SACD, Berio (composer)
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Berio: Orchestral realisations of Schubert, Brahms & Mahler
Michael Collins (clarinet), Roderick Williams (baritone)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
[Berio's] versions of the Mahler songs are straightforward and affectionately sung by Roderick Williams...Berio himself looms larger in Rendering...The sound of the celesta, alien to Schubert,... —
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Special offer. Berio: Sinfonia & Calmo
Virpi Räisänen (mezzo-soprano)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Any singer must exorcise the ghost of Cathy Berberian in this and other vocal works of Berio and...Virpi Räisänen has the measure of it...In Hannu Lintu's marvellous new recording I hear and... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Horizon 4
Detlef Roth (baritone), Alexei Ogrintchouk (oboe), Jörgen van Rijen (trombone), Marijn Mijnders & Monica Naselow (violin)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Lothar Zagrosek, Markus Stenz, Ed Spanjaard, David Robertson, Susanna Mälkki
The Horizon series is an audacious project presenting top-class live performances in consistently fine if soft-grained sonics...The second disc veers off into pieces old and new, randomly showcasing... —
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Berio: Coro & Voices of London (Version for 8 Voices)
The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Grete Pedersen
[Coro] t’s a mighty tour de force, particularly with Surround sound, but it doesn’t bluster. Cries Of London is far from lightweight, but it comes as a gentle anticlimax to the main piece and... —
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Ferschtman's programme is clearly planned so that each piece illuminates its companions...the Berio is suitably uncompromsing at the start and wonderfully dextrous in the quick passagework. —
