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Special offer. Weber: Oberon
sung in English
Hillevi Martinpelto (Reiza), Steve Davislim (Oberon), Jonas Kaufmann (Huon), Marina Comparato (Fatima), William Dazeley (Sherasmin), Frances Bourne (Puck), Katherine Fuge (First Mermaid), Charlotte Mobbs (Second Mermaid), Roger Allam (narrator)
Orchestre Revolutionnaire Et Romantique with The...
It would be hard to overestimate the importance of this recording of Weber's final opera —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2005, Disc of the month
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[Gergiev] bring[s] out Rimsky's crystalline solo textures, such as the passages for solo cello, horn and woodwinds in the first movement. And if tempos are slow in the first three movements,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2002, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Shostakovich - Cello Concertos
Heinrich Schiff (cello)
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Maxim Shostakovich
These two moving and largely 'private' works can sound bombastic, but here are ideally realised by Heinrich Schiff under the composer's son's direction. The recording adds to the intimacy. —
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Building a Library, October 2008, First Choice
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Special offer. Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, etc.
Viktoria Mullova (violin)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
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Special offer. Berlioz: Requiem
RecommendedRonald Dowd (tenor) & Denis Wick (trombone)
London Symphony Chorus, Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, John Alldis Choir & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Obsequies don't come much grander than this coupling under the attentive direction of a consummate Berlioz champion. There are choral strains but the orchestral detail is superb. —
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Grammy Awards, 14th Awards (1971), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 14th Awards (1971), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Her playing carries blazing conviction at every turn, and its sheer virtuosity is breathtaking ... Vivid communication is helped by a fairly forward, resonant recording, which captures every... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, March 2021, Also Recommended
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