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The Ancient Question: a voyage through Jewish Songs
Hila Plitmann (soprano), Julian Bliss (clarinet), Christopher Glynn (piano), Thomas Bowes (violin) & Andres Kaljuste (viola)
Plitmann's selection is carefully chosen for maximum variety of expression and instrumentation. All the featured composers write in a highly accessible style retaining a strong adherence to... —
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scenes from The Invisible City of Kitezh & Sheherazade
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov
this Scheherazade is absolutely marvellous, one of the best available. If you think you have heard the score so often that it has become jaded, this is a recording to make you think again. —
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Vaughan-Williams: The Lark Ascending & Violin Concerto
Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)
Orchestra of the Swan, David Curtis
By today's turbo-charged standards the firepower of Waley-Cohen's playing is not huge, and the range of light and shade a little contained; but her sense of line and capacity to make things... —
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Will Todd: Lux et Veritas
Music for Peace and Reflection
Tenebrae, English Chamber Orchestra, Nigel Short
Throughout, the excellent Tenebrae under Nigel Short’s sensitive direction deliver the sequence of 14 short pieces with commitment and great beauty of tone. —
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, K35
Allan Clayton (Christian), Andrew Kennedy (Spirit of Christianity), Sophie Bevan (Spirit of Worldliness), Cora Burggraaf (Divine Justice), Sarah Fox (Divine Mercy)
The Mozartists, Ian Page
The piece is performance to a high standard, with tenors Andrew Kennedy and Allan Clayton making the most of the Spirit of Christianity and the Half-Hearten Christian respectively. Soprano Sophie... —
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Widor: The Complete Organ Symphonies Volume 2
Joseph Nolan [the Cavaillé-Coll organ of La Madeleine, Paris]
[a] gifted player —
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The combination of Ralph Allwood and the Rodolfus Choir usually means quality. It does again here in this excellently sung recital of Elgar choral pieces. It's hard, in fact, to imagine 'Go,... —
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Khachaturian: Orchestral Suites from Spartacus & Gayaneh
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov
what's not to like about the performances? You would expect flair and character, elegance as well as muscle from this orchestra and conductor but what is rather more surprising - based on the... —
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it is not an easy piece to sing convincingly. There is, though, nothing at all tentative about this fervently committed performance by the Wells Cathedral Choir, a group with special connections... —
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Dove: For An Unknown Soldier
An Airmail Letter from Mozart
Nicky Spence (tenor), Melvyn Tan (piano)
Oxford Bach Choir, Portsmouth Grammar School Chamber Choir, Children’s Choir: The Minster Junior School Monks Orchard Primary School, Ecclesbourne Primary School, London Mozart Players, Nicholas Cleobury
By turns scamperingly hyperactive, tender and skittish, [An airmail letter from Mozart is] a delightfully endearing portrait of Mozart sketched in a modern accent, and a blast to listen to…Nocholas... —
