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Handel: Acis and Galatea
RecommendedRobert Gambill, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Robert Lloyd & Edith Mathis
ORF Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Peter Schreier
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Building a Library, March 2000, Also Recommended
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 & Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons and the CBSO respond to the Pathétique symphony's mood of fate-shrouded tragedy in a way that's lyrical rather than melodramatic...Even among the formidable recorded competition, the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2011, Editor's Choice
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Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
RecommendedJessye Norman (Jocaste), Thomas Moser (Oedipus), Alexandru Ionita (Shepherd), Michel Piccoli (narrator)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Colin Davis
The pace is unerringly right, the rhythms never monotonously mechanical, the score's phrasing and accents scrupulously realized...Jocastas notoriously tend to unsteadiness, but Jessye Norman... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also Recommended
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Szymanowski: Violin Concertos 1 and 2 & Myths Op. 30
Baiba Skride (violin), Lauma Skride (piano)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
The First Concerto's opening here is vigorous and cleanly etched, with detailed recording...Skride's performance...is full of tonal variety, and fearless in the often vertiginous tessitura. She... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Concerto Choice
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Schumann: Violin Concertos & Phantasie
Baiba Skride (violin)
Danish National Symphony Orchestra, John Storgårds
[the Concerto] has a slow movement of otherworldly beauty… Baiba Skride negotiates it admirably… her silky pianissimo playing in the Violin Concerto is a decided asset. It’s a valuable and enterprising... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice
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[Arutiunian] Ott’s trumpet sound has a consistent, pleasing tonal quality throughout its range.[Desenclos] The range of expression is very wide, and there is some lovely and tender slow music... — More…
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Winner - Concerto
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Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621
Werner Hollweg (Tito), Carol Neblett (Vitellia), Catherine Malfitano (Servilia), Tatiana Troyanos (Sesto), Anne Howells (Annio), Kurt Rydl (Publio)
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper & Wiener Philharmoniker, James Levine
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Nouveauté
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Building a Library, March 2016, Also Recommended
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Skride’s championship of a fellow Latvian [Eduard Erdmann] is welcome, but she is unpartisan and brings the same affection and sense of authority to his music as the rest of the programme. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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Grieg’s Second Sonata sounds gorgeously, openly melancholic. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, Chamber Choice
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