Nimbus
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As his two previous Nimbus discs (3/95 and 7/95 – the latter including a fine performance of Liszt's Dante Sonata) show, Mark Anderson is a most musicianly pianist. His communicative ardour... —
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... has moments of charm that are well realised here. —
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Bretan: Horia
Gheorghe Crasnaru, Emil Iurascu, Marcel Angelescu, Iulia Buciuceanu, Cornelia Pop, Corneliu Fanateanu, Dan Zancu, Lucian Marinescu, Matilda Onofrei-Voiculet, Constantin Iliescu, Nicolae Urziceanu, Adrian Stefanescu
Orchestra and Chorus of the Romanian Opera, Bucharest, Stelian Olariu, Cornel...
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Cherkassky's playing is alert with detail. —
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Sutherland could indeed have made a serious career in the dramatic German Fach: she sounds an outstandingly fluent and natural exponent of the titlerole. Conductor Fritz Stiedry’s preserved... —
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Historic Recording
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Robert Saxton: Scenes from the Epic of Gilgamesh & The Resurrection of the Soldiers
English Symphony Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Kenneth Woods
Robust as the performances are, it’s The Resurrection of the Soldiers – based on painted depictions of the First World War – which is the more engrossing and emotionally involving. —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2024, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Erik Satie - Socrate
and other French song cycles
Hugues Cuenod (tenor), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
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Schubert: String Quartets Nos. 13 & 14
Live recording made in the Convent of St Agnes, Prague 13 June 2011
Wihan Quartet
the Wihan Quartet can sound modest, even retiring. But their more introverted approach also has a ring of authenticity. This is not so much a Schubert of grandeur and extremes, but of subtle... —
