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Montsalvatge: Orchestral Works
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
The BBC Philharmonic are in excellent form throughout, well marshalled by Mena, they and Montsalvatge's often spare, quiet textures captured in typically rich Chandos sound. A very enjoyable... —
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The first notes tell you that you are listening to a class act: the Schubert Ensemble have only had a few changes in the line-up in over 30 years, and there’s complete unanimity of intent. Intonation... —
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French Music For the Stage
Auber - Boieldieu - Delibes - Massenet - Thomas
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
[The performance] displays the splendid conjunction of subtlety and élan we have come to expect from these performers…Delibes’s incidental music to Le Roi s’amuse, with its passing modal inflections... —
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Johan Svendsen: Orchestral Works Volume 3
Marianne Thorsen (violin)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Järvi and his Bergen players sound most happy together, playing with a fluency suggestive of more joint live performances than they could pssobly have had. The engineering supports them at... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Janice Watson (Fiordiligi), Diana Montague (Dorabella), Lesley Garrett (Despina), Toby Spence (Ferrando), Christopher Maltman (Guglielmo), Sir Thomas Allen (Don Alfonso); Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Sir Charles Mackerras
This is an account of Così which seems to put momentum first. The opening chord, more ferocious than one would expect, gives way to a rattling overture, and tension and pace never let up. —
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The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective are renowned for their eagerness when it comes to expanding the repertoire… moments of striking beauty and its high-spirited virtuosity, along with its canny... —
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Holst: The Cloud Messenger, A Choral Fantasia, 7 Partsongs & other choral works
Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Susanna Spicer (alto), Mark Milhofer (tenor), Patricia Rozario (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Finzi Singers, Joyful Company of Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox, Paul Spicer
The Cloud Messenger is a 43-minute work of considerableimaginative power. Before its previoussingle-issue release it had been virtually forgottensince its disastrous premiere under Holst'sbaton... —
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Grażyna Bacewicz: Violin Concertos, Volume 2
Joanna Kurkowicz (violin)
Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Łukasz Borowicz
what impresses most, throughout, is Bacewicz's continual inventiveness: she displays vital rhythmic energy in her fast movements and penetrating expressiveness in the slow ones...Anyone who... —
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