Thalberg/ Nicolosi - Les Soirees de PausilippeSigismond Thalberg was a virtuoso pianist whose training included studies with Mozart's pupil Johann Hummel, and whose rivalry with Franz Liszt became the talk of Paris in the 1830s. Thalberg excelled in the fashionable solo piano genre of operatic paraphrase but, while drawing on themes by the ever popular Rossini, Les Soires de Pausilippe avoids ostentatious excess. Instead Thalberg preferred an elegant simplicity in which the piano is allowed to

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based on texts by the medieval mystic Hadewijch and the modern Flemish poet Eva Cox

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Darren Ewing

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opens his new release with a generous selection of that composer's solo piano music

Their genre-blurring sound has been described as "a post-apocalyptic journey that isn't bound by artificial genre conventions

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the Rolston String Quartet

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where she teaches piano and fortepiano

The news is heralded by the release of hypnotic new track "Salt and Vinegar