Hyperion
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The Romantic Violin Concerto 11 - Reger
Tanja Becker-Bender (violin)
Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Lothar Zagrosek
it's one of [Reger's] most heart-warming works, allowing his intensely lyrical streak free rein...Aided by first-rate orchestral playing, [Zagrosek] finds transparency in Reger's original...Chief... —
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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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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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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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If you want Mozart from an Apollonian vantage point, with spotless surfaces and impeccable proportions, Hewitt is your ideal pianist. —
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His performances capture the smouldering long lines and Gothic grandeur inherent in Busoni’s textural transformations —
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As we would expect from Angela Hewitt, there’s much thoughtful and deeply-felt playing here. Hewitt is particularly successful in Beethoven’s slow movements. —
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