BBC Music Magazine

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Acclaimed as the ‘father of Czech piano music’, Radoslav Kvapil recently made a new recording in the cloister at Prague’s beautiful Brevnovský Abbey. The 86-year-old pianist performed four Mozart piano sonatas – K310, 330, 331 and 545 – in June and h

BBC Music Magazine

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‘Zoom interviews can be poor imitations of the real thing, but the hour-and-a-half I spent in the virtual company of Viktoria Mullova and her son Misha Mullov-Abbado to talk about their new disc was a delight.’ Page 26 ‘What a privilege to watch Ber

Storytime

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Nowadays, Wolferl is better known as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He went on to compose more than 600 wonderful pieces of music, and most people agree he is one of the greatest musicians of all time. Even if you don’t know it, you have probably heard and

BBC Music Magazine

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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Mariss Jansons BR Klassik 900185 53.48 mins If you want a testimony to what it was we lost when Mariss Jansons died, listen to this disc. In big symphonic works Jansons always had a flair for bringing out both the

Country Life

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Beethoven initially admired Napoleon and famously made him the dedicatee of the Third Symphony, but crossed it out in a rage on learning Napoleon had appointed himself Emperor The Fifth Piano Concerto (the ‘Emperor’) was dedicated to Archduke Rudolf

BBC Music Magazine

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If anything, the Trio Wanderer offers an even wider range of tonal colouring than the Smetana Trio, though the performers are not quite as reckless as their Czech colleagues in the approach to the Scherzo . What really puts this performance on the hi

BBC Music Magazine

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The Dutch violinist and composer Hellendaal, a pupil of Tartini, arrived in England in 1751. He initially worked in London, then in 1760 obtained the post of organist at King’s Lynn, succeeding Charles Burney. He spent the rest of his life in East An

Pianist

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Niels Gade composed a collection of ten Aquarelles Op 19 in 1852, following them up almost 30 years later with a second set, Op 57. They exemplify the Dane’s Mendelssohnian writing for the piano, which prizes a light and graceful touch. This Elegie i

BBC Music Magazine

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Plus each of our favourite percussion moments in orchestral music Editor Oliver Condy Triangle in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 Deputy editor Jeremy Pound Bells in ‘Saturn’ from Holst’s The Planets Reviews editor Michael Beek Timpani in Bartó

Pianist

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Finnish composer Oskar Merikanto seems to be a real hit with our readers. Ever since we published his Valse lente inside issue 78, we’ve had requests for more. Playing tips: The hardest technical challenge in this piece is the execution of the thickl

Viz Magazine

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VIZ 297 defined a ‘symphony’ as ‘a stirring trip to the thunderbox that consists of three separate and distinct movements’. Of course, as all devotees of classical music know, symphonies usually consist of four boring movements, and a three-movement

Pianist

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This Adagio is the second (and final) movement of this incomplete two-movement work, which was believed to have been written before Beethoven left Bonn in 1792. If you are keen to learn the whole Sonatina, the first movement appeared inside issue No

BBC Music Magazine

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Sir Donald Runnicles conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in an acclaimed BBC Proms performance PLUS! Paul Riley explores the rich operatic history of Versailles ; author Sophy Roberts heads across Siberia in search of lost pianos; Brian W

Hi Fi News

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Harmonia Mundi HMN916115 (downloads to 96kHz/24-bit res) Nebieridze is a young Georgian pianist and composer and his debut recording is full of contrasts. Rachmaninov’s unashamedly romantic Sonata No 2 (revised version) and Prokofiev’s determinedly m

Pianist

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Some say Sonata; some say Sonatina. We go with the latter as the title for this incomplete two-movement work, which was believed to have been written before Beethoven left Bonn in 1792. Playing tips: Right from the start (before the first barline) yo

BBC Music Magazine

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From the opening notes of this 1995 performance, we know that this will be a serious, dignified experience, characterised by a large-scale choral-orchestral sound and spacious, grand tempos. But there is pathos here, too; each phrase breathes natural

Hi Fi News

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Hyperion CDA68291/3 (three discs; downloads to 96kHz/24-bit res) These recordings were made last June, after concert performances at the Helsinki Music Centre, Stephen Hough playing a Bösendorfer Vienna concert grand. He uses the composer’s cadenzas

NPR

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Cape Weather celebrates the clean, hard lines of some of Los Angeles' most famous buildings in a video for its breezy "Telephono."

BBC Music Magazine

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Latin Motets Latvian Radio Choir/Sigvards Klava Ondine ODE 1362-2 56:38 mins Anton Bruckner devoted his life and his music ‘to the dear God’, the words he inscribed on the title page of his Ninth Symphony. But all his work, with insignificant exc

Total Guitar

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This diagram shows you where to place your second and third fingers to play the E minor pentatonic scale. The idea is to play one note after the other – not all at once. You can hear this exact scale in these riffs: 1 AC/DC – Back In Black Listen

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Hallé CDHLL7554 (downloads to 44.1kHz/24-bit resolution) A fine addition to the Hallé Debussy series where, for me, the standout tracks are the composer’s atypical transcription including cymbalom, La Plus Que Lente, and with flautist Katherine Baker

BBC Music Magazine

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Eloquence 482 8544 (1958/62) 137:27 mins (2 discs) Thurston Dart was behind these recordings, yet the performance style, with violin vibrato in Les Nations, now appears dated. The Pièces de violes fare better, but the sound is restricted. ★★ Danaco

Hi-Fi Choice

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2x CD and DVD Deutsche Grammophon AS EVER, THE masterly Sokolov plays with a commanding authority that is unmistakable. His playing is strong and assertive, but unselfconscious. Beethoven’s Sonata Op 2 No.3 is delivered with patrician nobility, while

BBC Music Magazine

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Piano Sonata No. 6 in A, Op. 82; Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat, Op. 83; Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat, Op. 84 Steven Osborne (piano) Hyperion CDA68298 74:28 mins From first electrifying note-punch to last, with so much poetry and poignancy in betwe

BBC Music Magazine

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I used to drive past Shirehampton Public Hall on the way back from Bristol Airport (not much flying happening these days), and never gave it a great deal of thought. But, as you’ll read at the start of Andrew Green’s wonderful feature (see p26), this

Hi Fi News

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www.linnrecords.com; Linn CKD622 Mozart’s K459 (No 19) is a wholly extrovert work well suited to this young Swiss pianist’s manner, whereas K595, the composer’s last piano concerto, brings one or two doubts. Whether or not you feel this is an ‘autumn

BBC Music Magazine

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These little gems exist for several instrumentations, but it’s the cello version that grabs me, especially through Shafran’s heart-melting playing in this 1957 recording. Georgian composer Sulkhan Tsintsadze possessed this art of writing directly int

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Starting off with some wonderful British music, this has such catchy rhythms that it makes me want to dance. It’s also a link to my second piece… This is a fantastic set of variations on Purcell’s theme (above) and a great connection between compose

JazzTimes

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Tide Self-released Pianist Micah Thomas has been able to play what he’s heard since the age of two, but his debut, Tide, demonstrates that this is a prodigy who prefers conceptual purpose to technical dazzle. Now 23, the Columbus, Ohio, native cites

Pianist

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Near the end of last year I attended an astounding recital by Arcadi Volodos. Oh, how it feels like half a lifetime away. Just a few months later, the world is a different place, and the doors to the Barbican and all our other culture palaces are fir