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Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 2 & Souvenir de Florence (sextet)
Recommendedwith Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) & Genrikh Talalyan (viola)
Borodin Quartet
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Building a Library, March 2019, Recommended Recording
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
Petra Lang (mezzo-soprano), Peter Mattei (baritone), Aeneas, Alan Ewing, Tigran Martirossian, Ben Heppner (tenor), Bülent Bezdüz, Isabelle Cals, Guang Yang, Orlin Anastassov, Mark Stone (baritone), Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Kenneth Tarver (tenor), Stephen Milling...
In this live account Colin Davis, as ever, proves a potent interpreter of Berlioz’s masterpiece. —
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Bloch: Israel Symphony, Schelomo & Three Jewish Poems
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, James Sedares, Zara Nelsova (cello), Utah Symphony Orchestra, Maurice Abravanel
…A valuable release, bringing much of Bloch’s overtly Jewish-themed orchestral music together in fine performances. —
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With complete homogeneity of ensemble, the Borodin Quartet bring out the innate Russian flavour of the music, and the famous Nocturne is all the more convincing in its unsentimental approach. —
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Fiery and emotionally intense accounts…Suitably warm and atmospheric sound. —
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BAROQUE BOHEMIA & BEYOND - Volume X
Wolfram Christ (viola), Koln Chamber Orchestra, Helmut Müller-Brühl, Bruno Meier (flute), Prague Chamber Orchestra, Václav Smetácek, Prague Radio Orchestra
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a poignant reminder of the pioneering work done by this fine orchestra, well before the current resurgence of interest in Price’s music. The Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin... —
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Górecki: Symphony No.3 'Sorrowful Songs' & Pieces in Olden Style & Totus Tuus
Stefania Woytowicz (soprano), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wlodzimierz Kamirski, Krakow Philharmonic, Roland Bader, Krakow Choral Society,
Malgorzata Orawska
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Tchaikovsky & Sibelius Violin Concertos
David Oistrakh (violin), with Vladimir Yampolsky (piano)
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
When did David Oistrakh perform the Tchaikovsky Concerto and not conjure magic? From the first penetrating note, it’s impossible to tear oneself away. His Sibelius is equally compelling, despite... —
