Chandos
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Trio Gaspard has a chameleon-like ability to adapt to the widely varying styles of each composer: Mendelssohn’s stately poise, Juon’s passionate mysticism, and Skalkottas’s spikiness. If future... —
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Krzysztof Meisinger: The Spanish Album
Krzysztof Meisinger (guitar), Patrycja Betley (percussion), Meisinger Soloists
Whether fizzing along in, say, Boccherini’s Guitar Quintet or beguiling in the dreamy, folky El noy de la mare, guitarist Krzysztof Meisinger and his string quintet plus percussionist Patrycja... —
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These performances by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Rumon Gamba, who have many a cinematic credit to their name, carry the conviction of an original soundtrack recording in state-of-the-art... —
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Brahms & Contemporaries, Vol. 2
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 & Héritte-Viardot: Piano Quartet No. 1 'Im Sommer'
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
If you like your Brahms Third Quartet rich, dark and wide, then you might not make immediate friends with this one, but I’ve appreciated its lighter, lucid, nervily choppy angst...So an instantly... —
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These are performances that take you inside the music, so that it’s almost possible to hear them with a performer’s ear and experience the delight as the notes leap off the page and into life... —
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Berio: Orchestral realisations of Schubert, Brahms & Mahler
Michael Collins (clarinet), Roderick Williams (baritone)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
[Berio's] versions of the Mahler songs are straightforward and affectionately sung by Roderick Williams...Berio himself looms larger in Rendering...The sound of the celesta, alien to Schubert,... —
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Special offer. John Field: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Míceál O'Rourke (piano)
London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert
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Jeremy Denk (piano) (premiere recording), Paul Watkins (cello)
Russian Philharmonic Orchestra (premiere recording), Thomas Sanderling
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Seventy-seven minutes of British music for flute and piano might at first glance seem like 40 minutes too much. But that ’s without taking on board the nimble and dazzling skills of flautist... —
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She brings out the dance elements that almost always lurk in the background of the Catalonian composer’s writing , whether originating in folk music or jazz, and performs with a sincerity, spaciousness,... —
