SACD, Rota, N (composer)
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Awards:
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Youth Development Award
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Nino Rota - Complete music for viola & violin and piano
Marco Fornaciari (viola / violin) & Gabriele Baldocci (piano)
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Piano Concertos
Donka Angatscheva (piano), Sergej Synelnikov (violin), Peter Manz (cello)
Vogtland Philharmonie Greiz/Reichenbach, Stefan Fraas
The young Bulgarian soloist gives this refreshing programme of underrated piano concertos great heart and sparkle. The orchestra occasionally becomes a bit stodgy —
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Rota: Cello Concertos & Il Gattopardo
Friedrich Kleinhapl (cello)
Augsburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Dirk Kaftan
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Håkan Hardenberger: Both Sides, Now
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet) & Roland Pöntinen (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Kenneth Sillito
Hardenberger is often rhythmically too straitlaced for this material. Still, we can admire his smoky flugelhorn tone and deft high passagework on muted trumpet. And the selection, from My Funny... —
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Plank has a real command of light and shade. She's adept at creating musical perspective; a soft-edged, almost muted accompaniment against which foreground figures glint and sing in shades that... —
