Naxos
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The mysterious central Andante, recalling Roussel's early period, is utterly magical in Denève's hands...there is beautiful playing from the RSNO, especially in the opening of the final movement,... —
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Mendelssohn & Schumann: Piano Trios
Jacques Thibaud (violin), Pablo Casals (cello) & Alfred Cortot (piano)
Tully Potter's introductory note reminds us that it was in Paris, in their later twenties, that these three legendary artists first made music together – just for pleasure. But international... —
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Ariadne auf Naxos
Elizabeth Schwarzkopf (Prima Donna/Ariadne), Rita Streich (Zerbinetta), Irmgard Seefried (The Composer), Rudolf Schock (The Tenor/Bacchus), Alfred Neugebauer (Major Domo), Karl Dönch (The Music Teacher) (An Officer) Gerhard Unger (An Officer), Lisa Otto (Naiad), Grace Hoffman (Dryad), Anny Felbermayer...
Karajan's recording may yield top position to Rudolf Kempe's 1968 account, but surely to no other. His feeling for the music, as well as his cast - especially Schwarzkopf's Ariadne, Streich's... —
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Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne (selection)
Véronique Gens (soprano)
Orchestre National de Lille, Jean-Claude Casadesus
Each decade finds its favourite soloist for the Chants d'Auvergne: in the 1960s it was Natania Devrath, the 70s had Victoria de los Angeles, the 80s Kiri Te Kanawa, the 90s Dawn Upshaw.
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Delius: Appalachia & Sea Drift
Leon Williams (baritone)
The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay & The Florida Orchestra, Stefan Sanderling
This fine orchestra has a superb violinist leader (crucial in Sea Drift) plus serious class in every department, the brass in particular. The choral singing, too, is exemplary in its firm-toned... —
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Special offer. Ian Krouse: Armenian Requiem
Vladimir Chernov (baritone), Christoph Bull (organ), Shoushik Barsoumian (soprano), Garineh Avakian (mezzo-soprano), Yeghishe Manucharyan (tenor), Ruben Harutyunyan (duduk), VEM String Quartet, UCLA Philharmonia, Lark Master Singers, Tziatzan Children's Choir, Neal Stulberg
Krouse has – perhaps following Benjamin Britten in the War Requiem – not strictly followed the liturgical form of the traditional Armenian Mass, but has interspersed poetry, mostly by writers... —
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Special offer. Verdi: Otello
Raffaella Angeletti (soprano), Marifé Nogales (mezzo-soprano), Robert Dean Smith, Luis Dámaso, Vicenç Esteve (tenors), Sebastian Catana, Enrique Sánchez (baritones), Kristjan Mõisnik, Michael Dries (bass)
Oviedo Filarmonía & Orfeón Donostiarra, Friedrich Haider