Challenge Classics
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Brahms: Serenade No. 1 & Variations on a Theme by Haydn
The Hague Philharmonic, Jan Willem de Vriend
De Vriend emphasises the music’s rusticity while maintaining a tight grip on orchestral detail – an odd balance of exuberance and sobriety that, at its best, evokes a peasant scene by Bruegel.... —
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[Yarden] responds to each with great characterfulness…every sonata seems to spring a surprise, not just musically but compositionally…Yarden clearly has much to say in this repertoire, and she’s... —
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[this] has many fine qualities even if the poised, somewhat cautious music-making eschews Soviet-era rawness…Gaffigan prefers soft-focus glowering, emphasising instead the music’s contemplative,... —
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De Filippi’s warmth and muscle create their own pleasures, for instance the passionate bite with which he opens No. 12’s Moderato. His ornamentations, sparingly inserted, are also executed with... —
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All three works, recorded in the presence of the composer, are projected with almost graphic immediacy by the Navarra Quartet who deliver compelling performances captured here in extremely vivid... —
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Stylems - Italian Music From The ‘Trecento’
Alexandre Danilevski (medieval lutes, colichon, fiddle, checker (clavichord), portative organ)
Ensemble Syntagma
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