Toccata Classics
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Rob Keeley: Orchestral Music
Sarah Desbruslais (flute), James Turnbull (oboe), Michael Sluman (oboe), Patrick Flanaghan (cor anglais), Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra, Liepaja Symphony Orchestra, Paul Mann
Paul Mann’s secure conducting and the excellent playing of the two orchestras helps make this disc an all-around superb affair. —
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Music For A Prince, Music By A Prince
Theodore Buchholz (cello), Paula Fan (piano), Edward Reid (trumpet), Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Jason Carder (trumpet)
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Manuel Cardoso: Complete Masses, Vol. 1; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Motets
Choir of Carmelite Priory, Simon Lloyd
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Joly Braga Santos: Chamber Music, Vol. 2
Eliot Lawson (violin), Natalia Tchitch (viola), Catherine Strynckx (cello), Jill Lawson (piano), Ricardo Lopes (oboe), Adriano Aguiar (double bass), Nuno Ivo Cruz (flute), António Saiote (clarinet), Carolino Carreira (bassoon), Paulo Guerreiro (horn), Pedro Monteiro (trumpet), Jorge Almeida (trumpet),...
All the performances seem close to ideal; one never gets the impression that these musicians just threw the music together for the recording. The recorded sound is very good, achieving the right... —
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Ivan Sokolov: Chamber and Instrumental Music
Karen Bentley Pollick (violin, piano, viola), Ivan Sokolov (piano)
Toccata Classics has scored another coup in unearthing music by a composer who should be widely known. Any violinist or violist hearing these works will almost certainly immediately desire to... —
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The Komitas Legacy: Armenian Piano Trios
works by Agoshian, Babajanian, Grigoryan and Komitas
Trio Aeternus
A very welcome release – if you don’t know the Babajanian, you should. —
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The Portuguese pianist Luís Pipa is an effective advocate in these performances, all of which are first recordings. —
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Alexander Brincken: Orchestral Music, Volume One
Alexander Brincken (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Rainer Held
The inclination is to ask, where has this glorious, rich, ravishing and at times passionate music been all my life? There is so much here which seems tailor-made to bring the lovers of Rachmaninov,... —
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