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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
RecommendedBernarda Fink (Orfeo) Veronica Cangemi (Euridice), Maria Cristina Kiehr (Amor)
Freiburger Barockorchester & Rias Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Jacobs conducts an urgent, pungently characterised performance — More…
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Building a Library, March 2003, First Choice
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This is a wonderful recital, in almost all respects. The first thing to grab my attention was the mesmerisinly lovely playing Andreas Haefliger, one of the greatest living pianists...[in Erlkönig]... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Surprisingly crisp and spry these readings may be, but the result sounds and feels authentically Mozartian, Jacobs coaxing alert and alive playing from a band on the very top of their form. — More…
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Building a Library, February 2020, Recommended Recording
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Platti - Concerti Grossi after Corelli
RecommendedXenia Löffler (oboe), Sebastian Hess (cello)
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Platti… was a virtuoso oboist: the D minor Largo of his Concerto, tender and melancholy, more than makes up for the rather formulaic cast of the outer movements. Xenia Löffler produces beautifully... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th January 2009
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Falla: Noches en los jardines de Espana
Recorded at the Barbican, January 2011
Javier Perianes (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Josep Pons
In the Nights in the Gardens of Spain...both pianist and orchestra revel in its colouristic opportunities. Perianes employs the subtlest of rubatos here, teasing us with little delays and hurry-ups... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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Their playing is clean, polished, razor sharp, yet there’s nothing sterile about these performances, which bristle with energy, dynamic contrasts and dramatic gestures… Above all, there’s a... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, March 2020, Découverte
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Schütz: Psalms of David, SWV 22-47 (Op. 2)
RecommendedElisabeth Scholl, Annette Labusch (sopranos), Elisabeth Popien (contralto), Gerd Türk, Wilfried Jochens, Jörn Lindemann (tenors) & Stephan Schreckenberger, Stephan MacLeod (bass)
Cantus Cölln & Concerto Palatino, Konrad Junghänel
Published in 1619, the young Schutz's landmark settings revel in the musical riches of Gabrieli's Venice - wonderfully brought to life by Junghanel's forces. — More…
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Building A Library, December 2021, Recommended Recording
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Schumann: Cello Concerto, Piano Trio No. 1
RecommendedJean-Guihen Queyras (cello), Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (fortepiano)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Pablo Heras-Casado
Melnikov marshals the crystalline timbres of his 1847 Streicher fortepiano with panache and clarity without in any way sacrificing the urgency of the musical argument … Intimacy also lies at... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Mozart: Keyboard Music Volume 2
Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)
Paul McNulty, Divisov, Czech Republic, 2008, after Anton Walter & Sohn, Vienna, c. 1802, unequal temperament - A = 430
deeply-felt performances of some of the very greatest among the solo keyboard works...these performances leave a strong impression. Among the highlights is Bezuidenhout's expressive account... — More…
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Berlioz & Ravel: Song Cycles
RecommendedBernarda Fink (mezzo)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Kent Nagano
Bernarda Fink's strong, flexible voice is well matched to all that Ravel asks of her, from the lively snapshots of the Greek folksongs to the long, languorous lines of Shéhérazade. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd July 2007
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