Chandos
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Rachmaninoff: The Miserly Knight, Op. 24
Ildar Abdrazakov (bass), Misha Didyk (tenor), Sergey Murzaev (baritone), Peter Bronder (tenor) & Gennadi Bezzubenkov (bass)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
..Gianandrea Noseda, masterly at pacing and responsive to orchestral colour… Ildar Abdrazakov, certainly the finest bass voice to emerge from Russia in decades. …the performance exerts a fierce,... —
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Special offer. Grainger: Works for Large Chorus and Orchestra
Sydney Chamber Choir, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus & Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Performances throughout are pretty much exemplary, these combined Melbourne and Sydney forces straining every sinew under Sir Andrew Davis's lucid lead, and they have been accorded sound of... —
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Gardner's control of [the Second], not least its eventual disintegration, is highly compelling...the Cello Concerto receives a superbly concentrated performance here from the soloists Paul Watkins...[Grave]... —
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Hummel: Mass in D minor & Salve regina
Susan Gritton, Rachel Nicholls, Pamela Helen Stephen, Mark Padmore & Stephen Varcoe
Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox
…the Salve Regina… is an amiable continuation of the Viennese Classical tradition… Susan Gritton sings it with gusto, while she and the other soloists form a well-blended quartet in the Mass,... —
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Edward Gardner conducts Britten
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Maxim Rysanov (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner
The Charm is a total winner, wrapped by Matthews in string woodwind sleep-music so familiar from the Nocturne and phrased by Connolly with alternate tenderness and edginess. Maxim Rysanov compels... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2011, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Elgar: The Black Knight & Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Richard Hickox
Elgar completed The Black Knight in 1893 and it provided him with his first big success.
The text tells of a sinister, unnamed 'Prince of mighty sway', whose appearance at the King's court during... —Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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There's been much to admire in these Bergen performances, from which Gardner emerges as one of our age's most accomplished Brahmsians. —
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Special offer. Wagner: Twilight of the Gods
Alberto Remedios (Siegfried), Rita Hunter (Brünnhilde), Aage Haugland (Hagen), Derek Hammond-Stroud (Alberich), Norman Welsby (Gunther), Margaret Curphey (Gutrune), Katherine Pring (Waltraute); English National Opera, Reginald Goodall
Valkyrie: There's something inevitable, even eternal about Goodall's long-breathed, fulltoned, often ideally articulated reading. The ENO management's faith in him was handsomely repaid in his... —
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The early F major, No 6, might seem rather dull and generic on the page. But with their buoyant rhythms and evident delight in each other's musical company the Gaspard bring it engagingly to... —
