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Verklärte Nacht
RecommendedSchoenberg - Fried - Lehár - Korngold
Christine Rice (mezzo), Stuart Skelton (tenor), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Across the programme Edward Gardner is preternaturally attentive, nailing the volatile blend of schmaltz and suffering that underpins the Lehár; and cloaking the moonbathing opening of the Fried... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st January 2021
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Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 5
Boris Berman (piano) & Horacio Gutierrex (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Berman is incisive in Prokofiev's Concertos Nos 1, 4 and 5, but the highlight of this set is Horacio Gutiérrez's hair-raising playing in Concertos Nos 2 and 3. Terrific orchestral support. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2009, Re-issue of the Month
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Poulenc: Piano Concertos & Aubade
RecommendedLouis Lortie (piano), with Hélène Mercier (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner
[Lortie and Mercier] perform [the Poulenc] with great panache, also capturing the work's more reflective qualities, with Edward Gardner and the BBC Philharmonic providing by turns zestful and... —
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Building a Library, June 2023, Recommended Recording (Piano Concerto in C sharp minor)
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Special offer. Wagner: The Valkyrie
Norman Bailey (Wotan), Rita Hunter (Brünnhilde), Alberto Remedios (Siegmund), Margaret Curphey (Sieglinde), Clifford Grant (Hunding), Ann Howard (Fricka)
English National Opera Orchestra, English National Opera Chorus, Reginald Goodall
Valkyrie: There's something inevitable, even eternal about Goodall's long-breathed, fulltoned, often ideally articulated reading. The ENO management's faith in him was handsomely repaid in his... —
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4 & Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Howard Shelley (piano)
Scottish National Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
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This is pure pleasure...a collection of sparkling gems...The RSNO is on top form, with shimmering strings, colourful woodwind and swaggering brass, full of wit, colour and joie de vivre. The... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2012, Orchestral Choice
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4, etc.
Earl Wild (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jascha Horenstein
Such is the luxuriance of sound revealed in these remasterings, it's difficult to believe the recording date; and such is the quality of the piano playing that it's easy to understand why Chandos... —
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Special offer. Bennett, R R: The Mines of Sulphur
Kristopher Irmiter
Beth Clayton, Brandon Jovanovich, James Maddalena, Stewart Robertsona
Stimulating and disturbing: no cause to regret this issue and everything to celebrate. —
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as their wonderfully vivid performances attest, these are all first-rate pieces deserving a firm place in the repertoire…this is a disc to cherish, —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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Bavouzet establishes his credentials immediately with a gripping account of Horowitz’s ‘edition’ of the Third Sonata, which climaxes in a moto perpetuo finale that the Frenchman somehow manages... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019
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