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Special offer. Adès: The Exterminating Angel Symphony & Violin Concerto
Leila Josefowicz (violin), Minnesota Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård
Thomas Adès is a composer with the capacity to seduce and terrify in equal measure and both extremes are in evidence on this captivating album. —
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Blomstedt’s attention to detail is admirable, and his performances are wonderfully controlled. Perhaps the Symphony’s slow movement lingers a little more than necessary, but the orchestral playing... —
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The braying of the brass, the keen but never acid oboes, the fleetness of the strings: all are a delight from first to last. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Special offer. Anime Immortali | Mozart Arias
RecommendedFranco Fagioli (counter-tenor), Kammerorchester Basel, Daniel Bard
In ‘Va’ pure ad altri in braccio’ from La finta giardiniera the strings dive down in fury in a style that teases Gluck’s ideas about how rage should sound in reformed opera. But it's Fagioli... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th April 2023
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Special offer. Brahms/Koncz: Sonatas for Clarinet and Orchestra
Daniel Ottensamer (clarinet), Stephan Koncz (cello), Christoph Traxler (piano), Noah Bendix-Balgley (violin)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Koncz retains Brahms’s original clarinet line intact but reshapes the piano part through discreet retouching, rendered in idiomatic and transparent orchestration. His treatment steers a moderate... —
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The pleasures of this CD are manifold, thanks to Aimard's super-light touch and his subtle deployment of infinitesimal gradations of volume and tempo...And when he goes exceptionally fast -... —
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Special offer. Wagner: Lohengrin
Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin), Annette Dasch (Elsa), Susanne Resmark (Ortrud), Gerd Grochowski (Friedrich von Telramund), Markus Brück (Der Heerrufer des Königs), Günther Groissböck (Heinrich der Vogler)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
Janowski has matured into the most reliably impressive Wagner conductor of our time...[Vogt] has a lovely voice, though it occasionally sounds thin; but he is expressive, intelligent and convincing.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Fantasies, Rhapsodies and Daydreams
Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Lawrence Foster
This recital is something of a triumph for violinist Arabella Steinbacher. [Waxman’s Carmen Fantasy] is finger-cripplingly difficult, and…Steinbacher makes it sound like a neat-masterpiece…saving... —
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Those expecting provocative speeds and micromanaged detail from Jacobs might be surprised at the centrality of his reading. —
