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There seems to be no modern edition of the Agostini and certainly no previous recording; and the pieces recorded here are ample evidence that he was a highly skilled composer. —
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Madin: Te Deum pour les Victoires de Louis XV
Anne Magouet (soprano), Michiko Takahashi (soprano), Robert Getchell (tenor), Alban Dufourt (tenor), Alain Buet (bass), Geoffroy Buffiere (bass)
Stradivaria & Les Cris de Paris, Daniel Cuiller
[Madin] writes vividly…[and] Daniel Cuiller is well in command of his forces in both pieces; worth investigating —
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This is, it soon becomes evident, one of the great interpretations of one of Beethoven’s most invigorating, far-ranging and finally ethereal works…Gorini is as alive as anyone to the humour... —
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Mozart y Mambo: Cuban Dances
Sarah Willis (horn), Havana Lyceum Orchestra, The Sarahbanda, José Antonio Méndez Padrón
This follow-up disc is every bit as exuberant as the first. Willis completes her survey of Mozart’s horn concertos with assured and expressive performances, accompanied with aplomb by the Havana... —
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Farjot: Lovescapes
Rosemary Standley, Mathilde Caldérini, Arnaud Thorette, Geneviève Laurenceau, Johan Farjot, Ambroisine Bré (mezzo-soprano), Jeanne Gérard, Sandrine Piau (soprano), David Kadouch (piano), Delphine Haidan, Stanislas de Barbeyrac (tenor), David Tepfer
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You know you’re in unfamiliar territory when a recording’s most familiar landmark is the 1901 Cello Sonata by Jean Cras (1879-1932). But you’re in good hands when you’re guided by Astrig Siranossian... —
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There is all sorts of wizardry on show here, as the admirable Duo Jatekok cast their spell with arrangements of familiar pieces by Liszt, de Falla, Dukas and Mussorgsky. —
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 KV 488 & 24 KV 491
Julian Trevelyan, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Christian Zacharias
Trevelyan won the Mozart concerto prize at the recent Géza Anda Competition in Zurich, and he’s a sympathetic and unfailingly musical player.
On the evidence of this recording, though, he may... — -
Singing in clear, poetically shaded French, Lindsey employs slight but perfectly placed touches of vibrato plus myriad vocal colours, both pale and saturated, that never feel like an expressive... —