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Offer, The Romantic Piano Concerto 11 - Scharwenka & Sauer
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Stephen Hough (piano)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Foster
A glitteringly worthy addition to the Hyperion series ... Stephen Hough exhibits dazzling flair in showpiece concertos by Sauer and Scharwenka – and plenty of stamina ... Hough plays throughout... — More…
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Every so often a major pianist reclaims Scarlatti for the piano with an outstanding recording. As Ralph Kirkpatrick put it, Scarlatti's harpsichord, while supremely itself, is continually menacing... — More…
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Schmidt, F: Symphony No. 4 in C major, etc.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst
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Here's a very attractively prepared menu whose main course is the Stabatmater for countertenor and strings.
Hors-d'oeuvres and side-dishes consist of a ripieno concerto (RV114), a chamber cantata... — More…
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The Mosaïques, at a rather slower tempo than usual, find in the themeand- variation finale of the G major Quartet, No 5, an unsuspected reflective tenderness.
The theme itself is played with... — More…
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Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D795
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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano) & Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (reader)
Bostridge’s peculiarly beseeching voice enshrines the vulnerability, tender feeling and obsessive love of the youthful miller … a soulsearching interpretation — More…
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Vivaldi: Il Proteo
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Double & Triple Concertos
Christophe Coin (cello)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
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This wears its 20 years well - clean, rather close stereo has two or three soloists distanced from yet integrated with the buoyant orchestral support. Packed with stylish detail and rich solo... — More…
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Birtwistle: Gawain
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Marie Angel (Morgan le Fay), Anne Howells (Lady de Hautdesert), Francois Le Roux (Gawain), John Tomlinson (The Green Knight/Bertilak de Hautdesert), Penelope Walmsley-Clark (Guinevere), Richard Greager (Arthur), Omar Ebrahim (The Fool), Alan Ewing (Agravain), John Marsden (Ywain), Kevin Smith (Bishop...
Tomlinson pulls off the feat magnificently. There's a deep, grainy quality to his voice that catches the sorrow and cynicism of the Green Knight perfectly...Another strength of this recording... — More…
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