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The Eschers offer eloquent, full-blooded playing, with spacious tempos, earthy rhythms and rich, dug-in sound. Nothing is rushed or skittered over - and this is notably rewarding in music where... —
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Mozart: Clarinet Concerto & Clarinet Quintet
Martin Fröst (basset clarinet & clarinet)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Veratvo String Quartet, Peter Oundjian
Better recorded performances of these towering masterpieces may exist, but I have never heard them. In their technical proficiency, style consciousness and broad, yet never exaggerated emotional... —
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Handel - Great Oratorio Duets
Carolyn Sampson (soprano) & Robin Blaze (counter-tenor)
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Nicholas Kraemer
The duets selected here… form an attractive programme, especially when the two voices are as well blended and as perfectly in tune as Carolyn Sampson's and Robin Blaze's. …whether the mood... —
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Fauré & Duruflé: Requiems
Miah Persson (soprano), Malena Ernman (mezzo-soprano), Olle Persson (baritone), Mattias Wager (organ)
Swedish Radio Choir, Fredrik Malmberg
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Sibelius - Songs of the Earth
Helena Juntunen (soprano) & Juha Hostikka (baritone)
Dominate Choir & Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
BIS continues its exploration of Sibelius's complete works and in this issue brings us some music that will be new even to dedicated Sibelians. Osmo Vänskä gets excellent results from the Lahti... —
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Baroque
A collection of pieces taken from the heyday of the concerto grosso.
Dan Laurin (recorder), Mogens Rasmussen (viola da gamba), Fredrik Bock (baroque guitar & theorbo), Leif Meyer (harpsichord & organ)
Sirena Recorder Quartet
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Jean-Jacques Kantorow, one of today's most individual players, has the measure of Lalo's Sarasate-inspired violin-writing - he's able to toss off the virtuoso passagework in a seemingly effortless... —
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Vadim Gluzman plays Barber, Bernstein & Bloch
Vadim Gluzman (violin)
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, John Neschling
Gluzman is at his very finest in the Bloch, soaring aloft with a heart-warming intensity that captures the music's melodic plangency to perfection. —
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Nisbeth’s tone isn’t especially lush or velvety but it’s endlessly nuanced, and Forsberg, too, commands an enormously subtle tonal palette…Fresh, thoughtful perspectives on some ravishing –... —
