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Erkki-Sven Tüür: Strata
Jörg Widmann (clarinet) & Carolin Widmann (violin)
Nordic Symphony Orchestra, Anu Tali
Like his older Estonian contemporary, Arvo Pärt, but much less austerely, Erkki-Sven Tüür seeks to communicate feeling as directly and engulfingly as possible...the elemental force with which... —
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Giya Kancheli: Diplopito/Valse Boston
Thomas Demenga (cello), Derek Lee Ragin (countertenor)
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies (conductor & piano)
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Bergmann, H: Scardanelli (Holderlin)
Harald Bergmann (director), Walter Schmidinger (narrator), Peter Schneider (piano), Noel Lee (piano), Heinrich Schiff (cello), Christian Ivaldi (piano), Alban Berg Quartett
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Valentin Silvestrov - Bagatellen und Serenaden
Valentin Silvestrov (piano) & Alexei Lubimov (piano)
Munich Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen
After the tonal luminosity of the Bagatelles, the piercing dissonances at the opening of the Elegy exert a particularly poignant impact, as does The Messenger where the interaction between the... —
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Asturiana
Highly melodic and atmospheric ‘songs without words’ by Spanish and Argentinean composers De Falla, Granados, Ginastera, Guastavino, Montsalvatge and Buchardo, transcribed by Kashkashian and Levin
Kim Kashkashian (viola) & Robert Levin (piano)
It looks like a standard song recital, yet it's played on the viola. …the opening excerpt from Falla's Seven Popular Songs… turns up later in its usual context to hypnotic effect: slower than... —
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Here is a ravishing collection of a cappella choral works by the Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov that perfectly illustrates his own description of his music as “a response to and an echo of what... —
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Sonatas By Castello & Fontana
John Holloway (violin), Jane Gower (dulcian) & Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord)
just hearing the music itself, regardless of this infectious, quick-witted performance, is a revelation. Although the Castello feels like the most important work on this disc, the sonatas of... —
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Bach: Motets
Joanne Lunn, Rebecca Outram (sopranos), David James, David Gould (counter tenors), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor & organ), Steven Harrold (tenor), Gordon Jones (baritone) & Robert Macdonald (bass)
The Hilliard Ensemble
The case for one-to-a-part Bach is well established nowadays. It works particularly well for the rich textures of the right-part motets, and the expanded Hilliard Ensemble sings them superbly.... —
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Werner Pirchner: EU
Werner Pirchner, Ernst Kovacic, Othmar Costa
Members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Kontrapunkte
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