Harmonia Mundi
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Bach, J S: Cantata BWV21 'Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis', etc.
Barbara Schlick (soprano). Gérard Lesne (counter-tenor), Howard Crook (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Peter Kooy (bass)
La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe
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The Melos Quartet… seem to have all the answers to these four masterpieces by Schubert —
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Impressive instrumental mastery and good rapport. But both performances are dogged by a recorded balance which places Nakamatsu's forceful piano playing in the foreground, at the expense of... —
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Couperin - Lecons de Tenebres
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Philip Todd (tenor), Raphaël Perulli (viola da gamba), Michel Chapuis (organ)
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As the first concerto unfolds, the sense of period style and panache strike one as absolutely triumphantly right —
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one of the loveliest accounts of Schumann's cycle on disc. [Fink] is outstanding, too, in the beautiful late Lenau settings, and there's supremely musical piano-playing from Vignoles. —
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Sammartini - Sonatas for recorder & bass continuo
Sergio Ciomei (harpsichord & organ), Mauro Valli (cello), Christian Beuse (bassoon), Margret Köll (harp), Eduardo Egüez (theorbo & guitar) & Naoki Kitaya (organ)
Maurice Steger (recorders, direction)
Steger's recorder-playing is by far the finest of any on the discs in this round-up. He is dramatic, caressing, forceful, virtuosic and playful by turns. One could almost call him the Roger... —
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