Hyperion
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Power treats each piece on its own terms and the comparison turns out to be a telling one...[His] immaculate sense of line, and his charismatic sound, is a balm in Bartok's understated concerto.... —
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Angela Hewitt’s latest Beethoven recording comes with her customary intelligence and scrupulous attention to detail…her gently trotting minuet (its theme later cropped up in Beethoven’s popular... —
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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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amazing precision of intonation and articulation. Yet the piecing [sic] intensity of their virtually vibrato-less style, enhanced by the bright, resonant Hyperion recording, can sometimes weary... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Chamber
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For a moment or two in the Smetana one might think that the Takács Quartet's almost Olympian objectivity wouldn't suit music that often seems to well up so directly from the heart. In fact it's... —
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos 6 & 8
Roderick Williams (baritone), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, Martyn Brabbins
Even against formidable competition [in No. 6], Martyn Brabbins impresses handsomely. Nothing is forced – the fury and the anguish, the grandeur and the desolation seem almost to speak for themselves. —
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The Romantic Violin Concerto 14 - Glazunov & Schoeck
Chloë Hanslip (violin)
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Alexander Vedernikov
Though Hanslip has a persuasively rich, dark tone for the opening melancholy [of the Glazunov], the dynamic nuancing falls a little by the wayside...Hanslip's polished directness and a flawless... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 52 - Goetz & Wieniawski
Hamish Milne (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Michal Dworzynski
Hermann Goetz delivers generous helpings of melodic warmth with his virtuosic passages, whilst Josef Wieniawski is all about showcasing the birilliance of the pianist's technique...Hamish Milne's... —
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Boughton: The Immortal Hour
Roderick Kennedy (bass), Patricia Taylor (contralto), Anne Dawson (soprano), David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Valery Hill (soprano), Roger Bryson (bass-baritone), Maldwyn Davies (tenor)
English Chamber Orchestra, The Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Alan G Melville
The Immortal Hour is part of theatrical folklore: in London in the early 1920s it ran, unprecedentedly, for 216 consecutive performances and, shortly afterwards, for a further 160 at the first... —
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2 CDs
$17.75
