Hyperion
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The Danish horn player Ursula Paludan Monberg, thoroughly in command of her instrument, produces a miraculously smooth and agile line with secure tuning…the continuo section of Arcangelo, led... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, Chamber Choice
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…Performances that project vibrant rhythmic urgency alongside a wonderful attention to internal detail and a subtle control of instrumental colour. —
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Salve celeberrima virgo receives a consummately-crafted reading, its tangy false relations’ never exaggerated or attention-seeking. The Mass, too, opens with a poised precision, every note suspended... —
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Anderson and Milnes contrasting in approach. Anderson effortlessly glides through Debussy's limpid, lengthy phrases, while Milne's shivering sense of wonder is Melisande-like in its pent-up... —
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The singers conjure up some exultant moments. —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 76 - Rheinberger & Scholz
Simon Callaghan (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ben Gernon
The only piano concerto by Josef Rheinberger dates from 1877 and is a vast, rich work, owing as much to Brahms as to Schumann. And if Bernhard Scholz’s concerto (1883) is somewhat looser in... —
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John McCabe's Fourth Symphony, some half an hour in duration, has something Sibelian about its utterly inevitable, ever-evolving progress. Behind the frequently prodigal surface activity, one... —
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Shelley's technique is superb, and anything marked Presto or thereabouts is delivered with tremendous elan —
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Harpsichord pandemonium – thrills and thought provocation for commoners and connoisseurs alike. —
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He has a fine feeling for the music’s scope and scale which, if a tad monolithic in places, sounds just as ambitious as its composer intended. —
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Record Review, 3rd July 2021, Record of the Week
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