Naxos
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This is a great CD. —
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Häkkinen directs from a fortepiano, appropriately so. He uses it to decoarte lines and enhance tonal colour, eschewing the infuriating anachronism of emphasising harmonic rhythm...[in the Andante... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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This is the closest anyone has yet come to recording Machaut's setting as he himself might have heard it; the coupling is a sampling of songs from Le Voir Dit, another intriguingly autobiographical... —
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George Enescu: Piano Quartet No. 1; Piano Trio in A Minor
Stefan Tarara (violin), Molly Carr (viola), Eun-Sun Hong (cello), Josu De Solaun (piano)
Exquisitely crafted performances by a team of wellmatched players are captured in a luminous acoustic on this recording of chamber works. Undiscovered until 1965, the Piano Trio offers the chance... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Much of the music on this excellent recording was composed during Tomkins's final decade, before his death in 1656 in relative obscurity... At all times, the Oxford Camerata, led by Jeremy Summerly,... —
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This disc offers an hour of some of the most wonderful music, wind or otherwise, you will ever hear. —
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Building a Library, January 2002, First Choice
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This is another incarnation of John Corigliano's Red Violin music. First the film and the Chaconne for violin and orchestra derived from it (1997); then the Concerto (2003); and now the composer... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2008, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Mayr: L’amor coniugale
Cinzia Rizzone (soprano), Francescantonio Bille (tenor), Tatjana Charalgina (soprano), Dariusz Machej (bass), Giovanni Bellavia (bass-baritone) & Bradley Trammell (tenor)
Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Franklin
The recording, conducted by Christopher Franklin, is gorgeous, with exceptional singing from Cinzia Rizzone and Tatjana Charalgina as Zeliska and Floreska. —
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Opera, May 2009, Recording of the Month
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Made me fall in love with this music all over again. And there could scarcely be higher praise than that —
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Building a Library, April 2001, First Choice
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