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Ashkenazy stresses the lyricism as well as the anguish of Suk's score; this is a performance of great dignity and nobility, with fine attention to detail, especially in the often complex woodwind... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2009, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Saariaho - Notes On Light, Orion & Mirage
Karita Mattila (soprano) & Anssi Karttunen (cello)
Orchestre de Paris Orchestre de Paris, Christoph Eschenbach
Saariaho has always had an extraordinary ear for a beauty of sound, best described in terms of light. …performances have that extra edge which live recording brings. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2008, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Sakari Oramo conducts Magnus Lindberg
World Première Recordings
Esa Tapani (horn)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo
It is Sculpture however that seems most sure of itself stylistically. Its outrageously Romantic conclusion - huge, organ-enhanced orchestra singing out in unabashed heroic tones - is convincing... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Contemporary
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Special offer. Anderson: Heaven Is Shy Of Earth
Susan Bickley (mezzo)
London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Oliver Knussen
Heaven is Shy of Earth is a substantial work of intriguing paradoxes…Gloriously uplifting and luminescent, it has dark threads and exudes both a striking simplicity and a numinous complexity…Anderson’s... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Contemporary
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Special offer. Mendelssohn & Schumann: Violin Concertos
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
Tetzlaff uses quite a bit of rubato in the opening [of the Mendelssohn], giving a few moments of doubtful ensemble...But he shapes dynamics and phrases sensitively, and the slow movement is... —
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Special offer. Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Legends & Pohjola’s Daughter
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Textures are sifted with skill, chosen tempi are unfailingly judicious and Lintu shows a canny awareness of the bigger scheme...Ultimately, for all its sterling qualities, there's no getting... —
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Special offer. Hindemith: Das Marienleben for Soprano & Piano, Op. 27
Soile Isokoski (soprano) & Marita Viitasalo (piano)
…the cycle's angular vocal lines… are powerfully compelling when sung with such smoothness of phrase as Isokoski supplies here. Her strong sense of story-telling matches the pictorialism of... —
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
Tetzlaff's approach to Shostakovich's Violin Concertos is rather different from that of their dedicatee, David Oistrakh...Yet I find Tetzlaff's interpretation [of No. 1] no less riveting...Storgårds... —
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Special offer. Tüür: Peregrinus Ecstaticus
Christoffer Sunqvist (clarinet), Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Tüür's material is passionately direct, with intricate, trailing lines and passages of ominously intense stasis puncuated by explosive climaxes. Lintu shapes it with spirit - and most convincingly. —
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Special offer. American Opus (Americascapes 2)
Walker - Crumb - Revueltas
Basque National Orchestra, Robert Trevino
Treviño and the Basque National Orchestra’s emphasis on atmosphere rather than scare tactics is the most persuasive [recording of the Crumb] yet. —
