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Coming soon. 48° North. Caldara, from Venice to Vienna
Louise Acabo, Suzanne Wolff, Yaoré Talibart, Emmanuel Arakelian, Roxana Rastegar, The BanXhies
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Special offer. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Krzysztof Urbański
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Schubert: Octet & Merlin: Passage éclair
Nicolas Baldeyrou (clarinet), Julien Hardy, David Guerrier, Yann Dubost, Yan Levionnois, Shuichi Okada, Marc Desmons, Pierre Fouchenneret (violin)
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Beethoven: String Quintets Op. 29 & 104; Fugue Op. 137
WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne Chamber Players
Cologne’s WDR Chamber Players dive into these works with gusto and give us characterful, cogent, committed performances. Alpha’s recording is also top-notch. —
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The booklet contains an essay by the pianist, who writes about the “touching humanity of Beethoven’s late sonatas.” Gorini’s words demonstrate how well he knows these two sonatas. His deeply... —
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Weill, Brecht & Hauptmann: l'Opera de Quat'sous
Thomas Ostermeier, Nicolas Lormeau (soloist, actor), Claïna Clavaron (soloist, actor), Marie Oppert (soloist, actor), Christian Hecq (soloist, actor), Benjamin Lavernhe (soloist, actor), Véronique Vella (soloist, actor), Sefa Yeboah (soloist, actor), Birane Ba (soloist, actor), Jordan Rezgui (soloist,...
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Special offer. Ring Odyssey
Christiane Libor (soloist), Michael Weinius (soloist), Salvatore Caputo, Derek Welton (soloist), Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, Joseph Swensen
The singers are sometimes serviceable, sometimes excellent...Derek Welton should have got more of Wotan’s Farewell to sing. The Aquitaine brass and woodwind shine more than the strings, but... —
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3, Polonaise from 'Eugene Onegin' & Festival Coronation March
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Paavo Järvi
Järvi does Tchaikovsky the supreme good service of allowing his earlier symphonies to stand without a sense of special pleading or undue podium tinkering. The string sound is open rather than... —
