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Isserlis finds wonderful, darkly smouldering tone and line for Ravel's Two Melodies (originally for soprano voice) and the three Ernest Bloch pieces. He excels, too, in the busier idiom of Prokofiev's... —
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The performances (set down as long ago as 2005) are uniformly top-notch, with Susanna Mälkki eliciting consistently alert and finely honed results from the Stavanger SO...BIS's sound is excitingly... —
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Von Otter is spectacular, capturing the nuance of her character’s complexities and adapting her performance to suit the regular interplay with the chorus. Fagerlund’s imaginative response to... —
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Sibelius: Kullervo & Kortekangas: Migrations
Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo-soprano) & Tommi Hakala (baritone), Lilli Paasikivi (mezzo-soprano)
Minnesota Orchestra & YL Male Voice Choir, Osmo Vänskä
Osmo Vänska’s Sibelius has always been distinguished by detail, rhythmic precision and poetic luminosity…this new live recording is better throughout, gaining perhaps from more extrovert Minnesota... —
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Mahler: Kindertotenlieder, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen & Rückert-Lieder
Katarina Karnéus (mezzo-soprano)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Susanna Mälkki
Karnéus is delightfully taut of rhythm in 'Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder', which she places first. And the orchestral accompaniment here is painstaking. —
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Ramou navigates her way through these sometimes knotty scores, which she clearly knows inside-out, with consummate musicianship. The piano tone is warm and full although the over-resonant acoustic... —
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[Shui] brings out a remarkable level of detail in the filigree textures of this luminescent score, despite the otherwise wonderful recorded sound occasionally having a slight woolliness…Shui... —
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