Chandos
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By placing the poignant invocation of 'Mein schöner Stern', emblem-like, at the top of this artfully programmed Schumann recital, Sarah Connolly reveals much of the composer's fervent inwardness... —
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Building a Library, March 2016, Also Recommended
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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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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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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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On display throughout is the quartet's trademark ability to infuse technical perfection and impeccable ensemble with a more volatile improvisatory quality that is only amplified by Dowling's... —
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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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One of the great virtues of the Arcadia Quartet's outstandingly performed Weinberg quartet cycle lies is its imaginative programming. The present release is a good case in point, featuring works... —
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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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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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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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