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Bach WTC Koroliov/Tacet

David Hurwitz

Evgeni Koroliov’s recordings of The Art of Fugue (for Tacet) and the Goldberg Variations (for Hänssler) have placed him in the forefront of today’s Bach

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PIANO TRIOS VOLUME 1

Jed Distler

Beethoven composed his Op. 1 piano trios under the shadow of Haydn. The younger composer’s personality, though, was squarely intact. You already get those sudden

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Debussy and Ravel Trios/Tacet

Jed Distler

It makes stylistic, chronological, and musical sense to pair Debussy and Ravel’s sole string quartets on disc. Both works represent early, fully-formed manifestations of each

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David Hurwitz March 30, 2025

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