Hyperion
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Debussy Songs Volume 3
Jennifer France (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Jonathan McGovern (baritone)
France negotiates the upper-altitude territory both with accuracy and with sensitivity to the songs' moods, with smoothness of line matching her subtlety of vocal inflection...McGovern shows... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 81 - Rubbra & Bliss
Piers Lane (piano), The Orchestra Now, Leon Botstein
Rubbra’s Piano Concerto in G major is something special…Piers Lane’s solo playing throughout is a phenomenon of tireless technical strength, always beautifully aligned to each work’s different... —
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This is perhaps one of the most riveting and satisfying anthologies of Grainger's music. Hamelin's superb control and artistry just about sweep the board if you're looking for a disc that not... —
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The line-up might play safe, but it’s all exquisitely done, collegiate smoothness and blend to the fore. And what blend! The harmonic voicing is immaculate yet always sensitive to the imperatives... —
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The Romantic Violin Concerto 7 - Arensky & Taneyev
Ilya Gringolts (violin)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov
Gringolts came to attention when he won the Paganini prize ten years ago, His fluency, virtuosity and lyrical intensity have been much and rightly admired and this record… is his best yet.... —
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Throughout the piece's 37 minutes Weir's invention runs at an flaggingly high level, and every bar of Yale Schola Cantorum's outstanding contribution sounds fully lived-in and assimilated. —
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Boris Tchaikovsky: Chamber Symphony, Sinfonietta for Strings
Ludmila Golub (organ)
Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Rudin
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Joan Rodgers’s live recitals of Russian song, and her earlier Tchaikovsky album for Hyperion, set up huge expectations for this disc of four song cycles which have become classics of the repertoire.... —