Naxos
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Septura has managed to plug the void most effectively with this superbly played and warmly engineered debut disc of imaginatively conceived arrangements. Unsurprisingly, some of the richest... —
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Knecht: Le Portrait musical de la nature & Philidor: Overtures
Sergio Lamberto (violin)
Torino Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Sinfonia, Christian Benda
There is no doubting that the Knecht symphony is a gracious piece and one that gives off a Mozartean glow. This is intensified by an extremely warm and radiant acoustic closely recorded...This... —
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Granados: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
Gemma Coma-Alabert (mezzo-soprano), Jesús Álvarez Carrión (tenor)
Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Pablo González
The first section [of La nit del mort] shows González and his orchestra at their best, with grainy strings, piquant soft-edged woodwinds and a natural, musicianly way of shaping a phrase…the... —
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These four works all deserve to be better-known; and that includes the Panufnik. Like everything here, it receives lively and committed advocacy from Piotr Plawner and the Kammersymphonie Berlin... —
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Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 2
Graf Mourja (violin), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Ronald van Spaendonck, Francoise Groben (cello)
The first volume in this series of Poulenac's chamber music was a bit of a mixed bag. ...there are wonderfully spiky moments from Graf Mourja in the Stravinskian Violin Sonata, and Ronald Van... —
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Respighi: Tre Liriche
Alessandra Visentin (alto), Chamber Orchestra of New York, Salvatore Di Vittorio
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Special offer. Randall Thompson & Barber: Symphonies
Samuel Adams (electronics)
National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic, James Ross
Three American symphonic works of contrasting character, heard in powerful performances. Samuel Adams’s atmospheric Drift and Providence is a worthwhile discovery. —
