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Louise Acabo, Suzanne Wolff, Yaoré Talibart, Emmanuel Arakelian, Roxana Rastegar, The BanXhies
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3, Polonaise from 'Eugene Onegin' & Festival Coronation March
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi
Järvi does Tchaikovsky the supreme good service of allowing his earlier symphonies to stand without a sense of special pleading or undue podium tinkering. The string sound is open rather than... —
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The playing here is marked by clarity and expressiveness in music that is intricate, emotionally demonstrative and ceaselessly exploratory...In all, supremely accomplished works if lacking that... —
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Louis Spohr: The Forgotten Master
4 Concertos for Clarinet
Paul Meyer (conductor & clarinet)
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Meyer seems largely attuned to the solo parts edited by Stanley Drucker...[he] plays and conducts...assertive or pliant in his role from the rostrum. The conductor in Meyer is very good, the... —
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 11, 13 & Oboe Concerto
Roman Borisov (piano), Gabriel Pidoux (oboe), ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Howard Griffiths
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Beethoven: String Quintets Op. 29 & 104; Fugue Op. 137
WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Chamber Players
Cologne’s WDR Chamber Players dive into these works with gusto and give us characterful, cogent, committed performances. Alpha’s recording is also top-notch. —
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Mozart: Concertos for Violin, Piano & Horn
Stephen Waarts (violin), Can Çakmur (piano), Ivo Dudler (horn), Camerata Schweiz, Howard Griffiths
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[there is an] imaginative flair and subtlety of touch about Krzysztof Urbánski’s conception [of the Concerto for Orchestra]…[the Fourth Symphony] receives such lucid and dedicated advocacy that... —
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Love I Obey
Rosemary Standley (vocals), Martin Bauer (viola da gamba), Michel Godard (bugle), Bruno Helstroffer (guitar), Elisabeth Geiger (harpsichord), Bruno Helstroffer (theorbo), Elisabeth Geiger (organ), Elisabeth Geiger (virginal)
a disc steeped in whiskey and woodsmoke, tragic deaths and even more tragic loves...The results are bewitchingly lovely, and more organic than many similar genre-crossing experiments. That's... —
