Signum
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The voice of experience meets the voice of youth in this album contrasting the voices of Bowman, a countertenor, and Swait, a boy chorister.
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The Sketches of Edward Elgar
Completed & Orchestrated by Anthony Payne
Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka
The first movement unfolds in a single expansion sweep without ever sounding hurried, while the wonderful Adagio builds to its awe-inspiring climax with a steady inevitability that strongly... —
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The King's Singers - Live at The BBC Proms
Recorded Royal Albert Hall, London 5th August 2008
The King's Singers
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With its 101 stops spread over five manuals this organ offers an incredibly rich palette of sounds. The greatest revelations on the disc are the linked pair of pieces by Thalben-Ball. The... —
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60 'Leningrad'
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov
Temirkanov is good, noble and intense, gripping our attention with Shostakovich’s sustained lines. —
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there's a passionate restraint about Salonen's readings that is far more telling than many more overtly histrionic versions...clearly prioritising musical imperatives over mere pictorialism,... —
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Façades - Contemporary Works for Saxophone
Lara James (saxophones), Jeremy Young (piano) & Kathryn Price (cello)
Sinfonia ViVA, Nicholas Kok
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Emmanuel Despax plays Saint-Saëns, Franck & Goss
Emmanuel Despax (piano)
Orpheus Sinfonia, Thomas Carroll
a formidable talent, fleet of finger, elegant of phrase and a true keyboard colourist. Only a certain emotional reserve prevents these performances from competing with the very best...Despax's... —
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Widor: The Complete Organ Symphonies Volume 3
Joseph Nolan (Cavaillé-Coll organ of La Madeleine, Paris)
Lovers of noisy reeds-plus mixtures stop combinations will find much to savour here. As the young Widor did not do 'subtle'...perhaps this is fitting treatment. —
