Naxos
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Budget-priced Naxos can afford to be more comprehensive and spread Liszt's organ music over two discs, and indeed, it's good to have St. Francis preaching to the birds, which works so well on... —
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Penderecki: Symphony No. 7 'Seven Gates of Jerusalem'
Olga Pasichnyk (soprano), Aga Mikol/aj (soprano), Ewa Marciniec (alto), Wiesl/aw Ochman (tenor), Romuald Tesarowicz (bass) & Boris Carmeli (narrator)
Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir (Henryk Wojnarowski, choirmaster), Antoni Wit
Performances under Antoni Wit are superb, strong and intense, with an excellent chorus and team of soloists. —
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Special offer. Barber: Orchestral Works Volume 2
Wendy Warner (cello)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Wendy Warner concentrates on i[the Cello Concerto's] sometimes wry lyricism, and she articulates with brilliant point in the gentle scherzando passage of the finale. Alsop is a persuasive partner,... —
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Awards:
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Building a Library, October 2003, Highly Recommended
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Telemann: Recorder Suite & Concertos
Daniel Rothert (recorder), Elke Martha Umbach (flute)
Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Helmut Muller-Bruhl
Rothert is athletic, articulate and accurate...Telemann's fecund muse will doubtless always be underestimated - but for those in the know there are always pleasures galore to be had from absorbing... —
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Tavener: Song for Athene, Svyati & other choral music
St. John's College Choir, Cambridge, Christopher Robinson
If John Tavener's reputation were to rest solely on his unaccompanied choral music and nothing else, then his stature as one of the most striking and original composers working today would be... —
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Performances which revel in the vitality of Vivaldi's music and which are sensible to its beguiling but all too often overlooked fantasy. —
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Penderecki: Fonogrammi, Partita & Horn Concerto
RecommendedUrszula Janki (flute), Jennifer Montone (horn), Michal Pindakiewicz (electric guitar), Konrad Kubicki (bass guitar), Barbara Witkowska (harp), Jerzy Cembrzynski (double bass)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit
the performances of the earlier pieces here are better recorded and generally better played than in the composer’s own recordings made when the techniques demanded by the music were clearly... —
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Classical Compendium
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Sibelius: Swanwhite – Complete incidental Music
Orchestral Works, Vol. 5
Riho Eklundh (narrator)
Turku Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam
Svanevit (Swanwhite) is a Symbolist fairy tale, relatively sunlit and delicate…Segerstam conducts with the measured, grave pace and detail that characterises the rest of this series —
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Kara Karayev: The Seven Beauties & The Path of Thunder Ballet Suites
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky
red-blooded performances. —
