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Bach: The Art of Fugue
Johann Sebastian Bach
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January 14, 2003
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The Queen Symphony
Tolga Kashif
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January 7, 2003
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Tolga Kashif is a London-based composer, and for this CD he has orchestrated some of the rock group ...
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Nigel Kennedy's Greatest Hits
Julie Price
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January 7, 2003
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Violinist Nigel Kennedy long stopped annoying or surprising concertgoers and disc buyers with his looks and manners--the cover of this CD pictures him with red and blue paint on his face, and he's biting his violin. If that irritates you, his playing certa...
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Revueltas: Orchestral Music
Silvestre Revueltas
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November 19, 2002
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This sounds more like an anthology of Mexican orchestral music than the work of one composer. ...
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Chopin Etudes
Fryderyk Chopin
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September 17, 2002
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Through channeling his intelligent virtuosity toward musical ends, Murray Perahia reveals the distinctive voice of each Chopin ...
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Rzewski Plays Rzewski: Piano Works 1975-1999
Frederic Rzewski
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Nonesuch
September 24, 2002
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From his 1975 mega-variation set, The People United Will Never Be Defeated, to his eight-hour "novel for piano," The Road, Frederic Rzewski breathed new life, passion, and vitality into the long dormant composer-pianist tradition. Political and social issues provide a subtext from which Rzewski's musical imagination explodes with purposeful ...
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Gubaidulina: Offertorium; Hommage à T.S. Eliot
Sofia Gubaidulina
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August 13, 2002
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This entry in DG's Echo 20/21 series of contemporary music reissues is outstanding for its musical quality, engineering, and remarkable performances. ...
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Miraculous Mandarin
Bartok
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September 10, 2002
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David Robertson leads a thinking-man's Bartók program. The playing is stunning, all the dynamics are observed, and there's a clarity to all three of the works recorded here that will delight those who love Bartók's brilliant use of the orchestra, his colorations, his inner voices and rhythms. The Four ...
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Orient & Occident
Part
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September 24, 2002
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This disc of works by Arvo Pärt fascinates from start to finish, and it is the recording debut of all three compositions. The first, "Pilgrim's Song," composed by Pärt for a recently deceased friend, is a movingly sad setting of Psalm 121--"I will lift up ...
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Rachmaninov: Piano Transcriptions
Sergey Rachmaninov
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September 10, 2002
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Although he has recorded almost all of Rachmaninov's music, Vladimir Ashkenazy is not a pianist one would expect to be attracted to the composer's transcriptions--or to play them as well as he does on this disc. Ashkenazy has a deserved reputation for sobr...
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French Violin Sonatas
Midori
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August 27, 2002
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This beautiful recording displays Midori at her radiant best. Her virtuosity is entirely at the service of the music; her tone is lovely, pure, intense, and expressive, and she adapts it to style, mood, and atmosphere with bow and vibrato. The Poulenc Sona...
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The Grand Tour - The Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze, director
Antonio Vivaldi
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September 10, 2002
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This is a compilation of superb concerti--six in all--taken from four of remarkable violinist Andrew Manze's previously released CDs. The "Tempesta di mare" of Vivaldi is chock-full of picturesque sounds of nature familiar from the composer's ...
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Schumann: Carnaval & Sonata No. 1
Robert Schumann
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September 10, 2002
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Evgeny Kissin has made brave choices in selecting this program. Schumann's Sonata No. 1 is a huge, sprawling piece, difficult to play and to hold together and therefore not very popular. ...
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Brahms: Violin Concerto; Mozart: Sinfonia
Johannes Brahms
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August 13, 2002
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David Oistrakh recorded the Brahms several times. This one is a great performance in 1960 sound that holds up well. The combination of a crack French orchestra, a German conductor known for granitelike solidity, and the intense Russian violinist strikes sp...
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