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Tchaikovsky's elusive blend of instrumental precision and free-flowing thematic fantasy in the Second Suite meets its match in the Detroit/ Järvi partnership: the conductor's imagination works... — More…
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Like to the Lark
Jennifer Pike (violin), Maria Forsström (mezzo-soprano)
The Swedish Chamber Choir, Simon Phipps
Listening to Simon Philipps’s immaculately accomplished Swedish Chamber Choir is rather like sinking gently into a warm bath bubbling over with your favourite scented lotions…This album combin[es]... — More…
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Record Review, 16th November 2019, Disc of the Week
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Schreker - Orchestral Works Volume 2
Katarina Karnéus (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky
The playing of the BBC Philharmonic under Sinaisky is superb and the recording is in the demonstration class. Intelligent liner notes. — More…
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Strauss, R: Salome
RecommendedSusan Bullock (Salome), John Wegner (Jokanaan), Sally Burgess (Herodias), John Graham Hall (Herod Antipas), Andrew Rees (Narraboth), Rebecca de Pont Davies (Page)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
…Bullock underlines the increasing insistence of Salome's demand for John's head… and keeps the meaning clear even when riding the orchestra in her love-death. If it were only for the orchestra... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th October 2008
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Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez, etc.
RecommendedCraig Ogden (guitar)
BBC Philharmonic, Sachio Fujioka
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Building a Library, February 2017, Also Recommended
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Verdi: Nabucco
Susan Patterson (Abigail), Alan Opie (Nabucco), Jane Irwin (Fenena), Leonardo Capalbo (Ismael), Alastair Miles (Zachariah), Paul Wade (Abdullah), Dean Robinson (High Priest of Baal), Camilla Roberts (Anna)
David Parry
Opera in English is here fully justified by virtue of an excellent cast all-round who let us hear every word of the old, trusted translation by Norman Tucker and Tom Hammond, pioneers of giving... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2007, Disc of the Month
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Dove: Tobias and the Angel
Omar Ebrahim (baritone), Hyacinth Nicholls (mezzo-soprano), Darren Abrahams (tenor), James Laing (counter-tenor), Kevin West (tenor), Maureen Brathwaite (soprano), Karina Lucas (mezzo-soprano) & Rodney Clarke (baritone)
The Young Vic, David Charles Abell
...the vocal style is in Dove's recognisable voice and listener-friendly mode...fluent and memorably lyrical. As a musical dramatist, one of Dove's strengths is that he knows when to let the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Editor's Choice
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The sequence concludes with by far the largest item, Michael Collins’s own version of Franck’s Violin Sonata. Delivered by both artists with much panache, this handsome masterwork has an innately... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Editor's Choice
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