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Special offer. Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Camilla Tilling (soprano), Detlef Roth (baritone)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Marek Janowski
the performance is both beautifully shaped (especially from the woodwinds) and devotional in spirit. The closing 'Selig sind die Toten' presents a warming richness of texture, the underlying... —
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Special offer. Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski
...this is a far tighter and richer orchestra than it used to be...the strings are capable of an opulent and balanced sonority; the woodwinds are pungent and well-focused (listen to their playful... —
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Special offer. Music for a Time of War
Jeffrey Work (trumpet), Sanford Sylvan (baritone), Jun Iawsaki (violin)
Oregon Symphony, Carlos Kalmar
Music for a Time of War is a compelling and inspired example of intelligent programme planning, and it’s extremely well played by the Oregon Symphony conducted by Carlos Kalmar… The live recorded... —
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Helmchen's programme explores the extremes of Schumann as a piano composer, at both his most inward and his most virtuoso. I have a suspicion that he's more at ease in the former. The most successful... —
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Special offer. Schubert: Complete Works for Violin and Piano
Julia Fischer (violin) & Martin Helmchen (piano), Julia Fischer (piano)
playful but utterly focused…Fischer/Helmchen conjure a lustrously haloed quality. —
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Special offer. Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 15 & 27
Martin Helmchen (piano)
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Gordan Nikolić
What you have here is an acoustic well suited to Mozart, with a nice halo of resonance which doesn’t echo eternally, but helps those legato lines and subtleties of dynamic and phrasing which... —
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Special offer. Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer: Here/After
Songs of Lost Voices
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Ekaterina Gorlova, Ashley Traughbet (sopranos) Nathan Gunn (baritone), Dawn Walker (flute), Dawn Harms (violin), Marc Teicholz (guitar), Emil Miland (cello), Carol Wincenc (flute), Jake Heggie (piano), Stephen Costello (tenor), Jose Gonvalez Granero (clarinet), Talise Trevigne...
Though Heggie's thematic ideas might seem a bit commonplace on first hearing, listeners are advised to stay alert to each song's last note. Invariably, one is ambushed by the music's cumulative... —
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Special offer. Joseph Haydn - Orchestral Works
Gordan Nikolic (violin), Herre-Jan Stegenga (cello), Toon Durville (oboe) & Margreet Bongers (bassoon)
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
