Chandos
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utterly gripping in Noseda’s hands and puts fine versions by Bernard Haitink and Kurt Masur quite in the shade —
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Stott and the Heritage Trio imbue the hushed sections with a sense of eerie menace, refusing to smooth the edges, which is certainly not to say they are rough and ready elsewhere...the exquisite... —
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Donizetti: Don Pasquale
Andrew Shore (Don Pasquale), Jason Howard (Dr Malatesta), Barry Banks (Ernesto), Lynne Dawson (Norina), Clive Bayley (Notary)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry
Andrew Shore's ripe buffo-baritone is ideally suited to Pasquale. A thoroughly delightful performance. —
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Too rarely heard concertos...for Shelley, it's an utterly jaw-dropping tour de force. —
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Bavouzet reveals himself a Mozartian every bit as mercurially imaginative and technically audacious as he already has been In the piano music of Haydn…The collaborative vigour of the concerto... —
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Great Operatic Arias 16 - Sir Thomas Allen Volume 1
Sung in English
Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Brindley Sherratt (Wurm), Janice Watson (Rosalinde), Janice Watson (Hanna)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry
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Special offer. Barber: Summer Music, Beach: Pastorale and other American works
Reykjavík Wind Quintet
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The [Piano Quartet's] spirit suggests a clean bill of health to contrast with the feverish outpourings of Vienna's hothouse fin de siecle...Ben-Haim's style has a distinctively lyrical slant... —
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Johan Halvorsen: Orchestral Works Volume 1
Marianne Thorsen (violin)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Järvi has Beecham's gift in making the merely worthy sound exceptional and so it proves with the symphony, written for Halvorsen's own pleasure...The performances throughout are top-notch and... —
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