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Guerrero: Magnificat, Lamentations & Canciones
El León de Oro, Peter Phillips, Marco Antonio García de Paz
The 38-strong Spanish choir produces a sound that is rich yet at the same time remarkably intimate and crystalline. The group’s honorary director is Peter Phillips and something of the silvery... —
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Brahms - Zigeunerlieder and other secular choral works
Christopher Glynn (piano)
Consortium, Andrew-John Smith
Delightfully sung choral works that focus on unrequited love and nostalgia. All 26 songs are sung with sympathy and ardour by this excellent chamber choir, with apt accompaniments by Christopher... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 54 - Somervell & Cowen
Martin Roscoe (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Beyond his customary grace and lucid phrasing, Martin Roscoe dispatches the often taxing writing with stylish élan, while the indefatigible Martyn Brabbins once again leads the wonderful (and... —
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Liszt Complete Music for Solo Piano 27: Fantasies, paraphrases and transcriptions of National Songs and Anthems
Leslie Howard (piano)
An entertaining programme ... providing the perfect vehicle for Leslie Howard's enthusiastic, colourful playing. His scholarship, as revealed in the liner notes, is remarkable, the recording... —
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Brabbins never lets [the First] off the tight rein it requires, so that it sounds all the more powerful as a result: the ferocious climaxes are built and sustained with control, while the Andante... —
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An elegant selection of motets and Mass sections receives utterly convincing and coolly, tastefully emotional performances in a masterclass of deceptively virtuosic singing. —
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Mendelssohn - Songs & Duets Volume 4
Eugene Asti (piano), Katherine Broderick (soprano), Stephan Loges (baritone), Anna Grevelius (mezzo-soprano), Finnur Bjarnason (tenor), Hannah Morrison (soprano)
Stephan Loges satisfies most consistently with his understanding, beauty of tone and care for legato. Asti is the admirable pianist throughout and in two of the items is responsible for the... —
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Boris Tchaikovsky: Chamber Symphony, Sinfonietta for Strings
Ludmila Golub (organ)
Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Rudin
