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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Van Cliburn Competition 2005: Sa Chen
“Sa Chen…played with authority and élan. A radiant tone and fastidious attention to color and balance.” Dallas Morning News | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Music for and by Fanny Hünerwadel
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| |  | Horowitz in Moscow
“In 1986 Horowitz returned to his native Russia for the first time in more than half a century. He's seen here performing, being interviewed and chatting with old family members. Touching and with some extraordinary playing.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2006 **** “The return to his homeland in 1986 by the world's most famous living instrumentalist after an absence of 61 years caught the public imagination. …the 83-year old Horowitz's arrival in Moscow prompted the kind of reception reserved usually for pop stars. Brian Large's Emmy Award-winning film captures all this well... Few have conjured from a piano such a palette of tonal colours with such convincing imagery and musical imagination as Horowitz does in this recital. The audience listens with rapt concentration. A man sits motionless with tears streaming down his face in Träumerei. Unforgettable.” Gramophone Magazine, February 2006 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Gabriela Montero - Recital & Improvisations
“No matter how jaw-dropping her miraculously clean-fingered negotiation of such as Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, it's what happens between the notes, the way she grippingly characterises everything she plays, that constantly arrests the listener's attention. not since George Cziffra's hey-day have such white-hot, volcanic eruptions of pianistic derring-do been captured on disc. ...Montero also magics her phrasing poetically, as witness Chopin's heavenly D flat Nocturne. But what sets the seal on this remarkable release is the bonus disc of Montero's self-penned improvisations, whose jazz-styled inflections will have all die-hard romantics misting over on contact. Her spine-tingling rethink of Rachmaninov's Vocalise is worth the price of the disc alone.” BBC Music Magazine, October 2005  BBC Music Magazine
Instrumental Choice - October 2005 |
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| |  | Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Suisse
“…Stephen Hough has technically and spiritually digested the first book of Années de pèlerinage to the extent that he can risk personalising certain pieces without sounding the least bit mannered. …he pushes the espressivo rhetoric of the brooding introduction to 'Vallée d'Obermann' and skill keeps the music's narrative trajectory alive through his exquisite tonal control and subtle pedal effects.” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2005 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Liszt: Piano Concertos
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Luiza Borac’s debut recording on Avie, of the Three Piano Suites by George Enescu (AV 0012/AV 0013), caused a sensation and garnered her unanimous critical acclaim, securing this young Romanian pianist’s place on the musical map. For her follow up recording, Luiza, who has won over two dozen international competitions including the Concours Grieg in Oslo, turns her attention to two pillars of the romantic era, Schubert and Liszt. The composers’ seemingly contrasting temperaments are linked on this CD by a common itinerant theme. Excerpts from Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage are paired with Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy (which Liszt orchestrated). Throughout Luiza applies strength and sensitivity in equal measure, beautifully and vividly brought out by the Hybrid SACD format. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Piano Encores
Albéniz: | Seguidillas (Castilla), from Chants d’Espagne, Op. 232 | Bartók: | For Children, Sz42: The Peasant's Flute | Beethoven: | Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor, WoO59) | Brahms: | Waltz, Op. 39 No. 15 in A flat major | Chopin: | Waltz No. 2 in A flat major 'Grande Valse Brillante', Op. 34 No. 1 Impromptu No. 4 in C sharp minor, Op. 66 'Fantaisie-Impromptu' Nocturne No. 20 in C sharp minor, Op. post. | Debussy: | Préludes - Book 1: No. 8, La fille aux cheveux de lin Préludes - Book 1: No. 12, Minstrels The Snow is dancing (from Children's Corner) Clair de Lune (from Suite Bergamasque) Golliwog's Cakewalk (from Children's Corner) Préludes - Book 1: No. 10, La cathédrale engloutie | Liszt: | Un Sospiro from 3 Concert Studies, S144 No. 3 Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S.434 after Verdi's opera | Rachmaninov: | Prelude Op. 32 No. 12 in G sharp minor | Schubert: | Waltzes, D145 Nos. 2 & 6 German Dance D365 No. 2 'Trauerwalzer' Valse Sentimentale, D779 No. 13 | Schumann: | Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 No. 1 'Des Abends' |
"a pianist of ditinction-rhythmic... majestic... dazzling... Rigoletto piece brings to ringing conclusion"
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| |  | Liszt: Les Preludesand works by Barta and Shostakovich
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| |  | The Very Best of The Grimethorpe Colliery (UK Coal) Band
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