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Verdi: Requiem
Michèle Crider (soprano), Markella Hatziano (mezzo-soprano), Gabriel Sadé (tenor), Robert Lloyd (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Richard Hickox
[Hickox's] pacing flows more freely than has become the rule in latterday performances, yet there is never a feeling of haste, simply of heightened intensity when his control of rubato and phrase... —
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This is attractive music and the BBC Philharmonic under Noseda are strong advocates. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Editor's Choice
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'Too good to be left only to organists' is how Richard Boothby cheekily describes Bach's six delightful 'organ trios', in which the organist's two hands play one of the upper lines each, while... —
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Building a Library, July 2003, Ensemble Choice
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Arriaga: Symphony & Herminie
and Other Works
Berit Norbakken Solset (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
Elements in Arriaga’s sole symphony might smack too much of the Conservatoire, but tread throughout are airy pleasures, Spanish sunshine, and unexpected harmonic kicks…There are further delights... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019
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All is performed with that same customary blend of high octane virtuosity, relaxed lyricism, tonal richness and perfection of ensemble which has made the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet not merely... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2017, Editor's Choice
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All these pieces… are vividly performed by the London Mozart Players, while pianist Howard Shelley throws off Hummel's copious cascade of notes with appropriate panache. —
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This is a superb disc. There have been distinguished collections of Smetana's symphonic poems but none quite to compare with this in excitement, richness of detail and, in the case of Wallenstein's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Editor's Choice
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Mozart: The Piano Quartets
Francesca Dego (violin), Timothy Ridout (viola), Laura van der Heijden (cello), Federico Colli (piano)
All four musicians here are star soloists in their own rights, but there's no sense of jostling egos in these warmly collegiate performances - just the sense of ideas being exchanged in the... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2023
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Salome
RecommendedSusan Bullock (Salome), John Wegner (Jokanaan), Sally Burgess (Herodias), John Graham Hall (Herod Antipas), Andrew Rees (Narraboth), Rebecca de Pont Davies (Page)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
…Bullock underlines the increasing insistence of Salome's demand for John's head… and keeps the meaning clear even when riding the orchestra in her love-death. If it were only for the orchestra... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th October 2008
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