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“This majestic performance remains one of the most compelling available, making up for in musical imagination and probing clarity what it may occasionally lack in terms of sheer adrenal flow.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2007 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Brahms - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
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“…Bernstein speaks eloquently of Brahms's essential duality, of Romantic passion contained and controlled by Classical forms… Bernstein's interpretations, however, clearly verge towards the Romantic side of the coin.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2007 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Best of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir
anon.: | The Dashing White Sergeant Ellan Vannin | Bach, J S: | Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben': Jesu, bleibet meine Freude | Boughton: | Midir's 'Faery Song' from The Immortal Hour, Act II | Brahms: | In stiller Nacht, WoO 34 No. 8 | Burns, Robert: | Ae fond kiss Ca The Yowes | Campbell, J: | Orlington | Gardiner, W: | By Cool Siloam's Shady Rill (Belmont) | Irvine, Jessie: | The Lord's My Shepherd (Crimond) (arr. David Grant) | Lasso: | Ola, O che bon eccho English words 'Hark, hark! the Echo falling' by W G Rothery | Roberton: | All in the April evening White Waves On the Water The Old Woman Kedron | Stanford: | The Blue Bird, Op. 119 No. 3 | Stevens, H: | The Cloud-Capp'd Towers | Thoman: | Go Lovely Rose | trad.: | Peat-fire Smooring Prayer (collected and arranged by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser & Kenneth Macleod) Bonnie Dundee An Eriskay Love Lilt Londonderry Air O can ye sew cushions? (arr. Bantock) Iona Boat Song Mice and Men set to the psalm tune 'Desert' All through the night |
Glasgow Orpheus Choir, Sir Hugh Roberton Recordings from towards the end (in 1951) of the choir's career. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Brahms - Piano Works
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| |  | Brahms - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
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| |  | Andras Schiff - Solo Piano Music
Brahms: | Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24 | Handel: | Keyboard Suite, HWV 434 in B flat major | Haydn: | Piano Sonata No. 32 in G minor, Hob.XVI:44 Piano Sonata No. 33 in C minor, Hob.XVI:20 Piano Sonata No. 53 in E minor, Hob.XVI:34 Piano Sonata No. 54 in G major, Hob.XVI:40 Piano Sonata No. 58 in C major, Hob.XVI:48 Piano Sonata No. 59 in E flat major, Hob.XVI:49 Piano Sonata No. 60 in C major, Hob.XVI:50 Piano Sonata No. 61 in D major, Hob.XVI:51 Piano Sonata No. 62 in E flat major, Hob.XVI:52 Fantasia (Capriccio) in C major, Hob. XVII:4 | Reger: | Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Bach, Op. 81 | Schumann: | Arabeske in C major, Op. 18 Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 Blumenstück, Op. 19 Études symphoniques, Op. 13 Gesänge der Frühe (5), Op. 133 Nachtstücke, Op. 23 Kreisleriana, Op. 16 Theme with Variations in E flat major WoO 24 ('Geistervariationen') | Smetana: | 3 Polkas de Salon,B94 Op. 7 3 Polkas poétiques,B95 Op. 8 Polka in F minor Polka in A major Souvenirs (4) de Bohème en forme de polka Opp. 12 & 13 (B115-16) Polka in E major Polka in G minor |
“Schiff is unquestionably among the most gifted and mercurial musicians of our time; a 'masterpianist' indeed. His programme, too, is exemplary with Handel's theme heard again in Brahms's Handel Variations and with Reger's massive Bach Variations as a daunting and enterprising close. Schiff is admirably suited to the Handel suite, getting off to a bold and improvisatory start and continuing with much of his recognizable brio and originality.” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Recorded in May of 1955 these are among the very first stereo recordings to be made by EMI and are a supreme tribute to the recording partnership of producer, Walter Legge, and balance engineer, Christopher Parker. The old Kingsway Hall in London had extremely fine acoustics and was a very popular recording venue until it became structurally unsound and had to be closed down in the 1970s. “…this is one of the best disc versions of the Second on the market, and the substantial Schubert bonus is no less recommendable” Penguin Guide | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| | Brahms: String Quartets & Piano Quintet
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| |  | Brahms - Works for Violin & Piano
“Brahms's Op 78 Violin Sonata, the first of his three, comes closer to a work of some wistfulness, the opening phrase taking on, with Nikolaj Znaider and Yefim Bronfman, a gentle melancholy that suits the music well. The hesitancy of this dotted phrase marks the whole of the sonata's invention, and is picked up with touching effect, as Clara Schumann was moved to find, when Brahms quotes an earlier song in the finale. This is all sensitively done.
So is the Second Sonata, with delightful touches: when the Andante gives way to a faster section, it is here played as gaily as a Brahms waltz, one that turns faintly spectral on its return with the pizzicato violin. Perhaps the finale, Presto agitato, deserves more extrovert agitation, but these are most thoughtful and sympathetic performances. There is also room on the disc for the lively scherzo which, as a young man, Brahms wrote for a composite sonata, with movements by Schumann and Albert Dietrich.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “…these are most thoughtful and sympathetic performances.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2007 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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