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Schumann: String Quartets Nos. 1–3 & Piano Quintet
Ilya Gringolts (violin), Anahit Kurtikyan (violin), Silvia Simonescu (viola) & Claudius Hermann (cello), with Peter Laul (piano)
These four fine players are consistently musical in their approach and there is nothing outlandish or suspect about their interpretations. And therein perhaps lies their weakness, for it's precisely... —
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Affettuoso: Emilio Percan
Emilio Percan (baroque violin), Oriol Aymat-Fusté (baroque cello) & Luca Quintaville (harpsichord)
Percan is an extremely capable violinist. Playing a modern Baroque-style instrument by Johannes Loescher, he makes a fine, bright, ringing tone, and many of the quicker movements sound brilliant... —
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Siècle
Leonard Elschenbroich (cello), Alexei Grynyuk (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, John Wilson, Stefan Blunier
The undoubted jewel on the disc is the performance of the Dutilleux concerto, which is in every way outstanding…Elschenbroich demonstrates virtuosity and musicianship of a high order —
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Rachmaninov: Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2, Cello Sonata
Pavel Gomziakov, Andrey Korobeinikov, Tatiana Samouil
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Schwanewilms holds Schoenberg's melody, in his early Op. 2 songs, like the finest silken thread. Her faultless legato realises to perfection the echoes of inner rhyme and assonance within the... —
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My Name Is Barbara
English and American art-song
Barbara Bonney (soprano) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)
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Transatlantic
Berlin Academy of American Music, Garrett Keast, Stathis Karapanos, Chen Reiss (soprano)
A celebration of the love affair enjoyed between composers and America, this is a winning collection of works which demands repeated listening. Craig Urquhart’s Lamentation for Flute and Orchestra... —
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Britten: Complete Songs Volume 1
Malcolm Martineau (piano), James Geer (tenor), Ben Johnson (tenor), Caryl Hughes (mezzo), Philip Smith (baritone), Nicky Spence (tenor), Katherine Broderick (soprano), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Andrew Tortise (tenor)
James Geer, a tenor with an instinct for the inflection of poetry that matches the composer's own, offers 'A Dirge'...Katherine Broderick brings by turns a forlorn beauty and a fiery plangency... —
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Britten: Complete Songs Volume 2
Malcolm Martineau (piano), Allan Clayton (tenor), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), Nicky Spence (tenor), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Benedict Nelson (baritone), Elizabeth Atherton (soprano), Robin Tritschler (tenor)
It's good to hear four quite different tenors responding to the song-cycles written for Peter Pears, and recreating each one in a totally distinctive way. Allan Clayton's feisty tenor takes... —
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Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 4, 6 & Movement from Symphony in G
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra plays with conviction and virtuosity throughout the Sixth. And it's equally adept in the expanded version of the Fourth, which here seems far less structurally... —
