Orchid Classics
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encouraged by Freeman’s limpid touch, he finely captures the changing moods of the canticle My beloved is mine, from impassioned declamation to the stillness of ‘He is my Altar’ and the quiet... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020
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Putting my head above a parapet, I have to say that these performances of Prokofiev's three 'War' Sonatas...eclipse all others on record - even those tirelessly and justifiably celebrated performances... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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out of the bran tub comes my favourite Christmas choral disc of 2009 - Joy in the morning, another wide-ranging collection from Jeffrey Skidmore's excellent Birmingham-based choir, Ex Cathedra.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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The faster pieces score high for clarity, and her awareness of polyphonic construction, including 'hidden' lines, is admirable. In general the textures are commendably lucid, even in the hugely... —
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Special offer. Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 'Death and the Maiden' & Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131
Sacconi Quartet (string quartet)
The players have a notable consistency of tone, perhaps partly thanks to the fact that the three higher instruments are all by the influential 20th-century Italian luthier from which the quartet... —
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Special offer. Sword in the Soul
Grier - Elgar - Bednall - Park
Samantha Bond (narrator), James Orford, Simon Callow (narrator), Brian O'Kane, Adrian Peacock (narrator), Samuel Pantcheff, Alison Ponsford-Hill, London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron
this modern-day Passion is powerful, and crying out for regular performance...Grier’s Brittenish ear for melodies that sound inevitable even when they are far from it, his elegant astringency... —
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Special offer. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concertos For Two Pianos; Sonata For Two Pianos
Fiammetta Tarli, Ivo Varbanov, Muhai Tang, English Chamber Orchestra
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Special offer. Beethoven/5, Vol. 2
Jonathan Biss (piano), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Omer Meir Wellber
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Their still youthful energy, allied with technical brilliance, brings excitement to the whirlwinds of turbulence and rapidly shifting emotions throughout, and makes for thrilling listening. —
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Special offer. Legends
Kirill Troussov (violin), Alexandra Troussova (piano), Rachel Harnisch (soprano), Jan Philip Schulze (piano), Gwendolyn Masin (violin), Jiska Lambrecht (violin), Markus Fleck (viola), Martin Moriarty (viola), Patrick Moriarty (cello), Vera Kooper (piano)
Inspired by the great virtuoso violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski, this intriguing programme devised by the violinist Gwendolyn Masin borrows its title from one of his most famous works,... —
