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Edgy modern music that is massively good fun

Edgy modern music that is massively good fun

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

It’s 1920 where the fun begins. Behind Haba’s cerebral exterior lurks mischief. The fourth of six pieces for piano is a setting of the nursery rhyme ‘1-2-3-4-5, once I caught a fish alive’. Two waltzes of 1921 are, if possible, bleaker than Ravel’s. …

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En francais ici.

In The Critic (spoiler alert).

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