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This is sophisticated music that is entertaining as well as just occasionally challenging...stunning playing by the Ensemble Blumina...This is a recording to treasure. —
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Bengtsson is an experienced soprano with many major Strauss roles on her CV, and here she brings plenty of creamy tone and vocal security to a satisfying selection of the composer’s songs…Barnstorming... —
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Schleiermacher aptly describes the most percussive sections of the compellingly performed Fifth Sonata as ‘a bloodbath on the keys’. There are also some moments of repose, but in Schleiermacher’s... —
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Archetypon
Arias by Porpora, Hasse, Cherubini, Paisiello, Gluck, Fiorè & Handel
Mary-Ellen Nesi (mezzo)
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
Nesi brings a formidable coloratura technique, including precisely articulated passagework, and mostly tasteful ornamentation, though her trills tend to sound tentative…Nonetheless, this is... —
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It seems to me that the Vienna Piano Trio, recorded in a generous but not too cloudy acoustic, capture the work’s character well: their performance has a natural flow which yet conveys its musical... —
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