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Special offer. The Trumpets That Time Forgot
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet), John Wallace (trumpet) & Colm Carey (organ)
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Cargill's beautifully integrated, smoky mezzo reveals the full stature of [Alma's] songs, just as Simon Lepper relishes their fearless piano writing...The Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen welcome... —
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His technique and touch are immaculate, his tempos are judicious and, without over-emphasis or eccentricity, he always phrases meaningfully...And his account of the alternatively plaintive and... —
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Special offer. Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. Schoenberg)
Chamber Arrangements
Gareth Brynmor John (baritone), Katie Bray (mezzo)
Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble, Trevor Pinnock
Gareth Brynmor John tunes in to Schoenberg's pungent and resinous arrangement, sweet with avian flute and violin, bittersweet in the dark, mesmeric breathing of the harmonium…[Berceuse elegaique]... —
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Special offer. Handel: Apollo e Dafne
Callum Thorpe (bass), Mhairi Lawson (soprano)
Ensemble Marsyas, Peter Whelan
The dramatic cantata Apollo e Dafne is an obvious choice for Ensemble Marsyas’s first venture into vocal music. It oozes the sort of vibrant woodwind writing that is meat and drink to bassoonist... —
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one rather sits up at the opening Praeludium of Grieg's Holberg Suite, flutter-tonguing and all...Throughout, the trumpet-playing of Freeman-Attwood is first class. But what makes this collection... —
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Wallisch is in many ways a highly attractive Mozartian, commanding a beautiful (if rather opaque) tone, a discerning sense of proportion and a keen but discreet articulation, all complemented... —
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His mastery of the idiom is such that we only notice the music’s salon-like gentleness and intimacy, not the dextrous technique required to make it so. —
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Special offer. Copland & Chávez: Pan-American Reflections
The Orchestra of the Americas, Carlos Miguel Prieto
Despite some shakiness at the opening of Copland’s Symphony No. 3…the first movement develops a powerful momentum towards a crashing climax…The most searching, expressive playing comes in the... —
