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The famed King’s Singers attention to pin-point pitching, slick ensemble, and deft balances between the voices are present in abundance. The two Beatles arrangements are particularly successful…The... — More…
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New, Offer, Bernstein: Suite For Orchestra From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Where comparisons exist, Alsop is neater than the man himself. She knows how to swing but never over-eggs the pudding…There’s more to the set than quotation-spotting. — More…
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Alison Balsom: Seraph
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Alison Balsom (trumpet)
Scottish Ensemble, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Renes
Seraph may not quite be another Veni, Veni Emmanuel...But it's still very enjoyable, from the Haydn-tinged jollity of the first movement, through a mysterious and lyrical slow movement to the... — More…
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Offer, La Fauvette Passerinette
A Messiaen premiere with birds, landscapes and homages
Peter Hill (piano)
Hill places the new work within an exceptionally well-crafted recital in which Messiaen's music is a recurrent thread in a span of resonances, influences and affinities...Whether in Dutilleux... — More…
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Offer, Landscapes: Haydn, Takemitsu, Bartók & Pärt
Schumann Quartet
Here's another enlightened programme from the young German Schumann Quartet...Haydn's Sunrise is freshly radiant in their hands, the Menuett almost swung with an elastic rhythmic bounce, the... — More…
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Emmanuel Pahud: Solo
Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Taken at face value, the order and selection of works seems entirely random…However, the eccentric programme is carefully considered; repeated listening reveals new parallels between the pieces.... — More…
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Offer, Japanese Guitar Music, Vol. 4
Shin-ichi Fukuda (guitar)
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Offer, Takemitsu - Chamber Music
Robert Aitken (flute)
New Music Concerts Ensemble
Takemitsu's work in the final decade of his life was gentle, full of tenderness, sentiment and sighs. But he never entirely discarded the starker beauty of his earlier work. Air distills much... — More…
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A String Around Autumn
Philip Dukes (viola), Sharon Bezaly (flute), Noriko Ogawa (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka
Since Takemitsu's evolution into selfconfessed Romantic, virtually every major label has released something by him, so Otaka has stiff competition, notably Patrick Gallois's fine reading of Water... — More…
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Grimaud interprets a multitude of styles with passionate authority. Her tellingly nuanced narrative flow in Albéniz's 'Almeria' bodes well for a complete Iberia down the road, should Grimaud... — More…
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