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Segreti Accenti: Italian Renaissance Music
Nadine Balbesi (soprano), Fernando Marin (bowed vihuelas & viol)
Cantar alla Viola
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JS Bach & Schnittke: Concertos
Maria Alikhanova (flute) & Dmitri Bulgakov (oboe)
Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, Misha Rachlevsky
the composer has ensured a fresh slant on his most familiar work such that it loses only a little of its provocative force. It helps that Maira Alikhanova and Dmitri Bulgakov are so evidently... —
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Perhaps the first thing that strikes one on hearing this release is the quality of the pianism. Not its dazzling virtuosity...but the sheer full-blooded refinement of the playing...it's always... —
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Golijov's 'The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind' is 'programmatic' on a number of levels. If this suggest a rather dry quasi-philological exercise, then Golijov's music is anything but... —