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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, 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, Offer, Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
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Diana Damrau (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Helmut Deutsch (piano)
Of the two singers, the bright-voiced Damrau is the more nuanced and precise with text…Kaufmann, husky and intense, has less in his Lieder toolkit but he is completely committed to the material…he... — More…
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New, Offer, Chopin: Nocturnes, Mazurkas, Berceuse, Sonata, Opp. 55-58
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Maurizio Pollini (piano)
This is not Chopin for everyone. Its sternly ascetic qualities abjure any conventional idea of beauty holding sway in contemporary Chopin performance. Those seeking poetry, sensuous contour or... — 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, 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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These works sound as if written at the turn of the 20th century, certainly by an admirer of Scriabin’s Divine Poem. Both, in fact, date from the 1950s…The Bournemouth Symphony play the music... — More…
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There's fun to be had in listening out for echoes of Dvořák in the First Symphony in particular (the brass chorale which opens the Largo sounds like the sunnier first-cousin of its counterpart... — More…
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New, Offer, Berlioz: Harold en Italie & Les Nuits d'été
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Tabea Zimmermann (viola), Stéphane Degout (baritone)
Les Siècles, François-Xavier Roth
This new recording with Tabea Zimmermann has much to recommend it… Zimmermann offers a darker, grainier tone than her earlier LSO Live account with Colin Davis but her approach hasn’t changed... — More…
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