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Bach - Cantatas Volume 38
Solo Cantatas
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Peter Kooij (bass) & Gerd Türk (tenor)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Easily the best-known piece here is Ich habe genug (BWV 82). Peter Kooij's tender, yearning account is more modestly stated than versions by his more extrovert rivals. Gerd Türk, assisted by... —
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Xiaogang Ye: Sichuan Image
Xue Yang (erhu, zhonghu), Yue Li (di, xiao), Lei Wang (sheng), Yang Jiang (pipa), Noriko Ogawa (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, José Serebrier
Sichuan Image is pretty much just that – a lush, f i lmic orchestral picture which, aside from occasionally threatening to morph into Saint-Saëns or Debussy, goes nowhere in particular. The... —
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The recording captures every nuance of Papandreou’s playing: as sweet, one might say, as the smell of jasmine. —
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Halász avoids cliché, the more familiar repertoire tempered by the lesser known, and contrasts of style and substance. Halász’s playing is deeply expressive, finding a huge variety of tones.... —
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BIS's recording wonderfully captures all the layered sonorities and resonances of Silvestrov's orchestral web, and the Lahti Symphony play as if possessed. —
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[Gander] As in the Ives, technical challenges are formidable but dispatched with stunning ease and equal clarity. It could be that the cartilage connecting these works composed a century apart... —
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Schnittke: Cello Concerto No. 2 & Concerto grosso No. 2
Oleh Krysa (violin), Torleif Thedéen (cello)
Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Lev Markiz
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Rysanov eschews both puritan authenticity and inappropriate Romantic emoting. His phrasing pays due acknowledgement to the suites' dance roots. —
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Marttinen: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 8 and Violin Concerto
Pekka Kauppinen (violin)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
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