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October 30 2017

The Guardian: Elektra, Gwyneth Jones & The OSR - Live recording Geneva 1990

Recordings of Elektra are proliferating at present; hard on the heels of Semyon Bychkov's new version of Hänssler, reviewed in these pages last month, come two performances, each of which serves the work better than Bychkov's impressive, if gravely flawedsset. Both derive from radio archives. The Walhall label offers Karl Böhm's justly famous 1...

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October 24 2017

Gramophone (UK): Stanford Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2, Finghin Collins

Stanford’s answer to the great Russian concerto It is not perhaps surprising that the key, opening flourishes and other episodes in this splendid concerto recall Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 2. Stanford had conducted its British premiere, with the composer as soloist, the year before he completed his own. If the second and third movements do...

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October 24 2017

The Cross-Eyed Pianist: Meet the Artist……Finghin Collins, pianist

Who or what inspired you to take up the piano and pursue a career in music? My family! I am the youngest of four children and when I came along my three elder siblings were all at it! I was dying to get started and at the age of three my eldest sister Mary (aged 13) started to teach me. At age 6 I won a scholarship into the Royal Irish Academy...

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October 24 2017

Irish Times: Finghin Collins takes a lap of honour on his 40th birthday

NCH honours pianist by presenting him in solo recital as part of international series Finghin Collins will turn 40 at the end of the month, and the National Concert Hall got its congratulations in early by presenting the pianist in a solo recital as part of its current International Concert Series last Thursday. It’s an unusual honour for the h...

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October 17 2017

Der Sonntag (DE): Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 4, Durchsichtig und Intim

Vier Symphonien Gustav Mahlers, die der Freiburger Dirigent und Pianist Klaus Simon orchestriert hat, sind schon beim traditionsreichen Wiener Verlag „Universal Edition“ erschienen. Die Sechste wird im März 2019 gedruckt. Nun hat das formidable Mythen Ensemble Orchestral eine fantastische Einspielung der Vierten vorgelegt, die Mahlers Musik wie...

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October 16 2017

AUSTA Stringendo: Esther Hoppe & Alasdair Beatson, Mozart & Poulenc

Very imaginative programming pairs Mozart and Poulenc. The three Mozart sonatas (K.301, K.304 and K.378) include the E minor Sonata, K.304 (1778); the only violin sonata that Mozart wrote in a minor key. Esther Hoppe has a bright and exquisite tone with an endless variety of colours and a vast range of dynamics. Alasdair Beatson is Hoppe’s arti...

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October 11 2017

CD Hotlist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Francis Poulenc, Works for Violin & Piano

Here’s an interesting pairing: the enfant terrible of the high classical period alongside another puckish rebel, the playful (and notably untrained) mid-20th-century French composer Francis Poulenc. Although both were known for their sense of humor, stylistically this program makes no sense; the transition from Mozart’s E minor sonata to Poulen...

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October 11 2017

Music Web International: Ginastera Harp, Anaïs Gaudemard

On the face of it, to present a programme with three pieces that range over one hundred and fifty years might seem a strange thing to do. This is especially the case as they are only linked through the solo instrument, the harp, and are stylistically miles apart. However, in the hands of Anaïs Gaudemard this works well, showing the versatility ...

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October 11 2017

France Musique: En direct de la Salle Pasteur du Corum de Montpellier, Anaïs Gaudemard (podcast)

Anaïs Gaudemard, 1e prix du Concours international de Harpe, Israël 2012 en direct de la Salle Pasteur, Montpellier 2017 En direct de la Salle Pasteur du Corum de Montpellier, Anaïs Gaudemard, 1er Prix du Concours International de Harpe d'Israël 2012 et 2e Prix du Concours ARD 2016 interprète Scarlatti, Parish-Alvars, Debussy, Charpy, Hindemit...

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October 10 2017

Le Nouvelliste: Levinas, Petit Prince de l'opéra

C’est la première fois qu’un compositeur français crée un opéra tiré du «Petit prince» de Saint-Exupéry. Double réussite: scénographique par la complicité que Michaël Levinas suscite entre la salle et la scène, lyrique par la puissance du langage musical, dont la seule version sonore suffit à nourrir l’imaginaire de la représentation. «Au-delà ...

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The Guardian: Elektra, Gwyneth Jones & The OSR - Live recording Geneva 1990

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Gramophone (UK): Stanford Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2, Finghin Collins

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The Cross-Eyed Pianist: Meet the Artist……Finghin Collins, pianist

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Irish Times: Finghin Collins takes a lap of honour on his 40th birthday

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Der Sonntag (DE): Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 4, Durchsichtig und Intim

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AUSTA Stringendo: Esther Hoppe & Alasdair Beatson, Mozart & Poulenc

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CD Hotlist: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Francis Poulenc, Works for Violin & Piano

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