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GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem & other works BLU-RAY Chen Reiss (soprano), Matthias Goerne (baritone) & Philippe Aïche (violin solo) / Choir of the Orchestre de Paris & Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi [ EuroArts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2014 ] ""The expert choir's native French vowel sounds are a joy in themselves, [and] Eric Picard gives a mesmerising account of the haunting cello Elegie....Unmissable." (International Record Review) |
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Capriccio espagnol London Symphony Orchestra, Igor Markevitch, with Erich Gruenberg, solo violin (Scheherazade) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 14/Jun/2019 ] "This is, quite simply, one of the best-played and recorded accounts of Scheherazade ever made, right from the opening moment when the LSO brass uncompromisingly blast out Sultan Schahriar's ominously threatening theme" MusicWeb |
PHIL BROADHURST
Soliloquy Phil Broadhurst (solo piano) [ Rattle Records / CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] Recorded in November 2019 on the grand piano in his home, the tone of Phil's final album is fittingly intimate, reflective and introspective, but without ever becoming heavy, dark or sentimental. |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI / JEAN-FERY REBEL
Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni [The Four Seasons] / Rebel: Les Eléments Midori Seiler (solo violin) / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 14/Jun/2019 ] "..[Midori Seiler] and the Berliners have simply insisted on taking nothing for granted...the sheer flair of this new release dazzles as much as it delights." BBC Music |
JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR
Leclair: Violin Concertos Fabio Biondi (solo violin & direction) / Europa Galante [ Glossa / CD - released 10/Jul/2017 ] "All in all, Leclair couldn't have been displayed in a more warmly faithful light." Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice, July 2017 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Serenades - 'Haffner' Kölner Akademie / Michael Alexander Willens, with Alexander Janiczek (violin solo) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] "Rhythms are nicely pointed, the phrasing elegant but never precious, and the ensemble sonority never turns crude in pursuit of "authenticity."...The engineering, as so often with BIS, is ideal." ClassicsToday |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
The Best Of Puccini Miriam Gauci (solo soprano), Alexander Rahbari (conductor), Thomas Harper (solo tenor), Michael Halasz (conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/1997 ] From 'In quelle trine morbide' from Manon Lascaut, to 'Nessun Dorma' from Turandot this is an excellent selection of Puccini classics |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Il Cembalo Transalpino Sophie Yates (solo harpsichord) [ Chandos Chaconne / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] All the music in this programme comes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and most of it was collected by its founder, Richard, Seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745 - 1816). A polymath, lover of music, amateur composer and... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Nocturnes (with Ravel: Sheherazade) Ulster Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier, with Linda DFinnie (mezzo) & Colin Fleming (solo flute) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Feb/1990 ] 'What a glorious instrument the Ulster Orchestra is in Torteliers hands - eloquent principals in every section and supple consummate ensemble in this most subtle and flexible of repertoire…' American Record Guide |
LEONARDO BALADA
Caprichos Nos. 2, 3 & 4 Andrés Cárdenes (solo violin) / Jeffrey Turner (double bass) / Pittsburgh Sinfonietta / Lawrence Loh [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 13/Mar/2011 ] "A contemporary Spanish voice that ably blends modernity and the past without compromise.... If proof were required that significant Spanish, post-Rodrigo compositional life exists, and that it is influenced by, though not obsessed with Spain's past,... |
