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Special offer. Our Gilded Veins
Katherine Bryan (flute), Henry Clay (cor anglais)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Rory MacDonald
Suckling’s quiet close featuring (pre-recorded) bells is undeniably affecting. If it and Clyne’s elegy are the expressive focal points of the album, then Rosemary Furniss’s arrangement for strings... —
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Franck's Prélude, Aria and Final and Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Bach are big in both scale and ambition, with the admirable Lanyi drawing out their many and varied colours superbly. —
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The main reward of this release is a superb reading of Piano Trio No. 2 in C, a sunny and often jocose work, to which the Greenwich Trio brings a lovely blend of enthusiasm, musicianship, and... —
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Special offer. Suite italienne: Vivaldi, Sollima & Stravinsky
Jonian Ilias Kadesha (violin), CHAARTS Chamber Artists
Just when you think it can’t be more colourful or charismatic, Kadesha brings more joy, more physicality that is somehow simultaneously slapdash and highly finessed. He’s a violinist who you... —
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Special offer. New College: Commissions & Premieres
Nick Pritchard (soloist), Choir of New College Oxford, Robert Quinney
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Here's a recital to make you think again about the 19th-century German lieder tradition...Boesch has an instinct for the drama of such songs, with exemplary attack and a dark grained tone that... —
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Harp recitals are almost bound to be appealing, such is the instrument’s seductiveness, but this one has substance, too. —
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Special offer. De Pasión Mortal: Songs from Two Golden Ages
Toby Carr, Nicholas Mulroy (soloist), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Music for a While
Throughout the album Mulroy displays impeccable technique and a range of vocal colours, enhanced by his judicious choice of repertoire and musical partners. —
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Special offer. Felix Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte
Arr. for Violin and Piano by Ferdinand David
Michael Barenboim (violin), Natalia Pegarkova-Barenboim (piano)
Perhaps Barenboim’s style is being limited by notions of what is appropriate to the 1830s-40s...Barenboim is well partnered by Pegarkova-Barenboim, making a seamless and affectionate duo, and... —
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