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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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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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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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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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Tre Voci's exceptional musicianship makes apparent the creative kinship between these three beautiful works...Tre Voci brave the potentially harsh light of a close recording so that every nuance... — More…
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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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Offer, Schnittke, Weill & Takemitsu: Works for Violin & Ensemble
Daniel Hope (violin), Simon Mulligan (piano)
English Symphony Orchestra, William Boughton
Full marks to Nimbus for variety. The danger is that three such different composers, combined in a way you'd never expect in a concert, will cancel each other out. Fortunately, the performances... — More…
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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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Otaka: Fantasy for Organ & Orchestra, etc.
Bryan Ashley (organ)
Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka
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