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Ingrid Fliter
31st Mar 2008
The Gilmore Award-winning Argentine pianist makes her EMI debut with an all-Chopin recital which showcases her ‘contrasts of tonal colours, dynamic range and lyricism’.
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Ingrid Fliter (piano)
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Mel Bonis
24th Mar 2008
A new recording of two piano quartets by the French female composer (1858-1937) from the Mozart Piano Quartet makes a strong case for this one-time classmate of Debussy.
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Stunning new Haydn Creation from Paul McCreesh
17th Mar 2008
An ‘uplifting, overwhelming, charming and comforting’ account of Haydn’s most popular oratorio, sung in a new English adaptation, with soloists including Miah Persson and Mark Padmore.
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Hilary Hahn plays Schoenberg and Sibelius
10th Mar 2008
The American violinist’s ‘beautiful sound and technical brilliance’ make a strong impact in two twentieth-century concertos with the Swedish Radio Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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Rattle and Gergiev on Mahler
3rd Mar 2008
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Handel Organ Concertos
25th Feb 2008
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Late Mozart Symphonies
18th Feb 2008
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Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project
11th Feb 2008
The latest product of the Chinese-American cellist’s East-meets-West project includes music by Bloch, Lou Harrison, Prokofiev and Mongolian composer Byambasuren Sharav.
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Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel
4th Feb 2008
In response to its frequent use in television and film, Chris ponders the Estonian composer’s 1978 composition ‘mirror/s in the mirror’ and alights upon a favourite recording.
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Undeservedly neglected music - John Marsh and Juan de Araujo
28th Jan 2008
Ex Cathedra explore the rich legacy of a sixteenth-century Spanish composer who spent much of his career in South America, whilst the London Mozart Players focus on the music of an English lawyer who was also one of the most prolific English composers of the eighteenth century.
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Francis Xavier and Jordi Savall
7th Jan 2008
The viol player, conductor and musicologist pays homage to the sixteenth-century saint and Catholic missionary, who was a co-founder of the Jesuit Order.
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Discs of the Year
17th Dec 2007
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Stockhausen
10th Dec 2007
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Christmas music worth hearing
19th Nov 2007
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The forgotten Maria
12th Nov 2007
Cecilia Bartoli explores the legacy of the nineteenth-century Spanish mezzo Maria Malibran, who created the title-role in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda and was particularly associated with the heroines of Rossini.
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Bach B minor Mass from Suzuki
29th Oct 2007
Part-way through his cycle of the complete sacred cantatas, the Japanese conductor and Bach Collegium Japan pause to tackle one of the composer’s large-scale choral masterpieces.
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New Mahler 8 from Pierre Boulez
22nd Oct 2007
A ‘challenging and enlightening’ account of the ‘Symphony of a Thousand’. with the Staatskapelle Berlin and soloists including Erin Wall, Johan Botha and Robert Holl.
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Mozart - Don Giovanni from René Jacobs
1st Oct 2007
The final instalment of the Belgian conductor’s ‘refreshing and intelligent’ Mozart-Da Ponte cycle has Chris questioning his preconceptions about the eponymous libertine, sung here by 27-year-old Johannes Weisser.
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Natalie Clein and the Elgar Cello Concerto
24th Sep 2007
The 1994 BBC Young Musician of the Year records the concerto which propelled her to victory with Vernon Handley and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
