Toccata Classics
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This album is huge fun, the kind I’ll use at parties where I pop 5 or 6 albums on a CD changer and use as a kind of background music. It will make guests pause from their game of bridge or trivial... —
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A disc of gentle pleasures that whets the appetite for future issues in Riva’s Woelfl pilgrimage. —
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Special offer. Arnold Rosner: Orchestral Music, Volume Two
Christopher Burchett (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nick Palmer
All three scores demand a top-flight orchestra, and fortunately not only does the London Philharmonic qualify, it has become one of the world's great "reading" orchestras. So here you have three... —
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Special offer. Richard Flury: Die Helle Nacht
Julia Sophie Wagner (soprano), Stephanie Bulhmann (soprano), Magnus Vigilius (tenor), Eric Stoklossa (tenor), Daniel Ochoa (baritone), Ogulcan Yilmaz (bass), Gartner Kammerchor, Gottingen Symphony Orchestra, Paul Mann
The instrumentation is not enormous, yet Flury’s soundworld is lavish and his orchestration virtuosic. There’s a lyricism to his vocal lines, too... Impressive standards from both chorus and... —
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Kamieniak is a worthy champion of Niemann’s music. He has a flair for Niemann’s character and picture painting alongside finely crafted phrases and fabulous pedalling. With a clear, rich sound... —
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Telemann: Harmonischer Gottes-Dienst, Vol. 8
Bergen Barokk, Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano), Bjarte Eike, Thomas C. Boysen, Markku Luolajan-Mikkola, Hans Knut Sveen
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Hats off to Ian Hobson and his players, a team that is confidently and stylishly immersed in Moszkowski’s instantly recognisable idiom. —
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Paul Mann approaches these scores from a place of scholarship and affection. The booklet contains a five-page essay by Mann in which he walks us through the music step by step, and this facilitated... —
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New. Linda Kouvaras: Piano Music, Chamber Works and Songs, Vol. 3
Antoinette Halloran (soprano), Coady Green (piano), Lyrebird Brass