Cedille
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All but one of these composers died at the hands of the Nazis. As such, there’s more than a shadow of pathos over this otherwise delightful clutch of chamber works. —
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The American Jory Vinikour has an authentic feel for this music … The harpsichord is very well recorded, with a good balance between clarity, tone and ambience. —
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Eclipse
Chamber Music by Mischa Zupko
Sang Mee Lee (violin), Wendy Warner (cello), Mischa Zupko (piano)
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Stacy Garrop: Mythology Symphony
CCPA Symphony Orchestra, CCPA Chamber Orchestra, Alondra de la Parra, Markand Thakar
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Sephardic Journey
David Cunliffe (cello), Desiree Ruhstrat (violin)
Cavatina Duo, Avalon String Quartet
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There’s an elegance and sheer class which makes it good, and then there’s Wendy Warner to make it really good. Her solo playing is always pretty, melodies given to her cello always unfold with... —
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Schuman's setting of passages from Drum Taps is very obviously a product of a time when the US was preoccupied with the second world war, while Sowerby's setting of words by St Francis of Assisi... —
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The Soviet Experience Volume II
String Quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich and his Contemporaries
Pacifica Quartet
The expected rhetoric and terror of Shostakovich's Soviet armour are here carefully measured with universal frameworks of great sonic beauty, whether fragile or strong: Beethoven, thank goodness,... —
