Following her critically acclaimed coupling of the Britten & Barber Piano Concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra, Elizabeth Joy Roe enlightens the extraordinary world of John Field. Field has been called the Father of the Nocturne, creating the form which Chopin perfected, but thus relegated to a footnote in musical history. In fact he was held in high regard by his contemporaries: a student of Clementi, he knew Haydn, Hummel, Czerny and Mendelssohn, was championed by Liszt, and an acknowledged influence on Chopin, Brahms and Schumann. This is the first recording of John Field's complete Nocturnes on Universal. All 18 Nocturnes complete on a single CD for the first time.

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“These half-formed sighs floating through the air, softly lamenting and dissolved in delicious melancholy... ”
— Franz Liszt on John Field's Nocturnes

 

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Pianist Elizabeth Joy Roe makes her Decca Classics recording debut with an album featuring two of the 20th century’s greatest composers: Britten and Barber. The critically-acclaimed pianist’s album couples both composers' piano concertos with solo nocturnes. This recording marks the first time Decca has recorded the Barber concerto, and the first time Decca returns to the Britten since the landmark 1970 recording with Sviatoslav Richter under the composer’s direction. Performed with the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Emil Tabakov.

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“What makes this disc an exceptional delight is the manner in which her written eloquence is unaffectedly manifested in her playing of the Concerti. It is also a superlative recorded—and superlatively-recorded—introduction to the solo work of a young lady who seems to possess every quality needed to become one of the Twenty-First Century’s most imaginative pianists.”
— Voix des Arts

 

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From the heavenly heights of Bach's 5th French Suite to the fiery depths of hell portrayed in Rachmaninoff's 1st Piano Sonata, Steinway Artist Greg Anderson (of the notorious Anderson & Roe Duo) presents an epic performance of two classical masterpieces.

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Released on Deutsche Grammophon in 2010, Liz's debut solo album features a tour de force program of fin de siècle masterworks by Rachmaninov, Smetana, Liszt, and Ravel, culminating in Mussorgsky's towering Pictures at an Exhibition. Debuted in the top 20 of the Korean Classical Charts.

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Filled with music that sings and music that soars, this is Greg's first commercial CD. Includes Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit ("immerse yourself in the devil's world of hedonistic hallucination," as Greg recommends); Liszt's "Norma Thriller" (to quote David Dubal); music by Mozart, Grieg, Mendelssohn, and Strauss; and a live performance by the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo.

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