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  Stewart Goodyear’s Trendy Tchaikovsky & Grieg Piano Concertos

  Listening to these performances by Stewart Goodyear, the word that kept coming to mind was “impressive”. And Goodyear does indeed impress with his bullseye accuracy, [...]

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  The Busoni Concerto We’ve Been Waiting For

  Kirill Gerstein’s March 2017 collaboration with Sakari Oramo and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Busoni’s mammoth Piano Concerto generated both intense interest and ecstatic reviews. [...]

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  Paul Lewis Plays Haydn

  Paul Lewis certainly knows how he wants these four Haydn sonatas to go. His large-scaled interpretations abound with sophisticated degrees of nuance, inflection, and dynamic [...]

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  Il Giardino Armonico’s Haydn Vol. 4: “Distratto” Indeed

  So it begins. The reason most projected Haydn symphony cycles, whether complete or not, start with a bang and then end with a whimper is [...]

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  Three Magnificats by JS, JC, & CPE Bach

  Yes, three settings of the Magnificat by three Bachs. Not that there’s anything wrong with Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), but he’s on a playing field [...]

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