Stravinsky - Divertimento (symphonic suite from Le Baiser de la Fée)
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Chamber » Divertimenti
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Stravinsky: Pulcinella, Le Baiser de La Fée (divertimento)
Isabel Leonard (mezzo-soprano), Paul Appleby (tenor), Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Gustavo Gimeno
This is perhaps the most sheerly lovely Pulcinella I’ve heard, slightly romanticised with a full-orchestral richness rather than the spring of a chamber ensemble. But to match the beautifully... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2025, Orchestral Choice
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With exemplary control of orchestral balance, clarity of texture and a capacity to draw a fabulous array of colours from the music, these performances are guaranteed to keep the listener riveted... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, Recording of the Month
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Adès's touch with the piano parts is at once live-wire and beautifully stylish, with Marwood matching this flair for deftly characterised light and shade. The Pulcinella suite and Divertimento... — More…
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Tchaikovsky: Suite No. 3 & Stravinsky: Divertimento
RecommendedRussian National Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
…a delightful pairing of not-quite mainstream repertoire. Jurowski… keeps the bittersweet atmosphere of the Third Suite nicely in focus, and even suggests a certain anguish in adrenalin-fuelled... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2011, Also Recommended
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Strauss, R: Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op. 18, etc.
Vadim Repin (violin), Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Stylistically, Strauss's lyrical Op 18 (1887) sits poised somewhere between Brahms's chivalrous song cycle Die schöne Magelone and Strauss's own Don Juan of the following year.
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Roth finds a silvery sweetness for the more lyrical sections of the Stravinsky, an earthy fullness for the Brahms and skitters through the harmonics and left-hand pizzicato passages of the Wieniawski... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Chamber Music
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This reading is very beautiful in its way, with everything properly prepared and textures at once crystalline and sumptuous. — More…
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