Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
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Davis has thought long and hard about these…and his Melbourne orchestra responds with confidence and precision…fine performances of fascinating and often thrilling music —
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Special offer. Ives: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
everyone should appreciate Davis’s subtle dynamic shadings, heartfelt phrasings, and the finale’s magical tapestry of universal harmony…you cannot fault the performance’s warmth or the haunting... —
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Davis sifts the composer’s complexities with clarity. —
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Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (Special Edition)
RecommendedDame Edna Everage (narrator), Barry Humphries (narrator)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, John Lanchbery
Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Holst: The Planets – Deborah Cheetham Fraillon: Earth
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jaime Martin, Deborah Cheetham Fraillon (soprano)
This is Martín's third recording on the orchestra's new in-house label, and there's certainly an edge-of-seat quality to 'Mars', the opening movement of Holst's The Planets, with punchy, wellbalanced... —
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The main interest here surrounds the first commercial recording of the 1910 Music for Orchestra.
Premiered in Munich in January 1911, it's an ambitious and frequently arresting creation.
Caetani... — -
All the soloists are excellent, and thoughtful casting among the four baritones and bass-baritones has allotted the Israelite father to Matthew Brook, who brings just that touch of extra warmth... —
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Virtuoso orchestration by a super-skilled composer...Classy performances. —
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The performers have bought into the [Second] symphony's virtues bringing bags of enthusiasm both to its more striking passages...Throughout, there is some fine woodwind playing, although I could... —
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Berlioz: Harold en Italie
RecommendedJames Ehnes (viola), James Ehnes (violin)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Davis and his production team have worked hard to keep James Ehnes's quite ravishingly beautiful playing in focus..It sounds as if Davis sees the work as more lyrical and Romantic...than as... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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