SACD, Linn (label)
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Phantasm here offers the same flawless playing that has earned its members consistent, well-deserved accolades. Despite the brooding nature of the music, their sound is luminous and tempos are... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Early Music
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Building a Library, October 2017, First Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Musique Ancienne
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Special offer. Chopin: Piano Concertos
RecommendedIngrid Fliter (piano)
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Jun Märkl
True, she sails perilously close to over-sentimentalising the opening Romanza...but Fliter plays with grace and heartfelt sincerity - abetted by some lovely duetting with the SCO's bassoonist... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Special offer. Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Op. 25
RecommendedVéronique Gens (Marie), Alastair Miles (Herod/Ishmaelite Father), Yann Beuron (Narrator), Stephan Loges (Joseph)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Robin Ticciati
Beuron, still probably France's finest lyric tenor, a compelling Recitant with open, ardent tones and warm delivery...Miles is a splendidly anguished but restrained Herod and benign Ishmaelite,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2013
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Pamela Thorby, a regular member of the Palladian Ensemble, demonstrates versatility and virtuosity beyond question and is imaginatively accompanied by Richard Egarr, who also contributes a sparkling... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2004, Editor's Choice
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Morton keeps the Tchaikovsky rhythmically lithe and buoyant...emphasising the composer's neo-classical sensibility in emulation of his beloved Mozart. The feather-light waltz dances exuberantly,... —
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Harp recitals are almost bound to be appealing, such is the instrument’s seductiveness, but this one has substance, too. —
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by skilfully modulating their tone between the smooth and the raucous, the two clarinettists here contrive to minimise the absence of oboe timbre in what proves a lively and nicely nuanced reading...these... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2015, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Ned Rorem - On an echoing road
Duets, Trios and Quartets from Evidence of things not seen interspersed with songs
Anna Leese (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), Andrew Staples (tenor), Jacques Imbrailo (baritone), Tim Mead (countertenor) & Alisdair Hogarth (piano / director)
Prince Consort
All five singers have clearly grasped the importance of Rorem's text-based conception of song, 'poetry as expressed through the voice' and they sing - albeit in resolutely English English which... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Katherine Bryan plays Flute Concertos by Christopher Rouse and Jacques Ibert
Katherine Bryan (flute)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jac van Steen
Bryan certainly has complete mastery of the [Rouse's] technical and expressive demands, as she does in Ibert's Concerto of 1933...Her playing of Debussy's Syrinx, the ne plus ultra of the solo... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Fernando Guimarães (Ulisse), Jennifer Rivera (Penelope), Aaron Sheehan (Telemaco), Leah Wool (Minerva), Owen McIntosh (Giove), Abigail Nims (Melanto), Daniel Auchincloss (Eumaeus), Sonja DuToit Tengblad (Juno), Ulysses Thomas (Antinous) & Marc Molomot (Irus)
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
The most impressive performance comes from Aaron Sheehan (as Ulisse's son Telemaco) whose light lyrical voice delivers the music with utter naturalness. —
