Some Essential Art Music  - and not a symphony to be seen

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	"Beethoven's three greatest Piano Sonatas"

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	"The culmination of Beethoven's Quartet writing, maybe even of  his entire output."

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	"Shostakovich Piano Trio No2;  perhaps the greatest music to emerge from the wreckage of WWII"

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	"Brahms at his most unaffected and concise"

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	"Perhaps the greatest of all Beethoven's piano works; vulgar, playful, and yet sublime"

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	"Kurtag's aphoristic music: whole worlds of experience compressed into works of extraordinary brevity"

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	"Compelling and original chamber works from contemporary composer/pianist"

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	"Remarkable fusion of sicilian folk idiom and uncompromising musical logic"

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	"Schubert's last Piano Sonata: a bleak meditation on death, shot through with melancholy and regret. Kovacevich is peerless in this work"

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	"Revelatory performances of Bloch's unfairly neglected Quartets"

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	"Janacek's elusive piano music"

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	"Schubert's greatest lieder cycle; a journey into oblivion"

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	"Hartmann Quartet No1; one of the 20th century's great string quartets, deserves to be better known"

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	"Beethoven at his most life affirming; Op69 is pure joy"

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	"Prokofiev's highly individual take on solo piano writing; 6,7 and 8 are the outstanding sonatas"

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	"Bartok; rigorous, uncompromising and humane"

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	"Meredith Monk; the human voice doing things you wouldn't have thought possible"

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	"The true heart of Shostakovich; brutal humour, despair and moments of redemption"

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	"Three Movements from Petrushka: Pollini's pianism defies belief"

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	"Liszt's B minor Sonata; in Pollini's hands this is a revelation"

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	"Sublime"

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	"The high priest of  post war modernism at his most communicative and (dare one say it?) sensuous"

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	"Kurtag's jewel-like settings of Samuel Beckett"

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	"A unique and captiviating sound world"

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	"Includes the remarkable "Music for 100 metronomes" and some uncanny pieces for barrel organ"