CD, Gál, H (composer)
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Hans Gál: Chamber Music
Katalin Kertész, Reijo Tunkkari, Hanna Pakkala, Emiliano Travasino, Lauri Pulakka, Ulla Lampela
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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,... —
Awards:
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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 Hidden Treasure: Hans Gál's unpublished Lieder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... —
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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 Voices, Vol. 3
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Pixels Ensemble, Borealis Choir, Bridget Budge, Stephen Muir
Gál's profound humanism shines through in music that is expressive yet restrained...For those attuned to the understated appeal of to mid-20th-century choral earlymusic, this disc is a revelation,... —
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Serenade For Clarinet & Strings: Krenek, Gal, Penderecki
Kilian Herold (clarinet), Florian Donderer (violin), Barbara Buntrock (viola), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello)
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... —
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Hans Gál: Piano Quartet in A Major, Suite Op. 24, Concertino Op. 43 & Impromptu
Gottlieb Wallisch (piano), Barna Kabori (violin), Georg Hamann (viola), Christophe Pantillon (cello), Hartmut Rohde (viola), Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra
A skittering Piano Quartet, a Piano Suite that deftly traverses the emotional spectrum from a decorous Minuet to a funereal Sarabande and an unashamedly neoclassical Piano Concertino. All remind... —
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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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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... —
Awards:
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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... —
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Opera, May 2019
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