Hyperion
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New. Bach: Mass in B Minor
Katherine Watson (soprano), Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Neal Davies (bass); Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stephen Layton
[Iestyn Davies] discharges a beautifully inflected ‘Qui sedes’, impeccably warmed and coloured by a discreet vibrato that instinctively knows its expressive place…Watson’s soaring soprano also... —
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2 Vinyl Records
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Hough's album takes wing in an atmosphere of tension and sombreness...Hough's own Sonata prove the high point...rich in its textural variety and harmonic colours...Hearing a masterful pianist... —
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Bach - Piano Transcriptions Volume 9
A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen and other British transcriptions
Jonathan Plowright (piano)
Plowright plays everything with calm, unforced nuance assurance, nicely balancing Bach style and period manners, and making light of all the left-hand skips needed to suggest Bach's organ pedal... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 37 - Nápravník & Blumenfeld
Evgeny Soifertis (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Titov
There is plenty of bravura writing in the Lisztian Allegro de concert and Evgeny Soifertis throws it all off in great style and musical intelligence. —
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Berlioz: Harold in Italy
& other orchestral works
Lawrence Power (viola)
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Manze’s background as a period string player might be expected to give him some particular feeling for this curious quasi-concerto, and so it proves…Altogether it’s an exciting, intriguing reading,... —
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Stephen Hough fashions a viable programme culled from a bottomless piano bench of transcriptions, encores and other sundry ear-ticklers.
Indeed, Hough proves that one can make a well-balanced... — -
Ancient Airs & Dances
Paul O'Dette (lute, guitar), John Holloway (violin), Christel Thielmann (bassviol), Nigel North (lute), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
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Unplayed Stories ... in 40 Fingers
Alon Kariv (piano), Tomer Lev (piano), Berenika Glixman (piano), Nimrod Meiry-Haftel (piano), MultiPiano Ensemble, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ivor Bolton
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Dougan conducts with his customary tactful musicianship. —
