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Haydn: Missa Cellensis
Mark Milhofer, Mari Eriksmoen (soprano), Kristina Hammarström (mezzo-soprano), Christian Senn, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Basel Chamber Orchestra, René Jacobs
The orchestral playing is everything you would expect from a band currently halfway through a thrilling recorded cycle of the symphonies (with Giovanni Antonini), and the choir acquit themselves... —
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 (Complete Symphonies, Vol. 1)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alain Altinoglu
Altinoglu delivers a searingly powerful interpretation of the Fourth Symphony which places great emphasis on the score's darkest and most grotesque resonances...Special plaudits must be given... —
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what makes this opening salvo in Martin Helmchen's Schubert series stand out is his ability to animate the slighter works not through exaggeration (he's no grandstander) nor through charisma...but... —
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Fauré: Intégrale de la musique de chambre
Eric Le Sage (piano), Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Pierre Colombet (violin) & Raphael Merlin (cello), François Salque (cello), Lise Berthaud (viola) & Daishin Kashimoto (violin), François Salque (cello) & Paul Meyer (clarinet)
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Alessandro Scarlatti: Stabat Mater & Mottetti
Emmanuelle de Negri (soprano), Paul Figuier, Les Accents, Thibault Noally
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Amans, voulez-vous être heureux?
Lovers, will you be happy?
Isabelle Desrochers (soprano), Mira Glodeanu (violin), Nils Wieboldt (cello), James Munro (violin & double bass) & Julian Behr (théorbe)
Ensemble Ausonia, Frédérick Haas (harpsichord & direction)
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Danses des Bergers, danses des Loups
Traditional music from the heart of France
Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien, François Lazarevitch
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Shostakovich - Krokodil
Nadja Smirnova (soprano), Petr Migunov (bass), Marie Hallynck (cello), Arthur Schoonderwoerd (pianoforte), Graf Mourja (violin)
The two Russian singers deliver very expressive accounts of the vocal works, Nadja Smirnov in particular effecting a beautiful lyricism in the Blok cycle. Of the two extended instrumental works,... —
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Le Sage gives often hard-hitting, always probing performances —
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..an atmospheric introduction to some of the brightest musical gems of the 15th century. —
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