SACD, CPO (label)
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
RecommendedMaria Keohane (soprano), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Jan Kobow (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass)
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen
To my mind, Mortensen’s special performance, which is full to the brim with insightful musicianship and has a refreshing avoidance of contrived formulas, comfortably joins Parrott (EMI), Junghänel... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, February 2017, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Baroque Vocal
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Handel - Water Music & Music For The Royal Fireworks
RecommendedL'Arte dell'Arco (on period instruments), Federico Guglielmo (Direction)
The tradition of dividing the Water Music into three separate suites dates back to the 1950s. The suspicion that Handel envisaged it as one long sequence of movements has informed a couple of... —
Awards:
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Building a Library, April 2009, First Choice
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Under violinist-conductor Henry Raudales, the Munich Radio Orchestra approach Respighi’s Baroque reworkings with fastidious care and exquisite attention to detail…his approach to Gli uccelli,... —
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Charles Koechlin: Organ Works
Christian Schmitt (Neue Goll-Orgel 2007/09 Marktkirche Hannover (Germany))
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Widor: Organ Symphonies Volume 2
Christian Schmitt (performed on the Jann Organ, Konzertsaal der Bamberger Konzerthalle (op. 69) and the Cavaillé Organ, Abteikirche St. Ouen)
Bamberger Symphoniker, Stefan Solyom
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Widor: Organ Symphonies Volume 1
Christian Schmitt (Jann-Orgel im Konzertsaal der Bamberger Konzerthalle)
Bamberger Symphoniker & Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie, Stefan Solyom
The Bamberg players are at their most effective in the central movement...Solyom's superbly paced direction and Schmitt's sensitive interweaving with the orchestral textures gives a real sense... —
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Vivaldi - Six Violin Concertos for Anna Maria
Federico Guglielmo (solo violin and direction)
L’Arte dell’Arco
