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Tarik O'Regan - Threshold of Night
Music for Voices & Strings
Company of Voices & Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson
It's difficult to describe O'Regan's music without recourse to smiles based on light. His writing for the upper voices, especially, shimmers and shines, often suggesting outpourings of celestial... —
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Bach: Dialogue Cantatas, BWV 32, 49 & 57
Sophie Karthäuser (soprano), Michael Volle (bass)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Members of RIAS Kammerchor, Raphael Alpermann
Alpermann’s alert yet instinctively unfussy direction knows how to take corners with a suavity that gladdens…He also shines in the organ enriched Sinfonia to BWV 49 whose buoyant jubilation... —
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Brahms: Clarinet Sonatas
Lorenzo Coppola (clarinet in B flat after Bärmann Ottensteiner, by Schwenk & Seggelke, Bamberg, 2001) & Andreas Staier (Steinway & Sons piano, New York, 1875)
The two instruments blend so well that clarinet phrases can sometimes seem to emerge from the piano timbre and dissolve back into it again…the restless changefulness in colour and mood that... —
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Olivier Greif: Sonate de Requiem & Trio pour piano, violon & violoncelle
Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello), Pascal Amoyel (piano), Pascal Amoyel (piano) & Antje Weithaas (violin)
Greif creates a profoundly intense yet distinctive sound world in these two finely crafted and compelling works. Superbly committed playing. —
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Low pitch, chest voice performances shorn of ethereal trappings from Marcel Peres’s seven female singers. For those of an ascetic disposition. —
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Christiane Oelze (soprano) & Gerald Finley (baritone)
La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs Élysées, Philippe Herreweghe
Herreweghe's innate sense of Brahms's musical lines is evident everywhere as he sculpts this works. Herreweghe's combined choirs respond magnificently to his direction —
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