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Classical CD Of The Week: Tasty Danishes (Piano Trio Edition)

The title of this disc, “Danish Romantic Piano Trios”, is almost redundant since the piano trio, although ultimately inspired the classical Viennese form (Haydn, basically), took until the mid-19 th ...
Forbes

Classical CD Of The Week: Szymanowski's Works For Violin And Piano

Amazon mp3: $9 | Amazon CD: $13 | ArkivMusic: $17 | Qobuz download: £6.50 | iTunes mp3: $10 Karol Szymanowski (1882 – 1937) is, Chopin apart, the Polish national composer. En route he is also one of ...
The New Zealand Herald

Classic CD: Herz: Piano Concerto no 2, Alissa Firsova: Russian Emigres

Henri Herz (1803-1888) was one of the flashier piano virtuosi of his time. As was the fashion, he wrote his own music to showcase his talents, producing what Harold Schonberg slated as "empty, ...
The Arts Desk

Classical CDs Weekly: Brahms, Haydn, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo

Compare the openings of Brahms’s two piano concertos and you'd be mistaken for thinking they were by different composers. The earlier work begins with the fiercest of orchestral growls, the piano ...
The Arts Desk

Classical CDs: Fringes, canons and contests

J.S. Bach & Trevor Weston: Myths Contested Washington Bach Consort, Dana Marsh (Acis) I was unaware till now of the American composer Trevor Weston (b.1967), but here he is paired with JS Bach on a ...