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New, Schoenberg: Transfigured Night & Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
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Alisa Weilerstein (cello)
Trondheim Soloists
What an intriguing, captivating sound they make: delicate one moment and then pleasingly robust the next…There's a gutsiness that is echoed by Weilerstein herself as she digs in most enjoyably... — More…
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Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
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Stig Andersen (Waldemar), Andreas Conrad (Klaus-Narr), Soile Isokoski (Tove), Monica Groop (Waldtaube), Ralf Lukas (Bauer) & Barbara Sukowa (Sprecher)
Philharmonia Voices, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus & The Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
…exciting, lucid, wonderfully well-proportioned, and recorded in stunning sound the final hymn to the rising sun would lift the most morbidly lethargist out of their chair. — More…
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Offer, Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
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Alwyn Mellor (soprano), Anna Larsson (mezzo-soprano), Stuart Skelton (tenor), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (tenor), James Creswell (bass) & Sir Thomas Allen (speaker)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Edward Gardner
The hero is Edward Gardner, under whose wonderfully flexible beat this hyper-Romantic music positively breathes in long lyrical phrases and paragraphs. Nor are the excitements lacking: the coda... — More…
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Hindemith & Schoenberg: String Trios
Trio Zimmermann
Their playing is phenomenally accomplished…This is likely to be one of the chamber discs of the year. — More…
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Brahms/Schoenberg: Piano Quartet Op. 25
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht
the Netherlanders are more ardent in the songful slow movement, more upbeat in its central march, and far more exciting in the headlong Hungarian gypsy finale. — More…
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Schoenberg: String Quartets Nos. 2 & 4
Malin Hartelius (soprano)
Gringolts Quartet
The Second Quartet’s yearning first movement and the desperate scutterings of its scherzo are conveyed in febrile, hyper-Romantic style…Yet the Gringolt’s precision and finesse in the Fourth... — More…
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Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 4 & Verklärte Nacht
Vladimír Bukac (viola) & Petr Prause (cello)
Prazák Quartet
Reger And His Contemporaries Brahms, Bruckner & Schönberg
Opus-Vocale, Berlin, Volker Hedtfeld
Schöne Welt, wo bist Du?
Julia Kleiter (soprano) & Michael Gees (piano)
Performances by the cool-voiced Julia Kleiter and pianist Michael Gees tend to have a leavening effect of the music. The sound quality (aided by a reverberant acoustic) is uniformly radiant,... — More…
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Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire & Suite
Václav Kunt (flute), Milan Polak (clarinet/bass clarinet), Alda Caiello (soprano-sprechgesang), Karel Dohnal (clarinet), Vit Spilka (bass clarinet)
Prazak Quartet, Pavel Hula (direction)
what characterizes the playing of the Prazak Quartet and its colleagues is an extreme delicacy and lightness...Caiello is in perfect equilibrium with the ensemble and she never exaggerates the... — More…