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Mr Charles the Hungarian. Handel's Rival in Dublin
RecommendedIrish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan
Here is an unusual and delightful programme from bassoonist and director Peter Whelan...Irish Baroque Orchestra with its several concertante players imbue the music with lucidity and a spirited... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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The first thing to be said about this Schumann cycle is how splendidly alert the orchestral playing is: the Scottish Chamber Orchestra must be one of the finest ensembles of its kind in the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, Orchestral Choice
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Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony receives here a performance of one’s dreams. Using a slightly reduced body of strings, Thomas Søndergård elicits from the Royal Scottish National orchestra neatly... — More…
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Egarr explores with affection and intelligence the rich world of Byrd’s keyboard music, on a modern copy of a Ruckers harpsichord. Bells is a real gem. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2018, Editor's Choice
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Kenny lacks neither extensive playing experience in chamber, orchestral or operatic contexts nor a brilliant musical imagination. She brings both to bear on these performances of ‘old and new... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Instrumental
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Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)
RecommendedDunedin Consort, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, John Butt
[Butt’s] flexible approach to the vexed question of the proportional speeds between duple and triple sections produces some surprisingly languid effects…but a dance-like vitality elsewhere…using... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Felix Mendelssohn: Lieder ohne Worte
Arr. for Violin and Piano by Ferdinand David
Michael Barenboim (violin), Natalia Pegarkova-Barenboim (piano)
Perhaps Barenboim’s style is being limited by notions of what is appropriate to the 1830s-40s...Barenboim is well partnered by Pegarkova-Barenboim, making a seamless and affectionate duo, and... — More…
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Nepomnyashchaya is an ideal advocate for the music, alert, sensitive, imaginative and more than capable of the complex and sometimes fulsome ornamentation. — More…
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 19 & 27
RecommendedFrancesco Piemontesi (piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Piemontesi pays avid attention to the tonal calibration of every note and phrase. Andrew Manze matches him by controlling the orchestral balance to a T and choosing tempos that suit the music... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The orchestra is balanced upwards, cast loose from a compact bass line that is too discreet for its own good at those many points...But if the symphony’s ‘heavenly lengths’ have left you cold... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2019
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