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Fri 16 Aug, 2019:
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Tue 13 Aug, 2019:
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D795
Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside launch their survey of Schubert’s song cycles with a winning Die schöne Müllerin that bodes more than well for...
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Thu 25 Jul, 2019:
Bartók: The Wooden Prince; The Miraculous Mandarin (Suite)
Finely honed orchestral playing and superbly realistic sonics grace this undeniably superior Bartók offering from Helsinki. Composed between 1914 and...
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Mon 24 Jun, 2019:
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op 30; Ein Heldenleben, Op 40
Music-making of beguiling sheen and giddy coordination can be found on this blockbuster of a Strauss coupling from Oslo. And if Vasily Petrenko's...
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Tue 11 Jun, 2019:
Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer, Op 19; Symphony in B flat major, Op 20
Composed between 1882 and 1892 and bearing a dedication to Henri Duparc, Ernest Chausson's glorious orchestral song-cycle, Poème de l'amour et de la...
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Wed 15 May, 2019:
Jess Gillam: Rise – Music by Pedro Iturralde, Kate Bush, Alessandro Marcello, Darius Milhaud, John Williams, Michael Nyman, John Harle, David Bowie, Kurt Weill, John Dowland, Rudy Wiedoeft, Dmitri Shostakovich, Francis Lai, Traditional.
With an appearance at the Last Night of the Proms closing her teens in 2018 and her own BBC Radio 3 show ushering in her twenties, Jess Gillam is a...
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Tue 30 Apr, 2019:
Bach: Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Volume 1
Thoughtful and measured, poetic and precise, Steven Devine takes a measured but crisply fluid approach that imbues this much recorded music with a...
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Mon 25 Mar, 2019:
Elgar: The Wand of Youth – Suites Nos 1 & 2, Opp 1a & 1b; Nursery Suite; Salut d'amour, Op 12; Chanson de nuit, Op 15 No 1
This latest offering in Sir Mark Elder's Elgar series with the Hallé strikes me as an unbridled success. Subtitled 'Music to a child's play' and...
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Thu 14 Mar, 2019:
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E minor, Op 27; The Isle of the Dead, Op 29
Andrew Gourlay secures refreshingly lithe and conspicuously articulate accounts of both these Rachmaninov masterworks on this first in-house release...
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Mon 04 Mar, 2019:
Sibelius: Symphony No 1 in E minor, Op 39; En Saga, Op 9
The start of a Sibelius series from the Gothenburg Symphony under its new 33-year-old chief conductor, Santtu-Matias Rouvali – and a most auspicious...
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Mon 18 Feb, 2019:
Lutosławski: Symphonies – No 1 (1947); No 4 (1992); Jeux vénitiens (1961)
Written between 1941 and 1947, Witold Lutosławski's strongly communicative and impressively concise First Symphony makes quite a splash in this...
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Mon 04 Feb, 2019:
Schumann: Papillons, Op 2; Kinderszenen, Op 15; Brahms: 3 Intermezzi, Op 117; 6 Klavierstücke, Op 118
Mentored by the great Denis Matthews (the centenary of whose birth falls this year), Sarah Beth Briggs displays her customary composure, intelligence,...
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Mon 28 Jan, 2019:
Bach: Partita No 4 in D major; Italian Concerto; Chaconne from Violin Partita in D minor (arranged for piano by Busoni)
The philosophy of an erstwhile musician re-ignites. For Edwin Fischer (1886-1960) Bach “towered above the centuries, but to interpret his works...
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Thu 24 Jan, 2019:
Clarke: Viola Sonata; Bridge: Cello Sonata; Scherzo; Serenade; Spring Song; Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folk Song
Runner-up to Ernest Bloch's Suite for viola and piano in a prestigious competition organised by the American patron Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, the...
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