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Special offer. CANTATA - yet can I hear...
Handel, Vivaldi, and Bach
Bejun Mehta (countertenor)
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Mehta’s voice remains light and graceful, and his general ability to move around the small notes is only occasionally compromised by untidiness. The period-instrument orchestra’s flautist, Christoph... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2018
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Nouveauté
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Special offer. Martinů: Double Concertos for Violin and Piano
RecommendedMomo & Mari Kodama (piano), Sarah & Deborah Nemtanu (violin), Magali Demesse (viola), Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, Lawrence Foster
The biggest challenge here is the Concerto for Two Pianos…the Kodama sisters’ approach with Lawrence Foster and the very fine Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra (who knew?) is less mellow, more... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Alisa Weilerstein’s sound has a generous warmth, and Barnatan’s has a delicate malleability, so these players complement each other nicely. —
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Special offer. Russian Violin Concertos
Julia Fischer (violin)
Russian National Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg
As Julia Fischer explains in the booklet-notes to this, her first CD, she has an abiding love of the Khachaturian Concerto, a work she found impossible to sell to concert-promoters. The freshness... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2005, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. La Passione
Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven
Christina Landshamer (soprano), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Bernhard Forck
Landshamer’s delivery of this material is consistently beautiful, technically top-class, and pitched with laser-like accuracy….matched at every point by the accompaniments, whose range of period-instrument... —
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Record Review, 6th August 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 3 & Stravinsky: Divertimento
RecommendedRussian National Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
…a delightful pairing of not-quite mainstream repertoire. Jurowski… keeps the bittersweet atmosphere of the Third Suite nicely in focus, and even suggests a certain anguish in adrenalin-fuelled... —
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Building a Library, December 2011, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 29, Serenades Nos. 6 & 13 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'
Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Marco Boni
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Special offer. Highlights from Russian Opera - Volume 2
Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Alexander Vedernikov
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites (transcribed for Piano Duo)
Mari Kodama (piano) & Momo Kodama (piano)
The Sugar Plum Fairy sounds as delicate on piano as for the celesta or the original orchestration, and the delicious Pas de deux loses nothing in translation...An enjoyable way to encounter... —
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Special offer. Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic'
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski
Janowski, a no-nonsense Brucknerian, showcases his orchestra’s singing violins and sensitive woodwinds, but the cello lines are alarmingly thin and the overall sound lacks the majesty this music... —
