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John Wilson shows an instinctive flair for Copland's syncopated and changing rhythms, and brings out all the music's broad humour and intimate poetry — More…
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Elliott Carter: Late Works
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Colin Currie (percussion), Isabelle Faust (violin), Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Oliver Knussen
brimming with youthful energy and Haydnesque, impish wit...Aimard brings fluent delicacy to the concertos and the orchestral soundings. He is matched in filigree precision by co-protagonists,... — More…
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The quality of this playing is altogether exceptional. Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor takes nothing for granted in music. Nor should we in listening to him...he plainly understands that every interpretation... — More…
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Ólafsson’s interpretations inhabit a unique, distinct and extraordinary world all their own...[he] possesses that rare gift of illuminating a familiar work in unexpected ways, revealing hidden... — More…
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Shibe performs with superb artistry some of the now classics that Bream inspired...Prime in any such catalogue is Britten's 1963 Nocturnal after John Dowland, and Shibe gathers the listener into... — More…
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Crazy Girl Crazy: Music by Gershwin, Berg and Berio
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Barbara Hannigan (soprano/conductor)
Ludwig Orchestra
Crazy Girl Crazy is an album that – just like its muse and protagonist – flouts the rules…The litheness of Hannigan’s voice beguiles, so that the near-segue into the Lulu Suite (1934) comes as... — More…
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Offer, Berio: Sinfonia & Berio/Mahler: Frühe Lieder
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Matthias Goerne (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Synergy Vocals, Josep Pons
We have only to listen to [Berio’s] exquisite song orchestrations, graced with Goerne on riveting, vibrant form, to feel the depth of his empathy, an almost palpable longing to be absorbed into... — More…
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Offer, The Romantic Piano Concerto 70 - Beach, Chaminade & Howell
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Beach, Chaminade & Howell: Piano Concertos
Danny Driver (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Rebecca Miller
Pick of the bunch is the Concerto by Amy Beach…Danny Driver is a highly accomplished soloist, if occasionally lacking in Romantic flexibility; the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Rebecca... — More…
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Offer, Green - Melodies françaises on Verlaine’s poems
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Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Jerome Ducros (piano) & Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
Quatuor Ebène
may be the single most appealing and important French song recital this side of the largely excellent but sometimes uneven Fauré and Debussy discs on Hyperion...Throughout, Jaroussky's singing... — More…
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Weinberg: Orchestral & Chamber Works
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Gidon Kremer (violin & director), Daniil Grishin (viola), Giedre Dirvanauskaite (cello), Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Kremerata Baltica
Kremer and his associates deliver incisive, committed performances...a fascinating piece, performed here with great brilliance. — More…
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