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Her performances of her piano music hold nothing back and testify to a fabulous technique. This is music of emotional, or at least rhetorical, extremes: furious toccatas and frozen stasis,... — More…
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 37
Solo Cantatas for Alto
Robin Blaze (counter-tenor)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Robin Blaze responds with tenderly articulated phrasing to the lyrical opening aria of Vergnügt Ruh and, as we have come to expect from these musicians, the instrumental partnership is intuitively... — More…
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A Verlaine Songbook
Carolyn Sampson sings settings of poems by Paul Verlaine
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
The discovery of the disc are the songs by ‘Poldowski’ – a pseudonym for Régine Wieniawski…her songs prove nothing short of fabulous: warm, energetic and melodic, with a deep-set richness of... — More…
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 50
Hana Blažíková (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
the final duet-cum-chorale [of BWV49] is irresistable, with its alluring buoyancy heightened by Suzuki's natural, unforced direction...Robin Blaze is on particularly fine form...Suzuki never... — More…
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Fartein Valen - Orchestral Music Volume 1
Elise Båtnes (violin)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Christian Eggen
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Korngold & Dvarionas: Violin Concertos
Vadim Gluzman (violin)
Residentie Orkest Den Haag, Neeme Järvi
Gluzman produces a ravishing sound throughout the range, plays the slow movement [of the Korngold] with radiant sensitivity and lights up the finale with a series of scintillating pyrotechnical... — More…
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Dausgaard, taking fairly swift tempos, and conducting with a strong rhythmic sense, has this enigmatic work bounding along and at least made me understand why Bruckner called it ‘the cheekiest’.... — More…
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Leifs: Edda, Part 1 - The Creation of the World (Sköpun heimsins)
Gunnar Guðbjörnsson (tenor) & Bjarni Thor Kristinsson (bass-baritone)
Schola Cantorum & Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Hermann Bäumer
Jón Leifs was a true original and his Edda oratorio cycle was one of his most original inspirations.
Planned in the 1920s as a single oratorio on the Völuspá, it grew into an epic tetralogy... — More…Downloads
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The quality is captured by the Helsinki Chamber Choir and soloists, who have to negotiate difficult glissandi, microtonal passages and whispers, and also by a superb recording made at Järvenpää,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th December 2019
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Vänskä's Eroica comes to us primed for battle - an energetic, resilient, well drilled performance with surfaces of polished steel. …the playing of the Minnesota Orchestra 'Al' in all departments. — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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