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J.S. Bach: Concertos for Harpsichord & Strings, Vol. 2
Masato Suzuki (harpsichord)
Bach Collegium Japan
Masato Suzuki proves an ideal keyboard soloist, balancing moments of zestful virtuosity with some elegant inequality in the passagework. Willem Kroesbergen’s copy of a contemporary Couchet harpsichord... — More…
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…Suzuki… often a little slower than others, in one case, the B flat prelude, surprisingly so. There's plenty of energy in his playing elsewhere though - the D major prelude is impressive, as... — More…
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This searing release confirms Vasks’s international stature and, specifically, his affinity for string writing…Rysanov with the exceptional Sinfonietta Rīga wrings every drop of melancholic... — More…
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Thomas Zehetmair and the Musikkollegium Winterthur give virtuoso performances of this demanding music throughout, and a better rendition of it is beyond my ability to imagine. — More…
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[Gander] As in the Ives, technical challenges are formidable but dispatched with stunning ease and equal clarity. It could be that the cartilage connecting these works composed a century apart... — More…
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Debussy: Nocturnes, L. 91 & Other Orchestral Works
Claude Delangle (alto saxophone), Gulnara Mashurova (harp)
Chamber Choir of Europe, Lan Shui
The textural smoothness works well in the outer Nocturnes (especially in “Sirènes,” where the Philharmonic Chamber Choir of Europe shares the same silkiness), while the central “Fétes” lacks... — More…
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Ballads predominate, providing ample scope for embellishment...this disc is less about jazz's sound of surprise than sheer delight in dazzlement. — More…
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Rysanov has previously demonstrated that there is far more to the instrument than Romantic brooding, but this disc finds him exploring that cliche...and the playing is utterly sublime, especially... — More…
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[James Rutherford] has at his disposal a wonderfully healthy and rounded bass-baritone voice…and his German is impeccable…the cycle has a slow-burn cumulative power, and if Rutherford’s tone... — More…
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By keeping a firm grip on the first three movements, Osmo Vänskä ensures that the cast and increasingly frantic finale, with its hammer-blows of Fate, really does come over as climactic, culminating... — More…
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