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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Liszt: Complete Piano Music: Rapsodie Espagnole and other pieces on Spanish themes Leslie Howard, piano [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 45 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Howard is chef, artist, minstrel and matador in this Spanish spectacle. You will be delighted by the sense of spaciousness and clarity in the recorded sound, and your paella is guaranteed to be more flavoursome with this exotic accompaniment'... |
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Victoria: Requiem Mass Choir of Westminster Cathedral / David Hill (Master of the Music) [ Hyperion 30 / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] 'Glorious. A rich, luminous acoustic halo seems to surround the music as it soars ever upward. Under David Hill's expert direction this choir has achieved a depth and body of tone totally appropriate to this full-blooded Iberian music' |
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Complete Piano Music: Arabesques Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 35 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "I constantly admired his near orchestral range of sonority - his strength in grandiloquence and his hypnotic sustaining power in intimacy. Everything is played with total conviction" (Gramophone) |
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Complete Piano Music: Christus, St Elisabeth & St Stanislaus Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 14 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Another pithy release in what is fast looming as one of the most imposing recording landmarks of the century' (Fanfare, USA) |
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Complete Piano Music: The Schubert Transcriptions 2 Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 32 / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2011 ] "His idiomatic grasp and utter reliability remain as admirable as in earlier instalments. Excellent sonics and informative notes by the performer" (American Music Guide) |
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Complete Piano Music: Liszt at the Opera Vol II Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 17 / 2 CD - released 10/Jan/2006 ] 'There are riches galore here … Howard, as with every volume so far, brings to the recording studio the excitement of a live performance while never neglecting or unduly emphasising the poetry and sentiment' (CDReview) |
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Complete Piano Music: Liebestraume and the Songbooks Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 19 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Among the most readily and revealingly appealing issues of Howard's stupendous enterprise. Enthusiastically recommended' (Fanfare, USA) |
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Complete Piano Music: Album d'un Voyageur and other pieces from Liszt's years of travel in France and Switzerland Leslie Howard, piano [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 20 / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'This album is one of the supreme rewards of Howard's Liszt traversal. Sound is transparently immediate, and the artist's annotations guide one surely and elegantly through these amazing riches - which you must hear' (Fanfare, USA) |
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Complete Piano Music: The Beethoven Symphonies Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 22 / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'This really is a pretty phenomenal achievement. I urge Lisztians to hear it, and even those who collect the proper versions of the Beethoven Symphonies - it is a marvellous way of hearing them afresh' (Gramophone) |
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Complete Piano Music: Beethoven and Hummel Septets Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 24 / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'Howard joue tout cela avec beaucoup de raffinement et un vrai sens du châtoiement sonore. De belles découvertes' (Répertoire, France) |
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Complete Piano Music: Les Preludes. Concert etudes & Episodes from Lenau's Faust Leslie Howard (piano) [ Hyperion Complete Liszt Edition Vol 38 / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] 'A rewarding collection, very well played and recorded' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) |