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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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[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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Ilkka Kuusisto: Orchestral Works
Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Jorma Hynninen (baritone)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Jaakko Kuusisto
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Sonatas from the 1740s occupy Vol. 25 of Spanyi's immaculately considered companion series to his CPE Bach concerto cycle. The full-toned clavichord beguiles. —
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Some of these world versions of classic London songs bear repeated listening and all are good fun —
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Raschèr Saxophone Quartet: The Eight Sounds
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra & Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, Robin Engelen
The performances and recording strike me as excellent, with the quicksilver virtuosity of the Rascher Quartet almost a reward in itself. —
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With the Emperor Quartet's quick reactions, the [Simple Symphony] takes on a new guise in this intimate form, at once spikily alive in the outer movements and confiding of private secrets at... —
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It takes a while for the ear to accept on the clavichord music normally played on the harpsichord, but Miklos Spanyi's artistry justifies the effort. —
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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... —
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That [Tishchenko] was a superb pianist underpins the expansive, gnarly language of his 11 piano sonatas. On this recording, French pianist Nicolas Stavy tackles the Seventh, longest and formally... —
