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Schoenberg: Transfigured Night & Haydn: Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
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Alisa Weilerstein (cello)
Trondheim Soloists
In performances of such freshness, verve and chamber transparency, the concept works...You’d go far to find performances of the Haydn concertos that match Alisa Weilerstein’s mix of stylistic... — More…
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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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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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Their playing is phenomenally accomplished…This is likely to be one of the chamber discs of the year. — More…
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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…
These two scores by master and pupil make an absorbing programme...Dabringhaus und Grimm's finely balanced recording captures a wealth of textural subtleties while not for a moment damping down... — More…
Pražák Quartet play Schoenberg
Pražák Quartet: Pavel Hula, Vlastimil Holek (violins), Josef Kluson (viola) & Michal Kanka (cello), with Jaromír Klepac (piano)
These players approach the music with poise and assurance, as a piece that comes at the advanced end of a long Viennese tradition as well as one that looks forward. The results are thoroughly... — More…