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NI 5741/2
Beethoven
The Sonatas and Variations for cello and piano
Raphael Wallfisch, cello
John York, piano
The five sonatas and three sets of variations for cello and piano have always represented
for me a great Classical arch spanning Beethoven’s whole creative life; the Opus 5 and
Opus 102 couplings form the mighty uprights, Opus 69 is the proud keystone and the
variations decorate the capitals ...
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NI 7921
Prima Voce - Lilli Lehmann (1848 - 1929)
... What we actually hear is more than merely surprising. They continually amaze
us with the sheer quality - the clarity, steadiness, power and flexibility - of her voice,
with the stamina which takes her through Donna Anna’s Vengeance aria and Fidelio’s
‘Abscheulicher!’, with the delicacy she could command in her Lieder singing, and
with the sureness of intonation, which never falters. We also recognise an artist,
warmly expressive and scrupulous in detail ...
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NI 7074/5
Mendelssohn
Scottish & Italian Symphonies, Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto No. 1
Hebrides Overture Fingal's Cave, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
The Hanover Band, Roy Goodman, director
Christopher Kite, fortepiano, Benjamin Hudson, violin
Mendelssohn had been encouraged by his mentor Goethe and teacher Zelter to
visit Italy, and did so in 1830. While in Rome he started composing a new symphony
inspired by "the land of bright skies and warmth", and wrote to his sister in February
of the next year that "the Italian symphony is coming on well: it will be the happiest
piece I have yet composed." At the same time he writes that a Piano Concerto "I
would like to write for myself for Paris, is beginning to whirl in my head ..."
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Re-Issues
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| NI 5389 |
Smetana, String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2, Debussy, String Quartet Op. 10
Medici String Quartet |
| NI 7047 |
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
Raga Yaman, Raga Shuddha Todi |
| NI 1769 |
A Portrait of Elgar
English Symphony & String Orchestras, William Boughton, conductor |
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