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Fischer's approach is certainly involved with the work's expressive character, but also with Dvorak's strong symphonic control. The musical argument in the first movement is powerful...Fischer... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2010, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, October 2020, Also Recommended
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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61
RecommendedBudapest Festival Orchestra & Pro Musica (women's choir), Iván Fischer
Fischer is alive to the magical atmosphere of Felix Mendelssohn’s score and nowhere more keenly than at the start of the overture, where the four wind chords are extended beyond their usual... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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As so often with Ivan Fischer, it's the breadth of insight that impresses here...the outer movements and Scherzo have plenty of muscular energy, and yet the lines can sing too...The recorded... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, Orchestral Choice
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Record Review, July 2011, Recording of the Week
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Right from the opening pp tremolando you can tell that as an interpretation this is going to be something off the beaten track. Rather than cue the familiar shimmering haze, Fischer prefers... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Shostakovich - Cello Concerto No. 2
RecommendedPieter Wispelwey (cello)
Sinfonietta Cracovia, Jurjen Hempel
Whereas Müller-Schott and Kreizberg view the Concerto as a darkly contemplative monologue that is almost suffocating in its brooding introspection, Wispelwey manages to find more light and shade... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Award for Technical Excellence in Recording
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Hitherto we have heard Rachel Podger only in early chamber works and as Andrew Manze's partner in Bach double concertos: here now, at last, is an opportunity to hear her on her own. And you... — More…
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Britten: Works for voice & string orchestra
Barbara Hannigan (soprano), James Gilchrist (tenor) & Jasper de Waal (horn)
Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Candida Thompson (artistic director)
Hannigan brings a fined-down intensity to the more hushed Rimbaud settings such as 'Being Beauteous', but elsewhere her tone tends to flutter under pressure...Gilchrist, by contrast, sounds... — More…
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Shostakovich & Weinberg: Cello Concertos
Nicolas Altstaedt (cello)
Deutsches Symfonie-Orchester Berlin, Michal Nesterowicz
The Weinberg is wonderfully played by Nicolas Altstaedt, who brings tone both muscular and soft-grained to illuminate the work’s contrasting facets…this is a notably warm performance thanks... — More…
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