Bridge Records
Ruders: Six Symphonies (Bridge)
This impressive symphony cycle is now complete [SB]
Chopin: Piano Concerti (Bridge Records)
(Déjà Review) Extraordinary power and beauty [MM]
Bland: Piano Sonatas Vol. 3 (Bridge)
A composer with an eclectic though thoroughly engaging style [PRJ]
Passages – French Cello Music (Bridge)
Dubin’s playing is outstanding, which makes the short runtime even more regrettable [DJB]
Sessions and Shapey: Piano Music (Bridge)
(Déjà Review) Something rather special. Expert, perceptive and technically brilliant [MS]
Sondheim: Chamber Music Arrangements (Bridge)
An interesting release that concentrates on Sondheim’s music rather than his lyrics [PT]
Ferruccio Busoni and His Muses (Bridge Records)
Busoni’s marvellous piano creations shown to their best advantage in this young pianist’s very secure hands [RCh]
Bestiary on Ivory (Bridge)
Very well performed and recorded, this disc should be heard by all who love the repertoire of the piano [GPu]
Society for the Preservation of the American Musical Heritage (Bridge)
(Déjà Review) Rapturous, restive and troubled late-romanticism [RB]
Crumb: Complete Crumb Edition Vol 21 (Bridge Records)
An important document of Crumb’s artistic journey in spectacular sound [MBu]
Hat Trick (flute, viola and harp trio): Big Sky (Bridge Records)
Richness of musical colour and tone, virtuosic playing and a well-chosen programme make this a delightful CD [KT]
Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios (Bridge Records)
Performance that are as sparkling as they are wise [DMD]
Stuyvesant String Quartet: In Concert at the Library of Congress (Bridge Records)
A splendid American string quartet caught on the wing in concert in 1946 [JW]
Scriabin: Piano Sonatas No 2-4 & other piano works (Bridge Records)
The cream of Scriabin’s early sonatas and a handful of miniatures in strong performances [RCh]
Paris, La Belle Époque (Bridge Records)
Playing of the highest quality in an intriguing and very rewarding programme [GPu]
Villa Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No 4 (Bridge)
(Déjà Review) Colourful, saturated, brittle, heavily rhythmic, laced with ostinato and swooning strings [JW]
Ginastera: Orchestral music (Bridge)
(Déjà Review) Saturated in swaying delicacy: lyricism with a capital L, voluptuous and unmistakable [JW]
Mozart: Piano Concertos (Bridge)
(Déjà Review) Excellent retrieval work from Bridge, whose commitment to Balsam has been of long standing and great worth [JW]
Karchin: Keyboards/Winds (Bridge Records)
A rewarding sampler of work by a consistently interesting composer, uniformly well-played and recorded [GPu]
Beethoven: Complete Piano Trios (Bridge Records)
Excellent performances, engaging and rewarding [SG]
Red Maple – Music for Bassoon & Strings (Bridge Records)
A collection of fine works for the unusual combination of bassoon and strings [GPJ]
Dello Joio J: Piano Concerto (Bridge Records)
Impressive performances of three diverse and serious works [NB]
Beethoven: Middle Quartets (Bridge Records)
(Déjà Review) An invaluable addition in excellent sound, splendid documentation and full of concentrated wisdom [JW]
Carter: The Music of Elliot Carter Vol. 5 (Bridge)
(Déjà Review) Displays all Carter’s life-affirming complexity [JW]
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