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Classical Editor: Rob Barnett |
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Compilation of Athene Minerva reviews |
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FIELD, John.
Nocturnes 1 - 16.
 Joanna
Leach (square piano)
Athene ATH CD1 [75' 39"]. |
David Wright |
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HAYDN. Piano
Works. Variations in F minor, Hob. XVII: 6; Sonata in C, Hob. XVI:
35; Sonata in E flat, Hob. XVI: 49; Sonata in C minor Hob. XVI: 20.
Joanna Leach (square piano)
Athene ATH CD2. DDD [68' 47"]. |
David Wright |
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FOUR SQUARE A selection of 18th and 19th
century piano music played on square pianos by Joanna Leach. SOLER Sonata no 90 in F sharp minor HAYDN Sonata in C, Hob.XVI:1, BACH Partita No 1 in B flat (four movements only) MOZART Fantasie in D minor K397 SCHUBERT Impromptu in A flat D899 no 4; MENDELSSOHN Song without words Op 19 no 1; MOZART Sonata in A, K331.
ATHENE ATH CD3 [DDD] [61' 422]. |
David Wright |
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CLEMENTI, Muzio.
Piano Sonatas: F sharp minor Op 25 no 5; B flat Op 24 no 2; G minor
Op 7 no 3; Op 25 no 6; F minor Op 13 no 6.
Played on a Clementi square piano of 1832 by Peter Katin.
DDD Athene ATH CD4. [74' 35"]. |
David Wright |
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SCHUBERT Four
Impromptus D899 Four Impromptus D935
Peter Katin (piano)
ATHENE ATHCD5 [64' 22"] |
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Antony Hodgson |
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SCHUBERT Drei
Klavierstüke D946 Valses Nobles D969 Moments
Musicaux D780
Peter Katin (piano)
Athene ATH CD7 [73'
33"]. |
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Antony Hodgson |
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SCHUMANN Carnaval,
Op 9; Waldszenen, Op 82; Album
for the Young Op 68 (seven pieces only).
Andreas Boyde (piano)
Athene Minerva ATH CD8 [DDD] [55' 07"] |
David Wright |
| CD 9 |  |
PETER KATIN in recital. LISZT
Piano Sonata; BRAHMS Variations
and Fugue on a theme by Handel Op 24; LISZT
Sonetto 123 del Petrarca (Années de Pélérinage,
second year) . Peter Katin (piano)
From a recital recorded in April 1983 at the University of Western
Ontario, Canada. ADD Minerva Athene. ATH CD9 [67' 45"] |
David Wright |
| CD10 |  |
DUSSEK. Music
For Harp and Piano. Duo Concertant in B flat Op 69 no
1; Duo Concertant in B flat Op 69 no 3; Sonata in
F sharp minor Op 61.
Derek Bell (harp) Joanna Leach (square piano).
Athene ATH CD10. DDD [61' 04"]. |
David Wright |
| CD11 |  |
CHOPIN, First and last
A recital by Peter Katin playing his 1836 Collard
& Collard square piano.
Athene
ATHCD11 DDD [74' 56"] |
David Wright |
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HAVERGAL BRIAN
(1876-1972) The Complete Piano Music
Raymond Clarke (piano) Esther King (mezzo) Tessa Spong (speaker)
Recorded at Potton Hall, Dunwich 19-20 June 1997
Minerva Athene ATH CD12 recording sponsored by the Havergal
Brian Society 76:34 |
Rob Barnett |
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RONAN MAGILL
Titanic 10th-15th April 1912 - An Atmospheric Poem
in five pictures for solo piano - plus five other pieces
Ronan Magill (piano) Recorded at Potton Hall, Dunwich 20th June 1997
MINERVA ATHENE ATH CD 13 [62:13 ] |
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DEREK BELL ·
Variations and Musical Quotations Come on Northern Ireland, Come
On for mezzo. chorus and orchestra (19) 14:04 · Divertissement
Variations on a Tune kindly contributed by Dr Paddy Moloney (19)
15:28 · Toccata Burlesca for oboe and piano (1958)
3:44 · Symphony No 2 The Violet Flame, Comte de Saint
Germain (1990) 30:33 BEINSA DOUNO 1864-1944 (8:36) · Izgyava slunteseto (arr Barnaby Brown) for flute and harp · Vehadi for tenor and harp · Kiamen Zenu (arr Derek Bell) for tenor and harp · Gospodi. kolko te obicham (arr Barnaby Brown) for solo harp
Vratza Philharmonic Orchestra/Bulgarian National Philharmonic Choir
cond Valeri Vatchev - various Bulgarian soloists Derek Bell appears as
harpist in the Douno pieces and in the symphony and variations. He is
the pianist in the Toccata.
MINERVA Athene ATH CD14 73:52 |
Rob Barnett David Wright |
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WILLIAM MATHIAS
Piano
Sonatas no 1 & 2; JOHN PICKARD
A Starlit Dome; Piano Sonata No 1.
Raymond Clarke (piano)
Athene ATH CD15 DDD
[66' 01"]. |
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PETER TCHAIKOVSKY
(1840-1893) Piano Concerto No 2 in G major (1879)
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975)
Symphony No 9 in E flat major Op. 70 (1945)
Andreas Boyde (piano) Freiburg PO/Johannes Fritzsch Live broadcast
recording on 13/14 January 1997 at Sudwestfunk Landestudio, Freiburg
- Konzerthaus Freiburg
MINERVA ATHENE ATH CD 16 [73:34] |
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MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition; Ravel Miroirs
Andreas Boyde (piano)
DDD Athene-Minerva.
ATHCD17 [65' 05"].
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David Wright |
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SHOSTAKOVICH.
Piano Sonata No 1, Op 12; Piano Sonata No 2, Op 61; Twenty-four
Preludes, Op 34; Prelude and Fugue in D minor, Op 87 No 24
. Raymond Clarke (piano)
Athene ATH CD18 [DDD] [75' 44"] |
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SZYMANOWSKI.
Piano Sonata No 1, Op 8; Piano Sonata No 2. Op 21; Piano Sonata
No 3, Op 36; Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor.
Raymond Clarke (piano)
Athene ATH CD19 DDD [73' 50"] |
David Wright |
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DVORAK Piano
Concerto (original version) SCHOENFIELD
Piano Concerto (Four Parables)
Andreas Boyde with Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Johannes Fritzch
(Dvorak) and Dresdner Sinfoniker cond. Jonathan Nott (Schoenfield)
Athene Minerva ATH CD21, 70 mins |
Peter G Woolf |
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Joseph HAYDN (1732-1809) Five Sonatas
and Capriccio Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI/37 Sonata in C# minor, Hob.XVI/36 Sonata in F major, Hob.XVI/23 Sonata in E minor, Hob.XVI/34 Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI/51 Capriccio in G major, Hob.XVII/1 "Acht Sauschneider müssen seyn" Joanna Leach, Stodart square
piano of 1823 ATHENE ATHCD22 [71.09]
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Kirk McElhearn |
| CD23 |
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VARIATIONS. Schumann
Impromptus Op 5; Beethoven Variations; Schubert Variations
(world première recording); Ghost Variations. Brahms
Variation on a theme of Schumann
Andreas Boyde (piano)
ATH CD23 [DDD] [67' 16"]. |
David Wright |
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