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Hasse - Sonatas and Trio Sonatas
Epoca Barocca - Alessandro Piqué (oboe), Christian Leitherer (chalumeau), Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), Margarete Adorf (violin), Ilze Grudule (cello), Christoph Lehmann (harpsichord/organ)
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Reynaldo Hahn: Piano Quintet; Songs; Piano Quartet
Karim Sulayman (tenor), Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
The performances are polished and luxurious. The silky string quartet sound in the opening pseudo-Baroque ‘À Chloris’ is matched by the restrained tenderness of Karim Sulayman’s tenor. —
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It’s not a question of ‘liberties’ taken: it’s about a kind of musical free-association, a grabbing of clues in the score which most pianists follow to the letter, but which Colli takes in both... —
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Special offer. Chausson: Poèmes
and works by Fauré
Linda Finnie (mezzo), Yan Pascal Tortelier (violin)
Renaissance Singers, Ulster Orchestra
No quarrels with Yan Pascal Tortelier's playing in the Poeme, which he directs from the bow. There is consistent beauty of timbre and, what is more important, refinement of feeling...Linda Finnie... —
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Francesca Chiejina’s lustrous soprano brings serious class to Zemlinsky's Dehmel setting, and also to Alma Mahler’s songs. —
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Punchy, in-your-face accounts, in turbo charged sound. —
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[Wang is] a young player with a formidable technique and grasp of detail vital in this circumstance…Her partners, the BBC Philharmonic, respond in kind under Ben Gernon’s enthusiastic direction.... —
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Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: Choral Works
Julia Doyle (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Mark Le Brocq (tenor), Ashley Riches (baritone), Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, David Temple
Temple really has the measure of this highoctane music, his approach confident yet persuasive, refined yet incisive. The chorus convey perfectly the textual inflections, with authentic German... —
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French Opera Overtures By Auber, Planquette and Lecocq
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Neeme Järvi and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra bring plenty of zest as well as insight to their playing , especially in the three Auber overtures. —
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Finzi: Violin & Cello Concertos
Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Tasmin Little (violin)
City of London Sinfonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Hickox, Vernon Handley
Keenly felt, emotional reading…performance is passionate… —
