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Piano Duo Music by Hans Gál

GÁL Piano Duo Works: Three Marionettes, Concertino, Impromptus, Serbian Dances Hans Gál (1890-1987) There used to be a man at a bus stop on the south side of Edinburgh, humming to himself, entirely absorbed, and if you didn’t know who he was you’d have walked right past him. That was Hans Gál. I did not […]

GAL H | 26.08.07
Giordano: Andrea Chénier – Tebaldi

GIORDANO Andrea Chénier (Tebaldi, Soler, Savarese) Renata Tebaldi, José Soler, Ugo Savarese Cetra Sound engineers working for Cetra in the early 1950s did not have a reputation for coddling posterity, so the first surprise here is how well this transfer breathes. The strings have air. The climaxes — and Andrea Chénier has more climaxes per […]

CETRA | 26.08.07
Gibbons: Music for Viols, Volume 2 – Concordia

GIBBONS Go from my Window: Music for Viols, Volume 2 Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) Concordia: Mark Levy, Reiko Ichise (treble viol); Joanna Levine, Emilia Benjamin (tenor viol); Daniel Yeadon, Alison McGillivray (bass viol); Gary Cooper (organ); Rachel Elliott (soprano) METRONOME 1039 (59.14) Six viols playing in tune with one another is one of the rarer pleasures […]

GIBBONS O | 26.08.07
Gibbons: Fantazias for Viols – Concordia

GIBBONS Royal Fantasies: Music for Viols, Volume 1 Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) Concordia: Mark Levy (treble viol), Joanna Levine (treble and great bass viol), Emilia Benjamin (tenor viol), Daniel Yeadon (tenor and bass viol), Alison McGillivray (bass viol), Gary Cooper (harpsichord) METRONOME 1033 (65:16) Some music asks to be admired from a respectful distance. Gibbons’s viol […]

GIBBONS O | 26.08.07
Gianneo Piano Works – Marinis, Cremaschi, Viani

GIANNEO Piano Works – volumes 1 and 2 Luis Gianneo (1897-1968) Dora de Marinis, Alejandro Cremaschi, Fernando Viani, Elena Dabul, piano MARCO POLO 8.225205 / 8.225206 (64.11 / 62.58) Nobody outside Buenos Aires seems to remember Luis Gianneo, and that’s a shame that this Marco Polo pair goes some distance toward correcting. Argentina’s musical mid-century […]

GIANNEO L | 26.08.07