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Forza azzurri!
Music by Dall’Abaco, Brescianello, Sammartini, Vivaldi and Zavateri
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
A well thought out programme, sympathetically recorded and helpfully documented. —
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both intimate and powerfully atmospheric, shedding new and memorable light on what usually comes across as a massive choral spectacular —
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JS Bach: The complete Solo Soprano Cantatas, Vol. 1
The Wedding Cantatas & Ich habe genug
Gillian Keith (soprano)
Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks
Gillian Keith’s brilliantly light soprano paired with this top-class period ensemble makes for a delightful disc —
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Subito! Julia Hwang
Music for violin and piano by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Lutosławski & Wieniawski
Julia Hwang (violin) & Charles Matthews (piano)
The appeal here, quite aside from some excellent playing, is in the way the programme has been planned…Julia Hwang is a model of expressive purity in the solo part [of The Lark Ascending] while... —
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Mister Dowland's Midnight
all works by John Dowland, arranged for guitar by Christoph Denoth
Christoph Denoth (guitar)
The Swiss-born guitarist assembles an anthology of well-loved Dowland 'pops'. His attentive colouring and expressive interventions seduce but sometimes distract. —
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A degustation of Baroque music which, alongside some familiar works by Vivaldi, offers some delightful revelations. Among these is the eclectic G major Violin Concerto by the Bolognese violinist-composer... —
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Others might have chosen more impressive repertoire for their debut, and maybe things were in the pipeline that had to be shelved during the pandemic, but this shows his command of the orchestra... —
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Given Ashkenazy’s grand old man status, souvenir hunters won’t cavil at his occasional subjective moves…Ashkenazy ensures that the (deliberately?) episodic finale of the Third Symphony retains... —
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Gheorghiu’s dramatic conviction and the rich, blooming tone for which her voice is well known are still there in abundance, allowing her to give a meaningful and deeply expressive performance... —
