Naxos
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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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The first thing that sets this apart from other collections of Sullivan overtures is that – for the first time – it covers the entire Gilbert and Sullivan output. The only works that are missing... — More…
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Rossini: La donna del lago
Sonia Ganassi (Elena), Maxim Mironov (Uberto/Giacomo), Marianna Pizzolato (Malcolm), Ferdinand von Bothmer (Rodrigo di Dhu), Wojtek Gierlach (Douglas d'Angus), Olga Peretyatko (Albina), Stefan Cifolelli (Serano)
SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserslautern, Prague Chamber Choir & Tubingen Festival...
Like the excellent Opera Rara recording (reviewed above), this new Naxos set was also made live in 2006. An excess of mid-act applause notwithstanding, it offers yet another distinguished account... — More…
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Weinberg: Symphony No. 12 ‘In memoriam D. Shostakovich’
St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Lande
Lande and the St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra negotiate the considerable technical demands of this complex score with impressive assurance. Supported by a wonderfully focused recording... — More…
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… the recording brings out to the full, as never before, the subtlety of Stokowski's orchestrations with their brilliant terracing of texture, with colourings that designedly echo the sound... — More…
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Leonard Slatkin and his Detroit Symphony Orchestra negotiate all this brightly and efficiently. — More…
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Exquisite static lines overlay terrifying, tectonic bass drum thwacks in Meditation — to the Victims of Tsunami 3.11, while in Nach dem Sturm two sopranos sing a Hesse poem depicting storm-battered... — More…
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Franck: Le Chasseur maudit, Psyche & Les Eolides
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jean-Luc Tingaud
You won’t find a better version of Les Éolides than this one...Lightness of touch is Tingaud’s strong suit, and this confectionary tone poem of nearly Mendelssohnian delicacy results in a happy... — More…
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The performances, as led by Penderecki student Antoni Wit, are lusty and vigorous. It is easy to imagine that the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra plays this music with the same personal... — More…
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Full marks to the Villiers Quartet for bringing this new and challenging repertoire to life. — More…
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