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The Romantic Piano Concerto 55 - Widor
Markus Becker (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer
In between [the Concertos] comes the Fantasie for piano and orchestra (1889), a thematically taut score that finds Roscoe and Yates in imaginative dialogue. Highly recommended, this should secure... —
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Howells: The Winchester Service & other late works
Simon Bell (organ), William Kendall (tenor)
Winchester Cathedral Choir, Andrew Lumsden
The performances of the Winchester Cathedral Choir are so good that you hardly register the need to 'assess' them - exactly as it should be in devotional music. That's a huge tribute to the... —
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Bo Hansson: Endless border
& other choral works
with William Baldry (organ)
Royal Holloway Choir, Rupert Gough
The three dozen voices of the Royal Holloway Choir bring impressive reserves of stamina and concentration to bear on these sometimes difficult pieces. —
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Hewitt plays what sound to be an early piano and is accompanied by a small, orchestra, vibrato-less and rather bleak, which she conducts. I found her playing tasteful without being distinctive —
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Bode sings [Sehnsucht and the Wiegenlied] with a fine sense of artistry and wonderment. Johnson takes care over his placing of Brahms's many folksong settings within this series, inserting a... —
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G. Gabrieli: Sacred Symphonies
Ex Cathedra, with His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Concerto Palatino, Jeffrey Skidmore
the performers marvelously project the power, glory and praise of this music. —
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Arne: Artaxerxes
Christopher Robson (Artaxerxes), Ian Partridge (Artabanes), Patricia Spence (Arbaces), Richard Edgar-Wilson (Rimenes), Catherine Bott (Mandane), Philippa Hyde (Semira)
The Parley of Instruments, Roy Goodman
Bott gives a masterly performance, with the counter-tenor Christopher Robson also impressive in the castrato title-role, and with Ian Partridge pure-toned and incisive in the role of the villain,... —
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…it is surprising that Debussy composed his string quartet with no poetic or visual allusion. The Dante Quartet give a full-blooded performance… At the opening of the scherzo, it momentarily... —
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Baltic Exchange
Choral works by Praulinš, Einfelde, Sisask & Miškinis
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
The most substantial contribution to this absorbing new programme comes from the Latvian composer, Ugis Praulins. His Missa Rigensis...contains many wonders, including a buoyant Gloria which... —
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Bridge: Complete Songs
Janice Watson (soprano), Louise Winter (mezzo soprano), Jamie MacDougal (tenor), Gerald Finley (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano)
Prepared and performed with the care and conviction for which Hyperion is famous. Those who simply love vocal recitals will find plenty of enjoyment in these well-documented discs, as well as... —
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