Challenge Classics
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How expertly do all these players execute these remarkably adventurous works within the most rigorous principles of good chamber-music playing. Intonation is outstanding...and the personality... —
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On Christmas Night - Ralph Rousseau & Lenny Kuhr
Ralph Rousseau (viola da gamba) & Lenny Kuhr (voice)
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An Die Musik
Famous songs by Franz Schubert
Klaus Mertens (bass/baritone) & Tini Mathot (fortepiano)
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D minor ‘Wagner Symphony'
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
[van Zweden] has trained his orchestra to perform them brilliantly.This is a leading recommendation. —
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the Matangi Quartet's sound contributes more to a series of intelligent, considered interpretations than to a simple striving for self-conscious beauty. Vibrato is used spraingly as an expressive... —
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Schumann & Schubert: Grenzen der Menschheit
CD+BOOK
Johannes Martin Kränzle (baritone), Hilko Dumno (piano), Theresa Kronthaler (mezzo soprano)
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Encouraged by the graceful, animated playing of Koopman’s period band, Yetzabel Arias Fernandez deploys her ‘straight’, slightly mezzo-ish soprano with taste and refinement…[Mertens is] always... —
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Shostakovich & Gubaidulina: Violin Concerto & In tempus praesens
Simone Lamsma (violin)
The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, James Gaffigan, Reinbert de Leeuw
Lamsma is a terrific player, with a beautiful, resilient sound, but at times that beauty is her handicap: she doesn’t do ugly or grim. —
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