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Tue 13 Aug, 2019:
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Mon 08 Apr, 2019:
Gál: Das Lied der Nacht
Hans Gál’s ‘dramatic ballad’ Das Lied der Nacht was premiered to glowing reviews in 1926. Banned by the Nazis, it was last staged in 1930...
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Mon 14 Jan, 2019:
Saint-Saëns: Three symphonic tableaux from La foi, Op 130; Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila, Op 47 (Act III); Symphony No 3 in C minor, Op 78 (Organ)
A first-rate Saint-Saëns compendium, splendiferously engineered and stylishly performed by the Utah Symphony under its Swiss music director Thierry...
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Thu 06 Dec, 2018:
Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op 30; Don Quixote, Op 35
The sixth and final volume in this enjoyable series devoted to Richard Strauss's orchestral works pairs two impressive live performances from March...
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Fri 23 Nov, 2018:
Schreker: Prelude to a Drama; The Birthday of the Infanta; Romantic Suite
Top billing on the sleeve goes to the 1923 orchestral suite based on music that Franz Schreker (1878-1934) had originally supplied for a 1908...
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Mon 12 Nov, 2018:
Brahms: Symphony No 3 in F major, Op 90; Hungarian Dances Nos 11-16; Alto Rhapsody, Op 53; Schubert: Lieder D 369, 541, 719, 778, 838 and 583 (all arr Brahms)
Thomas Dausgaard has already given us Brahms’s first two symphonies, coupled as here with his own Berio-like visitations on various Hungarian...
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Mon 21 May, 2018:
Brahms: Song of Destiny – Works for choir and orchestra
Being purely personal, if I ever had to choose one work from Brahms’s canon, it would be A German Requiem. That would leave me without Song of...
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Wed 13 Sep, 2017:
Brahms: Piano Sonata No 3 in F minor, Op 5; 12 Piano Pieces from Opp 39, 76 and 116-119
The beauty of Nelson Freire’s approach to Brahms, aside from its musical finesse and virtuosity, is in the way it marks a contrast between the...
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Fri 08 Sep, 2017:
Colours – Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (arr Debussy); La mer (arr Caplet); Richard Strauss: Salomes Tanz (arr Doebber); Rosenkavalier Waltz Sequence (arr Babin); Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op 28 (arr Singer)
The album title ‘Colours’ is, in a sense, paradoxical, because, if there’s one ingredient that these works lose by being transcribed for two...
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Fri 23 Jun, 2017:
Exiles – Bloch: Schelomo; From Jewish Life; Korngold: Cello Concerto in C major, Op 37; Die tote Stadt, Op 12 (Tanzlied des Pierrot); Prokofiev: Overture on Jewish Themes, Op 34; Alberstein: Sarah Sings a Lullaby to Little Isaac
New recordings of Korngold's Cello Concerto are always welcome. Adapted from his score for the 1946 film Deception (starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid...
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Wed 14 Jun, 2017:
Brahms: Die schöne Magelone, Op 33
Brahms’s 15 Romances from Ludwig Tieck’s ‘The Wondrous Love Story of the Beautiful Magelone and Count Peter of Provence’ make up a romantic...
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Wed 31 May, 2017:
Heimat
In his debut on Sony Classical, Benjamin Appl nails his colours to the mast as the pretender to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s Lieder crown. He’s...
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Tue 07 Feb, 2017:
Tishchenko: Symphony No 8; Concerto for violin, piano and string orchestra; Three Songs to Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva
The opening of the Concerto (2006) finds the violin appealingly expressive, whereas the piano knocks on the door in a fateful manner; the spectre of...
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Wed 01 Feb, 2017:
Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor, Op 11; The Four Ballades
Still in his early 20s, Seoul-born Seong-Jin Cho was winner of the 2015 International Chopin Piano Competition. Mark DeVoto was justly enthusiastic...
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