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Japanese Love Songs
Marie Kobayash (mezzo-soprano), Claude Delangle (saxophone) & Jean Geoffroy (percussion)
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… a fine recital, and the most impressive instalment so far in Brautigam's Beethoven cycle. The warm-sounding reproduction Graf piano from around 1819 has been very well recorded. —
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This is very fine Weiss-playing indeed, Lindberg capturing the melancholy grandeur, as well as the sheer strangeness, of the Tombeau while astutely assessing the tonal contrasts (in a light/dark... —
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…Well heard though everything is, and satisfying though the tempi and their relationships to each other always are, I miss an element of volatility here, a romantic temperament wrestling with... —
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The Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, led expertly by Simon Standage, play crisply and neatly: amiable horns and oboes chuckle in all the right places, the oboe-and-bassoon trios are moderately playful,... —
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C P E Bach - Complete Keyboard Concertos, Volume 19
Miklós Spányi (harpsichord/fortepiano)
Concerto Armonico
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London Baroque's trio sonata tour revisits Germany. Breewzy Graun and suave Telemann complement more modern specimens by the Bach brothers. Stylish playing, ravishingly recorded. —
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Throughout, Schnelzer is revealed as an expert orchestrator with a thoughtful and appealing mindset. Perhaps a slightly more reckless approach might be of benefit to his music in future; for... —
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Jugendstil Songs 1898-1916
Korngold - Berg - Mahler
Camilla Tilling (soprano), Paul Rivinius (piano), Nicola Birkhan (violin)
Tilling is on ravishing form in this beautifully paced album of Romantic and Expressionist songs; the balance between Tilling and Paul Ravinius’s sensitive playing is nigh-on perfect. —
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Lindberg’s passagework and articulation are completely controlled, and his ability to balance the sound across the instrument and its range is impressive...the recorded sound is warm and natural,... —
