Harmonia Mundi
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The perfect, and perfectly lovely, unity of Conspirare's choral tone was not entirely welcome. But they're not bland: their care for words and expression guards against that, as does their... —
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Schumann: Spanische Liebeslieder
Marlis Petersen (soprano), Anke Vondung (mezzo soprano), Werner Güra (tenor), Konrad Jarnot (baritone) & Christoph Berner, Camillo Radicke (pianos)
Christoph Berner and Camillo Radicke animate proceedings with rhythmic guile and point, a refined sense of texture, and, in the more obviously "Spanish" numbers, a palpable sense of enjoyment...the... —
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Christopher Gibbons: Motets, anthems, fantasias & voluntaries
Philippa Hyde (soprano), Jacqueline Connell (mezzo-soprano), Charmian Bedford (soprano), Alastair Ross (organ) & Richard Egarr (organ, conductor)
Choir of the AAM & Academy of Ancient Music
We owe Egarr our thanks for this sampler – a selection of gently expressive choral anthems, organ works and instrumental fantasias that establish him as a far-from-negligible precursor of Blow... —
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The instrumental playing under Bertrand Cuiller is supple and vivid, but the real star of the show here is soprano Rachel Redmond: she sings an Akeyrode drinking song with bright swagger and... —
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A richly enjoyable programme of cello-ensemble favourites, highlighted by Julius Engel’s sublime, Richard Strauss-in-overdrive- Hymnus, expertly played by the Cello-Ensemble Peter Buck, meticulously... —
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With Christoph Eschenbach’s imaginatively conceived accompaniments, Matthias Goerne’s burnished legato evoke[s] a darkly Romantic world, despite some very slow tempos and fugitive consonants. —
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Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat
Denis Podalydès (Le Soldat), Michel Vuillermoz (Le Diable), Didier Sandre (Le Lecteur); Orchestre de Paris, Olivier Charlier
It’s superbly acted…Vuillermoz makes a seductive, insidious Devil, though the great performance comes from Denis Podalydès’s beautifully realised Soldier…The playing is dexterous, svelte, at... —
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