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Special offer. Alan Gilbert conducts Christopher Rouse
Sharon Bezaly (flute)
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Alan Gilbert
Sharon Bezaly is a superb soloist, finding a more intimate quality of lyricism…” —
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Ravel: Dances and Fairy Tales
Joint Venture Percussion Duo: Rachel Xi Zhang (marimba) & Laurent Warnier (marimba & vibraphone)
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Sofia Gubaidulina: Repentance
Jacob Kellermann (guitar), Lucas Brar (guitar), Franz Halász (guitar), Hariolf Schlichtig (viola), Wen-Sinn Yang (cello), Philipp Stubenrauch (double bass), Débora Halász (piano)
Gubaidulina shows how viable the post-Shostakovich explosion of Russian compositional activity has remained...this release is a must for its substantial additions to the still-expanding Gubaidulina... —
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Claude & Odile Delangle perform Philippe Leroux
Claude Delangle (soprano saxophone), Odile Catelin-Delangle (piano)
I enjoyed everything about this CD: the ever interesting and evocative music, the Delangles’ stellar performances that the composer must surely consider definitive, the well-recorded sonics... —
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It seems that the enfant terrible Prokofiev, and his ‘Toccata-ness’ (as Russians like to put it) in particular, are still a great fit for
Kempf’s temperament, because he relishes the exuberance... — -
The sound itself is very natural and the piano is captured with admirable warmth, but the strings, and especially the violin, are just a shade too distant. —
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Meditatio: Music for Mixed Choir
Rakel Edda Guðmundsdóttir (soprano), Ragnheiður Sara Grímsdóttir (soprano), Thelma Hrönn Sigurdórsdóttir (soprano), Kirstín Erna Blöndal (soprano), Jóhanna Ósk Valsdóttir (alto), Helgi Steinar Helgason (tenor), Fjölnir Ólafsson (bass)
Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Hörður Áskelsson
The singers have a distinctive timbre, with strength held in reserve in almost every item —
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Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas
Sonatas 1 - 4
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Martin Helmchen (piano)
How elegantly unforced these works come over today. Zimmermann’s sound is light, flexible, and finely shaded, with Martin Helmchen delivering effortless virtuosity. The opening of the First... —
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Nielsen - Concertos
Dong-Suk Kang (violin), Patrick Gallois (flute), Olle Schill (clarinet)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung
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This is masterly playing of music full of challenges and pitfalls, lucidly argued and often poetically felt. —
