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New, Offer, Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20
State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia “Evgeny Svetlanov”, Vladimir Jurowski
This is a terrific new account. Jurowski’s ‘Svetlanov’ Orchestra – basically the old USSR State Symphony – really has this music coursing through its veins. The orchestra still has a distinctly... — More…
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Offer, 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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Offer, Stravinsky: Perséphone
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Andrew Staples & Pauline Cheviller
Finnish National Opera, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Orchestral textures are clean yet sensuous, rhythms exactingly precise...In lesser hands, the score can seem episodic. Salonen, however, forges it into a unified drama, in which not a note or... — More…
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Few are better acquainted [with the Catalogue] than Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and this set is clearly a long-pondered act of love…Needless to say, Aimard possesses the necessary dazzling virtuosity,... — More…
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New, Offer, Richard Strauss: 'Aber der Richtige'
Violin Concerto & Miniatures
Arabella Steinbacher (violin)
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Foster
The daughter of a repetiteur at the Bavarian State Opera, Steinbacher was exposed to Strauss’s vocal music at a young age, and she colours the soaring lines of four song-transcriptions and her... — More…
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Offer, Martinů: Double Concertos for Violin and Piano
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Momo & Mari Kodama (piano), Sarah & Deborah Nemtanu (violin), Magali Demesse (viola), Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, Lawrence Foster
The biggest challenge here is the Concerto for Two Pianos…the Kodama sisters’ approach with Lawrence Foster and the very fine Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra (who knew?) is less mellow, more... — More…
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Mozart: Sinfonia concertante, Rondo for violin & Concertone in C
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Julia Fischer & Gordon Nikolic (violins)
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg
Listen to the start of the great Sinfonia Concertante, here replete with an energy which doesn't preclude sensitivity of phrasing or detail of instrumental colour. …Fischer and Nikolic emerge... — More…
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New, Rossini: Overtures
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Michele Mariotti
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New, Offer, Debussy: La Mer, Iberia, Images Premier Livre, Six Epigraphes Antiques
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Gustavo Gimeno
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New, Offer, Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6
B’Rock Orchestra, René Jacobs
The textures and tempi are bracing, the balance of woodwinds and strings favourable to the “soloists”, while the wit of the fast movements and forward momentum of the andantes are utterly infectious. — More…