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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedLisa Milne (soprano) & Birgit Remmert (alto)
Budapest Festival Orchestra & The Hungarian Radio Choir, Iván Fischer
…Fischer… rarely pushes too hard. The orchestral sound is lean but not undernourished, allowing for even balance between contesting lines - outstanding in the funereal coda of the first movement... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Editor's Choice
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Johann Sebastian Bach… wrote Cantata 82, Ich habe genug, in 1727… Florilegium play it with touching gentleness, a filigree of one-to-a-part strings, Ashley Solomon's soft-toned baroque flute,... — More…
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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Amaryllis Dieltiens (soprano), Siri Karoline Thornhill (soprano), Tim Mead (alto), Matthew White (alto), Gerd Türk (tenor - Evangelist), Julian Podger (tenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass) & Sebastian Noack (bass)
The Netherlands Bach Society with Kampen Boys Choir, Jos...
He has two quartets of soloists which also provide Choirs 1 and 2, but adds eight more voices to the first choir so the double choruses are unbalanced, 12 singers pitted against four. It's astonishingly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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Bolivian Baroque Volume 3 Music for the Mission and La Plata
James Johnstone (organ)
Florilegium, Arakaendar Bolivia Choir, Ashley Solomon
The sound is captivating - wholly unmannered, fresh-toned and inexhaustibly animated...Their commitment, enjoyment and communication is palpable...the music itself is totally absorbing from... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, Disc of the month
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There is indeed little that these players cannot project in terms of multifacted lyricism, colour and dramatic presence, and this is matched by the very best in modern brass programming…all... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Sandstrøm has clearly upped the level of vocal expertise he demands of his choirs as the years have gone by. But these Swedish singers take it all in their stride, seeming to find no problem... — More…
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Traditional Swedish folksongs are interwoven with newer choral works — More…
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It is refreshing to hear Zomer's less 'operatic' voice, with plenty of early music expertise, tackling arias with emotional affinity and stylish eloquence. Schneemann's oboe-playing is an ideally... — More…
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The Gents The Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal Vocal Ensemble
Diapente Viol Consort, Niec van der Meulen, Robert Kuizenga, Siebe Henstra
The Gents, Peter Dijkstra
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Interpretatively, Cooper offers a fascinatingly complementary approach to Andreas Staier in his outstanding late-Haydn box. …Staier… proves on the whole stricter, crisper, more clear-cut in... — More…
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