Champs Hill Records
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Madrigali Dell’Estate
Music for Voice by Stephen McNeff
Clare McCaldin (mezzo-soprano) & Andrew West (piano)
[McCaldin sings] with real commitment and imagination, in lively partnership with the pianist Andrew West... Here are brilliantly backlit cameos of sand and tide, shore and slimy estuary...The... —
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The English Oboe: Rediscovered
James Turnbull (oboe), Matthew Featherstone (flute), Dan Shilladay (viola) & Elizabeth Burgess (piano)
This is a sometimes dizzying tour of the English oboe repertoire, hopping in turn from rural lyricism to hard-edged modernity, but there is no disputing the technical facility of James Turnbull... —
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Shapira: Violin Concertos
Ittai Shapira (violin)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & London Serenata, Neil Thomson & Krzysztof Chorzelski
Shapira should strengthen his reputation as a composer with this CD, a vibrant mixture of post-modern eclecticism with folk-song and neo-Romanticism. —
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These are mostly excellent performances matching sweet string tone with a muscular approach to musical argument. The first movement of the B flat trio coudl have been more expansive, but the... —
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Whereon the Wild Thyme Blows
Fantasies by David W. Bowerman
London Serenata, Sacconi Quartet (string quartet), Bronte Quartet
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The virtuoso performance given Sofia Gubaidulina’s early Chaconne (1962) achieves a terrifying intensity…Gulyak also makes a strong case for the rarely heard Sarabande and Chaconne from Handel’s... —
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Notes from the Asylum
Clare McCaldin (mezzo-soprano), Libby Burgess (piano), Catriona Scott (clarinet)
This is a quite remarkable gathering together of songs that evoke so many emotions. Clare McCaldin shows how she is able to shape and control her voice to draw so much from each song, following... —
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There is some stellar playing on this disc. Daniel Rowland has a powerful, glamorous tone, gleaming at the top and throaty and rugged down at the bottom, and Natacha Kudritskaya matches him... —
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