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Grieg: Lyric Pieces (Performed on Grieg's Piano)

14 reviews
Edvard Grieg, Leif Ove Andsnes

EMI Classics, 2002

Sensitive modern pianism
Borrowing a phrase from the contemporary political philosopher Fukuyama a case can be made that the world of classical piano music has reached "the end of history". This notion is based on the often heard idea that it only takes two clicks to get superior performances of any piece worth recording at home and that this part of the universe has reached a state of completion. Add to that the ongoing ...

Schumann: Complete Organ Works
Robert Schumann, Rudolf Innig

MD&G Records, 1996

Conlon Nancarrow: Quartets and Studies
Rohan de Saram, Conlon Nancarrow, ...

Wergo, 2007

Virgil Fox Encores

9 reviews
Johann Sebastian Bach, William Boyce, ...

RCA, 1993

Riverside Organ Is Stretched to Its Limits in This One - - -
If you like flamboyant, this CD will blow your skirt right up there! The dynamic range of the music in this CD will test your stereo system to the limits. Every part of the organ is used, from the shyest Kleine Erzähler to what must be a Double Bombarde. The songs showcase the organ and are played flawlessly, even if somewhat ambitiously interpreted. If you're tired of hearing the Little Fugue in ...

Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano

9 reviews
Conlon Nancarrow

Wergo Germany, 2000

Dizzying experiments by a brilliant maverick
A true compositional original, Conlon Nancarrow is best known for these mind-blowing pieces for player piano. Why this particular instrument? Because most of these short works are utterly unplayable by human beings, unless you are capable of say, depressing all 88 keys at the same time. While later in life Nancarrow also wrote a few small pieces for chamber ensembles, his work here is the core ...

In a Quiet Cathedral

11 reviews
Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Barber, ...

Delos Records, 1994

One of my most-played CDs
This is one of my most frequently played CDs. I find it perfect background music for meditation, prayer, reading and other tasks, as well as a good CD that doesn't disturb people at work. This is not intended to be organised as a church service or a concert performance per se, but rather, as the co-producer Carol Rosenberger states, 'this album is meant to recreate an experience many of us ...

Bach: The Masterworks [Box Set]

1 review
Bas Ramselarr, David Thomas [bass], ...

Brilliant Classics, 2004

You get what you pay for
In the Brandenburg Concerti, the tempo varies, trumpet volleys sound like French Horns, and the flute is off tune half the time. The harpsichordist was good but in one of the concerti, decided to enter at a different tempo than had been set by the rest of the orchestra. Since he had to play some very fast runs later, it is no surprise that he wanted to slow down the orchestra, but maybe they ...

Nancarrow: Pieces Nos. 1 & 2; ¿Tango?; String Quartet No. 1

2 reviews
Celeste Marie Roy, David Krakauer, ...

Naxos American, 2005

Nancarrow without the player piano: an essential addition to our knowledge of the composer
This is the reissue of a recording made in 1989 and first released in 1991 by Musicmasters. See my lengthy review under the original release (Continuum Performs Nancarrow). It is an essential addition to our knowledge and understanding of Nancarrow, as it documents most of the (very few) pieces he wrote for for "normal" instruments, e.g. live performers, as opposed to the mechanical player piano ...

Encores
Johann Sebastian Bach, William Boyce, ...

RCA, 2006

Bach Edition: Complete Works (155 CD Box Set)

50 reviews
Johann Sebastian Bach, Andrew Manze, ...

Brilliant Classics, 2006

so far, definitely so good
I have listened to, thus far, 68 discs and have enjoyed all but one of the performances, especially the Mass in B Minor, Magnificat, Goldberg Variations, The Art of Fugue, and to my surprise in spite of unfavourable reviews elsewhere, the Sacred Cantatas. I found the choral singing and orchestral playing of The Sixteen to be very moving and beautiful. Given the cost of this complete set, I feel I ...

Sound Forms For Piano

6 reviews
John Cage, Henry Cowell, ...

New World Records

Highly recommended
This is, without doubt, one of the finest recordings of American experimental music ever issued, performed with loving care by the late, great Robert Miller except for Nancarrow's studies. The excellent notes by Charles Hamm should prepare listeners unfamiliar with this musical universe for what they are going to hear. Although there is a logical connection between the works that imaginative ...

The World of Ruth Crawford Seeger
Ruth Crawford Seeger, Jenny Lin, ...

Bis, 2002

Ruth Crawford Seeger had a brief life (1901-1953) and an even briefer career as a composer. After her String Quartet of 1931, she gave up composing to concentrate on folk music studies. She wrote only brief pieces for piano, and they make a difficult listening program. As soon as you become adjusted to the comfortable idiom of her early little pieces, you are plunged into music in a more advanced style. These too are little pieces, including a ...

Bach: A Musical Offering BWV 1079 133/ Canons BMV 1072-78

2 reviews
Kirstin Von Der Goltz, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Hanssler Classics

A Bach gem-let!
"A Musical Offering" is the name of an early morning radio program here in the Bay Area [KPFA], on which Mary Berg blesses those who listen each Sunday with beautifully chosen Bachian music. She played this CD last week and I went out and bought it. I've listened thrice now, and each time it brings a smile to my face. I'm no classical officianado, and admit to a preference for the lyrical and ...

The Legendary Heifetz / Heifetz, Sandor, Bay, et al

4 reviews
Jascha Heifetz, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

EMI Classics, 1999

Wonderful recordings by the young Jascha Heifetz
These old (1920s) recordings are amazing in the modernity of Heifetz's musical conception and style, as well as in the reliability of his technique. They are among those recordings with which Heifetz created an entirely new aesthetic and technical standard for violin playing, a standard that is controlling to this day. He simply moved violin playing into the modern age. For example, the way ...

The Willis Organ at Salisbury Cathedral

1 review
Johannes Brahms, Frank Bridge, ...

Telarc, 1990

Fanfares a blaze...
This is a wonderful CD. The Salisbury Organ is in the very capable hands of Organist, Michael Murray. Not only does the CD demonstrate for us the great qualities of the Tuba Mirabilis and 32' Ophicleide, but also the soft string sounds of the organ. A definite must buy!

Brahms: Complete Piano Music

2 reviews
Johannes Brahms, Martin Jones

Nimbus Records, 1995

Worthwhile, especially if you like Brahms
Johannes Brahms was one of the key figures in Romantic Piano Music. His output for the instrument was varied and large, and this four-disc set is ample testament to that output. As it was with their complete Beethoven Sonatas set (by Bernard Roberts), so it it here: Nimbus have enlisted a fine artist with a good command of the piano to record all of Brahms' solo piano music, and whilst I am ...

Rachmaninov: Piano Music (Box Set)

3 reviews
Fritz Kreisler, Sergey Rachmaninov, ...

Naxos, 2000

Essential Rachmaninoff at a good price.
Buy this box set. Biret is great. She plays Rachmaninoff straight up and doesn't taint the compositions with any wild "interpretations." And the recording quality is five star, too. I bought this in order to snag some lesser known Rachmaninoff that I loved (Cinq Morceaux, Moments Musicaux, etc.) and I really got what I paid for. Take a look at the huge tracklist - this is the Rachmaninoff ...

Player Piano 5: Conlon Nancarrow Vol. 3 - Studies 33-41c
Nancarrow

MD&G Records, 2008

German Romantic Organ Music
Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn, ...

Gothic Records, 1998

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