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Offer, Josquin: Masses
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Hercules Dux Ferrarie, D'ung aultre amer & Missa Faysant regretz
The Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips
Who better to navigate such extraordinary music than the masters of tranquillity and clarity themselves, The Tallis Scholars? Their exacting style delineates the distinctive sound world of each... — More…
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Offer, Daniil Trifonov - Silver Age
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Scriabin - Stravinsky - Prokofiev
Daniil Trifonov (piano)
He brings a Nijinsky-like grace to the transcriptions from Petrushka and The Firebird, and certain passages in the former work are despatched with such Neoclassical poise that there were moments... — More…
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The danger with this kind of CD is that you end up with so much slow, quiet music that you find yourself drifting off into the most pleasant slumber…But not here, for the programme is full of... — More…
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Offer, Erinnerung: Mahler Lieder
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Christiane Karg (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Gustav Mahler (piano roll)
Karg’s artistry, distinguished by natural intelligence and vivid sense of communication, is an ideal complement to Martineau’s. Her voice is beautiful, more velvety than diamantine, and, with... — More…
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Offer, Anima Rara
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Ermonela Jaho (soprano), Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Andrea Battistoni
She has a slender tone, definitely more lyric than spinto, and is often so deeply invested in her role that it’s not always a very ‘pretty’ sound. Yet it’s exactly these qualities that are her... — More…
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Offer, Handel: Semele
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Louise Alder (Semele), Hugo Hymas (Jupiter), Lucile Richardot (Juno/Ino), Carlo Vistoli (Athamas), Gianluca Buratto (Somnus/Cadmus), Emily Owen (Iris), Angela Hicks (Cupid), Peter Davoren (Apollo)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
A new recording is always welcome, especially when it comes from someone who knows his dramatical business as John Eliot Gardiner does...Alder is a happy choice, her voice rich, fluid and precise,... — More…
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Offer, Stravinsky: Petrushka (1911 version)
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and Rossini/Respighi: La Boutique fantasque (compiled by Malcolm Sargent)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
The juxtaposition of these two works seems more apt the more I think about it. The upbeat optimism of the Boutique perfectly offsets Petrushka, and the result is an album that takes the listener... — More…
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Offer, Haydn: Die Schöpfung
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Anna Lucia Richter (soprano), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone), Il Giardino Armonico, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Giovanni Antonini
The starkness of the opening Representation of Chaos is laid all the more bare by the pungent, vibrato-free timbre of the violins, clutching and clawing at every dissonance. Blaring horn entries... — More…
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New, J.S. Bach: St. John Passion, BWV 245
Zachary Wilder, James Gilchrist, Damien Guillon, Hana Blažiková, Christian Immler, Yusuke Watanabe
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Here we have a reading that feels as if, deep in the psyche of the performers, they know this is all happening close to the wire. Gilchrist is again on masterly form, risking pinpoint precision... — More…
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Offer, Rossini: Amici e Rivali
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Michael Spyres (tenor), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado Rovaris
If the spark between David and Nozzari was anywhere near as electrifying as the frisson which the two Americans generate here it’s small wonder that the composer quickly realised he was onto... — More…
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