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Fri 03 May, 2019:
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Mon 26 Nov, 2018:
Earth & Sky: Choral premieres by Vaughan Williams
Here’s something of a coup for William Vann and the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea (home to the fabled Chelsea Pensioners): 21 first...
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Mon 29 Jan, 2018:
Four Composers – Four Pieces – Four Hands: Works by Schubert, Chopin, Liszt & Stravinsky
What an interesting and, in the auditioning, persuasive idea – to play four great piano works on different instruments, each contemporary to the...
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Fri 25 Aug, 2017:
Chopin: Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise brillante, Op 22; Rondo à la krakowiak, Op 14; Fantasy on Polish Airs, Op 13; Variations on 'Là ci darem la mano' from Mozart's Don Giovanni, Op 2; Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op posth
Chopin’s two concerti are better known than the four concert pieces, in which the piano is center stage and the orchestra mostly remains discreetly...
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Mon 06 Feb, 2017:
Mozart: Opera and Concert Arias
This anthology of Mozart arias is ably sung by the young German soprano Anett Fritsch. She sings arias from all three soprano roles in Le Nozze di...
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Fri 02 Dec, 2016:
Mozart: Violin Concertos – No 1 in B flat major, K207; No 2 in D major, K211; No 3 in G major, K216; No 4 in D major, K218; No 5 in A major, K219; Adagio in E major, K261; Rondos – in B flat major, K269; in C major, K373
Youthful works mainly written between the ages of 17 and 20, but of a maturity that belies those years. Isabelle Faust and Giovanni Antonini are alive...
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Mon 28 Nov, 2016:
Mozart: Don Giovanni, K 527
These CDs are beautifully presented in a hard-cover book, which includes the libretto and a discussion with conductor Teodor Currentzis. Although I...
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Thu 03 Nov, 2016:
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K 492
The fourth of Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s survey of Mozart’s mature operas from the Baden-Baden Festival is every bit as good as the first three...
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Mon 25 Jan, 2016:
1615 – Gabrieli in Venice
Following the trail blazed by Paul McCreesh, Stephen Cleobury celebrates Venetian poly-choral music and the great Giovanni Gabrieli in particular with...
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Fri 08 Jan, 2016:
Mozart: Operatic Arias
Starting with Elettra’s final aria from Idomeneo, Dorothea Röschmann flings herself from tenderness to despair to absolute raving, allowing her...
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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 01 Sep, 2015:
Pott: Sonata for Viola and Piano (Tooryn Vannin – The Towers of Man); Einzige Tage
These two substantial pieces by Francis Pott (b 1957) include his impressive 30-minute Sonata for Viola and Piano (2013), inspired by architecture and...
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Mon 17 Aug, 2015:
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384
This third instalment in Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Baden-Baden Festival’s Mozart cycle follows a punchy, well-paced Don Giovanni and a...
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Mon 17 Nov, 2014:
Perla Barocca: Early Italian Masterpieces
Baroque violin specialist Rachel Podger and accompanists Marcin Swiatkiewicz (harpsichord, organ) and Daniele Caminiti (theorbo) explore some...
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