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Sally Beamish - Bridging the Day
Works for Cello & Piano
Robert Irving (cello), Sally Beamish (piano)
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MacMillan: Cello Concerto & The World's Ransoming
Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Christine Pendrill (cor anglais)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
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…strong and intelligent performances… While there is much more to Opus California than a whimsical collage, Beamish's 'sampling' of ideas from Op, 18 No. 4, also pays tribute to Beethoven's... —
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Christopher Simpson: Ayres & Graces
Dan Tidhar (chamber organ / harpsichord) & James Akers (theorbo / baroque guitar)
Chelys Consort of Viols
Chelys pace the Ayres beautifully (the galliards are lilting, the aires tuneful) and ornament the repeats...Woven into the 'Ayres & Graces' are dialogues and antiphony, countermelodies, cascading... —
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Sibelius - Snöfrid
Cantatas and Orchestral Works
Stina Ekblad (narrator)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Jubilate Choir, Osmo Vänskä
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Handel: Messiah
Midori Suzuki (soprano), Yoshikazu Mera (alto), John Elwes (tenor/narrator), David Thomas (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
With his excellent Japanese singers and players, Masaaki Suzuki here excels himself. His crisp, sharp manner goes with transparent textures and sprung rhythms, and though modest forces are used... —
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Guitarra mia - Tango
Original compositions and transcriptions for guitar of music by Carlos Gardel and Astor Piazzólla
Franz Halasz (guitar)
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Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 & Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)
Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui
Subdin, clearly on top form, treats Rachmaninov's variations like a set of diabolical virtuoso etudes, displaying transcendental virtuosity and kaleidoscopic keyboard colour. Sudbin nevertheless... —
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Bach - Secular Cantatas II
Sophie Junker (soprano I), Joanne Lunn (soprano II), Makoto Sakurada (tenor) & Roderick Williams (baritone), Damien Guillon (alto), Makoto Sakurada (tenor)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Sophie Junker is a personable Diana to tenor Makoto Sakurada's youthfully lyrical Endymion. Best of all if baritone Roderick Williams's Pan who renders the outrageous toadying distinctly palatable.... —
