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Tippett: Ritual Dances & Piano Concerto
Benjamin Frith (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, George Hurst
This is a highly desirable budget-priced Naxos release of two of the late Sir Michael Tippett's most well-loved works. The Ritual Dances adds up to a sizeable chunk of his first opera, the Midsummer... — More…
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Debussy: Orchestral Works Volume 7
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Alexandre Doisy (saxophone), Emmanuel Ceysson (harp)
Orchestre National de Lyon, Jun Märkl
there is virtue in the disc's programme, with a lovely, supple performance of the clarinet Rapsodie from Paul Meyer, fully equal to the technical and expressive demands...Doisy plays with a... — More…
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The Classical Fairy Tale Collection
Giorgio Koukl (piano), Mikael Ericsson (cello), Frantisek Maly (piano), Jadwiga Gadulanka (soprano), Ilya Kaler (violin), Ashley Wass (piano), Arkady Mishenkin (tenor), Elena Okolysheva (mezzo-soprano), Artur Pizarro (piano), James Barbagallo (piano), Zina Schiff (violin), Mary Barranger (piano),...
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Goehr: Marching to Carcassonne
Peter Serkin (piano)
London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen
Goehr's abrupt sometimes taken a few listens to grasp, but its lean textures and evocative instrumental colours are ideal for Oliver Knussen's meticulous ear for delight and delight in sonority.... — More…
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The handful of [Karlowicz's] works that survive would do credit to any major late Romantic composer...Wit has proved his mettle in fine recordings of Karlowicz's symphonic poems and does not... — More…
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Rossini: Otello
Michael Spyres (tenor), Jessica Pratt (soprano), Ugo Guagliardo (bass), Giorgio Trucco (tenor), Geraldine Chauvet (mezzo-soprano) & Leonardo Cortellazzi (tenor)
Virtuosi Brunensis & Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir, Cluj, Antonino Fogliani
Pratt is every bit as fine as von Stade, the voice free, flexible and finely-schooled, her engagement with the role fairly complete, both in the high drama of Act 2 where the opera finally embraces... — More…
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These performances have compelling concentration throughout. — More…
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Dvorák - Piano Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
Members of the Vlach Quartet Prague - Jana Vlachová (violin), Karel Stadtherr (viola), Mikael Ericsson (cello) & Helena Suchárová-Weiser (piano)
These players have a natural ownership of Dvorak's music, throwing his lilting, fluid themes around with an easy charm...Hugely enjoyable. — More…
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