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Album: Khatia Buniatishvili, Franz Liszt (Sony Classics)
Tbilisi :: Georgia | 2 years ago
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Buniatishvili has described the piano as "a symbol of musical solitude", a quality apparent in this debut solo recording by the Georgian prodigy. Her Liszt programme pivots around the Faust legend, with the composer believed to use the story as an
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Collegium Vocale Gent/Herreweghe, St John’s Smith Square
Warsaw :: Poland | 2 years ago
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Under the imaginative direction of Lindsay Kemp, the annual Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music has always punched above its weight, and this year's programme is no exception. Kemp has created a musical journey through the heart of eighteenth-century
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Alexander Melnikov, Wigmore Hall, LondonRobert Holl, Wigmore Hall, London
Leeds :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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At the age of 37, Alexander Melnikov seems bemused by his status as the next big thing. Few pianists are suddenly propelled to a higher level 20 years into their career, least of all on the back of a recording of an introspective and seldom-played
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Alexander Melnikov – review
London :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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Alexander Melnikov review Wigmore Hall, London Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues have become Alexander Melnikov's calling card of late. Written in 1951 for Tatiana Nikolayeva, whose Bach performances Shostakovich hugely admired, they have a
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Alexander Melnikov, Wigmore Hall
London :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues' may be seldom performed, but they are one of the miracles of twentieth-century pianism, and their genesis was suitably strange. The composer had been steeped in Bach's preludes and fugues as a boy, but then lost
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Brass quintet to do free concert Tues.
London :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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The Iowa Brass Quintet, a faculty ensemble of the University of Iowa School of Music, will present a free spring concert ranging from the Baroque to the 20th century at 7:30 p.m...The program will be: A Canadian Brass arrangement of the Fugue in G
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Bach wins again
Leipzig :: Germany | 2 years ago
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Musicians from the Cairo Symphony Orchestra performed works by Johann Sebastian Bach followed by Mendelssohn's Symphony no...Eternal as he is, Bach is a ready attraction at any classical music evening...As such, Bach creates a dialogue with the
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Angela Hewitt – review
London :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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The programme with which Angela Hewitt has been touring in recent weeks would have deterred most pianists. A keyboard suite by Handel paired with Brahms' Op 24 Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel is already a grand statement. Prefacing that
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Liszt: Sonata in B minor; Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H, etc - review
London :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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Yet as this contribution to the bicentenary releases demonstrates, he is potentially an outstanding interpreter of the composer, and a refreshingly cool antidote to those pianists who treat the technical challenges in Liszt's piano writing as an end
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Jazz pianist Joe Gilman featured at Bravo Bach festival
Sacramento :: KY :: USA | 2 years ago
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And in that role he would likely prove a shockingly good improviser. Or so believes standout jazz pianist Joe Gilman, who has been thinking a lot about Bach lately...Gilman and his Joe Gilman Jazz Ensemble are slated to perform at the second annual
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