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Robert Kyr: The Cloud of Unknowing, Songs of the Soul
World Premiere Recordings
Estelí Gomez (soprano) & David Farwig (baritone)
Conspirare & Victoria Bach Festival String Orchestra, Craig Hella Johnson
This generously filled CD of three recent choral works by American composer Robert Kyr is to be welcomed … Voices blend and are balanced beautifully, with Kyr’s characteristic lyrical musical... —
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The style of singing here is intimately attuned to the time of year these pieces are intended for...the relative narrowness of the disc's emotional spectrum means consuming it in one sitting... —
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Haydn: Scottish Airs
Werner Güra (tenor), Christoph Berner (fortepiano), Julia Schröder (violin) & Roel Dieltiens (cello)
Their programme, skilfully assembled and delivered at a uniformly high level of vocal-instrumental accomplishment, dips into the massive bran-tub of Scottish folksong settings...above all for... —
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stimulating and somewhat bitty. The outstanding feature of Christie’s collaboration with the superb Xavier de Maistre is an exquisitely refined account of the enchanting Fifth Harp Concerto... —
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François Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres
Lucy Crowe (soprano) & Elizabeth Watts (sopranos)
La Nuova Musica, David Bates
Crowe here offers an intense and dramatic reading of the first Leçon … Elizabeth Watts takes centre stage in the second setting – her voice plummy and voluptuous … The two join in an impassioned... —
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Montéclair: La mort de Didon - Cantates
Agnès Mellon (soprano), Gérard Lesne (countertenor), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor), Monique Zanetti (soprano), Jean-François Gardeil (baritone)
Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
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Gershwin: An American in Paris & Piano Concerto in F
Lincoln Mayorga (piano)
Harmonie Ensemble / New York, Steven Richman
The first track, the Overture to Of Thee I Sing, immediately sets the tone — not the overture as we usually hear it, but the 1934 radio version, trimmed in length and with lean orchestration.... —
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