Naxos
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Special offer. Eric Whitacre - Choral Music
Leslie De’Ath (piano), Carol Bauman (percussion)
Elora Festival Singers, Noel Edison
...a choir long on experience and comfortable in its own collective skin. The mainly vibrato-less singing is warmly blended, with spot-on pitching, and a welcome focus on elucidating text and... —
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Special offer. Harold Meltzer: Brion, Sindbad & Exiles
Elizabeth Farnum (soprano), Gregory Hesselink (cello), John Shirley-Quirk (narrator)
Cygnus Ensemble, The Peabody Trio & Sequitur, James Baker, Paul Hostetter & Richard Lalli
[Brion] is a haunting, quirky and continually inventive chamber work for a small ensemble including guitar and mandolin. It receives an elegant, colorful performance on a splendid recording... —
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Lutosławski’s Last Concert
Fujiko Imajishi (violin) & Valdine Anderson (soprano)
New Music Concerts Ensemble, Witold Lutosławski
The disc is worth its price for the performance of the Robert Desnos song-cycle Chantefleurs et Chantefables alone, a sequence of bejewelled miniatures, gorgeously sung by Valdine Anderson,... —
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The Ultimate PUCCINI opera album
Luba Orgonasova (soprano), Jonathan Welch (tenor), Miriam Gauci (soprano), Thomas Harper (tenor), Giorgio Lamberti (tenor), Kaludi Kaludov (tenor), Lando Bartolini (tenor), Felipe Bou (bass), Masako Deguci (soprano), Armando Ariostini (baritone), Javier Mas (tenor), Vicenc Esteve (tenor), Ivan Urbas...
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Maxwell Davies: Linguae Ignis & Vesalii Icones
Vittorio Ceccanti (solo cello)
Contempoartensemble, Mauro Ceccanti
prepare to be dazzled, amused and bemused. From the tranquillity of the cello's plainsong in Linguae Ignis (a world premiere recording) to microtonal and prepared-piano jazz and blues in the... —
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Special offer. Bloch: America & Concerto Grosso No. 1
Patricia Michaelian (piano)
Seattle Symphony, Seattle Symphony Chorale, Gerard Schwarz
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Mauricio Kagel: Works for Flute
Michael Faust (flute) & Paulo Álvares (piano)
Sinfonia Finlandia Jyväskylä & Ensemble Contrasts, Robert HP Platz & Patrick Gallois
Kagel muses on 'fantasy' music by coolly and forensically unpacking cliches of Romantic gesture, creating a fantasy on the idea of fantasies. Faust and Ensemble Contrasts are suitably restrained... —
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a first-class and very generous collection...when the songs are as beautifully and often movingly sung as they are here by Jana Wallingerova, and the piano accompaniments - a pleasure in themselves... —
