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Tue 04 Jun, 2019:
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Mon 22 Oct, 2018:
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies – No 2 in C minor, Op 17 (Little Russian); No 3 in D major, Op 29 (Polish)
Vladimir Jurowski’s complete live set of Tchaikovsky symphonies (available on LPO LPO-0101) proved something of a mixed blessing and this 2016...
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Tue 14 Aug, 2018:
Stenhammar: Symphony No 2 in G minor, Op 34; Incidental Music for August Strindberg's 'A Dream Play' (1916): concert version by Hilding Rosenberg (1970)
Here's a first-rate companion SACD to this team's fine BIS anthology (reviewed by Rob Cowan on 7 August 2014) containing Wilhelm Stenhammar's glorious...
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Thu 12 Apr, 2018:
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas – No 4 in A minor, Op 23; No 5 in F major, Op 24 (Spring); No 7 in C minor, Op 30 No 2
Joseph Kerman believed that for Beethoven, the violin sonata was “never a very solemn form”. But it could be a passionate one, the forthright...
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Fri 11 Aug, 2017:
Dreams & Fancies – English music for solo guitar
Dreams & Fancies, the solo debut on disc by young Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe, announces an exciting new talent. At its heart are a trio of lute...
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Tue 25 Jul, 2017:
Pretty Yende: A Journey – Arias by Rossini, Delibes, Bellini, Gounod, and Donzietti
This recital of seven scenes and arias marks a significant milestone in Pretty Yende’s journey from the South African townships to a career on...
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Wed 12 Jul, 2017:
Dove: In Damascus; Out of Time; Piano Quintet
Composed from remembered impressions of a peaceful Syria to a war-torn text by native poet Ali Safar, Jonathan Dove’s ‘In Damascus’ proves a...
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Fri 21 Apr, 2017:
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis, Op 123
“I know that God is nearer to me than to other artists; I associate with Him without fear.” Thus spake Beethoven – with certainty. But the Missa...
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Tue 17 Jan, 2017:
Rossini: Opera Arias
A joyously sung love song from Demetrio e Polibio (Rossini’s first opera) opens this collection of Rossini ‘trouser roles’ sung by the...
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Mon 05 Dec, 2016:
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op 64
The finest Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet we’ve had since Gennadi Rozhdestvensky’s Bolshoi recording from the 1950s (Melodiya), and I’m not forgetting...
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Wed 05 Oct, 2016:
Elgar: Symphony No 1 in A flat major, Op 55; In the South, Op 50
Sir Antonio Pappano directs a gutsy, intrepidly characterful and consistently stimulating account of Elgar's magnificent First Symphony. It was...
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Mon 19 Sep, 2016:
Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge, Op 121; Lieder und Gesänge, Op 32; 5 Lieder nach Gedichten von Heinrich Heine
To say that Matthias Goerne is the present generation’s Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is not to suggest that he sounds anything remotely like his great...
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Mon 25 Jul, 2016:
Brahms: Piano Sonatas – No 1 in C major, Op 2; No 2 in F sharp minor, Op 2; No 3 in F minor, Op 5
To say that François-Frédéric Guy treats the young Brahms’s three piano sonatas to a range of colours more readily associated with the piano...
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Fri 25 Mar, 2016:
Chopin: Preludes, Op 28; Nocturne in C minor, Op 48 No 1; Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Op 35; Polonaise in A flat major, Op 53
This live recording, by the winner of the 17th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw last year, reveals a young pianist with splendid technique...
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