Hyperion
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The string quartet has long been a powerfully personal medium for MacMillan, yielding some of his most intimate and affecting music. This fine recording features his three full-length quartets,... —
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A selection of works for piano offers music of utmost simplicity —
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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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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... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2020, Chamber Choice
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Ohlsson's performances throughout are a judicious blend of absolute technical security and fantasy, giving especially appealing treatment to the simple melodies that emerge occasionally from... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 80 - Dupont & Benoit
Howard Shelley (piano/conductor), Sinfonieorchester St Gallen
Two pleasant, if unremarkable, works. Soloist Howard Shelley adds plenty of sparkle, mind. —
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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... —
