SACD, Channel Classics (label)
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedLisa Milne (soprano) & Birgit Remmert (alto)
Budapest Festival Orchestra & The Hungarian Radio Choir, Iván Fischer
…Fischer… rarely pushes too hard. The orchestral sound is lean but not undernourished, allowing for even balance between contesting lines - outstanding in the funereal coda of the first movement... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 & Walton: Serenade for Strings
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
Arrangements for string orchestra of works originally written for string quartet are not uncommon, especially in the cases of Beethoven and Schubert… But in the amazing scherzo, with its huge... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2006, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
RecommendedGerhild Romberger (contralto), Robert Dean Smith (tenor), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
Robert Dean Smith is a strong heroic-tenor; the awkward middle-to-upper range writing seems no problem or strain for him, though he’s not the most expressive of interpreters...Fischer’s mezzo,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The modern Steinway grand seems a bit of a blunt instrument to convey the full range of Bach's individuality, but Lazic's fastidiously articulated fingerwork and his feel for CPE's cultivated... —
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The cross-fertilisation certainly produces a pungent programme, played with terrific spirit...These two musicians work instinctively together, knowing just when to assert their pre-eminence... —
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An exciting idea this…and it works! After all, Bartók greatly admired Scarlatti: he even recorded a couple of his sonatas. Both composers were innovators and combined a strong feeling for rhythm... —
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Traditional Swedish folksongs are interwoven with newer choral works —
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Special offer. Emily Beynon - Flute & Friends
An inspiring collection of music for flute by female composers
Emily Beynon (flute), Henk Rubingh (violin), Marijn Mijnders (violin), Roland Krämer (viola), Daniël Esser (cello), Sepp Grotenhuis (piano), Alexei Ogrintschouk (oboe) & Petra van der Heide (harp)
This is a rare treat, music by five very different women composers, played by one of the leading exponents of her instrument. Beynon's playing is splendid throughout and she is ably supported... —
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There is indeed little that these players cannot project in terms of multifacted lyricism, colour and dramatic presence, and this is matched by the very best in modern brass programming…all... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring & Firebird Suite
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer
Fischer and his Budapest forces possess the right ingredients: the orchestra is well drilled in an interpretation that's as straight as a Roman road; its strings are searing, and brass and wooodwind... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Orchestral
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