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Josef Rheinberger (1839); Attila (1846); Brian Boydell (1917); Stephen Dodgson (1924); Seiji Yokoyama (1935); John Lill (1944); Michael Finnissy (1946); Raffaele D'Alessandro (1959); Rudolf Escher (1980); Joseph Kerman (2014); Wolfgang Meyer (2019); more >>
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Pianos and Pianists - Souls Naked - Souls Aureoled (published 17 March 2000)
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DVD Spotlight. Gripping performance — 'The Turn of the Screw', reviewed by Robert Anderson. '... splendidly captured musically and visually ...' (published 17 March 2005)
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