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Kato has an impeccable sense of rhythm and a capacity for concentration —
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Special offer. Michael Haydn: Requiem Pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismundo & Missa Sancti Hieronymi
Kate Symonds-Joy, James Robinson, Malachy Frame, The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music and Matthew Martin, Julia Doyle (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Matthew Martin and The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, The Choir of Gonville & Caius College...
This new performance [of the Requiem] is well paced by the conductor, Matthew Martin, though the Academy of Ancient Music's violins could have done with a touch more presence...The Choir of... —
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Special offer. Bacewicz, Lutosławski & Szymanowski
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Thomas Søndergård
Producer and sound engineer Philip Hobbs is well known for his superb work for Linn Records, but his wizardry is especially welcome in this album of 20th-century Polish music. When the composers... —
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In the wrong hands CPE Bach's H277 Fantasy can easily disintegrate into series of rhetorical gestures, but Magen takes us into a rarefied of magical colours and dynamic shadings that creates... —
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Special offer. Schubert: Lebensstürme. Music for Piano Four-Hands
Duo Pleyel: Richard Egarr & Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya
The transparency and varied tonal colours of the Pleyel are particularly effective in the D951 Rondo, which they imbue with plenty of charm,
with a notably warm account of the main theme...In... — -
Special offer. An English Sett for Trumpet
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet) & Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano)
There’s no doubting the technical prowess of these two crack performers, and it’s hard not to share their guilty delight in this stolen booty: intonation and ensemble are spot-on, rhythms pulse,... —
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Special offer. Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17
Katija Dragojevic (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Swedish Radio Choir, Robin Ticciati
If freshness and vitality appeal more than sheer richness, try listening to this —
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Special offer. Purcell: The Cares of Lovers
Rowan Pierce (soprano), William Carter (theorbo)
Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
Pierce’s voice is delicious: clear, strong, supple, with sparkling top notes and a warm, textured middle and low register. She’s mistress of her words, bending vowels and clipping consonants... —
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The brothers Ori and Omri Epstein offer some fine and thoroughly musical performances, marred only by a few puzzling idiosyncrasies. Particularly successful are their graceful performance of... —
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Fliter differs from most by devising a running order full of intriguing juxtapositions, as did Earl Wild. Such programming savvy makes sense if you plan on listening to all of the Nocturnes... —
