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BEETHOVEN
The Late String Quartets Cypress String Quartet [ Avie Records / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2016 ] The Cypress String Quartet completes their cycle of the genre's greatest oeuvre with a two-album set of Beethoven's six ground-breaking quartets, Op. 18, alongside a reissue of their previously self-released recording of the late quartets. For the... |
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Elena Ruehr
Ruehr: Six String Quartets The Cypress String Quartet / The Borromeo String Quartet / Stephen Salters (baritone) [ AVIE / 2 CD - released 17/Feb/2018 ] For Guggenheim Fellow composer Elena Ruehr the appeal of the string quartet lies in the ability of four instruments to express an infinite range of emotional possibilities, to communicate across time. Her six string quartets attest to her... |
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BEETHOVEN
Diabelli Variations / Bagatelles Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano) [ Avie / CD - released 20/Mar/2013 ] "Ben-Pienaar certainly holds his own in these gentle, smiling, quirky pieces...[In the Diabellis] Ben-Pienaar is excellent, though he is less well recorded than he should be" (BBC Music) |
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J. S. BACH
Goldberg Variations Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano) [ Avie Records / CD - released 3/Oct/2011 ] Daniel-Ben Pienaar offers further revelations with J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations, complemented with Fourteen Canons, BWV 1087 and Bist du bei mir. |
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GABRIELI / MERULA / WECKMANN / COUPERIN / SCHEIDEMAN / etc
The Long 17th Century: A Cornucopia of Early Keyboard Music Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 7/Feb/2020 ] "What makes it work is not just the dazzling precision and clarity of Pienaar's finger technique, but the intelligence that has gone into his interpretations...he also communicates an individual and convincing vision for each piece" Gramophone June |
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W. A. MOZART
Piano Sonatas 1-18 (complete) [special price] Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano) [ Avie / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "One factor strikes immediately: there is not a whiff of bygone reverential, even obsequious attitudes to Mozart that still cast faint shadows among some pianists." Gramophone Editor's Choice Feb 2011 |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: 12 Great Piano Sonatas Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano) [ Avie / 5 CD - released 20/Nov/2020 ] Both on the concert platform and in the recording studio, pianist Daniel-Ben Pienaar is a completist. Following complete cycles of piano sonatas by Beethoven and Mozart, he presents 12 Great Piano Sonatas by Franz Schubert - the composer's 11... |
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HENRY DEHLINGER
Dehlinger: At That Hour - Art Songs by Henry Dehlinger Danielle Talamantes (soprano), Kerry Wilkerson (bass-baritone), Henry Dehlinger (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 16/Oct/2020 ] San Francisco-native Henry Dehlinger, a prodigiously talented pianist and singer, turned his hand to full-time composition in 2015. The skill and splendour of his music belies the relatively brief number of years he has committed pen to paper to... |
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WALTON / BUSCH / WELLESZ / WEILL / GURNEY
Trails of Creativity: music from between the wars David Fruhwirth (violin) Henri Sigfridsson (piano) [ Avie / 2 CD - released 26/May/2003 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (February 2003) |
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David Owen Norris, square pianos, with Sonnerie: Monica Huggett, Emilia Benjamin - violins; Joseph Crouch, cello
The World's First Piano Concertos (Bach, Abel. Hayes, Hook, etc) [ Avie / CD - released 1/May/2003 ] Performed on the tiny square piano that dominated the European keyboard market for about 15 years in the late 18th century. |
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Clara Schumann, Claude Debussy, Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, John Field, Lowell Liebermann, Ottorino Respighi, Philip Hammond, Philip M
Piano Nocturnes David Quigley (piano) [ AVIE / CD - released 17/Aug/2018 ] Award-winning Irish pianist David Quigley, heralded by The Birmingham Post as a musician of "amazing maturity and concentration", makes his AVIE label debut with a stunning and beautiful recital that takes the listener on a moonlit journey of the... |
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WOLF-FERRARI
Susanna's Secret / Serenata Dora Rodrigues, Marc Canturri / Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Avie / CD - released 20/Aug/2010 ] "This addictive entertainment was as much a showcase for Vasily Petrenko and the Liverpool Phil as it was for Canturri's incisive, handsome baritone and Rodrigues's smooth, well-focused soprano" The Independent on Sunday (on the live performance of... |
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ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Love Songs, Op. 83 / Cypresses / Piano Quintet Adriana Kucerova (soprano) & Christoph Eschenbach (piano) / Thymos Quartet [ Avie / CD - released 12/Dec/2011 ] "A great programming idea, this...[Kucerova is] a vocal epitome of amatory responsiveness...Throughout the entire performance there's no mistaking the leader of the pack: one is always aware of listening to an excellent quartet and an exceptional... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Cancionero: Music for the Spanish Court, 1470-1520 The Dufay Collective [ Avie / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] "This disc is a welcome addition to those early music recordings that attempt to capture a period rather than a single composer, and it accomplishes this quite well." (MusicWeb July 2002) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
I Have Set My Hert So Hy: Love & Devotion in Medieval England The Dufay Collective with Voice, William Lyons (director) [ Avie / CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] Grammy-nominated The Dufay Collective has been performing and recording its unique brand of early music for nearly three decades, winning awards and wide-spread critical acclaim along the way. I Have Set My Hert So Hy marks the group's return to the... |
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ALVARS / ALBRECHTSBERGER / SAINT-SAENS
Harp Concertos Elizabeth Hainen (harp) / Bulgarian National Radio Orchestra / Rossen Milanov [ Avie Records / CD - released 2/May/2011 ] "a complete harpist who knows and uses her instrument's strength and brilliance and strikes its fire" - Miami Herald |
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Claude Debussy, Daryl Sherman, François Couperin, George Frideric Handel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Sebastian Bach, Marcel Grandjany, Philip Glass
Home: Works for Solo Harp by Bach, Debussy & Sting Elizabeth Hainen (harp) / David DePeters (vibraphone) [ AVIE / CD - released 15/Sep/2017 ] Philadelphia Orchestra Solo Harpist Elizabeth Hainen paints a varied and innovative portrait of private moments
 in this ode to the pleasures of home. The programme features favourite pieces from those enjoyable hours spent playing her instrument... |
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PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas [recorded 1994] Emily Van Evera, Ben Parry, Janet Lax, Hanne Mari Ørbaek / Taverner Choir, Taverner Players, Andrew Parrott [ Avie / CD - released 18/Dec/2014 ] AVIE continues to mine the rich catalog of recordings made by Andrew Parrott and his Taverner Choir & Players with a sumptuous reissue of Purcell's Dido & Aeneas. The performance is as fresh as when the recording was made in 1994, with baritone Ben... |
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J. S. BACH
Trauer-Musik: Music to mourn Prince Leopold, BWV 244a Emily Van Evera / Clare Wilkinson / Charles Daniels / Tom Meglioranza / Taverner Consort and Players / Andrew Parrott [ Avie Records / CD - released 5/Sep/2011 ] A unique document and superb performance make this a recording for classical music aficionados and lovers of Bach's music alike. |
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Emily Van Evera, soprano / Christopher Morrongiello, lute
My Lady Rich (Music inspired and written for Lady Penelope Rich - Works by Bartlet, Byrd, Coprario, Dowland, Holborne) [ Avie / CD - released 24/Aug/2005 ] "The disc concludes with a very impressive and moving song cycle by John Coprario, an English composer who was strongly influenced by the Italian style. The cycle was subtitled 'For the death of the Right Honorable the Earle of Devonshire', and... |