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Ernest Ansermet Conducts Ballet Music
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Suisse Romande Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Elgar - The Fringes of the Fleet
RecommendedRoderick Williams (solo baritone), Nicholas Lester, Duncan Rock, Laurence Meikle (baritones)
Guildford Philharmonic, Tom Higgins
The admirable Roderick Williams is entrusted with the lion's share of duties and he is ably abetted by his three vocal colleagues; the Guildford PO, too, is on its toes under Tom Higgins's watchful... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th November 2009
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Elgar Rediscovered: An Anthology of Forgotten Recordings
May Grafton (narrator & piano), Alfredo Campoli (violin), Harold Pedlar (piano), Stanley Roper (organ), Baker (piano), Fred Taylor (baritone), Frederic Austin (baritone), Maartje Offers (contralto), Albert Sammons (violin), Gerald Moore (piano), May Grafton (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra,...
Copiously detailed presentation and judicious transfers grace a fascinating issue that all experienced Elgarians are sure to appreciate. — More…
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Dame Ethel Smyth: Songs and Ballads
Lucy Stevens (contralto), Elizabeth Marcus (piano), Berkeley Ensemble, Odaline de la Martinez
Smyth produced many songs that could hold their own in any Lieder recital…The crowning glory of this collection, nevertheless, is the opening work, the Four Songs for voice and chamber orchestra... — More…
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Stanford: String Quintets & Intermezzi
Members of the Dante and Endellion Quartets, Benjamin Frith (piano)
Their performances of the quintets are exemplary; executed with the utmost precision, impeccably balanced voices, lush in tone, and phrased with great care and affection. Jenkinson partners... — More…
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surely only a dedicated ideologue would deny that Donohoe has here found a playing style that feels exactly right for the idiom of the music itself. — More…
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K576 stands at the centre of this enormously satisfying third volume of Donohoe’s Mozart cycle….Donohoe invests this music with a real sense of pathos and world-weariness, extracting a wealth... — More…
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Beethoven: Symphonies, Arranged for Piano Duo, Vol. 3
Symphony Nos. 2 & 7
Tessa Uys, Ben Schoeman (piano)
I was immediately struck by the orchestral quality of their sound, its depth, volume and colour. That’s a benefit of having four hands at one piano, rather than two, and surely testament to... — More…
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The Dante Quartet’s performances are superbly stylish and accurate; the First Quartet is led by second violinist Oscar Perks, who delivers every bit as impressively as leader Krysia Osostowicz... — More…
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