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Handel's Berenice
14th Jun 2010
Alan Curtis presides over a highly persuasive account of Handel’s late opera with Il Complesso Barocco, starring Klara Ek in the title-role and Argentine countertenor Franco Fagioli as Demetrio.
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Alfredo Casella
31st May 2010
Gianandrea Noseda and Francesco La Vecchia offer sterling advocacy for the Italian composer’s first two symphonies, composed in the first decade of the twentieth century and full of ‘imaginative orchestration and dark sonorities’.
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Shostakovich Preludes & Fugues from Melnikov
24th May 2010
The Russian pianist brings atmosphere, mystery, weight and solemnity to the 24 Preludes and Fugues dedicated to Tatiana Nikolayeva.
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The multi-talented Julia Fischer
17th May 2010
The German violinist joins Martin Helmchen at the keyboard for the F minor Fantaisie for Piano Four Hands in her debut recording as a pianist, following the Grand Duo D574 and the Fantasie in C for violin and piano D934.
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Frédéric Chopin
26th Apr 2010
Stephen Hough and Nelson Freire pay homage to the bicentenary of the Polish composer’s birth, and Warner Classics and Deutsche Grammophon issue extensive anniversary editions.
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Wagner Lohengrin - BBC Awards
19th Apr 2010
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Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
12th Apr 2010
Jos van Immerseel and the Flemish period-instrument orchestra Anima Eterna bring transparency and raw excitement to Berlioz’s ‘episodes in the life of an artist’ on Zigzag.
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia and Joyce DiDonato
5th Apr 2010
The American mezzo sings an astonishing Rosina from a wheelchair after breaking her ankle on the opening night of Covent Garden’s production, with Juan Diego Flórez as her suitor Count Almaviva and Pietro Spagnoli as the eponymous Spanish barber.
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Romantic Piano Concertos
29th Mar 2010
Hyperion’s venerable series reaches its fiftieth volume and enters more familiar territory with Stephen Hough joining the Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä for the Tchaikovsky concertos.
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Robin Ticciati and Brahms' Choral Works
22nd Mar 2010
The 27-year-old conductor brings a wonderful Brahmsian glow to the Alto Rhapsody (with Alice Coote as soloist), Nänie, Gesang der Parzen and the Schicksalslied with the Bamberger Symphoniker and Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks.
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Mozart Symphonies from Mackerras - Volume 2
15th Mar 2010
The much-anticipated second volume of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Mozart series with their conductor laureate features joyous and life-enhancing accounts of Nos. 29, 31, 32, 35 and 46.
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Bernard Coutaz and Harmonia Mundi
8th Mar 2010
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Thomas Adès
1st Mar 2010
Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker (who commissioned the piece) in Tevot, premiered in 2007, and the composer himself conducts the violin concerto Concentric Paths, with its dedicatee Anthony Marwood as soloist.
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Strauss: Alpine Symphony
22nd Feb 2010
Bernard Haitink and the London Symphony Orchestra celebrate the awe-inspiring force of nature and Strauss’s ability to depict that in his writing.
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Handel: Giulio Cesare and the Brockes Passion
15th Feb 2010
A stylish account of Handel’s best-known opera from the young Greek conductor George Petrou (with Swedish mezzo Kristina Hammarström in the title-role), and a ‘superbly played and sung’ reading of an early rarity from Peter Neumann.
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Debussy and the Prix de Rome
8th Feb 2010
Hervé Niquet and the Brussels Philharmonic explore the young Debussy’s numerous attempts to win the prestigious prize, including Le Gladiateur, Le printemps, La Damoiselle élue and L’Enfant prodigue.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards Shortlist
25th Jan 2010
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Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet
18th Jan 2010
A ‘superb reading of Prokofiev's supreme masterpiece’ from Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra, two decades after the conductor’s landmark account of the piece with the Kirov Orchestra.
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Bach for Violin and Voice
11th Jan 2010
Hilary Hahn, Christine Schäfer and Matthias Goerne join forces with the Münchener Kammerorchester for arias from works including the St Matthew Passion, the Mass in B minor and numerous cantatas.
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A Ring cycle for the 21st Century
4th Jan 2010
La Fura del Baus brings Wagner’s eighteen-hour epic to life with striking choreography and special effects, and a superb cast including American soprano Jennifer Wilson as Brünnhilde and bass Matti Salminen as Fasolt, Hunding and Hagen.
