Hamish Milne performs Rebuke’s Piano Sonata in B flat minor and Liszt/Busoni’s Fantasy and Fugue on ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’
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COMPOSERS: Liszt,Reubke
LABELS: Eloquence
ALBUM TITLE: Liszt • Reubke
WORKS: Rebuke: Piano Sonata in B flat minor; Liszt/Busoni: Fantasy and Fugue on ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’
PERFORMER: Hamish Milne (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: 482 2574 (1977)
Absolutely heroic stuff from Hamish Milne, on CD for the first time. Reubke, a Liszt pupil, died aged only 24 and his rarely heard, gargantuan, virtuoso Sonata stuns with its sheer ambition.
Jessica Duchen
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Jessica Duchen studied music at Cambridge University and was the classical music correspondent for The Independent from 2004 to 2016. She has also written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times, BBC Music Magazine and the JC, among others.