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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Serenade & Arensky: Chamber Symphony
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson
The recorded sound has a wonderful bloom which matches that of these exceptional performances. —
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The Ragazze Quartet...[favour] keen inflections, luminous textures (especially in the first movement [of the Dvorak] and a consistent sense of mobility...Their biggest strength is an added quota... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Symphony No. 29
Sepp Grotenhuis (piano), Ellen Corver (piano)
Amsterdam Mozart Players, Juergen Kussmaul
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Special offer. Widerkehr: The Duosonatas
Bart Schneemann (classical oboe), Paolo Giacometti (pianoforte)
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Special offer. JS Bach: Magnificat
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Johannette Zomer (soprano), William Towers (alto), Charles Daniels (tenor) & Stephan MacLeod (bass)
The Netherlands Bach Society, Jos van Veldhoven
Veldhoven adopts a comfortable tempo with somewhat laid-back articulation for the resplendent opening and concluding choruses —
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Special offer. Pergolesi - Stabat Mater
Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano) & Robin Blaze (countertenor), Ashley Solomon (flute), Jennifer Morsches (cello), Robin Blaze (countertenor)
Florilegium
Both singers are intensely sensitive in the six descriptive and six pleadingly prayerful verses of the Stabat Mater. They have no inhibitions about Pergolesi's operatic roots...Blaze displays... —
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Special offer. Britten: Works for voice & string orchestra
Barbara Hannigan (soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor) & Jasper de Waal (horn)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson (artistic director)
Hannigan brings a fined-down intensity to the more hushed Rimbaud settings such as 'Being Beauteous', but elsewhere her tone tends to flutter under pressure...Gilchrist, by contrast, sounds... —
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Special offer. Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No. 2
Dejan Lazic (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Petrenko
…Lazic's bland treatment of the famous opening bars… belies the character of the rest of the performance: the build to the first movement's climax is impressively handled… and the second and... —
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Special offer. Mozart - Complete Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin, Volume 5
Rachel Podger (violin) & Gary Cooper (fortepiano)
Rachel Podger and Gary Cooper give characteristically intelligent and insightful performances of all these pieces, with Cooper offering occasional discreet and imaginative embellishment of the... —
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