Nimbus
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Gesänge Des Orients
Songs of the Orient
Simon Wallfisch & Edward Rushton, Edward Rushton, Simon Wallfisch
This fascinating programme of early twentieth-century songs (many of them by composers condemned as purveyors of ‘degenerate’ music by the Nazis) struck me as a sort of alternative Das Lied... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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One of the performers’ tasks [in the Franck] is to grade the excitements so that we get some feeling of shape in a whole movement. Here this task is fulfilled admirably, helped by discreet vibrato... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2020, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Orchestral
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The Wihans' performance [of No. 9] goes straight to the Quartet's heart.The first movement takes a little while to settle, but, as a whole, this is an enormously impressive reading that searches... —
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Throughout, you’re aware of characterful individual contributions within an impeccable ensemble…this is a delectable addition to the Mendelssohn quartet discography —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2016, Editor's Choice
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Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch
Hagai Shaham (violin), Arnon Erez (piano) & Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Hagai Shaham (violin) & Arnon Erez (piano)
the obscurities melt away, such is the entente between the players and their understanding of Faure's elliptical syntax. Arnon Erez's clean piano-playing is a great help throughout, allowing... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, Chamber Choice
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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... —
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Legendary Voices
Luisa Tetrazzini, Enrico Caruso, Rosa Ponselle, Tito Schipa, Giuseppe de Luca, Grace Anthony, Eva Turner, Alfred Piccaver, Ezio Pinza, Alexander Kipnis, Lotte Lehmann, Kirsten Flagstad, Jussi Björling, Tito Gobbi, Fritz Wunderlich
Nigel Douglas's book Legendary Voices (Deutsch: 1992) gives engagingly appreciative accounts of 14 favourite singers, coupling a biographical sketch, and sometimes personal reminiscences, with... —
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Philip Sawyers: Symphony No. 4 & Hommage to Kandinsky
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Kenneth Woods
Kenneth Woods is in his element with this kind of music, and the excellent musicians of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales are cleanly and spaciously recorded. Indeed, sound quality is an improvement... —
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Special offer. Erik Satie - Socrate
and other French song cycles
Hugues Cuenod (tenor), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
