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Great Operatic Arias 18 - Jennifer Larmore
Sung in English
Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano), Susan Patterson (Gioconda), Colin Lee (Fernando), Ffleur Wyn (Ines), Susan Patterson (Norma)
Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry
Versatility is the key to mezzo Jennifer Larmore's success in this English-language programme, as it is in the opera house. …when one hears her in the waltz-song from Gounod's Romeo and Juliet,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, Opera Choice
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The mellifluous way Reger interweaves the dialogue between clarinet and piano is typically Brahmsian…Throughout all the performances, Collins shapes Reger’s long-breathed melodic lines with... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, Chamber Choice
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Nimrod Borenstein: Violin Concerto
Irmina Trynkos (violin)
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy
There are moments when the ghosts of Prokofiev (the Second Concerto, especially), Khachaturian and Walton pass fleetingly over the music’s swirling, colourful textures, yet the overriding sensation... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Concerto Choice
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there's some attractive lighter music at the ballet's core: Jarvi, his woodwind - first flute especially - and solo strings make the most of it. Some of the somberness with which Potiphar's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th June 2013
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Whatever the inspirations, these players are alive to them, just as they are alert to the technical demands lurking around every corner. These Arcadians also find haunting desolation. —
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Record Review, 8th December 2018, Disc of the Week
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Otaka: Fantasy for Organ & Orchestra, etc.
Bryan Ashley (organ)
Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka
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Dove: Tobias and the Angel
Omar Ebrahim (baritone), Hyacinth Nicholls (mezzo-soprano), Darren Abrahams (tenor), James Laing (counter-tenor), Kevin West (tenor), Maureen Brathwaite (soprano), Karina Lucas (mezzo-soprano) & Rodney Clarke (baritone)
The Young Vic, David Charles Abell
...the vocal style is in Dove's recognisable voice and listener-friendly mode...fluent and memorably lyrical. As a musical dramatist, one of Dove's strengths is that he knows when to let the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Editor's Choice
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McEwen: A Solway Symphony, Hills o'Heather & Where the Wild Thyme Blows
Moray Welsh (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Alasdair Mitchell
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2001, Editor's Choice
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Telemann: Sinfonia TWV 50:1 in G major 'Grillen-Symphonie', etc.
Anthony Halstead, Christian Rutherford, Raul Diaz (horns), Simon Standage (violin)
Collegium Musicum 90
This release shows Telemann at his most irrepressibly good-humoured and imaginative.
There's a concerto for three rattling horns and a solo violin (a splendid sound, with the horns recorded... —
