Capriccio
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It’s no substitute for the original, but it is still a remarkably plausible piece of work...Ivonne Fuchs and tenor Markus Schäfer are very fine, even though like every tenor before him Schäfer... —
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Special offer. Henze: Das Verratene Meer
Josh Lovell (Noboru/Nummer Drei), Vera-Lotte Boecker (Fusako Kuroda), Bo Skovhus (Ryuji Tsukazaki), Erik Van Heyningen (Nummer Eins), Kangmin Justin Kim (Nummer Zwei), Stefan Astakhov (Nummer Vier), Martin Hassler (Nummer Funf), Jorg Schneider (Stimme eines Schiffsmaats), Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper,...
[Young] unleashes the full force of the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, the violence of its outbursts all the more powerful for the tautness of its control. Her focus is ferocious, and she never... —
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Special offer. Schmidt, F: Notre Dame
Hartmut Welker (baritone), Kurt Moll (bass), James King (tenor), Gwyneth Jones (soprano), Hans Helm (baritone), Horst R. Laubenthal (tenor), Andreas Juffinger (organ), Kaja Borris (mezzo-soprano)
RIAS Chamber Chorus, St. Hedwig's Cathedral Choir, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christof Perick
A sumptuous late-Romantic score with exotic gypsy music for Esmeralda. Jones and King sound too mature for young lovers, but the performance is compelling. —
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Tzimon Barto's gothic inflation aims to recreate the spirit of Busoni's opulence rather than his austerity. —
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After grappling with cutting-edge techniques, Doderer seems to have been seduced by Shostakovich and the brand of consonance in vogue on the Baltic fringes of the old Soviet empire...Given the... —
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An intensely expressive account of Suk's Meditation on the Old Czech Chorale makes an ideal still point before the mellifluous outpouring of Dvorak's Quartet. The Signums capture its volatile... —
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Transitions
Cello Concertos by Nikolai Kapustin & Alfred Schnittke
Eckart Runge (cello), Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Frank Strobel
Kapustin’s joyful, American swing was as defiant an expression of individuality as Schnittke’s coruscating late Romanticism...Leaving aside moments of cliché, the intimate interplay between... —
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Special offer. Straus, O: Die Lustigen Nibelungen (The Merry Nibelungs)
Martin Gantner (Gunther), Daphne Evangelatos (Ute), Michael Nowak (Siegfried), Gerd Grochowski (Dankwart), Hein Heidbuchel (Volker), Gabriele Henkel (Giselher), Lisa Griffith (Kriemhild), Josef Otten (Hagen), Gudrun Volkert (Brunhilde), Christine Mann (Vogel)
Kölner Rundfunkchor & WDR Rundfunkorchester...
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Vladigerov: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Vladigerov
Directed by the composer’s son Alexander, the playing of the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony has unfailing energy and flair, with the cinematic scope and immediacy of these 1970s recordings... —
