Ondine
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Special offer. Uuno Klami - Northern Lights, Kalevala Suite & Cheremissian Fantasy
Samuli Peltonen (cello)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
Storgårds and the Helsinki Philharmonic turn in superb performances...Ondine's sound is of demonstration class...Thoroughly recommended. —
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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Kate Royal (soprano), Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano), Tuomas Katajala (tenor), Derek Welton (bass-baritone), Malmö Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Robert Trevino
The opening of the First Symphony immediately shows the impact on Trevino of historically-informed performance...The orchestral balance is often heavily in favour of the winds, especially the... —
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Special offer. Hindemith: Kammermusik I-II-III; Kleine Kammermusik
Xi Zhai, Christopher Park, Bruno Philippe, Kronberg Academy Soloists, Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
Eschenbach’s focus is very fixedly on the earlier, wilder Hindemith in this first disc of a two-volume set...Tempos are swift and lively, the touch light not heavyhanded, relishing the fervid... —
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Special offer. Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 5
Lars Vogt (piano/conductor)
Royal Northern Sinfonia
There is a feeling of intimacy and give and take that isn’t usually present in performances…this is an enjoyable and probing account of this lovely work. The Northern Sinfonia, though it has... —
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Special offer. Saariaho: Chamber Works for Strings, Vol. 1
Minna Pensola (violin), Anna Laakso (piano), Atte Kilpelainen (viola), Marko Myohanen (electronics), Antti Tikkanen (violin), Tomas Djupsjobacka (cello), Kaija Saariaho (electronics)
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Special offer. Einojuhani Rautavaara: Works for Cello and Piano
Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Gunilla Süssmann (piano)
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The performances by the Finnish Baroque Orchestra are exemplary, the mood benign and unhurried to match the music, and every player of every unusually featured instrument...calmly taking their... —
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Special offer. Saariaho: La Passion de Simone
Dominique Blanc (narrator), Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
Tapiola Chamber Choir, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Upshaw's always seems the perfect voice and sensibility for Saariaho's music; and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Saariaho's colleague from their student days, is an intensely engaged and sympathetic director... —
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Special offer. Magnus Lindberg: Chamber Works
Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Anssi Karttunen (cello) & Magnus Lindberg (piano), Anssi Karttunen (cello)
The performance quality, with the composer and two of his longest-standing collaborators, is unimpeachable and Ondine's radiant sound completes a superb issue. —
