Schumann: Etudes symphoniques, Kreisleriana

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Schumann: Etudes symphoniques, KreislerianaSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO This disc contains some of the greatest music that Schumann wrote for piano. The evident technical demands of the Etudes Symphoniques are matched in Kreisleriana, a work which asserts fresh possibilities for the expressive powers of piano music in terms of form, literary association and adherence to the ideals of high Romanticism. "Many of the leading players today tend to approach Schumann with a reverence which

"It is very hard not to use superlatives when speaking of Ben Nicholas and his choir at Tewkesbury Abbey

Oxford and Cambridge than the Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum…Nicholas’s choir give proof yet again of the qualities that place

"I am sure that Hollins would have been thrilled at the performances of his music by Timothy Byram-Wigfield

"What makes this CD an essential recommendation for the smallish but devoted band of Busoni fans is Wilde’s totally absorbing account of the infrequently played Elegies of 1907

the soprano Susan Hamilton

Whether drawing on the music of the past to nourish the contrapuntal organisation of his own

leading up to Messiaen’s meditative organ work L’Ascension

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The child choristers of St Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh with their adult lower voices supporting them

"I found myself thinking repeatedly how skilfully the players have used the resources of each instrument

Gould or Pogorelich) but by a probing look beneath the music’s surface life

"Invigorating and highly persuasive"

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