. Superb poetry by ...
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Concert of the Century
from: Sony
:Album Description:'No living composer has produced a larger or more impressive body of songs.' - CHICAGO TRIBUNE This is the definitive album of the early songs of Ned Rorem and arguably the greatest collection of American art songs ever recorded. Recorded by Columbia Records with the composer at the piano. First time on CD, with completely refurbished sound. Rorem's first major album--one that catapulted him into the national classical music spotlight when it was originally released in January 1964! Electrifying performances by the greatest soloists of the day. Superb poetry by ...
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Schubert: Piano Trios
from: Teldec
: :This set offers four Schubert masterpieces in excellent performances. In the trio works, the musical lead comes from the piano, but that isn't a problem when the pianist is such an experienced Schubertian as Schiff and the other parts are played with plenty of personality. Although the recordings were all made in the same locale, the perspective on the instruments is quite different in the Sonata than in the Trio works; but the sound is realistic throughout and well-balanced. Of course there are numerous recordings of these works, some of them ...
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100 Best Adagios
from: EMI Classics
: :This set offers four Schubert masterpieces in excellent performances. In the trio works, the musical lead comes from the piano, but that isn't a problem when the pianist is such an experienced Schubertian as Schiff and the other parts are played with plenty of personality. Although the recordings were all made in the same locale, the perspective on the instruments is quite different in the Sonata than in the Trio works; but the sound is realistic throughout and well-balanced. Of course there are numerous recordings of these works, some of them ...
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Shades of Red
from: Bridge Records, Inc.
: :Hold onto your hats for a blizzard of virtuoso Vivaldi! Baroque ensemble REBEL with recorder soloist Matthias Maute give stylish, high octane readings of some of Vivaldi’s most beloved pieces. Included on this disc are the popular and raucous Concerto alla Rustica, the stunningly colorful Sonata on La Follia, and four of Vivaldi’s exuberant recorder concerti, played brilliantly by recorder soloist Mathias Maute. Known for his dazzling virtuosity and colorful expressivity, Matthias Maute is recognized as one of the foremost recorder players of his generation, and has earned an international ...
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Mendelssohn: The Piano Trios
from: Hyperion UK
: :Hold onto your hats for a blizzard of virtuoso Vivaldi! Baroque ensemble REBEL with recorder soloist Matthias Maute give stylish, high octane readings of some of Vivaldi’s most beloved pieces. Included on this disc are the popular and raucous Concerto alla Rustica, the stunningly colorful Sonata on La Follia, and four of Vivaldi’s exuberant recorder concerti, played brilliantly by recorder soloist Mathias Maute. Known for his dazzling virtuosity and colorful expressivity, Matthias Maute is recognized as one of the foremost recorder players of his generation, and has earned an international ...
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