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Benjamin Frith’s survey of John Field’s piano concertos makes a fine impression with Nos. 5 and 6. The former, “L’incendie par l’Orage” (“Fire by Lightning”–a
The few original works that Beethoven left for piano duet deserve more attention than they usually get. His little two-movement D major sonata, for example,
E.J. Moeran really was a good composer. His style sounds a bit like a mixture of Vaughan Williams and Walton: the folk-influence of the former,
The works on this collection cover pretty much the entire span of Bax’s composing career. The Clarinet Sonata in E and the Romance are among
Fifteen years before Chopin wrote his first “nocturne”, Irish pianist/composer John Field composed his Nocturne No. 1 in E-flat major, followed by at least 15
Benjamin Frith’s 1991 Diabelli Variations has long occupied a place on my short list of this work’s recorded editions. Happily, Sanctuary Classics gives it a
Benjamin Frith is no stranger to Naxos customers, having previously graced the catalog with a Mendelssohn cycle, John Field’s Nocturnes, and other releases. Here he
This has been a frustrating disc to review. The two works here make a perfect coupling; the Piano Concerto shares the same sound world as
