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April 25, 2015
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This year Brazil is being honored, as attests this tribute to the composer Radamés Gnattali (1906-1988) with chamber works for solo guitar, for guitar and piano, as well as for guitar and cello. Radamés Gnattali’s music comes close to a local neo-classic style, mixing popular and learned music. The ... more |
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January 11, 2015
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This recording, entitled “Romance Oubliée,” is an absolute marvel in which the immense talent of violist Tabea Zimmermann is displayed in full and with serenity. “Thanks to this album, I have realized a dream I have caressed for a long time: assemble numerous and ravishing miniatures, for the most ... more |
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December 6, 2014
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Here is a Pure Audio Blu-ray that is both surprising and admirable. Surprising for the mix of instruments used, such as percussion, viola, flutes and guitar. Admirable because the compositions by Bjorn Bolstad Skjelbred, born in 1970, are inspired and cannot leave one indifferent in the field of ... more |
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December 6, 2014
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The English violinist Rachel Podger here offers stunning testimony of her love of Bach’s music, a kind of discographic pinnacle, if such a thing could exist. “For the second recording by Brecon Baroque, we have chosen to continue with a Bach program, this time composed of double and triple concertos ... more |
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December 6, 2014
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When Beethoven took on the genre of the string quartet, he did so with spiritual depth, as emphasizes François-René Tranchefort: “In confronting this genre and shaping it by approach, research and by successive solutions, Beethoven engaged in the most open and decisive battle against conventions. He ... more |
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