SACD, Messiaen (composer)
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Bezaly & Brautigam: Masterworks for Flute and Piano
RecommendedSharon Bezaly (flute) & Ronald Brautigam (piano)
Sharon Bezaly is rarely less than impressive. Her well-constructed programmes are performed with a mixture of virtuosity and rich tone, making her name almost a guarantee of quality. Partnered... —
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Building a Library, November 2015, First Choice
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The overall excellence of Tamara Stefanovich’s interpretations is enhanced by a superb multichannel recording characterised by full-bodied ambience an concert-hall realism. Stefanovich voices... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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In Le tombeau de Couperin, Kathryn Stott not only pays tribute to the Classical impulses behind the work but also honours its more powerful moments…[her] fingers are well up to the virtuosic... —
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In addition to Frølund’s virtuoso range, it’s his sensitive programming that makes this disc such an interesting discovery. —
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Solo Instrumental Recording
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En Variant - Works for Violin & Piano by Lekeu, Messiaen, Bacri & Guglielmi
Carlotta Malquori, Andrea D'Amato
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Special offer. AKOKA: Reframing Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time
David Krakauer (clarinet), Matt Haimovitz (cello), Jonathan Crow (violin), Geoffrey Burleson (piano) & Socalled (electronics)
The Messiaen performance puts a human face on a disparate body. I hear the piece a little differently now, and love it a little more, and what more can a recording do? —
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Special offer. Messiaen: Turangalîla Symphony
Angela Hewitt (piano) & Valérie Hartmann-Claverie (ondes Martenot)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Lintu's awareness of internal balance is masterly. The machine-like tutti that follows the first-movement piano cadenza marches relentlessly forwards, strings crooning high above the extreme... —
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L'amour et la foi
Vocal music by Olivier Messiaen
Marianna Shirinyan (piano) & Thomas Bloch (ondes martenot)
Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Danish National Concert Choir & Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Marcus Creed
These Danish performances conducted by Marcus Creed are models of precision and lucidity; every vocal and instrumental strand is there. But it all comes across as rather cool, with neither the... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2015, Winner - Musique Chorale
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