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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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A disc of chamber rarities showcasing Puccini's lighter side. —
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The Transcendental Etudes are… well varied, continuously diverting and inventive; and in movements like No. 18, they rise to great and gorgeous piano music. Ullén… expounds Sorabji's with utter... —
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Grieg - Orchestral Songs
Solveig Kringelborn (soprano), Ingebjørg Kosmo (mezzo-soprano), Trond Halstein Moe (baritone) & Marita Solberg (soprano)
Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Kor Vest (Bergen Vocal Ensemble), Voci nobili & Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud
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Gruber - Zeitstimmung
Martin Grubinger (percussion) & HK Gruber (chansonnier)
Tonkünstler Orchestra, Kristjan Järvi
Gruber performs the Artmann settings himself, in a fruitily rhetorical way that evokes the Viennese cabaret of the pre-war era… Martin Grubinger's performance of the percussion concerto is... —
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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,... —
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Why don't today's pianists jump on this repertoire as a matter of course?...The judiciously reverberant sound and the large-sized clavichords that Spanyi favours illuminate the composer's carefully... —
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Mozart: Requiem & Vesperae solennes de confessore
Carolyn Sampson, Marianne Beate Kielland, Makato Sakurada, Christian Immler
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaki Suzuki
The performance is notable for its super-clean orchestral edges and refinement. —
