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A Summer’s Day: Swedish Romantic Songs
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano) & Bengt Forsberg (piano), with Fredrik Zetterström (baritone)
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The coupling is unique, the programming considered and the project a delightful success. —
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Leo: Cello Concertos Nos. 1-6
Hidemi Suzuki (cello & cello piccolo)
Van Wassenaer Orchestra, Makato Akatsu (violin/director)
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Special offer. Håkan Hardenberger: Both Sides, Now
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet) & Roland Pöntinen (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Kenneth Sillito
Hardenberger is often rhythmically too straitlaced for this material. Still, we can admire his smoky flugelhorn tone and deft high passagework on muted trumpet. And the selection, from My Funny... —
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this new recording is more romantic and rhapsodic...This is music not just for Nordic specialists and should be investigated. —
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Now that it is complete, Wigglesworth's cycle emerges as one of the finest of recent times. —
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He is suitably bubbly in the Champagne waltz even when unable to erase so much relentless charm. But he does too little with music that is often heavily derivative (the ghosts of Chopin and... —
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Katharina Kang Litton’s playing avoids the turbocharged tone of some of today’s more famous soloists in favour of an unexaggerated poise and musicianship that’s a pleasure in its own right...Andrew... —
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This is the final instalment of Andrew Litton’s Prokofiev symphony cycle, one of the most sonically sophisticated in the lists. Only don’t look to Bergen for the raw sonorities associated with... —
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It’s the second half of this disc that surely justifies the epithet ‘Russian spectacular’. I doubt whether you’d hear a more pulsating and brilliantly executed performance of the Lyapunov orchestration... —
