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More Divine Than Human: Music from the Eton Choirbook, Vol. 1
The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Stephen Darlington
What makes this disc entrancingly fresh is its use of boy choristers: their translucence as a choir, their colours as soloists, and their easy swing through florid passages inject lightness... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Early Music
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Elgar: Violin Concerto
RecommendedPhilippe Graffin (violin)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
This is a passionate, strongly argued performance, with Graffin's extrovert solo performance well supported by the RLPO and Handley. —
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Building A Library, October 2021, Also Recommended
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…this recording boasts some of the most beautiful cello playing I have heard in years. The highlight for me is their brilliant account of Märchenbilder, Schumann's 'fairy tale pictures' for... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2007, Disc of the Month
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Dvorák: Love Songs, Op. 83, Cypresses & Piano Quintet
Adriana Kucerova (soprano) & Christoph Eschenbach (piano), Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Thymos Quartet
The playing in the quartet arrangements and the Quintet is very fine, but not everyone will respond to an interpretation which, in search of an expressive edge, often adopts abrupt changes of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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Baldassarre Galuppi - Forgotten Arias of a Venetian Master
Catherine King (mezzo soprano)
Il Canto di Orfeo, Gianluca Capuano (harpsichord and director)
Avie here marks his 300th anniversary – largely forgotten amid the Mozart and Shostakovich junketings – with a clutch of opera seria arias from the 1730s and '40s, before he teamed up with the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2007, Editor's Choice
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…a wonderful testament to the exemplary partnership that has developed between cellist Antonio Menses and pianist Menahem Pressler over the past decade. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Editor's Choice
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Claire Booth and Christopher Glynn have nurtured a love of Grainger’s folk song transcriptions and re-compositions since university days 20 years ago. Now the love has exploded onto this CD,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Première année: Suisse
and Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
Charles Owen (piano)
Outstanding is ‘Vallée d’Obermann’, a warhorse usually flogged brutally through conservatoires everywhere. Owen’s thoroughly sympathetic treatment redeems Liszt from his own excesses and demonstrates... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto 1690–1740
Volume Three: The Golden Age
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
…a well-chosen programme played with fervour and infectious esprit… —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Baroque Instrumental
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Coleridge-Taylor & Dvorak: Violin Concertos
Philippe Graffin (violin)
Johannesburg Philharmonic, Michael Hankinson
The resurgence of interest in the music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor reaches another milestone with this long-overdue first recording of his Violin Concerto. Coleridge-Taylor completed it in 1911... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2004, Editor's Choice
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