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121.Finzi - Cello Concerto & Grand Fantasia from: Naxos September 24, 2001
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Finzi's Cello Concerto and the concertante works on this disc show another side to a composer best know for his string works, miniatures, choral writing and songs. This is not to forget the sublime clarinet concerto, but these works are somewhat more rugged. The cello concerto was Finzi's last completed work, and the last one he heard (in radio broadcast)on his hospital bed as lay dying of cancer.The work was completed in adversity and hence is less concerned with the pastoral idyll and more with the struggle of life over death. To do this work justice you therefore have to put aside the preconceived view of Finzi as the pastoralist and come up with a grittier sound, especially in the declamatory and anguished first movement. Unfortunately ... Read More:

122.Beethoven Piano Sonatas Nos.28 and 29 (Uchida) by: Mitsuko Uchida August 20, 2007
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I have always had misgivings about Uchida's Beethoven, having heard her play the last three sonatas live and been disappointed. Hearing her recent recordings, however, has made me change my mind. Yes, this is idiosyncratic playing: you are listening to Uchida's view of Hammerklavier, but there is insight here, wisdom and depth, that places this reading among the finest. Uchida's playing has grace and elegance, but with enough Romantic muscle to add weight to her performance. The slow movement is, in places, almost ethereal, as if she has shifted levels to a higher plane of existence, and the fugal finale maintains a real sense of line and proportion, presenting a convincing conclusion to an account of the piece as a whole that builds in intensity and ... Read More:

123.Beethoven - Piano Sonatas, Vol 2 from: Harmonia Mundi October 30, 2006
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Paul Lewis's Beethoven cycle is an extraordinary achievement. He finds subtleties and details that fully justify yet another complete set of these sonatas. I especially like his accounts of Waldstein and Hammerklavier. Unlike a previous reviewer, I find Barenboim's heavy-handed gestures in Waldstein unbearable; Lewis is refined when needed, but equally he offers plenty of Romantic guts: intellect and emotion in perfect balance, and the finale is outstanding. Unhurried but purposeful, when Lewis finally lets rip, the momentum is both impeccably controlled, yet drives forward with a wonderful feeling of inevitably. As for Hammerklavier, Lewis's account is for me a 'Building a Library' recomendation. I've reviewed (favourably) Uchida's recent account ... Read More:

124.Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Vol 1 - Nos 16-18, Op 31 Nos 1-3 from: Harmonia Mundi September 05, 2005
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There are so many "cycles" of Beethoven's wonderful sonatas available, that it seems hard to justify yet another set. Nevertheless, Paul Lewis takes a seat at the top table, and this CD is very highly recommended. I have sets by Barenboim on EMI from the 1960s and 1970s, Artur Schnabel on Naxos Historical from the 1930s, Rudolph Serkin on Sony from the 1950s and 1960s and various other performances from the likes of Pollini, for example. These are, naturally, all very different interpretively. In my non-expert way, I would say that Paul Lewis imposes a little less of his personality on this music, allowing Beethoven's voice to sing. In other words, an almost ideal interpretation. The clincher is the fantastic engineering and sound ... Read More:

125.Bach - Goldberg Variations from: Hyperion January 01, 2000
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Bach wrote very, very few variation compositions like the "Goldberg Variations," but the one's he wrote are most memorable and monumental. Early in his career, he wrote a magnificant "Aria with Variations in the Italian Manner" (BWV989). Its repeating aria at the end along with the alternating fast/bright and slow/contemplative variations foreshadowed a model in these so-called Goldberg Variations - one of the 'summation works' Bach wrote late in his life while at Leipzig. (Angela Hewitt's spirited recording of this Aria/Variations BVW 989 is on her Hyperion CD: "Fantasy and Fugue in A Minor and Other Works"). With an ever-increasing quiver of splendid recordings of Bach's keyboard music, it is not hard to believe that Angela Hewitt ... Read More:

126.Alkan; Chopin - Cello Sonatas from: Hyperion September 29, 2008
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Bach wrote very, very few variation compositions like the "Goldberg Variations," but the one's he wrote are most memorable and monumental. Early in his career, he wrote a magnificant "Aria with Variations in the Italian Manner" (BWV989). Its repeating aria at the end along with the alternating fast/bright and slow/contemplative variations foreshadowed a model in these so-called Goldberg Variations - one of the 'summation works' Bach wrote late in his life while at Leipzig. (Angela Hewitt's spirited recording of this Aria/Variations BVW 989 is on her Hyperion CD: "Fantasy and Fugue in A Minor and Other Works"). With an ever-increasing quiver of splendid recordings of Bach's keyboard music, it is not hard to believe that Angela Hewitt ... Read More:

127.Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2 from: Decca March 20, 1987
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Bach wrote very, very few variation compositions like the "Goldberg Variations," but the one's he wrote are most memorable and monumental. Early in his career, he wrote a magnificant "Aria with Variations in the Italian Manner" (BWV989). Its repeating aria at the end along with the alternating fast/bright and slow/contemplative variations foreshadowed a model in these so-called Goldberg Variations - one of the 'summation works' Bach wrote late in his life while at Leipzig. (Angela Hewitt's spirited recording of this Aria/Variations BVW 989 is on her Hyperion CD: "Fantasy and Fugue in A Minor and Other Works"). With an ever-increasing quiver of splendid recordings of Bach's keyboard music, it is not hard to believe that Angela Hewitt ... Read More:

128.Brahms: The Piano Concertos; 'Haydn' and 'Handel' Variations by: Vladimir Ashkenazy Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Wiener Philharmoniker Bernard Haitink July 08, 2002
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As there aren't any samples to try on Amazon, I had no idea what this recording of these fine works was going to be like. Ashkenazy has made good recordings of some of Brahms chamber works with Itzhak Perlman, and based on hearing those before, I went for this recording... ...and I wasn't disappointed! (And certainly not for the price I paid - I actually got this free as part of Amazon's 4 for 3 deal! But definitely worth paying for) Ashkenazy is reliable and performed exactly as I expected: good weighty sound, exceptionally virtuoso at times, but sometimes lacking in dynamic variation (loud/soft etc). The music itself - if you like Brahms, but have never heard these works, you should! (And if you are unfamiliar with Brahms - what a good place ... Read More:

129.Mozart: Clarinet/Flute and Harp Concerto from: ASV June 09, 2008
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Emma Johnson was voted Britain's ''Young Musician of the Year'' in 1984, and she is still only 18. Many TV viewers will remember her making a virtually unknown concerto by Crusell sound irresistibly witty, and surprisingly she does the same to the finale of the Mozart Concerto which, at an unusually fast tempo, has a giocoso quality that is both novel and enchanting. She also manages the very soft phrases in the slow movement most beautifully, and quite rightly she adds miniature cadenzas at the pause marks. Not all do. If there are any faint traces of insecurity, I hope that in ironing them out she doesn't lose the youthful freshness that makes her playing so unusually pleasing. Her virtuosity is a wonder too, and she is most sensitively supported ... Read More:

130.Bach: Cello Suites and Transcriptions from: Naxos October 01, 1999
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Casals was a perfectionist (and, by all accounts, a lovely human being) and took a lot of pursuasion to record these famous takes of the Bach cello suites in the late 1930s. I can add little to the other reviewers comments about these magical recordings except to say that they sound almost "modern" in their almost cinematic approach. What I mean is that these recordings sound very visual and I belive that Casals had specific images in mind as he played each one, such as Christ on the road to Calvary during suite 5. Unbeatable. These careful restorations from old 78s sound great and have not been over-processed in this bargain 2-CD Naxos set. An essential purchase!

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