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Special offer. Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle
Michelle DeYoung (mezzo), John Relyea (bass)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Gardner is extremely good at the ‘big moments’…But Bartok seeks extreme, unspoken reaches of the soul and the Bergen Philharmonic does not always seem to seek them with him…The two singers are... —
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Opera, January 2020, Disc of the Month
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Special offer. Barber: Symphony No. 1, Op. 9, etc.
RecommendedDetroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
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Building a Library, June 2006, First Choice
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Vaughan Williams: In the Fen Country, etc.
RecommendedMichael Davis (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
A most attractive compilation. —
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Building a Library, May 2002, Runner-Up
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The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is its shining, sophisticated self, and there are plenty of opportunities for oboe, clarinet and horn solos…The music, though, is incidental…Nevertheless,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2017
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Johan Svendsen: Orchestral Works Volume 2
Truls Mørk (cello)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
[The Cello Concerto] is a fascinating and addictive work that deserves more airings...But Jarvi and his Norwegians are on scintillating form throughout and the Cello Concerto and dark readings... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11
Sally Burgess (Judith), Sir John Tomlinson (Duke Bluebeard/Minstrel)
Opera North Orchestra, Richard Farnes
This new version… is splendidly recorded, and Farnes coaxes some superb playing from the orchestra. Sally Burgess makes a fine Judith, bringing out the firmness of her love for Bluebeard, as... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2006, Opera Choice
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Hickox… offers an attractive, enterprising coupling… and his account of the Symphony, caught in state-of-the-art sonics, is good, in places excellent. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2007, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. George Antheil: Orchestral Works Vol. 3
Symphony No. 1 'Zingareska', Suite from 'Capital of the World', McKonkey's Ferry, Nocturne in Skyrockets & The Golden Bird
BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
As with the previous instalments in this ongoing retrospective, the performances are superb and vividly recorded. Again, Storgårds is generally more incisive and emotionally generous than Hugh... —
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Turina: Canto a Sevilla
Orchestral Works
María Espada (soprano), Martin Roscoe (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
The fact that Turina was a skilled orchestrator is manifest throughout this disc in performances of La procesion del rocio and the Danzas gitans that have a shifting, subtle spectrum of coour... —
