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The playing is infectiously high-spirited and extremely well recorded… the performances are full of fun and caprice and, as I say, superbly polished. Recommended, above all for esprit and freedom... —
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Simon Trpceski turns to Debussy's withdrawn poetry and fantasy with an ease and delicacy that suggest, once more, a wholly exceptional artist.
He is, perhaps above all, harmonically aware, with... —Purchase product
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In Pictures at an Exhibition I cannot imagine a performance truer to the finesse of Ravel's scoring. In the opening "Promenade" alone there are myriad subtleties of phasing and dynamics. What... —
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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Kirsten Flagstad (Dido), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Belinda), Thomas Hemsley (Aeneas), Arda Mandikian (Sorceress), Sheila Rex (First Witch), Anna Pollak (Second Witch), David Lloyd (Sailor)
The Mermaid Singers & Orchestra, Geraint Jones
EMI’s Great Recordings of the Century is exactly what it says: these classic interpretations warrant a place in everybody’s collection. —
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This is a welcome separating of Andsnes's last Schubert sonatas from their couplings with Bostridge's way with some Lieder. These are noble accounts, but limited in an intensely competitive... —
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David Pyatt, Gramophone's Young Artist of the Year in 1996, provides performances in which calm authority and high imagination fuse; and this disc comlements the nobility and urbanity of Dennis... —
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Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Op. 16, etc.
Yehudi Menuhin
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, Sir John Pritchard
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Vaughan Williams & Holst - Choral Folksong Arrangements
London Madrigal Singers & Baccholian Singers of London, Christopher Bishop
RVW's settings again reflect his song collecting; his friend Holst's are more eclectic, including Hardy poems and the Rig Veda. Somewhat Edwardian in the fa-la manner but atmospherically beautiful... —
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Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 & Serenade to Music
with Elsie Morison, Marjorie Thomas, Duncan Robertson, Trevor Anthony & chorus
London Symphony Orchestra, with chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir John Barbirolli
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