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Recording of the Week,
Miloš plays guitar works by Rodrigo and de Falla 24th February 2014
The Montenegrin guitarist performs Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez and Fantasia para un Gentilhombre and Falla’s Homenaje a Debussy with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Recording of the Week,
Poulenc from Patricia Petibon and Paavo Järvi 25th November 2013
The fiftieth anniversary of the composer’s death is marked by outstanding performances of three of his sacred works: the Gloria, Stabat mater, and Litanies à la Vierge*.
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Recording of the Week,
Verdi arias from Anna Netrebko 12th August 2013
The Russian soprano marks the composer’s bicentenary with arias and scenes from Don Carlo, Macbeth, Il trovatore, Giovanna d’Arco and I vespri siciliani in a recital which reveals a voice reaching glorious full bloom.
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Recording of the Week,
Claudio Abbado conducts Schumann's Second Symphony 1st July 2013
On the cusp of his eightieth birthday, Abbado brings the chamber-like qualities of his Mozart recordings to the music of Schumann in performances which are shot through with vivacious sparkle and evident love for the music.
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Recording of the Week,
The Complete Works of Pierre Boulez on Deutsche Grammophon 17th June 2013
Assembled under the composer’s personal supervision (and featuring many of his own recordings with Ensemble InterContemporain), this 13-CD collection includes several works which have not previously appeared on CD and features fearless pianism from Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Maurizio Pollini.
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Recording of the Week,
Mahler and Berg from Boulez 11th March 2013
Anna Prohaska is on mesmerising form in Berg’s Lulu-Suite, whilst the veteran conductor’s trademark attention to detail and balance pays huge dividends in Mahler’s early cantata Das klagende Lied, featuring outstanding contributions from Johan Botha, Anna Larsson and Dorothea Röschmann.
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Recording of the Week,
Mozart’s Don Giovanni 10th September 2012
Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s project cycle of Mozart’s major operas on Deutsche Grammophon gets off to a scintillating start with a starrily-cast take on ’Il dissoluto punito’, with Ildebrando d’Arcangelo as the eponymous libertine, and Diana Damrau and Joyce DiDonato as Anna and Elvira.
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Recording of the Week,
New Shostakovich discovery - Orango 2nd July 2012
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the world premiere recording of an embryonic opera which Shostakovivch abandoned partway through the Prologue, fleshed out and orchestrated here by Gerard McBurney.
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Recording of the Week,
Bruckner Symphonies from Rattle and Barenboim 28th May 2012
Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in the Seventh Symphony, whilst Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker tackle the Ninth.
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Recording of the Week,
Schoenberg and Berg 13th February 2012
Isabelle Faust pairs the Berg and Beethoven violin concertos to great effect with Orchestra Mozart and Claudio Abbado, whilst Pierre Boulez brings breathtaking clarity to Schoenberg’s densely-orchestrated Pelleas et Melisande with the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester.
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Recording of the Week,
Fritz Kreisler 2nd January 2012
Chris enjoys two tributes to the violin virtuoso and composer Fritz Kreisler, who died fifty years ago this month: a 10-CD vintage collection entitled The Charming Maverick and Liebesfreud, Liebesleid, in which his own recordings sit alongside accounts of his music by an array of great modern violinists.
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Recording of the Week,
Gustavo Dudamel 15th August 2011
The young Venezuelan conductor proves himself to be ‘a great musician with sound musical instincts ‘ in live recordings of Bruckner, Sibelius and Nielsen with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
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Recording of the Week,
Daniel Barenboim plays Chopin and conducts Tchaikovsky 2nd May 2011
The pianist joins Andris Nelsons and the Staatskapelle Berlin for the two Chopin piano concertos, and conducts an electrifying Pathétique with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which he co-founded with the late Edward Said.
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Recording of the Week,
Pergolesi's Stabat Mater 14th March 2011
Anna Netrebko and Marianna Pizzolato join Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell’ Accademia di Santa Cecilia for an unusually full-blooded account of Pergolesi’s best-known work, plus a chamber cantata apiece.
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Recording of the Week,
Lisa Batiashvili - Echoes of Time 21st February 2011
The Georgian violinist makes her debut on Deutsche Grammophon with a program of works by composers whose lives and music were influenced by political upheaval in the former Soviet Union, including Shostakovich, Kancheli and Pärt.
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Recording of the Week,
Elīna Garanča goes Spanish 23rd August 2010
The Latvian mezzo sings the title-role in Bizet’s Carmen from the Metropolitan Opera on DVD, and explores gypsy music still further on her new recital Habanera, which includes music from zarzuela, operetta and musical theatre.
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Recording of the Week,
Bach for Violin and Voice 11th January 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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Recording of the Week,
Vivaldi in a new light 13th October 2008
Daniel Hope directs the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in a programme of music by the ‘Red Priest’, including the ‘Tempesta di mare’ concerto, the ‘La Follia’ sonata, and ‘Andromeda Liberata’, with guest soloist Anne Sofie von Otter.
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Recording of the Week,
Songs her mother taught her 22nd September 2008
The Czech mezzo Magdalena Kožená goes back to her roots with a programme of songs by Janacek, Dvorak, Leopold Kozeluch, Petr Eben and others, accompanied with style and sensitivity by Malcolm Martineau.
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Recording of the Week,
Bach Fugues from Onyx and the Emersons 16th June 2008
A British brass quintet and American string quartet (who recently recorded an impressive account of The Art of Fugue) tackle fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier.
