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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
RecommendedGerd Türk (Evangelist), Ingrid Schmithüsen (soprano), Yoshie Hida (soprano), Yoshikazu Mera (counter-tenor), Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Chiyuki Urano (bass), Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Bach seems to have performed his St John Passion on four Good Fridays during his tenure as Thomaskantor at Leipzig. However, he continued to make significant revisions right up to the last performance... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2011, First Choice
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 14
Midori Suzuki (soprano), Robin Blaze (alto), Gerd Türk (tenor), Chiyuki Urano (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Masaaki Suzuki's considered approach to this oeuvre is what marks him out as a distinctive voice in current Bach performance. This volume reveals much of the best in the series so far: consistently... — More…
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 14 & 21
RecommendedRonald Brautigam (fortepiano), with Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Die Kolner Akadamie, Michael Alexander Willens
[This issue] proves every bit as immediate and lively in musical approach as its predecessors. Brautigam, bearing out his reputation as a musical and intellectual powerhouse, animates every... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2016, Also Recommended
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Aho: Symphony No. 3 & Mussorgsky: Songs & Dances of Death
Jaakko Kuusisto (violin), Matti Salminen (bass)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
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To encounter a programme featuring some of the core works in the horn repertoire played on historically appropriate instruments with such effortless musicianship and technical ease really takes... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Chamber
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Lindberg: Liverpool Lullabies & Waves of Wollongong
Evelyn Glennie, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Christian Lindberg
This ebullient album reveals [Lindberg] as a force of nature in all three roles…[In the Waves of Wollongong] the fecundity and juxtaposition of the material dazzles while weaving into a satisfying... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 26
chamber arrangements by Johan Nepomuk Hummel
Fumiko Shiraga (piano), Henrik Wiese (flute), Peter Clemente (violin) & Tibor Bényi (cello)
The English music publisher Schott commissioned these arrangements in the 1830s. Fumiko Shiraga's rippling and sustained piano is certainly the ringmaster of ceremonies, although her dramatic... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2006, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2004, Editor's Choice
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