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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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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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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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Great Operatic Arias 18 - Jennifer Larmore
Sung in English
Jennifer Larmore (mezzo-soprano), Susan Patterson (Gioconda), Colin Lee (Fernando), Ffleur Wyn (Ines), Susan Patterson (Norma)
Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry
Versatility is the key to mezzo Jennifer Larmore's success in this English-language programme, as it is in the opera house. …when one hears her in the waltz-song from Gounod's Romeo and Juliet,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, Opera Choice
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Nimrod Borenstein: Violin Concerto
Irmina Trynkos (violin)
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy
There are moments when the ghosts of Prokofiev (the Second Concerto, especially), Khachaturian and Walton pass fleetingly over the music’s swirling, colourful textures, yet the overriding sensation... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Concerto 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... —
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