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Its virtues are by now well-rehearsed: ringing tonal opulence and fastidious balance are at the service of readings manifestly intelligent and often hugely compelling. — More…
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Kerkezos makes the classical saxophone sound great - a sprightly, unblemished tone coloured with an excited, balmy vibrato and, obviously, the London Symphony Orchestra play faultlessly...One... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2010, Editor's Choice
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The Rogés' arrangement of Debussy's La mer is so resouceful that you hardly regret the absence of orchestral colour and range...you could hardly better the Rogés' presentation, finely recorded... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2013, Editor's Choice
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…Schäfer… rises to the challenges. She shows herself to be a distinctive artist, who manages to add something to our appreciation of Winterreise, though the recording is not always able to... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2009, First Choice
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Led with flair and imagination by Michael Collins, London Winds give a vital, refined performanceof the Gran Partita, exceptionally transparent in texture and full of felicitous detail: the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2007, Editor's Choice
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His playing of the German Dances has a muscularity and a lovely transparency, while the Hungarian Melody has an exquisite soulfulness. But what strikes the listener from the first few bars of... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, Instrumental Choice
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Bach - Violin Sonatas
Viktoria Mullova (violin), Ottavio Dantone (harpsichord, organ), Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba) & Luca Pianca (lute)
Mullova's warm tone and lightly articulated playing - the Allegro of the A major Sonata affords a particularly rewarding instance - are substantial rewards in themselves, but over and above... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Variations & Fugue on a theme by Purcell, Op. 34
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Petrenko launches Purcell’s theme at a statelier tempo [than Britten] and is sometimes tempted to linger over detail in the variations, though the solo playing is often lovely. Yet his fugue... — More…
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Record Review, 10th July 2021, Record of the Week
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The innate classicism of the Grieg and Tchaikovsky is felt as well as heard in deft articulation and elegant nuancing so that the Mozart, far from being the odd man out, is very much a kindred... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2009, Editor's Choice
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if you can accept a measure of vocal unevenness, you'll find [Boesch's] Schöne Müllerin an unflinching exploration of emotional extremes, with baritone and pianist in symbiotic partnership...the... — More…
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