Stravinsky / Rachmaninov / Tchaikovsky: Russian works for piano four hands

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Stravinsky / Rachmaninov / Tchaikovsky: Russian works for piano four handsSUMMARY TRACK LISTING WATCH REVIEWS INFO Sergei Rachmaninov, last of the great Romantic composers, and Igor Stravinsky, whose early scores for Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes revolutionised the musical world, had a shared fascination for the traditional music of their homeland. Rachmaninovs early masterpiece, the Six morceaux Op. 11, already exhibits the sweep and grandeur of his maturity, while Stravinskys four hands arrangement of Petrushka reveals

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"Scots composer Ronald Stevenson is 75 and we don’t hear enough of his music

The Exon Singers’ programme includes a new Missa brevis composed especially for this recording

Excellent performances throughout

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The instrumental writing is pungent and lush by turns

brittle and pointed in the scherzo"

Wilde said to Delphian producer Paul Baxter: ‘I’ve been playing this piece for 73 years – I don’t think I need a score

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and the performances here are consistently fine

a sonorous but clear acoustic that warms the viol pieces and allows the voices of the Marian Consort to bloom

giving a voice back to some of Europe’s most illustrious ancient instruments and refocusing attention on a type of music whose trance-inducing long spans and elaborate formal patterning echo the knots and spells of Celtic culture

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