Chandos
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there's some attractive lighter music at the ballet's core: Jarvi, his woodwind - first flute especially - and solo strings make the most of it. Some of the somberness with which Potiphar's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th June 2013
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Editor's Choice
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Neeme Järvi conducts Taneyev & Rimsky-Korsakov
Lydia Mordkovitch (violin)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Lydia Mordkovitch plays throughout with a winning sincerity and burning sense of commitment… —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2008, Editor's Choice
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Bernstein: Mass
Randall Scarlata (baritone)
Celebrant Absolute Ensemble, Chorus sine nomine, Company of Music, Tölzer Knabenchor & Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, Kristjan Järvi
Kristjan Järvi directs his forces efficiently but his no-nonsense approach diminishes the work's endearing stylistic and emotional sprawl. …overall the feeling is that of a work being acted,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2009, Editor's Choice
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Herself a successful violinist, Bacewicz's violin works are idiomatic and stunningly effective. Lydia Mordkovitch produces ringingly authoritative interpretations: the music favours her rich,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, Chamber Choice
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Her youthful yet attractively rich-toned voice and beguiling musicianship, with an appropriate touch of skittishness at the start of the Weinberg set, works extremely well through most of these... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
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Finzi & Leighton - Cello Concertos
RecommendedRaphael Wallfisch (cello)
Scottish National Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
The Cello Concerto is arguably Finzi's finest work, written at the very end of his life under the stress of knowing he was terminally ill. At just under 40 minutes it's planned on a massive... —
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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Tasmin Little and Piers Lane turn in one of the most satisfying performances [of the Strauss Sonata] I've heard. Their judicious choice of tempos allows the music to breathe naturally. They... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, Chamber Choice
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Special offer. Donizetti: Mary Stuart
Dame Janet Baker (Mary Stuart), Rosalind Plowright (Elizabeth I), David Rendall ( Leicester), Alan Opie (Sir William Cecil), John Tomlinson (George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury), Angela Bostock (Hannah Kennedy)
English National Operas, Sir Charles Mackerras
This revival celebrates the association of Janet Baker and Charles Mackerras within the context of the ENO company and one of its most memorable productions. For those who saw this, the set... —
