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Richard Whitehouse

Cornwall County, UK, St Austell
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Charity Media Officer. Former Local Democracy Reporter in Cornwall. Music, TV, film, Glasto and LFC fan. All views are personal. bit.ly/2OhEB45
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Review – Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky: Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon - Gramophone

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By Richard Whitehouse
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Richard Whitehouse on the recordings of the pioneering post-war piano duo The piano duo enjoyed a new lease of life after the Second World War, with its abundance of commissions and recordings. No partnership was more symbiotic than that of the Kontarsky brothers Aloys (1931-2017) and Alfons (1932-2010) who, over almost 30 years, premiered an impressive range of pieces and whose influential legacy is evident from this DG collection.
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Contemporary Composer: Emily Doolittle - Gramophone

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By Richard Whitehouse
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Richard Whitehouse is our guide to the intriguing music of a prolific Canadian composer inspired by the natural world Canadian composers remain something of an unknown quantity in the UK, though the very different instances of Raymond Murray Schafer (1933-2021) and Claude Vivier (1948-83) between them confirm an aesthetic diversity comparable to that of any Western country from the post-war era – a diversity, moreover, no less evident with the music of Emily Doolittle.
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Franck’s Piano Quintet: A Guide to the Greatest Recordings - Gramophone

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By Richard Whitehouse
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César Franck’s three-movement Quintet divided its earliest audiences and continues to draw a range of responses from performers. Richard Whitehouse seeks the recordings that most fully capture its essence Few works met greater misapprehension than César Franck’s Piano Quintet after its premiere, given by Camille Saint-Saëns with the Marsick Quartet at Paris’s Salle Pleyel on January 17, 1880. Franck’s three Trios concertans, among the most ambitious Op 1s in music history, had appeared in 1843.
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