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    Jan 22, 2021 3 minutes
    Reviews by Colin Anderson, Peter Quantrill and Warwick Thompson

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    DANIIL TRIFONOV

    Silver Age: Prokofiev: Concerto No 2 Op 16; Scriabin: Concerto Op 20; Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka; The Firebird Suite; Prokofiev: Sarcasms; Sonata No 8 Mariinsky Orchestra/Gergiev

    Deutsche Grammophon 483 5331

    The ‘Silver Age’ referred to in the title of this double-album is the agitated period in Russian music from the turn of the 20th century until the revolution, when expressionism, cosmopolitanism, occultism and any number of other -isms were at loggerheads. It’s slightly curious, then, that two

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