Chandos
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Liszt - Works for Piano and Orchestra
RecommendedLouis Lortie (piano)
Residentie Orchestra The Hague, George Pehlivanian
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Building a Library, April 2003, First Choice
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he plays a rich-sounding modern instrument, and Chandos supplies its usual feather-bed acoustic. Yet whenever there's a chance to be abrasive, Bavouzet seizes it, and he relishes the opportunities... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Editor's Choice
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Bamert proves a masterly interpreter and takes us convincingly through the symphonic terrain of a highly influential composer....The sound is rich and full to match the outstanding playing. —
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Dvořák: Rusalka, Op. 114
Cheryl Barker (soprano) / Rosario La Spina (tenor) / Bruce Martin (baritone) / Elizabeth Whitehouse (soprano) / Anne-Marie Owens (mezzo-soprano) / Sarah Crane (soprano) / Taryn Fiebig (soprano) / Dominica Matthews (mezzo-soprano) / Barry Ryan (baritone) & Sian Pendry (soprano)
Opera Australia...
Hickox conducts with real theatrical warmth… —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2008, Editor's Choice
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The World Feels Dusty
RecommendedSongs by Barber, Chausson, Copland, Debussy and Wallen
Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
The Chausson is infallibly paced, both musicians instinctively knowing where a phrase is heading and where each moment of intensity lands. The orchestrally conceived piano writing shimmers,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Bridge: Orchestral Works, Volumes 1-6
The Collector's Edition
Howard Shelley (piano), Alban Gerhardt (cello), Roderick Williams (baritone), Philip Langridge (tenor), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Richard Hickox
Listening to this comprehensive Chandos set, Bridge’s position as a shadowy transitional figure comes into sharper focus, the early Edwardiana yielding to a much more sharply defined mature... —
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Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits & 5 Variants of 'Dives & Lazarus'
Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
First heard at the 1936 Norwich Festival, Vaughan Williams's Five Tudor Portraits find the composer at his most dazzlingly inventive, the resourceful and witty writing fitting Skelton's words... —
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Though horns are rather distant, CD sound is clean and bright in this live performance of a most welcome addition to the repertoire. —
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A splendid collection of overtures and concertos by this unjustly neglected composer. Sparkling strings, punchy horns. With four premiere recordings, this is essential listening. —
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Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91
Ekaterina Morozova (Natasha Rostova), Roderick Williams (Andrei Bolkonsky), Justin Lavender (Pierre Bezukhov), Oleg Balashov (Anatol Kuragin), Pamela Helen Stephen (Sonya), Catherine Pierard (Maria Bolkonsky/Vassilissa), Igor Matioukhin (Dolokhov), Elena Ionova (Helena Bezukhova), Alan Ewing (Marshal...
Ekaterina Morozova is a moving Natasha. Slavonic in timbre, weighty but still girlsih enough, with an edge to the voice that rarely turns squally...Roderick Willians is a fresh, virile Andrei,... —
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