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Compilation of Athene Minerva reviews


 
CD1 FIELD, John. Nocturnes 1 - 16. Joanna Leach (square piano) Athene ATH CD1 [75' 39"].

David Wright

CD 2 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

CD3 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

CD 4 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

CD 5 SCHUBERT Four Impromptus D899 Four Impromptus D935 Peter Katin (piano) ATHENE ATHCD5 [64' 22"] rating not applied

Antony Hodgson

CD 7 SCHUBERT Drei Klavierstüke D946 Valses Nobles D969 Moments Musicaux D780 Peter Katin (piano) Athene ATH CD7 [73' 33"]. rating not applied

Antony Hodgson

CD8 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

CD12 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

CD13 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 ]


Rob Barnett
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David Wright

CD14 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

CD15 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"].


Hubert Culot
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David Wright

CD16 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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David Wright
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(Shostakovich)

CD17 MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition; Ravel Miroirs   Andreas Boyde (piano) DDD Athene-Minerva. ATHCD17 [65' 05"].

David Wright

CD18 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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Paul Conway
John Veale

CD19 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

CD21 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


David Wright

Peter G Woolf

CD22

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]

Kirk McElhearn

CD23

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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