Hyperion
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Tiberghien’s limpid phrasing, radiant cantabile and velvety, cushioned tone provides a continual source of pleasure, complemented ideally by Ibragimova’s silvery-toned exploratory zeal, as... —
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Organ Fireworks XI
Christopher Herrick (organ). Lay Family Concert Organ (C B Fisk Organ Company Opus 100), Eugene, McDermott Concert Hall, Morton H Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, Texas
Christopher Herrick, playing on the Lay Family Concert Organ in Dallas, Texas, gives his recital an American slant...Widor's robust piece provides a link with various Parisian organists, among... —
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The Princess & The Bear
Laurence Perkins (bassoon) & Sarah Watts (clarinet), Martin Roscoe (piano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sian Edwards
Sian Edwards adopts relaxed speeds [in the Strauss], which gives the music space to breathe, and the RSNO sound consistently good throughout. Watts does ravishing things with the great clarinet... —
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To the gentlest songs… Rodgers brings as much gracefulness and subtlety as ever, and timbre as exquisitely fragrant and fine-grained. —
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The Music of Westminster Cathedral Choir
Andrew Reid (organ), James O'Donnell (organ), Iain Simcock (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, David Hill
Bargain of the month —
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The English Orpheus 49 - Nativity
Christmas Music from Georgian England
The Parley of Instruments, Psalmody, Peter Holman
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 55 - Widor
Markus Becker (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer
In between [the Concertos] comes the Fantasie for piano and orchestra (1889), a thematically taut score that finds Roscoe and Yates in imaginative dialogue. Highly recommended, this should secure... —
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The music does indeed appear to ‘pour’ from his fingers as though as part of an incandescent flow, alternating the impassioned eloquence of the three capriccios and reflective intensity of the... —
