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Offer, Debussy: Les Trois Sonates, The Late Works
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The Three Sonatas
Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano), Tanguy de Williencourt (piano), Magali Mosnier (flute), Antoine Tamestit viola), Xavier de Maistre (harp), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Javier Perianes (piano)
Until recently this music was almost invariably viewed and experienced through a prism of 19th-century rhetoric – listening to Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov deftly tracing the evanescent... — More…
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Both in his musical and literary responses, Christian Gerhaher leaves nothing unquestioned. Each word is weighed. Each note calibrated. Yet for all that, seemingly spontaneous and instinctive,... — More…
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They mix cantatas and trio sonatas with a judicious flair…Nothing is over-stated or under-nurtured; and Meunier always finds a deeply human dimension to Buxtehude’s piety that taps into the bürgerlich... — More…
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Offer, Langgaard: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6
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Anu Komsi (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic, Sakari Oramo
Oramo and the Vienna Philharmonic [take] on two contrasted works by Rued Langgaard that illuminate this composer in all his stylistic diversity and recklessness...Such an idiom should be in this... — More…
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Offer, Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 & pieces for solo piano
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Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
Orchestre National de France, Emmanuel Krivine
The nimbleness and fluidity of his playing is remarkable. It’s a zingy performance (of the Second Concerto) all round, with a vigorous performance from the Orchestre National de France, conducted... — More…
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Offer, Halévy: La Reine de Chypre
Véronique Gens, Cyrille Dubois, Étienne Dupuis
Flemish Radio Choir & Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Hervé Niquet
Gens’s warm voice and intelligent pacing lend lustre to the only female role and the male singers, too, are generally easy on the ear. — More…
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Beautifully sung by unaccompanied voices, this programme of devotional music is built around the contemplative Requiem. — More…
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Offer, Ombra mai fu
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Francesco Cavalli Opera Arias
Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor)
Artaserse
If Handel’s Xerxes has a showmanship, an aesthetic swagger that Cavalli’s lacks in the lilting prettiness of his own ode to a plane tree, we see the Italian’s skill emerge elsewhere – in the... — More…
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Offer, Brett Dean: Hamlet
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Allan Clayton (Hamlet), Sarah Connolly (Gertrude), Barbara Hannigan (Ophelia), Rod Gilfry (Claudius), Kim Begley (Polonius), John Tomlinson (Ghost/Grave-Digger), Jacques Imbrailo (Horatio), David Butt Philip (Laertes)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski
Dean’s score succeeds through rampant imagination and simple wisdom…[Clayton’s] portrayal of Hamlet’s decline would be noteworthy even without singing that is full of expressive meaning and always... — More…