CD, Gál, H (composer)
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Coming soon. Hans Gál: Music For Viola, Vol. 2
Hanna Pakkala (viola), Reijo Tunkkari (violin), Lauri Pulakka (cello), Niamh McKenna (flute), Päivi Severeide (harp), Irina Zahharenkova (piano)
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If you think of Korngold, you’ll be in the right area: lush harmonies, soaring melodies and an expert compositional technique. The Briggs Trio responds to the style with enormous affection,... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2018, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Hidden Treasure: Hans Gál's unpublished Lieder
RecommendedChristian Immler (baritone), Helmut Deutsch (piano)
This is a treasure-trove of songs in the tradition of Richard Strauss, melodically radiant and full of sensitivity to atmosphere...Immler is ideally suited to them, with expansive, radiant tone... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Hans Gál: Music for Chamber Orchestra
Reijo Tunkkari (violin), Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Jan Söderblom
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Continental Britons - The Émigré Composers
Nurit Pacht, Konstantin Lifschitz, Christian Immler, Erik Levi, Paul Silverthorne
Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt
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The Orchestra of the Swan provide a quietly compelling account, relishing the many solos, duos and textural intricacies that Gal wrings from his orchestra. Their account of Schumann's C major... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2012, Editor's Choice
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This world premiere recording…is an important act of restitution. Gál’s score, recalling in places Mahler and the Strauss of Ariadne auf Naxos yet possessed of its own voice, may not have sounded... — More…
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Opera, May 2019
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Gesänge Des Orients
Songs of the Orient
Simon Wallfisch & Edward Rushton, Edward Rushton, Simon Wallfisch
This fascinating programme of early twentieth-century songs (many of them by composers condemned as purveyors of ‘degenerate’ music by the Nazis) struck me as a sort of alternative Das Lied... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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Serenade For Clarinet & Strings: Krenek, Gal, Penderecki
Kilian Herold, Barbara Buntrock, Florian Donderer, Tanja Tetzlaff
All is well with the world in these serenades by Gál and Krenek, which breathe the same Viennese air of good humour as exemplars of the form by Mozart, Brahms and Schoenberg...To usher comparatively... — More…
