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Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Gil Shaham (violin), Paul Meyer (clarinet), Jian Wang (cello), Myung-Whun Chung (piano)
This DG recording must take pride of place among its rivals. It is a performance of the highest quality, with a level of concentration and intensity that grips the listener from first to last,... —
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Building a Library, February 2018, Recommended Recording
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Rossini: Le Comte Ory
Juan Diego Flórez (Le Comte Ory), Alastair Miles (Le Gouverneur), Marie-Ange Todorovitch (Isolier), Bruno Praticò (Raimbaud), Stefania Bonfadelli (La Comtesse), Marina De Liso (Ragonde), Rossella Bevacqua (Alice)
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Jésus López Cobos
Jesus Lopez-Cobos, the most skilled of Rossini conductors, even matches in rhythmic lift and comic timing the magic example of Vittorio Gui on the classic Glyndebourne recordings of the 1950s...[Florez... —
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Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Anna Netrebko (Giulietta), Elina Garanca (Romeo), Joseph Calleja (Tebaldo), Robert Gleadow (Lorenzo) & Tiziano Bracci (Capellio)
Wiener Singakademie & Wiener Symphoniker, Fabio Luisi
Garanca is the best reason for cherishing this fine recording. There isn't a lyric mezzo-soprano who can currently hold a candle to the Latvian in this repertoire. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Opera
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Building a Library, March 2007, Also Recommended
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His dexterity is, of course, dazzling, but it is Aimard's range or timbre and colour that impresses most. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2008, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, April 2012, First Choice
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There’s some extraordinary playing on this beautifully recorded disc. The Armenian-born American pianist exhibits a profound empathy for Rachmaninov’s music, revelling in its richness of sonority,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2020, Recording of the Month
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Spring One - Vivaldi Recomposed - The Four Seasons
Max Richter (Keyboards), Daniel Hope (Violin), Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin (Chamber Orchestra)
André de Ridder
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The Vienna Philharmonic features on what was Karajan's last recording, an idiomatic account of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, lighter and more classical in feel than either of his two Berlin recordings... —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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