Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège
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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3
Thierry Escaich (organ), Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Jean-Jacques Kantorow
[In Urbs Roma] Kantorow elicits vigorous playing, with sharp contrasts, and manages the imaginative die-away ending with sensitivity...this performance [of the Organ Symphony] is almost entirely... —
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Diapason d'Or, September 2021, Nouveauté
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Respighi: Vetrate di chiesa, Il tramonto & Trittico botticelliano
RecommendedAnna Caterina Antonacci (soprano)
John Neschling
What a glorious work, and what a find! Anyone inured to Respighi’s gaudy colours and thumping rhythms will be astonished by the musical and emotional range of this economical score. Neschling,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd February 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Diapason d’Or, March 2018, Nouveauté
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Neschling admirably sustains the fever pitch throughout – nothing becomes overblown or unduly hysterical – and the playing is first-rate in its dark intensity and force. The filler is the Belfagor... —
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Special offer. César Franck: Hulda
Jennifer Holloway, Judith van Wanroij, François Rougier, Véronique Gens, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Gergely Madaras
Jennifer Holloway is magnificent in the immense title-role here, if occasionally steely in tone, marvellously alert to the text...and superb in her delineation of Hulda’s transformation from... —
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nomianted - Recording (Complete Opera)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Special offer. Respighi: Orchestral Works
Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano), São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège, John Neschling
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Special offer. Contemporary Clarinet Concertos
Marcus Lindberg, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Johan Farjot
Jean-Luc Votano (clarinet), Quatuor Danel
Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Nouveauté
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Contemporary Music
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Special offer. A Tribute to Ysaÿe
Yossif Ivanov, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky (violin), Tedi Papavrami (violin), Maria Milstein, Lorenzo Gatto, Renaud Capuçon (violin), Quatuor Hermès (chamber ensemble), Gary Hoffman, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden (piano), Kerson Leong, Julien Libeer, Astrig Siranossian (cello), Hélène Desaint, Elina Buksha,...
An impressive five-disc Tribute which includes numerous works by Ysaÿe himself – most interestingly two substantial and virtually unknown concerto movements played by Jean-Jacques Kantorow –... —
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Diapason d’Or, February 2020, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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5 CDs
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Special offer. Franck: Symphony in D minor
Orchestre Philharmonique & Royal de Liège, Christian Arming
As the D minor Symphony creeps into life...Arming and the Orchestra Philharmonique Royal de Liege establish a potent aura of mystique and expectation. Their approach to the slow movement is... —
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Mernier: Ustica
Sturm und Klang, Tatiana Samouil, David Lively, Gergely Madaras, Sarah Laulan, Musiques Nouvelles, Jean-Paul Dessy, Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège
Nowhere is Mernier's ability to underpin inspiration with meticulous craftsmanship more apparent than in Ustica (2019), portraying the craggy island north of Sicily, filtered through the imagination... —
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Neschling and the Liège players hit just the right stride and tone in each of the pieces, and BIS’s recording, as expected, provides the perfect ambiance for this music. Very strongly recommended. —
