Ukranian pianist Mykola Suk, who now lives in the U.S., won a Gold Medal at the Budapest Liszt competition and has been internationally acclaimed as an exponent of Liszt's music. American Record Guide raved about Suk: 'An astonishing blend of muscular power, poetry and utter control: one of the more formidable talents to have appeared in this country in years'.

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2010 two CD release. Carlo Grante is one of the most active and accomplished performing and recording artists of his generation. He was recently featured in the widely read monograph Roberto Piana incontra Carlo Grante, first of a series devoted to major musical figures of Italy. His concert performances feature a broad repertoire: recently, under the direction of conductor Fabio Luisi, he performed Franz Schmidt's Concertante Variationen with the MDR Orchestra of Leipzig at the Gewandhaus; Busoni's Concerto Op. 39 with the Orchestra dell'Academia S. Cecilia, Rome, at the Parcomdella Musica and with the Wiener Symphoniker in Vienna; F. Schmidt's Concerto with the Wiener Symphoniker at Vienna's Konzerthaus; Isabel Mundry's Panorama Ciego piano concerto with the Dresden Staatskapelle at the Semperoper. He has been recording the complete solo piano works of Godowsky for Music & Arts and recently began recording a complete Scarlatti cycle.

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William Byrd (circa 1543 - 1623) was considered by his contemporaries to be a musician without peer. The music he wrote for voices to sing is generally recognized as his chief glory. While there are no transcriptions of chansons or song in tabulations among his instrumental works, every moving line in one of his fantasies or pavans is in essence a wordless voice, having different registers and needing breath. Presented here by acclaimed harpsichordist Colin Tilney is a delectable assortment of keyboard works highlighting the vocal character of Byrd's writing including his exquisite setting of John Dowland's famed Pavan "Lachrymae."

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