Hyperion
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Martinu - The complete music for violin and orchestra Volume 2
Bohuslav Matoušek (violin) & Karel Košárek (piano)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood
Christopher Hogwood and Katel Matoušek are entirely at home with this repertoire. There is a huge amount to enjoy. —
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Buxtehude - Complete Organ Works Volume 5
Christopher Herrick (Aubertin organ of Mariager Klosterkirke, Denmark)
Outstanding competition and the revisiting of material must in no way prove a barrier to anyone with even a vague interest in Buxtehude's organ music, for this is a simply splendid disc...Above... —
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Brahms: The Complete Songs Volume 5 (Christopher Maltman)
Christopher Maltman (baritone) & Graham Johnson (piano)
Maltman and the ever-sensitive Johnson...make a compelling, illuminating partnership. Maltman's mellow baritone,with its distinctively plangent, tenorish upper register, is always easy on the... —
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The excellent Leonore Trio certainly give their all in these often exciting and beautiful works, most especially the B minor Trio, No. 2. There's high virtuosity all round - superb light, dazzling... —
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Another valuable instalment in Howard's vast trek through Liszt's piano music —
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Music For the Lion-Hearted King - Music To Mark the 800th Anniversary of the Coronation of King Richard I of England in Westminster Abbey, 3 September 1189
Margaret Philpot (alto), Leigh Nixon (tenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Gothic Voices, Christopher Page
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 43 - Sterndale Bennett & Bache
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Howard Shelley (piano/conductor)
Sterndale Bennett's Fourth Piano Concerto of 1838… Written at 22…it is by no means all Mendelssohian in its style, having a sombre, rather Schumannesque first movement, an expressive Barcarolle... —
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The one to knock Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore from the pedestal … Johnson and Goerne plumb the emotional depths of one of the most heart-wrenchingly sublime masterpieces in the genre —
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