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Piazzolla: Sinfonía Buenos Aires
Daniel Binelli (bandoneón), Tianwa Yang (violin)
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero
The arrangement played on this new recording...accentuates Piazzolla's admiration for Vivaldi more than most: classical-style scoring notably devolves into Concerto Grosso textures in Spring... — More…
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Rossini: La Cenerentola
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Cenerentola), Jose Manuel Zapata (Don Ramiro), Paolo Bordogna (Dandini), Bruno Pratico (Don Magnifico), Patrizia Cigna (Clorinda), Martina Borst (Tisbe), Luca Pisaroni (Alidoro)
Prague Chamber Choir & SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserslautern, Alberto Zedda
Alberto Zedda leads with plenty of sparkle and rhythmic verve. — More…
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Building a Library, December 2012, First choice (CD)
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Massenet: Orchestral Music
Visions (Symphonic Poem) and other works
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jean-Luc Tingaud
Phèdre shows Massenet at his best, boasting memorable melodic lines, powerful harmonies and vivid orchestration. Jean-Luc Tingaud draws expressive playing from the orchestra throughout and does... — More…
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Record Review, 24th October 2020, Record of the Week
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Alwyn: Symphony No. 2, etc.
Suzanne Willison (harp)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones
I would… strongly recommend this performance of the Lyra Angelica, Lloyd-Jones and harpist Suzanne Willison revealing more dark and ecstatic poetry than in any other performance had led me to... — More…
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 'The year 1905'
RecommendedRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
…Petrenko… keeps an extremely tight grip on proceedings, opting for flowing speeds in the first and third movements while carefully building up an exciting symphonic tension through the intense... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th April 2009
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This is the closest anyone has yet come to recording Machaut's setting as he himself might have heard it; the coupling is a sampling of songs from Le Voir Dit, another intriguingly autobiographical... — More…
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This is an ideal coupling of Sibelius symphonies, played with a palpable feel for the idiom by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra...there is an urgency to the playing, allied to a sense of the characteristic... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2001, Budget Choice
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Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli & Missa aeterna Christi munera
RecommendedOxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
The performances are as delightful as the music. — More…
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Building a Library, January 2015, First Choice
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The Composers Conduct - Holst / Vaughan Williams
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Building A Library, May 2022, Also Recommended
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