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Thu 10 Jan, 2019:
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Thu 30 Nov, 2017:
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K 626
René Jacobs has long been a Mozartian of distinction and his thoughts on this new completion of Mozart’s Requiem fascinate as much as Pierre-Henri...
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Mon 30 Oct, 2017:
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 5 in D minor, Op 107 (Reformation); The Hebrides – Concert Overture, Op 26; Violin Concerto in E minor, Op 64
Realistically engineered within the lively acoustic of Sala 1 Pau Casals at Barcelona's L'Auditori, the latest instalment in Pablo Heras-Casado's...
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Fri 12 May, 2017:
Michael Gielen Edition, Volume 4 (1968-2014) – Orchestral works by Berlioz, Dvořák, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Schumann, Smetana, Johann Strauss II, Suk, Tchaikovsky, Wagner and Weber
There are riches galore in this fourth volume from SWR Music devoted to the recorded legacy of Michael Gielen (who turns 90 this September). The focus...
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Wed 23 Nov, 2016:
Bruckner: Symphonies Nos 1-9
Volume 2 in SWR Music's exceedingly welcome and comprehensive Michael Gielen Edition is devoted to a composite cycle of Bruckner symphonies made up of...
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Tue 11 Oct, 2016:
Mozart: Piano Concertos – No 11 in F major, K 413; No 12 in A major, K 414; No 13 in C major, K 415
Perform these concertos as originally scored to include winds – Mozart also sanctioned strings only – and the flavour of oboes and horns,...
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Mon 14 Mar, 2016:
Mendelssohn: Symphonies – No 3 in A minor, Op 56 (Scottish); No 4 in A major, Op 90 (Italian)
Mendelssohn symphonies on period instruments: Frans Brüggen has been here before, and so has John Eliot Gardiner. The Freiburger Barockorchester are...
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Tue 19 Jan, 2016:
Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini
Tricked into marriage with Giannciotto while in love with his brother Paolo, Francesca is also desired by their third brother Malatestino. This opera...
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Thu 31 Dec, 2015:
Mozart: Operatic Arias; Symphony No 36 in C major, K 425 (Linz)
Recorded in fine sound from live concerts, this is an enterprising traversal of Mozart’s major baritone arias for the noblemen and servants from the...
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Tue 15 Dec, 2015:
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54; Piano Trio No 2 in F major, Op 80
Robert Schumann’s romantic Piano Concerto is here informed by ‘period’ instruments. Alexander Melnikov plays on an 1837 Erard fortepiano,...
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Fri 23 Oct, 2015:
Bach: Harpsichord Concertos, BWV 1052-1057
Andreas Staier busies himself very much as a first among equals, his Freiburg colleagues keeping up energy levels with a full body of tone and a firm...
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Fri 10 Apr, 2015:
Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor; Piano Trio No 3 in G minor, Op 110
At first hearing, Isabelle Faust and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under Pablo Heras-Casado seem hell-bent on waltzing through the Schumann...
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Wed 17 Dec, 2014:
Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op 30; Aus Italien, Op 16
Richard Strauss's youthful, endearingly garrulous symphonic fantasy Aus Italien needs persuasive handling if it not to overstay its welcome – which...
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Wed 30 Jul, 2014:
Cilea: L'Arlesiana
This beautiful recording is of a three-act opera which was originally a four-act disaster – Cilea revised it several times over forty years. It is a...
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