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The playing is superb, capturing the most delicate hues and gentlest whispers of the score, and the immaculate recording provides the inky blackness from which the music emerges and into which,... —
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Much of Silvestrov's music since the mid-1970s has been a requiem in all but name – a rite of regret and consolation for music and for the hopes and dreams of modern consciousness. So it's no... —
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Rolf Lislevand - Nuove Musiche
Rolf Lislevand (lute, guitar, theorbo), Arianna Savall (harp, voice), Pedro Estevan (percussion), Bjørn Kjellemyr (colascione, double bass), Guido Morini (organ, clavichord), Marco Ambrosini (nyckelharpa) & Thor Harald Johnson (chitarra battente)
Rolf Lislevand and friends embark on an elaboration of Baroque forms such as the passacaglia and toccata while incorporating more modern styles that seems to grow naturally out of the nature... —
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The overall feel of their collection is duly nocturnal, with gentler songs and rippling accompaniments providing a gentle listen. Then there’s a haunting ‘Der Leiermann’, the cello breaking... —
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There’s a special feeling of intimacy and mutual understanding in Yuuko Shiokawa and András Schiff’s music-making – not surprising given they’re also life partners – that makes their relatively... —
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Schoeck: Notturno - Fünf Sätze für Streichquartett und eine Singt imme, Op. 47
Christian Gerharer (baritone)
Rosamunde Quartet
The work was championed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - and he could hardly wish for a better successor here than Christian Gerhaher: gentler, more intimate and less magisterial than Fischer-Dieskau,... —
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Kurtág: Signs, Games And Messages
Kurt Widmer, Mircea Ardeleanu, Heinrich Huber, David LeClair, Ken Hakii
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Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Steve Reich (piano), Shem Guibbory (violin), Ken Ishii (cello), Elizabeth Arnold (voice), Rebecca Armstrong (voice), Nurit Tilles (piano), Larry Karush (piano), Gary Schall (marimba), Bob Becker (marimba), Russ Hartenberger (marimba), James Preiss (piano), Steve Chambers (piano), David Van Tieghem...
All Reich's experiments came together in this tour de force of ultra-disciplined bliss...You can feel the sheer force of the composer driving this performance of almost superhuman finesse; every... —
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Tigran Mansurian: Con Anima - Chamber Music
Boris Allakhverdyan (clarinet), Michael Kaufman (cello), Steven Vanhauwaert (piano), Varty Manouelian (violin), Kim Kashkashian (viola), Tatevik Mokatsian (piano), Karen Ouzounian (cello), Movses Pogossian (violin), Teng Li (viola)
