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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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Kalevi Aho: Chamber Music
Samuli Peltonen (cello), Sonja Fräki (piano), Jaakko Kuusisto (violin), Pekka Kuusisto (violin)
The works here find him in various states of mind but mostly diligence and distress. The two pieces written to mourn fellow musicians are, in fact, the best. Lamento was created for the funeral... —
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The keyboard sonatas of Pietro Domenico Paradisi are robust, inventive works, first published in London in 1754. Anna Paradiso misses not a whit of the interest the Neapolitan composer embedded... —
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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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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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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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Masaaki Suzuki plays Buxtehude
Masaaki Suzuki (playing the Klapmeyer Organ of St Nicolai Church, Altenbruch)
on the Wilde-Schnitger Organ of St Jacobi Church, Lüdingworth
Suzuki strikes a perfect accord between an expressively singing solo line and its fastidiously-shaped accompaniment. —
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The Helsinki choir produces a radiant sound throughout, grittier on the late Hommage à Béla Bartók, fresh and full-chested on the 1973 folk-song settings, profoundly dramatic on the de rigueur... —
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