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This Bax symphony cycle comes under the baton of the composer's doughtiest champion, and superlatives are in order. Even seasoned Baxians will be startled by the propulsive vigour and sinewy... — More…
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Grieg & Schumann - Piano Concertos
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Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
faster, fiercer, yet more freely expressive than his 1990 version. — More…
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
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Simon Keenlyside (Count), Véronique Gens (Countess), Patrizia Ciofi (Susanna), Lorenzo Regazzo (Figaro), Angelika Kirchschlager (Cherubino), Marie McLaughlin (Marcellina)
Collegium Vocale Gent, Concerto Köln, René Jacobs
René Jacobs always brings new ideas to the operas he conducts, and even to a work as familiar as Figaro he adds something of his own. First of all he offers an orchestral balance quite unlike... — More…
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Robert Simpson disagreed with writers who believed that Beethoven's backward glances to Haydn and Mozart in his Op 18 set were so obvious as to distract attention from his own individuality.... — More…
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Vivaldi: Vespri solenni per la festa dell’Assunzione di Maria Vergine
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Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Anna Simboli (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor), Matteo Bellotto (baritone), Antonio De Secondi (violin)
Concerto Italiano ensemble vocale e strumentale, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This isn't the 'Vivaldi Vespers', or even a reconstruction of a specific event, but a kind of 'sacred concert' in Vespers form, of the sort that Venetian churches in Vivaldi's time would mount... — More…
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Gérard Souzay
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Gérard Souzay (baritone), Jacqueline Bonneau (piano)
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Edouard Lindenberg
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Gibbons: Phantasm
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Consorts for Viols
Susanna Pell (tenor viol), Asako Morikawa (bass viol)
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Offer, Lumieres
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The Unprecedented Expansion of Music in the Age of Enlightenment
Freiburger Barockorchester, Concerto Köln, René Jacobs, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe, Christophe Rousset, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Richard Egarr, Academy of Ancient Music, English Concert, Andrew Manze
Harmonia Mundi have somehow contrived to telescope that most industriously inventive of musical centuries into this 30CD set, by dint of ingenious thematic programming which apportions discs... — More…
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30 CDs
($60.50) $36.25
Adès: America A Prophecy
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Songs & Choral Works
Robin Blaze, Christopher Maltman & Susan Bickley
Polyphony & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Layton & Thomas Ades
Adès’s take on a Madness song about a stressed businessman is a hoot. Although Adès apparently did it from memory, it’s fairly accurate, right down to the piano’s cluster chords. — More…
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Thomas Adès - America
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Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Claron McFadden (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Huw Watkins )piano), Christopher Maltman (baritone)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Thomas Adès