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Handel: Messiah (Original 1741 Version)
James Richman, Dallas Bach Society Chorus & Orchestra, Dann Coakwell, David Grogan, Diana Grabowski, Kara McBain
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Everything is crisply articulated and thoroughly thought through…The Grosse Fuge maintains momentum, winding tighter and tighter; then its final section begins so softly it’s almost playful,... —
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This is big, traditional playing, expressive and full-bodied, with plentiful vibrato and where each quartet member enters into a communal musical embrace with his or her colleagues. —
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Boesch is a wonderful Schubert singer...the range of his full, rounded bass-baritone voice, always in tune, is remarkable. —
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If any life is left in the myth that only the English can do Elgar, it’s put to shame by the Russian conductor. This disc — an ideal mix of the grand and the intimate — shows a first-rate musician’s... —
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Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2
Viktoria Mullova (violin), with Tedi Papavrami (violin II)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Jarvi
Viktoria Mullova's admirers will welcome this chance to hear her latest thoughts on a favourite concerto…don't expect the sweet unflappability of Guro Kleven Hagen in the main work; Mullova's... —
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The Musorgsky pieces are superbly performed...Bare Mountain's hair-raising opening sounding genuinely menacing rather than brash, and every cackle of the witches as impersonated by strings and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Editor's Choice
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His playing of the German Dances has a muscularity and a lovely transparency, while the Hungarian Melody has an exquisite soulfulness. But what strikes the listener from the first few bars of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, Instrumental Choice
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[Moog] gives a strong performance: rich and lavishly varied in sound, powerful, panoramically phrased with an impressive command of large-scale structure, and characterised with enough sleight-of-hand... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014, Editor's Choice
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The Kreutzer Sonata is placed first, so we hear James Ehnes and Andrew Armstrong presenting their credentials in turn – Ehnes with effortless accurate double stops, and Armstrong picking up... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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