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// February 26th, 2010 // Comments Off // Classical Music

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The Only Piano Album You’ll Ever Need

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Whoever first dreamt up the title "The Only Piano/Opera/Banjo Album You'll Ever Need" must have been hoping record buyers wouldn't take it too literally. A translation would be "We Hope That When You've Listened To This You'll Want To Buy Lots More Piano/Opera/Banjo Albums". So as an attempt to lure listeners into the world of the piano, how does t[Read More]

Haydn – The Creation

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Steve Reich: Phases – A Nonesuch Retrospective

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Jesus Christ Superstar

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Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos.4, 5 & 6 Pathetique

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Vaughan Williams: Tallia Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending etc.

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Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.3

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This Mahler Three (his "creation" symphony, if you like) is an outstanding advert for the benefits of live recording--a stunning, utterly assured performance enhanced by fine recorded sound. Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic especially have the Mahlerian idiom in their blood--something demonstrated as much by the many fine solo contributio[Read More]

Mozart: Great Piano Concertos

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Decca has gotten around the perennial problem of filling Mozart Piano Concerto CDs by splitting No. 25 between two discs, giving us 155 minutes of Mozart for the price of a single top-line CD. The performances are top-line, too, if you like big-orchestra Mozart. Ashkenazy performs this music in a public, large-auditorium style, without the intimacy[Read More]

Stainer – The Crucifixion

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