Naxos
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Telemann: Recorder Suite & Concertos
Daniel Rothert (recorder), Elke Martha Umbach (flute)
Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Helmut Muller-Bruhl
Rothert is athletic, articulate and accurate...Telemann's fecund muse will doubtless always be underestimated - but for those in the know there are always pleasures galore to be had from absorbing... — More…
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Haydn: The Creation
(sung in German)
Sun Hae Im (soprano), Jan Kobow (tenor), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass)
VokalEnsemble Köln, Capella Augustina, Andreas Spering
Recorded in Cologne in July 2003 by German Radio, this issue offers a first-rate period performance of Haydn's masterpiece, lively and well sung. Since other issues of Die Schöpfung in the super-budget... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2005, Editor's Choice
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Verdi: Rigoletto
RecommendedRobert Merrill (Rigoletto), Roberta Peters (Gilda), Jussi Björling (Il Duca), Anna Maria Rota (Maddalena), Giorgio Tozzi (Sparafucile)
Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Jonel Perlea
[On the original release in 1956] under Perlea, the orchestral playing is firm and dramatic, well balanced with the voice. The music is well paced. Björling’s tone is a constant pleasure. He... — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Enescu's 1920 First Quartet crams so much into 45-odd minutes that even two or three hearings barely scratch its surface. It's a veritable forest of invention, fairly Brahmsian in texture, organic... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2002, Editor's Choice
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The classical symphony is so dominated by the twin figures of Haydn & Mozart that it is all too easy to overlook the considerable contributions which were made by many lesser figures. The Naxos... — More…
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Johnson's earlier dance music includes galliards and almains, simple pieces largely of melody and bass...North's playing reflects their function, metrical with only the barest slowing up as... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, Instrumental Choice
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William Schuman is a major voice in American symphonic music, and no one investigating these works will be disappointed, as they are exceptionally well played and recorded. — More…
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Britten: Albert Herring
Christopher Gillett (Albert), Josephine Barstow (Lady Billows), Gerald Finley (Sid), Ann Taylor (Nancy), Felicity Palmer (Florence Pike), Robert Lloyd (Budd), Peter Savidge (Mr Gedge), Della Jones (Mum), Susan Gritton (Miss Wordsworth), Stuart Kale (Mr Upfold)
Northern Sinfonia, Steuart Bedford
Vivid as Hickox's traversal of the score for Chandos may be, Bedford's is just that much more alert, crisper. With his long experience of Britten in the theatre, dating back to Death in Venice... — More…
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