Chandos
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A splendid collection of overtures and concertos by this unjustly neglected composer. Sparkling strings, punchy horns. With four premiere recordings, this is essential listening. —
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 'the First of May'; Two Scherzos
BBC Philharmonic, Hallé Choir, John Storgårds
As in his previous Shostakovich recordings, Storgårds is extremely good at generating a cleanly articulated and pristine sound even in the work's most frenzied passages. —
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Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91
Ekaterina Morozova (Natasha Rostova), Roderick Williams (Andrei Bolkonsky), Justin Lavender (Pierre Bezukhov), Oleg Balashov (Anatol Kuragin), Pamela Helen Stephen (Sonya), Catherine Pierard (Maria Bolkonsky/Vassilissa), Igor Matioukhin (Dolokhov), Elena Ionova (Helena Bezukhova), Alan Ewing (Marshal...
Ekaterina Morozova is a moving Natasha. Slavonic in timbre, weighty but still girlsih enough, with an edge to the voice that rarely turns squally...Roderick Willians is a fresh, virile Andrei,... —
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Beethoven: Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra
Howard Shelley (piano and conductor), with Tasmin Little (violin) & Tim Hugh (cello)
Opera North Orchestra, with Opera North Chorus
there are several reasons to shout about it...there's Shelley himself: a pianist whose quiet musicality and unobtrusive virtuosity shine through everything he touches...Throughout the set, there's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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Franz Schmidt - Complete Symphonies
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Neeme Jarvi play with a freshness and enthusiasm that are totally persuasive. They almost sound Viennese, and the recordings are very good indeed. —
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Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 12
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano), Andrea Nemecz (piano), Rose McLachlan (piano), Manchester Camerata, Gábor Takács-Nagy
Bavouzet completes his much-praised survey of the Mozart piano concertos… Bavouzet is well matched by the elegant playing of his co-soloist, Andrea Nemecz. There’s a palpable sense of enjoyment —
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Special offer. Sweelinck - Keyboard Works Volume 1
Robert Woolley (the Van Hagerbeer organ of the Pieterskerk Leiden Hall)
This generous disc of keyboard works falls squarely on the shoulders of the kaleidoscopic organ of the Pieterskerk in Leiden, Holland, rather than dividing the spoils between virginals, harpsichords... —
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