Since you are interested in The Edge of Light, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
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SCHUMANN
Cello Concerto Op 129 / Piano Concerto Op 54 Christophe Coin (cello) Andreas Staier (piano) / Orchestre des Champs-Elysees, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord / CD - released 20/Sep/2012 ] An opportunity to rediscover two masterpieces played on period instruments. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart Edition [10 CD set incls 'Prague' Symphony and the Requiem] Collegium Aurem, Jos van Immerseel, Jaap Schroeder, Franzjosef Maier, Mozart Trio Salzburg / etc [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2013 ] This Collection of Mozart fetaures some of the leading period-instrument ensembles and spans the oeuvre of Mozart's works. Included excellent readings of the 'Prague' Symphony and the Requiem! |
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HOWELLS / WHITACRE / GRANTHAM / PIZZETTI
Requiem Conspirare / The Company of Voices [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "The perfect, and perfectly lovely, unity of Conspirare's choral tone was not entirely welcome. But they're not bland: their care for words and expression guards against that, as does their alertness to changes of mood, whether by movement or... |
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SCHUMANN
Violin Sonatas / Gesang der Fruhe Daniel Sepec (violin) / Andreas Staier (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Aug/2010 ] After his earlier Hommage à Bach album, played on the same 1837 Érard piano he uses here, Andreas Staier is joined by Daniel Sepec in a programme of considerably later works by Schumann. However, these two violin sonatas and the Gesänge der Frühe of... |
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SHOSTAKOVICH / PROKOFIEV / RAVEL
Piano works Elena Rozanova (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 9/Dec/2001 ] Selection of popular 20th Century piano works |
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MAX REGER
Sonata No.2, Romanze (with Richard Strauss - Sonata for cello) Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) / Pascal Amoyal (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'Abord / CD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] Fate reserved quite extraordinary treatment for these two sonatas for cello and piano, two first attempts at the genre that turned out to be masterstrokes - and were both disowned much later by their respective composers. |
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CHARLES ALKAN
Cello Sonata Op.47 (with Liszt - Elegies, La Lugubre Gondole, etc) Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) Pascal Amoyel (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 25/Jul/2014 ] "intelligently played and beautifully recorded." - Gramophone February 2002 |
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ALKAN / SAINT-SAENS / GRIEG / STRAUSS / LISZT
Le Violoncelle Romantique [The Romantic Cello] (2 CDs for the price of 1) Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) / Pascal Amoyel (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi Initiales / 2 CD - released 15/Sep/2011 ] "The enthusiastic playing of Bertrand and Amoyel captures Saint-Saëns' characteristic youthful vigour and gleeful virtuosity." Classic FM Magazine |
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OLIVIER GREIF
Sonate de Requiem / Piano Trio Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) / Pascal Amoyel (piano) / Antje Weithaas (violin) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 14/Apr/2006 ] 'I have never composed so much in my life. If I ask myself the reasons for such profusion, I realise that it is because I have nothing else in my life but music. If I stop composing, I die', Olivier Greif wrote after finishing his Trio in 1998. |