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Hanns Eisler: Lieder Vol. 3; Songs In American Exile
Holger Falk (baritone), Steffen Schleiermacher (piano)
The baritone’s voice is light in colour with an inherently gentle quality to it, but capable of impressive intensity in the upper range. His delivery is subtle: expressive - often fearlessly... —
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Here's something quite unusual! Andreas Staier is playing a Steinway model-D dating from 1901; not exactly contemporary with the Quintet (1865), but producing a noticeably lighter sound than... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2005, Editor's Choice
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio Bwv 248
Elizabeth Wimmer (soprano), Elvira Bill (alto), Andreas Post (tenor), Dominic Grosse (bass), Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben, Handel's Company, Rainer Johannes Homburg
There are numerous good recordings of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio to choose from, but this new one from Stuttgart has special things going for it. Not least of them is the Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben...They... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, Christmas Choice
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BachWerkVokal, more commonly specialists in the north German Baroque, give clean, sensitive performances of sensuous Mediterranean music whose enticing richness is far from given its due in... —
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Gimenez is both singing virtuoso and colour washing accompanist, dispatching vocal lines with extraordinary lyricism. —
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one of the chief attractions of Ben van Oosten's survey of the (almost) complete organ works is that they are performed on the magnificent Cavaille-Coll in La Madeleine that the composer knew... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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The intimate quality of the performances, the partnership between Blanchard and von Busch, the characteristically superb sound quality of MDG's recording and the whole concept make this a most... —
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… this latest selection from the composer's back catalogue of player piano studies, arranged by Raaf Hekkema and brilliantly dispatched by the Calefax Reed Quintet and pianist Ivo Janssen, does... —
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