Chandos
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The Sorrel Quartet can claim a significant 'first' in its account of the recently resurrected F major Quartet from 1928. At 15 Britten was nothing if not precocious, and although the ideas in... —
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Building a Library, October 2003, First Choice
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Paul Ben-Haim: Music of Israel
Symphony No. 1, Pastorale variée & Pan
Claudia Barainsky (soprano), John Bradbury (clarinet), BBC Philharmonic, Omer Meir Wellber
Despite obvious differences in emphasis throughout the programme, the composer’s armoury remains remarkably consistent, not least in demonstrating his superb feeling for instrumental colour...The... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, Orchestral Choice
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The Manchester Camerata under Gábor Takács-Nagy deliver blisteringly energetic articulation…Bavouzet and Takács-Nagy relish Mozart’s wicked touches of humour…[in the Quintet] once again, Bavouzet,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, Concerto Choice
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Storgårds in Manchester gives an appropriately humanised interpretation, set on a wide sound stage that is one of Chandos’s natural best. The cinematic opening twitches with inner life, all... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Noseda brings out the best in the whole orchestra in the Symphony and Bianca —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2004, Editor's Choice
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What a fine composer Mieczyspaw Karpowicz might have become, had he not died at the age of 32 in an avalanche in the Tatra mountains. He had already produced a clutch of symphonic poems in a... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2002, Disc of the Month
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Haydn: Choral Music
Nancy Argenta (soprano), Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox
Few other conductors on disc convey so happily the drama, symphonic power and spiritual exhilaration of these glorious works than Richard Hickox. He's fully alive to the ominous unease that... —
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Schumann: Myrthen and other songs
RecommendedJoan Rodgers (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)
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Building a Library, April 2013, First Choice
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Reger: Psalm 100, Op.106, etc.
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Valeri Polyansky
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2002, Editor's Choice
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