Naxos
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Special offer. American Classics - David Diamond
Janos Starker (cello)
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
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Haydn's String Quartets by the Kodaly Quartet are wonderful. —
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This new Naxos offering enshrines an interpretation of no mean stature and individuality: an undoubted bargain, I would say. —
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Ricarda Merbeth, a regular Marschallin in Vienna and exponent of other big Strauss roles in Europe, has also been Bayreuth's Elisabeth for the past six years – just as Pauline de Ahna, Strauss's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Editor's Choice
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The performances are engaged and vibrant. The string ensemble maintains the tricky balance that Taneyev demands between consistency of tone and clarity of individual lines. —
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A valuable foray into a 20th-century French composer who championed the flute. The start of a promising and valuable journey, this. The Sonata is especially haunting. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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Special offer. John Adams - Shaker Loops
Nathan Gunn (baritone)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
A near-perfect Adams Primer containing his tender and powerful meditation, to words by Walt Whitman, on the subject of those lost to AIDS.
Touchingly performed by Nathan Gunn. —Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2004, Editor's Choice
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The Art of the Baroque Trumpet, Vol. 5
An Italian Concert
Niklas Eklund, Jeffrey Segal (trumpets), Maria Keohane (soprano)
Wasa Baroque Ensemble, Edward H Tarr
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The choir of St John's Cambridge have an evident affinity for music of this kind (which was written for just such choirs to sing) and present convincing accounts of a wide range of Finzi's sacred... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2002, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Bizet: Carmen
Solange Michel, Raoul Jobin, Martha Angelici, Michel Dens
Chorus & Orchestra of the Opéra-Comique Paris, André Cluytens
