Hyperion
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Bruckner: Requiem
Joan Rodgers (soprano), Catherine Denley (contralto), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Michael George (bass), Thomas Trotter (organ)
Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best
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Andrew Kennedy is an eager, bright-eyed lover: the bloom and the tenderness of the middle range of his voice, in particular, knows just how to bring a luxuriant Straussian intimacy to a song... —
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Excellently balanced and recorded, these performances, combined with a superbly intense reading of Suk's brief Elegy make for a very estimable issue. —
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Her ornamentation is both crisply decorative and flexible and always inherent in the music's forward flow. —
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Carolyn Sampson sings with effortless ease, the reward for superb vocal technique. She generates a lovely warmth in tone to colour individual syllables while retaining a gloriously flowing... —
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his stylistic understanding is always impeccable, and as recorded here his Steinway makes a warmly appealing sound —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 18 - Korngold & Marx
Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
Hamelin is an ideal soloist here, despatching Korngold's fiendishly demanding piano writing with effortless aplomb, and there is fine playing from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Osmo... —
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The London Oratory boys’ choir has a solid presence, with good balance and body. —
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The Florestan Trio seems determined to extract every last ounce of energy, wit and spirit from these early works. Op 1 No 2's finale, for example, fizzes along; all Beethoven's surprising inventions... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 58 - Pixis & Thalberg
Howard Shelley (piano & conductor)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
if the material remains unmemorable, the treatment is coruscating in its tireless elaboration...But what is surely unarguable is that neither Pixis or Thalberg could have rivalled Howard Shelley's... —
