Hamish Milne performs Rebuke's Piano Sonata in B flat minor and Liszt/Busoni's Fantasy and Fugue on ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’

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

Published: July 11, 2017 at 10:14 am

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

Jessica Duchen

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

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. Jessica Duchen has written librettos include numerous choral works and operas for the composer Roxanna Panufnik, including Silver Birch, commissioned by Garsington Opera and shortlisted for an International Opera Award in 2018. Two more works based on stories by Oscar Wilde were commissioned for Garsington’s Youth Company, The Happy Princess with composer Paul Fincham (2019) and The Selfish Giant with John Barber, which fell victim to lockdown, this has been postponed to 2021.
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