Review for GMCD 7397 – Dances and Laments by Peter Fribbins
…The most affecting sections are the brief moments of frozen stillness near the centre, and the downbeat coda, its irregular bass thumps suggesting a faltering heartbeat. Like many contemporary British composers, Fribbins has a day job as an academic. And the fact that you probably won’t have heard of him is a matter for regret, as the music collected on this anthology is consistently engaging…
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Review GMCD 7398 – Memorias – Guitar Music played by Admir Doçi
…Der in der Schweiz lebende Gitarrist albanischer Herkunft spielt unter anderem eine dreizehnsaitige Gitarre von Ermanno Chiavi — zehn auf dem Griffbrett, drei frei schwingend. Bei der Fantasia X von Luys de Narvaez bespielt er sechs Saiten, und bei Visées c-moll-Suite beeindrucken dann die ungeahnten Bässe. Das Spiel wird bei Doçi dadurch keinesfalls schwerfällig, man höre nur die nett verzierte kleine Viseé-Courante…
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Review "The lost Transcriptions"
... As I have been writing for years, Guild Light Music has been releasing a seemingly endless series of CDs under the main title “The Golden Age of Light Music.” They are now up to their 208th entry — and it is a most unusual one. As a departure from the past compilations of commercial mono and stereo recordings of the late ‘40s to the middle ‘50s, this one follows a new direction...
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Review for GMCD 7405/06 - Piano Sonatas by Beethoven, Schnyder von Wartensee and Liste
…While it is all too easy to overlook an issue such as this, I have no doubt that this is just the kind of project the gramophone should undertake. Indeed, only the gramophone is at all likely to be doing this, for a recital programme made up of these three works is unlikely to attract a big audience — although the music certainly deserves it. In these three sonatas, we can more readily grasp the historical ‘placing’ of the development of the piano sonata as a genre…
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Review for GMCD 7388 - Light & Shadows
…The American-born lutenist Peter Croton demonstrates his virtuosic talent on this program of Italian lute music …
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Review for GMCD 7400 - Volkmar Andreae
Voller Einsatz für den Opa - Drei völlig unbekannte Werke des Schweizers Volkmar Andreae stellen in dieser überwiegend gelungenen Interpretation eine willkommene Entdeckung dar...
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Review for GHCD 2406/07 - Adolf Busch - The Berlins Recording 1921-1929
For the first time, the Adolf Busch legacy from Weimar Germany is assembled for our delectation of the foremost violinist and chamber musician in Europe at that time...
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Radio Six International
"The Golden Age of Light Music" is a weekly programme broadcast...
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Andreae Marc
Marc Andreae was born into a family long prominent on the Swiss music scene. He studied in his home town of Zurich, then with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and with ...
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