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Hosokawa: Awakening
Jacob Kellermann, Ilse Eerens (soprano), Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, Christian Karlsen
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Beal’s symphonic take on his popular TV tunes is a thriller, but the delightful shorter works featuring flautist Sharon Bezaly ultimately steal the show. —
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By keeping a firm grip on the first three movements, Osmo Vänskä ensures that the cast and increasingly frantic finale, with its hammer-blows of Fate, really does come over as climactic, culminating... —
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Sounds of Sund
Folke Alin (piano), Peter Mattei (baritone), Jeanette Kohn (soprano), Per Johansson (double bass), Lennart Simonsson (piano), Stefan Parkman (tenor), Anders Astrand (percussion), Carl-Lennart Gustafsson (accordion), Lars-Erik Lidstrom (clarinet)
Orphei Drangar, Trio X, Robert Sund
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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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Rysanov has previously demonstrated that there is far more to the instrument than Romantic brooding, but this disc finds him exploring that cliche...and the playing is utterly sublime, especially... —
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Prokofiev's most profound slow movement has the proper Wagnerian breadth...Litton's work on detail here is unstinting, and it pays off in the whirling dissolve as Lieutenant Kijé, the soldier... —
