Schumann/ Desaint/ Gouin - Helene Desaint Plays Schumann & KurtagHlne Desaint, Laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, presents a recital with two facets that are an admirable illustration of her personality: "This [album] was born of my fascination with Schumann. Everything about him captivates me: the tormented human being, the great reader fascinated by the fantastical and the supernatural, the brilliant and introverted composer, the poet who goes where words cannot go, the music, powerfully evocative at

exciting sound of the off - stage horns

To this end

Dazzlingly eloquent and ceremonious

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Empirion carefully load the second round into the chamber of their electronic muzzle-loader

Two years in the making

One immediately striking feature is the unusual instrumentation: two string orchestras seated on opposite sides of the stage

Stidham says: "In doing this session

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In 1938 she shot to international fame when she finished second to Emil Gilels in the Queen Elisabeth competition

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