Challenge Classics
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Lucia Aliberti: Early Verdi Arias
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Lucia Aliberti (soprano)
Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Milan, Oleg Caetani
[there is] such a strong sense of expressive integration that one can think Aliberti isn't taking some of the cadenzas - not true - because she delivers expressive elements and vocal fireworks... —
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos 3 & 4
Nicolai Lugansky (piano)
State Academy Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Shpiller
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Larsson's characterisations of these early-period works have a more fragile humanity, with pockets of psychological detail missed by others, often conveyed with a confiding intimacy that might... —
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 in G minor, Op. 135
Gal James (soprano) & Thomas Oliemans (bass)
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Gordan Nikolic
[Oliemans's] intelligence and insight trump authenticity in most instances...But it is the piece itself that unfailingly makes the most indelible impression and Gordan Nikolitch leads from the... —
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Mozart: Gran Partita
Vinciane Baudhuin (oboe), Annelies Decock (violin), Mika Akiha (viola), Ronan Kernoa (cello), Ewald Demeyere (fortepiano)
Quatuor Dialogues
Quatuor Dialoguees and the fortepianist Ewald Demeyere make a decent case for the arrangement…[and] there’s some touching extempore ornamentation throughout —
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