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Stravinsky: Les Noces, Mass & Cantata
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson, Susan Parry, Jan Kobow, Vsevolod Grivnov & Maxim Mikhailov
RIAS-Kammerchor, MusikFabrik & Ensemble für Neue Musik, Daniel Reuss
Stravinsky loathed superimposed 'expressiveness', and always insisted his music should be executed rather than interpreted. On that basis, this latest release from the RIAS Chamber Choir of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2006, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, November 2018, Recommendation - Choral & instrumental virtuosity
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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique & Rameau: Suite de Hippolyte et Aricie RecommendedSwedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
an arresting juxtaposition … Smart work from the uncredited harpsichordist and taut direction by Daniel Harding anchor the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s performance of the suite from Hippolyte... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, February 2019, Recommended
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Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 6 Nos. 1-12 HWV319-330
RecommendedAcademy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze
Richard Egarr's charisma is infectious and the recorded sound sensational. — More…
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Building a Library, March 2014, First Choice
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Queyras and Tharaud clearly enjoy the process as well as the freedom of interpretation and presentation that the encore gives. But there is a niggling feeling here of something missing, and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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...in Andreas Staier's own words, 'this programme is a declaration of love to Georg Philipp Telemann, perhaps the wittiest, most charming and most cheerful composer Germany has ever produced'.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Instrumental Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, Instrumental Choice
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 'Lobgesang'
RecommendedChristiane Karg, Christina Landshamer (sopranos) & Michael Schade (tenor)
Chorus & Orchestra of Bavarian Radio, Pablo Heras-Casado
Its quasi-devotional, cross-genre status demands special advocacy, and gets it ...Michael Schade, Christiane Karg and Christina Landshammer are the persuasive soloists, while the chorus radiates... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th March 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Eighteenth-century English music lovers, it seems, were obsessed with the music of Corelli, in particular his concerti grossi; Manze's notes quote a lovely account of how, when the Op 6 concertos... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2018, Also recommended
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Here's a very attractively prepared menu whose main course is the Stabatmater for countertenor and strings.
Hors-d'oeuvres and side-dishes consist of a ripieno concerto (RV114), a chamber cantata... — More…Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 1
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Bezuidenhout’s instrument is an echt Érard…It’s capable of a wide range of colours and dynamics [Bezuidenhout is] as happy to allow his passagework to rumble away within the body of the orchestra... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, June 2019
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