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Poeme: Franck/Ysaye: Duos for Violin and Piano
Lisa Jacobs (violin), with Ksenia Kouzmenko (piano), with Gunar Letzbor (piano)
Franck's and Ysaye's chromatically intensified sound-worlds possess an aching sensual allure in Jacobs's deeply felt, beguiningly phrased readings. —
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Toth's approach...is fresh and thoughtful. Her realization of the subtlest of Bartok's infinitely varied indications of touch and tempo are almost always persuasive...[her] perceptive interpretations... —
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NedSym Lite: Crossroads
Robert Windak (1st violin), Annemarie van Viegen (2nd violin), Eva Suslikova (viola), Sebastiaan van Halsema (cello), Tim Nobel (double bass & artistic direction), Don Hofstee (guitar), Arthur Kerklaan (fluegelhorn), Bart van Grinsven (drums), Rob van Bavel (piano) & Carel Kraayenhof (bandoneón)
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The Pavans are played on virginals, the rest on harpsichord. The right decision, but Demeyere hits a bad snag in a closely miked recording that masks the differences in timbre between the instruments.... —
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MacMillan Series Volume 1: Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
Gordan Nikolić (violin), Colin Currie (percussion)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, James MacMillan
MacMillan's is a strikingly expansive view of his own piece, textures lightened, with a feeling of chamber music-making in many places...It's an absorbing spiritual rendition, and I prefer it... —
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Mozart: La Betulia liberata, K118
Christian Zenker (Ozia), Margot Oitzinger (Giuditta), Marelize Gerber (Amital), Markus Volpert (Achior), Elisabeth Breuer (Cabri & Carmi)
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg
L'Orfeo Barockorchester play with an attractive thrust and graininess, with solos well taken and horns ringing out gloriously...a vivid and dramatic snapshot of this stage in the wunderkind's... —
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Luther’s Wedding Day
Cécile Kempenaers (soprano), José Pizarro (tenor), Matthias Gerchen (bass)
Capella de la Torre, Katharina Bäuml
Taking us through processional and service to the subsequent celebratory dances with an appealing blend of three-part vocal polyphony and arrangements of sackbut, organ, shawm and dulcian, its... —
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Raaff: Melodies Unheard
Sophia Burgos (soprano)
Raschèr Saxophone Quartet, Radiokamer Filharmonie, Doelen Ensemble, Orchestre de Picardie, Het Gelders Orkest, Emilio Pomárico, Arie van Beek, Antonello Manacorda
