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Meurig Bowen's notes observe that choral pieces composed in the 1990s suggested Pärt was moving into 'more complex, exotic harmonic territory'.
Some of his music began to give a glimpse of what... —Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2003, Editor's Choice
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Howard Shelley and his skilled orchestra are attentive to the music’s lyrical charm and colourful wind scoring —
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Building a Library, November 2009, Highly Recommended
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With more than 100 Boccherini cello quintets to choose from, the problem for anyone wanting to make recordings is which to choose. The E major G275 (formerly Op 13 No 5) makes an obvious first... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2002, Editor's Choice
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Elegant playing - energetic allegros, spacious solo/tutti contrasts, finely poised in the endlessly-spun slow harmonies. Archlute continuo colours delightfully —
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Building a Library, March 2013, First Choice
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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 & Tableaux Symphoniques
Paul Jacobs (organ)
Utah Symphony, Thierry Fischer
Fischer leads a superb, thoroughly enjoyable reading of Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony…And although the three tableaux drawn from incidental music to Eugène Brieux’s play La foi are a roughly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2018
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This is a wonderful recording … as good a performance of both splendid works as you are likely to encounter —
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Building a Library, February 2013, Recommendation with all the repeats
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Milne gives fiery, rhythmically taut readings of both big pieces, stressing their gaunt architecture while displaying admirable range of colour and touch which evokes the organ-like sonorities... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2008, Editor's Choice
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The quartets were commissioned by Kronos...but the Royal's performances rival them with playing that is passionate and sharp-edged, capturing the emotional depth and intensity of the music equally... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, Editor's Choice
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Milhaud was an inveterate traveller who absorbed influences from many national styles.
The music here exudes infectious dance impulses, languid geniality, knockabout humour and joie de vivre.... —Purchase product
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No one who loves Schumann should miss this outstandingly fine new disc —
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Building a Library, December 2011, Modern Recommendation
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