Erato
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While it's handy to have Schubert's three major violin-and-piano pieces on one well-recorded disc, Capuçon's sometimes over-intense vibrato and both players' efficient but unsmiling approach... — More…
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Mozart & Brahms: Requiem
RecommendedNancy Argenta (soprano), Catherine Robbin (contralto), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Olaf Bär (baritone)
London Classical Players, Schütz Choir of London, Roger Norrington
this is an enjoyable traversal of the [Mozart Requiem] score, with plenty of character and many points of illumination. — More…
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Building a Library, February 2016, Also Recommended
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Gluck: Ezio
RecommendedOriginal Prague version (1750)
Sonia Prina (Ezio), Max Emanuel Cencic (Valentiniano), Ann Hallenberg (Fulvia), Topi Lehtipuu (Massimo), Julian Pregardien (Varo), Mayuko Karasava (Onorio)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
What it reveals may surprise listeners. Though couched in the classic opera seria mode of the time...it shows that, like Handel [Gluck] could imbue the traditional form with drama...the succession... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th September 2011
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Elina Garanca is a Latvian mezzo who is equally happy as a Dorabella or a Fiordiligi. The Camerata Salzburg is her accompanist; and that superb Mozartian Louis Langrée makes a diva of every... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2006, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2004, Editor's Choice
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On the basis of these recordings, Fray has an instinctive Mozartean affinity – he communicates fresh ideas with subtle, stylistic deftness...Throughout, Fray and Zweden work together with remarkable... — More…
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The frustration of those who seek to identify Boccherini's works by their opus numbers may end in their being taken into care by sympathetic men in white coats. The first three of the six string... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2001, Editor's Choice
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Haydn: Concertos
Riccardo Minasi (violin/conductor), Johannes Hinterholzer (horn), Maxim Emelyanychev (harpsichord), Maxim Emelyanychev (harpsichord/conductor), Riccardo Minasi (violin) & Maxim Emelyanychev (harpsichord/conductor)
Il Pomo d'Oro
In performances of such commitment and flair, nothing is routine. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, Concerto Choice
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