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Balfe: Satanella (or ‘The Power of Love’)
Sally Silver (soprano), Catherine Carby (mezzo), Christine Tocci, Elizabeth Sikora (mezzo-sopranos), Kang Wang (tenor), Quentin Hayes, Anthony Gregory, Frank Church (baritones), Travor Bowes (bass)
Victorian Opera Orchestra & John Powell Singers, Richard Bonynge
Satanella's stagey conventions and plonking couplets rather disconcertingly reveal what Gilbert and Sullivan were parodying. The only way to perform this is full-bloodedly. Richard Bonynge whips... — More…
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Ireland: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2
Lucy Gould (violin), Alice Neary (cello) & Benjamin Frith (piano)
...there's no gentility or emotional holding-back about these performances [of the Violin Sonatas] - the works are presented as big-boned, rough-hewn almost, in the Brahmsian tradition but infused... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, Chamber Choice
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The Fifth is perhaps the most characteristic of Bax's symphonies. For all the music's powerful range of emotion and its seemingly bewildering profusion of material and countless moments of bewitching... — More…
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Glass: String Quartet No. 5, Suite from Dracula & String Sextet
Cian O'Dúill (viola), Gemma Rosefield (cello)
Carducci String Quartet
Most impressive is the way in which the quartet manage to project [the Fifth Quartet's] overall shape, imparting unity and coherence to the whole, and tying together the loose ends of the previous... — More…
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The English Song Series Volume 15 - Finzi 2
RecommendedRoderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Sacconi Quartet
Roderick Williams… is an intensely musical singer, acutely responsive to the sound and meaning of words, but also his approach to the English Romantic song repertoire is… revelatory. …Williams…... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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Penderecki: Symphony No. 7 'Seven Gates of Jerusalem'
Olga Pasichnyk (soprano), Aga Mikol/aj (soprano), Ewa Marciniec (alto), Wiesl/aw Ochman (tenor), Romuald Tesarowicz (bass) & Boris Carmeli (narrator)
Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir (Henryk Wojnarowski, choirmaster), Antoni Wit
Performances under Antoni Wit are superb, strong and intense, with an excellent chorus and team of soloists. — More…
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Kraus, J M: Aeneas in Carthage (Overture, Ballet Music and Marches)
Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä, Patrick Gallois
...there is some splendid and stirring music here, above all in the two Overtures and the magnificent extended closing Chaconne...Gallois evidently relishes the music's colour and charm, and... — More…
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Great Pianists - Walter Gieseking
RecommendedConcerto Recordings Vol. 1
Walter Gieseking (piano)
Preussischen Staatskapelle Dresden, Berlin State Opera Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm, Hans Rosbaud, Henry Wood
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Building a Library, June 2010, Historic Choice
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Delius: Paris, Brigg Fair, Eventyr, Irmelin & La Calinda
RecommendedNew Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Myer Fredman
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Building a Library, November 2002, Budget Choice
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Great Singers - Kathleen Ferrier
Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Male Choir, Clemens Krauss
the Brahms couplings make this issue indispensable — More…
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