Hyperion
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With playing that’s never less than well-considered, gleaming and enjoyable, Lane is an excellent guide to these impassioned worlds – although at times, particularly in the Rachmaninov, there’s... —
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Bach - Piano Transcriptions Volume 4
The complete solo Bach transcriptions by Samuil Feinberg (1890-1962)
Martin Roscoe (piano)
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Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem & Hough: Missa Mirabilis
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Sarah Fox (soprano)
Colorado Symphony Chorus & Colorado Symphony, Andrew Litton
Vaughan Williams's Dona nobis pacem is a work that wastes no time cutting to the quick, and nor does this performance of it: in the opening Agnus Dei soprano Sarah Fox is immediately intense... —
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Rebecca Clarke: Viola Sonata & Bridge: Cello Sonata
Natalie Clein (cello), Christian Ihle Hadland (piano)
Bridge’s Cello Sonata incline more to rhapsody than rhetoric, and draws particularly heartfelt playing from Clein and Hadland in the lingeringly regretful opening of the second movement…[The... —
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Thankfully, the scholars have more sense than to draw precise parallels between any particular piece of music and a particular sculpture…the six adult male singers of The Binchois Consort under... —
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Amarae Morti
Lamentations and motets by Cardoso, Gombert, Lassus, Morales, Palestrina, Phinot & Victoria
El León de Oro, Peter Phillips
Phillips pounces on all the details that matter: dissonances crunch satisfactorily, imitative points are tightly nested, and light streams through thick homophony…The choir is fresh-sounding,... —
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Ohlsson may not inhabit Manuel de Falla’s sultry and exuberant piano-writing as Alicia de Larrocha or Javier Perianes do, yet he embraces the idiom with ease and fluidity, and leaves few small... —
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Mendelssohn - Songs & Duets Volume 5
Eugene Asti (piano), Katherine Broderick (soprano), Hannah Morrison (soprano), Anna Grevelius (mezzo-soprano), Finnur Bjarnason (tenor), James Rutherford (baritone), Stephan Loges (baritone)
...the best of the young singers here is the mezzo Anna Grevelius...As in previous volumes, Eugene Asti plays with a refreshingly light touch and a lively sense of rhythm. —