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Handel: Dixit Dominus, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne & Zadok the Priest
Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord & conductor)
Apollo’s Fire
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There's a real sense of engagement and fun about this performance. Sorrell's version of La Folia, scored by Vivaldi as a trio sonata, is nicely refreshed by her concerto grosso arrangement...This... —
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano) & Peter Wedd (tenor)
Manchester Camerata, Douglas Boyd
[The arrangement] works remarkably well...This performance under the greatly gifted Douglas Boyd is impressive...in this recording many interesting details come to light, and the soloists are... —
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A Song More Silent
New Works to Mark Remembrance Day
Alexandra Stevenson (soprano), Sophie Bevan (soprano), Carolyn Dobbin (mezzo), Ben Johnson (tenor), David Kimberg (baritone), Michael Chance (counter-tenor)
Portsmouth Grammar School Chamber Choir & London Mozart Players, Portsmouth Grammar Junior School Choir, The Choristers of St. Thomas’s...
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J S Bach: Orchestral Suites for a Young Prince
including a reconstruction of Suite No. 2
Monica Huggett (violin/director) & Gonzalo X. Ruiz (oboe)
Ensemble Sonnerie
Nothing lacks from Sonnerie's playing… which is generously shaped, beautifully judged for pace and balance, and attractively recorded. —
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Nimrod Borenstein’s coruscating Cieli d’Italia and Tchaikovsky’s intense Souvenir de Florence head up an absorbing programme. The quartet perform with terrific élan. —
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Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from The Nutcracker, Swan Lake & Sleeping Beauty
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Vasily Petrenko demonstrates his qualities in choice selections from Tchaikovsky's masterful ballet scores, characterising every moment while his orchestra brings their colours to vibrant life. —
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as different as can be - yet without ever sounding contrived or perverse...Simply put, he makes the Goldbergs sound more like that other supreme set of piano variations, Beethoven's Diabelli... —
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Recordings of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are hardly thin on the ground, but this swaggering version...more than holds its own against the competition. The sound is closely miked, and the most... —
