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a powerful account of Biber's masterpiece, bringing nobility, exuberance, severity and a strong contemplative dimension as and when the music requires. There is also a lively depictive element... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Martinu: Memorial to Lidice & Klein: Partita Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
Eschenbach opens with Martinů's Memorial to Lidice… this performance serves to intensify an overriding feeling of despair, the Philadelphians responding with a chilling incisiveness particularly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2006, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Editor's Choice
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Tchaikovsky: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom & Nine Sacred Choruses Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Kļava
Klava achieves precise chording and proves sensitive to pacing, with the music’s flow carefully measured. Intonation is close to ideal. In the apt acoustic of St John’s Church, Riga, there’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Winner - Choral
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Melcher Melchers: Symphony in D minor; La Kermesse; Élégie Gävle Symphony Orchestra, Jaime Martín
Don’t go expecting a spare, Nordic soundworld, as his craft was honed mainly in Paris; do enjoy orchestral colour aplenty and a splendidly uplifting end to the Symphony in D minor. — More…
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Bach: Six Sonatas, BWV 1014-1019 Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen-Pilch (violin), Tuija Hakkila (fortepiano)
For the most part, I am very taken by Kaakinen-Pilch’s confident and imaginative playing. There’s lovely ornamentation and shaping in the Largo of the Sonata in C minor, and the opening to the... — More…
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Perhaps Sibelius's finest contemporary...It's vividly performed. — More…
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Madetoja: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 & Okon Fuoko Suite Recorded in the Helsinki Music Center, April 2013
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
Storgårds conducts atmospherically. — More…
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Sibelius: Violin Concerto Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Anni Kuusimäki (harp)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, John Storgårds
If there's a star on this disc it's Anni Kuusimäki, the harpist in the brief but weirdly touching tone-poem The Bard...Zimmermann is determined to peel off the mould of tradition and open up... — More…
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Saariaho: La Passion de Simone Dominique Blanc (narrator), Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
Tapiola Chamber Choir, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Upshaw's always seems the perfect voice and sensibility for Saariaho's music; and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Saariaho's colleague from their student days, is an intensely engaged and sympathetic director... — More…
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Sibelius: Lemminkäinen Legends & Pohjola’s Daughter Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hannu Lintu
Textures are sifted with skill, chosen tempi are unfailingly judicious and Lintu shows a canny awareness of the bigger scheme...Ultimately, for all its sterling qualities, there's no getting... — More…
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