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Special offer. Ravel: L’Heure espagnole & Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Isabelle Druet (mezzo-soprano), Luca Lombardo, Frédéric Antoun (tenors), Marc Barrard (baritone), Nicolas Courjal (bass), François Le Roux (baritone)
Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin
the sound is exquisitely clear and the playing suave from the musky clarinets and ticking clocks of the opening to the sudden flush of hot-to-trot harps…[Druet] captures Concepcion's impatience... —
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Weiner: Csongor and Tünde, Op. 10
Máté Szűcs (viola)
Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, Jubilate Girls Choir, Valéria Csányi
There's a shorter sequence on Hungaroton…but, good though it is, I think this version by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra is finer, not only because there's so much more music on offer, but because... —
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William Schuman: Violin Concerto
Philippe Quint (violin)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Jose Serebrier
The rediscovery here is the William Schuman Violin Concerto. The work is in two substantial movements both showing Schuman's own kind of exuberant energy with brass and percussion as well as... —
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Lutosławski: Twenty Polish Christmas Carols, etc.
Olga Pasichnyk, Jadwiga Rappé
Polish Radio Chorus, Kraców, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra (Katowice), Antoni Wit
The faster carols have the same sort of energy and modality that you find in Kodály… it's a lovely collection of pieces for dipping into, and they're affectionately performed and recorded. —
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Lively performances of Wagner’s symphonies – one complete, one abandoned – that give an insight into his world as a teenage composer. —
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Alexey Shor: Images from the Great Siege - An Orchestral Cycle, Verdiana
London Symphony Orchestra, Sergey Smbatyan
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Great Singers - Nellie Melba
Songs by Puccini, Gounod, Verdi, Wagner, Thomas, Mozart
Dame Nellie Melba (soprano)
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Bloch: America (An Epic Rhapsody) & Suite Hébraïque
Hagai Shaham (violin)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lucnica Chorus, Atlas Camerata Orchestra, Dalia Atlas
Both works are impressively conducted by Dalia Atlas. Hagai Shaham is the infinitely expressive soloist in the Suite. —
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