SACD, Skalkottas (composer)
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Skalkottas: Orchestral Works
RecommendedGeorgios Demertzis (violin), Vassilis Varvaresos (piano), Eleftherios Venizelos, Athens Philharmonia Orchestra, Byron Fidetzis
Orchestrations that bring the works powerfully to life. —
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Strauss: Concerto for oboe and orchestra
Yeon-Hee Kwak (oboe), David Pia (cello)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Johannes Goritzki
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affinities
Songs by six Greek composers and their German mentors
Fanie Antonelou (soprano), Kerstin Mörk (piano)
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Temporal Variations
Music for Oboe and Piano between 1935 and 1941
Birgit Schmieder (oboe, cor anglais) & Akiko Yamashita (piano)
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Ramou navigates her way through these sometimes knotty scores, which she clearly knows inside-out, with consummate musicianship. The piano tone is warm and full although the over-resonant acoustic... —
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Skalkottas: Two Concertos
George Zacharias, Alexandros Koustas, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Skalkottas’s scoring – needing far more players than the 10 required in his Third Piano Concerto (BIS, 3/05; Paladino, 5/20) – is miraculously clear, but required Brabbins and the London Philharmonic’s... —
