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New, Offer, Shostakovich & Kabalevsky: Cello Sonatas
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Steven Isserlis (cello) & Olli Mustonen (piano)
Isserlis and Mustonen make a strong case for [the Kabalevsky] in a performance of grand gestures that proves a real roller coaster ride. Isserlis’s intensity and Mustonen’s pianistic weight suit... — More…
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New, Handel: Italian cantatas
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Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Léa Desandre (mezzo)
Le Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord, organ and conductor)
This production is a delight throughout…Haïm retains control by preparing both the scores and the sopranos’ ornaments, her vision giving this carefully wrought performance a fiery intensity,... — More…
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New, Debussy: Nocturnes, Jeux, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
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Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
Both works are essentially about desire, and their sensuality is heightened here not only by their juxtaposition but by the dark warmth of Les Siècles’ period-instrument sound and the restrained... — More…
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New, Offer, Liszt: Sardanapalo
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Joyce El-Khoury (Mirra), Airam Hernández (King), Oleksandr Pushniak (Beleso)
Weimar Staatskapelle, Kirill Karabits
It is indeed extraordinary… Liszt’s fluid treatment of bel canto structures reveals an assured musical dramatist at work… He makes no concessions to his singers, though, and his vocal writing... — More…
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New, Cecilia Bartoli: Antonio Vivaldi
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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Bartoli’s wiry, astonishingly agile voice remains in pristine condition...Her trademark machine-gun coloratura continues to astound in arias like the opening ‘Se lento ancora fulmine’ from Argippo...In... — More…
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New, Offer, Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
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Diana Damrau (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Kaufmann spends the bulk of his time playing the straight man to Damrau’s perky super-soubrette, and he does it quite beautifully, making liberal use of his trademark weightless pianissimos and... — More…
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New, Offer, Chopin: Nocturnes, Mazurkas, Berceuse, Sonata, Opp. 55-58
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Maurizio Pollini (piano)
There’s an assuredness and consummate mastery to his playing that can only come from decades of having performed and loved this repertoire...The closing pages of the sonata, with their dazzling... — More…
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New, Offer, Stravinsky: The Firebird & Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d'Or
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Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Petrenko’s preference for slow tempos over flexible drama might make for fidgety audiences in the concert hall…It just about works on CD, and then all hell’s let loose in perfectly-balanced uproar.... — More…
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Stile Antico, as ever, excel in plangency…[in Byrd’s Quomodo cantabimus they] allow the texture to unfold with a gentle flow in what is some superb singing but I long for a more treble-dominated... — More…
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New, Vivaldi Edition Vol. 58 - Il Giustino
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Delphine Galou (Giustino), Emöke Barath (Arianna), Silke Gäng (Anastasio), Ana Maria Labin (Leocasta), Ariana Vendittelli (Amantio), Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (Vitaliano), Alessandro Giangrande (Andronico, Polidarte)
Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone
From the outset of the overture, the listener is fully engaged, admiring the commitment and virtuoso playing of the Accademia Bizantina…the cast is state-of-the-art by current Italian Baroque... — More…
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