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Throughout this warmly engineered release, Ogawa sustains a wonderful lightness of touch utilising the pedal very sparingly and ensuring that all textures are crystal-clear. Among the many things... —
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Much of the music in this recital is both technically and musically challenging, yet Sughayer sounds entirely at one with its impassioned eloquence, scorching intensity and coruscating musical... —
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In her informative note, Regina Rapp suggests that Muthel's concertos 'live or die by the subtlety with which they are performed'. Well, they certainly live here. Played on a fine, sonorous... —
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[Shostakovich] Hemsing is as fine in the third movement as the first in progressively ratcheting up the tension before easing down into the cadenza, which in turn grows steadily to a searing... —
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one of the most compelling accounts of the Second Sonata that I've ever heard. In lesser hands, this work's outer movements can so easily sound relentless and even monotonous...Here, however,... —
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Flor's excellent account of Symphony No. 8 stresses its pastoral aspect. Sympathetic interpretations of The Golden Spinning Wheel and the rumbunctious Scherzo capriccioso. —
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Leifs: Edda, Pt. 2, Op. 42 'The Lives of the Gods'
Hanna Dóra Sturludóttir (mezzo-soprano), Elmar Gilbertsson (tenor), Kristinn Sigmundsson (bass)
Schola Cantorum Reykjavík, Hermann Bäumer
The sounds of Iceland’s landscape and folklore make their way into Edda II, the second part of the composer’s mammoth Norse myth-inspired trilogy. Expect a raw lyricism, tectonic force and a... —
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Aho: Concertante Works for Recorder, Saxophone and Accordion
Eero Saunamäki (recorder), Esa Pietilä (tenor saxophone), Janne Valkeajoki (accordion), Saimaa Sinfonietta, Erkki Lasonpalo
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Mozart: Music for the Oboe
Alexeï Ogrintchouk (oboe & direction), with Boris Brovtsyn (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola) & Kristina Blaumane (cello), with Leonid Ogrintchouk (piano)
Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra
Using a modern sound, the orchestra simply establishes a spruce, finely tailored context for the solo line [in the C Major Oboe Concerto]...The playing here is of an equally polished, characterful,... —
