Nimbus
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Jonathan Harvey: Madonna of Winter & Spring
Peter Prommel (percussion), Penelope Walmsley-Clark (soprano)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta, Peter Eötvös, George Benjamin
This is an impressive disc indeed: a strong cast, a varied programme, and music of great integrity and beauty. In relation to many British scores that have garnered recent critical praise, Harvey... —
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Bach - Sonatas for 2 Flutes and Continuo
Hansgeorg Schmeiser (flute), Jan Ostrý (flute), Ingomar Rainer (harpsichord) & Othmar Müller (cello)
The present group play all this music winningly and stylishly, but the snag is that they are forwardly recorded which considerably reduces the amount of light and shade. —
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This recording of the Goldbergs is individual, interesting, never routine...He repeats the first half of each variation, and less than half of the second halves, which adds a pleasing spontaneity... —
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[York2] create such magical, velvet-toned sonorities - especially potent in Venus and Saturn - that the senses are consistently beguiled. They also unearth all manner of ear-tweaking details... —
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from the very start of the Bartok there's complete technical confidence, a wide tonal range and a sure sense of the music's dramatic direction...The Bach is given a Romantic reading, more along... —
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Giacomo Lauri-Volpi sings Verdi
with Gino Bechi, Maria Caniglia, Mario Basiola, Luigi Manfrini, Irene Minghini-Cattaneo, Elisabeth Rethberg, Giuseppe de Luca
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
... the Nimbus method gives a needed sense of space ... transfers are good. This disc does a valuable service, collecting Lauri-Volpi's Otello records, adding for good measure several of his... —
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Great Singers at the Mariinsky Theatre
Andrei Labinsky, David Yuzhin, Antonina Nezhdanova, Dmitri Smirnov, Vladimir Kastorsky, Yevgeniy Vitting, Yevgeniya Zbruyeva, Maria Kovalenko, Mikhail Karakash, Yevgeniya Bronskaya, Lydia Lipkovskya, Leonid Sobinov, Lev Sibiryakov, Olimpia Boronat, Elena Katulskaya, Yevgeniya Popello-Davidova
Here is a superb collection ... The booklet has some fine photographs and admirable notes by Boris Semeonoff. The original copies used are all in pristine condition. There are, of course, those... —
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