Hyperion
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Cinquecento captures the work's meditative quality to profound effect, the all-male vocal ensemble creating an aptly plangent sonority and a tone of high seriousness. Using just six singers,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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Completed after the First Piano Concerto, but still comparatively early works, the Sextets are typified by lush textures, ardent emotion, and wonderfully memorable melodic lines. The first is... —
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Liszt Complete Music for Solo Piano 14: Christus, St Elisabeth & St Stanislaus
Leslie Howard (piano)
The present Liszt disc is among the finest of the series to date —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 8 - Medtner
Dmitri Alexeev (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, The New Budapest Quartet, Alexander Lazarev
For Dmitri Alexeev the First Concerto is Medtner's masterpiece, an argument he sustains in a performance of superb eloquence and discretion.
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Gorgeous stuff! —
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Hewitt clearly relishes the colour and rhythmic energy of these dance sequences; her performances have a wonderfully fluid stylishness, with scrupulous ornamentation that never seems self-consciously... —
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The Romantic Cello Concerto, Vol. 4: Pfitzner
Alban Gerhardt (cello), with Gergana Gergova (violin)
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Sebastian Weigle
Gerhardt holds it all together with his sustained singing lines, while Weigle and his Berlin band provide vividly pointillist backing. —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 14 - Litolff
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
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Fauré & Duruflé: Requiem
RecommendedJohn Scott (Fauré), Thomas Trotter (Duruflé), organ
English Chamber Orchestra, Corydon Singers, Matthew Best
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Building a Library, November 2002, First Choice
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These performances of Fauré’s piano quartets from Domus are a highlight of the label and should be in every collection —
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Chamber
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