This selection is also available on Walking Frog (distribution) 406.

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Spohr: Complete Piano Trios

These selections were recorded in November 1995 and June 1996.

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Recorded in: St Peter's Church, Morden, Surrey 9-11 October 1991 Producer(s) Nicholas Anderson Sound Engineer(s) Richard Lee Jonathan Cooper (Assistant)

Recorded in: Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen 8-10 August 1992 Producer(s) Peter Hanke Sound Engineer(s) Lars Palsig

REVIEWS:
Fanfare (5-6/98, pp.185-86) - "...The music is well crafted and exhibits genuine inspiration. Though there are elements of Mozartean grace, the overall effect reminds me more of middle-period Haydn. There is rustic vitality and a sense of joy that is irresistible....Heartily endorsed."

ALWYN: Symphony No. 2 / Overture to a Masque / The Magic Isl

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Daniel Barenboim continues his acclaimed Mozart concerto cycle with the Berlin Philharmonic, widely acknowledged among the greatest orchestras in the world. Barenboim, conducting from the piano, achieves an effortless collaboration with the orchestra, establishing himself once again as a premier Mozart interpreter. Barenboim's intricate playing and sensitive interpretation misses no detail of these works, and draws a warm and vigorous response from the Berliners.

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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 9 - Tchaikovsky: Piano Con

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Sonatas & Theatre Music

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Warsaw Concerto and Other Piano Concertos from the Movies

Selections recorded December 27-29, 1984 and December 18-19, 1986.

Is Heitor Villa-Lobos the last great 20th century composer to be rediscovered? Because he wrote so much, it's easier to sidestep rather than face his overwhelming catalog point by point. The folks at Naxos, though, are tackling his Amazonian output, starting with the piano music. Brazilian pianist Sonia Rubinsky controls the undulating chordal syncopations in the wonderful Book One of A Prole do Bebê with a left hand propelled by an imaginary, rock-steady rhythm section, and never lets the pungent dissonances overshadow the melodies. Rarely heard, the delightful Cirandas are virtually the Brazilian equivalant of Bartok's folk-inspired character pieces. The improvisatory Hommage à Chopin evokes the Polish master's decorative syntax, filtered through Villa-Lobos' more lush keyboard deployment. Rubinsky is both on top and inside of the Brazilian composer's idiom, and her vivid playing is beautifully reproduced. As they say in Portuguese: "um CD sensacional."

– Jed Distler

VERACINI: Overtures and Concertos, Vol. 1

KRAUS: Symphonies, Vol. 2

TELEMANN: Musique de Table (Tafelmusik), Vol. 2