Chandos
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Special offer. Still: Symphony No. 1 & Ellington: Suite from 'The River'
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
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Special offer. Berg: Lulu
Lisa Saffer (Lulu), Robert Hayward (Dr Schön/Jack the Ripper), Susan Parry (Countess Geschwitz), John Graham-Hall (Alwa), Gwynne Howell (Schigolch), Anna Burford (Dresser/Schoolboy/Waiter); English National Opera Orchestra, Paul Daniel
The 2002 production of Berg's Lulu by Richard Jones is generally agreed to be one of the best things to come from troubled English National Opera in recent years. Chandos has done everyone a... —
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Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 10
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy
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The programming works quite beautifully, with Moore’s impressive range and quality of sound exemplifying the best of solo trombone playing. —
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Special offer. Verdi: Don Carlos
Julian Gavin (Don Carlos), Janice Watson (Elisabeth), Alastair Miles (Philip II), William Dazeley (Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa), Jane Dutton (Eboli), Sir John Tomlinson (Grand Inquisitor), Julia Sporsén (Thibault), Clive Bayley (Old Monk)
Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North, Richard Farnes
Best of the principals are Alastair Miles's distinctive King Philip; John Tomlinson's terrifying Grand Inquisitor and Clive Bayley's Monk. Opera North's choral and orchestral forces are both... —
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Vaughan Williams - Film Music Collectors’ Edition
Emily Gray (soprano) & Martin Hindmarsh (tenor), Merryn Gamba (soprano)
BBC Philharmonic, Chetham’s Chamber Choir & BBC Philharmonic, Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus & BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba
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Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 11
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy
Bavouzet's playing has an irrepressible quality that perfectly suits the young Mozart's idiom, while bypassing the ever-contentious issues of
period-instrument style as if these have no need... —
