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CHOPIN
12 etudes, Op.10 / 12 etudes, Op.25 Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2004 ] Ever since becoming the youngest winner of the BBC Young Musician award Freddy Kempf has been making waves in the world of music - not least in the 1998 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition where he shot to prominence when the jury and the... |
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SCHUMANN
Fantasiestucke / Etudes symphoniques / etc Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] There is real beauty to Kempf's sound, especially in the lyrical moments of the Fantasiestucke, and careful, intelligent voicing of the very contrapuntal Etudes Symphoniques. |
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BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonatas: Pathetique, Moonlight and Appassionata Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2005 ] "Kempf's insight into the character of each of these Olympian masterpieces is astonishing and is allied to formidable virtuosity and musicianship" (Sunday Telegraph). |
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MUSSORGSKY
Pictures from an Exhibition (with works by Balakirev & Ravel) Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - September 2008 - "Kempf storms back with a daunting programme powerfully played." |
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RACHMANINOV / BACH-BUSONI / RAVEL / STRAVINSKY
Recital Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "a formidable programme formidably played… This is "live" virtuosity with a vengeance, with absolutely no hint of a safety net". (Gramophone) |
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PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: The Seasons / Grand Sonata Freddy Kempf (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 25/Oct/2015 ] "we can be grateful that Kempf has added an all-Tchaikovsky solo piano disc to the catalogue" MusicWeb |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 / Piano Sonata No. 2 Freddy Kempf (piano) / Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Litton [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Jan/2010 ] "[In the G minor concerto] Kempf is less flamboyant than some, perhaps seeking to make musical sense of the argument. The second movement is as lithe and scintillating as one might wish." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine May 2010 |
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LARS KARLSSON
Seven Songs - Clarinet Concerto Gabriel Suovanen (baritone) / Christoffer Sundqvist (clarinet) / Lapland Chamber Orchestra / John Stogards (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 2/Feb/2018 ] Lars Karlsson was born in 1953 on Åland, an archipelago in the Baltic Sea which forms part of Finland although its population is Swedish-speaking. He soon moved to Helsinki, however, in order to study at the Sibelius Academy, where his teachers... |
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NIKOS SKALKOTTAS
Skalkottas: Two Concertos George Zacharias (violin), Alexandros Koustas (viola), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Mar/2023 ] "The fact that Nikos Skalkottas was one of Schoenberg's elite composition students obscures the fact that he began his career as a violinist of concert-artist level. The two concertos gathered here highlight this violinist/composer duality. The... |
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WILHELM STENHAMMAR
Stenhammar: Symphony No. 2 / Serenade Gothenburg Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Nov/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Orchestral |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No. 4 / Serenade for Strings in C major Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Neeme Jarvi [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2008 ] "Neeme Järvi and the Gothenburgers hit their stride and turn in a generally excellent Fifth Symphony. The first-movement exposition takes a few minutes to settle down, largely due to Järvi's somewhat casual approach to rhythm, but once the music gets... |
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ALLAN PETTERSSON
Pettersson: Barfotasånger (Complete Songs) Peter Mattei (baritone), Bengt-Åke Lundin (piano) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Apr/2022 ] From 1950 and onwards, Allan Pettersson was mainly occupied with working on the monolithic symphonies for which he is best known. But before that, while still a student at the Conservatory in Stockholm and later a viola player in the Stockholm... |
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SERGEI TANEYEV / ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
Taneyev / Glazunov: String Quintets Gringolts Quartet, Christian Poltéra - cello II [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 31/Dec/2015 ] Fine works by any standards, the two string quintets on this disc become even more significant in light of the marginal role accorded to chamber music in the flowering of Russian music during the second half of the 19th century. |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos 2 & 4 Gringolts Quartet, Malin Hartelius (soprano) [ Bis SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Aug/2017 ] Conceived thirty years apart, both works on the present disc came into being at difficult times in the life of Arnold Schoenberg. Emotional stress caused by a marital crisis around 1907-1908 is often claimed to have contributed to the break with... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: String Quintets Gringolts Quartet (string quartet), Lilli Maijala [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 14/Jun/2024 ] "There's a wealth of characterisation within this richly unified, bronze-dark ensemble. A deep-dug, chunky tone, often quite rugged, is offset by moments of intense sweetness, as well as great delicacy and refinement" BBC Music Recording of the Month |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No.1 'Winter Daydreams' / The Snow Maiden, Op.12 / etc Gateborgs Symfoniker / Neeme Jarvi [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2004 ] On the second installment in our series of Tchaikovsky Symphonies with the Gothenburg SO and Neeme Järvi, we go directly from the composer's symphonic testament, Symphony No.6 'Pathétique', to his first attempt at the form. |
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DEBUSSY / RAVEL
Debussy & Ravel on the Organ Gunnar Idenstam (organ & arranger) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Mar/2014 ] "a programme of rich ambition and imagination." (Gramophone) |
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BRETT DEAN / LUCA FRANCESCONI
Dean: Dramatis Personae / Francesconi: Hard Pace Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet) / Gothenburg Symphony, John Storgårds [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 24/May/2017 ] Ever since his very first disc, released by BIS some thirty years ago, Hakan Hardenberger has earned recognition for his performances of the classical repertory, but also as a pioneer of significant and vituosic new music for the trumpet.... |
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BETSY JOLAS / SALLY BEAMISH / OLGA NEUWIRTH
Stories - Trumpet Concertos Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), Roger Muraro (piano), Malmö Symphony Orchestra, National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, Martyn Brabbins [ BIS SACD / CD - released 4/Oct/2019 ] Alongside his celebrated performances of the classical repertory, Håkan Hardenberger is also renowned as a pioneer of significant new trumpet works. The three works on this disc were all composed with him in mind, and illustrate his many-facetted... |
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BETSY JOLAS / ANDRE JOLIVET / FLORENT SCHMITT / HENRI TOMASI
Håkan Hardenberger plays French Trumpet Concertos Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet) / Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jun/2022 ] During the second half of the 19th century, a French school of trumpet playing was established, with French musicians and composers at the forefront of the instrument's musical and technical development. |