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STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring – The Bad Plus piano trio – Masterworks“The Rite of Spring” = STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring; HOLST: The Planets Suite; SAINT-SAENS/ANDERSON: Dance Macabre – The 5 Browns, pianos – Steinway & Sons

STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring – The Bad Plus piano trio – Masterworks
“The Rite of Spring” = STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring; HOLST: The Planets Suite; SAINT-SAENS/ANDERSON: Dance Macabre – The 5 Browns, pianos – Steinway & Sons

by John Sunier | Mar 18, 2014 | Classical CD Reviews

Who would have ever thought we’d eventually be hearing this played by one of the top jazz piano trios plus on five pianos?

STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring – The Bad Plus piano trio – Masterworks“The Rite of Spring” = STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring; HOLST: The Planets Suite; SAINT-SAENS/ANDERSON: Dance Macabre – The 5 Browns, pianos – Steinway & Sons

STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring – The Bad Plus piano trio – Masterworks”The Rite of Spring” = STRAVINSKY: The Rite of Spring; HOLST: The Planets Suite; SAINT-SAENS/ANDERSON: Dance Macabre – The 5 Browns, pianos – Steinway & Sons

by John Sunier | Mar 18, 2014 | Classical CD Reviews

Who would have ever thought we’d eventually be hearing this played by one of the top jazz piano trios plus on five pianos?

“Wagner Idyll” = Isolde’s Liebestode from “Tristan und Isolde,”; Fantasy in F-sharp Minor; Spinnerlied from “The Flying Dutchman,”; Siegfried Idyll – Vestard Shimkus, piano – Ars Produktion LISZT: Funérailles; Études d’exécution transcendante: No. 10. Allegro agitato molto; No. 11. “Harmonies du soir”; 3 Sonetti del Petrarcha; RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit; SAINT-SAËNS: Danse Macabre – Yevgeny Sudbin, piano – BIS

“Wagner Idyll” = Isolde’s Liebestode from “Tristan und Isolde,”; Fantasy in F-sharp Minor; Spinnerlied from “The Flying Dutchman,”; Siegfried Idyll – Vestard Shimkus, piano – Ars Produktion LISZT: Funérailles; Études d’exécution transcendante: No. 10. Allegro agitato molto; No. 11. “Harmonies du soir”; 3 Sonetti del Petrarcha; RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit; SAINT-SAËNS: Danse Macabre – Yevgeny Sudbin, piano – BIS

by John Sunier | Mar 23, 2013 | SACD & Other Hi-Res Reviews

Two recitals in the grand tradition of the nineteenth-century piano virtuoso.

SAINT-SAENS: Orchestral Works = Danse bacchanale; Omphale’s Spinning Wheel; Phaeton; Dance macbre; Le Jenuesse d’Hercule; Marche militaire francaise; Ov. to “Le Princesse jaune”; A Night in Lisbon; Spartacus; Coronation March – Royal Scottish Nat. Orch./ Neemi Järvi – Chandos

SAINT-SAENS: Orchestral Works = Danse bacchanale; Omphale’s Spinning Wheel; Phaeton; Dance macbre; Le Jenuesse d’Hercule; Marche militaire francaise; Ov. to “Le Princesse jaune”; A Night in Lisbon; Spartacus; Coronation March – Royal Scottish Nat. Orch./ Neemi Järvi – Chandos

by John Sunier | Jul 29, 2012 | SACD & Other Hi-Res Reviews

A nice package of both familiar and obscure St.-Saens orchestral works in gorgeous surround sound.