Harmonia Mundi
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Bach, J S: Motets, BWV225-230
RecommendedAgnès Mellon, Greta de Reyghere, Vincent Darras, Howard Crook & Peter Kooy
La Chapelle Royale & Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
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Building A Library, May 2021, Also Recommended
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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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Beethoven: Violin Concerto & Kreutzer Sonata
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Prague Philharmonia, Jirí Belohlávek
Beethoven described his Kreutzer Sonata as being written 'in a very concertante style, more like that of a concerto', so it makes an apt companion-piece for his actual Violin Concerto. Isabelle... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2011, First Choice
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With Bertrand, tiny embellishments and a kaleidoscopic range of colours make listening a particular pleasure…You get the impression that she’s recalling the music from memory rather than reading... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Editor's Choice
2 CDs
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Gloryland
Folk songs, Spirituals, Gospel hymns of Hope & Glory
Darol Anger (violin & mandolin) & Mike Marshal (mandolins)
Anonymous 4
Anonymous 4 is the team of four women who were acclaimed for "American Angels", which stayed in the Billboard classical charts almost a year and a half, ending at the top. "Gloryland" is a... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Sara Mingardo (contralto), Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Women's choir of Schola Heidelberg, Young singers of the Kölner Dom, François-Xavier Roth
[Roth] goes at the crazy world of the Third with all wind and brass guns blazing…He isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty with the raggle-taggle marchers of the first movement. Even the trombone... — More…
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Record Review, 2nd March 2019, Disc of the Week
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Almong these minor gems shining through the mists of eight centuries, there are some that stand out for sheer musical imagination...Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek shows us just what subtle vocal... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2014, Editor's Choice
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Hugo Wolf: Kennst du das Land
lieder by Goethe, Eichendorff, Mörike
Sophie Karthäuser (soprano) & Eugene Asti (piano)
Karthauser…is sensitive to Wolf’s sour-sweet, ever-shifting harmonies, and the raw nerves of the melodic line as it responds to the verse. And she is warmly supported by every nuance of accompaniment... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Le Violon Vagabond: Graf Mourja
Works for piano & violin by Bartok, Manuel Ponce, Tchaikovsky, Paganini, Chedrine, Kroll, de Sarasate…
Graf Mourja (violin) & Natalia Gous (piano)
Ukrainian violinist Graf Mourja follows up his fine disc of Stravinsky and Szymanowski for Harmonia Mundi with a foray into more eclectic territory. This selection brings together the wild and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Re-issue of the Month
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Mozart in Paris, 1778
RecommendedSuzanne Kaiser (flute), Anne-Katrin Brüggemann (oboe), Javier Zafra (bassoon), Erwin Wieringa (horn) & Mara Galassi (harp)
Freiburger Barockorchester, Gottfried von der Goltz
…Mozart created a sensation with his new symphony… and I don’t know of any recording that catches its proud swagger and sonorous richness as vividly as this new one. The outer movements have... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2022, Recommended Recording
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