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...the liberties rarely sound wilful, almost always revealing alternative insights, whilst Sudbin's handling of his potential heavy modern Steinway D grand is a delectable display of crispness,... —
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Kalevi Aho: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 13
Antti Siirala (piano)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Both pieces are classics examples of Aho's more recent manner, and a truly engaging manner it is, especially in the hands of such committed performers as these —
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 49
Rachel Nicholls (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Gerd Türk (tenor) & Peter Kooij (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
I can't imagine more beautifully long-breathed phrasing than oboist Masamitsu San-nomiya's. But eclipsing all else is the aria that follows, its tenor weaving Bach's logical counterpoint into... —
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Brett Dean: The Lost Art of Letter Writing
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
Sydney Symphony, BBC Symphony Orchestra (viola section), Gondwana Voices & BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Jonathan Nott, Martyn Brabbins, David Robertson
Dean creates a Berg-like soundscape in which fragments of that Symphony [Brahms 4] fleetingly or sometimes not so fleetingly swim into focus...A similarly effective tension between classic fragments... —
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A charming and repeatable release where No. 6, especially, deserves to be better known. —
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Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 & Piano Concerto No. 1
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui
the orchestra is sleek and well balanced in a handsome recording...Sudbin's playing feels as if he's improvising whole swathes. Performances of the Concerto don't come much better than this. —
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de Vlieger has approached his task with sympathy and no small degree of expertise...What makes this disc rather special, and of interest to more than just would-be Wagnerians who are allergic... —
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[the choir] is clearly a highly flexible instrument...Rachmaninov places great demands on even the most skilled singers...challenges which the Dutch singers pass with audible ease...The brief... —
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the gorgeous sonorities, bold gestures and ingenious deployment of registers [of Kanno's music] grab your attention...Prelude for Angel proves Kanno's strongest offering. It begins with disarming... —
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[Isherwood's] new disc is an eloquent and persuasive contribution to the Cageian cause precisely because he approaches the music from an alternative vantage point, and Cage's material proves... —
