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Handel: Solomon
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Susan Gritton (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor) & David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
RIAS Kammerchor & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Daniel Reuss
…sleek playing from the Berlin period instrument players, though the choir sounds too slim-line for the big moments. As Zadok, Mark Padmore moves around most of the notes with skill. Sarah... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2007, Editor's Choice
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Goerne's renowned breath control … creates the hushed legato which is his hallmarl. This comes into its own in the Mayrhofer and Leitner settings, creating the mesmeric lilt of water and of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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Schubert: Schwanengesang, D957
RecommendedWerner Güra (tenor) & Christoph Berner (piano Ehrbar c.1877-8)
The tenor, Werner Güra, partnered ideally by Christoph Berner, sings the familiar Staendchen as if it had just been discovered., all charm and freshness, and there is a similar effortlessness... —
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Building A Library, February 2019, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, October 2005, Period Instrument Choice
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Telemann - Suites & Concertos for recorder & orchestra
RecommendedMaurice Steger (treble recorder)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Steger's playing is astonishing, and the generally swift tempos adopted seem merely a spur to inventive phrasing and articulation. Steger is capable of not only lightning passagework but also... —
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Building a Library, June 2017, First Choice
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
RecommendedBernarda Fink (Orfeo) Veronica Cangemi (Euridice), Maria Cristina Kiehr (Amor)
Freiburger Barockorchester & Rias Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Jacobs conducts an urgent, pungently characterised performance —
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Building a Library, March 2003, First Choice
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Pécou - Symphonie du jaguar & Vague de Pierre
Ensemble Zellig & Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, François-Xavier Roth, Jonathan Stockhammer
Pécou serves up a meta-collage...The voices intone and chatter, and Pécou nudges his instrumental soloists away from cosy classical politeness with resourceful extended techniques. —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2010, Winner - Musique Contemporaine
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Güra …deserves a place among the elite….it is the only one by a tenor recommendable at present. —
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Building a Library, June 2010, Featured
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Falla: Noches en los jardines de Espana
Recorded at the Barbican, January 2011
Javier Perianes (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons
In the Nights in the Gardens of Spain...both pianist and orchestra revel in its colouristic opportunities. Perianes employs the subtlest of rubatos here, teasing us with little delays and hurry-ups... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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A Royal Trio: Bononcini, Ariosti, Handel
Arias & Scenes
Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor)
La Nuova Musica, David Bates
This is an exceptionally interesting and well researched release…The playing is superb throughout. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Editor's Choice
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